RON LOVELL
Lights! Camera! Murder! is a mystery. Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry St, 587-5737, noon, free.
ROBERT KURSON
Shadow Divers is about the wreck of a submarine found off the coast of New Jersey. University Book Store, 4326 Way NE, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
* HANK STUEVER
See review, page 26, and Stranger Suggests, page 23. Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
INDU SUNDARESAN
The Twentieth Wife is a novel. Ravenna Third Place, 6504 20th Ave NE, 525-2347, 7:30 pm, free.
FRIDAY 7/30
RICK ANDERSON
The reporter reads from his book Home Front: The Government's War on Soldiers. Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 366-3333, 6:30 pm, free.
* CHINA MIÉVILLE
See review, page 26. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free (also on Sat July 31 at Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 3 pm, free).
SATURDAY 7/31
JIM HIGHTOWER
Hightower's book is called Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush: More Political Subversion. Magnuson Park, www.seattlethunder.net, 624-6600, noon-8 pm, $10; get tickets at Elliott Bay Book Co. (Also on August 1 at 2 pm at Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 2 pm, free.)
ANTHONY CAPELLA
The Food of Love is not a cookbook. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 6 pm, free.
SUNDAY 8/1
'TWO NIGHTS, TWO MENTORS'
Bent Writing Institute's third semiannual Student Showcase, with featured writers Michelle Tea and Justin Chin. Re-bar, 1114 Howell Street, 233-9873, doors at 7 pm, show at 7:30 pm, $6-10 at the door.
MONDAY 8/2
HOWARD FRANK MOSHER
Waiting for Teddy Williams is a novel involving baseball. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 5:30 pm, free.
J. MAARTEN TROOST
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific is a memoir about travel gone really wrong. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
ZACH ROGAN
The poet reads from his new translation of Colette's Green Wheat. Elliott Bay Book Company, 624-6600, 7:30 pm, free.
TUESDAY 8/3
JEFFREY DEAVER
Garden of the Beasts involves assassins and Germany. Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 587-5737, noon, free.
SUZANNE SCHLOSBERG
The Curse of the Singles Table is about 1,001 sexless nights. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
EARL EMERSON
Pyro is about fire. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
WEDNESDAY 8/4
* NANCY PEARL
The famous librarian signs Book Lust and the Book Lust 2005 calendar. Seattle Public Library, Central Library, Microsoft Auditorium, 1000 Fourth Ave, 826-4328, 7 pm, free.
BHARTI KIRCHNER
Pastries is a novel. University Book Store, 634-3400, 7 pm, free.
CHRISTINA DODD
Some Enchanted Evening features princesses and kingdoms and a misspelled word in the first sentence. Third Place Books, 366-3333, 7 pm, free.
'A GUIDE TO VISITORS'
A curated selection of life stories about things lost and found. Capital Hill Arts Center, downstairs cabaret, 1621 12th Ave, doors at 6:30 pm, readings at 7:30 pm, free.
