Author Event: Saturday, June 20, 2026 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, June 20, 2026 from 11am to 2pm when author Ludie Arellano will be signing copies of The Street Sweeper.
This is a children's book about a young girl who's trying to discover a mysterious entity that keeps roaming the streets of her neighborhood. She must drum up all her courage in order to solve the mystery. (Suggested reading age: 3-10 years old)
Author Event: Saturday, June 13, 2026 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, June 13, 2026 from 11am to 2pm when author Adriana Janovich will be signing copies of Secret Spokane.
Spokane is a spirited riverfront city with a rich and colorful history, vibrant arts scene, natural beauty, and plenty of quirks. And it’s getting discovered. Long overshadowed by the larger and more metropolitan Seattle and Portland, Oregon, eclectic Spokane and its surrounding county by the same name are becoming tourist destinations in their own right. In fact, many people end up staying. For Pig Out in the Park. For Pie and Whiskey. For Bloomsday, Hoopfest, and an expansive downtown park that once welcomed the world. In 1974, Spokane made history, becoming the smallest city to ever host a World’s Fair.
Today, it’s growing. The second-largest city in Washington state jumped from 208,916 people in 2010 to 228,989 in 2020, an increase of nearly 10 percent. Spokane County increased even more from 2010 to 2020, climbing from 471,221 to 539, 339, or a hike of 14.5 percent. The arts, culture, and culinary capital of the Inland Northwest, Spokane, also known as the Lilac City, is not to be missed. Its collection of distinctive neighborhoods radiates from downtown, where a picturesque river complete with waterfalls runs through the heart of the metropolis. Spokane — its other nickname is River City — features a down-to-earth Pacific Northwest vibe. Spokanites are approachable and unpretentious. And the city itself is a lot of fun.
Author Event: Saturday, June 6, 2026 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, June 6, 2026 from 11am to 2pm when author Anikó Kuschatka will be signing copies of Fallen on Deaf Ears.
Anikó was eighteen months old when illness took most of her hearing. A few years later, her family left Hungary for the United States, where she grew up as both outsider and observer, learning a new language, learning to read lips, and searching for her place in a world that never quite fit. Amid those challenges, she found solace in music—her passion, her comfort, her way through the world. Years later, she began to lose her sight.
Author Event: Saturday, May 30, 2026 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, May 30, 2026 from 11am to 2pm when author Cindy Love "Sparkles the Clown" will be signing copies of her book Clowning from the Heart.
In Clowning from the Heart: One Smile at a Time, Cindy Love invites readers into the remarkable true story of how she became "Sparkle," a gospel clown whose mission was simple yet profound: to help people feel seen, safe, and loved. What began as a childhood spark and a small act of obedience grew into a decades-long ministry that touched hospitals, nursing homes, churches, schools, parades, and countless lives in between.
Author Event: Saturday, May 23, 2026 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, May 23, 2026 from 11am to 2pm when author Mark Hester will be signing copies of A Sterling Life.
John Danz, originally named Israel Danowsky, left Czarist Russia at the age of four along with his parents. They escaped the Russian Pogroms and arrived in the United States in 1882. Initially, they lived in a sod hut in Kansas before John and his father traveled to Portland Oregon in their peddler's wagon. In his youth, John took various jobs as a newsboy, a Western Union messenger, a cowhand in Nevada, and a clerk in haberdasheries in Nevada and Oregon.
In 1903, John arrived in Seattle Washington and soon established his own men's clothing business. By 1913, he began to manage a nickelodeon theatre next to his store, primarily to attract customers to his clothing business. To his surprise, the theatre proved to be more profitable. Consequently, John decided to focus on expanding his chain of theatres. He named his business, the Sterling Theatre Company. Despite facing challenges such as two world wars, bankruptcies, the longest labor strike in Seattle's history, and the Great Depression, John Danz managed to achieve significant success. He passed away in 1961, leaving his theatre empire to his son, Fred.
At the age of fifty-five, author Mark Hester's journey of discovery began. By 2015, he had successfully traced the majority of his ancestors back to the seventeenth century. Hester decided to undergo a DNA test fully aware that it wouldn't reveal anything new or surprising. However, the test results unveiled something unexpected - Mark Hester was twenty-five percent Jewish. This revelation left him puzzled. After spending forty years researching his family history, he had no indication of Jewish ancestry. What happened next would have a profound and lasting impact on his life.
Author Event: Saturday, May 16, 2026 from 11 am to 2 pm
Please join us on Saturday, May 16, 2026 from 11 am to 2 pm when author Joyce Byers Hill will be signing copies of First Response.
Can the firefighter douse the pain in her heart?
Taylor Wilson was a recently widowed high school teacher. Raising her little boy without her police officer husband had never been on her radar. Now she found herself starting life over at a new school and wasn’t sure what the future would hold. The one thing she did know was that she would never give her heart to another first responder. But did her heart have a mind of its own?
Shane Gallagher had been fighting fires since he was eighteen. Even though he never made it a career, he couldn’t give it up. As a high school math and science teacher, he volunteered as a firefighter during the school year and spent his summers fighting fires full-time. Could he choose between teaching and firefighting if he had to?
First Responseis a story of making choices and letting go. Sometimes letting go of the life you thought you’d have allows you to embrace a new life.
Author Event: Saturday, May 9, 2026 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, May 9, 2026 from 11am to 2pm when author Janet Breuer will be signing copies of When Daisy Mae Came to Stay.
Chaos follows puppy Daisy Mae everywhere when she comes to live in her new home. She knocks over plants and trash bins, drags clothes all over the house, steals things, and tries to sleep in every other pet’s bed except her own.
Anyone who has ever tried to train a new puppy will relate to this hilarious book, and fans of the series will love reading about the latest adventures of Tucker, Ridge, Trouble, and now Daisy Mae.
Author Event: Saturday, April 25, 2026 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, April 25, 2026 from 11am to 2pm when author Kristi Haynes will be signing copies of Memories on Mill Creek.
Memories on Mill Creek is a heartfelt collection of personal stories inspired by small-town life and time spent at her family’s cabin on the banks of Mill Creek just outside Walla Walla.
The book is a love letter to the people and places that shape us. Through humor, reflection, and deeply personal storytelling, Kristi writes about the ordinary moments that become the memories we carry with us throughout our lives.
Many of the stories will feel familiar to readers who grew up in small towns or spent time outdoors with family and friends, creating memories along creeks, under open skies, and around kitchen tables.
Memories on Mill Creek reflects on community, family traditions, and the healing power of time spent in nature. As Kristi writes in her book, “Out here, surrounded by mountains and trees, I remember that peace isn’t something we chase–it’s something we return to.”
Author Event: Saturday, April 18, 2026 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, April 18, 2026 from 11am to 2pm when author Robert Johnson, Susan Pickett, and Mark Brown will be signing copies of The Enigma of Grief & The Sublime.
What is it about those moments of breathtaking beauty within our lives that make them so elusive to description?
In this book, we shall argue that we know the answer. And it is this: such moments must defy description: were they not so resistant they'd fail their own birthing. Their nature stands apart from problem-solving. It is, instead and indeed, one of enigma. Breathtaking beauty, the sublime, is an experience of enigma.
And here we go further: the same is true of, lives at the heart of, the experience of loss - what we shall call essential, natural grief - sublime sadness. The sublime is as true of those moments of breathtaking beauty as it is of those at the very core of grief: they partake of a oneness. That is the argument we present. We write descriptively to set contexts for an experience and a way to understand it, but our argument on its behalf cannot come to rest on those descriptive words however they're formulated. The argument must evoke the feeling it's addressing. And to do that we make use of the arts - just a tiny few of their many, many sublime fragments - literary, visual, and musical.
We co-authors are friends. We share a lifelong passion for the arts. Two of us are psychotherapists, two of us are musicians, one is a physician of 50 years' experience, and one taught music theory and history for decades. In an extended Introduction to the book, we describe how the theme for the argument we've just described came to our minds and from there became a topic for our conversations. We've put this book together by retaining each of us an individual voice, as if it were an extended conversation-of-monologues (if that's not self-contradictory). In short, we've authored the book's chapters individually, teaching ourselves, as we've done so, how to make use of a language for grief and the sublime, something we came to hold in common.
Author Event: Saturday, April 4, 2026 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, April 4, 2026 from 11am to 2pm when author Sherri Maret will be signing copies of her book Twelve Days of Spring. This is the latest in her series of books that are a reimagined version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas.” The other titles are Twelve Days of Winter, Twelve Days of Summer, Twelve Days of Autumn.
Read more about Sherri on her website: https://www.sherrimaret.com/
Author Event: Saturday, November 8, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, November 8, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Laurence Davidson will be signing copies of The Flow.
What happens when a skeptical, comfort-loving, sharp-witted Westerner with an acute BS meter trades his daily grind for a Thai jungle monastery—and a shot at inner peace? In The Flow: A Hedonist’s Guide to Buddhism, Meditation and Travels in Thailand, a dry-witted hedonist goes searching for something real in a world that prizes distraction, and winds up barefoot and meditating at 5 a.m. amidst the cacophony of the jungle. What begins as spiritual curiosity soon becomes a heartfelt plunge into the rhythms of Thai life, Buddhist practice, and the universal ache for connection, purpose, and grace.
Author Event: Friday, November 7, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Friday, November 7, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Helen Heavirland will be signing copies of Surviving the Sand.
In Surviving the Sand, the author shares her family's hardscrabble yet heartwarming story, chronicling common hardships many faced during the project's early settlement days, as well as simple joys. Most of all, she relates how--despite the heartache, arduous work, and tough times--her family loves, laughs, and works together as they chase her father's seemingly impossible dream.
Author Event: Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Kara Eggers will be signing copies of Beyond the Burrow.
About the book:
Beyond the Burrow is the whimsical, heartwarming tale of Mortencia “Morty” Mole, a shy homebody who prefers her snug burrow, knitting, and the company of her quiet companion Phil the Pillbug to the wide and noisy meadow outside. When a knock at her door brings an unexpected visitor, Morty discovers a world of friendship waiting just beyond her doorstep. Brimming with cozy charm, gentle humor, and richly illustrated woodland scenes, Beyond the Burrow is a timeless story of courage, kindness, and jam.
Author Event: Saturday, October 11, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, October 11, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Cameron Riley will be signing copies of Carol of the Gears.
Author Event: Saturday, October 4, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, October 4, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Sherri Maret will be signing copies of Twelve Days of Autumn.
In this reimagined version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas," the wonders of wildlife and nature's vibrant transformations are observed during Autumn.
Author Event: Saturday, September 27, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, September 27, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Edmond Bruneau will be signing copies of When Watermelon had Seeds.
When Watermelon had Seeds is a metaphor for Edmond Bruneau's observation of the world. A place which rarely exists any longer -- and cannot help but to be compared with things as they are now. The book begins with a poem potpourri - an assortment of observations and memories. Thought-provoking and insightful - with a few fun wordplays thrown in here and there. Then a look at the holidays and the four seasons, beginning with the New Year - continuing all the way to the Christmas season and an unusual letter to Santa Claus. Next, a nod to nature - ending appropriately with a sunset. Toward the book end, topics become socially-conscious and political. Last, but not certainly least, is a short story called Why Dogs Hate Cats - the missing Mother Goose tale that plainly explains why these two species have a natural animosity.
Author Event: Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Brooke Thonney will be signing copies of I Love That You Are My Daughter and Girl Tell Your Story.
I Love That You Are My Daughter
"No matter how old you get, your life is a gift, and I hope you always know- I love that you are my daughter."
I Love That You Are My Daughter puts into words the deep joy of motherhood-the wonder of watching your child grow, and the beautiful reminder of God's joy and faithfulness along every step of the journey.
Girl Tell Your Story
"How would you choose to use your voice if you knew just how powerful it was?"
So begins Brooke Thonney's narrative of her journey toward understanding the unique, irresistible power not just of her own story, but of every woman's story. In a world that too often tells us we are unremarkable or underqualified, Girl, Tell Your Story is a stirring invitation to use your voice as God intended: to share love and to give life. Regardless of the brokenness of your past or the challenges of your present, you have something to share and much to give. Your story matters. It's time to tell it.
Author Event: Saturday, August 16, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, August 16, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Susan Matley will be signing copies of Small-g City.
The world is in big trouble and Olympus, Inc., the immortal-staffed organization that oversees it, is in corporate crisis! Veronica Zeta, youngest child of Zeus and Hera and heir apparent to her father’s position of CEO, makes a bold move to reorganize the Structureling Department to demonstrate how corporate operations can be streamlined in the twenty-first century.
Structurelings,employees of Olympus, Inc., are immortal giants trained todisperse their molecules intomortal-designed under-engineered architectural structures for reinforcement, a technology invented by Zeus. But structureling Ralph,who supports a failing raised highway (Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct), is suffering severe job burn-out. If he fails at his job, thousands of human lives could be lost!
Veronica chooses Ralph and another Seattle-based structureling, Clifford (reinforcing the Space Needle), as subjects for her demonstration. But the project must be executed in secret as Zeus will not tolerate interference with his inventions! When Ralph refuses to volunteer for her demonstration, Veronica digs into his tarnished past to find the appropriate motivation. . .