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Glittersweet & Zupers Closing Sale
Laura's last Glittersweet bags have gone so fast that we've decided to hold the rest aside for now, to make sure there are any left for her goodbye sale on Saturday from 10 to 2 (which will also feature girl's leggings from her fellow local producer, Zupers, for $10 a pair). Saturday may well be your last chance to get a Glittersweet bag (though not your last chance to say hi to Laura)!
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Steve Olson & Our Local Volcano
 We love Steve Olson's new book on the Mt. St. Helen's eruption (see below), and we're thrilled he's going to come by the store to talk about it, on Thursday, April 7 at 7 pm. (I'm told there will be pictures too.) Come join us!
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New Book of the Week
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
by Steve Olson
Over twenty-five years later, one of the central events in Northwest history finally has its storyteller. Timber tycoons, a maverick governor, intrepid geologists, loggers, conservationists, gawkers, rescuers, and, most importantly, a mountain with a 400-foot bulge growing out of its north face: Olson pulls together a vivid cast of characters, connecting the science, economics, politics, and personal stories of the volcano, but he carries all his elements lightly and his story moves as fast as the swollen Toutle River. You'll be awed once again by the power of our slumbering neighbors. —Tom
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Old Book of the Week
Phinney by Post Book #15
Double Down
by Frederick and Steven Barthelme
What a tale: two brothers, both writers, found themselves in a plot beyond their own imagining, accused of a casino blackjack scam. But the real story, as those brothers tell it in Double Down, comes before their arrest: how, and why, did two moderately successful English professors blow their quarter-million dollar inheritance in two years of all-night binges? The answer is not your usual tale of addiction and redemption, but a wry appreciation of the irrational magic the turn of a card can bring, and the lengths two more or less sensible men will go to find it. —Tom
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Kids' Book of the Week
Phinney by Post Kids Book #3
Tree
by Britta Teckentrup
We (and our customers) have loved Britta Teckentrup's elegant and vibrant picture books, The Odd One Out and Where's the Pair?, but we might like her new one the best. It's a familiar story of the seasons, but her illustrations are so full of life that each page seems like a world in itself, and her simple rhymes will make it a regular read-aloud favorite. (Ages 1 to 4) —Tom
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Link of the Week
"The Custodian of Forgotten Books"
I've been linking to the New Yorker's book coverage a lot lately, but I couldn't let this latest one pass by. Few things make my heart flutter more than the idea of a lost classic, a book that's barely been kept alive by a few passionate readers, so how could I not love the life's work of Brad Bigelow, a 58-year-old expat in Belgium who posts every week or so on his blog, Neglected Books, about another under-read book he's discovered? And how could I not love that he made his first discovery, W.V. Tilsley's Other Ranks, a book about World War I that's still so obscure it doesn't have an Amazon listing, at the UW's Suzzallo Library, where I've done so much literary digging myself? (Don't bother trying to check out Other Ranks from the UW, by the way—I just reserved their copy to give it a look myself.)
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I had the newsletter set to go out this morning with some shout-outs to our neighbors to the north (see below), but then I was woken with the news of the 
What we were planning to say was that our friends at Coyle's Bakeshop at 83rd and Greenwood are celebrating their 
