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Author: Mona Awad
2025-09-29 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Third Place Books – Lake Forest Park, 17171 Bothell Way NE #A101, Lake Forest Park, WA, 98155, United States
The highly anticipated follow up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark, and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse
Third Place Books is proud to welcome back Mona Awad for the release of We Love You, Bunny, a prequel (and sequel) to Awad’s novel Bunny, a finalist for a New England Book Award and currently in development for film with Bad Robot Productions. Mona is joined in conversation by Katie Campbell, reporter and creator of the KUOW Book Club. Tickets are required in advance.

Mona Awad in Conversation With Jeff VanderMeer
2025-09-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Powell’s Books, 1005 W Burnside St., Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Mona Awad’s We Love You, Bunny (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books) is the highly anticipated follow-up to the viral sensation Bunny, a brilliantly written, laugh-out-loud funny, dark, and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse — a world that Margaret Atwood declared “soooo genius.” In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves “Bunny.” An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into the violently surreal world of their off-campus workshops where monstrous creations are conjured with deadly and wondrous consequences. When We Love You, Bunny opens, Sam has just published her first novel to critical acclaim. But at a New England stop on her book tour, her one-time frenemies, furious at the way they’ve been portrayed, kidnap her. Now a captive audience, it’s her (and our) turn to hear the Bunnies’ side of the story. One by one, they take turns holding the axe, and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance, their discovery of their unusual creative powers — and the phantasmagoric adventure of conjuring their first creation. With a bound and gagged Sam, we embark on a wickedly intoxicating journey into the heart of dark academia: a fairy tale slasher that explores the wonder and horror of creation itself. Not to mention the transformative powers of love and friendship, Bunny. Frankenstein by way of Heathers, We Love You, Bunny is both a prequel and a sequel, and an unabashedly wild and totally complete stand-alone novel. Open your hearts, Bunny, to another dazzlingly original and darkly hilarious romp in the Bunny-verse from the queen of the fever-dream, Mona Awad. Awad will be joined in conversation by Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach series.

Safa Suleiman with Hilwa's Gifts
2025-10-02 18:30 - 20:00 | Eagle Harbor Books, 157 Winslow Way E., Bainbridge Island, WA, 98110
Join us for an imaginative and enlightening evening with Children’s Author Safa Suleiman presenting her timely picture book Hilwa’s Gift.

Safa Suleiman with Hilwa's Gifts
2025-10-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Suquamish Museum, 6861 NE South St, Suquamish, WA, 98392

'We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth' — A Community Reading
2026-01-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Third Place Books – Seward Park, 5041 Wilson Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
Third Place Books welcomes readers Ayah Abdel-Qader, Lubna Alzaroo, Yara Hassan, and Giovanna Khoury, along with We Are Not Numbers mentor Alice Rothchild, for readings from the collection We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth. Penned by young people living in Gaza, these are stories of struggle, loss, hope, resilience, and the ongoing fight to be recognized as human beings.
“We Are Not Numbers is not just a book—it’s my life, their life, and our shared story. I know some of these brave writers; I’ve walked the same streets, felt the same fear, and shared the same dreams under Gaza’s skies. These pages carry the truth of our struggle and the beauty of our humanity. This is Gaza as it truly is, written by those who live it every day.”
— Motaz Azaiza, award-winning Palestinian photojournalist
This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!

Paradiso 17 with author Hannah Lillith Assadi
2026-03-25 19:00 - 20:00 | Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, 98122, United States
Hannah Lillith Assadi
Wednesday March 25th, 2026 @ 7:00PM – 8:00 PM

Novelist Hannah Lillith Assadi visits the store for her latest book Paradiso 17, inspired by the life of her late Palestinian father, which follows one man’s restless search for home the world over, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope.
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“There is something miraculous about Paradiso 17, about the poetry that seems to guide every sentence of this exquisite novel. With stunning intimacy, Hannah Lillith Assadi has crafted an unforgettable story about the many stunted afterlives of hyphenated belonging. In this book live some of the most complex characters I’ve read in a long time, and a deeply nuanced exploration of exile as both event and inheritance.” —Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“Paradiso 17 is remarkable. It’s a novel of unearthing, a story of quiet explosions, of memories lost and recovered. It’s urgent and necessary. Read it as an intimate family tale, as mythos, or as history—but read it, read it, read it.” —Rabih Alameddine, author of The Wrong End of the Telescope
All his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe.
Born in Palestine on the precipice of 1948’s Nakba, Sufien is forced to leave the only home he’s ever known, the one on the hill with a beautiful blue door. This is the precise moment when time stops making sense. He spends the rest of his life propelled forward, always on the way—although in search of what, he is never quite sure. In the dusty, oil-rich desert of Kuwait, he meets his first love and decides he must leave his family. In a small Italian university town, he spends his youth wrapped up in the sweet promise of the West and the forgetful assurance of wine. When life takes him to a gritty New York, he discovers his true vocation and falls for a Jewish woman born into a wholly different world. Finally, he finds himself recalled to the wild, vast open skies of the desert, in Arizona.
Sufien’s life spans friendships lost and maintained, a stint selling leathers at a tanner’s stall, the ineffable company of cats, and the freedom of the open road, the glowing pride of fatherhood, Sufi myths, prophetic dreams, and visions of the afterlife—and always, always, no matter how far he chases joy, the sweet, treacherous song of a balcony urging him to fly, to fall, to fall. The lyrical pages of Paradiso 17 weave in and out of time and space, beginning at the end and ending at the beginning. They are haunting, haunted with grief, struck through, as Dante once wrote, with “the arrow that the bow of exile / shoots first,” and yet they throb with light—not just the light that Sufien sees as he approaches his own end, but the brilliant light of a life lived.
Like all of our dead, Sufien still speaks, the book begins. Listen, this is his story.
Hannah Lillith Assadi, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Pratt Institute. She is the author of Sonora, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells, was a New Yorker and NPR best book of 2022. Raised in Arizona, she lives in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo credit: Jordan Ledy)

Paradiso 17 with Hannah Lillith Assadi
2026-03-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Third Place Books – Ravenna, 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, United States
“There is something miraculous about Paradiso 17, about the poetry that seems to guide every sentence of this exquisite novel.” —Omar El Akkad
Third Place Books welcomes Hannah Lillith Assadi to our Ravenna store for a conversation about her novel, Paradiso 17. Following a Palestinian man forced to leave his home as a child during the 1948 Nakba, this visionary book explores calamity, connection, human complexity, and the lifelong aftermath of exile.
“Paradiso 17 is a masterclass in diasporic storytelling—gorgeously written and devastatingly necessary.” —Rafe Posey, Third Place Books Ravenna
This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
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Amal El-Mohtar in Conversation With Kelly Sue DeConnick - TICKETED EVENT
2026-03-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Powell’s Books, 1005 W Burnside St., Portland, OR, 97209, United States
Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron (Tordotcom) is an enchanting short story collection by Amal El-Mohtar — the bestselling, award-winning co-author of This Is How You Lose the Time War.

With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these stories are told in letters, diary entries, reference materials, folktales, and lyrical prose.

Full of Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Hugo Award-winning and nominated stories, Seasons of Glass and Iron includes “Seasons of Glass and Iron,” “The Green Book,” “Madeleine,” “The Lonely Sea in the Sky,” “And Their Lips Rang with the Sun,” “The Truth About Owls,” “A Hollow Play,” “Anabasis,” “To Follow the Waves,” “John Hollowback and the Witch,” “Florilegia, or, Some Lies About Flowers,” “Pockets,” and more.

El-Mohtar will be joined in conversation by comics writer Kelly Sue DeConnick.

Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
2026-03-30 17:30 - 18:30 | Central Library [Spokane], 906 W Main, Spokane, WA, 99201
Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron (Tordotcom) is an enchanting short story collection by Amal El-Mohtar — the bestselling, award-winning co-author of This Is How You Lose the Time War.

With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these stories are told in letters, diary entries, reference materials, folktales, and lyrical prose.

Full of Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Hugo Award-winning and nominated stories, Seasons of Glass and Iron includes “Seasons of Glass and Iron,” “The Green Book,” “Madeleine,” “The Lonely Sea in the Sky,” “And Their Lips Rang with the Sun,” “The Truth About Owls,” “A Hollow Play,” “Anabasis,” “To Follow the Waves,” “John Hollowback and the Witch,” “Florilegia, or, Some Lies About Flowers,” “Pockets,” and more.

Hannah Moushabeck presents 'Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine'
2026-06-02 18:00 - 21:00 | Third Place Books – Lake Forest Park, 17171 Bothell Way NE #A101, Lake Forest Park, WA, 98155, United States
A love letter to home, to family, and to persistent hope that transcends borders.
Third Place Books welcomes author Hannah Moushabeck to our Lake Forest Park store for a conversation about her picture book Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine: a moving, beautifully illustrated story of a family keeping their home alive in memory.
This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
