Mary's Meow Rescue Bookfair hosted by Barnes & Noble

Connie Hampton Connally, Conversation and Book Signing

Benton-Franklin Humane Society Bookfair hosted by Barnes & Noble

Amelia Cole, Presented by Barnes & Noble

Kurtis Dolman Presented by Barnes & Noble

Silvia Moreno-Garcia celebrates SILVER NITRATE #BNMiddayMystery

Ann Napolitano discusses WITHIN ARM'S REACH, our Monthly Fiction Pick for May!

Rachel Khong discusses REAL AMERICANS, our #bnbookclub May Book Club Selection!

Ivy Pochoda celebrates SING HER DOWN with Danielle Trussoni #BNMiddayMystery

Craig DiLouie and Paul Tremblay discuss HOW TO MAKE A HORROR MOVIE AND SURVIVE and HORROR MOVIE with Gabino Iglesias #BNMIddayMystery

Colin Walsh celebrates KALA #BNMiddayMystery

<div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin:0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Join us on May 18th when we host historical fiction author Connie Hampton Connally for a conversation and book signing. The conversation will begin at 12pm next to our cafe with a book signing to follow. No purchase or tickets necessary to attend!</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">About the author:</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Connie Hampton Connally holds a BA in English from the University of Washington and an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University. She has taught high school English and elementary music, worked as an editor, led workshops at writers&rsquo; conferences, and written both fiction and non-fiction. Her debut novel, The Songs We Hide, was published by Coffeetown Press in 2018, and her second novel, Fire Music, will be published in April 2024. She is currently writing a third novel set in Andean Peru. Ms. Connally lives in Tacoma, Washington with her husband.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">About Fire Music:</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Antal Varga, a Budapest violinist, is 78 years old when a young American stranger places a yellowed music sheet into his hands. With shock he recognizes his own teenage handwriting, for he himself wrote this piece in 1945, when his city was under siege.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Desperate to talk with this American woman, Varga enlists his grandson Krist&oacute;f to translate; and he finds that the woman, Lisa, shares his family's painful heritage. Now his grandson and this young American press him for the story behind the music, and especially behind its shattered ending.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">For decades he's hidden this story of war, love, jealousy, and loss. Can he bear to tell it now? Can they bear to hear it? Cautiously Varga, Krist&oacute;f, and Lisa open the music and its hard secrets, hoping that although pain has extended over generations, perhaps love will extend further still.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">About The Songs We Hide:</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">In 1951, a grim hush has settled over Hungary. After a lost war and a brutal transition to communism, the people live under constant threat of blacklisting, property confiscation, arrest, imprisonment, and worse. In this milieu of dread, the best land of P&eacute;ter Benedek&rsquo;s peasant family is seized and his life upended.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Moving to Budapest for a manual labor job, P&eacute;ter meets Katalin Varga, an unwed mother whose baby&rsquo;s father has vanished, most likely at the hands of the secret police. Both P&eacute;ter and Katalin keep their heads down and their mouths clamped shut, because silence is the only safety they know.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">The two have something in common besides fear: they are singers whose very natures make the silence unbearable. When Katalin starts giving P&eacute;ter voice lessons, they take an intrepid step out of hiding by making music together.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Little by little they tell each other what they cannot tell others. In their bond of trust, they find relief and unexpected happiness. Yet the hurts and threats in their lives remain, waiting.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">As harsh reality assaults them again, is hope even possible? Facing their hardest trials yet, P&eacute;ter and Katalin learn to carve dignity and beauty out of pain.</div>

Fire Music

<div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin:0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Join us when fantasy author Amelia Cole stops by to chat about and sign her books! She'll be here starting at 12pm on May 25th and we hope to see you there!</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">About the author:</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Amelia Cole is an adult fantasy and sci-fi writer. She's received awards for several short stories, and her works have been published in magazines and an anthology. When not writing, she enjoys spending time with her family in the Pacific Northwest, playing D&amp;D with her friends, and hanging out with the animals on her small farm.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">About her newest book, Shadowbound:</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">The Druadan Legacy series is an adult romance where the main character will end up with multiple love interests. over time. It is set on a distant earth, where centuries of rising seas have transformed the land masses into a scattering of islands.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">In a world where the sea has claimed most of the land, the once-mighty druadan faces extinction. Genetically engineered for ancient wars, these fiercely loyal horses are bonded to a single male rider. Centuries after the final battle, they now number less than a hundred, and the few remaining are housed in the island continent of Venovia in isolated farms.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">While searching for her missing sister at one such station, called Meridian, a shadowy threat emerges, sparking fears that the terrifying creatures from their past have returned.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">***********************************************************</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">One year ago, my sister vanished without a trace...</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">The police have their theories, but nothing adds up for me. Desperate for answers, I seized the opportunity to fill her shoes as public relations at the isolated Meridian Station, famous for its exclusive exhibitions of the rare and mystical genetically modified horses called druadan. Under a veil of secrecy, I know I must grow close to the three men who are the last to see her alive:</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Heath: the proud manager<br style="animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;" />Carter: the charismatic rider<br style="animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;" />Logan: the brooding head of security.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">But the deeper I venture into their world, the more I become entangled in a web of desires, deceptions, and looming danger.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Shadowbound is the first in an adult, dystopian sci-fi set on a future Earth. It is a 'why choose' romance, where the main character will end up with more than one love interest. It may have triggers for some, including violence, threat of death, blood, sexual themes, sexual acts, death, grief, and depression. It is intended for 18+ readers.</div>

Shadowbound

<p>May the 4th be with you!</p><p>Join us on May 4th for our FREE Star Wars LEGO build event!&nbsp;</p><p>Come dressed up as your favorite Jedi, or Droid and have fun as students from Chiawana High School help you build your LEGO and other Star Wars activities!</p><p>Supplies are LIMITED and will be given out on a first come first serve basis.</p><p>We hope to see you there!</p>

May the 4th Be With You LEGO Build!

LEGO Star Wars Ideas Book: More than 200 Games, Activities, and Building Ideas

<span style="color:#050505;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;">Mary's Meow Rescue is back! Stop by May 11th and 12th to help this amazing organization care for kittens in need! They'll have some kittens that are looking for their fur-ever homes and we'll be donating a portion of our sales! We hope to see you there!</span>

This Little Kitty

<p>Shop with us May 4th and 5th and help raise money for Chiawana High School! Staff and students will be here assisting with our LEGO Star Wars Build Event on May 4th and other activities to!</p><p>Support the Bookfair simply by shopping with us and we'll donate a portion of the sales!</p><p>We hope to see you there!<br /></p>

Chiawana High School Bookfair Hosted by Barnes & Noble

<span style="color:#050505;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;">Help support the Benton-Franklin Humane Society by shopping with us May 25th and 26th! BFHS will be here and we'll be donating a portion of our sales to this amazing community organization! We hope to see you there!</span>

Can I Be Your Dog?

<div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin:0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Join us when local author Kurtis Dolman stops by to discuss and sign his book, The Last Red Wolf! He'll be here starting at 12pm on June 1st! We hope to see you there!</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">About the author:</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Kurtis lives, writes, works, and plays in Washington State (Heart of the Pacific Northwest). Growing up a Washington native, Kurtis has never imagined living anywhere else. Kurtis is a full-time school psychologist, writer, husband, and pet dad. When he's not assisting special education students, gaming with his husband and friends, or exploring nearby trails, he writes about his gay werewolf duo.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">About the Book:</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Lyle Larson wanted more. He wanted friends, stability, and, above all else, a family. Growing up alone, drifting from one foster placement to another, Lyle had always wondered why no one had wanted him, why he never seemed to be enough. Setting out on a new path, moving to a new city, and beginning his college experience, he knew that whatever happened, at least he was moving in the right direction.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Chess Beck wanted freedom. Being a werewolf, let alone the next in line to become the Alpha of his family's pack, afforded him almost none of the independence that he craved. Between his family influencing his future and The Union of the Wolves' input on everything else, there seemed to be no opportunity for Chess to choose his own path.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Neither Lyle nor Chess imagined what fate had planned for them when Lyle was assigned to tutor with Chess after struggling early in his first semester. The electricity they experienced could not be described by chemistry alone, after their initial meeting they felt an innate pull between them and the two continue to find themselves inexplicably linked by more than just a passing attraction. The connection and mystery deepens when an accident involving Chess causes Lyle to become the first werewolf turned from a bite in centuries.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:'Segoe UI Historic', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#050505;font-size:15px;background-color:#ffffff;animation-name:none !important;transition-property:none !important;">Navigating the werewolf world turns out to be a lot harder than Lyle could have imagined, especially when it is rumored you could possibly be the last Red Wolf. The need to uncover the truth of why Lyle was able to be turned and to find out who Lyle is drives the two both closer together and further into danger. With difficult decisions ahead, Lyle and Chess have to decide the future for themselves, their friends, family, and wolves forever.</div>

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