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What challenges does the new chief see for the Seattle Police Department? What is his vision for the future? How does he incorporate community feedback in his overall approach to leadership? This event was sponsored in partnership with the Seattle City Club.

With the demand for transplants far surpassing the supply of donated organs, new and innovative ideas are essential to helping thousands of patients. This event series was co-sponsored with UW Medicine.

"Travels in Siberia" is both an account of Asiatic Russia since the end of the Soviet Union and Ian Frazier's personal, humorous reflections on all things Russian. Ian Frazier is the author of the bestseller "Great Plains" and "On the Rez," among other works. He is a writer and humorist, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.

Swift has influenced some of Seattle's most treasured landmarks: Discovery Park, Seattle Civic Center and Ballard Commons. This program is co-sponsored with the Seattle Architectural Foundation.

David Wright reads two classic ghost stories from 1906: "The Ghost Child," by Bernard Capes, and "The Furnished Room," by O Henry.

"Hiking Washington's History" narrates forty historic trails, ranging from short day hikes to three- or four-day backpacking trips over mountain passes. Bentley teaches at South Seattle Community College.

At once heartbreaking and life affirming, "Tinkers" is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. Paul Harding earned his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught writing at Harvard and the University of Iowa. "Tinkers" is his first novel.

Her first new book in ten years combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and beings that command her attention and inform her vision of the world, taking readers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran desert in Arizona. Leslie Marmon Silko is the author of three novels, including "Ceremony," which has sold more than one million copies since its publication in 1978.

"How to Read the Air" tells a powerful, unsettling story of family and identity in two generations of an Ethiopian American family. "How to Read the Air" follows Mengestu's acclaimed, multiple-award-winning debut, "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears," featured in The Seattle Public Library's 2008 Seattle Reads series.