"Stopping the Traffic" is the third program in the three-part film and discussion series, "The Price of a Life: Modern-Day Slavery and Human Trafficking," which highlights local and international efforts to end trafficking and slavery.

KUOW reporter Sara Lerner moderated the event. "The Cost of Capture" is the second program in the three-part film and discussion series, "The Price of a Life: Modern-Day Slavery and Human Trafficking," which highlights local and international efforts to end trafficking and slavery.

"The Long Way Home" tells the stories of 12 men who left Europe at the turn of the last century to start over in the New World. Sons of humble, struggling families, they left their ancestral homes in search of freedom and opportunity, and ended up in the trenches of France and Belgium fighting with the armed forces of a country not yet their own. David Laskin is the author of "The Children's Blizzard," winner of the 2005 Washington State Book Award and the Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award for Nonfiction. He has written books and articles on a wide range of subjects including history, weather, travel, gardens and the natural world.

Part 1, 1880-1941 explores the development of the downtown areas during the early growth of Seattle. Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, FAIA, has taught at the University of Washington for over 22 years.

Mosley's new hero, Leonid McGill, is back in the second book of his mystery series that began with "The Long Fall." Mosley is one of America's most celebrated and beloved writers. His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Part travelogue, part memoir, part literary scholarship, "The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs" traces the journey of McCue and Randlett to the towns that inspired many of Richard Hugo's poems. Frances McCue is a writer and poet in Seattle, where she is writer-in-residence at the University of Washington's Undergraduate Honors Program. She was the founding director of Richard Hugo House from 1996 to 2006. Mary Randlett is a Northwest photographer noted for her portraits of artists and writers.

Samar Abulhassan, Ghida Sinno and Maged Zaher questioned what it means to be bilingual or immigrant by unraveling usual constructs of culture and language. This event is part of Seattle Reads "Secret Son," a program of the Washington Center for the Book at The Seattle Public Library. Seattle Reads is designed to foster reading and discussion of works by authors of diverse cultures and ethnicities.

"House Rules" tells the story of Jacob Hunt, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome, who suddenly finds himself accused of murder. "House Rules" examines what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- but not for those who don't.

Chang-rae Lee tells a harrowing tale of the lasting effects of war that moves from Korea in the 1950s to China in the 1930s to New York City and Italy in the 1980s. Selected by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers under forty, Lee has been honored by a host of literary awards, including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

Bernton spent nine weeks in Afghanistan last fall reporting for The Seattle Times and for McClatchy News Service. His stories, blog posts and photographs reveal a myriad of challenges.