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FALL 2026 SPE AKER SERIES Authors, poets and naturalists share their latest works celebrating the natural world Among The Birds: Field Notes from Cascadia
Feathered Forest: Aloft with Birds in Ancient Trees
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Marina Richie
SEPT 3, 6 PM at Village
SEPT 23, 7 PM at Third Place
Books, Fairhaven OCT 14, 7 PM at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park
Books, Lake Forest Park OCT 11, 6 PM with Lyanda Lynn Haupt at Village Books, Fairhaven
Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller
Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature
Miriam Horn SEPT 6, 6 PM at Village
Editors Bruce Jennings, Gavin Van Horn, and Heather Swan OCT 25, 6 PM at Village Books,
Fairhaven
Books, Fairhaven SEPT 7, 7 PM at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park
Books, Lake Forest Park
Dancing to the Ticking of the Doomsday Clock
Cascade of Life: An Artist's Seasonal Guide to the Wild Northwest
Rena Priest
Emily Poole
SEPT 18, 7 PM at Third Place Books, Ravenna OCT 10, 6 PM at Village Books, Fairhaven
OCT 29, 7 PM at Third Place
OCT 27, 6 PM at Village Books,
Fairhaven
OCT 29, 7 PM at Third Place Books, Seward Park
SPECIAL EVENTS In The Range of Fire & Ice: A Human and Natural History of Washington's Cascades SEPT 3, 7 PM | David B. Williams in conversation with author and environmental journalist Lynda V. Mapes at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park OCT 8, 6 PM | David B. Williams in conversation with naturalist and Institute co-founder Saul Wiesberg at Village Books, Fairhaven
Mountainous Julia Kuo OCT 24, 3 PM Family-friendly book launch at Village Books, Fairhaven
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ncascades.org/now
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