Birds Connect Seattle Presents: Eric Wagner discussing "Seabirds as Sentinels"
Every spring, thousands of rhinoceros auklets return to Destruction Island off Washington’s coast, where they dig burrows, lay eggs, and raise their chicks. Small, gray, and adorned with a curious horn on their bill, these funny-looking birds have become an unlikely but vitally important indicator for the health of oceans and the Pacific ecosystem as a whole.
Join Birds Connect Seattle for an author talk with Eric Wagner, author of Seabirds as Sentinels: Auklets, Puffins, Shearwaters, and the View from Destruction Island.
All registrants to the talk will get a $5 off coupon to be used for purchase of the book at the event. (Coupon code shared via confirmation email.) Register here.
Eric Wagner is a staff writer with the Puget Sound Institute at University of Washington, Tacoma. He is author of After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens, Penguins in the Desert, and Once and Future River: Reclaiming the Duwamish. His essays and journalism have appeared in Orion, Audubon, High Country News,…
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Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Birds Connect Seattle.
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Join us at Tidelands for an intimate evening with Ramona Bennett Bill celebrating her new memoir Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe with a live conversation for the All My Relations podcast.
This is an RSVP only gathering. Ramona will be signing books following the conversation, and light refreshments will be provided.
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Thursday, April 2, 2026, 7:00 PM.
Tidelands Gallery.
For more info visit www.thisistidelands.com. Port Book & News Presents: Eric Wagner discussing "Seabirds as Sentinels"
Join Port Book and News for a reading and signing of Seabirds as Sentinels, Eric Wagner's new book about auklets, puffins, and what seabird colonies off the Northwest Coast reveal about the future of the Pacific.
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Saturday, April 11, 2026, 6:00 PM.
Dungeness River Nature Center.
For more info visit portbooknews.com. Third Place Books Presents: David B. Williams and Jennifer Ott discussing "Seattle's Locks and Ship Canal"
Third Place Books welcomes Jennifer Ott and David B. Williams for a conversation about Seattle's Locks and Ship Canal: A History and Guide. Exploring the history and present of the Lake Washington Ship Canal and the Ballard Locks, this guide is an informative primer on our city's waterways.
Jennifer Ott is executive director at HistoryLink.org and an environmental historian. Her works include Olmsted in Seattle: Creating a Park System for a Modern City and Where the City Meets the Sound: The Story of Seattle’s Waterfront. David B. Williams is a naturalist, author, and educator. His many books include Seattle Walks: Discovering History and Nature in the City, Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound, and Wild in Seattle: Stories at the Crossroads of People and Nature, a collection from his free weekly newsletter, Street Smart Naturalist. (Photo credit: Andrew Croneberger)
This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will…
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 7:00 PM.
Third Place Books Lake Forest Park.
For more info visit www.thirdplacebooks.com. Third Place Books and North Cascades Institute Present: Eric Wagner discussing "Seabirds as Sentinels"
Third Place Books welcomes Puget Sound Institute staff writer Eric Wagner to the Lake Forest Park store for a conversation about his new book, Seabirds as Sentinels: Auklets, Puffins, Shearwaters, and the View from Destruction Island. Interspersing accounts of research expeditions with inspired science writing, Wagner shows how the health of seabird populations forecasts the health of the Pacific Ocean as a whole.
This event is co-sponsored by the North Cascades Institute, a nonprofit conservation organization working to inspire environmental stewardship through transformative learning experiences in nature. Learn more at ncascades.org.
Tickets are free. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Help sustain Third Place Books' author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book through the bookstore.
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Thursday, April 23, 2026, 7:00 PM.
Third Place Books Lake Forest Park.
For more info visit www.thirdplacebooks.com. Tacoma Public Library and Write253 Present: Tamiko Nimura discussing "A Place for What We Lose"
Join Tamiko Nimura for the launch of her book A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter's Return to Tule Lake with Write253 in partnership with the Tacoma Public Library.
In a moving conversation with the past, Tamiko Nimura explores her late father’s life and her family’s wartime history at Tule Lake. The typewritten pages of her father’s unpublished memoir—written decades earlier about his childhood behind barbed wire—spark a reckoning with the long shadow of parental loss and the unresolved legacy of incarceration.
Following an innovative structure, Nimura interlaces her father’s vivid recollections with her own: scenes of camp life, family separation, and resistance alongside her present-day journey as a mother, writer, and descendant. Joining a community pilgrimage to Tule Lake transforms inherited pain into collective remembrance.
With honesty and lyrical precision, Nimura shows how intergenerational trauma and silence are transmitted, and how confronting them can foster healing. Part memoir, part…
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Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Tacoma Public Library, Main Branch.
For more info visit tacoma.bibliocommons.com. Browsers Bookshop Presents: Tamiko Nimura discussing "A Place for What We Lose"
Browsers welcomes author Tamiko Nimura to discuss her latest book A Place for What We Lose on Thursday, April 30 at 6:00 PM. The event will be held upstairs and copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.
A deeply affecting memoir of reckoning with a father’s death and the Japanese American incarceration
In a moving conversation with the past, Tamiko Nimura explores her late father’s life and her family’s wartime history at Tule Lake. The typewritten pages of her father’s unpublished memoir—written decades earlier about his childhood behind barbed wire—spark a reckoning with the long shadow of parental loss and the unresolved legacy of incarceration.
Following an innovative structure, Nimura interlaces her father’s vivid recollections with her own: scenes of camp life, family separation, and resistance alongside her present-day journey as a mother, writer, and descendant. Joining a community pilgrimage to Tule Lake transforms inherited pain into collective remembrance.
Tamiko Nimura…
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Thursday, April 30, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Browsers Bookshop.
For more info visit www.browsersolympia.com. Seattle Public Library Presents: Tamiko Nimura discussing "A Place for What We Lose"
Join us for a conversation about Tamiko Nimura's memoir, A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter's Return to Tule Lake, a reckoning with her father’s death and the Japanese American incarceration.
Tamiko Nimura will appear in conversation with Caitlin Oiye Coon and Shawn Wong.
About the Book
In a moving conversation with the past, Tamiko Nimura explores her late father’s life and her family’s wartime history at Tule Lake. The typewritten pages of her father’s unpublished memoir—written decades earlier about his childhood behind barbed wire—spark a reckoning with the long shadow of parental loss and the unresolved legacy of incarceration.
Following an innovative structure, Nimura interlaces her father’s vivid recollections with her own: scenes of camp life, family separation, and resistance alongside her present-day journey as a mother, writer, and descendant. Joining a community pilgrimage to Tule Lake transforms inherited pain into collective remembrance.
With honesty and lyrical precision, Nimura shows…
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Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Seattle Public Library, Central Library.
For more info visit www.eventbrite.com. The Burke Presents: How to Tell a Seabird's Tale with Eric Wagner, author of "Seabirds as Sentinels"
How do science writers and illustrators collect the data, information, and stories that inform their art? Join three Pacific Northwest artists—two writers and one illustrator—to learn how they distill their research on our local seabirds into engaging stories and compelling illustrations.
You’ll hear stories from Madison Mayfield, a science illustrator, taxidermist, and Assistant Collections Manager of the Burke Museum’s ornithology collection. You’ll find out how author and community scientist, Maria Mudd Ruth, turned data—and a lack of data—into her new book on the Pigeon Guillemot, The Bird with Flaming Red Feet. Eric Wagner, author and professional scientist, will share secrets for collecting and interpreting data on nocturnal Rhinoceros Auklets for his new book, Seabirds as Sentinels.
Join Maria Mudd Ruth, Eric Wagner, and Madison Mayfield for a succinct illustrated presentation followed by lively conversation moderated by science journalist Sarah DeWeert. Guillemots, auklets, and other seabird…
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Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 6:30 PM.
Burke Museum.
For more info visit www.burkemuseum.org. Powell's City of Books presents: Tamiko Nimura in Conversation with Hanako Wakatsuki-Chong
Tamiko Nimura’s A Place for What We Lose (University of Washington Press) is a deeply affecting memoir of reckoning with a father’s death and the Japanese American incarceration.
In a moving conversation with the past, Nimura explores her late father’s life and her family’s wartime history at Tule Lake. The typewritten pages of her father’s unpublished memoir — written decades earlier about his childhood behind barbed wire — spark a reckoning with the long shadow of parental loss and the unresolved legacy of incarceration.
Following an innovative structure, Nimura interlaces her father’s vivid recollections with her own: scenes of camp life, family separation, and resistance alongside her present-day journey as a mother, writer, and descendant. Joining a community pilgrimage to Tule Lake transforms inherited pain into collective remembrance.
With honesty and lyrical precision, Nimura shows how intergenerational trauma and silence are transmitted, and how confronting them can foster healing. Part memoir,…
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
1005 W Burnside St. Portland, OR 97209.
For more info visit www.powells.com.