Poet and educator Dennis Bernstein will be in the store this May evening reading from his new collection of poems, Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom.

Come into the special ed classroom, where the kids who don't fit in anywhere else spend their day. For these kids—real kids Dennis J. Bernstein taught in the New York City public schools before he became an internationally known investigative journalist—pistols, switchblades, police cars and hunger are more instructive than textbooks.

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This Wednesday evening, Orca is thrilled to welcome to the store Mark Sundeen and Daniel Suelo, author and subject of The Man Who Quit Money.

In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings-all thirty dollars of it-in a phone booth. He has lived without money-and with a newfound sense of freedom and security-ever since.

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Orca Books is pleased to welcome Olympia author Elana Freeland back to the store!  Elana will be reading from her newest fiction, The Sub Rosa America Series.

Told from the perspective of 2019, when all the Earth is convulsing and the United States of America is collapsing due either to Nature taking back her own, or to a HAARP-driven error, or to a purposeful Tesla sabotage to force a new beginning. Sub Rosa America and the Fall of the New Atlantis is the occult history of the United States since November 22, 1963, a history we all could have read years ago as the Mayan chronicler wrote it if we’d been on Route 66 cruising through a quantum Time field . . ..

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