Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

by Alan J. Stein & Paula Becker

This richly-illustrated and well-researched volume chronicles the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, held in Seattle in 1909. The 3.7 million visitors to the fair during its four-month run, on what was to become the University of Washington campus, beheld a cornucopia of exhibits housed in an astonishing collection of buildings and enjoyed the carnival-like - and sometimes controversial - entertainments of the Pay Streak midway. Starting with the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897, authors Alan J. Stein and Paula Becker recount in detail the history of the fair that brought Seattle and Washington into the national spotlight.

The A-Y-P Exposition was a major community effort for a state that was only twenty years old. It was the first world's fair to make a profit, it provided a platform for advocates of woman suffrage, and it set the general plan for the University of Washington campus that endures to this day.

About the Author

Alan J. Stein is a HistoryLink.org staff historian and award-winning author of Safe Passage: The Birth of Washington State Ferries; Bellevue Timeline; and The Olympic: The Story of Seattle's Landmark Hotel. Paula Becker is a staff historian for HistoryLink.org and author of the popular "Park Hopping" column for ParentMap magazine.

Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending July 19, 2009

New on this week's Northwest Bestsellers List is the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Washington's First World's Fair. It joins 3 fiction bestsellers, as well as a children's book on the list: Jim Lynch's Border Songs, Tom Robbins' B is for Beer, Chuck Palahniuk's Pygmy and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Week of July 19, 2009.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz ZafÛn
2. Border Songs, Jim Lynch
3. Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
4. Finger Lickin' Fifteen, Janet Evanovich
5. B Is for Beer, Tom Robbins
6. The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder, Rebecca Wells
7. Rain Gods, James Lee Burke
8. Best Friends Forever, Jennifer Weiner
9. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
10. Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
2. Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
3. Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford
4. The Evolution of God, Robert Wright
5. The End of Overeating, David A. Kessler
6. Wicked Plants, Amy Stewart, Briony Morrow-Cribbs (Illus.)
7. Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Alan J. Stein, Paula Becker
8. Crazy for the Storm,Norman Ollestad
9. Liberty and Tyranny, Mark R. Levin
10. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch

MASS MARKET

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
2. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
3. Fearless Fourteen, Janet Evanovich
4. Careless in Red, Elizabeth George
5. Julie and Julia, Julie Powell
6. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
7. Moscow Rules, Daniel Silva
8. Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris
9. From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris
10. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon

CHILDREN'S INTEREST

1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.)
2. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
3. Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen
4. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling
5. Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen
6. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.)
7. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
8. Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
9. The True Meaning of Smekday, Adam Rex
10. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

The Pacific Northwest Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by northwest-books.com, IndieBound and PNBA, is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and IndieBound. Most of these books aren't books from the Pacific Northwest, but are books that are currently selling well in the Pacific Northwest.

Northwest Bestsellers - wk ending July 5, 2009

This week's Northwest Bestsellers List includes 5 great authors: Jim Lynch's Border Songs; Tom Robbins' B is for Beer; Chuck Palahniuk's Pygmy; J.A. Jance's Damage Control; and Sherman Alexie's poignant The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Week ending July 5, 2009.

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. Finger Lickin' Fifteen, Janet Evanovich
2. The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
3. Border Songs, Jim Lynch
4. B Is for Beer, Tom Robbins
5. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
6. Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
7. Pygmy, Chuck Palahniuk
8. Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child
9. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
10. The Strain, Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

1. Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford
2. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
3. Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
4. I'm Down, Mishna Wolff
5. The Evolution of God, Robert Wright
6. Farm City, Novella Carpenter
7. Renegade, Richard Wolffe
8. Catastrophe, Dick Morris, Eileen McGann
9. Wicked Plants, Amy Stewart, Briony Morrow-Cribbs (Illus.)
10. Crazy for the Storm, Norman Ollestad

MASS MARKET

1. Fearless Fourteen, Janet Evanovich
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
3. Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
4. Damage Control, J.A. Jance
5. My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
6. Careless in Red, Elizabeth George
7. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
8. Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris
9. Julie and Julia, Julie Powell
10. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon

CHILDREN'S TITLES

1. New Moon (Twilight, Book 2), Stephenie Meyer
2. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3), Stephenie Meyer
4. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5), Rick Riordan
5. The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
6. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4), Stephenie Meyer
7. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1), Rick Riordan
8. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4), Rick Riordan
9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
10. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.)

The Pacific Northwest Indie Bestseller List, as brought to you by northwest-books.com, IndieBound and PNBA, is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and IndieBound. Most of these books aren't books from the Pacific Northwest, but are books that are currently selling well in the Pacific Northwest.