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Access SeattleISBN 0062771981 (0-06-277198-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This BookBook summary:Covering Seattle, this guide recreates each city block with colour-coded entries that describe restaurants (in red), hotels (blue), shops and parks (green) and cultural and historical sites of interest to visitors (black). Along with maps keyed to these entries, each guide features prices and quality ratings, notes on the city's history and architecture and "Bests" sections in which well-known residents share their personal recommendations. [via]
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Access Seattleby Access Press StaffISBN 0062772937 (0-06-277293-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Access Seattle'Book summary:With ACCESS Seattle, your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience. A city of breathtaking panoramas, bounded by water and washed over by rain, Seattle captures the imagination and is truly a treasure to discover.
ACCESS Seattle has been divided and organized by neighborhoods, so you know where you are and where you're headed.
Unique color-coded and numbered entries allow you to discover the best:
- Hotels
- Restaurants
- Attractions
- Shopping
- Sights
- Parks
- and Outdoor Spaces
Large, easy-to-read maps show where each of these numbered listings is located-ensuring that you will instantly find what you must not miss.
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The Angel Makerby Ridley PearsonISBN 0786890088 (0-7868-9008-8)
Softcover, Hyperion Press
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The Art of Deceptionby Ridley PearsonISBN 0786890002 (0-7868-9000-2)
Softcover, Hyperion
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Best Places Seattleby Giselle SmithISBN 1570611556 (1-57061-155-6)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best Places Seattle'Book summary:Organized in an easy-to-use fashion, this guide covers Seattle's 200 best restaurants plus romantic night spots, the best accommodations, and information on the city's culture and history. Maps. Color pull-out section. [via]
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Best Places Seattle: The Locals' Guide to the Best Restaurants, Lodging, Sights, Shopping, and More!by Shannon O'LearyISBN 1570614083 (1-57061-408-3)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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Beyond Recognitionby Ridley PearsonISBN 0786889284 (0-7868-8928-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Black Holeby Charles BurnsISBN 037542380X (0-375-42380-X)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Hole'Book summary:The first issues of Charles Burns's comics series Black Hole began appearing in 1995, and long before it was completed a decade later, readers and fellow artists were speaking of it in tones of awe and comparing it to recent classics of the form like Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan and Daniel Clowes's Ghost World. Burns is the sort of meticulous, uncompromising artist whom other artists speak of with envy and reverence, and we asked Ware and Clowes to comment on their admiration for Black Hole:
"I think I probably learned the most about clarity, composition, and efficiency from looking at Charles's pages spread out on my drawing table than from anyone's; his was always at the level of lucidity of Nancy, but with this odd, metallic tinge to it that left you feeling very unsettled, especially if you were an aspiring cartoonist, because it was clear you'd never be half as good as he was. There's an almost metaphysical intensity to his pinprick-like inkline that catches you somewhere in the back of the throat, a paper-thin blade of a fine jeweler's saw tracing the outline of these thick, clay-like human figures that somehow seem to "move," but are also inevitably oddly frozen in eternal, awkward poses ... it's an unlikely combination of feelings, and it all adds up to something unmistakably his own. "I must have been one of the first customers to arrive at the comic shop when I heard the first issue of Black Hole was out 10 years ago, and my excitement didn't change over the years as he completed it. I don't think I've ever read anything that better captures the details, feelings, anxieties, smells, and cringing horror of my own teenage years better than Black Hole, and I'm 15 years younger than Charles is. Black Hole is so redolently affecting one almost has to put the book down for air every once in a while. By the book's end, one ends up feeling so deeply for the main character it's all one can do not to turn the book over and start reading again." --Chris Ware
"Charles Burns is one of the greats of modern comics. His comics are beautiful on so many levels. Somehow he has managed to capture the essential electricity of comic-book pop-art iconography, dragging it from the clutches of Fine Art back to the service of his perfect, precise-but-elusive narratives in a way that is both universal in its instant appeal and deeply personal." --Dan Clowes 
Questions for Charles Burns
Amazon.com: Cartoonists are about the only people today who are working like Dickens did: writing serials that appear piece-by-piece in public before the whole work is done. What's it like to work in public like that, and for as long as a project like this takes?
Charles Burns: There were a number of reasons for serializing Black Hole. First of all, I wanted to put out a traditional comic book-- I'd never really worked in that comic pamphlet format before and liked the idea of developing a long story in installments. There's something very satisfying to me about a comic book as an object and I enjoyed using that format to slowly build my story. Serializing the story also allowed me to focus on shorter, more manageable portions; if I had to face creating a 368-page book all in one big lump, I don't know if Id have the perseverance and energy to pull it off.
Amazon.com: One thing that stuns me about this book is how consistent it is from start to finish. From the first frames to the last ones that you drew 10 years later, you held the same tone and style. It feels as though you had a complete vision for the book from the very beginning. Is that so? Or did things develop unexpectedly as you worked on it?
Burns: I guess there's a consistency in Black Hole because of the way I work. I write and draw very slowly, always carefully examining every little detail to make sure it all fits together the way I want it to. When I started the story, I had it all charted out as far as the basic structure goes, but what made working on it interesting was finding new ways of telling the story that hadn't occurred to me.
Amazon.com: Some of the very best of the recent graphic novels (I'm thinking of Ghost World and Blankets, along with Black Hole) have been about the lives of teenagers. Do you think there's something about the form that helps to tell those stories so well?
Burns: That's an interesting question, but I don't know the answer. Perhaps it has more to do with the authors--the kind of people who stay indoors for hours on end in total solitude working away on their heartfelt stories... maybe that kind of reflection lends itself to being able to capture the intensity of adolescence.
Amazon.com: In the time you've been working on Black Hole, graphic novels have leapt into the mainstream. (I think--I hope--we're finally seeing the last of those "They're not just for kids anymore!" reviews.) What did you imagine for this project when you started it? What's it been like to see your corner of the world enter the glare of the spotlight?
Burns: When I started Black Hole I really just wanted to tell a long, well-written story. The themes and ideas that run throughout the book had been turning around in my head for years and I wanted to finally get them all out--put them down on paper once and for all. I've published a few other books and while they sold reasonably well, they didn't set the publishing world on fire. I was pretty sure I'd have some kind of an audience for Black Hole, but that was never a motivating factor in writing the book. And my corner of the world is still pretty dark. I guess I'll be stepping into the spotlight for a little while when the book comes out, but I imagine I'll slip back into my dark little studio when it all settles down again so I can settle back into work.More editions of Black Hole:
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Black Planet: Facing Race During an Nba Seasonby David ShieldsISBN 0803293542 (0-8032-9354-2)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Planet: Facing Race During an Nba Season'Book summary:In his earlier work, David Shields came across as a fairly traditional storyteller. Even Dead Languages, his fictional rumination on a stutterer's tongue-tied existence, was essentially a coming-of-age story. But he began to show his true colors with Remote, a fractured, full-body immersion in media culture. This deeply amusing work of nonfiction revealed the author to be a neurotic, navel-gazing cousin of Nicholson Baker. Now comes Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, whose putative topic--professional basketball--would seem to return Shields to his extroverted roots. (His first novel, in fact, revolved around a college basketball player.) Yet this is ultimately as postmodernist a work as its predecessor, and it takes us not only into the author's heart but his boudoir. Black Planet's fusion of public spectacle with private mortification makes it his funniest book to date.
A word of explanation: technically speaking, Black Planet is a chronicle of the Seattle SuperSonics during the 1994-1995 season. Since the team blew its shot at the playoffs, there's no chance for an uplifting grand finale. Yet Shields had a different sort of hoop dream in mind from the very beginning. "The NBA," he writes, "is a place where, without ever acknowledging it--and because it's never acknowledged, it's that much more potent and telling--white fans and black players enact and quietly explode virtually every racial issue and tension in the culture at large. Race, the league's taboo topic, is the league's true subject." It's the author's true subject, too, and he goes at it from every angle--attending games, recording call-in radio shows, and making some abortive attempts to cozy up to the players. Point guard Gary Payton is his true Penelope. Why? Well, his motormouth style does suggest an "indivisibility... of playing and talking, of life and language." But more to the point, he offers a handy tabula rasa for Shields's fantasy life, a trash-talking personification of bad behavior: "Which is why, in Seattle the Good, I so love Gary Payton. He's not really bad, he's only pretend-bad--I know that--but he allows me to fantasize about being bad."
If Shields were simply slapping society on the wrist for its half-submerged racism, Black Planet would wear out its welcome in the first quarter. But he's consistently hardest on himself, so the book becomes not only a social critique but a critique of social critiques, cutting the ground from under itself in an infinite and entertaining loop-the-loop. Shields may not be the first writer to transform a fan's notes into literary gold--Frederick Exley beat him to the punch--but he's the most rigorously intelligent one in a long, long time. Swish! --James Marcus [via]
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The Body of David Hayesby Ridley PearsonISBN 0786890010 (0-7868-9001-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Bookman's Wakeby John DunningISBN 141651323X (1-4165-1323-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bookman's Wake'Book summary:Denver cop-turned-bookdealer Cliff Janeway is lured by an enterprising fellow ex-policeman into going to Seattle to bring back a fugitive wanted for assault, burglary, and the possible theft of a priceless edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." The bail jumper turns out to be a vulnerable young woman calling herself Eleanor Rigby, who is also a gifted book finder. Janeway is intrigued by the woman -- and by the deadly history surrounding the rare volume. Hunted by people willing to kill for the antique tome, a terrified Eleanor escapes and disappears. To find her -- and save her -- Janeway must unravel the secrets of the book's past and its mysterious maker, for only then can he stop the hand of death from turning another page.... [via]
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Boyfriend Listby E. LockhartISBN 0385732074 (0-385-73207-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boyfriend List'Book summary:Ruby Oliver is 15 and has a shrink. She knows its unusual, but give her a breakshes had a rough 10 days. In the past 10 days she:
lost her boyfriend (#13 on the list),
lost her best friend (Kim),
lost all her other friends (Nora, Cricket),
did something suspicious with a boy (#10),
did something advanced with a boy (#15),
had an argument with a boy (#14),
drank her first beer (someone handed it to her),
got caught by her mom (ag!),
had a panic attack (scary),
lost a lacrosse game (shes the goalie),
failed a math test (shell make it up),
hurt Meghans feelings (even though they arent really friends),
became a social outcast (no one to sit with at lunch)
and had graffiti written about her in the girls bathroom (who knows what was in the boys!?!).
But dont worryRuby lives to tell the tale. And make more lists. [via] 
Broken for Youby Stephanie KallosISBN 1585479845 (1-58547-984-5)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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Classic Houses Of Seattle: High Style To Vernacular, 1870-1950by Caroline T. SwopeISBN 0881927171 (0-88192-717-1)
Hardcover, Timber Pr
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Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvanaby Michael AzerradISBN 0385471998 (0-385-47199-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana'Book summary:My favorite book about Nirvana. For one thing, it doesn't sensationalize, but it doesn't gloss anything over. Having been active in the Seattle music scene throughout Nirvana's obscurity, fame, and demise, I can vouch for the accuracy of its description of the music community in the late '80s and early '90s and Nirvana's role. And being in a band that's currently climbing the ladder, I appreciated the many lessons this book has to offer about the workings of the recording industry.
Best of all, because this book was written before Cobain's death, it is not tinged with the "isn't this tragic" attitude that permeates many books about Nirvana and Cobain. Instead, the book is vibrant with the energy, excitement, and passion that swept local musicians the day "Nevermind" was released, local audiences in the months after, the U.S, and--lest we forget--the world, during Nirvana's more-than-15-minutes of fame. [via]
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Doc Maynard: The Man Who Invented Seattleby William C. SpeidelISBN 0914890026 (0-914890-02-6)
Hardcover, Nettle Creek Pub Co
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Eat.shop.seattleby Kaie WellmanISBN 0974732516 (0-9747325-1-6)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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Erika Langley : Lusty Ladyby Erika LangleyISBN 3931141594 (3-931141-59-4)
Hardcover, Scalo Verlag
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First Avenueby Lowen ClausenISBN 0966991907 (0-9669919-0-7)
Hardcover, Watershed Books
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First Victimby Ridley PearsonISBN 140130818X (1-4013-0818-X)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Victim'Book summary:Lieutenant Lou Boldt, the Seattle cop who stars in Ridley Pearson's deservedly popular series, is a sharp and touching figure--perhaps the most believable police officer in current fiction. Early in this ninth book about his public and private life, Lou has to put on a bullet-resistant vest to lead a raid against some dangerous criminals. "The vest was not physically heavy, but its presence was," Pearson tells us.
It meant battle; it meant risk. For Boldt a vest was a symbol of youth. It had been well over a year since he had worn one. Ironically, as he approached the hangar's north door at a light run behind his own four heavily armored ERT personnel, he caught himself worrying about his hands, not his life. He didn't want to smash up his piano hands in some close quarters skirmish...
Boldt plays jazz piano one night a week in a local bar, and despite his concern for his hands, he takes every opportunity he can to get away from his desk and into the streets. But money pressures, caused by his wife's recent illness, also make him think about the possibility of a better-paying job in the private sector. Meanwhile, some extremely ruthless people are murdering illegal Chinese immigrant women and leaving their bodies buried in newly dug graves. An ambitious local TV journalist named Stevie McNeal and the young Chinese woman she thinks of as her "Little Sister" risk their lives to investigate the killings, while Boldt and his team round up a most unusual array of suspects. This combination of hard-edged realism and softer sentiment has become Pearson's trademark, and once again it works smoothly. --Dick Adler [via] 
The Food Lover's Guide to Seattleby Katy CalcottISBN 1570614180 (1-57061-418-0)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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Footsore 1: Walks & Hikes Around Puget Soundby Harvey ManningISBN 089886156X (0-89886-156-X)
Softcover, Mountaineers Books
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Frommer's 2005 Seattleby Karl SamsonISBN 0764574329 (0-7645-7432-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Frommer's Seattle 2004: With Olympic National Parkby Karl SamsonISBN 0764541277 (0-7645-4127-7)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Godmotherby Elizabeth Ann ScarboroughISBN 0441002692 (0-441-00269-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Godmother'Book summary:Donning a crystal pendant of unsuspected power and wishing for a fairy godmother who will save all of Seattle, social worker Rose Samson is amazed by the prompt arrival of the silver-haired Felicity Fortune and her magical powers. Reprint. PW. [via]
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Heavier than Heaven: Kurt Cobain, La Biografia/ Kurt Cobain, The Biographyby Charles R. CrossISBN 0786884029 (0-7868-8402-9)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heavier than Heaven: Kurt Cobain, La Biografia/ Kurt Cobain, The Biography'Book summary:The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure as T.S. Eliot's. Now Charles Cross has cracked the code in the definitive biography Heavier Than Heaven, an all-access pass to Cobain's heart and mind. It reveals many secrets, thanks to 400-plus interviews, and even quotes Cobain's diaries and suicide notes and reveals an unreleased Nirvana masterpiece. At last we know how he created, how lies helped him die, how his family and love life entwined his art--plus, what the heck "Smells Like Teen Spirit" really means. (It was graffiti by Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna after a double date with Dave Grohl, Cobain, and the "over-bored and self-assured" Tobi Vail, who wore Teen Spirit perfume; Hanna wrote it to taunt the emotionally clingy Cobain for wearing Vail's scent after sex--a violation of the no-strings-attached dating ethos of the Olympia, Washington, "outcast teen" underground. Cobain's stomach-churning passion for Vail erupted in six or so hit tunes like "Aneurysm" and "Drain You.")
Cross uncovers plenty of news, mostly grim and gripping. As a teen, Cobain said he had "suicide genes," and his clan was peculiarly defiant: one of his suicidal relatives stabbed his own belly in front of his family, then ripped apart the wound in the hospital. Cobain was contradictory: a sweet, popular teen athlete and sinister berserker, a kid who rescued injured pigeons and laughingly killed a cat, a talented yet astoundingly morbid visual artist. He grew up to be a millionaire who slept in cars (and stole one), a fiercely loyal man who ruthlessly screwed his oldest, best friends. In fact, his essence was contradictions barely contained. Cross, the coauthor of Nevermind: Nirvana, the definitive book about the making of the classic album, puts numerous Cobain-generated myths to rest. (Cobain never lived under a bridge--that Aberdeen bridge immortalized in the 12th song on Nevermind was a tidal slough, so nobody could sleep under it.) He gives the fullest account yet of what it was like to be, or love, Kurt Cobain. Heavier Than Heaven outshines the also indispensable Come As You Are. It's the deepest book about pop's darkest falling star. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Hill with a Future: Seattle's Capitol Hill, 1900-1946by Jacqueline B. WilliamsISBN 0964417324 (0-9644173-2-4)
Softcover, CPK Ink
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I Was Seven in '75by Ellen ForneyISBN 0966025881 (0-9660258-8-1)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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Improbable Causeby J.A. JanceISBN 0380754126 (0-380-75412-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Insight Guide Seattleby Scott RutherfordISBN 0887290221 (0-88729-022-1)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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Lonely Planet Seattleby Bill McRaeISBN 0864425376 (0-86442-537-6)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Seattleby Debra MillerISBN 1864503041 (1-86450-304-1)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Madison Houseby Peter DonahueISBN 0976631105 (0-9766311-0-5)
Softcover, Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts
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Microserfsby Douglas CouplandISBN 0060987049 (0-06-098704-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Microserfs'Book summary:Microserfs is not about Microsoft--it's about programmers who are searching for lives. A hilarious but frighteningly real look at geek life in the '90's, Coupland's book manifests a peculiar sense of how technology affects the human race and how it will continue to affect all of us. Microserfs is the hilarious journal of Dan, an ex-Microsoft programmer who, with his coder comrades, is on a quest to find purpose in life. This isn't just fodder for techies. The thoughts and fears of the not-so-stereotypical characters are easy for any of us to relate to, and their witty conversations and quirky view of the world make this a surprisingly thought-provoking book.
" ... just think about the way high-tech cultures purposefully protract out the adolescence of their employees well into their late 20s, if not their early 30s," muses one programmer. "I mean, all those Nerf toys and free beverages! And the way tech firms won't even call work 'the office,' but instead, 'the campus.' It's sick and evil." [via]
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Middle Of Nowhere: Library Editionby Ridley PearsonISBN 1401308171 (1-4013-0817-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middle Of Nowhere: Library Edition'Book summary:A brutal attack that leaves a young woman paralyzed is horrifying enough, but when it happens to one of Seattle police lieutenant Lou Boldt's own officers, and all the suspects wear the same uniform as the victim, it's much worse. The SPD has been struck by a not-very-mysterious case of the "blue flu," a labor dispute that's turned cop against cop. Frustrated by the work slowdown in the department, Boldt is working almost on his own, except for forensic psychologist Daphne Matthews and detective John LaMoia, familiar characters in Pearson's popular series (The Pied Piper, The First Victim). Despite not-so-veiled warnings from some of his colleagues, Lou is determined to unmask Maria Sanchez's attacker, even if it turns out to be a fellow cop. And if that's not enough, the piano-playing lieutenant with a devoted wife--and a lingering yen for his coworker Daphne--has to deal with a crime wave that's increasing every day as the blue flu fells more of the force.
Investigating a string of robberies, Lou and Daphne follow the evidence to a telemarketing operation in a Colorado prison and question an inmate who may have used inside information to set up the robberies for his brother in Seattle to carry out. When the inmate dies, his brother goes after Lou, who isn't sure who to blame when violence hits too close to home--the brother or the striking policemen. Middle of Nowhere isn't Pearson's best outing: the plot is thinner than usual and the pacing somewhat slower, although the detailed explanation of how to catch a criminal using new telecommunications technology is fascinating. Still, Lou Boldt is an always interesting character whose inner conflicts are well drawn and whose essential decency makes up for a lot. His understated romance with Daphne deepens in every new adventure; the real mystery is what's going to happen to the two of them. --Jane Adams [via]
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Monkey Food : The Complete "I Was Seven in '75" Collectionby Ellen ForneyISBN 1560973625 (1-56097-362-5)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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A More Perfect Unionby J.A. JanceISBN 0380754134 (0-380-75413-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Nature of Jadeby Deb CalettiISBN 1416910050 (1-4169-1005-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nature of Jade'Book summary:I am not my illness. "Girl with Anxiety," "Trauma of the Week" -- no. I hate stuff like that. Everyone, everyone has their issue. But the one thing my illness did make me realize is how necessary it is to ignore the dangers of living in order to live. And how much trouble you can get into if you can't.
Jade DeLuna is too young to die. She knows this, and yet she can't quite believe it, especially when the terrifying thoughts, loss of breath, and dizzy feelings come. Since being diagnosed with Panic Disorder, she's trying her best to stay calm, and visiting the elephants at the nearby zoo seems to help. That's why Jade keeps the live zoo webcam on in her room, and that's where she first sees the boy in the red jacket. A boy who stops to watch the elephants. A boy carrying a baby.
His name is Sebastian, and he is raising his son alone. Jade is drawn into Sebastian's cozy life with his son and his activist grandmother on their Seattle houseboat, and before she knows it, she's in love. With this boy who has lived through harder times than anyone she knows. This boy with a past.
Jade knows the situation is beyond complicated, but she hasn't felt this safe in a long time. She owes it all to Sebastian, her boy with the great heart. Her boy who is hiding a terrible secret. A secret that will force Jade to decide between what is right, and what feels right.
Master storyteller Deb Caletti has once again created characters so real, you will be breathless with anticipation as their riveting story unfolds. [via]
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Never Mind Nirvanaby Mark LindquistISBN 0375757554 (0-375-75755-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to and Living in Seattle Including Bellevue, Redmond, Everett, and Tacomaby Amy Bellamy, Monica FischerISBN 0912301511 (0-912301-51-1)
Softcover, First Books Inc
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Nisei Daughterby Monica Itoi SoneISBN 0295956887 (0-295-95688-7)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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The Pied Piperby Ridley PearsonISBN 0786889551 (0-7868-8955-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Pike Place Market Cookbook: Recipes, Anecdotes, and Personalities from Seattle's Renowned Public Marketby Braiden Rex-Johnson, Tom DouglasISBN 1570613192 (1-57061-319-2)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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Pike Place Market Cookbook: Recipes, Personalities, and Anecdotes from Seattle's Renowned Public Marketby Braiden Rex-JohnsonISBN 0912365528 (0-912365-52-8)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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The Rainy Cityby Earl EmersonISBN 0345414055 (0-345-41405-5)
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Seattleby Scott RutherfordISBN 981234957X (981-234-957-X)
Softcover, Berlitz Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seattle'Book summary:Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with Discovery Channel, the world's premier source of nonfiction entertainment, provides more insight than ever. From the most popular resort cities to the most exotic villages, Insight Guides capture the unique character of each culture with an insider's perspective. Inside every Insight Guide you'll find: .Evocative, full-colour photography on every page .Cross-referenced, full-colour maps throughout .A brief introduction including a historical timeline .Lively essays by local writers on the culture, history, and people .Expert evaluations on the sights really worth seeing .Special features spotlighting particular topics of interest .A comprehensive Travel Tips section with listings of the best restaurants, hotels, and attractions, as well as practical information on getting around and advice for travel with children [via]
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Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: A Love Storyby Fred MoodyISBN 0312304218 (0-312-30421-8)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Seattle And The Demons Of Ambition: From Boom To Bust In The Number One City Of The Futureby Fred MoodyISBN 0312334001 (0-312-33400-1)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seattle And The Demons Of Ambition: From Boom To Bust In The Number One City Of The Future'Book summary:Founded in 1851 as a four-cabin outpost named "New York Pretty-Soon," Seattle has long struggled with an identity crisis. From a nearly lawless port, to a sedate, conventional company town defined by Boeing Aircraft, to an accessible paradise for artists and recovering urbanites, Seattle repeatedly tried and failed to become bigger, wealthier, more like "major league" cities.[via]
In the late 1980s, Seattle's time suddenly arrived. Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless, and dozens of local dot.com startups began to drive a booming national economy. Seattle became a city of instant millionaires and brand name shopping, skyscrapers and sports franchises-- the place everyone wanted to visit, topping lists of America's "most desirable" cities. But with such wealth came consequences: overdevelopment, paralyzing traffic, racial and class divisions, and a street population of teenagers discarded by the new culture, whose rage and disaffection fueled the rise of bands such as Nirvana.
Striving to reach its ambitions, Seattle seemed to be losing the struggle for its soul. And when it hosted the 1999 World Trade Organization convention, the city's conflicted personalities clashed, as violent riots by residents and a coalition of protestors left the downtown decimated and the nation transfixed by the spectacle of globalization gone wrong.
In Seattle and the Demons of Ambition, Fred Moody uses his own background as a native son, along with wide-ranging encounters with others, to trace the growing pains of the city he loves. Profiling Bill Gates and never-quite-champion football coach Chuck Knox, a pair of ambitious entrepreneurs and a homeless sculptor once profiled in the New Yorker, grunge music superstars and the preyed-upon children of the documentary "Streetwise," Moody offers a dramatic, entertaining, and insightful portrait of the city that defined economic and technological change in the America of the 1990s.More editions of Seattle And The Demons Of Ambition: From Boom To Bust In The Number One City Of The Future:
Seattle City Walks: Exploring Seattle Neighborhoods on Footby Sherri Schultz, Laura KarlinseyISBN 1570611459 (1-57061-145-9)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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Seattle Past to Presentby SaleISBN 0295956151 (0-295-95615-1)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Seattle Picnics: Favorite Sites, Seasonal Menus, and 100 Recipesby Barbara Holz SullivanISBN 0882404083 (0-88240-408-3)
Softcover, Alaska Northwest Books
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Second Watchby Lowen ClausenISBN 0972581103 (0-9725811-0-3)
Hardcover, Silo Pr
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The Shop on Blossom Streetby Debbie MacomberISBN 0778321606 (0-7783-2160-6)
Softcover, Mira Books
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Simply Classic: A Collection of Recipes to Celebrate the Northwestby Junior League of Seattle StaffISBN 0963608894 (0-9636088-9-4)
Hardcover, Junior League Seattle
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Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattleby Murray Cromwell MorganISBN 0295958464 (0-295-95846-4)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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"No one who has ever writte Pacific Northwest history can match Murray Morgan's craftmanship, the signal virtues of which are pace, precision, humor, and a keen eye for the characterizing detail." -Norman Clark, Pacific Northwest Quarterly
"Mr. Morgan's book is the sort of corrective history that all communities should welcome." -Stewart Holbrook, New York Herald Tribune [via]
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The Stranger Guide to Seattle: The City's Smartest, Pickiest, Most Obsessive Urban Manualby Traci Vogel, Paula GilovichISBN 1570612560 (1-57061-256-0)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes From Seattleby David B. WilliamsISBN 1558688595 (1-55868-859-5)
Softcover, Westwinds Pr
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Surveillanceby Jonathan RabanISBN 0375422447 (0-375-42244-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Taking the Fifthby J.A. JanceISBN 0380751399 (0-380-75139-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Trees of Seattleby Arthur Lee JacobsonISBN 0962291846 (0-9622918-4-6)
Hardcover, Arthur Lee Jacobson
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Trial by Furyby J.A. JanceISBN 0380751380 (0-380-75138-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Undercurrentsby Ridley PearsonISBN 0312929587 (0-312-92958-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Until Proven Guiltyby J.A. JanceISBN 0380896389 (0-380-89638-9)
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Vanishing Seattle, (WA)by Clark HumphreyISBN 0738548693 (0-7385-4869-3)
Softcover, Arcadia Pub
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Waxwingsby Jonathan RabanISBN 0375709053 (0-375-70905-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Thomas Janeway is a British novelist and professor of literature at the University of Washington whose life is coming apart in his adopted home. He deeply loves his four-year-old son, Finn, but his wife, Beth, is caught up in the dot-com explosion, and the couple has grown apart. As Seattle erupts in the WTO riots and terrorist plots, Janeway's life crumbles around him. His wife leaves him, his house becomes a shambles of half-completed reconstruction, and his son is caught fighting in school. When he becomes a "person of interest" in the abduction and possible murder of a local girl, he is put on leave with pay from the university. Yet, Raban does not let Janeway--or any of his characters--wallow in self-pity. They all try to move forward with life, and even Janeway "the suspect" finds sympathetic allies in surprising places.
At one point in the novel, Janeway lectures his students on the "generosity" of V.S. Pritchett, saying that the writer believed "in a general redistribution of verbal wealth, in taking good lines from the haves, and giving them to the have-nots." This "liberal realism" also characterizes Raban's work. Raban treats all of his characters, from Janeway to Finn, with patience and balance. He fully inhabits each and tells fragments of the story from the perspective of Beth, Tom, Finn, and even Tom's illegal-immigrant contractor, Chick. One narrative infuses another, lending the novel a Dickensian universality. Together the disparate voices perfectly capture the particulars of a place, Seattle, at a unique moment in American history. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
Wellby Matthew McIntoshISBN 0802141439 (0-8021-4143-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Wheedle on the Needleby Robin James, Steven CosgroveISBN 0871916630 (0-87191-663-0)
Hardcover, Creative Education
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Wheedle on the Needleby Steven Cosgrove, Robin JamesISBN 0843148721 (0-8431-4872-1)
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Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?by G. M. FordISBN 0802732550 (0-8027-3255-0)
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La Heavier Than Heavenby Charles R. CrossISBN 8439711549 (84-397-1154-9)
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