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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 12m
📚Great British paintings from American collections: Holbein to Hockney / Malcolm Warner and Robyn Asleson (🖨️2001, ix, 262 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.) ✍️Malcolm Warner, 1953- 🔍Painting, British – Exhibitions 📖Nonfiction 📍Central Library
Cover art for “Great British paintings from American collections: Holbein to Hockney / Malcolm Warner and Robyn Asleson; with contributions by Julia Marciari Alexander, Brian Allen, Patrick McCaughey” by Malcolm Warner, 1953-
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 42m
📚The awesome autistic guide for trans teens / Yenn Purkis, Sam Rose; illustrated by Glynn Masterman (2022, 106 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm) ✍️Yenn Purkis, 1974- 🔍Transgender youth – Life skills guides – Juvenile literature 📖Gay/Lesbian Collection 📍Capitol Hill Branch
Cover art for “The awesome autistic guide for trans teens / Yenn Purkis, Sam Rose; illustrated by Glynn Masterman” by Yenn Purkis, 1974-
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 1h
📚Current medical diagnosis & treatment (volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm.) 🔍Diagnosis – Periodicals; Therapeutics – Periodicals 📖Reference 📍Columbia Branch
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 1h
📚The tao of the backup catcher: playing baseball for the love of the game / Tim Brown, with Erik Kratz (2023, vii, 289 pages ; 24 cm) ✍️Tim Brown, 1962- 🔍Kratz, Erik, 1980-; Catchers (Baseball) – United States – Biography; Baseball players 📖Nonfiction 📍University Branch
Cover art for “The tao of the backup catcher: playing baseball for the love of the game / Tim Brown, with Erik Kratz” by Tim Brown, 1962-
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 2h
📚The Brookhart campaigns in Iowa, 1920-1926; a study in the motivation of political attitudes (🖨️1968, 128 pages : maps. ; 23 cm.) ✍️Jerry Alvin Neprash, 1904- 🔍Brookhart, Smith Wildman, 1869-1944; United States. Congress. Senate – Elections; Elections – Iowa 📖Periodicals 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 2h
📚Homesick: a memoir / Jennifer Croft (🖨️2019, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm) ✍️Jennifer Croft (Translator) 🔍Croft, Jennifer (Translator); Translators – United States – Biography 📖Nonfiction 📍Southwest Branch
Cover art for “Homesick: a memoir / Jennifer Croft.” by Jennifer Croft (Translator)
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 3h
📚The methods of taxation compared with the established principles of justice (1911, 380 pages ; 21 cm.) ✍️David MacGregor Means, 1847-1931 🔍Taxation 📖Ref 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 3h
🎥📀Training day / Warner Bros. Pictures in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment; an Outlaw Productions; producers, Jeffrey Silver, Bobby Newmyer; writer, David Ayer (🖨️2002, 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.) 📖DVD, Fiction 📍Delridge Branch
Cover art for “Training day / Warner Bros. Pictures in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment; an Outlaw Productions; producers, Jeffrey Silver, Bobby Newmyer; writer, David Ayer; director, Antoine Fuqua.”
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 4h
📚Represent: the woman's guide to running for office & changing the world / June Diane Raphael and Kate Black (🖨️2019, xvii, 238 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.) ✍️June Diane Raphael 🔍Women political candidates – United States 📖Nonfiction 📍Central Library
Cover art for “Represent: the woman's guide to running for office & changing the world / June Diane Raphael and Kate Black” by June Diane Raphael
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 4h
📚Mary's idea / Chris Raschka (🖨️2023, 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm) ✍️Christopher Raschka 🔍Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 – Juvenile literature; Women jazz musicians – United States – Biography – Juvenile literature 📖Easy Nonfiction 📍Southwest Branch
Cover art for “Mary's idea / Chris Raschka.” by Christopher Raschka
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 5h
Report on east county area zoning program: Maple Valley-Black Diamond study area / King County Environmental Development Commission (🖨️1972, 12, [2] p. ; 28 cm.) ✍️King County (Wash.). Environmental Development Commission 📖Seattle Room Pamphlet File 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 5h
📚No longer human / by Osamu Dazai; translated by Donald Keene (1973, 177 pages ; 21 cm) ✍️Osamu Dazai, 1909-1948, 🔍Men – Japan – Fiction; Japan – Social life and customs – 20th century – Fiction 📖Fiction 📍Fremont Branch
Cover art for “No longer human / by Osamu Dazai; translated by Donald Keene.” by Osamu Dazai, 1909-1948,
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 6h
📚Progress in addressing management challenges at the Department of Homeland Security (2005, iii, 65 pages ; 24 cm.) ✍️United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Homeland Security 📖Documents 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 6h
📚Final environmental assessment for Plateau Estates, a residential subdivision / Edward B. Sand, Manager (Division of Building & Land Development); King County Department of Planning and Community Development (🖨️1977, 34 pages (some folded) : maps ; 28 cm.) ✍️Edward B. Sand 📖Seattle 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 7h
📚Architecture of Seattle, Washington: a selected bibliography (1982, 12 p. ; 28 cm.) ✍️Anthony G. White 🔍Architecture – Washington (State) – Seattle – Bibliography; Buildings – Washington (State) – Seattle – Bibliography 📖Seattle Coll. 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 7h
📚The last butterflies: a scientist's quest to save a rare and vanishing creature (🖨️2019, xii, 250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm) ✍️Nick Haddad 🔍Rare butterflies; Butterflies – Ecology; Butterflies – Conservation 📖Nonfiction 📍Magnolia Branch
Cover art for “The last butterflies: a scientist's quest to save a rare and vanishing creature” by Nick Haddad
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 8h
📚Is there no place on earth for me? / foreword by Robert M. Coles, Ph.D.; new postscript by the author (2014, xv, 358 pages ; 21 cm.) ✍️Susan Sheehan, 1937- 🔍Frumkin, Sylvia; Creedmoor Psychiatric Center; Schizophrenics – United States – Biography 📖Nonfiction 📍Greenwood Branch
Cover art for “Is there no place on earth for me? / foreword by Robert M. Coles, Ph.D.; new postscript by the author” by Susan Sheehan, 1937-
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 8h
📚Interdepartmental committees in the national administration / by Mary Trackett Reynolds, PH.D (1939, 177 pages ; 23 cm.) ✍️Mary T. Reynolds 🔍Executive departments – United States – Committees; United States – Politics and government – 1933-1945 📖Periodicals 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 9h
📚The vital birth records of Nashua, New Hampshire, 1887-1935 / Gerald Q. Nash, Sandra J. Martinson, Roland A. Marchand (2005, ix, 464 pages ; 28 cm.) ✍️Gerald Q. Nash 🔍Registers of births, etc. – New Hampshire – Nashua; Nashua (N.H.) – Genealogy 📖Ref Genealogy 📍Central Library
Cover art for “The vital birth records of Nashua, New Hampshire, 1887-1935 / Gerald Q. Nash, Sandra J. Martinson, Roland A. Marchand” by Gerald Q. Nash
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 9h
📚Mexico's record on human rights (1994, v, 110 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.) ✍️International Organizations United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, and Human Rights 🔍Human rights – Mexico 📖Documents 📍Central Library
Cover art for “Mexico's record on human rights: joint hearing before the Subcommittees on International Security, International Organizations, and Human Rights and Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, October 26, 1993.” by International Organizations United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, and Human Rights
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 10h
📚Wood pulp and fiber statistics (volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm.) ✍️American Paper Institute. Pulp, Fiber & Raw Materials Group 🔍Wood-pulp industry – United States – Statistics 📖Ref 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 10h
🎥📀Qigong flow for a happy heart / director, Marisa Cranfill (🖨️2020, 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.) 🔍Qi gong – Therapeutic use; Heart – Diseases – Prevention 📖DVD, Nonfiction 📍Ballard Branch
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 11h
📚A crown of ivy and glass (🖨️2023, 553 pages : maps ; 24 cm) ✍️Claire Legrand, 1986- 🔍Witches – Fiction; Sacrifice – Fiction; Siblings – Fiction; Magic – Fiction; Man-woman relationships – Fiction; Imaginary places – Fiction 📖Science Fiction 📍Central Library
Cover art for “A crown of ivy and glass” by Claire Legrand, 1986-
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 11h
📰Population today (1984-©2002, 19 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm.) 🔍Population – Periodicals; Family policy – Periodicals; Birth control – Periodicals 📖Periodicals 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 12h
📚Money, class, and party; an economic study of Civil War and reconstruction (1959, 346 pages ; 24 cm.) ✍️Robert P. Sharkey 🔍Greenbacks; Currency question – United States 📖Periodicals 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 12h
📚Die Autobiografie: Startup-DNA: Hinfallen, aufstehen, die Welt verändern (2022, 302 pages : color illustrations, charts, portraits ; 20 cm) ✍️Frank Thelen, 1975- 🔍Thelen, Frank, 1975- – Biography; Businessmen – Germany – Biography 📖Language 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 13h
📚A dictionary of Jewish surnames from Maghreb, Gibraltar, and Malta (2016, x, 714 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm) ✍️Alexander Beider 🔍Names, Personal – Jewish – Mediterranean Region – Dictionaries; Names, Personal – Jewish – Africa, North – Dictionaries 📖Ref Genealogy 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 13h
📚Mighty dads / pictures by James Dean (2014, 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm) ✍️Joan Holub 🔍Construction equipment – Fiction; Stories in rhyme; Father and child – Juvenile fiction; Trucks – Juvenile fiction 📖Children's Picture Books 📍Capitol Hill Branch
Cover art for “Mighty dads / pictures by James Dean” by Joan Holub
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 14h
📚Wyoming mountain ranges / [by Lorraine G. Bonney] (🖨️1987, 104 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm.) ✍️Lorraine G. Bonney 🔍Mountains – Wyoming; Mountains – Wyoming – Pictorial works; Wyoming – Description and travel; Wyoming – Pictorial works 📖Nonfiction 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 14h
📚Introduction to documentary (🖨️2001, xviii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.) ✍️Bill Nichols, 1942- 🔍Documentary films – History and criticism 📖Nonfiction 📍Central Library
Cover art for “Introduction to documentary” by Bill Nichols, 1942-
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 15h
🎧💿Missa Mater Patris / Josquin. Missa Da pacem / Bauldeweyn (🖨️2019, 1 audio disc (72:30) ; 4 3/4 in.) ✍️des Prez Josquin, -1521 🔍Masses; Motets; Gregorian chants 📖Compact Discs 📍Magnolia Branch
Cover art for “Missa Mater Patris / Josquin. Missa Da pacem / Bauldeweyn.” by des Prez Josquin, -1521
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 15h
📚The heartbeat of the wild: dispatches from landscapes of wonder, peril, and hope (🖨️2023, 351 pages ; 23 cm) ✍️David Quammen, 1948- 🔍Wilderness areas; Nature conservation; Natural history 📖Nonfiction 📍Magnolia Branch
Cover art for “The heartbeat of the wild: dispatches from landscapes of wonder, peril, and hope” by David Quammen, 1948-
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 16h
📚Alex's good fortune (🖨️2020, 32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm) ✍️Benson Shum 🔍Chinese New Year – Juvenile fiction; Best friends – Juvenile fiction; Friendship – Juvenile fiction; Families – Juvenile fiction; Holidays – Juvenile fiction 📖Children's Holiday 📍Greenwood Branch
Cover art for “Alex's good fortune” by Benson Shum
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 16h
🔬🎞️Status of recommendations made by the National Academy of Public Administration on reforming the Environmental Protection Agency (1997 🖨️that is, 1996) ✍️United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies 📖Microform - Documents 📍Central Library
Cover art for “Status of recommendations made by the National Academy of Public Administration on reforming the Environmental Protection Agency: hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session: special hearing, Environmental Protection Agency, nondepartmental witnesses.” by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 17h
📚Rescue: a novel (🖨️2010, 405 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.) ✍️Anita Shreve 🔍Emergency medical technicians – Fiction; Life change events – Fiction; Man-woman relationships – Fiction; Family secrets – Fiction; Large type books 📖MOB Large Print Fiction 📍Central Library
Cover art for “Rescue: a novel” by Anita Shreve
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 17h
🎥📀Fire shut up in my bones / the Metropolitan Opera presents; Terence Blanchard; based on the book by Charles M. Blow; libretto by Kasi Lemmons; a Metropolitan Opera High-Definition Production (🖨️2022) 🔍Blow, Charles M., 1970- – Adaptations 📖DVD, Nonfiction 📍Northeast Branch
Cover art for “Fire shut up in my bones / the Metropolitan Opera presents; Terence Blanchard; based on the book by Charles M. Blow; libretto by Kasi Lemmons; a Metropolitan Opera High-Definition Production; directed by Gary Halvorson; music producer, David Frost; producers, Louisa Briccetti and Victoria Warivonchik.”
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 18h
📚Starting from Loomis and other stories / edited with an introduction by Tim Yamamura; afterword by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi (🖨️2013, xi, 172 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.) ✍️Hiroshi Kashiwagi, 1922-2019 🔍Kashiwagi, Hiroshi, 1922-2019- 📖Nonfiction 📍Central Library
Cover art for “Starting from Loomis and other stories / edited with an introduction by Tim Yamamura; afterword by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi” by Hiroshi Kashiwagi, 1922-2019
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 18h
📚Wilma Rudolph / written by Ma Isabel Sanchez Vegara; illustrated by Amelia Flower (🖨️2019, 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.) ✍️Ma Isabel Sánchez Vegara (María Isabel) 🔍Rudolph, Wilma, 1940-1994 – Juvenile literature 📖Children's Nonfiction 📍Delridge Branch
Cover art for “Wilma Rudolph / written by Ma Isabel Sanchez Vegara; illustrated by Amelia Flower.” by Ma Isabel Sánchez Vegara (María Isabel)
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 19h
📚Tay lái súng đa cảm / Nguyễn Thị Hương Thảo, dịch (2013, 385 pages ; 21 cm.) ✍️Hugh Laurie, 1959- 🔍Secret service – Fiction; Assassins – Fiction; Illegal arms transfers – Fiction 📖Language 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 19h
📚Riding with the blue moth / foreword by Jim Nantz (🖨️2005, ix, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps (some color), portraits) ✍️Bill Hancock, 1950- 🔍Hancock, Bill; Hancock, William R; Bicycle touring – United States 📖Nonfiction 📍Central Library
Cover art for “Riding with the blue moth / foreword by Jim Nantz” by Bill Hancock, 1950-
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 20h
📚Industrial versus craft unionism / compiled by Julia E. Johnsen (1937, 320 pages ; 20 cm.) ✍️Julia E. Johnsen (Julia Emily) 🔍Labor unions – United States 📖Ref 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 20h
🔬🎞️Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act (2005, iv, 92 pages ; 24 cm.) ✍️the Internet United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, and Intellectual Property 🔍Consent decrees – United States 📖Microform - Documents 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 21h
📚The Best American travel writing (2000-, volumes ; 22 cm) 🔍Travelers' writings, American – Periodicals; Voyages and travels – Anecdotes – Periodicals; Travel – Psychological aspects – Anecdotes – Periodicals; Manners and customs – Anecdotes – Periodicals 📖Nonfiction 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 21h
📚The thinking machine: being a true and complete statement of several intricate mysteries which came under the observation of Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., M.D., etc. (🖨️2023, 289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm) ✍️Jacques Futrelle, 1875-1912, 📖Mysteries 📍Magnolia Branch
Cover art for “The thinking machine: being a true and complete statement of several intricate mysteries which came under the observation of Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., M.D., etc. / Jacques Futrelle; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Leslie S. Klinger.” by Jacques Futrelle, 1875-1912,
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 22h
📚High rise fire safety / Seattle Fire Department Fire Prevention Division (🖨️2001?, 2 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.) ✍️Seattle (Wash.). Fire Department. Fire Prevention Division. 🔍Fire prevention – Study and teaching – Washington (State) – Seattle 📖Seattle Room Pamphlet File 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 22h
📚Distinguished company (1973, xii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.) ✍️John Gielgud, 1904-2000 🔍Actors – Great Britain – Biography 📖Biography 📍Central Library
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 23h
📚Hiss me deadly (🖨️2023, 303 pages ; 24 cm.) ✍️Miranda James 🔍Harris, Charlie (Fictitious character) – Fiction; Librarians – Fiction; Bands (Music) – Fiction; Cats – Fiction; Musicians – Fiction; Murder – Fiction 📖Mysteries 📍Northeast Branch
Cover art for “Hiss me deadly” by Miranda James
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 23h
📚The bloody road to Panmunjom / Edwin P. Hoyt (1985, 320 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.) ✍️Edwin P. Hoyt (Edwin Palmer), 1923-2005 🔍Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean War, 1950-1953 – United States 📖Nonfiction 📍Central Library
Cover art for “The bloody road to Panmunjom / Edwin P. Hoyt.” by Edwin P. Hoyt (Edwin Palmer), 1923-2005
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
📚Rules for others to live by: comments and self-contradictions (🖨️2016, xviii, 300 pages ; 21 cm) ✍️Richard Greenberg, 1958- 🔍Greenberg, Richard, 1958- – Humor; Dramatists, American – 20th century – Biography; Conduct of life – Humor 📖Nonfiction 📍Capitol Hill Branch
Cover art for “Rules for others to live by: comments and self-contradictions” by Richard Greenberg, 1958-
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seattle books @seattlebooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🎧💿Wee sing around the world / by Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp with Nancy Spence Klein (🖨️2002, 1 audio disc (65 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 songbook (64 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm.).) ✍️Pamela Conn Beall 📖Children's Kits 📍Lake City Branch
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