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A Tribute to Lee Soper
Leroy Soper Bookseller, Mentor, Friend In the 1960’s, while I was in high school living with my family in South Seattle, our idea of a special evening was to drive all the way to North Seattle – in...
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Debbie’s Spring Books!
Debbie recommends: Love the House You’re In: 40 Ways to Improve Your Home & Change Your Life, by Paige Rien, ISBN# 9781611801989, $18.00, from Shambhala. Gardens of Awe and Folly: A Traveler’s...
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Nick’s Pick for May
Don’t be deceived. For such a slim little novel, SERGIO Y. packs quite a wallop. After two months I must admit I was changed by this book, and I still puzzle over it. Since I quote from it constantly,...
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Remembering Mr. Books
Leroy Soper Bookseller, Mentor, Friend In the 1960’s, while I was in high school living with my family in South Seattle, our idea of a special evening was to drive all the way to North Seattle – in...
View ArticleHappy 100th Birthday Helene Hanff (author of 84, Charing Cross Road)
In 1949, New York writer Helene Hanff wrote a letter to Messrs Marks and Co, a London bookseller specializing in rare and secondhand books, inquiring about several titles. From that one letter evolved...
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Youth and Pride
Check out the fabulous display of pride related YA and young reader titles upstairs this month in our Kids’ Books Section! The selection of GLBTQ titles has exploded in recent years, and our buyers...
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Game On!
Game ON! It’s true. We are finally getting our game on in New and Used Books. Been a long time coming, believe me, and it’s finally here! Boardgames of every description, and more on the way. We’ve...
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Seattle Gay and Lesbian Book Club for July
DON’T LET HIM KNOW, by SANDIP ROY In India, a culture with huge social pressures to marry, a gay man may be forced by family expectations to give up the love of his life. Sometimes his sacrifices and...
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Nick’s Pick for July
I’ve never read anything like this book – except frightening, dystopian science-fiction, and my pick for July is true. There are so many little wars in the Middle East that they blur and run together...
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