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Where were you? The eruption of Mount St. Helens
It may be surprising to note that we’ve reached the 35th anniversary of the disastrous eruption of Mount…
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Game over, man
I’ve always been a bit of a history geek. Well, okay, pretty much a full-blown history geek. My…
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Your new prince or princess
Well, the new British princess has a lovely name: Charlotte Elizabeth Diana. I wonder if the royals consulted…
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Heartwood 5:3 – Adventures in Immediate Irreality
For a moment I had the feeling of existing only in the photograph.
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‘What’s the Point of This Story’ Girl Strikes Again
I know what my super power would be. Not invisibility. Not speed. Not flying. I would be called…
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Locally grown music
For years we’ve heard a lot of noise from the music industry about the death of CDs and…
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Spot-Lit for May 2015
These titles – from established, emerging, and under-the-radar authors – are some of the most anticipated new releases…
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Historical photos come to life
Amongst the many treasures here at Everett Public Library are the historical digital photo collections maintained by the…
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Best of the (half) decade
We saw a list of the top 100 books written in the past half-decade. We were not amused.…
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April new music picks
Spring has been a busy time for new releases and reissues. We’ve been keeping busy with great patron…
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A serious vocational error
One of the great things about reading fiction is the way you can visit a person’s, admittedly fictional,…
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Memoirs, old and new
My father loved to tell a good story and what made a story good for him was if…
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Did you know? (spider web edition)
That a spider web strand reaching all the way around the world would only weigh 12 ounces?
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A stroll through the pun forest or crime and pun-ishment
Hello poetry lovers. Today’s poem is a pun of stunning disregard for human frailties. It is titled, Names…
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A serial killer in love
I read somewhere that the average person will walk by a serial killer 36 times in their life.…
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Surfing the purple stickers (Ewoks included)
What do Batman, Ms. Marvel, Constantine, andHellboy have in common? We’ve recently rescued them from obscurity in the…
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Spot-Lit for April 2015
Every month our fiction buyer scours the new fiction landscape and presents here a curated list of some…
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I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition!
In one of the greatest Monty Python skits, Cardinal Ximinez of Spain pontificates, Amongst our weaponry are such…
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March new music: a horse of a different color edition
When I was a kid, one of my favorite scenes in The Wizard of Oz was when Dorothy,…
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Heartwood 5:2 – The Green Child
Herbert Read’s three-part novel, The Green Child, starts out with a bang. In the first paragraph, a South…