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Whoops! BANNED Book Week
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Band Books Week
Just last night I was thinking how indescribably important music is to me. I started playing organ at…
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A novel debut
Pity the poor debut novel. First it has to overcome the almost impossible odds of actually getting published.…
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Making fantasy football a reality
I was a huge Kansas City Chiefs fan as a kid, and there are three big reasons why:
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Inside the Northwest History Room: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Here in the Northwest History Room of the Everett Public Library, we get frequent visitors looking into the…
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Farewell to the Bookmobile
Everett has had a long history of taking the library out into the community. Bookmobile service began in…
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Invasion of the killer B-movie robot monster from Mars
B-movies meet P.G. Wodehouse in the 2014 graphic novel It Came!, ‘directed’ by Dan Boultwood. Boultwood previously illustrated…
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Spot-Lit for September 2014
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‘Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands’
Once in a while (or more often than I care to admit) I’ll zone out and start thinking…
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Heartwood 4:5 – Hotel Andromeda by Gabriel Josipovici
In Hotel Andromeda, Gabriel Josipovici has written a beautiful and thoughtful tribute to eccentric 20th-century American artist Joseph…
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The (radio) play’s the thing
It will probably come as no surprise to learn that most of us in the library world like…
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Did you know? (survival edition)
Jerusalem artichokes, serviceberries and blue camas roots are just a few of the plants you can eat to…
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It’s time to get romantic
Romance. Erotica. What comes to mind when you read these words? Do you think of the “pinkies” in…
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My name is Helen and I’m a Minotaur
I am not a fantasy literature enthusiast. (Don’t even get me started on science fiction and fantasy being…
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Book club adventures
A long time ago, in a job/city far away, I was tasked with forming a book discussion group.…
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The best laid plans
As you may recall, gentle reader, in June I devised a list of interesting non-fiction titles to guide…
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Adventures in time and space – part 2
In Part 1 of Adventures in Time and Space we looked at the history of that epic TV…
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Explore Washington!
The weather forecast is for a string of beautiful days here in the Pacific Northwest so that means…
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Spot-Lit for August 2014
Here’s our fiction selector’s curated list of noteworthy August releases. Click the titles below and then the Full…
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Erotica (shhh!)
Erotica is something that we don’t discuss so much in American culture, certainly don’t talk about as part…