![]() ![]() Now you can wander IRL once again, and take advantage of its book-trading program to refresh your collection. West Seattle’s longtime (mostly used) bookstore approximated browsing online by posting pictures of its shelves to Instagram during the pandemic. Opened in 2019 by a married couple (he a former bassist in Modest Mouse, she an interior designer), Paper Boat is West Seattle’s lone bookstore for new titles, which rounds out its shelves with events and book clubs. The selection at the Annex will likely lean more niche and family-friendly than that of the OG location. The venerated U District bookseller announced in September that it would relieve some of its groaning shelves on the Ave with an expansion to Wallingford, setting up shop in the basement of the building that housed Open Books before the poetry emporium’s move to Pioneer Square. Famously packed with information on the inner workings of everything from windmills to Wi-Fi, this extraordinary and humorous book both guides readers through the fundamental principles of. The rest of us can stop by for its wide range of titles and always rad clearance tables. ![]() University of Washington students can swing by this 122-year-old fixture for all their purple and gold paraphernalia. ![]()
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![]() This novel is a fictionalised biography of Charles Joseph Carter. ![]() ![]() The show is a great success, but two hours later the president is dead, and Carter finds himself the centre of some very unwelcome attention indeed. In front of an amazed audience, Carter proceeds to chop the president into pieces, cut off his head, and feed him to a lion, before restoring him to health. Harding on to stage to take part in his act. At the climax of his latest touring stage show, Carter invites United States President Warren G. The 1920s was a golden age for stage magic and Charles Carter is an American stage magician at the height of his fame and powers. ![]() The title of the novel comes from Carter's evening length stage show, the third act of which is called "Carter Beats The Devil" and features Carter in a magician's duel with an assistant made up as the Devil. Historical mystery thriller novel by Glen David GoldĬarter Beats The Devil is a historical mystery thriller novel by Glen David Gold centred on the American stage magician Charles Joseph Carter (1874–1936). ![]() ![]() ![]() Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, first edition, first or second printing, 1903, edition without "Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit" on title, 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, original dark blue boards lettered in silver-grey, with circular pictorial panel to front board. ![]() ![]() Condition: boards scuffed at edges, spine with light sun fade, corners bumped, stitching good and tight, front cover circular illustration with two areas of wear, overall a good example. Potter made a number of sketches during her stay of the surrounding landscapes including Herbert's Island which, in her book, became Owl Island. Note: Potter’s Squirrel Nutkin was born out of a story and picture letter that she sent to the daughter of her former governess, Norah Moore, whilst she was staying at Lingholm in the Lake District. ![]() ![]() ![]() At Paul’s birthday party a few months ago-both me and my best friend are eighteen -Gunner came swimming with us in the backyard and I almost hyperventilated. Really, there will never be enough time to absorb his big, bulky body. He doesn’t stop walking on his way to the kitchen, so I only get a few seconds to soak him in. He passes by the opening of the den and glances in briefly, smirking when he spies me collapsed on the Twister mat beside his laughing son. Outwardly, I try not to show a reaction, but on the inside I’m rattling like a rickety wooden roller coaster and my stomach has been left at the top of the steep drop. ![]() I’m getting ready to disrupt his balance by bumping him with my hip when the front door of the house opens and closes briskly. “List it, dude!” Paul yells at the television-which he is watching upside down through his legs. Three of our other friends are sprawled out on the couch, cheering us on, one of them absently flipping through the television until finally landing on Love It or List It. Since I met Paul in seventh grade, his house has been my second home. We’re in his den playing Twister on Friday night, as we’ve done so many times growing up. I stretch my right leg out and hook it around my best friend, Paul, stamping it down on the red spot, giggling when my arms start shaking from holding myself in place too long. ![]() ![]() His unique work announces Marx's critique of speculative idealism, as well as the properly Freudian notion of drive, of a blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language. Schelling, the German idealist who for too long dwelled in the shadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealist motifs of finitude, contingency and temporality. ![]() Schelling's Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the 'beginning of the world', of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos. The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. ![]() ![]() But when an arranged marriage into a rival clan makes Graeme Montgomery her husband, Eveline accepts her duty?unprepared for the delights to come. Content with her life of seclusion, Eveline has taught herself to read lips and allows the outside world to view her as daft. No one, not even her family, knows that she cannot hear. Eveline Armstrong is fiercely loved and protected by her powerful clan, but outsiders consider her ?touched.? Beautiful, fey, with a level, intent gaze, she doesn?t speak. ![]() ![]() Never Seduce a Scot features a remarkable woman whose rare gift teaches a gruff Scottish warrior how to listen with his heart. Maya Banks, the New York Times bestselling author of romance and romantic suspense has captivated readers with her steamy Scottish historical novels, perfect for fans of Julie Garwood. ![]() ![]()
![]() Since its first publication in 1945, Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy is still unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace, and its wit. Written by a man who changed the history of philosophy himself, this is an account that has never been rivaled since its first publication over sixty years ago. Hailed as "lucid and magisterial" by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy.Ĭonsidered to be one of the most important philosophical works of all time, the History of Western Philosophy is a dazzlingly unique exploration of the ideologies of significant philosophers throughout the ages-from Plato and Aristotle through to Spinoza, Kant and the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America's best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. AR infor: Quiz Name: 74606 (Benjamin Franklin: An American Life) Reading Level: 10.6 Interest Level: Upper Grade Point Value: 38.0 Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. ![]() Blue card stock spine w/gold foil letters. ![]() Features: Excerpt, Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents Annotation: Rescuing Benjamin Franklin from the clich of genial codger, this book celebrates the most interesting, advanced, and earthy of the founding fathers. ![]() ![]() He had rediscovered the lost and holy word-I. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: He had stood forth from the mindless human herd. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. In a loveless world, he dared to love the woman of his choice. In all that was left of humanity, there was only one man who dared to think, seek, and love. From cradle to grave, the crowd was one-the great WE. ![]() They were conceived in controlled Palaces of Mating. Nomber_key:000486Īnthem is Ayn Rand's classic tale of a dystopian future of the great "We"-a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence-that anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. ![]() |