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The perfectionists
Ava, Caitlin, Mackenzie, Julie, and Parker are all driven to be perfect--no matter the cost. At first the girls think they have nothing in common, until they discover that they all hate the same person: handsome womanizer Nolan Hotchkiss, who's done things to hurt each of them. They come up with the perfect plan to murder Nolan--jokingly, of course. They'd never actually go through with it. But when Nolan turns up dead in the exact way they'd discussed, the girls suddenly become prime suspects in his murder. Only, they didn't do it. So who did? Unless they find the real killer, and soon, their perfect lives will come crashing down around them.
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Biking Uphill in the Rain
Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United
States by Bicycling magazine. How did this notoriously
hilly and rainy city become so inviting to bicyclists? And what
challenges lie ahead for Puget Sound bike advocates? Tom Fucoloro,
a leading voice on bike issues in the region, blends his longtime
reporting with new interviews and archival research to tell the
story of how a flourishing bike culture emerged despite the
obstacles of climate, topography, and-most importantly-an
entrenched, car-centric urban landscape and culture. From the
arrival of the first bicycles in the late nineteenth century to the
bike-share entrepreneurs of the present day, the result is a unique
perspective on Seattle's history and its future. Advocates, policy
makers, city planners, and bike enthusiasts around the world can
learn plenty from the successes and failures of this city's past
130 years.
More than just a mode of transportation, the bicycle has been
used by generations of Seattleites as a tool for social change.
Biking Uphill in the Rain documents the people and
projects that made a difference and reveals just how deeply
intertwined transportation is with politics, public health, climate
change, and racial justice.
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Washington : an explorer's guide
Provides a resource to the landscapes of Washington; features coverage of such regions as Puget Sound, Mount St. Helens, and the Columbia River Gorge, in a guide complemented by recommendations for lodging, dining, and shopping.
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Resisting Garbage
Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one that is grounded in the close observation of case studies while being broadly applicable to many American cities today.Most current waste practices in the United States, Lily Baum Pollans argues, prioritize sanitation and efficiency while allowing limited post-consumer recycling as a way to quell consumers’ environmental anxiety. After setting out the contours of this “weak recycling waste regime,” Pollans zooms in on the very different waste management stories of Seattle and Boston over the last forty years. While Boston’s local politics resulted in a waste-export program with minimal recycling, Seattle created new frameworks for thinking about consumption, disposal, and the roles that local governments and ordinary people can play as partners in a project of resource stewardship. By exploring how these two approaches have played out at the national level, Resisting Garbage provides new avenues for evaluating municipal action and fostering practices that will create environmentally meaningful change.
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Emerald City
At the foot of the snow-capped Cascade Mountains on the forested shores of Puget Sound, Seattle is set in a location of spectacular natural beauty. Boosters of the city have long capitalized on this splendor, recently likening it to the fairytale capital of L. Frank Baum'sThe Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City. But just as Dorothy, Toto, and their traveling companions discover a darker reality upon entering the green gates of the imaginary Emerald City, those who look more closely at Seattle's landscape will find that it reveals a history marked by environmental degradation and urban inequality.
This book explores the role of nature in the development of the city of Seattle from the earliest days of its settlement to the present. Combining environmental history, urban history, and human geography, Matthew Klingle shows how attempts to reshape nature in and around Seattle have often ended not only in ecological disaster but also social inequality. The price of Seattle's centuries of growth and progress has been paid by its wildlife, including the famous Pacific salmon, and its poorest residents. Klingle proposes a bold new way of understanding the interdependence between nature and culture, and he argues for what he calls an \"ethic of place.\" Using Seattle as a compelling case study, he offers important insights for every city seeking to live in harmony with its natural landscape.
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Heartbreak City
To cities, sports have never been just entertainment.
Progressive urbanites across the United States have used athletics
to address persistent problems in city life: the fights for racial
justice, workers' rights, equality for women and LGBTQ+ city
dwellers, and environmental conservation. In Seattle, sports
initiatives have powered meaningful reforms, such as popular
stadium projects that promoted investments in public housing and
mass transit. At the same time, conservative forces also used
sports to consolidate their power and mobilize against the civic
good. In Heartbreak City Shaun Scott takes the reader
through 170 years of Seattle history, chronicling both well-known
and long-forgotten events, like the establishment of racially
segregated golf courses and neighborhoods in the regressive 1920s
and the 1987 Seahawks players' strike that galvanized organized
labor. At every step of the journey, he uncovers how sports have
both united Seattle in pursuit of triumph and revealed its most
profound political divides. Deep archival research and analysis
combine in this people's history of a great American city's quest
to become even greater-if only it could get out of its own way.
Heartbreak City was made possible in part by a grant from
4Culture's Heritage Program. A Michael J. Repass Book
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Eva of the farm
Twelve-year-old Eva writes beautiful poems on the farm in Washington State that her family has owned for generations, but when money runs out and then her baby brother gets sick, the family faces foreclosure and the way of life she loves is threatened.
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Shaping Seattle Architecture
The first edition ofShaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattle's architects by showcasing the work of those who were instrumental in creating the region's built environment. Twenty years later, the second edition updates and expands the original with new information and illustrations that provide an even richer exploration of Seattle architecture.
The book begins with a revised introduction that brings the story of Seattle architecture into the twenty-first century and situates developments in Seattle building design within local and global contexts. The book's fifty-four essays present richly illustrated profiles that describe the architects' careers, provide an overview of their major works, and explore their significance.
Shaping Seattle Architecturecelebrates a wide range of people who helped form the region's built environment. It provides updated information about many of the architects and firms profiled in the first edition. Four individuals newly included in this second edition are Edwin J. Ivey, a leading residential designer; Fred Bassetti, an important contributor to Northwest regional modernism; L. Jane Hastings, one of the region's foremost women in architecture; and Richard Haag, founder of the landscape architecture program at the University of Washington and designer of Gas Works Park and the Bloedel Reserve.
The book also includes essays on the buildings of the Coast Salish people, who inhabited Puget Sound prior to Euro-American settlement; the role that architects played in speculative housing developments before and after World War II; and the vernacular architecture built by nonprofessionals that makes up a portion of the fabric of the city.
Shaping Seattle Architectureconcludes with a substantial reference section, updated to reflect the last twenty years of research and publications. A locations appendix offers a geographic guide to surviving works. The research section directs interested readers to further resources, and the appendix \"Additional Significant Seattle Architects\" provides thumbnail sketches of nearly 250 important figures not included in the main text.
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