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  Murder & Mayhem in Seattle

  Teresa Nordheim

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  Seattle harbors a dark and violent history that stretches back to a bloody battle between natives and settlers in 1856. In the early 1900s, Dr. Linda Hazzard stole money from countless patients after starving them to death in her infamous sanitarium. Three robbers opened fire in the notorious Wah Mee gambling club in 1983, killing thirteen people in the state's deadliest mass homicide. Some of America's most notorious serial killers wrought terror in Seattle, including the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway. Ted Bundy's murder spree started in King County before reaching national attention in the 1970s. Local author Teresa Nordheim exposes these and many more gruesome events that scarred the city.

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  Serpents Goats and Turkeys - A...

  David Laws

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  The definitive, insider history of the often turbulent political relationship between the Liberals and Labour.
  Natural allies or fierce competitors? For the past century, Britain's two major centre-left parties have co-existed in sometimes harmonious but more often fraught duopoly, from the 1903 agreement that a prominent Liberal complained was 'nursing into life a serpent which would sting their party to death' to the 1976–77 pact that gave us the phrase 'turkeys voting for Christmas' and beyond, to the failed negotiations that led to the controversial 2010–15 Lib Dem–Conservative coalition.
  Charting 100 years of British political history, Serpents, Goats and Turkeys explores the formal and informal arrangements that have existed between the parties, covering electoral deals, support for minority governments, formal pacts and full coalitions. What have been the overlaps of policy and ideology, and where have the parties been most divided? What explains the periods of co-operation but also the unwillingness or inability to work together for any significant time?
  In the wake of the 2024 'Loveless Landslide', former coalition Cabinet minister David Laws also draws on unpublished records and private diaries from the past thirty years of Lib–Lab wrangling to consider the likely options in the event of a future hung parliament. Should the parties work together? Would they be able to? And what are the prospects for voting reform? The answers to such questions will have major implications for British democracy and the future of our politics.

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  Shareware Heroes - The renegades...

  Richard Moss

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  Shareware Heroes is a comprehensive, meticulously researched exploration of an important and too-long overlooked chapter in video game history 
   
   
   
  Shareware Heroes: The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the internet takes listeners on a journey, from the beginnings of the shareware model in the early 1980s, the origins of the concept, even the name itself, and the rise of shareware's major players—the likes of id Software, Apogee, and Epic MegaGames—through to the significance of shareware for the "forgotten" systems—the Mac, Atari ST, Amiga—when commercial game publishers turned away from them. 
   
   
   
  This book also charts the emergence of commercial shareware distributors like Educorp and the BBS/newsgroup sharing culture. And it explores how shareware developers plugged gaps in the video gaming market by creating games in niche and neglected genres like vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-ups (e.g. Raptor and Tyrian), or racing games (e.g. Wacky Wheels and Skunny Kart), or RPGs (God of Thunder and Realmz), until finally, as the video game market again grew and shifted, and major publishers took control, how the shareware system faded into the background and fell from memory.

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  Danny's People: A Memoir and...

  Virginia Bovell

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  Society disables us more than autism ever could 
   
  Virginia’s son Danny has a way of lighting up a room. He’s warm, personable and has an infectious laugh. He forms lasting relationships and has known his best friend since they were little. He is also nonverbal and autistic, and requires round-the-clock care and a liquid diet. And for this reason, there are many who would rather not encounter Danny. 
   
  Challenging the view that autism is something that needs to be ‘cured’, Virginia Bovell testifies to the extraordinary care Danny has received for over 30 years and the everyday kindness and decency of the people – ‘the band of angels’ – that surround him. She asks us to consider what makes a thriving individual versus an inadequate one; what it means to be ill versus what it means to not to conform; what roles society values and rewards; and how humans might flourish outside of failing political and economic systems. 
   
  ‘My brain’s still fizzing, my heart’s still sore and I’m already re-reading’ Sally Phillips 
   
  'An inspiring testament and a celebration of neurodiversity.' Manni Coe, author of Brother. Do. You. Love. Me

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  The Olive Route - A Personal...

  Carol Drinkwater

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  The author of acclaimed memoirs about life on a French olive farm explores the larger history and culture of the Mediterranean delicacy. Carol Drinkwater has a passion for olive trees and the fruit they bear—“bitter berries” that are transformed into savory delights and pressed into precious oil. Already intimately familiar with the fruit thanks to her olive farm in the South of France, she decided to travel throughout the Mediterranean basin—from Marseille to Malta, Israel to Tunisia—in a quest to learn about their ancient history, their spread throughout the world, and the tastes and traditions they represent. A culinary travelogue and a celebration of a humble, healthful food that inspires devotion among so many, The Olive Route is filled with unusual characters and fascinating anecdotes from “a storyteller of great economy and deftness” (The Telegraph). “Drinkwater has a sharp eye for character, and the people who populate The Olive Route will not disappoint her fans.” —The Independent

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  The Dark Side of Sci-Fi - 15...

  Philip K. Dick, Ian Gordon,...

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  A collection of speculative fiction stories, concerning extraterrestrials, other worlds, and bleak futures. 
  Contents: 
  "Fessenden's Worlds" by E. Hamilton (Weird Tales 1937) 
  A man creates a miniature universe. 
  "The Hanging Stranger" by P. K. Dick (SF Adventures 1953) 
  A man happens upon a body suspended from a lamppost. 
  "The Glass Labyrinth" by S. A. Coblentz (WT 1943) 
  A tale of time and dimensions. 
  "The Transgressor" by H. Kuttner (WT 1939) 
  A curious invention... 
  "The Red God Laughed" by T. McClusky (WT 1939) 
  Following the extinction of the human race... 
  "The Crystal Egg" by H. G. Wells (New Review 1897) 
  An object that serves as a window into the planet Mars. 
  "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" by H. P. Lovecraft (Pine Cones 1919) 
  Strange slumbers in the Catskill Mountains. 
  "The Fear Experiment" by I. Gordon (HorrorBabble 2018) 
  A dark experiment in Georgia. 
  "Old Rambling House" by F. Herbert (Galaxy SF 1958) 
  All they wanted was a home they could call their own... 
  "There is a Reaper ..." by C. V. De Vet (Imagination 1953) 
  What awaits us after death? 
  "In the World's Dusk" by Edmond Hamilton (WT 1936) 
  The last survivor of the human race. 
  "The Supernumerary Corpse" by C. A. Smith (WT 1932) 
  Jasper Trilt was dead—but... 
  "2 B R 0 2 B" by K. Vonnegut, Jr. (If 1962) 
  Death becomes a voluntary act. 
  "The Ultimate Experiment" by T. DeKy (Comet 1941) 
  Robots—the children of men. 
  "The Red One" by J. London (Cosmopolitan 1918) 
  Worshippers of something strange in the jungle.

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