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The game of Love and Death

2015
In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.

Seattle Seahawks

2016
Profiles the Seattle Seahawks football team.

Seattle and the demons of ambition

a love story
2003
Traces the rise and fall of Seattle during the 1980s and 1990s, discussing how the city became a major city during the dot-com revolution and how it was impacted when many of the technology industry's big names began to fail.

The boys in the boat

nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
This book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. It traces the story of the team that defeated elite rivals at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of their enigmatic coach, a visionary boat builder, and a homeless teen rower.

Patient number one

a true story of how one CEO took on cancer and big business in the fight of his life
2000
Rick Murdock chronicles his battle against a deadly cancer and explains how he used technology developed by his own company to attempt to cure his untreatable disease.

Mayor

in the company of Norman Rice, Mayor of Seattle
1996
Describes eight busy days in the life of Norman Rice, mayor of Seattle.

Kidding around Seattle

a young person's guide to the city
1991
A guide to the geography, history, people, and interesting sites of this northwestern city.

Praise poems

the Katherine White collection
1984

Partner in crime

2002
Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady reluctantly joins forces with J.P. Beaumont, a member of Washington State's Special Homicide Investigation team, when a promising African-American artist, supposedly under the protection of the government, is murdered shortly after moving to Bisbee, Arizona.

Indian killer

1998
A murderer, dubbed the Indian Killer, is stalking and scalping white men in Seattle, and John Smith, a Native American man who was adopted by a white couple at birth and who is slowly descending into madness due to his alienation from either the white or Indian culture, seems to be a likely suspect.

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