Folio Seattle Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler's Guide to the People, Places, and Events That Made the Movement
Deborah D. Douglas
Take an eye-opening journey inspired by the official Civil Rights Trail! Join @LindaKramer @folioseattle tonight with author @debofficially Deborah D. Douglas discussing her new book Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail. @MoonGuides April 22, 5pm https://bit.ly/3sqCq0G https://t.co/CpbohGDsEl
Paperback, 2021
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Searcher
Tana French
What are you reading this week? 🤓 We're reading The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun, The Glass hotel by @EmilyMandel, I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me by @VillalobosJPe, The Searcher by Tana French and Tell-All by @chuckpalahniuk! https://t.co/fEXiztsc75
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses
James Joyce
Happy Birthday, Ulysses! 🎂 James Joyce’s masterpiece of modernism was published 100 years ago today, in Paris, by Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company bookshop! #Ulysses100 https://t.co/hmxEUKlV4R
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Wade in the Water: Poems
Tracy K. Smith
Such Color: New and Selected Poems by Tracy K. Smith traces an increasingly audacious commitment to exploring the unknowable, the immense mysteries of existence. https://t.co/ZboEX6mmzm
Paperback, 2019
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
William C. Kashatus
William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia by William C. Kashatus is the first full-length biography of William Still, one of the most important leaders of the Underground Railroad. https://t.co/544EaPKGtL
Paperback, 2023
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad
Best selling #author Omar El Akkad @omarelakkad will be in interview with Folio librarian Lillian Dabney about his new novel What Strange Paradise, which explores the global #refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. Join us Sep 23 at 6:00 PM on Zoom! https://t.co/grKYU5N74B
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses: Second Edition
James Joyce
Happy Birthday, Ulysses! 🎂 James Joyce’s masterpiece of modernism was published 100 years ago today, in Paris, by Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company bookshop! #Ulysses100 https://t.co/hmxEUKlV4R
Paperback, 2022
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Rick Perlstein
https://bit.ly/3mtaZRF This Thursday Dec 3rd at 7pm @folioseattle is excited to host author and historian @rickperlstein with Sandeep Kaushik @skaushik100 and David Hyde @hyded. Rick will share his approach to writing history and discuss Reaganland. https://bit.ly/3mtaZRF https://t.co/Yt3gZR6KTQ
Paperback, 2021
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Unforgotten Seattle
Ron Chew
Tonight Tue, Oct 13, 7:00 PM Not to be missed! Carey Quan Gelernter interviews third-generation Seattleite, historian, journalist, and museum visionary Ron Chew about his book My Unforgotten Seattle. @UWAPress @folioseattle https://t.co/P7GwZ2KOed https://t.co/q2FDPEvD9f
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Love: Gepunktetes A5 Notizbuch oder Heft für Schüler, Studenten und Erwachsene
Pm Books
Nancy Pearl @Nancy_Pearl has tirelessly fueled readers everywhere by promoting the love of books and reading! Join us on Dec 6, at 6:00 PM for a virtual Evening With Nancy Pearl, honoring and celebrating her illustrious life and career. https://t.co/VKcn6KOaxE
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