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Free books at the airport

12/21/16

Free e-books and audio books available at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport - and elsewhere.

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Souvenir Sunday: summer reading

06/26/16

Souvenir Sunday: chatting about what to buy at the airport. This week: the paperback edition of Mark Vanhoenacker's book "Skyfaring."

Souvenir Sunday: Fantastic Cities coloring book

07/12/15

Here’s an activity book perfect for those lazy, hazy days of summer or those crazy days when you just need to take a break, focus on simple, creative tasks and chill out. Fantastic Cities: A Coloring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined – out in a few weeks from Chronicle Books – is a […]

Transportation revelations: how fast things go

01/08/15

Did you know that a sea horse can move as quickly (or as slowly) as a Galapagos tortoise? (.2 MPH), that a hedgehog and a millipede move at about the same pace (1 MPH) and that a swift and a Hughes MD 500 Helicopter can each travel at 125 MPH? I didn’t. But thanks to […]