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The Wise Owl Books and Music

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 .... and Welcome to The Wise Owl Books and Music! We're an indie book and music store located in the Tangletown neighborhood of Seattle (between Greenlake and Wallingford).  Now that you've found us, take a look around.  Don't see what you're looking for?  Let us know!

 

What's on our Nightstand? VIEW LIST (15 BOOKS)
The Last House on Needless Street
Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow
The Mad Women's Ball
Light from Uncommon Stars
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Thief of Souls: An Inspector Lu Fei Mystery
A Peculiar Combination: An Electra McDonnell Novel
A Master of Djinn
The Chosen and the Beautiful
The Committed
The Lost Apothecary
The Infinity Courts: Volume 1
The House on Vesper Sands
Project Hail Mary
The Absolute Book
Roe vs. Wade VIEW LIST (15 BOOKS)
Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
I Know What's Best for You
New Handbook for a Post-Roe America: The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support
Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now
The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having--Or Being Denied--An Abortion
Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate
Abortion after Roe
Shout Your Abortion
Red Clocks
You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
Banned Books Week VIEW LIST (27 BOOKS)
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Lawn Boy
Out of Darkness
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
The Hate U Give
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Revised Edition)
The Bluest Eye
This Book Is Gay
Melissa (Previously Published as George)
Soldier Boy
Speak
Monster
Pax
This Is My America

VIEW ALL 27 BOOKS
National Poetry Month (Apr. '22) VIEW LIST (15 BOOKS)
Customs: Poems
Content Warning: Everything
Useful Junk
Fighting Is Like a Wife
And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight
Contra Natura
Punks: New & Selected Poems
A Year & Other Poems
Home.Girl.Hood.
Prelude: Poems
What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems
The Gardens of Our Childhoods
Of Mineral
Diaries of a Terrorist
Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory
Floyd Cooper Day! ( May 6th) VIEW LIST (20 BOOKS)
Max and the Tag-Along Moon
Juneteenth for Mazie
Jump!: From the Life of Michael Jordan
Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes
Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High-Jump Champion
A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story
Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams
Freedom School, Yes!
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States
A Day for Rememberin': Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day
Becoming Billie Holiday
The Blacker the Berry
A Beach Tail

VIEW ALL 20 BOOKS
April Indie Next List VIEW LIST (25 BOOKS)
Reptile Memoirs
Portrait of an Unknown Lady
Take My Hand
The Cartographers
Sister Stardust
The Younger Wife
Disorientation
French Braid
Four Treasures of the Sky
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Memphis
Nine Lives
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
Thin Places
Young Mungo

VIEW ALL 25 BOOKS
March 2022 Indie Next List VIEW LIST (25 BOOKS)
New Animal
The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle
The Boy with a Bird in His Chest
Booth
The Wonders
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
The Lightning Rod: A Zig & Nola Novel
Chorus
The Verifiers
Groundskeeping
Never Simple: A Memoir
The Paris Apartment
Pure Colour
The Unsinkable Greta James
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

VIEW ALL 25 BOOKS
Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2021 VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)
At Night All Blood Is Black
Land of Big Numbers: Stories
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Project Hail Mary
When We Cease to Understand the World
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Things We Lost to the Water
Leave the World Behind
The Sweetness of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
Intimacies
Science Fiction and Fantasy VIEW LIST (12 BOOKS)
The Glass Magician
Ruthless Gods
The Fiends of Nightmaria
We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep
Rule of Wolves
A Desolation Called Peace
Attack Surface
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Master of Poisons
The Memory of Souls
AAPI Reads VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)
Obit
So Many Olympic Exertions
Immigrant, Montana
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The Body Papers: A Memoir
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
The Leavers
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)