Much has been written about how to play Texas Holdem, but most of it deals with post-flop play, which is NOT the most important part. Few books deal with the most important question in any Holdem game: whether to play the starting hand or fold it. By adopting a solid standard of playability, or, in the words of the authors, a mathematically sound Starting Hand Strategy, players increase the likelihood the hands they play will be winners. An effective starting hand strategy is an essential element in the game of any serious player, and the strategy defined in this book is the best systematic...

Fifty of the best of Matt McCauley's "A Look to the Past: Kirkland" newspaper columns, edited to present new information and many photos from the prized collection of the Kirkland Heritage Society. In 1870 two teenage boys claim homesteads on Juanita Bay, and to pay for improvements on their homesteads, struggle for the rest of their short lives logging timber on Lake Washington's eastern shore. In 1872 a couple and their 22-year-old son stake claims at Houghton, carving homes out of dark, dense, first-growth timber. Other pioneers arrive and claim homesteads on the eastern shore. In 1887 a...

HISTORY SAYS THAT THE HOLOCAUST ENDED IN 1945

."..but for many, it will never be over..."

Red-haired, freckle-faced, green-eyed Markus worries about things that bother many middle-school boys: When will my body fill out? When will my voice lower? When will I grow body hair? He wants puberty to hurry up and do its job so he can hang with the cool kids. He doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about his grandmother's experiences during the Holocaust.

But when three of the A-listers ask him to work with them on their social studies Holocaust project, he sees his chance. He knows they want...