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NEW -- BRW 212 Sons of the Profits: There's No Business Like Grow Business; The Seattle Story 1851-1901 by Bill Speidel. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7) A biographical view of the foibles, infighting, maneuvers, and high-handed tactics of past heroes in the power struggle to settle Seattle.
NEW -- BRW 325 Payment in Kind by J. A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) The bloody corpses stashed in the broom closet of the Seattle School District were lovingly entwined. Detective J. P. Beaumont of the Seattle Police Dept. has another shocker on his hands.
NEW -- BRW 1238 The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7) Washington State, 1918. A small mill town votes to quarantine itself against the virulent influenza epidemic. Philip Worthy, the 16-year-old adopted son of the town founder, is one of the citizens posted to enforce the quarantine. When a cold, hungry, and possibly sick soldier begs him for entry into the town, Philip makes a life-changing decision.
NEW -- BRW 1247 Columbia Highlands: Exploring Washington's Last Frontier by Craig Romano. (volume 1, volume 2) Explores northeastern Washington State. Includes information on the natural history, human history, current residents, and travel in the area.
BRW 1191 Northwest Wine Country: Wine's New Frontier by Kathleen Hill and Gerald Hill. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7) A travel guide to Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia for wine lovers. Emphasizes information about vineyards, wineries and tasting rooms. Includes nearby dining and tourist activities and recipes that use local wines.
BRW 1189 The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole by Stephanie Doyon. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7) In the small northwest town of Cedar Hole, mediocrity is the way of life. Even as an adult, Francis "Spud" Pinkham struggles to emerge from the shadow of his childhood rival, Robert J. Cutler, the town's optimistic golden boy.
BRW 1186 2007 Seattle Reads The Namesake by Jhumpha Lahiri by Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library. (1 volume) A reading group toolbox for The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.
BRW 1174 Firetrap: A Novel of Suspense by Earl W. Emerson. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) Captain Trey Brown, one of the few black men in Seattle Fire Department's leadership, survived a devastating nightclub fire. The city erupts in riots because of allegations that the fire department left African-Americans to die in the blaze. Brown and TV reporter Jamie Estevez try to find out what really happened at the club.
BRW 1173 Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3) A young evangelical Christian's autobiographical essays examine the relevance of faith in our post-modern culture.
BRW 1171 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation by Joe Sutter. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Seattle, 1960's. Joe Sutter, the engineer who spearheaded the design and construction of the Boeing 747, tells the story of the world's first jumbo jet.
BRW 1165 A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7, volume 8, volume 9, volume 10) Trinidad. Mr. Mohun Biswas, a tenderhearted fellow with a thirst for books, struggles for independence from his wife's domineering family.
BRW 1164 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. (volume 1, volume 2) Fascinated with the character of Bertha, the madwoman in "Jane Eyre", Jean Rhys has imagined her as a carefree girl and an attractive young woman in the days before she came to England. Rhys creates a romantic, colorful, and thought-provoking past for this enigmatic woman.
BRW 1163 A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) 1847 Frontiersman James MacLaren loses his three children to sickness and his wife to another man. James joins a wagon train as a guide and has an affair with Lucy Mitchell that threatens to destroy her marriage. PEN/Faulkner Award. Winner of 2006 Washington State Book Award.
BRW 1162 The Alpine Kindred by Mary Daheim. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Newspaper editor Emma Lord investigates the brutal stabbing of a pompous local philanthropist while rumors spread like wildfire through the old logging town of Alpine, Washington.
BRW 1159 Tacoma Confidential By Paul LaRosa. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) The true tale of the 2003 murder-suicide that rocked Gig Harbor, Washington. Police chief David Brame, distraught over his impending divorce, shot his wife to death in a busy public parking lot. Then, with the couple's two children only feet away, he turned the gun on himself.
BRW 1158 Remember Me by Deborah Bedford. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3) Bachelor pastor Sam Tibbits returns to Piddock Beach on the Oregon Coast, where he spent his childhood summers in the late 1960s. Looking to reconnect with himself and God, Sam stumbles upon his childhood sweetheart, Aubrey.
BRW 1156 The Winning Hand by C. K. Crigger. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Washington State, 1893. Caroline Pruett loses her thoroughbred stallion King to cowhand Micah Sutton in a poker game. Caroline accidentally shoots Micah while stealing King back. Only slightly wounded, Micah sets out after Caroline to retrieve the horse, but Micah isn't the only one after King.
BRW 1155 Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) In this psychological horror novel, Seattle author and Nebula Award winner Butler introduces us to an apparently young girl, suffering from amnesia, who has alarming needs and abilities.
BRW 1153 Madison House by Peter Donahue. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7, volume 8, volume 9, volume 10) Chronicles turn-of-the-century Seattle's explosive transformation from frontier outpost to major metropolis. Maddie Ingram, owner of Madison House, and her quirky and endearing boarders (a handyman, a muckraking black journalist, and an aspiring actress) find their lives inextricably linked when the city decides to regrade Denny Hill and the fate of Madison House hangs in the balance.
BRW 1152 The Commitment by Dan Savage. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Humor and a reality check are brought to this bitter gay-marriage debate by this polemical memoir. As the Seattle writer and his boyfriend, Terry, neared their 10th anniversary, Savage's mother put on the pressure for them to get married. Terry prefers tattoos as a sign of commitment and their six-year-old son declared that only men and women can get married.
BRW 1150 Edge of Evil by J. A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) When a childhood friend recently diagnosed with ALS apparently commits suicide, former TV journalist Alison Reynolds launches an online blog as therapy. When threatening posts begin appearing, Ali realizes she might be in danger.
BRW 1146 The Winemaker's Daughter by Timothy Egan. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) While Brunella Cartolano is trying to protect the Seattle waterfront from development, she also finds her father's Eastern Washington vineyard enduring the worst draught in history. Brunella struggles to protect the vineyard from someone who seems to be buying up all the water and driving away the people who work the land. When a wildfire roars out of control and kills a squadron of firefighters including her brother Niccolo, the question of the lack of water becomes ever more urgent.
BRW 1128 Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7) Septuagenarian Margaret Hughes lives alone in a Seattle mansion with her collection of valuable antiques. Wanda Schultz, a young woman with a broken heart, has come west to find her wayward boyfriend. As the two women begin a tentative friendship, dark secrets emerge and barriers start to crumble.
BRW 1161 The Dog Whisperer: A Compassionate, Nonviolent Approach to Dog Training by Paul Owen. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) A manual that emphasizes an empathetic, caring approach to dog training. Includes sections on dog body language, vocalizations, clicker training, rewards, and how to humanely solve behavioral problems such as jumping, barking, chewing, and mouthing.
BRW 1157 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Acheba. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3) Portrays traditional Ibo society in nineteenth-century Nigeria and one of its great men, Okonkwo. Through rituals, the lives of the individual and the community are unified, giving them order and significance. But the time-honored system of beliefs and behavior falls apart with the arrival of missionaries and colonists.
BRW 1154 Incredible Good Fortune by Ursula K. Le Guin. (1 volume) A collection of poems from the award-winning Northwest writer. Many of the short poems are in rhymed tetrameter or trimeter.
BRW 1149 Bear Daughter by Judith Berman. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7) One morning, young Cloud awakens in the form of a human girl, shedding the bear shape she inherited from her true father. Determined to learn to live in her new body, Cloud struggles to fit into the life of Sandspit Town, but her mother's human husband, King Rumble, despises her and seeks her downfall. Draws on the myths of the Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest.
BRW 1148 Breaking Ground by Paul Hunter. (1 volume) This work of 32 poems in free verse reaches back to 19th century rural practices and values, and by the end leaps ahead to the agribusiness and suburban sprawl of the 21st century. We are all in there somewhere, in how we value versatility and hearken to the mystery of growth, how we both shun and are drawn to the backbreaking labor and long contemplative silences of working on the land -- how we stand apart, tilling our thoughts. Washington State Book Award winner.
BRW 1147 Persepolis: A Story of Childhood by Marjane Satrapi. (volume 1, volume 2) Script by the 5th Saturday Radio Drama Company of radio play adapted from the graphic novel . The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. 2006 Seattle Reads selection. "Toolbox" (Reading Guide) available as BRW 1145.
BRW 1145 2006 Seattle Reads Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi by Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library. (1 volume) A reading group toolbox for the works of Marjane Satrapi.
BRW 1141 Orphans by Charles D'Ambrosio. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3) This collection of eleven thoughtful and atmospheric essays by the Seattle writer examines subjects ranging from a haunted house in Texas to the Mary Kay Letourneau trial. Washington State Book Award winner.
BRW 1140 The Sweetbriar Bride by Brenda Wilbee. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Seattle, 1853. The second book in the Sweetbriar series follows newlyweds Louisa Boren Denny and David Denny as they begin their life together in a cabin on Elliott Bay.
BRW 1139 Gorgon by Peter D. Ward. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) The Gorgons were the T. rex of their day until an environmental cataclysm 250 million years ago annihilated them and 90 percent of all plant and animal species on the planet. For more than a decade, the author and his colleagues have been searching in South Africa's Karoo Desert for clues to this world: what were these animals like? How did they live and, more important, how did they die? The author is a professor of geological sciences at the University of Washington and he combines the tale of gorgonopsians with a South African travelogue and musings on mass extinction. Washington State Book Award winner.
BRW 1138 The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley finds a rare deep-sea creature stranded on the tidal flats of south Puget Sound. While struggling with becoming a local sensation who some people think is a prophet, he continues to clumsily court his former babysitter, nurse his elderly psychic friend, and search for the words that will keep his parents together.
BRW 1137 The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) This memoir begins with the author gliding down a New York street in a taxi, wondering if she is "overdressed for the evening," then looking out the window ro see her "mom rooting through a dumpster." The four Walls children grew up fending for themselves while their eccentric, alcoholic parents pursued elusive dreams and ran from responsibility.
BRW 1135 Light's Ladder: Poems by Christopher Howell. (1 volume) This work contains 49 lyrical and narrative poems on the themes of internal struggles, history, and grief. Braille and vision loss are mentioned in several of the poems. The author lives in Spokane and is a professor of English and creative writing at Eastern Washington University. Washington State Book Award winner.
BRW 1134 Language of the Geckos and other Stories by Gary Pak. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3) Nine short stories set in Hawaii featuring the nuanced voices and interior lives of housewives, mechanics, cabdrivers, aging hippies, and bargirls. The worlds of Pak's Hawaiians, Asian locals, and the haoles sometimes intersect and collide and other times remain parallel, but each is haunted by the past. Whether Pak evokes shadows of World War II, the Vietnam War, the radical sixties, or the military dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan in Korea, the larger historical context looms ominously in the background.
BRW 1133 Miracle on the 17th Green by James Patterson. (volume 1, volume 2) Travis McKinley is an ordinary man living an ordinary life until on Christmas Day he goes out to play a round of golf. Always a fairly good golfer, he finds himself playing like a pro and is so caught up in his excitement that he continues to play, sinking putt after putt, missing Christmas dinner with his wife and family. It is too much for his already troubled marriage. His family collapses, but Travis is soon too busy living his dream to notice. His amazing new golf skills catapult him into the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach , and with his wife, children, and a live television audience watching, a miracle takes place on the 17th green that will change Travis, and his family, forever.
BRW 1132 Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7) Music journalist draws on interviews to trace the life and untimely death of the Seattle musician. Investigates Hendrix's troubled childhood in Seattle projects, struggles against racial prejudice as a young musician, drug use, rapid ascent to the top of the swinging London scene, and 1970 death at age twenty-seven.
BRW 1131 Long Time Gone by J. A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) In the seventeenth J. P. Beaumont mystery, Beau, currently a homicide investigator for the Washington State Attorney's office, must contend with a reactivated cold case and a deeply personal current one. The first concerns a nun who, under hypnotherapy, recovered memories of a murder she witnessed 50 years ago. Meanwhile, Beau's close friend and former partner, Ron Peters, is the primary suspect in the suspicious death of his ex-wife.
BRW 1118 Where There's A Will by Aaron J. Elkins. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) After going missing ten years ago, the small private plane of ranching heir Axel Torkelsson's late Uncle Magnus has finally been found in a remote lagoon, hundreds of miles south of the Big Island of Hawaii. A Gideon Oliver mystery.
BRW 1099 Second Watch by Lowen Clausen. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) Katherine Murphy and Grace Stevens are Seattle police officers assigned to the Ballard beat. When the body of a boy is found in a trash compactor, they are the first officers at the scene. Due to a lack of clues, they undertake a risky undercover assignment to search for the killer.
BRW 1088 First Avenue: A Novel by Lowen Clausen. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Story of a Seattle cop who couldn't shake the image of the abandoned dead baby he finds in a seedy hotel -- and who can't give up on finding the truth until those responsible are taken down. Also available as CBA 7663.
BRW 1087 Silent Proof by Michael Hawley. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Thirty years ago, a woman was savagely murdered in a Seattle park. The crime went unsolved. Seattle Police Department detectives Leah Harris and Frank Milkovich have only 48 hours to make a charge stick against a suspect about to be released from prison on an unrelated crime. But new evidence and a new murder plunge the detectives into a life-and-death game with a deadly opponent. Also available as CBA 7681.
BRW 1117 Book Lust by Nancy Pearl. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) Seattle's director of the Washington Center for the Book helps readers find the right book for the right time. Organized into more than 175 lists.
BRW 1116 Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism by Dawn Prince-Hughes. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3) Author traces her growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment, as a young woman, when she entered the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle and became immediately fascinated with the gorillas. After observing and working with them, she was finally able to emerge from her solitude and connect to other people.
BRW 1115 Paradise Lost by J. A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Number nine in the Joanna Brady series. On a late-night hike in the Arizona wilderness, two young Girl Scouts stumble across something they should not have seen--the body of a murdered Phoenix heiress. One of these girls is the daughter of Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady. Now Joanna must deal with the traumatic damage to her daughter, as well as setting out on the trail of the dead woman's husband, who cleaned out their accounts before he vanished.
BRW 1114 To Wear the White Cloak by Sharan Newman. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery. Catherine is an independent spirit, fiercely loyal to both her faith and her family. And both will be tested when a Knight Templar is discovered brutally murdered in their home when Catherine and her family return to France after a long absence.
BRW 1113 When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka. (volume 1, volume 2) On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her house, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans, they are about to be classified as enemy aliens and uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty internment camp in the Utah desert.
BRW 1101 The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest by William Dietrich. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) The controversy over the habitat of the spotted owl is only one element in a conflict that has polarized the Pacific Northwest. The author visits Forks on the Olympic Peninsula and visits with cutters, mill operators, rangers, landowners, ecologists, and others, showing how each is affected by the fight.
BRW 1100 Don't Jump!: The Northwest Winter Blues Survival Guide by Novella Carpenter and Traci Vogel. (volume 1, volume 2) This winter-survival handbook will blast you out of your weather-induced funk! Have some good times despite a wet, dark Northwest winter.
BRW 1091 A View from the Inland Northwest: Everyday Life in America by Stephen J. Lyons. (volume 1, volume 2) Collection of essays about life in the Inland Northwest -- the region between the Cascade and Rocky Mountains, encompassing parts of Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho, Northwest Montana, and Northeast Oregon.
BRW1090 The Double Bluff by Michael Hawley. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) When college coed Christina Herrera is savagely slain, Det. Sgt. Leah Harris is shocked to find a picture of John Darby, also a Seattle cop and Leah's lover, on the victim's dresser. Is the motive blind jealousy, or is she dealing with dirty cops and illegal drugs?
BRW 1089 Close at Hand by Mary Lou Sanelli. (1 volume) Subtitle: Poetry of the American West: Northwest Chapters. This book contains poetry in four sections: Friendship, Men and Women, Where to Go in Our Lives, and Close at Hand.
BRW 1085 Of Forgotten Times by Marisela Rizik. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3) The story of two women - one rich and the other poverty-stricken - whose only point in common is their connection to the ruthless dictator of their Caribbean homeland. This novel explores the elusiveness of romantic love and the strugggle of these women to claim their identity and overcome societal repression. Originally published in Spanish in 1996.
BRW 1073 Eventide by Kent Haruf. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Continues the lives of the characters in Plainsong, the residents of Holt, Colorado. Victoria, the single mother taken in by the McPheron brothers, begins college. An engrossing, moving novel of small town life.
BRW 1060 Day of the Dead by J. A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) For more than thirty years, the brutal murder of a local Papago girl has gone unsolved. Brandon Walker, former sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, feels retirement has drained his life of purpose. Then he is invited to join "The Last Chance," an exclusive fraternity of former cops who investigate unsolved murders.
BRW 1056 Visible Bones by Jack Nisbet. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) The author explores the melding of natural and human history in the Columbia River country. His subjects include the journey of a fossil trilobite, the disappearance of Northwest condors, a trove of mammoth bones, the whispers of a fading language, and the family of a legendary fur trade scout.
BRW 1055 Blindsided by Richard M. Cohen. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3) Emmy Award-winning television news producer and journalist chronicles his battle with multiple sclerosis and colon cancer. While detailing his vision loss and other symptoms, Cohen's frank account is "not about suffering" but about "surviving and flourishing, rising above fear and self-doubt" with the support of his wife and children. Bestseller.
BRW 1054 Set This House In Order by Matt Ruff. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7, volume 8, volume 9) A strange story of self-discovery. Andy Gage was "born" just two years ago, called into being to serve as the public face of a multiple personality. While Andy deals with the outside world in his job at a Seattle software company, more than a hundred other souls share an imaginary house inside Andy's head, struggling to maintain an orderly co-existence. Finalist for Washington State Book Award. New York Times Notable Book.
BRW 0264 Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle by Murray Morgan. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) Seattle's history from Doc Maynard to Dave Beck, with emphasis on the unique characters providing much of Seattle's uncommon personality.
BRW 1061 A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7, volume 8, volume 9, volume 10, volume 11) When he was eleven years old, Owen Meany hit a foul ball that struck and killed the mother of his best pal, Johnny Wheelwright, the story's narrator. Thereafter, Owen believes himself to be an instrument of God. What happens to the two pals after that accident is extraordinary and terrifying.
BRW 1057 Waxwings by Jonathan Raban. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) By all outward appearances, Hungarian-born Englishman Tom Janeway -- professor, NPR commentator, husband, and father -- has been living the American dream for eight years. "Chick", an illegal alien recently arrived from China, is just beginning to make his own way. When circumstances bring the two immigrants together, they forge a friendship.
BRW 1043 Plainsong by Kent Haruf. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Life in the small town of Holt, Colorado, includes a high school teacher caring for his two young sons as his wife leaves him. His co-worker, later his lover, convinces two old rancher brothers to take in an outcast pregnant student. Bestseller.
BRW 1035 Devil's Claw by J. A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) Number eight in the Joanna Brady series. A week before her wedding in Cochise County, Arizona, sheriff Joanna Brady is inundated with personal problems and crime. First her elderly neighbor dies suspiciously. Then a local teen disappears and the girl's mother - newly released convict - is murdered. Joanna discovers more secrets as preparations for the big event continue.
BRW 1033 The Namesake by Jhumpha Lahiri. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Thirty years in the life of Gogol Ganguli, born to Calcutta immigrants shortly after their 1960's arrival in Boston. Gogol's name is a constant burden to him, so he legally changes it to Nikhil. Yet as a first-generation American stumbling along the path to maturity, he remains defined by the name Gogol. Bestseller.
BRW 1032 Steady As She Goes: Women's Adventures at Sea by Barbara Sjoholm, Ed. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Chronicles twenty women's passionate relationships with their boats, and their work and play at sea.
BRW 1028 Paula by Isabel Allende. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) Novelist Allende wrote this book for her comatose 28-year-old daughter Paula in case Paula will have lost memories when she awakens. Allende records the story of her family. Intertwined is the account of Allende fighting to save her daughter, until Paula finally comes to her in a dream and asks to be released.
BRW 1026 The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Alende. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Rolfe Carle lies in bed beside Eva Luna and savors the love they have just shared. Breaking the quiet picture, he asks Eva to tell him a story she has never told anyone before. And she does -- twenty-three in all. She tells him stories about peasants and rich people, beauties and tyrants, politicians and military leaders, and the battles between men and women. Companion to "Eva Luna". Bestseller.
BRW 1024 Vertical Burn by Earl Emerson. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) Seattle firefighter John Finney is suspected of abandoning his partner in a burning building and setting fire to another. Finney and his co-worker Diana Moore begin their own investigation to uncover who's setting him up. When a high-rise is the next target, their lives are endangered.
BRW 1023 Triumph Over Darkness by Lennard Bickel. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3) Born in France in 1809, Louis Braille stabbed himself in the eye at age 3. He began to experiment with a method of writing for the blind at age 16. Tuberculosis took his life at the age of 43, before his code was adopted throughout the world.
BRW 1022 Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7, volume 8) Music journalist draws on interviews and diaries to trace the life and untimely death of the Seattle musician. Investigates Cobain's unhappy teen years, success with his band Nirvana, heroin addiction, marriage to fellow rocker Courtney Love, and 1994 suicide at age twenty-seven. Bestseller.
BRW 1021 Everyday Sacred by Sue Bender. (volume 1, volume 2) The author relates the lessons learned from her stay with the Amish, and the impact on her life of the lessons learned there and subsequently.
BRW 1017 Partner in Crime by J. A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Investigator J. P. Beaumont of Seattle and Joanna Brady of the Arizona sheriff's department combine forces to find the murderer of an artist who had been in a witness protection program.
BRW 0294 Wordstruck by Robert MacNeil. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3) Co-anchor of the "MacNeil/Lehrer New Hour," this author's memoir recalls a boyhood in Nova Scotia, and traces his fascination with the English language that began when his mother read British children's literature aloud; includes journeys through the classics, and browses through the dictionary.
BRW 1014 The Enemy You Know by Denny Heck. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3) A Jess Stevens Mystery. Jess retires early to build a dream home on the shores of Loon Lake, near Spokane, Washington. His wife supports him in the search for the truth that lies behind his early retirement from the public sector.
BRW 1011 It Was All Just Rock 'n' Roll: A Journey to the Center of the Radio & Concert Universe by Pat O'Day with Jim Ojala. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7) The development of rock music in the Northwest and about the inner workings of the radio business.
BRW 1009 A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry by Sheila Isenberg. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7, volume 8) In 1940, Varian Fry, with only three thousand dollars and a list of names, went on a secret mission to Marseilles, to help those who had fled Nazi Germany and were now trapped in southern France. The list he took included most of the premier writers, painters, and scientists of Europe. Only in the past decade has the world begun to honor Fry for his accomplishments.
BRW 1007 My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) Asher Lev, an artist, tells of his conflicting emotions between his ties in the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds, his success, how he achieved it, and how he copes with it.
BRW 1005 Among the Missing by Dan Choan. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Twelve short stories plus a reading group discussion guide. A National Book Award finalist.
BRW 1004 An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliott. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7, volume 8, volume 9, volume 10) An exploration of Afghanistan -- its physical beauty, hospitality, religious variations, and long history. Elliot recounts events from his first visit at age nineteen in 1986 traveling with anti-Soviet mujahedin, and another journey ten years later when the Taliban forces were building power.
BRW 1001 Geisha, A Life by Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Born in 1949, Mineko Iwasaki began training in the arts of dance and ettiquette when she was five years old. She held the position of star geisha of the Gion Kobu until retirement at the age of twenty-nine. This story seeks to explain what it is really like to be a geisha and clear up misunderstandings about it.
BRW 0998 Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay: Practical Advise for the Grammatically Challenged by Richard Lederer & Richard Dowis. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Mixing humor with rigor, the authors have created an offbeat, enlightening guide to proper English usage.
BRW 0997 A Gesture Life Discussion Toolbox for Works of Chang-rae Lee. (1 volume) A reading group toolbox for the works of Chang-rae Lee - "A Gesture Life" and "Native Speaker." Included are suggested questions for dicussion, as well as guidelines for organizing a book club. A biography of Chang-rae Lee is also included.
BRW 0995 Singing from the Soul: An Autobiography by Jose Carreras. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) His life is put on hold in 1987 while this Spanish tenor copes with leukemia. Carreras recounts the events that force him off the stage, his happy discovery that this voice is not affected by treatment, and his triumphant return to a successful operatic and concert career. He describes his world prior to his illness and reflects on what he learned from the experience.
BRW 0994 A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Now in his seventies and retired, Doc Hata still resides in his large home of thirty years in Bedley Run, New York. A polite and unassuming man, he harbors secrets of his past as a medic in the Japanese Army during World War II.
BRW 0991 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) This fictionalized version of the battle of Gettysburg portrays many actual participants, such as Generals Lee, Longstreet, and Meade, as well as fictionalized characters, such as Col. Joshua Chamberlain, whose vivid rhetoric inspires his men. Sequel to Jeff Shaara's "Gods and Generals" (RC 43292). Pulitzer prize.
BRW 0990 Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence by Jo Dereski. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) When the police chief is helped to a near fatal fall, a potentially incriminating library book is found within reach. The police demand the library to turn over the borrower's name. But librarian Helma Zukas is determined to uphold the privacy rights of library patrons and deletes the information from library records, but not before she takes note of it.
BRW 0728 Dead to Rights by J.A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Number four in the Joanna Brady series. Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the murder of a convicted drunk driver and is caught in a maelstrom of danger and deception.
BRW 0555 Naming Clark County by Pat Jollota. (1 volume) Alphabetical listing of more than 360 place names in Clark County and the origin of the names. Also has some historical data.
BRW 0538 Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish by Sue Bender. (volume 1, volume 2) Inspired by the simple beauty of an Amish quilt, the author, an artist from Berkeley, California, spent months in Iowa and Ohio with two Amish families.
BRW 0517 Tombstone Courage by J. A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Number two in the Joanna Brady series. A body, barely cold, is lying in an abandoned mine shaft. Next to it are the decayed remains of a man everyone in Ccochise County has long forgotten--a murder victim who died long before Joanna Brady was born. The incoming sheriff (Joanna) faces an intensely hostile male-dominated police department.
BRW 0456 Desert Heat by J. A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Number one in the Joanna Brady series. Joanna Brady tries to prove that her husband Andy, a candidate for sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, did not commit suicide.
BRW 0437 Hour of the Hunter by J. A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7) Diana Ladd, who works with Native American children in Arizona, is stalked by psychotic killer Andrew Carlisle. A Papago wise woman, a mysterious blind prophet, and a local police detective help Diana to prepare for the approaching menace.
BRW 0223 A Horse's Tale by Nancy Luenn. (1 volume) Each story reflects the impact of historical events on the day-to-day lives of children. Stories are linked by the travels of a wooden toy horse who is passed from child to child.
BRW 0976 Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan. (volume 1, volume 2) A modern novel which takes a comic and light-hearted, rather than angry or satirical, approach toward the experiences of living. This edition taken from an anthology of three titles by Brautigan.
BRW 0974 True At First Light: A Fictional Memoir by Ernest Hemingway. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Hemingway recounts his wife Mary's obsession with tracking down and killing a black-maned lion. He also writes of his devotion to Debba, an African woman he wants to take as a second wife. Hemingway's son Patrick edited this fictional memoir begun after Hemingway's last safari in Africa in the 1950s.
BRW 0972 Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen by Eric Groddy (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7, volume 8) Topics include basic concepts of chemical and biological agents, brief history of chemical and biological warfare, control and disarmament, and threats and responses.
BRW 0968 Tom Douglas' Seattle Kitchen by Tom Douglas. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6, volume 7) Recipes and cooking tips from a local cook making use of local ingredients.
BRW 0967 Out of Circulation, by Jo Dereski. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3) Helma Zukas and her friend Ruth, hiking in the Cascades, find a dead body and are forced by weather conditions into a cabin with some pretty motley strangers.
BRW 0966 Prenatal Parenting: The Complete Psychological and Spiritual Guide to Loving Your Unborn Child by Frederick Wirth, M.D. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) The author helps the reader to understand her emotions and explains how to handle situations that engender stress, fear, and anger.
BRW 0960 Raising More Money: A Step-By-Step Guide to Building Lifelong Donors by Terry Azelrod. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Based on the author's seminars.
BRW 0958 Birds of Prey by J. A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Seattle writer J.A. Jance's 15th J.P. Beaumont detective mystery. Retired Seattle homicide detective J. P. Beaumont accompanies his newly-wed grandmother on a honeymoon cruise to Alaska. But his expected rest and recreation are interrupted by two apparent murders, and the FBI is involved.
BWR 0954 Home Run edited by George Plimpton. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) Anthology of stories about baseball's most exciting moment. Authors include Grantland Rice, John Updike, Paul Gallico, Red Smith, Bernard Malamud, and many others.
BRW 0952 The Siege: A Family's Journey into the World of an Autistic Child by Clara Claiborne Park. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5) The author's account of the first eight years of her daughter's life.
BRW 0948 The World of Chief Seattle: How Can One Sell the Air? by Warren Jefferson. (1 volume) Tells of social life and customs of Suquamish Indians. Contains Chief Seattle's well-known speech.
BRW 0942 Shades of Justice by Frederick Huebner. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5, volume 6) Renowned forensic attorney Will Hatton returns to his hometown of Bainbridge Island to help in the defense of childhood friend and former flame, the prominent painter Laura Arcand who is being charged with the murder of her husband, Mark.
BRW 0940 Angels Among Us by Phil Smart, Sr. (1 volume) Documents the wisdom and enduring life-lessons learned from young patients at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle . The author has been a volunteer there for forty years.
BRW 0930 Sailing Alone Around the World: New and Selected Poems by Bill Collins. (volume 1, volume 2) A collection of poems, both old and new, by the Poet Laureate of the U.S.
BRW 0413 Cathedral: Stories by Raymond Carver. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Powerful short stories about the subtle shifts in familiar feelings and perceptions of ordinary people. A reluctant man of limited vision gets a glimpse of transcendence as he tries to picture a cathedral with his wife's blind friend. Marriage, infidelity, the loss of a child, and an old farm are the subjects of some of the other stories.
BRW 0331 Trial by Fury by J. A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Seattle writer J.A. Jance's third J.P. Beaumont detective mystery. A body is found lying naked and dead in a dumpster. The victim, a high school coach, was lynched, leaving behind a very pregnant wife with a very dangerous secret. And a sixth sense developed over twenty years on the job tells Homicide detective J.P. Beaumont that this investigation is going to the lethal extremes of the wrong kind of love and the worst kind of justice.
BRW 0299 Until Proven Guilty by J. A. Jance. (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4) Seattle writer J.A. Jance's first J.P. Beaumont detective mystery. The beautiful woman who came to the little girl's funeral was irresistible to detective J. P. Beaumont. Beau won't rest until he finds out who killed the little girl and what is going on at the religious cult in Ballard.
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