NEW -- CBA 7856 Sweetbriar Autumn by Brenda Wilbee. Seattle, 1854. The fifth book in the Sweetbriar series follows settlers Louisa Boren Denny and her husband David Denny as war with the Indians spreads to communities around Puget Sound. When an attack hits close to home, David departs on a rescue mission. Louisa prays for the safe return of her friends and David. Some violence. #4 in Sweetbriar series. 1998. Narrated by Melissa Tyler.
NEW -- CBA 7939 The Alpine Escape by Mary Daheim. When small town newspaper editor Emma Lord's car breaks down during a trip to the Olympic Peninsula, she stays with friends in Port Angeles and helps them uncover the truth about a skeleton in the basement of their old mansion. #5 in Emma Lord series. Narrated by Andrea Lewis.
NEW -- CBA 8073 Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's by Lauren Kessler. After losing her mother to Alzheimer's, Lauren Kessler takes an entry-level position at an Alzheimer's facility in order to better understand the illness. She recounts her experiences as a caregiver and the lessons she learned from patients with Alzheimer's disease. 2007. Narrated by Marilyn Mason.
CBA 8125 The Winter Olympics: An Insider's Guide to the Legends, The Lore, and the Games by Ron Judd. Seattle Times sportswriter examines the Olympic winter sports, spotlighting history, key competitors in past Olympics, the newest athlete contenders, and how the sport is played and judged. Includes information about the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 2008. Narrated by Laurie Bialik.
CBA 8109 Pugetopolis: A Mossback Takes on Growth Addicts, Weather Wimps, and the Myth of Seattle Nice by Knute Berger. Former "Mossback" columnist for the Seattle Weekly collects the best of his trenchant commentaries on Seattle politics, culture, enterprise, and odd local behavior. Includes Berger's opinions on Boeing, Mayors Greg Nickels and Paul Schell, and the failed monorail and latte tax initiatives. 2009. Narrated by Rick Sipe.
CBA 8086 Guernica by Dave Boling. Spain, 1937. The three abandoned Ansotegui brothers struggle to survive on the family farm at the end of the 19th century; younger brothers Josepe and Xabier become a fisherman and a priest, respectively, while the eldest, Justo, marries and raises a stunning daughter named Miriam. Miriam attracts the attention of Miguel Navarro, who winds up moving them to ill-fated Guernica after a run-in with the Spanish Civil Guard. Some violence. 2008. Narrated by Rick Sipe.
CBA 8081 Drive Like Hell by Dallas Hudgens. Luke counts down the days until he can get his license. He loses it soon after he gets it by "borrowing" his neighbor's car. Because his father is absent and his mother is an alcoholic, Luke moves in with his older brother, an easygoing ex-con. In the summer that follows, Luke contends with a kleptomaniac girlfriend, a duffel bag full of cocaine, and the realizations that he must save his family and get out of town. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Narrated by Marsh Gooch.
CBA 8071 Sturdy Folk: Personal Accounts of Life and Work on the Olympic Peninsula edited by Mavis Amundson. This book has 31 personal accounts of people who lived through hard times and flourished in towns, on farms, and in fishing and logging communities on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. Narrated by Holly Chaffin.
CBA 8065 A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb. Since she died 130 years ago, Helen has benignly and mutely attached herself to a sequence of living humans. She is stunned to finally meet a being who can see and hear her – a partner to work through issues that keep her from moving on. High school and adult readers. Narrated by Rachel Glass.
CBA 8061 Walla Walla Suite by Anne Argula. Quinn, a newly divorced ex-cop retains custody of her twisted tongue, her fey sense of humor and her propensity for trouble. Now trying to get a foothold as a PI in a new city, she takes a 'safe' job with Vince Ainge, who works to save convicted killers from the gallows. When a young secretary vanishes, the woman's boss hired Quinn to track her down. What looks like a missing person case turns bad. Some strong language. 2007. Narrated by Rachel Glass.
CBA 8058 Fury by G.M. Ford. Disgraced reporter Frank Corso is working for a Seattle tabloid when he investigates a witness recanting her testimony in a serial murder case. To stop the condemned man's execution, Frank and his new assistant, hard-boiled photographer Meg Dougherty, fight to get the police files reopened. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Narrated by Steve Hunziker.
CBA 8053 Weird Washington by Jeff Davis and Al Eufrasio. Travel guide to Washington's local legends and best kept secrets. Includes ancient mysteries, haunted places, fabled people, bizarre beasts, roadside oddities, personalized properties. Narrated by David Ritt.
CBA 8049 The Partisans: Politics and Betrayal among the New York Intellectuals by David Laskin. David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the "Partisan Review" writers: Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt, Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Diana Trilling. 2000. Narrated by Cecilia LeBlanc.
CBA 8041 The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience edited by Sean Manning. Fifty writers recount their most memorable concert experience. Narrated by Andrea Lewis.
CBA 8040 Starvation Heights by Greg Olsen. The setting is a forested wilderness in the Northwest, circa 1911. The villain is an egotistical woman doctor. The victims are two wealthy English sisters, gullible health faddists. Narrated by Duane Barr.
CBA 8039 Seattle's International District: The Making of a Pan-Asian American Community by Doug Chin. Those interested in the history of Asian immigrants to the US will appreciate this history of Seattle's Asian community. Chin, a specialist in the history of Chinese Americans and of Seattle's International District, has compiled a thorough treatment of the district, the influx of various groups, the internment of the Japanese during WWII, and the concerted effort to revive the district. Narrated by Carter Bentley.
CBA 8038 The Littlest Hitler: Stories by Ryan Boudinot. Thirteen stories, many set in Seattle, exploring the surreal banalities and weird outrages of everyday American life. Title story concerns a nine-year-old boy who devises a Halloween costume that will make him the scariest kid in the fourth grade. In "Civilization," teens of the future receive "duty papers" when it's time to kill their parents, so as to be accepted into college. Washington State Book Award Finalist. Descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2007. Narrated by John Nadeau.
CBA 8037 Hidden Talent: How Leading Companies Hire, Retain, and Benefit from People with Disabilities by Mark L. Lengnick-Hall. This book explores the business and tax benefits to companies for hiring disabled workers and profiles companies with effective programs for workers with disabilities, such as Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemical Company and Microsoft. It also addresses why some companies are reluctant to hire disabled workers, and what lessons companies have learned about hiring and retaining people with disabilities. 2007. Narrated by Mary Schlosser.
CBA 8036 Control Your Money by Laubach Literacy International. A simple guide to gaining control over finances. Learn how to manage money, recover from past mistakes, and plan for the future. Narrated by Floyd Hutton.
CBA 8035 Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris. When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing and is found drowned in the desert outside Jeddah, Nayir, a desert guide hired by her prominent family to search for her feels compelled to find out what really happened. Narrated by Lynn Rodgers.
CBA 8033 The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio. A Washington State Book Awards Winner. This book of eight short stories features people confronting insanity, marital infidelity, and racial violence. The stories also bring forth the enduring power of love. Some explicit descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language.Narrated by Alita Kiaer.
CBA 8031 Pasta Imperfect by Maddy Hunter. The gang from lowa is off to Italy as Emily Andrew begins a romance publishing tour. But when the publisher announces a romance-writing contest with a grand prize of a book contract, Emily finds someone's ambition is getting out of hand. A Passport to Peril Mystery. Narrated by Melissa Tyler.
CBA 8030 Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vida Vendela. Clarissa Iverton's world is turned upside down in one day. She discovers on the day of his funeral that her father wasn't her biological father. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier and her fiance has just revealed a terrible and life-changing secret to her. She travels from New York to Helsinki after finding her birth certificate, and then north of the Arctic Circle and Lapland where she believes she'll meet her real father. Narrated by Lynn Rodgers.
CBA 8022 Washington Disasters: True Stories of Tragedy and Survival by Rob and Natalie McNair-Huff. Discusses twenty-two of Washington's most catastrophic events, including the earthquake in 1700, the Great Seattle Fire, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse, and the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Includes bibliography. Narrated by Steve Hunziker.
CBA 8019 Poltergeist by Kat Richardson. Seattle, WA. Capable of negotiating the shadowy realm between the living and the paranormal, private detective Harper Blaine is hired by a university research group in the days leading up to Halloween. The group is attempting to create an artificial poltergeist, a project that succeeds all too well when one of the group is killed in a brutal and inexplicable manner. Sequel to Greywalker (CBA 7992). Narrated by Mary Schlosser.
CBA 8009 The Alpine Quilt by Mary Daheim. Alpine, WA. Small town newspaper editor Emma Lord investigates the untimely death of a member of the local quilting circle. Narraetd by Jay Lane.
CBA 8008 So Others May Live by Martha J. LaGuardia-Kotite. U.S. Coast Guard Commander Martha J. LaGuardia-Kotite provides a history of Coast Guard rescue swimmers. Fourteen stories illustrate the bravery of the swimmers in dangerous rescue missions across a variety of environments, including oceans, caves, and waterfalls. Some violence. 2006. Narrated by Jay Lane.
CBA 8005 We Are All Fine Here by Mary Guterson. Seattle, WA. Brutally honest Julia is nearing 40, her teenage son is growing distant, and her husband has a crush on a younger co-worker. When Julia discovers she is pregnant after a brief fling with her ex-boyfriend at a friend's wedding, she finds herself "in a bit of a mess." Strong Language and sexually explicit. Narrated by Jay Lane.
CBA 8001 Avalanche by Patrick McManus. Humorous mystery. Blanche Wilson reports her husband missing from the upscale wilderness lodge they run in Blight County, Idaho. Sheriff Bo Tully heads out to investigate and is almost killed by an avalanche. Narrated by Steve Hunziker.
CBA 7998 Black River by G. M. Ford. Seattle. The only writer permitted to observe the sensational trial of a mass murderer, Frank Corso learns that his photojournalist close friend, Meg, has been hospitalized after a run-in with a pair of hoods and becomes alarmed when he realizes the two cases are related. Violence and some strong language. Narrated by Ed Kennedy.
CBA 7996 Justice Denied by J.A. Jance. Given a classified assignment involving the true fate of a deceased ex-con, Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont discovers that the victim had recently attempted to turn his life around and had been murdered for the effort. Sequel to Long Time Gone (CBA 7817). Narrated by Carter Bentley.
CBA 7995 The Vanishing Smile by Earl Emerson. Marian Wright is an amateur sleuth in the employ of two attractive young women eager to catch up with their no-account ex-lovers. When Marian's investigation ends abruptly, Seattle private eye Thomas Black has a new case on his hands. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. Narrated by John Nadeau.
CBA 7992 Greywalker by Kat Richardson. Seattle, WA. When private investigator Harper Blaine is brutally assaulted, the two minutes she spends clinically dead alters her perceptions. Her new ability to move in between the world of humans and the Grey, the world of ghosts, begins to attract otherworldly clients. Narrated by Mary Schlosser.
CBA 7990 The Blight Way by Patrick McManus. Humorous mystery. Bo Tully, Sheriff of Blight County, Idaho, hopes to rekindle a romance with his high-school sweetheart, but is challenged by his father's upcoming seventy-fifth birthday celebration and a ranch murder involving numerous possible suspects. Narrated by John Nadeau.
CBA 7989 Blown Away by G.M. Ford. On the road to investigate an unsolved bombing case involving a possible suicide bomber, writer Frank Corso uncovers the possibility that the supposed bomber may have been a victim himself, forced to strap explosives on by a cruel mastermind. Some violence. Narrated by Ed Kennedy.
CBA 7988 More than Petticoats: Remarkable Washington Women by L.E. Bragg. Brief biographies of sixteen extraordinary women from Washington's past. Includes Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, Kick-Is-Om-Lo (Princess Angeline), and Mayor Bertha Knight Landes. Narrated by Lynda Emel.
CBA 7961 The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen. 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, Phillip makes a life-changing decision. Narrated by Andrea Lewis.
CBA 7941 Ask Ciscoe: Your Gardening Questions Answered by Ciscoe Morris. Master gardener, certified arborist, and northwest media personality Ciscoe Morris answers gardening questions. Topics include ornamental plants, fruit trees, lawns and garden pests. Narrated by Cynthia Ellis.
CBA 7938 The Alpine Decoy by Mary Daheim. Alpine, WA. Small town newspaper editor Emma Lord investigates the murder of a newcomer that may be race-related. Narrated by Lynn Rodgers.
CBA 7935 Comfort & Joy by Kristin Hannah. School librarian Joy Candellaro takes an impromptu vacation during the holidays when she learns that her ex-husband and her sister are having a baby. After surviving a crash landing in a remote Pacific Northwest forest, Joy encounters reclusive Daniel and his eight-year-old son Bobby – or did she imagine them? Narrated by Rachel Glass.
CBA 7897 The Million-dollar Tattoo by Earl Emerson. Seattle P.I. Thomas Black tackles a bizarre case when his old friend Elmer "snake" Slezak calls him about a dead woman in his bed who he claims is from another galaxy. #9 Thomas Black series. Strong lanuage, violence, and descriptions of sex. 1996. Narrated by David Ritt.
CBA 7871 A Journal of the Plaque Year by Daniel Defoe. London, 1665. As the Great Plague ravages London and leaves thousands dead in its wake, a solitary man named H.F. documents the tragedy. Mixing historical facts with imagined accounts, Defoe's fictional journal of the Great Plague provides a vivid impression of the real events. First published in 1722. Narrated by Erik Schwab.
CBA 7859 A Son Comes Home by Joseph Brentz. A contemporary Christian novel about a graduate student who returns to his family after a long absence to find that the wounds opened after his brother's death still haven't healed. Haunted by the past, the family struggles to heal the bonds of pain that link them. 1999. Narrated by Erik Schwab.
CBA 7802 The Gentleman from Finland by Robert Goldstein. In this memoir, an American man of Mexican, Russian, and Jewish descent finds himself mistakenly aboard the wrong Russian train with a voucher that claims he is from Finland. Though he speaks only a little Russian, the author must negotiate encounters with smugglers, thieves, and a beautiful yet sinister woman, who may or may not be a government agent. Set in 1987. Narrated by Marsh Gooch.
CBA 7704 Snow in July by Heather Barbieri. Erin grew up in the shadow of Meghan, her older sister, and was considered not as smart or pretty. Just as Erin is about to go away to art school, Meghan comes back to town. She is a single mother of two and addicted to drugs, danger, and men. Erin has to put her dream on hold to help her sister and create a safe haven for the children. Narrated by Jay Lane.
Driver's Guide for Washington State. This is the 2008 edition. Narrated by Mary Schlosser.