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This Week's Northwest Books
Updated June 24, 2009
Bestsellers - Jim Lynch's new fictional account of live along the Washington state/BC border, Border Songs, hit the Pacific Northwest Bestsellers list this week. Also continuing on the list are Chuck Palahniuk's Pygmy, Tom Robbins' B is for Beer and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
New Books Added - I've added two books that I've enjoyed reading. Border Songs, by Jim Lynch, is about the goings on along the Canadian-US border in Northwest Washington. Lynch's The Highest Tide was a big hit. Around $16. And, Kenneth Lewis's Little Blue Whales is a mystery set along the central Oregon coast. A great summer read. Around $17.
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Brandon Vanderkool’s severe dyslexia and six-foot-eight height give him an unusual perspective on his new job with the American Border Patrol, along the Washington/BC border — just a long, grassy ditch, really, barely dividing neighbours who used to be as congenial as those in any small community. Though his curious mind proves surprisingly adept at intercepting Canadian pot smugglers and potentially dangerous illegals, years of security hysteria and cross-border resentment — and a fascinating young Canadian who has turned her green thumb to a more lucrative crop — complicate Brandon’s world in ways even he might not be able to see past. Read More |
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A sadistic killer stalks the summer beaches of Oregon, striking at random locations and then the small coastal city of Cutter Point. As newly hired Cutter Point police chief Kevin Kearnes battles for control of his dysfunctional agency, fighting corrupt city officials and members within his own department, an accidental meeting with a beautiful and secretive woman leads to a second chance at love. That is, until an old horror from his past resurfaces, manifesting itself in the same murder cases he's investigating, and he is about to learn that the most dangerous secrets to keep...are the ones you don't know you have. Read More |
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A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up” — lessons that he learned growing up in the Great Depression, and which he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “Bill Gates Sr. does more than just show up in this charming and instructive guide to a good life. He shares lessons learned as a husband, a father, a lawyer, a philanthropist and a citizen. Showing up for life is a gift of great value.”
--Tom Brokaw Read More |
 Pygmy
by Chuck Palahniuk
Pygmy is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates us with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified. For Pygmy and his fellow operatives are cooking up something big, something truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees. Read More |
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