New this week

Two new books by Puget Sound area authors. Terry Domico of Friday Harbor, writes a gripping tale of a biologist who sees a supposedly extinct animal in The Last Thylacine. And a children?s picturebook, Slow Days, Fast Friends by Winthrop author Erik Brooks is all about a cheeta who hurts his leg and can?t run. Both are worth a closer look.

Four, count ?em, four books on the bestseller lists here in the Pacific Northwest. Jarhead, by Anthony Swofford popped up last week on the mass market paperback top ten, probably because the movie version is set for release on Nov. 4. It?s a first person account by a Marine of life during the first Gulf War. Jim Lynch?s The Highest Tide continues to do well in the Northwest, showing up on the hardcover top ten. And, Eldest and Eragon by Christopher Paolini continue in the top ten of Children?s books.