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The Rosetta Key
by William Dietrich
Surviving murderous thieves, a nerve-racking sea voyage, and the deadly sands of Egypt with Napoleon's army, American adventurer Ethan Gage solved a five-thousand-year-old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion. But the danger is only beginning. . . .

Lavinia
by Ursula K. Le Guin
In the Aeneid, the only notable lines Virgil devotes to Aeneas' second wife, Lavinia, concern an omen: the day before Aeneus lands in Latinum, Lavinia's hair is veiled by a ghost fire, presaging war. Le Guin's masterful novel gives a voice to Lavinia, the daughter of King Latinus and Queen Amata, who rule Latinum in the era before the founding of Rome.

Tree of Smoke
by Denis Johnson
Tree of Smoke showed every sign of being his "big book": 600+ pages, years in the making, with a grand subject (the Vietnam War). And in the reading it lives up to every promise.

Primal Threat
by Earl Emerson
Emerson (Firetrap) takes a page from James Dickey's Deliverance in this rousing survival yarn that pits a group of mountain bikers against gun-toting, vengeance-obsessed adversaries and the unleashed fury of Mother Nature.

Nameless Night
by G.M. ford
G.M. Ford is back with a brand-new book, his first stand-alone novel, featuring a man with no name, no past—and at the center of a conspiracy so pervasive he's forced to run from the only home he's ever known—straight into the abyss—in his search for truth. . . .

The Alpine Traitor
by Mary Daheim
Emma Lord is shocked to hear the outrageous news: The Advocate is embroiled in a takeover bid. Worse, the ruthless acquisitioners are the heirs of Emma’s longtime and tragically departed lover, Tom Cavanaugh.

The Alpine Scandal
by Mary Daheim
It’s a quiet morning at the Advocate until the mail brings shocking news: a formal obituary for Alpiner Elmer Nystrom. As far as anyone knows, Elmer is alive and well.

Firefly Lane
by Kristin Hannah
Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone’s Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it’s the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices.

Sizzle and Burn
by Jayne Ann Krentz
From the author who also hits bestseller lists under the names Jayne Castle and Amanda Quick, this is a delightful new caper filled with suspense and wit-and the steamy Victorian passion her devoted readers love.

Hand of Evil
by J.A. Jance
Hand of Evil is Jance at her best, weaving a masterful story of suspense that travels over generations, revealing two very different women with the same horrifying secret.

The Hearts of Horses
by Molly Gloss
A breakout novel from the author of The Jump-Off Creek, the heartwarming story of a determined young woman with a gift for “gentling” wild horses in the winter of 1917.

Heartsick
by Chelsea Cain
Portland Detective Archie Sheridan spent ten years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer, but in the end she caught him. Gretchen kidnapped Archie and tortured him for ten days, then she released him and turned herself in.

The Elves of Cintra
by Terry Brooks
Extinction or survival? Brooks keeps readers hanging with the hair-raising second installment (after 2006's Armageddon's Children) of a trilogy blending his bestselling Shannara and Void series. A plague-ridden future Earth faces annihilation from Void demons, once-men and other monstrous creatures.

Bad Monkeys
by Matt Ruff
In this clever SF thriller from Ruff, almost everyone is a bad monkey of some kind, but only Jane Charlotte is a self-confessed member of The Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons.

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, in a case with ties to several previously unsolved crimes.

The Devil's Labyrinth
by John Saul
Bestseller Saul (Suffer the Children) links an exorcism of the devil with a plot to kill the pope in this over-the-top religious thriller.

Shadow Coast
by Philip Haldeman
In this chilling novel, Philip Haldeman evokes the rugged seacoast, eerie rainforests, small-town confines, and human interrelationships of a remote corner of the Pacific Northwest.

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
by Chuck Palahniuk
Expect hilarity, horror, and blazing insight into the desperate and surreal contemporary human condition as only Chuck Palahniuk can deliver it. He's the postmillennial Jonathan Swift, the visionary to watch to learn what's —uh-oh—coming next.

Napoleon's Pyramids
by William Dietrich
What mystical secrets lie beneath the Great Pyramids? Traveling with Napoleon's ambitious expedition, American adventurer Ethan Gage solves a five-thousand-year-old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion.

Surveillance
by Jonathan Raban
In the not-too-distant future, national identity cards are mandatory, and America has become obsessed with intelligence-gathering. The government’s scrutiny is omnipresent, civilians freely indulge their curiosity on the Internet, journalists pursue their investigations with relentless determination, and children both snoop on their parents and manipulate new technologies.

Web of Evil
by J. A. Jance
The incomparable J.A. Jance returns with a powerhouse tale of suspense: a return to the characters from her New York Times bestseller, Edge of Evil, that reveals the darkness at the heart of promises unfulfilled and danger unrelenting....WEB OF EVIL.

Nocturnal America
by John Keeble
Keeble, a veteran writer of the modern West, links the nine stories in this Prairie Schooner Book Prize–winning collection through recurring characters; names appear in one story's background and become central to the next.

Springer's Journey
by Naomi Black, Virginia Heaven
The endearing story of Springer, an orphaned baby orca who befriended Puget Sound ferry boats in 2002, gets a sentimental, fictional retelling in "Springer's Journey," a new book by a Seattle author, illustrator and publisher.

The Zero
by Jess Walter
The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller.

Dead Wrong: A Novel of Suspense
by J. A. Jance
Juggling a family and a career is never easy-and it's becoming a real challenge for Sheriff Joanna Brady. Coping with the impending delivery of her second child as well as a staff shortage, the last things Joanna needs are two serious crimes.

A Clearing in the Wild
By Jane Kirkpatrick
Here begins another of Kirkpatrick's trilogies about the settlement of Oregon, this one set in the early 1850s. Jane Kirkpatrick discovered the grain of the story when she read that in 1853 Emma Giesy was the only woman in a party of ten Missouri scouts sent to find an Oregon site for their communal society. 

The Second Perimeter
by Mike Lawson
Government fix-it man Joe DeMarco returns for a second adventure. After foiling a plot to assassinate the president in The Inside Ring (2005), he now has a job that may be even tougher: to nail a spy ring that's operating out of a naval base.

Song of the Crow
By Layne Maheu
Song of the Crow is a provocative portrait of the reasons for human fear and of the role that free will always plays when we struggle, not just to make sense of things, but to endure.

Owl Island
by Randy Sue Coburn
In this accomplished and dazzlingly written new novel, Randy Sue Coburn brings to life with tremendous heart, humor, and wisdom the Pacific Northwest enclave of Owl Island and its many unforgettable inhabitants.

The Unsettling
by Peter Rock
A stunning, Poe-esque collection of short fiction about outsiders, lost dogs, romance, and life’s surprising mysteries.

The Whistling Season
by Ivan Doig
A paean to a vanished way of life and the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it fertile, The Whistling Season is Ivan Doig at his evocative best.

Firetrap : A Novel of Suspense
by Earl Emerson
Firetrap is vintage Earl Emerson: a gritty, emotionally charged novel set in a world of camaraderie and urban chaos, where one man has been a hero, a villain, and a victim–and hasn't even faced the deadliest danger yet.

Orbit
by John J. Nance
The New York Times bestselling author and "king of the modern-day aviation thriller" (Publishers Weekly) boldly goes where the imagination fears to tread . . .

Murder at Five Finger Light : A Jessie Arnold Mystery
by Sue Henry
The unspoiled Alaskan setting, and Jessie and her boyfriend Alex's somewhat uneasy relationship, add to this eleventh in the series.

Murder on Naked Beach: A Lucy Ripken Mystery
by J. J. Henderson
With Murder on Naked Beach, Seattle author J.J. Henderson introduces us to a sassy and sexy new sleuth in this suspenseful and sharply funny novel.

Edge of Evil
by J. A, Jance
The end of her high-profile broadcasting career came too soon for TV journalist Alison Reynolds -- bounced off the air by executives who wanted a "younger face." With a divorce from her cheating husband of ten years also pending, there is nothing keeping her in L.A. any longer. Cut loose from her moorings, Ali is summoned back home to Sedona, Arizona, by the death of a childhood friend.

The Warlord : A Jackson Monroe Novel (Hardcover)
by Richard H. Dickinson
A fictional answer to Black Hawk Down, The Warlord is a pulsating military thriller set against today's special ops war in Afghanistan.

A Grave Mistake
by Stella Cameron
A trail of murder wends its way from New Orleans to nearby Toussaint, La., in bestseller Cameron's steamy novel of romantic suspense.

There's Something About Christmas
by Debbie Macomber
Emma Collins has always believed that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who love fruitcake and those who don't. She's firmly in the second category, so it's ironic that her major assignment for the Puyallup, Washington, Examiner is a series of articles about . . . fruitcake. At least it's a step up from writing obituaries.

The Long Mile
by Clyde W. Ford
NYPD officer John Shannon is in a race with time to redeem his reputation, reclaim his life, and save his son without losing his soul. Bellingham, Wash. author.

Red Herring
by Clyde W. Ford
RED HERRING is a contemporary nautical mystery set along the Inside Passage by Bellingham, Wash. author Clyde W. Ford.

The Last Thylacine
by Terry Domico
THE LAST THYLACINE is the gripping tale of Matthew Clark, a field biologist who actually beholds this supposedly extinct animal.

Fledgling
by Octavia Butler
Fledgling, Octavia Butler's first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.

A Sudden Country
By Karen Fisher
A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption.

The Highest Tide : A Novel
by Jim Lynch
A mesmerizing, allegorical, and beautifully wrought first novel about one boy's fascination with the sea during the summer that will change his life.

The Pen and The Key : 50th Anniversary Anthology of Pacific Northwest Writers (Paperback)
by Kathleen Alcala, Peter Bacho, Marvin Bell, Terry Brooks, Stella Cameron, Nigel Loring (Editor)
A new anthology from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA) includes a foreword by best-selling true crime writer, Ann Rule, and previously unpublished short stories, nonfiction and poetry by 23 acclaimed Northwest writers.

Double Tap
by Steve Martini
Paul Madriani is faced with the most daunting case of his career, with ballistics evidence pointing to a crack marksman, a client who refuses to discuss his mysterious career as a soldier, and  who stonewall the attorney's investigation at every turn.

Long Time Gone : A Novel of Suspense (J. P. Beaumont Mysteries)
by J. A. Jance
Filled with all of the Jance trademarks -- heart-stopping suspense, deeply drawn characters, local flavor, intelligence, and humanity -- Long Time Gone is a crowning achievement in this bestselling author's career.

This Old Souse : A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery
by Mary Daheim
"A charming cozy to enjoy on a Sunday afternoon--preferably with tea and scones." - Jenny McLarin

The Black Silent
by David Dun
A San Juan Islands-set science-fiction thriller about deep-sea organisms called Arcs that may hold the key to longer human life spans, as well as solve our energy problems. But their chemical by-products could also lead to the Earth's destruction. - Seattle Times

Dying For A Blue Plate Special (Five Star First Edition Mystery Series)
by Beth Kalikoff
Dying for a Blue Plate Special is a delightful amateur sleuth police procedural who-done-it starring a likable Jersey transplant. The story line is lighthearted in terms of the heroine's jewel of an investigation and much more professional in a support role when Ben makes inquiries.

Table for Five
By Susan Wiggs
Northwest author Susan Wiggs tackles contemporary issues in the crucible of family with gutsy poignancy and adroit touches of whimsy . . .

The Hidden Queen
by Alma Alexander
An epic coming-of-age story of the young queen, Anghara Kir Hama, and her fight to reclaim her stolen throne - finding, along the way, a strange and mysterious destiny she had never even dreamed of.

A Good Yarn
by Debbie Macomber
Northwest author Debbie Macomber revisits the cozy Seattle yarn store of 2004's The Shop on Blossom Street in another heartfelt tale of crafts and camaraderie.

Haunted
by Chuck Palahniuk
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter - sometimes all at once.

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