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This Week's Northwest Books
Updated July 26, 2010
New This Week -Just out: part-time Seattle resident J.A. Jance's Queen of the Night. Murders old and new disturb the peace of Tohono O'odham Nation residents and their Arizona neighbors in this fourth entry in Jance's Walker Family series. In his latest book, Work Song, Seattle author Ivan Doig affectionately revisits Morris "Morrie" Morgan from the much-heralded The Whistling Season. Hardcover, About $18. I'm proud to offer Alone Around the Mountain, by Seattle photographer Fred Milkie, Jr. One hundred black and white photographs in a nicely-bound softcover book. About $30. Also new this week: Death Echo by Washington author Elizabeth Lowell is a high-tension story involving an attempt to intercept a yacht as it offloads massive amounts of explosives. Hardcover. About $17. |
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In Queen of the Night, New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings back the Walker family—introduced in Hour of the Hunter, terrorized in Kiss of the Bees, and last seen in Day of the Dead. A multilayered thriller, gripping and unforgettable — evocatively set in the breathtaking Arizona desert — Queen of the Night is a chilling tale of murder past and present that connects and devastates three separate families.
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An award-winning and beloved novelist of the American West spins the further adventures of a favorite character, in one of his richest historical settings yet. "If America was a melting pot, Butte would be its boiling point," observes Morrie Morgan, the itinerant teacher, walking encyclopedia, and inveterate charmer last seen leaving a one-room schoolhouse in Marias Coulee, the stage he stole in Ivan Doig's 2006 The Whistling Season. A decade later, Morrie is back in Montana, as the beguiling narrator of Work Song.
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This is a photographer's physical and spiritual journey around Mt. Rainier, expressed in a stunning collection of black and white photographs. This is Mt. Ranier from a whole new perspective.
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New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell cuts a new edge in suspense with this thrilling tale of passion, danger, and international intrigue in which a pair of former operatives must stop a deadly plot that threatens a major American city—and ultimately the world. A breathtaking tale of passion and danger, Death Echo is superb entertainment from the queen of suspense, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell.
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To be a successful fisherman, you need to be a mechanic, navigator, welder, painter, carpenter, and sometimes, a firefighter. To be a successful fisherman year after year, you need to be a survivor. This is the story of a family of survivors; part memoir and part adventure tale, North By Northwestern brings readers on deck, into the dockside bars and into the history of a family with a common destiny.
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