Hammond, Diane
Hannah’s Dream
Emerson, Earl
Cape Disappointment
Science Fiction / Fantasy
What will happen to Hannah when
Samson Brown retires after 41
years of being her caretaker at the
Max L. Biedelman Zoo?
Seattle private eye Thomas Black
survives a bombing and the loss of
his wife in a plane crash. Now, he
must put together the shattered
fragments of his life - his country
depends on it.
Bear, Greg
City at the End of Time
Lynch, Jim Border Songs
Severely dyslexic Brandon
Vanderkool would rather be bird
watching than working for the
Border Patrol, which he learns is
a haven for illegal drug
smugglers and other criminals.
Lynch’s latest puts Lynden on
the literary map!
Okimoto, Jean Davies
The Love Ceiling
After the death of her Japanese
American mother, Anne Kuroda
Duppstaad confronts the toxic
legacy of her father, a famous
artist and cruel narcissist, to
become an artist in her own right.
Short ridge, Jennie
Love and Biology at the
Center of the Universe
Taking off in her car after
discovering that her husband has
been seeing another woman, Mira
ends up in Seattle and takes a job
at the offbeat Coffee Shop at the
Center of the Universe.
Ford, Clyde Whiskey Gulf
Unable to recall their pasts, three
young people living in Seattle share
a disturbing vision of a far-future,
decaying cityscape and are each
drawn into a desperate mission to
preserve their own universe.
When Charlie Noble is asked to
investigate why a sailboat went
missing and what happened to the
couple aboard, he and his partner,
Raven, set sail on the Noble Lady in
a case that leads them up the Inside
Passage to the remote coast of
British Columbia.
Priest, Cherie Boneshaker
In an alternative future, Seattle is
devastated by a test run of the
Boneshaker machine which emits
a gas that turns some of the
residents into living dead.
Richardson, Kat Underground
Giorello, Sibella The Rivers
Run Dry
A Greywalker able to negotiate the
realm between the living world and
the paranormal, detective Harper
Blaine probes the murders of
Pioneer Square's homeless and the
appearance of zombies roaming the
underground beneath Seattle.
When Raleigh Harmon, female
geologist turned FBI agent, is
transferred to Seattle, she must
quickly adapt to the unfamiliar as
she leads a search for a missing
woman.
Straley, John
The Big Both Ways
Fleeing a logging camp after an
accident kills a coworker, Slip
Wilson's life changes forever
when he meets Ellie Hobbes, an
anarchist from Seattle who is on
the run with a dead body in the
trunk of her car.
Nonfiction
Berger, Knute Pugetopolis
The subtitle tells all: "A Mossback
Takes on Growth Addicts,
Weather Wimps, and the Myth of
Seattle Nice."
Mystery & Suspense
Allen, Linda Bellingham Betrayal
Against the backdrop of autumn's dazzling red
and gold, Jozie Hunter tries to discover how the
decade-old remains of a beautiful young woman
from New York ended up 3,000 miles away in
Washington State.
Various Seattle Noir
From hard-scrabble seaport to hightech capital, Seattle has not been
immune to corruption and graft, as
these 14 stories illustrate.
Egan, Timothy The Big Burn
Egan chronicles America's biggest
forest fire, which burned through
Washington, Idaho, and Montana
in August 1910.
Two trainloads of people, trapped in
the Cascade Mountains by a fierce
February blizzard, are swept into a
mountain ravine by the nation's
deadliest avalanche.
Stein, Alan J.
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
Exposition
The World’s Fair held in
Seattle in 1909 brought 3.7
million visitors to the new
state and established the
general plan for the
University of Washington
campus.
Turner, Mark Notes from a 12
Man: A Truly Biased History of
the Seattle Seahawks
This series of essays covers the
team's greatest victories and best
players, along with the dreadful
defeats and the Hawk Hall of
Shame.
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evergreen tales
Krist, Gary
The White Cascade
Guterson, David The Other
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Two boys from profoundly different
backgrounds grow up to pursue vastly different
paths in life, one as a devoted schoolteacher,
and the other as a recluse in the wilderness of
the Olympic Peninsula.