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A Freed Woman's Dance is a memoir of courage, strength and resilience. Out of her very personal and compelling story of neglect and abuse, Doris Cope has found her way to healing and has embarked on a journey to help other survivors find freedom and empowerment.Doris began life in 1952 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her early years were full of squalor, conflict and fear. Her father was an unemployed, disabled railroad…Read More

Greg Palmer, an award-winning writer and producer of PBS documentaries and plays for families, chronicles two of the most important years in the life of his son, Ned, who has Down syndrome-the time when he's making the transition from high school to work. This intimate, often humorous, account is woven with vivid anecdotes concerning school, family, relationships, and work (both Ned's and Greg's), including a father-son cruise around the British…Read More

Love. War. Fear. Revolution.Set against the backdrop of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, Against All Odds tells the story of Andrei and Larissa, children of the Russian nobility whose young love and comfortable lives are devastated by forces outside of their control. When the Central Powers invade Russia, Andrei goes to war, an ace fighter pilot loyal to a failing nation. The fighting is bitter, but it's nothing…Read More

An original work of art and whimsy, retelling Plato's Allegory of the Cave in a bizarre, "think outside the [box]" way. Colorfully illustrated with 46 original works by Seattle artist Sid Santiano.Read More

Once in awhile a book is written that speaks not only to the current circumstances of life but also to a future condition of human perception. Joseph W. Greif, in this volume of poetry, connects an individual experience of human life to a living cosmos of life. Greif is inspired by the search for thoughts that move humankind forward by uncovering questions that attract and intrigue the imagination. This is…Read More

'The Bears in My Life' is a beautifully photographed tribute to Jon McCracken's collection of bear images. It is also a call to pay homage to the wild creatures that inspired their creation and to act on their behalf. Bears have captured human imagination for tens of thousands of years, simply by being bears. Mysterious, powerful and nurturing of their young, the natural characteristics of bears -- and the many,…Read More

Because It's There, was a finalist in the mystery/suspense/thriller category of the National Indie Excellence 2007 Book Awards: 1953, in a snow-swept death zone near Mount Everest, English mountaineer Allan Singleton clings to life as he strives for a first summit of Mount Chomoranga. Like George Mallory before him, he vanishes near the summit, leaving his wife to raise their three young children alone in England. The remote Himalayan peak…Read More

This is a tale of love, and of tragedy reversed. Icelander Liv Gústavsdóttir was only twenty years old and arrestingly beautiful in every aspect of her being. Then a car accident resulted in severe injuries and burns over half of her body. In the years following she earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry, and subsequently created the world's most effective anti-aging skin-care emollients. Her company, Organics Atlantis, Ltd.,of Reykjavik, Iceland, quickly…Read More

In 1776, a band of American patriot volunteers came together as a militia, or "minutemen". These men fought behind walls and stumps to defeat the most highly equipped and modern army of its day: The Imperial British army of the English empire. In 2006, a band of Iraqi insurgents stood against the most modern, well-equipped Army in the world. In a war for oil, the American juggernaut is no better…Read More

ALONG BEAUTIFUL PUGET SOUND, THERE ARE BONES BENEATH OUR FEET ... BONES BENEATH OUR FEET is the moving historical epic of the conquest of Puget Sound by the "Boston" tribe. This is lyrical fiction deeply rooted in the people and events that made our history. BONES BENEATH OUR FEET resonates with political intrigue, tenderness and betrayal, misunderstanding and fear, greed and sacrifice--all the richness and grit of life. The gravestone…Read More

What can be done to further social justice with a camera and pen? Can I Come With You? by Amanda Koster illustrates and explains what can be done as it takes the reader through some of her professional forays, photographing personal projects and the work of NGO's around the globe. 59 photographs taken in Brazil, Kenya, Romania and Morocco.Read More

CHEESE DELUXE: A MEMOIR, is a collection of mostly true tales of a group of baby boomers in a time of transition. They are high school seniors, full of their own good fortune, bright prospects and parents' money, unaware of a world waiting impatiently to gobble them up. But they are beginning to get some inkling of that world as they make tentative forays into it and then come rushing…Read More

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The next transformation in education is already on our doorstep. We are seeing a shift from the old theories of education--rote memorization led by an authoritarian force--to a more collaborative environment where students are empowered to become lifelong learners and encouraged to be responsible for their own learning. In Choosing to Teach & Teaching to Choose, Nina C. Smith explains how student-centered practices are superior to older models of education…Read More

The sequel to Cold War Roots, this historical novel explores what led up to and happened during the Canwell hearings, which investigated communism on the University of Washington campus.Read More

A novel based on the lives of Lane Summers, a prominent Seattle attorney, and his son Thane, who became a leader in the Communist Party. The opposing ideas of this father and son reflect the divided ideals of America during the 1930s and have relevance today.Read More

The year is 2069 and Jim Murphy thinks he has the world pretty much figured out, as a Knowledge Management Consultant (whatever that is!) muddling through various technology consulting jobs. That is, until his company, SciPop Inc., assigns him to work a particularly unusual project involving the acquisition of a small backpacking and hiking services business owned by techno-hater Laura Meyers. Jim, however, never works alone. He, like everyone else…Read More

This award-winning novel begins when Martha, the central character, steps through a portal. She feels it's an accident, but soon learns it isn't. The adventure accelerates with her decision to attend an Ancient Wisdom School in Mexico. There she discovers a world that she didn't know existed. Along with the other students, she learns to develop her intuition and call back her power. The Dance of the Jaguar, done alone…Read More

"A nonfiction romp that rivals Evelyn Waugh's classic The Loved One as a laugh-a-minute examination of death rituals and customs." LIBRARY JOURNALRead More

Calla Ogden's carefully organized life as a social worker in Washington's Central Cascade Mountains begins to fall apart: a man is dead and her half-brother is a suspect. The ensuing investigation focuses on individuals at a fish hatchery operated by a local Native American tribe, and soon draws in Mayor Phil Bianchi and Greg Takarchuk, a junior police officer. As Phil and Calla grow close, the expanding implications of the…Read More

During World War II there were hundreds of camps that housed American prisoners of war throughout Japan. Every surviving prisoner and their families had amazing stories to tell. Ed and Ivet Bacon were no different, and yet their story is unique. Ed was an American civilian employed by a large construction firm that was building a naval base in Guam in 1941 just prior to being taken prisoner after the…Read More

Sara Winter has reached a crisis point in her Cascade Adventures business and also with her husband Jeff. Bebe Sorensen is distressed to find her protected life as a local historical archivist invaded. Police detective Bill McHugh tries to sort out a suspicious death, and rapidly finds that big business and political interests across the mountains in Seattle are closely following his progress. The twin Tomson brothers, heirs to a…Read More

This is a memoir of life in Garlic Gulch (Seattle's Rainier Valley), told with the wisdom of hindsight. The stories cover the years 1939-2008.Read More

The GOLDEN YEARS: THE FIRST HALF is a tour of an America, wounded and festering. Its Northwest working-class people are badly damaged: Vietnam vets, bigoted townspeople, and good men sidelined by history. At the novel's center is Luellen, bound to a psychotic husband, barely literate but wise, encoding her waking dreams and nightmares on postcards from Hell. Reading this book is a terrifying ride through time in which the personal…Read More

Neither marriage nor murder are on Magnus Torval's agenda when he and his fiance, Mariela, travel to a Cascade mountain town in Washington. But the recently retired police officer soon finds himself swept up in the rip tides of both. Mariela's spontaneous wedding plans and his own discovery of a fresh corpse make for an unholy combination that threatens to drown their happiness and jail a beloved pastor whose fellow-believers…Read More

With 39 poems and 12 original political cartoons, Poems of the Empire is a witty satire of contemporary political affairs. Poems serves as an effective primer for the less-than-informed, and a humorous reminder of the repercussions of inaction for everyone.Read More

BOOTLEGGING, BARNSTORMING and a Hard-Rock BOONDOOGLE. Los Angeles, 1934: Based on a true chapter of California history, Houdini Pie explores the depths to which a family, and a city, will sink when hard luck comes knocking and there's nothing left to lose. Young Hal Gates is a celebrated pitcher for an upstart rural ball club, and the son of a notorious booze smuggler who vanished at the end of Prohibition.…Read More

Hardcover Edition Veritas means truth in Latin. In Veritas' Shadow is a memoir that reveals deceit and deception within U.S. Special Forces' military operations. It is based on the experiences of Green Beret Stan Bowen, who served two tours of duty in Viet Nam between 1966-1968. The action takes place primarily during his tours in Viet Nam, but the story spans the years 1968-2002. In 1967, Sgt. Bowen was asked…Read More

This groundbreaking book gives us a whole new perspective on one of the seminal events of American history. Surratt was Booth's closest associate during the four months leading up to the assassination, and he was a known member of the Confederate Secret Service with ties to the highest levels of Confederate Government. If there is a missing link between Jefferson Davis and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his name is…Read More

"Michael Schein's excellent debut novel, Just Deceits, is the perfect book for lovers of courtroom thrillers, historical fiction, mysteries, or anyone looking for an exciting page-turner that also stimulates the mind. Schein's writing is crisp, the characters are vivid and engaging, and there are many unexpected twists on the way to a stunning ending. I couldn't put it down!" Robert Dugoni,New York Times bestselling author of The Jury Master, Damage…Read More

Something horrific happened seventy years ago in the Hargraves House, and in her dying moments Emily Hargraves realizes that she will be leaving "a terrible legacy." Following her death, her grandnephew, James Barrett, moves into the stately old house overlooking Seattle, but it's his partner, Jerry Fielding, who will inherit that legacy. Soon, Jerry begins to experience disturbing dreams and hallucinations. The two young men become convinced that the house…Read More

Often risky, sometimes dangerous, Suzanne Griffin's work in Afghanistan has been sustained by love. In 1968, she went to Afghanistan a neophyte. Romantic love had led her there as a newlywed, the wife of a Peace Corps Field Officer. Love for the Afghan people led her back thirty-four years later, a respected college dean and a widow who knew her heart and had the education, position, tenacity and grace to…Read More

"I have been 1 second from death, 15 seconds from death and 30 seconds from death." ...but this is a story about life. Full of adventures and memorable characters, this memoir tells how living through the Depression prepared one man to survive the bloodiest action in American military history: the invasion of Iwo Jima in WWII.Read More

The Marco Polo Odyssey tracks the fantastic journey of an intrepid adventurer who spent ten years following the 13,000 mile overland route of Marco Polo from Venice to Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and finally crossing China to Beijing. It is an account of an exhilarating voyage of discovery and the three expeditions it took author Harry Rutstein to finally fulfill his dream. Using every means of travel available- including…Read More

It can't be true... can it? That's what Don Parks asked when he first read Edgar Cayce's The Sleeping Prophet. His inner skeptic was amazed when follow-up research to debunk the claims instead confirmed. This is the story of his search for answers to some of the questions skeptics have asked for centuries. - Reincarnation: First acknowledged in the Bible but later denied. - Pole Shifts: Were ancient floods caused…Read More

At a remote Mesoamerican site, a carving of the fabled deity Quetzalcoatl awakens from the stones of a pyramid. There is one person present to witness this, Martha, who has come in search of ancient wisdom for a new age. Her studies with a jaguar shaman have not prepared her for what to do, and as her fellow students at the Ancient Wisdom School wait for her return, they are…Read More

Like many great artists throughout the millennia, Richard Wagner wrote his operas as allegories which can be represented in ways that range from the mundane to the esoteric. When Wagner's cryptic esoteric messages are deciphered they tell a story about the evolution of human freedom and consciousness that would be told two generations later in a different format, by the physicist/philosopher Rudolf Steiner. The allegories of The Ring bear a…Read More

A relentlessly honest coming of death story, this psychological memoir of comedian Glenn Rockowitz's ongoing struggle with cancer offers a vivid glimpse into the landscape of a mind when it is faced with the constant threat of death. The story takes us from Glenn's unexpected diagnosis of 'three months at best' just days before the birth of his only child, to his miraculous remission and the ironic death of his…Read More

Standing no more than 5-feet 7-inches tall, Sam Langford was one of the 20th century's greatest fighters. In 1951, the great featherweight champion Abe Attell was asked if Sugar Ray Robinson was the best of all time, either as a welterweight or middleweight: he named Stanley Ketchel as the greatest welterweight he had ever seen and said that, as for the middleweights, Abe said he would take Sam Langford,whom he…Read More

Backhoe operator Gary Patrick foresees long delays, and possibly legal trouble, when human bones appear on his construction site on the Shuksan Indian Reservation. Gary breathes a sigh of relief when the county coroner finds the bones are not Native American, but instead those of a white man who died at least two hundred years ago. But the tribal community is skeptical of the finding, and Gary finds that his…Read More

FBI Special Agent Severin Ash lives in a world haunted by people he's never even met -- the missing and the dead. Working out of Seattle's field office, Ash is assigned to coordinate a child abduction investigation in the small island community of Carver Isle, WA. The case at first seems to be open-and-shut, but when another child disappears on Halloween, Ash realizes it's far from over. He teams up…Read More

A Godless Jew Reads The Bible in Hebrew: In Karl Dardick's first published collection of poetry, Spelling Out The Name weaves the reader in and out of history and contemporary mythology, mixing modern life with traditional themes. The poems contained within Spelling Out The Name are at once gratifying in rhythm, provoking in thought, and at times inspiring of exploration, both internal as well as external.Read More

An exhaustive study of the history of relations between the United States and China, as well as Korea, Starting Off on the Wrong Foot examines the past with the aim of deepening a growing friendship between these three nations that went to war with each other in 1950.Read More

Set sail with your skipper on a voyage of self discovery and emotional healing. Taking the Time to Live, based on the author's recollections, notes, and log excerpts, chronicles the 2006 voyage of the sailing vessel Pato Feo. Following the collapse of his twenty-eight-year marriage, the author embarks on a solo journey without a firm destination or route; instead leaving navigation to chance, circumstance, and whims. His travels eventually carry…Read More

Tales of intrigue, betrayal, destiny, respect and royalty. Seven tribes inhabit a land called The Golden Path. For seventy years the unique cultures of Bear, Cheetah, Hyena, Lion, Salmon, Shark and Tiger tribes have been sustained by the natural abundance of The Golden Path. Their laws and traditions are established and their needs are met. The Golden Path has blessed them in ways that have nearly erased the memory of…Read More

Spiritual growth, sexual adventure, pursuit of identity ... The attractions of Tokyo vary for four young strangers whose destination appears to be the one thing they have in common. Chris, Delia, Sally and Jason are teachers who carry aboard their hopes, dreams, fantasies and lesson plans as they journey toward Japan. Each has a one-year contract to teach English at the Tokyo Institute of Technical Studies, a school unaware it…Read More

Philip Stone is a middle school student trying to adjust to life after his parents' divorce and his subsequent transfer to an inner-city school best known for producing high dropout rates. What he doesn't know is that his life is about to become even more complicated. Philip's odyssey begins when a teacher loans him an ancient black book and a sound recording for use in a homework assignment that might…Read More

"A beautiful distilled body of work...Clear fine poems without a weak one among them...I've re-read them this afternoon in a state of delight." -Valerie Trueblood Poetry critic, American Poetry Review and author of Seven Loves "I think there has always existed something in Phyllis Baker's poems to draw us in to the work and keep our attention." -Duane Niatum Native American poet, editor and teacher Sections: Claremont 1960-1965 Seattle 1965-1970…Read More

Evidence indicating that the U.S. employed germ weapons in the Korean War and a lively but scholarly skewering of official denials.Read More

Fueled by the dedication of a few people and the desire to realize the dream of making every companion animal a companion that is loved and wanted in its home, Rebecca and her daughter Evangelynn founded Lil'Waif, an in-home rescue and safe haven for puppies. In this moving book Rebecca shares tales from their experiences and adventures in puppy rescue. These true tales highlight the bonds dogs bring to life…Read More

The trouble with living in a closet is that the view is restricted. One gets cramped and persistently locked in miserable positions. Thus begins the telling of one woman's journey out of the closet, into herself, back into the closet and finally into herself and her happiness. "Dawn's story vividly conveys the truth in the feminist maxim, 'The personal is political.' When LGBT self-acceptance leads to activism and legal work,…Read More

Philip Boulding is best known for his contributions in the field of music: here is his first published collection of poetry. For years Philip has been recognized as a musician and master of the harp: designer, master craftsman, teacher and composer. He and his wife, Pam Boulding, record and perform as Magical Strings. In this collection we get a glimpse of Philip's offstage life as father, husband, son and seeker.…Read More

Genevieve Bell, a spirited eighteen year old student at Puget Sound College in 1914, is determined to be a voice for the women's rights movement. Despite ridicule by her professors and classmates, her courage is undaunted.Genevieve is sustained by the memory of her ancestors who journeyed west in a wagon train. She learned of their trials through colorful tales told by her grandmother, whose outlook has been shaped by the…Read More

"At a time when most dogs books are intent on being politically correct, Stacey Neary comes across as a fresh breath of reality. She is unafraid to state and fully explain all approaches to training a dog. She describes how humans need to act and work in order to create a trusting relationship with their canine companions... In this, her first book, Stacey uses a common sense approach that explains…Read More