Book Buzz: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson “Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone” by Benjamin Stevenson is a darkly humorous thriller. Ernest Cunningham is the story’s aptly named and self-described “reliable narrator.” He presents himself as an earnest, forthright and upfront narrator – on page two he tells you everything to … Read more

Book Buzz: Out of the Sierra

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Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance by Victoria Blanco “Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance” provides a window into the world of the Rarámuri, an Indigenous group in present-day Chihuahua, Mexico. Author Victoria Blanco spent years researching and living among a Rarámuri community, adapting ethnographic and sociologic practices to … Read more

Book Buzz: Crooks

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Crooks: A Novel about Crime and Family by Lou Berney  Think crime novels aren’t for you? Crooks may make you reconsider. In 1960s Vegas, Buddy Mercurio is a low-ranks mobster getting exactly nowhere. When Buddy catches department store clerk Lillian swiping cash from a customer, it’s love at first sight. “Mercurios don’t play by the … Read more

Book Buzz: El Dorado Drive

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El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott  Oh, how the once-golden Bishop sisters have fallen. Nothing about their adult lives resembles their well-heeled childhood. Debra is drowning in medical debt, Pam’s contentious divorce drained her dry, and Harper is underemployed and ducking creditors. And then, salvation appears. The Wheel is a women-only financial “gifting club” – … Read more

Book Buzz: Enough

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Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest by Melissa Arnot Reid World-renowned climber Melissa Arnot Reid shares her story of becoming the first woman to summit Mount Everest without the use of supplemental oxygen in her new memoir, “Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest.” In response to a traumatic childhood, … Read more

Book Buzz: Feeding Ghosts

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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls This year’s winner of the Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction is a breathtaking achievement of memoir, art and Chinese history.  Growing up, Tessa Hulls knew three things about her grandma, Sun Yi: She was from China, she was a writer, she was crazy. Their home … Read more

Book Buzz: So Far Gone

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So Far Gone by Jess Walter If the news cycle has ever given you the urge to throw your phone out the window of a moving car, you will find a kindred spirit in Rhys Kinnick, the protagonist of Spokane author Jess Walter’s recently published eighth novel, “So Far Gone.”  Rhys, an environmental reporter forced … Read more

Book Buzz: Summerhouse

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Summerhouse by Yiğit Karaahmet, translated from the Turkish by Nicholas Glastonbury  To their neighbors on Büyükada, a sleepy island off the coast of Istanbul, pianist Şener and playwright Fehmi are known to their neighbors as unusual artist friends who share a lush, hilltop garden estate. Only their closest friends know the two men have been … Read more

Book Buzz: Friends of the Museum

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Friends of the Museum by Heather McGowan  It’s a no good very bad day for the director of a floundering New York art museum. A PR disaster involving dubiously sourced artifacts is unfolding in real time; meanwhile, the head security guard has a hunch that the new artwork is a fake. Half the staff are … Read more

Book Buzz: No One Can Know

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No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall Seattle-area author Kate Alice Marshall’s latest thriller is a grisly, twisty summertime treat for readers who like to keep guessing and can handle a little gore. Like she does in “What Lies in the Woods,” her first novel for adults, Marshall centers three women. This time, they’re sisters, … Read more