Spotted Owls: Shadows in an Old-Growth Forest (Greystone Nature Greystone Nature)3 reviews Richard Cannings Greystone Books, 2007 Stunning photographs celebrate the endangered Spotted Owl + We bought this book ASAP after a chance meeting with Jared in the Olympic National Park. + The Spotted Owl This book was given to me as a gift and I am so glad! I didn't know anything about Spotted Owls before reading this book but I now I understand some of the pressures they are facing from people (logging) and invasive species (Barred Owls). The information is fairly basic so it's perfect if you ...             Swedish Seattle (WA) (Images of America) Paul Norlen Arcadia Publishing, 2007 Swedish immigrants began arriving in Seattle in the 1880s, and by 1900 had formed a thriving community of churches, businesses, social clubs, labor organizations, choruses, and dance groups, as well as a Swedish-language press. Their civic accomplishments are exemplified by well-known Seattle institutions founded by Swedish immigrants, including a national department store chain and a world-class ...             Another Sunset We Survive Kate Gray Cedar House Books, 2007             Slipknot9 reviews Gary McKinnney Kearney Street Books, 2007 The sheriff and everything else + Riveting Mystery, Absorbing, Oddball Characters + A Complicated Mystery Set On the Beautiful Olympic Peninsula + Deadhead small town crime fighter saves the day + Mystery characters shine, starting a promising series             The Wandering Ghost6 reviews Soho Crime, 2007 Tongduchon + Korean setting drives this modern historical series + another Limon hit + Limon Always Hits a Triple             Communication With All Life: Revelations of An Animal Communicator13 reviews Joan Ranquet Hay House, 2007 A must read for anyone living with animals + An important and fun read. + A great book for animal lovers + Excellent Choice             Run in the Fam'ly: A Novel (Peter Taylor Prize)3 reviews John J. McLaughlin Univ Tennessee Press, 2007 Reality and redemption + A Must Read for Social Justice! + Great new author, unique and important book The reader will never guess that this is McLaughlin's first novel, with the carefully and skillfully crafted voice of Jake Robertson, the young black man from Oakland who narrates this tale. Jake depicts what life is like for so many of our low income people, and the tortuous decisions that one ...             Chocolate Friday15 reviews Edwina Martin-Arnold UrbanKind Press, 2005 That Chocolate Flava!!!!! (5+ stars) + I NEED ME A "CHOCOLATE FRIDAY!!" + pleased + Chocolate does a body good!!! + From a chocoholic's point of view...             Shortcomings22 reviews Adrian Tomine Drawn and Quarterly, 2007 Tomine in Top Form Tomine has always been a great storyteller. His writing is wry and laugh-out-loud funny at times, but it's his drawings that really shine in this collected volume. His panels are wonderfully art directed and his renderings are beautifully nuanced and evocative. It's just a matter of time before ...             Best New American Voices 2008 (Best New American Voices)4 reviews Harvest Books, 2007 Excellent series + good rainy day reading + Interesting + the last story by S. Mckinstray is the best one....             The Firecracker Boys: H-bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement2 reviews Dan O'Neill Basic Books, 2007 Stunning, moving, richly detailed + wish I could give this amazing, brave book ten stars I read this book a few summers ago, and I couldn't put it down. O'Neill's exhaustive research--including many personal interviews--helps solidify this book's place in the pantheon of great historical non-fiction of the 20th century. "The Firecracker Boys" picks up after World War II when the United ...             The Splendor of Silence: A Novel13 reviews Indu Sundaresan Washington Square Press, 2007 A GREAT READ + The Splendor of Silence I highly recommend this book. It is a book that returns to the present occasionally, but not so quickly that you get lost. I TOTALLY loved this book and the characters were so alive. i can only add that I am an avid reader and I would never give a book high ratings, if it did not deserve them. ...             Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen16 reviews Lesley Hazleton Doubleday, 2007 Hazleton just keeps getting better + An Excellent Historical Reinterpretation of Jezebel, by someone who actually knows Hebrew. + An Intellectual Delight Jezebel is a captivating read, but more importantly, it illuminates a period of human history fraught with religious prejudices, and it does it in the best way possible--by exploring the original documents. Hazleton's research was exhaustive and everything she says is explained in the context of ...             Now: Poems Molly Tenenbaum Bear Star Press, 2007 NOW, the second full-length collection of poems by Molly Tenenbaum, conjures the rare life within a yellow ice cream truck, a kiss that straightens silver, a bridge tender watching masts thin out to threads and delights in the commonplace. These poems deliver their news in language as bright and buoyant as the melodies that Tenenbaum, an accomplished musician, knows so well.             The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture Tim Bowling Nightwood Editions, 2007 A 2008 Kiriyama Prize "Notable Book" Finalist for the Writers' Trust Nereus Non-Fiction Prize Finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, BC Book Prize Finalist for the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction, Alberta Literary Awards Longlisted for the British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction Somewhere between joyous affirmation of British Columbia's splendour and momentous ...             Letters to Yesenin (Copper Canyon Classics)1 review Jim Harrison Copper Canyon Press, 2007 The book enters the immortality domain I learned about the book while searching 'YESENIN' in .... I was shocked when I started to read. How the american understands and loves the Russian genius! One has to be a great poet, as great as Yesenin's wife Isadora. Yes, after the iron curtian fall, Yesenin is going to take place he belongs to ...             Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle (The Lamar Series in Western History)2 reviews Matthew Klingle Yale University Press, 2007 A History that Speaks to All Cities + Excellent Examination of the Interplay of History & The Environment Matthew Klingle has written a brilliant study of how the city--in this case Seattle but it could be any city--creates both beauty and ugliness in the same instance. Tracing stories about the physical, social, and cultural reorganization of Seattle and its hinterlands, Klingle shows exactly why the ...             Pacific Northwest Wining and Dining: The People, Places, Food, and Drink of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and ...9 reviews Braiden Rex-Johnson Wiley, 2007 Pacific Northwest Wining and Dining + dee-lish and delightful + Gorgeous - with great recipes + Amazing Idaho Chef + Beautiful book!             Invisible Lives10 reviews Anjali Banerjee Downtown Press, 2006 Courtesy of Teens Read Too + Colorful Taste of India INVISIBLE LIVES is a sweet and sort of predictable read in that chick-lit way, but the Indian and paranormal twists make it good fun and add a unique element to the more predictable parts of the story. Lakshmi Sen is a young Indian woman in Seattle with an odd ability to read people's emotions. ...             Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System6 reviews Silja J. A. Talvi Seal Press, 2007 Essential Reading + Women Behind Bars + Grammatical mistakes in abundance + insightful piece of journalism