"The Mystery Woman" by Amanda Quick; Putnam ($26.95)
Every summer, millions of Americans repeat again and again a word that has its roots in Taino, the Caribbean language spoken by the people Christopher Columbus met when he first landed in the Americas.
"Stoker's Manuscript" by Royce Prouty; Putnam ($26.95)
"Until She Comes Home" by Lori Roy; Dutton ($26.95)
Redmond, Wash., -based author Daniel James Brown's newest book, "The Boys in the Boat" (Viking, $28.95), is more than a sports saga. It's the true story of nine University of Washington students who rowed crew in the 1930s.
When it comes to Stephen King, I'm partial to the smaller efforts: novellas, short novels, experiments, the quieter, more interior stuff. It's not that I don't like his big books - especially "The Shining," which remains the scariest thing I've ever read, and the 1996 novel "Desperation," an overarching consideration of sin and sacrifice and redemption, set in a Nevada mining town. Still, what makes King resonate for me is the detail work, the way he can get inside the most mundane situation and animate it, revealing in the process something of how we live.
"The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945" by Rick Atkinson; Henry Holt & Co. ($40)
Ringo Starr is turning an old Beatles favorite into a children's book.
What's the best way to transfer an IRA account between spouses in a living trust? This week, CPA Gregory Burke, a former IRS auditor now with John Waddell & Co. in Sacramento, Calif., offers some advice.
Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
"And Then She Fell" by Stephanie Laurens; Avon (2013), 344 pages, $7.99 (paperback)
Reyna Grande was just 9 years old in 1985 when she crossed the border from her native Mexico to the United States as an undocumented immigrant.
Love comics? Love free stuff? The two collide Saturday on Free Comic Book Day, an international event supported by local comic book stores across North American and around the world.
If you have never set type, brayed ink, rolled a vintage press or made paper by hand, Sunday is your chance. The annual Wayzgoose letterpress festival is on again at King’s Books in downtown Tacoma, and almost every artist there has free samples or activities to try.
R.J. Palacio didn’t set out to write a book that would change the way children relate to each other. The first-time author was just hoping that someone would publish her 2012 young-adult novel. Now, the story of a disfigured fifth-grader is a New York Times best-seller and the selection for this year’s Tacoma Reads Together.
She was shy, old-fashioned, a little dowdy. She’d had a traumatic youth, and no particular passion or work other than playing the piano. And she was just the first of four wives for writer Ernest Hemingway who, when Hadley Richardson met him, was a struggling Chicago journalist.
It all started with a cyborg Cinderella. Now, the sequel to Tacoma author Marissa Meyer’s futuristic fantasy “Cinder” is in bookstores. “Scarlet” is the second book in Meyer’s young adult “The Lunar Chronicles” series, which take fairy-tale characters and reboots them in a sci-fi/fantasy setting. There’s romance, intrigue and villains.
Marissa Meyer, author of “Scarlet,” will be at the Anna Lemon Wheelock Library in Tacoma’s Proctor District for a book talk and signing at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 16.
Arne Handeland – University Place resident, teacher and now published historian – sees a parallel between two projects more than a century apart that shaped the birth and future of his community.
A book inspired by Ivan the Gorilla has won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s outstanding contribution to children’s literature, the American Library Association announced this morning.
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