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Summary: Left on a doorstep after his illegal au pair mother exacts a brutal revenge on his father, Edward is raised by an adoring family and grows up to become a famous billionaire Internet tycoon who hurtles toward a fate that he is powerless to control.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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Summary: A sizzling, darkly funny, propulsive new novel--his most daring yet--by the author of Snow Falling on Cedars: a sweeping, dazzling story of destiny, desire, and destruction. In Seattle, 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary--"a guy who weighs risk for a living"--takes a risk of his own, and makes the biggest error of his life. He sleeps with Diane, the sexy, not-quite-legal British au...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Guterson, David.
Summary: A collection of stories is set in the Pacific Northwest and explores themes of love and the human drive to connect with others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. In a small rural town outside Seattle, Joanna, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard--setting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Summary: When two boys--John William Barry and Neil Countryman-- meet in 1972 at age sixteen, they're brought together by what they have in common: a fierce intensity and a love of the outdoors that takes them, together and often, into Washington's remote backcountry, where they must rely on their wits--and each other--to survive. Soon after graduating from college, Neil sets out on a path that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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Summary: In Seattle, 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary, "a guy who weighs risk for a living", takes a risk of his own, and makes the biggest error of his life. He sleeps with Diane, the sexy, not-quite-legal British au pair who's taking care of his children for the summer. Diane gets pregnant and leaves their baby on a doorstep, but not before turning the tables on Walter and setting in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Summary: This novel is about a teenage girl, Ann Holmes, who claims to see the Virgin Mary. A sixteen-year-old runaway, Ann is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. But on a November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day. Father Collins--a young priest new to North Fork--finds Ann disturbingly alluring. But it is up to him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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Summary: In Washington State, a widowed doctor suffering from cancer takes a hunting trip, the real purpose of which is to commit suicide, which he will masquerade as an accident. But Dr. Ben Givens' resolve is tested by several events which reaffirm the joy of living--he cheats death by fighting off wolves and helps a girl give birth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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Summary: Although Guterson teaches other children in a public high school, he and his wife teach their own four children at home. "The most important lesson he has to teach is that no matter where education takes place, family matters; homeschooling is just one way of embodying that neglected truth and reaffirming the bond between parents and children."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1993
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Summary: A collection of stories is set in the Pacific Northwest and explores themes of love and the human drive to connect with others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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Summary: Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1995