The Seattle Times: Books News Archive
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- Libraries' bilingual services under fire
- Championing labor amid its decline
- "Shalimar": Ethnic strife shapes lives in Rushdie's painful, beautiful saga
- Windfall of books welcomes autumn
- Helping kids deal with bad news
- Places for small faces
- Best sellers
- Local offerings
- Bumbershoot's literary lineup: Dave Eggars, Sarah Vowell and more
- "The Root of Wild Madder": Digging for roots of a Persian icon
- "Language of the Geckos": A fertile landscape for Hawaiian tales
- "The Time of the Uprooted": Wiesel captures the restless soul of a survivor
- Collections from China Miéville, Lucius Shepard, Terry Bisson and Tim Powers
- Books in brief: "The Ocean at Home," "Scooter"
- The color of assimilation
- "Of Some Renown," by Jean L. Connor
- Now you, too, can use foreign words and phrases with savoir-faire
- With a little help, you, too, can be a pirate
- "iPod, Therefore I Am": Bopping down memory lane with an iPod
- Prolific sci-fi writer spans the genre
- Humanizing America's acclaimed critic Edmund Wilson
- Young readers soldier on
- A fanciful, practical transformation
- Free to be Dan Savage's family
- Antique dealer's arrest unnerves rare-book crowd
- Literary award's finalists released
- Fall Books 2005
- Fall Books 2005 — Non Fiction
- Fall Books 2005 — Popular Fiction
- "The Turning": Earthy characters build strong identities
- "My Detachment": It's hard to get close to Vietnam memoir
- "Bait and Switch": Unemployment abyss of white-collar America
- "Rereadings": Bibliophiles bound to reread collection again and again
- "Wounded": Race, sexuality on modern-day frontier
- "Henry Adams": An odd, contrarian view of American historian
- "The Trudeau Vector": An Arctic chiller for a long night
- Pearls about poverty from Robert Sullivan
- Fall Books 2005 — Nonfiction
- Reviews of "Eldest," "Flush" and "High Rhulain"
- Three authors' books a hit with teen and preteen boys
- Galveston has seen worse
- "The March": A twisted victory
- Didacticism undermines passion in Smiley's "Thirteen Ways"
- "The Painted Drum": Through deep sadness, a beat of hope
- The "tricky business" of a busted childhood
- Handsome aquatints tell story in "Three Incestuous Sisters"
- Books in brief: "Slow Man" by J.M. Coetzee, Vonnegut's "Man Without a Country"
- Paperbacks: What's new
- Author says segregation endures in Seattle, nation
- First novels: Little tyrants, growing pains and arrested development
- "City of Falling Angels": Berendt's flailing followup lacks focus
- "Wickett's Remedy": Finding purpose in midst of 1918 flu epidemic
- "La Belle France": Modern France shaped by historic loss
- Two paths out of Ireland: O'Faolain tells true-life bad girl's tale
- Books in brief: "English Teacher," "Julie & Julia," "Deep Water"
- More work from Woodinville wordsmith in this vocabulary-building sequel
- "Big Dead Place": South Pole gets "M*A*S*H" treatment
- New collections reintroduce Agee
- "Dancing in the Dark": A fictionalized life of black vaudevillian
- "I, Wabenzi": Going on a spiritual quest in a Mercedes
- "The Diviners": A parody of an epic — unintentionally
- Scene of the Crime
- "The Trouble With Tom": On the trail of Tom Paine's well-traveled bones
- "Children in a Field" by Angela Shaw
- A rare fair of collectible books, art and more
- British playwright Pinter wins Nobel Prize in literature
- An architect child of the '60s whose time has come
- Green building tips for new homes, renovations
- "Crows and Ravens": Fear and fascination, evermore
- Microsoft to join online book club
- "Two Lives": A marriage shadowed by wartime losses
- T.C. Boyle: skillful mix of mundane with surreal
- "What the Stones Remember": Memoir transcends history of violence
- "The Age of Anxiety": Sound ideas obscured by political ideology
- "Imaginary Men": An engagingly hip debut
- "The Tender Bar": a loving tribute to bar where author grew up
- Paperbacks
- Authors of controversial Mao book to speak at UW Thursday
- "Boy and Egg" by Naomi Shihab Nye
- Better living with Al Roker (and 99 others)
- Tales of courage, ambition reveal a small world
- Pictures worth a thousand words in "Classic Cottages"
- "Jonathan Fong's Walls that Wow" is fancy-schmancy without the fuss
- A guide to distinguishing fine furniture from fake
- Searching for Sherlock Holmes
- Libby's notoriety gets novel reaction
- "Talk to the Hand": Author vents about our collective rudeness
- "Unlikely pair" at SPU created journal to find spiritual common ground
- Stylish coffee-table books flip through fashion history
- Wild ride aboard a toxic ship of fools
- "The Trouble with Poetry": Beauty and truth in simple things
- "The Lighthouse": P.D. James just gets better with age
- "The Truth of the Matter": Woman's search for self at middle age
- "Chicken": Blood, gore and danger on the processing line
- "Luck Is Luck": Wry, spirited look at realities of life
- "Taken With": And life goes on even as it slips away
- Books in brief
- "Zioncheck for President": Tragicomic tale of Seattle politics
- Fanciful fowl strut their stuff (Um, don't look up)
- "The Identity Club": Building identity and exploring character

