SRC 2024: Read A Book By A PNW Author (Adults)Like this list

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• One Last Kill

  Dugoni, Robert,

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  Forming an uneasy alliance, Tracy and Nolasco revisit old leads and pursue new evidence only to unearth high-level corruption and cover-ups as dangerous as the elusive killer himself. At the risk of being exposed, such deadly and powerful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Women

  Hannah, Kristin,

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  Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Be a Revolution

  How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--and How You Can, Too

  Oluo, Ijeoma,

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  Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems--like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more--she highlights what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Plan A

  Caletti, Deb,

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  Sixteen-year-old Ivy's road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice.

• I Sing the Salmon Home

  Poems From Washington State

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  This anthology sings of salmon--lamented and praised, hooked, and netted, spawned out and dammed from home; of their magnificence and generosity, of how the fish continue to give and of what they gave. For this unique collection…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

  Bostwick, Marie,

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  Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not Forever, but for Now

  Palahniuk, Chuck,

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  Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather... and killing the help. Murder is the family business after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Free

  Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home

  Kessler, Lauren,

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  95 percent of the men and women who go to prison are eventually released. But then what? A gripping work of immersion reporting for readers of Evicted and Maid, Free shines a spotlight on the rollercoaster of re-entry: the exuberance of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

  Stories

  Fu, Kim,

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  In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Wilderness of Stars

  Ernshaw, Shea,

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  An illness cursing the land forces seventeen-year-old Vega, the Last Astronomer, to venture across the wilderness to discover the stars message that will save her people.

• Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid

  the Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change

  Hanson, Thor,

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  As a young biologist, Hanson by his own admission watched with some detachment as our warming planet presented plants and animals with an ultimatum: change or face extinction. But his detachment turned to both concern and awe, as he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

  Ford, Jamie,

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  From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations.

• Hollow Kingdom

  Buxton, Kira Jane,

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  S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®.Then Big Jim's eyeball…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.

• So Lucky

  Griffith, Nicola,

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  Mara Tagarelli is, professionally, the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS foundation; personally, she is a committed martial artist. But her life has turned inside out like a sock. She can't rely on family, her body is letting her down,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Educated

  a Memoir

  Westover, Tara,

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  With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Tara Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saving Tarboo Creek

  One Family's Quest to Heal the Land

  Freeman, Scott, 1955-

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  In Saving Tarboo Creek, Scott Freeman artfully blends his family's story with powerful universal lessons about how we can all live more constructive, fulfilling, and natural lives by engaging with the land rather than exploiting it. Equal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death on Tap

  Alexander, Ellie,

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  When Sloan Krause walks in on her husband, Mac, screwing the barmaid, she gives him the boot. Sloan has spent her life in Leavenworth, Washington becoming an expert in brewing craft beer, and she doesn't have time to be held back by her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is How It Always Is

  Frankel, Laurie,

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  This is Claude. He's five years old, the youngest of five brothers. He also loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess.When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Problems With People

  Stories

  Guterson, David

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  A collection of stories is set in the Pacific Northwest and explores themes of love and the human drive to connect with others.