Jake Stevenson, one of my favorite characters of any novel I’ve read for Northwest Passages, is back as the king beekeeper in Eileen Garvin’s “Bumblebee Season.”
With bees as a story-telling vehicle, Eileen Garvin’s latest novel explores something anyone can relate to: the search for human connection for those feeling out of place.
It is impossible to tell whether the stain on Sue Aikens gray hoodie is diesel or coffee. There is what looks like an entire taxidermic bear standing in the middle of her cabin, which is to say, the middle of her bedroom-kitchen-living-room. Oddly, it isn’t out of place.
If you go What: David Guterson will talk about his latest novel, “Evelyn in Transit,” with Jess Walter on the Northwest Passages stage. When: 7 p.m. Feb. 5 Where: Gonzaga’s Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, Coughlin Theater Tickets: $10 general admission online at
Dean Koontz’s new novel, “The Friend of the Family,” takes the best-selling author in a new direction as the master of suspense tries his hand at historical fiction for the first time, with a tinge of magical realism.
As a child growing up in north Seattle, “Snow Falling on Cedars” author David Guterson was keeping score on a chalkboard for his brother’s junior high basketball game. When another child, Ani Sakya, disagreed with the score, Guterson made an insult about the kid’s mom. Sakya threw Guterson on the ground, and Guterson’s arm broke in the fall.
Colfax’s Travis Baldree, author of the bestselling “Legends and Lattes” series, discussed his third book at the Montvale Event Center on Monday night, “Brigands and Breadknives.”
“Brigands & Breadknives” is fantasy author Travis Baldree’s third book in the “Legends & Latte” series, this time starring Fern, the potty-mouthed bookseller originally introduced in “Bookshops & Bonedust.” Baldree will take the Northwest Passages stage Monday at the Montvale Event Center, where he will discuss this latest publication.
In a fraught world, there is something refreshing about the simple reminder that thankfulness is not only a good and a beautiful way of living, but a source of peace, a life-giving force and a means of extending good will to loved ones, strangers and even enemies.
