Can't wait for this release next month - Kantner's first novel "Ordinary Wolves" about life in the modern Arctic deservedly won many big awards. "Porcupine" is a memoir/bio and includes photographs (Kantner is also an extraordinary pro photographer of wilderness.)

Of note, last week an aerial study showed that Seattle, famous for being "the emerald city", lost 70% of its urban trees in this last decade of rampant development (condos and parking lots)...Maybe YOU like the Seattle of now, with all the high end restaurants and shops, the new Manhattan (and 7,000 homeless men) but I prefer the grungy old green one with the birds and no homeless humans.

developers are in the midst of tearing down all of Seattle s grand and quirky old architecture to put up boring cookie cutter buildings to handle the swarms of newcomers, enhance urban density, and make a pretty penny to boot (the main motive), so this book is timely

award winning novel of a Native woman shaman who battles a scientist in contemporary arctic Alaska

two of his latest have made NYT bestseller list

from Vancouver BC writer

- maybe because we are close to the Earth out here we are quite prolific especially about dirt, water, oceans and volcanoes, the fall of civilizations due to climate change, and in general, the Climate and recent Chaos of Climate

I seem to recall the mother of this national book award winner lives in seattle!

by University of WA French prof

Montana author

by award-winning author of How Evan Broke His Head

romance novelists crank out prodigiously in Seattle

she also goes by Amanda Quick and by Krentz!