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In Washington State, the trial of Kabuo Miyomoto, a Japanese-American fisherman accused of murdering another fisherman, Carl Heine. The prosecution charges the murder was committed as revenge for the Heine family taking Miyomoto's land at the outbreak of World War II and the novel traces the different reaction of the white and yellow communities. By the author of The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind.

There's a little shop on Blossom Street in Seattle called A Good Yarn. You go there to buy yarn, knitting supplies and patterns--and now you can join a knitting class. How to knit a baby blanket: that's the first lesson. There, four lives knit together. These four women, brought together by the age-old craft of knitting, make unexpected discoveries--about themselves and each other. Discoveries that lead to love, to friendship and acceptance, to laughter...

After spending the past two years in and out of Seattle mental institutions, unable to remember the details of her son's disappearance, Ava returns home and, secretly visiting a hypnotist, discovers that her son may still be alive.

Offers a fictional portrait of the characters, language, traditions, and daily life of those living on the Spokane Indian Reservation.

After Annie Colwater's husband finds another woman, she goes home to the Olympic Peninsula and falls in love with a widower with a daughter. On discovering she is pregnant--by her husband--she returns to the husband, but he wants no part of her, or their child. Will the widower take her back? When Annie Colwater's only child leaves for college and her husband abandons her for a younger woman, Annie retreats to her hometown of Mystic, Washington....

Dear Reader, Jack and I are just back from our honeymoon, and Im eager to catch up with my friends Bob and Peggy Beldon, who run the Thyme and Tide bed-and-breakfast at 44 Cranberry Point. Its a popular place but (needless to say!) things havent been the same since a man died there. Turns out his name was Max Russell, and Bob had known him briefly in Vietnam. Nobody has any idea why he showed up ormost important of allwho killed him. Because it now...

Katherine O'Connor often spends her days at a cozy cafe on Blossom Street in Seattle, where she writes Christmas letters for other people. She's good at making their everyday lives sound more interesting. More humorous. More dramatic. But for Dr. Wynn Jeffries, who also frequents the cafe, Christmas means lies and deception. In fact, the renowned child psychologist recommends that parents "Bury Santa Under the Sleigh." Katherine, however, feels that...

Reuniting at the hotel where one of them was brutally attacked as a child decades earlier, Madeline and Daphne are forced to confront painful memories and truths in order to solve the mysterious death of Madeline's father.