“Just Beyond the Clouds” by Karen Kingsbury (Center Streer, $14.99). A new novel by the bestselling Christian-fiction author, about a grieving widower who is reluctant to let his Down syndrome brother try living on his own. Kingsbury lives in Vancouver, Wash.
“Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for all Music Teachers” by Bonnie Blanchard with Cynthia Blanchard Acree (Indiana University Press, $24.95). A Seattle music teacher and freelance musician collaborates with her sister on a book about how to produce “successful students who are energized about their lessons and their music.”
“There’s a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble” by Laurie Notaro (Ballantine, $19.95). A Eugene humorist- essayist (”Idiot Girls Action-Adventure Club”) sets her fiction debut in small-town Washington, where a new arrival from Phoenix experiences some culture shock and homesickness.
“Another Life” by Ann Roth (Zebra/Kensington, $6.99). A novel by a Seattle writer about two women who fall into a financial mess … thanks to their bigamist husband.
“Long Climb into Grace” by Ann Spiers (Foothills Publishing, $7, www.foothillspublishing.com) and “Sea Lions Sing Scat” by Carol Levin (Finishing Line Press, $14, www.finishinglinepress.com). Two new chapbooks by poets from Vashon Island and Seattle, respectively, both focusing on the natural wonders of the Puget Sound region and other matters.
“Coming Undone” by Susan Andersen (HQN, $7.99). A Seattle-area author’s romance about a woman on the verge of country-music stardom who has to hire an old flame as her “watchdog” when she finds herself hounded by the tabloids.
“Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects,” edited by Laurie J. Sears (University of Washington Press, $30 hardcover, $17.99 paperback). An anthology of essays asking “how the rising preponderance of scholarship from Southeast Asia is decentering Southeast Asian studies in the United States.” Sears is a University of Washington professor of history. Contributors include locals Carlo Bonura, Judith A.N. Henchy and Celia Lowe.
“Death of a Writer” by Michael Collins (Bloomsbury, $14.95). New in paperback: a novel about a failed suicide’s publishing success, by the Booker-nominated Bellingham writer (”The Keepers of the Truth”). Times reviewer Robert Allen Papinchak called this “a scathingly dark send-up of chasing the fickle muse of literature at the cost of the soul.”
“The Stubbornly Secretive Servant” by Suzanne Williams (HarperCollins, $4.99). Book 5 in the Renton author’s “Princess Power” series concerns a prince who goes missing.
“The Eyes of the Unicorn” by Teresa Bateman, illustrated by Greg Spalenka (Holiday House, $17.95). A picture book for ages 6 to 10, about a hunt for a unicorn that may bring disaster to a castle and its kingdom. Bateman works as a librarian in Tacoma.
“Bad Girls Club” by Judy Gregerson (BloomingTreePress,$17.99). An Everett author’s novel for ages 12 and up, about a young girl who finds herself responsible for her little sister and mentally-ill mother after a hiking accident on the rim of Crater Lake.
“If You Give a T-Rex a Bone” by Tim Myers, illustrated by Anisa Claire Hovemann (DawnPublications,$8.95). A picture book for children ages 4 to 10, about a boy who has an encounter with some dinosaurs, including the T-Rex of the title. Illustrator Hovemann lives in Seattle.
Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times book critic
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