“Washington State: The Inaugural Decade, 1889-1899″ by Robert E. Ficken (Washington State University Press, $21.95). The Issaquah-based historian follows up his book “Washington Territory” with a look at our state’s tumultuous first decade, which included a financial panic and a four-year-long economic depression, followed by a sudden boom ushered in by the 1897 Klondike gold rush.
“Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans” by Jean Pfaelzer (Random House, $27.95). A history of the persecution of West Coast Chinese Americans in the second half of the 19th century and of Chinese-American protest against such treatment. While the emphasis is on California, there’s significant material on events in Washington Territory and Oregon.
“Driving Change: The UPS Approach to Business” by Mike Brewster and Frederick Dalzell (Hyperion, $24.95). A look at the history and philosophy of the delivery company that was founded in Seattle in 1907.
“Degrees of Separation,” conceived and designed by Samia Saleem (Featherproof Books, $24.95, www.featherproof.com). A collection of 33 detachable postcards by 24 designers and artists who had to relocate or were otherwise affected by Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans. The project started as an online magazine (www.degreesnola.com). Five percent of the proceeds from the book will go toward the AIGA New Orleans Design Educational Fund (www.neworleans.aiga.org/events/hurricane_relief_efforts). Saleem, born and raised in New Orleans, now lives in Seattle.
“Pitch Woman and Other Stories: The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian,” edited and with an introduction by William R. Seaburg (University of Nebraska Press, $39.95). A professor of interdisciplinary arts and sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, assembles a collection of Athabaskan tales preserved by ethnographer Elizabeth D. Jacobs in 1935. Jacobs’ source was Upper Coquille consultant Coquelle Thompson Sr., who lived on the Siletz Reservation in southern Oregon.
“Bright of the Sky” by Kay Kenyon (Pyr, $25). A science-fiction novel by a Wenatchee writer, set in “a landlocked galaxy that tunnels through our own.” This is the first book in a projected series titled “The Entire and the Rose.”
“Changeling” by Yasmine Galenorn (Berkley, $6.99). A paranormal romance by a Bellevue author, about three “half-human, half-Faerie” sisters who are “ridding the Otherworld of evil %26#8212; one monster at a time.”
“Steven Spielberg: A Biography” by Kathi Jackson (Greenwood, $35). An Everett author’s biography of the film director (”E.T.,” “Jaws”).
“Mortgage Rip-Offs and Money Savers: An Industry Insider Explains How to Save Thousands on Your Mortgage or Re-Finance” by Carolyn Warren (Wiley, $17.95). Tips from a Bellevue author who has worked in retail and wholesale lending.
Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times book critic
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