a*hole, by Hilton Obenzinger

Soft Skull Press, 2004

Against Gravity, a novel, by Farnoosh Moshiri

Penguin, 2005

Amazon.com: Get Big Fast, by Robert Spector

HarperCollins, 2000, 2002

Anytime, Anywhere, by Robert Spector

Perseus, 2002

Back Under Sail: Recovering the Spirit of Adventure, by Migael Scherer

Milkweed, 2003

Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense, by Scott McCredie

Little, Brown, 2007

The Bathhouse, a novel, by Farnoosh Moshiri

Black Heron Press, 2001; Beacon Press, 2003

Benjamin Graham: The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street, by Benjamin Graham

McGraw Hill, 1996

Being with Rachel: A Story of Memory and Survival, by Karen Brennan, Ph.D.

W.W. Norton, 2002

Beluga Days: Tracking the Whale’s Truths, by Nancy Lord

Counterpoint Press, 2003

Birds of Central Park, by Cal Vornberger

Abrams, 2005

Body Remember: A Memoir, by Kenny Fries

Dutton, 1998; University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing, by Norm Stamper

Nation Books, 2005

Can I Get a Witness, by Julia Boyd

Dutton/Penguin, 1999

Canibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco, by Hilton Obenzinger, Ph.D.

Mercury House, 1993

Category Killers: The Retail Revolution and Its Impact on Consumer Culture, by Robert Spector

Harvard Business School Press, 2005

The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, by Dan Savage

Dutton, 2005

Confucious Speaks: Words to Live By, by Tsai Chih Chung, translated by Brian Bruya

Anchor, 1996

The Corporate Blogging Book: Aboslutely Everything You Need to Know to Get it Right, by Debbie Weil

Portfolio, 2006

Cruising Guide to Puget Sound, by Migael Scherer

McGraw Hill, 1994, 2004

Disappearance: A Map, by Sheila Nickerson

Doubleday, 1996

The Encyclopedia of Health and Nutrition, by Robert Ronzio

Facts on File, 1997, 2005

Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on a Family Farm, by David Mas Masumoto

HarperSanFrancisco, 1996

Excerpts From a Family Medical Dictionary, by Rebecca Brown

University of Wisconsin Press, 2003; Granta, 2004

Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret, by Duff Wilson

HarperCollins, 2001

Fifth Life of the Cat Woman, a novel, by Kathleen Dexter

Berkley, 2002

Fishcamp: Life on the Alaskan Shore, by Nancy Lord

Counterpoint Press, 2000

For the Century’s End: Poems 1900-1999, by John Haines

University of Washington Press, 2001

Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring, by David Mas Masumoto

W.W. Norton, 2004

Girlfriend to Girlfriend, by Julia Boyd

Dutton/Penguin, 1999

Green Alaska: Dreams of the Far Coast, by Nancy Lord

Counterpoint Press, 2000

Harvest Son: Planting Roots in the American Soil, by David Mas Masumoto

W.W. Norton, 1998

The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, by Kenny Fries

Da Capo, 2007

I Dream Alaska, by Natalie Fobes

Graphic Arts Center, 1998

In the Company of My Sisters, by Julia Boyd

Dutton/Penguin, 1997

Into the Forest, a novel, by Jean Hegland

Calyx Books, 1996; Bantam, 1998

Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation, by Martin Laird

Oxford University Press, NY, 2006

It’s So You, by Michelle Tea, Ed.

Seal, 2007

Keeping a Journal You Love, by Sheila Bender

Writer’s Digest, 2001

The Kid: What Happened When My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant, by Dan Savage

Dutton, 2000

The Last Flight of the Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird, by Bruce Barcott

Random house, 2008

Lessons from the Nordstrom Way: How Companies are Emulating the #1 Customer Service Company, by Robert Spector

Wiley, 2000

A Long Way from St. Louie, by Colleen McElroy

Coffee House Press, 1997

Love, War, and Circuses: The Age Old Relationship Between Elephants and Humans, by Eric Scigliano

Houghton Mifflin, 2002

Madchild Running, a novel, by Keith Egawa

Red Crane Books, 1999

The Man Who Swam with Beavers, fictions, by Nancy Lord

Coffee House Press, 2002

The Measure of a Mountain, by Bruce Barcott

Sasquatch Books, 1997; Ballantine, 1998

Michelangelo’s Mountain: The Quest for Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara, by Eric Scigliano

Free Press, 2005

Midnight to the North, by Sheila Nickerson

Tarcher/Penguin USA, 2002

Nature in the City: Seattle: Walks, Hikes, Wildlife, Natural Wonders, by Maria Dolan and Kathryn True

The Mountaineers Books, 2003

The Nordstrom Way: The Insider Story of America’s #1 Customer Service Company, by Robert Spector and Patrick McCarthy

Wiley, 1995, 1999

The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence: A Handbook for Implementing Great Service in Your Organization, by Robert Spector and Patrick McCarthy

Wiley, 2005

Over the Lip of the World: The Storytellers of Madagascar, by Colleen McElroy

University of Washington Press, 1999

Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everythign and Other Lessons from Darwin’s Lost Notebooks, by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Little, Brown, 2006

Queer Gyrl Anthology, by Michelle Tea

Carol & Graf, 2006

Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds, by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Sasquatch Books, 2001

Rose of No Man’s Land, by Michelle Tea

Harvest/Harcourt, 2007

Reaching Home: Pacific Salmon, Pacific People, by Natalie Fobes

Graphic Arts Center, 1995

Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust, by Zosia Goldberg as told to Hilton Obenzinger

Mercury House, 2004

Savage Love: Straight Answers from America’s Most Popular Sex Columnist, by Dan Savage

Dutton, 1998

Sailing to Simplicity: Life Lessons Learned at Sea, by Migael Scherer

McGraw Hill, 1999

Shimmering Images, by Lisa Dale Norton

The Ship that Held the Line: The USS Hornet and the First Year of the Pacific War, by Lisle Rose, Ph.D.

USN Institute Press, 1995

Skipping Toward Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America, by Dan Savage

Dutton, 2003

The Stars, the Snow, the Fire, by John Haines

Graywolf Press, 2000

Still Loved by the Sun: A Rape Survivor’s Journey, by Migael Scherer

Simon & Schuster, 1999

Stonescaping: A Guide to Using Stone in Your Garden, by Jan Kowalczewski Whitner

Storey Publishing, 1992

Summers with the Bears, by Jack Becklund

Hyperion, 1999

Sunzi Speaks: The Art of War, by Tsai Chih Chung, translated by Brian Bruya

Anchor, 1994

The Tao Speaks: Lao-Tzu’s Whispers of Wisdom, by Tsai Chih Chung, translated by Brian Bruya

Anchor, 1995

Tibetian Portraits, by Phil Borges

Rizzoli International, 2006

Traveling Music, by Colleen McElroy

Story Line Press, 1998

The Ungarnished Truth: A Cooking Contest Memoir, by Ellie Mathews

Berkley, 2008