SPOKANE IS READING debut:

2002

Plainsong

by Kent Haruf

Old farmers, a girl in trouble, a broken family, and a devoted high school teacher are featured in this narrative about how families can be made between folks who are not necessarily blood relatives.

2003

Cold Mountain

by Charles Fraizer

A Confederate soldier faces marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign as he walks back to his home and to Ada, who is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learn to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away.

2004

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

Aliens have attacked Earth twice and now the world government has taken to breeding military geniuses. Ender Wiggin the genius among geniuses, but is he smart enough to save the planet? Equally popular with non-science fiction readers as with science fiction fans.

2005

Girl In Hyacinth Blue

by Susan Vreeland

Taking its title from a fictional Vermeer painting, the reader follows the painting back in time, visiting with each of its owners until readers meet the artist himself and learn of the painting’s beginnings.

2006

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

by Laurie R. King

Mary Russell literally stumbles over retired detective,Sherlock Holmes and the two pursue a succession of cases together, but what began as a pleasant diversion swiftly turns into a deadly game of chess with a mysterious, ruthless enemy from Holmes' past.

2007

Citizen Vince

by Jess Walter

Just before the 1980 presidential election, in a quiet house in Spokane, Vince Camden pockets stolen credit cards and drops by an all-night poker game before heading to his witness-protection job. When a familiar face shows up Vince realizes that his past is closer than he'd like.

2008

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

Junior leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school in this chronicle of the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he seems destined to live.