Fraser\u2019s sweeping overview<\/a> of Tacoma and Seattle in the latter half of the 20th century should be required reading for all PNW booklovers. Half true crime story, half environmental science thriller, \u201cMurderland\u201d explains how Tacoma\u2019s exceptionally high levels of lead, arsenic and copper might have given rise to a generation of ghastly criminals, including Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgway and Charles Manson.<\/p>\n\u201cIs a River Alive?\u201d<\/strong> by Robert Macfarlane (W.W. Norton & Company, $19.99). Macfarlane is becoming one of the finest naturalist writers of our time, blending the best of Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson and Edward Abbey. This book is a celebration of rivers all over the world \u2014 from unspoiled wild whitewaters to urban rivers recovering from decades of pollution.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cWhat We Can Know\u201d<\/strong> by Ian McEwan (Vintage, $20). Somehow, more than half a century into his career as a writer, McEwan is still publishing magisterial, thought-provoking novels. His latest, set nearly a hundred years in the climate-ravaged future, centers on an academic trying to recover a long-thought-lost poem that was only read aloud once at a dinner party in the year 2014.<\/p>\n\u201cThe Nights Are Quiet in Tehran\u201d<\/strong> by Shida Bazyar, translated by Ruth Martin (Scribe, $19). Shortlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize, this novel tracks one family\u2019s travels away from and back to Iran across the span of four decades. Readers looking for the human stories behind the headlines of America\u2019s military actions in Iran should look no further.<\/p>\n\u201cThe Haves and Have-Yachts\u201d<\/strong> by Evan Osnos (Scribner, $21). Subtitled \u201cDispatches on the Ultrarich,\u201d this collection of essays originally published in the New Yorker exposes the lifestyles of the handful of superrich people who possess even more of the nation\u2019s wealth than their forebears did during the excesses of the Gilded Age.<\/p>\n\u201cThe Last Ferry Out\u201d<\/strong> by Andrea Bartz (Ballantine Books, $20). The latest twisty thriller from the author of \u201cWe Were Never Here\u201d centers on a woman who returns to the seemingly paradisiacal island where her fianc\u00e9e died. Did an accident really claim her life, or was she murdered \u2014 and if so, is the killer planning to strike again?<\/p>\n\u201cThe Open Era\u201d<\/strong> by Edward Schmit (Berkley, $19). Fans of the \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d series looking for a new sports romance novel will be thrilled to meet Austin Hardy, the first openly gay tennis player to win a slot in a Grand Slam tournament. 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