seattle (wash.)

Ana is an honor student obsessed with being successful at everything academic, Clayton is her thirteen-year-old genius brother, the youngest student in their high school, and Zak is a gamer who is forced to join the quiz team by his teacher--but when Clayton sneaks off to a science fiction convention in Seattle while they are all there for a quiz bowl tournament, Ana is forced to rely on the unreliable Zak to find him.

Anesthesiologist Marie Heaton is devastated when her patient, an eight-year-old girl, dies on the operating table, leaving Marie open to a lawsuit and questioning her own abilities as she struggles to deal with the aftermath of her mistake and her own father's failing health.

Contains four novels that follow the experiences of Bella Swan, a young woman who moves to Forks, Washington, and becomes caught up in the lives of the handsome vampire Edward Cullen and Jake, a werewolf.

Bree, a newborn vampire and part of the army preparing to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, does not recall much about her life as a human, but knows enough to realize she is a pawn in a dangerous game that could end in her death--for the last time.

Ana is an honor student obsessed with being successful at everything academic, Clayton is her thirteen-year-old genius brother, the youngest student in their high school, and Zak is a gamer who is forced to join the quiz team by his teacher--but when Clayton sneaks off to a science fiction convention in Seattle while they are all there for a quiz bowl tournament, Ana is forced to rely on the unreliable Zak to find him.

Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.

Traces the rise and fall of Seattle during the 1980s and 1990s, discussing how the city became a major city during the dot-com revolution and how it was impacted when many of the technology industry's big names began to fail.

A Seattle doctor surrounded by newly rich dot-com owners discovers a potential cure for a children's premature aging disease--and aging in adults as well--and, yearning for wealth, fame, and a solution to family frustrations, wrestles with the ethical considerations of exploiting it.

In 1865, fifteen-year-old Aiden and his thirteen-year-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans, leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there are still many hardships to be faced.