Guterson, David

A modern reworking of Oedipus Rex that tells the story of Walter Cousins who has an affair that leads to the birth of the future billionaire Internet tycoon Edward Aaron King who, as an adult, is led through a quest out of his control.

When a newspaper journalist covers the trial of a Japanese American accused of murder, he must come to terms with his own past.

Ann Holmes, a sixteen-year-old runaway living in a Washington forest, is visited by the Virgin Mary--an event that sets off struggles of faith and conscience in her supporters and in a young priest whose attempts to evaluate her experience are clouded by his attraction to her.

Retired heart surgeon Ben Givens, diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, decides to take one last hunting trip in the Columbia Basin of central Washington where he plans to end his life, but the people he meets and the situations he faces along the way cause him to change his mind.

Left on a doorstep after his illegal au pair mother exacts a brutal revenge on his father, Edward is raised by an adoring family and grows up to become a famous billionaire Internet tycoon who hurtles toward a fate that he is powerless to control.

Contains ten short fiction stories, set primarily in the Pacific Northwest, about people whose wilderness adventures provide them with insights about their own lives and the behavior of strangers.

John William Barry and Neil Countryman are brought together by their mutual love of the outdoors; but when Neil asks John to help him disappear into Washington's backcountry, he finds himself in the center of secrets and deceit that will shatter his life.

When a newspaper journalist covers the trial of a Japanese American accused of murder, he must come to terms with his own past.

When a newspaper journalist covers the trial of a Japanese American accused of murder, he must come to terms with his own past.