Latest updated news about Local Books: Buried Secrets, Amanda Knox's Travails, Time-traveling AndBC Parks from The Seattle Times
New releases
"When the de la Cruz Family Danced" by Donna Miscolta (Signal 8 Press, $16.95). Seattle author Miscolta pens the story of Johnny de la Cruz, who returns to the Philippines and has a quick sexual encounter with an old flame. Years later, 19-year-old Winston Piña finds a letter his recently deceased mother wrote — but never sent — to Johnny. Miscolta will read from her novel, along with Oliver de la Paz, who will read from his poetry collections, at 7 p.m. Thursday at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Co. (206-624-6600 or www.elliottbaybook.com)
"The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox" by Nina Burleigh (Broadway, $25). The latest book-length investigation of the events surrounding the incarceration, trial and conviction of Seattle student Knox in Perugia, Italy. Burleigh, a contributing editor at Elle, lives in New York; Publisher's Weekly called her book " a powerful example of narrative nonfiction."
"The Brahms Deception" by Louise Marley (Kensington, $15). Seattle author Marley returns with the story of Frederica Daniels, a brilliant musicologist who gets to time-travel back to the era of Johannes Brahms. A rival scholar is elected to bring her back, but Frederica doesn't want to return.
"British Columbia's Magnificent Parks: The First 100 Years" by James D. Anderson (Harbour, $44.95). An informative, copiously illustrated book on BC's park system, by a career park administrator.
"Only Mine" by Susan Mallery (HQN Books, $7.99). The Seattle author produces a new installment in her "Fool's Gold" series: Dakota Hendrix, a psychologist, has to screen eligible bachelors for a romance reality competition filming in her hometown of Fool's Gold. Complications ensue.
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