Brenda Peterson, Author . Sierra Club $24.95 (292p) ISBN 978-1-57805-108-3
Novelist and nature writer Peterson (Duck and Cover
; Nature and Our Mothers
) crafts an uneven and melodramatic but gripping tale about love, xenotransplantation (transplanting organs and tissue across species) and the military-industrial complex
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Brenda Peterson, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-393-05014-1
A lifelong love of animals combined with a jeweler's eye for multifaceted philosophical meanings provide Peterson (Living by Water) with a wealth of fascinating anecdotes and insights in this engaging memoir. Moving easily back and forth in time and
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Brenda Peterson, Author Graywolf Press $17.5 (276p) ISBN 978-1-55597-104-5
Hiding behind the portentous title of Peterson's second novel (after River of Light) is a slight, overly autobiographical tale with a worn-out theme: bright-eyed country girl goes to the big city to become a great writer. Readers may doubt the...
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Brenda Peterson, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (254p) ISBN 978-0-06-016320-4
Meet the MacKenzies: Dad, a dedicated career diplomat; Mom, a Bible-thumping CIA operative; son Davy, a gung-ho fighter pilot nicknamed Rocket Man; and daughters Tia, a trauma nurse married to a survivalist/heart surgeon, and Sydney, a psychologist...
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Brenda Peterson, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (216p) ISBN 978-0-06-016313-6
Rooted in personal experience, these diverse essays, moved to next sentence; essays, not Duck and Cover, are reprinted reprinted from Seattle Weekly , Lear's and other publications, move on to larger concerns with persuasive grace. In ``The Power of
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Brenda Peterson, Author . Da Capo $25 (277p) ISBN 978-0-306-81804-2
Talk of the rapture—the ascent to heaven of true Christians before the end of the world—surrounds Peterson (Duck and Cover
), and she engages this conversation with delicacy, humor, frustration, and, at times, a begrudging respect, in...
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Brenda Peterson and Sarah Jane Freymann. Sasquatch, $16.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-57061-930-4
Writing instructor Peterson (Secret Histories) and literary agent Freymann combine their talents in this helpful but sometimes awkward guide to memoir-writing. They offer plenty of insights gleaned from their own experiences, such as “character...
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Brenda Peterson, photos by Annie Marie Musselman. Little Bigfoot, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-63217-084-2
Musselman’s striking photographs chronicle the journey that one family of Mexican gray wolves, lobos, takes from a sanctuary in Washington State to their eventual release into the Mexican wilderness. In informed, descriptive prose, Peterson writes...
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