We’re proud to offer a great selection of novels, story collections and biographies written by local authors at JJ Books. Most of our featured local authors are from right here in the Greater Seattle area, and we also have several from other Pacific Northwest locales. Local author genres range from children’s stories, to young adult, to self-help/religious, to biographies.

Below are a few of our current featured titles. Be sure to check our events page for exclusive local author book signing events.

 

Ann Charles

Ann Charles is an award-winning author who writes romantic mysteries that are splashed with humor. For her first book, Nearly Departed in Deadwood, she won the 2010 National Daphne du Maurier for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense award AND the 2011 National Romance Writers of America Golden Heart award. (Holy cow, right? Yeah, Ann is still a bit starry-eyed about this.)

 

 

Caroline Banguero

http://paolosadventures.wordpress.com/author/paolosadventures/

 

 

Diane Kinman

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1140170.Diane_Kinman

 

 

 

 

Memory Mining

Allan Hay

 

 

 

Work Finding

Bill Gregoryu

 

 

 

Nearly Departed in Deadwood

Ann Charles

 

 

 

Enigma Squad the Case of the Old Man in the Mailbox

Brian Jacobs

 

 

 

Paolo's Adventures

Caroline Banguero

 

 

 

My Impossible Dream

Chuck Randall

 

 

 

Blunderbuss Wanderlust

David Shaprio and Christopher Herdon

 

 

 

Franca's Story

Diane Kinman

 

 

 

Life Through the Rear View Mirror

Ed Lincoln

 

 

 

Travel's with Doris

Frank King

 

 

 

Poetry in Time

Glenn Vosper

 

 

 

The Teddy Bear Faeries

Ines E. De Castro

 

 

 

Strickly Sundays

Joe Fitzpatrick

 

 

 

Tellaga and Conred

Joyce Anderson

 

 

 

And All is Made Whole Once Again

Katherine Alley

 

 

 

Twins

Katherine Pym

 

 

 

Viloa, A Woeful Tale of Marrage

Katherine Pym

 

 

 

Marijuana Withdrawal After 40 Years

Leo Sielch

 

 

 

Right Where You Are Now

Lisa Montierth

 

 

 

Trouble at Home

Lynn Fife

 

 

 

Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History

Manny Pacheco

 

 

 

The Artists Journey

Marcia Shaver

 

 

 

Fantail Journey

Mary McElroy

 

 

 

Mary's Place

Mary Pelzel

 

 

 

Edsel McFarlan's New Car

Max Holechek and Darrell Toland

 

 

 

Run for Hawks Bay

Melanie Spees

 

 

 

Second Sight

Mettco Sabic

 

 

 

Turnaround Summer

Paul Hansen

 

 

 

Riding with Reindeer

Robert Goldstein

In the summer of 2007, Seattle resident Robert Goldstein arrives in Helsinki, assembles his folding bicycle, and begins an adventure that will take him to the Arctic Ocean. More than a travelogue, Riding with Reindeer intersperses the author’s humorous adventures with cultural and historical anecdotes about the regions he traverses. 

 

 

Gentleman from Finland

Robert Goldstein

 

 

 

Creating a Collaborative Enterprise

Robert Nitschke

 

 

 

Healing Self Healing Earth

Roy Holman

 

 

 

Om Baby Child of the Universe

Schamet Horsfield

 

 

 

The Babylon Prophecy

Sean Salazar

 

 

 

I Survived the Killing Fields

Seng Kok Ung

 

 

 

Terra Tempo Ice Age Cataclysm

Shapiro, Melville and Herndon

 

 

 

The Ultimate Diet is not About Food

Dr. Stepanka Volejnikova Chae

 

 

 

Religion to Reality

Terry Thomas

 

 

 

The Shimmering, Tales of Tremora

William Westwood Jr.

 

 

The Owl Wrangler

By William Vaughn

Imagine a world where an itinerant clan of five-inch forest elves camps amongst the roots of towering fir trees. When Gollsaer, the clan’s Owl Wrangler mysteriously disappears, his teenage son Hisbil must take on the perilous duty or face exile from the clan. Wanting to clear his father’s name, Hisbil gets help from his pesky little sister, who can heal with a touch, a pretty and clairvoyant classmate, who knows what’s on Hisbil’s mind before he does, and an exiled clansman whose motives are far from pure. Armed with little more than a wand, an old broken sword and an awakening spell he’s never used, Hisbil and his elven cohorts endure a harrowing odyssey of danger, deception, betrayal, and battle until Hisbil finally discovers the real truth about his calling, his father and his clan.

Submarine Warriors The Enemy Beneath

By Rob Tiffany

Follow literature’s next generation of young heroes as they take command of a nuclear submarine to brave the ocean depths and battle the deadly Underworlders to save their fathers.  “The Enemy Beneath” is the first volume of the “Submarine Warriors” series where a group of middle-school friends from the Pacific Northwest must transform into submariners when they are confronted by an enemy threatening the survival of mankind. 

 

Evergreen Crossing

By Michael Minor

Derek Stoddard, a devoted husband and father, was returning home from a business trip in Montana when a freak coincidence caused his plane to crash. The lone survivor, he found himself traveling much farther than he could have ever imagined. It wasn’t so much a trip of distance as it was a journey through time. 

 

Now finding himself in a world he had only read and dreamed about, he had to figure out a way to get back home. It was so close, yet so far, and seemed an impossible task! Comfortable in his new surroundings, he wasn’t always positive it was something he really wanted to do, because he had met some remarkable characters, and had experienced more in a very short time than he could have possibly imagined. But there was his young daughter, Katy, and he knew he had to somehow get back to her, even if it meant leaving this dream world behind. But how could he contact her?