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Minneapolis poet Seth Berg visits with a debut collection, Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory, newly published by Dark Sky Books, itself newly transplanted to the Seattle area from South Carolina. "Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory is a heartfelt and gutsy investigation into the human brain's infinite possibilities, possibilities that remain potential in most of us, but geyser forward from Berg's consciousness in every poem." - Larissa Szporluk. "The memorable poems in Seth Berg's Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory embed themselves first in our minds and finally anchor in our hearts, reminding us to be still, to celebrate rare moments of communion, to savor bread rising in the kitchen, to listen to a yellow finch even in a world that threatens to drown out song." - Vivian Shipley. Seth Berg WILL be reading this evening at 7 pm at Pilot Books, 219 Broadway E. (www.pilotbooksseattle.com).

Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes, and other reader (book group) favorites I See You Everywhere and The Whole World Over, is back with a nuanced, insightful new novel, The Widower's Tale (Pantheon). "Percy Darling, 70, the narrator of Glass's fourth novel, takes comfort in certitudes: he will never leave his historic suburban Boston house, he is done with love (still guilty about his wife's death 30 years ago), and his beloved grandson will do credit to the family name. But Glass spins a beautifully paced, keenly observed story in which certainties give way to surprising reversals of fortune ... Glass handles the coalescing plot elements with astute insights into the complexity of family relationships, the gulf between social classes, and our modern culture of excess to create a dramatic, thought-provoking, and immensely satisfying novel." - Publishers Weekly.

Few expected that Elizabeth Hughes, diagnosed with juvenile diabetes in 1919, would live to adulthood, much less to welcome children and grandchildren into the world. Her story, and that of the Canadian researchers who first identified and purified the animal insulin that saved not only her life but also the lives of many millions of other diabetics, is told by Seattle writer Thea Cooper in the new book, Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle (St. Martin's Press, co-authored with Arthur Ainsberg). "A work that sometimes reads like a novel, with the characters brought to life through their ... thoughts, remarks and physical gestures ... A readable tale of medical achievement." - Kirkus Reviews.