Too Good to Be Through

Bud Withers ’70 Comm.

2025

Retired Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Times sportswriter Bud Withers explores 125 years of what he calls the country’s most distinctive yet underrated college football rivalry: the Apple Cup. Withers covered 31 Apple Cups, retiring in 2015 after a 45-year newspaper career. Here, he gives a game-by-game history of the match-up he describes as “dominated by Washington yet invariably made interesting by Washington State.”

 

Winds of Glory

Gary Bye ’71 Ag., ’74 Voc. Tech. Ed.

Granite Point Publishing: 2024

Winds of Glory picks up where award-winning Glory Grove leaves off. But the sequel to Gary Bye’s debut novel easily stands on its own two feet and, like his first book, will resonate with readers who love small towns, rural America, and high school sports⁠—in this case, basketball.

 

Forget the Fairy Tale and Find Your Happiness

Deb Miller

She Writes Press: 2025

Write your own happily-ever-after with guidance from this book⁠—part self-help, part memoir⁠—from Deb Miller, an adjunct professor of marketing in the MBA program at Carson College of Business. Miller grew up believing in finding a prince and living the dream. Here, she discusses what happens when the fairytale falls apart and offers advice for transforming setbacks such as divorce into stepping stones for rewriting narratives.

 

Nascent

Bitty Balducci

2025

Juniper Griffith is coming of age in 2113 when she embarks on an epic journey to learn the truth about Dream Corp., which monopolizes modern civilization. Inspiration for this young adult dystopian science fiction adventure novel, the first in The Clockwise Chronicles trilogy, came to Bitty Balducci, an assistant professor of marketing at Carson College of Business, in⁠—what else?⁠—a dream.

 

Secret Spokane: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Adriana Janovich

Reedy Press: 2026

This lively guide takes readers on a tour of more than 80 offbeat places that make Spokane the cultural capital of the Inland Northwest. From a charming, tucked-away hobbit house and spooky cemetery staircase to a metal goat designed to “eat” garbage, these spots will captivate visitors and new and longtime residents alike. Adriana Janovich worked at Spokane’s Spokesman-Review newspaper for nearly six years before joining Washington State Magazine as associate editor in 2019.

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