New titles by Washington authors

New books with local ties

"Dark Light" by Jayne Castle (Jove, $7.99). Paranormal romance by the Seattle author better known as Jayne Ann Krentz. The setting is "a futuristic world where alien catacombs can lead you astray — and where psychic senses spark out-of-this-world passion."

"Then Zorn Said to Largent: The Best Seattle Seahawks Stories Ever Told" by Paul Moyer and Dave Wyman, with Chris Cluff (Triumph, $22.95). Former Seahawks players Moyer and Wyman, in collaboration with former Seattle Times sportswriter Cluff, share anecdotes about "some of the wackiest and most colorful players in the league."

"Birds of the Inland Northwest and Northern Rockies" by Harry Nehls, Mike Denny and Dave Trochell (R.W. Morse, $18.95). A field guide for birdwatchers heading east of the Cascades. Covers Idaho, Eastern Washington and Oregon, and Western Montana.

"A Walk in Bardo" by Cal Kinnear (Blue Begonia, $15). A book of meditative verse by a Seattle poet, taking a Tibetan phrase for "the space between" as one of its starting points.

"The Cosmopolitan" by Donna Stonecipher (Coffee House, $16). Miniature travelogues that also serve as meditations on writers living (Jonathan Raban, Azar Nafisi), dead (Franz Kafka, Susan Sontag) and somewhere in between (Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek "by way of Lenin"). Stonecipher lives part time in Seattle.

"Pure Blood" by Caitlin Kittredge (St. Martin's, $6.99). An occult thriller by an Olympia writer, in which a werewolf detective investigates a series of murders in a city where "witches lurk and demons prowl."

"Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire — Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do" by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa (Perigee, $14.95). Paperback reprint of book examining "how evolution shapes our everyday lives." Co-author Miller was a University of Washington affiliate associate professor of sociology until his death in 2003. With a new afterword by Kanazawa.

Michael Upchurch: mupchurch@seattletimes.com