Stiletto is a timely, fast-paced mystery told in two diverse voices—a tense duet between the sharp, intuitive Detective Anna Crane and her prime suspect, the brilliant biochemist Eleanor Kiernan. Both women are haunted by the tragic loss of a sibling, but Kiernan’s twin brother died of an overdose of the opiate she helped to create.

People flock from around the world to witness the Red-crowned Cranes perform their feathered ballet. Inspired by this beloved bird’s courtship dance, acclaimed nature writer Brenda Peterson and master Chinese illustrator, Ed Young, created this stunning illustrated poem of shadow art. The digital book is best enjoyed on the screen with its collage of paper, feathers, and light—all illuminated by the moon. Now an exhibit at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, this enlightening story of these “birds of happiness” is for all ages.

Selected as a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year," DUCK AND COVER is a "wicked black comedy" of a family who fights their wars "on the home front." As one of the MacKenzie children says, "The way nuclear families are put together, it just makes sense they would explode."

When an eerie mass stranding of whales and dolphins takes place along the mist-shrouded Oregon coast, forensic wildlife pathologist Isabel Spinner covertly investigates this disaster as a crime against wildlife. When Isabel connects with Marshall McGreggor, an undersea photographer, the two find themselves making surprising decisions – that will forever change their lives.

A seductive and mysterious Celtic historical romance set in 1916, in the brooding Scottish Hebrides Islands. London debutante-turned-governess, Seraphina Tighinn MacKenzie, uncovers her hidden heritage and a father's legacy when she finds a secret journal of a long-ago love affair. Seraphina meets a strange, young silkie-man -- a changeling who alters the life of every woman he loves, throughout lifetimes.

In this, her second novel, Brenda Peterson creates full and gorgeous characters who confront disturbing contemporary realities of life, love, and work. They all must risk discovering their own darker sides: the difficulties of honesty, intimacy, and friendship; the problems of jealousy, sexuality, and betrayal.

River of Light is the story of Georgia country people and their struggles to work and keep their land. Though the novel is set in the Thirties, it could well be contemporary: Lloyd Sloan desperately works his once-rich farm, loses it to the bankers, and fights to get himself and his family back to the land. This is also the story of Jessie Walsh, a vivacious, though life-hardened migrant woman, whose radiant and healing spirit slowly works on Lloyd and the land and the people in their community.

From beluga whales to wolves, raccoons to bears, elk to herons, the stories in this collection offer insights into the intricacies of animals’ intuitive communication, compassionate attention, and peaceful adaptation.

In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves.

This is the story of a life and spirit guided by animals. Brenda Peterson was raised in the High Sierras on a national forest lookout station, and wildlife had a daily, defining influence on her life. Peterson explores her deep connection with animals, from watching grizzlies in Montana's Rockies, to keeping Siberian huskies as pets in New York City, to her work for the restoration of wild wolves.

In this unusual memoir, fundamentalism meets deep ecology. The author's childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave this world.

This stirring book of photographs introduces the many wolves that have been given sanctuary at Wolf Haven International near Mount Rainer in southeast Washington State.

Weaving memoir, research, interviews, and lively storytelling, Peterson celebrates how the feminine can balance and restore our health and survival. Her well-told insights from psychology, mythology, history, and anthropology reveal the enduring alliance of sisterhoods—from childhood bonds to growing old together as Crones.

The focus of this book of essays is on the feminine body -- of earth and women, of animals, human and nonhuman. Whether writing about whales or women's bathing rituals, salmon or friendship, rain forests or life-saving dreams, Peterson weaves a compelling story of the bond between nature and ourselves.

Brenda Peterson's Puget Sound transcends regional boundaries and offers storytelling as true ecology. LIVING BY WATER seeks a mystical and authentic healing of the treaty long broken between humans and animals and our natural homeland.

Traces the lives of gray whales during their migrations between Alaska and Mexico, from their summer feeding grounds in the Bering Sea to winter birthing lagoons in Baja, examining their rich history including the conflict between their hunters and environmental protectors.

In sensuous prose that evokes the mist and mystery of the Pacific Northwest, noted nature writer Brenda Peterson chronicles 20 years of living on Puget Sound, allowing a range of marine creatures the full light of her powerful observations and asking readers to look at land, waters, and wildlife in new ways.

This exquisite book captures the essence of the Pacific Northwest from internationally acclaimed nature photographer Art Wolfe. Each chapter opens with an evocative essay by celebrated nature writer Brenda Peterson.

From revered nature writer Brenda Peterson and told through striking and vibrant mixed-media collages by Caldecott Medalist Ed Young, Catastrophe by the Sea is a poignant story of redemption through empathy and compassion found in the most surprising places, and also provides a rich understanding of small creatures that live in a dangerous tidal zone.

The Seattle Aquarium is presenting a permanent puppet show of Catastrophe by the Sea, script and songs by Brenda Peterson, with extraordinary puppets by Dan Luce of Sacred PlayPlace Studios. Luce has also created puppets for Disney and Cirque de Soleil.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

National Science Teachers Association named WILD ORCA an "Outstanding Science Book for K-12"

A picture book homage to Granny, the world's oldest known orca, who lived to be 105 years old!

For animal lovers and future environmentalists.

This is a hopeful conservation story about an endangered family of Mexican gray wolves who live in a sanctuary in the Pacific Northwest and their journey that leads to their successful release to the wild in Mexico.

Two different people from two very different worlds. Can a mermaid and a human boy find love? Can they survive in his world and hers? The DROWNING WORLD is an inventive and mesmerizing saga set in a vivid future of rising seas, floating cities, and Flood Lands.

Like THE HUNGER GAMES—but set in a secret underwater realm—TATTOO MASTER is the stunning sequel to THE DROWNING WORLD, which was acclaimed for its "glorious imagination" and a "page turner."

This is a compilation of articles by Brenda Peterson about why mermaids are the new vampires. Mermaids Rising gathers together interviews with professional mermaids, Peterson’s own lively and informative Huffington Post articles on the new mermaid mania, and an excerpt from her YA novel, The Drowning World,

By Brenda Peterson and Sarah Jane Freymann.

Whether you're writing your memoir for self-exploration, to leave a legacy, or for publication, Your Life Is A Book takes you on a step-by-step journey from concept to completion.

By Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson.

From the vantage points of diverse backgrounds and beliefs, the writings gathered here describe a vast range of spiritual searches and encounters. Contributors include Sy Montgomery, Terry Tempest Williams, Starhawk, Mary Gordon, Ursula Le Guin, Jane Goodall, Molly Peacock, Anne Sexton, Kathleen Norris, Diane Ackerman, and Joy Harjo.

Celebrating the world of plants, this remarkable anthology of prose and poetry features the work of Riogberta Mench· on maize, Margorie Stoneman Douglas of the Everglades' "river of grass," Isabel Allende on the language of flowers, susan Orlean on "Orchid Fever," Kathleen Norris on "Dreaming of Trees," and Alice Walker on "revolutionary petunias."

Though women have long felt kinship with animals, in the past they seldom participated in the study of them. Now, as more women make animals the subject of their investigations, significant new ideas are emerging—based on the premise that animals are honored co-sharers of the earth. This unprecedented anthology features original stories, essays, meditations, and poems by a vast array of women nature writers and field scientists

This groundbreaking anthology not only explores the depths and beauty of the dolphin-human bond but also encourages new generations to respect the complexities and responsibilities inherent in such interspecies kinship.