New releases

Fu-Go: The Curious History of Japans Balloon Bomb Attack on America by Ross Coen (University of Nebraska Press, $28.95). Toward the end of World War II, the Japanese military sent thousands of hydrogen balloons armed with incendiary and high-explosive bombs over the western U.S. One device killed a mother and five children near Bly, Ore. The book delves into this slice of history. The author lives in Seattle.

Taming the Ox by Charles Johnson (Shambhala, $17.95). National Book Award author and University of Washington scholar offers a collection of essays, reviews and short stories about politics, races and Buddhism. He will do a reading from the book at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, at Seattles Elliott Bay Book Co.

Ken Jennings Outer Space by Ken Jennings (Little Simon, $19.99). Seattles superstar Jeopardy! champion releases the fourth installment of his Junior Genius Guide series designed to help young people get smarter. It is full of facts and questions like, Did you know Mars has a volcano bigger than Arizona?

The Haunted Library and The Ghost in the Attic by Dori Hillestad Butler and illustrated by Aurore Damant (Penguin, $4.99). For ages 7-9. Kaz, a lost ghost blown into a library, works with Claire, a real girl, to find his family and solve some ghostly mysteries in this beginning chapter-book series. Butler lives in Seattle.

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Japans balloon bomb attack in WW II; meditations on Buddhism