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All of Usby Raymond CarverISBN 1860463649 (1-86046-364-9)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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The Ann Lovejoy Handbook of Northwest Gardening: Natural-Sustainable-Organicby Ann Lovejoy, Janet LoughreyISBN 157061198X (1-57061-198-X)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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Another Roadside Attractionby Tom RobbinsISBN 0553349481 (0-553-34948-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Roadside Attraction'Book summary:It's clear that when Robbins sits down to write, he has one thing on his mind: having himself some fun. I read Another Roadside Attraction, years ago, then immediately went back to the beginning of the book and read it again. Robbins holds nothing back in this, his first novel. It's a perfect introduction to the Robbins oeuvre of oddness. [via]
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Atomic Marbles & Branding Irons: A Guide to Museums, Collections, and Roadside Curiosities in Washington and Oregonby Adam Woog, Harriet BaskasISBN 091236579X (0-912365-79-X)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atomic Marbles & Branding Irons: A Guide to Museums, Collections, and Roadside Curiosities in Washington and Oregon'Book summary:Atomic Marbles and Branding Irons guides you toward afascinating and fun look at more that 130 marvelous museums, curiouscollections, and just about anything worth pulling the car over for.Here is the Northwest you won't find in any typical guidebook-fromhands-on science museums to dig-your-own fossil pits; from pricelessobjets d'art to funky, front-yard, folk art. [via]
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Bicycling the Backroads Around Puget Soundby Bill Woods, Erin WoodsISBN 0898861993 (0-89886-199-3)
Softcover, Mountaineers Books
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Call If You Need Meby William L. Stull, Raymond CarverISBN 1860467598 (1-86046-759-8)
Hardcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call If You Need Me'Book summary:When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection entitled Elephant and his own collection of stories, Where I'm Calling from. Five previously unpublished stories have recently been discovered, and this new volume brings together all of his uncollected fiction, including a fragment of an unfinished novel, five early stories, and all of his non-fiction prose. Three of these late-found stories are fine examples of Carver's late, open style, while two date from his middle period. The non-fiction prose includes all of his essays, together with occasional commentary on his own fiction and poetry, writings on the American short story, and reviews of work by his contemporaries, among them Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Jim Harrison, Thomas McGuane and Richard Ford. Also included is Carver's latest essay "Friendship", about a London reunion with Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff. Call If You Need Me takes us into Carver's workshop, and alongside All of Us: The Collected Poems and Where I'm Calling from: The Selected Stories completes the picture of one of the most original writers in the English language of his generation. [via]
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David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedarsby Harold BloomISBN 0791078779 (0-7910-7877-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Ecotopiaby Ernest CallenbachISBN 0960432019 (0-9604320-1-9)
Softcover, Heyday Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecotopia'Book summary:Ecotopia embodies in concrete, practical form the new biology-conscious philosophy that has been evolving in recent years, especially on the West Coast.
The setting is the early 21st century. Ecotopia, made up of what was once Northern California, Oregon, and Washington, has been independent for several decades. At last, an official visitor from New York is admitted: Will Weston, top investigative reporter. Like a modern Gulliver, Weston is sometimes horrified sometimes impressed despite himself, and sometimes touched by the strange practices he encounters--which include ritual war games, collective ownership and operation of farms and factories, and an attention to trees and reforestation which borders on tree-worship.
With beautiful new cover art and a new introduction by the author, this thirtieth anniversary edition of Ecotopia will delight old fans and new, and make a perfect gift for anyone who has ever asked the question, ''How can I make a difference?'' [via]
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Foghorn Outdoors Pacfic Northwest Camping: The Complete Guide to Campsites in Washington and Oregonby Tom StienstraISBN 1573540803 (1-57354-080-3)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregonby Chuck PalahniukISBN 1400047838 (1-4000-4783-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon'Book summary:It's rare to find a travel guide and a memoir joined neatly together in a single, highly readable 176-page volume. But Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke, Lullaby) is a writer of rare talent and his home of Portland, Oregon, is a city of rare wonders. In Strangers and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon, Palahniuk goes beyond the AAA handbooks to reveal the places, people, and legends of Portland that have long been known only to locals. The reader learns the location of the legendary Self Cleaning House, where to find the restless ghost of the founder of Powell's Books, and why feral cats are such an important part of Portland baseball. Portland, it seems, is also a highly sexual city and Palahniuk dutifully dissects the specialties of each strip joint as well as discussing Mochika, a zoo penguin with a real fetish for black boots. Along the way, he includes "postcards" from his life in the Rose City dating back to 1981 when, as a 19-year-old, he dropped acid and accidentally ate part of a woman's fur coat during a laser show of Pink Floyd's The Wall. As Palahniuk matures, the postcards reveal the author becoming increasingly a part of the city's scene, culminating with a wild and wooly Millennium Eve celebration at the Bagdad Theater that featured a screening of the film version of Fight Club. Fugitives and Refugees is a must for anyone who may, in their lives, go to Portland. But its appeal should reach beyond Oregonians. Palahniuk's love of the city is so great, and his stories so weirdly wonderful, it makes one want to get out of the house, get in the car, and drive to Portland right away. Just remember to pack the book. --John Moe [via]
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The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwestby Timothy EganISBN 0679734856 (0-679-73485-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Good Rain : An Exploration of the Pacific Northwestby Timothy P. EganISBN 0394577248 (0-394-57724-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Rain : An Exploration of the Pacific Northwest'Book summary:Egan succeeds in capturing the richness and beauty of the Pacific Northwest (and it's possibly imminent destruction) with rich description, appropriately chosen and reported interviews, and visits to exactly the places I would have chosen for such a book. From manicured gardens in essentially English Vancouver, B.C., to Indian reservations in western Washington, to the proud rural communities in eastern Washington, and visits to the precipitous peaks and brooding volcanos of the Cascade Mountains, Egan captures the presences and peoples of this region more effectively than most any other book I have encountered. Highly Recommended. [via]
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Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: Steve Solomon's Complete Guide to Natural Gardeningby Steve SolomonISBN 091236520X (0-912365-20-X)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: The Complete Guide to Natural Gardeningby Steve SolomonISBN 1570612404 (1-57061-240-4)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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Having Everything Right: Essays of Placeby Kim R. StaffordISBN 1570610975 (1-57061-097-5)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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Hidden Pacific Northwestby Eric Lucas, Stephen DolainskiISBN 1569751315 (1-56975-131-5)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Hidden Pacific Northwest: Including Oregon, Washington, Vancouver, Victoria, and Coastal British Columbiaby Eric LucasISBN 1569755760 (1-56975-576-0)
Softcover, Ulysses Pr
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The Highest Tideby Jim LynchISBN 1582346291 (1-58234-629-1)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Highest Tide'Book summary:Miles O'Malley, 13-year-old insomniac, naturalist, worshipper of Rachel Carson, and dweller on the mud flats of Skookumchuck Bay, at the South end of Puget Sound near Olympia, Washington, is the irresistible center of The Highest Tide. He says, "I learned early on that if you tell people what you see at low tide they'll think you're exaggerating or lying when you're actually just explaining strange and wonderful things as clearly as you can" and "People usually take decades to sort out their view of the universe, if they bother to sort at all. I did my sorting during one freakish summer in which I was ambushed by science, fame and suggestions of the divine."
And what a summer he has! Miles, who is licensed to collect marine specimens for money, slips into his kayak late one night when he can't sleep and begins his exploratory rounds. What he sees is not the usual collectibles. He hears a deep exhale, a sound of release, and comes eye to eye with a giant squid. But, there are no giant squid in Puget Sound or anywhere around it--and when they are seen by humans, they are always dead. His discovery is confirmed by Professor Kramer, a local biologist and Miles's friend. Television cameras arrive, everyone wants to interview this small-for-his-age but very smart boy and the events of the summer begin to unfold.
Jim Lynch has an ability to tell a tale that glows on every page. He knows everything that lives in or near the water by name and habit. This knowledge and his sense of wonder at the natural world brings the reader very close to his story, both in its setting and its characters. One early morning Miles says, "...the water was so clear I could see coon-stripe shrimp ... and the bottomless bed of white clam shells ... Those shells, as unique and timeless as bones, helped me realize that we all die young, that in the life of the earth, we are houseflies, here for one flash of light." Such insights are perfectly natural coming from Miles, whose interests are not garden-variety. He has a mad crush on the mixed-up 18-year-old girl next door, a randy age-mate named Phelps, and a deep friendship with Florence, the elderly woman his mother refers to as "a crazy witch." Florence is a psychic of sorts and her powers come into play when she predicts an extremely high tide on a certain day.
All of these relationships and what is happening between Miles's parents are part of this event-filled, life-changing summer. Early on, Miles says off the top of his head, when asked by a TV reporter why a deep-sea creature has found its way to his front yard, "Maybe the earth is trying to tell us something." What the earth and the sea and the people in Miles's life are all trying to tell him is what he susses out in the days that follow--before that high tide.
This absolutely luminous first novel has all the earmarks of a classic. The Highest Tide is destined to be read, re-read, and to remain on bookshelves for the enjoyment of generations to come. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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I Heard the Owl Call My Nameby Margaret CravenISBN 1550413392 (1-55041-339-2)
Softcover, Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Heard the Owl Call My Name'Book summary:In a world that knows too well the anguish inherent in the clash of old ways and new lifestyles, Margaret Craven_s classic and timeless story of a young man_s journey into the Pacific Northwest is as relevant today as ever. Here amid the grandeur of British Columbia stands the village of Kingcome, a place of salmon runs and ancient totems - a village so steeped in time that, according to Kwakiutl legend, it was founded by two brothers left on earth after the great flood. Yet in this Eden of such natural beauty and richness, the old culture of totems and potlaches is under attack - slowly being replaced by a new culture of prefab houses and alcoholism. Into this world, where an entire generation of young people has become disenchanted and alienated from their heritage, Craven introduces Mark Brian, a young vicar sent to the small isolated parish by his church. This is Mark_s journey of discovery - a journey that will teach him about life, death, and the transforming power of love. It is a journey that will resonate in the mind of readers long after the book is done. [via]
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The Last Town on Earthby Thomas MullenISBN 1400065208 (1-4000-6520-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Livingby Annie DillardISBN 006092411X (0-06-092411-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Living'Book summary:Listening to Lawrence Luckinbill read Annie Dillard's historical novel The Living takes a little getting used to. The very first sentence reveals a pronounced and distracting lisp, but don't let that dissuade you from continuing. Luckinbill's voice also exhibits a simple honesty, a gruffness that is perfectly suited to the steely pioneer spirit of Dillard's story. Surprisingly quickly, the vocal idiosyncrasy fades away, leaving only the emotional resonance of Luckenbill's obviously heartfelt connection to this powerful tale.
Dillard's finely crafted prose and Luckinbill's sincere voice carry you back to the early days of American expansion, into the truly Wild West and the stone-hard life these settlers would be forced to endure. "She had cried out to God all day and maybe all night, too, that he would lend her strength to bear affliction and go on. She was not aware that underneath she prayed another prayer as if to a power above God, or at least to his better nature, that he was finished with the worst of it." Of course, God isn't finished, and neither are these brave souls. Dillard opens their world slowly, stretching the horizon generation by generation, tethering the fate of one small family to that of the struggling town that they are helping to build and, ultimately, to the inexorable rise of the emerging nation. (Running time: six hours, four cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heavenby Sherman AlexieISBN 0802141676 (0-8021-4167-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven'Book summary:In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads "From the Death Bed of Jimmy Many Horses III," even though he actually writes then on his kitchen table. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and mostly poetically between modern Indians and the traditions of the past. [via]
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Lonely Planet Pacific Northwestby Judy Jewell, Debra Miller, Jennifer Snarski, Daniel SchechterISBN 1864503777 (1-86450-377-7)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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My Story As Told by Waterby David James DuncanISBN 1578050499 (1-57805-049-9)
Hardcover, Sierra Club Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Story As Told by Water'Book summary:When David James Duncan was growing up in suburban Portland, Oregon, he had no river to call his own, so he would routinely create one by flooding his mother's garden with a hose. He would then revel in his creation until he received the inevitable scolding. The poor kid couldn't help himself: "Running water ... felt as necessary to me as food, sleep, parents, and air," he explains. In time, he exchanged his nozzle for a fly rod and went in search of grander gardens, eventually developing an "interior coho compass" which he has traveled by ever since.
As any reader of The River Why knows, Duncan is a master of the art of writing about fishing--which is also to say life, since the two for him are indelibly linked. But these essays deal with far more than leaky waders and rising trout. Part memoir, part activist treatise, My Story As Told by Water is Duncan's love song to wild places and the creatures which inhabit them. The book's highlight is his powerfully convincing essay "A Prayer for the Salmon's Second Coming," in which he argues that saving salmon is crucial to both man and fish alike: "A 'modern Northwest' that cannot support salmon is unlikely to support 'modern Northwesterners' for long," he writes. In this elegant demand for the removal of four Snake River dams (out of 221 on the Snake/Columbia system), Duncan declares the wild salmon "a holiness, a divine gift," a role model rather than a resource: "Salmon are a light darting not just through water, but through the human mind and heart. Salmon help shield us from fear of death by showing us how to follow our course without fear, and how to give ourselves for the sake of things greater than ourselves."
He also ruminates on the true meanings of "place" and "home"; offers a fable on the 1872 Mining Act, "the most anachronistic and devastating piece of 'corporate welfare' in the world"; and details how Montanans rallied to prevent a giant mining company from extracting gold near the Blackfoot River, the setting of the Norman Maclean classic A River Runs Through It. All in all, My Story As Told by Water is a moving collection by an exquisite writer endowed with wit, compassion, and the rare ability to appeal to both emotion and reason in equal measures. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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My Story As Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Ageby David James DuncanISBN 1578050839 (1-57805-083-9)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Pacific Northwestby National Audubon Society, Peter AldenISBN 0679446796 (0-679-44679-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Pacific Northwest'Book summary:The Pacific Northwest is a cornucopia of extraordinary outdoor diversity. Pocket- and purse-friendly, this field guide covers habitats (subalpine meadows to rain forests to desert shrub to salt marshes) in addition to topography and geology (with explanations of the Oregon Dunes, Columbia Plateau Basalts, Mount St. Helens volcano, and a variety of minerals). Flora and fauna, however, make up the bulk of the book, with 1,000 of the most common species found in the Pacific Northwest. From mushrooms and algae to trees and wildflowers, fishes, frogs, flies, birds, and mammals, each species is identified with a color picture, short description, and notes on the habitat and season in which you'd encounter it. There's also an excellent chapter on Northwesterners' favorite topic of conversation--the weather--plus a guide to constellations and the night sky, for those evenings when it's clear. It behooves anyone who likes nature and lives in or visits the Pacific Northwest to carry the easy-to-use and beautifully put-together Audubon Society Field Guide at all times. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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The Northwest Gardener's Resource Directoryby Stephanie Feeney, Debra PrinzingISBN 1570613036 (1-57061-303-6)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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Northwest Treesby Stephen F. ArnoISBN 0916890503 (0-916890-50-3)
Softcover, Mountaineers Books
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The Organic Machineby Richard White, Eric FonerISBN 0809035596 (0-8090-3559-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia Riverby Richard WhiteISBN 0809015838 (0-8090-1583-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River'Book summary:The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.[via]
In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both whites and Native Americans. He concentrates on what brings humans and the river together: not only the physical space of the region but also, and primarily, energy and work. For working with the river has been central to Pacific Northwesterners' competing ways of life. It is in this way that White comes to view the Columbia River as an organic machine--with conflicting human and natural claims--and to show that whatever separation exists between humans and nature exists to be crossed.More editions of The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River:
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Our Lady of the Forestby David GutersonISBN 0375726578 (0-375-72657-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Lady of the Forest'Book summary:David Guterson's Our Lady of the Forest navigates between the mystical and the cynical in its slowly paced telling of a Marian encounter in North Fork, Washington. The story opens in the North Fork campground among homeless mushroom pickers. The town is reeling from the loss of its logging industry, and its residents make their way by scavenging odd jobs and selling the produce of the forest. Living in the campground, 16-year-old Anne Holmes is a runaway asthmatic whose recent interest in Catholicism follows a period of petty thievery, drug use, and frequent masturbation (an interest that Guterson notes is shared by the town priest, Father Don Collins). While off on her rounds of mushrooming one morning, she encounters a bright light--the Virgin Mary, she believes. Soon, she has drawn a band of thousands as people flock to North Fork to witness the vision and be healed. But, through Carolyn Greer, a world-weary fellow-mushroom-picker who longs for nothing more than an extended vacation to "Cabo"-- readers learn that Anne actually sees nothing, or at least no one else shares the Marian apparition that gives Anne lofty commands each day.
At times Guterson lets his characters' pettiness, opportunism, and cynicism overrun the delicacy of Anne's world. Carolyn's vehement atheism and materialistic languor undermine what could have been a stronger counter-point to her spiritual friend. Even Father Collins, who struggles between fatherly compassion and sexual longing for the young visionary, is too full of self-loathing for readers to embrace him. Yet, the novel's exploration of Anne's abrupt and intense faith pierces the narrative and brings light to it. And as Anne's visions grow in intensity and her health begins to fail, one can't help but long for divine intervention on her behalf. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Pacific Coast Tree Finder a Manual for Identifying Pacific Coast Treesby Tom WattsISBN 0912550279 (0-912550-27-9)
Softcover, Nature Study Guild
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pacific Coast Tree Finder: A Pocket Manual for Identifying Pacific Coast Trees'Book summary:The classic key to identifying native trees of the Pacific Coast, updated to reflect changes in the names of trees since publication of the first edition. Identifies native trees, and some widely introduced or naturalized species, of the Pacific Coast region, from British Columbia to Baja California. In this edition, Latin names of trees that grow in California conform to the University of California's 1993 Jepson Manual, and more recent name changes. From the Finders series of pocket guides to native plants and animals of the U.S. and Canada; like all plant guides in the series, this book uses a dichotomous key format for accurate identification. [via]
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The Pacific Northwestby Tim Jepson, Phil Lee, Rough Guides StaffISBN 1843532859 (1-84353-285-9)
Softcover, Rough Guides, Limited
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Pacific Northwest Camping: The Complete Guide to More Than 45,000 Campsites for Rvers, Car Campers, and Tenters in Washington and Oregonby Tom StienstraISBN 1573540374 (1-57354-037-4)
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Pacific Northwest: Including Western Canada and Alaskaby Phil Lee, Tim JepsonISBN 1858280923 (1-85828-092-3)
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The Pacific Northwest: Past, Present And Futureby Dale LambertISBN 0939688506 (0-939688-50-6)
Hardcover, DMI
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Pike Place Market Cookbook: Recipes, Anecdotes, and Personalities from Seattle's Renowned Public Marketby Braiden Rex-Johnson, Tom DouglasISBN 1570613192 (1-57061-319-2)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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Pike Place Market Cookbook: Recipes, Personalities, and Anecdotes from Seattle's Renowned Public Marketby Braiden Rex-JohnsonISBN 0912365528 (0-912365-52-8)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Plants Of The Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaskaby Jim Pojar, Andy MacKinnon, Glenn RollansISBN 1551050404 (1-55105-040-4)
Softcover, Lone Pine Publishing
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* 1100 color photographs
* More than 1000 line drawings and silhouettes
* Clear species descriptions and keys to groups
* Descriptions of each plant's habitat and range
* 794 new color range maps.Rich and engaging notes on each species describe aboriginal and other local uses of plants for food, medicine and implements, along with unique characteristics of the plants and the origins of their names. For both amateurs and professionals, this is the best, most accessible, most up-to-date guide of its kind. [via]
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Puget's Sound: A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Soundby Murray Cromwell MorganISBN 0295983035 (0-295-98303-5)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Rains All the Time: A Connoisseur's History of Weather in the Pacific Northwestby David LaskinISBN 1570610630 (1-57061-063-0)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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Reservation Bluesby Sherman AlexieISBN 0802141900 (0-8021-4190-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reservation Blues'Book summary:The life of Spokane Indian Thomas Builds-the-Fire irrevocably changes when blues legend Robert Johnson miraculously appears on his reservation and passes the misfit storyteller his enchanted guitar. Inspired by this gift, Thomas forms Coyote Springs, an all-Indian Catholic band who find themselves on a magical tour that leads from reservation bars to Seattle and New York--and deep within their own souls. [via]
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The River Whyby David James DuncanISBN 1578050847 (1-57805-084-7)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The River Why'Book summary:David James Duncan's first novel has gained an increasingly wide audience over the years--some might even call it a following. This coming-of-age tale of Gus Orviston's search for the Pacific Northwest's elusive steelhead, a metaphor for Gus's internal quest for self-knowledge, appeals to all who cherish a good yarn and memorable characters. Uncle Zeke's colorful rendition of Gus's conception on the banks of the Deschutes River is itself worth the price of purchase. [via]
Romance of Waterfalls: Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washingtonby Barbara L. Bloom, Garry W. CohenISBN 0966275608 (0-9662756-0-8)
Softcover, Outdoor Romance Pub
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The Rough Guide to the Pacific Northwest: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, Alberta, Yukonby Phil Lee, Tim JepsonISBN 1858283264 (1-85828-326-4)
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This region has outgrown its grunge rock image to become a destination of choice for travelers looking for diverse experiences. The US states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon, contain some of North America's great cities -- Seattle and Vancouver for a start -- as well as some of the greatest wild places on earth. Whether you're trekking the scorched landscape of Mount St. Helens, exploring the fabulous Olympic and Mount Ranier National Parks, or enjoying a coffee in one of Portland's famous coffee houses, this Rough Guide offers expert guidance. [via]
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Shoot the Buffaloby Matt BriggsISBN 0972323473 (0-9723234-7-3)
Softcover, Clear Cut Pr Llc
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Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattleby Murray Cromwell MorganISBN 0295958464 (0-295-95846-4)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle'Book summary:Informal and picturesque, Skid Road is the story of Seattle during its first hundred years, seen through the lives of the vigorous personalities of its settlers and early citizens. This handsomely illustrated revised edition brings Seattle's history up-to-date and provides a vivid portrayal of its past: pioneering, Indian warfare, lumber, railroads, the great fire of 1889, the Alaska gold rush, the amusement business, newspapers, the general strike of 1919, and the tumultuous politics of city and state that have made history in the Northwest.
"No one who has ever writte Pacific Northwest history can match Murray Morgan's craftmanship, the signal virtues of which are pace, precision, humor, and a keen eye for the characterizing detail." -Norman Clark, Pacific Northwest Quarterly
"Mr. Morgan's book is the sort of corrective history that all communities should welcome." -Stewart Holbrook, New York Herald Tribune [via]
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Snow Falling on Cedarsby David GutersonISBN 067976402X (0-679-76402-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Falling on Cedars'Book summary:Fighting the distrust and prejudice of his neighbors on a remote island in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American man who spent time in an internment camp during World War II, finds himself on trial for murder. The histories of the accused and the victim, both fishermen and residents of the small town of San Piedro, unfold as newspaperman Ishmael Chambers embarks on a quest for the truth. Lonely and war-scarred, Chambers strives for justice and inner strength, while coming to terms with his ill-fated love for Hatsue Miyamoto, the wife of the accused. Evocative and beautifully written, Snow Falling on Cedars won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. [via]
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Snow Falling on Cedarsby PenguinISBN 058241928X (0-582-41928-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Falling on Cedars'Book summary:Fighting the distrust and prejudice of his neighbors on a remote island in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American man who spent time in an internment camp during World War II, finds himself on trial for murder. The histories of the accused and the victim, both fishermen and residents of the small town of San Piedro, unfold as newspaperman Ishmael Chambers embarks on a quest for the truth. Lonely and war-scarred, Chambers strives for justice and inner strength, while coming to terms with his ill-fated love for Hatsue Miyamoto, the wife of the accused. Evocative and beautifully written, Snow Falling on Cedars won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. [via]
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Sometimes a Great Notionby Ken KeseyISBN 0140045295 (0-14-004529-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sometimes a Great Notion'Book summary:The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest[via]
Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy. 
Starvation Heightsby Gregg OlsenISBN 1400097460 (1-4000-9746-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Toughest Indian in the Worldby Sherman AlexieISBN 0802138004 (0-8021-3800-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Toughest Indian in the World'Book summary:Call Sherman Alexie any number of things--novelist, poet, filmmaker, thorn in the side of white liberalism--just don't call him "universal." Aside from his well-documented distaste for the word, its fuzziness misses the point. The Toughest Indian in the World, Alexie's second collection, succeeds as brilliantly as it does because of its particularity. These aren't stories about the Indian Condition; they're stories about Indians--urban and reservation, street fighters and yuppies, husbands and wives. "She understood that white people were eccentric and complicated and she only wanted to be understood as eccentric and complicated as well," thinks the Coeur d'Alene narrator of "Assimilation," who's married (unhappily) to a white man. And yet the issue of race has taken up permanent residence inside her house: the marriage survives, but it's love that's the most thorough assimilation of all.
Like The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, much of The Toughest Indian in the World combines deft psychological realism with the kind of narrative logic more commonly found in dreams. In "South by Southwest," a white drifter finds love on a "nonviolent killing spree" with an overweight Indian he calls Salmon Boy; in "Dear John Wayne," the cowboy actor falls in love with a young Spokane woman and proves himself a charmingly feminist hero. ("Oh, sons, you're just engaging in some harmless gender play," he tells his boys when he finds them trying on lipstick.) But for every bear hibernating on top of the Catholic church, there's also a GAP-wearing, Toyota-driving urban Indian on a quest for his roots. In both realist and surrealist modes, Alexie writes incantatory prose--as well as the kind of dialogue that makes even secondary characters leap into sudden focus: "'What?' asked Wonder Horse, as simple a question as could possibly be tendered, though he made it sound as if he'd asked Where's the tumor?"
Alexie is sometimes guilty of painting his white characters with too broad a brush. (Is any anthropologist truly as obtuse as the one in "Dear John Wayne"? Could any reader really want Mary Lynn, the narrator of "Assimilation," to stay with her boorish white husband?) Yet his kind of firebrand politics still has the power to shock. A harrowing fable about whites kidnapping Indians for the medical properties of their blood, "The Sin Eaters" could be dismissed as paranoid if it weren't so hauntingly written:
On that morning, the sun rose and bloomed like blood in a glass syringe. The entire Spokane Indian Reservation and all of its people and places were clean and scrubbed. The Spokane River rose up from its bed like a man who had been healed and joyously wept all the way down to its confluence with the Columbia River. There was water everywhere: a thousand streams interrupted by makeshift waterfalls; small ponds hidden beneath a mask of thick fronds and anonymous blossoms; blankets of dew draped over the shoulders of isolated knolls. An entire civilization of insects lived in the mud puddle formed by one truck tire and a recent rain storm. The blades of grass, the narrow pine needles, and the stalks of roadside wheat were as sharp and bright as surgical tools.
It's a hard story to read, and that's only right. The Toughest Indian in the World offers so many pleasures, who could deny it the power to disturb us as well? Funny, dreamlike, heartbreaking, angry--these are stories that could have been written by no one but Sherman Alexie. --Mary Park [via]More editions of The Toughest Indian in the World:
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Twilightby Stephenie MeyerISBN 0316015849 (0-316-01584-9)
Softcover, Megan Tingley Books
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Waterfall Lover's Guide Pacific Northwest: Pacific Northwest Where To Find Hundreds Of Spectacular Waterfalls In Washington, Oregon, And Idahoby Gregory A. PlumbISBN 0898869110 (0-89886-911-0)
Softcover, Mountaineers Books
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A Waterfall Lover's Guide to the Pacific Northwest: Where to Find Hundreds of Spetacular Waterfalls in Washington Oregon and Idahoby Gregory Alan PlumbISBN 089886593X (0-89886-593-X)
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A Waterfall Lover's Guide to the Pacific Northwest: Where to Find More Than 500 Spectacular Waterfalls in Washington, Oregon and Idahoby Gregory Aaln PlumbISBN 0898861918 (0-89886-191-8)
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Loveby Raymond CarverISBN 1860465013 (1-86046-501-3)
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Wildwood: Cooking from the Source in the Pacific Northwestby Cory Schreiber, Richard Jung, Jerome HartISBN 1580081428 (1-58008-142-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wildwood: Cooking from the Source in the Pacific Northwest'Book summary:At Wildwood, the popular Portland, Oregon, restaurant, chef Cory Schreiber cooks dishes closely tied to local foods of the Pacific Northwest. A fifth-generation Oregonian and fourth-generation restaurateur, he is devoted to the plump oysters of Yaquina Bay, wild mushrooms from the slopes of the Cascade Mountains, and juicy berries from the Willamette Valley--all recognized as world-class ingredients.
Wildwood the cookbook holds your attention in the kitchen and out. Schreiber shares his family's history, starting in 1864, when his great-grandfather settled in Oysterville. He describes his experience as a boy catching a 24-pound wild king salmon he could barely hold on the line, then explains why its firm flesh is prized and recommends poaching or grilling as the best ways to cook such firm-fleshed fish.
Through his recipes, Schreiber shows how to build on the glorious flavor found in the best-quality ingredients. His Tomato and Fennel Vinaigrette is based on Summer Tomato Sauce seasoned with garlic and fresh herbs. Olive Oil-Braised Bell Peppers use the Mediterranean technique of simmering vegetables in oil until they are meltingly tender. While Schreiber spotlights the foods of Oregon, cooks everywhere can emulate his respect for local ingredients and for the land and waters that produce them. --Dana Jacobi [via]
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Pleaseby Raymond CarverISBN 1860466044 (1-86046-604-4)
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Okotopia: Notizen Und Reportagen Von William Weston Aus Dem Jahre 1999 [sic]by Ernest CallenbachISBN 3880220409 (3-88022-040-9)
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Schnee, Der Auf Zedern Falltby David GutersonISBN 3442725348 (3-442-72534-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Schnee, Der Auf Zedern Fallt'Book summary:David Guterson ist ein junger amerikanischer Autor, der gleich mit seinem ersten Roman einen Volltreffer gelandet hat. Schauplatz der Handlung ist eine kleine Insel im Puget Sound, an der Nordwestküste der USA. Ganz nebenbei bemerkt, auch David Guterson lebt dort mit seiner Familie.
Den Rahmen des Romans bildet eine Gerichtsverhandlung. Es ist das Jahr 1954 und der Lachsfischer Kabuo, japanischer Abstammung, ist des Mordes angeklagt. Er soll seinen früheren Freund Carl Heine umgebracht haben. Der Journalist Ishmael Chambers ist Beobachter und Berichterstatter des Prozeßverlaufs. Er kennt die beiden Hauptpersonen schon sein ganzes Leben.
Mit der heutigen Frau des Angeklagten verbindet ihn eine Jugendliebe, doch der Zweite Weltkrieg hat die ehemaligen Freunde auseinandergerissen. Die Japaner auf der Insel, die sich als Amerikaner fühlten und auf der Seite der Amerikaner in den Krieg ziehen wollten, wurden von diesen zurückgewiesen und in Internierungslager gebracht. Auch neun Jahre nach Kriegsende sind die damals geschlagenen Wunden noch nicht vernarbt.
David Guterson beschreibt das schwierige Verhältnis zwischen Amerikanern und Japanern mit sehr leisen Tönen, bedächtig, behutsam und informativ. Der Roman ist kein Reißer und verlangt das Zuhören, das genaue Hinhören. Das Erzähltempo gleicht den Schneeflocken, die langsam auf die Zedern außerhalb des Gerichtssaals herabgleiten. --Manuela Haselberger [via]
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De Que Hablamos Cuando Hablamos De Amorby R. CarverISBN 8433920669 (84-339-2066-9)
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