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Beauty of the City: A. E. Doyle, Portland's Architect by Philip Niles Publisher Comments The Central Library, Benson Hotel, Reed College, the Meier & Frank building, the U.S. National Bank — these are just a few of the grand Portland icons designed by Albert E. Doyle. During a period of rapid growth in Portland, Oregon, after the Lewis &... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Oregon 1859: A Snapshot in Time by Janice Marschner Publisher Comments The essential Oregon guide for time travelers of all ages. Oregon became the 33rd state in the Union on February 14, 1859. Portland had wooden sidewalks and tamped dirt streets unlit by gaslight until a year later. To the south, gold glittered in streams;... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose About the Author Dr. Stephen Ambrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than 30 books. Among his New York Times best-sellers are: Nothing Like It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. He was not... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Book Club Paperback
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Rain Dragon by Jon Raymond Publisher Comments Damon and his girlfriend Amy have had enough of Los Angeles. Fitful and tired and dreaming of a simpler life, they leave the city to go work on a community farm. But they've scarcely arrived when their vague hopes start to come unraveled: What are they... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Peyton-Allan Files by Phil Stanford Publisher Comments Two teenagers, making out one night in a car on the edge of town — slaughtered by person or persons unknown. No physical evidence to speak of. No known motive. For all the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office knows, there's a psychotic killer roaming... (read more) Your price: $8.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon by Marie Rose Wong Publisher Comments Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second largest Chinese population in the United States. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland's two Chinatowns (one an urban area of brick commercial structures... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Oregon Wine Country (Compass American Guide Oregon Wine Country) by John Doerper Publisher Comments Fodors. For Choice Travel Experiences. The guide that has it all-spectacular photography, evocative prose, insider tips, and detailed color maps to help you make the most of your trip. Written by longtime Oregon wine country residents, Compass American... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch Staff Pick Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir, The Chronology of Water, is fierce and voluptuous. Intimate and expansive. Hard, hard stuff presented in gorgeous language. I picked it up on impulse, read the first line, and was crying before I reached the end of the opening... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ricochet River by Robin Cody Publisher Comments Set in a fictional Oregon town in the late 1960s, Cody's superlative coming-of-age novel is the story of Wade, Lorna and Jesse — teenagers preparing to break out of their small-town lives. Wade is the local sports hero. Jesse is his friend, a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Glaciers (Tin House New Voice) by Alexis Smith Publisher Comments Isabel is a single, twenty-something thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.67 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow Staff Pick Heartbreaking in its honesty, this perfect jewel of a novel mirrors the real life of the author, who grew up biracial in Portland, Oregon, in the 1980s. After an accident claims her family, Rachel is sent to live with her grandmother in a predominantly... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $11.16 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Tsar's Dwarf by Peter H. Fogtdal Publisher Comments Soerine, a deformed female dwarf from Denmark, is given as a gift to Tsar Peter the Great, who is smitten by her freakishness and intellect. Against her will, the Tsar takes Soerine to St. Petersburg, where she becomes a jester in his court. There, she... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest by Lawrence Kreisman and Glenn Mason Publisher Comments This magnificent compendium is the first comprehensive exploration of the Arts and Crafts legacy in the Pacific Northwest. It traces the movement from its nineteenth century English beginnings to its flowering in Washington and Oregon through the 1920s... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Spooky Oregon: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore (Spooky) by S E Schlosser Publisher Comments SPOOKY HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT OREGON! Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Oregon. From the girl who goes missing in Newport's... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Publisher Comments A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose Staff Pick At the heart of the immense and growing interest in Lewis and Clark in recent years stands this book. WWII historian Stephen Ambrose had long harbored a private obsession for the Expedition of the Corps of Discovery, and in Undaunted Courage he was able... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mysteries and Legends of Oregon: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained (Mysteries and Legends) by James Yuskavitch Synopsis From the mysterious disappearance of hijacker D. B. Cooper to persistent rumors of Bigfoot, this selection of fourteen stories from Oregon's past explores some of the Beaver State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Field Guide to Marine Mammals of the Pacific Coast: Baja, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia (California Natural History Guides) by Sarah Allen Publisher Comments From gray whales giving birth in the lagoons of Baja California to sea otters nestled in kelp beds off California to killer whales living around Vancouver Island--this spectacular stretch of the Pacific Coast boasts one of the most abundant populations... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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West of Here by Jonathan Evison Staff Pick Through vividly realized characters scattered across a century’s worth of compelling narrative, West of Here is a book that impeccably captures the spirit of the Pacific Northwest as a place where identities are discovered and destinies are forged.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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