|
Pacific Northwest
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Sometimes a Great Movie Signed Edition by Matt Love Publisher Comments In June 1970, the biggest movie star in the world traveled to the Oregon Coast to film an epic novel about a defiant family of loggers written by a home grown counterculture hero. The star was Paul Newman. The author was Ken Kesey. The story was... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land Use Revolution by Sy Adler Publisher Comments Oregon Plans provides a rich, detailed, and nuanced analysis of the origins and early evolution of Oregon’s nationally renowned land use planning program. Drawing primarily on archival sources, Sy Adler describes the passage of key state laws... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People by Carl Abbott Publisher Comments A compact and comprehensive history of Portland from first European contact to the twenty-first century, Portland in Three Centuries introduces the women and men who have shaped Oregon's largest city. The expected politicians and business leaders... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Love and the Green Lady: Meditations on the Yaquina Bay Bridge: Oregon's Crown Jewel of Socialism by Matt Love About the Author Matt Love is the author/editor of the Beaver State Trilogy, Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon's Sesquicentennial Anthology, Super Sunday in Newport: Notes from My First Year in Town (part one of the Newport Trilogy) and Gimme Refuge: The Education of a... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Cartopia: Portland's Food Cart Revolution by Kelly Rodgers and Kelley Roy Staff Pick We Portlanders love our small neighborhoods of quirky livability, and the indie food carts exemplify some of that charm. Cartopia highlights some of the major pods (a cluster of three or more carts) and delves into the wellbeing of the food-cart realm... (read more) Your price: $17.50 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
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
add to wish list |
|
Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest (Northwest Reprints) by Stewart Hall Holbrook Staff Pick The great Stewart Holbrook was a storytelling titan and remains one of the most important writers in Pacific Northwest history. Wildmen, Wobblies and Whistle Punks is a career-spanning collection of over two dozen pieces set mostly in Holbrook's beloved... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Discovering Main Street: Travel Adventures in Small Towns of the Northwest by Foster Church Publisher Comments Small towns punctuate the landscape of Oregon and Washington. They burrow in crinkles of hills, sit alongside mighty rivers, survive in desert canyons and sagebrush plains, dot the fertile Willamette Valley, and perch at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. In... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche by Gary Krist Publisher Comments “Krist does wonders . . . [He] describes the frantic rescue efforts . . . and the malevolent, unending storm. In a thrilling, climactic chapter, he conjures forth the avalanche.”The New York Times In February 1910, a monstrous, record... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Rajneesh Chronicles: The True Story of the Cult That Unleashed the First Act of Bioterrorism on U.S. Soil by Win Mccormack Synopsis The Rajneesh Chronicles is a collection of in-depth investigative and analytical articles published in Oregon Magazine covering the establishment of the city of Rajneeshpuram in Central Oregon in mid-1981 to its dramatic disintegration at the end of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Chance of Sun: An Oregon Memoir by Kim Cooper Findling Publisher Comments In her debut as an author, Findling's memoir unfolds the story of an Oregon girl coming of age in the 1970s and 80s, navigating her way through pick-up trucks, dive bars, higher education, and backwoods trails before finding a place she belongs... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
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
add to wish list |
|
Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads) by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Oregon Desert by E. R. Jackman and R. A. Long Publisher Comments Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press The Oregon Desert is a wild, rough region that does things to people who try to change it. It is like "The anvil that wears the hammer out." Stories of life on the desert are told with deep,... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
River House: A Memoir by Sarahlee Lawrence Synopsis River House is one young woman's story about returning home to her family's ranch and, with the help of her father, building a log house on the property. Sarahlee Lawrence grew up in remote central Oregon and spent her days dreaming about leaving her... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Dark Rose: Organized Crime and Corruption in Portland by Robert C. Donnelly Publisher Comments In April 1956, Portland Oregonian investigative reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert exposed organized crime rackets and rampant corruption within the city's law enforcement institutions. The biggest scandal involved Teamsters officials and the... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Oregon Companion: An Historical Gazetteer of the Useful, the Curious, and the Arcane by Richard H. Engeman Synopsis What's the connection between Ken Kesey and Nancy's Yogurt? How about the difference between a hoedad and a webfoot? What became of the Pixie Kitchen and the vanished Lambert Gardens? The Oregon Companion is an A-Z handbook of over 1000 people, places... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Cabin Fever: Notes from a Part-Time Pioneer by William L. Sullivan Publisher Comments Rich with humor and natural history, this memoir of building a log cabin in the wilds of Oregon's Coast Range takes readers to a warm world of kerosene lamplight, wood stoves, and ghost stories. Written by a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in creative... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Outpost: John McLoughlin and the Far Northwest by Dorthy Morrison Publisher Comments This gripping, skillfully woven biography tells the story of John McLoughlin, a pivotal Northwest figure known for his blistering temper and compassionate heart.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
