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Sometimes a Great Notion (64 Edition) by Ken Kesey Staff Pick Reading Sometimes a Great Notion (I finally made it past the first 100 labyrinthine pages after many failed attempts) had such a profound impact on me; it spoke so directly to my core and to what brought me to the land of big trees and ocean breeze (I'm... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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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
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Ramona the Pest (92 Edition) by Beverly Cleary Publisher Comments Ramona is off to kindergarten, and it's the greatest day of her life. So why is she sitting on the bench while the rest of the students play the game gray duck? Laughs and minor upsets abound in an enormously popular story starring the one and only... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, the Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan Publisher Comments An omnibus edition of three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan that embody the spirit of the 1960s Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Listening for Coyote: A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness by William L Sullivan Synopsis Sullivan's classic account of his sixty-five day, 1,361-mile solo backpacking trek across Oregon offers an intimate tour of the state's renowned wilderness.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez Publisher Comments Originally published in 1978, this special twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the National Book Award finalist includes an entirely new afterword in which the author considers the current state of knowledge about wolves and recent efforts to reintroduce... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Publisher Comments Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out — with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes — to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trask by Don Berry Publisher Comments Set in 1848 on the wild edge of the continent, in the rain forests and rugged headlands of the Oregon coast "Trask follows a mountain man's quest for new opportunities and new land to settle. The OSU Press is proud to reissue Berry's celebrated first... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Happy Bottom Riding Club by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Pancho Barnes was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through three fortunes, four husbands, and countless lovers. She outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican Army, and... (read more) Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper
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Jump Off Creek by Molly Gloss Publisher Comments William Kittredge called The Jump-Off Creek "a truly beautiful piece of American storytelling." The struggles of a widowed homesteader braving the austere and unsparing Blue Mountains contain "enough valor to make an ordinary life seem heroic" (Los... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes by Lauren Kessler Synopsis In a biography written with authority and affection, Kessler presents the true life story of Pancho Barnes--the woman who outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican army, and outmaneuvered the U.S. government. 16-page insert.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bat 6 by Virginia Euwe Wolff Publisher Comments In a powerful book set in post-World War II Oregon, sixth graders from rival towns prepare for the 50th annual softball game. Two of the players--a Japanese American who spent the war in an internment camp and a girl whose father was killed at Pearl... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Communists vilified her as a raging neurotic. Leftists dismissed her as a confused idealist. Her family pitied her as an exploited lover. Some said she was a traitor, a stooge, a mercenary and a grandstander. To others she was a true American heroine&... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Winterkill by Craig Lesley Publisher Comments From the two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award: a deeply moving and evocative novel of fathers and sons. Danny Kachiah is a Native American fighting not to become a casualty. His father, Red Shirt, is dead; his wife... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The River Why by David James Duncan Publisher Comments Not in recent memory has there been such a unique and vibrant fictional character — a character who could make us laugh so easily, feel so deeply, who speaks with such startling truth about the way we live — as Gus Orviston, the irreverent young... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dreamcatcher #01: A Sweetness to the Soul by Jane Kirkpatrick Publisher Comments Based on historical characters and events, A Sweetness to the Soul recounts the captivating story of young, spirited Oregon pioneer Jane Herbert who at the age of twelve faces a tragedy that begins a life-long search for forgiveness and love. In the... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Masuo Yasui saw America as a land of limitless opportunity. Like countless other immigrants, he put down roots, worked hard, and achieved success. In Oregon's Hood River Valley, Yasui achieved as a businessman, an orchardist, and leader of the Japanese... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Life Among the Piutes : Their Wrongs and Claims (94 Edition) by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins Publisher Comments This autobiographical work was written by one of the country's most well-known Native American women, Sarah Winnemucca. She was a Paiute princess and a major figure in the history of Nevada; her tribe still resides primarily in the state. Life Among the... (read more) List Price $20.25 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments One journalists riveting--and surprisingly hopeful--in-the-trenches look at Alzheimers, the disease that claimed her mothers life.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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