Literary Oregon
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Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey  
Powells.com 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...
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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
Powells.com Staff Pick Christmas is a time for family, and if you spend one with the Binewskis, you'll never look at the family unit in the same way again. Told through the perspective of a bald, albino, hunchbacked dwarf, this story introduces us to a cast of carnival freaks...
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Ramona the Pest (Ramona Quimby)
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...
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Of Wolves and Men
by Barry Lopez Review Edmund FullerWall Street JournalA splendid, beautiful book....
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Honey in the Horn
by H L Davis
Powells.com Staff Pick What was missing in Davis's 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Honey in the Horn was the romantic stereotyping and moralizing that could be found in much of the regional literature of the time. Instead, this is essentially a coming-of-age novel with...
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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...
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The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher Comments George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being — for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him — but who, it soon becomes clear, has his own plans for...
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The River Why
by David James Duncan
Publisher Comments Since its publication by Sierra Club Books more than two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It as our era’s most widely read fiction about fly-fishing. This captivating and...
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Trask
by Don Berry Synopsis 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...
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Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's
by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Like many loved ones of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler was devastated by the ravaging disease that seemed to turn her mother into another person before claiming her life altogether. To deal with the pain of her loss, and to better understand the...
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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....
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Trout Fishing in America, the Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and in Watermelon Sugar (89 Edition)
by Richard Brautigan Publisher Comments A Brautigan omnibus, reissued in paperback in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, this one-volume edition includes three contemporary classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s....
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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....
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The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
by Alvin M Josephy Publisher Comments 'Is there any chapter in American history more dramatic than that of the Northwest from the time of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877? Heroic - and not so heroic -characters abound: explorers, fur traders, miners, settlers...
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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...
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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...
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New Life (04 Edition)
by Malamud Publisher Comments "An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud's funniest and most embracing novel." --Jonathan Lethem In A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a...
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The Oregon Desert
by E. R. Jackman and R. A. Long Synopsis 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." Wild horses run through this book. All of the desert animals shyly peek out from its pages. Desert towns spring...
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Seven Hands, Seven Hearts (94 Edition)
by Elizabeth Woody Publisher Comments Seven Hands, Seven Hearts includes the entirety of Elizabeth Woody's highly acclaimed first book of poems, Hand into Stone — winner of the American Book Award — as well as new poems, stories, and essays. The work is united by common themes: a...
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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...
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