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Mink River by Brian Doyle Staff Pick I haven't enjoyed a book this much in so long! Set in a tiny coastal Oregon town, this story is populated with characters who seem to leap off the page and speak their lines into your ear. They are that real. Brian Doyle breaks all the so-called "rules... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Mount Hood: A Biography of Oregon's Perilous Peak by Jon Bell Staff Pick Some 50 miles southeast of Portland lies the highest peak in the state of Oregon: Mount Hood, a 700,000-year-old stratovolcano. The fourth tallest in the Cascade range (around 11,240 feet high), Mount Hood is currently rated fourth by the U.S. Geological... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ramona the Pest (Ramona Quimby) by Beverly Cleary Publisher Comments Here comes Ramona! Ramona Quimby is thrilled to be starting kindergarten. She likes a little boy named Davy so much she wants to kiss him, and she loves Susan's beautiful curls so much she wants to pull them to see them boing. Her teacher even promises... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pacific Northwest (DK Eyewitness Travel Guides) by DK Publishing Publisher Comments The DK Eyewitness Pacific Northwest Travel Guide is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Walk There!: 50 Treks in and around Portland and Vancouver by Laura Foster Publisher Comments Lived here all your life or just visiting, Walk There! is like a magazine subscription of where to go, how to get there and the secrets you need to know when you arrive. Walk There! 50 treks in and around Portland and Vancouver, Metro's collection of... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shack by Wm. Paul Young Publisher Comments Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Northwest Foraging: The Classic Guide to Edible Plants of the Pacific Northwest by Doug Benoliel Synopsis Originally published: Lynnwood, Wash.: Signpost, 1974.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Up the Capitol Steps: A Woman's March to the Governorship by Barbara Roberts Publisher Comments Up the Capitol Steps is a personal and political memoir by Oregon's first (and only) woman governor, one of only 34 women who have served as state chief executives in the history of the United States. Barbara Roberts offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Insects of the Pacific Northwest (Timber Press Field Guide) by Peter Haggard Publisher Comments The only comprehensive guide to insects of the Pacific Northwest, this handy reference is perfect for hikers, fishers, and naturalists. With coverage from southwestern British Columbia to northern California, from the coast to the high desert, it... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Flexible
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Loving Frank by Nancy Horan Publisher Comments I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - 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: $2.50 Used - 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: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America by Linda Lawrence Hunt Publisher Comments With their family home facing foreclosure, seventeen-year-old Clara Estby and her mother, Helga, need to raise a lot of money fastno easy feat for two women in 1896. Helga wants to tackle the problem with her usual loud and flashy style, while Clara... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia by Blaine Harden Publisher Comments After two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West's most thoroughly conquered river. To explore the Columbia River and befriend those who... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Very Close to Trouble: The Johnny Grant Memoir by Lyndel Meikle Publisher Comments Trader, stockman, and raconteur, Johnny Grant (1831-1907) lived "very close to trouble" on the wide open Montana-Idaho frontier of the mid-nineteenth century. Grant is memorialized today by the Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site at Deer Lodge... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Weird Oregon: Your Travel Guide to Oregon's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Weird) by Al Eufrasio Publisher Comments The Pacific Northwest teems with colorful history and unique legendsand this tour of the Beaver State is no exception! Check out the gas station restroom that looks like cowboy boots as you search the skies for a man flying across the state in a... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Previously published in HC as Dancing With Rose One journalist?s riveting?and surprisingly hopeful? in-the-trenches view of Alzheimer?s Nearly five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer?s. Like many children of Alzheimer?s... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures) by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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At Home in the Vineyard: Cultivating a Winery, an Industry, and a Life by Susan Sokol Blosser Publisher Comments This moving, evocative memoir, woven with lyrical descriptions of the sights and smells of vineyard life, tells the inspirational story of one woman's journey to success in an industry run mostly by men. At Home in the Vineyard, filled with colorful... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Plants of Western Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia by Eugene N Kozloff Publisher Comments A great resource for botanists, native plant enthusiasts, ecologists, conservationists, and amateur naturalists who desire a comprehensive, up-to-date, and well-illustrated book for the identification of plants of the Pacific Northwest. This is the... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $46.00 Used - Hardcover
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