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Paperback, Arshay Cooper , 240 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781250754776
REGIONAL BESTSELLER Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-Black high school rowing team in the nation, and in...

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Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738536477
Including more than two hundred vintage photographs and illustrations, Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage chronicles the history of the Piscataqua River's naval shipyard and harbor defenses. Long before it became home to one of the U.S. Navy's first federal shipyards, the harbor at...

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Paperback, Russell M. Lawson, 160 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738524276
From Strawbery Banke to the Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth has always been the economic, cultural, and political hub north of Boston. Brightly-colored saltbox homes and towering lighthouses line the churning currents of the Piscataqua, and narrow lanes echo with the footsteps of John Paul Jones, the...

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Paperback, Judy, Fleagle, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9.25, 9781467131520
Florence, located midway on the Oregon coast, has North America's largest stretch of dunes to the south and the most photographed headlands on the Pacific coast to the north. Although Florence is on the coast, it is a river town located on a bend of the Siuslaw River. Before the railroad arrived...

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Paperback, Noelle Salazar, 384 pages, 6.04 x 8.95, 9780778369226
A   USA TODAY and   PUBLISHERS WEEKLY   bestseller—for fans of   All the Light We Cannot See   and   The Tattooist of Auschwitz ! “I read well into the night, unable to stop. The book is unputdownable.”—Debbie Macomber, #1   New York Times   bestselling author...

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Paperback, Bert, Dunn, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9.25, 9781467129497
In the early 19th century, Coquille was quiet and inhabited by Upper Coquille Native Americans. This changed when Evan Cunningham, the first European settler, arrived in the 1860s. Soon thereafter, others arrived. In the 1880s, homes, businesses, and a sawmill appeared. Riverboat transportation...

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Paperback, David McCullough, 336 pages, 6.13 x 9.25, 9781476728759
The #1   New York Times   bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two...

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Paperback, William J. Bauer Jr., 184 pages, 8.96 x 6, 9780295998350
Bauer tells California history strictly through Native perspectives. Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and conveniently skip to the Gold Rush of 1849. Noticeably absent from these stories are the perspectives and...

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Paperback, Adam, Woog, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9.25, 9780738559179
The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, known locally as the Ballard Locks, are an integral part of Seattle's extensive waterways. The busiest facility of their kind in America, the Ballard Locks form the heart of the channel connecting Puget Sound's saltwater with Seattle's main freshwater lakes. When...

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Paperback, Margaret, Clovis, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9.25, 9780738546773
Fog billows gently across Monterey County's north coast, a white blanket tucked up against the hills of Aromas. Beneath its protective shroud, fishing boats gently rock, artichokes thrive, and shorebirds build nests along Elkhorn Slough. In this muffled landscape of fertile loam crisscrossed by...

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Leslie Haynsworth, David Toomey , 322 pages, 5.3 x 8, 9780380729845
In 1942, with war raging on two fronts and military pilots in short supply, the U.S. Army Air Force enlisted a handful of skilled female aviators to deliver military planes from factories to air bases--expanding the successful program to include more than one thousand women. These superb pilots...

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Forks, Washington, Paperback, William, Dietrich, 320 pages, 8.95 x 6.09, 9780295990620
2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award Before Forks, a small town on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series, it was...

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Olympic National Park, Paperback, Gary L. Peterson, 140 pages, 9780615130064
Collection of stories about Minnie Peterson (1897-1989). The stories draw from Peterson family oral history, many of them told by Minnie herself around campfire or dinner table. The photos and documents from Minnie's personal collection supplemented by those of generous family friends, the...

Deep River: A Novel
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Paperback, Karl Marlantes, 736 pages, 8.2 x 5.4, 9780802148971
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War, a rich family saga about Finnish immigrants who settle and tame the Pacific Northwest, set against the early labor movements, World War I, and the upheaval of early twentieth-century America Karl...

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Paperback, Donald L. Barlett, 688 pages, 9.3 x 6.1, 9780393326024
The life that inspired the major motion picture The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at...

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Paperback, Louis S. Warren, 672 pages, 5.19 x 8, 9780375726583
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity? In this prize-winning...

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Book, Paperback, Daniel J., Sharfstein, 640 pages, 8.3 x 5.6, 9780393355659

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Book, Paperback, Ella E., Clark, 240 pages, 8.25 x 5.5, 9780520239265

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Book, Paperback, Margot Lee, Shetterly, 368 pages, 8 x 5.31, 9780062363602

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Paperback, Debra Magpie Earling , 264 pages, 8.4 x 5.5, 9781639550746
Winner of the American Book AwardWinner of the Montana Book AwardWinner of the PNBA Book Award“ In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe’s rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare trees scratched sky. Cold was endless. He moved through trees like strikes of sunlight. My Bia said...

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Book, Paperback, Richard, Moreno, 286 pages, 9.25 x 6.25, 9780878424108

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Olympic National Park, Hardcover, Gary Peterson, 109 pages, 10.25 X 9.25, 9781578333875
Biographies of 12 remarkable women of the Pacific Northwest.
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