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Candy Bomber - Book
PGN498
$9.95  
Paperback, Michael O. Tunnell , 120 pages, 7.38 x 9, 9781580893374
One WWII pilot’s mission to lift the spirits of children living in war-torn Berlin in 1945 comes to life in this moving middle-grade historical account. After World War II the United States and Britain airlifted food and supplies into Russian-blockaded West Berlin. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail...

$26.00  
Debra Magpie Earling, 264 pages, 5.75 x 8.5, 9781571311450
Winner of the Montana Book Award From the award-winning author of   Perma Red   comes a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges prevailing historical narratives of Sacajewea. “In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe’s rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare...

$20.99  
Paperback, Ernest K. Gann, 416 pages, 6.13 x 9.25, 9780671636036
Ernest K. Gann’s classic pilot's memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days of commercial aviation. “Few writers have ever drawn readers so intimately into the shielded sanctum of the cockpit, and it is hear that Mr. Gann is truly the artist” ( The New York Times...

 
Paperback, Teresa, Schoeffel-Lingvall, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9.25, 9781467130196
The Olympic Hot Springs served as a destination resort in the Olympic Mountains near Port Angeles, Washington, for 60 years. Andrew Jacobsen is considered the first to discover the springs, nestled 2,100 feet up in the Elwha River valley, in 1892. Today, individuals still hike up the Elwha trail...

$13.99  
Paperback, Ruta Sepetys, 448 pages, 8.2 x 1.3, 9780142423622
#1   New York Times  bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal!  "A superlative novel . . . masterfully crafted."-- The Wall Street Journal Based on "the forgotten tragedy that was six times deadlier than the   Titanic ."-- Time Winter 1945. WWII. Four refugees. Four stories....

$22.00  
Paperback, Terria Smith, 272 pages, 5.5 x 8, 9781597146067
An essential look at the ways California’s Native nations are resisting colonialism today, from education reform to protests against environmental injustice and beyond. Collecting over twenty-five essays written by more than twenty California Indian authors,  Know We Are Here  surveys...

$16.99  
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...

$19.99  
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...

$21.99  
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...

Coquille - Book
ARC187
$24.99  
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...

$18.99  
Paperback, Malcolm Gladwell , 256 pages, 5.5 x 8.25, 9780316296816
Dive into this “truly compelling” ( Good Morning America )   New York Times   bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war—from the creator and host of the podcast   Revisionist History. In  The Bomber Mafia ,  Malcolm Gladwell weaves...

$24.99  
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...

$30.00  
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...

$21.99  
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...

$19.95  
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...

$24.00  
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...

$22.95  
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...

$21.95  
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...

$24.95  
Olympic Peninsula, Paperback, Murray Morgan , 296 pages, 8.4 x 5.5, 9780295745336
Murray Morgan's classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness "as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of...

Deep River: A Novel
IPS318
$20.00  
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...

$21.95  
Olympic National Park, Paperback, Smitty Parratt, 160 pages, 9 x 6, 9781578334483
Smitty Parratt's long out-of-print book, Gods & Goblins, has for years been the bible of Olympic National Park culture and history. Now back in print, this new edition features dozens of recently unearthed stories and photographs in addition to Smitty's original materal. The 700 entries of...

$18.00  
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...

$21.95  
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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