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$18.95  
Paperback, Lin and Larry Pardey, 220 pages, 6 x 9
    Including stories from paradise and hard-won lessons in seamanship,  Taleisin’s Tales  reflects back to the first miles Lin and Larry Pardey gained together on their second boat – one they built lovingly with teak carvel planking over sawn black locust frames. The book begins with...

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Paperback, JIM ROBBINS, 256 pages, 5.2 x 0.6 x 7.9, 9780812981292
The Man Who Planted Trees  is the inspiring story of David Milarch’s quest to clone the biggest trees on the planet in order to save our forests and ecosystem—as well as a hopeful lesson about how each of us has the ability to make a difference. “When is the best time to plant a tree?...

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Paperback, Steven Rinella, 256 pages, 5 x 8, 9780385529822
Revelatory . . . With every chapter, you get a history lesson, a hunting lesson, a nature lesson and a cooking lesson. . . .   Meat Eater   offers an overabundance to savor.”— The New York Times Book Review   Steven Rinella grew up in Twin Lake, Michigan, the son of a hunter who taught...

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Paperback, Julia Hill, 288 pages, 5.3 x 8, 9780062516596
On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousand year-old redwood in Humboldt County, CA. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a mountain on December 10, 1997, for what she thought...

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Paperback, Kevin Jackson, 128 pages, 5.5 x 7.5, 9781948585187
For more than four centuries, Sir Francis Drake has been world-famous for his feats as a master mariner – the captain who “singed the King of Spain’s beard” with his daredevil attack on the fleet at Cadiz, and who led the British Navy to victory against the Spanish Armada in 1588. But Drake’s...

$18.95  
Abigail B. Calkin Ph.D., 252 pages, 6 x 0.6 x 9, 9780615591933
When Captain Larry Hills attempted to rescue his deckhand, he too was tragically caught in the lines that whipped and wrapped the two men against the net reel of the trawler like captured fish. In the moment before the deckhand’s death he was the only one who heard Larry’s cold...

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Paperback, Caroline Van Hemert, 320 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780316414449
For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure.   During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees,...

$16.95  
Paperback, Andrew Schelling, 336 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781640090415
" Tracks Along the Left Coast  more than accomplishes its self-appointed task of celebrating de Angulo’s legacy." ― Rain Taxi "Schelling’s biography of Jaime de Angulo―'cattle puncher, medical doctor, bohemian, buckeroo,' among other things―presents a fascinating, full-bodied...

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Paperback, J. Maarten Troost, 239 pages, 5 x 8, 9780767921992
The hilarious tale of the author's time on Vanuatu, a rugged cluster of islands where the natives gorge themselves on kava and are still known to 'eat the man. '

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Hardcover, Leif Whittaker, 288 pages, 6 x 9, 9781680510683
In 1963, the world followed the first American Mount Everest Expedition, and watched as "Big Jim" Whittaker became the first American to stand on top of the world. He returned home a hero.  My Old Man and the Mountain  is Leif Whittaker's engaging and humorous story of what it was like to...

$38.00  
Hardcover, Caroline Alexander, 160 pages, 8 x 95, 375404031
A superb, authoritative telling of one of history's great survival stories, that of Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 expedition to cross Antarctica. The author draws on previously unavailable material and presents the awesome photographs by Frank Hurley.

$24.95  
Paperback, Ellen Waterston, 248 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780295747507
Former high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks on a creative and inquisitive exploration, introducing readers to a "trusting, naïve, earnest,...

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Hardcover, Jules Verne, 96 pages, 9 x 7, 9788854411838
A timeless classic comes alive with Francesca Rossi's gorgeous illustrations, now in a smaller format.   Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea  represents an authentic prototype for every tale of undersea adventure. On board the submarine  Nautilus , young readers will be fascinated by...

$29.95  
Hardcover, Caroline Woodward, 232 pages, 6 x 9, 9781550177275
In 2007, Caroline Woodward was itching for a change. With an established career in book-selling and promotion, four books of her own and having raised a son with her husband, Jeff, she yearned for adventure and to re-ignite her passion for writing. Jeff was tired of piecing together low-paying...

$21.95  
Hardcover, Helene Glidden, 216 pages, 6 x 9, 9780985889715
Readers can once again enjoy Helene Glidden's classic, "The Light on the Island" as this 50th Anniversary Edition retells the touching story of a young girl growing up on Patos Island in the San Juan Archipelago. Her parents raised thirteen children while her father served as the Patos Island...

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Paperback, Virginia C. Gleser, 320 pages, 5.8 x 8.3, 9780964724747
Finding that special person is a complicated combination of timing, outside influences, core beliefs, impulses, and drives. Your chances for a successful relationship improves when you do the work that makes you into a dynamic and compatible partner. When opportunity meets preparation, it all...

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Hardcover, Angeline Boulley, 496 pages, 6.6 x 1.5 x 9.3", 9781250866035

$25.99  
Hardcover, George Michelsen Foy, 304 pages, 5.8 x 1.2 x 8.6, 9781250052681
Navigation is the key human skill. It's something we do everywhere, whether feeling our way through a bedroom in the dark, or charting a ship's course. But how does navigation affect our brains, our memory, ourselves? Blending scientific research and memoir, and written in beautiful prose, ...

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Hardcover, Angeline Boulley, 400 pages, 6.4 x 1.2 x 9.3", 9781250766588

$22.95  
Paperback, Grant Lawrence, 264 pages, 6 x 9, 9781550179712
The long-awaited sequel to Grant Lawrence’s bestselling memoir   Adventures in Solitude . It's been over a decade since renowned broadcaster and indie rock musician Grant Lawrence launched his writing career with the award-winning  Adventures in Solitude , yet some things never...

$24.95  
Hardcover, Anthony J. Vallone, 312 pages, 6 x 9, 9781588341372
Air Vagabonds  is the story of the amazing, true (mis)adventures of a band of rogues piloting aircraft alone into exotic and deadly destinations. In the late 1970s and through the 1980s the demand for light aircraft eclipsed anything seen before or since. This created the need for a small...

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Paperback, Lyndel Meikle, 152 pages, 6 x 9, 9780878427000
Lyndel Meikle, a Montana native, spent thirty-nine years at Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site in an ever-evolving job which included giving tours of the historic mansion, reaching into a cow to straighten out the leg of its emerging calf (hint: take your ring off first), and doing road...

Rez Ball - Book
HRW225
$19.99  
Hardcover, Byron Graves, 368 pages, 5.5 x 1.08 x 8.25", 9780063160378

$27.95  
Hardcover, Barry Blanchard, 440 pages, 6.5 x 9.5, 9781938340314
With heart-pounding descriptions of avalanches and treacherous ascents, Barry Blanchard chronicles his transformation from a poor Native American/white kid from the wrong side of the tracks to one of the most respected alpinists in the world. At thirteen, he learned to rappel when he joined the...

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John Jensen, 9781493073269

Lonesome Traveler
IPS197
$14.95  
Paperback, Jack Kerouac, 192 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780802130747
In his first frankly autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac tells the exhilarating story of the years when he was writing the books that captivated and infuriated the public, restless years wandering during which he worked as a railway brakeman in California, a steward on a tramp steamer, and a...

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Hardcover, Andrea Rogers, 336 pages, 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.35", 9781646141791
Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance that has swept the last decade. Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection from werewolves to vampires to zombies all the time-worn horror baddies are...

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...

$30.00  
Robert Louis Stevenson, 272 pages, 8 x 10.1, 9781454946014
Sneaky pirates, sailing ships, buried treasure, exotic lands, and murderous mutiny—what could be better to win over even the most reluctant reader? Robert Louis Stevenson serves up thrills, chills, and plenty of action in this timeless and beloved adventure novel. This must-have collector’s...

My Good Man - Book
HCB137
$21.99  
Hardcover, Eric Gansworth, 424 pages, 6.4 x 1.35 x 9.3", 9781646141838
A literary tour-de-force sure to turn the coming-of-age genre on its head from Printz honoree Eric Gansworth Brian, a 20-something reporter on the Niagara Cascade's City Desk, is navigating life as the only Indigenous writer in the newsroom, being lumped into reporting on stereotypical stories...

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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...

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Portland, Paperback, Laura O. Foster , 224 pages, 5 x 6.8, 9781621063452
Portland Stair Walks  describes in detail 18 pleasant walks and biking adventures, routes to explore public stairs, paths not mapped by Google Earth, pedestrian bridges and waterway. The adventures are varied in size, from a short 2 miles to about 17 miles. A 5x7 inch book is easy to take...

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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....

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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, M. Wylie Blanchet , 320 pages, 5.8 x 9, 9781990776786
A beloved and bestselling Pacific Northwest adventure classic, now available in paperback! Widowed at the age of thirty-five, Muriel Wylie Blanchet packed up her five children in the summers that followed and set out aboard the twenty-five-foot  Caprice . For fifteen summers, in the...

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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, 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...

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Hardcover, Chris La Tray, 320 pages, 5.8 x 9.2, 9781571313980
A   People Magazine   "Best New Book of the Month" Finalist for the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award “I’m in awe of Chris La Tray’s storytelling.   Becoming Little Shell   creates a multilayered narrative from threads of personal, family, community, tribal, and national...

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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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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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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...

$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...

Deep River: A Novel
IPS318
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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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Hardcover, Eddie Chuculate , 240 pages, 8.1 x 5.7, 9781338802085
Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boyhood to young manhood, in an evocative and vivid voice.   Scholastic Focus is the premier home of thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and thoughtfully designed works of narrative...

$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.

Wanderer - Book
SHP616
$19.95  
Book, Paperback, Sterling, Hayden, 456 pages, 8.36 x 5.38, 9781493035274