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

$19.99  
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...

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

$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...

$29.99  
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...

$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...

$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...

$18.95  
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...

$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...

$16.95  
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...

$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....

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...

$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...

$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...

$28.00  
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...

$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...

$19.99  
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...

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...

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

$14.99  
Hardcover, Angeline Boulley, 496 pages, 6.6 x 1.5 x 9.3", 9781250866035

$19.99  
Hardcover, Angeline Boulley, 400 pages, 6.4 x 1.2 x 9.3", 9781250766588

$12.95  
John Jensen, 9781493073269

$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...

$14.95  
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...

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...

$12.95  
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...

$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,...

$11.95  
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...

$18.99  
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,...

$15.00  
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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