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$18.95  
Paperback, Iris Graville, 200 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9781953340481
After nearly thirty years living in the Salish Sea’s San Juan Archipelago, Iris Graville felt compelled to write about the threats to its interwoven lattice of beauty, wildness, fragility, and relationship . In 2018-19, Graville served as the Washington State Ferries’ (WSF) first...

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Paperback, Melissa McGinnis and Doreen Beard-Simpkins, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9 inches, 9780738595917
For more than a century, the citizens of Tacoma have valued Point Defiance Park as a forested refuge and an urban oasis. The community treasures its history and ecology as the crown jewel of the city’s public spaces. Ancient forest continues to cover the majority of the park’s...

$14.95  
Paperback, James Randklev, 80 pages, 9 x 8, 9781560372035
Rich, full-color landscape photographs made all around Washington's Olympic National Park make this an excellent souvenir or remembrance. Rainforest, Pacific beaches and their creatures, misty landscapes, rushing cascades - Randklev's camera has captured it all.

Gig Harbor
ARC151
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Paperback, Donald R. Tjossem, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9, 9780738596020
Gig Harbor, located in southern Puget Sound, received its name from the Wilkes Expedition in 1841. History indicates that the captain’s gig led the expedition into this small harbor during a storm that came up quite suddenly, hence the name, “Gig.” Following the Native Americans, the early...

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Paperback, Les Eldridge & John W. Hough, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467125352
This engaging pictorial history traces the evolution of South Puget Sound from the provider of rich resources for the First Nations to Olympia's role as an important international seaport. The estuary was named Puget's Sound after Lt. Peter Puget, of British captain George Vancouver's 1792...

Clallam County
ARC144
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Paperback, Clallam County Historical Society, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9, 9780738520957
The first settlements of Clallam County were along the coast of the Olympic Peninsula, at the gateway to Victoria, British Columbia, and Puget Sound. When the hardy pioneers arrived, the land was covered by dense forests that had to be conquered for the communities to survive. Forestry, logging,...

$7.95  
Paperback, Greg Saffell, 48 pages, 6 x 0.2 x 5, 9780963781628
Color photographs of Washington State by area photographer Chris Jacobson.

Leavenworth
ARC149
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Paperback, Rose Kinney-Holck & Upper Valley Museum at Leavenworth, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9, 9780738581972
Leavenworth, located in the central Cascades of Washington state, was once known as Icicle, and has been home to Native Americans, settlers, miners, railroad workers, and loggers. The native tribes came to this pristine and bountiful area to hunt game and fish for salmon. The promise of gold...

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Hardcover, STEPHEN COSGROVE, 32 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781570617300
The Wheedle has been snoring contentedly on the Needle for the past 30 years, when his peaceful slumber is rudely interrupted by a sad and insistent meowing. What happens next will surprise not only your little Wheedles, but all of us who would stare up at the Needle’s red light as kids…or...

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Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467129893
For 100 miles along the western edge of Washington State, an unusual agricultural community hugs the Pacific shoreline. Bogs of bright cranberries stretch from the Long Beach Peninsula at the mouth of the Columbia River north to Grayland, Ocean Shores, and Copalis Crossing. Here, along this...

Olympic Mountains
ARC044
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Paperback, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9, 9780738580227
The Olympic Mountains rise up from the sea with moss-draped forests growing right to the water's edge. Glaciers crown steep slopes while alpine meadows and lush valleys teem with elk, deer, cougars, bears, and species known nowhere else on earth. The Olympic National Park was created in 1938 to...

Hood Canal
ARC153
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Paperback, Mike Fredson, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9, 9780738548012
Fjord-like Hood Canal channels beneath the snowcapped Olympic National Park, creating a summer paradise of warm days and inspiring scenery as well as a haven for marine life and watercraft. For eons, Twana Indians crisscrossed in canoes that sliced through water like salmon. The canal’s first...

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Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467129855
The Washington National Guard boasts a rich and illustrious history. From Neah Bay to Asotin and from Spokane to Grays Harbor, citizen soldiers and airmen have served and sacrificed in both local communities and exotic places: Spokane and Luzon, Whidbey Island and Calexico, American Lake and...

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Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738520902
From the inauspicious beginnings in 1884 of a town named Bug, the two communities of Sedro and Woolley grew together, consolidated in 1898 by a lifeline of three railways: the Seattle & Northern, Seattle & International, and Fairhaven & Southern. Nestled in the beautiful Skagit...

Port Townsend
ARC023
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Paperback, Jefferson County Historical Society, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9, 9780738556222
On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, at the entrance to Puget Sound, the Port Townsend of the 1850s was perfectly situated for sailing vessels. By 1880, thousands of ships from all over the world were passing through. Optimistic investors sought fortunes in shipping, logging, lumber mills, and...

Langley
ARC060
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Paperback, Robert E. Waterman, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738596006
The town of Langley, tagged “Village by the Sea,” is perched on a low bluff near the southern end of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. Town founder Jacob Anthes first purchased land here at age 15, helped plat the town in 1891, and built a wharf. As new families arrived, First Street...

Good Night, Wheedle
PGN231
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Board, STEPHEN COSGROVE, 20 pages, 6.5 x 6.5, 9781632170750
Toddlers will enjoy this retelling of Stephen Cosgrove’s charming story of  Wheedle on the Needle  filled with playful rhymes and featuring Robin James’s colorful artwork.

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Paperback, Katherine Vollenweider, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467134040
Mastodons roamed the plains of Sequim and Dungeness in the years following the recession of the Cordilleran ice sheets. Millennia later, the villages of S’Klallam were home to those who saw settlers disembarking on the periphery of coastal wilderness. Ancient stands of spruce, cedar, and fir...

Ocean Shores
ARC165
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Paperback, Gene Woodwick, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9 inches, 9780738580456
Ocean Shores was the newest city in Washington for nearly 40 years, but for centuries before it had been a place of permanent occupation and food gathering for Native American tribes and a place for sea otter hunters, pioneers, and settlers to reach the interior of the Olympic Peninsula. Before...

Port Orchard
ARC179
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Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738589220
The town of Sidney was platted in 1886 by Frederick Stevens and contained a pottery works, shingle mill, and sawmill by 1889. The surrounding thick forests and lack of roads meant the area was accessible only by water. The year 1889 also saw the building of the first wharf, allowing numerous...

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Paperback, William R. Stein, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9781467126120
Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island in Washington State has a long and storied history that began in 1942 and continues to the present day. Tucked away on an island that is its namesake, NAS Whidbey was originally conceptualized as a small support base for an existing air station in nearby...

Jefferson County
ARC150
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Paperback, Jefferson County Historical Society, 128 pages, 6.5 x 9, 9780738548562
Founded by optimistic speculators with dreams of commercial empires that never materialized, Jefferson County is located on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. It stretches from spectacular Pacific Ocean beaches on the west and the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the north to the forested banks of the...

Wheedle on the Needle
PGN229
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Hardcover, STEPHEN COSGROVE, 32 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781570616280
Deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest lives a quiet old creature named the Wheedle. When humans move into his forests, bringing their loud city noises, Wheedle flees to the rocky peaks of Mount Rainier, and then to the very tip-top of Seattle’s Space Needle. A national bestseller, the...

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Hardcover, Jennifer Liberts, 24 pages, 6.6 x 0.25 x 8", 9780593379233
Explore Seattle with a fun guidebook written specifically for the youngest tourists and residents. Get ready to explore Seattle with Sammy the Salmon as your guide! This Little Golden Book highlights major attractions of the "Emerald City," including Pike Place Market, the Seattle Aquarium, the...

$29.95  
Paperback, Tim McNulty, 352 pages, 6 x 9, 9780295743288
Renowned for its old-growth rain forest, wilderness coast, and glaciated peaks, Olympic National Park is a living laboratory for ecological renewal, especially as the historic Elwha River basin regenerates in the wake of dam removal. In this classic guide to the park, Tim McNulty invites us into...

$12.95  
Board, David W. Miles, 20 pages, 8 x 8, 9781942934806
2 gray whales swimming in the sea 6 pink salmon fighting up the stream 7 green hemlocks standing side by side  Numbers and colors are more fun in Washington! In this dynamic, colorful primer, young readers count from 1 to 10 learning colors along the way as they discover the places,...

$21.99  
Paperback, Cory Graff, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738580814

Forks
ARC176
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Paperback, 128 pages, 6 x 9, 9780738575537
Forks is a community rich in logging heritage. Situated on a prairie between the forks of rivers, the town sits amidst the beauty of the vast rain forest of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula's West End. Settled in the mid-1870s by pioneer homesteading farmers, Forks's name reflects its...

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Paperback, Tom Kirkendall, Vicki Spring, 80 pages, 9 x 10, 9781560376163
Experience the Northwest's best-kept secrets in this newest book by husband-and-wife photography team Tom Kirkendall and Vicky Spring. Covering the Evergreen State from Seattle to Spokane and everywhere in between, Washington: A Photographic Journey highlights the state's cities, attractions,...

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Map, 9780938011057
Waterproof folded map

Camano Island
ARC125
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Paperback, Karen Prasse, 128 pages, 6.5 x 0.3 x 9, 9780738531359
Camano Island is one of dozens of islands in Puget Sound once covered with immense stands of Douglas fir and Western red cedar. Beginning in 1858, and while the Civil War raged half a continent away, a large mill operated at the northern end of the island where the tall ships anchored to take...

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Paperback, Don Pitcher, 352 pages, 5.5 x 0.8 x 7.5", 9781640498648
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