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Ocean Shores
ARC165
$24.99  
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
$21.99  
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...

$23.99  
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...

Good Night, Wheedle
PGN231
$10.99  
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.

$21.99  
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...

$23.99  
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...

$24.99  
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...

$21.99  
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...

Port Townsend
ARC023
$21.99  
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...

$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.

Langley
ARC060
$21.99  
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...

$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...

$17.99  
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...

Olympic Mountains
ARC044
$24.99  
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
$24.99  
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...

Leavenworth
ARC149
$21.99  
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...