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F Adams
Adams, Jane.
Seattle green : a novel. New
York : Arbor House,
c1987.
Maddy, Catherine and Natalie are three generations
of a wealthy Seattle family. Through their lives,
the story
of Seattle unfolds. A good read if you like
multi-generational novels.
F Alcala
Alcalá, Kathleen, 1954-. Spirits of the ordinary : a tale of
Casas Grandes.
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c1997.
Set
in northern Mexico, a family struggles to stay
together
while its members search for identity and meaning
during a
period of social and political upheaval and
turmoil. The
author is a resident of the Pacific Northwest.
F Alexie
Alexie, Sherman, 1966-.
Reservation blues. 1st ed. New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press, c1995. Robert Johnson sold his soul
to the devil in 1931, and was murdered seven years
later. He
reappears in 1992 on the Spokane Indian Reservation
and
meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who starts Coyote
Springs, an
all-Indian Catholic rock-and-roll band.
F Alexie
Alexie, Sherman, 1966-.
Reservation blues. 1st ed. New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press, c1995. Robert Johnson sold his soul
to the devil
in 1931, and was murdered seven years later. He
reappears in 1992 on the Spokane Indian Reservation
and
meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who starts Coyote
Springs, an
all-Indian Catholic rock-and-roll band.
F Allen
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Allen, T. D., pseud.
Doctor in buckskin. [1st
ed.]. New York,
: Harper, [1951].
A fictional account of the lives of
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman as missionary doctor
and teacher
for the Indians of the Oregon Territory.
F Binns
Binns, Archie, 1899-.
Lightship. Binsfords, 1954. Nine men
work and live in isolation on a lightship off a
reef of the
Pacific Coast -- a good nautical novel.
F Capps
Capps, Benjamin, 1922-.
The true memoirs of Charley Blankenship;
: a novel.
[1st ed.]. Philadelphia, :
Lippincott, [1972].
At age 17,
during the 1880's, Charlie left home in Missouri
to become a cowboy in the West. Based on a true
story, but
fictionalized for interest.
F Craven
Craven, Margaret.
Walk gently this good Earth. New
York :
Putnam, c1977.
Follows the lives of the four Westcott
children and their adopted brother from the 1930's
to the
present, as they maintain their close family ties
and
old-fashioned values while living on their vast Montana
ranch.
F Crew
Crew, Linda.
Long time passing. New York :
Delacorte Press,
1997. In
her sophomore year of high school Kathy Shay
begins the difficult process of coming of age in a
small
town in Oregon during the turbulent sixties
(1960's).
F Davis
Davis, Terry.
Vision quest : a novel. New York
: Viking Press,
1979. An
eighteen-year-old wrestler, Louden Swain pursues
many interests, including a love affair, hiking in
the
Cascades and reading American novels, as he strives
to
achieve his quest for "vision.".
F Dereske
Dereske, Jo.
Miss Zukas in death's shadow.
New York : Avon
Twilight, c1999.
Helma Zukas, a librarian at the local
public library, is working off her community service
sentence at a homeless shelter that is the site of
several
thefts, and now a murder. With some help from her
friend
Ruth, Helma has to lead the library through an
audit, deal
with an old flame, and solve the murder before she
becomes a
real convict.
F Dillard
Dillard, Annie.
The Living. New York, NY :
HarperCollins
Publishers, c1992.
Historical novel of Bellingham,
Washington
during the late 1800's and early part of the 20th
century.
F Doig
Doig, Ivan. The
sea runners. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum,
1982. In
1853 four indentured servants escape from Russian
Alaska and make their way by canoe down the Pacific
Northwest coast toward Oregon.
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F Doig
Doig, Ivan.
English creek. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1984.
Jick
McCaskill and his family live in northern Montana,
where his father is a forest ranger and range
rider. His
older brother at 18 is set on marriage to a town
girl and
livelihood as a cowboy, which throws the family
into
conflict.
F Frazier
Frazier, Neta (Lohnes), 1890-. Rawhide Johnny. Longmans,
1957.
The railroad becomes a way of life for John Keith
in the
1870s.
F Frazier
Frazier, Neta (Lohnes) 1890-. Stout-hearted seven. [1st
ed.].
New York, : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1973]. After their
parents died during the Oregon Trail journey in
1844, the
seven Sager
children were adopted by Marcus and Narcissa
Whitman. A few short years later, they had to deal
with
tragedy again.
F Gast
Gast, Kelly P.
Dil dies hard. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. :
Doubleday, 1975.
Dil Reeves, a homesteader in Bear Creek
Washington in 1915, tries to figure out why someone
is
trying to kill him, kidnap his girlfriend, murder
his only
friend, and kill his horse.
F Gloss
Gloss, Molly.
The jump-off creek. 1st Mariner
Books ed. Boston
: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. Lydia Sanderson writes about
her life on Jump Off Creek in the higher mountain
country of
Oregon in 1895. She tells of friendship, loss,
daily
struggles, and achievements.
F Guterson
Guterson, David.
Snow falling on cedars. 1st
Vintage
contemporaries ed. New
York : Vintage Books, 1995. When a
newspaper journalist covers the trial of a Japanese
American
accused of murder, he must come to terms with his
own past.
F Harris
Harris,
Christie. Forbidden frontier. [1st ed.].
New York, :
Atheneum, 1968.
Allison, daughter of a Scottish Hudson's
Bay Company official and a Haida Indian woman joins
forces
with Megan, the daughter of Irish immigrants. They
are both
rebels, against the white man's treatment of the
Indians.
F Hawes
Hawes, Evelyn.
The Happy land. Harcourt,
1965. A 15-year old
girl tells of her politically active family in
Washington in
the 1920s.
F Hobbs
Hobbs, Will. Far
North. New York : Morrow Junior Books,
c1996.
After the destruction of their floatplane,
sixteen-year-old
Gabe and his
Dene friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a
winter in the wilderness of the Northwest
Territories of
Canada.
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F Holm
Holm, Jennifer L.
Boston Jane. 1st ed. New York :
HarperCollins, c2002. Far from her native Philadelphia,
Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she's more
than an
etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's
Young
Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness
of
Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.
F Hyde
Hyde, Michael, 1908-.
Nootka; being the adventures of John
Jewitt, seaman.
New York, : H. Z. Walck, [1969, c1968].
As
they sailed into Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island
in 1803,
Captain Salter warned them "I want no trouble
with the
Indians." Nothing could have prevented the
disaster that
followed, and the only two survivors - John Jewitt,
a young
blacksmith, and Sails - were captured by the Nootka
Indians.
Jewitt kept a journal of their captivity, telling
of the
dangers and friendship with the Chief's son, as
well as the
customs of the Indians.
F Jones
Jones, Nard.
Swift flows the river. Binfords,
1046. Pioneer
days on the Columbia river forms the background for
this
story of
Caleb Paige. When both his parents were killed in
1856 in the assault of the Indians on the Cascades,
Caleb
was taken in by Mike Shea, an Irish trooper. The
boy's
constant dream was to become a river-boat pilot on
the
Columbia.
F Kerouac
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. The Dharma bums. New York
: Penguin :
Buccaneer, c1986.
Two young men search for truth the Zen
way in California and Washington State.
F Kogawa
Kogawa, Joy.
Obasan. 1st U.S. ed. Boston : D.R. Godine, 1982,
c1981.
Naomi Nakane, a child of Japanese immigrant parents,
is interned by the Canadians at the beginning of
World War
II when she is five years old.
F Kogawa
Kogawa, Joy.
Itsuka. 1st Anchor Books
ed. New York : Anchor
Books, 1994.
Naomi Nakane, a Japanese Canadian woman,
fights to get government compensation for the
victims of
wartime internment and confiscation of property in
Canada.
Sequel to Obasan.
F Lawrence
Lawrence, Iain, 1955-. The lightkeeper's daughter.
New York :
Delacorte Press, 2002. When, after a four-year absence,
seventeen-year-old Squid returns to her childhood
home on a
remote lighthouse island off British Columbia with
her young
daughter in tow, she and her parents try to come to
terms
with each other and the painful events of the past,
especially the death of her older brother.
F LeGuin
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. Malafrena. New York :
Berkley Pub.
Corp. : distributed by Putnam, c1979. In the imaginary land
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of Orsinia in the early 19th century, a wealthy
young man
finds his life changed forever when he joins an
underground
revolutionary movement.
F LeGuin
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. Very far away from anywhere else.
1st ed. New
York : Atheneum, 1976.
Seventeen-year-old Owen
Griffiths learns to find his own way to a future in
science
through a friendship with a girl whose life is
dedicated to
music.
F Lesley
Lesley, Craig.
The sky fisherman. Houghton
Mifflin Company,
1995. Set
in a small town in Oregon, where the interwoven
currents of love, death, and a boy's comming of age
flow
swiftly below a surface life of hard work and
confrontation
with the
forces of nature.
F Lesley
Lesley, Craig.
River song. 1st Picador USA pbk.
ed. New York :
Picador USA, 1999.
Danny and his son, Jack, bond together
as they travel around the Pacific Northwest finding
work,
eventually getting caught up in a fight between
their new
friend, who fishes in the traditional Indian
manner, and the
local white fishermen on the Columbia river.
F Lesley
Lesley, Craig.
The sky fisherman. New York :
Picador USA,
c1995.
Love, death, coming of age, and Native American
spiritual beliefs flow together with the forces of
nature in
this novel.
F Lesley
Lesley, Craig.
Storm riders. 1st ed. New York : Picador USA,
2000. While
Clark Woods tries to connect his foster son
Wade with his Native American roots, Clark realizes
that the
boy is not only suffering from fetal alcohol
syndrom, but is
also disturbed. Their tenuous bond is further
strained when
Wade is implicated in the drowning of a young girl.
F Ma
Maclean, Norman, 1902-.
A river runs through it : and other
stories.
Chicago : New York : University of Chicago Press ;
Pocket Books, c1976. A river runs through it. -- Logging
and pimping and "Your pal, Jim." -- USFS
1919: the ranger,
the cook, and a hole in the sky. A young man in frontier
Montana tells the story of his minister father, who
taught
his sons the ways of grace and fly fishing, of his
brother,
an artist at trout fishing but less than successful
at life;
and the swift, cold rivers that ran from the heart
of the
mountains into the still-mysterious heart of man.
F McKay
McKay, Allis.
They came to a river. Binfords,
1961. Chris
Hallowell's family moves to the apple-growing area
of inland
Washington near the Columbia River and her life
revolves
around the
river and its people.
F Moon
Moon, Michael E.
John Medicinewolf. New York :
Dial Press,
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c1979. A
Lakota Indian evokes life in the Salmon River
valley, his life as a hunter and a paperboy with a
350-mile
route, and the oral traditions of his grandfather
who knew
stories stretching back to the dawn of time.
F Morrison
Morrison, Dorothy Nafus. Somebody's horse. New
York : Atheneum,
1986.
Jenny's good care transforms a pathetic, sick, and
abandoned horse into a splendid jumper, but there
remains
the question of who the real owner is.
F Mosher
Mosher, Howard Frank.
The true account : concerning a Vermont
gentleman's race to the Pacific against and
exploration of
the western American continent coincident to the
expedition
of Captains Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark. Boston :
Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Private True Teague Kinneson and
his nephew, Ticonderoga, encounter a variety of
adventures
as they race Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Ocean.
F Peterson
Peterson, Brenda, 1950-. Duck and cover : a novel.
1st ed. New
York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1991. Story of the
Mackenzie family told through the voices of three
generations
in the decade of the 1980s.
F Pl
Platt, Randall Beth, 1948-. The likes of me. New York
:
Delacorte Press, c2000. In 1918, having run away from the
Washington State lumber camp she calls home, a
fourteen-year-old half-Chinese albino named Cordy
makes her
way to Seattle and finds work in a carnival.
F Robbins
Robbins, Tom.
Still life with woodpecker. New
York : Bantam,
1980.
Bernard Mickey Wrangle, an anarchistic bomber and
self-styled outlaw meets Leigh-Cheri, an
all-American
princess of a deposed royal line and has a love
affair with
her until he
is sent off to prison.
F Robbins
Robbins, Tom.
Half asleep in frog pajamas. New
York : Bantam
Books, 1994.
Humorous story of a bad three-day weekend in
the life of one man. Over the three days, he is
jerked from
one trial and one revelation to another.
F Robbins
Robbins, Tom.
Another roadside attraction.
Bantam ed. New York
: Bantam Books, 1990. A young clairvoyant named Amanda
changes the basic tenets of religion in this
seriocomic
thriller.
F Robbins
Robbins, Tom.
Skinny legs and all. New York :
Bantam Books,
1990. An
Arab and a Jew open a restaurant across the street
from the United Nations, and together with a
strange group
of artists, waitresses, and friends, they await the
end of
the world.
F Robbins
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Robbins,
Tom. Fierce invalids home from hot
climates. New York
: Bantam Books, c2000. Switters, a man of intense
contradictions, travels across continents in a near
constant
swirl of danger and love as he faces most of the
encumbrances of our modern age.
F Roberts
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957. Northwest passage. New York
: Doubleday, 1937.
Major Robert Rogers, an American ranger
commander, whose dream is to find an overland
passage to the
Pacific, attempts to raise money for the
expedition. The
story is told through the eyes of the artist whose
ambition
is to paint the Indians as they really looked and
to follow
Rogers.
F Scheffer
Scheffer, Victor B.
Little Calf. New York, :
Scribner, [1970].
Traces a year in the life of a young sperm whale
called
Little Calf
from his birth in the Northeastern Pacific
Ocean, through the migrations, birth and death of
other
whales, courtship and fierce battles they wage in
the sea.
F Shields
Shields,
Cornelia, 1961-. Seven for Oregon : a
novel based on
the Sager family's true adventure. 1st ed.
Dayton, Wash. :
Green Springs Press, 1986. Recounts the stirring journey of
the seven Sager children, orphaned on the Oregon
Trail in
1844. Left with missionaries Marcus and Narcissa
Whitman in
Oregon Territory, they experienced the joys and
hardships of
pioneer life, and tragedy when hostile Indians attacked
the
mission in 1847. Their saga is a slice of American
history
and an emotional reading experience.
F Spanbauer
Spanbauer, Tom.
The man who fell in love with the moon : a
novel. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York : HarperPerennial,
1992. In
turn-of-the-century Idaho, young Shed, a half
Indian and half white orphan, works in a brothel
run by the
mayor. In this haphazard home he constructs a
family with
Alma, a prostitute, and Dellwood, a cowboy, and
tries to
find his origins.
F Stapp
Stapp, Arthur D.
Ordeal by mountains (#75088-Rutledge, Rory).
Viking,
1970. When the plane his father is
flying crashes
in the Cascades between Spokane and Seattle, Arnold
is the
one who must hike out to bring help to his injured
parents.
F Thesman
Thesman, Jean.
Between. New York : Viking,
2002. Sent to stay
at a guest house near Puget Sound in 1941,
Charlotte finds
herself worried that she is losing her mind because
of
strange goings-on involving her adopted younger
brother, a
talking cat, a menacing couple of guests, and the
mysterious
woods nearby.
F Wagoner
Wagoner, David.
Tracker. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown,
[1975]. An
Indian and a young white man experience many
dangers when they track down and attempt to capture
a gang
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of bank robbers in Colorado in 1889.
F Welch
Welch, James, 1940-.
Fools crow. New York, N.Y.,
U.S.A. :
Penguin Books, 1987, c1986. In 1870 the Lone Eaters, a
small band of Pikuni (or Blackfeet) Indians, are
living in
the Two Medicine Territory of Montana. The
extinction of the
Pikuni way of life is ominously in sight. Only the
form of
that end is in question.
F Wilbee
Wilbee, Brenda.
Sweetbriar. Eugene, Or. :
Harvest House
Publishers, c1983.
The story of the Boren and Denny
families' trip west from Cherry Grove, Illinois to
Seattle,
Washington where they became the founders of one of
the
world's busiest deepwater seaports.
F Wilbee
Wilbee, Brenda.
Sweetbriar spring. Eugene, Or. :
Harvest House
Publishers, c1989.
The captivating sequel to Sweetbriar and
The Sweetbriar Bride, continues this remarkable
love story
of Louisa and David Denny during the long, dark
winter of
1854.
F Wilbee
Wilbee, Brenda.
The sweetbriar bride. Eugene,
Or. : Harvest
House Publishers, c1986. Beautiful Louisa Boren,
twenty-four
and unmarried, is an unusual woman for the year
1851.
F Yu
Yurk, Amy. The
kind of love that saves you. New York :
Bantam
Books, 2000.
A woman speaks to her unborn child about the
joys of the baby's coming and the sorrow of losing
her
husband.
FSS 917.97 Wa (SHS)
Washington (filmstrips/6) : a regional geography. Secondary
level.
Bothell, WA : BCS Educational Aids, Inc., 1984. 1.
An overview. 2. The coastal region and Puget Sound
lowland.
3. Cascade range and Okanogan highlands. 4. The
Columbia
basin. 5. Industry, part I. 6. Industry, part II.
PB Alexie
Alexie, Sherman, 1966-.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in
heaven. 1st
HarperPerennial ed. New York :
HarperPerennial, 1994. Victor, a Spokane Indian through
whose eyes we view the community, is strongly aware
of
Native American traditions but wonders how his
ancestors
view today's Indians. In spite of the bleakness of
reservation life, the text of these stories brims with
humor
and passion as it juxtaposes ancient customs with
such
contemporary artifacts as electric guitars and diet
Pepsi.
PB Brown
Brown, Carrie.
The dark. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's
Press, 1995.
Dr. Lindy Adair the new owner of 180 acres of
land that once belonged to a commune, is accustomed
to
strangers on her property, but when a teenaged boy
stumbles
past her home early one morning and falls into a
nearby
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pond, she is forced to investigate.
PB Carver
Carver, Raymond.
What we talk about when we talk about love :
stories.
1st ed. New York : Knopf : distributed
by Random
House, 1981.
Why don't you dance?--Viewfinder--Mr. Coffee
and Mr. Fixit--Gazebo--I could see the smallest
things
--Sacks--The bath--(etc.).
PB Cody
Cody, Robin, 1943-.
Ricochet river. Hillsboro, OR :
Blue Heron
Publishing, 1992.
Tells the story of three high school
students in an Oregon logging town in the summer of
1960 and
of the bond they form.
PB Craven
Craven, Margaret.
I heard the owl call my name.
Mark, a young
minister, is sent to the Kwakiutl Indian village of
Kingcome. He has only two years to live, but does
not know
it. When he
hears the owl, an Indian legend, he understands
what is going to happen.
PB Craven
Craven, Margaret.
I heard the owl call my name.
Laurel ed. New
York : Dell, 1984, c1973. Sent to live with an Indian tribe
in British Columbia, a young minister learns not to
fear his
impending death.
PB Davis
Davis, H.L. (Harold Lenoir), 1896-1960. Honey in the horn.
Moscow, ID :
University of Idaho Press, 1992, c1935.
A
novel of the open spaces of Oregon during the
homesteading
years 1906-1908. Clay Calvert is mixed up in a jail
delivery
and his subsequent long string of adventures brings
him into
contact with herders, horse traders, sawmill
workers,
hoppickers, sherrifs, storekeepers, desperadoes,
Indians,
and settlers of every variety.
PB Dereske
Dereske, Jo.
Miss Zukas and the island murders.
New York :
Avon, 1995.
Miss Zukas and her guests at an island
get-together soon find themselves stranded on a
fog-bound
island with a murderer in their midst.
PB Doig
Doig, Ivan.
English creek. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1984.
Jick McCaskill and his family live in northern
Montana,
where his father is a forest ranger and range
rider. His
older brother at 18 is set on marriage to a town
girl and
livelihood as a cowboy, which throws the family
into
conflict.
PB Doig
Doig, Ivan.
Winter brothers : a season at the edge of America.
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1980.
PB Dorris
Dorris, Michael.
A yellow raft in blue water.
Warner Books ed.
New York, NY : Warner Books, 1988, c1987. The bitter rifts
and inevitable bonds between generations are
highlighted as
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a teenage daughter, mother, and grandmother of an
American-Indian family tell their life stories.
PB Guterson
Guterson, David.
Snow falling on cedars. New York
: Vintage
Books, c1994.
When a newspaper journalist covers the trial
of a Japanese American accused of murder, he must
come to
terms with his own past.
PB Guthrie
Guthrie, A. B. (Alfred Bertram), 1901-. The big sky. Thorndike
large print.
Thorndike, Me. : Thorndike Press, 1985, c1947.
PB Jance
Jance, J.A.
Minor in possession. New York :
Avon, 1990.
PB Kerouac
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. Visions of Cody. [1st
ed.]. New
York, : McGraw Hill, [1972].
PB Kerouac
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. The town & the city.
San Diego :
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1978.
PB Kerouac
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. Book of dreams. City
Lights Books,
1981.
Kerouac has recorded his dreams after waking up and
strung them together. Many of his literary
characters appear
in these dreams, offering commentary upon his
novels.
PB Kesey
Kesey, Ken.
Sometimes a great notion : a novel.
New York :
Penguin Books, 1977, c1964.
PB Kesey
Kesey, Ken.
Sometimes a great notion : a novel.
New York :
Penguin Books, 1977, c1964.
PB London
London, Jack, 1876-1916. White Fang. Scholastic
Inc. : New
York. White
Fang was part dog, part wolf. In his lonely
world, he soon learned to follow the harsh law of
the North
- kill or be killed. A cruel Beauty Smith purchases
White
Fang from his Indian master and turns him into a
vicious
killer -- a pit dog forced to fight for money. Will
he ever
know the kindness of a gentle master or will he die
a fierce
deadly
killer?.
PB Maclean
Maclean, Norman, 1902-.
A river runs through it : and other
stories.
New York : Pocket Books, c1976.
A river runs
through it. -- Logging and pimping and "Your
pal, Jim." --
USFS 1919.
A young man in frontier Montana tells the story
of his minister father, who taught his sons the
ways of
grace and fly fishing, of his brother, an artist at
trout
fishing but
less than successful at life; and the swift,
cold rivers that ran from the heart of the
mountains into
the still-mysterious heart of man.
PB Michener
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Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-. Alaska.
1st ed. New
York : FAWCETT cREST, c1988. Describes the lives and
struggles of humans and animals in Alaskan
prehistory and
then leaps into the eighteenth century where the
historical
high points are vividly portrayed.
PB Paul
Paul, Charlotte.
Seattle. New American Library,
1986.
PB Robbins
Robbins, Tom.
Still life with Woodpecker. New
York : Bantam
Books,
1980. Princess Leigh Cheri is a strong
willed girl
with her own ideas about the world and how things
should be
dealt with. She is well brought up though sometimes
naive,
and this proves to be true when she looses her
heart to
Bernard, a man with a natural affinity for blowing
things
up. It tells of his imprisonment and her long
battle to keep
their love going.
RC 813.54 He (SHS)
Craven, Margaret.
I heard the owl call my name (cassette).
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, 1987. NARRATOR:
Frank Muller.
Sent to a remote British Colombian parish, a
priest with only two years to live learns enough of
the
meaning of life from the Indians not to fear death.
Ref 340.115 Pistole
Washington criminal law. These are the laws of the state of
Washington that deal with criminal behavior: moral
crimes,
arrest, search and seizure, homicide, sex offenses,
assaults, burglary, arson, etc.
Ref 352.979 Washingt
Washington State yearbook, 1889 - 1989: a gui.
Ref 353.979 Washington
Washington (State). Office of Financial Management. Washington
State Data Book 1995. Olympia, WA : Office of Financial
Management, 1995.
Washington State historical facts and
symbols.--Data notes.--Population.--Economy.--State
Government finance.--Human services.--Criminal
Justice.--Education.--Natural
resources.--Environment.--Energy.--Transportation.--Local
government and special districts.
Ref 353.979 Washington
Washington (State). Office of Finanacial
Management. Washington
State Data Book 1997. Olympia, WA : Office of Financial
Management, 1997.
Washington State historical facts and
symbols.--Data notes.--Population.--Economy.--State
Government finance.--Human services.--Criminal
Justice.--Education.--Natural
resources.--Environment.--Energy.--Transportation.--Local
government and special districts.
Ref 364.092 Nash
Nash, Jay Robert.
Bloodletters and badmen; : a narrative
encyclopedia of American criminals from the
Pilgrims to the
present. New York, : M.
Evans; distributed in association
with Lippincott, Philadelphia, [1973]. American criminals
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from the Pilgrims to the present, including those
of the Old
West.
Ref 364.092 Nash
Nash, Jay Robert.
Bloodletters and badmen; : a narrative
encyclopedia of American criminals from the
Pilgrims to the
present.
New York, : M. Evans; distributed in association
with Lippincott, Philadelphia, [1973]. American criminals
from the Pilgrims to the present, including those
of the Old
West.
Ref 911 Farmer
Farmer, Judith.
An Historical atlas of early Oregon.
Historical
Cartographic Publ., 1973. Maps of the fur trade, coastal
exploration, overland exploration, and Indian
tribes and
trails in the entire Pacific Northwest region.
Ref 911.73 American
The American Heritage pictorial atlas of the United
States
History.
American Heritage Publishing Co., 1966.
Historical maps of the Westward Expansion Period
are found
on pages 128 to 176.
Ref 912 Atlas
Oregon State University. Atlas of the Pacific Northwest.
8th
ed.
Corvalis, Or. : Oregon State University Press, c1993.
The Region.--Historical
geography.--Population.--Transportation.--Land use
and
ownership.--etc.
Ref 912.797 Idaho
Delorme. Idaho
Atlas and Gazetteer. Freeport, Maine :
Delorme
Mapping Co, 1992.
Ref 912.797 Mo
Mossir, Frank Lemerise 1907-. Marine atlas, volume 1: Olympia to
Malcolm Island.
Seattle, : P.B.I. Co., 1968-71.
Contains
harbor charts and air photos of the coastline of
Northwest
Washington's Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands,
Gulf
Islands, Vancouver and British Columbia mainland,
Vancouver
Island, and Johnstone Strait, up to Malcolm Island
at the
north end of Vancouver Island and entrance to Queen
Charlotte Strait.
Ref 912.797 Mo
Mossir, Frank Lemerise 1907-. Marine atlas, volume 2: Port Hardy
to Skagway.
Seattle, : P.B.I. Co., 1968-71.
Contains
nautical and harbor charts, with air photos of the
coastline
of the west side of Vancouver Island, the Queen
Charlotte
and Hecate Straits, the British Columbia coastline
north of
Vancouver Island, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and
Southeast
Alaska to the Muir Glacier and Skagway.
Ref 912.797 Oregon
Oregon Atlas and Gazetteer. Freeport, Maine : Delorme Mapping,
1991. Maps
of Oregon State along with listings of state
parks, bicycle routes, campgrounds, gardens,
museums, and
boat trips, etc.
Ref 912.797 Scott
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Scott, James William 1925-. Washington : a centennial atlas.
Bellingham, WA : Western Washington University,
1989. The
climatic
regions and natural environment, populationu
statistics, settlements, the economy and resources,
manufacturing and service industries, government,
society
and cultural achievements in Washington.
Ref 912.797 Washington
Washington atlas & gazetteer. Freeport, Maine : DeLorme Mapping,
1992. Maps
of Washington State along with listings of state
parks, bicycle routes, campgrounds, gardens,
museums, ferry
and boat trips, etc.
Ref 979.7 Early
Early Washington.
Western Guide Publishers, 1974.
A chronology
of Washington history, many fine old maps of the
Washington
Territory, old pictures, and very little writing.
Also,
includes location of gold mines, old forts, Indian
battlegrounds, military roads and overland routes.
Ref 979.7 Yates
Our evergreen state government: state and loc.
SC Burnett
Burnett, Dan. A
Cowboy never lies. Hamilton : New West
Press,
1996.
Humorous stories and adventures of a cowboy now
living in the Northwest.
SC Ca
Carver, Raymond.
What we talk about when we talk about love :
stories.
Vintage Books ed. New York :
Vintage
Contemporaries, 1989. Why don't you dance? -- Viewfinder --
Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit -- Gazebo -- I could see
the
smallest things -- Sacks -- The Bath -- Tell the
women we're
going -- After the denim -- So much water so close
to home
-- The third thing that killed my father off -- A serious
talk -- The calm -- Popular mechanics -- Everything
stuck to
him -- What we talk about when we talk about love
-- One
more thing.
Collection of seventeen short stories about
love.
SC Carver
Carver, Raymond.
Where I'm calling from : new and selected
stories.
1st Trade ed. New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
c1988.
Contents: Nobody said anything-Bicycles, muscles,
cigarettes--The student's wife--They're not your husband
--What do you do in San Francisco?-(etc.).
SC Gallagher
Gallagher, Tess.
The lover of horses : and other stories. St.
Paul, MN : Graywolf Press, c1992. The lover of horses --
King Death -- Recourse -- Turpentine -- At mercy --
A pair
of glasses -- The woman who saved Jessie James --
Beneficiaries -- Bad company -- The wimp -- Desperate
measures -- Girls.
One story shows what happens when you
bring together a woman, her Avon lady, and a
fortune teller.
Then there is the wife who comes to understand the
worth of
her short, balding husband; a widow who realizes
what her
loveless marriage meant to her and to her husband;
the
daughter who comes home to her dying father. Tess
Gallagher
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shows us people reaching across small and large
spaces,
bouncing off each other, meeting for moments, or
living
together for years.
SC Munro
Munro, Alice.
The love of a good woman : stories.
1st ed. New
York : Vintage Contemporaries : A Division of
Random House,
1998. The
love of a good woman -- Jakarta -- Cortes Island
-- Save the reaper -- The children stay -- Rich as
stink --
Before the change -- My mother's dream. Contains eight
short stories of love, passion, and the desires of
the human
heart by contemporary Canadian author Alice Munro.
SC Munro
Munro, Alice.
The progress of love. New York,
NY : Penguin
Books, 1987.
The Progress of Love -- Lichen -- Monsieur les
Deux Chapeaux -- Miles City, Montana -- Fits -- The
moon in
the Orange Street Skating Rink -- Jesse and
Meribeth --
Eskimo -- A Queer Streak -- Circle of Prayer --
White Dump.
SC Munro
Munro, Alice.
The beggar maid : stories of Flo and Rose. New
York : Vintage Contemporaries, 1977. Royal Beatings --
Privilege -- Half a Grapefruit -- Wild Swans -- The
Beggar
Maid -- Mischief -- Providence -- Simon's Luck --
Spelling
-- Who Do You Think You Are?. Ten short stories follow
thirty years in the life of a young woman and her
manipulative stepmother.
SC Wolff
Wolff, Tobias, 1945-.
The Night in Question. New York
: Alfred
A. Knope, Inc., 1996. Mortals -- Casualty -- Powder -- Life
of the Body -- Flyboys -- Sanity -- Other Miller --
Two Boys
and a girl -- Migraine -- The Chain -- Smorgasbord
-- Lady's
Dream -- Night in question -- Fierlight -- Bullet
in the
Brain. This
book of stories are about real peple and real
things. Some are funny and some are chilling, yet
each
story, however crucial, is marked by Mr. Wolff's
compassionate understanding and humor.
SC Wolff
Wolff, Tobias,
1945-. In the garden of the North
American
martyrs : a collection of short stories. 1st ed.
New York,
N.Y. : Ecco Press, 1981. Next door -- Hunters in the snow
-- An episode in the life of Professor Brooke --
Smokers --
Face to face -- Passengers -- Maiden voyage --
Worldly goods
-- Wingfield -- In the garden of the North American
martyrs
-- Poaching -- The liar. A collection of Tobias Wolff's
short stories, originally published in other works.
SF Gr
Griffith, Nicola.
Slow river. 1st trade pbk.
ed. New York :
Ballantine Books, 1996. Lore van de Oest is kidnapped from
her wealthy
family, her identity stolen, and left for dead
when an outlaw named Spanner rescues her and gives
her the
chance to start over in this futuristic society.
SF Herbert
Herbert, Frank.
God Emperor of Dune. New York :
Putnam, c1981.
Fourth book in the Dune series. Takes place 3500
years after
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the events of the original trilogy. Tells the story
of Leto,
the son of Paul Atreides, who has traded his
humanity to
become an immortal sandworm of Dune.
SF Herbert
Herbert, Frank.
Children of Dune. New York :
Berkley Pub. Corp.
: distributed by Putnam, c1976, 1982. This third volume in
the Dune trilogy depicts the evolutionary
development of the
planet Arrakis.
SF Herbert
Herbert, Frank.
Children of Dune. New York :
Berkley Pub. Corp.
: distributed by Putnam, c1976. This third volume in the
Dune trilogy depicts the evolutionary development
of the
planet Arrakis.
SF LeGuin
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. The lathe of heaven. New
York, :
Scribner, [1971].
SF LeGuin
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. The left hand of darkness.
SF LeGuin
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. A wizard of Earthsea. Ace
: 19968.
SF LeGuin
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. The Beginning place. 1st
ed. New
York : Harper & Row, c1980. Two young people meet in a
magical, peaceful world, but soon they find their
refuge
becoming a
place of horror and nightmare.
SF LeGuin
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. City of illusions. 1st
ed. New York
: Harper & Row, [1978] c1967. After living for five years
with the family of the House of Zove, the stranger
known as
Falk leaves them to discover his true identity.
SL 979.7 Se(SHS)
Sehome High School.
Slides from the late 1970's and early 1980's
at SHS.
Bellingham, WA : Sehome High School, 1983.
Originally part of an orientation program to Sehome
High
School, these slides may now be of historic
interest.
VT 574.5 Cr 1 (SHS)
Creatures on the dry side (videotape). Los Angeles, CA :
Churchill Media, (23min), [1991]. Host: Susan Michaels.
Describes a range of plants and animals living in
the desert
environment in eastern Washington State and how to
protect
them. Grade: Middle, High.
VT 574.5 Ed 1 (SHS)
Edge of the continent (videotape). Los Angeles, CA : Churchill
Media, (25min), 1992. Narrated by Penny LaGate.
Describes
the sea life along the northwest coast from tiny
plankton to
the gigantic gray whale and how to protect marine
life.
Grade: Middle, High.
VT 574.5 Re 1 (SHS)
Return of the red wolf (videotape). Los Angeles, CA : Churchill
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Media, (13min), 1991. Hosted by Susan Michaels.
Describes
the characteristics of the red wolf and the
programs to
rescue this nearly extinct animal. Grade: Middle, High.
VT 574.5 Tr 1 (SHS)
Tracks of the grizzly (videotape). Los Angeles, CA : Churchill
Media, (22min), 1990. Narrated by Penny LeGate.
Describes
the characteristics and life cycle of the Grizzly
bear.
Grade: Middle, High.
VT 597.55 Lo (SHS)
Long live the kings : an Alan Honick film. Seattle : Long Live
the Kings, 1995.
This video chronicles several efforts
acorss the Pacific Northwest that are helping to
increase
salmon populations and restore their habitat. It
also offers
a scenic look at the region and the history and
traditions
surrounding this great fish.
VT 598.1 Pa 1 (SHS)
A passion for birds (videotape). Los Angeles, CA : Churchill
Media, (23min), 1991. Hosted by Susan Michaels.
Describes
the characteristics of a variety of shorebirds and
explains
how the wetlands serve the birds' needs and how
humans
affect them.
Grade: High.
VT 709.01 (SHS)
Anna Jefferson (videotape) : prepared by the Whatcom
Museum of
History and Art.
Bellingham : Whatcom Museum Education
Department.
The video documents Lummi basketweaver Anna
Jefferson as she gathers traditional materials and
weaves a
cedar bark basket. Ms. Jefferson's narration
provides
insight into the cultural significance of the
traditional
craft and Northwest Coast People's relationship
with natural
materials. She also describes how she learned to
make
baskets and emphasizes the importance of keeping
the
traditional knowledge of materials and techniques
alive.
LOCATED AT SEHOME; ASK AT DESK.
VT 741.4372 Ih (SHS)
I heard the owl call my name (videotape). Los Angeles, CA :
Prism Entertainment, [198-], c1973. Tom Courtney, Dean
Jagger, Paul Stanley, Marianna Jones. A young Anglican
priest (Courtney) is sent by his bishop to live
among the
proud Indians of the Northwest where he rediscovers
life,
love, courage and dignity. Grade: High. WARNING - must
meet conditions for education exemption.
VT 940.53 Ne (SHS)
Never again, I hope : (videotape) : the holocaust. Seattle, WA :
Washington State Holocaust Education Resource
Center
(37min.), 1992.
Jewish holocaust survivors from the Pacific
Northwest videotaped an oral history of their
experiences of
the holocaust in the thirties and forties. Their testimonies
give meaning and immediacy to the past and allow us
to
reflect on the lessons of the holocaust for today's
world.
VT 973.4 Le (SHS)
Lewis and Clark in Washington (videotape) : follow the Lewis
and
Clark Expedition through Washington State. Olympia, Wa. :
TVW Production / Washington State Historical
Society, 1999.
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A 20 minute program that follows the Lewis and
Clark
Expedition through Washington State. Grade: Middle, High.
VT 979.7 Se (SHS)
Seattle Chronicle (videotape) : a chronology of
Seattle's early
history.
Seattle, Washington : Tartu Publications, 1992. A
2 hour tour through Seattle's first ninety years,
1851-1941.
The largest collection of rare and exciting
historical
images of Seattle, selected for video by Paul
Dorpat.
(LOCATED AT SEHOME). (ASK AT DESK).