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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.