In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn. The place chosen to dig a massive dry dock was atop one of the largest and oldest...
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Auteur:Jance, Judith A.Sommaire:Seattle writer J.A. Jance's 15th J.P. Beaumont detective mystery. Retired Seattle homicide detective J. P. Beaumont accompanies his newly-wed grandmother on a honeymoon cruise to Alaska. But his expected rest and recreation are...
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Auteur:Herring, PeggySommaire:In 1808, the Russian Ship St. Nikolai ran aground off the Olympic Peninsula; this novel is based on this astounding historical event and the lives of the people affected. In 1808, eighteen-year-old Anna Petrovna Bulygina is aboard the...
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Auteur:Thoms, Chris, Corkran, Charlotte C.Sommaire:"Frogs, toads and salamanders are important indicators of the quality of the environment, and they're cute little critters too. Newly revised and updated, this innovative field guide describes the life histories, habitat requirements...
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Auteur:Turner, SteveSommaire:Telling stories specific to Columbia Plateau farmers and farmland, this journalist puts the lives and difficulties of individual farmers into national and global contexts. He interweaves family narratives, historical episodes and his...
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Auteur:Penn, BrionySommaire:A freshly designed, new edition of a funny weekly chronicle that offers a year-long, intimate view of the flora and fauna populating the West Coast. A Year on the Wild Side is a witty commentary on the social and natural history of...
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Auteur:Kirkpatrick, JaneSommaire:Emma Giesy is married and the mother of two. She's strong-willed and smart. Despite the odds, she and her husband branch off from a religious community of the 1850s to work and live independently in the remote coastal forest of the...
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Auteur:Pajer, BernadetteSommaire:Can death bring a man back to life? When UW Professor Benjamin Bradshaw discovers a despised colleague dead inside the Faraday Cage of the Electric Machine, his carefully controlled world shatters. The facts don't add up, the police...
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Auteur:Kirkpatrick, JaneSommaire:So begins this story of one woman's restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal...
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Auteur:Luenn, NancySommaire:Each story reflects the impact of historical events on the day-to-day lives of children. Stories are linked by the travels of a wooden toy horse who is passed from child to child. Grades 3-6.
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Auteur:Kirkpatrick, JaneSommaire:In 1850s Missouri, the religious Bethel colony is resolved to remain pure in the midst of a tainted and sinful country. However, Emma Wagner, young and independent, is at odds with the community's submissive society. Learning to...
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