 | The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.98 okay, Cormac is not from NW, but the Road is currently being filmed with the incomparable Viggo in the blasted terrain of Mount Saint Helens, in Washington State!
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 | Polanski: A Biography by Christopher Sandford
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $13.00 by Seattle author, out in Sept 08
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 | Why I Came West: A Memoir by Rick Bass
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $10.99 Montana is often included in the Pacific NW (as is Alaska, Idaho and BC) - Rick Bass is a powerhouse nature writer and ecologist
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 | Paddling Washington: 100 Flatwater and Whitewater Routes in Washington State and the Inland Northwest by Rich Landers
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $17.38 |
 | Paddling Washington by Robin Stanton
lots of water here
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 | Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947 by William Stafford
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $9.58 by late Oregon poet, from Graywolf Press
Lotta poets in the Pacific NW
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 | Escapement by Jay Lake
Buy new: $18.94 / Used from: $10.00 "Steampunk" fantasy by Oregon author -
Lotta sci fi and fantasy writers in the PNW
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 | Mainspring by Jay Lake
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.00 his first in the steam punk world - the universe runs on descarte-ian gears
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 | Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $5.48 Now in PB - the protagonist makes her way thru old Seattle and Alaska as well as adjacent Siberia in search of daughter
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 | Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin
Buy new: $9.57 / Used from: $8.45 whaling: a huge player in the history of the NW and Alaska
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 | Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: $12.64 / Used from: $12.50 Seattle is holding many midnight parties to herald this teen hearthrob phenomonon set in the vampire-teeming rainforest of coastal NW - hey, it is so popular it outsells Harry Potter, and even my husband knows the plot
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 | Passing Through Paradise by Susan Wiggs
Buy new: $4.74 lotta romance writers in the PNW
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 | The You I Never Knew by Susan Wiggs
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.02 |
 | Sweet Talk (Unabridged) by Susan Mallery
Buy new: $18.71 |
 | Washington Local and Seasonal Cookbook (American Culinary Kitchen) by Becky Selengut
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $14.03 lots of cookbooks from here too
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 | Monkey World 2009 by Matthew Porter
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $8.68 and a lot of kids' books (basically, there are just a whole lot of writers and readers of every genre here)
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 | The Accidental Explorer by Sherry Simpson
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $15.49 I love this memoir by Alaskan writer
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 | Flight of the Goose by Lesley Thomas
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $11.19 award-winning literary fiction set in the modern Arctic
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 | Orchards of Eden: White Bluffs on the Columbia 1907-1943 by Nancy Mendenhall
Buy used from: $17.50 a Washington State regional social history with a populist-feminist bent
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 | Touching the Ancient One: A True Story of Tragedy And Reunion by Rupert Pratt
Buy new: $21.02 / Used from: $16.47 Alaskan author
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 | The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier by Bruce Barcott
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $3.63 Seattle author
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 | Northwest Passages: A Literary Anthology of the Pacific Northwest from Coyote Tales to Roadside Attractions
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | Underground (Greywalker, Book 3) by Kat Richardson
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $8.45 Zombies in Seattle's creepy Pioneer Square
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 | Poltergeist (Greywalker, Book 2) by Kat Richardson
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $4.76 Seattle author
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 | Yaquina White by Ron Lovell
Buy new: $15.00 Oregon author's thriller set in the Arctic (don't know yet if its Alaska or waay over in Canada or even Russia or Norway!)
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 | The Actress (A Rita Farmer Mystery) by Elizabeth Sims
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $6.44 |
 | Damn Straight: A Lillian Byrd Crime Story by Elizabeth Sims
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.36 |
 | Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco by Nadya Zimmerman
Buy new: $20.48 / Used from: $15.00 by Cornish School of Arts (Seattle) professor, with a new perspective
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 | Rick Steves' Paris 2009 (Rick Steves) by Rick Steves
Buy new: $12.21 social critic/peacenik/activist/travel writer Steves hails from the Seattle area; talks like a Norsky,
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 | Cezanne's Quarry by Barbara Pope
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $12.48 debut mystery set in Florence, by Eugene Oregon author
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 | Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America's Best Workers Are Unhappier Than Ever by David Kusnet
Buy new: $15.57 / Used from: $7.25 by B Clinton's former speech writer, living in Seattle area
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 | Retirement Is Not for Sissies by David L. McKenna
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $13.95 ahh...retirement in the workaholic Pacific NW
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 | Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life (V Ethel Willis White Books) by Jim Kershner
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $18.94 about champion boxer who became Eastern Washington's first African-American lawyer and civil-rights leader in Spokane and on the national stage. Maxey fought for anti- Vietnam war protesters "the Seattle Seven"
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 | Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists) by Rebecca J. Dobkins
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $17.15 pub by UW press: survey of Native American artist and longtime teacher at The Evergreen State College in Olympia WA
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 | Dreams of West: A History of the Chinese in Oregon, 1850-1950
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $8.53 |
 | Evangelical vs. Liberal by James K. Wellman
Buy new: $22.45 / Used from: $23.24 by Seattleite, liberal theologist Christian
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 | A Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range by Fred Beckey
Buy new: $32.58 / Used from: $19.00 the big writer of climbs
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 | Cascade Alpine Guide: Climbing and High Routes, Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass (Cascade Alpine Gde) by Fred Beckey
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $21.85 |
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