 | The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender (The James Tiptree Award Anthology series) by Karen Joy Fowler
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $7.53 So many of the best sci fi writers hail from the NW: this one won first place in the prestigious Washington (State) Book Award
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 | Wisdom of the Body by Judith Roche
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $8.95 This wonderful poet just won the prestigious American Book Award put out by the Before Columbus Foundation (to honor diversity of American writers)
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 | Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future by Peter D. Ward
Buy new: $19.67 / Used from: $4.40 Many prominent climate change scientists hail from the NW
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 | Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by Coll Thrush
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $15.00 a BC author (that's Canada)
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 | The Cheater's Guide to Baseball by Derek Zumsteg
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $0.02 |
 | Lost Dog by Bill Cameron
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $2.66 |
 | Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $3.67 by the queen of sci-fi, living in Portland
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 | Animal Heart: A Novel by Brenda Peterson
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.48 by a spiritually minded nature writer of Puget Sound
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 | Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure and Joie de Vivre by Cecile Andrews
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $6.50 as the pace of Seattle picks up to hectic and insane (due to the imported values and population explosion) we get nice books like this, and the slow food movement
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 | Darjeeling: A Novel by Bharti Kirchner
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $1.48 |
 | Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence across Time and Tradition by James K. Wellman Jr.
Buy new: $28.95 / Used from: $26.88 |
 | Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.62 the poet laureate of kids' world
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 | The River Knows by Amanda Quick
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.01 best selling writer
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 | First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $14.97 |
 | Wolfproof by Maureen Doyle McQuerry
Buy new: $12.11 / Used from: $7.17 teen or YA
many wolfman and vampire tales written by NW authors
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 | Potscrubber Lullabies (Kate Tufts Discovery Award) by Eric H. Mchenry
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $10.00 and so many fine poets hail from the NW
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 | Flight of the Goose by Lesley Thomas
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $13.00 novel set in NW Alaska, by author who grew up there (and is now in Seattle, the city of her birth); won three state or national awards
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 | Women Empowered: Inspiring Change in the Emerging World
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $14.94 with Seattle's Phil Borges, filmaker, photographer and author
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 | Dreamer by Charles Johnson
Buy used from: $0.01 by Pulitzer prize winning University of WA professor
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 | Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $7.00 by the witty wild author of Fight Club (from Portland)
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 | On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II (V Ethel Willis White Endowed Book Series) by Jack Hamann
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $12.37 award-winning journalist
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 | Armageddon's Children (The Genesis of Shannara, Book 1) by Terry Brooks
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $3.94 |
 | The House of Power (Atherton, Book 1) by Patrick Carman
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $1.79 |
 | The Big Turnoff: Confessions of a TV-Addicted Mom Trying to Raise a TV-Free Kid by Ellen Currey-Wilson
Buy new: $18.68 / Used from: $0.01 many Northwesterners are avidly anti-TV and claim to either have no TV or to store a tiny B and W version in a locked cabinet - it is that old Puritan ethic.
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 | Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides by Ariel Meadow Stallings
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $8.00 not many people get married in Seattle - it has the second lowest marital rate in nation after SF, and the second lowest rate of kids per capita...and it considered the place for singles (except for singles who move here trying to get dates who find it impossible).
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 | The Birthday Box
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $4.25 |
 | Saving Puget Sound: A Conservation Strategy for the 21st Century by John Lombard
Buy new: $26.60 / Used from: $6.30 the Puget Sound is in terrible ecological trouble, practically a dead body of water in places
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 | The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
Buy new: $15.63 / Used from: $4.67 Children's Poet Laureate (nation's first) comes from Seattle
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 | The Marcelli Princess (The Marcelli Sisters of Pleasure Road, Book 5) by Susan Mallery
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.36 Best-selling romance writer, Seattleite
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 | Always by Nicola Griffith
Buy new: $20.48 / Used from: $1.06 by an ex-pat Brit living in Seattle: her hard-boiled Seattle detective (there are so many!) is a 6 foot tall Viking woman named Aud Torvingen. Fun
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 | Aria by Nassim Assefi
Buy new: $18.40 / Used from: $0.01 by an Iranian-american Seattle MD
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 | The King of Methlehem: A Novel by Mark Lindquist
Buy new: $17.94 / Used from: $0.12 he comes from Tacoma, the meth ridden town south of Seattle
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 | Airs Beneath the Moon (Horse Mistress Saga) by Toby Bishop
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 love the sci fi/fantasy from the NW
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 | Mainspring by Jay Lake
Buy new: $19.46 / Used from: $2.95 award-winning sci fi writer (so many, here in the NW)
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 | Absalom's Mother and Other Stories by Louise Marley
Buy new: $13.76 / Used from: $10.03 ditto
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 | Voices from the Street: Truths about Homelessness from Sisters of the Road by Jessica Page Morrell
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $9.69 from Portland authors
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 | Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Washington Then & Now (Then & Now (Westcliffe))
Buy new: $34.20 / Used from: $8.00 awesome photography - yes, the NW is fast disappearing in its old form. By the time you move here next year (SW drought refugee? California refugee? East Coast refugee?), it will all be gone. But you can see what it was, in this book.
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 | I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature by Lucia Perillo
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $11.50 award-winning poet (McArthur genius grant) writes memoir
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 | Justice Denied: A J. P. Beaumont Novel (J. P. Beaumont Mysteries) by J. A. Jance
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.01 |
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