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A fingerprint expert's investigation of a series of crib deaths leads her back to the mystery of her own childhood. Lena is a fingerprint expert at a crime lab in the small city of Syracuse, New York, where winters are cold and deep. Suddenly, a series of crib deaths—indistinguishable from SIDS except for the fevered testimony of one distraught mother with connections in high places—draws the attention of the... (more)

Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature

Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature

by Christopher Van Tilburg

“A fast-paced account of Mt. Hood. For readers who are unfamiliar with the rugged and beautiful Hood River area, <Van Tilburg> balances its undeniable perils with the joys of its scenic wonders . . .” -- Publisher’s Weekly “Van Tilburg’s dogged spadework in translating to the page the intricate essentials of his unique trade makes each breathtaking rescue literally come to life. Exhilarating take on the... (more)

Skookum: An Oregon Pioneer Family's History and Lore

Skookum: An Oregon Pioneer Family's History and Lore

by Shannon Applegate

In 1843, brothers Jesse, Lindsay, and Charley Applegate-accompanied by their wives and twenty-two children-led the first major wagon train from Missouri to Oregon. By the end of the decade, the restless clan had left the "crowded" Willamette Valley and pointed their wagons toward Yoncalla in southern Oregon's Umpqua Valley. There, Charley built an immense two-story frame home-with one side for men, the other for... (more)

History of Oregon LiteratureAldred (illus. by Bernard Hinshaw) Powers

History of Oregon Literature

by Aldred (illus. by Bernard Hinshaw) Powers

Mineral Spirits: A Novel

by Heather Sharfeddin

"Mineral Spirits" is a contemporary western, a murder mystery set in Montana's Mineral County, which stretches narrow and remote along the Idaho border. Kip Edelson is the county's new sheriff. Pine trees outnumber people one-million to one there, but beneath the idyllic-seeming surface of this scenic paradise Edelson encounters drug-dealing, incest, and grinding poverty, as well as murder.

Left To Die

by Lisa Jackson

NOTHING'S MORE TERRIFYING... One by one, the victims are carefully captured, toyed with, then subjected to a slow and agonizing death. Piece by piece, his exquisite plan takes shape. The police can't yet see the beauty in his work--but soon, very soon, they will... THAN BEING LEFT ALONE... In the lonely woods around Grizzly Falls, Montana, four bodies have been discovered. Detectives Selena Alvarez and... (more)

The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks

The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks

by Robin Romm

When Robin Romm's The Mother Garden was published, The New York Times Book Review called her "a close-up magician," saying, "hers is the oldest kind <of magic> we know: the ordinary incantation of words and stories to help us navigate the darkness and finally to hold the end at bay." In her searing memoir The Mercy Papers, Romm uses this magic to expand the weeks before her mother's death into a story... (more)

Salt In Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife

Salt In Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife

by Michele Longo Eder

"Go, go, go! the deep voice shouted, right near my ear. Bob s calloused hand, which had just been caressing my thigh, grabbed the source of the sound: a black, hand-held VHF radio, located on the rickety nightstand next to the bed in the hotel room where we lay. The digital clock, lit with red numbers, showed 2 a.m. I m coming, Bob said, having flipped the radio into transmission mode. He jumped out of bed and... (more)

Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris

Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris

by Bonnie Henderson

In Strand, travel writer and amateur naturalist Bonnie Henderson traces the stories of wrack washed up on the mile-long stretch of Oregon beach she has walked regularly for more than a decade. Henderson’s writing conveys both a keen attention to the specifics of place and an expansive field of vision. The burned hull of a long-abandoned fishing boat, a glass fishing float, the egg case of a skate, a beached minke... (more)

Haunting Henry James

by A.J. Maan

Imaginative return to the lives of illustrious literary figures of the nineteenth century. Part intellectual mystery, part gothic tale. Features a haunted country estate, ancient gardens, betrayal, secrets, intrigue, wit.

Paul Newman: A Life

by Shawn Levy

Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict, The Color of Money , and Nobody’s Fool . But Newman was also an oddity in Hollywood: the rare box-office titan who cared about the craft of... (more)

The Earthsea Cycle: Book 1

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance. From the Paperback edition.

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning, groundbreaking science fiction classic takes us to the world of Winter, and introduces us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles.

Arabian Jazz: A Novel

by Diana Abu-Jaber

Winner of the Oregon Book Award and finalist for the National PEN/Hemingway Award. In Diana Abu-Jaber's "impressive, entertaining" ( Chicago Tribune ) first novel, a small, poor-white community in upstate New York becomes home to the transplanted Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud: his grown daughters, Jemorah and Melvina; his sister Fatima; and her husband, Zaeed. The widower Matuseem loves American jazz,... (more)

The Rogue, a river to run: (the story of pioneer whitewater river runner Glen Wooldridge and his first eighty years on the Rogue River)Florence Arman, Glen Wooldridge

The Rogue, a river to run: (the story of pioneer whitewater river runner Glen Wooldridge and his first eighty years on the Rogue River)

by Florence Arman

Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems

Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems

by Judy Sierra

Dive, swim, and glide with this delightful pack of penguins as they slip and slide through their icy world. Judy Sierra, Jose Aruego, and Ariane Dewey invite you into the world of an Emperor penguin family and their wild, slip-sliding, rhyming fun.

Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family

Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family

by Lauren Kessler

Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American. Masuo Yasui traveled from Japan across the other Oregon Trail—the one that spanned the Pacific Ocean—in 1903. Like most immigrants, he came with big dreams and... (more)

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Origin: A Novel

by Diana Abu-Jaber

Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature

by Christopher Van Tilburg

Skookum: An Oregon Pioneer Family's History and Lore

by Shannon Applegate

History of Oregon Literature

by Aldred (illus. by Bernard Hinshaw) Powers

Mineral Spirits: A Novel

by Heather Sharfeddin

Left To Die

by Lisa Jackson

The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks

by Robin Romm

Salt In Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife

by Michele Longo Eder

Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris

by Bonnie Henderson

Haunting Henry James

by A.J. Maan

Paul Newman: A Life

by Shawn Levy

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Arabian Jazz: A Novel

by Diana Abu-Jaber

The Rogue, a river to run: (the story of pioneer whitewater river runner Glen Wooldridge and his first eighty years on the Rogue River)

by Florence Arman

Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems

by Judy Sierra

Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family

by Lauren Kessler