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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

by Sherman Alexie

When it was first published in 1993, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a stunning new talent of American letters. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, it remains one of his most beloved and widely praised books. In this darkly comic collection, Alexie brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life... (more)

TURTLE ISLAND (Shambhala Pocket Classics)

TURTLE ISLAND (Shambhala Pocket Classics)

by Gary Snyder

These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time.

Henry and the Clubhouse (Unabridged)

by Beverly Cleary

For Henry Huggins and his friends Robert and Murph, a clubhouse is a place where they can do as they please, without being bothered by girls. The sign that says NO GIRLS ALLOWED -- THIS MEANS YOU especially means Ramona Quimby. Lately Ramona has been following Henry on his newspaper route, embarrassing him in front of Henry's customers. The day Ramona follows Henry to the clubhouse, she wants to teach him girls... (more)

Susannah's Garden (MIRA Single Title Hardbacks)

Susannah's Garden (MIRA Single Title Hardbacks)

by Debbie Macomber

When Susannah Nelson turned eighteen, she said goodbye to her boyfriend, Jake—and never saw him again. She never saw her brother, Doug, again, either. He died unexpectedly that same year. Now, at fifty, Susannah finds herself regretting the paths not taken. Long married, a mother and a teacher, she should be happy. But she feels there's something missing in her life. Not only that, she's balancing the demands... (more)

The Good Times Are Killing Me

by Lynda Barry

Nationally syndicated cartoonist Lynda Barry's moving, quirky, and honest first novel about a young girl's coming of age-which has also been a hit off-Broadway play-is back in print, with new artwork by the author.

Shot in the Heart

by Mikal Gilmore

The brother of Gary Gilmore, the convicted and executed killer of The Executioner's Song, chronicles his family's story, tracing the hidden secrets and disappointments, the hatred and the sense of retribution, that shaped his brother's grim life. 200,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Dancing at the Rascal Fair

by Ivan Doig

The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by... (more)

Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems

by Gary Snyder

Forty-five years ago, Gary Snyder's first book of poems, Riprap, was published by Origin Press in a beautiful paperbound edition stitched Japanese-style. Around that time Snyder published his translations of Chinese poet Han-Shan's Cold Mountain Poems in the sixth issue of the "Evergreen Review." Thus was launched one of the most remarkable literary careers of the last century. It is a great gift for all readers... (more)

School Is Hell

by Matt Groening

Having given readers the last word (and laugh) on work and love, Matt Groening turns to that most hellish subject of all: childhood. Black-and-white cartoons throughout.

Old School

by Tobias Wolff

The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself. The agency of revelation is the school... (more)

Wild Life

by Molly Gloss

In her highly original new novel, Molly Gloss delivers a rare blend of "heady cerebral satisfactions, gorgeous prose, and page-turning adventure" (Karen Joy Fowler). Set among lava sinkholes and logging camps at the fringe of the Northwest frontier in the early 1900s, WILD LIFE charts the life — both real and imagined — of the free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing Charlotte Bridger Drummond, who pens... (more)

Henry and Ribsy (rpkg)

by Beverly Cleary

At last, Henry Huggins's father has promised to take him fishing, on one condition. Henry's dog, Ribsy, has been in all sorts of trouble lately, from running off with the neighbor's barbecue roast to stealing a policeman's lunch. To go on the fishing trip, Henry must keep Ribsy out of trouble -- no chasing cats, no digging up lawns...and no getting anywhere near little Ramona Quimby, the pest of Klickitat Street. (more)

THIS HOUSE OF SKY: LANDSCAPES OF A WESTERN MIND

THIS HOUSE OF SKY: LANDSCAPES OF A WESTERN MIND

by Ivan Doig

Hunting Mister Heartbreak : A Discovery of America (Vintage Departures)

Hunting Mister Heartbreak : A Discovery of America (Vintage Departures)

by Jonathan Raban

A New York Times Notable Book "In an era of jet tourism, <Jonathan Raban> remains a traveler-adventurer in the tradition of . . . Robert Louis Stevenson." --The New York Times Book Review In 1782 an immigrant with the high-toned name J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur--"Heartbreak" in English--wrote a pioneering account of one European's transformation into an American. Some two hundred years later... (more)

Heavier than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

Heavier than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

by Charles R. Cross

Dear Mr. Henshaw

by Beverly Cleary

When, in second grade, Leigh writes to an author to tell him how much he "licked" his book, he never suspects that he'll still be writing to him four years later. And he never imagines the kinds of things he'll be writing about: Dear Mr. Henshaw, I am sorry I was rude in my last letter... Maybe I was mad about other things, like Dad forgetting to send this month's support payment. Mom tried to phone... (more)

The Practice of the Wild: Essays

by Gary Snyder

Essayist and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Snyder ( Turtle Island ) offers nine sensitive and thoughtful essays blending his personal Buddhist beliefs, respect for wildlife and the land, and fascination with language and mythic tradition into a "meditation on what it means to be human." In "The Place, the Region, and the Commons," he relates the old English concept of the common to publicly held U.S. forests,... (more)

Bad Land: An American Romance (Vintage Departures)

Bad Land: An American Romance (Vintage Departures)

by Jonathan Raban

A New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the Year Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award Winner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award "No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land and sky that gives this country both its beauty and its terror. " --Washington Post Book World In 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the Great American Desert. But in that year Congress,... (more)

Northwest Passage The Great Columbia RiverWilliam Dietrich

Northwest Passage The Great Columbia River

by William Dietrich

The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest

The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest

by William Dietrich

In a riveting exploration of our connection to all that we cherish and exploit on Earth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The Seattle Times examines the human side of the struggle that looms as the fate of our forest s is determined.

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by Sherman Alexie

by Gary Snyder

by Beverly Cleary

by Debbie Macomber

by Lynda Barry

by Mikal Gilmore

by Ivan Doig

by Gary Snyder

by Matt Groening

by Tobias Wolff

by Molly Gloss

by Beverly Cleary

by Ivan Doig

by Jonathan Raban

by Charles R. Cross

by Beverly Cleary

by Gary Snyder

by Jonathan Raban

by William Dietrich

by William Dietrich