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Lean on Pete : a novel
by Willy Vlautin
Left homeless by the death of his father, fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson sets off with a racehorse, Lean on Pete, on a perilous treck from Portland, Oregon to Wyoming to find a distant aunt, hoping to regain stability in his life
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The girl who fell from the sky : a novel
by Heidi W. Durrow
After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white. A first novel.
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Little century
by Anna Keesey
After she moves near the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, to become a homesteader, 18-year-old Esther Chambers finds herself in a full-out range war, and becomes conflicted when her love for Ben Cruff, sworn enemy of the cattlemen, tests her loyalty to her cousin, the rancher Ferris Pickett. A first novel.
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The hearts of horses
by Molly Gloss
In the winter of 1917, with many of his regular hands off fighting in World War I, George Bliss hires young Martha Lessen, a female horse whisperer, to help gentle wild horses, and as she demonstrates her unique talent for dealing with damaged horses, gentles a horse for a dying man's son, and clashes with an abusive hired hand, she finds a sense of family and belonging.
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Ricochet river
by Robin Cody
Three teenagers growing up in Calamus, Oregon, in the 1960s--native American newcomer Jessie, star athlete Wade, and Wade's girlfriend, Lorna--struggle to escape the physical and mental confines of their small town
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Trask
by Don Berry
Set in 1848 on the wild edge of the continent, in the rainforests and rugged headlands of the Oregon coast, Trask follows a mountain man's quest for new opportunities and new land to settle. This new edition of Berry's celebrated first novel includes an introduction by Jeff Baker, book critic for The Oregonian.
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My abandonment
by Peter Rock
Living with her father in an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon, thirteen-year-old Caroline only merges with the civilized world once a week, when they venture into the city to buy groceries and attend church, but an encounter with a backcountry jogger derails their entire existence.
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How to make an American quilt
by Whitney Otto
The various passages in a woman's life are revealed through the emotions, personalities, attitudes, struggles, tragedies and triumphs, and life stories of a group of women who are members of a quilting circle in a small California town
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Heartsick
by Chelsea Cain
Addicted to pain killers and still bound to Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful serial killer who had abducted and tortured him before turning herself in, even after she is incarcerated for her crimes, Portland detective Archie Sheridan is caught in another deadly duel with a vicious murderer targeting teenage girls, ambitious reporter Susan Ward, and Gretchen herself. 200,000 first printing.
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The haunting of Sunshine girl. Book one
by Paige McKenzie
Moving from Texas to Washington, Sunshine, an adopted sixteen-year-old, discovers that her new home is haunted and that the ghosts may have revelations about her past
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Between gears, v. 1
by Natalie Nourigat
The author presents a diary in graphic novel form of her senior year at the University of Oregon, from being driven to school by her mother on September 17 to leaving Eugene on June 11
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Hawkeye : my life as a weapon
by Matt Fraction
In his spare time away from the Avengers, Clint Barton, also known as Hawkeye, takes on the seedy underbelly of New York City with his protégé, Kate Bishop, as they foil a burglary plot and infiltrate a high-stakes villain auction
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Death of Celilo Falls
by Katrine Barber
For thousands of years, Pacific Northwest Indians fished, bartered, socialized, and honored their ancestors at Celilo Falls, part of a nine-mile stretch of the Long Narrows on the Columbia River. Although the Indian community of Celilo Village survives to this day as Oregon's oldest continuously inhabited town, with the construction of The Dalles Dam in 1957, traditional uses of the river were catastrophically interrupted. Most non-Indians celebrated the new generation of hydroelectricity and the easy navigability of the river "highway" created by the dam, but Indians lost a sustaining center to their lives when Celilo Falls was inundated.
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On Mount Hood : a biography of Oregon's perilous peak
by Jon Bell
On Mount Hood is a contemporary, first-person narrative biography of Oregon's greatest mountain, featuring stories full of adventure and tragedy, history and geology, people and places, trivia and lore.
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Storyteller : writing lessons and more from 27 years of the Clarion Writers' Workshopby Kate WilhelmFor 27 years, Kate Wilhelm and her husband, Damon Knight, taught at the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, an intensive and ambitious six-week writing program for novice writers, known to participants as “boot camp for writers.” Part memoir and part writing manual, Storyteller is Wilhelm’s affectionate account of the history of the program and her years there with Damon as mentors and instructors.
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Ask me : 100 essential poems
by William Stafford
Offers a collection of poetry culled from the fifty books the poet published in his lifetime, including "Traveling Through the Dark," "You Reading This, Be Ready," and "A Family Turn."
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Garden retreats : creating an outdoor sanctuary
by Barbara Ashmun
Garden Retreats will help readers define their own personal style while explaining the elements that can be used to create a private retreat, with tips on creating sheltering walls, allees, and arbors, as well as suggestions for combining plants, trees, garden structures, and furniture to yield the most relaxing combinations of color, shape, and texture.
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Pioneer girl : the annotated autobiography
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder's unedited, and unpublished, draft of her autobiography that was written for an adult audience and eventually served as the foundation for her popular Little House on the Prairie series includes not-safe-for-children tales that feature stark scenes of domestic abuse, love triangles gone awry and a man who lit himself on fire while drunk off whiskey. In this edition, Pamela Smith Hill has carefully annotated Wilder's biography to provide an expansive context for Wilder and her work.
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Wildwood
by Colin Meloy
When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest at the edge of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants
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Jane on her own : a catwings tale
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Jane--the youngest catwing--leaves her ordinary life on the farm behind to experience independence in the big city, where she discovers the dangers of notoriety and learns that urban living is fun if she has both friendship and freedom in her life.
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Missing May
by Cynthia Rylant
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living
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A girl from Yamhill : a memoir
by Beverly Cleary
In the first volume of her heartwarming autobiography, Beverly Cleary recalls her early childhood, growing up on a rural farm and later near her beloved Klickitat Street in Portland, Oregon, the setting of many of her stories. Reprint.
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Ramona the pest
by Beverly Cleary
Ramona Quimby's entry into kindergarten becomes an earth-shattering event for all concerned when she makes her irrepressible presence known. Reissue.
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Written in stone
by Rosanne Parry
Dreaming of following in the footsteps of her whale-hunter father in the 1920s Pacific Northwest, Makah teen Pearl finds her dreams shattered by her father's death and the arrival of steam-powered harpoon ships that harvest dozens of whales and threaten her people's survival. By the author of Heart of a Shepherd.
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Home
by Carson Ellis
A picture book debut by the illustrator of The Composer Is Dead offers a whimsical tribute to the myriad possibilities of home, depicting homes in different real-world environments as well as fantastical settings.
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The librarian from the black lagoon
by Mike Thaler
Mrs. Beamster the school librarian is known by all the kids as "The Laminator" because she is said to laminate anyone who is caught whispering
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September is Library Card Sign Up Month! Show your library card at West Coast Drinkery (4704 SW Scholls Ferry Rd) to receive a discount on orders of $20 or more through the end of September! Know someone who doesn't have a library card? Bring them in and we'll set them up with one in a matter of minutes.
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