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The child finder : a novel
by Rene Denfeld
Hired by a family that has become desperate to find the young daughter who went missing three years earlier, a talented private investigator embarks on a search in a mysterious forest in the Pacific Northwest, where she is forced to confront painful realities from her own past as a lost child.
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The third victim
by Phillip Margolin
When a series of abductions, tortures and murders are traced to the home of a prominent attorney in rural Oregon, a rookie lawyer becomes a second chair to a legendary criminal defense attorney who holds a dangerous secret.
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The Sisters brothers
by Patrick deWitt
Set against the back-drop of the great California Gold Rush, this darkly comic novel follows the misadventures of the fabled Sisters brothers, two hired guns, who, under the order of the mysterious Commodore, try to kill Hermann Kermit Warm, a man who gives them a run for their money.
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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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Sometimes a great notion : a novel
by Ken Kesey
Oregon's Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise, delicate family bonds begin to fray and unravel.
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I loved you more : a novel
by Tom Spanbauer
Follows the development of a love triangle over twenty-five years as Ben, Ruth, and Hank fall in and out of love with one another against the backdrop of New York, Portland, and places in between, in a world of struggling artists and writers.
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Searoad
by Ursula K. Le Guin
The triumphs and struggles of several generations of women who independently control Klatsand, a small resort town on the Oregon coast, are portrayed in a series of interlinking tales.
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The river why
by David James Duncan
Flyfishing genius Gus Orviston, seeking refuge from his stuffy, world-famous father and ripsnorting cowgirl mother, embarks on a reluctant quest for meaning that leads him to an astonishing task.
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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.
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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.
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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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My abandonment
by Peter Rock
Living with her father in the expansive wilds of Forest Park, 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, until an encounter with a backcountry jogger derails their entire existence.
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Martin Marten
by Brian Doyle
A high school freshman, Dave, thinks about his future and impending adulthood and setting off on his own and crosses paths with an adolescent pine marten, named Martin, who is also leaving his family of small woodland creatures behind as he embarks on the unknown.
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Portland noir
by Kevin Sampsell
In a city full of police controversies, hippie artist punk houses, and overzealous liberals, Portland, Oregon, is a place where even its fiction blurs with its bizarre realities. The 16 stories in this anthology demonstrate that a little rain is never a deterrent to murder.
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The bridge of the Gods : a romance of Indian Oregon
by Frederic Homer Balch
An amalgamation of fact and legend that creates a portrait of rural Native American life in the 19th century. First published in 1890, The Bridge of the Gods is a tale of the American Indians of the Northwest. Frederic Homer Balch describes missionaries attempting to convert Native Americans to Christianity, warring tribes who try to form an alliance to drive out the white settlers, and Native American legends of how the land—its mountains and rivers—came to be.
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Portlandtown : a tale of the Oregon Wyldes
by Rob DeBorde
When Joseph Wylde's former marshal father-in-law moves in with him and his family, they have no idea that the old man's past has come after him, and they soon find themselves battling zombie hordes.
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The Shanghai Tunnel
by Sharan Newman
Arriving in Portland, Oregon, from Shanghai in 1868 after the unexpected death of her wealthy husband, Horace, Emily Stratton and her teenage son are confronted by the hostility of her late husband's partners, the strange new world of the Pacific Northwest, and by the secrets of Horace's seedy and painful past.
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Yesternight
by Cat Winters
In 1925, trained psychologist Alice Lind arrives in Gordon Bay, Oregon, where her views are challenged by 7-year-old Janie O'Daire, a mathematical genius whose strange stories lead Alice on an investigation that endangers her career and illuminates the terrifying mysteries within her own past, changing her life forever.
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Stumptown investigations, Portland, Oregon : the case of the girl who took her shampoo (but left her mini)
by Greg Rucka
Dex is the proprietor of Stumptown Investigations, and a fairly talented P.I. Unfortunately, she's less adept at throwing dice than solving cases. Her recent streak has left her beyond broke - she's into the Confederated Tribes of the Wind Coast for 18 large. But maybe Dex's luck is about to change. Sue-Lynne, head of the Wind Coast's casino operation, will clear Dex' debt if she can locate Sue-Lynne's missing granddaughter. But is this job Dex's way out of the hole or a shove down one much much deeper?
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The Writers' Mill Journal 2017
by Sheila Deeth
An annual short story and poetry collection from EXTREMELY local authors! Members of the Writers' Mill meet monthly at the Cedar Mill Community Library to share their work and improve their skills.
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A girl from Yamhill : a memoir
by Beverly Cleary
Follows the popular children's author from her childhood years in Oregon through high school and into young adulthood, highlighting her family life and her growing interest in writing.
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The chronology of water : a memoir
by Lidia Yuknavitch
The author recounts how she lost a promising career as a swimmer to addiction, turned to high-risk sexual activities, and eventually got her life back through her writing and teaching and her new family.
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Burning fence : a western memoir of fatherhood
by Craig Lesley
The award-winning author of Winterkill and The Sky Fisherman recounts his relationships with his father and stepfather as well as his own experiences of parenthood, in a memoir that describes his father's abandonment, the abuse that forced his family to flee his stepfather, and his fostering of a troubled Native American boy.
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Fugitives & Refugees : A Walk in Portland, Oregon
by Chuck Palahniuk
An insider takes readers on a walking tour of Portland, Oregon, revealing the city's quirky, cheap, and wild side as he visits unusual museums, offbeat annual festivals and events, scenes of ghostly hauntings, strange local customs, and more.
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Homestead : Modern Pioneers Pursuing the Edge of Possibility
by Jane Kirkpatrick
Joining her husband in the fight to create a home out of a rugged stretch of sagebrush, rattlesnakes, and sand in eastern Oregon, Jane Kirkpatrick uneasily relinquishes the security of a professional career; the convenience of electricity, running water, and a phone line; and, perhaps most daunting, the pleasures of sporting a professional manicure. But the pull of the land is irresistible, and they dream of gathering their first harvest from a yet-to-be-planted vineyard.
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Listening for coyote : a walk across Oregon's wilderness
by William L. Sullivan
Recounts the 1,361 mile, two-month trek the author made across Oregon's Wilderness areas in 1985, entirely on public lands, offering vivid descriptions of the unspoiled beauty of the land and the untamed majesty of the wildlife.
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Reading Portland : the city in prose
by John Trombold
Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In over eighty selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. This single volume gives voice to women and men; the colonizers and the colonized; white, Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Indian storytellers; and lower, middle, and upper classes.
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