Category: Local Author

Dark Secrets: A Legacy of Memories from 1939 Sweden

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Seller ID: 89380

ISBN-13: 9781977253286

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Black Woman in Green: Gloria Brown and the Unmarked Trail to Forest Service Leadership

By: Brown, Gloria D.,Sinclair, Donna L.

Price: $20.95

Publisher: Oregon State University Press : February 2020

Seller ID: 79984

ISBN-13: 9780870710018

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

From an unlikely beginning as an agency transcriptionist in her hometown of Washington, DC, Gloria Brown became the first African American woman to attain the rank of forest supervisor at the US Forest Service. As a young widow with three children, she transferred to Missoula, Montana, and embarked on a remarkable journey, ultimately leading the Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon and later the Los Padres in California. The story of Brown's career unfolds against the backdrop of a changing government agency and a changing society. As scholars awaken to the racist history of public land manageme...
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Answer Me, Answer Me

By: Brown, Irene Bennett

Price: $4.00

Publisher: iUniverse : October 2000

Seller ID: 92115

ISBN-13: 9780595145058

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

State of Giving: Stories of Oregon Nonprofits, Donors, and Volunteers

By: Chaillé, Greg,Anderson, Kristin

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oregon State University Press : April 2015

Seller ID: 80694

ISBN-13: 9780870717727

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

State of Giving is at once an authoritative overview of Oregon's toughest challenges and a much-needed manifesto for greater civic engagement. Chaill and Anderson highlight the crucial role that nonprofits play as pillars of Oregon's civic structure through their engaging profiles of the charismatic civic leaders, grassroots organizations, donors, and volunteers who are working to combat some of Oregon's most enduring problems, including: - Education Inequity - Environmental Conservation - Social Inequity and Discrimination - Hunger and Homelessness - The Urban/Rural Divide - Arts, Culture, ...
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Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

By: de Gutes, Kate Carroll

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Ovenbird Books : April 2015

Seller ID: 47409

ISBN-13: 9781940906126

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction and the Lambda Literary Award for memoir, these essays chronicle some of life's biggest dramas: marriage, divorce, and the quest for the perfect fashion accessory. On the surface, Kate Carroll de Gutes' debut collection of essays considers her sexuality, gender presentation, and the end of her marriage. But, as editor Judith Kitchen says, "peel it back, begin to take it apart, semantically and linguistically and personally, and it all comes clear." Kate Carroll de Gutes invites readers to become collaborators in essays about issu...
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Martin Marten: A Novel

By: Doyle, Brian

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Picador : April 2016

Seller ID: 95659

ISBN-13: 9781250081056

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

WINNER OF THE LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE WINNER OF THE BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Dave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as he prefers to call it, like the Multnomah tribal peoples once did, Wy'east). Dave will soon enter high school, with adulthood and a future not far off--a future away from his mother, father, his precocious younger sister, and the wilderness where he's lived all his life. And Dave is not the only one approaching adulthood and its freedoms on Wy'east that summer. Martin, a pine marten (of the...
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Duck Season: Oregon's Magical Flight to the National Title Game

By: Emerald, Oregon Daily

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Pediment Publishing : January 2011

Seller ID: 86649

ISBN-13: 9781597253000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Gerry Frank's Oregon

By: Frank, Gerry

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Gerrys Frankly Speaking : February 2016

Seller ID: 93468

ISBN-13: 9781879333277

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Magheen

By: Gherasim, Louise

Price: $5.00

Publisher: E M Pr : April 1997

Seller ID: 1031

ISBN-13: 9781880664247

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jump-Off Creek

By: Gloss, Molly

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company : January 1989

Seller ID: 80509

ISBN-13: 9780395560013

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Clearing in the Wild (Change and Cherish Historical Series #1)

By: Kirkpatrick, Jane

Price: $6.00

Publisher: WaterBrook : April 2006

Seller ID: 85441

ISBN-13: 9781578567348

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The first book in the Change and Cherish trilogy from the CBA bestseller and WILLA Literary Award Winner, Jane Kirkpatrick. Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission. In a community where dissent of any form is discouraged, Emma finds it difficult to rein in her tongue--and often doesn't even try to do so, fueling the animosity between her...
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No Eye Can See (Kinship and Courage Series #2)

By: Kirkpatrick, Jane

Price: $4.00

Publisher: WaterBrook : February 2001

Seller ID: 92259

ISBN-13: 9781578562336

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Jane Kirkpatrick has, almost literally, created her own genre of fiction. Her books enfold...whisper, 'Let me tell you about a woman who...' They find a secret place in each of us and bring it gently to the surface."-Salem Statesman JournalSuzanne felt the tears press at her eyes as the dream-state drifted away-taking with it the sight of the man she loved. Awake, she blinked back the tears. This was her life now. The sounds of the women and oxen, those were real. And the darkness-her darkness. She lay inside it, resigned. She was not a wife reaching out for her husband but a widow, a blind w...
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Eden Within Eden: Oregon's Utopian Heritage

By: Kopp, James J.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Oregon State University Press : May 2009

Seller ID: 83959

ISBN-13: 9780870714245

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Oregon has been the home of nearly three hundred communal experiments since the Aurora Colony was established in 1856. Eden Within Eden is the first book to survey the stateas utopian history, from religious and Socialist groups of the nineteenth century to ecologically conscious communities of the twenty-first century. James J. Kopp examines Oregonas communal history in the context of the state as a destination for those seeking new beginnings and in the framework of utopian and communal experiences across America. Eden Within Eden provides rich detail about utopian communitiesa some realized...
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Writing Across Cultures: A Handbook on Writing Poetry and Lyrical Prose

By: Kovacs, Edna Ph.D.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Blue Heron Pub : January 1994

Seller ID: 81094

ISBN-13: 9780936085258

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Playful and inventive in her approach, Kovacs uses a wide range of cultural forms to encourage lyrical writing. An anthology as well as a guide to teaching and writing. "A delightful cookbook of ideas.

...may help students learn across racial and cultural divides". -- Peter Oresick, poet

"(A) thoughtful and informative little book". -- The Oregonian
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Reflections Magazine2008-2009

By: Lake Oswego High School

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 79562

ISBN: 281DES1003919

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

By: Le Guin, Ursula K.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Shambhala : February 2004

Seller ID: 84836

ISBN-13: 9781590300060

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art pieces, and, most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading.
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The Sky Fisherman

By: Lesley, Craig

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt : August 1995

Seller ID: 92211

ISBN-13: 9780395677247

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

With his third novel, Craig Lesley comes into his own as an important American writer. Combining the familial loyalties and betrayals of Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It with the dead-on perfect ear for western dialect and local ritual of Thomas McGuane's Northing but Blue Skies, he presents a story that is both fresh and powerful. Laced with the solace of the great outdoors and the spirituality of the Indians on the local reservation, The Sky Fisherman is set in a small town in the Northwest, where the interwoven currents of love, death, and a boy's coming of age flow swiftly below a ...
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The Prisoner Pear: Stories from the Lake

By: Rust, Elissa Minor

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Swallow Press : December 2005

Seller ID: 35401

ISBN-13: 9780804010832

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The twelve stories in "The Prisoner Pear: Stories from the Lake" take place in an affluent suburb of Portland, Oregon, but they could be taken from any number of similar enclaves across the United States. These stories infuse stark reality with occasional hints of magical realism to explore what the American dream means to twenty-first-century suburbanites. In a city where the homecoming queen still makes the front page of the weekly newspaper, ducks caught in storm drains and stolen campaign signs make up the bulk of the paper's crime reports. The community's hidden complexities, however, riv...
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Beyond the Garden Gate

By: Winther, Sophus

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Oregon State University : 1991

Seller ID: 92233

ISBN: 281DES1004933

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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