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Eli and Charlie ride from Oregon to dispatch a miner
April 18/2012 by WSL NW & Special Collections
In The Sisters Brothers author Patrick DeWitt has produced a darkly comic tour of the Old West. »
View a vibrant world under the water’s surface in David Hall’s images
April 04/2012 by WSL NW & Special Collections
This recently released book of photography is an absorbing and rewarding read and Hall’s thoughtfully composed and beautifully executed photographs. The images reveal a world filled with color lying just beyond the sandy shores of the oft-muted Pacific Northwest that is above sea level. »
Rekindle an appreciation for local farmers with this new PNW memoir.
March 15/2012 by WSL NW & Special Collections
This recent memoir reads like having an interesting friend sit down to relate how he made the intriguingly insane choice to change from being a city guy on Capitol Hill who ran a successful restaurant to establishing and running Kurtwood Farms on Vashon Island—with no previous experience whatsoever as a farmer. »
Get Growing with Edible Gardening for Washington and Oregon
February 22/2012 by WSL NW & Special Collections
Another in a series of books on gardening in the Pacific Northwest by gardening expert Marianne Binetti...Edible Gardening for Washington and Oregon focuses on vegetables, herbs, fruits and seeds appropriate for Northwest gardens. »
Arson, cursed bones, and an old fridge make for intrigue in Breach of Duty
January 25/2012 by WSL NW & Special Collections
Mystery writer J.A. Jance's 14th Seattle-based J.P. Beaumont police procedural weaves a plot with lots of complications and disparate story lines throughout various seedy locations of the greater Seattle area. »
Celebrate the art of a Northwest School master
December 21/2011 by WSL NW & Special Collections
David F. Martin's book gives a quick introduction to artist Richard Bennett’s life and contribution to Pacific Northwest art. »
“A most peculiar book”
November 30/2011 by WSL NW & Special Collections
The Clear Cut Future is a wild mélange of essays, criticism, short stories, excerpts from novels, poetry, photo essays, and the like by a variety of authors, whose only commonality appears to be that they are mostly from the Pacific Northwest, although that is never stated, and may not even be true. »

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