Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington during the Cold War. Richland’s neighbor and reason for existence was the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Trained as a civil engineer, Flenniken spent eight years working as an engineer and hydrologist, three of those at Hanford. The poems in Plume trace Flenniken’s perceptions about Hanford from young girl to professional woman.
For those who love to eat fish and seafood; for those who love to cook; and for those who are interested in sustainable harvesting and farming of fish and seafood, Good Fish: Sustainable Seafood Recipes is a must read.
The first in Olsen’s Empty Coffin series this is a good read for teens, especially girls ages 15-16. It may well appeal to a wider audience of murder mystery lovers.
Mike Shannon and Illustrator Scott Hannig’s graphic novel biography of professional baseball player and manager Fred Hutchinson is a detailed graphic novel that covers his life, accomplishments, and the illness that created his most lasting legacy: the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center of Seattle.
Anna Keesey’s debut literary novel paints a lyrical picture of the settling of Eastern Oregon.
Drawing from oral history interviews with Billy and those best acquainted with him, Legacy Project Director Trova Heffernan traces Billy’s development from angry young man on the banks of the Nisqually to passionate elder statesman and chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. The book is filled with photographs and contains an extensive family tree.
This unassuming book of black and white photos with minimal text packs an amazing amount of history in its 127 pages.
In The Sisters Brothers author Patrick DeWitt has produced a darkly comic tour of the Old West.
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.
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.