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Take a Stand: Art Against Hate, A Raven Chronicles Anthology, edited by Seattle-based writers Anna Balint, Phoebe Bosche, and Thomas Hubbard, contains poems, stories and images from 117 writers, 53 artists, 69 illustrations, divided into five fluid and intersecting sections: Legacies, We Are Here, Why?, Evidence, and Resistance. We begin with Legacies because the current increased climate of hate in this country didn't begin with the 2016 election,...

"The story of the land in the Northwest flows from the cataclysmic ice-age floods. So it only follows that the stories of the people in this terrain are inextricably linked to the aftereffects of that great deluge. These are the genesis stories of a region. Included are the controversy over the provenance and ownership of a meteor that fell to earth in rural Oregon; the mystery of the aurora borealis as observed by 18th-century explorer David Thompson;...

The following stories and poems were written by a group of people who live near the Grand Coulee Dam. The group formed many years ago to write some of the history of the area and also be an aid to each other by offering advice on writing techniques...This book has several stories that have historical background of the area as their subject, as well as some that may seem to be somewhat fictional. They will not be identified ; so the reader must discern...

Essays and anecdotes by author and artist Yukio Tazuma, following his early life in Seattle to his experience as a Japanese American in forced imprisonment during World War II.

Depicts the days and seasons of a family intent on living joyfully, providing a meditation on our relationship to nature.