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"Amidst the beauty of the Wenatchee Valley at the feet of the Cascade Mountains, apple orchardist Claire Courtney struggles to make a living. When strange and ancient artifacts are discovered beneath her land, Claire wonders whether the ensuing archaeological dig will save her, or be the final blow in her struggle to hang onto her home and livelihood. To make matters worse, conflict between the archaeologists on the dig-Joe Running from the west,...
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IUniverse
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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"In her frantic flight to escape a misconception about her husband in 1910, Laurie Davis boards the eastbound train from Everett, Washington. She meets an elderly lady with whom she shares her life story of family tragedies, newspaper career and her insane jealousy. She realizes she has to return and is trapped by snow slides at Wellington on Stevens Pass."--Cover.
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Infinity Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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The North Cascades near Leavenworth, Washington are a rugged and special place to live today. Over 100 years ago, it was more so. On the White follows the life of a young newlywed couple that spends their honeymoon traveling by wagon from Walla Walla to a new home they hope to find in the Wenatchee Valley. Once there, they find a valley of great beauty and amazing resources. They make fast friends and experience adventure and tragedy. This historical...
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Strawberry Mountain volume 2
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Booktrope Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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At the turn of the century, Evelyn Martin prepares to enter the 1900s as an independent woman, just as her mother desires, studying at business school in Portland, Oregon. Her mother's death brings her back to the ranch to help her father. Years begin creeping into the new century. Then, Evelyn returns to school where she meets Harry, a mining engineer from England. She privately wrestles with her desire to remain in Portland and her responsibility...
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Children of the Quincy Valley volume 3
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Quincy Valley Historical Society
Pub. Date
©2019
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English
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The latest book in the "Children of the Quincy Valley" series "Tuk' Luki, Wanapum Boy" tells the story of Grant Wyena, known by his native name Tuk' Luki. Based on the real-life Grant, who grew up living in the ancestral lands of the Wanapum pople, the story depicts a life in harmony with the seasons, earth, and the river itself. As Grant grew, changes to the way of life of his people began to accelerate, especially with the construction of Priest...
6) Nothing in life is free: through Naches Pass to Puget Sound, a historical novel of the Pioneer West
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Northwestern Press
Pub. Date
[1953]
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English
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Roll on Columbia volume 2
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University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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Through the Cascades is the second volume of Roll On, Columbia, Bill Gulick's epic novel of the history of the Columbia River and the Great Northwest. Encompassing the period from the 1840s to the early 1870s, Through the Cascades follows the adventures of several more generations of the growing Warren clan. Steamboat captains Tom and his son, Lars, migrate up the Columbia River Basin to meet new challenges and explore new regions of the Great Northwest....
10) To the Pacific
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Roll on Columbia volume 1
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University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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In the most comprehensive historical novel ever written about the Columbia River and the Great Northwest, author Bill Gulick tells the story of the Columbia River basin - from the establishment of Fort Astoria in 1811 to the building of Grand Coulee Dam and the disastrous flood of 1948. The story is told through five generations of the Warrens - a sprawling family of river bar pilots, steamboat captains, and geologists whose own history is integrally...
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Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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"Head to the majestic Northwest where logging history comes to life in four Christmas romances. Insecurity brings a logger and a young woman together, but will a 'perfect' sister tear them apart? Will the dangers of the woods derail a young couple's hopes and their chance at love? Amid town gossip, can a work-focused sawmiller win the heart of a prim-and-proper heiress? Will second thoughts have a sentimental girl and a hardhearted carpenter losing...
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
©1966
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English
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It is the turn of the twentieth century, and Mary and Althea Hollister have arrived at Pine Creek Landing in the new state of Washington. The two sisters are taking up their claim to eighty acres of land and a rundown house willed to them by their father.
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A classic and hugely entertaining political novel, the cat-and-mouse story of urban intrigue in Seattle both in 1962, when Seattle hosted the World's Fair, and in 2001, after its transformation in the Microsoft gold rush.
Larger than life, Roger Morgan was the mastermind behind the fair that made the city famous and is still a backstage power forty years later, when at the age of seventy he runs for mayor in hopes of restoring all of Seattle's...
Larger than life, Roger Morgan was the mastermind behind the fair that made the city famous and is still a backstage power forty years later, when at the age of seventy he runs for mayor in hopes of restoring all of Seattle's...
14) The orchardist
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2012.
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English
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At the turn of the twentieth century, reclusive orchardist William Talmadge tends to his apples and apricots. One day, two teenaged girls steal his fruit and later return to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and pregnant, they take up on Talmadge's land and indulge in his reservoir of compassion. But just as the girls begin to trust him, men arrive in the orchard with guns...
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