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2019
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English
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"The Cassandra follows a woman who goes to work in a top secret research facility during WWII, only to be tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind. Mildred Groves is an unusual young woman. Gifted and cursed with the ability to see the future, Mildred runs away from home to take a secretary position at the Hanford Research Center in the early 1940s. Hanford, a massive construction camp on the banks of the Columbia River in...
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Strawberry Mountain volume 3
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Whatever happened to Eddie Martin? At age 19, Eddie Martin has a brutal fight with his high school teacher and leaves home. The first two books in the Strawberry Mountain Series, By the River and Secrets from the Little Red Box, leave readers wondering about Eddie, the youngest son of Sarah Ann and Thomas Martin. He journeys from the ranch in the Upper John Day Valley into the Blue Mountains where Strawberry Butte is the tallest and most beautiful...
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University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1981]
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English
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One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother. The book combines authentic Indian lore with the circumstance...
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English
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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,...
5) Buffalo coat
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Washington State University Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
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English
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"Three doctors travel to Opportunity, Idaho in the 1890s searching for success and fortune in a town where they find more tragedies than opportunities."
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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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Strawberry Mountain volume 1
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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With three young children at her side, Sarah Ann arrives in the beautiful upper John Day Valley of Oregon in 1869, a young widow whose husband had disappeared in an Indian raid on their way west.
In 1870 she remarries and rears her nine children. On her one trip back to New York, she discovers she has been living a lie. The truth liberates her from the stoic nature she has portrayed toward others and the last quarter of the century becomes the backdrop...
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Strawberry Mountain volume 4
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Annie Martin is the fourth book in the Strawberry Mountain Series. She lives on the Martin Family ranch in the John Day Valley of Eastern Oregon. The Martins have ranched here for over 100 years. The short stories are tales of Annie as a young girl. They helped her learn many life lessons. When the neighbors killed her white kitty who was running in the field, Annie began an understanding of feuding and prejudice. Her life lessons also helped her...
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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...
12) Hanta yo
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1979
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English
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A multigenerational saga that depicts the lives of two families of Teton Sioux from the late 1700s to the 1830s, before the arrival of the white man.
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iUniverse, Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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"At 1:43 a.m., March 1, 1910, a wall of snow descended on two Great Northern Railway trains stalled in the town of Wellington, Washington. Ninety-six people died in a single moment. To this day, the Wellington Slide remains North America's worst avalanche disaster. Although other accounts of this monumental event exist, none are told entirely from the perspective of the railroad men who battled the week-long blizzard leading up to the tragedy. Vis...
16) On the warpath
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Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1914.
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English
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Empty Bowl
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"THE GRAND PROMISE takes us back to the 1930s New Deal public works program. An Eastern Washington town is uprooted and a family grapples with personal and financial dilemmas. A father resists inevitable change, and enters into a fierce conflict with his son. The historic construction of the Grand Coulee Dam, a massive project destined to bring prosperity to the Pacific Northwest, will also destroy the family's home and their town, but it will change...
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Strawberry Mountain volume 2
Publisher
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
Publisher
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...
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J. L. Oakley
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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"One mistake can ruin a life. One mistake can transform it. A government forestry camp set deep in the mountainous forests of the Pacific Northwest might not seem the likely place to find redemption, but in 1935, Park Hardesty hopes for just that. Blaming himself for the fiery accident that caused his brother's disfigurement and the death of the bootlegging woman he loved, planting trees, building bridges and mentoring tough, homesick New Jersey boys...
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