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"The PNT Town Guide is essential reading for anyone who wishes to learn about the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail's many attractions and adventures. Annually updated with fresh information from recent thru-hikers, this valuable book can save you a lot of time." Ron Strickland -- back of cover.

The new and updated second edition of the Pacific Northwest's bestselling guide to hikes and breweries.

"Long-time West Coast forager and the chef behind the popular Swallow Tail Supper Club, Robin Kort's approach to cooking is a blend of simplicity and experimentation. Showcasing foraged ingredients like wild mushrooms, seaweed, fish and molluscs, flowers and evergreen tips, she brings together 40 recipes to inspire forays into tide and woods and a sense of adventure in the kitchen. With a palate influenced by Japanese, Italian, and Spanish cuisine,...

An Indian romance of earliest Oregon in which David Thompson, Alexander Ross, and other early explorers participate as recorded in their own accounts.

Grow more food, with less work, in any yard-now completely revised and expanded! Are you itching to start your own garden or grow more in the one you have, but feel that gardening is too challenging or time-consuming for your busy schedule? Backyard Bounty will demystify gardening, bringing it back to the down-to-earth, environmentally practical activity that anyone can enjoy. Author and master gardener Linda Gilkeson covers everything you'll need...

An elusive terrorist. A city on razor's edge. Twenty-four hours to stop a massacre. Former NYPD detective Thomas Austin is enjoying a rare date at a Monday Night Football game in Seattle when the evening takes a horrifying turn. A team of merciless terrorists has taken over the stadium by force, blocking cellphone signals and sealing the exits. The terrorists have a single demand: release a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative from a U.S. supermax prison....

"Amid an alarming rise in xenophobia, Ana Maria Spagna stumbled upon a story: one day in 1875, on a high bluff over the Columbia River, a group of local Indigenous people murdered a large number of Chinese Miners and pushed their bodies off a cliff into the river. The incident was dubbed the Chelan Falls Massacre. Despite having lived in the area for decades, Spagna had never before heard of this event. In Pushed, she sets out to discover what really...