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When the Spanish influenza epidemic reaches Portland, Oregon, in 1918, seventeen-year-old Cleo leaves behind the comfort of her boarding school to work for the Red Cross.

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"A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph-and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction with unimaginable explosive power. It would begin with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured by humans. In a matter of months, a city designed to...

"This work is an attempt to provide information about early Native Americans in the Middle-Columbia and Lower Methow Valley region of the Columbia River drainage and tell about disposition of their lands following the arrival of white settlers. [The author] used the Moses-Columbia Indian Reservation as a starting point and ... focused on the Indian allotment lands stretching from Wells Dam to the Lower Methow Valley from the time the reservation was...

In 1925, in a small Washington State community made up of families from different ethnic backgrounds, twelve-year-old Cuss tries to stay in school as he watches those around him struggle with various financial difficulties.