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Shadows on the Klamath: A Woman in the Woods by Louise Wagenknecht
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25In the 1970s, Louise Wagenknecht returned to the Klamath River country of her childhood to take a job with the U.S. Forest Service, only to discover that navigating the shoals of professional and... -
rough house: a memoir by Tina Ontiveros
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Tina Ontiveros was born into timber on both sides of the family. Her mother spent summers driving logging trucks for her family's operation, and her father was the son of an itinerant logger, raised... -
Wet Engine: Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart by Brian Doyle
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.10In this poignant and startlingly original book, Brian Doyle examines the heart as a physical organ-how it is supposed to work, how surgeons try to fix it when it doesn't-and as a metaphor: the seat... -
Ellie's Log: Exploring the Forest Where the Great Tree Fell by Judith L. Li
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23After a huge tree crashes to the ground during a winter storm, ten-year-old Ellie and her new friend, Ricky, explore the forest where Ellie lives. Together, they learn how trees provide habitat for... -
Cheese War: Conflict and Courage in Tillamook County, Oregon by Marilyn Milne 9780870711954
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25In the 1960s, Tillamook County was at war with itself. As the regional dairy industry shifted from small local factories to larger consolidated factories, as food safety and factory conditions became... -
Ellie's Strand: Exploring the Edge of the Pacific by M.L. Herring 9780870719417
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.60There are days in late winter when the Pacific coast enjoys a brief spell of clear, warm weather. Most of the winter storms have passed and the summer fog has not yet settled in. This is when some... -
Ricky in the City: Where the Wildlife Live by Judith L. Li 9780870719776
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.60It's early fall when Ricky and Ellie travel to Portland from their homes in the Cascade Mountains for a weekend school exchange. Much to their surprise, they find an astounding variety of wildlife... -
Eva Emery Dye: Romance with the West by Sheri Bartlett Browne 9780870710087
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870710087Author Sheri Bartlett BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 277 -
City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary by David Oates 9780870710957
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870710957Author David OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint -
Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River by John Kirk Townsend 9780870715259
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870715259Author John Kirk TownsendFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprin -
Eminent Astorians by Karen Kirtley 9780870716317
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.56Eminent Astorians marks the bicentennial of Astoria in 2011. Each of nine essays presents a literary biography of a figure who looms large in Astoria's history, from Comcomly, the powerful, one-eyed... -
Aurora, Daughter of the Dawn: A Story of New Beginnings by J. J. Kopp 9780870716713
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.56"Papa says my arrival in this mortal world was a new beginning. Papa says that every day is a new beginning and every day is heralded by the dawn. Thus he chose to name me Aurora as the daughter of... -
Science Without Frontiers: Cosmopolitanism and National Interests in the World of Learning, 1870-1940 by Robert Fox 9780870718670
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23In his long and distinguished academic career, historian Robert Fox has specialized in the modern history of physical science, particularly in France, from 1700 onward. In Science Without Frontiers,... -
Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher by Marina Richie 9780870712036
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25More than one hundred species of kingfishers are found distributed around the world - every continent but Antarctica. All share oversized heads, dagger bills, and short flicking tails. Many have... -
Plants of the Oregon Coastal Dunes by Alfred M. Wiedemann 9780870714573
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870714573Author Alfred M. WiedemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Impr -
Exploring Oregon’s Historic House Museums by Kathleen M. Wiederhold 9780870714832
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870714832Author Kathleen M. WiederholdFormat PaperbackPage Count 277 -
Same River Twice: The Politics of Dam Removal and River Restoration by Peter Brewitt 9780870719578
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Dam removal was not a realistic option in the twentieth century, and people who suggested it were dismissed as radical dreamers. Over the past twenty years, dam removal has become increasingly... -
Nature on the Edge: Lessons for the Biosphere from the California Coast by Bruce Byers 9781962645140
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52In Nature on the Edge, ecologist Bruce Byers offers readers new perspectives on two iconic California coastal regions, San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate and the Santa Barbara Channel Islands... -
I Have Not Loved You With My Whole Heart by Cris Harris 9780870711084
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25Rich with boyhood remembrances of the Pacific Northwest of the 1970s through the 1990s, I Have Not Loved You With My Whole Heart is a memoir of trauma, healing, faith, and violence, told in... -
The Ground at My Feet: Sustaining a Family and a Forest by Ann Stinson 9780870711466
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Ann Stinson grew up on her family's tree farm in southwestern Washington state, on a ridge above the Cowlitz River. After building a life in New York and Portland, she returned home at the age of... -
Touching This Leviathan by Peter Wayne Moe
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Touching This Leviathan asks how we might come to know the unknowable--in this case, whales, these animals so large yet so elusive, revealing just a sliver of back, a glimpse of a fluke, or, if... -
The Last Layer of the Ocean: Kayaking Through Love and Loss on Alaska's Wild Coast by Mary Emerick
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.62There are five layers of the ocean, though most of us alive will only ever see one. The deepest layer of the ocean is called by some the midnight zone. The only light comes from bioluminescence,... -
Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People by Carl Abbott 9780870712074
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.43A compact and comprehensive history of Portland from first European contact to the twenty-first century, Portland in Three Centuries introduces the women and men who have shaped Oregon's largest city... -
Hunting, Fishing and Environmental Virtue: Reconnecting Sportsmanship and Conservation by Charles J. List 9780870717147
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Do hunting and fishing lead to the development of environmental virtues? This question is at the heart of philosopher Charles List's engaging study, which provides a defence of field sports when they... -
A Deadly Wind: The 1962 Columbus Day Storm by John Dodge 9780870719288
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49A Deadly Wind is a deeply researched historical account of the most powerful non-tropical windstorm to ever strike the West Coast: The Columbus Day Storm of October 12, 1962, which plowed a path of... -
Black Woman in Green: Gloria Brown and the Unmarked Trail to Forest Service Leadership by Gloria Brown 9780870710018
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49From an unlikely beginning as an agency transcriptionist in her hometown of Washington, DC, Gloria Brown became the first African American woman to attain the rank of forest supervisor at the US... -
Ava Helen Pauling: Partner, Activist, Visionary by Mina Carson 9780870716980
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25The story of Ava Helen Pauling-her rich career as an activist first for civil rights and liberties, then against nuclear testing, and finally for peace, feminism, and environmental stewardship-is... -
Dragonflies and Damselflies of Oregon: A Field Guide by Cary Kerst 9780870715891
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.93Growing interest in watching and identifying dragonflies and damselflies has sharpened the need for an authoritative resource like Dragonflies and Damselflies of Oregon, a definitive field guide... -
Slow News: A Manifesto for the Critical News Consumer by Peter Laufer 9780870717345
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.47With this provocative and concise book, journalist Peter Laufer launches a Slow News movement, inviting us to question the value of the perpetual empty-calorie news that accompanies our daily lives... -
Collared: Politics and Personalities in Oregon's Wolf Country by Aimee Lyn Eaton 9780870717062
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.89"Just as the humans involved in the wolf debate deserve to be seen as individuals, not stereotypes, so do the wolves. They are not the boogeyman, or storybook monsters aiming to prey upon the young... -
Learning to Like Muktuk: An Unlikely Explorer in Territorial Alaska by Penelope S. Easton 9780870717581
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.98When Penelope Easton, a young, vigorous, sensible WWII veteran with a Masters in Public Health Nutrition, embarked on a journey to Territorial Alaska to serve as the dietary consultant for the... -
Building a Better Nest: Living Lightly at Home and in the World by Evelyn Searle Hess 9780870718052
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23For fifteen years, Evelyn Hess and her husband David lived in a tent and trailer, without electricity or running water, on twenty acres of wild land in the foothills of the Oregon Coast Range. When... -
The Grail: A Year Ambling & Shambling through an Oregon Vineyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild World by Brian Doyle 9780870710933
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Oregon Book Awards (Creative Nonfiction) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780870710933Author Brian Doyle< -
Peace at Heart: An Oregon Country Life by Barbara Drake 9780870714559
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Oregon Book Awards (Nonfiction) 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780870714559Author Barbara Drake -
Ricky's Atlas: Mapping a Land On Fire by Judith L. Li 9780870718427
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.18In this sequel to Ellie's Log: Exploring the Forest Where the Great Tree Fell, Ricky Zamora brings his love of map-making and his boundless curiosity to the arid landscapes east of the Cascade... -
The Salem Clique: Oregon's Founding Brothers by Barbara S. Mahoney 9780870718915
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50During the decade of the 1850s, the Oregon Territory progressed toward statehood in an atmosphere of intense political passion and conflict. Editors of rival newspapers blamed a group of young men... -
A Generous Nature: Lives Transformed by Oregon by Marcy Cottrell Houle 9780870719790
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50A Generous Nature: Lives Transformed by Oregon offers profiles of twenty-one conservationists and activists who have made enduring contributions to the preservation of Oregon's wild and natural... -
Up All Night by Martha Gies 9780870710285
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870710285Author Martha GiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint -
Troubled Intimacies: A Life in the Interior West by David Axelrod 9780870710384
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870710384Author David AxelrodFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint -
Exploring The Tualatin River Basin by Peter 9780870715402
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870715402Author PeterFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint