 |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Read more... | Buy Now - $16.99
|
 |
Northwest Trees: Identifying and Understanding the Region's Native Trees by Stephen F. Arno and Ramona P. Hammerly
Thirty years after the original 1977 edition, this anniversary edition presents an updated and expanded version of this fascinating guide. The text, which is written for the general reader, discusses over 60 trees, in entries that describe the tree's history, habitat, appearance, ecological role, and human history. The book is well illustrated with fine drawings of the full-grown tree, its cones, leaves, and/or needles, as well as many b&w historical photos.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $18.95
|
 |
A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker
Cheery persistence wears down a curmudgeonly bear in a wry comedy of manners that ends in a most unlikely friendship. Bear is quite sure he doesn't like visitors. He even has a sign. So when a mouse taps on his door one day, Bear tells him to leave. But when Bear goes to the cupboard to get a bowl, there is the mouse - small and gray and bright-eyed. In this slapstick tale that begs to be read aloud, all Bear wants is to eat his breakfast in peace, but the mouse - who keeps popping up in the most unexpected places - just won't go away.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $16.99
|
 |
Mountain Madness - Scott Fischer, Mount Everest, and a Life Lived on High by Robert Birkby
Best known as one of the guides who perished near the summit of Mount Everest during the tragic spring of 1996, Scott Fischer became for many an iconic symbol of audacity, hubris, and the limits of human endurance. But to those who knew him well, Scott was much more than an action figure at the heart of a modern-day cautionary tale. Now in this vivid, candid biography, Robert Birkby - one of Scott's close friends - gives us a fascinating, in-depth portrait of who Scott Fischer really was and what led him to the top of the world.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $24.95
|
 |
Camp Out!: The Ultimate Kid's Guide by Lynn Brunelle
Camp Out! is a how-to, nature guide, crafts and activity center, cookbook, planner, and motivator. It covers all the basic skills but is also brimming with new ideas — the endlessly inventive author is Lynn Brunelle, (Emmy award winning writer for Bill Nye the Science Guy!). Learn about telling the temperature by counting the cricket chirps, bear bags, weather watching and constellations - this illustrated guide is chock full of fun and information.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $11.95
|
 |
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." In this hilarious new memoir, he travels back to explore the kid he once was and the weird and wonderful world of 1950s America.
Read more... | Buy Now - $14.95
|
 |
Porn for Women by The Cambridge Women's Pornography Cooperative
Prepare to enter a fantasy world. A world where clothes get folded just so, delicious dinners await, and flatulence is just not that funny. Give the fairer sex what they really want beautiful PG photos of hunky men cooking, listening, asking for directions, accompanied by steamy captions: I love a clean house or As long as I have two legs to walk on, you'll never take out the trash. Now this is porn that will leave women begging for more.
Read more... | Buy Now - $12.95
|
 |
Girl Overboard by Justina Chen Headley
The worst thing about having it all is having to deal with it all - the good, the bad, and the just plain weird. Everybody thinks Syrah is the golden girl. After all, her father is Ethan Cheng, billionaire, and she has everything any kid could possibly desire, right down to a waterfront mansion, jet plane, and custom-designed snowboards. But as Syrah reveals in her manga journal, most of what glitters in her life is fool's gold.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $16.99
|
 |
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were nothing ever seen before. In The Worst Hard Time the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan tells the epic story of this environmental disaster and its impact on the communities stricken with fear and choked by dust in the "dirty thirties". John Steinbeck gave voice to those who fled the Dust Bowl in his masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath. This is the story of those who stayed and survived. An extraordinary story of endurance and heroism it is also a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of trifling with nature.
Read more... | Buy Now - $14.95
|
 |
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him—something that happened in their grandmother's house in the winter of 1968.
Read more... | Buy Now - $14.00
|
 |
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Ken Follet's historical masterpiece, The Pillars of the Earth is a spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England.
Read more... | Buy Now - $7.99
|
 |
Under Orders by Dick Francis
Sid knows the perils of racing all too well, but in his day jockeys didn't usually cross the finish line with three .38 rounds in the chest — which is how he found Huw Walker, the winner of a coveted race only a few hours earlier. Now Halley's quest for answers will push him to his very limits — both on and off the track.
Read more... | Buy Now - $9.99
|
 |
Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous
by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
A no-nonsense, tough-love guide for savvy girls who want to stop eating crap and start looking fabulous! Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wakeup call to all women who want to be thin. With such blunt advice as, "Soda is liquid Satan" and "You are a total moron if you think the Atkins Diet will make you thin," it's a rallying cry for all savvy women to start eating healthy and looking radiant.
Read more... | Buy Now - $13.95
|
 |
Careless in Red by Elizabeth George
In her most eagerly anticipated novel yet, Elizabeth George brings back Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley to investigate a ruthless crime. After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and rugged coastline. On the forty-third day of his walk, at the base of a cliff, Lynley discovers the body of a young man who appears to have fallen to his death. It soon becomes apparent that a clever killer is indeed at work, and this time Lynley is not a detective but a witness and possibly a suspect. Can Lynley let go of the past long enough to solve a most devious and carefully planned crime?
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $27.95
|
 |
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want — a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world - all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year.
Read more... | Buy Now - $15.00
|
 |
Death Pans Out by Ashna Graves
Things don't always pan out as you expect... In the mid-1800s miners used the phrase "pan out" to describe their mining success. On a good day, their pans were filled with precious gold; on a bad day their pans were filled with dirt. But in Death Pans Out Ashna Graves demonstrates that sometimes it's what you don't expect to find at the bottom of the pan that proves most interesting.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $14.95
|
 |
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan
The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life.
Read more... | Buy Now - $13.95
|
 |
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer.
Read more... | Buy Now - $13.95
|
 |
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you - and knows what has the power to hurt you... and heal you.
Read more... | Buy Now - $23.95
|
 |
Atomic Farmgirl: Growing Up Right in the Wrong Place by Teri Hein
The granddaughter of German Lutheran homesteaders, Teri Hein was raised in the 1950s and 1960s in rural eastern Washington. This starkly elegant landscape serves as the poignant backdrop to her story, for one hundred miles to the south of this idyllic, all-American setting lay the toxins - both mental and physical - of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. From horseback riding to haying, Flag Day parades to Cold War duck-and-cover drills, Atomic Farmgirl chronicles a peculiar coming of age for a young girl and her community of hardworking, patriotic folk, whose way of life - and livelihood - are gradually threatened by the poisons of progress.
Read more... | Buy Now - $13.00
|
 |
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies.
Read more... | Buy Now - $15.00
|
 |
The Methow Valley: Between Home and Heaven by Laura Hurwitz
Washington's remote Methow Valley is a wild and extravagantly beautiful place that cradles an amazing diversity of wildlife, topography and people. Residents refer to this land of sparkling rivers, rugged mountains and dramatic seasons as home, while visitors, who flock to the area's unparalleled hiking, skiing, camping and biking, call it heaven.
Read more... | Buy Now - $19.95
|
 |
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden
"In this age of video games and cell phones, there must still be a place for knots, tree houses, and stories of incredible courage. The one thing that we always say about childhood is that we seemed to have more time back then. This book will help you recapture those Sunday afternoons and long summers - because they're still long if you know how to look at them." — Conn Iggulden
Read more... | Buy Now - $24.95
|
 |
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild
Read more... | Buy Now - $13.95
|
 |
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche by Gary Krist
In February 1910, a monstrous, record-breaking blizzard hit the Northwest. Nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found themselves marooned.
Read more... | Buy Now - $15.00
|
 |
This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life — even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last becoming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology.
Read more... | Buy Now - $15.00
|
 |
Where Angels Go by Debbie Macomber
Shirley, Goodness and Mercy are back! And this time, they're in Leavenworth! These three irresistible angels love their assignments on Earth. They especially love helping people who send prayer requests to Heaven (even though the Archangel Gabriel, their boss, knows they're going to break his rules)! This Christmas, Mercy is assigned to bring peace of mind to an elderly man—who discovers an unexpected answer to his prayer. Goodness is sent to oversee the love life of a young woman afraid to risk commitment a second time. And Shirley has the task of granting a little boy's fondest Christmas wish.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $16.95
|
 |
The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience
by Wangari Maathai
The Green Belt Movement is an internationally acclaimed tree-planting movement founded by Kenyans and run by and for Kenyans. The organization, which has planted millions of trees throughout East Africa in order to provide sources of fuel, food and a way to stop soil erosion and environmental degradation, is one example of an indigenous movement working to influence Africa's future. Many of its workers are women.
Read more... | Buy Now - $16.00
|
 |
Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangari Maathai
When Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people's environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personal losses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya's forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country. In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage.
Read more... | Buy Now - $14.95
|
 |
Atonement by Ian McEwan
On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia's childhood friend. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives - together with her precocious literary gifts - forces a situation that will change the course of their lives. As it follows that event's repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century, Atonement engages the reader on every conceivable level, with an ease and authority that mark it as a genuine masterpiece.
Read more... | Buy Now - $14.95
|
 |
Kerplunk!: Stories by Patrick F. McManus
Patrick F. McManus's gently comic stories about outdoor life have earned him millions of fans worldwide. With Kerplunk!, McManus delivers a collection of folksy, wonderfully wise depictions of country life worthy of Mark Twain.
Read more... | Buy Now - $24.00
|
 |
 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife - between desire and danger.
Read more... | Buy Now - $10.99
|
 |
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is more dangerous than Bella ever could have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of an evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may just be beginning.
Legions of readers entranced by the New York Times bestseller Twilight are hungry for more, and they won't be disappointed by this, the second book in the Twilight Saga. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. Passionate, riveting, and deeply moving, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.
Read more... | Buy Now - $10.99
|
 |
Be the Pack Leader by Cesar Millan
Bestselling author Cesar Millan takes his principles of dog psychology a step further, showing you how to develop the calm-assertive energy of a successful pack leader and use it to improve your dog's life — and your own.
Read more... | Buy Now - $25.95
|
 |
Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems by Cesar Millan
In this definitive and accessible guide, Millan, star of National Geographic Channels hit show "The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan," reveals what dogs truly need to live a happy and fulfilled life. There are at least 68 million dogs in America, and their owners lavish billions of dollars on them every year. So why do so many pampered pets have problems?
Read more... | Buy Now - $13.95
|
 |
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time - Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. The powerful and profoundly moving story of how one man really is changing the world - one school at a time.
Read more... | Buy Now - $15.00
|
 |
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
Deep in the mist-shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest is a small mill town called Commonwealth, conceived as a haven for workers weary of exploitation. For the adopted son of the town's founder, it is a haven in another sense; as the first place in his life he's had a loving family to call his own. And yet, amidst the backdrop of a world war raging, another shadow has fallen across the region in the form of a deadly illness striking down vast swaths of surrounding communities.
Read more... | Buy Now - $13.95
|
 |
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
Echoing themes he sounded in his extraordinary keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Senator Barack Obama speaks in this book to Americans of all stripes who are weary of the smallness of U.S.politics today, and who long for something rooted in the faith and decency of the American Dream.
Read more... | Buy Now - $14.95
|
 |
One Last Scream by Kevin O'Brien
Amelia Farady suffers from blackouts and she has the feeling she is personally involved in a series of deaths. Eleven years have passed since 12 women vanished without a trace. Now, as new murders occur, Amelia continues to suffer from blackouts, leaving her to wonder if she's a cold-blooded killer or a pawn in a deadly game.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $7.99
|
 |
A Cold Dark Place by Gregg Olsen
The New York Times bestselling author of A Wicked Snow delivers a haunting and unforgettable new thriller full of dark psychological twists, family secrets, and shocking violence. In a secluded farm house in the Pacific Northwest, a family has been slaughtered — and a teenage son has disappeared. Single mother and cop, Emily Kenyon spearheads a dark hunt for a killer. But Emily's teenage daughter Jenna is one step ahead of her.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $6.99
|
 |
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Winner of the 2007 IMPAC Dublin Award, A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year and Named one of the 10 best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review, Out Stealing Horses has been embraced across the world as a classic, a novel of universal relevance and power.
Panoramic and gripping, it tells the story of Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man who has moved from the city to a remote, riverside cabin, only to have all the turbulence, grief, and overwhelming beauty of his youth come back to him one night while he's out on a walk.
Read more... | Buy Now - $14.00
|
 |
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food reminds us that, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, the solutions to the current omnivore's dilemma can be found all around us. In looking toward traditional diets the world over, as well as the foods our families - and regions - historically enjoyed, we can recover a more balanced, reasonable, and pleasurable approach to food. Michael Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy.
Read more... | Buy Now - $24.95
|
 |
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century. "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma.
Read more... | Buy Now - $16.00
|
 |
Mrs. Perfect by Jane Porter
Where's a Fairy Godmother When You Need One? For Taylor Young, life is very good. She has a handsome husband who loves her, three gorgeous children, a personally designed and decorated dream house. Suburbanite trendsetter and super mom—life couldn't be more perfect. And as long as no one notices the fragile woman beneath her coifed and polished image, things will stay that way...
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $13.99
|
 |
The End of Food by Paul Roberts
Paul Roberts, best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic needs is failing dramatically. In this carefully researched account, Roberts identifies the forces that are undermining our capacity to produce food that is safe, nourishing, or adequate to meet the appetites of a rapidly growing population. In The End of Food, readers will see not only how our food systems are breaking down, but how they can be put back on a sustainable course.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $26.00
|
 |
Bikini Season by Sheila Roberts
Meet the Bikinis, a group of friends whose cooking club has turned into a diet support group. Each woman's diet journey may be different, but one thing they all know: whether you are facing scary numbers on the scale or problems in your life, you need your girlfriends.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $13.95
|
 |
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff
Jane Charlotte has been arrested for Murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons-"Bad Monkeys' for short. This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail's psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy-or playing a different game altogether. What follows is one of the most clever an dgripping novels you'll ever read...
Read more... | Buy Now - $20.00
|
 |
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, Mary Doria Russell sets her first historical novel against this dramatic background, tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters. Through them, she tells the little-known, but true story of the network of Italian citizens who saved the lives of forty-three thousand Jews during the war's final phase. The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel of ideas, history, and marvelous characters that will please Russell's many fans and earn her even more.
Read more... | Buy Now - $14.95
|
 |
La Petite Four by Regina Scott
Emily and her three best friends can't wait for the year's biggest party: the Coming-Out Ball that will plunge them into the seductions, scandals, and decadence of nineteenth-century London Society. But when dashing Lord Robert puts a wrinkle in their plans, Emily and her crew hatch an investigation to expose his dark side, a move which puts them right in the path of the stubborn, yet curiously attractive James Cropper. Readers will have to fluff up their ball gowns and hang on to their corsets as Emily decides between Robert and James, love and independence, and ultimately discovers just how far she'll go to follow her own heart.
Read more... | Buy Now - $8.99
|
 |
Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book by Rufus Seder
There's never before been a book like Gallop. Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. It's impossible not to flip the page, and flip it again, and again, and again. Complementing the art is a delightful rhyming text full of simple questions and fun, nonsense replies. Every child who opens the book will be amazed — and so will every parent.
Read more... | Buy Now - $12.95
|
 |
Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging, and the Crosscut Saw
by Ana Maria Spagna
Now Go Home tells the story of how a quintessential California girl ended up earning her living in the Pacific Northwest with a crosscut saw. Ana Maria Spagna came of age in southern California in the "hot-pink eighties." By the time she turned nineteen, she had visited Disneyland thirty-seven times and was ready to hit the road. In these finely edged essays, she takes her readers along.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $17.95
|
 |
The Art of Racing in the Rain by John Straley
Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.
A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life...as only a dog could tell it.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $23.95
|
 |
Polar Polka-Counting Polar Bears in Alaska by Chérie Stihler and illustrated by Erik Brooks
Ten polka-playing polar bears gather on an iceberg that's big enough for a stage. The band begins to play, then suddenly—SNAP!—a chunk of the iceberg breaks off and one of the bears floats away. Undaunted, the now nine-member band strikes a chord when—POP!—there goes another piece, and another bear, too. Bear by bear, the band is eventually reduced to...none! How will the show go on?
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $10.95
|
 |
The Big Both Ways by John Straley
It's 1935 and jobs are scarce. Yet Slippery Wilson walks off his job at a logging camp afer a gruesome accident kills a coworker. He's headed for Seattle with his savings and plans to buy a piece of farmland and be his own boss. When he stops to help a woman get her car out of a ditch, his life takes a serious detour. The woman is Ellie Hobbs, an anachist from the docks of Seattle who watches out for her young neice and dreams of flying planes.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $16.95
|
 |
Walking the Gobi by Helen Thayer
At the age of 63, Helen Thayer fulfilled her lifelong dream of crossing Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Accompanied by her 74-year-old husband Bill and two camels, Tom and Jerry, Thayer walked 1600 miles in 126-degree temperatures, battling fierce sandstorms, dehydration, dangerous drug smugglers, and ubiquitous scorpions. For more than 60 days Helen struggled to keep moving through this inhospitable terrain despite a severe leg injury. Without sponsors, a support team, or radio contact, hers is a journey of pure discovery and adventure.
Read more... | Buy Signed Copy - $23.95
|
 |
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. In very practical terms, Tolle leads readers into this new consciousness to learn to live and breathe freely with this highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, The Power of Now.
Read more... | Buy Now - $14.00
|
 |
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
In The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle shows readers how to recognize themselves as the creators of their own pain, and how to have a pain-free existence by living fully in the present. Accessing the deepest self, the true self can be learned, he says, by freeing ourselves from the conflicting, unreasonable demands of the mind and living "present, fully and intensely, in the Now."
Read more... | Buy Now - $14.00
|
 |
The Night Before Christmas Illustrated by Richard Jesse Watson
Magnificent paintings by American artist Richard Jesse Watson infuse traditional images with pizzazz and flair. From cozy interiors to snowy landscapes, each scene is packed with the details of Christmas. Watch for the remarkable cast of elves who populate these pages. Best of all, see Santa Claus himself as you've never seen him before, complete with an exclusive interview. (Natives of the Pacific Northwest might even recognize a Port Townsend landmark or two!)
Read more... | Buy Now - $16.99
|
 |
Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter Yarrow
Puff, the Magic Dragon is simply one of the most beloved songs of all time — a classic that's become as much a part of the childhood experience as Mother Goose and fairy tales. Yet singer/songwriter Peter Yarrow and co-composer Lenny Lipton have never allowed a picture book adaptation of this magical tale...until now.
Read more... | Buy Now - $16.95
|
 |
The Shack by William P. Young
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his "Great Sadness," Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!
Read more... | Buy Now - $14.99
|
|
|
