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q awala li: water coming down place: A History of Mendocino County California
Combining
historical research with story telling, q awala li fils in an
often-unnoticed pocket in pacific West Coast History. Cities from
Seattle to San Francisco were built with redwood from Mendocino
County. Who were the loggers? How were the Native Pomos impacted?
What role did the Russians play? Who created the name “China Gulch?”
Exploring these questions and many more, this book focuses on the
diversity of people who came and went on this coast, connecting
their lives with historical events.$39.95
Bridgework
Set in the landscape of ocean and redwoods on the Pacific West
Coast, this novel explores the watershed changes taking place in the
1970s, as the region struggles between a logging community on its
way out and a retirement-tourist bombardment on the horizon.
The upheavals wracking natural and human society parallel
those facing Jesse, a local mountain man/logger, and Nyx, a
schoolteacher waiting tables for the summer, both seeking escape.
Can they come together despite conflicting life styles, and
if so can it last? Can
we pass over bridges both ways?
$15.00
Grandma's Lost House: Restoring a Memory, a fanciful memoir
Based on the author’s childhood in eastern Oregon,
Grandma’s Lost House
traces her family’s exile after a grandmother’s death and her return
25 years later to re-visit the house that once stood on “the highest
hill of her childhood.”
When the woman finds the house vanished, the plot turns to a
detective hunt: for the house, the truths of the past, indeed the
author’s own memory.
$10.00
Cuttings from the Violas: Traveling with My Scots Grannies, a non-fiction travel narration
Travel with the author through the glens and sea coasts of Scotland, discovering the lives of her Scots grannies – and maybe your own. Meet the women who join in her journey: from fishwives to scholars, from B & B keepers to priests. Share their stories and spirits, letting us know what the lives of ancestors to over twenty million Americans were like.
$15.95
Cowboys of the Rimrocks - A Memoir on Grant County, Oregon 1860s to 1940s
Written by a son of pioneer grandparents on both sides, Cowboy of the Rimrocks is a memoir of cowboy life in Grant County, Oregon from the 1860's when Anglo Americans first began to move into Monument Valley, to the late 1940's when Emmet Cochran White left. The landscape of rimrocks, sagebrush and the rowdy John Day River is peopled with the characters who found their ways to this remote region, along with the cattle, horses and sheep who were their major companions. All set in the context of this time and place in Oregon's history.
$18.95