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Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest. by Lonely Planet Publications (Firm);
Subjects: Guidebooks.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Design Anthology - Asia Pacific Edition
Mode of access: Internet.
Subjects: Design;
© , Fifth Black Media
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Paradise of the Pacific : approaching Hawaii / by Moore, Susanna,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Map -- This Realm of Chaos and Old Night -- Awe of the Night Approaching -- The Source of the Darkness that Made Darkness -- The Cloak of Bird Feathers -- One Great Caravanserai -- A Pilgrim and a Stranger -- A Light to My Path -- Crucified to the World -- Falling Are the Heavens -- The Voice of Land shells -- Notes -- Glossary -- Gods and Personages -- Bibliography -- Index."The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise. The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals--from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes, to the early Polynesian adventurers who sailed across the Pacific in double canoes, the Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines, and the British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage, soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay--all wanderers washed ashore, sometimes by accident. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants--legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. In Paradise of the Pacific, Susanna Moore, the award-winning author of In the Cut and The Life of Objects, pieces together the elusive, dramatic story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii--its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers--a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Acculturation; Culture conflict; Legends; Social change;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Graveyard of the Pacific : shipwreck and survival on America's deadliest waterway / by Sullivan, Randall,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history--and present--of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world. Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it's nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific. Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to try to cross it in the late eighteenth century. For decades ships continued to make the bar crossing with great peril, first with native guides and later with opportunistic newcomers, as Europeans settled in Washington and Oregon, displacing the natives and transforming the river into the hub of a booming region. Since then, the commercial importance of the Columbia River has only grown, and despite the construction of jetties on either side, the bar remains treacherous, even today a site of shipwrecks and dramatic rescues as well as power struggles between small fishermen, powerful shipowners, local communities in Washington and Oregon, the Coast Guard, and the Columbia River Bar Pilots--a small group of highly skilled navigators who help guide ships through the mouth of the Columbia. When Randall Sullivan and a friend set out to cross the bar in a two-man kayak, they're met with skepticism and concern. But on a clear day in July when the tides and weather seem right, they embark. As they plunge through the waves, Sullivan ponders the generations of sailors that made the crossing before him-including his own abusive father, a sailor himself who also once dared to cross the bar--and reflects on toxic masculinity, fatherhood, and what drives men to extremes. Rich with exhaustive research and propulsive narrative, Graveyard of the Pacific follows historical shipwrecks through the moment-by-moment details that often determined whether sailors would live or die, exposing the ways in which boats, sailors, and navigation have changed over the decades. As he makes his way across the bar, floating above the wrecks and across the same currents that have taken so many lives, Randall Sullivan faces the past, both in his own life and on the Columbia River Bar"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Sullivan, Randall.; Shipwrecks;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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From the Atlantic to the Pacific : Canadian expansion, 1867-1909 / by Nelson, Sheila.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 82), Internet addresses (p. 83) and index.Describes the major events and people associated with the formation of Western Canada.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life;
© c2006., Mason Crest Publishers,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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You love me / by Kepnes, Caroline,1976-author.;
"The highly anticipated new thriller in Caroline Kepnes's hit You series, now a blockbuster Netflix show ... Joe Goldberg is back. And he's going to start a family--even if it kills him. Joe Goldberg is done with cities, done with the muck and the posers, done with Love. Now, he's saying hello to nature, to simple pleasures on a cozy island in the Pacific Northwest. For the first time in a long time, he can just breathe. He gets a job at the local library--he does know a thing or two about books--and that's where he meets her: Mary Kay DiMarco. Librarian. Joe won't meddle, he will not obsess. He'll win her the old fashioned way ... by providing a shoulder to cry on, a helping hand. Over time, they'll both heal their wounds and begin their happily ever after in this sleepy town. The trouble is ... Mary Kaye already has a life. She's a mother. She's a friend. She's ... busy. True love can only triumph if both people are willing to make room for the real thing. Joe cleared his decks. He's ready. And hopefully, with his encouragement and undying support, Mary Kaye will do the right thing and make room for him"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Women librarians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Plastic, ahoy! : investigating the great Pacific garbage patch / by Newman, Patricia,1958-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 46), Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Marine pollution; Marine pollution; Plastic marine debris; Plastic scrap; Waste disposal in the ocean;
© c2014., Millbrook Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The kids book of Canada's railway and how the CPR was built / by Hodge, Deborah.; Mantha, John.;
Includes index.
Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway Company; Railroads;
© c2000., Kids Can Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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1, 2, 3 Salish Sea : a Pacific Northwest counting book / by McClure, Nikki.;
A counting book featuring marine life found in the Salish Sea of British Columbia and Washington State.LSC
Subjects: Marine animals; Marine biology; Counting books.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Allie and Bea : a novel / by Hyde, Catherine Ryan,author.;
Subjects: Widows; Runaway teenagers; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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