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Works (438)

Titles	Order
Alaska Bush Pilots in the Float Country by Archie Satterfield	1970
Annie, Annie by Molly Cone	1970
Good luck in cracked Italian by Richard Hugo	1970
Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle by Moritz Thomsen	1970
MacArthur's amphibious Navy; Seventh Amphibious Force operations, 1943-1945 by Daniel E Barbey	1970
New and Selected Poems by David Wagoner	Poetry, 1970
Nisei: The Quiet Americans by Bill Hosokawa	1970
Washington by Ray Atkeson	1970
The Year of the Whale by Victor B. Scheffer	1970
After the death of an elder Klallam, and other poems, by Duane McGinnis [i.e. Duane Niatum] by Duane Niatum	Poetry, 1971
Glory of the Seas (The American maritime library) by Michael Jay Mjelde	1971
Mill Town; A Social History of Everett, Washington, from Its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tra by Norman H. Clark	1971
Minus Three by Gene W. Mason	1971
Moving Through Here by Don McNeill	1971
The Spokane Indians, children of the sun by Robert H. Ruby	1971
Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight? by David Wagoner	1971
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins	1972
Challenge of Rainier: A Record of the Explorations and Ascents, Triumphs and Tragedies by Dee Molenaar	1972
Come Wade the River; The Photography of Ralph Wahl with excerpts from "A River Never Sleeps" by Roderick Haig-Brown by Roderick L. Haig-Brown	1972
How Much is Enough?: Shaping the Defense Program 1961-1969 by Alain C. Enthoven	1972
Island Year by Hazel Heckman	1972
Phone calls from the dead by Beth Bentley	Poetry, 1972
Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan	1972
The Seeing Eye. by Victor B. Scheffer	1972
Snake River Country by Bill Gulick	1972
Backpacking: One Step at a Time by Harvey Manning	1973
Burning and Other Stories (Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction Ser) by Jack Cady	1973
The Game of Words by Willard R. Espy	1973
Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America as Seen by the Early Explorers & Fur Traders During the Last Decades of the Eighteenth Century by Erna Gunther	1973
Literatura Chicana: Texto Y Contexto/Text and Context : Chicano Literature by A. Castenada Shular	1973
New Queens for Old: A Novella and Nine Stories by Gabriel Fielding	1973
The politics of Irish literature: from Thomas Davis to W. B. Yeats, by Malcolm Johnston Brown	1973
The Politics of the Ocean by Edward Wenk Jr.	1973
Seattle by Nard Jones	1973
Swan Among the Indians: Life of James G. Swan, 1818-1900 by Lucile McDonald	1973
Atlas of Primate Gross Anatomy: Baboon, Chimpanzee, and Man by Daris Ray Swindler	1974
The backyard astronomer by Alan Edward Nourse	1974
Band of Brothers by Ernest K. Gann	1974
The Dance of Legislation: An Insider's Account of the Workings of the United States Senate by Eric Redman	1974
Desert: the American Southwest by Ruth Kirk	1974
Flood Tide of Empire: Spain and the Pacific Northwest, 1543-1819 by Warren L. Cook	1974
Ladies' Home Journal Family Medical Guide by Alan Edward Nourse	1974
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir (Classic Contemporaries Series) by Richard Hugo	Poetry, 1974
Master Builders of the Animal World by David Hancocks	1974
The Year of the Angler by Steve Raymond	1974
Cry crisis!: Rehearsal in Alaska by Harvey Manning	1975
Fisheries of the North Pacific: history, species, gear & processes by Robert J. Browning	1975
Go East, young man: the early years; the autobiography of William O. Douglas by William O. Douglas	1975
The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits by Mary McCarthy	1975
Medicine Creek by William Oliver Turner	1975
Sleeping in the woods by David Wagoner	Poetry, 1975
To Die is Not Enough: a True Account of Murder and Retribution by Donald Delano Wright	1975
After the Blizzard by James J. McAuley	Poetry, 1976
Almanac of Words at Play by Willard R. Espy	1976
Hosea Globe and the Fantastical Peg-legged Chu by Graydon Beeks	Fiction, 1976
Masked rituals of Afikpo, the context of an African art : [published in connection with an exhibition shown at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, May 24-June 21, 1975] by Simon Ottenberg	1976
Return to Sender by Raymond Mungo	1976
There's a Sound in the Sea: A Child's-Eye View of the Whale by Tamar Griggs	1976
Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885-1915 by Charles Pierce Lewarne	1976
The Windows to His World: The Story of Trevor Kincaid by Muriel L. Guberlet	1976
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert	1977
Country of resemblances by Beth Bentley	1977
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins	Fiction, 1977
Indian Art of the Northwest Coast: A Dialogue on Craftsmanship and Aesthetics by Bill Holm	1977
Seattle, past to present by Roger Sale	1977
The squirrel cage: The best of Douglass Welch by Douglass Welch	1977
Stained Glass: Music for the Eye by Robert Hill	1977
White Serpent Castle by Lensey Namioka	1977
After Ninety by Imogen Cunningham	1978
Aleut and Eskimo art : tradition and innovation in South Alaska by Dorothy Jean Ray	1978
Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard	1978
Island Between by Margaret E. Murie	1978
Secret of Fire Five by Jack Olsen	1978
To frighten a storm : poems by Gladys Cardiff	Poetry, 1978
Wasp, where is thy sting? by Florence King	1978
Exploring Washington Archaeology by Ruth Kirk	1979
Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E. B. White (Harvard Paperbacks) by Roger Sale	1979
The Farm on the River of Emeralds by Moritz Thomsen	1979
A Hostage to Fortune by Ernest K. Gann	1979
Inside Moves by Todd Walton	1979
The Practice by Alan Edward Nourse	1979
Ravens, Crows, Magpies and Jays by Tony Angell	1979
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig	1979
Under Stars by Tess Gallagher	Poetry, 1979
Asleep In Another Country by Melinda Mueller	Poetry, 1980
Ceramics in the Pacific Northwest: A History (Index of art in the Pacific Northwest) by Lamar Harrington	1980
The Dulcimer Boy by Tor Seidler	1980
Homebase by Shawn Wong	Fiction, 1980
Profanity Hill by Irene Burns Miller	1980
Puget's Sound: A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound by Murray Morgan	1980
Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man by Bill Russell	1980
Summoned to Jerusalem: The Life of Henrietta Szold by Joan Dash	1980
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Richard Hugo	1980
Vision Quest by Terry Davis	1980
Adventures of a Zoologist by Victor B. Scheffer	1981
Edward S.Curtis in the Land of the War Canoes: A Pioneer Cinematographer in the Pacific North West (Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum monographs) by Bill Holm	1981
Hambone by Caroline Fairless	1981
Klondike Lost : a decade of photographs by Kinsey & Kinsey by Norm Bolotin	1981
Printing poetry: A workbook in typographic reification /by Clifford Burke by Clifford Burke	1981
Right Madness On Skye by Richard Hugo	Poetry, 1981
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule	1981
They Tried to Cut It All: Grays Harbor--turbulent Years of Greed and Greatness by Edwin Van Syckle	1981
Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America by Ivan Doig	1981
The Clay Pedestal: A Renowned Cardiologist Reexamines the Doctor-Patient Relationship by Thomas A. Preston	1982
A Closed Book: Poems by Richard Allen Blessing	Poetry, 1982
Fireweed and other poems by William H. Matchett	Poetry, 1982
Frank Matsura : Frontier Photographer by Joann Roe	1982
It's Just Too Much by Jean Davies Okimoto	1982
The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Gyorgy Doczi	1982
Talking Medicine: America's Doctors Tell Their Stories by Peter MacGarr Rabinowitz	1982
They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? by Patrick F. McManus	1982
Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process by Peter Elbow	1982
A bundle of sticks by Pat Rhoads Mauser	1983
Digressions of a Native Son by Emmett Watson	1983
Everest : Mountain Without Mercy by Broughton Coburn	1983
Flood: Poems by William Matthews	Poetry, 1983
Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by Arthur R. Kruckeberg	1983
Getting Free: You Can End Abuse and Take Back Your Life by Ginny NiCarthy	1983
Mountain in the Clouds: A Search for the Wild Salmon by Bruce Brown	1983
Mountains of North America by Fred Beckey	1983
Never Done: A History of American Housework by Susan Strasser	1983
Oxherding Tale by Charles Johnson	1983
50 Northwest Artists by Bruce Guenther	1984
Beyond The Far Side by Gary Larson	1984
Cathedral: Stories by Raymond Carver	Fiction, 1984
Cities in the Round by Norman J. Johnston	1984
How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ	1984
The Language of Oppression by Haig A. Bosmajian	1984
Let Me Hear Your Voice: Portraits of Aging Immigrant Jews by Mimi Handlin	1984
Poems from Ish River Country: Collected Poems and Translations by Robert Sund	Poetry, 1984
Seashore Life of the Northern Pacific Coast: An Illustrated Guide to Northern California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia by Eugene N. Kozloff	1984
The Throwing Madonna: Essays on the Brain by William H. Calvin	1984
Voices: A life of Frank O'Connor by James Matthews	1984
Yo no Bi: Beauty of Japanese Folk Art by William Jay Rathbun	1984
The Audubon Society Handbook for Butterfly Watchers by Robert Michael Pyle	1985
The Complete Shade Gardener by George Schenk	1985
English Creek by Ivan Doig	Fiction, 1985
The Goldmark Case: An American Libel Trial by William L. Dwyer	1985
Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Berger	1985
Magic Bullets by Grant Fjermedal	1985
Mermaids in the Basement by Carolyn Kizer	Poetry, 1985
People of the Ice Whale : Eskimos, White Men, and the Whale by David Boeri	1985
Salt air by Sharon Bryan	Poetry, 1985
Seabirds of Eastern North Pacific and Arctic Waters by Delphine Haley	1985
Sketchbook: A Memoir of the 1930s and the Northwest School by William Cumming	1985
The trumpeter swan : a white perfection by Skylar Hansen	1985
Willingly by Tess Gallagher	Poetry, 1985
Blackbirds of the Americas by Gordon H. Orians	1986
The dark path of our names by Joan Swift	1986
Edward S. Curtis by Barbara Davis	1986
The Imagery of Art Wolfe by Art Wolfe	1986
The Indians of Puget Sound: The Notebooks of Myron Eells by Myron Eells	1986
Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger	1986
Place names of Washington by Robert Hitchman	1986
Sea Change: Poems by Christopher Howell	Poetry, 1986
Shadow of Lies by Donald E. McQuinn	1986
Steamer's Wake: Voyaging Down the Old Marine Highways of Puget Sound, British Columbia, and the Columbia River by Jim Faber	1986
The trillion dollar budget : how to stop the bankrupting of America by Glenn Pascall	1986
The Year of the Trout by Steve Raymond	1986
At the Forest's Edge: Memoir of a Physician-Naturalist by David Tirrell Hellyer	1987
Bay and Ocean Cookbook: Ark Restaurant Cuisine by Nanci Main	1987
Blind Trust by John J. Nance	1987
Chihuly: Color, Glass, and Form by Dale Chihuly	1987
Jacob Lawrence: American Painter by Ellen Harkins Wheat	1987
The Lover of Horses by Tess Gallagher	1987
The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to Alexander the Great by Arther Ferrill	1987
Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest by Clifford E. Trafzer	1987
Soldiers in Hiding: A Novel (Rediscovery) by Richard Wiley	1987
The Tomorrow Makers by Grant Fjermedal	1987
Tramp: Sagas of High Adventure in the Vanishing World of the Old Tramp Freighters by Michael J. Krieger	1987
Ultramarine: Poems by Raymond Carver	1987
Wintergreen: Listening to the Land's Heart by Robert Michael Pyle	1987
Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970 by Charles Johnson	1988
Bone Flames: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Colleen J. McElroy	1988
Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig	1988
The Goddess Letters by Carol Orlock	1988
A History of the Catholic Church in the Pacific Northwest 1743-1983 by Wilfred P. Schoenberg	1988
Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum	1988
King Midas and the Golden Touch by Kathryn Hewitt	1988
The River that Flows Uphill: A Journey From the Big Bang to the Big Brain by William H. Calvin	1988
Spirit and Ancestor: A Century of Northwest Coast Indian Art at the Burke Museum (Monograph / Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum) by Bill Holm	1988
The Year in Bloom by Ann Lovejoy	1988
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum	1989
Bears of the World by Terry Domico	1989
The Good Times Are Killing Me by Lynda Barry	1989
Honey from the Lion: An African Journey by Wendy Laura Belcher	1989
Micromysteries: Stories of Scientific Detection by Gail Kay Haines	1989
The Social Origins of Private Life: a History of American Families, 1600-1900 by Stephanie Coontz	1989
Stehekin: A Valley in Time by Grant McConnell	1989
Washington's Audacious State Capitol and Its Builders by Norman J. Johnston	1989
Women and Their Quilts: A Washington State Centennial Tribute by Nancyann Johanson Twelker	1989
The World of Patience Gromes: Making and Unmaking a Black Community by Scott C. Davis	1989
The American Eagle (Earthsong Collection) by Tom Leeson	1990
The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris	1990
Coming to Our Senses by Morris Berman	1990
The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind by David Guterson	1990
Dead Languages by David Shields	1990
The Magic Fan by Keith Baker	1990
Passport by Sam Hamill	1990
Remembered Drums: A History of the Puget Sound Indian War by J. A. Eckrom	1990
Washington's Centennial Farms Yesterday and Today by Washington State Department ...	1990
When I Kept Silence (CSU Poetry Series) by Naomi Clark	1990
The End of the Holocaust: The Liberation of the Camps by Jon Bridgman	1991
Floating in My Mother's Palm by Ursula Hegi	1991
George Tsutakawa by Martha Kingsbury	1991
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest by Timothy Egan	1991
Gwinna by Barbara Helen Berger	1991
Late Frontier a History of Okanogan County Washington by Bruce A. Wilson	1991
Picture Postcard by Frederick D. Huebner	1991
The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers (A Graywolf Memoir) by Moritz Thomsen	1991
Washington, a Centennial Atlas by James W. Scott	1991
Augury by Philip Garrison	1992
The Hidden Coast: Kayak Explorations from Alaska to Mexico by Joel W. Rogers	1992
Nch'I-Wana, the Big River: Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land by Eugene S. Hunn	1992
Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound by John Keeble	1992
A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War (Young Readers' History of the Civil War) by Ina Chang	1992
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin	1992
Stalking the ice dragon : an Alaskan journey by Susan Zwinger	1992
A Time of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State (Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, Monographs, No 7) by Robin K. Wright	1992
Wives Tale by Alix Wilber	1992
At the Helm of Twilight by Anita Endrezze	1993
Come Back, Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek and Brought it Back to Life by Molly Cone	1993
The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest by William Dietrich	1993
Killing Color by Charlotte Watson Sherman	1993
Moon Crossing Bridge by Tess Gallagher	1993
Seya's Song by Ron Hirschi	1993
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson	1993
Spiritual Space: The Religious Architecture of Pietro Belluschi by Meredith L. Clausen	1993
Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey by Lydia Minatoya	1993
Two Trains Running by August Wilson	1993
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki	1994
First Indian on the Moon by Sherman Alexie	1994
Jackson Street After Hours: The Roots of Jazz in Seattle by Paul De Barros	1994
Lifting the Veil: The Feminine Face of Science by Linda Shepherd	1994
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie	1994
Oh How Can I Keep On Singing?: Voices of Pioneer Women by Jana Harris	1994
Pacific Northwest: The Beautiful Cookbook by Kathy Casey	1994
Palestinians: The Making of a People by Baruch Kimmerling	1994
The Pugilist at Rest: Stories by Thom Jones	1994
Reconciliation Road: A Family Odyssey of War and Honor by John Douglas Marshall	1994
The Triumph of Tradition: The Emergence of Whitman College, 1859-1924 by G. Thomas Edwards	1994
April and the Dragon Lady by Lensey Namioka	1995
George S. Long, timber statesman by Charles E. Twining	1995
The Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown	1995
Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne	1995
An Ocean Between Us by Evelyn Iritani	1995
Sources of the River by Jack Nisbet	1995
Squish!: A Wetland Walk by Nancy Luenn	1995
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi	1995
Tankers Full of Trouble: The Perilous Journey of Alaskan Crude by Eric Nalder	1995
Ironman by Chris Crutcher	1996
The Land That Slept Late: The Olympic Mountains in Legend and History by Robert L. Wood	1996
Maija by Tiina Nunnally	1996
Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species by Charles C. Mann	1996
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River by Richard White	1996
Storm Boy by Owen Paul Lewis	1996
Tesserae: Memories & Suppositions by Denise Levertov	1996
Tusk and Stone by Malcolm Bosse	1996
Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban	1997
Bucking the Sun by Ivan Doig	1997
Buddha by Demi	1997
An Evening at the Garden of Allah by Don Paulson	1997
Harping On: Poems, 1985-1995 by Carolyn Kizer	1997
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer	1997
No One Walks on My Father's Moon by Chara M. Curtis	1997
Olympic National Park: A Natural History by Tim McNulty	1997
Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and The Indian Mutiny Of 1857 by Andrew Ward	1997
This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence by Alan Thein Durning	1997
Dark Blue Suit: And Other Stories by Peter Bacho	1998
Darwin among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence by George B. Dyson	1998
Echoes of the Elders: The Stories and Paintings of Chief Lelooska by Lelooska	1998
The Fair and the Falls: Spokane's Expo '74 : Transforming an American Environment by J. William T. Youngs	1998
Love Like Gumbo (Fjord Discoveries, No 2) by Nancy Rawles	1998
The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier by Bruce Barcott	1998
The Profile Makers: Poems by Linda Bierds	1998
The Ring of Truth: An Original Irish Tale by Teresa Bateman	1998
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson	1998
Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America by Shelby Scates	1998
After a Spell: Poems by Nance Van Winckel	1999
Building Washington: A History of Washington State Public Works by Paul Dorpat	1999
Divided Destiny: A History of Japanese Americans in Seattle by David A. Takami	1999
Escape of the Bird Women by Linda Andrews	1999
The Flower in the Skull by Kathleen Alcalá	1999
Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities Around Puget Sound by Alexandra Harmon	1999
Kirtland Cutter: Architect in the Land of Promise by Henry C. Matthews	1999
Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West by Timothy Egan	1999
Nola: A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness by Robin Hemley	1999
Remembering Ahanagran: A History of Stories by Richard White	1999
Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage by Robert Michael Pyle	2000
The Father of the Predicaments (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Heather McHugh	2000
Origins of Architectural Pleasure by Grant Hildebrand	2000
Salmon Without Rivers: A History Of The Pacific Salmon Crisis by James A. Lichatowich	2000
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine: Stories by Thom Jones	2000
Sunrise to Paradise: The Story of Mount Rainier National Park by Ruth Kirk	2000
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka	2000
The Tiger Iris (American Poets Continuum) by Joan Swift	2000
Traveling Light: COLLECTED AND NEW POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series) by David Wagoner	2000
What she left me : stories and novella by Judy Doenges	2000
Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle by Michael Keith Honey	2001
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America by Andrew Ward	2001
Down in the Woods at Sleepytime by Carole Lexa Schaefer	2001
The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison by Robert Ellis Gordon	2001
Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (Wesleyan Poetry) by Paul Celan	2001
John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist by Trevor Fairbrother	2001
Mountain City by Gregory Martin	2001
Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal among the New York Intellectuals by David Laskin	2001
Treasures in Heaven: A Novel by Kathleen Alcalá	2001
What the Ice Gets : Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916 by Melinda Mueller	2001
Blue Dusk: New & Selected Poems, 1951-2001 by Madeline DeFrees	2002
Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 by Carolyn Kizer	2002
Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret by Duff Wilson	2002
The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins	2002
Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey into her Indian Family's Past by Mira Kamdar	2002
Northern Haida Master Carvers by Robin Kathleen Wright	2002
Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne	2002
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds by Lyanda Lynn Haupt	2002
Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel by Carole L. Glickfeld	2002
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher	2002
Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back by Pamela McClusky	2003
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary by Rebecca Brown	2003
The Gospel of Galore by Tina Kelley	2003
Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art by Deloris Tarzan Ament	2003
Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling	2003
Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the Colorado River by Charles Bergman	2003
The Restless Northwest: A Geological Story by Hill Williams	2003
The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan	2003
Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson	2003
Wonderful Tricks (First Series: Short Fiction) by Gregory Spatz	2003
The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars (Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize) by Chris Forhan	2004
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America by Linda Hunt	2004
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson	2004
Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging by Gary Atkins	2004
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 by Alan Gallay	2004
King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon by David R. Montgomery	2004
A Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range by Fred W. Beckey	2004
Rodzina by Karen Cushman	2004
Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff	2004
Visible Bones by Jack Nisbet	2004
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy by Nikhil Pal Singh	2005
Breaking Ground by Paul Hunter	2005
Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos	2005
The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin	2005
Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History by Peter Ward	2005
Light's Ladder (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series) by Christopher Howell	2005
Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother by Lesley Hazleton	2005
Orphans by Charles D'Ambrosio	2005
In the Company of Crows and Ravens by John M. Marzluff	2006
Luck Is Luck: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award) by Lucia Perillo	2006
A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher	2006
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan	2006
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories by Charles D'Ambrosio	2007
James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips	2007
River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia by William D. Layman	2007
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff	2008
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery	General Nonfiction, 2008
The Grace of Necessity (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series) by Samuel Green	2008
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place by Coll Thrush	2008
All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison	Fiction, 2009
Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces by Robert Clark	History/Biography, 2009
S'abadeb, The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists by Barbara Brotherton	2009
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan	History/Biography, 2010
Border Songs by Jim Lynch	Fiction, 2010
Inseminating the Elephant (Lannan Literary Selections) by Lucia Perillo	Poetry, 2010
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science by Carol Kaesuk Yoon	General Non-Fiction, 2010
The Bled by Frances McCue	Poetry, 2011
The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White by Doug Merlino	Biography/Memoir, 2011
The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War by David Laskin	History/General Nonfiction, 2011
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes	Fiction, 2011
In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau by Paul Lindholdt	Biography/Memoir, 2012
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson	History/General Nonfiction, 2012
Woodnote by Christine Deavel	Poetry, 2012
A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism by Peter Mountford	Fiction, 2012
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin	Fiction, 2013
Plume: Poems (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series) by Kathleen Flenniken	Poetry, 2013
The rocks don't lie : a geologist investigates Noah's flood by David R. Montgomery	History/General Nonfiction, 2013
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan	Biography/Memoir, 2013
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown	History/General Nonfiction, 2014
The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century by David Laskin	Biography/Memoir, 2014
Hild by Nicola Griffith	Fiction, 2014
Rough Day by Ed Skoog	Poetry, 2014
Bugle by Tod Marshall	Poetry, 2015
The Hour of Lead by Bruce Holbert	Fiction, 2015
Loitering: New and Collected Essays by Charles D'Ambrosio	Biography/Memoir, 2015
The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse by Stonehouse	Poetry, 2015
Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson	Children's Book , 2015
Trying Home: The Rise and Fall of an Anarchist Utopia on Puget Sound by Justin Wadland	History/General Nonfiction, 2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson	History/General Nonfiction, 2016
Reconnaissance : poems by Carl Phillips	Poetry, 2016
Red Butterfly by A. L. Sonnichsen	Middle Grade, 2016
The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac by Sharma Shields	Fiction, 2016
Daredevils by Shawn Vestal	Fiction, 2017
An Earlier Life by Brenda Miller	Biography/Memoir, 2017
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson	History/General Nonfiction, 2017
My, My, My, My, My by Tara Hardy	Poetry, 2017
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea! by Ben Clanton	Young Readers, 2017
Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart	Middle Grade, 2017
Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie	Picture Book, 2017
Useless Bay by M. J. Beaufrand	Young Adult, 2017
The Arsonist by Stephanie Oakes	Young Adults ages 13 to 18, 2018
Dragons and Marshmallows by Asia Citro	Young Readers ages 6-8, 2018
The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming by J. Anderson Coats	Middle Readers, 2018
Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, 2018
Shawn Loves Sharks by Curtis Manley	Picture Book, 2018
The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder by Claudia Rowe — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography/Memoir, 2018
This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2018
Water & Salt by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha — not in English Common Knowledge	Poetry, 2018
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold	Picture Book, 2019
Arctic Solitaire: A Boat, a Bay, and the Quest for the Perfect Bear by Paul Souders	Biography/Memoir, 2019
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough	Young Adults ages 13 to 18, 2019
Instruments of the True Measure: Poems (Sun Tracks) by Laura Da'	Poetry, 2019
Peanut Butter and Jelly by Ben Clanton	books for readers ages 6 and up, 2019
So Lucky by Nicola Griffith	Fiction, 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo	Nonfiction, 2019
Winterhouse by Ben Guterson	middle grade, 2019
Become America: Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility, and Democracy by Eric Liu — not in English Common Knowledge	Creative Nonfiction, 2020
The big thaw : ancient carbon, modern science, and a race to save the world by Eric Scigliano — not in English Common Knowledge	2020
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story by Aaron Bobrow-Strain — not in English Common Knowledge	Biography/Memoir, 2020
Deep River by Karl Marlantes — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, 2020
Flora Forager ABC by Bridget Beth Collins — not in English Common Knowledge	Picture Book, 2020
Growing Up Gorilla: How a Zoo Baby Brought Her Family Together by Clare Hodgson Meeker — not in English Common Knowledge	Books for Young Readers, 2020
Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal — not in English Common Knowledge	Poetry, 2020
SLAY by Brittney Morris — not in English Common Knowledge	Books for Young Adult Readers, 2020
Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19 by Jennifer Haupt	General Nonfiction, 2021
The Camping Trip by Jennifer K. Mann	Picture Book, 2021
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter	Fiction, 2021
Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! by Sarah Kapit	Young Readers, 2021
The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir by EJ Koh	Biography and Memoir, 2021
Take a Stand, Art Against Hate: A Raven Chronicles Anthology by Anna Balint	Poetry, 2021
Think Black: A Memoir by Clyde W. Ford	Creative Nonfiction, 2021
What I Carry by Jennifer Longo	Young Adult, 2021
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson	Biography and Memoir, 2022
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes) by Kate Lebo	Creative Nonfiction, 2022
Little Thieves by Margaret Owen	Young Adult, 2022
Mighty Inside by Sundee T. Frazier	Young Readers, 2022
More American by Sharon Hashimoto	Poetry, 2022
On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu	Fiction, 2022
Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home by Lynda Mapes	General Nonfiction, 2022
Rock by Rock: The Fantastical Garden of Nek Chand by Jennifer Bradbury	Picture Books, 2022

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