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• Nisei Daughter

  Sone, Monica Itoi, 1919-2011

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  "With charm, humor, and deep understanding, Monica Sone tells what it was like to grow up Japanese American on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to "relocation" during World War II."

• A Few Rules for Predicting the Future

  An Essay

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Honest and wise advice from the esteemed author, offering guideposts for anyone who wants to shape our future into something good.

• Geek Love

  Dunn, Katherine, 1945-2016,

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  Aloysious and Lillian Binewski, proprietors of a traveling carnival, attempt to reduce overhead by breeding their own freak show, with tragic results.

• Tangoing With Tornadoes

  a Novel

  Mitchell, S. Renee

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• My Name Is LaMoosh

  Meanus, Linda,

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  "My Name is LaMoosh is the life story of Warm Springs Tribal Elder Linda Meanus. She grew up with her grandma Flora Thompson and grandpa Chief Tommy Thompson near Celilo Falls, a mighty fishery on the Columbia that was flooded in 1957 by the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Butterfly Girl

  a Novel

  Denfeld, Rene,

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  "A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi has no picture, not even a name."

• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

  America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing

  Leary, Joy DeGruy

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• Reading the Waves

  a Memoir

  Yuknavitch, Lidia,

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  "The frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal"

• The Big M

  13 Writers Take Back the Story of Menopause

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  Thirteen authors, mostly from the Pacific Northwest, explore navigating the profound changes menopause has brought on their bodies and into their lives.

• Wild

  From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

  Strayed, Cheryl, 1968-

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  "At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jump-off Creek

  Gloss, Molly

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  Homesteader Lydia Sanderson writes about her life on Jump-Off Creek in the higher mountain country of Oregon in 1895. She tells of friendship, loss, daily struggles, and achievements.

• Dancing at the Edge of the World

  Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

  Le Guin, Ursula K.

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  And what a mind - strong, supple, disciplined, playful, ranging over the whole field of its concerns, from modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos, with an eloquence, wit, and precision that makes for exhilarating reading.

• A Girl From Yamhill

  a Memoir

  Cleary, Beverly

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  Follows the popular children's author from her childhood years in Oregon through high school and into young adulthood, highlighting her family life and her growing interest in writing.

• So Far So Good

  Final Poems: 2014-2018

  Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018,

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  Written shortly before her death in 2018--Le Guin immerses herself in the natural world, ruminating on the mysteries of dying, and considering the simple, redemptive lessons of the earth

• Luminaries of the Humble

  Woody, Elizabeth, 1959-

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  "Poems on those "who are not often heard from:" salmon, trees, edible roots, berries, deer. "