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Drury, Joan M.
CLOSED IN SILENCE.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

Duluth: Spinsters Ink, (1998). SIGNED first edition - The third mystery novel featuring Tyler Jones, feminist, lesbian, writer and amateur sleuth, who attends a reunion of five other friends on a remote island in Puget Sound - only to find a body. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page 258195 pp. ISBN: 1-88352329X.

Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 79580

Keywords: feminist, lesbian, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, puget sound
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Guterson, David.
SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel (third book.) Winner of the Pen Faulkner award. Guterson was selected by Granta as one of the 20 best young writers in the US. Basis for the forthcoming movie. A gripping story set on the islands off the coast of Washington, set in 1954 in a world where the shadow of the Japanese internment hangs over the courtroom . 345 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1001006.

Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

Book ID: 92578

Keywords: First book or first novel, granta author, japanese internment, movie basis, northwest, Pen Faulkner, puget sound

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Heckman, Hazel. Drawings by Laurie Olin.
ISLAND YEAR.

Edition: First printing.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on 20 years of Heckman's close observations of the flora and fauna on Anderson Island, a small island in Puget Sound off the coast of Washington. "A diary of the natural world where the same things happen again and again but are always new. Each month brings surprises, expected or not." IIllustrated with a map and drawings by Laurie Olin Index. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-295951710.

Condition: Very near fine in very good dust jacket (rubbing and light edgewear to the dust jacket).

Book ID: 55706

Keywords: anderson island, autobiography, fauna, flora, Nature and the Environment, northwest, puget sound, washington

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Lynch, Jim.
THE HIGHEST TIDE.

Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

New York: Bloomsbury, (2005). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel about one boy's fascination with the sea during the summer that will change his life. "One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley slips out of his house, packs up his kayak and goes exploring on the flats of Puget Sound. But what begins as an ordinary hunt for starfish, snails, and clams is soon transformed by an astonishing sight: a beached giant squid. As the first person to ever see a giant squid alive, the speed-reading Rachel Carson-obsessed insomniac instantly becomes a local curiosity. . . But Miles is really just a teenager on the verge of growing up . . . [this is an…
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New York: Bloomsbury, (2005). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel about one boy's fascination with the sea during the summer that will change his life. "One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley slips out of his house, packs up his kayak and goes exploring on the flats of Puget Sound. But what begins as an ordinary hunt for starfish, snails, and clams is soon transformed by an astonishing sight: a beached giant squid. As the first person to ever see a giant squid alive, the speed-reading Rachel Carson-obsessed insomniac instantly becomes a local curiosity. . . But Miles is really just a teenager on the verge of growing up . . . [this is an account of] the dramatic sea change for both Miles and the coastline that he adores over the course of a summer - one that will culminate with the highest tide in fifty years." SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp.
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Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 82413

Keywords: arc, coming of age, environment, First book or first novel, puget sound, uncorrected proof
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Ricks, Byron: illustrated by Maren Van Nostrand.
HOMELANDS: Kayaking the Inside Passage.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

New York: Avon, (1999). SIGNED first edition - Written in the form of a daily diary and illustrated with many small drawings, this is an "introspective adventure-travel memoir. In 1996 Ricks and his wife, Maren van Nostrand, decided to undertake an adventure of a different kind together - kayaking from Alaska's Glacier Bay down the coast of Western Canada to southern Puget Sound, near their Seattle home. They had no set schedule to keep and for five months lived by nautical charts and the rhythms of the tides, wind, and weather. Their plan was to paddle from the glaciers to the city, exploring a coast in flux and the ways of native peoples such as the Tlinglit, Tsimshian, and…
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New York: Avon, (1999). SIGNED first edition - Written in the form of a daily diary and illustrated with many small drawings, this is an "introspective adventure-travel memoir. In 1996 Ricks and his wife, Maren van Nostrand, decided to undertake an adventure of a different kind together - kayaking from Alaska's Glacier Bay down the coast of Western Canada to southern Puget Sound, near their Seattle home. They had no set schedule to keep and for five months lived by nautical charts and the rhythms of the tides, wind, and weather. Their plan was to paddle from the glaciers to the city, exploring a coast in flux and the ways of native peoples such as the Tlinglit, Tsimshian, and Haida - whose ancestors paddled the passage for centuries." SIGNED by both the author and illustrator, Maren Van Nostrand, on the title page. Notes, bibliography. xiv, 370 pp. ISBN: 0-380809184.
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Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 91731

Keywords: british columbia, glacier bay, puget sound, Travel and Exploration
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Sloan, Susan R.
AN ISOLATED INCIDENT.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Warner, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, a mystery set on an island in Washington's Puget Sound, where a 15 year old girl has been found brutally slain, featuring police detective Ginger Early and the Mexican-born chief Ruben Martinez. 455 pp.

Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 19231

Keywords: Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, puget sound, regional mystery

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Sloan, Susan R.
AN ISOLATED INCIDENT.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Warner, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, a mystery set on an island in Washington's Puget Sound, where a 15 year old girl has been found brutally slain, featuring police detective Ginger Early and the Mexican-born chief Ruben Martinez. SIGNED on the title page. 455 pp. ISBN: 0-446-519480.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 64233

Keywords: Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, puget sound, regional mystery, washington

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