northwest, pacific

A biography of the man who was the chief factor and developer of Fort Vancouver for the Hudson's Bay Company. Under his direction the fort became the center of settlement and civilization for the Pacific Northwest.

Simple text and illustrations introduce the characteristics of various animals, people and areas found in the Pacific Northwest.

Shares the adventures of a young Nex Perc?e girl, Kaya, as she grows up in the American West. Includes "Meet Kaya," "Kaya's Escape!" "Kaya's Hero," and other stories from the American Girl series.

Julia Cates, a child psychiatrist who has retreated, her career and confidence destroyed, to her Washington hometown in the wake of a media-heavy scandal, attempts to prevent the institutionalization of a traumatized, unidentified girl who has emerged from the forest.

Commissioned to build a machine that will promote gold-rush land-breaking efforts between Civil War-era Seattle and Alaska, inventor Leviticus Blue inadvertently triggers the release of a deadly gas that transforms people into the living dead, a situation that prompts his teenage son to restore the family reputation years later.

Half-sisters Meghann Dontess, a high-powered lawyer, and Claire Cavenaugh, a single mother who helps run a campground, meet again years after being abandoned by their mother when Claire announces her intention to marry thrice-divorced country crooner Bobby Austin, but the sisters learn they may have waited too long for a reunion when Claire is diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor.

When Kenai, a Native American boy living in the Pacific Northwest in prehistoric times, is transformed into a bear, he learns about the lives of creatures other than man.

Fourteen-year-old Chris, a runaway, joins the Chinook Indian Coyote in trying to save his people's sacred land from developers planning a beach resort.