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The Enchanted Desna

Oleksandr Dovzhenko The Enchanted Desna, Oleksander Dovzhenko’s luminous autobiographical “film tale,” unfolds the filmmaker’s childhood along the Desna River, where memory, myth, and nature coalesce in scenes of quiet wonder. Written during years of exile and only published posthumously, it introduces us…
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Queen Saturday

Borys Khersonsky Queen Saturday brings English-language readers the unique voice of a poet at large in the unbounded spaces of memory. It is the first bilingual collection of Ukrainian verse by Borys Khersonsky—a post-World War II generation poet, clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, and…
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Here’s Company

Muriel Nelson Here’s Company celebrates moments when the word we replaces I. Here lyric poems invite you to share secrets, hopes, dreams, hugs, word-play, and memories while the recent isolation of a pandemic and threatening wars lurking in the background make company…
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Dressing in the Dark

Kathleen Flenniken This is a powerful new work by former Washington Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken. Lynx House Press $24.95 / 978-0-89924-204-0 / Hdb. / 76 pages (November 2025) $16.95 / 978-0-89924-208-8 / Pbk. / 76 pages
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Sergeant Dark

Henry Hughes Henry Hughes’ Sergeant Dark carries us to the edge of the war in Ukraine and deep into Antarctica. These poems take us shark fishing and bird watching, and into the bar and bedroom. They offer honest, humorous, and hard looks…
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Long Eyes

Khrystia Vengryniuk Khrystia Vengryniuk’s Long Eyes is a collection of poems that guides us through the labyrinths of loneliness, where pain drifts like the wind and voices fade yet still echo on the edges of silence. It is both a confession that…
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Scenes of Visionary Enchantment

John W. Jengo A professional geologist offers a detailed and accessible presentation of Lewis and Clark Trail geology, delving deep into the geological formations, geomorphic features, and past geological upheavals and catastrophic events, paying attention to the science as it existed in the…
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The Mountain Runners

Todd Warger An endurance competition unlike any in their day or likely any since, this is the incredible true story of America's first mountain adventure race. Intending to showcase the region, organizers created a grueling challenge of strength, stamina, resourcefulness, and skill.…
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Marvelous Wings

Thomas Bancroft Connecting science with personal observations while also conveying the delight, healing, and passion that birds can bring to people, Thomas Bancroft shares from a human as well as an ornithologist’s perspective. His essays explore species and places across the Pacific…
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Seattle in the Great Depression

Bruce A. Ramsey Capturing stories from Seattle newspapers and other sources, this narrative history traces a turbulent decade that scarred a generation and defined years of policy and culture—from the city’s real estate depression, savings and loan failures, and waterfront Hooverville, to its…
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Simon Ottenberg Chronicling the life and work of Coast Salish artist Ron Hilbert, this biography provides an astute perspective on a courageous and controversial contemporary Native artist. Native American Art Bibliography / illustrations / 8.5 x 11 / 158 pages Published by…
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Secret Work

Meredith Mason Secret Work is interested in hidden labor of all sorts, from the work of a wage-earner in a big box store, to the work of mothering as a single parent, to the work of introspection and writing poems. These strands…
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If I Had Said Beauty

Tami Haaland If I Had Said Beauty, Tami Haaland’s fourth collection of poetry, is dedicated to “known and unknown” ancestors. It explores the possible narratives and distant origins of what lies behind a sense of self—including recent and ancient DNA, recessive and…
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Sprezzatura

Christopher Buckley This collection of poems is about the natural and accidental and the way in which they collaborate in our thought, our history, our lives, and in the very stars. Pacific Northwest Poetry Series Lynx House Press $18.95 / 978-0-89924-201-9 /…
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Washington Comes of Age

Edited by David H. Stratton Nine noted regional and national experts explore Washington’s coming of age. Former governor and senator Daniel J. Evans, political correspondent Louis Cannon, and Gordon Hirabayashi provide personal reflections upon state history. Other contributors include Patricia Nelson Limerick, Howard R. Lamar,…
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Algometry

Iryna Vikyrchak Algometry is a lyrical portrait of the generation of Ukrainians who grew up and were shaped by the common and individual painful inner and outer experiences, to become the most resilient and brave nation. Algometry is a term of physiology…
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Chasing Wildlife Secrets

Scott McCorquodale Professional wildlife biologist Scott McCorquodale observed the natural world from a unique and intimate perspective. His compelling, dramatic, and detailed accounts describe forty years of research on Pacific Northwest bears, deer, elk, and moose. He and his colleagues spent hours…
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Listening to the Birds

Roberta Tawlikitsanmay’ Paul “Later in the night, I felt another stirring inside me. Something I had buried and denied for over twenty years began to make itself heard. I cried out, ‘Who am I? Am I Indian—or am I white?’ I heard a…
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Hardhat Days

Mike Nolan Broke and miserable, recent college graduate Mike Nolan signed on as a shipyard laborer and discovered that the most worthwhile education often happens outside of a classroom. After he lied about his qualifications, kind-hearted coworkers took him under their wing,…
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A Ukrainian Dictionary of War

Compiled by Ostap Slyvynsky In 2022, poet Ostap Slyvynsky undertook the role of wartime lexicographer, carefully collecting and compiling a dictionary of witness to Russia’s invasion and war against Ukraine. Among the voices represented in A Ukrainian Dictionary of War are those who were…