Author: S. Andrew Schulman
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Keywords: garden, cottage, northwest
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-01-09
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 157061363X
ISBN-13: 9781570613630

Especially suited to the growing conditions and the urban settings of the Pacific Northwest, cottage gardens are comfortable and romantic and look as though they were thrown together with ease. However, these beautiful gardens need considerable planning to appear natural and informal. This accessible guide explores the origin and history of cottage gardens, and outlines the essentials of creating a cozy garden sanctuary, including design and layout, functional structures, furniture, decor and materials, plant selection, and maintenance.

Author: Nancy Pearl
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Keywords: mood, moment, interest, reading, recommended, crush, kids, teens, book
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-03-07
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1570615004
ISBN-13: 9781570615009

Parents, teachers, and librarians are often puzzled by the seemingly endless choices for reading material for young people. What’s good, what’s trash, what’s going to hold their interest? Nancy Pearl, America’s favorite librarian, has read widely in all the genres and happily points the way in Book Crush. Divided into three sections — Easy Books, Middle-Grade Readers, and Young Adult — Book Crush makes wonderful reading connections by theme, setting, voice, and ideas. For horse lovers, Pearl recalls the classics (Black Beauty, Misty of Chincoteague), but in a creative twist connect

Author: Timothy Egan
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Keywords: blue, breaking
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-08-18
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1570614296
ISBN-13: 9781570614293

In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the Midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony Bamonte discovered a strange 1955 deathbed confession while researching a thesis on local law enforcement history. Bamonte began to probe what had every appearance of widespread police crime and a massive cover-up whose highlight was the unsolved murder of To

Author: Peter Jensen
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Keywords: california
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-08-22
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1570612803
ISBN-13: 9781570612800

Internationally acclaimed nature and wildlife photographer Art Wolfe has long had a love affair with California. Along its coastline he finds iconic vistas and light playing upon water in ways that crystallize the very idea of West Coast. In this luscious book, he explores all of the natural regions of the state including the alpine lakes of the high Sierra, the ancient forests, and the uniquely abundant and colorful desert. Wolfe showcases a California that is familiar — the craggy peaks of Yosemite, the fog-caressed rolling grass hills of Marin, the arid high-plains of Owens Valley — and

Author: Lynda Barry
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Keywords: marlys, greatest
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-01-07
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1570612609
ISBN-13: 9781570612602

Lynda Barry had a bona fide hit with Cruddy, and her fans are now calling for her older comic strips, all out of print. This book answers the call as it delivers the life and times of Marlys Mullen, the most beloved character in Barrys nationally syndicated comic strip, "Ernie Pooks Comeek." Shes back! This is a Lynda Barry double-tall: the long-awaited collection of the best strips from her syndicated comics. Way back in the mid-1980s, comic illustrator and writer Lynda Barry introduced the character of Marlys Mullen, her crazy groovy teenage sister Maybonne, her sensitive and stra

Author: Nick Jans
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Keywords: alaska
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-01-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1570612161
ISBN-13: 9781570612169

Over 130 images paired with essays from Nick Jans record the splendor of this great American wilderness. From intimate singular images to hauntingly beautiful landscapes, Alaska finds new expression under the artful lens of Art Wolfe. For more than 15 years Art Wolfe has been documenting Alaska, from the rainforests of the Southeast to snow-shrouded mountains to the northern expanses of the Brooks Range and beyond. Wolfe brings a painters sensitivity to light, pattern, and composition in his photography of landscape and wildlife, and Alaska is his personal vision of a truly awesome landscape.

Author: Bill Radke
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Keywords: seattle
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2003-06
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1570612765
ISBN-13: 9781570612763

This lavish gift book captures shimmering Seattle in all its moods and moments, from Ballard to Belltown, from its renowned sailboat culture to the happy chaos of its multitiered waterfront. Memorable essays by NPR commentator Bill Radke complement the beautiful 160 color images from noted photographer Paul Souders whose work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, Newsweek, and other publications. For locals and visitors alike, Seattle showcases the city’s considerable charms in this picture tour of the Emerald City.