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  • Books make history lessons kid-friendly

    Celebrate the nation’s birthday with three inventive picture books about the states.

  • Journalist tells saga of unearthed lost city

    It was going to be a boon for the timber-depressed economy of Clallam County: In 2003, the Washington State Department of Transportation chose Port Angeles as the site of a massive new dry dock where concrete pontoons urgently needed for repairs to the Hood Canal Bridge could be manufactured.

  • Book outlines dark chapter in America’s war on the Indians

    In “The Last Indian War,” author Elliott West serves as omniscient narrator, calling the action in the summer of 1877 as the U.S. Army, still stinging from the slaughter at Little Big Horn, is schooled in the art of war by Nez Perce warriors.

  • Photos Links New book from a native son

    As journalists know, the questions a story should answer are who, what, where, when and why.

  • Follow-up book misses author’s high mark

    Pity Jim Lynch. High expectations have followed “The Highest Tide.”

  • Book chronicles the sacrifices of military families at home

    I savored Alison Buckholtz’s book, “Standing By: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War,” both as a timely read during my “military engagement” and a promising eye opener for a nonmilitary audience.

  • The science of the feminine mystique

    Modeling their latest book on Rudyard Kipling’s playful speculation as to how animals came to be the way they are (the elephant with its long trunk, the camel with its hump, etc.), University of Washington psychology professor David P. Barash, along with his psychiatrist wife and co-author Judith Eve Lipton, consider the female human body.

  • Anthology explores Seattle's dark side

    We may not live in Seattle, but it's the proverbial elephant in the room. It's hard to ignore the biggest city in the state, which styles itself as one of the gems of the Pacific Rim, to boot.

  • A closer look at famous explorer's fate

    There was significant hoopla surrounding the Lewis and Clark bicentennial a few years back. A more somber anniversary approaches this October, with the bicentennial of the tragic death of Meriwether Lewis.

  • Photos How to live with that creature from outer space – a teenager

    I was only two pages into Beth Harpaz’s new book when I started laughing uncontrollably.

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