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Willy Vlautin's award-winning novel follows the story of a newly orphaned fifteen-year old-boy struggling to make his way to a long lost aunt, who just might give him a home-now a major motion picture starring Chloë Sevigny (American Horror Story), Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire) and Travis Fimmel (Warcraft) and directed by Andrew Haigh (45 Years, Looking). Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home, food on the table, and a high school he can...
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St. Valentine's Day is approaching, and residents of Tallulah Falls, Oregon, are in a romantic frame of mind. One blushing bride has commissioned Marcy Singer to embellish her mother's vintage wedding gown with jewels for her Valentine's Day wedding. Marcy is delighted - until she turns out to be a bridezilla-to-be. Then the future mother-in-law is found stabbed to death outside Marcy's shop on her way to deliver the jewels, and some of them are missing....
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Award-winning author Molly Gloss' The Hearts of Horses is an elegant, heartwarming story about the profound connections between people and animals.
In the winter of 1917, nineteen-year-old Martha Lessen saddles her horses and heads for a remote county in eastern Oregon, looking for work "gentling" wild horses. She chances on a rancher, George Bliss, who is willing to hire her on. Many of his regular hands are off fighting the war, and he glimpses,...
85) Electric blue
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New York Times-Bestselling Author: A PI-in-training gets drawn into a dysfunctional family fighting over money and murder...
Some days are just weird city. Take today. Jane Kelly, thirtysomething ex-bartender, current process server, and owner of The Binkster, a pug, is dutifully putting in slave-labor hours working for Dwayne Durbin, local "information specialist" (i.e., private investigator), and on the road to...
Some days are just weird city. Take today. Jane Kelly, thirtysomething ex-bartender, current process server, and owner of The Binkster, a pug, is dutifully putting in slave-labor hours working for Dwayne Durbin, local "information specialist" (i.e., private investigator), and on the road to...
86) Black Valley
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Ballantine Books
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2003.
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On the night of a raging electrical storm, a group of teenage boys gather on a secluded hill in Oregon to bury one of their own... alive. It isn't murder, because the "victim" is a willing participant. For sneering, knife-wielding punk Whitey Dobbs it's just a gang-initiation stunt. For the others, however, it's a carefully planned act of revenge — designed to give Whitey Dobbs the fright of his life. But even the best-laid plans can go wrong. And...
87) Evening's empire
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Tor Books
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2002.
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Evening's Empire is set on the Oregon coast, in Evening, a small town famous for its cheeses. Russell Kent, an opera composer from Massachusetts, lost his beloved wife there a year ago to a freak accident, and returns now to confront his ghosts.
Kent has been commissioned to write an opera based upon Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, whose story fills his dreams, and only in Evening does he feel himself able to return to work. There he...
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Cape Charade ; 2
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"One secret, one nightmare, one lie. You guess which is which. 1. I have the scar of a gunshot wound on my forehead. 2. I have willfully misrepresented my identity to the US military. 3. I'm the new mother of a seven-year-old girl. Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory. A bullet to the brain will cause that. But she's discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence and her very self. She finds herself in...
89) Candy apple red
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A bartender-turned-process server chases after a missing suspect in this "fun, frantic, sexy murder mystery" (Lisa Jackson, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of You Betrayed Me).
Jane Kelly is through following men. She left Southern California for the murky quaintness of Lake Chinook, Oregon, apparently so she could trade her bartending skills for much more glamorous work process serving. And the boyfriend, of course,...Author
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"After years of living in fear of her husband, Amanda Banning has left him and moved to Mystic Creek, Oregon, for a fresh start. But she is having a tough time providing for herself and her daughter. Writing her secret yearnings on slips of paper and sending them into the wind helps her cling to the hope that things will get better and that she can find happiness again. Jeb Sterling has no idea that the handwritten messages he finds scattered across...
91) Malice prepense
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Forget about Grisham, Turow, and all those other scribbling ex-lawyers. The best writer of legal mysteries working today is Kate Wilhelm of Eugene, Oregon.
When he was a kid, Teddy Wendover had an accident that left him stunted at the mental age of eight. Physically, he's six-foot-two and twenty-eight years old, but he acts and thinks just like a little boy. Could this big little boy be a killer?
Someone has murdered one of Oregon's
...93) Ultraviolet
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"Oregon's spunkiest PI-in-training, and her pug pal, Binky, sniff for clues in their rollicking third case...this funny new series [is] a winner."—Publishers Weekly
For process server-turned-private investigator Jane Kelly, weddings are murder. Usually that's a metaphor, but it's fast becoming an all-too-accurate nightmare. Roland Hatchmere, plastic surgery magnate, has been found murdered just before his daughter's...
For process server-turned-private investigator Jane Kelly, weddings are murder. Usually that's a metaphor, but it's fast becoming an all-too-accurate nightmare. Roland Hatchmere, plastic surgery magnate, has been found murdered just before his daughter's...
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Posoned Pen Press
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2016.
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"The first closing of the floodgates of the mammoth Dalles Dam on the Columbia River inundated the sacred falls and the Native American village at Celilo which depended on the river's magnificent fish. Nelson Queah, Wasco Indian, war hero, and passionate opponent of the dam, watched helplessly as 10,000 years of tribal history and fishing tradition disappeared. That 1957 night, Nelson Queah vanished without a trace. Fifty years later, attorney Cal...
95) The homecoming
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At the age of nineteen, Seth Sileski had everything. A superb athlete and scholar, handsome and popular, he was the pride of Thunder Point. Destined for greatness, he lost it all in a terrible accident that put an end to his professional football career when it had barely begun. The people in his hometown have never forgotten what might have been. Seth has come to terms with the turns his life has taken. But now he's been presented with an opportunity...
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Marcy's mom Beverly is the costume designer for a lavish, Bollywood-style production and she suggests Tallulah Falls as a great place to shoot part of the film. Everyone at the embroidery shop, and around town, is in a flutter that a glamorous movie production is taking place in their midst. But when the star of the film is found murdered, the police suspect Marcy's mom, who made it no secret she did not care for the diva's attitude regarding her...
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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1999.
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In 1911, when her family leaves the reservation to live and work on a large Oregon ranch, ten-year-old Jessie decides to forget her Nez Percé upbringing only to realize its true value when she relies on traditional skills to find a lost Appaloosa foal and protect it from being attacked by a cougar.
98) Heart-shaped box
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HarperCollins Publishers
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2001.
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Claire Montrose goes to her twenty-year high school class reunion. Soon, a former classmate is strangled while holding a heart-shaped box with her yearbook photo inside, the same mysterious gift Claire and five other women have received.
99) River run
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Crooked Lane Books
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2019.
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"This waterfowl season, the hunters become the hunted... Newly promoted sheriff's deputy Delia Chavez has worked hard to get where she is. Without any family to speak of, law enforcement is all she has. But just a few days into her new job, Delia finds the body of a hunter washed up on the bank of the Willamette River missing his trigger finger. Soon, more bodies are found - all hunters without their trigger fingers. Waterfowl season often means clashes...
100) Forever by your side
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"After years of schooling on the East Coast, Constance Browning returns to Oregon and the reservation where she grew up with her missionary parents. She is accompanied by Thomas Lowell, her best friend and colleague, and together they embark on a project to catalogue the native peoples of Oregon for the Bureau of American Ethnology. But Connie and Tom have another purpose--to prove her parents are not involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed...
