West Press: 337 books
Fishing Up North
Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This new edition contains new stories and updates from the super heated days when fishing fleets turned king crab into fortunes, to the annual circus of Bristol Bay's monster salmon runs, to the bucolic life of the open ocean trawler, the true stories in Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss...
Build It! Farm Animals
Make Supercool Models with Your Favorite LEGO® Parts
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This series of visually rich instruction books for LEGO® creations is perfect for children ages 5 and up. Inside Build it! Farm Animals, you'll find a range of creative models to put together—from horses, goats, chickens, and cows to barnyard scenes and much more, created using the LEGO® Classic...
One Man's Wilderness, 50th Anniversary Edition
An Alaskan Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of when Dick Proenneke first broke ground and made his mark in the Alaskan wilds in 1968, this bestselling memoir features an all-new foreword by Nick Offerman plus color photographs not seen in print for over 20 years.
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by Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
From 1831-1836 Charles Darwin embarked on a journey aboard the H.M.S. Beagle that eventually led to him to the famous conclusions he drew in Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection. As the ship’s naturalist, he made exhaustive observations of the geology and natural history of the region...
Three by Twain
Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee In King Arther's Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This collection includes three of classic American author Mark Twain’s best known and beloved novels. Tom Sawyer recounts the adventures of a self-confident but naïve boy who runs away with his friend, Huckleberry Finn, after witnessing a murder. Along the way, they have many adventures and meet...
by Mark Lee
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Daniel McFarland has refined the life of a war correspondent down to an art. He knows how to get information out of officials who won't talk. He knows how to find the one man with a car who can get you out of town. He knows how to judge the gravity of a situation in a war-torn area (it's a bad sign...
Shadows on the Koyukuk
An Alaskan Native's Life Along the River
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
“I owe Alaska. It gave me everything I have.” Says Sidney Huntington, son of an Athapaskan mother and white trader/trapper father. Growing up on the Koyukuk River in Alaska’s harsh Interior, that “everything” spans 78 years of tragedies and adventures. When his mother died suddenly, 5-year-old...
Sam O. White, Alaskan
Tales of a Legendary Wildlife Agent and Bush Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Sam O. White was a tough, deep-voiced, six-foot-tall, two-hundred-pound former Maine lumberjack and guide. From 1922, for half a century he criss-crossed wild Alaska by foot, with packhorses, dog teams, canoe, riverboat, and airplane. He helped map the Territory. He trapped fur. He became the world’s...
A Place Beyond
Finding Home in Arctic Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Nick Jans leads us into his "found" home—the Eskimo village of Ambler, Alaska, and the vast wilderness around it. In his powerful essays, the rhythms of daily arctic life blend with high adventure—camping among the wolves, traveling with Inupiat hunters, witnessing the Kobuk River at...
The Winter Walk
A Century-Old Survival Story from the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A chilling true story about a pregnant mother with two children who must battle cold, starvation and exhaustion. Ultimately it's a story of survival and trimph amid unspeakable sorrow.
Grenada
Revolution and Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
This book presents a unique collection of perspectives drawn from academics from the Caribbean, UK and US, as well as the reflections of two prominent persons, Richard Hart, Grenada's attorney general during the Revolution and Sir Shridath Ramphal, Commonwealth Secretary General at the time.
Oregon Reads Aloud
A Collection of 25 Children's Stories by Oregon Authors and Illustrators
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Oregon Reads Aloud is a collection of twenty-five read-aloud stories for children, written and illustrated by Oregon authors and illustrators.
The twenty-five stories in Oregon Reads Aloud are a celebration of all things Oregon, including a great food cart feud, the dance of the Chapman Swifts,...
by Lewis Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel that tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends. The tale plays with logic in ways that have given...
by Ken Gross
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
The true story of Alice Crimmins, an American woman who was charged with killing her two children who were discovered missing on July 14, 1965. Crimmins trial was later compared by some in the media to the Casey Anthony trial.