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OSU:

The following books about Oregon are available at the OSU Bookstore:

• New book:  Teaching Oregon Native Languages – in the Rural Studies program (OSU)
• Above the Clearwater
• Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River 1810-1813
• Applegate Trail of 1846
• Archaeology of the Donner Party
• Bombs Over Brookings
• Bridges of Portland
• Bridges of the Oregon Coast
• Canoe & the Saddle
• Childeren of the Fur Trade
• City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary
• Columbia Journals
• Columbia River Gateway to the West
• Coming to Stay: A Columbia River Journey
• Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
• Crater Lake National Park
• Crooked River County
• Death of Celilo Falls
• Deschutes River Railroad War
• Desolation Sound
• Disasters & Heroic Rescues of Oregon
• Disasters & Heroic Rescues of Washington
• Dreams of the West: The History of the Chineese in Oregon 1850-1950
• Elegant Arches Soaring Spans: C B McCullough Oregons Master Bridge Builder
• Eve Emery Dye
• Finding fire A Personal History of fire Lookouts in lane County, Oregon
• Fire at Edens Gate Tom McCall & the Oregon Story
• Fork Hoskins Illustrated
• Fort Clastop Rebuilding an Icon
• Go Ahead on 'Er
• Great & Minor Moments in Oregon History
• Grit & Gumption
• In a Far County
• Indians Fire & the Land in the Pacific Northwest
• Ipse Dixit: How the World Looks to a Federal Judge
• It Happened in Oregon
• Let 'Er Buck
• Lewis & Clark
• Lighthouses & Life Saving on the Oregon coast
• Little Lucky
• Living Among Headstones
• Majority of Scoundrels
• Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia
• Native River
• New Era Reflections on the human & Natural History of Central Oregon
• On American Soil: How Justuce Became a Casualty of World War II
• Oregon Desert
• Oregon Desert Stories
• Oregon Geogreaphic Names
• Oregon Trail
• Oregons Promise
• Outlaw Tales of Oregon
• Pacific Northwest Landscape
• Portland People Politics & Power 1851-2001
• Portland Red Guide
• Richer Harvest An Anthology of Work in the PNW
• River of Memory
• River of Renewal Klamath Basin
• Roadside History of Oregon
• Salmon Fishers of the Columbia
• Seven Trails West
• Skookum
• Sources of the River
• Terra Northwest: Interpreting People & Place
• Toledo Incident of 1925
• Two Wheels North
• Visible Bones
• Wildfire in the Wilderness
• Wildmen Wobblies & Whistlepunks
• Willamette Landings Ghost Towns of the River
• Workers & the Wild

PSU:

• Fiction
  • "A Heart for Any Fate" by Linda Crew
    
  • "Ricochet River" by Robin Cody
    
  • "42" by M. Thomas Cooper
• Non-fiction:
  
  • "Oregon At Work" by Tom Fuller and Art Ayre
    
  • "Dreams of the West: A History of Chinese in Oregon" jointly written by the CCBA and students from PSUand Ooligan Press
    
  • "The Portland Red Guide" by Michael Munk
    
  • "Fort Clatsop: Rebuilding an Icon" by The Daily Astorian
    
  • "Deer Drink the Moon: Poems of Oregon" by a compilation of 33 poets

University of Oregon:

•  Atlas of Oregon by William G. Loy, Stuart Allan, Aileen Buckley and Jim Meacham.  The Atlas of Oregon is a comprehensive reference guide on Oregon's history, human geography, economy, and physical landscape. Contains over 1000 maps and graphs
• Geology of Oregon by William Orr & Elizabeth Orr: Riding on the leading edge of the moving North American plate, Oregon reflects the underlying mechanism of the plate collision boundary in virtually all aspects of its geology. William Orr is Professor Emeritus Geological Sciences at the U of O. Elizabeth Orr is Courtesy Research Assistant Geological Sciences at the UO.
• The Law of Environmental Protection by John Bonine , a Professor at the UO School of Law.
• Leading Change Toward Sustainability by Robert “Bob” Doppelt, Courtesy Associate Professor for the Planning, Public Policy and Management Department and is also a Research Assistant for the Institute for a Sustainable Environment at the UO.
• Making a Difference by Julia Lesage, Professor Emerita English Department at the
  U of O.  In this book, students of color relate their first-hand experiences with educational systems and campus living conditions. Their narratives provide an insider perspective useful to
  anyone working on diversity issues trying to improve institutional culture and policy.
• Oregon Water by William Orr & Elizabeth Orr: For over 150 years Oregon's waters have been engineered to benefit irrigation, impounded to produce power & electricity, damned to prevent flooding & to provide a a supply, drained to create land, contaminated by effluent disposal, & dredged for navigation. Historic policies have pursued the principle of humans dominating rather than adapting to nature.
  
• World Begins Here by Glenn Love:  This first volume in the Oregon Literature Series offers an array of short works and extracts by authors who are currently or formerly from Oregon. Its studied exploration of moral lessons and local cultural experiences make it most appropriate for use in the state's classrooms. Glenn Love is Professor Emeritus English Department at the UO.
  
• Passionate Journeys by Marion Goldman:  This book explores the fascinating stories behind the Bhagwan Rajneesh phenomenon of the 1970's & 1980's, focusing on women who left families, careers, & identities to join the community of Rajneeshpuram.  Marion Goldman, Professor of Sociology at the UO, comes to realize that their responses, while extreme, can shed light on our understanding of how women in general experience love, work, and spirituality.
  
• Stubborn Twig by Lauren Kessler: In 1903, Masuo Yasui came to Oregon and eventually became a successful orchardist and father of eight children. But the "relocation" of Japanese Americans during World War II caused Yasui to take his own life. The Yasui family opened its records and memories to Lauren Kessler, Professor of Journalism and Communication at the U of O, who writes a social history that rings with truth and drama.
  
• Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon by Lynn Stephen. This innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans from two towns in the state of Oaxacathe Mixtec community of San Agustn Atenango and the Zapotec community of Teotitln del Vallewho periodically leave their homes in Mexico for extended periods of work in California and Oregon.

Western Oregon University:

• Nonfiction:
  • “Necessary Work: Discovering Old Forests, New Outlooks, and community on the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, 1948-2000”  Professor Max Geier has written a comprehensive review of the development and management of  this forest in the west-central region of the Oregon Cascades.
• Fiction:
  • “Dante’s Ballad” Professor Eduardo Gonzáles-Viaña