washington (state)

The residents of the small Pacific Northwest town of Commonwealth decides to quarantine themselves against the deadly influenza epidemic, posting guards at the only road leading in and out of town, but when a cold, hungry, and ill soldier begs for sanctuary, the encounter--and its aftermath--shakes the town to its core.

Contains forty poems and five short fiction stories by contemporary Washington State author Sherman Alexie.

Presented in the form of a scrapbook, describes the author's exploration of a temperate rain forest in North America, located in Washington State, and the plants and animals she found there.

On the day of their arrival in Boomtown, Washington, Reverend Button and his family make a grand entrance into town by accidentally blowing up the firecracker factory, and as they settle into the community their escapades continue.

Collection of poems by the author about the history of Washington State and the lives of pioneer women.

Contains a collection of twenty-four short stories that chronicle the daily life on a Native American Indian Reservation on Spokane, Washington.

Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Yakima Indians.

Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she's more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.

Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.