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washington (state)

Death on the Fourth of July

the story of a killing, a trial, and hate crime in America
2004
Describes the racially driven confrontation between three young Asian-Americans and a group of white skinheads in Ocean Shores, Washington, which resulted in the death of Christopher Kinison and the murder trial of Minh Hong.

The oldest man in America

an adventure in archaeology
1970

New Moon

2005
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

Reservation blues

2005
Legendary bluesman, Robert Johnson, arrives at a Spokane Indian reservation and passes his guitar to a young boy leading them around the country sounding chords of celebration and survival.

Fields of toil

a migrant family's journey
1994

Ancient encounters

Kennewick Man and the first Americans
2001
An anthropologist examines growing evidence about early visitors to North America who predate Native Americans and describes the 1996 discovery of a skeleton near Kennewick, Washington, whose physical characteristics where unlike those of American Indians.

Cuss

2007
In 1925, in a Washington State coal-mining community populated by European immigrants, twelve-year-old Slava Petrovich, nicknamed Cuss, tries to stay in school but finds himself forced to go to work when his brothers are driven out of town by trouble related to bootlegging.

From stumbling blocks to stepping stones

help and hope for special needs kids
2007

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