pacific northwest

A collection of stories about a young Indian girl named Kaya. Kaya dreams of becoming a leader but she has lessons to learn still. For example, she learns the importance of responsibility when she is distracted by a bareback horse race when she was supposed to be caring for her little brothers.

During a walk in the woods with her father, Kate learns about the life cycle of the sockeye salmon, as well as its place in the larger circle of life.

Simple text and illustrations introduce the characteristics of various animals, people and areas found in the Pacific Northwest.

Child psychiatrist Julia Cates, her career and confidence destroyed in the wake of a media-heavy scandal, retreats to her Washington hometown where she becomes involved in the fight to prevent the institutionalization of a traumatized, unidentified girl who has emerged from the forest.

Julia Cates, a child psychiatrist who has retreated, her career and confidence destroyed, to her Washington hometown in the wake of a media-heavy scandal, attempts to prevent the institutionalization of a traumatized, unidentified girl who has emerged from the forest.

Commissioned to build a machine that will promote gold-rush land-breaking efforts between Civil War-era Seattle and Alaska, inventor Leviticus Blue inadvertently triggers the release of a deadly gas that transforms people into the living dead, a situation that prompts his teenage son to restore the family reputation years later.

Half-sisters Meghann Dontess, a high-powered lawyer, and Claire Cavenaugh, a single mother who helps run a campground, meet again years after being abandoned by their mother when Claire announces her intention to marry thrice-divorced country crooner Bobby Austin, but the sisters learn they may have waited too long for a reunion when Claire is diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor.

Fourteen-year-old Chris, a runaway, joins the Chinook Indian Coyote in trying to save his people's sacred land from developers planning a beach resort.