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The Land of Starry Night For the child in each of us. The Land of Starry Night is a delightful poetic children's story written by Sandpoint pediatrician Dr. Robin Helm and magnificently illustrated by Sandpoint artist Gail Lyster. Produced in association with Keokee Publishing. Fiction, 40 pages, Purchase online at the General Store
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Stamp Counterfeiting: The Evolution of an Unrecognized Crime Revisiting tales from his first book, Spurious Stamps, H.K. Petschel's latest book Stamp Counterfeiting looks into an intriguing crime that originated in Chicago in the 1890s, when the United States was experiencing one of its economic meltdowns. Petschel delves into true stories that deal with real people, from the lone criminal operating a printing press in his living room to the larger underworld of organized crime. A former postal inspector, Petschel's obsession with these "fascinating little bits of paper" come through in this enthusiastic look at the historical record of stamp swindles. Nonfiction. 183 pages, 6"x9" softcover ISBN 978-0-615-50885-6 Purchase online at the General Store
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Lessons with Love: For anyone who's ever gone to school – as student or teacher – Marianne Love's warm and humorous stories from 33 years teaching at Sandpoint High School in rural northern Idaho will kindle both memories and laughs. She's an English teacher, but Mrs. Love has done the math; she calculates during her career she taught some 4,500 students. And in touching all those kids, it seems, the teacher was the one who got the biggest education. • Click to see more about this book Nonfiction. 288 pages, 6"x9" softcover ISBN 978-1-879628-28-1 Purchase online at the General Store |
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Archer MacClehan & The Hungry Now Idaho-and-Montana author Sandy Compton puts his ample storytelling talents to play in this page-turning tale populated by a cast of colorful characters who find themselves at odds in the wilderness – and pulling together for their very survival. As one of the book’s characters, botanist turned smoke-jumper Jesse Turnbull, says, “Life is served raw in wild country,” describing a backcountry hike that begins innocently enough but turns dangerous. Led by larger-than-life backcountry guide Archer MacClehan, the others along for the trek into the Skydevil Wilderness are Sara, a small woman fighting a big temper and her own resurgent love of the wild; and her fiancé, Rob, a guy who knows how to keep his head down. Bringing up the rear as the hike begins is Tom Sevlakovs, an enormously strong man whose pack contains God knows what and weighs nearly as much as Sara. At the head of the line is Archer, and out in the brush, just out of sight – sometimes – is Number Seven, aka The Hungry Now, a grizzly bear. Remarkable for its sharply drawn descriptions of the great grizzly bear and sweeping depictions of magnificent landscapes, "Archer MacClehan & The Hungry Now" is at once a rousing story of adventure, a drama of relationships, and a paean to the wilderness and wild things of the mountain Northwest. ISBN 1-886591-06-7 (published by Blue Mobius Books) $14 Purchase online at the General Store |
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Flying Over Rainbows This memoir charts the lifetime of a remarkable Northwest personality: Buzz Fiorini, founder of an outdoor sports chain whose adventures in fishing, flying and fly fishing covered the continent and brought him friendships with such luminaries as John Wayne, Bing Crosby and others. Buzz here tells his story as told to writer Dwayne Parsons. Nonfiction. 128 pages, 6"x9" hardcover, photos $24.95 Purchase online at the General Store |
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Out of the Night On the night of August 17, 1959, Irene Bennett Dunn was camped with her husband and four children on the banks of the Madison River near Yellowstone Park when an earthquake of 7.5 magnitude hit, causing a massive landslide to sweep over the campground. Irene survived along with her 16-year-old son, Phil, but the rest of her family perished. "Out of the Night" is about the tragedy that took four of her family members; moreover, it is about how she survived and gained the courage to rebuild her life with her son, Phil. Nonfiction. 128 pages, 6"x9" softcover $10.95 Purchase online at the General Store |
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Cowboy Boots and Other Stories Northwest native John Sater takes readers "back to the present" in rural America in this collection of 44 short essays telling stories from a generation whose mothers went from washboards to washers and whose fathers swore by, and sometimes at, Model A Fords. He explores common experiences from cleaning chimneys and growing gardens to raising pigs and outsmarting ornery chickens, in this thoughtful and wry collection of essays. Nonfiction. 128 pages, 6"x9" softcover $8.95 Purchase online at the General Store |
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