New/Forthcoming Titles

Black Woman in Green

By Gloria D. Brown and Donna L. Sinclair

Paperback: February 2020

2020 PNBA Bestseller

From an unlikely beginning as an agency transcriptionist in her hometown of Washington, DC, Gloria Brown...

Boundary Layer

By Kem Luther

Paperback: May 2016

In atmospheric science, a boundary layer is the band of air nearest the ground. In the Pacific Northwest, the boundary layer teems with lichens, mosses,...

Building a Better Nest

By Evelyn Searle Hess

Paperback: June 2015

For fifteen years, Evelyn Hess and her husband David lived in a tent and trailer, without electricity or running water, on twenty acres of wild land in the...

Canyon, Mountain, Cloud

By Tyra A. Olstad

Paperback: May 2021

What do we seek and what do we find when we visit parks and protected areas? What does it mean to become so deeply attached to a beautiful, wild place that it...

Catch and Release

By Les AuCoin

Paperback: September 2019

In 1974, at the age of thirty-two, Les AuCoin became the first Democrat to win a US House seat in Oregon’s First District. He was one of...

Children and Other Wild Animals

By Brian Doyle

Paperback: October 2014

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award

In Children and Other Wild Animals, bestselling novelist Brian Doyle (...

Clifford Gleason

By Roger Hull

Hardcover: August 2020

Clifford Gleason (1913-1978), who grew up in Salem and spent his adult life in both Salem and...

Collegiate Architecture and Landscape in the West

By William F. Willingham

Paperback: October 2019

In the story of how campus architecture evolved in the nation, and in microcosm at Willamette University specifically, we see a rich reflection of our...