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Bob Dahms has had a long and diverse career in business and in business advisory roles.In this book he shares 50 Things You Need to Know About Starting and Managing a Small Business. Everyone who reads this book will learn something that they didn't know before. Actually, it's way more than 50; check it out.To support the author directly, find your copy today at Village Books (villagebooks.com).

Ravished by abuse, parental addictions, and the Murrah Federal Building bombing as it echoes her own losses, Hooper picks her way forward through life's dark ruin. Evocative, descriptive language captures the devastation and the changes that converge with far-reaching consequences. At the heart of Where the Sky is a Wall, as the generations turn, Hooper's survival and the reminders of comforting normality sustain her. Husband, daughter, and ordinary blessings, connect her to love and light, epiphanies in this, Hooper's debut book of poems.

This is the story of how the North Cascades Institute grew from humble beginnings to become a model nonprofit environmental education organization admired throughout the United States.

Philly's Bridge: In the blazing heat of an Indian summer, five members of a ragtag woodsworking cooperative from the small town of Glacier, Washington set out to prove that old fashioned methods of treating roadside vegetation are a better alternative to the Forest Service's preference for spraying deadly poisons. Kicked back around campfires under a canopy of stars, their efforts hardly feel sacrificial, taking communion with potato chips and beer in the storied deeps of the forest. At the end of the contract they reward themselves with a backpacking trip to the high country, where the true meaning of sacrifice, or a reckoning with fate, is the last lesson one of them will learn. Whose Woods These Are: A young man with a backpack and a mind filled with myths ventures to the valley of his family's past which he'd only heard spoken in whispers. What he finds there is nothing like the history he'd hoped for, and in fact is a dark revelation, a landscape of violence, self-destruction, and perhaps, some said, even murder. A grizzled old logger tries to ease the boy's pain in learning the truth of his heritage, softening the portrait of a brutal grandfather by offering the balm of forgiveness. Overcome by the images of beatings and bears and rituals beyond understanding, young Will returns to the solace of mountains, where he finds his own truth by the side of a river in the benevolent heart of the wild.

Living High is the compelling story of June and Farrar Burn and their unconventional lifestyle, philosophy, and experiences-homesteading a small island in the Salish Sea, living north of the Arctic Circle before Alaska became a state, touring the U.S. in the Burn Ballad Bungalow (pictured on the front cover), and how they lived in a covered wagon while June, at age fifty, earned her master's degree in soil science and nutrition. This seventh edition includes additional photographs and an epilogue by Skye Burn, June and Farrar's eldest granddaughter.

The deep labyrinthine Alaskan fjords do not readily divulge their secrets. In a land wherebears out-number people, the constraints of civilization can disappear and the lines between Justice and Vengeance blur. When a promising college student, Marshall Stuckrath, is killed in prison while serving time on a drug charge, his family explodes in grief and anger. Two fathers-the one who raised him and the other who sired him-have their own ideas of retribution. But the most majestic rain forest left on earth has seen far worse and does not take sides in the affairs of men-or does it?

Canada and the United States share the longest border in the world, yet Canada goes largely unnoticed by Americans. Even those living in the Northwest corner of Washington State, where Canada is so much a part of family ties, business interactions, and the remarkable natural environment, largely ignore Canada. This book is about how a handful of visionaries and one university-Western Washington University-built a program focused on educating students and the broader public about Canada, with emphasis on the Cascadia region of Washington and British Columbia. Western''s Canadian-American Studies Program is more than an academic endeavor designed for university students. From its beginnings, Canadian-American Studies has been focused on strengthening political and cultural ties between our two countries, while hopefully fostering mutual respect and trust across a border that is often taken for granted by Americans and Canadians alike. As part of this educational undertaking, the program has attempted to convey practical knowledge useful for making better policy decisions to benefit both nations. Although an account of history, this book is also part memoir. As one of the earliest members of the program, and its director for 21 years, it''s been part of my own history as well. Now retired, and still living mere miles from the border, I remain convinced that ongoing education is necessary to deepen the myriad bonds between our two countries.Finally, this book is an account of the pivotal role an early-1900s, two-story house played in influencing how Canada and the United States viewed each other and found common ground. It is a story of how this house-Canada House, located on the university campus in the topmost corner of the state-has become iconic of the affection and respect we in northwest Washington have for our northern neighbor.

In the Kingdom of the Alphabet, ruled by the Kindly Queen Fun-to-Read, all the letters lived happily together as one large community. Everything seemed to be perfect, until one day a mean Prince from the far away Kingdom of Can't Read arrived.

Set in 1979, The Destiny of Salmon is the story of the unforgettable summer 16-year-old Peter Kristiansen spends as a crew member on his dad's commercial fishing boat in the dangerous waters of the Alaska Panhandle. Torn between his separated parents' different ways of life, his father's obsessive chase for a huge haul of salmon, and his own search for love, Peter thinks, "Maybe I would have run away, if I had some place to go. Or maybe Dad and I were running away together." At the heart of this tension-filled novel are a son and father, trying to figure each other out before it's too late.

The Blue Bottles Writers Studio, a group of four independent writers, share their creativity in this anthology made up of five sections: Creative Memoirs; Stories Inspired by a Photograph; Short Stories; Scribblings-timed, five-seven minute stories that must include five words generated by an internet random word generator; and The Newspaper Challenge, where each writer is challenged to come up with a story to go along with a headline.