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9780306818042 | Da Capo Pr, February 2, 2010, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In Brenda Peterson’s unusual memoir, fundamentalism meets deep ecology.
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9780295985183 | Univ of Washington Pr, January 15, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This spirited and delectable collection of sixteen retrospectives from The Seattle Review, a renowned journal featuring literary luminaries of the Northwest, offers a timeless resource for writers, cultural historians, and bibliophiles everywhere.
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9780865475588 | North Point Pr, August 1, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Reflecting diverse backgrounds and spiritual beliefs, a collection of writings by women about spirituality includes contributions by Starhawk, Terry Tempest Williams, Sy Montgomery, Ursula K.
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9780865477254, titled "Face To Face: Women Writers On Faith Mysticism And Awakening" | North Point Pr, September 14, 2005, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: From the editors of the Sweet Breathing of Plants, a new anthology of women's writing on faith and spiritualityFrom the vantage points of diverse backgrounds and beliefs, the writings gathered here describe a vast range of spiritual searches and encounters.
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9780060163204 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A black comedy narrated by the nine members of the Mackenzie dynasty, an American family coming of age, and falling apart in various Latin American countries as the father, Sam Mackenzie, continually re-locates to new embassy posts
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9780595323302 | Backinprint.Com, July 31, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Selected by the New York Times as a "Notable Book of the Year," for it's "wicked, black comedy," Duck and Cover was hailed by Publisher's Weekly as "a bittersweet and utterly beguiling novel.
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9780938216803 | Grand Canyon Assn, May 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Over the course of one summer, fifteen of today's best women writers descended into the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River.
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9781578051083 | Sierra Club Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents the story of a man who is given a baboon heart and begins dreaming about a baboon in trouble, eventually rescuing her from an animal testing lab before trying to stop military experiments that are harming sea animals.
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9780792279891 | Natl Geographic Society, August 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Traces the migrations of gray whales between Alaska and Mexico, from their summmer feeding grounds in the Bering Sea to winter birthing lagoons in Baja, examining their history and the conflict between hunters and environmentalists.
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9780792241027 | Reprint edition (Natl Geographic Society, June 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Traces the lives of gray whales during their migrations between Alaska and Mexico, from their summer feeding grounds in the Bering Sea to winter birthing lagoons in Baja, examining their rich history including the conflict between their hunters and environmental protectors.
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A woman who lived among wolves for an entire year offers a rare portrait of he subject in the wild as she documents their daily lives in both images and words. Original.
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9780939165476 | Newsage Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A woman who lived among wolves for an entire year offers a rare portrait of he subject in the wild as she documents their daily lives in both images and words.
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9781578050703 | Sierra Club Books, May 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Dolphin-Human relationship is probed in great detail through literature, myth, and science, with a variety of experts contributing essays on this fascinating chapter in the history of biology.
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9781555914677 | Fulcrum Pub, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From her saltwater home near the shores of Puget Sound, novelist and essayist Brenda Peterson explores the tidal pull of the mist-shrouded Pacific Northwest.
9780449909195 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, June 1, 1994), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: "Disarmingly moving.
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9780393050141 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The author examines her life-long fascination and encounters with bears, dolphins, and Siberian huskies living in the Sierra Mountains, and discusses her efforts to preserve wolves in Arizona, Yellowstone, and Alaska.
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9780393323283 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 2002), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The author of Nature and Other Mothers chronicles her life of experiences with animals, from being raised in the High Sierras on a national forest lookout station to her work preserving the wolves of the American West.
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9780865475595 | North Point Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Celebrating the world of plants, this anthology of prose and poetry features the work of Riogberta Menchâu, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, Isabel Allende, Susan Orlean, Kathleen Norris, and Alice Walker.
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9780865476257 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A compendium of more than three dozen nonfiction essays and poems is comprised of writings by women on plants and their role in food, medicine, clothing, beauty, and art.
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9780939165407, titled "Singing to the Sound: Visions of Nature, Animals & Spirit" | Newsage Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9780939165414 | Newsage Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In sensuous prose that evokes the mist and mystery of the Pacific Northwest, noted nature writer Brenda Peterson chronicles 20 years of living on Puget Sound, allowing a range of marine creatures the full light of her powerful observations and asking readers to look at land, waters, and wildlife in new ways.
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9780939165391 | 2 sub edition (Newsage Pr, March 1, 2000), cover price $13.95
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9780449003008 | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, April 20, 1999), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Provides insight into the unique relationship that exists between women and animals and includes contributions from Diane Ackerman, Annie Dillard, Jane Goodall, Temple Grandin, and Barbara Kingsolver
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9780449911228 | Fawcett Books, January 1, 1998, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Provides insight into the unique relationship that exists between women and animals and includes contributions from Diane Ackerman, Annie Dillard, Jane Goodall, Temple Grandin, and Barbara Kingsolver
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9781570611605 | Sasquatch Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Acclaimed nature photographer Art Wolfe focuses on his home region with masterful portraits of the mountains, forests, rivers, sea, islands, and desert that make up the special natural composition of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
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9781570611506 | Sasquatch Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Capture the essence of the Pacific Northwest with this exquisite gift book from internationally acclaimed nature photographer Art Wolfe.
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9780670852963 | Viking Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Uses insights from psychology, mythology, and anthropology, to look at sisters--both biological and metaphorical--and examines the intimacy, camaraderie, and love shared by women
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9780140232998 | Penguin USA, February 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Uses insights from psychology, mythology, and anthropology, to look at sisters--both biological and metaphorical--and examines the intimacy, camaraderie, and love shared by women
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9781564553690 | Sounds True, March 1, 1996, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A provocative, penetrating portrait of sisterhood that will strike a chord with readers of such bestsellers as Sisters by Carol Saline and the Delaney Sisters' Having Our Say, Sister Stories features insights from psychology, mythology, history, and anthropology.
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9780810940482 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 1996, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: The Cascade Mountains run from northern California to southern Canada and include some of the most striking landscapes in North America, as well as two of its fastest-growing cities: Seattle and Vancouver.
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9780449909676 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, September 11, 1995), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: After the success of Living by Water, novelist and nature writer Brenda Peterson turns her eye on the nature in human nature.
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Essays explore the feminine qualities of life as they relate to both everday tasks and major social issues, discussing war, abortion, baths, lullabies, fundamentalism, fishing, and other topics
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9780060163136 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Essays explore the feminine qualities of life as they relate to both everday tasks and major social issues, discussing war, abortion, baths, lullabies, fundamentalism, fishing, and other topics
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9780882403588 | Graphic Arts Center Pub Co, October 1, 1990, cover price $15.95
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9780882404004 | Alaska Northwest Books, June 1, 1990, cover price $9.95
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9781555971045 | Graywolf Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Lauren, Ruth, Daniel, Joseph, and Hella, employees at a top New York publisher, have to respond to changes when a conglomerate takes over their firm
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In northern Georgia in the 1950s a dirt farmer who has lost his land to creditors and his wife to the milk sickness takes in a tall, ever-forgiving migrant woman possessed of a fundamentalist son and a natural gift for healing
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9780915308897 | Reprint edition (Graywolf Pr, December 1, 1986), cover price $8.00 | About this edition: In northern Georgia in the 1950s a dirt farmer who has lost his land to creditors and his wife to the milk sickness takes in a tall, ever-forgiving migrant woman possessed of a fundamentalist son and a natural gift for healing
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