Blessed with abundant seafood, wonderful produce, and bountiful vineyards, the Pacific Northwest has spawned a unique culinary culture. This is a cookbook and guide to the Pacific Northwest's vibrant wine and culinary scene. It showcases the dishes and wines that have made the Pacific Northwest a gastronomic mecca.

Explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. This book argues that National parks did not develop as places set aside from the modern world, but rather came to be known and appreciated through technological progress in the form of cars and roads.

After solving the messy mystery of her neighbourhood handyman's lye-induced death, thirty-something Sophie Mae Reynolds makes preserves by day and answers phones at a crisis centre by night. What better way to keep a low profile? But on her very first night, Sophie Mae gets a call from a man who is threatening suicide and her.

Cocoa butter soap, check. Lemon lip balm, check. A dead body? That's just what Sophie Mae Reynolds finds in her workroom. He died from drinking lye, something she has in good supply. But the police don't suspect Sophie Mae. Instead they call it a suicide. But why would a man with lottery cash and a loving fiancee kill himself?

Slava Petrovich, or Cuss because he can swear in 14 languages, knows he'll become a coalminer one day like his brothers. For now, though, he is happy at school, hanging out with his best friends. But trouble is brewing in town - a dead man is found and Cuss's childhood begins to disappear fast.

Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back for their most dangerous adventure yet. Casino king and vicious thug Jerry Bagger is hunting Annabelle Conroy, who conned him out of millions. Stone and his colleagues must marshal all their resources to protect her.

Where tragedy confronts eternity.

The spectacular international bestseller that introduced Washington-based homicide detective Alex Cross and launched James Patterson's career as one of the fastest-selling thriller writers in the world -- now reissued in striking new cover style.

A revised edition of the standard work of reference. It contains new information to take account of recent finds and research with added colour and black and white illustrations.

In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George ...

Alex Cross faces his most diabolical villain -- a serial killer with a hunger for celebrity

A stunningly compelling new account of the Kennedy years, exploring for the first time the full impact of JFK's death on RFK, who sought election partly as a way of revealing the truth of what happened in Dallas.

A no-holds-barred chronicle and inside story of the war on terror by the former CIA director.

For three teenagers, dark mystery has always lurked at the corner of the eyes and the edge of sleep. Beautiful Morgan D'Amici wakes in her trailerpark home with dirt and blood under her fingernails. Paintings come alive under Ondine Mason's violet-eyed gaze. Haunted runaway Nix Saint-Michael sees halos of light around people about to die. At a secret summer rave, the three teenagers learn of ...

The Seattle bungalow was the nation's first modern home, and it established the essential characteristics of popular housing. This book modifies the common notion that architectural change flows only from the design elite - the architects, reformers and planners - and argues that ordinary people played a crucial role in creating the bungalow.