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Book Club — Sisters Festival of Books

Paulina Springs Books hosts the first #SistersFestivalofBooks Book Club tomorrow, August 12, at 5:30 pm with "High Desert, Higher Costs" author Jonathan Bach and Bend YIMBY.
Don't miss this FREE event that is open to all!
www.sistersfob.org/book-club
#BookClubs #Yimby #Bend #Sisters #Housing

11.08.2025 23:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to Elizabeth Mehren and OSU Press's copublisher The Immigrant Story for "I Lived to Tell the World" being named an Oregon Great Reads book! 🎉
Read the State Library of Oregon’s press release at beav.es/xTp.
#CenterForTheBook #NationalBookFestival #ReadUP

08.08.2025 00:40 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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The final photo taken for my book, In Search of Portland: of Tanner Springs Park in the Pearl District, completed in 2005 from a design by German landscape architect Herbert Dreiseitl. It’s a symbolic unearthing of long-buried Tanner Creek, hence the undulating steel rods at left, as if peeled back.

22.07.2025 04:11 — 👍 28    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Kurt Fausch shares the hope "to draw [readers] into this world of what a scientist sees" in his recent work "A Reverence for Rivers."
Listen to the full conversation with Michael Simpson on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: beav.es/xiQ.
#RiverEthics #RiverEcology #Conservation #Environment

31.07.2025 23:11 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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New from OSU Press this September is Tami Parr's "Goats in America: A Cultural History."
Preorder today. Publication date: September 9, 2025.
beav.es/xwz
#Goats #USHistory #PortlandAuthors #ReadUP

31.07.2025 00:04 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

This is so cool. The first SFOB 2025 Book Club!
Plus, it's FREE & open to all! 💚

30.07.2025 21:35 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations, Jared (and contributors)!
We're looking forward to bringing this work to publication in Spring 2026.‼️Keep your eyes peeled for more news on the book this fall! 👀👀

29.07.2025 21:00 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Yes! More OSU Press titles photographed at the #SalemOregon #BookBin! 🎉

28.07.2025 22:36 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for snapping and posting these OSU Press book pics! It's great to see all of them in stock at the #BookBin for #SalemOregon readers to pick up and enjoy. 📚❤️

28.07.2025 16:49 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Oregon State Capitol website features the new virtual exhibit "The Jackson County Rebellion: A Populist Uprising in Depression-Era Oregon" developed by the Southern Oregon Historical Society. This virtual exhibit is based on the book by Jeffrey Max LaLande.
View the exhibit: beav.es/xUL.

26.07.2025 00:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Attn: #SWPortland! Don't miss this chance to catch the "High Desert, Higher Costs" book event with Jonathan Bach at #AnnieBloom'sBooks, Thursday, August 14, at 7:00 pm!

24.07.2025 22:22 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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New blog post features Bruce A. Bugbee, Robert J. Kiesling, and John B. Wright, authors of "Saving the Big Sky!"
"We were drawn to conservation because of our love of the land and our commitment to making a tangible difference in the world."
Read more: beav.es/x3c
#Montana #Conservation #LandUse

23.07.2025 16:00 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Book Review: Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River - The Global Fight for Indian Independence and Citizenship Oregon is commonly perceived to have little, let alone notable, South Asian history. Yet in the early 1900s Oregon was...

"Johanna Ogden’s detailed history of migrants’ experience expands the time frame, geographic boundaries, and knowledge of the conditions and contributions of Indians in North America." —"Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River" book review from #TheSkanner
Read the review: beav.es/xJr

21.07.2025 23:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New from OSU Press this September is Stephen A. Forrester's biography "Richard Neuberger: Oregon Politics and the Making of a US Senator."
Preorder today. Publication Date: September 23, 2025.
beav.es/xJP
#OregonHistory #OregonPolitics #PoliticalBiography #RichardNeuberger #USSenator #Conservation

19.07.2025 00:19 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Publication Day to Bruce A. Bugbee, Robert J. Kiesling, and John B. Wright!
"Saving the Big Sky: A Chronicle of Land Conservation in Montana" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/x4F
#Montana #Conservation #LandUse #Stewardship #ReadUP

16.07.2025 00:19 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Canopy 2025 Bookshelf

Nice shout out from #YaleSchoolofTheEnvironment #Canopy2025 for "Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge" and contributor Pat Gonzales-Rogers!
beav.es/x4v

14.07.2025 18:38 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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THE BIRDBOOKER REPORT

#TheBirdbookerReport blog features the newly available "Field Guide to the Grasses of Oregon and Washington, Second Edition."
Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen posts "This book is a MUST-HAVE for those with a serious interest in the grasses of the region!"
Check it out: beav.es/x4E.

11.07.2025 23:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This stunning book is available from your favorite bookseller and OSU Press!🎨
osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/cs-price

11.07.2025 18:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann talks with OSU Press author Char Miller (@charmiller4.bsky.social) about his recent book "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
Take a listen: beav.es/x4M.

10.07.2025 20:12 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Good Stuff NW - Persecuted, Worshipped, Profiteered: New Book Profiles Goat History in America

"Well known for her previous books about artisan cheese, Portland author Tami Parr's new book, 'Goats in America,' documents the surprising and important role goats have played throughout the history of the United States." —#GoodStuffNW
Find out what prompted the book and more: beav.es/xZU.

09.07.2025 00:00 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Excellent! It's so great to see "High Desert, Higher Costs" in bookstores. We ❤️ Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing!!!

07.07.2025 22:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Join the authors of "Saving the Big Sky" in MT this July!
🔷Country Bookshelf, Bozeman, July 16, 6 pm
🔷Shakespeare & Co., Missoula, July 23, 7 pm
🔷Billings Public Library, Billings, July 24, 6 pm
🔷Wheatgrass Books, Livingston, July 25, 5 pm
Visit osupress.oregonstate.edu/events to learn more.

02.07.2025 22:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
#SupportIndigneous - Linda Meanus - Confluence Project

Wow! It's so exciting to see Linda Meanus, author of "My Name is LaMoosh," featured and celebrated by #Confluence. ❤️
beav.es/NFw.
#SupportIndigenous #CulturalPreservation

01.07.2025 00:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Becoming Earth – Robin Wall Kimmerer Wandering among the ancient decomposing cedar trees of the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon, Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer wonders what they might teach us about the nature o...

"Perhaps ecology is also experimental theology. Call it internal transformation, call it rot, or call it transcendence. In the afterlife of cedars, nothing is ever dead."
—Robin Wall Kimmerer

30.06.2025 18:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks, Jack, for featuring Char's new book!

30.06.2025 17:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Milwaukie History Talk: First Fruits Author Linda Ziedrich will discuss her book First Fruits: The Lewellings and the Birth of the Pacific Coast Fruit Industry. This is a free event, with seating available on a first-come, first-seated basis. This author talk is supported by the Friends of the Ledding Library.  

Linda Ziedrich will discuss her book "First Fruits" at the Ledding Library in Milwaukie this Saturday, June 28, at 12 pm.
This is a free event, with seating available on a first-come, first-seated basis.
beav.es/NFc
#MilwaukieOregon #OregonHistory #BookEvent #ReadLocal

27.06.2025 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Things are looking good in OKC. Come on by!
#NAISA25.

26.06.2025 17:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Woohoo! 🎉
Mark the calendar to attend the Sisters Festival of Books, September 12 – 14, 2025!

26.06.2025 16:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Publication Day to the #HallieFordMuseumOfArt and Roger Saydack!
"C.S. Price: A Portrait" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
beav.es/Nya
#OregonArtHistory #AmericanModernism #PacificNortwestArt

25.06.2025 02:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OSU Press will be attending #NAISA25 in Oklahoma City! Come by and tell us about your latest book project while browsing our new titles. The exhibit hall will be open Thursday, June 26, through Saturday, June 28, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm daily.
View this year's featured titles online at beav.es/Nyd.

24.06.2025 00:00 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

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