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A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers: Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch; Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his father; and Leland, Henry's bookish younger son, who returns to his family on a mission of vengeance -- and finds himself fulfilling it in ways he never imagined.
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English
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In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell gets his first glimpse of Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of giant, whole trees, and is set on a huge estate overlooking Puget Sound. Trevor's bankrupt parents have begun a trial separation, and his father, Jones Riddell, has brought Trevor to Riddell House with a goal: to join forces with his sister, Serena, dispatch...
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Ecco
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains -- but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness. Together this lord and lady...
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Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2022.
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xiv, 273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm.
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English
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Weaving together investigative reporting, colorful characters, logging history, political analysis and cutting-edge tree science, this gripping account takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market.
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