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Northwest Collection

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These are all items available through the Sherwood Public Library that are about or produced in the Northwest * Items with no call number listed can be located by searching the catalog by their title


Mountain

Items About Sherwood

Items about Sherwood and its history

  • Exploring the Tualatin River Basin: a nature and recreation guide
  • History of Sherwood by Ronald Sherk
  • Old Sherwood Town heritage trail
  • Plants of Sherwood
  • Sherwood Centennial Cookbook: 100 years of good eating
  • Sherwood cultural resource inventory and historic context
  • Sherwood, a sense of time and place, volume 1 by June Reynolds
  • Walking tour of historic Smockville old town, Sherwood, Oregon

Non-fiction

Everything from native plants to local attractions

Native plants and trees 581-582

  • Northwest trees
  • Plants of the Pacific Northwest coast
  • Rare and endangered plants of Oregon
  • Western trees: a field guide
  • Wildflowers of Oregon

Cooking 641

  • Caprial cooks for friends by Caprial Pence
  • The best places Northwest desserts cookbook
  • Northwest berry cookbook
  • The Northwest best places cookbook
  • Pacific Northwest flavors:150 recipes

Camping/ Hiking 796

  • A camper’s guide to Oregon & Washington
  • The best in tent camping: Washington & Oregon
  • Portland hikes: day hikes in Oregon and Washington within 100 miles of Portland

Golfing 796.352

  • Golfing in Oregon: the complete guide to Oregon’s golf facilities


Kayaking/ Canoeing 797

  • Kayak routes of the Pacific Northwest
  • Soggy sneakers: a paddler’s guide to Oregon’s rivers

Oregon guidebooks 917.9

  • Doin’ the Northwest with your pooch
  • How to rent a fire lookout in the Pacific Northwest
  • Hidden Pacific Northwest: the adventure’s guide
  • Touring Oregon and Washington hot springs
  • Hiking the Oregon Coast: day hikes along the Oregon coast and coastal mountains
  • Zinester’s Guide to Portland
  • Historic highway bridges of Oregon


Washington guidebooks 917.97

  • Best hikes with children in western Washington

Fishing 799

  • Fishing in Oregon
  • Harry Teel’s no nonsense guide to fly fishing in central & southeastern Oregon
  • Western steelhead fishing guide


Biography 921

  • A girl from Yamhill: a memoir by Beverly Cleary
  • Meriwether Lewis: a biography
  • A walk toward Oregon: a memoir by Alvin Josephy
  • The story of Sacajaewa
  • Chief Joseph, guardian of the Nez Perce

Other Titles

  • Lewis and Clark through Indian eyes by Alvin Josephy
  • Roadside geology of Oregon

Fiction

Northwest authors and stories that take place in the Northwest

  • Fugitives and Refugees, a walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk
  • River Song by Craig Lesley
  • Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
  • Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
  • Ricochet River by Robin Cody

Music

Musicians from or singing about the Northwest (available throughout the county)

  • “Portland’s Best Blues. Vol 1”
  • “Sounds of Portland” from KXL Radio
  • 3 Leg Torso
  • Dandy Warhols
  • Elliott Smith
  • Everclear
  • Freak Mountain Ramblers
  • Jackstraw
  • Kerosene Dream
  • Michael Allen Harrison
  • Modest Mouse
  • Pink Martini
  • Portland Taiko
  • Talkdemonic
  • The Decemberists
  • Woody Guthrie, “Columbia River Collection”

Movies

Movies about and/ or filmed in the Northwest

  • Homeward Bound: The incredible journey
  • Lewis & Clark: the journey of the Corps of Discovery
  • My Own Private Idaho
  • Northwest garden style: a regional tour of private gardens
  • Oregon Covered Bridges
  • Oregon Ghost Towns
  • Oregon Lighthouses
  • Short Circuit
  • St. Helens
  • The Goonies
  • Sunken Treasure live in the Pacific Northwest, Jeff Tweedy
  • The adventures of Mark Twain by Will Vinton
  • The Hunted
  • The Tribal people of the Northwest
  • Thumbsucker

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