Chuckanut Editions: 7 books

Anyone who has ever read Alan Rhodes' writing knows this guy can be really funny and a bit serious at the same time. Whether he's examining the issue of growth or exhorting the importance of free speech, he can make nearly anyone laugh—often at ourselves. Returning to the Branch is gathered...

It Takes a Village Books is the story of an idea that became a bookstore and a bookstore that became a central part of the community. The book chronicles thirty years of the publishing and bookselling business–both here and abroad. It recounts local and national censorship and privacy incidents,...

Originally published in 1996, Impressions of the North Cascades is a collection of essays, reminiscences, and reflections on Washington State’s North Cascades. Sixteen contributors, ranging from geologists to environmental educators, share their own connections to these awe-inspiring mountains and their surrounding wilderness.

From his family's arrival in Fairhaven in 1910 to the beginning of the restoration of the area in the mid-1970s, George Hunsby's personalized recollections of this beloved Southside community are told with warmth and humor. Published originally in two volumes in 1975 and 1976, the two books now reappear in this one-volume facsimile edition.

Whatcom County in the Northwest corner of Washington State has a fascinating and elaborate geologic history. A Walk Through Geologic Time is a comprehensive guide to the geologic sculpting of this area's landscape. The book spans the history of the North Cascades and lowland from 1.8 billion years...

Rising above the northwestern part of the Cascades is the magnificent bulk of Mount Baker - "Koma Kulshan" (the steep white mountain" to the early Nooksack Indians. Long a focal point of human interest, this slumbering volcano has been seen in many different lights--as a sacred object,...

In "Haunted Fairhaven", local writer Taimi Dunn Gorman, explores the tales of ghostly sightings through the testimonies of current residents and stories of the past. While researching 1890s' newspapers for murders, suicides, strange deaths and other occurrences, she brought in a team of...