![]() ![]() The Upside of Down: A Memoir, SUSAN BIGGAR, MA '90 Transit Lounge Publishing, $28. Set in Yellowstone Park and narrated by Maggie, a clever magpie who becomes part of the wolf pack, the story centers on themes of friendship, integrity and the importance of being true to oneself. Don't miss the chapter in which his students come face-to-face with a giant mound of thatching ants.įirstborn, TOR SEIDLER, '72 Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $16.99. Chasing butterflies and falling for a coyote, Lamar, firstborn son of alpha wolf Blue Boy, isn't living up to his father's standards. Nisbet, a teacher, shares the rich history of the Pacific Northwest through stories on the area's geography, topography and biology, not to mention its people and their relationship with the land. Tales of her youthful fits and starts could spark nostalgia even in those who didn't grow up romping around the woods with near-complete freedom.Īncient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest, JACK NISBET, '71 Sas quatch Books, $21.95. ![]() The Slow Farm, TARN WILSON, MA '94 Ovenbird, $18. Wilson takes a look back at her life as a daughter of hippie parents, antiestablishment escapists who set up camp on a remote island off British Columbia in the early 1970s. ELIZABETH ROSNER, '81, in Electric City Counterpoint Press, $26.
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