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Views: Seattle and the Puget Sound (PAPERBACK)

These views of Seattle and Puget Sound were all produced by Seattle area photographers who captured perfect moments in time through the lens of a camera.Featuring city and landscape photographs from Bill Brookster, Dan Carrow, John S. Chao, Adrienne...

Views Washington, 2nd Edition

Photos, like the written word, tell a story. A picture is worth a thousand words, after all. Views: Washington collects color photographs of Washington State by 28 area photographers. From the Columbia River in the South to the Cascades region...

Fishes & Dishes

The women featured in this book successfully challenged one of the last frontiers of male domination - the commercial fishing grounds of Alaska. A generation ago, they might have been celebrated as pioneers. In today's world they were simply living their...

The Adventures of Onyx and The Lords of the Lakes

It is Onyx's last mission. She and the crew must save more than a hundred people trapped on a half-mile slab of ice that has broken loose from the shoreline and drifted into the Straits of Mackinac. This rescue mission will take the response of every...

The Adventures of Onyx and The Race to Mackinac

The Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race has entered the final mile of their 333 mile journey, but they're in trouble. An overnight weather shift is causing high gusts and huge waves. More than 350 sailboats are trying to make it to the finish line...

The Adventures of Onyx and The Saginaw River Ice Rescuers

Hogan and Onyx are training at the Coast Guard's National Ice Rescue School in Essexville, Michigan, when their instructor receives an urgent call about a snowmobiler who has fallen through the ice. There is no time to waste, and Hogan, Onyx, and the...

The Adventures of Onyx and The Far Side of the Lakes

Hogan and Onyx are aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Alder as it makes its annual voyage across Lake Superior to where the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank forty years earlier during a violent storm. As Hogan, Onyx, and the rest of the crew brave gale-force...

The Adventures of Onyx and The Battle of the Bay Class Dogs

Onyx and Hogan are celebrating at the Coast Guard Festival in Grand Haven, Michigan, when they are called back to duty to battle the blaze of a tug and fuel barge that is on fire in Lake Michigan. When the captain arrives on the bridge to brief the crew,...

The Adventures of Onyx and The Mighty Mackinaw

Onyx and Hogan are ready for another adventure, but this time they aren't on a mission to save lives, they're on a mission to save Christmas! Once a year the Mighty Mackinaw becomes the Christmas Tree Ship, delivering trees to families in Chicago who...

The Adventures of Onyx and The Fight Against the Falls

In this non-stop adventure, Onyx and her fellow Coasties work with the Buffalo Police to save a sinking yacht. Then the Coast Guard must enter the dangerous exclusionary zone of Niagara Falls to rescue a family trapped on a disabled, drifting boat. The...

The Adventures of Onyx and The Angels in the Air

Onyx and the Guardian of the Straits are back in another exciting adventure! During routine helicopter operations with Air Station Traverse City, the Coast Guard is suddenly called to rescue a mother and daughter stranded in Lake Michigan. When the crew...

The Adventures of Onyx and The Gales of November

One windy, November day, a cry for help comes into the Coast Guard Station in St. Ignace, Michigan. A plane has crashed on Mackinac Island and it's up to The Guardians of the Straits to answer the call. The Coasties quickly rush to their motor lifeboat,...