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Nov

14

2012

PNBA’s 2013 Shortlist Announced

The Awards Committee for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has announced its shortlist for the best books of 2012 by Northwest authors. These 12 books and their authors are the nominees. The PNBA Awards Committee is made up of nine volunteer booksellers from throughout our region. This year they considered more than 200 titles published in …

Nov

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2012

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Kathleen Flenniken: In Washington’s High Desert,
Poetry Meets the Nuclear Age

Kathleen Flenniken was recently named Poet Laureate of Washington State. A native of the state, she grew up the daughter of a chemist who worked at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. She went on to earn two degrees in civil engineering and herself worked eight years as an engineer and hydrologist, three of those years at …