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rehabilitation by San Juan Island’s own Wolf interwoven in a series of flashbacks and trial San Juan Islands Hollow Rehabilitation Center. The bird was testimony. originally found on Orcas Island, and actually rides Summer Island, Kristin Hannah Recommended Reads the ferry to San Juan Island and then takes the On deadline to write a nasty expose of her mother, boat back home. a bitter and cynical daughter comes home to help Flight of the Fisherbird, Nora Martin when her mother has been injured in an accident. For children grades 4-7, this is a somewhat edgy Exploring her family’s past, the daughter learns novel treating the history and beauty of the San that woman she hated all those years is not the Juan Islands as well as the complexities of good and woman she thought she was—she is forced to grow evil in every human heart. up, and to allow herself to love. Jessie’s Island, Sheryl McFarlane with illustrations by Educating Waverley, Laura Kalpakian Sheena Lott Set on Isadora Island (think Orcas), a member of a For children up to twelve years, this book timber baron family founds a school for girls after illustrated with watercolors details the many things World War I. A school girl’s isolation, school Jacobson Robin Photo: to do and see on a visit to a “boring island in the friendships, and first loves shape her entire life and middle of nowhere.” the lives of those around her. History Islands from before the Pig War through most of Folly, Laurie R. King The San Juan Islands: Illustrated Supplement to the the 20th century. A single woman recovering from a psychotic break San Juan Islander The San Juan Story, C. T. Morgan Fiction for Adults rebuilds a house on a private island west of San This reprint of a 1901 pictorial supplement to the About twenty pages of text and thirty Madonnas of Leningrad, Deborah Dean Juan. Her family thinks she’s crazy to attempt such San Juan Islander newspaper summarizes early photographs give the briefest overview of the Alternating between Marina’s youth in Leningrad a project with her history; their fears, and hers, historical events and contemporary economic islands’ history. Tidbits on institutions like the where she worked in the Hermitage Museum and may be justified. Award-winning author King gets activities in San Juan County. Its current value may medical center, the gravel pit, the Santa ship, San the present, where she attends the wedding of her the setting of the San Juans right, and perhaps even be its photographs of historic buildings and Juan Airlines, and University of Washington Friday granddaughter on a fictional San Juan island, this more important, picks up on the nuances of island profiles of prominent islanders of the time. Harbor Labs are given. Outdated travel guide complicated story explores art, memory, and characters. San Juan: the Powder Keg Island, Jo Bailey-Cummings information is also included. memory loss. Amber Beach, Elizabeth Lowell and Al Cummings Magic Islands: A Treasure-trove of San Juan Islands You May Now Kill the Bride, Deborah Donnelly In her quest to find out what happened to a stolen Recounts the story of the Pig War and the settlers Lore, David Richardson The bride wears purple and lavender, and while the fortune in amber, Honor heads to the San Juan of that time, using diaries, letters, and newspaper A 95-page history of the islands including early wedding does not take place at Pelindaba; it is set Islands, but she needs a guide to run the boat. She articles. Spanish and English explorers. Includes the Pig on a fictional lavender farm. The premise is that the doesn’t know that Jake used to be involved in the Who the Hell Was San Juan? Examining the Roots of War, pioneer days, the founding of Friday Harbor wedding planner stumbles into bad things on the family business, and he assumes he is being set up San Juan Islands Place Names, Doug Cardle and Roche Harbor, Orcas Island and Rosario, etc. A way to other people’s weddings, so you might not to take the fall. Alone together at sea, the two face This book of place names and origins of the San chapter covers notable boats and ferries in the want to hire her for your San Juan Island nuptials. betrayal, temptation, relentless enemies, and a Juan Archipelago was compiled in 1982. Through history of the county through the 1960s. Death on a Casual Friday, Sharon Duncan mutual hunger for the other. interviews and examination of various historical Pig War Islands, David Blair Richardson Scotia MacKinnon lives aboard her sailing yacht in Critical Mass, Steve Martini charts and maps, the author creates a fairly The first part of the book chronicles Pig War Friday Harbor, where she works as a PI for A burned-out lawyer opts for a quieter life on San comprehensive list. Many of the name origins history while the second half profiles the attorneys and insurance companies until she gets Juan Island, but becomes embroiled in the search come from old stories. This book remains one of subsequent century of San Juan archipelago caught up in helping a woman who claims she’s for nuclear devices gone missing from a Soviet the best available sources for lore and place name history, focusing on key events and personalities. st being stalked. The author deliberately plays with storage facility. information. The San Juan Islands: Into the 21 Century, JoAnn Roe some of the geography of the island, but writes Sea of Troubles, Janet L. Smith Roche Harbor: A Saga in the San Juans, Lynette Evans This book sets out to tell the history of the islands about a place she knows with more than affection. A murder mystery set on Orcas Island, with a lot of and George Burley after the resolution of the Pig War. The chapters Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson local touches, including a visit to the “hospital” in Ninety pages, including dozens of photographs, of are organized around themes like boats, In a deep fog, alone in his boat, a fisherman is lost Friday Harbor. the history of the Roche Harbor community, the occupations such as fishing, logging, and farming; at sea. Was it an accident, or was it murder? The John S. McMillin family, and the resort of the same lighthouses, youth camps, and places such as trial of a rival fisherman—a Japanese-American name through 1972, when the booklet was parks, Rosario Resort and Roche Harbor; and World War II veteran whose family was interned— published. emphasizing the history of the second half of the seeks to find justice. The complex histories and Making History: The People Who Shaped the San Juan 20th century and up to 2011. racism of the fishing families, the newspaper Islands, Lucille S. McDonald Friday Harbor, Then and Now, F.H. VanCleve reporter covering the trial, and the community are Historian McDonald tells stories of the San Juan Contains drawings of local buildings and descriptions of their former uses. Because this Roche Harbor, Richard Walker San Juan Airlines, built the Friday Harbor Airport, John Franklin Troxell, Fish Trap Man, Beryl Troxell book was written in 1972, it is best used in Historic photographs on the development of the and his adventures in establishing scheduled air Mason conjunction with the Historic Friday Harbor on community, lime, the McMillin family, the barrel service to the islands after World War II. In this memoir of her father, Beryl Troxell Mason Foot: Historic Downtown walking guide, which is factory, and the resort itself are presented with Light on the Island: Tales of a Lighthouse Keeper's recounts the career of John Franklin Troxell as a more current. It can be difficult to recognize the captions and small amounts of text. Family in the San Juan Islands, Helene Glidden fish trap man--operating the enormous nets-strung buildings described in the 1970s given their The Salmon Bank: An Ethnohistoric Compilation, Profiles a childhood on Patos Island from 1905- -on-poles contraptions that could catch thousands current uses. Jacilee Wray 1913 as the daughter of the light keeper. Strong of salmon in a single day. The book not only Friday Harbor, Mike Vouri From the 1890s to the 1930s, the Salmon Bank off language may put off some readers. A sense of fun describes how a fish trap worked--with plenty of Historic photographs tell the story of the town and the south end of San Juan Island was the site of pervades the book. Some readers question the diagrams, maps, and photos, but also provides a lot the community, including its schools, the salmon many fish traps that were used to catch seasonal accuracy of the text. of local history, particularly of Lopez Island. cannery, Victor Capron, Circle Park, and other runs of salmon that fed the canneries in Friday Island Ebb and Flow: A Pioneer’s Journal of Life on James Francis Tulloch Diary 1875-1910, James Francis town features on the occasion of its centennial, Harbor. Jacilee Wray interviewed several old time Waldron Island, Frances K. Lovering Tulloch published in 2009. Look for other books in the islanders about these operations, most notably Bill A year by year account of life on Waldron from the Still relevant after a century, this memoir of one of Images of America series, such as Roche Harbor, Jakle. A well-researched ethnography of a vanished 1930s through the 1970s. Packed with details the earliest island pioneers rings with the voice of a Orcas Island, San Juan Island, and Lopez Island.

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