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. way of life. about raising chickens, Waldron mail service, the true islander—community minded, wry, The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay, Mike Vouri Waldron island public school, and many individual independent, crotchety, and cantankerous. He

This detailed history published in 1990 might put Native Americans Waldron families, but hard to keep up with as founded the Orcas Episcopal Church, a farmers off a casual reader, but a bit of persistence pays off there is no narrative to hold the memoir together. association, and participated in political affairs, and as the story moves along and the prose engages The Indians of Puget Sound, Myron Eells Underpinning: a Vivid Recollection of Life in he loved to rail against the deer in the garden. the reader. Celebrate the fact that the San Juan This historic ethnographic monograph of Northwest Washington State in the Early Part of This Century, Islands’ history attests that territorial disputes can Coast Salish people, primarily the Twana or Caroline Reed be resolved by diplomacy rather than violence. Skokomish from further south than the San Juan Written in the 1980s, this memoir recalls a Fiction for Children Islands, provides a record of their arts and material childhood in the early part of the 1900s: the The Summerfolk, Doris Burn culture circa 1875-1907. hardships the family faced before automobiles A story book for reading aloud to younger Haboo: Native American Stories from Puget Sound, Vi were common in San Juan County; the enjoyment children. A grumpy old islander shares his disdain Hilbert of picnics, parades, and games children played; of tourists with the young folk. But in the This collection of stories covers Western and the difficulties brought on the family by the imagination of a young boy, visitors become new Washington, so the stories are not necessarily from advent of World War I. friends and sail with him to other worlds. or about San Juan County. They are transcribed as A San Juan Islands Journal, Jo Ann Ridley with Andrew Henry’s Meadow, Doris Burn they were orally recounted, without editing or photographs by Mary Randlett A charming illustrated story of a somewhat revision. Not really a journal at all, but a set of polished troublesome and loner boy who leads all the Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form, Bill essays, some constructed in the 1970s and others children of town away to live in children’s village Holm in the early 2000s. Essays address topics such as where he builds each a special house suited to Although not specific to the islands, this book Photo: San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau JuanIslands Photo:Visitors San counting eagle nests from a small airplane, reef their interests. When the children are reunited, explicates the organization of form and space as Outpost of Empire: The Royal Marines and the netting, the old ferryboat the Vashon, and Emelia their families learn to support Henry’s interests in well as the symbolism of Native American art of the Joint Occupation of San Juan Island, Mike Vouri (Lee) Bave’s San Juan Saga—her dramatic rendition inventing. Pacific Northwest. Discusses secondary and minor Vouri’s second book about the Pig War, published of the Pig War. The author was a correspondent My Champion, S.K. Carnes elements and the use of color. in 2004, combines pictures and commentary to tell for the Journal of the San Juans and wrote a Inspirational for all ages, this book is for older Deciphering a Shell Midden, Julie K. Stein, editor the story of the 1860-72 occupation of English column in the seventies called the “Courthouse grade school children, but many might have The papers in this collection are primarily the result Camp at the northern end of San Juan Island while Mouse;” one essay remembers the mouse. trouble with the picture book format. Its rich of a dig conducted at English Camp, (called British the American Army occupied the other end of the The Building of Roche Harbor Resort by the Tarte illustrations with original oil paintings swirl with Camp in the monograph) on San Juan Island from island. Family, Neil Tarte color. This horsey story with the happy ending 1983-1989. The papers that comprise this collection The Pig War, Mike Vouri This first person account was transcribed from will appeal to many little girls and some older are organized into a section on describing site This is a book of pictures from the joint occupation narration, and would have benefited from an ones as well. th location, environment, and stratigraphy, followed of San Juan Island up into the 20 century after editor. Neil Tarte tells about his family and their by a section of specific analyses organized by the two military camps were formed into San Juan efforts to buy the Roche Harbor Lime Company Flicker’s Round Trip, Ann Hanson material types (sediments, lithics, floral remains, Island National Historical Park. Part of the Images and repurpose it into what is now Roche Harbor Illustrated with lively watercolors by the author, faunal remains). of America series, published in 2008. Resort. this is the true story of a flicker chick rescue and Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory: the Archaeology of 2 7

year reflect on an orientation to life that is San Juan Island, Julie K. Stein to personal encounters with butterflies, birds, respectful, joyful, and participatory. Intellectual, Biography Describes archaeological work for lay readers and amphibians, foxes, whales, flowering plants, and spiritual, and political philosophy are combined Lopez Island: Foul Play on the Friendly Isle, City serious archaeologists alike on the early life of more. Historical notes from early explorers are with local knowledge in one man’s musing on how Confidential Television Native Americans at San Juan Island National interwoven with contemporary scientific reports. we develop a new relationship with the planet This episode of the TV crime program covers the Historical Park at Cattle Point and at English Camp The book is primarily the product of the author’s through gardening. true story of the murder of Captain Rolf Neslund by in Garrison Bay. keen observation. his wife, Ruth Neslund. Indian Fishing Early Methods on the Northwest Coast, Orcas, Eagles and Kings: Georgia Strait and Puget Boats, Boating and Maritime No Regrets and Other True Cases, Ann Rule Hilary Stewart Sound, Steve Yates Profusely illustrated with photographs and Lyrical prose with glorious full color photographs Diving the San Juans, Dareld and Janine Clark drawings, this anthropological study reports in lay about life in the islands and the region. Chapters This guide provides information about 60 different terms the techniques and tools used by Native cover Vancouver’s voyage, traveling with the diving sites in the San Juan archipelago ranging American fishers. Like Stewart’s other books, whales, the horrific decline in marine bird from Alden Point in the north to Deception Pass in Artifacts of the Norwest Coast Indians, Cedar, and populations, and SCUBA dives and amazing sea life the south. For each site the authors provide four Looking at Indian Art, this book is not specific to images that the non-divers among us might not types of information: habitat and depth, dive San Juan County, but addresses regional otherwise see. profile, directions, and hazards. techniques. Includes explanations from members Gunkholing in the San Juans, Al Cummings and Jo of various tribes of how hooks, harpoons, nets, and Bailey Cummings Geology traps were manufactured and used as well as a This cruising guide describes the San Juan Islands Roadside Geology of Washington, David Alt and section on fish cooking and fish preservation, and for the mariner in words, photographs, and Donald Hyndman the tools used for these purposes. miniature charts. Bits of lore, origins of places Contains a short chapter about the San Juan Economic Life of the Coast Salish of Haro and Rosario names, public tidelands, aids to navigation, Islands. A detailed description of glaciation is found Straits, Wayne Suttles marinas, and good anchorages are noted. Noted crime writer Ann Rule details the trial of in Orcas, Eagles and Kings, by Steve Yates. This 1951 doctoral dissertation remains the most Nautical Highways: Ferries of the San Juan Islands, Ruth Neslund for the murder of her husband Rolf Geology of the San Juan Islands, Ned Brown extensive description of the life of Native Robert Demar and Robin Atkins Neslund in 200 pages, with photos. It is one of The geology of the San Juan Islands is extremely Americans of the San Juan Islands. Chapters several profiles in this bestseller. complex. This is the latest, and most up to date, of address subsistence, including hunting and a series of attempts at describing and explaining gathering on land and sea; manufactures, including that complexity. Ned Brown, former professor of textiles, watercraft, and housing; society, individual Memoirs by Islanders Geology at Western Washington University, has possessions, and life cycles. In Season: Culinary Adventures of a San Juan Island condensed decades of field work into a succinct

Coast Salish Essays, Wayne Suttles Chef, Greg Atkinson narrative, well-illustrated with photos and geologic A collection of academic anthropology articles Charming personal essays accompany recipes for maps. each of the seasons. Based on a column that ran addressing cultural issues of the Coast Salish

weekly in the Journal of the San Juans during the peoples, not specific to the San Juan Islands. 1980s and 1990s. Plants Living High: an Unconventional Biography, June Burn Natural History Wild Plants of the San Juan Islands, Scott Atkinson and June and husband Farrar Burn literally staked one Seashore Life of the Northern Pacific Coast: an illustrated by Fred Sharpe Photo:Gardner Mark © of the last homestead claims in the United States Illustrated Guide to Northern California, Oregon, Black and white illustrations help identify plants in on Sentinel Island. The book recounts the Washington, and British Columbia, Eugene N. Kozloff the field, and accounts relate edibility and origin of Black and white photographs taken at the end of The go-to resource for lay identification of a non-native species. Organized by habitat, the book the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries adventurous Burn family’s early years in San Juan variety of different life forms found on beaches, in makes it fairly easy for the beginner to identify new depicting ferries serving the San Juans. Captions County, earning their living fishing, gathering gull tide pools, and in near-shore waters. Organized plants and to learn about plant communities. identify some places and individuals. eggs, working for the Roche Harbor Company, around habitats, black and white illustrations or Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Ferry Guide Map of the San Juan Islands, Ferry Tale writing, selling songs, raising their children--North photographs illustrate many common plants and Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska, Jim Pojar and Productions and South Burn--and life on Waldron Island. They animals, including shellfish, jellyfish, sea weeds, Andy MacKinnon While containing much outdated information, the also traveled extensively, living on a shoestring etc. With color photographs and individual species map and guide accurately name many points of while celebrating life. Rainshadow World, Susan Vernon descriptions, this field guide provides a good key interest along the Thatcher Pass route from Island Bush Pilot, Roy Franklin This delightful tour of a year of wild plants and for identifying native plants in the San Juan Islands. Anacortes through the islands to Sidney, B.C. In language so plain the reader almost hears him animals in the San Juan Islands is both informative speaking, Roy Franklin narrates how he founded and evocative. Vignettes bring the reader up close The New Savory Wild Mushroom, Margaret McKenny 6 3 and Daniel E. Stuntz, Revised by Joseph Ammirati Tony Angell and Ken Balcomb’s Marine Birds and Reptiles of Washington and Oregon, Robert M. Storm A light-hearted look at what makes islanders This handbook is designed for use in the Pacific Mammals of Puget Sound (although each of these and William P. Leonard different. “You remember when the ferry would Northwest by fungi hunters who want a field guide continues to be useful in many respects.) A discussion of the life histories and habitats of off-load and the town was still empty.” that will help identify edible mushrooms and Killer Whales, John K.B. Ford, Graeme M. Ellis, and turtles, lizards, and snakes supplements individual A Place in the Islands: How Private Land Owners Shape discern them from poisonous ones. Kenneth C. Balcomb species accounts that come with color photographs the Future of the San Juan and Gulf Islands, Islands Mosses, Lichens & Ferns of Northwest North America, Useful for the background on the then-thirty-year and range maps. Trust and the San Juan Preservation Trust Dale Vitt, Janet Marsh, and Robin Bovey research on the orcas of Washington, southeastern A Guide to Birds of San Juan Island, Monika Wieland This beautiful booklet informs prospective and Although not specific to the county, this reference Alaska and British Columbia. The catalog of Two types of information are offered: a detailed current landowners about some of the special offers a comprehensive guide, including individual individual identification photographs is outdated, listing of publically accessible sites on San Juan features of the island landscapes; makes species accounts, for the identification of mosses, many of those animals are dead, and new ones Island, with hand-drawn detailed maps, and brief suggestions to consider before undertaking lichens, and ferns. have joined the population. lists of the bird species to look for at each site. The development; and provides resources for how to Birding in the San Juans, Mark G. Lewis and Fred A. sites represent different habitats on the island, and get information on site development, water, and Animals the reader learns what birds might be found in protection of existing features of island properties. Marine Birds and Mammals of Puget Sound, Tony these habitats. The second section of the book is a Historic Friday Harbor on Foot: Historic Downtown,

Angell and Ken Balcomb species guide that lists which species might be San Juan Historical Museum

Geographic distribution and habitat specificity found on the island, grouped taxonomically. A walking tour of the historic town. Profiles historic combined with a regional map made this a useful Marine Wildlife of Puget Sound, the San Juans, and homes and other buildings, as well as giving a resource for learning about particular bird species history of Friday Harbor. when it was written. As the environmental data was recorded in 1982, a more useful guide might be Monika Weiland’s A Guide to Birds of San Juan Gardening Island. The illustrations hold their value. Deer-proofing Your Yard & Garden, Rhonda 2016 Matriline ID Guide, Center for Whale Research Nassingham Hart

This spiral-bound guide depicts the family trees of While not Northwest-specific, this book list plants deer like; plants deer don’t tend to like; provides

the Southern Resident Killer Whales that live in the Bureau Visitors Islands Juan San Photo: Salish Sea surrounding the San Juan Islands. some general designs for different types of Identification photographs of each animal found in Sharpe gardening conditions like shade or sunny, dry or the annual census are provided to enable an This guide to San Juan archipelago birds provides wet; and discusses repellents and designs for

observer to identify individual whales. abbreviated, geographic-specific species accounts, fences. A nice feature of the book is that it provides Photo © Mark Gardner Mark Photo © 2016 Transient ID Guide, Center for Whale Research but unfortunately, climate change and other pros and cons, rather than recommendations, so Similar to the matriline guide, this guide provides environmental factors have led to population the reader has the information to choose for individual identification photographs of the whales changes that mean some of the tips on what time the Strait of Georgia, Steve Yates herself. that comprise the transient—or Bigg’s Killer of year and where to watch for some species are This guide includes marine mammals, birds, fishes, Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest, Whale—population that travels from Alaska to outdated. Black and white illustrations enhance the invertebrates, and seaweeds. It utilizes line Arthur Kruckeberg California eating marine mammals. text. For more current location-specific information drawings, provides brief descriptions of habitats as With chapters on grasses, trees, shrubs, and Amphibians of Oregon, Washington and British see A Guide to Birds of San Juan Island by Monika well as ranges, and offers some life cycle perennials, a well-organized standard. Columbia, Charlotte C. Corkran and Chris Thoms Wieland. information about the wildlife it covers. Landscaping for Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest, This comprehensive field guide includes species Dragonflies of Washington, Dennis Paulson Russell Link descriptions, color photographs, distribution maps, Featuring excellent color photographs, this is the Guidebooks A very ‘down to earth’ approach, with chapters discussions of amphibian habitats, life cycles nad best field guide to use when identifying dragonflies Natural Areas of the San Juan Islands, Terry Lee focusing on maintaining whole habitat; as well as population status;. A useful reference for in the San Juan Islands. Domico chapters on focusing on mammals, birds, reptiles identifying amphibians. The Butterflies of Cascadia – A Field Guide to All the This guide profiles 60 different natural sites within and amphibians, fish, and insects. Includes lists of Whales and Other Marine Mammals of Washington Species of Washington, Oregon, and Surrounding the San Juan archipelago. Some lands are publicly species to plant to attract different kinds of and Oregon, Tamara Eder Territories, Robert M. Pyle owned, others are private, all have some public wildlife; plans for building bird nest boxes and bat An introductory field guide that includes some This is the best field guide to use when identifying access. The profiles point to special features of houses; and what do about “wildlife-related animals that won’t be found in the inland waters butterflies in the San Juan Islands, including each, including distinct flowers, trees, geologic problems.” of the Salish Sea, but is more comprehensive and information on the Island Marble Butterfly long features, wildlife, and views. Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place, Jim less outdated than Rich Osborne’s A Guide to thought extinct but recently discovered on San You Know You’re an Islander When…, Jan Jameson and Nollman Marine Mammals of Greater Puget Sound or Juan and Lopez islands. Jeanie Rouleau Burns, with drawings by Sam Connery Chapters like essays on gardening throughout the 4 5