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Thin Wood Walls
by David Patneaude |
Thin Wood Walls is a powerful story of a boy who grows up quickly in a changed world. Eleven-year-old Joe Hanada likes playing basketball with his best friend, Ray, writing plays and stories, and thinking about the upcoming Christmas holiday. But his world falls apart when Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor. His country goes to war. The FBI takes his father away. And some neighbors in his White River Valley community south of Seattle begin to suspect Joe, his family, and all Japanese Americans of spying for the enemy.
When the government orders people of Japanese heritage living on the West Coast to move to internment camps, Joe turns to the journal his father gave him to record his thoughts and feelings. Writing journal entries and haiku poetry offers some relief as Joe struggles to endure life in Tule Lake War Relocation Center--days filled with boredom, concern for his father, and worry for his brother, who joins the American army to prove the bravery and loyalty of Japanese American citizens. |
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$24.95 |
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Shirakawa:
Stories From a Pacific Northwest Japanese American Community
by Stan Flewelling |
Shirakawa details how the first-generation of Japanese immigrants to the White River Valley overcame waves of organized opposition to forge a viable, cohesive community. It is the story of their efforts to develop job opportunities, family support systems, cultural outlets, community organizations, and centers for worship and education. |
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$12.00 |
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Auburn, A Look Down Main Street
by Josie Emmons |
Published for the City of Auburn Centennial, this is a comprehensive overview of history. With 110 pages, beautifully designed with many photographs, the book uses many other voices and anecdotes to tell history. This is the definitive history of the City of Auburn for its first hundred years. |
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$5.50 |
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Lieutenant W. A. Slaughter, Frontier Soldier
by Joe Koch |
This 96-page book is a detailed account of Lieutenant Slaughter's life and his involvement in the Indian/Settler war of the 1850s. Auburn was originally named Slaughter, in honor of this military leader. |
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With Tongue in Cheek
by C. H. Malesis |
This assortment of short stories taken from the historical accounts of the Auburn area is ribald and great fun. Connie (Constantine) Malesis is a vivid storyteller whose stories of loggers, railroaders and pioneers are so close to reality, that the people are sometimes identifiable.
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