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In 1953, when teenager Gib Evans returns to Portland, Oregon, after years living at the border with Communist East Germany, he has good reason to fear communists. He watched the starvation and murder that happened on the other side of the barbed-wire fence near his town. But when Gib writes an anti-communist essay for his journalism class, it is used to persuade Portland schools to force teachers to sign a loyalty oath that is advertised as a way to uncover hidden communist s

In Rae Richen’s debut novel, Uncharted Territory, Jack Huntington is a track star and a mountain climber — both skills he shares with his famous and demanding father. Early in his seventeenth year, a climb with his father in the Oregon Cascades turns into a disaster, nearly killing Jack and threatening to destroy his family. While recovering, Jack must develop the courage to confront his emotionally remote father and forge a relationship with him. What Others Say about Unchar

In The Weight of the Journey, Dewey Farrell, ex-detective in Portland, Oregon, follows clues left by a phone message from a childhood friend offering to make him rich if he’ll return to Banner County. Dewey senses desperation. He arrives in Banner too late. His friend and the friend’s sister already lie dead, and Dewey realizes he’s next. To save himself he must find answers to the mysteries of his own identity and his role in the land. At the same time, he must challenge the