A book as big and grand as Lake Pend Oreille itself. Loaded with comprehensive guides to all recreation sites, hiking, paddling, boating, sailing and fisheries, this beautiful new book has much more. Rich with sketches about biology and botany, fascinating historical lore, stories about the indigenous Kalispel Indians and modern-day residents, and abundantly illustrated, it¿s a bible of information about our magnificent lake.

My name is J.T. Perry. I am a hermit, but not a recluse. I just prefer to be alone most of the time, with nature+ God's creation. I have friends, I shop at Wal-Mart, + I go to church, but I like to live alone in the woods at Seneca Lake. I'm not famous, + I am not an expert on being ahermit, but I want to share my experience because I think my life is interesting + you might think so, too. This is my journal.....

Master historian Nisbet has communed with Indians, astronauts, miners, and scientists to reveal a wonderfully personal, engaging, and authoritative picture of the cultural and natural history of the Inland Northwest. --John Marzluff, author of Welcome to Subirdia and Gifts of the Crow Ancient Places is a collection of nonfiction stories about the interplay between people and the landscape where they happen to live. Drawing on a range of fresh personal research, both oral and written, author Jack Nisbet (Sources of the River, The Collector) engages some of the iconic images in Northwest history: from fossil riches to ice age floods; from the Willamette Meteorite to the 1872 Earthquake; from up-and-down mining cycles to steady rounds of tribal food gathering. Although the scale of time and space in some of the pieces is immense, individual characters still manage to leave their marks; even though the force of modern civilization sometimes seems overwhelming, small places and their key components somehow persevere. These are the genesis stories of a region. In Ancient Places, Jack Nisbet uncovers touchstones across the Pacific Northwest that reveal the symbiotic relationship of people and place in this corner of the world. xx

Adam Craig, a forty year-old stock trader in Chicago, who, finding his personal life at a standstill, takes the advice of a therapist and travels to his childhood family compound on Black Bear Lake, Wisconsin in hopes of making peace with his past as he relives the summer of 1983 when he learned the fine line between self-preservation and the strength of family blood, all the while unaware of the impending tragedy that would ultimately change his life forever.

As a pregnant teenager, Avery Pritchett found refuge in Colorado, but now, ten years later, her brother's wedding-and some burning questions-bring her back home to her small Southern town. But will introducing her mixed- race daughter to her independent-minded grandmother bring solace or sorrow? Will confronting her class-conscious mother allow for new beginnings or confirm old resentments? And how can she ask forgiveness of her youthful lover who has been denied his child all these years? As the summer progresses, Avery's return provokes shocking discoveries-of choices made, and secrets kept-and of deceptions that lie closer than she suspects.

Somewhere in the waters deep,A silly monster goes to sleep,And dreams of making a new friend,To play with until day's end....This is Part 2 of the "Mysterious Pend Oreille Paddler," a humorous rhyming story-poem series about the legendary lake monster from Lake Pend Oreille in North Idaho. It contains 4 line stanzas complimented by vivid illustrations about this goofy, friendly, lonely creature who dwells in the lake, and "debunks" the slanderous lies about the Paddler as a fearsome monster of prey. Part 2 develops a plot involving a girl who swims at City Beach and longs to befriend the Paddler.Some mildly challenging words and sentence structures make it readable for kids around 4th or 5th grade and above, or it can be read to younger ages. It entertains grown up kids too!

Begun as a series of scrapbooks in 1993 by the Fire District #9 Auxiliary group, this book describes the history and residents of the Little Pend Oreille Lakes area of, primarily, Stevens County, Washington state, with the most northeastern lakes falling in Pend Oreille County.

A deep dive into the undersea netherworld of sea serpents, lake monsters, surviving dinosaurs, genetically altered mutants, and legendary aquatic creatures. Water takes up 70 percent of Earth’s surface, with countless lakes, rivers, ponds, streams, seas and oceans covering much of the land, but what lurks beneath the water? For centuries, sightings have been made of huge, marauding monsters swimming the world’s oceans and lakes. They include Scotland’s legendary Loch Ness Monster; the United States’ equivalent, Champ, of Lake Champlain; and Canada’s long-necked denizen of the deep known as Ogopogo. These, and many more, famous monsters of the world below us also include giant squid, massive octopi, and even the fabled Kraken and the fabled mermaids of millennia long-gone. Possibly, too, there survive populations of marine reptiles that were assumed to have gone extinct millions of years ago, in the Jurassic period, such as the plesiosaur. Whether scaly or slithery, massive prehistoric dinosaurs or mutant serpents, Monsters of the Deep catalogs nearly 100 accounts of eels, alligators, reptiles, giant squids, snakes, worms, deadly fish, and cold-blooded creatures of all manner and ilk. It reveals the astonishing extent to which lake monsters and sea serpents have surfaced throughout history to terrify, perplex, and amaze those who have crossed paths with these monsters of the unknown. Master storyteller, established author, and respected expert on the unexplained and paranormal Nick Redfern sifts through the historical record, first-person accounts, and unearthed government files on lake monsters and sea serpents to tell of encounters with a variety of beasts, including ... Cheever Felch’s 19th-century account of the massive Gloucester, New England, Sea Serpent The brontosaurus-like Mokele-Mbembe of the Congo The supernatural Bunyip, a monster that lurks within the creeks, lagoons, and swamps of Australia that has been known to the Aboriginal people for centuries The disputed claims of Teddy May, former Commissioner of Sewers in New York, of alligators roaming the sewers of the city The monster-sized fish in the River Nene, in the Fens, Cambridgeshire, England Modern mutants genetically altered by pollution And many more! This richly researched reference overflows with fascinating information to make you think about—and reconsider—dipping your toes into water. With more than 120 photos and graphics, this tome is nicely illustrated. Monsters of the Deep also includes a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness.