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Publishing exceptional books about the Pacific Northwest—its people and landscapes, its flora and fauna, its history and cultural heritage.
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OSU Press holiday savings starts today! 🎉🎉🎉
Save 25% with free shipping using promo code 25HOLIDAY at osupress.oregonstate.edu now through December 19, 2025.
Find the perfect book for everyone on your list and one for yourself too! And order early to ensure delivery before the Christmas holiday. 🎁
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Join the Clatsop County Historical Society at @fortgeorgebeer.bsky.social for TNT (#ThursdayNightTalks) with Stephen Forrester November 20, at 7 pm.
Forrester will share insights from his new biography, "Richard Neuberger."
Free. Doors open at 6 pm.
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#BookEvent #Astoria #ORHistory
November TNT: Richard Neuberger: Oregon Politics and the Making of a US Senator - Clatsop County Historical Society
Clatsop County Historical Society | Astoria, Oregon
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November 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Happy Publication Day to William F. Willingham!
"Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War into the Progressive Era" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
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#Oregon #Mining #Susanville #BakerCity #AmericanWest #GoldRush #OregonHistory
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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"Saving the Big Sky: A Chronicle of Land Conservation in Montana" wins 2025 National Outdoor Book Award (@nobabooks.bsky.social) Congratulations to authors Bruce A. Bugbee, Robert J. Kiesling, and John B. Wright!
#NOBAWinners #OutdoorBooks #Montana #Conservation #LandUse
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Betty's Books, Baker Historical Society & Baker Heritage Museum present "A Historical Holiday: Sharing the History of Oregon and Baker County," November 15, 9 am to 3 pm, in #BakerCity. Authors include Ellen Morris Bishop (Living with Thunder) and William F. Willingham (Oregon Gold)! 📚
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November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Despite pressure from Washington, press directors say they will stay the course while dealing with economic concerns.
University Presses Continue Their Missions
Despite pressures from Washington, press directors say they will stay the course while dealing with economic concerns.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Authors and Press are elated that "Saving the Big Sky: A Chronicle of Land Conservation in Montana" is the 2025 Nature and the Environment National Outdoor Book Award Winner.
Congratulations to Bruce A. Bugbee, Robert J. Kiesling, and John B. Wright! 🏅
nobabooks.bsky.social National Outdoor Book Awards @nobabooks.bsky.social · 11d
We just announced the winners of the 2025 National Outdoor Book Awards. Here's a short video. More postings coming.

#NOBA_Books #OutdoorBooks #nature #outdoors
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Thank you to @cbcpl.bsky.social for hosting @pdxia.bsky.social this coming Saturday with Grass Roots Books and Music. We're looking forward to a fun and informative afternoon in #CorvallisOregon! 🐐📚🐐📚🐐
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Tami Parr will read and present material from her new OSU Press book, Goats in America: A Cultural History on November 15 at 2 PM in the Main Meeting Room. Presented by OSU Press and Grass Roots Books. Everyone is welcome at this free event!
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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The #SouthSoundBirdAlliance welcomes Gretchen Newberry to present "The Hidden Lives of Common Nighthawks" on Zoom tonight, November 13, at 7:00 pm PT! Registration is required. Visit beav.es/ooP to learn more.
#BirdBooks #Nighthawks #ReadLocal
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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New "Richard Neuberger" book review by the @wweek.com: "PSU Building Namesake Sen. Richard Neuberger Flipped Oregon for the Democrats." Read the review at beav.es/4jC.
Don't miss Forrester in conversation with Judy Margles at OJMCHE in Portland, OR, 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 16.
#OregonHistory #ReadLocal
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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OSU Press is in excellent company!🎉
Best #UPWeek ever. ❤️
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#TeamUP and #ReadUP in Indigenous Studies with great works from @ubcpress.bsky.social, @osupress.bsky.social, @ecohugger.bsky.social & University of Arizona Press. Learn more in the #UPWeek Gallery: https://bit.ly/3LqLMbK
#TeamUP in Indigenous Studies, University Press Week 2025, featuring 3 book covers: -Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge -The Cherokee Natural World: Stories, Language, and Teachings -Gathering Together, We Decide: Archives of Dispossession, Resistance, and Memory in Noe Homelands
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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#UPWeek 2025 acknowledges the daily contributions of all members of this global community. Let’s celebrate our shared strength and power when we #TeamUP! 🥇
Check out @aupresses.bsky.social's gallery and reading list to see the important projects created by UPs this year: beav.es/4KG❗
#ReadUP
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Don't miss seeing Tom (and checking out #OSUPress books) today @literary-arts.org #PDXBookFest!📚🤸🎉
Booth no. 25. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
#PortlandBookFestival #PDXEvents #GoBeavs #ReadUP
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Join Ellen Morris Bishop at Auntie's Bookstore (@auntiesbooks.bsky.social) in #Spokane, Saturday, November 8, at 7:00 pm to celebrate the new edition of her book "Living with Thunder."
Click the link to RSVP and learn more about this free event!
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#SpokaneBookEvent #NorthwestGeology
"Living With Thunder" by Ellen Morris Bishop
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November 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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More than 100 authors and moderators will gather for the 21st Portland Book Festival on Saturday, an event featuring literary discussions, pop-up readings, a book fair and local food trucks. And for the first time in the festival’s history, it’s completely sold out.
So lit, it sold out: All Portland Book Festival tickets bought in advance for first time
For anyone who wasn’t able to get festival tickets (or simply needs more book-related activity), community partners will host special literary events through the “Cover to Cover” program until Sunday across the Portland metro region.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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We can't wait to showcase OSU Press books @literary-arts.org #PDXBookFest this weekend in #Portland! Visit us in booth no. 25. ❤️📚☔
Readers Night, Friday, November 7, 2025, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Festival, Saturday, November 8, 2025, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
#PortlandBookFestival #PDXEvents #GoBeavs #ReadUP
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Ellen Morris Bishops visits #AMNorthwest with her dog Pepper to talk about the new edition of "Living with Thunder: Exploring the Geologic Past, Present, and Future of the Pacific Northwest" and tonight's event @powells.bsky.social.
Check it out! beav.es/4ZY.📚 🗻
Ellen Morris Bishop, PhD: "Living with Thunder"
Ellen Morris Bishop, PhD, says it takes both science and imagination to tell the story of how the Pacific Northwest landscape came to be - and there's a fascina
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November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Portland is in post-Halloween treat!
On Tuesday, November 4th, at 7 pm, Ellen Morris Bishop launches the new edition of "Living with Thunder" with a book event at Powell's City of Books ( @powells.bsky.social) on Burnside.
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#PortlandBookEvent #Oregon #NorthwestGeology #ReadLocal
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Join Tami Parr (@pdxia.bsky.social) author of "Goats in America," for an in conversation event with Fred Brown at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Company on Friday, Nov. 7, at 7 pm!
Bring all your goat questions! The list of what there is to know about these curious creatures is endless!!! 🐐
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October 31, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Share the news... OSU Libraries & Press is seeking a Director for the Oregon State University Press! See the detailed job description at jobs.oregonstate.edu/posting....
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔
#OregonStateUniversity #ApplyNow
October 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Happy Publication Day to Ellen Morris Bishop!
"Living with Thunder: Exploring the Geologic Past, Present, and Future of the Pacific Northwest, 2nd Edition" is now available from your favorite booksellers and directly from OSU Press!
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#NorthwestGeology #Mountains #Oregon #Washington #Idaho
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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#HistoryPub with the #OregonHistoricalSociety and #McMenamins at Kennedy School features "First Fruits" presented by Linda Ziedrich on Monday, October 27. 6pm doors, 7 pm program. Tickets are $5 advance, $6 at the door. Learn more at beav.es/xKe.
#BookEvent #Portland #ReadLocal
October 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Is there even more to learn about goats? Yes! 📚❤️🐐
"Goats in America: A Cultural History" author Tami Parr (@pdxia.bsky.social) chats with Dr. Miranda Melcher on the "New Books in Food" podcast hosted by the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
Take a listen: beav.es/xKn.
#Goats #USHistory #ReadUP
October 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Join the #OregonHistoricalSociety in #Portland, on Sunday, Oct. 26, at 2 pm, for a conversation with author Stephen A. Forrester and Kerry Tymchuk about Forrester's new biography "Richard Neuberger." This event is free and open to the public. Learn more at beav.es/xzb.
#BookEvent #OregonHistory
October 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Geologic Society of the Oregon Country welcomes Ellen Morris Bishop on the Geology Hour!
Join the Zoom on Monday, October 20, 2025, at 6:30 pm!
Visit www.gsoc.org/calendar for the Zoom link.
Note: Bishop's new book "Living with Thunder" is now available everywhere books are sold! 🗻📚❤️
October 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM