60th Anniversary Sale: Great Summer Beach Reads

All year long, in celebration of our 60th anniversary, we're offering a 60% discount on a rotating selection of books. You'll never find a better price on these gems from our publishing past, but you'll need to act fast, as the selection changes monthly. For July, we're offering a selection of great summer beach reads. You have through Tuesday, August 3, to get 60% off these titles when ordering through our website. To get the discount, enter the promo code OSU60 at checkout.

Fool's Hill: A Kid's Life in an Oregon Coastal Town 
John Quick 
John Quick is Garrison Keillor with an attitude and Fool's Hill is his quirky childhood autobiography. The setting is Port Orford, Oregon, in the mid-1930s to -40s. Here a curious, blabbermouth boy learns more at the bottom of a ditch than in kindergarten and finds real home in a booth at Red's Bar holding hands with Dorothy, whom he is never supposed to talk to. With a little help from his friends, young Johnny learns about life and death and sex and Indians. And, with his help, we remember what it is to be a kid. 
List Price: $15.95 | Sale Price $6.38 with promo code OSU60 (expires 8/3/2021)

Two Wheels North: Bicycling the West Coast in 1909 
Evelyn McDaniel Gibb 
In 1909, Vic McDaniel and Ray Francisco, just out of high school, set out from Santa Rosa, California, on second-hand bikes, bound for the great Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. Traveling on dusty roads, roads of logs, of planks, even of corn stalks, and often no roads at all, they pedaled, pushed, and walked a thousand miles north for 54 days. Evelyn Gibb, daughter of one of the cyclists, has drawn on her father's recollections for this captivating account of a journey that today we can only dream about—one that finds two boys on the road not only to Seattle, but also to manhood. 
List Price: $17.95 | Sale Price $7.18 with promo code OSU60 (expires 8/3/2021)

The Nude Beach Notebook 
Barbara J. Scot 
In this loose sequel to her award-winning Prairie Reunion, Scot uses long, meditative walks on the “clothing optional” beach of the idyllic Sauvie Island near Portland, Oregon, to explore family responsibility, time’s passage, and faith. She weaves entries from her notebook—a record of the island’s wildlife, descriptions of the “Odd Ones” she encounters on the beach, and stories about the native people who once lived on the river—with the main narrative, tracing her search for her brother, her close friendship with a fellow writer, and daily life on the houseboat moorage. 
List Price: $18.95 | Sale Price $7.58 with promo code OSU60 (expires 8/3/2021)

The Brightwood Stillness: A Novel 
Mark Pomeroy 
When Hieu Nguyen, a Portland high school teacher, is accused of sexual misconduct by two of his students, his close friend and colleague Nate Davis tries to lend support. But Nate has recently been assaulted by a former student in the school parking lot, an event that brings on not only sharp anxiety, but a final push into a long-deferred quest to find out what happened to his uncle, a drifter and a Vietnam veteran. As their stories unfold in parallel, Hieu and Nate must confront the ways in which their pasts—each so linked to a mysterious far-off country—have left them isolated men. 
List Price: $18.95 | Sale Price $7.58 with promo code OSU60 (expires 8/3/2021)