Julie Stewart Bücher

Troutdale's rich history as a Native American encampment and a pivotal stop for westward expansion highlights its significance. The town faced challenges from its rugged terrain and harsh winds but thrived, marked by notable events like record smelt runs and ice storms. Once the "celery capital of the world," Troutdale evolved from a dirt road to the first paved highway in the Pacific Northwest, enhancing its role as a tourist gateway and a popular destination for photographers drawn to the stunning Columbia River Gorge.

Featuring nearly 450 detailed illustrations, this updated atlas serves as a comprehensive guide to over 200 disorders, providing clear explanations of causes, symptoms, and treatment pathways. Each entry includes essential information such as pathophysiology and diagnostic tests, along with visual aids to enhance understanding. The content is organized alphabetically and covers a wide range of topics, including urgent conditions and lifestyle recommendations. Helpful icons offer clinical tips and age-specific insights, making it an invaluable resource for healthcare professionals and patient education.

In Water and Blood, the nameless narrator, a survivor of abuse, tries on other women's stories like she is trying on their clothes. There is the nun who learns to swim decades after witnessing her biological sister's drowning in the Ohio River. The rape victim whose deathbed statement is interwoven with the imagined voice of the rapist. The young girl who is sent to stay with her alcoholic grandfather while her parents care for a sick child. Out of scraps of reclaimed history and imagined memories, the narrator creates a garment of women's stories for herself--overlapping the seams between fact and fiction, doing what women do: cleaning and restitching the wounds of trauma, making a life with the things that are left over after everyone else has taken what they need.