by Barbara Cothern | Nov 22, 2017 | Action & Adventure, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Fantasy, NW Publishers, Portland Publishers, Sponsored, Uncategorized, Young Adult
Try lives with his mother, sister, and two brothers in a small house in a village by the sea. Try’s father vanished at sea several years prior, but Try is not lonely because he has two good friends: Tallest, a large oak tree in the woods, and Hope, a star who watches...
by Roberta Kelley | Oct 2, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Comics & Graphic Novels, Fantasy, NW Publishers, Portland Publishers
Brik is the story of a young, Jewish boy – named Drew – living in modern-day Yonkers, New York. After his grandfather is killed because of anti-Semitic gang violence, Drew decides to create a Golem to protect his city and the ones he loves. The Golem is a...
by Julia Gaskill | Jun 23, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Portland Publishers, Science Fiction, Short Stories
There’s no question as to what the book Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories In Extreme Futures is about. It serves as a collection of short stories, focused around the concept of a tumultuous future with, as one might glean from the title, feminist...
by Ashley McCall | May 18, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, NW Setting, Portland Publishers, Sponsored
Trout Run, the second novel in Paul Dage’s Eddy Trout trilogy, continues his main character’s story where the first novel, Trout Kill, left off. Without spoiling too much of the plot of that novel, it centers around a man, Eddy Trout, age 47. He lives in Milo, Oregon...
by Stephen Febick | Feb 16, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, Portland Publishers, Sponsored
In 1920, in the isolated Steens Mountain area of southeastern Oregon, a man named Ralph Grant buried his mother Martha K. L. Grant in the cold February ground. There were no funeral homes in the dense wilderness of the region during the time, and that was “even if one...
by L Ruby Hannigan | Oct 11, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Home & Garden, Portland Publishers
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Timber Press Formats: Paperback, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] If you’ve ever wondered about The White House gardens, this book may be able to answer many of your...