Judith Lambert’s memoir of her spiritual journey opens with a dream sequence that has her rising through darkness until she encounters a bright light. “I am drawn irresistibly to it. Instantly it is near, and at once I experience an overpowering [...]
Andra Watkins has written another genre-busting novel. Hard to Die weaves components of paranormal thriller, historical fiction, mystery, and even romance. She ties these genres together with solid craft in surprising ways. Like she did in her [...]
Buzz Bernard’s Cascadia tells a story about The Really Big One—the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami that may likely devastate Oregon’s north coast. The subduction rips along the 700-mile area where the Juan de Fuca Plate dives [...]
Phillip Margolin’s Violent Crimes, is a legal drama that unfolds at a brisk pace. While it doesn’t break any new ground, pages turn quickly and the story draws the reader a the tale of violent betrayal as it follows defense attorney Amanda [...]
Christopher Moore loves San Francisco. That’s obvious in the way he includes the city as a virtual character in many of his novels. Secondhand Souls is one of those novels. His descriptions, however, are not typical of a traditional love story. [...]
Oliver Sacks is an eminent physician, a neurologist of uncanny intuition. He has also become an eminent writer whose craft has grown and matured across the decades and the dozen books he has produced. In addition to being a New York Times [...]
Brian Doyle’s novel Martin Marten unfolds on the southwest shoulder of Mt. Hood in the Oregon Cascades. Doyle never mentions the name Hood: he calls it by what the ancient Multnomah tribe knew it as: Wy’east. The land and its occupants have [...]
Alex Sheremet’s Woody Allen: Reel to Real is a book for Woody Allen fans, certainly, but it is also a book for people who love films and filmmaking. It is a chronology – with a few exceptions – of each Woody Allen film from What’s [...]
Chumbley Pond is an ambitious novel, weaving several plot threads into a cohesive whole. It is not a typical mystery, but there is plenty of mystery to unravel. We follow Trey Chumbley, initially perceived as a stereotypical, spoiled, rich brat; [...]
Not Without My Father is an ambitious adventure memoir. It is funny, poignant, agonizing, raunchy, and delightfully “out there.” Andra Watkins shows her mettle throughout the book and is not afraid to show her weakness, her doubt, [...]
Michael Panno’s Down Clark Street is a rite-of-passage novel that doesn’t fall into easy stereotypes. We follow, in the first-person, Michael, who is making the difficult transition from little kid to young adolescent. It is wintertime in [...]
Brian Doyle’s latest, The Plover, is an intimate read. Doyle tells us very little about the unforgettable characters he craftily weaves through our experience, but he shows us everything. Declan O Donnell, owner and captain of the intrepid [...]
