Hollow Kingdom Are you a nature lover? A hiker? A botanist? A stargazer? A bird watcher? If so, please consider Kira Jane Buxton’s debut book,
John Henry “Doc” Holliday: Southern landed gentry, classical pianist, consumptive, classicist, dentist, gambler, alcoholic, loyal friend, detective, and horseman. In Russell’s fictional version, Doc Holliday
Into the Heart of the Country A great deal has been written in recent decades about the impact of colonialism on native people and on
RANTS FROM THE HILL In 2010, the High Country News editors asked Mike Branch to write a monthly column for its online edition. They asked
TRESPASS Valerie Martin’s novel, Trespass, does exactly that—the story lines trespass on the public and the private lives of the characters who occupy its pages.
WILL YOU BE MY FRIEND Back in 1994, Irish writer Sam McBratney, and British illustrator Anita Jeram, published the picture book, Guess How Much I
ANGLE OF REPOSE Because it is a new year doesn’t mean a reviewed book has to be new. If Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose hadn’t
With its pink and lavender cover and its airy insides, Janis Thornton’s Dust Bunnies and Dead Bodies reminds me of cotton candy: sweet, fluffy, probably
From Laurie R. King, one of the S.F. Bay Area’s favorite mystery writers, comes another exciting stand-alone mystery. King has recreated the Paris of the
Queen Hereafter – A Novel of Margaret of Scotland Early Scottish history has always seemed murky to me, with a great deal of violence and
Katharine McMahon fashions a post-World War I London in her novel, The Crimson Rooms. She prefaces her story with a Wilfred Owen poem, written in
Co-author with Mary Ann Shaffer of the best-selling The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and creator of a highly regarded children’s series starring
Happy Father’s Day – Books for Dad This is going out on a limb, but here are some recommendations from Bookin’ with Sunny: For dads
My Life in Middlemarch Rebecca Mead pretends to be writing a riff on her own life as it echoes various Middlemarch themes, but in truth
SETTING FREE THE KITES It’s not often that we read a book with as many laughs as tears, but Alex George has done it again
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