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Sep

18

2020

Ruthie Fear novel by Maxim Loskutoff

High Country News Reviews Maxim Loskutoff’s Debut Novel, “Ruthie Fear”

by Gabino Iglesias for High Country News Sept. 9, 2020 In a small Montana town, there’s a thing with feathers. Hope? Not so much. Maxim Loskutoff’s debut novel explores the fraught history of the Bitterroot Valley. In the foothills of the Sapphire Mountains in southwestern Montana, elk are bleeding. Some are dead. Others are still …

Jul

16

2020

Devolution by Max Brooks

What a read! This gnarly tale of Sasquatch is nothing you have ever read before. It shows what you will do to survive, stopping at nothing to live another day! I blew through this book in a matter of a couple days and loved every second! When Mount Rainier erupts, it forces wildlife to move …

Jul

16

2019

Deep River

Deep River by Karl Marlantes

Karl Marlantes once again brings us an epic that can’t be put down, this time set in the forests and on the rivers of southwest Washington, all soon to be engulfed by logging and fishing. Deep River combines the story of immigrant siblings (from Finland) and a larger Scandinavian community, the desires of families escaping …

Oct

15

2018

A Sudden Light

A Sudden Light by Garth Stein

This is a book about family secrets and a ghost. Not new ideas, certainly, but Stein’s story of a young boy returning to the family mansion with his dad during a trial separation from his mother is, at times, gut-wrenching in the discomfort that dredging up the past brings. And this family has a particularly …

Aug

6

2018

Montana Women from the Ground UP

Montana Women from the Ground Up by Glacier County Conservation District/ Kristine Ellis

Growing up on the family ranch, Linda Finley fought hard to gain the acceptance and respect as a ranch hand that her brothers took for granted. Arlene Pile barely remembers learning to ride a horse and run machinery–she was so young. She learned to drive on an 8N Ford tractor with a buck rake. Lee …

May

28

2018

The Overstory

The Overstory by Richard Powers

National Book Award-winner Richard Powers (Orfeo) has crafted an epic environmental novel about the Pacific Northwest timber wars in the in the 1990s and the impending destruction of the last of the old-growth forests, whose trees might otherwise help save the earth. In the first half of the book, Powers devotes individual chapters to the lives …

May

3

2018

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Johnny Evison and Lawn Boy

Jonathan Evison at Island Books 5/3 with “Lawn Boy”

Jonathan Evison, the author of soon-to-be classic Northwest novels such as The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and West of Here, will be at Island Books on Mercer Island, WA on Thursday, Thursday May 3rd at 6:30pm, with his new novel, Lawn Boy. The store writes, “Anyone who was present for his last visit won’t soon …

Apr

17

2018

Explore the Salish Sea

Crowdfunding to Save the Salish Sea with Books

The SeaDoc Society, a nonprofit committed to protecting  the health of marine wildlife and their ecosystems through science and education, recently launched a campaign to put their new book, Explore the Salish Sea: A Nature Guide for Kids, in the hands of as many kids in the Salish Sea as possible, regardless of their ability to pay. The …

Feb

16

2018

Emily Ruskovich. photo by Sam McPhee

The Half-Wolves: An Essay by 2018 PNBA Award Winner Emily Ruskovich

I am really honored to have been selected as a winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award. In reading the moving essays by the other winners about what it is like to be a writer in the Pacific Northwest, I cannot help but return—as I always return, so many times in a day that it …

Jan

25

2018

To the Bright Edge of the World

To the Bright Edge of the World
by Eowyn Ivey

This is a perfect book to read this winter. Ivey alternates between the journal entries of Colonel Allen Forrester while he explores uncharted territory in Alaska and the diary of his pregnant wife Sophie, who is stuck at the military barracks until he returns. I was enthralled with the vivid descriptions of the Alaskan landscape, …

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