Portland author David Wolman will discuss his new book, The End of Money, in Hood River, OR tonight at Springhouse Cellars at 6:30 pm. The event is co-sponsored by Waucoma Bookstore and the Gorge Owned Business Network. “For ages, money has meant little metal disks and rectangular slips of paper. Yet the usefulness of physical …
“I’m not talking about Nancy Page, the gracious and lovely co-owner of Island Books. I mean that other Nancy, the one girls everywhere love and have admired through dozens of charming picture books. Fancy Nancy just graduated to chapters, and now she’s grown up into Nancy Clancy: Super Sleuth. There are more than 36 books …
“When this came out as a gorgeous paperback, I realized I had been wanting to read it since before the hardcover was published. In a miracle of book location memory, I found the copy I picked up over a year ago and dove in. This is a brilliant, funny, clever novel that lived up to …
“This is Carl Hiassen’s fourth book for younger readers. It’s the story of Wahoo Cray, an Everglades kid whose father, Mickey, is a professional animal wrangler. Mickey has been out of work after getting a concussion from a frozen iguana, but finally accepts a job offer from Derek Badger, a reality-TV star. Everything seems to …
“Jane Kirkpatrick excels at telling the stories of strong women who make a contribution to history and who otherwise might be forgotten. Where Lilacs Still Bloom is the story of one such woman, a passionate gardener who created a slew of gorgeous, fragrant new lilac cultivars at a time women were not expected to have interests …
“We’ll celebrate Earth Day with author David Hanson, a Seattle freelance journalist and expert on community and urban planning, and his brother, award-winning photographer Michael Hanson, who will present a new look at the American urban farm movement. Despite hundreds of farm and garden projects taking hold in major cities, the urban farm remains a misunderstood and overlooked …
“A really good, honest confessional essay works a little like hypnotism. Its language is direct and rhythmic. It makes you focus. And even if at first you think, ‘I can’t believe the author is telling me this,’ eventually it convinces you to want to be as brave and open as the author. After reading just …
“What makes a human being ‘true’? This is the question that Wendell Berry has answered in the way he has lived his life and in the spare elegance of his pen. Berry has selected poems from across his life that celebrate the gifts of locality, neighbors, knowing and being known. He exults in a passionate …
“Cady is getting married, but Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear are not cut out to be wedding planners. While scouting a location for the wedding, Walt witnesses a dramatic murder and finds himself mentoring a rookie Indian sheriff through the investigation. Craig Johnson delivers a satisfying installment in the Longmire story with quirky characters, …
“Never have I read anything so warmly cathartic, so darkly funny, so wickedly sentimental. If it sounds contradictory, it is. How else do we experience our surest loves?”—Dave, Elliott Bay Book Company. Buy Where We Going, Daddy? from Elliott Bay Book Company.
