Rich portraits of the people who were displaced when the Shenandoah National Park was created are both heartrending and ironic. Each year, a million tourists traverse the “lizard-shaped” Shenandoah National Park by car on the Skyline... Read More

Sensitive ruminations on one’s place in the community and the world will resonate with independent spirits. May 15, 1969: It’s Bloody Thursday at People’s Park in Berkeley, California, and street theater activist Gus Bessemer... Read More

With subtle nods to writers such as Whitman and Levis, the everyday is beautifully sung in this lovely collection of poems. Joel Peckham’s newest collection, God’s Bicycle, maps American roadways, working lives, spirituality, and the... Read More

Well-drawn characters, settings, and points of view add detail to this interesting tale of two couples separated by 130 years. Two couples—separated by several states and 130 years—are inexplicably tied to each other when one has an... Read More

This is an excellent way to plunge into history and vicariously experience the thrilling ride that was the Klondike gold rush. In July of 1897, the steamship Portland arrived in Seattle bearing more than a ton of gold and sixty-eight... Read More

This philosophical novel reflects on physics and cults, analyzing the nature of mysteries. Is there life beyond our world? What if a hazy childhood dream was in fact a memory of an impossible visitor? In "Radiomen", poet and novelist... Read More

With a story relevant to today’s pressing privacy issues, Liebengood provides an entertaining setup for a comedic cast of characters. At the heart of Pete Liebengood’s "Accidental Droning" is a boy learning to be a man. Sort of. This... Read More

This eye-opening and heartrending memoir prepares families for dealing with settlements and caregiving after difficult accidents. On January 9, 2002, an 80,000-pound tanker truck crashed into the back of Marcia Rhodes’s stopped Toyota... Read More