Author Event: Saturday, August 2, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, August 2, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Bre Lucas-Roberts will be signing copies of Real Estate of Lucy Belltown.
Set against the shimmering backdrop of Naples, Florida, The Real Estate of Lucy Belltown is a poignant tale of legacy, love, and redemption. The grand blue house overlooking the Gulf of Mexico is a testament to the Belltown family's history. But at 80 years old, Lucy is running out of time. Facing a terminal illness, she must decide whether to bridge the gap with her estranged daughter or risk losing the house to developers eager to replace it with condos.
As the house falls deeper into disrepair, Lucy wrestles with the guilt of failing those who came before her and the fear of rejection from the only family she has left. Can she find the courage to seek reconciliation, or will the house—and the memories it holds—be lost forever?
With richly drawn characters and an evocative setting, The Real Estate of Lucy Belltown is a heartwarming exploration of the ties that bind us and the legacies we leave behind.
You can read more about the author here: www.brelucasrobertsbooks.com
Author Event: Saturday, July 26, 2025 from 11am to 5pm
Please join us on Saturday, July 26, 2025 from 11am to 5pm when author George Sorensen will be signing copies of Hot Dish Confidential.
George Sorensen wants to learn to cook. Not just cook, but to finally learn how to prepare a truly great meal.
George was raised on TV dinners in foil trays, canned string beans reduced to paste in boiling water, Wonder Bread, bologna, and processed cheese sandwiches heated in a toaster oven.
But George wants to change all that, and he has a plan: He recruits a group of amateur culinary experts to meet monthly at his little Minneapolis bungalow to cook, eat, drink, and teach him the ropes.
George embarks on a year-long gastronomic journey from France to Greece, from soufflé to goose. He samples the delights of wild mushrooms, the flavors of the oceans, and a Charles Dickens Christmas with a mouthwatering pheasant pie.
However, George does not anticipate the dynamics of bringing together these self-proclaimed chefs. Arguments over wine—what kind, how much, and who should pay for it—erupt, while others sow discord and divorce. There are suspicions about whether the rattlesnake enchiladas are really rattlesnake or merely frog legs, since really, who can tell the difference. There is trouble unwinding the skin of an octopus. Rebellion ensues when tunics are required for a Greek-themed party featuring a cardboard Parthenon facade in the backyard.
But in the end, it means an unforgettable journey of flavor, camaraderie, and adventure.
Join George's culinary revolution, and you might even find yourself earning a blue ribbon for your homemade jam at the Minnesota State Fair or stumbling upon your future wife amidst blooming apricot trees.
Author Event: Saturday, July 19, 2025 from 11pm to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, July 19, 2025 from 11pm to 2pm when author Donna Erickson will be signing copies of Rooted at the Edge.
Ranching Where the Old West and New West Collide
Rooted at the Edge paints a portrait of a ranching community steeped in history, conflict, and beauty. In this narrative nonfiction work, Donna Erickson explores the hilly skirt of ground at the northern boundary of Missoula, Montana, separating the town from the wilderness beyond. In the movie A River Runs Through It, opening credits scan across the 1950s town, the North Hills, and the wilderness beyond. The North Hills region represents the critical—and often highly personal—issues at play at the edge of many western towns.
The urban-rural fringe is both valuable and vulnerable. Across the West, a way of life and a way of work are vanishing. Ranchland is simultaneously cherished by families for the lives they’ve made there and coveted by urban neighbors for open space. Community residents may love a place for its scenery and wildlife habitat while others wish it converted to a commercial parking lot. Complex ecological relationships can be bulldozed in a single afternoon. Rooted at the Edge conveys, in a way that statistics cannot, what’s at stake when ranches at the urban fringe are threatened.
Author Event: Saturday, July 12, 2025 from 1pm to 3pm
Please join us on Saturday, July 12, 2025 from 1pm to 3pm when author Kevin Capuchin will be signing copies of Rhinos are Winos.
Welcome aboard this zoo's booze cruise, complete with open bars! Your hosts, Alba Rhino and Qxannea the Qxpecker, will show you how you can empty bottles like axolotls to get as drunk as a skunk. Will a quail find the holy grail? You’ll certainly stay on the right path by drinking St. Bernard’s Chard along the way! Then you can wander at the gorilla’s villa. Now, fetch your favorite wine, take it and pop-it, sip up, and wet your nose. Good grog!
Author Event: Saturday, July 5, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, July 5, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Jan Wood will be signing copies of Keeper Of The Clearing.
About the book:
In a once-harmonious woodland now overrun by conflict and misunderstanding, three unlikely characters—Owl, Tiger, and Turtle—are chosen to seek a way forward. They share little in common, but as they journey beyond the bramble in search of answers to heal the forest, they uncover truths that begin to heal themselves. Along the way, they form a bond of trust, friendship, and quiet transformation.
With lyrical prose and black-and-white folk-art-inspired illustrations, author Jan Wood invites readers on a journey that is both outward and inward. This is a story about friendship, forgiveness, and remembering who we really are.
Perfect for thoughtful young readers, classrooms, and families looking to spark meaningful conversations, Keeper of the Clearing is a heartfelt reminder that every path worth walking begins right where you are.
About the author:
Jan Wood is a mother of five and grandmother to thirteen. She’s a longtime mindfulness practitioner who believes in the power of imaginative stories to speak truthfully to the heart.
Keeper of the Clearing began with a simple question she saw on a poster in her doctor’s office: Are you an owl, a turtle, or a tiger?
That sparked something within her and bloomed into a fable filled with wonder, warmth, and the timeless wish that every child might discover their own way with clarity, compassion, and courage.
Jan lives in Eastern Oregon with her husband Larry, her beloved dog Luna, and two curious cats, Pookie and Boo—who often supervise her writing from the dining room table.
This is her first book.
Author Event: Saturday, June 28, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, June 28, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Audrey Cole will be signing copies of The First Hunt. Also available will be her other title, Missing in Flight.
About The First Hunt
When a ghost from her past reignites the darkest of hunts, no one in Seattle is safe. Seattle, 1985—Crime reporter Holly Sparks is haunted by her sister's unsolved murder—a crime she's convinced was the work of the infamous Green River Killer. But her investigation takes a terrifying turn when she uncovers a chilling truth: There might be two monsters stalking the city, and one wears a badge. Five years later, her bestselling true crime novel can’t erase the pain of her sister’s unsolved case. But when Holly's violent ex-fiancé is let out of prison on parole, murders mirroring the Green River Killer begin again, Holly fears the unthinkable: Is her ex-fiancé behind her sister's death and a string of others? As the line blurs between hunter and hunted, she faces a deadly choice—uncover the truth or become the next victim.
Only the hunt will tell. A chilling prequel to The Final Hunt, The First Hunt lures you into a story of justice and survival, where monsters hide in plain sight.
About Missing in Flight
From USA Today bestselling author Audrey J. Cole comes a harrowing thriller about a woman faced with the unthinkable, when her infant goes missing aboard a plane to New York.
Rushing back to her seat, Makayla Rossi is relieved that all’s still quiet. But when she checks on her sleeping baby, relief morphs into fear. The bassinet is empty.
Liam is gone.
It was a long flight from Anchorage to New York, and with every flight attendant busy, Makayla reluctantly ran to the restroom, asking a seat neighbor to watch her son. She stepped away for just a few minutes. Yet at thirty thousand feet, he still vanished.
Passengers and crew scour the plane to no avail, and since no one recalls seeing her with a baby, suspicions begin to mount about Makayla’s mental state. She’s certain this is nothing like her mother’s on-air memory meltdown. If only Jack, her husband, were there. He would believe her. A high-profile banker featured in Forbes, maybe he could even help.
But Makayla is squarely on her own. And she’ll have to think fast in order to find her son—before it’s too late.
About the Author
Audrey J. Cole is a USA Today bestselling author of eleven novels. She resides in the Pacific Northwest with her two children. Before she began writing full time, Cole worked as a neonatal intensive care nurse for eleven years. She’s also a pilot’s daughter.
Author Event: Saturday, June 14, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, June 14, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Gary Bye will be signing copies of Winds of Glory.
The much awaited sequel to “Glory Grove”
Brock Gallagher is troubled as he returns to Glory Grove. His marriage has fallen apart. His mother is dying and a multinational energy corporation is tempting area families with a promise of easy money for leases on their land to build a giant wind farm. It pits neighbors against one another, escalating to acts of violence.
Amid the turmoil, Brock rekindles a relationship with Ronnie Jepson, his beautiful high school sweetheart, while agreeing to help hapless coach Buster McHue turn the Grizzlies’ basket ball team around. Their efforts are threatened by the arrogant banker, Roland Donigan, who plots to sabotage the team as a way to steal Ronnie away from Brock.
Brock has always been a winner in sports. But his personal strength is also his defining weakness… an insatiable desire to win at everything he does. He now faces his biggest challenge; can he learn to win beyond the scoreboard?
Winds of Glory is the gorgeous follow-up to Gary Bye’s award-winning debut novel Glory Grove. Bye returns to the fictional small town and its people in this moving exploration of conflict and connections, with a healthy dose of the novelist’s signature strengths – dry humor and the excitement of high school sports.
Author Event: Monday, June 9, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Monday, June 9, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when Lee and Blanche Yates will be signing copies of Life Aboard a Sinking Ship.
About the book: A small-town boy joins the US Navy at the height of the Korean War hoping to see the world. Thus begins a career with more adventure than he imagined possible.
Author Event: Friday, May 30, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Friday, May 30, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author David Benscoter will be signing copies of Lost Apples: The search for rare and heritage apples in the Pacific Northwest.
From the 1600s, when the first colonists brought apples from Europe, up through the early 1900s, an estimated 17,000 named varieties of apples were cultivated in North America. Most of those apples are lost and possibly extinct today.
This is the account of apple historians and enthusiasts who canvass old orchards and forgotten homesteads of the Inland Northwest in search of the rare and heritage apples that still survive. It’s a quest that combines diligent detective work with fascinating historical and horticultural research—and a passion for apples.
So far these apple detectives have tracked down and documented nearly 30 formerly lost apple cultivars, or varieties. Lost Apples dips deep into regional history and tell of the continuing search and the successes so far. It is beautifully illustrated with over 50 classic color apple portraits painted by artists for the United States Department of Agriculture Division of Pomology from the late 1800s to early 1900s. It also includes an appendix of more than 1,600 known cultivars documented in historical records of the region.
The quest continues ... discoveries await!
Author Event: Saturday, May 24, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, May 24, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Joe Montgomery will be signing copies of Your Brain on Pickleball.
Pickleball players often improve quickly at first but then hit a wall, unable to reach the next level. Why does this happen? This limiting effect is, in fact, quite common among pickleball players. In fact, people from any sport or recreational activity can reach a performance plateau that seems difficult to overcome. The premise of this book is that the way our brains are wired to learn, adapt, and function in order to help us survive in what was historically a dangerous, threatening world inadvertently creates barriers to improving pickleball or any other type of performance. Perhaps not surprisingly, brains designed for survival in a hostile and dangerous environment are not necessarily optimal for functioning on a pickleball court- nor for functioning in a modern, technological society, for that matter. Our cognitive design "peculiarities" unconsciously lead us to:
· Resist practicing, or practice in ineffective/inefficient ways.
· Avoid or resist feedback that could help us improve performance.
· Fail to experiment with new shots or strategies.
· Resist giving up old and comfortable but ineffective shots and strategies.
· Be unable to sustain our focus, concentration, willpower and awareness throughout the game.
· Fail to identify and overcome negative emotions and limiting beliefs about our abilities.
This book addresses each of these issues, providing targeted techniques and strategies for overcoming them. The book's insights can help you move past the mental and emotional barriers holding you back, unlocking your potential to play smarter, stay focused and win more games. Don't settle for your current level of performance- take charge of your improvement and finally break through to the next level!
Author Event: Saturday, May 10, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, May 10, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Kay Smith-Blum will be signing copies of Tangles.
About the book:
A love story wrapped in a mystery, this stunning Cold War home-front tale reveals the devastating costs of the birth of the nuclear age, and celebrates the quiet courage of wronged women, the fierce determination of fatherless sons, and the limitless power of the individual. TANGLES is a genre-defying must-read for our time.
When a harpooned whale offers proof the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is endangering all life in the region, Luke Hinson, a brash young scientist, seizes the chance to avenge his father’s death, only to discover that the disappearance of his former neighbor, Mary, a decade prior, may be tied to the government-sanctioned harmful practices.
About the author:
Kay Smith-Blum, a former fashionista and Seattle School Board President, is a fan of mid-20th-century history albeit debunking its tropes as she writes. An odd dream and the recent upheaval over leaking radioactive waste tanks at the Hanford Nuclear site compelled her to write, TANGLES, named 2024 Book of the Year by the Literary Global Book Awards and Best Debut Fiction by the American Writing Awards 2024. Smith-Blum, a sunrise writer, has lived in Seattle for four decades. She works out her writer’s block in her sons’ gardens and the nearest lap pool.
Author Event: Saturday, May 3, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, May 3, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Joyce Byers Hill will be signing copies of Lenora Sue Comes to Town.
Mike Slater was a successful businessman and philanthropist. His passion was helping people and doing what he could to improve the small town of Hope. To outsiders, he appeared to lead a charmed life. But Mike had a painful past he rarely talked about. For over fifty years his solution had always been to throw himself into his work. But did God have something better planned for Mike’s golden years?
Lenora Sue Campbell was a fun-loving senior citizen who acted more like a young child than like someone in her early seventies. Having fun and enjoying life was more important than acting her age. Would she be able to help an elderly workaholic rediscover his inner child, and maybe find love along the way?
Lenora Sue Comes to Town reminds us it’s never too late for God to bring happiness into our lives.
Author Event: Saturday, April 26, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, April 26, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author and songwriter Edmond Bruneau will be signing copies of his new book Soul of the Song.
Soul of the Song covers a variety of musical genres, such as country, folk rock, alternative rock and pop.
The book includes reviews of each of the six featured albums, which delivers greater insight by accomplished music professionals.
For customers who purchase a copy of Soul of the Song at the event, Edmond will be giving away a set of all four Robot Raven albums.
Author Event: Saturday, April 5, 2025 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, April 5, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Kathy Hunter will be signing copies of Grotski and the Magic Wheat and The First Annual Go-Cart Race for Dogs.
Grotski and the Magic Wheat
The farmers in Blotski are tired of working so hard to grow and harvest the crops they have grown for ever. One day a slick salesman arrives to urge them to grow Magic Wheat. He says:
You throw it, it grows, you just rest, and meanwhile,
“It ripens, falls off and rolls up in a pile.
You throw it, you pick up those piles and that’s it.
Farmers, imagine, you farm while you sit!”
All the farmers are convinced to buy this new seed, except old man Grotski. What follows are the unexpected consequences of a get-quick-rich scheme, including the loss of the sustainable agriculture they had learned from their ancestors.
With iIlustrations by artist Lyn Westhoff
The First Annual Go-Cart Race for Dogs
The race is about to start!
Dogs of all breeds—on all manner of vehicles—are lined up at Barton Heights in Joseph. Bets are being made on the winner. Who will win? The cattle dog on a lawnmower? The Bloodhound on a giant tire?
The race begins!
But wait! Was that a squirrel?
This book is illustrated with sculptures by the author
Alaska Nicknames
During many years in Alaska Kathy collected the clever names given to residents of small towns here, like that of the Oregon Mare, a dancehall girl who neighed like a horse while dancing, or Mudhole Smith, who crashed his plane in mud. Said radio personality Tom Bodett,”..a rib-tickling and ambitious collection of characters..true frontier folklore.”
Illustrations for this book were done by cartoonist Clint Sayer
Author Event: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from 4pm to 5pm
Please join us on Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from 4pm to 5pm when author Deborah Hopkinson will be signing books here at the store.
A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Deborah Hopkinson is the award-winning author of seventy books for young readers including picture books, middle grade historical fiction, Little Golden Book biographies, and long form nonfiction. Her titles have won the Oregon Book Award, the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text, the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, and the Green Earth Environmental Award. Other awards include a Sibert honor, a Carter G. Woodson honor, NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor, and Boston Globe/Horn Book honor.
Deborah’s new and forthcoming books include Only One, The Deadliest Fires Then and Now, Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of WWWII, Cinderella and a Mouse Called Fred, and Happy Earth Day! Deborah received a B.A. and a master’s degree from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and worked in academic advancement prior to writing full time. She lives in Oregon and speaks to students and educators in person and virtually. Follow her on Twitter @deborahopkinson, Instagram @deborah_hopkinson, or online at www.deborahhopkinson.com.
Author Event: Friday, November 8, 2024 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Friday, November 8, 2024 from 11am to 2pm when Lee & Blanche Yates will be signing copies of Life Aboard a Sinking Ship.
About the book:
Life Aboard a Sinking Ship tells the story of a small-town boy who received a draft notice from the Army at the height of the Korean War, and instead chose to join the United States Navy-hoping to see the world. Thus began 15 years of service in the Navy with more adventure than he imagined possible. This book details the first four years of his Navy career, aboard an ocean-going tugboat, traveling up and down the East Coast of the United States, as far north as Newfoundland, Canada, and south to Cuba and Puerto Rico. From the humorous to the dangerous, he chronicles his experiences through violent storms, hurricanes, and sinking ships, along with adventure, laughter, camaraderie, and falling in love. This memoir will keep everyone, young or old, engaged in the story.
About the Author:
Lee Yates spent over 15 years in the Navy, where he reached the level of Senior Chief Petty Officer (E8). There he taught the Polaris/Poseidon nuclear missile electronics for 8 1/2 years. Because of his extensive military schooling, after he left the Navy IBM hired him as an engineer-despite not having a college degree. At IBM Lee was responsible for some of the logic design for the Navy's SH-60B Seahawk helicopter avionics. He also designed the first automation of the logistics support analysis records (LSAR). Lee has five wonderful children and has been happily married to the love of his life for 52 years. He enjoys traveling and dabbling in learning foreign languages.
Blanche Yates is a storyteller and writer. Her stories have been featured in multiple publications. She loves children. When spinning yarns for her grandchildren, she likes to interweave lessons and values that will enrich their lives. When she tells them stories, time seems to be suspended as the children are transported to another place. Blanche's hobbies include gardening, cooking, drawing and painting, and singing. Blanche loves to travel and has always wanted to explore her family's roots in the UK.
Author Event: Saturday, November 2, 2024 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, November 2, 2024 from 11am to 2pm when author Terrie Biggs will be signing copies of her new books.
Glimpses of Elgin’s History & Dastardly Deeds
Legends of lost gold, deadly arson fires, murders, crime-fighting, the protected community of Sammyville, the treasured Elgin stagecoach, and a beloved teacher are some of the fascinating anecdotes about the historic town of Elgin, Oregon found in this informative book by Terrie Biggs.
Interviews with local citizens, law enforcement, the Elgin library staff, and Charlie Horn of the Elgin Museum contributed to stories of Elgin’s colorful history and glimpses of dastardly deeds from the late 1920s to the early 1980s, which she shares in this intriguing book.
Unsolved Murder of John Mayfield
Christmas day ended. The Andy Coe family was sleeping at their rented home in Imbler, Oregon. A gunshot jolted Grace Coe from a sound sleep at 3:00 a.m., December 26, 1927. It seemed to be from someone on the front porch shooting through the half-window of the front door. Glass shattered into the living room. Their overnight “guest,” who was sleeping on the couch across from the door, was dead with blood splattering on the wall, which divided the living room from the kitchen.
This updated book is a continuation of Terrie's investigation into the murder of John Mayfield. Solving the murder of John Mayfield was her original intent, which came to her in 2023 with revelations from local people she met and interviewed.
Has she solved it? You be the judge.
Author Event: Saturday, October 19, 2024 from 11am to 2pm
Join us on Saturday, October 19, 2024 from 11am to 2pm when author Kat Ford will be signing copies of Ashta.
Ashta is a hardened Marine with a longtime secret she's kept from everyone in her life. When she's taken aboard the Malal vessel with over a thousand other women in a single night, her sole focus becomes her sister's survival, who was taken with her.
Author Event: Saturday, September 28, 2024 from 11am to 2pm
Please join us on Saturday, September 28, 2024 from 11am to 2pm when author Amy Dressler will be signing copies of How to Align the Stars.
About the book:
Publisher’s Weekly calls Amy Dressler’s new novel a “sparkling debut!” A smart enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy, this book spins the original tale of much Ado About Nothing from Shakespeare into an academic romance, ending with a surprising twist. Amy Dressler’s whip-smart debut is not to be missed, a tour de force of female empowerment, romantic comedy, and family friendship as she turns Shakespeare upside down in an unexpected and brilliant way for a new generation of women.
About the author:
Amy Dressler writes contemporary fiction featuring heroines who wrestle their emotional baggage while maintaining a sense of humor.