She tried to bury her fear with conversation, but panic had grown along with the mountains on the horizon. She hadn’t wanted Intah to kno...

I played hooky last Friday afternoon and slipped off to Powell's for a Kingsley Amis book binge. What books came into your house last ...

Robin F. Gainey is a  winemaker, horse breeder, and author, whose new novel, Light of the Northern Dancers has been optioned for a minis...

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BOOK REVIEW The Only Woman in the Room: The Norma Paulus Story   (OSU Press, 2018) According to family history, Norma Paulus was born in 19...

I thought of the pharaohs of Egypt. Those ancient sovereigns were majestic rulers of all nations, builders of pyramids, masters of all, a...

What books came into your house last week? I got a funny book for a birthday present and a couple for myself. Henri, le Chat Noir: The E...

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My brother was on to me; he knew I was lying to him but I wasn't ready to involve him just yet. His time would come: he would be valu...

I got books for my birthday last week! What books came into your house? I spotted this nifty boxed set of Graham Greene novels at Powel...

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That was the French architect. Years later the town learned that he had come all the way from Martinique on Sutpen's bare promise and...

Three nifty books came my way last week. What about you? Light of the Northern Dancers by Robin F. Gainey . This historical tale finds ...

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“It’ll be ready in about forty-five minutes,“ he said, walking past her, and it sounded as if her were giving her a hint, implying that s...

In his last book, The Ancient Minstrel , Jim Harrison described reading Yeats’ poetry at 18 as being guillotined. W.B. Yeats died on...

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Three very different books came into my house last week. How about you? Sam's Theory by Sarah Mendivel . I am excited about this bo...

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What books came into your house last week? I got three, completely different books. Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspon...