“I neared a moment of perfection,” says Dahlgren Wallace. “My definition of perfection involves moving water, solitude, a fly rod, a dry fly, and a trout.” Hooking the reader as readily as his main character hooks a trout, the... Read More

Monona Quinn is the editor of the Mitchell Doings, a small-town newspaper that occupies most of her waking hours. At the moment, however, her focus is on death—murder, to be precise. The former-big-city-reporter-turned-editor is no... Read More

The traditional explanation that America was drawn inevitably into the Vietnam quagmire because it was a critical front in the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union is challenged convincingly in these two important... Read More

Between Mitchell, South Dakota with its corn palace, and Halifax, Vermont, the “spiritual center of the universe,” in a dingy bar beside a forgotten highway, one could easily find this poet busy scribbling another postcard from the... Read More

The timeless fascination with the moon—from the idea of reaching it to the thought of what can exist there—has been endless fodder for films, Broadway musicals, pop songs, and all forms of literature and spoken word pieces. The moon... Read More

Clean-slatedness is a state of mind; “a unique method that allows the patient to reconnect in short order with the sine qua non of their soul while ridding the mind of all that is harmful and foul.” When this novel’s protagonist,... Read More

For arguments sake, one could divide the world into non-travelers and travelers. Non-travelers are those for whom long lines at Homeland Security checkpoints are obstacle enough to keep them from venturing beyond safe and familiar... Read More

This stimulating mystery contains a novel historical twist that plays into the main characters dramatic need for acceptance as she draws upon her inner strength in some unexpected ways. Fifth-grader Bailey Fish is transplanted from her... Read More