"The Rising Tide" builds to a farcical crescendo of complications and crises. “Like good Christians everywhere, the Venetians had a strain of the apocalyptic running in their veins,” writes Mark Frutkin in his novel, "The Rising... Read More

Sarah Stonich’s "Laurentian Divide" continues the story of northern Minnesota’s Hatchet Inlet, a vacation town whose residents are deeply rooted in a place dependent on transience. Poised on winter’s trailing edge, everyone waits... Read More

If you’re looking for a guide to all things Pacific Northwest that’s just about perfect, this is it. Author Nancy Blakey offers a wealth of information, from a description of the exquisite “sound of silence” at the Hoh Rain... Read More

Sheila Watt-Cloutier grew up in the Arctic. As a native Inuk, she witnessed numerous environmental dangers, not the least of which was climate change. In a candid, heartfelt memoir that concentrates on her lifelong activism,... Read More

Joanna Streetly was just nineteen when she moved to Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. “It was a time before the technology explosion, when boats were expected to leak, or sink, and boat motors were expected to be... Read More

"McDowell" is a moral tale with a touch of modern ambiguity. William H. Coles’s "McDowell" draws from headline issues and a contemporary American setting to tell an unabashedly allegorical tale. Prominent physician Hiram McDowell has... Read More

Americans who were of age in 1969–70 will remember the Chicago 7 trial of high-profile antiwar dissidents. Less familiar are the Seattle 7. In Seattle, a rally in support of the Chicago 7 defendants by the activist group SLF (the... Read More

Quick—what came first, plants or animals? Plants, the common answer once taught as truth, is wrong. Animal life came first, and this is just one of the food-for-thought facts revealed in Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s "The Hidden Life... Read More