Night KillBy Ann LittlewoodPoisoned Pen PressHardcover $24.95Mystery Fiction
By BILL DUNCANThe News-Review
If anyone could write a believable mystery using a zoo as an authentic background it would be Ann Littlewood. Before writing her first mystery, Ann was a zookeeper for 12 years in Portland where she raised lions and cougars as part of her daily job. [...]
By BILL DUNCAN The View From Here
My 2009 Old Farmer’s Almanac calendar arrived in the mail the other day, so I found myself looking at next year, first to discover what day my birthday would be. Unexpectedly I learned all the days I could join my fellow bay-at the-moon howlers. Lately, I have noticed that [...]
Between Here and AprilA novelBy Deborah Copaken KoganHardcover $23.95Algonouin Books of Chapel HillTo be released Oct. 7, 2008
By BILL DUNCAN
The News-Review
Deborah Copaken Kogan’s “Between Here and April,” is a debut novel that came about because the author, like many of us, could not imagine what would cause a mother to kill her own children. What [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
A week ago today, my wife and I did a workshop on writing memoirs at a conference euphemistically called “Extraordinary Living.” This is the first year the conference is called that, but the conference has been held at Umpqua Community College in Winchester, Oregon for 26 years under the name [...]
By MELISSA LATERZA
After hours of traveling on windy roads and through rolling green hills we finally pulled onto a gravel covered driveway, the tires of the car softly crunching as they pushed their way forward. To our left were rows beautiful tulips every color of the rainbow. To the right was my grandparent’s brown two [...]
By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
My oldest daughter has just returned to Oregon after several weeks visiting with my family in the Deep South. She brought back with her a Southern delicacy that you’d have to have grown up in the South to appreciate — boiled peanuts.
They are sort of like grits [...]
AuroraAn American Experience in Quilt and CraftBy Jane KirkpatrickWaterbrook PressA division of Random HouseHardcover $17.95
By BILL DUNCANThe News-Review
Master storyteller Jane Kirkpatrick has just finished the third novel in her series called “Change and Cherish,” about the life of Oregon pioneer Emma Wagner Giesy, all three novels written in Kirkpatrick’s unique style [...]
