Save Your Life with the Phenomenal Lemon (& Lime!) is an information-packed book about the wonders of lemons and limes and how they can help balance your pH, by Blythe Ayne, Ph.D. Balanced pH is of critical importance in today’s health environment. Learn about the amazing attributes of these modest little fruits. Our lives are…
Dawn Prochovnic just completed her first virtual book launch event for her latest picture book, Lucy’s Blooms, a multigenerational story about a young girl who learns from her grandmother about the enduring nature of love, the strength in rejecting labels, and the wisdom in standing with those who are different. The event is now available…
Beatriz Dujovne’s new book, Don’t Be Sad When I’m Gone: A Memoir of Loss and Healing in Buenos Aires, was recently released. About the Author: Dr. Dujovne was born and raised in Buenos Aires, and has lived most of her adult life in the American Midwest and the Pacific Northwest. She received a license in…
The Ryzhkov Vendetta, an espionage suspense thriller by Barry L. Becker. Alexander Leonidovich Ryzhkov, a Russian oligarch and former general in the Russian Military Directorate (GRU), runs a covert operation in the Middle East, supplying a Saudi terrorist with four Russian nuclear suitcase bombs and a list of two American cities to target. A CIA…
“The Awakening of the Empath,” a story by re-emerging writer Patricia Anderson, was published at Altered Reality magazine. From the author: “This story began as a response to attending a baby’s funeral. I needed to express a crush of dark feelings. Eventually it reoriented from creative nonfiction to fiction. Initial response to my query letter…
The first installment of Emmeline Duncan’s Ground Rules Mystery Series, Fresh Brewed Murder, came out on March 30th, 2021, from Kensington. Fresh Brewed Murder is set at an inner-Portland food cart pod under threat of gentrification, and a killer is brewing up a world of trouble. Publisher’s Weekly said the novel is a “strong debut…
Gather, a new memoir by Cynthia Pappas. In her newest essay collection, Pappas details a life led deeply in place and attuned to the changing season of work on a family farm. Whether it’s about harvesting vegetables from the garden, joining with friends around the table, gathering her wits to outsmart a recalcitrant cow, or…
Oregon Book Awards Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors of Literary Arts selected Eugene editor Elizabeth Lyon as the 2021 recipient of the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award “in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon’s literary community.” Find out more
Anne Hillerman, an international best-selling author, will be a guest (5/1-6/30) on “Just Read It,” the YouTube series that features PNW writers with host Caroline Miller. Hillerman explains why she stepped into her father’s moccasins to continue the Tony Hillerman series featuring Navajo sleuths Jim Chee, and Joe Leaphorn as they patrol the Four Corners…
Written and directed by Cristina White, the film Tallulah is the Winner of the 2021 Local Film Audience Award at the 10th Annual McMinnville Short Film Festival. Produced by Corvallis Film Lab, Tallulah is about a prim Victorian woman and her shy fiancé. Their courtship is upended by a Puck-like provocateur with a real-estate romance…
