Elizabeth Patterson creatively closes her life story using the voice of a jewelry armoire, escorting the reader drawer by drawer to examine some of the pieces tucked inside: awards, ribbons, […]
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London Sojourn: Rewriting Life After Retirement
Rebecca Knuth, author of London Sojourn: Rewriting Life After Retirement, lived a childhood in Anchorage, Alaska, immersed in books. The stories that most captured her imagination were set in London, […]
Read MoreDancing on My Own Two Feet
Dancing on My Own Two Feet opens with a marriage proposal. It is a crisp, spring day. As waves roll onto a California beach, Jenn Todling is presented with three […]
Read MoreThe Land of Everlasting Sky: A Memoir of Loss and Legacy on Lake of the Woods
What happens when you lose everything you thought you had, and have to start over? When what you thought you understood about your family and history turns out to be […]
Read MorePiece by Piece
“Our artifacts might be evidence we existed. But the stories behind those artifacts are evidence we lived” (p. 228). Kim Danielson, the author of “Piece by Piece,” has created a […]
Read MoreThe Most Wonderful Terrible Person
In 1966, Joan Didion wrote about Lucille Miller’s murder trial in her iconic essay “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream,” casting Lucille as a cautionary symbol of California ambition gone […]
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