Books

“Hotshot, A Life on Fire” by River Selby is enlightening and painful, and not just because of fighting wildfires.

A woman descended on the Crescent Department store escalator in the early 1960s. Her stiletto heel got stuck in the mechanism at the very bottom.

To celebrate the publication of her latest book, “Mostly Sweet, Lovely Human Things,” former Ellensburg Poet Laureate Marie Marchand will discuss that unique position with Coeur d’Alene Poet Laureate Jennifer Passaro and Spokane Poet Laureate Mery Noel Smith.

Mitch Albom’s new novel, “Twice,” is about a man with the miraculous ability to travel back to any point in his life and make a different choice. A few hours after starting “Twice,” I knew exactly which choice I would make differently.

I’m tempted to call “The Phoebe Variations” a came-of-age book.

Take a look, “Reading Rainbow” is back for a new generation of book lovers.

Love stories seem simple but end up messy.

As a clinical and systems psychologist, Shann Ray is well-versed in discussing the intricacies of romantic relationships. The 30-year Gonzaga University professor specializes in something called forgiveness studies: the idea that the act of forgiving can reap rewards for your well-being.

LeAnn Bjerken wrote the oldest poems from her debut poetry collection, “Ordinary Omens,” during her time as an MFA candidate at Eastern Washington University, but the book found its focus when she attended a workshop at Spark Central with Spokane author Laura Read. The workshop was about tarot cards, and the participants picked a card and wrote based off the images found in their card. Bjerken pulled the “magician” card.

In “The Wonder of Mushrooms,” Spokane author Maya Jewell Zeller begins her opening chapter, “A Kingdom of Fungi”:

On the heels of Washington State Book Awards crowning Lora Senf’s “The Loneliest Place” a finalist for young readers, the Spokane author is releasing her latest middle reader horror – “Pennies” on Tuesday, Sept. 23. Those looking to meet the “Blight Harbor” series creator in person can find her at Wishing Tree Books for the Perry Street Fair on Saturday, Sept. 27.

Children’s book author and illustrator Sophie Blackall was working on the drawings for her new book, “Stella & Marigold: Mermaids and Mix-Ups,” when she had an idea.

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 13, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2025 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2025, PWxyz LLC.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Secret of Secrets: A Novel" by Dan Brown (Doubleday) Last week: ...

We are packed four across the bench seat of OK Earl’s truck, shoulder to shoulder, the last of his hay bales loaded in back, when we come across a deer in a ditch along the forest service road.

Kathy Keppel-Colkitt wrote a book to help people be effective medical advocates for someone facing a health crisis. "Will They Hear Me Now?" carries the story of her daughter, Brandi Colkitt, 26, who suffered from provider missteps, delayed cancer diagnosis, and then a chemotherapy drug reaction compromising her lungs. She died June 18, 2009.

We didn’t eat the baby

“Hospice Chaplain: Interrupted” examines how caring for the dying transforms the caregiver, exploring the profound discomfort and unexpected revelations that emerge when chaplains sit with patients at life’s end.

I’m having a midlife crisis and you know what that means. It means I’m giving and receiving hickeys. It means I’m painting my toenails green and using darker shades of blush in all my hollows until I look like a relief sculpture. Until I’m collar bones and cutting cheeks and looming brows. I like to feel sharp. I’m on the defensive. The best defense is a good offense. I don’t intend to offend.

Nothing could make the obsequious spectacle earlier this month in Alaska more shocking, but while President Donald Trump was waiting on the red carpet, clapping for an international killer, I was reading a book about the destruction of one humble family in Ukraine. For a moment, that clash between private sympathy and public sycophancy cast the world in a light almost too harsh to endure.