Author Event: Saturday, May 27, 2023 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, May 27, 2023 from 11am to 2pm for an author signing event featuring My Almost Cashmere Life by Margy Adams.

After thirty-four years of marriage, Margy Adams signs her final divorce papers, and immediately plunges into a guilt-ridden recovery.  Not knowing how to deal with the shadows and shame of the past or three decades of loneliness and deceit, she looks for ways to move forward as a single woman.

She flounders until she enrolls in a writing class where the Pulitzer Prize-winning author encourages: “If you don’t tell your story, it will be buried with you—lost forever.”

The floodgates open as Margy writes honestly about the trauma of her past and the secret she guards.Margy opens her heart about her adopted daughter, born in the pioneer days of surrogacy. She gives gut-wrenching details about the birth of an extreme preemie, her second daughter. 

Margy’s life tapestry threads the challenges of addiction and adultery into her story as she strives to find answers and authenticity. With philosophical musings, she finally accepts the universal truths about life—it is messy and complicated. Through the redemptive power of writing, Margy finds understanding and peace, realizing that the past, present and future are forever entwined.

In her series of stories gathered together in My Almost Cashmere Life, Margy Adams becomes a voice for the Baby Boomer generation who were trapped between the world of traditional values and the emerging, liberated world of feminism. This new author pens a cautionary and timely tale that ultimately presents us with a book about redemption, courage, love and forgiveness.

Author Event: Saturday, May 20, 2023 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, May 20, 2023 from 11am to 2pm when author Rebecca Heisman will be signing copies of Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration.

Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how a group of migration-obsessed scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries engaged nearly every branch of science to understand bird migration—from where and when they take off to their flight paths and behaviors, their destinations and the challenges they encounter getting there. Uniting curious minds from across generations, continents, and disciplines, bird enthusiast and science writer Rebecca Heisman traces the development of each technique used for tracking migratory birds, from the first attempts to mark individual birds to the cutting-edge technology that lets ornithologists trace where a bird has been, based on unique DNA markers. Along the way, she touches on the biggest technological breakthroughs of modern science and reveals the almost-forgotten stories of the scientists who harnessed these inventions in service of furthering our understanding of nature (and their personal obsession with birds).

Author Event: Saturday, May 13, 2023 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, May 13, 2023 from 11am to 2pm when Mary Anne O’Neil will be signing copies of 

Three Centuries of Girls' Education: Regulations of the Ursuline Nuns of the Congregation of Paris.

In Three Centuries of Girls' Education, Mary Anne O'Neil offers both an examination and the first English translation of Les Règlemens des religieuses Ursulines de la Congrégation de Paris. Published in 1705, Regulations is the first pedagogical system explicitly designed for the education of girls. It is also one of the few surviving documents describing the day-to-day operations of early Ursuline schools.

O'Neil traces the history of the document from the writings of the Italian foundress of the Ursulines, to the establishment of the religious order in Paris in 1612, to the changes in the organization of Ursuline schools in nineteenth-century France, and, finally, to Mother Marie de St. Jean Martin's spirited defense of the traditional French Ursuline method after World War II. In the eighteenth century, New Orleans Ursulines used the Regulations as a guide to establish their schools and teaching methods. Overall, O'Neil's history and translation recover a vital source for historians of the early modern era but will also interest scholars in the fields of education history and female religious life.

Author Event: Saturday, April 29, 2023 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, April 29, 2023 from 11am to 2pm when author Gary Bye will be signing copies of Glory Grove.

Brock Gallagher hands in his resignation and loses his chance to win a state championship as head football coach at one of Seattle's largest high schools to fulfill a promise to his mother back in his tiny hometown of Glory Grove. He plans on staying only long enough to be with his mom during her final days. When he arrives in the Grove, he is met with bitterness and violence from Cort Jepson, a former teammate, now married to Brock's high school sweetheart. Excited about his arrival are local citizens of the town who dream of a return to better times, including the days of football supremacy.

Although determined to stay away from the game and any involvement with the people in Glory Grove, Brock finds himself drawn into the local scene when the current football coach is forced to leave town. Standing in Brock's way is a high school principal determined to kill the sport.

While focused on football, Brock risks losing his beautiful big-city wife, who has drifted away from him into a world of high art, celebrities, and drugs. Brock feels the tug of conflicting loyalties. Will he recommit to his marriage and return to the city or stay in the Grove and a place to call home?

Author Event: Saturday April 1, 2023 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday April 1, 2023 from 11am to 2pm for an author signing with Josephine Woolington author of Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest.

Reconnect with the natural world through essays that blend science and prose. In her debut work, journalist Josephine Woolington sheds light on diverse flora and fauna of the Pacific Northwest. From the coastal tailed frog to yellow-cedar, these stories encourage a more collective understanding of our natural wonders in a rapidly changing world. 

Josephine Woolington is a writer, musician and educator. She lives in the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, where she was born and raised. Her curiosity about all living things guides her creative endeavors and inspires her to understand how landscapes--and those who live in them--change over time. She previously worked at several Oregon newspapers and now works as a freelance journalist. In addition to writing, she's toured nationally and internationally, singing and playing keyboards with different musical artists. She writes, records and performs her own music as well. 

Author Event: Friday, December 9, 2022 from 5pm to 8pm

Please join us on Friday, December 9, 2022 from 5pm to 8pm when author Jackson Graham will be signing copies of Clash of Crowns.

A savage war has come to Alithell, and fear follows in its wake. Ancient powers stir. As Falrey O’Dyre’s iron fist tears civilization up by the roots, an unexpected horror throws Eyoés and Gwyndel headlong into the fiery cataclysm that will define their lives. A resistance rises from the ashes to make its stand. Gathering old friends to his side, Haeryn throws himself headlong into a perilous game of cat and mouse. Together, they confront the greatest evil of their time with hearts torn between belief and desperation. The final days have dawned—and death will not sleep until everything is crushed under his monstrous heel.

Hope will unite them. Steel will break them. Suffering will refine them.

JACKSON E. GRAHAM has been fascinated with books since early childhood. At age six, he wrote and illustrated his first story. Since then, he has entered several writing contests, winning awards and receiving positive reviews. During high school, writing was his sport. He successfully completed Camp NaNoWriMo four years in a row, in which the epic fantasy series Sword and Scion was birthed.

Jackson spends much of his free time exploring nature, writing and trying to stay on top of his ever-growing stack of reading material. Authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien and John Flanagan stand among those who spark his imagination in addition to his love for history, and he believes God has inspired the messages in his writing. Raised in Walla Walla, Washington, Jackson E. Graham currently lives with his family in North Idaho, not far from the shores of Lake Coeur d'Alene. 

Author Event: Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, November 12, 2022 from  11am to 2pm when author Kathy MacDonald will be signing copies of Summer Chillers.  

Discover the endless possibilities. Ice cream, shakes & smoothies to refreshing cold drinks. This fantastic collection has more than 80 recipes! That will have your mouth watering. Chill out and hang out with your friends and family, with these cool refreshing recipes you will be all the rage.

The author was inspired and encouraged to create this book through many years of family and friends collecting and sharing recipes. It became a tradition. These are a few of the family favorites we gladly share with you. Enjoy them as we have pass them down and keep the tradition going.

Author Event: Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022 from 2pm to 5pm

Please join us at Three Rivers Winery on Saturday, November 19, 2022 from 2pm to 5pm for an event featuring author Debbie Macomber with her new book The Christmas Spirit.

Read more about the event and reserve your spot here:

https://www.threeriverswinery.com/events/holiday-book-bottle-signing-event/

Reservations recommended. Please contact Three Rivers Winery with any questions: 509-526-9463 | info@threeriverswinery.com

Author Event: Saturday, November 5, 2022 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, November 5, 2022 from 11am to 2pm when author Sherri Maret will be signing copies of Twelve Days of Winter.

In this reimagined version of The Twelve Days of Christmas, winter wildlife is observed as the snow comes. What animals do you think you might see? Do you think bears will be included? Why or why not? The only way to find out is to read or sing along as animals watch their world get blanketed by gentle layers of snow.

Also by Sherri Maret

The Cloud Artist (English/Choctaw)

Leona, a little Choctaw girl, uses the sky as a canvas and the clouds as paint. When a traveling man learns of her gift and invites her to join the carnival, the Cloud Artist must make a decision about what kind of artist she wants to be.The author, illustrator, and translator are all members of the Choctaw Nation.

 See the KNDU interview with Sherri Maret here: https://www.nbcrightnow.com/top_video/12-days-of-winter/video_93a5bc32-5557-11ed-b48e-036e8a95b59e.html

Author Event: Friday, August 26, 2022 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Friday, August 26, 2022 from 11am to 2pm when author Chloe Congleton will be signing copies of Chloetta's Mooooove-In Party. 

Join Chloetta Cow as she moves to her new home in Tiny Timbers. Weill her new neighbors come to her party?  Will she make new friends? We can’t wait for you to find our for yourself as you see this fable unfold!

Author Event: Sunday, August 21, 2022 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Sunday, August 21, 2022 from 11am to 2pm when author Ryan Shipowick will be signing copies of Jesus Works.

Jesus Works is Ryan Shipowick’s testimony about how Jesus is the Ideal Companion and that heaven can only be found in His presence. Ryan also maps out his therapeutic prayer life, and how there is nothing that can contribute more to a person’s wellness than a daily relationship with Jesus. Ryan also shares how Jesus helps him cope with the symptoms of chronic mental illness, and with Satan’s negativity. Ryan shares his relatable story or experience hoping for relevance and encouragement. The goal of Jesus Works is to uplift Jesus and the importance of being like Him. Ryan also wants Jesus Works to be a book that is a catalyst for robust Bible study.

This book is appropriate for people sixteen or older who have an interest in Christianity and who have mental health challenges.  

Author Event: Saturday, August 20, 2022 from 11am - 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, August 20, 2022 from 11am-2pm when author Marina Richie will be signing copies of Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher. 

More than one hundred species of kingfishers brighten every continent but Antarctica. Not all are fishing birds. They range in size from the African dwarf kingfisher to the laughing kookaburra of Australia. This first book to feature North America’s belted kingfisher is a lyrical story of observation, revelation, and curiosity in the presence of flowing waters.

Marina Richie is a nature writer based in Bend, Oregon. She has worked as a journalist and managed communications for a number of wildlife-oriented public and private organizations. She is the author of the children’s books Bird Feats of Montana and Bug Feats of Montana. Her articles and essays have appeared in Birdwatching Magazine, A.T. Journeys, Post Road Magazine, and many other publications.

Author Event: Saturday, August 13, 2022 from 11am - 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, August 13, 2022 from 11am - 2pm when author Rebecca Olmstead will be signing copies of Promise of the Day Devotional for Victorious Living and the Companion Journal.

Promise of the Day Devotional for Victorious Living gives you the tools to take hold of and wield God’s weaponry with power and authority.

Learn how to walk in victory, with 366:

• Powerful Scriptures to strengthen and encourage you.
• Thought-provoking devotions to challenge and affirm you.
• Faith-activating prayers to release the power of the Holy Spirit in your life.

The Companion Journal to Promise of the Day Devotional for Victorious Living is an invitation to press into the heart of God. A call to draw closer to your Creator, learn to discern His voice, plunge into His depths, and discover the amazing being He created you to be!

Author Event: Saturday, July 9, 2022 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, July 9, 2022 from 11am to 2pm when Mary Greiss will be signing copies of Cafe Nana.  

About the author...

Mary was born in Egypt and immigrated to the US where she earned a Master’s and a Doctorate in Education from Seattle University. Due to her husband’s work, they relocated to Alpharetta, a suburb of Atlanta, George. They returned to Washington and currently live in Walla Walla.  They own a vineyard and her husband, Glen, with her very limited help, makes wine for their personal consumption.  She has always had a passion for teaching which she did for over 30 years in Seattle, WA. and Lawrenceville, Georgia. Recently she taught a class on Women in the Middle East at the WWCC in Walla Walla.  She loves to travel and has lived for a period in Italy and Switzerland. She had a son, who recently passed, but now she has a grandson who delights her andkeeps her on her toes.  Mary’soon foun passion is writing and painting. Café Nana is her first published novel, although she helped write and edit a cookbook on Egyptian cooking as well as her doctorate dissertation. 

Author Event: Saturday, July 2, 2022 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, July 2, 2022 from 11am to 2pm when author Rick Floch will be signing copies of Love and The Lookout. 

From the back cover...

Young Dagny Murphy, an environmental lawyer from Seattle, takes a well

deserved summer vacation to go visit her friend working on a remote For-

est Service lookout in the backcountry of the Umatilla National Forest in 

southeast Washington State. 

At the lookout, she finds that her friend no longer works there and has bee

replaced with an interesting young man — Thomas Charles Porter (TC to 

his friends) — who grew up on a horse ranch in western Montana and has

many interesting talents and skills. TC invites her to stay at the lookout just

as she had planned and not wanting to turn around and go back to her car 

and end her vacation before it even gets started, she agrees. 

After two idyllic days and nights at the lookout, lightning storms on the 

third night start a series of threatening fires. Working together, TC and 

Dagny manage to save both the lookout and their own lives, but Dagny’s 

vehicle ends up being destroyed during the night. 

While the fires continue to burn, TC offers to take Dagny back to Seattle 

and help her fnd a new car. On the way, Dagny finds out that her best 

friend, mentor and supervisor has been mysteriously murdered. Thus begin

a tale of falling in love, sadness, danger, and conspiracy that leads clear 

up to the halls of Congress in Washington D.C. as the two investigate her 

friend’s murder. 

Author Event: Saturday, June 25, 2022 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, June 25, 2022 from 11am to 2pm when author Frances De La Rosa will be signing copies of Night Rise.

Right before princess Dawn Mantrisa becomes officially engaged to the unruly prince Geoff, a not-so-natural event throws her kingdom into darkness. With the help of her friends and Dusk, the arcane fairy who holds her heart, she adventures for a magical lantern to relight her land. Finding it, though, means working with Dusk’s friend, Diya. The temperamental lux fairy has a painful link to the lantern, and mysterious intentions for Dawn and Dusk. But this is only the beginning, as secrets test convictions, an old enemy comes to light, and strange yet terrifying connections are found between the prince’s bestial nature and the unimaginable Night Rise.

Frances De La Rosa lives in Eastern Washington with her husband, two kids, two dogs, and one cat. When she's not keeping after her family, she enjoys writing, singing, and sewing. Her first piece of fiction was a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story in middle school. She sings almost daily, though her musical career is regulated to the kitchen while she's cooking. Her favorite thing to sew is frilly dresses for herself, and she hopes to teach her daughter to make her own dresses when she's older.

Author Event: Saturday, June 11, 2022 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, June 11, 2022 from 11am to 2pm when author June Vanderhoff will be signing copies of A Home for Gnome.

"OH, KERFUNKLE!"

Waking up with wet socks, Lampy goes on an adventure to find a home that is dry, safe, and warm. The lovable gnome meets animals along the way who are in a pickle. Lampy helps his new friends, but he soon discovers that he needs some help himself. Clever poems and colorful illustrations keep little—and big—people engaged until the very last page.

About the Author

JUNE VANDERHOFF

Reading to grandkids is one of June’s favorite things to do. That, and telling lively stories to make them smile. And since her grandkids have an affinity for gnomes, a story was born. June lives with her husband, Del, in Wenatchee, Washington, where she claims the “best fruit grows.” She feels blessed to have four kids and ten grandkids… so far! A first-time author and retired strings teacher, June hopes A Home for Gnome brings fun and friendship into your home, too.

Author Event: Saturday, May 28, 2022 from 11am to 2pm

Walla Walla's Blue Mountain Railroad in 1879

Please join us on Saturday, May 28, 2022 from 11am to 2pm when Clark Colahan will be signing copies of Walla Walla's Blue Mountain Railroad in 1879, and On the Banks of San Simeon Creek: San Simeon Pioneers.

Clark Colahan relives his recent adventure of stumbling upon the lost map of the Blue Mountain Railroad.

The author is a retired Whitman College professor and the author of several books on literature, especially on Don Quixote and the Spanish Renaissance.  

 

On the Banks of San Simeon Creek: San Simeon Pioneers

A new book presents the first edition of diaries and letters by the earliest pioneers to settle on San Simeon Creek.   In the 1850’s and 60’s, decades before Hearst’s Castle was a gleam in the eye of William Randolph, phenomenally hard-working and family-focused  American pioneers were living in cabins along the creek at the foot of what would later be called the Enchanted Hill - farming, ranching, establishing schools, roads, medical services, and a legal system.  One clan was the Clarks, Mathers and Pinkhams, who have left a detailed and highly personal record of their astonishingly varied activities, hardships, and emotions in a Hispanic region that still struck them as thoroughly foreign.

Author Event: Saturday, May 21, 2022 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, May 21, 2022 from 11am to 2pm when author Teri Zipf will be signing copies of her book Vertigo of All Those Stars.

From the back cover...
Teri Zipf’s first book, Outside the School of Theology, received the William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.  She has also received the Washington Artist Trust Fellowship, Fishtrap Fellowship and other awards.  Her poems, essays, and stories have been published in Salon, terrain, the Melic Review, in Spanish translations in Revisatlanticas 21, and many others.

Author Event: Saturday, May 14, 2022 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, May 14, 2022 from 11am to 2pm when authors Charles Harley and Marika Esarey will be featuring Cut-Outs From Paper.  

From Folk Art to High Art, To Walla Walla from Warsaw

When Charles Harley decided to publish a translation of a book produced long since in Poland about styles of paper cut-out unique to that country’s folk art, he sought expert help and guidance from friends in Walla Walla. The original work, though by a Pole and published in Warsaw, was written in French. Harley requested and received criticism of his translation from his neighbor, Martine Purcell. Harley mentioned to Shanna Fledderjohann of Kingfisher Gallery his need for someone fluent in Polish to translate an inscription on the cover of the book, write letters, and address copyright and bibliographic issues relating tothe new edition. Shanna put him in touch with one of her clients, Dominika Dickerson, who took care of those concerns. To realize his project, Harley above all needed an expert in book design, making, and conservation.

Cut-Outs from Paper preserves as much as proved practicable of the character and format of the book it translates, Les Decoupures de Papier, which was issued as a large paperback, in Warsaw, in 1928. To photograph its color plates for Harley’s English language version, the Warsaw edition had to be taken apart­–and afterward put back together, complete with hand-stitched spine. The spines of the English edition–in this regard fortunately a very limited edition!–are also hand stitched.

The new offering, besides reproducing all the lithographs and plates of the original, also reproduces its front cover, which bears an inscription by the author, Dr.Eugenjusz Frankowski, sometime director of the Warsaw Museum of Ethnography, which Dickerson kindly translated as,‘To Miss Betty, a delightful lady, I offer this gift.’

‘Miss Betty’, travelling by train between the French Riviera towns of Nice and Hyeres, struck up a conversation with a fellow passenger, Lydia  Delectorskaya, who revealed that she modeled for, and managed the studio of, Henri-Emile Matisse.Miss Betty, recently returned from her sojourn in Poland, was en route to Hyeres to meet her father. Lydia, enjoying a day off, was going to Hyeres to view the town’s magnificent palm trees and, at the request of Madame Matisse, to buy a box of scrumptious nougat, for the making of which Hyeres also is renowned.

The young women hit it off. On Betty’s showing Lydia her copy of Les Decoupures de PapierLydia asked whether she might borrow the book on behalf of Matisse, who, Lydia explained, had recently been experimenting with paper cut-out techniques and themes. Betty agreed to this proposal and Lydia promised that the book would be returned to her.

That one and only encounter between the Anglo-French Betty and Lydia, self-exiled from Soviet Russia, took place in the spring of 1935. In 1940, Germany’s invasion of Poland jolting her memory of her promise to return Betty’s book, Lydia belatedly kept her word.

The Germans’ destruction of Warsaw accomplished the loss in its entirety of the Warsaw Museum of Ethnography’s collection of the country’s paper cut-outs. The 1928 edition of Les Decoupures de Papierwasits sole edition and today the book is scarcely to be found. Harley’s Cut-Outs from Paper offers for wider, contemporary consideration the images of many of the finest examples, created during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and so barbarically incinerated in World War II, of a folk art form unique to Poland.

Harley hopes that his reissue in English of Dr. Frankowski’s work will gain support for his contention that illustrations in the book Lydia Delectorskya borrowed for Matisse’s consideration to some degree inspired the French master’s demonstration–innovative technically, thematically and functionally–of what the paper cut-out could achieve, which in turn promoted acceptance of the form as an artistic endeavor distinct and valid as any other.

In response to Harley’s assertion that Matisse was inspired by Polish paper cut-outs, John Klein, author of Matisse and Decoration, writes,‘The book you sent is exceptionally beautiful… It is true that Matisse was interested in popular arts of all kinds and I have little doubt that he was drawn to the illustrations in Les Decoupures de Papier. Who can say what residual impact they may have had on him?’ ‘Matisse,’ Professor Klein continues, ‘had already used paper cut-out forms as maquettes for large paintings… But in the mid 1930s he had not yet turned to the medium of the cut-out to make independent art works. Perhaps when he cut out white seagulls to be pinned to his wall during nights of insomnia in the mid 1940s he was creating distant echoes of the birds that seem to be a popular motif in that Polish tradition.’

Harley believes that the influence of Polish paper cut-outs on Matisse’s transformative development of the form is demonstrably stronger than Professor Klein concedes. Harley is, however, eager to insist that, unlike Professor Klein, he is by no means an internationally acclaimed specialist in the French master’s work. 

It was over the tea-table, just under sixty years ago, that Harley learned how, as recounted here, the original Polish edition of Cut-Outs from Paper was brought to Matisse’s attention.  With Harley that tea time were ‘Miss Betty’, who as well as being ‘a delightful lady’ was his mother, and his grandfather, Henry-Emile Sevrez, who besides having forenames in common with Matisse had passed his boyhood within a few miles of Le Cateau-Cambresis, the artist’s hometown.

Marika Esarey is the craftswoman to whom Harley entrusted the design and making of Cut-outs from Paper, and the disassembly and putting back together of Decoupures de Papierher task entailed. This commission Esarey, artist, bookbinder, book creator, carried out at Sacred Artisanship, her Walla Walla studio. Esarey has made a magnificent clamshell box that, open wide, simultaneously reveals the book in its Walla Walla and its Warsaw edition. This box and the books it contains will be on display when Esarey joins Harley for a discussion of their collaboration at Book & Game, 38 East Main, Walla Walla, Saturday 14 May, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. All are welcome!