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March 19, 2019 - Review: Moments of the heart

Drawing from more than 30 years of personal experience as a Jewish educator and leader, Dorice Horenstein’s Moments of the Heart: Four Relationships Everyone Should Have to Live Wholeheartedly, will be published by Morgan James Publishing on November 5, 2019. This book examines the four chambers of the heart in […]


October 27, 2018 - Catching the Wind wins national award

By Julie Zander, Saturday evening in Nashville, at the American Christian Fiction Writers Conference, the Carol Award for historical fiction was given to Portland area novelist Melanie Dobson for her time-slip novel, Catching the Wind. The captivating novel opens with a 13-year-old boy in Germany, Dietmar, pretending to be a […]


July 15, 2018 - Book Review: Message in a Body

Book Review of Message in a Body Author is Joseph Alfuso, founder of Forward Edge International Born into a prominent political family in New York, Joseph Anfuso grew up in a world of privilege, prestige and high expectations. Disillusioned with the values and pressures of that world, he would set […]


June 12, 2018 - Author, Ex-Sr. Obama advisor to speak in Portland

Dan Pfeiffer Monday, June 25 @ 7:30 PM Revolution Hall Powell’s Book Announcement: An irreverent, no-BS take on the crazy politics of our time, Yes We (Still) Can is a must-read for everyone who is disturbed by Trump, misses Obama, and is marching, calling, and hoping for a better future […]


May 2, 2018 - Review: We were winning when I was there

By Eric Shierman, My second book was released this year. The title is of course not a reference to me. I wasn’t born yet when the Tet Offensive erupted in South Vietnam fifty years ago this week. It refers to a bumper sticker I saw as a child in the […]


April 18, 2018 - ‘Decision Tree’ book signing in Tigard

By The Decision Tree of Aging, Join and celebrate with Dr. Randall Kinnison and Kim Christensen for the release of The Decision Tree of Aging. Dr. Kinnison will give a brief presentation at 6pm.


March 20, 2018 - Remembering Kate Wilhelm

Kate Wilhelm (June 8, 1928 – March 8, 2018) was a popular author based out of Eugene Oregon. She wrote science fiction, mystery, and suspense novels and won two Hugo Awards and was inducted into The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.


February 19, 2018 - Finding the Path to Happiness

Happiness is Chosen Wisely: 3300 Axioms of Self-Evident Truths by Oregon author Byer Book review by Leona Grieve Most of us spend our lives working and raising a family, with the ultimate plan to retire to a life of happiness and tranquility. The truth is, even when we retire, we […]


January 31, 2018 - Remembering Oregon’s Ursula Le Guin

In remembrance of Portland author Ursula Le Guin, 10,21,29 to 1,22,18, This is Ursula’s final blog post. 25 September 2017 130. Poem Written in 1991 When the Soviet Union Was Disintegrating by Ursula K. Le Guin i