“Hula,” the dazzling debut novel of Hawaii native and onetime Sacramentan Jasmin Iolani Hakes, is an eye-opener for anyone whose sensibilities about the 50th state were shaped by an Elvis movie (“Blue Hawaii”), TV series (“Hawaiian Eye“ and either version of “Magnum P.I.” and “Hawaii Five-O”). Or even Don Ho (“Tiny Bubbles”).
While Kathryn Mattingly’s new novel “Katya” has a soupçon of suspense, a rasher of romance and a sliver of the supernatural, what it has in abundance is charm.
Margo Fowkes knows that neither death nor grief takes a holiday.
If Beverly Barad were a horse whisperer, this is probably what you’d hear her murmur to one: “Come with me.”
Jennifer Basye Sander wants visitors to and residents of Sacramento to know that California’s capital has housed its share of literary and artistic glam.
The book is subtitled “The Next Stage of Jobs for Adults with Autism, ADHD, and Other Learning and Mental Health Deficiencies.” Released by Skyhorse Publishing and available at amazon.com, it’s a collaboration between Vismara and Michael Bernick.
In a number of industries, it’s often said that a new product or idea has “legs”—meaning it’ll be around for a long time to come. That must be good news for Jennifer Forsberg Meyer, whose new essay collection has four of them.
From her double-wide trailer in North Highlands—a somewhat drab, low-income residential and industrial area which includes a decommissioned U.S. Air Force base reinvented as a business park—Christine L. Villa creates richly colorful worlds populated by curious kids and talking animals.
A poet laureate spreads the word about art—and a notable First LadyBy Ed Goldmanhile she lives in Eliot, Maine, Tammi J. Truax is the poet laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. But, she says, “I work in Portsmouth and when I leave my cottage, I...
In all likelihood, Professor Joyce Mikal-Flynn has been dead more times than you have.
Mikal-Flynn, 66, who died a little more than 30 years ago, has a new book in hard copy, e-book and audio formats due out April 27, “Anatomy of a Survivor: Building Resilience, Grit & Growth After Trauma.” It’s being published by Post Hill Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster corporation.
