Nineteen-year-old Ada Weeks confronts danger and calamity along the hazard-filled journey to California. After a fateful decision that delays the overlanders more than a month, she—along with eighty-one other members of the Donner Party—finds herself stranded at Truckee Lake on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, stuck there for the entirety of aContinue reading "New Release: ANSWER CREEK by WWW member Ashley Sweeney"
The Spanish Flu : Guest Post by Margaret Hanna
It began as a rumour. People overseas were dying of a new disease. No one gave it much thought. It was summer of 1918. Millions of young men had already died in the Great War. The death of a few more from disease seemed of little consequence. It wasn’t. The Spanish Flu exploded in NorthContinue reading "The Spanish Flu : Guest Post by Margaret Hanna"
New Release: SLOW ARROW: UNEARTHING THE FRAIL CHILDREN by Kathryn Winograd
In a new collection of essays titled Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children, WWW member Kathryn Winograd braids together the pressing environmental issues of today with the sacred and profane intersections of the human and the natural world. She explores in the microcosm of a forty-acre high mountain meadow and its surrounding lands vast worldsContinue reading "New Release: SLOW ARROW: UNEARTHING THE FRAIL CHILDREN by Kathryn Winograd"
The Peralta Adobe
Guest Blog Post by WWW Member Linda Ulleseit. Learn more about Linda by visiting her author website and pick up one of her books, too! San Jose is the oldest city settlement in California. It was founded in 1777 when 66 settlers were sent there from San Francisco by the Juan Bautista de Anza expedition.Continue reading "The Peralta Adobe"
NEW RELEASE: Mortal Music by WWW Member Ann Parker
San Francisco music-store owner Inez Stannert has a past that doesn't bear close inspection, including running a saloon in the wide-open silver boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. But those times are gone, it's now winter 1881, and her music store is struggling. Inez also lacks capital for her other enterprise: staking the business efforts of localContinue reading "NEW RELEASE: Mortal Music by WWW Member Ann Parker"
What Happened at the FALLCON Trade Show & Conference?
By WWW Member Doris Baker Thanks to all WWW members who participated in the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association trade show in October. As you’ll recall, all WWWers were given the opportunity to have their books displayed at the conference of booksellers from throughout the West. Our table displayed 36 books and attracted lotsContinue reading "What Happened at the FALLCON Trade Show & Conference?"
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