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With “Seasons of Glass & Iron: Stories,” Canadian author Amal El-Mohtar has created a florilegium: a gathering of flowers, or in her case, the gathering of award-winning poetry and fiction she’s published between 2008 and 2023.

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 14, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2026, PWxyz LLC.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "Judge Stone: A Novel" by Viola Davis and Patterson (Little, Brown) ...

In the last several years, there has been a steady stream of Indigenous fantasy novels on the mainstream book market. One of these is “The Raven and Eagle” trilogy by Caskey Russell, who takes readers on an epic fantasy adventure set to the backdrop of his Tlingit culture.

Spokane Public Library has been selected as one of 40 libraries in the nation to receive a grant from the Yiddish Book Center. The grant is part of the center’s public libraries program to promote education of Jewish culture through Yiddish literature.

Lynx House was a real house first. The Lynx was a painting rescued from the dump and hung on the wall. The home was shared by friends going through the University of Massachusetts’ master’s of fine arts program together.

When the Exxon Valdez dumped more than 10 million gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound, “Yellowfish” author John Keeble received a call from his then-Harper & Row editor Ted Solotaroff asking Keeble to cover the spill.

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 7, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2026, PWxyz LLC.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Correspondent: A Novel" by Virginia Evans (Crown) Last week: 2 ...

To help people prepare for crises, author Kathy Keppel-Colkitt has written guides on how to advocate effectively. She recently launched a third book, "Effective Advocacy," available Saturday at the Hive, as a guidebook that covers 10 different categories of advocacy. Key categories include medical, financial, legal and senior or military issues.

Few may be as comfortable off the grid as Ammi Midstokke, who pens The Spokesman-Review Outdoors column of the same name.

Liza Minnelli has a lot to say about Hollywood, sobriety and former lovers in her new memoir. But the most memorable pages of “Kids, Wait Till You Hear This One!” are the ones she dedicates to her fractious relationship with her mother, Judy Garland.

A couple of weeks ago, we began an office pool.

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Feb. 28, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by Circana BookScan © 2026 Circana. (Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by PWxyz LLC. © 2026, PWxyz LLC.) HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "The Crossroads: A Joe Pickett Novel" by C.J. Box (Putnam) Last week: ...

Winter is still here, and for some of us that means extra time for catching up on reading.

Maya Jewell Zeller is upfront that writing a memoir – and the truth-telling it requires – is a radical act.

It is impossible to tell whether the stain on Sue Aikens gray hoodie is diesel or coffee. There is what looks like an entire taxidermic bear standing in the middle of her cabin, which is to say, the middle of her bedroom-kitchen-living-room. Oddly, it isn’t out of place.

In 1909, Spokane became home to a landmark event in the United States labor movement.

In the introduction to “Down River, Deep Root: A Spokane Poetry Anthology,” Sarah Rooney, one of the anthology’s editors, wrote, “Spokane is incredibly liminal, that feeling of steering away from the pothole you’ve come to encounter every day until one day it’s filled. Still, you navigate to avoid the space and save your car’s suspension.”

Tribal police officers have been receiving more attention recently through the fictional AMC thriller series “Dark Winds.” But James “Jim” Wynecoop is offering his own, true account of being a Spokane Tribal Police officer in a book that gives a look into the work of tribal police and his life on the reservation.