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A former Navy Seal reflects on the people, places, and experiences that shaped the trajectory of his life in this superb memoir. In Riding the White Bull, Jack Ratliff narrates his fascinating years as a college student-turned-Navy-officer that included stints as a rodeo bull rider, wildfire firefighter, and Navy SEAL. Beginning with his college years […]

A personal, loving look at some of the pivotal moments that launched a global phenomenon David Evans successfully participated in one of the early Ironman triathlons, and now, after a decades’ long absence and eventual return to the sport, he has produced an entertaining and informative historical portrait of Hawaii’s Ironman event, explaining its cultural […]

There is a particular cruelty in realizing you chose wrong. Not catastrophically, not obviously, but quietly — in the way a split-second decision at a concert can redirect an entire life. That is the breathtaking premise at the heart of The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez, the second book in her Say You’ll Remember […]

A fearless meta-narrative with room enough for the high-brow and the humorous Part stage script, part campus novel, part exploration of the classic literary canon, You-Gin One-Gin: Sort Of A Novel is a multi-layered story that mirrors the lives and works of some of the greatest names in Russian literature.  Beginning as a playful, fourth-wall-breaking […]

A haunting without melodrama, a reckoning without sentiment In the shadow of Mount Bigelow, a gravedigger’s casual inventory reveals the weight of history. “A little girl had a China doll, so I kept ’em together.” Then there’s a line that lands like ash: “Sadness sat as heavy as the smoky air from the brush fires.” […]

There is a particular kind of romantic tension that lives in borrowed T-shirts, shared wine glasses, and babies who fall asleep on the wrong person’s chest. Kat Singleton knows exactly how to build it — and in More than Friends by Kat Singleton, the third book in the Pembroke Hills series, she constructs it with […]