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Writers group launches Cedar Moon literary journal

The Ignacio Writers Group is taking their writing to the next level, and they want you to help them celebrate. Friday (today) at the Ignacio Community Library, the group will be l...

Jake Tapper achieves a childhood dream by drawing for the new book MAD About Trump

Jake Tapper remembers it well, the way certain childhood memories remain as indelible as the deepest India ink. It was the bicentennial year, when he was an impressionable 7-year-old, and st...

‘Growing up Whittaker’

Leif Whittaker to talk about new book at library

Books for Women’s History Month

Far too often, the contributions women have made to society go unnoticed. Women’s History Month was established in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter, who said “the achievements, leadership, cou...

Bridges of Madison County author Robert James Waller dies

NEW YORK – Robert James Waller, whose best-selling, bittersweet 1992 romance novel The Bridges of Madison County was turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood and later in...

Protest books help us examine our values

Edward Abbey once said,“sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.” Protesting is an action that anyone can take. It is a way to make this will of the people heard when those in power...

Books for Black History Month

Black History Month was established in 1976 to encourage people to learn about a part of American history that is often neglected by the general public. Gerald Ford urged Americans “to seize...

Indelible is a remarkable first novel

The debut novel As a young child, Magdalena saw people with black marks on their skin. When she grew up and learned to read, she realized that the marks were words and that no one else saw...

Stephen King and son Owen King to team up at book convention

NEW YORK – This year’s BookExpo will feature a popular father-and-son combination: Stephen and Owen King. Convention organizers ReedPop told The Associated Press on Tuesday that t...

Rushdie novel takes on age of Obama, and Trump

NEW YORK – Salman Rushdie’s next novel will be a take on the age of Obama, with an added dash of Trump. The author best known for Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses is wor...

Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale latest dystopian novel to top best-seller lists

Move over, 1984. There’s a new dystopian novel topping the charts. Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has just become the best-selling book on Amazon.com. “New,” of ...

The Unsettlers explores simpler living

Author will discuss new book at Maria’s