MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

The Oregon Humanities Conversation Project brings people together to talk about their beliefs and experiences around timely and important issues and ideas through reflective conversations. We are delighted to host facilitator Amber Peoples who will lead a 90-minute community conversation centered around the science and story of awe.

About The Science and Story of Awe:

During times of great change, anxiety and overwhelm can keep us stuck asking “What can I do?” on repeat, often leading to fear and isolation. The experience of awe, as employed in both science and story, can help us all get unstuck. What is awe, and what good does it do? Join Amber Peoples for an experience and exploration of the transformative nature of wonder.

Amber Peoples is the chief relationship officer of Earth Archetypes where she developed a climate storytelling framework to help people change the question from “What can I do about climate?” to “Who am I?” Because just like any relationship, that matters! She shares these stories through workshops, blogs, podcasts, books, and reality tv shows. With an MA in Theater Production, Amber has created a lot of awe for over a decade inside renovated buildings like Ecotrust, on theater stages with Science on Tap, out in the open air at Portland Farmers Market, and across 135 miles of coastline through Live Culture Coast. She approaches all projects with a foundational understanding of how people learn based on a BA in English Education and 8 years of teaching middle school, high school, and college.

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

The Pause Button is an informal monthly gathering for poets and poetry enthusiasts! We will gather around the big table and take a moment to pause for poetry exploration. Bring a poem or two to share - poems can be written by you or by another poet. We will listen, discuss, and do a little writing with a writing prompt.

Free and open to writers of all levels of experience. No need to sign up, y’all just come!

5:30-6:30 on first Mondays.

Join Partners In Care for our first community book club! This book club is free and open to anyone in the community and will be held the second Wednesday of each month from 10 – 11 am at Paulina Springs Books. Our first gathering will be on March 12!

Partners In Care will provide books to everyone attending. The first book will be The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margo by Marianne Cronin.

If you are interested, kindly RSVP so the appropriate number of books can be ordered! You can RSVP by calling the Book Club leader Bethany Benefield at (541) 706-0567 or by emailing communityevents@partnersbend.org

Bethany Benefield, the book club leader, is the Partners In Care Transitions Coordinator for the Redmond and Sisters communities, where she is dedicated to supporting medically fragile folks and their families. With a background as a licensed Community Health Worker and a B.S. in Social Entrepreneurship, she is passionate about promoting equity and empowering others. Outside of her work, Bethany enjoys spending quality time with her husband and two children, nurturing her lifelong love of reading, and sharing her enthusiasm with those around her.

About Partners In Care:

Partners In Care has been serving Central Oregon for over 45 years as the region’s leading and most trusted nonprofit hospice, home health, and palliative care provider, redefining hope for our community since the beginning.

We provide care to communities throughout Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties. Our largely mobile workforce of over 200 employees serves patients and their families in a 10,000 square mile area. Nearly 200 local volunteers work with Partners In Care in fundraising, resource coordination, and other areas of community support.

As the name Partners In Care suggests, our multi-disciplinary team not only serves patients with life-limiting illness and families during a most difficult time, but it’s also a valuable partner with other community resources and organizations, coordinating compassionate care and meeting a broad spectrum of care needs for many population segments.

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

About Ship of Lost Souls:

In January of 1906, off the coast of Vancouver Island, BC, almost everyone aboard the steamship Valencia died, including every single woman and child, when the vessel crashed into the jagged rocks just off of the island. Some 170+ souls perished within a couple hundred yards of land, and in spite of the fact that ships had been dispatched to rescue them. This is the story of that disaster, about who was at fault, and about the lessons we may or may not have learned from the tragedy.

“Riveting! A stranger-than-fiction tale that memorializes the Valencia among the great lost steamships of history—and one lost in the most jaw-dropping of ways.” —Daniel Stone, national bestselling author of Sinkable: Obsession, The Deep Sea, and The Shipwreck of the Titanic

“A fascinating story of tragedy, terror and drama that has been well researched and passionately told. Hard to put down once you start reading.” —Richard M. Jones, author and historian

Author bio:

Rod Scher began his working life teaching English in high schools in California and Oregon; he continued teaching at the post-secondary level until 2016. In between, he worked as an editor for textbooks and magazines, and also as a software developer, writing software for StudyWare, the educational software company he and two partners founded in 1986. In 1992, that company was purchased by Cliffs Notes, which is how he found his way to Nebraska, where Cliffs Notes was located. (It turns out that if you live long enough, you get to have multiple careers. Go figure.)

Now back on the West Coast, Rod has built a "retirement" career as an experienced writer/editor who has annotated or edited many books and written countless magazine articles—mostly on technical or computer-related topics. 

His love of sailing, though, has especially attracted him to books of a nautical nature, resulting in annotations of Joshua Slocum's classic Sailing Alone Around the World and Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast. That's one reason he was excited about the opportunity to write Sailing by Starlight, the story of Marvin Creamer's early-80s circumnavigation in his 35' sloop, Globe Star. The voyage was completed without the use of instruments of any kind: no sextant, no compass, no radar . . . not even a wristwatch.

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!

Best-selling author Marie Bostwick will join us for an afternoon presentation/Q&A/signing for her new book The Book Club for Troublesome Women.

About The Book Club for Troublesome Women:

By 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan is living the American woman's dream. She has a husband, three children, a station wagon, and a home in Concordia--one of Northern Virginia's most exclusive and picturesque suburbs. She has a standing invitation to the neighborhood coffee klatch, and now, thanks to her husband, a new subscription to A Woman's Place--a magazine that tells housewives like Margaret exactly who to be and what to buy. On paper, she has it all. So why doesn't that feel like enough?

Margaret is thrown for a loop when she first meets Charlotte Gustafson, Concordia's newest and most intriguing resident. As an excuse to be in the mysterious Charlotte's orbit, Margaret concocts a book club get-together and invites two other neighborhood women--Bitsy and Viv--to the inaugural meeting. As the women share secrets, cocktails, and their honest reactions to the controversial bestseller The Feminine Mystique, they begin to discover that the American dream they'd been sold isn't all roses and sunshine--and that their secret longing for more is something they share. Nicknaming themselves the Bettys, after Betty Friedan, these four friends have no idea their impromptu club and the books they read together will become the glue that helps them hold fast through tears, triumphs, angst, and arguments--and what will prove to be the most consequential and freeing year of their lives.

The Book Club for Troublesome Women is a humorous, thought provoking, and nostalgic romp through one pivotal and tumultuous American year--as well as an ode to self-discovery, persistence, and the power of sisterhood.

Author Bio:

A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nineteen uplifting works of historical and contemporary fiction, Marie’s books are beloved by readers across the globe.

Drawing on her lifelong love of quilting and her unshakable belief in the power of sisterhood, Marie’s popular Cobbled Court Quilt series has been embraced by quilters and non-sewers alike. Her standalone books have also found a passionate following among lovers of women’s fiction. Marie’s novel, “The Second Sister” was adapted into the 2018 Hallmark Hall of Fame feature film “Christmas Everlasting”, starring Patti LaBelle. Marie’s novel, Hope on the Inside, was published in March 2019 and was chosen as a Reader’s Digest “Select Editions” book.

Marie lives in Oregon with her husband and a beautiful but moderately spoiled Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

We are excited to host PSB Fiction Book Club! Third Mondays from 5:30-6:30 pm.

About Elk Love:

A world-weary museum curator and a bereaved rancher come together amidst the dazzling beauty and seasonal rhythms of a cattle ranch in a hidden Montana mountain valley—a wide-open, wind-filled place where words give way to the wisdom of nature.

Having spent ten summers on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation near Glacier National Park, part of her fieldwork for a PhD in Native American Art History, forty-two-year-old Lynne Spriggs thinks of Montana as her healing place. When she moves to “Big Sky Country” from the East Coast in a quest to reset her life, she arrives with high hopes.

Her new start in Great Falls, a farming and military town in central Montana, is not what Lynne imagined. But her dream of being more connected to nature in the American West comes alive when she meets Harrison, a handsome but cantankerous rancher. With her dog Willow by her side, visits to his hidden valley lead her to bugling elk, dancing birds, and night-calving in blizzards. In a modern world where listening is rare, Elk Love explores an intimate place where loneliness gives way to wonder, where the natural world speaks of what matters most.

Author bio:

Before moving to the rural West at age forty-two, Lynne Spriggs curated exhibitions of folk and self-taught art at the High Museum in Atlanta. She spent ten summers on northern Montana’s Blackfeet Indian reservation while pursuing fieldwork for her PhD in Native American Art History at Columbia University. She also worked in the film industry as Production Coordinator for Spalding Gray and Jonathan Demme on the iconic Swimming to Cambodia. After landing in Montana, she curated Bison: American Icon, a major permanent exhibit for the Charlie Russell Museum on bison in the Northern Plains. For the past fifteen years, she and her husband have lived on a cattle ranch in an isolated Montana mountain valley east of the Rockies, where her life centers on writing, animals, and family. Elk Love is her first memoir.

Joanie Lindenmeyer is the author or three books in two years: Nun Better: An AMAZING Love Story;  Joyously Free! Stories and Tips to Live Your Truth as LGBTQ+ People, Parents and Allies; and Healing Religious Hurts: Stories and Tips to Find Love and Peace. Joanie will do a short reading from all three books accompanied with a 10 minute talk about a continual theme of the 3 C's: Courage, Confidence and Collaboration.  

**PLEASE NOTE the special time of 10 am!**

Nun Better: An Amazing Love Story by Joanie Lindenmeyer with Carol Tierheimer. This powerful memoir chronicles her lifetime romance and ultimate marriage with her soul mate, Carol Tierheimer, who died in 2022. They met in the convent as Catholic nuns during the 1980’s when it was dangerous to “come-out” and later left to enjoy a 40-year adventure when today’s LGBTQ+ freedoms seemed an impossible dream.

Joyously Free! Stories and Tips to Live Your Truth as LGBTQ+ People, Parents and Allies by Joanie Lindenmeyer and Elizabeth Ann Atkins aims to encourage LGBTQ+ people to find the courage to live their truths, and the book provides solid guidance for parents and allies to love and support individuals on their rainbow journeys.

 Healing Religious Hurts: Stories and Tips to Find Love and Peace by Elizabeth Ann Atkins & Joanie Lindenmeyer offers a compassionate guide for those who have endured the pain of being shamed, guilted, rejected, or scorned by religion or its people. Delving into the complexities of spirituality and the quest for inner peace, the book courageously explores questions and past experiences relating to religion, spirituality, and the pursuit of personal fulfillment.

Author bio:

Joanie is a former catholic nun who married another nun and lived 40 years of bliss with Carol until Carol died in 2022. Joanie is a retired high school teacher and an involved Episcopalian at St. Timothy's in Brookings Oregon, where she has lived for 34 years. Joanie is involved in her local  LGBGTQ+ community and with her three published books by twosisterswriting.com, attends numerous Prides and guest presents at a variety of gatherings throughout the United States instilling courage, confidence and collaboration.  

Join us for an evening of storytelling and fundraising for Sisters Festival of Books! 

This live storytelling competition invites ten brave souls to step up and share their personal, unscripted tales in front of a supportive audience. No notes, no filters—just you, a mic, and your story.

Come to tell a story or just to listen. Laugh, gasp, and maybe even tear up as we explore what it means to begin again, see the world differently, or take a chance on something unknown. The night's theme is "Fresh"...fresh starts, fresh perspectives, fresh disasters, fresh food, or whatever creative spin our storytellers can put on "fresh."

Please click here for more info and to sign up to tell a story! Sign-ups are open until end of day, Wednesday, April 23rd. Prizes include a night stay at Suttle Lake Lodge and more!

*Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be available through Paulina Springs Books.

**All ages are welcome at this event, please be aware that stories shared may contain adult content.

Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

About Crow Talk:

Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hope, healing, and unexpected friendship set amidst the wild natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

Frankie O’Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the spotted owl following a rift with her advisor. Anne is an Irish musician far from home and family, raising her five-year-old son, Aiden, who refuses to speak.

At Beauty Bay, a community of summer homes nestled on the shores of June Lake, in the remote foothills of Mount Adams, it’s off-season with most houses shuttered for the fall. But Frankie, adrift, returns to the rundown caretaker’s cottage that has been in the hardworking O'Neill family for generations—a beloved place and a constant reminder of the family she has lost. And Anne, in the wake of a tragedy that has disrupted her career and silenced her music, has fled to the neighboring house, a showy summer home owned by her husband's wealthy family.

When Frankie finds an injured baby crow in the forest, little does she realize that the charming bird will bring all three lost souls—Frankie, Anne, and Aiden—together on a journey toward hope, healing, and rediscovering joy. Crow Talk is an achingly beautiful story of love, grief, friendship, and the healing power of nature in the darkest of times.

Author bio:

Born and raised in eastern Washington, Eileen Garvin lives in Hood River, Oregon. Her novels, The Music of Bees and Crow Talk, are national bestsellers. The Music of Bees was named a Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a Good Housekeeping Book club Pick, a People Magazine Best New Book, an IndieNext Pick, a Library Reads Pick, a Christian Science Monitor Pick, a Washington Post Best Summer Reads, and named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by BookRiot, Bookish, Nerd Daily, The Tempest, Midwestness and others. Eileen’s memoir, How to be a Sister, was named an Indie Next by IndieBound, a Target Book of the Month, and a Kindle Book of the Month.

 Her essays have appeared with Mom’s Don’t Have Time to Read Books, The Oregonian, PsychologyToday.com, and Creative Non-Fiction Magazine.

 Eileen shares her backyard with four chickens, wild birds of all kinds, and about 120,000 honeybees.

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

The Pause Button is an informal monthly gathering for poets and poetry enthusiasts! We will gather around the big table and take a moment to pause for poetry exploration. Bring a poem or two to share - poems can be written by you or by another poet. We will listen, discuss, and do a little writing with a writing prompt.

Free and open to writers of all levels of experience. No need to sign up, y’all just come!

5:30-6:30 on first Mondays.

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!

William Sullivan returns to PSB with his new book 50 Hikes: Central Oregon, and he has created a special slideshow for the event called "Wildflower Hikes for Mother's Day & Beyond"!

About 50 Hikes: Central Oregon:

Welcome to Oregon's recreational heartland! This full-color guide covers what to see and do around Bend, Sisters, Redmond, and Sunriver. In addition to 50 hiking trails you'll discover brewpubs, wildflowers, parks, dog walks, caves, museums, alpine lakes, waterfalls, backpacking destinations, and mountain bike paths.

Author bio:

William L. Sullivan is the author of 24 books and countless articles about Oregon, including a monthly "Oregon Trails" column for Eugene Weekly. 

A fifth-generation Oregonian, Sullivan began hiking at the age of five and has been exploring new trails ever since. After studying at Deep Springs College in the California desert, receiving an English degree from Cornell University, and studying linguistics at Germany's Heidelberg University, he earned an M.A. in German literature from the University of Oregon. He has been happily married to the artist Janell Sorensen for 50 years.

Sullivan's hobbies include backcountry ski touring (2-minute video), playing the pipe organ and harpsichord (1-minute video), reading foreign language novels, and promoting libraries. He co-chaired the campaign to build Eugene's downtown library, served on the Oregon State Library Board, and is president of the Lane Library League, a citizen group with the goal of extending library service to the 80,000 people in Lane County who currently lack service.  

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

Join Partners In Care for our first community book club! This book club is free and open to anyone in the community and will be held the second Wednesday of each month from 10 – 11 am at Paulina Springs Books. Our first gathering will be on March 12!

Partners In Care will provide books to everyone attending. The first book will be The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margo by Marianne Cronin.

If you are interested, kindly RSVP so the appropriate number of books can be ordered! You can RSVP by calling the Book Club leader Bethany Benefield at (541) 706-0567 or by emailing communityevents@partnersbend.org

Bethany Benefield, the book club leader, is the Partners In Care Transitions Coordinator for the Redmond and Sisters communities, where she is dedicated to supporting medically fragile folks and their families. With a background as a licensed Community Health Worker and a B.S. in Social Entrepreneurship, she is passionate about promoting equity and empowering others. Outside of her work, Bethany enjoys spending quality time with her husband and two children, nurturing her lifelong love of reading, and sharing her enthusiasm with those around her.

About Partners In Care:

Partners In Care has been serving Central Oregon for over 45 years as the region’s leading and most trusted nonprofit hospice, home health, and palliative care provider, redefining hope for our community since the beginning.

We provide care to communities throughout Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties. Our largely mobile workforce of over 200 employees serves patients and their families in a 10,000 square mile area. Nearly 200 local volunteers work with Partners In Care in fundraising, resource coordination, and other areas of community support.

As the name Partners In Care suggests, our multi-disciplinary team not only serves patients with life-limiting illness and families during a most difficult time, but it’s also a valuable partner with other community resources and organizations, coordinating compassionate care and meeting a broad spectrum of care needs for many population segments.

About The Devil’s Pulpit & Other Mostly True Scottish Misadventures:

Georgia—"Part travel journal, part memoir, part story about a friendship, The Devil’s Pulpit & Other Mostly True Scottish Misadventures seamlessly weaves together prose and poetry like a harmonic musical chord," says Marjory Wentworth, former South Carolina Poet Laureate and author of One River, One Boat: Occasional Poems and Other Stories.

"Rooted by a mutual longing for information about family history, poet E.J. Wade and prose writer Karen Spears Zacharias travel to Scotland, 'where myth and legend riddle reality' to discover fundamental truths about where they come from and who they are in the world. Both writers bring an anthropological perspective to every encounter, creating a text that resonates far beyond these pages."

On the heels of a global pandemic, two post-menopausal Appalachian women, one black, one white, abandoned hearth, home, and spouses shrugging in dubious wonderment to live and study abroad together in a university flat along Scotland's River Ayr.

Poet E.J. Wade and author Karen Spears Zacharias roamed from the depths of Finnich Glen to the outcroppings of Dunure Castle. Sometimes wishing they'd been raised by Buddhist Monks instead of by foul-mouthed chain-smoking Appalachian mothers, these two University of the West of Scotland grad students embraced the wandering spirits of their matriarchal ancestors and left no ScotRail ticket unused.

In Glasgow's Sloans Ballroom, as musicians reimagined the compositions of writer and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho, they danced a cèilidh. Along Edinburgh's High Street, Wade performed a salsa. Hiking past windsurfers and golfers, they went in search of fairies and unearthed magical moments. They snuzzled Highland coos in Stranraer and stood gap-mouthed before the Falkirk Kelpies. Somewhere along Scotland's northernmost tip to its southernmost brigs, they forged a friendship that defies generations of racial animosity. At its heart, this collection is the rediscovery of friendships first formed through studying and mucking about.

Author bio:

Karen Spears Zacharias is an American writer whose work focuses on women and justice. She holds  an MA in Appalachian Studies from Shepherd University and an MA in Creative Media Practice from the University of the West of Scotland. She lives at the foot of the Cascade Mountains in Deschutes County,  Oregon, where she volunteers with the League of Women Voters. Zacharias taught First-Amendment Rights at Central Washington University and continues to  teach at writing workshops around the country. Learn more about her at www.karenzach.com. 

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

We are excited to host PSB Fiction Book Club! Third Mondays from 5:30-6:30 pm.

Jane Kirkpatrick celebrates release day for her new novel Across The Crying Sands!

About Across The Crying Sands:

In 1888 Mary Edwards Gerritse is a witty and confident young woman who spends as much time as possible outdoors on the rugged Oregon coast where she and her husband, John, have settled. The two are a formidable pair who are working hard to prove their homesteading claim and build a family. But as Mary faces struggles of young motherhood and questions about her family of origin, she realizes that life is far from the adventure she imagined it would be.

After losing the baby she's carrying, grief threatens Mary, but she finds an unconventional way to bring joy back into her life--by taking over a treacherous postal route. As Mary becomes the first female mail carrier to traverse the cliff-hugging mountain trails and remote Crying Sands Beach, with its changing tides and sudden squalls, she recaptures the spark she lost and discovers that a life without risk is no life at all.

"Jane Kirkpatrick's writing evokes a powerful sense of the challenges and strengths of women who settled the West."--SANDRA DALLAS, New York Times bestselling author

Author bio:

Jane Kirkpatrick is a New York Times best-selling and award-winning author of over 40 books and numerous essays for over 50 publications throughout the United States including The Oregonian and Daily Guideposts.

She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times in 2012, the Caldera Achievement Award from The Nature of Words in 2006, and the Distinguished Northwest Writer award in 2005 from the Willamette Writers Association.

Her works have sold over two million copies, and have won prestigious literary awards such as the Wrangler (National Cowboy Museum), WILLA Literary (Women Writing the West), Will Rogers Medallion (Will Rogers Foundation), and the Carol (American Christian Fiction Writers).

Her many historical novels, most based on the lives of actual people, speak of timeless themes of hardiness, faith, commitment, hope, and love.

Jane speaks internationally on the writing and the power of stories. Her presentations reflect stories of inspiration and courage believing that our lives are the stories other people read first.

She is a Wisconsin native and graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Communications and Public Address and holds a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Clinical Social Work.

Prior to her writing career, she worked with Native American families on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Central Oregon as a mental health and early childhood specialist for seventeen years. She was also the director of the Deschutes County Mental Health Program in Bend, Oregon.

Jane and her husband Jerry now live in Redmond Oregon with their dog Ruppert.

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!