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Local Novelist gives Historical Women a Voice

Jane Kirkpatrick, award-winning author, focuses on celebrating women of the West
Avatar photo Cayla Clark

“Women’s history must be invented… both uncovered and made up.“ – Virginia Woolf Envisioning the wild, wild West leads to very specific imagery: dusty trails, tumbleweeds and rugged, leather-clad cowboys patrolling the countryside on horseback. Men certainly take the spotlight when it comes to historical depictions of the Old West. Author and longtime Bendite Jane […]

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Author! Author!

Literary series welcomes Lisa See
Angela Moore

Lisa See is looking forward to coming to Bend to talk about her latest and past books on Thursday, Feb. 25 as a part of the Author! Author! Literary Series put on by the Deschutes County Library. For $25, readers and enthusiasts alike can experience a rare look inside the mind of a best-selling author. […]

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Modern Day Ghosts

Best seller Garth Stein talks about his Pacific Northwest book
Christie Hinrichs

Imagine you’re walking through a pristine old growth forest, dense with splayed ferns and greened by waves of coastal mist. The air is cool beneath the thick canopy; you can smell muddy bark where it meets emerald moss and the tang of pine. In A Sudden Light, Garth Stein‘s new novel about a timber baron’s […]

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PICK: Author Jane Kirkpatrick

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wednesday 9 Author Jane Kirkpatrick READING—In the early 20th century at a sanitarium near Seattle, Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard starved women to death,  claiming it was a miraculous fasting cure. Author Jane Kirkpatrick explores that dark time in her novella “A Saving Grace,” about a woman’s attempt to rescue her friend from danger. 4 pm. Paulina Springs, 252 W. […]

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