When: Sundays & Mondays in July & August 4 - 7 p.m.

Where: The Parklet in front of Maria's Bookshop

Who: Local authors

What: We'll be hosting local authors to talk about about and sign their books for passersby on the sidewalk. Stop, say hi, and even grab a book!

4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Kristi Wilkinson

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. - Burton Baldwin

4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Annie Watson

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. - Karen Lovelien

Award-winning journalist Jonathan P. Thompson shows why this corner of the western United States has been at the center of the American public lands wars for over a century

I am so excited that this book is available in paperback and would recommend it to everyone. It is the future of good fiction.

Migrations is the American debut from Australian writer Charlotte McConaghy. Set in the not too distant future, it is the story of Franny Stone’s attempt to follow the 25,000 mile migration of the last few remaining Artic terns from Greenland to Antarctica. She convinces the captain of a fishing boat to help her on the premise that the terns will lead him to the last remaining fish.

It is a journey into the the past of Franny’s life of abandonment, neglect, romance and tragedy, and for the reader into the future of mass extinctions. We are given a visceral albeit subtle experience of what the earth will be like without animals or birds. To walk through a silent rain forest or learn of the last remaining wolf dying in captivity. We experience Franny’s heartache and aloneness and confusion equally as we feel her dive into artic waters.

McConaghy’s prose is vivid, stark and compelling. She gives us a complex, damaged and powerful female character and a glimpse into our future on earth if we don’t change our direction.