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Winter Reading
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Practice You: A Journal by Elena Brower.
Sounds True, $16.95.
k Hopi Prophecy Now: One Heart Awakening
by Adom. Sacred Media $16.95.
Walking Each Other Home by Ram Dass.
Sounds True, $24.95.
Mandala Meditation Coloring Book
Sterling Publishing, $14.95.
Chakras Made Easy by Anodea Judith,
Hay House, $14.99.
The Very Marrow of Our Bones by Christine Higdon. ECW
Press, $16.95.
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt. PGW, $16.
k Weather Woman by Cai Emmons.
Red Hen Press $16.95.
She Felt Like Feeling Nothing by R.H. Sin.
Simon & Schuster, $17.99.
k Beer Hiking Pacific Northwest by Rachel Wood.
Toysmith, $19.99.
A Winter’s Promise: Book One of the Mirror Visitor
Quartet by Christelle Dabos. PGW $19.95
Truck Full of Ducks by Ross Burach. Scholastic, $17.99.
Stalker, in California in the ’70s and ’80s. That timeline, as
well as interviews with retired detectives, family members
of victims, victims themselves and other normal people
trying to solve a decades-old mystery, all come together in
a captivating narrative brilliantly reported by McNamara,
who unfortunately passed away a few years before I’ll Be
Gone in the Dark’s publication. She is survived by her
husband, comedian Patton Oswalt, who helped finish the
book. Sacramento police made an arrest of a suspect a
month after the book was published. — Meerah Powell
k Sagebrush Collaboration: How
Harney County Defeated the
Takeover of the Malheur Wildlife
Refuge by Peter Walker, Oregon State University Press,
$19.95
When a ragtag bunch of armed militants took over the tiny
headquarters at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge one winter
day in 2016, journalists from around the country converged
on the nearby eastern Oregon town of Burns. Much of the
national media got the story wrong in fundamental ways,
casting it in romantic terms of an uprising of local gun-totin’
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cowboys against the overbearing government. A journalist
who got things right was University of Oregon geography
professor Peter Walker, who — being on sabbatical that
term — packed his car and headed to Burns as soon as he
heard about the takeover.
Walker wrote extensively that winter on social media
about the alienation felt by locals from the occupying
militants, who — had they done any homework — would
have realized that Harney County was probably the least
likely region of the rural West to support such an uprising.
What the Bundy family and its followers never understood
was that ranchers, business owners, tribal leaders and
environmentalists in Harney County had been engaged
for decades in the often dull and always difficult business
of negotiating agreements over regional land-use issues,
from protection of the refuge to establishment of a federal
wilderness area on nearby Steens Mountain. All those
parties didn’t necessarily love one another, but they had all
earned mutual respect.
Walker’s excellent and readable book about the
occupation not only gets the details right — he pretty much
lived in Harney County that winter and got to know all the
players well — but sets the story in the greater national
context that’s now defined by President Donald Trump.
Walker calls the occupation an abject failure. “Ammon
Bundy seemed unable to grasp that, for most Harney County
citizens, his cowboy hat did not make him local,” he writes.