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Life, love,jobs,girls—
the stories a tie could tell!
Memories,aromas, destinations,a
tie has experienced them all.
As you read about my journey,
may you remember some of
your own— and smile.
Regards, Beau Tye
In You Can’t Have It All, Coos Bay poet Annis Cassells
navigates the sometimes sparkling, sometimes treacher-
ous waters of family, identity, migration, and politics and
in the process shows us both how to hold on and how to
let go.
“So many poets write like they’re afraid someone might
understand them. These poems want
to be read.” –M.W.
Crossings: McCullough’s Coastal Bridges,
$24.95. Th e right man at the right place at the
right time created one of the world’s greatest
collection of bridges. Makes a great gift for
bridge afi cionados or engineering types.
--Pacifi c Publishing
Th e Crossings
Guide to Oregon’s Coastal Spans,
$15. Travel the coast from bridge to bridge––
full-page color photos. Don’t travel 101 without
it. Put in your backpack or keep in your glove
compartment. Makes a great souvenir.
--Pacifi c Publishing
Around Florence, $21.99. Th e history of
Florence from 1876 to the present is told
through 184 photos, most of which are historic
and from the Siuslaw Pioneer Museum. Makes a
great gift for newcomers to the area.
––Arcadia Publishing, Images of America series
Annis Cassells is a writer, teacher,
and life coach. Her stories and poems
have appeared in online and print
journals and magazines. You Can’t
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“Set in the 1980s in the rural community of Bidarkee Bay, Alaska, a fictional
area the size of a small state with a population of barely 20,000, Wander
is the story of Patrice “Pete” Nash, a young broadcast reporter who finds
herself facing the winter alone after her husband, Nate, accepts a job on
“the slope.” As Pete pursues the next big breaking news story, she strikes up
a friendship with the new guy in town, the Ivy League-educated Ren, who
recites poetry and lives in the family-owned, vacant inn. Their friendship
offers a glimpse of a different kind of life - one that seems to Pete to offer
everything marriage to the country-raised Nate does not. But unbeknown
to Pete, Ren has come to Alaska for his own dark reasons - to end his life.
By the time, Nate returns home, their lives have been irrevocably changed.
One man is dead, two others missing and a third forever lost to them.”
Devil Cat and Other Colorful Animals I Have
Known, $24.95. Five amazing animal stories
of which four are of rescue animals that made
great pets. Written as they actually occurred,
these stories form a memoir of the author’s life
as seen through her most remarkable pets. Great
illustrations by local artist Karen D. Nichols.
--Pacifi c Publishing
Th e Oregon Coast Guide to the
UNEXPECTED, $20.
Twenty-six defi nitely odd, most
unusual, and truly quirky locales
on the Oregon coast, from Astoria
to near California state line. Some
man-made, some created by nature
or show nature in action. But all are
unexpected!
––Maple Creek Press
(formerly Pacifi c Publishing)
2017 Winner of the Nancy Pearl Literary Award & finalist in
the International Book Awards for new fiction.
LORI TOBIAS
Lori Tobias is a journalist of more than 25 years, including time at the Rocky Mountain
News as a columnist and features writer and most recently as a staff writer for The Oregonian
for which she covered the Oregon Coast for a decade. She currently writes a regular column
for Oregon Coast Today and freelances for numerous other local, state and national publica-
tions.
loritobias.com
www.facebook.com/Wanderbyloritobias/
crossingsauthor.wordpress.com/books
541-997-9170 • Judy Fleagle
Wander is available through Red Hen Press at redhen.org,
Amazon.com or by contacting Lori Tobias.
Festival of Books 2019
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