Reading Frankie Ravan is like opening the windows of an Advent calendar; inspired by miniatures, pointillist paintings, and country quilts, the vignettes reveal a rural coming-of-age story full of adventure, delight, superstition, humor, and curiosity. Frankie--eight years old in 1958--grew up in Crawford's Nook, then on the old Ravan homestead on Upper Burnt Ruby Creek.During this period the mountain community was haunted by memories of untimely death. Frankie enjoyed his life with wonder until an awareness of these deaths entered his experience. He learned relief from the sadness of death when a nearly forgotten ancestor showed him how to look deeply into the beauty of the world. As he looked he sensed the presence of all those who had gone before; and they, too, were watching the world around him, hovering behind and above like vibrant images in frescoes on cathedral ceilings, observing something wondrous about their own and others' lives.

"Frankie, now in his late teens, leaves central Idaho's mouontain community of the late 60s and early 70s, bound for a wold painted by Vietnam and the ideas of a generation no longer moored to post WWII or post-Western settler values. Written in narrative, letters, and journals."--Back cover

"Everyone has met an eccentric couple, though not everyone has lived next door to them for years and unwittingly been a part of their lives. Beanie and Larry are the neighbors whose every experience amounts to an adventure, indeed, a lifetime of adventures that all begin simply and openly, then never end."--P. [4] of cover.

"International bankers are gathered in New York City at the height of the world debt crisis of the 1980s to chart a course through danger, but one of the lead negotiators for America's top banking consortium turns up a corpse after a night of routine dining, carousing, and reserved indulgence. P.I. Paul Baxton, a studious lover of New York City street history, turns up the suspects and works with all the usual agencies sent to tackle the questionable death. When bureaucrats, spies, and police think they have the operative cornered, Baxton-who journeyed as far as Seattle for clues-nudges an unusual confession as everyone else is hoping to turn up a more promising lead." -- back cover.

Poems written about the heart of Idaho's Salmon River wildfire country.

Whimsical collection of short stories inspired by Post-It Note messages the author left on the telephone for his daughter.

Selection of poems about the Gold Fork country in central Idaho.

Collections of poems about the tensions between urban and rural life and the beauty that connects them.