Local author presents novel at bookstore

Local author Bob Collins will present his novel "Sisters Crossing: Tall Tales from a Small Town" on Friday, October 6, at 6:30 p.m. at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters.

Collins serves up a fun murder-mystery novel set in Sisters. In a small town everyone knows everyone else and there are no secrets... or are there? In Sisters Crossing, there is forbidden love, madness, and a murder. The mystery of a serial killer is revealed as the small town characters tell their own stories in lyrical prose. Small-town secrets will be re-disclosed.

On Saturday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m., author Wendy Crisp Lestina will read from her memoir, "A Bit of Earth."

After 40 years of living away in various towns and cities around the U.S., Wendy inherits her family's farm and finds herself living on the far northern California coast.

For the last 15 years she has written a weekly newspaper column, "From the Back Pew," for the Ferndale Enterprise. Her memoir includes many of her humorous and personal essays. Wendy shares her journey of paths and choices made with a remarkable openness and bravery.