Tuesday, December 02, 2025

“Rancho del Llano Seco: Northern California’s Last Rancho, Butte County, California”

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“Rancho Llano Seco … is a historical 17,767-acre multi-purpose family ranch located in southwestern Butte County … ten miles southwest of Ch...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

“Designer Science: A History Of Intelligent Design In America”

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When UC Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson converted to evangelical Christianity, he “decided to devote his life to refuting Darwinism.”...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

“The Picasso Job: A Phoenix Thriller”

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It’s the present day, ten days before Yom Kippur, and in Folsom State Prison an Iranian inmate named Bijan “Renoir” Reza—known for his artfu...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

“Queenstown Bound: U.S. Navy Destroyers Combating German U-Boats In European Waters In World War I”

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In World War I, writes Chicoan and naval historian David Bruhn, “German U-boats sank over 5,200 vessels and came dangerously close to chokin...
Tuesday, November 04, 2025

“Happy-Go-Lucky”

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David Sedaris (Amy’s brother) brings his mordant wit to life’s upheavals, both large and small, in “Happy-Go-Lucky” ($19.99 in paperback fro...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

“Pumpkin Patch Surprise!”

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Longtime Chicoan Lori Chergosky taught for the Chico Unified School District for thirty-four years. She writes me that in years past her tea...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

“Magical Realism: Essays On Music, Memory, Fantasy, And Borders”

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LA-based author Vanessa Angélica Villarreal joined a group of students at Butte College last week to present “Speculative Writing as Time-Tr...