Chris Enss

From the first pages of the introduction to the “matchup” suggestions made after each recipe, it’s obvious that author and grilling and barbeque expert Elizabeth Karmel is passionate about savory meats and luscious desserts.  Steak and Cake is a delicious collection of crowd-pleasing recipes.  Nothing is more comforting than a juicy steak with all the...

Ella Lazinka was an eastern Oregon cowgirl who won the world championship cowgirl relay race at the Pendleton Round-Up in 1912.  The following year she returned to defend her crown. The cowgirls’ relay race was run over a three-day period, two miles each day, with the rider changing horses every half-mile, mounting, dismounting, unsaddling, and...

What better time to pick up a new book? These summer romances from Kensington will give you all the feels. The Rebellious Rancher By Kate Pearce (Kensington) After his father decides to leave the ranch to his older brother, usually calm, steadfast Ben Miller struggles to deal with his resentment. When he’s invited to develop...

Little Joe was not what he seemed to be.  In fact, he was not a he at all.  But that fact was not revealed until much later. Josephine Monaghan was born to a prominent Buffalo, New York, family in 1847.  As a teenager she had a love affair, became pregnant and fled to New York...

Water sloshed out of buckets that were being passed quickly between the people standing in front of a house fire in the tiny town of North Platte, Nebraska. The water was frantically tossed onto the flames rising from Buffalo Bill Cody’s home. It was the winter of 1891. With the help of friends and neighbors,...

Twenty-one-year-old Anna Webber rubbed her eyes and leaned against the rough wall of the sod schoolhouse where she taught.  The view from the window of the small building framed the tall grass and wheat fields around Blue Hill, Kansas, perfectly.  A slight breeze in the middle distance brushed across the tops of cottonwood trees lining...

Night had fallen over Tombstone, Arizona, and every restless and rowdy character in the vicinity of the southwestern town had poured into the saloons and gambling dens to while away the hours until dawn arrived. The doorways of the numerous taverns that lined Allen Street were illuminated with smoky kerosene torches. Signs that hung over...

Born in Massachusetts in 1818 and educated at Oberlin College, Lucy Stone lectured widely against slavery and, on behalf of women’s suffrage, helped organize the first national women’s rights convention and the American Woman Suffrage Association and published the influential Woman’s Journal. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1847, Stone became a lecturer for the Massachusetts...

Mott began to speak at religious meetings, and three years later she was accepted as a minister of the Friends. She joined the Hicksite (Liberal) branch of the Society of Friends when a rift occurred in the 1820s, and in that decade, she began to travel about the country lecturing on religion and questions of...