Books

Veronika Layne, a sassy tattooed, twenty-something newspaper reporter, stumbles upon a big story —
and has to beat deadlines as well as real estate developers before they destroy native burial grounds, all
while mismanaging her love life.

"A Catholic priest with questions. A penitent woman with a secret past. A jealous friend. The fourth in this lover's knot? God.

It is July of 1925 when fifteen-year-old Doris Bailey decides to keep a diary -- a place where she can openly confide her dreams, hopes, and ambitions. Doris is flirtatious, untamed, and romantic. These true diaries of a Roaring Twenties teen will charm you and open the world of 1920s Portland, Oregon, from a young girl's view.

"I'm glad I'm alive!" Doris Louise Bailey, a teen in the Prohibition era, struggles with a life-threatening bout of scarlet fever. And it's an apt summation of how she lived in the years following her brush with death.

“Julia Park Tracey’s Amaryllis is potent and true; clear, personal, risk-taking, breath-swiping, and above all, rewarding.”
–Dan Brodnitz, poet and webmaster, The Richard Brautigan Poem of the Day