"Mysterious, graceful, and ever-clever, otters have captivated our imaginations despite the fact that few people have encountered one in the wild. In Otter Country, celebrated nature writer Miriam Darlington captures the fascination she's had for these playful animals since childhood and chronicles her immersive journey into their watery world. Over the course of a single year, Darlington takes readers on a winding expedition in pursuit of these elusive...

"In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez-known as Sito- was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was nineteen. His killer, Julius Williams, was seventeen. It was the second time the teens had encountered one another. The first, five years before, also ended in tragedy, when Julius watched as his brother was stabbed to death by an acquaintance of Sito's. The two murders merited a few local news stories,...

Saddle up! The latest issue of Gold Buckle just hit newsstands and its packed with everything you love about western sports and its lifestyle. Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is on the cover, talking about life, buying the famous 6666 ranch and his beloved show’s final season. In bull riding news, Dragon Slayer J.B. Mauney is calling it a career, the second season of the PBR Camping World Teams Series proved to be more exciting than the first

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Although she is considered the Queen of Country, Reba McEntire is many things beyond that. The aw-shucks, down-to-earth charmer from Oklahoma — who just happens to have 25 No. 1 singles and a place in the Country Hall of Fame — currently coaches aspiring singers on The Voice to spread her love of music to a new generation. She also created her own self-titled sitcom, which lasted for six seasons, and was a Kennedy Center Honors recipient. A

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"Spanning from 1891 to 2023, this bold new saga of the American West follows Ashton Maddox who runs the biggest Black Angus ranch in the country as he and County Sheriff John T. Drew do what their forefathers did many years ago: join forces against a common enemy" --

"In this heartfelt and unflinching memoir, two activists recount the nearly half century they've spent questioning authority while raising a family, building a self-reliant community, starting an organic farm, leading a farming organization, and experiencing the struggles and joys of living a purposeful life. Many Hands Make a Farm traces the journey of organic farming pioneers Julie Rawson and Jack Kittredge from their early years of bright-eyed...

Truman Capote makes whiskey-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier and Italo Calvino take a cynical view of the season and Selma Lagerlof and Angela Carter celebrate its miracles. Ranging from Cork to Lagos to the Wild West, and from...

"There's no such thing as rural America. Or, rather, as Steven Conn argues, "rural America" is a phrase that has been made to mean so many things that it doesn't mean anything. In fact, he maintains, rural America--so often characterized as in crisis or in danger of being left behind--has been shaped by the same major forces as the rest of the country since at least the end of the Civil War: militarization, industrialization, corporatization, and...

LeBron James and his childhood friends become the #1 high school team in the country, launching James's breathtaking career.

Television was experimental in its earliest days. But by the end of World War II. TV sets started to make their way into America's living rooms. Soon a tricklet became an avalanche. There were music, dramatic and variety shows in the early days, including Westerns and mystery shows. Through news and publich affairs programming, television witnessed the sweeping changes in the country and in some cases influenced the culture.