Coyote Moon: How a Pioneer Woman Survived a Religious Cult, Personal Heartbreak, and Denied JusticeIn June 1862, a cannon blast at a remote Utah fort shatters a young girl's faith and binds her fate to a little‑remembered frontier war. Coyote Moon follows Emma Thompson from immigrant poverty and a breakaway Mormon sect to steamboat dreams, Montana mining towns, and the rough new settlements of Idaho, tracing the quiet revolutions of a woman who ke...

This is the story of the signs, the skunk, the crop dusting, the tragedy and the triumph of a man who was the essence of Idaho.

Idaho's state parks have been called the "jewels" of the Gem State. The story of how those jewels came to be involves political intrigue, much resistance, some philanthropy, and a touch of irony. Sen. Weldon B. Heyburn famously said that state parks were "always a political embarrassment." Idaho's first state park was named after him. Today, Idaho's 30 state parks host five million people a year. Visitors come to boat, camp, bike, climb, hike, fish, and make memories in the great outdoors....

Sam expected a new phone for her birthday. Instead, she got an old leather diary that was supposed to be some kind of heirloom. So, she wrote something snarky in it about the really, really great gift and tossed it aside. What was even the point of all those blank pages and no keyboard? Later, she noticed someone else was writing in the diary every day. First, she thought it was her dad, who gave her the awesome gift in the first place. He was playing a trick on her and pretending to be so...