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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Historical fiction from the author of The Drunken Botanist (and co-owner of Eureka Books, a bricks-and-mortar shop in northwestern California).

Constance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mold. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters into hiding fifteen years ago. One day a belligerent and powerful silk factory owner runs down their buggy, and a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks, bullets, and threats as he unleashes his gang on their family farm. When the sheriff enlists her help in convicting the men, Constance is forced to confront her past and defend her family — and she does it in a way that few women of 1914 would have dared. ISBN: 9780544409910.

Eureka, California: MountainHome Publishing, 2014. 400 pages. Extensively illustrated. Both Sides of the Bluff is a place-based history of the lower Eel and Van Duzen rivers, Table Bluff, and south Humboldt Bay (central Humboldt County, California). In addition to an opening chapter on the area's Indian tribes, 31 separate places are given chapter-length treatment, from Scotia to Fields Landing and from Hydesville to Centerville.

Over 180 photos and line-art images, drawn from more than a dozen different sources, illustrate a century's worth of significant people, places, and events. A map portfolio provides detailed views of the area's main cultural features. The text includes numerous "stand alone" stories along with a chronological account of each location.

More than 2,500 endnotes provide the sources for virtually all the factual statements contained with the book. Author Jerry Rohde is a local historian and consultant who has written several books about the region and its natural history. ISBN: 9780964026131.