Mendocino historian Malcolm Macdonald discusses his recent book, The Mendocino Outlaws, and local poet Joycelyn Trigg reads from her poetry collection Vital Records.

The Mendocino Outlaws chronicles a gang of outlaws who murdered and terrorized Mendocino coastal residents in 1879 and 1880, and the heroic locals, including Doc Standley, who pursued them and brought them to trial.

Vital Records melds the two worlds of the South and the Northern Pacific Coast. It explores family dynamics, tragedy, and the combination of two cultures.

Internationally known author Jean Hegland from Season 2, reading from her book Still Time. Still Time is a book about a man and his family coming to terms with dementia and the end of life. And Fort Bragg fiduciary Maggie Watson from Season 4, about her end-of-life planning workbook, A Graceful Farewell.

Lori Pappas and Blake More, two rebels with something to say. Pappas reads from her inspirational memoir, The Magic of Yes, about childhood trauma, being an entrepreneur, and starting an NGO in Ethiopia. It's a book about finding the wise woman within you. More explores the human condition with her poetry collection, Dystopia Unplugged, a collection of searing poems and imagery that capture the pandemic and the division of our times.