[caption id="attachment_56924" align="alignright" width="409"] (Courtesy of Rough Water Press)[/caption] When we meet Dr. Katherine Stewart, she has arrived in Costa Rica, and she is pondering the mysterious…
[caption id="attachment_55908" align="alignright" width="300"] (Courtesy Ad Astra Rocket Company)[/caption] A young man flies down the road on his motorcycle. He’s weeping so hard that he can barely…
[caption id="attachment_53463" align="alignright" width="400"] Courtesy Marissa Kennerson[/caption] Whether you favor Harry Potter or Katniss Everdeen, Mary Lennox or The Three Investigators, “young adult” fiction tends to follow…
[caption id="attachment_53297" align="alignright" width="393"] Courtesy Michael Miller[/caption] In the guidebook world, you have to be gutsy to title your book “The Real San José.” Gritty travelers are…
Depending on where you are, Costa Rica seems flat, hilly, or mountainous. In turns, the country feels wet, dry, sandy, rocky, grassy, mossy, boggy, muddy, misty, sloped,…
A couple of weeks ago, I was riding in the back of a van through rural Guatemala, and I noticed the German guy next to me flipping…
[caption id="attachment_48337" align="alignright" width="384"] Courtesy Alonso Muñez Solís[/caption] In war, people take drastic measures. Some adopt a cause and fight. Others cling to their peaceful lives and…
In a way, “Palawan Story” is a novel about a clerical error: When young Kim escapes Vietnam during the civil war, she arrives in the Philippines. But…
Every book lover will have her own reasons to go: perusing new novels, learning of older authors or simply walking through a leafy jungle of hundreds of…
[caption id="attachment_35679" align="aligncenter" width="395"] Courtesy Kamel Press[/caption] One day in 2006, Albert Correia decided to write fiction. He had little experience. He had never published anything.…
