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The publishing giant asked children’s book author Maggie Tokuda-Hall to make a drastic cut to the author’s note of her book “Love in the Library."

J. Ford Huffman May 10, 2021Updated: May 12, 2021, 6:27 pm “Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II” by Daniel James Brown. Photo: Viking In his 2014 book “The Boys in the Boat,” Daniel James Brown told the story of how the University of Washington’s rowing team won an Olympic gold medal. Brown’s latest narrative is about another bunch of working-class kids, whose lives were upended by the start of World War II. “Facing the Mounta...

Today we go back to March 2019. It was an all-out effort to find a Marine, missing in the snow packed wilderness of the Eastern Sierra. Other than his rental car, found on March 9, 2019, at his planned trailhead above Independence, there were no signs of missing Marine 1st Lt. Matthew Kraft. Kraft began his ski hike on February 24, 2019. He was to descend from the High Sierra trails by March 5, into USMC’s Mountain Warfare Training Center, located off the Sonora Pass, on Highway 108, 23 miles...