I am reading Firestorm by Nevada Barr..
apparently a story about a fire fighter..
who has been involved in major incidents
in the hills near here.

Also am an interesting
book that recently arrived in the mail:
New World Utopias, A History of the Search for
Community by Paul Kagan--a study of intentional
communities in the Western U.S. from 1870 to 1975.
the author went on to establish the
Utopian Studies Center at Calif. Historical
Society library.

I also have enjoyed reading a few of D.M. Bryant's
book...Dorothy Bryant wrote The Comforter: The kin of Ata
are waiting for you, and a few others.
here is an interesting reading list:
http://bbs.bapho.net/bbs/h-drive/magicka/readlist.caw