Practicing attorney and mother of two, Natashia Deon pleaded with her publishers not to release her first novel, “Grace,” this summer. “Are you kidding?” she said. “Nobody’s going to notice ‘Grace’ if you release it in competition with all those two-million-dollar books.” But people have noticed. “Grace” received extraordinarily glowing reviews from the New York…

Idyllwild resident Jeffrey Turner is modest and taciturn. He also is extraordinarily accomplished in his field of architecture and design. “You can build anything you can dream,” said Turner. “That’s what I like about architecture — the fantasy.” Turner will talk at the Idyllwild Library about his dream career and particularly his experience as project…