One Book Yuma 2025

The 2025 One Book Yuma selection is Off the Air by Christina Estes. Make this a true community reading event! Pick up your copy of Off the Air at your local library, or check out a digital copy from yumalibrary.org.

Jolene Garcia is a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona, splitting her time between covering general assignments—anything from a monsoon storm to a newborn giraffe at the zoo—and special projects. Stories that take more time to research and produce. Stories that Jolene wants to tell. When word gets out about a death at a radio station, Jolene and other journalists swarm the scene, intent on reporting the facts first. The body is soon identified as Larry Lemmon, a controversial talk show host, who died under suspicious circumstances. Jolene conducted his final interview, giving her and her station an advantage. But not for long. As the story heats up, so does the competition. Jolene is determined to solve this murder. It’s an investigation that could make or break her career—if it doesn't break her first.

Author Christina Estes will visit Yuma Wednesday, February 26th, to lead two community discussions:

Wednesday, February 26th • 3:00-4:00 p.m.
AZ Western College - MAC Lecture Hall #106
2020 S Ave 8E Yuma, AZ 85365

Wednesday, February 26th • 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Main Library - 1st Floor Meeting Rooms
2951 S 21st Dr, Yuma, AZ 85364

Christina Estes received the Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest. Off the Air features a TV reporter investigating the suspicious death of a controversial radio talk show host and was inspired by her career. Currently a journalist for the NPR member station in Phoenix, her reporting has appeared nationally on NPR and CBS, and in the Arizona Republic, Arizona Business Gazette and Phoenix Business Journal.

One Book Yuma is brought to you by Arizona Western College/Northern Arizona University-Yuma Academic Library, Yuma County Library District, Friends of Yuma County Libraries, Inc., Newspapers in Education, and the Yuma Sun.