Preorder through Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA for personalized copies of debut author Lily Meade’s thrilling YA novel, The Shadow Sister. Enjoy a live event with Lily Meade and Kendare Blake for the launch event June 27, 2023 at 7:00. Advance registration is required but free. You can register at the event page.
What do you get when you have donuts, an alien cult, and a writer’s missing ex-wife? A Joe R. Lansdale novel! Let the entertaining banter carry you through the revelations that our writer uncovers in the search for his missing ex-wife and her husband in connection with a local cult. –Abbie, Trail’s End Bookstore, Winthrop, …
And for all of you Regency fans out there, here is the latest in Ian Mortimer’s guides to time traveling through history. The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain is a handbook for folks who find themselves swept up in a temporal rift and deposited somewhere between 1789 and 1830. We’ll note here that if you end …
June is Pride Month! Our friends at Green Bean Books in Portland, OR, would love to recommend some LGBTQ+ books to help you celebrate: *I am A Rainbow! written by Mark Kanemura with illustrations by Richard Merritt *ABC Pride written by Dr. Elly Barnes and Louie Stowell with illustrations by Amy Phelps *Pink, Blue, and …
It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. This week, the “The ___” titles make an interesting story prompt. Creative writers, here’s some inspiration! The Guest Emma Cline (Hardcover fiction #13) The Postcard Anne Berest, Tina Kover (Transl.) …
A beautiful story about sisters, humanity, and what we owe each other. Cee has been stranded on an abandoned island for three years. She has no memories, but she knows she has a sister, Kaye, and Cee has to find Kay. Kasey lives in an eco-city, spending her time trying to figure out how to …
I met Hanna Halperin in Madison, Wisconsin in 2014. She was part of my MFA cohort, a sensitive and fiercely talented writer who wrote short stories about mothers and daughters, fraught family dynamics and soured relationships, and the kind of loneliness and discomfort we feel but cannot easily name. She had unique psychological acuity as …
A retelling of the Lin Daiyu tale from 1880s China to the American West. A story about fate and reclaiming your own history. –Michelle, Edmonds Bookshop, Edmonds, WA Finish AAPI Heritage Month strong with selections from Edmonds Bookshop and other bookstores, and keep supporting Asian authors all year long.
In this amazingly excellent dystopian novel, the main theme crops up often in the form of a quote from Star Trek: Voyager: “Survival is insufficient.” Besides the fact that I got the warm and fuzzies figuring the author must be a Star Trek fan, this quote perfectly describes the band of wandering musicians and Shakespearean …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. I often think of winter as prime time for comfort reads, but the recent bestsellers include some …
