“I was happily thumbing through the bookshelf in a friend’s kitchen recently when I discovered Brother Victor’s cookbooks. This being the season for craving the warmth and comfort of homemade soups, I borrowed his soup cookbook first and have been delighted with the results. They’re simple to make, with wholesome and inexpensive ingredients and a …
“In this tender letter to his daughters, President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation. This beautiful book is about the potential within each of us to pursue our dreams and forge our own paths.”—Mockingbird Books, Seattle. Buy Of Thee I Sing from …
“This fascinating look at Washington history draws from marriage records, posters, tickets, letters, pictures and much more. A sky River poster, Twin Teepees menu, a letter from a wartime assembly center. IWW songbook, CCC history . . . It’s written by Museum of History and Industry Public Historian Lorraine McConaghy. Take a look.”—Karen, Elliott Bay Book Company, …
“Say yes to Delicious Gifts! So many great edible gift ideas! Now I can make lemon curd for myself and my pals.”– Jan, University Book Store, Seattle.
Livingston, Montana poet Michael Earl Craig was educated at the University of Montana, the University of Massachusetts, and the Kentucky Horseshoeing School. He has published three collections of poetry, most recently Thin Kimono, out last year from Wave Books, the highly regarded poetry press in Seattle. There’s no sense of the cookie-cutter in Craig’s poetry tool kit; his poems feature an unusually …
“Describing Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout’s poetry means attempting to condense work that is already piano-wire taut . . . The relationship to song in her poetry is similar to that in a Thelonious Monk composition. Rhyme and rhythm are at work, very intelligent, unexpected, but the music is interior—to read her poetry is to overhear …
“To the extent that a life can have an agenda, my life’s agenda for a long time has included some sort of deliberative writing about the poetry of William Carlos Williams as a payment or at least an acknowledgement of a personal debt,” says poet, novelist and essayist Wendell Berry. The result is this absorbing volume, …
“An acclaimed writer delivers an eye-opening depiction of an autistic boy’s daily life and lifelong struggles to exist in a neurotypical world, in a groundbreaking novel told from the boy’s perspective.”—Mockingbird Books, Seattle
“Personal yet practical, Growing a Farmer includes the specifics of making cheese, raising cows, and slaughtering pigs, and it will recast entirely the way we think about our relationship to the food we consume.”—Third Place Books, Seattle Timmermeister lives on Vashon Island, Washington and will read at Third Place Wednesday, February 23 at 7 pm.
Tegan Tigani discovered Queen Anne Books in 1999, after driving across the country to be with her boyfriend (now her husband). “I pulled through Steven’s Pass on a cold night in February,” she says. “After stretching my limbs and getting a good first night’s sleep in Seattle, Jordan suggested a little tour around our new …
