“So who might want to fall into the world of Little Century? Readers with some combination of these interests: historical fiction, coming of age stories, Northwestern history, settlers, cows, cowboys, native people, sheep, homesteaders, geology, printing presses, jokes about Swedes, jokes about chickens, jokes about horses, lupine, rabbitbrush, sage and juniper, moral quandaries, furtive kitchen …
We’re pleased to introduce you to Anna Keesey if you haven’t met her yet. Her debut novel, Little Century, came out this week and is already getting raves from all over the country. Keesey is a graduate of Stanford University and of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her work has appeared in a number of journals and …
Most Northwest booksellers have already seen and loved Little Century, the debut novel by McMinnville, OR resident and Linfield professor Anna Keesey. Cathy Langer, the lead buyer at the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, CO, has posted her review of Little Century, which pretty much assures the book of a huge national audience. Cathy says: “It’s …
“Recently orphaned eighteen-year-old Esther Chambers heads west to Century, Oregon to live with her only living relative, distant cousin and cattle rancher Ferris Pickett. As Esther stakes a claim on Ferris’s behalf alongside a small lake, she learns the ways of frontier life as well as the politics of the local town. In Century, the …
Congrats to Third Street Books in McMinnville, OR for a successful cash mob Thursday night. At the gathering, booksellers rang in 116 transactions in just over an hour, totaling about $3,400, owner Sylla McClellan tells us. “WOW!” she wrote in the store newsletter. “All I can say is WOW! . . . This was truly a community …
“Flatscreen is a fantastic coming-of-age novel: innovative in its narrative style, riotously funny and at times deeply poignant, somehow raunchy and endearing at the same time. The story of Eli Schwartz and his friendship with washed-up former TV actor Seymour J. Kahn is not easy to forget. And if you are not easily shocked by …
“One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a quiet and very moving fictionalization of prison life by one of the greatest contemporary Russian authors. Simply an account of one prisoner’s day, this book captures the dignity of the oppressed.”—Gordon, Third Street Books, McMinnville. Buy One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich from …
Today we checked in with Third Street Books’ Sylla McClellan to see how the weekend went following last Wednesday’s “Ditch Amazon” decree. McClellan says: “We had four people bring in their closed accounts – which was great. But more importantly, we had a lot of positive conversations with people about it (and great sales numbers …
Sylla McClellan is Past President of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and a scrapper of a small business owner (she runs two in McMinnville, Oregon). And she’s not going to take it anymore. If you are on her newsletter mailing list, today you received the following declaration. After you read this humdinger of a teaser, …
“Plenty is a fun and fascinating account of one couple’s attempt to eat only foods sourced from within 100 miles of their Vancouver BC home. They eat a lot of potatoes, bike to the farmer’s market in every kind of weather and discover pumpkin honey and the joy of eating a radicall buy dissertation y …
