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Liberty Bay Books Gets Sasquatch and Otter Reading List Book Bags to Kids

Liberty Bay Books is teaming up with Kitsap County librarians to bring book bags to families in need during this COVID school year. Each year WA State students read from the Sasquatch and Otter list and at the end of the year, they participate in a state-wide voting for their favorite book. This is a beloved activity of students and librarians alike. But this year, students won’t have easy access to their school libraries so Liberty Bay Books thought they …

Sep 25, 2020

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Show me the Honey: Adventures of an Accidental Apiarist by David Doroghy

The light went off as I watched a proud grandson selling honey from his sidewalk stand that he had collected from his dad’s hive. Figuring that creating my own hive might ramp me up in his eyes, I turned to this book. If a guy living on a houseboat in the Fraser River just south of …

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Afterlife by Julia Alvarez

Hands down one of the most lyrical novels I’ve read this year. What grows out of Antonia’s grief after a series of sudden familial losses is: resiliency, tenacity, and a deep, inhabitable wisdom. I can’t recommend this one enough. -Elise, Browsers Bookshop, Olympia, WA Read books you’ll want to tell your friends about. Find great …

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Linda Stewart Henley

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Exploring Art, Architecture, and Light: An Interview with Linda Stewart Henley, author of “Estelle”

Portland author Ellen Notbohm interviewed author Linda Stewart Henley of Anacortes, WA. She Reads recognized Estelle as “One of Summer’s Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Titles” for 2020. The novel is available now through independent bookstores.  EN: Tell us about Estelle. LSH: Estelle is an historical novel about the painter Edgar Degas’s five-month stay with his …

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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini

We have a new Christopher Paolini book. Now, Paolini, as you may recall, wrote a book about dragons once up a time, and it turned out that more than a few folks wanted to know what happened next. Paolini showed up for a few more books, and became somewhat of a wild success story (given …

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Ruthie Fear novel by Maxim Loskutoff

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High Country News Reviews Maxim Loskutoff’s Debut Novel, “Ruthie Fear”

by Gabino Iglesias for High Country News Sept. 9, 2020 In a small Montana town, there’s a thing with feathers. Hope? Not so much. Maxim Loskutoff’s debut novel explores the fraught history of the Bitterroot Valley. In the foothills of the Sapphire Mountains in southwestern Montana, elk are bleeding. Some are dead. Others are still …

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Pea, Bee, & Jay: Stuck Together by
Brian “Smitty” Smith

A pea, a strawberry, and a cherry roll into the garden… and dare the pea to see what lies beyond the farm’s fence. On his quest, Pea befriends the studious Bee and shy bird Jay. What an unlikely trio! This short graphic novel is the first in a new series, and it’s delightfully punny. I …

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Feminist YA Fiction Recommendations from Annie Bloom’s Books

Karen from Annie Bloom’s Books in Portland, OR recommends three recent YA titles on the theme of #MeToo (recommended for more mature readers). Red Hood by Alana K. Arnold is definitely about wolves and about frightened girls, but Bisou Martel isn’t willing to play the victim. The second person narration threw me in the first few …

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A Small Crowd of Strangers by Joanna Rose

Despite my natural pessimism, this book broke down my defenses and set me up to root for a well-earned, conventional kind of happy ending. But then it took a turn and became an altogether different story, leaving me to sputter along with the characters, “Unfair—this is not what I was expecting.” I was crushed. And …

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Trace Elements by Donna Leon

I love Donna Leon’s Brunetti mysteries! To me, her latest, Trace Elements, is one of her more “Italian” stories. There is a lot about the canals of Venice and Venetian politics, as well as a mystery that starts with the deathbed whisper, “They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no.” –Wendy B., …

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