The Storefront

Duck, Duck, BOOKS! Rediscovered Books Post Goes Viral

Rediscovered Books of Boise and Caldwell, ID made a big splash when they captured a feathered browser on video and posted to social media. Oh, to be a duck loose in the bookstore 🦆📚📖 pic.twitter.com/vtrW6m4wWM — Rediscovered Books (@rdbooks) April 8, 2021 In the video, a duck saunters casually through the store, and the person filming asks, “Where are you going?” The duck replies with some conversational quacking. Among the books the duck seems to consider is Kitties on Dinosaurs, …

Apr 9, 2021

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2021

One Nightstand

The Malta Exchange by Steve Berry

I cannot believe that it has been five years since I read a Steven Berry novel. “So many books, so little time” is the quote of the day. The Malta Exchange is the book I just finished reading. As in most of Mr. Berry’s stories, there is an element of real history. In this case, …

Apr

8

2021

Face Out

Green on Green written by Dianne White, illustrated by Felicita Sala

[This picture book is] filled with stunning illustrations and poetic text and a subtle and sweet (but not saccharine) message. The reader tracks colors through the seasons with beauty and wonder. I just wanted to dive in and swim around in this book, and bathe in its “sunflakes.” –Jessica, Country Bookshelf, Bozeman, MT Bathe in …

Apr

7

2021

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Greenwood by Michael Christie

Trees: They provide shelter, sustenance, and sanctuary for vast numbers of creatures. They create the very air we breathe. And they are under threat. For generations, the Greenwood family lives with, destroys, fights for, and monetizes these gentle giants until their very existence is absorbed into the class system designed and upheld by the one …

Apr

6

2021

Borrowed Copy

The Seattle Times Profiles Spokane Author Kate Lebo

Prior to last night’s virtual event hosted by Third Place Books (Seattle), Village Books (Bellingham), Browsers Bookshop (Olympia), and  Auntie’s Books (Spokane), Rebekah Denn wrote a piece about Spokane author Kate Lebo. Read it to get some new book recommendations and a fresh look at a favorite author. Lebo’s newest work is The Book of …

Apr

5

2021

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The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Poet Ross Gay tasked himself with what sounds like a job for a Hallmark greeting card writer: he spent a year looking for things that gave him joy, be they people, places, or events big or small. Unlike the sentiments usually found on schmaltzy greeting cards, though, the brief prose essays that Gay has written …

Apr

2

2021

Borrowed Copy

Green Bean Books’ Children’s Poetry Recommendations

Poetry is all around us and April is National Poetry Month! Here are some favorite new poetry books for children from Green Bean Books in Portland, OR: *Everything Comes Next by Naomi Shihab Nye *A Songbird Dreams of Singing: Poems about Sleeping Animals by Kate Hosford with illustrations by Jennifer M. Potter *Construction People by …

Apr

1

2021

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The Storefront

Virtual Event Alert: Garth Stein and Jonathan Evison Read the Phone Book

A group of Seattle-area independent booksellers are proud to invite to you to a special virtual event tonight, April 1, 2021 at 6:30 pm Pacific on Facebook. Beloved local authors Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain and more) and Jonathan Evison (The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and more) are joining forces to …

Mar

31

2021

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The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates

An enlightening, empowering memoir from an admirable woman. Melinda draws on her 20 years of philanthropy with the Gates Foundation, co-founded with her husband Bill, to give her readers concrete ways to lift and to help lift. Each chapter conveys a current issue of need, at home and in other countries. Her message is that …

Mar

30

2021

Borrowed Copy

Love and Appreciation for Beverly Cleary, 1916- 2021

Green Bean Books of Portland expressed what a lot of us are feeling after the passing of beloved Oregon author Beverly Cleary: It is with both sadness and immense gratitude that we reflect on the incredible life of children’s author, Beverly Cleary. So beloved by so many, she brought us a treasure trove of children’s …

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