Awards and Honors

Audience Suggestions at 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Preview

More titles were mentioned in the 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Awards preview. Readers have found many treasures from Pacific Northwest authors in the last year! All the Better Part of Me was suggested by Stephanie from Books Around the Corner. The store’s all-female Fiction Addiction book club discussed it and loved it. The book comes with a playlist of ’80s music. Alexa Butler from Beach Books (the committee chair) mentioned that a title that is a favorite with committee members …

Oct 11, 2019

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Oct

14

2019

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The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming by J. Anderson Coats

I should perhaps be focusing on Coats’s newest book, the middle-grade fantasy The Green Children of Woolpit, but it’s just come out and well, I haven’t read it yet. But I really want to, based on how much my daughter and I enjoyed Coats’s earlier novel, The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming. I can’t …

Oct

10

2019

Just In Case You Want to Fly

Awards and Honors

NW Booksellers & Librarians Buzz About “Just In Case You Want to Fly”

The picture book Just In Case You Want to Fly, written by Julie Fogliano and illustrated by Christian Robinson (Neal Porter Books/Holiday House), was voted BuzzBooks contest winner by booksellers and librarians at the 2019 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Tradeshow, Oct. 6-8, in Portland, OR. About 200 punch cards were handed out to attendees who …

Oct

9

2019

The Nugget cover

One Nightstand

The Nugget by P. T. Deutermann

Thanks to St. Martin’s Press for the Advanced Reader’s Copy of The Nugget by P. T. Deutermann. Mr. Deutermann is one, if not THE, best writer of WWII military fiction on the market today. Both he and his father served in the U.S. Navy as senior officers. The father served in WWII, mainly in the …

Oct

8

2019

Awards and Honors

2020 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Preview

On Monday afternoon, a roomful of booksellers from around the Pacific Northwest gathered to hear a panel of their peers, members of the PNBA Book Awards Committee, present for the 2020 Book Awards Preview.  Over 400 books have been nominated for the award. To be eligible, a book must have been published between October 1, …

Oct

7

2019

Best American Short Stories 2019

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The Best American Series® of Anthologies

October is always an especially exciting month in the bookseller world, not only because of all the new books being published but also because it’s the month when the books in the Best American Series® arrive in our store! This year’s guest editors are authors particularly well-known to and well-loved by Broadway Books denizens: for …

Oct

4

2019

Neverending Bookshop logo illustration

Borrowed Copy

From The Seattle Times: “A fairy tale in Edmonds: The Neverending Bookshop is a crafty destination for fantasy lovers”

by Paul Constant for The Seattle Times Once upon a time in Kingston, Kitsap County, a little girl fell in love with books. Annie Carl was born with a rare spinal birth defect called a lipomyelomeningocele — a fatty deposit at the base of her spine a little bigger than a pea. It’s a condition …

Oct

3

2019

Frankly in Love book by David Yoon

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Frankly in Love by David Yoon

I read Frankly in Love when the publishers sent an early copy, and I knew this was going to be a big deal in the young adult communities (or anyone who reads YA). There are a lot of elements to love about it, one of which is Frank’s voice. He’s real, he’s funny and he’s …

Oct

2

2019

Toil and Trouble by Augusten Burroughs

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Toil & Trouble: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

Do witches exist? And if so, do their spells really work? After reading this delightfully magical memoir, I certainly hope so. Known for his wicked humor in the face of real challenges, Burroughs does not disappoint in this latest tale, in which he comes out as a witch, descended from a centuries-long lineage of powerful …

Oct

1

2019

Troy Cummings and Asia Citro at Seattle Children's Book Festival 2019

Book Lovers At Large

Inaugural Seattle Children’s Book Festival a Smashing Success

Thanks to the hard work of festival organizers, volunteers, authors, and illustrators and the enthusiasm and patience of thousands of attending book lovers, the Seattle Children’s Book Festival was a tremendous success. The festival, held in playground tents and in the gym of Greenwood Elementary in Seattle, was full from opening at 11:00 beyond the …

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