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Spotlight on The Neverending Bookshop

From Ingram’s INDIE WIRE Jan 3, 2020 Bookstore Spotlight: The Neverending Bookshop The Neverending Bookshop in Edmonds, Washington, is a new and used bookstore on a mission to match readers with their perfect book. What does being an independent bookstore mean for you? Everything! It’s a way to connect with my community through my favorite thing: books! My shop exists not just as a retail space, but as a place where imagination is lauded and people are made to feel …

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Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s by Tiffany Midge

Read. This. Book. It is laugh-out-loud funny and is a heartfelt tribute to grandmothers everywhere. For all you lit nerds out there: Midge’s sense of rhythm and pacing as a storyteller is impeccable. This book makes an excellent gift (pro tip: buy it for a friend and then borrow it from them). –Christina, King’s Books, …

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Bad Dog by Mike Boldt

Rocky is  very bad dog; she doesn’t do tricks or listen to her human’s orders. She’s very good at catlike things, though, like clawing things up and sleeping. Bad Dog has adorable seeping out of every page as Rocky’s human tells readers all about her! Every cat owner will find their own fluffy friends in …

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Chuck Palahniuk, photo by Sarah Lee

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Chuck Palahniuk: PNBA Knew Him When

In November 2019, Publishers Weekly published an article titled Is Chuck Palahniuk Too Big to Fail? An excerpt from that article: “Palahniuk is best known for the second book he wrote, which was the first he published: Fight Club. Released in 1996, the novel earned him an advance of $7,000. Far from an instant bestseller, …

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Celebrate the Legacy of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  “If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love.” So wrote Coretta Scott King. She continued: “I believe it is because this book best explains the central element of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence: His belief …

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Dylan Meconis by Chris Higgins

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New Worlds: An Essay by 2020
PNBA Award Winner Dylan Meconis

Like many children who suffer from an abundance of imagination and a shortfall of social skills, I was always on the lookout for a door into a more magical world. Narnia, Middle Earth, Starfleet, Sherwood Forest– I wasn’t picky. Anywhere with spaceships, swordfights, or telepathic dragons would do. Reality stubbornly refused to provide me with …

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They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker

This important graphic memoir manages to be both beautiful and heartbreaking. Known for his role on Star Trek, this book tells of his entire family’s story during the Japanese American internment in WWII. –sweet pea, King’s Books, Tacoma, WA “George Takei’s story reveals the important lessons of the WWII Japanese American Incarceration that still need to …

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Gallows Court by Martin Edwards

Edwards, an expert on Golden Age mystery fiction, delivers here a fast-clip work of psychological suspense set during the Great Depression. It imagines Jacob Flint, an oft-rash junior crime reporter for London’s Clarion newspaper, chancing upon what he sees as a scoop in Rachel Savernake, the bewitching, wealthy daughter of a notorious hanging judge, who’s …

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Corinna Luyken

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My Hearts: An Essay by 2020 PNBA Award Winner Corinna Luyken

The first time I saw a collection that took my breath away, it was on a small island in the San Juans, on the mantel of a fireplace at a friend’s mom’s house. It was an assortment of rocks that had been gathered and gifted over many years. There were different sizes, colors, and textures …

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Anyone by Charles Soule

Charles Soule is back with Anyone. Soule wrote an interesting near future SF novel called The Oracle Year a while back, and he’s tackling the near future again with Anyone. This time around, the premise is human consciousness can be transported between bodies. Naturally, this becomes both thrilling and terrifying (when you start to extrapolate some of the effects …

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