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Welcome Back, Liberty Bay Books!
Congratulations, Suzanne Selfors!

On Saturday, February 15, 2020, Liberty Bay Books reopened in its historic space in downtown Poulsbo, WA with a new owner and a new look. On February 1, Suzanne Droppert (who is still the owner of Ballast Book Co. in Bremerton) passed the Liberty Bay Books keys to children’s author and now bookstore owner Suzanne Selfors. Over the next two weeks, Selfors and a crew of family, friends, authors (including Lynn Brunelle, Maureen McQuerry, and Jennifer Longo), and booklovers transformed …

Feb 18, 2020

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Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch

This short story collection does what Yuknavitch does best—asks you to trade your life for a book that is just strange and beautiful enough for you to make the deal. I floated through these stories the same way I’ve floated through her other work, almost unaware of time passing. Her endangered characters make terrible and …

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Borrowed Copy

Book-It Repertory Theatre Presents “The Turn of the Screw” Through March 8

Seattle’s Book-It Repertory Theatre’s 30th season continues with The Turn of the Screw, adapted from the 1898 horror novella by Henry James. Adapted by Rachel Atkins and directed by Carol Roscoe, this production dives into the darkest corners of James’s most famous and haunting story, asking audiences to question who they trust and whose version of events …

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Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Every ten years a cold and fearsome wizard known only as the Dragon takes a young woman from Agnieszka’s village; it’s a sacrifice they must endure to keep their village safe from the corrupted, malevolent Wood. No one knows what the women must endure in the Dragon’s castle, but they always return changed. When Agnieszka …

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The Boring Book by Shinsuke Yoshitake

Yoshitake’s Still Stuck, the story of a boy who can’t get his shirt off, is one of our very favorite picture books [plus a Paulina Springs Books favorite, too], and in his latest, a child is confronted by an even more common, and more challenging, difficulty: being bored. Turns out being bored can lead you to wonder: …

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Sharma Shields photographed by Rajah Bose

Award Winners

Choral Music: Fear, Rediscovery, and Bookselling: An Essay by 2020 PNBA Award Winner Sharma Shields

In 2008 I quit an all-consuming sales position in Missoula and tried to move with my husband to Lake Pend Oreille in the slim Idaho panhandle, where we hoped to rededicate ourselves to our writing. Mother nature had other plans for us, blanketing the Inland Northwest with record-breaking snowfall and rendering our little cabin in …

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Frankie’s Food Truck by Educational Insights, illustrated by Lucia Gaggiotti

Vroom vroom, what is today’s special on Frankie’s Food Truck? The shape of the day is the secret clue with each flap revealing the coinciding food. Sprinkled with humor and mouth watering fun. –Jesica DeHart, Neill Public Library, Pullman, WA Brush up on days of the week, shapes, and foods and so much more with …

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My Quirky Valentine

A Delicious Indie Assortment: Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle Imagine a set of cartoon characters who appear to be alien beings but who experience many of the same daily joys and frustrations that we do. Then imagine that these beings are somehow naive and curious AND wise, with complex vocabularies and gentle senses of …

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Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker

Ware is looking forward to spending the summer thinking and dreaming. His parents have other ideas and sign him up for a rec camp, something he absolutely dreads. On his first day at Rec, he slips out the back door into the dream of a broken church. Unfortunately, the space is already occupied by a …

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Titanshade by Dan Stout

…And speaking of hardheadedness and fisticuffs, one of our favorite books from last year is out in paperback now. It’s Dan Stroud’s gloriously gritty Titanshade, and yes, that is a ’80s cop show cover slapped on a noir fantasy novel because dear readers, that is exactly what this is. It’s “NYPD Blue” meets, uh, something that …

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