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Broadway Books’ Customers of the Month

Bonnie and Bob Olds were May’s featured customers of the month of Broadway Books (Portland, OR). You can can peruse their book picks on Bonnie and Bob’s book pages, or in the store on the shelf above staff recommendations. To preview past customers of the month please go to Broadway Books’ website. Q & A with Bonnie and Bob Olds Carrie: Do you have any formative book memories you’d like to share? Bonnie: Reading Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw, which I discovered in …

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Hot Girls with Balls by Benedict Nguyen

Part love story, part volleyball tournament, part Instagram Live, all genius. This is the kind of satire that sticks to your bones. Nguyễn manages to describe our uniquely awful, vaguely post-pandemic online world without sacrificing loveable characters who never stop trying their best. I’m not one for sports, but I raced through this novel like …

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Reincarnation Blues: A Novel by Michael Poore

Milo has ten thousand chances to get it right – to earn his place in the cosmic soul. But Milo is already on life number 9,995, and if things keep going the way they have, instead of becoming one with everything, he may just slide off into nothingness. Still, there are plenty of laughs, heartbreak …

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Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss; colorful striped, whimsical illustration with a figure on a tall land feature

Thursday Themes

Bestseller Spotlight: Graduation gift ideas?

Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. We’re in graduation season, also known as “grads and dads” season. We think some of these bestsellers …

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The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez

I was introduced to Abby Jimenez through the audiobook of her second novel, The Happy Ever After Playlist, and I’ve never looked back. It’s still up there with my favorite audiobooks of all time, and since then I’ve immediately read everything she’s published. With each book, Abby gets better and better at putting her main characters …

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Reading with… Laurie Frankel

From Shelf Awareness May 8, 2026   Reading with… Laurie Frankel Laurie Frankel is the author of six novels, including Enormous Wings (Holt, May 5, 2026), a fresh, funny, timely story of bodily autonomy, women’s rights, elder rights, reproductive rights, family, love, grandmas, paparazzi, sex, profane priests, and hamsters. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington …

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Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin 

Shelly, recently single and unemployed, has moved home with her parents and started a new job at a plant nursery with the mysterious (and hot) Neve. What she doesn’t know is that a sentient, and perhaps violent, orchid named Baby is watching. A little queer, a little spooky, and a great horror read for spring. …

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Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester

Don’t let the bland cover fool you. This book was a page turner! It is full of plot twists and intrigue and tackles profound subject matter. Every successful marriage has its own private language. Does it? – Julie, Browsers Bookshop, Olympia, WA Grab a page turner from Browsers Bookshop and other independent bookstores. If you have …

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Thursday Themes

Bestseller Spotlight: Only in the PNW

On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller List is published. Every week, we love to see what books have been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we look for something special to showcase. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. Did you know that books on our bestseller list …

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Eager: The Surprising Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb

Once you read Ben Goldfarb’s Eager you will forever look at landscapes differently. Goldfarb explains the history and impact of beavers, from their role in indigenous cultures to their near-extinction from excess trapping for the fur trade to their remarkable recovery across much of North America. Eager shows us the beaver as not only “Nature’s …

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