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Bookseller Billie Bloebaum Featured as “Fierce Female” in Shelf Unbound Magazine

The August/September 2019 issue of Shelf Unbound, a publication focused on “what to read next in independent publishing,” features an interview with Third Street Books (McMinnville, OR) bookseller and Bookstore Romance Day founder, Billie Bloebaum. She was interviewed by Sara Grochowski, who has been a bookseller at McLean & Eakin Booksellers in Petoskey, MI and Brilliant Books in Traverse City. For the full interview, including some great romance title recommendations, click here.  August 17, 2019 marks the first Bookstore Romance …

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Author Andrew Shaffer: Sharing “Hope” –and Giggles

Author Andrew Shaffer and Wendee Wieking at Queen Anne Book Company

During his national tour for Hope Rides Again, the second Obama/Biden mystery, NYT bestselling humorist Andrew Shaffer filmed a special moment at Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle… Enjoy!

Co-starring Wendee Wieking, cinematography by Janis Segress

From the author’s facebook page:

America Doesn't Got Talent

I stopped by Seattle's Queen Anne Book Company to sign some books…and sing.

Posted by Andrew Shaffer on Thursday, August 1, 2019

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Jade Lady Burning

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Jade Lady Burning by Martin Limon

Over the years, while browsing for books to read, the name of Martin Limon kept popping up, but I paid no attention to the recommendations. I now regret those decisions. I attended the Tucson Festival of Books in March 2019, where I had a chance to hear Mr. Limon speak during a session of a mystery writers’ …

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Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

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Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens 
by Tanya Boteju

Nima may be awkward and a little lost in life, but she’s funnier than she thinks and so endearing. You can’t help but fall for her voice and feel for her situation. While she may think life is boring and want some changes, she doesn’t quite bargain for all she gets. Filled with kings, queens, …

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The Need by Helen Phillips

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The Need by Helen Phillips

It’s a commonplace (at least with me) to say that sometimes the best way to describe reality is to distort, enhance, or otherwise defamiliarize it through fantasy and speculation. Helen Phillips seems to agree with me, at least to judge by her intense, somewhat surrealistic fiction. The Need, a thriller about the anxieties of parenthood …

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Rediscovered Books' and Rediscovered Press's Owners Bruce and Laura DeLaney

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A Third Store for Rediscovered Books

This week, the world got the happy news that Laura and Bruce DeLaney, the co-0wners of Rediscovered Books, are opening a third bookstore! The DeLaneys started with Rediscovered Books on North 8th Street in Boise, which expanded in 2015. Then in 2018, they bought Rainbow Books, a used book store on State Street in Boise …

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The Electric State

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The Electric State by Simon Stalenhag

This extraordinary mash-up of novel and graphic novel (pages of text alternate with pictures) depicts an alternate early 21st century America ravaged by drone-fought war, in which the surviving populace spend most of their time languidly plugged into a massive virtual reality network. Our off-grid heroine and her robot companion are on a mission, the …

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2019

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The Chosen by Taran Matharu

This book is unputdownable! It is a fast paced, action packed book that melds notes of The Hunger Games and Jurassic Park together with a splash of Roman and South American history. The words weave together to create a world and characters filled with diversity and complexity that will keep you on your toes as …

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Awards and Honors

2019 WA State Book Awards Longlist

We know you’re never at a loss for what to read next, but just in case you want some summer reading inspiration, look at the wonderful titles by Washington authors and illustrators selected by bookseller and librarian judges. The 2019 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) are for outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2018, …

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All the Land book cover

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All the Land by Jo Lendle, translated by Katy Derbyshire

However many books German writer and editor/publisher Jo Lendle has written, this evocative novel of the life and work of Alfred Wegener, known ultimately for helping develop theories of continental drift, is the first to be given to us in English (and done in masterful manner by Katy Derbyshire). To arrive at that juncture there …

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