Pride Colors

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Pride Month Book Suggestions

It’s not too late to celebrate Pride Month! Island Books of Mercer Island, WA has a great list of books for kids about acceptance and love on their website. You’ll find board books, chapter books, young adult books, and books for the young-at-loving-heart. Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle has been celebrating the days of Pride Month with a window display, a web banner, and daily Pride tweets. It’s day #21 of #PrideMonth and today’s feature book is Trans Mission: …

Jun 25, 2019

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Jun

24

2019

Fox 8 by George Saunders

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Fox 8 by George Saunders

This is a small treasure of a novelette with a big message. Fox 8, the narrator of the tale, is curious about the world of “yumans,” even as their encroachment (in the form of a shopping mall) threatens the habitat of his pack. To say more would give away the impact of the story’s ending, …

Jun

21

2019

author Richard Chiem

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Seattle Author Richard Chiem on Otherppl Podcast

From lithub.com Richard Chiem is the guest on [the podcast] Otherppl. His new novel, King of Joy, is available from Soft Skull Press. This is Richard’s second time on the podcast. He first appeared in Episode 142 on January 23, 2013. Chiem is also the author of You Private Person (Sorry House Classics), named one of Publishers Weekly‘s 10 Essential Books of …

Jun

20

2019

Conversations with Friends

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Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Of course the book with the word “conversations” in the title offers both compelling dialogue and characters that don’t know how to talk to each other. Rooney’s made something modern and cool of that oldest narrative plot– the extramarital affair. Usually I can’t stand such stories but this one hooked me and the ending made …

Jun

19

2019

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The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell

“1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian …

Jun

18

2019

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Reed, Sidney, Emma of Book People

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BookPeople of Moscow Celebrates Bookseller Graduates

From Carol Price, owner of BookPeople of Moscow in Moscow, ID: My three favorite teenage employees graduated from Moscow High School last weekend: Reed Spurling (my son), Sidney Williams, and Emma Seckington. They’ll all be going off to college in August: Reed to University of Arizona for aerospace engineering, Sidney to Georgia Tech for math, …

Jun

17

2019

Underland by Robert Macfarlane

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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
by Robert MacFarlane

I don’t think there is a square mile of ground on this planet where Robert Macfarlane couldn’t dig up a new, wondrous story. Underland continues the tradition of profound storytelling, reflection, and, quite simply, gorgeous writing we have come to expect from him. Macfarlane’s ventures into the underworlds of our planet, both mythical and literal, …

Jun

14

2019

Author Pete Fromm

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Q&A with Pete Fromm for A Job You
Mostly Won’t Know How to Do

The Country Bookseller in Bozeman, MT was very excited to welcome Pete Fromm back to the Country Bookshelf on June 11th for his new novel, A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How to Do. Bookseller Wendy Blake loved it: Marnie and Taz have it all– they love, laugh and work together, sneak off to swim …

Jun

13

2019

Emily Ruskovich. photo by Sam McPhee

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PNW Author Emily Ruskovich Wins Dublin Prize

Pacific Northwest Booksellers recognized Idaho author Emily Ruskovich’s talent with a 2018 PNBA Award for her debut novel, Idaho, and the world is catching on. Ruskovich won the Dublin Literary Award, the largest literary prize (€100,000) for a single novel published in English. Idaho won out over 140 other books nominated by public librarians around …

Jun

12

2019

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous cover

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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong is a pretty famous poet, and this is his debut novel. It is so beautiful, exquisite, raw, and heartbreaking that you question: how is this NOT a memoir? It is set all over the place–they moved quite a bit. The main character, Little Dog, is writing this book as a letter to his …

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