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Seattle Stores’ Sanae Ishida Picture Book Promo

Sanae Ishida celebrates her third children’s picture book with a special promotion starting this Saturday at seven Seattle independent bookstores: Elliot Bay Book Company Kinokuniya Books Lake Forest Park Third Place Books Liberty Bay Books Phinney Books Queen Anne Book Company University Book Store Sanae is dropping off an amazing hand-made kame (turtle) submarine like the one Little Kunoichi, her grandmother, Ba-chan, and other friends ride in Ba-chan: The Ninja Grandmother at the each of the above participating stores. Anyone who …

Sep 21, 2018

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20

2018

Fear City

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Fear City by Kim Phillips-Fein

This book is a doozy, a colorful history of a specific time and place, which continues to have major implications today. New York in the early 1970s was facing many of the same economic problems as the rest of urban America: simultaneous blows of recession, inflation, and suburban flight sucked revenue out of the city and …

Sep

19

2018

The Night Child by Anna Quinn

Port Townsend Presents Dramatic Reading of “The Night Child” 9/20/18

Key City Public Theater, together with Northwind Arts Center, will be giving a dramatic reading from The Night Child by PNW author Anna Quinn at the William James Bookstore in Port Townsend, in the new annex (829 Water St., Port Townsend, WA) at 7:00pm on Thursday, September 20, 2018. PT Shorts is a free monthly program open to …

Sep

18

2018

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Hugo House Open House September 22, 2018

Lovers of literature in Seattle: celebrate the new home of Hugo House, “a place for writers,” on Saturday, September 22 from 5:00- 8:00 pm. The new space is at 1634 Eleventh Avenue, on the corner of Eleventh and East Olive — “10,000 square feet designed by and for writers and readers.” Hugo House invites the public …

Sep

17

2018

The Very Marrow of Our Bones

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The Very Marrow of Our Bones by Christine Higdon

I’m not giving anything away by saying that the mother in this story disappears without a trace (mostly) in 1967. It’s on the first page. But one thing I liked about this book is that I became so interested in the characters that I often completely forgot there was any sort of mystery/what happened element …

Sep

14

2018

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Every Ursula K. Le Guin TV and Movie Adaptation in the Works, So Far

by Beth Elderkin for i09 8/15/18 Stephen King isn’t the only author who’s becoming more and more prevalent on the big and small screens. It was just announced that Ursula K. Le Guin’s sci-fi novelette Nine Lives is getting a movie adaptation, adding to the growing pile of Le Guin works that are reportedly in the works. The accomplished author …

Sep

13

2018

The Iceman

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The Iceman by P. T. Deutermann

Many thanks to St. Martin’s Press for an advanced reading copy of P.T. Deutermann’s newest WWII military thriller, The Iceman. This is the 4th of Mr. Deutermann’s standalone WWII novels I have read. The previous books include Pacific Glory, Ghosts of Bundo Suida, and The Commodore. They all are about different ship’s captains facing primarily Japanese opponents during the …

Sep

12

2018

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

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The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
by Kij Johnson

Vellitt Boe is no stranger to the Call To Adventure. Vellitt Boe might be scared, but she’ll venture forth without hesitation regardless. After all, Vellitt Boe has a world to save, and gods be damned, she’s going to do it. Kij Johnson’s newest novella, heavily influenced by H. P. Lovecraft (The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath …

Sep

11

2018

balloons for Auntie's 40th anniversary

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Happy 40th, Auntie’s!

On Saturday, September 8, 2018, Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane, WA celebrated its 40th anniversary. The store opened in 1978– originally under the name Book & Game Co. and owned by Chris O’Harra and Shannon Ahern. The store moved to its current location, the historic Liberty Building in downtown Spokane, in 1994. John Waite purchased the …

Sep

10

2018

Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse

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Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse by Marcy Campbell, illustrated by Corinna Luyken

This was recommended to me by Alison, our Children’s Buyer, and boy, am I glad she told me to read it. This perfectly illustrated, character-driven picture book puts the reader in the mind of a young girl who instantly judges one of her classmates. Through her, we see how a child who is not innately …

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