“Paul Greenberg’s Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food is filled with good stories, good science and good writing! It’s a fascinating book with a worrisome message. My book group loved it.”—Mary, Annie Bloom’s, Portland
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the classic book about high school that I didn’t read until college. Luckily, it is about much more than high school: it reflects on loneliness, passion, frustration, and apathy. Each sentiment is presented here in the intimate form of a letter—from Charlie to you. You will be glad …
Josh Ritter, the talented troubadour who hails from Moscow, ID, will go on an altogether different kind of tour this summer—one to promote his new novel, Bright’s Passage, which debuts this Tuesday from Dial Press. Ritter shared with us this vignette about his hometown bookstore, BookPeople of Moscow: “I remember BookPeople from when it was …
“This first-time author has written a vivid account of his time as a fire lookout in a very remote section of the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. A bartender in Manhattan during most of the year, come the start of fire season Connors is back at his post at his lookout, escaping the madness …
As I travel around the region this year talking to people about my novel, Dove Creek, I’m often asked, “How did you persevere through 46 rejections?” Answering that question isn’t easy. And, actually, I don’t think it’s the right question. Why did I persevere through 46 rejections? And the answer to both is, I didn’t. …
“Marjorie writes lyrically about life and love in this moving, tender and often funny memoir. In it, she chronicles a time that was filled with change—a new husband, new house, and new garden—and even more challenges when her husband had a heart attack and builders proposed drastic changes to their college neighborhood. Throughout the book, …
If you’re one of the 3,423 Tweeters who follows Liberty Bay Books, you know that it’s Kitsap Beer Week, that the store has readers sunglasses in stock now that the sun is out, that their Wine & Book Club recently had a fabulous discussion about Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad and that the …
“You’d expect books written by an aerospace engineer with seventeen patents to his name to be a mind-expanding treatise on the possibilities of physics, but, instead, Jamie Childress’s great series is geared for 7- to 10-year-old children. You (and the kids) will be delighted to find that the science is just the chassis for a …
I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ages ago. I liked it then, but more so this time.
“I read Meno’s more recent collection of short stories, Demons in the Spring, last summer and absolutely loved them. These are a little older but just as heartbreakingly happy and bittersweetly sad. I can strongly recommend the collection to anyone who enjoys magic realism and honest, realistic fiction.”—Raquel, BookPeople of Moscow, Moscow, ID
