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Congratulations to the Winners of the
2020 Pacific Northwest Book Awards

The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. The Association produces educational and promotional events and materials for its members and offers literacy, free …

Hooray for the WA State Book Award Finalists

The Washington Center for the Book (an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book administered by Washington State Library) has selected 30 finalists in seven categories for the 2023 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) for outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2022. This is the 57th year of the program, formerly called the …

The Reading Life, Interrupted: An Original Essay by 2023 PNBA Book Award Winner Kim Fu

I keep a spreadsheet that lists every book I’ve read since 2010. It’s the most consistent and representative record of my life that I have—a life spent reading. I can look back and see that I spent the summer of 2015 reading or rereading Jane Austen novels, and the summer of 2016, all of Sarah …

2022 Washington State Book Awards Finalists Announced

From the Seattle Public Library’s Shelf Talk blog August 23, 2022. Title links go to SPL page; book cover links go to Bookshop.org. Your local independent bookstore is happy to help you find these books! Congratulations to 39 finalists in eight categories for the 2022 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) for outstanding books published by …

Things You Don’t Know … All of It Lies Inside of Books: An Essay by 2021 PNBA Award Winner E. J. Koh

When I was fifteen, my parents returned to South Korea and left me behind with my brother in America. My mother started writing me letters in Korean, a language I could not fully understand at the time. Over a decade after she wrote me, I translated her letters into English. In one letter, she writes: …

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Awards

The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, …

2021 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Shortlist Announced

The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association is happy to announce the 2021 Book Awards Shortlist, selected by a committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. This year’s committee chose the following 12 finalists, crafted by Northwest authors and illustrators, from a list of nearly 400 nominated titles published during 2020. The six …

Celebrate 2020 PNBA Award-winning
Dylan Meconis and “Queen of the Sea” with Green Bean Books

How the world has changed since January, when the 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Award winners were announced and authors, bookstores, and publishers were making happy plans for celebratory events. Green Bean Books jumped at the chance to host the award presentation event for Dylan Meconis and Queen of the Sea. The original idea was to …

Upcoming 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Award Celebrations

Brick & Mortar Books of Redmond, WA fêted Ted Chiang for his win for Exhalation on Saturday, February 22, 2020. But there are more celebrations to come! Thursday, February 27, 2020, 6:00- 7:00 pm Wishing Tree Books, Spokane, WA Sharma Shields, The Cassandra Anne Walter, a friend and mentor of Sharma’s since she was a …

Choral Music: Fear, Rediscovery, and Bookselling: An Essay by 2020 PNBA Award Winner Sharma Shields

In 2008 I quit an all-consuming sales position in Missoula and tried to move with my husband to Lake Pend Oreille in the slim Idaho panhandle, where we hoped to rededicate ourselves to our writing. Mother nature had other plans for us, blanketing the Inland Northwest with record-breaking snowfall and rendering our little cabin in …

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