Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Makuta
We love when an author visits their books in our stores! Here’s a post by Zoe Hana Makuta from her visit to Charlie’s Queer Books in Seattle. (Also: Zoe’s The Coven Tendency just came out in paperback this week!)
Celebrating “The Arguers” in Olympia
Corinna Luyken, Olympia author and illustrator, dressed as a character from her new picture book, The Arguers, for a special storytime and signing at Browsers Books. The book is visually stunning and very thought-provoking. The kingdom is known for its residents’ ability to argue, but sometimes all the arguments make it impossible to hear what …
Kicking off Great Summer Reading with Kelly Brenner at Paper Boat Booksellers
West Seattle’s Paper Boat Booksellers will host Kelly Brenner for an event celebrating her new book, The Naturalist at Home. Thursday, June 22, 2023 6:30 PM 7:30 PM Paper Boat Booksellers 6040 California Ave SW Ste A Seattle, WA 98136USA From Paper Boat Booksellers: Join us as we welcome local author Kelly Brenner, author of Nature …
Madison Books welcomed Alle C. Hall, author of “As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back”
From Madison Books, Seattle, WA: [April is] National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, which makes this an especially fitting time for us to host author Alle C. Hall. She [was with us Sunday April 16] to read from and discuss her new novel, As Far As You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back. The …
Dumplings = Love by Liz Crain
In her newsletter, Portland author Liz Crain wrote, “[M]y book will bring comfort + joy + love + fun + a new kitchen project to those who use it. I’m hoping that it will be a bright spot.” Dumplings = Love is indeed a bright spot, with a wide range of dumplings from many different …
Country Bookshelf Welcomes Community to “Hearth” November 7th
An Evening with Hearth From Country Bookshelf’s newsletter We are delighted to welcome editors Annick Smith and Susan O’Connor, alongside contributor Gretel Ehrlich, on Wednesday, November 7th at 6pm for a special evening of reading and discussion of their new anthology Hearth: A Global Conversation on Identity, Community, and Place. This powerful multicultural collection of essays, poetry, …
Seattle7Writers Cook Up Some Fun (and Fundraising) with Summer BBQs
Seattle7Writers, the nonprofit collective of Pacific Northwest authors, partners with independent bookstores this summer to introduce readers to favorite authors and raise money for literacy nonprofits. In July, Island Books hosted the Seattle7Writers cookout to benefit Team Read, a nonprofit organization that pairs struggling young readers with trained teen reading coaches for one-on-one tutoring after school and …
Montana Women from the Ground Up by Glacier County Conservation District/ Kristine Ellis
Growing up on the family ranch, Linda Finley fought hard to gain the acceptance and respect as a ranch hand that her brothers took for granted. Arlene Pile barely remembers learning to ride a horse and run machinery–she was so young. She learned to drive on an 8N Ford tractor with a buck rake. Lee …
Meet Peter Bagge at King’s Books April 1
Mark your calendars for this great event coming up at Tacoma’s King’s Books April 1. King’s Books is excited to welcome Peter Bagge to talk about his new graphic biography, Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story. Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling biography of Margaret Sanger, Fire!! is a dazzling graphic novel …
Hitting the Shelves:
Dog Gone by Pauls Toutonghi
The first nonfiction book by Portland novelist Pauls Toutonghi is on sale today, and Pauls will be touring the region starting tonight at Broadway Books. Broadway Books’ launch event for Dog Gone: A Lost Pet’s Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home will be an evening with a delightful duo, as a matter of …
