Happy Thanksgiving!
We are grateful for you! Thank you for reading with us.
Thursday Themes: Scoundrels, Scofflaws, and Ne’er-do-wells
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. Antivillains, naughty characters, unreliable narrators, and downright evil individuals star in or inspire some of our bestsellers …
Tíos and Primos by Jacquelin Alcántara
A great book for kiddos who don’t speak their family’s native language or are not fluent in their family’s language. Second culture kids will relate to this book about meeting extended family when visiting their parent’s home country. As a Filipino-American kid visiting the Philippines, I couldn’t speak Tagalog or my family’s local language Pangasinan …
Bestseller Spotlight: Black and Blue
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. Last week we were excited about yellow covers. This week, one of the hardcover fiction bestsellers made …
Bestseller Spotlight: Fancy Edges
On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller List is published. Every week, we love to see what books have been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. In recent publishing history, the first big hit book with fancy, sprayed edges …
Mettlework by Jessica E. Johnson
Mettlework is available through your favorite independent bookstores.
Happy Independence Day!
Have a safe and happy 4th of July!
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
If you read our newsletter, you know I adored Bertino’s absolutely bonkers previous novel Parakeet. Well, I loved this one more. Adina, born in the late 1970s, learns at a young age that she is an alien sent to observe human life (she reports to her home planet via fax). Her observations are both witty …
A Short Walk Through A Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
A single drop of blood on a sheet of paper was the first sign. Soon, blood was gushing and her body wracked with pain. Nine year old Aubrey was rushed to the family doctor. but the time she arrived there, all was fine. Returning home, the sickness all began again. Aubrey had to leave the …
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside
A middle-aged woman wakes up and finds an invisible wall has been put up, a little ways outside where she is staying. This wall extends infinitely and everything beyond the wall is frozen in time. She finds no people living near her. She is terrified and thinks it might be some military experiment gone wrong. …
