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Sep

7

2018

Bank on Bookstores piggy bank logo for Binc

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Bank on Booksellers Piggy Bank Auction
Starts Sept. 9, 9:00 AM, in the NW

100 of your favorite authors/illustrators/celebrities have come together to support booksellers and their families. These talented individuals have turned humble ceramic piggy banks into works of art to raise funds to support the Binc Foundation. Binc (The Book Industry Charitable Foundation) is the only non-profit that provides financial assistance to bookstore employees who have a financial need arising from an unexpected hardship and/or emergency circumstance. From a broken arm to a cancer diagnosis to a death in one’s family to …

Sep

6

2018

Where the Crawdads Sing

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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Truly, one of the best books I’ve read all year! The writing is beautiful and tender in this coming of age, love story, and mystery novel. This is the first novel by New York Times best-selling non-fiction writer and wildlife scientist Delia Owens (John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing), and the way she describes the natural world …

Sep

5

2018

Dawn by Octavia Butler

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Dawn by Octavia E. Butler

Dawn is complex, deeply compelling, and endlessly thought-provoking in its meditations on what it means to be human, who gets to be considered human, and what’s at stake in these categorical distinctions. Set in a dystopian future, Dawn’s chilling, unsettling narrative reminds us how the words we use and distinctions we make so urgently matter …

Sep

4

2018

Borrowed Copy

Seattle7Writers to Retire Nonprofit Service

An announcement from Seattle7Writers’ co-founders, Jennie Shortridge and Garth Stein: In July 2019, our nonprofit organization will celebrate its 10th anniversary, a milestone neither of us, nor the other founding members, could have imagined. It’s with a little sadness and a lot of satisfaction that we announce we’ll formally retire the nonprofit service organization aspect of …

Sep

3

2018

What Do People Do All Day

Happy Labor Day!

Here’s hoping you’ve enjoyed your Labor Day weekend! Some of us have to work on this holiday, but hopefully all of us get a little time to enjoy a good book. What are you reading?  

Aug

31

2018

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Awards and Honors

National Book Festival Saturday, September 1, 2018

The Library of Congress National Book Festival is an annual literary event that brings together best-selling authors and thousands of book fans for author talks, panel discussions, book signings and other activities. Over its long history, the National Book Festival has become one of the pre-eminent literary events in the United States. Attendees can interact …

Aug

30

2018

Citadel

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Citadel by Kate Mosse

After nearly 40 years as a book professional, I retired in 2011 and began traveling for pleasure. Many of the trips my wife and I have taken have a close relationship to books I have read. In 2011 we traveled to Carcassonne in southwestern France. I had read several books in which that part of …

Aug

29

2018

All the Crooked Saints

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All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater

Stiefvater uses her signature style of captivating characters and complex plot in this novel about a Colorado family that can perform unusual miracles. Switching from dark scenes in fantastical forests to a love song to the desert, Stiefvater celebrates the miracles that sit within us all. Like the owls that line its pages, this novel …

Aug

28

2018

This Is How It Always Is

Borrowed Copy

Island Books Cheers on WA State Book Awards Finalists

This was originally posted on Island Books’ tumblr It’s always a pleasure to see the list of finalists for the annual Washington State Book Awards, not least because the judges are some of our favorite people, local booksellers and librarians. We especially wanted to take note of this slate of books, though, since so many of their …

Aug

27

2018

Crazy Rich Asians

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Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

What a treat to have not just one fun book, but a whole trilogy to dive into this summer! I am so happy that I finally got around to reading the first of this sassy, compulsive series set in modern Singapore. The “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” elements combine with skewering social commentary and …

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