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Jun

7

2021

Red, White & Royal Blue novel by Casey McQuiston (cover)

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Red, White & Royal Blue
by Casey McQuiston

Queer history, modern royalty, enemies to lovers; this book is funny and sweet, and it does not disappoint! –Kelly, Paper Boat Booksellers, West Seattle, WA Treat yourself to romance, great gay characters, and other forms of happiness this summer with recommendations from Paper Boat Booksellers and more independent bookstores. Paper Boat Booksellers also curated a wonderful list of LGBTQIA+ books for Pride Month! Don’t forget that McQuiston’s newest book, another delightful romcom called One Last Stop, is available now, too.

Jun

4

2021

Borrowed Copy

Kazu Kibuishi’s “Amulet” Gets a Salt & Straw Ice Cream Flavor!

Portland-based Salt & Straw Ice Cream created flavors for its pint of the month club to go with kids’ summer reading! Each of the five pints is inspired by a different Scholastic author’s book or series. One of the flavors, Fruit of the Gadoba Tree, comes from the Amulet series by WA author and illustrator …

Jun

3

2021

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Bestseller Spotlight: Geographic Titles

Every Thursday, we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. This week, a sense of place came up in quite a few titles. Some you can find on a map. Tokyo Ever After Emiko Jean (#5 Young adult) Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker (#13 paperback …

Jun

2

2021

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

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The House in the Cerulean Sea
by TJ Klune

Now, doesn’t this look like a lovely way to spend the day? Inspiration courtesy of Cannon Beach Book Company in Cannon Beach, OR. Deb says if you haven’t read The House in the Cerulean Sea yet you’ll want to get it in your #TBR pile ASAP! It’s a quirky, heartwarming, tender, funny, feel-good tale that will …

Jun

1

2021

Borrowed Copy

“Snark Sells”: (Surprising) Blind Dates with Books from A Good Book

From A Good Book in Sumner, WA: It’s been one of those “making sh*t up” weeks. We do Blind Date books at the bookstore, and they’ve morphed from traditional blind date sorts of profile to Snark in a Brown Paper Wrap. It turns out that snark sells. Over the last few years, I’ve done more …

May

31

2021

Borrowed Copy

Montana Author David Abrams on Memorial Day

From Montana author David Abrams on Facebook:  If the two war books I’ve published could be each assigned a holiday, BRAVE DEEDS would be the Memorial Day novel, and FOBBIT the one for Veterans Day. Brave Deeds honors the dead, Fobbit praises the still-living. By its very nature, Brave Deeds focuses on preserving the memory …

May

28

2021

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Secret Garden Books’ Customers Donate Books to Send to US/Mexico Border

From Secret Garden Books in Seattle, WA: The smiling-under-their-masks pair you see to the left are longtime Garden customers Lua and her mother Noelia. The table before them is covered with books they chose from among our selection of bilingual Spanish/English books for children. These books are now ready to be shipped off to the …

May

27

2021

Thursday Themes

Bestseller Stoplight: By the Numbers

Every Thursday, we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. This week, we noticed a lot of numbers in titles. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig (Hardcover Nonfiction, #7) The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Hardcover …

May

26

2021

Daughters of Yalta book cover

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The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, the Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz

The Daughters of Yalta is a wonderful companion to Eric Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile, which topped two of our booksellers’ Best Of lists last year. Catherine Grace Katz’s debut book will satisfy the appetite of any reader who is hungry to know more about the unique connection between the Churchills and the Harrimans. Katz also …

May

25

2021

We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker

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We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker

We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker is… wow. Proof that I need a bit more faith in the good authors because Pinsker went places with this story I was not expecting and that is glorious! In the near future, Pilot is released. It’s a small brain implant that allows the brain to come close to …

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