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Apr

6

2021

Borrowed Copy

The Seattle Times Profiles Spokane Author Kate Lebo

Prior to last night’s virtual event hosted by Third Place Books (Seattle), Village Books (Bellingham), Browsers Bookshop (Olympia), and  Auntie’s Books (Spokane), Rebekah Denn wrote a piece about Spokane author Kate Lebo. Read it to get some new book recommendations and a fresh look at a favorite author. Lebo’s newest work is The Book of Difficult Fruit. Inspired by twenty-six fruits, the essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends natural, culinary, medical, and personal history. A is for …

Apr

5

2021

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The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Poet Ross Gay tasked himself with what sounds like a job for a Hallmark greeting card writer: he spent a year looking for things that gave him joy, be they people, places, or events big or small. Unlike the sentiments usually found on schmaltzy greeting cards, though, the brief prose essays that Gay has written …

Apr

2

2021

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Green Bean Books’ Children’s Poetry Recommendations

Poetry is all around us and April is National Poetry Month! Here are some favorite new poetry books for children from Green Bean Books in Portland, OR: *Everything Comes Next by Naomi Shihab Nye *A Songbird Dreams of Singing: Poems about Sleeping Animals by Kate Hosford with illustrations by Jennifer M. Potter *Construction People by …

Apr

1

2021

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The Storefront

Virtual Event Alert: Garth Stein and Jonathan Evison Read the Phone Book

A group of Seattle-area independent booksellers are proud to invite to you to a special virtual event tonight, April 1, 2021 at 6:30 pm Pacific on Facebook. Beloved local authors Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain and more) and Jonathan Evison (The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and more) are joining forces to …

Mar

31

2021

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The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates

An enlightening, empowering memoir from an admirable woman. Melinda draws on her 20 years of philanthropy with the Gates Foundation, co-founded with her husband Bill, to give her readers concrete ways to lift and to help lift. Each chapter conveys a current issue of need, at home and in other countries. Her message is that …

Mar

30

2021

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Love and Appreciation for Beverly Cleary, 1916- 2021

Green Bean Books of Portland expressed what a lot of us are feeling after the passing of beloved Oregon author Beverly Cleary: It is with both sadness and immense gratitude that we reflect on the incredible life of children’s author, Beverly Cleary. So beloved by so many, she brought us a treasure trove of children’s …

Mar

29

2021

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Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin

Even as a diehard Le Guin fan, I was stunned by how much I loved this work of speculative fiction. As the main character visits fifteen alternate universes in order to entertain herself during an airport layover, Le Guin’s ability to breeze through an alternate “plane” or universe provides the magic of Changing Planes. The …

Mar

26

2021

The Storefront

More Women’s History Month Recommendations

Danielle of Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park, WA) shared a stack of books she recommends for Women’s History Month. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad …

Mar

25

2021

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Sky Island by Amy Chu and Janet K. Lee

This is the second graphic novel in the Trot & Cap’n Bill Adventures. Sea Siren Princess Clia comes from her undersea world to search for her kidnapped friend. Trot, Grandpa, and Cap’n Bill the talking cat come to her aid. Well-done illustrations really capture the story. (Ages 9-12) –Melissa DeMotte, The Well-Read Moose, Coeur d’Alene, …

Mar

24

2021

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Outlawed by Anna North

I got to read an early copy of Outlawed last year and have been impatiently waiting until it went on sale and I could share it. This book deftly recasts the Western genre through a queer, feminist lens, with lots of fun and adventure along the way. In an alternate 1890s where any woman who can’t …

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