Until I was 12 years old we lived in the city, where our house was a short walk to two movie theaters that screened Saturday matinees for kids, matinees comprised largely of 1930s and 1940s westerns—I saw Roy Rogers before he came to television, saw John Wayne in his early horse operas before John Ford …
We’re delighted to announce the winners of the 2015 Pacific Northwest Book Awards! A volunteer committee of independent booksellers chose these six books from more than 250 nominated titles published in 2014. A Shortlist of 15 finalists was announced in November. Original essays from each of the winners will be featured on this site over the …
Abigail Rook has always wanted to pave her own way, going against her parents’ wishes of a college education and instead going on an archaeological dig. When her dreams don’t pan out, she cannot return home and face her parents so she instead embarks on a journey across the Atlantic to New Fiddleham in New …
This is a fascinating non-fiction story of paranoid psychosis brought on by prescription drugs. It explores the realms of philosophy, theology, and psychology in a voice that is both factual and humorous. Guppy is a practicing psychotherapist now, but he once lived and walked the halls of the mental ward in Seattle’s Providence Hospital. My …
Choosing just a few winning books out of a pool of nominees numbering in the hundreds sounds like an impossible task, but apparently, the PNBA awards committee manages to do it year after year. This year was my first time, and early on in the process, I was feeling overwhelmed. Then All the Light We …
I cannot say enough about Stasia Ward Kehoe’s The Sound of Letting Go. This book captured me from page one and did not let go. While looking through the hundreds of nominations we receive for the PNBA Awards, it is always a breath of fresh air to get to a book that is so different …
One of the greatest privileges I’ve had as a bookseller is serving on the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Awards Committee. The Shortlist of finalists was announced November 18. I didn’t know what to expect when I volunteered, but when the hundreds of nominated books began arriving at my house by the boxful I quickly …
