October is always an especially exciting month in the bookseller world, not only because of all the new books being published but also because it’s the month when the books in the Best American Series® arrive in our store! This year’s guest editors are authors particularly well-known to and well-loved by Broadway Books denizens: for …
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 …
Whenever I travel, I can’t resist bookstores, and of course, while I’m browsing, I’m always looking for books I know and love. Above, I visited Book Passage in San Francisco, right in the Ferry Building. The store is managed by my friend and former Pacific Northwest bookseller, Cheryl McKeon. On the store’s staff picks, I found …
The 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction came as no surprise to many Northwest booklovers! Revisit our coverage of this fantastic novel by clicking on this link for an original essay by the author, reader recommendations, and much more. Congratulations to Idaho author and literary luminary Anthony Doerr!
People harbor certain assumptions about the Pacific Northwest, and they seem to get more incorrect the farther I get from home. Many folks think, for example, rain. But here in Boise we average just 12 inches of rain a year, only 6 more than Baghdad, and 31 fewer than Cincinnati. Other folks think, lumberjacks, but …
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 …
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 …
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association PNBA Award Committee announced a shortlist of 15 titles for the 2015 PNBA Award. Up to six of the shortlisted books will be selected as 2015 PNBA Award Winners; the winners will be announced in January 2015. Award Committee members will share reflections on the shortlisted titles on this site …
I read this on my recent road trip and loved it. Every time I see another book about World War II, I wonder from what new perspective could this possibly from. Anthony Doerr’s book is bittersweet, and beautifully written. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural …
“I read The Shell Collector last summer— the perfect season to enjoy this rich, first collection by Anthony Doerr. The stories have a strong sense of place, weaving between the balmy jungles and reefs of Africa to the brisk winters of Montana and the coast of Maine. The experience of reading Doerr’s stories leaves the reader on …
