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Sep

14

2021

Congratulations to the WA State Book
Award Winners and Finalists!

Fiction Winner: The Cold Millions by Jess Walter (HarperCollins) Fiction Finalists: The Second Star by Alma Alexander (Crossroad Press) Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories by Donna Miscolta (Jaded Ibis Press) Vera Violet by Melissa Anne Peterson (Counterpoint Press) The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite (Avon Impulse) Biography and Memoir Winner: The Magical Language of Others by E.J. …

Aug

25

2021

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

I have been accused on more than one occasion of liking only weird depressing books, but I’d like to think that my love of this, the only book by one of the greatest surrealists of the 20th century, proves that I also like books that are just weird. Gleefully anarchic and stubbornly strange– a delightful …

Aug

11

2021

The Hunter and the Old Woman by Pamela Korgemagi

How long has it been since you walked through a lush forest, sipped water from a cool stream, sat on a boulder overlooking a landscape falling away to the ends of the Earth? A long time? Maybe never? There’s so much we miss about life in our helter-skelter crash through the underbrush of our civilized …

Sep

29

2020

2020 Washington State Book Awards Winners

Congratulations to the 2020 Washington State Book Awards winners! Winners selected are outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2019. This is the 54th year of the program, formerly called the Governor’s Writers Awards. An award is given based on the strength of the publication’s literary merit, lasting importance and overall quality to an author …

Jan

29

2020

The Wagers by Sean Michaels

When your stand-up comedy routines fail to entertain and your career is on the fritz, there’s nothing left but to join a gang of vigilante thieves and steal the luck from winners. When Theo Potiris gets sick and tired of the family grocery business and he can’t get a laugh out of anyone, his life …

Jul

29

2019

The Dead Ringer by MC Beaton

The Dead Ringer by M. C. Beaton

This British cozy mystery series focuses on a talented but deeply flawed detective. Agatha Raisin smokes, drinks, and is incredibly vain–on the other hand, she sure loves her cats! She doesn’t do much investigating in this one, focusing mostly on her always messy love life, but as a fan I enjoyed spending time in Agatha’s …

Sep

11

2018

balloons for Auntie's 40th anniversary

Happy 40th, Auntie’s!

On Saturday, September 8, 2018, Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane, WA celebrated its 40th anniversary. The store opened in 1978– originally under the name Book & Game Co. and owned by Chris O’Harra and Shannon Ahern. The store moved to its current location, the historic Liberty Building in downtown Spokane, in 1994. John Waite purchased the …

Dec

12

2017

The Wish Tree at Beach Books in Seaside, OR

Holiday Style: Bookstores Giving Back to the Community

Independent bookstores take pride in connections to their communities. Stores donate books to causes or host fundraisers throughout the year, but some stores have special holiday season drives, wish lists, or angel trees for the holidays. Studies show that for every $100 you spend at one of our local businesses, $52 will stay in the …

Oct

10

2017

PNBA 2018 Book Awards Preview

Wonderful NW Books Recommended by PNBA’s Award Committee

At the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show, the PNBA Awards Committee presented an overview of some nominated titles by northwest authors and illustrators that have captured their hearts this year. Committee chair Kim Hooyboer of Third Place Books (Seward Park, Seattle, WA) explained that this year a record-breaking 421 titles were nominated. She …

Aug

10

2017

The Marriage Pact

The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond

The world has gone wacko lately, and in the fictional world of The Marriage Pact, a secret group forms that ostensibly seeks to protect the integrity of marriage. With guidelines to follow to keep the worst from happening, it isn’t long before newlyweds Alice and Jake find themselves in trouble. One of them breaks a …

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