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Mar

2

2022

Virtual and In-Person Newberry Award Winner Event March 4 at Brick & Mortar Books

What: an in-person party honoring Newbery Award winner Donna Barba Higuera and outgoing winner Tae Keller Where: Brick & Mortar Books, 7430 164th Ave NE, Redmond, and streaming LIVE at Seattle Public Library’s Facebook Page When: Friday, March 4, from 6-8 PM, Pacific This will be an extraordinary night for book lovers! Brick & Mortar Books, Levine Querido, and Seattle Public Library will host this …

Oct

15

2021

Loaners book cover

LOANERS: THE MAKING OF A STREET LIBRARY; The Book and the Portland Book Festival Event

In 2011, Laura Moulton founded Street Books, a mobile library serving people living outside in Portland, Oregon. That summer, Ben Hodgson became one of her most dedicated regulars, setting the still-unbroken single-season record for borrowing. Then Ben’s routine’s changed, and he didn’t cross paths again with Laura for almost two years. Loaners is the story they began to tell when they reconnected, …

Oct

12

2021

Country Bookshelf Celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day and Indigenous Authors

Light up Peets Hill with the installation of illuminated teepees to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. The lodges honor the contributions of American Indians to our community, landscape, and culture, and will stand on the ancestral lands of the Bitterroot Salish, Pend d’Orielle, Kootenai, Blackfeet, Northern Cheyenne, Crow, Chippewa Cree, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Dakota, and other …

Aug

18

2021

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends New Voices edited by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington

Jessica has been really excited to explore the continued allure of King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table in these “remapped, reimagined, retold, intersectional, and diverse short stories. I’m also really looking forward to talking about this title in September with our King Arthur Remixed panel. I’ve been a King Arthur nerd …

Jul

16

2021

5

remarks

How I Saved a Bookstore and a Bookstore Saved Me

Amy Kane, who owns the bookstore in Haines, the tiny Alaska town where I live, tells everyone that my books, especially the most recent one, Of Bears and Ballots, published June 30, 2020, saved her business during the pandemic, but really, The Bookstore saved me. “Bottom line is without that book we wouldn’t be here,” …

Jul

6

2021

Take a virtual walk on the wild side with Catherine Raven, Country Bookshelf, and Books in Common NW

Wednesday, July 7th at 6pm the Country Bookshelf will be live with Catherine Raven and Tim Cahill to discuss Raven’s remarkable book Fox & I. This is an unforgettable story about the friendship between a solitary woman and a wild fox that all our booksellers are raving about. Register here! Ariana Paliobagis of the Country Bookshelf …

Nov

5

2020

Portland Book Festival, Nov. 5-21

Annie Bloom’s Books in Portland is thrilled to be partnering with Literary Arts for this year’s Portland Book Festival. Annie Bloom’s is the official bookseller for a terrific lineup of authors, including Veronica Roth, Jonathan Lethem, Raven Leilani, Rumann Alam, Claire Messud, Lydia Millet, and more! Click here for the full listing and more details.

Jul

17

2020

Judith Arcana with newspaper

Launching a New Book in Pandemic Times

[Broadway Books‘  July 13, 2020] newsletter links to a list of books by authors who were scheduled to read from their books at Broadway Books in April, May, and June. Some of the books are novels, some are collections of poems, stories or essays; some offer advice, directions, and instructions. The writers of those books …

Mar

4

2020

The Rise of Wolf 8 by Rick McIntyre

This account is the true story of a wolf born a runt who rose to become an alpha male in Yellowstone National Park. The Rise of Wolf 8 is the first book in a planned three book series following the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone from the perspective of individual wolves, like Wolf 8. McIntyre writes that …

Feb

11

2020

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Sharma Shields photographed by Rajah Bose

Choral Music: Fear, Rediscovery, and Bookselling: An Essay by 2020 PNBA Award Winner Sharma Shields

In 2008 I quit an all-consuming sales position in Missoula and tried to move with my husband to Lake Pend Oreille in the slim Idaho panhandle, where we hoped to rededicate ourselves to our writing. Mother nature had other plans for us, blanketing the Inland Northwest with record-breaking snowfall and rendering our little cabin in …

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