“A memoir that deftly evokes the bygone days of colonial Kenya, from breathtaking descriptions of the African panorama to harrowing accounts of pioneer aircraft flight. Although controversy surrounds authorship of this book, no one can deny that Beryl Markam (1902-1986) lived an extraordinary life. Her story is told with stunning grace and clarity. It is …
“Glenn Rockowitz, a writer and comedian, was 28 years old and mere months away from becoming a father when he was diagnosed with cancer. I have never read a memoir that was as honest and heartbreaking and yet somehow funny at the same time. His story can only be described as amazing.”—Andrew, Eagle Harbor Book …
“Never have I been more compelled by a novel whose main character’s traits and ethics I have every reason to abhor. This 1999 winner of Britain’s Booker Prize opens with the sexual exploits of a university professor in Johannesburg, who then moves, as a consequence of his actions, to his daughter’s rural landholding, where a …
“This is an amazing story, ably told by Smiley. Part Horatio Alger-style narrative, part science history, it’s a great synthesis of ideas—just like the origins of the computer. Wonderful photos, too!”—Mary, Eagle Harbor Book Company, Bainbridge Island, WA
We asked the booksellers at Eagle Harbor Book Company to document Jonathan Evison’s kick-off event for his recently released second novel, West of Here, for which the fanfare and uniformly rave reviews from booksellers have reached such high pitch, it almost feels like a parody. Jane Bowman, the store’s events manager, sent us this account of …
The University of Washington’s march to the 2001 Rose Bowl answered one of sport’s most enduring questions: If winning is everything, what are we left with? Scoreboard, Baby exposes the rot beneath a celebrated season —and the ruins left behind, showing how a community’s blind embrace of a football team compromised judges, prosecutors, police agencies, …
Last year the enterprising booksellers at Eagle Harbor Book Company on Bainbridge Island, WA, realized that they could produce their own books and have them printed at their fellow booksellers’ Book Making Machine. After talking about the details with their colleagues at Village Books in Bellingham, WA (a world away in NW terms), Eagle Harbor’s staff …
