Many independent bookstores organize book collections to brighten the holidays for others. Please add more stores and their giving campaigns in the comments section. Beach Books, Seaside, OR: “At Beach Books we get wish lists from the four Seaside area schools. These ‘books’ are hung on our tree and customers get a 20% discount on a book …
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 …
Finally a book that represents a well-balanced diet, focused on individuals’ needs rather than a “One size fits all.” Keeping to D’Adamo’s guide for quantities and variety, I found this book to aid in not only improved health, but weight loss as well. –Kat Dudley, Beach Books, Seaside, OR Kick start your new year at …
When I find myself thinking about a book weeks after I’ve read it, quoting it to friends, and telling anecdotes from the story, I know I’ve found something special. This novel about the relationship between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas is one of those books. It feels so real I forget that I haven’t met …
“Caitlin never imagined when she picked a pen pal from a country she’d never heard of [Zimbabwe], that she was choosing the person who would be her life-long best friend. This is a true story of a friendship across continents that will keep you turning pages while it warms your heart and gives you hope.” –Maria Koehmstedt, Beach Books, …
March 23, 2015 To our dear friends who love books- After serving 4 years on the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association board, we’ve packed up our final board packets, wished our successors all the best, and headed west towards the Oregon coast. The plan is a 5 day tour that will take us to bookstores throughout …
Karen Emmerling, the owner of Beach Books in Seaside, Oregon, recently accepted the 2014 Clatsop Economic Development Resources Award for Business Service to the Community. “Among other efforts, Beach Books erects a wishing tree during the holidays to support Seaside School District, opens the store to local artists and visiting authors, and holds book drives for various …
Astoria’s alternative paper Hipfish Monthly published an article today with a comprehensive guide to some of the great indie stores of the north Oregon Coast and the southern Washington Coast. There are short profiles of a dozen stores and their owners. The Coastal booksellers are presented as a smart, hearty, lively group who run cozy shops and love what they do and are game for weathering the storms and uncertainties of bookselling.
“Trapped is told through the eyes of Scotty, a high school basketball player. To be a good friend, Scotty stays at school to help Pete and Jason build a go-cart, not thinking how intense the blizzard could be. But as the day goes on, the snow keeps piling up, forcing them to stay with only …
We love watching the videos that Beach Books (Seaside, OR) has posted with friends of the store reading from banned books. Among them, a Seaside High School teacher reads from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; a Seaside librarian reads from One Hundred Years of Solitude; Beach Books’ owner Karen Emmerling reads from …
