NW Book Lovers
From the Pacific NW Booksellers Association | promoting independents since 1965
  • Find a store
  • NW authors
  • Classifieds
  • Browse
    • N.W. Voices: Essays
    • Conversations: Interviews
    • The Storefront: NW booksellers
    • Face Out:
      Bookseller recommended
    • One Nightstand:
      Reader recommended
    • Award Winners
    • A Cup of News
    • Best Foot Forward
    • Doodles
    • Reading-Related Rambles
    • The Shelf Talker
    • Turning Pages
  • Indie NW Bestsellers
  • About Us
Browse: Home / Bernadette?

Bernadette?

Dec

22

2012

Day 22: From Bernadette to ‘8 Girls Taking Pictures’, Superb Books for Women

“Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple is our new go-to book for anyone who needs to get out of the doldrums, who needs a good belly laugh. A funny funny new novel by the author of This One is Mine, this rockin’ story takes on the PC world of Seattle (Microsoft, rampant blackberry vines, over-polite drivers, coffee shops on every …

Nov

1

2012

Maria Semple, You Can Stay

After years of writing for television shows like Ellen, Mad About You, and the cult favorite Arrested Development, Maria Semple turned her focus to fiction. Her first novel, This One Is Mine, was an Indie Next pick and received rave reviews across the country, from the New York Observer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Her second …

Aug

24

2012

Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
by Maria Semple

“In Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Maria Semple gives us a comedy of manners about the Emerald City that brings together everything we love about the television show Arrested Development (for which Maria was a writer), mixes in hyperactive modern parenting, adds a healthy dash of comedy about business culture, and tells the story of a mother and daughter …

Search

Facebook icon Twitter icon Instagram icon
What are you reading?

Advertising information

We recommend

Of N.W. interest

  • Book Nook Bits
  • Brad Craft: Used Buyer
  • Literary Arts
  • Northwest Passages Book Club
  • Oregon Humanities
  • Paper Fort
  • Powell's Books Blog
  • Propellor
  • Seattle Indie Bookstore Day
  • Seattle Review of Books
  • The Complete Epiphanies
  • The Oregonian
  • The Seattle Times

Of national interest

  • Bookstore Romance Day
  • Bowie Bookclub
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Independent Bookstore Day
  • Indie Bob Spot
  • Indiebound
  • LA Times Jacket Copy
  • largehearted boy
  • Literary Hub
  • New York Times Books
  • NPR Books
  • Salon.com
  • The Rumpus

On the industry

  • Algonquin Books
  • Book Publishers Northwest
  • Booksellers of America
  • Bookselling This Week
  • Northwest Assoc. of Book Publishers
  • PW Daily
  • Shelf Awareness

On kids’ books

  • 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast
  • From Tots to Teens

For library lovers

  • An Embarrassment of Riches
  • Awful Library Books
  • EarlyWord
  • Shelf Talk
  • Unshelved
  • Home
  • Find a Store: Plan a Visit or Shop Online!
  • NW authors
  • Classifieds
  • Indie NW Bestsellers
  • About Us

© 2010-2023 NW Book Lovers

A production of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.