“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “You can be a King. Stamp out hatred. Put your foot down and walk tall. …
The 2018 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Shortlist has been announced! A panel of nine booksellers from the region selected these twelve titles from over 420 nominated books. Up to six winners will be announced in early January 2018. For some history on the awards, click here. Here is the shortlist: All’s Faire in Middle School …
Dr. John Herrington, explorer, adventurer, and the world’s first Indigenous astronaut, read and signed his children’s book, Mission to Space, at BookPeople of Moscow in Moscow, ID on September 9. In the book, Herrington shares his passion for space travel and his Chickasaw heritage as he gives children a glimpse into his astronaut training at NASA and his …
First of all, Arbitrary Stupid Goal is not about football. (It’s just a funny cover.) It is, ostensibly, about the general store Tamara Shopsin’s parents ran in Greenwich Village, which they turned into a diner so they could keep making rent, and which became a small, secret legend. But it’s really about the old, weird Village, …
The March Trilogy is one of the most important graphic novels created. A superbly told history of the civil rights movement, John Lewis’s personal account of the actions of individuals and organizations throughout the South (but focused largely in Alabama) is a gripping, passionate, and richly detailed narrative of the events that would eventually lead …
