Initially skeptical to read a book about a young musician with just a couple albums out (who may not have even hit his creative peak yet), I quickly understood just why, in the year 2020, this book needed to come out. Using the framework of the 4 albums of Kendrick Lamar, Marcus J. Moore writes a …
Congratulations to the 2020 Washington State Book Awards winners! Winners selected are outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2019. This is the 54th year of the program, formerly called the Governor’s Writers Awards. An award is given based on the strength of the publication’s literary merit, lasting importance and overall quality to an author …
Baseball season is finally here! Check out these new books on America’s pastime. Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original by Mitchell Nathanson From the day he first stepped into the Yankee clubhouse, Jim Bouton (1939–2019) was the sports world’s deceptive revolutionary. Underneath the crew cut and behind the all-American boy-next-door good looks lurked a maverick …
At forty-five, Anne Spoerry became a member of the elite Flying Doctors Service, flying a plane solo across Africa to provide medical care to thousands of people. She was the beloved “Mama Daktari” and her bravery and compassion for those in need was legendary, but, as Hemingway reveals, her early life was deeply troubling—particularly her …
A curious memoir, gripping, lucid and raw. These are little vignettes of how the author has nearly died seventeen different times. Each chapter title is the name of the part of the body that would have been the cause of death: neck, lungs, spine, legs, pelvis, abdomen, head… It’s not a tragic or depressing book …
Iturbide is an amazing Mexican photographer who achieves poetry through what she captures with her camera. This graphic novel lets you wander with her through Mexico, India, the birds, and her thoughts. I discovered her with this book and fell immediately in love with her story and her pictures. –-Stephanie Silva, Queen Anne Book Company, …
Like a love letter to a rare way of life, James Rebanks shares with honesty and depth about life as a shepherd in the Lake District of England. Filled with joy and insight and beauty. –Kelsea, The Well-Read Moose, Coeur d’Alene, ID Take a bucolic break with a book from The Well-Read Moose and other …
Chris Dombrowski has traveled many of the most elegant, hidden, rugged waterways of Montana. He’s a husband, father, poet and fishing guide, and he’s one of the most generous men I know. If you have the grace of spending time with him, your mind and heart will be renewed, you’ll laugh a great deal, and …
