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 …
BookPeople of Moscow was featured in the Wall Street Journal’s article, “The Tuscany of America,” by Matthew Kronsberg July 27, 2018. MY WIFE AND SON laughed at me when, for the third time in less than a mile, I stopped our rental car, stepped onto the gravel road and took yet another wholly inadequate cellphone …
Sidewalk Series: A life of books and happy people Bookstore owner engages in local government, organic food By Jennifer Ladwig, Moscow-Pullman Daily News staff writer, July 10, 2018 Life has taken her around the nation and the world, and she landed in Moscow, running a bookstore. Carol Price, owner and manager of BookPeople of Moscow, …
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 …
From the University of Idaho website. Keegan Lawler is a bookseller at BookPeople of Moscow in Moscow, ID. CLASS Creative Writing student creates resource guide to help others access queer literature There weren’t many literary resources for Keegan Lawler to turn to as a queer teen growing up in rural northern Idaho. Interested in the …
Author Shann Ray of Spokane, WA interviewed Butte, MT author David Abrams about Abrams’ second novel, Brave Deeds. Shann Ray: Your work is powerful, visceral, and moves readers to consider the heart of flawed characters. In so doing we consider our own flaws, and it makes us more humble if we open that door. What’s the …
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 …
“From the Saturday 4/29 edition of Moscow-Pullman Daily News. The turnout was great, we were mobbed with giggling children and adults on Saturday for the kickoff of Children’s Book Week, which was also a great Independent Bookstore Day for us too.” –Carol Spurling, owner of BookPeople of Moscow in Moscow, ID The caption reads: “Children …
You don’t have to remember the 1980s to deeply “get” this sweet memory trip back to the decade when video games, personal computers, and mixtapes were new. But if you did come of age in the 1980s, look out. All those awkward boy/girl moments, all those songs that comprised the soundtracks of your make-out sessions …
I’ve been thinking about the whole concept of America being “great,” and wondering what it is, exactly, for which Americans are nostalgic, and what it is about the present that is so frightening for so many people. We know that economic uncertainty creates a backlash against those we perceive as threatening to our well-being. But …
