An excerpt from Forest Avenue Press publisher and author Laura Stanfill’s August 30, 2026 substack: […] The Sea-Glass Shore by Julie Salmon Kelleher[,] Forest Avenue’s Sept. 1 release[,] is a selkie story that is not about entrapment and escape like the original seal-person myth. It’s a novel about what it takes to stay—in a marriage, in …
Based on the author’s grandfather’s story, this book checks all the boxes for me: ✓ Family saga ✓ Historical fiction ✓ Espionage ✓ Reads like a thriller ✓ Page-turner ✓ Damn good –Judy, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA Find your next book that checks all your boxes at Queen Anne Book Company and other …
Each chapter of this book is a glimpse into the Rubinstein family and how it works and sometimes doesn’t (see the feud started by an apple cake). It is full of heart, conflict, forgiveness, laughter, and the complexities of parenting. An authentic portrayal of enduring, messy love. – Julie, Browsers Books, Olympia, WA Have your …
Some books come along and are such perfect gems that you want to tell everyone. This is my book to tell everyone to read. A beautifully written book about love, art, and family. —Kelly E., Village Books, Bellingham, WA When Mona experiences temporary blindness, therapy is recommended. Her grandfather, Henry volunteers to take her, but …
The River You Touch by Chris Dombrowski is a beautiful meditation on fatherhood, Montana, and a life dedicated to communing with nature. Dombrowski uses his beautiful poet’s touch to describe the wonder of Montana that we know and love. A book you’ll want to share with anyone and everyone! –Frances, Country Bookshelf, Bozeman, MT This …
From the author of The Nest, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s newest novel, Good Company, opens with main character, Flora, finding the wedding ring her husband Julian told her he’d lost years ago. Dropped into the middle, a moment in time that will affect the future and shade the past, Sweeney immediately pulled me into the narrative. I …
Trees: They provide shelter, sustenance, and sanctuary for vast numbers of creatures. They create the very air we breathe. And they are under threat. For generations, the Greenwood family lives with, destroys, fights for, and monetizes these gentle giants until their very existence is absorbed into the class system designed and upheld by the one …
Be sure to read the full list, with recommendations from booksellers around the country, but why not start here, with favorites from Portland and Seattle booksellers? John Rember, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World (University of New Mexico Press) Jeremy Garber, Powell’s, Portland: John Rember’s A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World collects …
In Black Brother, Black Brother, Rhodes looks at colorism, prejudice in schooling systems against people of color, and whitewashing in history all in a brilliant sports narrative. After being falsely accused of disrupting class at his private school and then arrested for being angry that no one would listen to him, Donte is encouraged to …
Three books new on the table this month all have to do with history: history of the past, history now in the making, and history yet to come. The Cold War may not seem like ancient history (to some of us, at least), and as Lara Prescott’s compelling new novel shows, its echoes can still …
