This summer, the staff at Beach Books in Seaside, OR put together a selection of their most-anticipated summer pre-orders. You can see the full list on their Instagram, but here’s a teaser from Alexa’s list. The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown, publishing August 12, 2025. (This not a sequel to beloved The Book …
My parents divorced when I was three, and my mother and I moved into a tiny rental house two doors down from a windowless tavern. Though I had my own room, it was at the back of the house, and just beyond the small backyard was a gravel alleyway. Some nights, drunk men would use …
Bob Comet is a retired librarian. One day he steps out of his mint-colored house to go for a walk. This walk becomes an adventure. Along the way, it turns out that Bob has had a few other adventures. And with spare prose–and a generous dose of humor and life wisdom–we discover, along with Bob, …
From Marissa at Grass Roots Books & Music in Corvallis, OR, originally posted on nwbooklovers on April 11, 2018: In Zumas’s all-too-familiar dystopia set in a small Oregon coastal town, Roe v. Wade has been overturned. The narrative explores the complexity of childbearing — both the desire for and not for — and the reduction …
This is from OR author Jane Kirkpatrick‘s Story Sparks newsletter February 15, 2022: …I have news about Letitia Carson, one of the first African American women to cross the Oregon Trail and later file two lawsuits that she won which was highly unusual in Territorial Oregon where Black persons were excluded by law. A Light in the …
Lynette has been saving for three years for a down payment to buy the North Portland house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother. The owner is giving them a good deal, but Lynette has lousy credit, so her mother has to take out the loan. However, at the last minute they …
It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. While big, national preorder campaigns for much-anticipated fall titles served up some fresh titles (like this and this) for the bestseller list, we also noticed that books with local connections …
From Oregon Live July 10, 2021 Portland-raised author Renée Watson is the inspiration for a campaign that Portland bookstore Green Bean Books is running on behalf of Vernon Elementary School this summer. The campaign’s goal: To sell 275 copies of Watson’s delightful chapter book Ways to Make Sunshine, which follows a Black girl growing up …
Today’s spotlight title: The Night Always Comes by Portland Author Willy Vlautin. Rene Denfeld writes on twitter: Book to put in your gotta-read this queue: this brilliant, realistic story of disenfranchisement, poverty and hope by the amazing Willy Vlautin. Sarah-Jane Roberts shares on twitter: *Dream Book Post Alert* Gracias @joshsm_th @FaberBooks for bringing me the …
