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 …
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 …
Wednesday, July 7th at 6pm the Country Bookshelf will be live with Catherine Raven and Tim Cahill to discuss Raven’s remarkable book Fox & I. This is an unforgettable story about the friendship between a solitary woman and a wild fox that all our booksellers are raving about. Register here! Ariana Paliobagis of the Country Bookshelf …
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. Maybe readers already had hydration on their minds because they knew about the heat wave; we notice that several of the regional bestsellers had water-related titles. The Sweetness of Water …
by Gabino Iglesias for High Country News Sept. 9, 2020 In a small Montana town, there’s a thing with feathers. Hope? Not so much. Maxim Loskutoff’s debut novel explores the fraught history of the Bitterroot Valley. In the foothills of the Sapphire Mountains in southwestern Montana, elk are bleeding. Some are dead. Others are still …
What a read! This gnarly tale of Sasquatch is nothing you have ever read before. It shows what you will do to survive, stopping at nothing to live another day! I blew through this book in a matter of a couple days and loved every second! When Mount Rainier erupts, it forces wildlife to move …
Karl Marlantes once again brings us an epic that can’t be put down, this time set in the forests and on the rivers of southwest Washington, all soon to be engulfed by logging and fishing. Deep River combines the story of immigrant siblings (from Finland) and a larger Scandinavian community, the desires of families escaping …
This is a book about family secrets and a ghost. Not new ideas, certainly, but Stein’s story of a young boy returning to the family mansion with his dad during a trial separation from his mother is, at times, gut-wrenching in the discomfort that dredging up the past brings. And this family has a particularly …
Growing up on the family ranch, Linda Finley fought hard to gain the acceptance and respect as a ranch hand that her brothers took for granted. Arlene Pile barely remembers learning to ride a horse and run machinery–she was so young. She learned to drive on an 8N Ford tractor with a buck rake. Lee …
National Book Award-winner Richard Powers (Orfeo) has crafted an epic environmental novel about the Pacific Northwest timber wars in the in the 1990s and the impending destruction of the last of the old-growth forests, whose trees might otherwise help save the earth. In the first half of the book, Powers devotes individual chapters to the lives …
