Reports from across the region are that Independent Bookstore Day 2025 was a successful and joyous celebration of independent bookstores. PNBA’s executive director, Brian Juenemann, and his daughter, Charlotte, visited Daffodil Books and Gifts Romantasy Store in Eugene, OR. It looks like the store (and its neighboring donut shop) were busy! PNBA’s Tiffany and Brian …
Seattle’s Phinney Neighborhood Association, in partnership with their local bookstore, Phinney Books, will host their 15th annual Holiday Bookfest Saturday November 23, 2024 from 2:00- 4:00 pm at Phinney Neighborhood Association, 443 N 67th St, Seattle, WA 98103. More than two dozen authors will be on hand for the 15th Holiday Bookfest! Books are great …
Bookstores and libraries are raising awareness about book bans and the importance of the freedom to read with Banned Books Week (September 18-24, 2022). From Brick and Mortar Books in Redmond, WA: WARNING: THESE BOOKS MAY CHALLENGE YOUR WORLDVIEW ⚠ Banned Books Week starts today (9/18) and runs through 9/24, celebrating the freedom to read …
In the Spring of 2019, troubling news rapidly spread through the Washington state book community that the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) had quietly banned free, used books from being mailed to prisoners through non-profit organizations like Seattle’s Books to Prisoners. After public outcry and the investigative journalism of Joseph O’Sullivan of the Seattle …
