From BOLD Coffee & Books in Portland, OR: Come help us celebrate one BOLD year! It’s been a transformative year of new friends, tasty drinks, delicious food, brave books, and events galore. We are deeply grateful to our incredible community for welcoming us and bringing us to this first milestone. On Saturday, October 18, please …
The first 2025 Pacific Northwest Book Awards celebrations have taken place! More are planned! Amy Hevron— Log Life, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA 2/11/25 Tara Karr Roberts— Wild and Distant Seas, Book People, Moscow, ID 2/13/25 Cat Bohannon— Eve Ravenna Third Place Books, Seattle, WA, 6:00 pm 2/26/25 Chris LaTray— Becoming Little Shell, Fact …
Congratulations to Watermark Book Company of Anacortes, WA. Everyone is invited to celebrate! From the bookstore: Watermark Book Company is celebrating its 35th anniversary! We are celebrating all week 11/11- 11/17: All week long raffle basket special – When you spend $100+, you can enter to win the raffle basket of your choice. We have …
From Phinney Books’ store owner, Tom Nissley: Hello many friends of Phinney Books— We are turning ten years old (!!) this week—on Thursday, June 20, to be specific—and we are celebrating that evening with a little party at the store. After we close at 7 pm, our door will stay open to visit with friends …
Congratulations to The Well-Read Moose in Coeur d’Alene, ID on their 10th Anniversary! Friday, May 31- Monday June 3, the store welcomes customers to celebrate with a 10%-off sale throughout the store and a prize wheel with even more ways for people to feel lucky. Swing by in person, on their website, or on their …
Grass Roots Books of Corvallis, OR hosted a triumphant parade and celebration from the previous location at 227 SW 2nd St. to the store’s new home, 251 SW Madison Avenue on March 9, 2024. A bagpiper led the way (see the photo acknowledgements below!) and some of the community carried bookish and bookstore-loving signs. Once …
So sweet! As someone who had not experienced this tradition, I loved being welcomed into Amira’s family’s culture and seeing family and friends celebrating her new baby sister in such a loving way. This would make a great baby shower gift. –Tegan, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA Celebrate life with books from Queen Anne …
I grew up reading Judy Blume and the Sweet Valley High series. Book after book, I never saw anyone on the page who resembled me or had similar family experiences. What’s worse—I didn’t notice. Then, in my early twenties, I attended a Native College where I was assigned to read novels by Indigenous authors. Wow, …
Books are always on my mind—what I’m currently reading, what I plan to read next, and what was most memorable about the book I just finished. Most often, when I’ve finished a book I’ve loved, I let it linger with me for at least several days before I pick up a new book—to think about …
This month Dudley’s Bookshop Café is celebrating 50 years of bookselling in Downtown Bend. It is rare for any retail business to survive for 50 years, but in a town that has seen as many changes as Bend, Oregon, to have an independent bookstore as a downtown fixture for so long is even more surprising. …
