Chuck and Dee Robinson, co-owners of Village Books and Paper Dreams in Bellingham and Lynden, Washington, have announced the sale of the business, effective January 1, 2017, to three current employees of the company — Kelly Evert, Paul Hanson, and Sarah Hutton. The three, along with Chuck and Dee, have been members of the Leadership …
Edmund de Waal’s upcoming nonfiction title, The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession, is causing a flurry of excitement at my bookstore. Another blend of memoir and history with magnificent art at its center, it has customers placing pre-orders in anticipation of its November 10 on-sale date. While you wait, might we suggest some other …
Village Books & Paper Dreams (Bellingham, WA) will open a location in the newly renovated Waples Mercantile Building on Front Street in Lynden, Washington. The building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, burned in 2008, and was later purchased by Bellingham architect Jeff McClure and his wife Debra. The McClures, along with …
Village Books in Bellingham, WA got national attention on CSPAN’s BookTV.
The regular literary variety program The Chuckanut Radio Hour celebrated six years on the air last month. And this announcement comes not from 1943, but from 2013. Live audience, corny emceeing, serial comedy, poetry interludes, live music and guest authors—this blast from the past has it all. As Shelf Awareness correspondent Robert Gray put it: …
“The focus of our business, our mission, has always been community. If we thought our mission was to sell books exclusively, we would’ve lost track of things a long, long time ago. Selling books, while that is incredibly important to us, is a strategy to help us create community . . . that whole idea …
“Kate Whouley recounts her mother’s journey into Alzheimer’s with heart-wrenching honesty and heart-warming compassion. The book explores the complex relationship of mother and child, the nature of friendship, and the world of aging and dementia. Ultimately, it is about what it means to be a caring human being. It made me laugh. It made me …
Over at the Village Books blog, co-owner Chuck Robinson, who’s been a leader in NW bookselling for the last 30 years, talks about the uncertain state of his profession and ponders a few ideas for the survival of indie stores. Village is recognized in the September issue of Fast Company Magazine as one of several …
