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Sep

12

2025

Port Book and News: Clallam County Teacher Support

From Port Book and News in Port Angeles, WA:  Attention Clallam County Teachers! Teachers in our community come into the bookstore quite often to buy books for their classrooms. They are often paying for these books out of their own pocket. Port Book and News would like to share this cost of getting books into …

Apr

25

2025

Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day Saturday April 26, 2025

What do you love about independent bookstores? We love the books. Every store’s selection is unique. Discover the unexpected at an indie. We love the people. The booksellers and customers tend to be top-notch humans. We love the atmosphere. Different stores have different vibes, and we love exploring them. We love the community. Through personalized …

Jan

14

2025

Helping those impacted by CA fires

Tomorrow, January 15, 2025, Island Books in Mercer Island, WA will donate 25% of all their sales, including online sales from 9 am to 7 pm, to World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit that is providing fresh meals and clean water to people impacted by the California fires. You can also support bookstores and comic book …

Mar

12

2024

Grass Roots Books and Community Celebrate New Home

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 …

Jul

5

2019

Support your institutional libraries banner

Queen Anne Book Company Partners with WA State Librarians for Institutional Library Book Program

Queen Anne Book Company of Seattle is working with Washington State Librarians and its Institutional Library Services (programs under the WA Secretary of State) to collect book donations from wish lists and send them to institutional libraries around the state. The wish lists are posted on Queen Anne Book Company’s website, under the Community Support …

Jun

4

2019

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Shelves of books to mail at Books to Prisoners

Queen Anne Book Company Supports Books to Prisoners

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 …

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