Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company, author Eric Liu, and Citizen University welcome everyone to Civic Saturday, a new community meeting for inspiration, this Saturday, November 12, from 10:30 to noon. Join us for our first Civic Saturday – a low-key gathering that’s a civic analogue to church. Our founder Eric Liu will offer a sermon, …
From Phinney Books, the local bookstore for Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood: Saturday, on April 16 at 3 pm, we’ll be welcoming emissaries from our neighbors to the north at the Bureau of Fearless Ideas, the award-winning writing center: kid and grownups will read from their contributions to the new Encyclopedia Greenwoodia, a timeless celebration of our …
On Wednesday, March 16, after reading A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, the 7th graders at Naches Valley Middle School were introduced to a man who lived the book. Abraham Abei, originally from Sudan (later South Sudan) was one of the “Lost Boys” from the Dinka tribe who traveled with Salva Dut. For years he lived without …
Early in the morning on March 9, a natural gas explosion destroyed three businesses at 84th and Greenwood in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood of Seattle, 10 blocks from Phinney Books. The bookstore is holding a silent auction and donating all proceeds from sales on Friday March 18 will be donated to the Phinney Neighborhood Association’s Greenwood …
This week, Liberty Bay Books of Poulsbo, WA, celebrated the release of The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, with a double-crayon book story hour with their fantastic kids’ buyer, Madison. But the fun (and goodness) continues: Liberty Bay Books is offering a discount on the sure-to-be-bestselling new book for a …
Congratulations to Roger and Nancy Page, owners of Island Books of Mercer Island, WA. They have been chosen as Mercer Island Citizens of the Year for 2015! The pair has been selling books on the Island since 1973, so as their store blog explained, even though they’re not official residents, “they do spend more time …
