Independent bookstores have been big supporters of Antoni Porowski and his latest cookbook, Antoni: Let’s Do Dinner. The Emmy Award-winning author (the food and wine expert on “Queer Eye”) offers easy, fun, delicious recipes full of healthy ingredients and a few indulgences. His publicity team also sent around some life-sized cutouts of Antoni, so bookstores …
Librarians are gifts to the community, even after the apocalypse. Nina, Dani, and Maya have scavenged the wreckage of cities long dead for tech, data and content, to share with their community and help everyone survive. It’s a dangerous job, and all three of them have a shadowed past, so it’s no surprise when disgraced …
… speaking of fantastic reads, Afterparties, Anthony Veasna So’s posthumous debut, arrives this week. Afterparties is a collection of loosely connected stories about Cambodian-Americans. They are all crafting new identities (or trying to find identities) in America, but the ghosts of the ancestors and the haunting memories of their homeland are never far away. So’s stories are both …
You deserve all the love, romance readers! Independent bookstores around the country (and beyond!) celebrate romance books and romance readers with the third Bookstore Romance Day on Saturday, August 21, 2021. Visit participating stores to browse their romance selections. Register for virtual events on both Saturday and Sunday (just note: the site has East coast …
Jessica has been really excited to explore the continued allure of King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table in these “remapped, reimagined, retold, intersectional, and diverse short stories. I’m also really looking forward to talking about this title in September with our King Arthur Remixed panel. I’ve been a King Arthur nerd …
Important traveller tip: Dinner at the Bozeman airport after 5pm is either food at one or two unremarkable (and overly crowded) eateries or a microwaved Hot Pocket. We got the last two pockets. This is the sort of thing that Bourdain does not cover in his recent book. –Mark Teppo, A Good Book, Sumner, WA …
Wednesday, July 7th at 6pm the Country Bookshelf will be live with Catherine Raven and Tim Cahill to discuss Raven’s remarkable book Fox & I. This is an unforgettable story about the friendship between a solitary woman and a wild fox that all our booksellers are raving about. Register here! Ariana Paliobagis of the Country Bookshelf …
The sun might be shining, vaccination rates are going up, and hope is definitely springing, but some good books to keep you company are always a good idea. You’ve got this! Here’s a list compiled earlier this year by the good people of the Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT. Wintering by Katherine May released during the …
[This picture book is] filled with stunning illustrations and poetic text and a subtle and sweet (but not saccharine) message. The reader tracks colors through the seasons with beauty and wonder. I just wanted to dive in and swim around in this book, and bathe in its “sunflakes.” –Jessica, Country Bookshelf, Bozeman, MT Bathe in …
In The View from Cascade Head, Bruce Byers tells the fascinating story of Cascade Head in Oregon, and the people who have worked to protect it. Drawing from his lifelong relationship with the Oregon Coast and recent experience living and working at Cascade Head, Byers weaves together personal observations, ecological science, and the history and …
