More titles were mentioned in the 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Awards preview. Readers have found many treasures from Pacific Northwest authors in the last year! All the Better Part of Me was suggested by Stephanie from Books Around the Corner. The store’s all-female Fiction Addiction book club discussed it and loved it. The book comes …
On Monday afternoon, a roomful of booksellers from around the Pacific Northwest gathered to hear a panel of their peers, members of the PNBA Book Awards Committee, present for the 2020 Book Awards Preview. Over 400 books have been nominated for the award. To be eligible, a book must have been published between October 1, …
I feel this book should be an instant classic for all ages! A youth from Oaxaca leaves his family farm to brave the infamous La Bestia– a train travelling north to the México-US border– to cross into the United States and live with his older brother in Los Angeles. Lyrical prose, heartbreaking trauma handled sensitively, …
Shadowlands is proving to be a rich work of recent American history in the West. The Malheur Reservation, located in the Great Basin region of Oregon, was occupied by a group of militia men lead by Ammon Bundy in 2016. Oh boy, is this ever a narratively tricky series of events and perspectives to tell! …
The sad little fact is a blue fuzzy ball with big eyes and spindly arms and legs. He speaks facts. But very few listen to him. Eventually the authorities grow so irritated with him that they throw him into a box and bury him—along with other colorful little facts. The world turns dark from all of the lies being …
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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Stephanie Land’s Maid gives voice to those of us who have lived below the poverty line. Land cleaned other people’s houses while her own walls were covered in black mold that made her child sick. She lost precious wages standing in line for food stamps. She filled out endless paperwork to get childcare so she could work …
“Dear America, is this what you really want? Do you even know what is happening in your name?” Most of us don’t know what is happening in our name. This gorgeously written memoir is an important baby step towards Americans learning about our current deeply broken immigration system and the effects it has on our …
Thursday, February 7, 2019 Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT is thrilled to welcome author debut Montana author Stephanie Land, who will discuss and sign the highly anticipated Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive, Thursday, February 7th at 6pm. This event is not to be missed! “There are tens of millions of …
