Book club alert!!! This book, about a wholesome family show that takes place in the 1960s, is a dream book club selection! It’s charming, engaging, and would give ladies sooooooo much to talk about!!! It’s about social expectations and restrictions, and the strain of judgment from others and ourselves. Very good! ~ Annette An enjoyable …
From Monday February 5, 2024: Maximum Shelf: Ocean’s Godori Elaine U. Cho‘s debut novel, Ocean’s Godori (Hillman Grad Books/Zando, April 23, 2024), is a rollicking space adventure featuring a brave new world in which a united Korea leads the solar system, but unrest is never far away. When ace pilot Ocean Yoon’s best friend’s life implodes, she’s the …
Portland publisher Tin House won big last night when Morgan Talty’s Night of the Living Rez was awarded the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. What a joy to see photos of the NYC ceremony from Tin House publisher Craig Popelars this morning! Fiction-lovers and book club readers, take note– this …
[In] Lillie Lainoff’s One for All, the story of 16-year-old Tania de Batz … suffers from constant dizziness and a murdered father. One of these things has an evident solution, and young Tania whisks herself off to Paris where she discovers that the finishing school her father wished her to attend is actually a secret …
We are so excited to have this gorgeous debut novel from Oregon author Juhea Kim in the store. Its backdrop is a decades-long swath of Korean history, specifically its fight for independence from Japan. But the story itself is the intimate tale of intertwined lives, in particular the relationship between Jade, a young girl sold …
Kitsap County author, Tamara Kaye Sellman, who recently published her debut collection, Intention Tremor: A Hybrid Collection (January 2021, MoonPath Press), is giving back to the multiple sclerosis (MS) community with a $1000 donation to the Accelerated Cure Project (ACP), a nonprofit focused on accelerating MS research. The $1000 donation represents 100 percent of Sellman’s proceeds from …
… 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 …
Last night I read this wonderful book. The story of a little boy in CT who grows up to be a restaurant critic in Paris, then at Gourmet magazine (oh how I miss that publication). If you love food & dining like I do, you will devour this in one sitting. James Beard, Julia Child, …
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 …
As a PNW native, Sunny went straight to my damp and rain-soaked heart. With formidable and determined optimism, Sunny faces the stormy weather in this tender yet vulnerable tale about where our strengths lie and also our breaking points where friends can step in. Imbued with feisty imagination and spunk! –Jesica DeHart, Neill Public Library, …
