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Mar

11

2020

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H. G. Parry

H. G. Parry’s deliciously literary bangity-bang The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep is out in paperback now. The premise is pretty simple: Charlie can make characters in books come to life. The complication is, uh, as frantic as a cave full of bats caught up in silly string. Naturally, Charlie and a handful of literature’s greatest must …

Feb

26

2020

The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins! by the McElroy Family and Carey Pietsch

The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose in a classic fantasy adventure! The setup: three brothers and their father set out to play Dungeons and Dragons together, without knowing anything about Dungeons and Dragons. It goes exactly as you’d expect. This is the first of several graphic novels based off the magnificent accident-of-a-podcast …

Feb

13

2020

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Every ten years a cold and fearsome wizard known only as the Dragon takes a young woman from Agnieszka’s village; it’s a sacrifice they must endure to keep their village safe from the corrupted, malevolent Wood. No one knows what the women must endure in the Dragon’s castle, but they always return changed. When Agnieszka …

Feb

5

2020

Titanshade by Dan Stout

…And speaking of hardheadedness and fisticuffs, one of our favorite books from last year is out in paperback now. It’s Dan Stroud’s gloriously gritty Titanshade, and yes, that is a ’80s cop show cover slapped on a noir fantasy novel because dear readers, that is exactly what this is. It’s “NYPD Blue” meets, uh, something that …

Jan

17

2020

Dylan Meconis by Chris Higgins

New Worlds: An Essay by 2020
PNBA Award Winner Dylan Meconis

Like many children who suffer from an abundance of imagination and a shortfall of social skills, I was always on the lookout for a door into a more magical world. Narnia, Middle Earth, Starfleet, Sherwood Forest– I wasn’t picky. Anywhere with spaceships, swordfights, or telepathic dragons would do. Reality stubbornly refused to provide me with …

Oct

21

2019

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu

The newest graphic novel from team Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker is packed full of the most amazing imagery and story, I couldn’t stop reading! I also couldn’t get over how natural the whole story was. Main characters Tam and Nova have their little quirks – one’s a witch with hearing aids, one’s a non-binary …

Oct

8

2019

2020 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Preview

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, …

Oct

4

2019

Neverending Bookshop logo illustration

From The Seattle Times: “A fairy tale in Edmonds: The Neverending Bookshop is a crafty destination for fantasy lovers”

by Paul Constant for The Seattle Times Once upon a time in Kingston, Kitsap County, a little girl fell in love with books. Annie Carl was born with a rare spinal birth defect called a lipomyelomeningocele — a fatty deposit at the base of her spine a little bigger than a pea. It’s a condition …

Sep

26

2019

Saving Fable

Saving Fable by Scott Reintgen

Every character has a story, but the stories don’t contain all the characters. In the wonderful world of Fable, characters exist before, after and during stories that Authors have created. Indira is a character in waiting, trying everything she can to get noticed by an author. One day she is chosen to go to the …

Aug

7

2019

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The Chosen by Taran Matharu

This book is unputdownable! It is a fast paced, action packed book that melds notes of The Hunger Games and Jurassic Park together with a splash of Roman and South American history. The words weave together to create a world and characters filled with diversity and complexity that will keep you on your toes as …

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