It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. As some people work to turn over a new leaf for the new year, we noticed that a lot of the books on the bestseller list have a self-improvement theme …
What Strange Paradise is a short, quiet book. It’s about a boy who washes up on an unnamed Western island, the sole survivor of a migrant shipwreck, and about his life before and after that moment. More than that, it’s about home, that word the novelist Naguib Mahfouz once defined as not the place you …
Lumberjacks, small town Idaho, and a life full of adventure with a little bit of magic thrown in. That’s the place musician Josh Ritter takes you in his new novel, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All. Super satisfying with just the right touch of tall tale telling, it’s a perfect read (or read aloud) …
The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2022 Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula K. Le Guin, David …
Local author Tara Goedjen slips onto the shelves with No Beauties or Monsters, which is an eerily rendered novel about friendship and memory loss and top secret government ops. On returning to her old stomping grounds in Twentynine Palms, Rylie Caruso discovers that one of her besties has been missing for a year. When she investigates …
In Sept. 2011, I first discovered Mary Lou Longworth and her first mystery (Murder at the Chateau Bremont) set in Aix-en-Provence. I waited, impatiently at times, for her follow up books. It is worth the wait. [The second in the series is Murder in the Rue Dumas. The ninth book was published in 2021.] Professor …
From Third Place Books’ blog: We asked the booksellers at all three of our locations for their favorite books of 2021. These are the top 10 books that made it onto the majority of those lists. Check out the list below. All books are also available as digital audiobooks here. My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole …
It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. It looks like it might be a white Christmas, at least in Seattle, but whether or not the weather is optimally festive where you are, you can surround yourself with …
On a … whimsical note, here is Sosuke Natsukawa’s The Cat Who Saved Books, which is about a young bookseller and a talking cat. The cat has a mission, you see—a mission to rescue books from mistreatment, misappropriation, and general misuse. Naturally, the bookseller agrees to help the cat. Mysteries ensue. –A Good Book, Sumner, …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. We thought it might be fun to have Thursday Themes where we shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list. Is it a trend? A coincidence? An eccentric millionaire seeking comfort by purchasing books from independent bookstores around the region to …
