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Jul

11

2013

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Where's Waldo

Really, Where IS Waldo?

Our facebook post about the Where’s Waldo local business promotions in Paulina Springs, Oregon and Palmer, Alaska started a hilarious discussion because Waldo is appearing in so many northwest communities for the second year of the “Find Waldo Local” promotion. In 2012, Waldo (of the seek-and-find books) turned 25, and Chronicle, the American Booksellers Association, …

Jan

23

2013

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How a Bookstore Changed My World

We recently honored Alaskan author/bookseller Eowyn Ivey with a 2013 PNBA Award for her novel The Snow Child. Thanks to Ivey for sharing this essay with us in celebration of the award (See posts from Jonathan Evison and G. Willow Wilson and look for essays from the other three winners in the coming weeks). Palmer, Alaska readers are invited …

Feb

18

2012

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

“I read this as slowly as possible over the course of a year, and when I finished it, started right back at the beginning.”—Ruth, Fireside Books, Palmer, AK. Buy Pilgrim at Tinker Creek from Fireside Books.

Jan

25

2012

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Here Comes The Snow Child!

There’s been lots of early buzz for bookseller Eowyn Ivey’s debut, The Snow Child, which officially comes out Feb 1 (We’ve got word from some of our bookstores that they’ve already got it on the shelves). Ivey, who works at Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska and who we interviewed here about the double life of a …

Dec

9

2011

28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List: Day 9. Eowyn Ivey

We’re all excited that Eowyn Ivey’s debut novel, The Snow Child, will be published Feb. 1 by Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown & Co. When Ivey’s not writing books, she’s selling them at Fireside Books (Palmer, Alaska), where she says she loves this time of year especially. “Much of my time is spent greeting old friends …

Aug

25

2011

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Good Books, Bad Coffee, Great Company: Eowyn Ivey’s Wondrous Alaska

Eowyn (pronounced A-o-win; her Mom named her after a character in The Lord of the Rings) Ivey came to Fireside Books about seven years ago after working as a reporter with the local newspaper for nine years. She’d had the realization that her heart wasn’t in journalism and that she wanted to work more closely with …

Jul

11

2011

Alaska Booksellers Win Free Speech Battle

Thanks to three Alaska bookstores, a Federal District Court in Anchorage has ruled to protect free speech, halting enforcement of a broad statute that would have made anyone who operates a website criminally liable for posting, selling, or loaning material that’s “harmful to minors.”  The bookstore plaintiffs were Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska, and Title Wave Books …

Feb

23

2011

The Raven's Gift by Don Rearden

“Fireside Books has a new bestseller, and it’s a debut by Alaskan Don Rearden. . . The gist of the book – post apocalyptic Bush Alaska. A deadly epidemic sweeps through an Alaska village, and the main character has to strike out on his own to find help. Critics have compared it to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road …

Nov

7

2010

Legend of a Suicide by David Vann

In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann’s native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father’s suicide.—recommended by Mary Ann at Fireside Books in Palmer, …

Oct

21

2010

Alaska Judge Grants Prelim Injunction in "Harmful to Minors" Case

Almost exactly one month after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated two Oregon laws that could have put booksellers and librarians in jeopardy of jail time, the federal district court in Anchorage, Alaska granted a preliminary injunction today halting the enforcement of that state’s recently adopted Senate Bill 222, “which could have made anyone …

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