Want an adorable, unique gift? Broadway Books in Portland has some great ideas. But you need to contact them ASAP, before the morning of Wednesday February 5, 2020 if you want to jump on their personalized copies of some hot titles. … our friends Brooke Barker and Boaz Frankel are back with a new book, …
One of our [recent] favorites is Bruce Worden’s Homophones Visualized. It’s a pretty simple concept— the English language is a hot mess, and why do we have so many words that sound exactly the same?—and Worden makes it all laugh-out-loud funny and educational. Great stocking stuffer. Great bathroom reader. Great conversation starter. All in one. –A …
… while we were waiting for the day’s boxes to arrive, we got distracted by Shea Serrano’s Movies (And Other Things). Now, we like to think that we know a little something about movies, but Serrano has taken that level of knowledge and turned it into an series of Q & As that are hilarious, …
A Million Acres: Montana Writers Reflect on Land and Open Space is a celebration of Montanan Writers and the landscapes they love. This is a stunning book featuring twenty powerful pieces of writing about Montana’s land and open spaces by the state’s finest contemporary writers. A Million Acres also features twenty-eight spectacular color landscape photographs. …
Even though author Kerry Colburn celebrated the launch of Bitchcraft with a very witchy event at Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle, the simple spells are certainly not limited to any season. Kerry and her book were recently featured on Seattle Refined in a segment called “Don’t Get Mad, Get Even.” You can watch the …
To say this is the perfect gift for the fish fan in your life is both an understatement and an assumption that you have $150 to throw around. Over two decades in preparation, this three-volume wonder from the University of Washington stands where no book has stood before, as an authoritative—and exquisitely beautiful—guide to the …
Someone in your life needs a copy of Tein Lucasson’s Cat: Portrait of Eighty-Eight Cats & One Very Wise Zebra. It’s pictures of cats. Wearing clothes. With enigmatic cat expressions. And a zebra. You can get a copy for yourself, really. It’s okay. Mackenzie Lee has put together one of those fabulous “History of the …
Lisa Congdon has a guide to harnessing that inner wildness. Find Your Artistic Voice not only has a picture of a tiger on the front, but it also has a whole bunch of insightful commentary and ideas about how to discover, shape, and realize that unique voice that is you. Sure, being an artist is …
Little else can match the fusion of beauty and usefulness found in a good map. Yet what if the cartographer relied upon shoddy or fabricated information? What if they had no qualms about simply making things up themselves? This handsome little volume presents a collection of maps which are lovely, historically significant, and just plain …
In this anxious and contentious time, when you are looking for a gift of uplift for a graduate or for a parent on Mother’s or Father’s Day, look no further than The Book of Delights by Ross Gay. Here’s a man who made a deliberate decision to seek out each day something to delight in. …
