From Seattle to Broadway’s biggest stage, an autistic actor tells his story in new memoir Mickey Rowe hopes “Fearlessly Different” inspires readers to celebrate what makes them unique Author: Saint Bryan, KING 5 Published: 6:00 PM PST March 10, 2022 Updated: 10:34 AM PST March 11, 2022 Watch to see Seattle author Mickey Rowe– filmed with Saint …
Congratulations to Portland bookstore Third Eye Books! The store is opening in a new location in SE Portland Sunday June 20, 2021. Celebrate with Third Eye Books at their new home, 2518 SE 33rd Ave Portland, OR 97202 (at Southeast Division Street and 33rd Avenue). KGW8, the Portland area NBC-affiliate, did a story about store …
Dudley’s Bookshop Café, an independent bookstore in Bend, OR, has become the first U.S. bookstore to join 1% for the Planet. Dudley’s is donating 1 percent of its annual gross sales to local environmental nonprofits approved by the organization, a worldwide nonprofit based in Burlington, Vermont. “As booksellers, our mission is not only to provide …
As we get ready to celebrate Independence Day, let’s wish a happy birthday to some independent bookstores. Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle has been around for 45 glorious, book-filled years. Meanwhile, Secret Garden Books in Seattle feted their neighbor, Phinney Books, with a photo and a sweet message for Phinney’s fourth …
from Shelf Awareness February 23, 2018 Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, Wash., plans to open a bookstore at Sea-Tac Airport in 2019 in association with the Hudson Group. Located on the C Concourse, the store will feature “our staff recommendations, bestsellers and our beloved Northwest authors and titles as well as the latest releases you …
[Thursday] morning, The Children’s Book Council, Every Child a Reader, and the Library of Congress today announced the appointment of Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award Winner for her memoir-in-verse Brown Girl Dreaming, as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Woodson spoke with The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly for pieces to coincide with the announcement. If You Come Softly was …
“From the Saturday 4/29 edition of Moscow-Pullman Daily News. The turnout was great, we were mobbed with giggling children and adults on Saturday for the kickoff of Children’s Book Week, which was also a great Independent Bookstore Day for us too.” –Carol Spurling, owner of BookPeople of Moscow in Moscow, ID The caption reads: “Children …
Excerpted from The Chronicle: Book ‘n’ Brush Juggles Needs of Customers Who Want It All by Natalie Johnson For Book ‘n’ Brush owner David Hartz, selling books off the shelf is OK, but the real fun comes when the staff becomes “book detectives.” “I love when a customer comes in and says, ‘Do you have…’ …
Well, it’s been a soggy week at Inklings. Thursday [before last], we experienced a big rainstorm that was probably the worst I’ve ever driven in. The iPhone was blaring a warning of flash floods and I was eyeing the bridges I’d need to cross to get home. Made it safely and sat in the darkening …
Village Books & Paper Dreams (Bellingham, WA) will open a location in the newly renovated Waples Mercantile Building on Front Street in Lynden, Washington. The building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, burned in 2008, and was later purchased by Bellingham architect Jeff McClure and his wife Debra. The McClures, along with …
