I grew up in Baker County, Oregon and visited the bookstore Betty’s Books on town trips. Betty’s Books sits squarely in the middle of downtown Baker City, on Main Street. It has been in operation since 1979 (when I was three) and is my original model for the magic bookshop. What is a magic bookshop? …
Anjali Banerjee is the author of five books for young readers and three for adults, the most recent of which, Haunting Jasmine, was published in February. Banerjee was born in Kolkata, India, but she grew up in Manitoba, Canada, and now lives in Olalla, Washington, on the Kitsap Peninsula, in a cabin in the woods. She …
“What could be better than a novel set in a haunted bookshop on an island in the Pacific Northwest? And not haunted by just anybody, either. Auntie’s Bookstore is haunted by the spirits of author’s past. When young, career-driven Jasmine agrees to take over the bookstore for a month while dear old Auntie goes back …
