From Shelf Awareness: Dane Bahr was born in Minnesota and now lives in Washington State with his wife and sons. He is the author of the novels The Houseboat and Stag. The Dead Ringer (Counterpoint, April 21, 2026) is a haunting western that features a man brought back from the dead to exact revenge. Handsell readers your book in 25 words …
Book club alert!!! This book, about a wholesome family show that takes place in the 1960s, is a dream book club selection! It’s charming, engaging, and would give ladies sooooooo much to talk about!!! It’s about social expectations and restrictions, and the strain of judgment from others and ourselves. Very good! ~ Annette An enjoyable …
I’m obsessed with Oshetsky’s fiction like Celia Dent is obsessed with finding her way to a better life, and just like her mission, I’m always pining for the next tale Oshetsky will spin. [They are] a masterful writer of literary fiction. —Chelsia Rice, Montana Book Company, Helena, MT Find your next obsessions at Montana Book …
Many booksellers from the Pacific Northwest are in Pittsburgh for the annual American Booksellers Association Winter Institute. Some participants got to tour independent bookstores. When we go to bookstores in different parts of the country and the world, we love to spot PNW authors and illustrators on the shelves. At Riverstone Books in the Squirrel …
Several lifetimes ago, when I was finishing my first novel, Swamplandia!, I had a kind of waking dream, something more vivid and mysterious than an idea—I still have no idea where it came from. A woman was seated in a bare room, holding up a green earhorn, an antique hearing aid. It looked like a …
Gratz takes the reader right into the duality of Berlin during the 1936 Olympics — a city being purged of any ‘undesirable’ citizens to put on a good show for the world. Gratz does not shy away from the comparison between 1936 Germany and 2025 America. This is a timely book that every middle-grade reader, …
A sensual and absorbing debut novel that was short-listed for the 2024 Booker Prize. In this tale of two vastly different women, brittle Isabel and free-spirited Eva, are thrown together in a country house in [the Netherlands] following WWII. What begins as a deeply tense relationship moves into a complex exploration of self-discovery, acceptance, and …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. It’s Pride Month, so let’s celebrate LGBTQ+ characters and authors on our list! Atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid …
This is Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story, which is a lot of colons to swallow. We think one of those isn’t the title of the book that Reid submitted, but you know how they are with the meta-data these days. Anyway, Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story is the story of …
On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller List is published. Every week, we love to see what books have been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. We found some “night”s in shining titles this week. The Knight and the …
