Those of you who enjoyed Rinker’s last book, The Oregon Trail, will be pleased to hear about his new book, Life on the Mississippi. In this one, he’s exploring the little-known history of early American exploration by boat, and the lives of the boatmen who led the westward expansion. Once again, Rinker is following history’s path– …
This is one of those rare history books that puts your heart in your throat. Candice Millard’s portrayal of Teddy’s doomed expedition is both informative and gripping. I was truly frightened for the characters’ safety! –Jackson, The Well-Read Moose, Coeur d’Alene, ID Look for the author’s thrilling new book, River of the Gods, at The …
It’s Thursday Theme day, when we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. We did a spotlight on books that had some sort of “when” in the title a little over a year ago. I must admit: I am astounded that I have …
It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. March is Women’s History Month, so we thought we’d start the month by pointing out books with women or girls in their titles. Violeta by Isabel Allende (Hardcover Fiction #4) …
Rare is the book of history that remains in print over eighty years later, but James’s ground-breaking account of the Haitian Revolution—written in 1938, revised in 1962, and meant to inspire and celebrate the revolutions of the oppressed in both moments—has become a part of history itself. And the book itself remains a marvelously readable …
On February 4, 2022, beloved children’s picture book creator, artist, poet, and literary legend Ashley Bryan died. He was 98 years old. Since the late 1980s, he lived in the other corner of the country, on Little Cranberry Island in Maine. He wrote and illustrated over 50 books, many of them award and honor recipients, …
By the time he was twenty-nine, Charles Darwin had puzzled his way toward two-thirds of his theory of natural selection. He understood that plants and animals passed traits (hair color, say, or beak shape, or flower scent) down to their offspring. And he understood that those traits were not passed down perfectly. We resemble our …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. We thought it might be fun to have Thursday Themes where we shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list. Is it a trend? A coincidence? An eccentric millionaire seeking comfort by purchasing books from independent bookstores around the region to …
If you are interested in monster movies, old Hollywood, and/or the history of women in the film industry, this is the book for you! O’Meara does a spectacular job of blending stories from her own personal experience in the film industry with the incredibly well-researched history of Millicent Patrick, the woman responsible for designing the …
WWII holds so many stories, and I often feel that surely we have seen them all. But we haven’t. Paper Bullets draws you into the lives of Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, artists, lesbians, and resistance fighters. Schwob and Malherbe, avant-garde artists, turn their creativity to antiwar propaganda on the Island of Jersey during the …
