The online literary newsletter Shelf Awareness announced its top books for 2013: 10 each for fiction, nonfiction, and kids. Congratulations to Pacific Northwest author Daniel James Brown for the selection of his nonfiction account of the University of Washington crew team’s quest for the gold in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans …
Oooh, I just love a good holiday gift guide! So after I helped put one together for Queen Anne Book Company, I surfed the websites of the independent bookstores of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and found MORE. Take a browse. You might even want to share your favorite lists because not everyone is lucky …
I’ve read this lovely little classic before, but each and every time I get around to re-reading it, I discover new joys in amongst its already engaging Regency charm and Austentatious wit.
This holiday season, if you drop in at a bookstore in the Northwest that sells new books and doesn't have the name Barnes & Noble on the sign, there's a good chance you'll find some version of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association's Holiday Books campaign in the works. Eighty-six stores in five states have campaigns—from posters …
The good folks at Vintage Books in Vancouver WA are having fun (as usual) adding a new item to their blog every day for twelve days up to Christmas, with various recommendations for gifts throughout the store. Not just books, but all kinds of goodies that you might find in any indeie bookstore.
