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Feb

23

2022

Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James

The weather has turned once again, hasn’t it? While we had a few days of “Hey, where did you hide my short pants?”, it’s back to long sweaters and wooly fleeces again this week. Fortunately, the publishing world anticipated this mercurial change by dropping a bunch of hot titles on us this week. Curl up …

Nov

4

2021

President Obama and Bruce Springsteen in b & w on the cover of coffee table book RENEGADES

Bestseller Spotlight: Coffee Table Books

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, when we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. I’m having company over tonight for the first time in almost two years, and that meant I had to pare down the stacks of fiction, nonfiction, middle grade, and YA …

Apr

21

2021

If You Go Down to the Woods Today written by Rachel Piercey, illustrated by Freya Hartas

If You Go Down to the Woods Today is a marvelous book filled with delightful pictures by Hartas and charming quatrains by Piercey. Sure to delight the smaller folk in your house, as well as provide them with a reasonable checklist that they can attain without a significant budget and a passport. –A Good Book, …

Apr

7

2021

Greenwood by Michael Christie

Trees: They provide shelter, sustenance, and sanctuary for vast numbers of creatures. They create the very air we breathe. And they are under threat. For generations, the Greenwood family lives with, destroys, fights for, and monetizes these gentle giants until their very existence is absorbed into the class system designed and upheld by the one …

Jan

7

2021

Rediscovered Books Weighs In with Heavy Book Sale

From Rediscovered Books in Boise and Caldwell, ID: Heavy Book Sale! Is your New Year’s Resolution to Exercise More? Get your exercise by buying heavy books! Here’s the deal – we will weigh every book you buy (individually) and the more it weighs, the bigger your discount! If your book weighs: Less than 1 pound …

Jan

4

2021

Reading by Threes: What to Read with “Deep River” by Karl Marlantes

Sweeping immigrant story of the first logging industries and labor unions in the Pacific Northwest.  The Overstory by Richard Powers and Barkskins by Annie Proulx would make good bookends to this saga. –Sandy, Grass Roots Books & Music, Corvallis, OR Can you think of some other good reading bookend recommendations? We’ll go next: Some books about resilient women– Educated, …

Aug

6

2020

The Found and the Lost

The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

Le Guin can do more with a novella than most people can do with a full-length book. She writes with complexity about justice, cruelty, home, and grief just as deftly as she moves between science fiction, fantasy, and realism, and each of these stories is populated by characters so real you can almost feel their …

Dec

17

2019

Ducks, Newburyport

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

As deep and broad and beautiful and American as the Grand Canyon. Because this torrent spills from the mind of one ordinary woman (an Ohioan, a wife, a mom, a baker of pies), because she’s hilarious, because her doubts and deprecations, her fondnesses and fears, are so mundane and relatable, because she exists as one …

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