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Janis Segress

Mar

31

2021

The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates

An enlightening, empowering memoir from an admirable woman. Melinda draws on her 20 years of philanthropy with the Gates Foundation, co-founded with her husband Bill, to give her readers concrete ways to lift and to help lift. Each chapter conveys a current issue of need, at home and in other countries. Her message is that …

Nov

26

2020

HAPPY THANKSGIVING: Pieometry by Lauren Ko

Thanksgiving is also known as “Turkey Day,” but for 2020, we are claiming it as “Pie All Day Day.” May you have a safe, satisfying Thanksgiving. Just in time for the holiday season, local Instagram sensation, artist, and baker Lauren Ko shows how to rise to the next level with pie baking. Ko provides easy …

May

5

2020

“Indie Bookstores Are Poised to Take Market Share from Amazon”

From The Stranger, May 1, 2020 by by Christopher Frizzelle  Indie bookstores in Seattle like Elliott Bay Book Company, University Book Store, Third Place Books, Queen Anne Book Company, and others have sold books through their websites for years. But these stores are so deeply embedded into the character of their neighborhoods, and so deeply associated with in-store events and in-person relationships …

Jan

6

2020

The Magical Language of Others by E. J. Koh

This mesmerizing memoir by poet and translator E. J.  Koh explores immigration, motherhood, familial bonds, love, trauma, forgiveness and reconciliation. It takes the reader from San Francisco to Korea to Japan. I found it to be a gorgeous, lyrical, painful, poignant and hopeful read. –Janis Segress, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA Explore language and …

Dec

27

2019

2

remarks

Neighbor partners with Independent Bookstore to Get Books to Seattle Kids Facing Hardship

Anonymous “Book Angel” Donor Gives Children’s Books to Kids at Mary’s Place This week, Queen Anne Book Company is grateful for the opportunity to donate new children’s and young adult books to Mary’s Place. An anonymous customer of the independent bookstore recently reached out to co-owners Janis Segress and Judy & Krijn de Jonge after …

Sep

17

2019

Queen Anne Book Company’s Krijn de Jonge Honored by Chamber of Commerce

by Brandon Macz for Queen Anne & Magnolia News 9/14/19 [Seattle, WA]: Chamber honors Queen Anne members for continued support Award recipients have history of volunteering to make community programs a success The Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce honored its business members — large and small — for their contributions to bettering the community and …

Aug

16

2019

Author Andrew Shaffer and Wendee Wieking at Queen Anne Book Company

Author Andrew Shaffer: Sharing “Hope” (and Giggles)

During his national tour for Hope Rides Again, the second Obama/Biden mystery, NYT bestselling humorist Andrew Shaffer filmed a special moment at Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle… Enjoy!

May

23

2017

Seattle Bookstore Day Indie Champions Celebrated

On Sunday, May 21, the Seattle bookstore community came together to fete the dedicated souls who completed Seattle Bookstore Day challenge (19 bookstores in one day!) on Independent Bookstore Day on April 29. Over 300 champions completed the challenge. Island Books of Mercer Island, WA (bookstore home to three-time Indie Champion and nwbooklovers contributor James …

Jul

27

2016

Homegoing

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Some novelists unpack a single day in their 300 pages, while others unfurl a quarter of a millennium. Gyasi, ambitiously, does the latter, tracing the parallel lineages begun by two West African half-sisters—one that remains in Ghana and one that extends, via a slave ship, to America—from the 1750s to today. Her language is modest, …

Jul

11

2016

Year of the Hare

The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna

This is a refreshingly charming story of the steadfast, predictable journalist Vatanen who has a run-in with a hare—bunny, that is. After his car veers off the road, Vatanen goes into the surrounding woods in search of the culprit. He finds the hare, picks it up gently, and puts it into his jacket pocket. He …

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