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Jan

5

2021

Five PNW Booksellers Featured in LitHub’s “Booksellers Recommend: The Best Under-the-Radar Books of 2020”

Be sure to read the full list, with recommendations from booksellers around the country, but why not start here, with favorites from Portland and Seattle booksellers? John Rember, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World (University of New Mexico Press) Jeremy Garber, Powell’s, Portland: John Rember’s A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World collects …

Jul

23

2020

Just Mercy book cover

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

How free are we as Americans if we are living under a justice system that is fundamentally unfair? Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative, is an attorney who has successfully defended some of society’s most vulnerable and oppressed people in landmark cases before the Supreme Court. In Just Mercy, he asks us to contemplate …

Dec

22

2015

James Patterson

Nine PNW Booksellers Awarded Patterson Bonuses

The holidays are a little brighter for nine Pacific Northwest independent booksellers chosen as recipients of author James Patterson’s bookseller holiday bonuses. Congratulations to: Charnee Rose of Grass Roots Books & Music, Corvallis, OR Earl Dizon of Green Bean Books, Portland, OR Carol Easter and Kevin Sampsell of Powell’s Books, Portland, OR Joan Terselich of Village Books, …

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