Whereever you are, stop right there and find a copy of Two Many Birds. I feel like this book has the answers we are looking for after this soul crushing week. What happens when those in charge go too far and how can the power of community provide not only healing, connection but new direction? …
I have been reading books since the early 1950s and reviewing/posting the reviews for the past decade. I do not know how I missed Blake Pierce for all of those years. I have just read book one in the European Voyage Cozy Mystery series entitled Murder (and Baklava). It has two components that I am …
Today, Liberty Bay Books’ Suzanne Droppert and author Suzanne Selfors made a very exciting announcement: Suzanne Selfors will be the new owner of Liberty Bay Books in Poulsbo, WA as of February 1, 2020, and Suzanne Droppert will stay at the helm of the Bremerton Liberty Bay Books, but will rename it Ballast Book Company. …
While nwbooklovers.org is a website with a regional focus, it has an international reach. Recently, debut author Kathryn Fox from the UK contacted us via our facebook page. I found her self-published memoir, Stolen Memories, through IndieBound and Kobo. We started a discussion about self-publishing internationally, and I thought Kathryn’s experiences as an author from …
It’s autumn, and students are returning to the store in droves, like swallows to Capistrano. The scene brings to mind the famous opening of Don DeLillo’s White Noise—“The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus”—although our students are arriving in hybrid SUVs in search of books for the …
Thanks to Shelf Awareness for sharing this article from Brooklyn Based, which nicely summarizes where a lot of indie stores stand with e-books and e-readers. Here’s a helpful excerpt: “Kindle is the main device we equate with e-readers, and it’s no secret that its manufacturer is notoriously competitive. Not only does Amazon sell books at …
