The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams is at the top of my bucket list of great bookstores. In this magical shop people from different times walk in the door to find the book they need and be nourished by the magic of the shop. Flowers bloom, messages appear on the chalkboard, and everyone feels loved …
WWII holds so many stories, and I often feel that surely we have seen them all. But we haven’t. Paper Bullets draws you into the lives of Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, artists, lesbians, and resistance fighters. Schwob and Malherbe, avant-garde artists, turn their creativity to antiwar propaganda on the Island of Jersey during the …
Willig’s Band of Sisters pulled me in and took me on a journey of complicated friendships that grew and matured in the midst of hardship and trial. Mishaps with roosters, snowstorms, and reminders of the kindness and resilience of people, this historical fiction is a delight to read. –Laura DeLaney, Rediscovered Books, Boise, ID Dive …
The Paragon Hotel has been my favorite historical fiction recommendation since it first published. It has so many things to love, a daring escape across the country, a crime to solve, a child to find, and characters to love. Set in segregated Oregon, you’ll find out things you never knew, while turning the pages as …
Clap When You Land was the favorite book from the LatinX Book Club at Rediscovered Books for 2020. Each page opens multiple doors and invites to to see things differently. The language feels easy and simple as you read, and at the end you are reminded that a genius is one who can take complex …
Do you miss your bookstores? Be sure to follow them on social media. Many are posting videos and photos to give you a little bit of that happy bookstore feeling for when you’re mostly shopping online or over the phone with them. Here’s a quiet morning with birdsong outside Waucoma Bookstore in Hood River, OR: …
From Boise Weekly/ idahopress.com by Sydney Kidd Salvador “Sal” Alamilla is no stranger to the ugly face of racism. Born in Michoacan, Mexico, he grew up in the United States, where he said he has faced both explicit and implicit racial bias. As a business owner, he usually shies away from taking a stand on …
Dialogue host Marcia Franklin talks with three Idaho independent booksellers about how they’re trying to weather the COVID-19 lockdowns that have severely affected their businesses. Guests are: Carol Price, owner of BookPeople of Moscow, Laura DeLaney, co-owner of Rediscovered Books in Boise, and Melissa Demotte, owner of The Well-Read Moose in Coeur d’Alene. April 12, …
Keepin’ It Local: Boise bookstore Rediscovered Books reconnects you to the community Locally-owned bookstore celebrates their connection with the community by highlighting local authors and instilling a love of reading for all ages. Rediscovered Books…the name says it all. It isn’t your average bookstore; it is a mix of new books, older “rediscovered” used reads, …
This week, the world got the happy news that Laura and Bruce DeLaney, the co-0wners of Rediscovered Books, are opening a third bookstore! The DeLaneys started with Rediscovered Books on North 8th Street in Boise, which expanded in 2015. Then in 2018, they bought Rainbow Books, a used book store on State Street in Boise …
