Delilah isn’t looking forward to being her stepsister Astrid’s wedding photographer, but the hefty paycheck will make it worth the trip. What Delilah doesn’t expect is to find herself attracted to Claire, one of her stepsister’s best friends, and the spark seems to be mutual. Snarky, sensual, and sweet, this is a firecracker of a …
808s and Otherworlds by Sean Avery Medlin is a vibrant collection that bridges poetry and essay. With a hip hop vibe, Medlin explores their coming of age as a queer black person in suburban Arizona. Medlin’s writing has changed the way I look at poetry. –Caitlin, Island Books, Mercer Island, WA This was one of …
Whenever your local librarian highly recommends a book that TJ Klune (author of The House in the Cerulean Sea) calls a transformative marvel, you should probably read that book. I immediately did, and as someone who has access to whatever she wants to read, this will be a book I come back to over and …
From Watermark Book Company in Anacortes, WA: Watermark Book Club is on Zoom! It is a closed book club, and you can let us know if you would like to be added to the waitlist. In the meantime, feel free to read along with us! This month we are discussing The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn …
From Third Place Books’ blog: We asked the booksellers at all three of our locations for their favorite books of 2021. These are the top 10 books that made it onto the majority of those lists. Check out the list below. All books are also available as digital audiobooks here. My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole …
Fans of Marissa Meyer, it’s time to check out another author. Kalynn Bayron takes on fairy tales in fantastic new ways. It’s feminist, queer, powerful, and above a a dark and twisty mystery. And if you haven’t read Cinderella Is Dead, then there are two books that need to climb up your TBR list. –Laura …
Katrina is on the run to find a better life when she is discovered by famed violin teacher Shizuka– who happens to be searching for one more soul to finish her deal with Hell. As she trains Katrina, Shizuka also meets Lan, former starship captain turned donut shop owner. I was entranced by this story …
From OregonLive/ The Oregonian September 4, 2021: The start of the new school year makes it a fitting time to pick up Portlander Margot Wood’s debut young adult novel, Fresh, a queer retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma that spans its protagonist’s freshman year of college. Quick recap for those who haven’t encountered Emma in a while: …
So if there wasn’t enough tension and the stakes weren’t high enough in Casey McQuiston’s Red, White, and Royal Blue (there was, and they were) now we’re given One Last Stop: a girl lost in time and a romance that’s destined to be a missed connection. Good to the last drop! Just like RW&RB it …
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 …
