On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller list is published. Every week, we love to see what has been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. This week’s bestseller list contains a lot of titles and books with creative themes …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. Sometimes the themes come from the covers, sometimes the titles. This week, we take a …
As someone who loves Louise Penny’s Three Pines books, I couldn’t NOT read her new book, co-authored by Hillary Clinton. More of a political thriller than Penny’s standard mystery fare, State of Terror is an action-packed book that takes place over a period of just a few days. Spoiler—the main character is a female Secretary …
It’s time for a Thursday Theme, when we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. This week, as he was sending out the list, PNBA Executive Director Brian Juenemann noted a design trend: “big white text over swirly kaleidescope backgrounds,” all within the top …
“An elderly woman shows up in Three Pines during the Christmas holidays. She thinks no one knows who she is, but someone does recognize her. When it comes time for her to leave, she is asked to come back for Christmas, but as we all know, death never takes a holiday. “Not long after, she …
