From Shelf Awareness Friday August 1, 2025: Reading with… Sally Blakely Sally Blakely studied theater, media arts, English, and education at the University of Montana. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, or making far too many playlists. She lives in Montana with her husband. Her debut, Friends to Lovers (Canary Street Press, July 22, 2025), is a dual-narrative …
I believe an undiscovered primate stalks the forests of North America. It takes guts to admit this publicly. It’s not hard to see why Bigfoot makes people uncomfortable. We’ve been taught from an early age to view the unknown with skepticism, programmed to believe everything in the world has already been mapped, graphed, catalogued and …
I can say this without spoiling anything, but the epilogue to Becoming Little Shell begins with reflections from “a little green house high on a hillside that overlooks Butte, Montana.” It is mid-November of 2021 and, as I wrote, I was in that house enjoying a residency where I largely completed the first draft of …
The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2025 Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula K. …
The River You Touch by Chris Dombrowski is a beautiful meditation on fatherhood, Montana, and a life dedicated to communing with nature. Dombrowski uses his beautiful poet’s touch to describe the wonder of Montana that we know and love. A book you’ll want to share with anyone and everyone! –Frances, Country Bookshelf, Bozeman, MT This …
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. This week, we notice a bevy of books from the PNBA Give Books Holiday Catalog on the …
For the first time, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) unveiled its Book Awards Shortlist live on the show floor at the association’s Fall Tradeshow, Sept. 30, 2024. These honorees are now being promoted throughout PNBA’s 160 store membership. Selected by an Awards Committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska, the …
In the early ’80s I lived near the Frog Rock on Bainbridge Island. It was cheaper to live on the island and ride the ferry than to live in Seattle. On rare days, when I had a little money, I would treat myself to bookstore visits to Eagle Harbor Book Co. in Winslow and Elliott …
The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2024 Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula K. Le Guin, …
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and British Columbia. The Association produces educational and promotional events and materials for its members and offers literacy, free speech, and author promotional vehicles through its member stores. Since 1965, the PNBA Awards …
