Amazon announced yesterday that Seattle super-librarian Nancy Pearl has signed a contract with the company to launch the Book Lust Rediscoveries series. Amazon’s press release reads: “Book Lust Rediscoveries will publish approximately six books a year and will be made available for sale in print editions via Amazon.com and as audiobooks via Amazon.com and Audible.com, at bookstores, wholesalers and …
“Lots of people, Sasquatchers, lots of Nancy, lots of wine . . . ” That’s the report we received Tuesday morning following Nancy Pearl’s acceptance of her Lifetime Achievement Award presented at Elliott Bay Book Company on behalf of its indie store fraternity, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and its 2011 Book Awards. The reporter was Cindy …
When the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association named their annual Book Award winners for 2011, they asked each recipient to pick his or her favorite local indie bookstore at which to celebrate the honor. Here are some neighborhood parties with an open invitation for you. “Librarian of the Year,” and in these parts the decade, Nancy …
I was thrilled and honored to learn that I had received the Lifetime Achievement from the independent booksellers of the Northwest, joining other writers whose work I have long admired, such as Ursula le Guin and Alexandra Day. And I have greatly enjoyed getting to know many of you booksellers (and your wonderful bookstores) over …
A committee of independent booksellers has announced the winners of the 2011 Pacific Northwest Book Awards. The committee chose four books from its Shortlist and are honoring a fifth author with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations to Brady Udall (The Lonely Polygamist), Karl Marlantes (Matterhorn: A Novel of Vietnam), Anthony Doerr (Memory Wall), Sarahlee Lawrence (River House: …
Library Journal has named Seattle-based author Nancy Pearl its Librarian of the Year for her amazing ability to convince “Americans that libraries, books, and reading are critical to our communities.” We couldn’t have said it better. Pearl, who has published multiple titles in her Book Lust series, all from Sasquatch Books in Seattle, was a …
Kirby Larson is a wonderful Seattle author of numerous children’s and young adult books. She has won awards for such books as Hattie Big Sky, The Two Bobbies, among others. In May she was interviewed by Nancy Pearl for a show on Seattle’s cable channel 21, which is a service of the City of Seattle. …
The Seattle Times offered an excerpt Saturday from Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers (Sasquatch, 2010) by Nancy Pearl, who is pretty much a rock star among book nerds. Pearl regaled indie booksellers at a recent event where crimson T-shirts featuring her bespectacled mug over the words ¡Viva El Libro! practically caused …
C-SPAN2’s BookTV interviewed Nancy Pearl at a recent American Library Association conference about her favorite reading for the summer. At the end of the short interview, Nancy mentions that she has another title coming out soon from Sasquatch Books called Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers. This woman reads more …
