This poetry collection is a celebration of everything that makes spring my favorite season — blooming flowers, trees, and birds — in the most beautiful verse and prose. I find Mary Oliver’s writing is best appreciated outdoors, in your favorite park or garden, while basking in the sunshine. Of course, it’s lovely to enjoy these …
Milo has ten thousand chances to get it right – to earn his place in the cosmic soul. But Milo is already on life number 9,995, and if things keep going the way they have, instead of becoming one with everything, he may just slide off into nothingness. Still, there are plenty of laughs, heartbreak …
Once you read Ben Goldfarb’s Eager you will forever look at landscapes differently. Goldfarb explains the history and impact of beavers, from their role in indigenous cultures to their near-extinction from excess trapping for the fur trade to their remarkable recovery across much of North America. Eager shows us the beaver as not only “Nature’s …
Many have proclaimed this to be the best piece of non-fiction in recent memory, for its historical and personal depth, and emotional candor. After inheriting a Japanese netsuke collection, ceramicist de Waal traces the “travels” of these small carvings, acquired by his great-grandfather’s cousin, and then moved from Paris to Vienna, to Tokyo, and now …
A mutual friend goes missing and twin sisters Frankie, a young teen on the spectrum, and popular Tess try to solve the mystery. The loyalty of sisters, friendship, and acceptance all come into play in this well-written and engaging book. — Marlene Craig, The Well-Read Moose, Coeur d’Alene, ID Discover overlooked gems at The Well-Read …
Patrick Ness is my favorite YA author without a question. The grace and heart he gives to teens is unparalleled. Burn is about Dragons in the 1950s, like the ’50s as they were but there are dragons, and for some reason, its genius, and I don’t know why I’m not consuming more media just like …
At the center of this novel is a single, inexplicable incident from the end of the Spanish Civil War, when an unknown Republican soldier caught a leader of the right-wing Falange escaping a Republican firing squad but then walked away, sparing his life. Writing six decades later, Cercas frames his own investigation into this mystery …
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. It’s a new year, but some of the bestsellers on our list have been on bookstore shelves …
Krista Tippett is a master of asking questions that matter. For over two decades, her podcast On Being has stood as a poignant example of public dialogue that resists dogma and divisiveness and insists on a more “generative story of our time.” Becoming Wise pulls together wisdom from Tippett’s own life and years of conversational …
I found this to be an engaging, intelligent, and moving story. We tend to judge our books by their covers, and we so often don’t know the half of who people really are. Philosophical and lovely; I am very glad this story found me. –Debbie, The Well-Read Moose, Coeur d’Alene, ID Let life-changing stories find …
