Portland, OR! Get ready for the Portland Book Festival with the event running from November 2- 8, 2026. The main day will be Saturday, November 7. From bookstore festival partner Broadway Books in Portland: [W]e have expanded our partnership with Literary Arts at the Portland Book Festival (November 7th) and you’ll find us at our …
A wild read! Hard to put down. Coming of age story following two sisters in Appalachia. Magic tarot cards! A murderer on the lose! A surreal tale. –Sophie, Hodgepodge Books & Taps, Eugene, OR Lean into the surreal at Hodgepodge Books & Taps and other independent bookstores. p.s. Wouldn’t it be funny if all the …
Katharine McGee has put the Gods of Olympus in our modern world of big tech, and big brands. A new love story unfolds while staying true to Mythological lore. I had so much fun following the “Kardashian” level drama of Athena, Hera, Zeus and Hades. –Auri, The Next Chapter, Hermiston, OR Get swept up in …
Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, U.S. Representative for Oregon’s Third Congressional District, featured Portland’s Broadway Books in her Small Business Spotlight.
A stunning story of three generations of Italian women, all named after the Roman Myth of the The Three Graces, who come to find themselves living under one roof in New York. Each has their own secrets, and they will collide in the most beautiful and inspiring of ways. This will land in my top …
An excerpt from Forest Avenue Press publisher and author Laura Stanfill’s August 30, 2026 substack: […] The Sea-Glass Shore by Julie Salmon Kelleher[,] Forest Avenue’s Sept. 1 release[,] is a selkie story that is not about entrapment and escape like the original seal-person myth. It’s a novel about what it takes to stay—in a marriage, in …
My aching aging-millennial heart feels seen after reading this novel by Grant Grinder. Equal parts funny, beautiful and tragic, [this is a book] I couldn’t put […] down. Grinder builds relentless momentum through skillful point-of-view shifts and a plot structured around five parties spanning twenty years of friendship. The protagonists—a group of college friends—support each …
The Works of Vermin is at once a vibrant fantastical world and an eerie commentary on class inequality and social structures. Environmental toxins affecting both lower and upper classes are also the rare resources coveted by elites; characters’ lives are shaped by contracts of employment and marriage. Ennes’s prose is an extension of their world: …
From Consortium Communique, “dispatches from the world of independent publishing,” this “Hot News:” “[A] must must must read.” On Instagram, comedian John Mulaney raved about Ethan Rutherford’s North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther (Deep Vellum / A Strange Object). “This book is so batshit. Funny, bizarre, violent, reckless, and very moving,” says Mulaney. “I haven’t …
Written by historian Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America is a sweeping retelling of U.S. history that centers Native American nations as essential to the nation’s story. Drawing on five centuries of interconnected Indigenous and non-Indigenous histories, Blackhawk reveals how Native peoples have shaped key moments in American development, from colonization and revolution to modern policy and …
