Small Business Spotlight shines on Broadway Books
Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, U.S. Representative for Oregon’s Third Congressional District, featured Portland’s Broadway Books in her Small Business Spotlight.
The Three Graces of Pearl Street by Elizabeth Wellington Rollins
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 …
The Sea-Glass Shore by Julie Salmon Kelleher
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 …
So Old, So Young by Grant Grinder
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 by Hiron Ennes
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: …
North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford
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 …
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
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 …
Run For The Hills by Kevin Wilson
It actually had me laughing out loud. The voice is refreshing; at a time when it seems AI is seeping into everything, you can almost feel the warmth of the human touch here. –Laura, Paulina Springs Books, Sisters, OR Treat yourself to a road trip of a book from Paulina Springs and other independent bookstores.
Portland Book Week through June 14, 2026!
Oregon Public Broadcasting talked to some of the 81 (!!!) bookstores participating in Portland Book Week. Hear from booksellers at the White Rabbit Book Cafe in Oregon City, Maggie Mae’s Bookshop in Gresham and Lost & Bound Books, a mobile bookshop based in Portland. There’s still time to plan your route. Here’s the official Portland …
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli
Like sitting down to have several long chats with Liza with a Z. The chronological retelling of her life, full of her silliness, amazing performances, and intense struggle with substances. I really got to know her, how fast and hard she worked and how intensely she loved everybody and every minute of it! Accept the …
