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Jun

21

2022

BINGO! Summer Fun and Challenges

Seattle Public Library’s Summer Book Bingo is in full swing, and other communities are doing similar BINGO-inspired challenges. Hundreds of booksellers from around the country are gathered in Phoenix, AZ this week for the American Booksellers Association Children’s Institute conference, and yesterday we picked up an Indie Week BINGO card from Local First Arizona at …

Jun

15

2022

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

What if you could travel back to your 16th birthday, make changes that might make your life better, and save your dad’s life in the process? Time travel, father-daughter relationships, and Emma’s great writing. If you liked The Midnight Library or The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, this is the book you need. Now! –Karen, …

Jun

13

2022

Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson

I loved this suspenseful novel, these mysterious characters. Antoine Wilson has created a situation worthy of Hitchcock, or of Highsmith. Mouth to Mouth asks if we can ever know the truth about those we love, or indeed ourselves. —Adam Possehl, Powell’s Books, Portland, OR Pick up something thrilling from Powell’s and other independent bookstores this summer. Remember …

Jun

6

2022

A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera

In her first foray into Historical Romance, Adriana Herrera introduces us to Las Leonas–three Dominican best friends who travel to the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, the heiress of the title, has come to the Expo to find new markets for her rum. James “Evan” Evanston Sinclair is there to do much …

May

6

2022

Red Clocks

Throwback Face Out:
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

From Marissa at Grass Roots Books & Music in Corvallis, OR, originally posted on nwbooklovers on April 11, 2018: In Zumas’s all-too-familiar dystopia set in a small Oregon coastal town, Roe v. Wade has been overturned. The narrative explores the complexity of childbearing — both the desire for and not for — and the reduction …

Apr

29

2022

2022 Oregon Book Awards

From Literary Arts LITERARY ARTS CONGRATULATES THE WINNERS OF THE 2022 OREGON BOOK AWARDS [This week], during our first in-person ceremony since 2019, the winners of the 2022 Oregon Book Awards, selected by panels of out-of-state judges, were announced. KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION Omar El Akkad of West Linn What Strange Paradise: A Novel (Alfred A. …

Apr

18

2022

Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood and Greg Dawson

Memorably set in WWII Ukraine and then Germany, this middle grade novel-in-verse is the story of two sisters who used their talent playing the piano to escape their parents’ fate on the death march to Drobitsky Yar. They hid as students in a prestigious German music school in Berlin through the whole war. One of the …

Mar

25

2022

Grass Roots Raises Funds for Ukraine

From Grass Roots Books & Music in Corvallis, OR: Many thanks to all who shopped at Grass Roots last Wednesday, March 16th, to support Ukraine! We are pleased to announce that, as a result of your support, we were able to present a check for $1504.00 to the Uzhhorod Refugee Fund, in support of Corvallis’ sister city …

Mar

22

2022

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

“These unbroken stretches of consciousness, days sometimes blurring into one another, seems just a feature of modern life, not worth complaining about,” an insomniac remarks to herself. Kim Fu’s Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century is a collection of short stories that captures the modern sense of malaise that is now more pronounced, more intense, as …

Mar

17

2022

The Irish Character(s)

From Rebel Heart Books, Jacksonville, OR: “When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen but ferociously tenacious.” ~ Edna O’Brien. Not long ago, my oldest son called from college and said to me and my daughter, “I think you both should watch Derry Girls together.” He had …

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