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Jul

5

2022

Cool Event Report: A Walk in the Forest with Jane Billinghurst and Watermark Book Company

In June, Watermark Book Company of Anacortes, WA partnered with Skagit Land Trust on a forest walk event with Jane Billinghurst, longtime translator for, editor of, and now co-author with Peter Wohlleben. From Watermark’s newsletter: What a cool author event! We had so much fun selling books at Jane Billinghurst’s forest walk. We have SIGNED …

Jun

28

2022

The Great Summer Reading Guide Launches

Feed your summer reading habit and support your favorite NW indie by shopping The Great Summer Reading Guide! This summer, many independent bookstores will share favorite titles through email newsletter, websites, and bookshop.org collections. We’ll feature some of the titles here, too, to help you remember that whether your local independent bookstore has air conditioning …

Nov

3

2021

Fuzz by Mary Roach

Mary Roach is at it again. After telling us all about cadavers, all things digestion, the afterlife, all things scientifically sexual, war, AND Mars, she is now turning her attention (and ours) to what happens when a critter breaks the law… you know, breaking and entering, butting heads with your camera, chomping on your toes …

Nov

1

2021

Dear Little One written by Nina Laden, illustrated by Melissa Castrillon

Nina Laden’s words of wonder paired with Melissa Castrillon’s lush jewel-toned illustrations pay tribute to and honor the bounty of the natural world. There is a almost a reverent musical dancing movement of this book that engages all of the senses. Feel your breathing calm and your whole body relax into the beauty of each …

Sep

2

2021

Bestseller Spotlight: Local Connections

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. While big, national preorder campaigns for much-anticipated fall titles served up some fresh titles (like this and this) for the bestseller list, we also noticed that books with local connections …

May

11

2020

Hike by Pete Oswald

Hike by Pete Oswald

Wordless book often have the most to say, and Hike in particular exemplifies in particular what I look for in a memorable picture book: nature, diversity, and grit alongside illustrations that you want to step into. This is one of my favorite new spring picture books. –Jesica Sweedler DeHart, Neill Public Library, Pullman, Washington If …

Feb

1

2019

Elis Saslow author

Embracing the Rain: An Essay by 2019 PNBA Award Winner Eli Saslow

One of the many wonderful things about winning this award is being officially reminded that I now belong to the Pacific Northwest. It has been five years since we moved to Portland, my wife’s hometown, and my extended family spent the first several years worrying that I wouldn’t be happy here. I grew up in …

Mar

28

2017

2

remarks

The Stranger in the Woods

Telling the True Story of a Hermit’s Solitude:
A Q&A with author Michael Finkel

Montana author Michael Finkel delves into the story of Christopher Knight, a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for three decades, in his new book, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit. The interview below is from his publisher, Penguin Random House. You can read the …

Jan

20

2017

Alexis Smith

Books, Boats, and Beginnings: An Essay by 2017 PNBA Award Winner Alexis M. Smith

In 2008, when I went back to work at Powell’s Books after maternity leave, I took whatever sections needed a keeper. I had been the head of Young Adult and Fairy Tales and other sections in Children’s books for a few years. I considered myself an expert, a harbor of knowledge about out-of-print editions and …

Sep

26

2016

Names of the Stars

Names of the Stars: A Life in the Wilds
by Pete Fromm

OK, in my opinion, he needs the next PNBA award.  I so loved Pete’s latest experience tending salmon eggs in the backcountry. Pete is never better than in his thoughtful accounting of years spent outdoors. With humor and grace– this is a another glimpse into  heart that’s as big as his mustache. I’ve always counted …

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