Every Thursday, we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. This week, a sense of place came up in quite a few titles. Some you can find on a map. Tokyo Ever After Emiko Jean (#5 Young adult) Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker (#13 paperback …
When Craig Thompson won a 2012 Pacific Northwest Book Award for the graphic novel Habibi, the awards committee declared that the book “should take its place alongside groundbreaking classics, such as Maus and Persepolis.” Praise doesn’t get any higher in the graphic book arena. I’m not certain a middle grade (and up!) cosmic adventure featuring …
“Fuller, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, is back with another deeply personal memoir. After the collapse of her marriage, she finds herself unexpectedly looking back to her African childhood and eccentric family, and is forced to confront her life head-on. This honest and often wryly humorous book is not to be …
