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Jan

8

2020

PNBA Book Awards

Congratulations to the Winners of the
2020 Pacific Northwest Book Awards

The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. The Association produces educational and promotional events and materials for its members and offers literacy, free …

Nov

8

2019

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remarks

PNBA Book Awards

2020 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Shortlist Announced

The shortlist for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Awards has been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. The Association produces educational and promotional events and materials for its members and offers literacy, free …

Jul

19

2019

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Tegan Tigani and Jenny Cohen

NW Indie Booksellers on the National Stage

Two Pacific Northwest booksellers recently joined the American Booksellers Association Board of Directors. Jenny Cohen of Waucoma Books in Hood River, OR and Tegan Tigani of Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle, WA started on the board this spring. They were the point people on a bookstore bus tour for booksellers at a recent national …

Feb

27

2018

Brian Doyle

2018 Indie Spirit Honor Winner: Brian Doyle

The Pacific Northwest Book Award Committee recognized late author Brian Doyle with an Indie Spirit Honor for his body of work and vigorous support of independent booksellers in the Northwest and beyond. Doyle passed away in May 2017. We republish this essay that he wrote upon winning a 2016 PNBA Award in memory of his …

Jan

26

2018

Jonathan White, author of Tides

Northwest Waters: An Essay by 2018 PNBA Award Winner Jonathan White

I’m so pleased that Tides will receive a 2018 Pacific Northwest Book Award. I’m honored to be among such a wonderful list of writers living on this craggy coast. When I think of the west I think of the Pacific, that “small gulf” Ferdinand Magellan named long ago for its pacificity. We now know it’s …

Jan

26

2016

Thor Hanson

Recommended for You: An Essay by 2016 PNBA Award Winner, Thor Hanson

As a reader, I find recommendations difficult to ignore. Even when the pile beside my evening chair is in danger of toppling, something new, received at the insistence of a friend, simply must be cracked open. The same goes for gifts. While I have no trouble composting an unwanted fruitcake, or exchanging a shirt with …

Jan

22

2016

3

remarks

Dana Simpson

Me and My Unicorn: An Essay by 2016 PNBA Award Winner, Dana Simpson

Sometimes a unicorn shows up in your life and makes everything better. I wasn’t really expecting one. A few years ago, I had nearly realized an ambition I’ve had since age 12: I had scored a contract to develop a comic strip for newspaper syndication. I won that contract, in the Comic Strip Superstar contest, …

Jan

19

2016

Brian Doyle

That Silvery-Lit Corner: An Essay by 2016 PNBA Award Winner, Brian Doyle

What did I think of when I learned that my peculiar collection of essays had won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award? Weirdly, not the barrels of cash and fine wines and excellent cheeses that would surely come my way, or the hordes of somber graduate students that would soon be studying my semicolons, or the …

Sep

25

2015

Space Dumplins
by Craig Thompson

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 …

Jan

23

2014

Three Cups of Tea, All Kinds of Regret

Shelf Awareness recapped Tuesday’s appearance on the Today Show by Three Cups of Tea author Greg Mortenson. Mortenson has remained out of the spotlight since a 2011 controversy regarding the misappropriation of funds generated by his work for the Central Asia Institute, the Bozeman centered nonprofit he established to build schools in underdeveloped communities in …

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