The first 2025 Pacific Northwest Book Awards celebrations have taken place! More are planned! Amy Hevron— Log Life, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA 2/11/25 Tara Karr Roberts— Wild and Distant Seas, Book People, Moscow, ID 2/13/25 Cat Bohannon— Eve Ravenna Third Place Books, Seattle, WA, 6:00 pm 2/26/25 Chris LaTray— Becoming Little Shell, Fact …
The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2025 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. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula K. …
Karl Marlantes on Chronicling the Early Cold War Years Karl Marlantes is back with Cold Victory [available this week in paperback], a novel about community, family, and skiing. Set in 1947, Cold Victory tells the story of two young military attachés who drunkenly challenge each other to a cross-country wilderness race. Since this is Finland, …
From Shelf Awareness Thursday, October 3, 2024: Obituary Note: Tom Spanbauer Author Tom Spanbauer, best known for his cult classic The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon and his award-winning final novel, I Loved You More, as well as his long-running Dangerous Writing workshop, died September 21. He was 78. Born in Pocatello, Idaho, he attended …
Award-winning indigenous writer Sasha LaPointe shared part of her history with us in Red Paint. Now, she returns with a set of essays that add to the story in a new memoir that is honest, at times disturbing, but always interesting. She wants us to know what it is like to be a queer indigenous …
Koh approaches her historical novel with an unwavering interest in the human heart & the way politics, war, & things of such scale affect the realms of intimacy and interpersonal relationships. Koh uses language with the utmost elegance, her prose is poetic & confident with imagistic, memorable metaphors. Her characters feel flesh & bone; yearning …
When I first encountered Aubrey Gordon, it was under the pseudonym “Your Fat Friend.” Her experiences, knowledge, and ability to write about fatness resonated deeply with me and many other readers, who viewed her as a confidante, a researcher, a social justice advocate. More people felt seen for the first time. In much of Aubrey’s …
The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2024 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. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula K. Le Guin, …
Foreword, which reviews independently published books, did a wonderful interview with Issaquah, WA’s own bestselling author, Newbery Award winner, 2021 PNBA Award winner, and beloved champion of children’s literature, Donna Barba Higuera. You can subscribe to the free Foreword This Week e-newsletter on their website. Below is an excerpt of the interview by reviewer Meg …
Jonathan Raban, who made his home in Seattle for decades before his passing in January of 2023, worked on his memoir for over decade. Father and Son goes on sale September 19, 2023, and Mr. Raban will be on bookstore displays as well as many booksellers’ minds. Raban won a Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award in …
