Saturday was Small Business Saturday and independent bookstores’ special Indies First day. Stores around the region strutted their small business stuff, and customers enjoyed a joyous kick-off to the holiday shopping season. In McMinnville, OR, Third Street Books was part of the community-wide small business passport program. Brian Juenemann, executive director of regional trade association …
Ellis has illustrated a few of my favorite books, so I always take notice of something new. In this beautiful book, she has created an entire bug language for you to translate. Not knowing exactly what the bugs are saying makes it the job of our imaginations to fully realize this wonderful story. –Kenny Coble, …
What a subtitle: “An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders!” This is beautiful, bizarre, intriguing, absurd– arm-chair travel at its most curious and delightful. I’m recommending this as the gift to get for the person who has everything and/or the most interesting person on your list. Life will never be boring with a book like …
In The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate (Greystone Books), Peter Wohlleben illuminates how trees form underground networks that allow them to grow together and nurture each other. As a forest ranger who has immersed himself in scientific literature, Wohlleben argues that people need to take on a role of stewardship …
I’m not typically a “reader” of cookbooks, but I found this one to be a delectably tantalizing read. The author’s introduction to the book warms the reader into submission to begin making pies. Entries throughout the book, such as Best Peach Pie in the World, are mouth-watering inspirations. Of course, I am a lover of pie …
This fascinating look at history and geography will intrigue readers, even people who don’t live in Seattle! For all its natural beauty, we know Seattle is man-made too: the famous Denny Regrade, the downtown landfill that the Big Quake will liquefy. I knew the broad story of our manufactured geography but none of the details, …
The title that served as artistic inspiration for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2013 Holiday Catalog, What the Heart Knows by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenksi, just had a big week. It hit the Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List and was named to the Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2013 list! It’s easy to …
“The Turquoise Ledge encompasses many different narratives, including a loosely-structured account of a few years in Silko’s life spent walking in the desert, observing nature, and fuming over a neighbor she calls “machine man,” who uses heavy equipment to remove boulders from public land for use on his property. Silko also weaves in an account …
