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April Fool's Day "salmon leather" PNBA IBD 2019 bookmark

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Announce Exclusive Independent Bookstore Day Bookmark

The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) announced today that regional independent bookstores will offer an exclusive, in-store-only Independent Bookstore Day Limited Edition PNBA bookmark– printed on edible, sustainable smoked salmon leather. These beautiful salmon leather bookmarks have a slight, classic fishy odor that will complement new-book smell. The PNBA and commemorative “IBD 2019” logos are …

Oct

23

2018

Books Around the Corner Gresham logo

Books Around the Corner Opening
in Gresham, OR November 2

From the Books Around the Corner Newsletter 10/19/18 LATEST NEWS The sign is up and it’s [less than] two weeks until Books Around the Corner opens its doors. We have over $500 of donations through our Indiegogo Campaign and another few hundred received in donations at the Gresham Farmer’s Market. While we don’t want to …

Jan

29

2018

King of Spies

King of Spies by Blaine Harden

This is the astonishing story about the most powerful US spy during the Korean War era. He obtained North Korean plans, first ignored by US Army brass, and was very close to the South Korean president. He set up and oversaw a vast spy network. It is also an account of the massacres, carpet bombings, blunders,and cover-ups– …

Aug

30

2017

Underground Fugue

Underground Fugue by Margot Singer

Written like a musical fugue with four voices in counterpoint, I enjoyed the beautiful language, narrative structure, and the distinctive voices of characters that I could relate to as they wrestle with grief, aging, identity, and family.  Their stories are seen as back-lit by the  suicide bombing of three Metro stations and one bus in …

Aug

11

2017

Eagle Harbor Bookseller’s Ode to the Store

from the Eagle Harbor Book Co. blog A Farewell from Emma (Who Will be Back) The things I want to know are in books;  my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.  ~ Abraham Lincoln In the shadow of my impending departure to a graduate program in Who Knows …

Feb

13

2017

The Glass Universe

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel

A half a million glass photographic plates hold the only visual record of the night sky between 1885 and 1992. This dazzles me and I’m not an astronomer. It dazzles me even more to learn that a group of dedicated women (mostly unpaid) spent decades attending to these glass slides with utmost dedication well before …

Feb

10

2017

Sherman Alexie photographed by Joe Veyera

Sherman Alexie Accepts 2017 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award at Queen Anne Book Company

From the Queen Anne & Magnolia News, by Joe Veyera Sherman Alexie is a familiar face around Queen Anne Book Company. Soon after the store reopened in 2013, he spent a day at the shop as a bookseller, an instance that later led to the launch of the “Indies First” effort to draw people to …

Feb

8

2017

All Our Wrong Todays

All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

This book is fabulous! It’s like a modern, funnier “Back to the Future” in which the main character explores different versions of himself within different timelines of both his life and the universe. He is trying to save the love of his life from her fate, and ends up endangering the fate of the world. …

Feb

6

2017

Dead Feminists

Dead Feminists by Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring

In 2008, artists Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring made a letterpress broadside featuring a quote by suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “Come, come my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see the world is moving.” This began a years-long project printing broadsides inspired by feminists throughout history, and donating a portion of the …

Jun

22

2016

But What If We're Wrong

But What if We’re Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman

Reading this is like taking part in the best possible late-night dorm room bull session. Klosterman not only questions the assumptions we rely on, he explains why it’s important to do so. Hidebound critics who can’t stand hypotheticals, alternative histories, or possible futures will probably say he’s wasting their time with stoner logic, but the …

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