Merry Christmas!
We wish you all a day of joy, peace, and books.
Port Book and News: Clallam County Teacher Support
From Port Book and News in Port Angeles, WA: Attention Clallam County Teachers! Teachers in our community come into the bookstore quite often to buy books for their classrooms. They are often paying for these books out of their own pocket. Port Book and News would like to share this cost of getting books into …
Woe: A Housecat’s Story of Despair by Lucy Knisley
This book is for anyone who has known a cat and wondered what these fluffy creatures with on demand daggers might be saying to you. Find the answers within Woe, the latest book by Lucy Knisley. —Helena, Port Book and News, Port Angeles, WA Don’t despair! Have hope! Cat people, dog people– everyone will find something …
Treaty Justice by Charles Wilkinson
I was searching for an up-to-date account of the events and issues surrounding Boldt Decision on the 50th anniversary of that momentous court case, and Treaty Justice was just the ticket. While I learned what I had hoped to about the so-called “fish wars,” I found the book to offer an outstanding overall account of the …
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
This book is a joy to hold and behold. Just what the Universe has ordered up for these trying times, and Margaret Renkl has delivered. 52 transcendent meditations on the natural world. Brief yet beautiful with illustrations to accompany done by her brother. Over and over Margaret reminds us that even though “The world is …
Again and Again by Jonathan Evison
From one of America’s most inventive and compassionate novelists comes Again and Again, a poignant and endlessly surprising story about love lost, found, and redeemed. Who is Eugene (Geno) Miles? A lonely curmudgeonly old man living out his final days in an elder-care facility or a true anomaly: a thousand-year-old-man searching for a love he …
Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain: Washington’s Olympic Peninsula by Tim McNulty et al
This book seems to rise organically out of the natural roots of the Olympic Peninsula, and from the heart and soul of its people. Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain will become the definitive book on this unique place ‒ a world heritage site and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. I don’t see how anything could surpass it. …
“No Person Is an Island”
As we enter Phase 2, with the hope that this is not just a prelude to slipping back into Phase 1, let us first acknowledge the sadness, sorrow, and grief being felt by all those who have lost loved ones. For more than 100,000 of our fellow Americans there is no Phase 2. For their …
