Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. Sometimes the themes come from the covers, sometimes the titles, but today, we’re drawing on …
From Wishing Tree Books in Spokane: Our Wishing Tree this year supports World Relief, Family Promise, and Odyssey. World Relief: Would like “learning” books, puzzles, and/or sticker books Family Promise: Would like books for all ages. Choose your favorites to share! Odyssey: Use the suggestion on an ornament for ideas. Wishing Tree booksellers are happy …
Lynette has been saving for three years for a down payment to buy the North Portland house she lives in with her mother and developmentally disabled brother. The owner is giving them a good deal, but Lynette has lousy credit, so her mother has to take out the loan. However, at the last minute they …
From Broadway Books in Portland, OR: The only words we’re more tired of hearing than “pandemic” and “pivot” are “supply chain disruption.” We suspect you’re feeling much the same way. Sadly, the disruption is very real and definitely affecting the book world too. Between paper, ink, and labor shortages, as well as large container ships making circles around ports trying …
After writing YA books early in her career, Charlotte McConaghy leaps into the work of adult fiction with Migrations, her stunning novel about Franny and her obsessive quest to follow the world’s last Arctic terns across the hemispheres. Set in a near future in which almost all animal life is extinct, Franny hitches a ride aboard one …
In 2011, Laura Moulton founded Street Books, a mobile library serving people living outside in Portland, Oregon. That summer, Ben Hodgson became one of her most dedicated regulars, setting the still-unbroken single-season record for borrowing. Then Ben’s routine’s changed, and he didn’t cross paths again with Laura for almost two years. Loaners is the story they began to tell when they reconnected, …
So if there wasn’t enough tension and the stakes weren’t high enough in Casey McQuiston’s Red, White, and Royal Blue (there was, and they were) now we’re given One Last Stop: a girl lost in time and a romance that’s destined to be a missed connection. Good to the last drop! Just like RW&RB it …
From Oregon Live July 10, 2021 Portland-raised author Renée Watson is the inspiration for a campaign that Portland bookstore Green Bean Books is running on behalf of Vernon Elementary School this summer. The campaign’s goal: To sell 275 copies of Watson’s delightful chapter book Ways to Make Sunshine, which follows a Black girl growing up …
Congratulations to Portland bookstore Third Eye Books! The store is opening in a new location in SE Portland Sunday June 20, 2021. Celebrate with Third Eye Books at their new home, 2518 SE 33rd Ave Portland, OR 97202 (at Southeast Division Street and 33rd Avenue). KGW8, the Portland area NBC-affiliate, did a story about store …
Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a unique heartfelt Japanese story. The story is beautifully told and shows how heartache can be turned into happiness and bring people closer together. An unexpected and enjoyable find. –Trail’s End Bookstore, Winthrop, WA This little gem was a favorite of not just Trail’s End in Winthrop, WA, but …
