On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller List is published. Every week, we love to see what books have been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. This week’s bestseller list shows that some YA authors have staying power and …
What an inspiring reminder that protest can be patriotic! Explore 25 historical moments of American resistance that helped shape our nation in the illustrated children’s book Rise Up!: Powerful Protests in American History. Today’s also the on-sale day for the much-anticipated Hunger Games prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping. NPR did a great piece on …
Here is a new book from Christopher Buehlman. The Daughters’ War is a prequel to The Backtongue Thief (in case you are tracking this sort of thing), and this one is about goblins, betrayal, and revenge. This one also has giant war corvids, which is kinda where we opened our wallets and spilled all our money on the counter. This …
Adolf Hitler has been chancellor of Germany for only four weeks, when on February 27, 1933, the Reichstag—home of the parliament in Berlin—suddenly bursts into flames. The Nazis promptly blame unruly communists, and in response suspend civil liberties throughout the country. Caught up in the ensuing escalation of lies, divisiveness, and bigotry is John Russell, …
On Tuesday February 3, it was announced that Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, will publish Go Set a Watchman, a 304-page novel featuring characters from Harper’s debut– and thus far, famously only– novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, set 20 years later in the same fictional Southern town. Although as of the writing of this post …
