The most fun you’ll ever have reading a book about donkeys! Christopher McDougall combines a dire rescue situation, humor, and healing into a book that will leave you smiling. –Melissa, Trail’s End Bookstore, Winthrop, WA I loved this heartfelt and hilarious inside look at the quirky world of donkey running. This book has it all …
I read it all in one go! This book had my heart racing from start to finish. It features alternating perspectives between resourceful and genuine young women. A timely narrative on race and protest, both in broader society and between/within individuals –AND a guaranteed read to raise your blood pressure! –Ellen, Queen Anne Book Company, …
A group of Seattle-area independent booksellers are proud to invite to you to a special virtual event tonight, April 1, 2021 at 6:30 pm Pacific on Facebook. Beloved local authors Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain and more) and Jonathan Evison (The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and more) are joining forces to …
An enlightening, empowering memoir from an admirable woman. Melinda draws on her 20 years of philanthropy with the Gates Foundation, co-founded with her husband Bill, to give her readers concrete ways to lift and to help lift. Each chapter conveys a current issue of need, at home and in other countries. Her message is that …
Danielle of Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park, WA) shared a stack of books she recommends for Women’s History Month. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad …
This is a book that is uplifting, funny, charming, hopeful, and HELPFUL to tweens! The main character, Yumi, wants to do stand-up comedy. Her parents want her to go to SSAT tutoring to get into a private school and earn a scholarship. But when a bizarre opportunity that just requires some identity theft and a …
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages is a remarkably restful piece of quiet fantasy that I can’t recommend enough. Set in the queer quarters of 1940 San Francisco, we follow the budding romance between two women: an artist for the pulps and a singer newly arrived trying to find a place to belong. That’s it. And …
This tiny book embodies curiosity and quirk! This is the kind of story that makes you lean in, do a double take, and then reread the chapter. The Factory is very Kafkaesque, with reality slipping sideways before you even begin to notice. –Christina, King’s Books, Tacoma, WA Short and not at all sweet, Oyamada delves …
If you love Blueberries for Sal, take a look at this! It has the same potential as a classic, with sensory details and family connection that are wonderfully evocative plus gorgeous illustrations to bring the magic of the scenes to life. It is based on scenes from Mighty Justice by civil rights lawyer and activist …
Davis’s second full-length collection is full of tenderness and music. These poems are about family and fatherhood; they consider the lives lived and lost by Black men and boys in America; and the grace of love against fear, anger, and hurt. Night Angler is a moving experience. –Erin Malone, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA Enrich your …
