Twenty-eight general bookstores and 11 children’s specialty bookstores have been nominated for the Women’s National Book Association’s 2019 WNBA Pannell Awards, which honor bookstores that enhance their communities by using exceptional creativity to foster a love of reading among their young patrons. Rediscovered Books of Boise, ID and Third Place Books of Lake Forest Park, WA are …
A striking look at how anti-immigrant hate and a lust for profit revived the KKK in the ’20s and ’30s. Striking parallels to the anti-immigrant movement of today. It will make you think. –Bruce DeLaney, Rediscovered Books, Boise, ID Find history that resonates at Rediscovered Books and other independent bookstores. This is available now in …
For me there are two main kinds of books with queer characters: those where queerness plays an integral role in the story and those where no one in the book bats an eye at a character’s queerness. Both are tremendously important. The first so that we can tell stories about our culture, how we got …
As bookstores and communities around the country take part in the Where’s Waldo? local business campaign, bookseller Hanna Fischer of Rediscovered Books in Boise, ID, took it to a whole new level. Folks from the store took part in the Boise Green Bike Celebrity Race at the Twilight Criterion on Saturday, July 14, and bookseller …
Boise’s independent bookstore makes its publishing debut with A Kid’s Guide to Boise Rediscovered Publishing, a new division of downtown Boise’s Rediscovered Books, will be releasing A Kid’s Guide to Boise by Rick Just on May 29, 2018. The book is a complete guide for what to do, where to go, what to eat all around …
When I needed relief from the darkness of winter, I found this unusual book that left me feeling hopeful. It’s also a good book for someone who’s recovering from surgery! –Barb, Rediscovered Books, Boise, ID More about this book from the publisher: For fans of THE ROSIE PROJECT and THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG …
Some say New York City is a “melting pot.” I think not so much. Positively scads of vastly different folks exist in close proximity. But the vastly different doesn’t go away. That’s the secret! In this book a poor kid gets mixed up with a lot of rich ones. Uptown, Downtown, Eastside, Westside … she sees it …
Malu (short for Maria Louisa) straddles two worlds, punk music and record stores on her dad’s side, and academic achievement and Mexican culture on her mother’s side. When she lands at Posada Middle School, she finds herself on the outside again and takes on the school’s culture by starting her own punk band. I loved …
I enjoyed the combination of sci fi, historical fiction, and literary exploration. I was dropped into 1815 and saw it through the eyes of two researchers from the future who love Jane Austen’s work. They’ve been sent to find and bring back the completed manuscript of “The Watsons” because only part of it has made …
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 …
