One of the great pleasures of independent bookstores is enjoying read-alouds at storytime. Boise’s bookstore, Rediscovered Books, goes one step further, bringing storytime to Guru Donuts every Tuesday for two rounds of reading and Tasty Tales deals for kids and their accompanying adults. From 10:00- 10:25 and again from 10:30- 11:00 on Tuesdays, while staff from …
Rediscovered Books will celebrate their grand opening with an all day party on Saturday, September 5th beginning at 10am. The day will start with face painting in the morning during the Saturday farmer’s market on 8th St. The first 100 people through the door will get a free book from Rediscovered. From 4pm onward, the Psych Sirens from …
On Independent Bookstore Day (May 2, 2015), Rediscovered Books of Boise, ID, kicked off an indigogo fundraiser to expand their store. This summer, the bookstore plans to extend into an adjacent retail space to increase their footprint. The extra space will allow them to bring in more books, more gifts, and more events. As they expand, they also hope …
People harbor certain assumptions about the Pacific Northwest, and they seem to get more incorrect the farther I get from home. Many folks think, for example, rain. But here in Boise we average just 12 inches of rain a year, only 6 more than Baghdad, and 31 fewer than Cincinnati. Other folks think, lumberjacks, but …
The title that served as artistic inspiration for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2013 Holiday Catalog, What the Heart Knows by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenksi, just had a big week. It hit the Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List and was named to the Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2013 list! It’s easy to …
Oooh, I just love a good holiday gift guide! So after I helped put one together for Queen Anne Book Company, I surfed the websites of the independent bookstores of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and found MORE. Take a browse. You might even want to share your favorite lists because not everyone is lucky …
“What about the sleeper books? The ones without ad campaigns and NPR coverage? The ones nobody knows they want until you put it in their hands? It’s been just over a year since the English translation of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared came out and we’ve sold 88 copies of this staff …
“City of a Thousand Dolls invokes the colors, flavor and mood of Southeast Asia, while being a lushly sculpted world of Forster's own playful mind. Half murder mystery, half fantastical adventure, this book introduces readers to an empire, a caste system, and a city where unwanted girls are groomed as healers, wives, courtesans, entertainers, and guards …
“Half-Blood Blues is a wonderful story about a German-American jazz band that gets its start in Berlin between the two world wars. As the music comes under attack during the rise of Hitler, band members are forced to flee to Paris where they record their masterpiece. Catastrophe befalls their trumpeter and the record gets lost …
“Based on the author’s real-life grandmother, a child of the Great Depression and a nurse for an African-American abortion physician in the 1950’s, this novel beautifully captures the voice of a woman torn between ethics and money, personal integrity and social acceptance. I read this twice (something I rarely-to-never do), and must say it was …
