NWBL had the opportunity to visit Rediscovered Books in its new location in downtown Boise last fall. It was a Wednesday morning, and co-owners Laura and Bruce DeLaney and staffer Whitney Gill were busy coordinating their schedules for the day, placing an order for holiday books from Partners/West and waiting on customers while the new …
“I love to bake, especially bread. So I enjoyed reading about Alexander’s quest to bake the perfect loaf of simple peasant bread. Alexander takes you to bakeries, his kitchen, Paris, and, finally, to a monastery, all to try his bread in their ovens. Along the way, you get everything from sourdough to weird yeast, but …
Though I am a southwesterner by birth and possibly by inclination, I have lived much of my adult life in the Northwest. Fifteen years ago my wife and I bought 40 acres in the remote mountains of northern Idaho where we spent altogether too much of our time fixing fence, cutting firewood and plowing snow. …
Whenever we buy a book, we say we buy a “copy” of it. We buy a copy of Gravity’s Rainbow, say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word “copy” fails. Because what I experience when I read Gravity’s Rainbow, or Beloved, or …
“An unfortunate potato hockey accident brings Sam to the attention of a scary stranger and Sam is attacked after work. From there, it’s quickly on to necromancy, werewolves, witches, kidnapping and multiple dead bodies, some that stay dead, some that do not. Sam is given (not much of) a choice. He can join the evil, …
“Mark Ryden’s style lends itself to fantastic other-worlds and the imaginations that inhabit them. Don’t let the soft, sweet cover of this book deceive you. The paintings *can be* slightly disturbing, but are always completely amazing. “—Whitney Gill, The Rediscovered Bookshop, Boise
“This is the latest book from our beloved Boise author Anthony Doerr. We’ve been anxiously waiting for this one, and it’s everything we hoped for!” —Rediscovered Bookshop, Boise From the publisher: “Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr’s new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that …
Congrats to Rediscovered Bookshop, which reopened in its new location in downtown Boise last Friday. Co-owner Laura DeLaney says the move was an incredible experience. “We started packing with an army of volunteers on Sunday, July 11 at 9 am and were finished packing by 4 pm. The movers came the next day and on …
