In January of 2025, about a month before One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This was set to be published in North America, I received an email from my editor. He said he was worried: we’d gotten no confirmed major media at that point. By this he meant national radio, morning TV, that …
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. Would you consider yourself an optimistic or pessimistic reader? Do you read to …
A sweeping historical mystery with three timelines spanning from World War II to the present. Under the Same Stars paints a portrait of love, resistance, and learning how to stand up for what you believe in. I was left filled with both sadness for the pain of the past and hope for what the future …
This is the kind of Macbeth retelling I’ve been looking for. Ava Reid crafts a Lady Macbeth both bound to the decisions of others as well as conniving in her own right. Every page was filled with female rage and impotence in the face of male dictators while also highlighting Lady Roscille’s brilliant mind. I …
Perhaps you read Snyder’s bracing pamphlet, On Tyranny (or the Facebook post it was based on)—from its title, I had imagined this new, much larger book as an expansion of those ideas, but, while it’s written in the same level-headed-but-urgent tone (which Snyder’s voice for the audiobook perfectly represents), it’s doing something related but different, focusing less …
In Zumas’s all-too-familiar dystopia set in a small Oregon coastal town, Roe v. Wade has been overturned. The narrative explores the complexity of childbearing — both the desire for and not for — and the reduction of a woman’s identity to such choices, braiding together the perspectives of a pregnant teen, a single teacher who …
Here is my teenage employee Emma Seckington [right] and another high school student from Moscow High School, Ari Carter, who helped organize Moscow’s March For Our Lives and was one of the emcees. I’m so proud of Emma! And I let her off work early so she’d get to the march on time. 🙂 My …
Simple and inspiring. We all have those days, when we’re afraid and sad because of the news; this book shows us how to step outside the fear “to make the world a better place.” Hand in hand, kindness by kindness, we can make a difference and win “a tiny battle over fear for [ourselves] and …
I LOVE this book! Karen Karbo is at her feisty best as she relates the “difficult” natures of her subjects. (The author of Eloise? Who knew?) –Cheryl McKeon, former bookseller at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA; currently the manager of Book Passage Ferry Building in San Francisco, CA Seattle area folks: Learn …
You think it’s just about bunnies, but then WHAM, it hits you with the evils of complacency and facism. I’ve read this so many times that my copy’s cover fell off years ago. –Dorie, Village Books, Lynden, WA Find oldies but goodies you’ve been meaning to read or revisit at Village Books and other independent …
