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Feb

20

2017

On Turpentine Lane display at Book Passage

Elinor Lipman: “Rx for Gloom”

The NW booklovers’ community extends beyond the Pacific Northwest… Here, we see a lovely photo of a display promoting an event at Book Passage in San Francisco. (I pulled this post’s headline from the great intro on the shelf talker pictured.) The picture was posted by former Third Place Books bookseller, Cheryl McKeon, on Facebook with …

Apr

30

2013

Kirby Larson

From the Big Sky to the Big City:
An Unexpected Sequel from Kirby Larson

I read Kenmore, Washington author Kirby Larson’s Newbery Honor-winning book Hattie Big Sky when it came out in 2007. The story of 16-year-old Hattie, who moves to Montana by herself to try to prove up on a homestead claim left to her by her bachelor uncle, completely captured my heart, and I hand-sold it to everyone I …

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