The Washington State Book Awards announced its finalists yesterday. The Awards are presented by the Washington Center for the Book (an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book administered by Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State). The 2025 awards are administered by Sara Peté, Director …
Award-winning indigenous writer Sasha LaPointe shared part of her history with us in Red Paint. Now, she returns with a set of essays that add to the story in a new memoir that is honest, at times disturbing, but always interesting. She wants us to know what it is like to be a queer indigenous …
The second Monday of October is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. What was the last book you read by an indigenous author? An idea to support indigenous authors and your local bookstore at the same time is to preorder upcoming books by indigenous creators. Here are a few suggestions: The Misewa Saga #4: The Portal Keeper by …
The Washington Center for the Book (an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book administered by Washington State Library) has selected winners in seven categories for the 2023 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) for outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2022. Congratulations to the winners! Creative Nonfiction/Memoir Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. With reprints of The Fourth Wing hitting stores recently and then the novel hitting bestseller lists, it …
