A Scottish castle, birdwatching and finding one’s flock are at the center of the charming middle-grade novel Across the Pond by Joy McCullough (Blood Water Paint; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Champ and Major: First Dogs). When Callie’s parents inherit a Scottish castle, she’s thrilled at the prospect of a fresh start. But Callie’s hopes of …
A group of Seattle-area independent booksellers are proud to invite to you to a special virtual event tonight, April 1, 2021 at 6:30 pm Pacific on Facebook. Beloved local authors Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain and more) and Jonathan Evison (The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and more) are joining forces to …
Green Bean Books of Portland expressed what a lot of us are feeling after the passing of beloved Oregon author Beverly Cleary: It is with both sadness and immense gratitude that we reflect on the incredible life of children’s author, Beverly Cleary. So beloved by so many, she brought us a treasure trove of children’s …
Torrey, a Black San Francisco State University student in his first year, is looking for a new start and is happy to be away from his home in LA. He misses terribly his late uncle with whom he operated an apiary, or bee farm. Torrey saw his uncle as one of the few positive forces …
One silver lining from no travel and minimizing in-person contact is that event access is not geographically-dependent. This year, it means that the celebration of 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award-winning the authors and books is online and open to all registered book lovers. The event will be presented as a Zoom webinar Wednesday, February 10 …
Shaun David Hutchinson’s A Complicated Love Story Set in Space follows three teens who wrestle with the comedic set-up of the title while escaping from a bathroom, fixing a leaking coolant conduit, and rebooting a recalcitrant computer. All of which leads to a lot of space folding, awkward conversations, and constantly thrilling set pieces that …
Seattle author Joy McCullough‘s picture book about the Bidens’ dogs, Champ and Major: First Dogs is out in time to celebrate the Inauguration! You can also watch the Indoguration, which was broadcast Sunday and raised over $200,000 for the Delaware Humane Association, the shelter from which Major was adopted by the Bidens.
When I was fifteen, my parents returned to South Korea and left me behind with my brother in America. My mother started writing me letters in Korean, a language I could not fully understand at the time. Over a decade after she wrote me, I translated her letters into English. In one letter, she writes: …
The violent events that took place near what is now Walla Walla on November 29, 1847 served for at least a century as a creation myth for the state of Washington, a legend of heroic sacrifice to noble ideals. But the traditional story of the Whitman Mission and the attack on its occupants is just …
The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, …
