In Daniel Tam-Claiborne’s Transplants, a chance encounter at a university campus in rural Qixian sets the lives of two young women on radically different trajectories: Lin, a reticent Chinese student who ends up matriculating at a community college in rural Ohio, and Liz, a grieving Chinese American ESL teacher who stays in China to learn …
A mutual friend goes missing and twin sisters Frankie, a young teen on the spectrum, and popular Tess try to solve the mystery. The loyalty of sisters, friendship, and acceptance all come into play in this well-written and engaging book. — Marlene Craig, The Well-Read Moose, Coeur d’Alene, ID Discover overlooked gems at The Well-Read …
More than a decade after Tin House released his second novel The Dismal Science, Seattle fiction fixture and 2012 Washington State Book Award winner Peter Mountford returns with the story collection Detonator, a darkly funny gaggle of ten works spanning his career. These tales appear in all sorts of highbrow landmarks – The Paris Review, …
For the second year, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) unveiled its Book Awards Shortlist live on the show floor at the association’s Fall Tradeshow, Sept. 29, 2025. These honorees are now being promoted throughout PNBA’s 170-store membership. Selected by an Awards Committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska, the following …
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 …
Secret Garden Books in Seattle, WA interviewed YA author Zoe Hana Mikuta. How did you find your way to being a young reader’s author? I wrote my debut, Gearbreakers (YA sapphic sci-fi) in high school — I was writing what I was reading, and it felt natural to create characters who were my age. In your …
I’ve been a fan of comics since I was a kid, and my passion for the form grew during my employment at Heroes World distribution in the ’80s. While my co-workers at the warehouse were pouring over (and speculating on) Marvel and D.C. superhero books, I was reading Love and Rockets, Yummy Fur, Lloyd Llewllyn, Good Girls, and Raw, …
From Third Place Books in Seattle: June 22nd marks the 78th birthday of former Lake Forest Park resident Octavia Butler, the trailblazing author of The Parable of the Sower and the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction. Butler lived in the neighborhood of Lake Forest Park from 1996 until …
If you need a good laugh and a good cry, pick this book up. Emily Austin masterfully marries tragedy with the poignantly ludicrous in this raw novel. Sigrid wants to die: fed up with her dissatisfying job, grieving the loss of her best friend, lamenting her heavy family dynamic, and feeling generally like growing up …
Engaged deeply with the question of the title, Robert Macfarlane has set out to demonstrate not only that rivers ARE alive, but how, and why, and in what kinds of ways. He is Virgil and Gandalf, Merlin and Hermes, our guide through what a river is or could be or should be. . . It is …
