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Jan

8

2025

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2025
Pacific Northwest Book Awards

The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2025 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, Ursula K. …

Nov

19

2024

Holiday Bookfest Saturday Nov. 23 in Seattle

Seattle’s Phinney Neighborhood Association, in partnership with their local bookstore, Phinney Books, will host their 15th annual Holiday Bookfest Saturday November 23, 2024 from 2:00- 4:00 pm at Phinney Neighborhood Association, 443 N 67th St, Seattle, WA 98103. More than two dozen authors will be on hand for the 15th Holiday Bookfest! Books are great …

Nov

5

2024

Vote!

Illustration and video by WA author and illustrator Suzanne Kaufman The text at the bottom of her illustration of kids holding “VOTE” signs says, “Vote because we can’t.” If you are registered to vote, please exercise your right! Our future depends on it.  

Oct

25

2024

2025 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Shortlist

For the first time, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) unveiled its Book Awards Shortlist live on the show floor at the association’s Fall Tradeshow, Sept. 30, 2024. These honorees are now being promoted throughout PNBA’s 160 store membership. Selected by an Awards Committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska, the …

Sep

25

2024

Washington State Book Award Winners Announced

The Washington Center for the Book announced the winners of the 58th annual 2024 Washington State Book Awards. Congratulations! Books for adults Creative Nonfiction/Memoir: “Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City” by Jane Wong, Seattle (Tin House Books) Fiction: “The Laughter” by Sonora Jha, Seattle (HarperVia) General Nonfiction/Biography: “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to …

Aug

19

2024

The Drowning House by Cherie Priest

Local favorite Cherie Priest is back this week with The Drowning House, a suitably gothic ghost story about a house that washes ashore, the woman who knows its secrets, and the pair of childhood pals who must put aside old rivalries to figure out the mystery of the house that has come back from the …

Jul

30

2024

A Letter from Sydney Langford, Author of “The Loudest Silence”

Dear Bookseller, I was 14 when I traumatically lost ~50% of my hearing. As I grappled with this loss, my Generalized Anxiety Disorder skyrocketed. For years after, my only solace was found in stories—I’d get lost in books, focusing on fiction in an act of desperate self-preservation. But the more I read, the less I …

Jun

11

2024

Congratulations to PNW Foreword INDIES 2023 Winners!

Congratulations to Pacific Northwest writers and editors who were honored with Foreword INDIES 2023 awards. Thousands of books are entered each year, and over 100 librarians and booksellers take part in the judging process, narrowing down a group of finalists in 55 categories to Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners that truly represent the best in …

Jun

7

2024

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow

For my young adult fans, this is the *perfect* sapphic holiday rom-com. I appreciate that it features a Jewish protagonist and subverts the mainstream Christmas narrative. It is simply such a delightful read. Read if you love fish, paleontology, corgis, and enemies to lovers/forced proximity tropes. –Jeanette, Browsers Bookshop, Olympia, WA Who says holiday romances …

May

31

2024

From Shelf Awareness: Elaine U. Cho: A Found Family of Misfits in Space 

From Monday February 5, 2024: Maximum Shelf: Ocean’s Godori Elaine U. Cho‘s debut novel, Ocean’s Godori (Hillman Grad Books/Zando, April 23, 2024), is a rollicking space adventure featuring a brave new world in which a united Korea leads the solar system, but unrest is never far away. When ace pilot Ocean Yoon’s best friend’s life implodes, she’s the …

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