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Sep

5

2025

Secret Garden Audiobook Recommendations

Secret Garden Books in Seattle wants to spread the word that you can buy audiobooks through libro.fm and support their store. (Seattle-based audiobook company libro.fm lets you support your favorite independent bookstore by choosing your bookstore when you create a free account.) Although you do have to go to the libro.fm site to purchase the …

Aug

19

2025

Secret Garden Interview with
Seattle Author Zoe Hana Mikuta

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 …

Jun

24

2025

A Mini-Interview with Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo, author of “The Tiny Things Are Heavier”

From Secret Garden Books in Seattle, WA: Describe your book [The Tiny Things Are Heavier] in 3 words. Seeking. Hoping. Loving. What element of this book (character/scene/setting) came to you first? Sommy, the novel’s protagonist, came first. What inspired you to write about class in Nigeria? I come from a lineage of postcolonial writers—Achebe, Emecheta, …

May

27

2025

Secret Garden Books dishes with Kathy Wang, author of “The Satisfaction Cafe”

Seattle’s Secret Garden Books in Ballard interviewed author Kathy Wang about her upcoming novel, The Satisfaction Cafe, publishing July 1, 2025. Describe your book in 3 words. Vivid, unexpected and moving. If I can get a bonus verb, I’d add comic! What came hardest to you when writing this novel? The point of view. It’s …

Feb

28

2025

Molly Moon's Ice Cream dog and ice cream cone logo with text Social Justice Book Drive

Community Idea: Locally-Owned Business Social Justice Book Drive

Locally-owned and operated Molly Moon’s Seattle ice cream shops invited their customers to participate in a Social Justice Book Drive and promoted shopping for it with local, independently-owned bookstores in each of their scoop shop neighborhoods. Molly Moon’s will deliver donated books for kindergarten- 5th graders featuring Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latine/a/x, and other characters of …

Jan

29

2025

Burn by Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness is my favorite YA author without a question. The grace and heart he gives to teens is unparalleled. Burn is about Dragons in the 1950s, like the ’50s as they were but there are dragons, and for some reason, its genius, and I don’t know why I’m not consuming more media just like …

Nov

20

2024

Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt

Takiko is an overlooked heroine—a stubborn, pregnant young woman with nothing to recommend her except her conviction that she and her child should be entitled to a life worth living. Highlighting the healing powers of nature and small acts of social resistance, this book is inspiring in the subtlest of ways. —Lucy, Secret Garden Books, …

Sep

23

2024

Book cover featuring an illustration of a grey striped cat coming out of a Rx bottle.

We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

If you can find the mysterious Kokoro Clinic for the Soul, the cat distribution system (or, a rather bizarre doctor) will prescribe you a cat to help you with whatever ails you in life. These cats may not aid our various characters the way we expect! We’ll Prescribe You a Cat is a cozy magical …

Jul

24

2024

Little Shrew by Akiko Miyakoshi

Little Shrew is simple, sweet, and reads like a classic! Just a little fuzzy guy living his best life, both in color and monochrome. I would love to have a life like Little Shrew’s, and as a fellow creature of habit, I saw a lot of myself in him and his daily routine. –Andrew King, …

May

29

2024

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

I enjoyed Kuang’s satirical takedown of the world of publishing, young authors, cultural appropriation, pressures of creativity, commercialization of art, cancel culture, and the power of social media. — Mary, Secret Garden Books, Seattle, WA I would highly recommend this book! R. F. Kuang absolutely knocks it out of the park on Yellowface. With biting critique …

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