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Dec

23

2020

Great Nonfiction for Kids Recommendations from King’s Books

Girls Who Build by Katie Hughes This book is cool! It is an introduction to building (tools, safety, supplies), profiles of 45 girls with interviews about why/what they like to build, AND an activity book for building projects from bee houses to candle holders to shelves. –sweet pea Generation Brave by Kate Alexander This collection of activists …

Dec

4

2020

Brief Black Candles by Lydia K. Valentine

This debut poetry collection from emeritus King’s bookseller(!) Valentine is a beautiful meditation on family, love, and bravery as well as racist violence and grief. With poems ranging from the joyful to the heartbreaking, support a local poet and buy this today! –sweet pea, King’s Books, Tacoma, WA  Valentine explores the ways we touch one …

Jan

16

2020

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker

This important graphic memoir manages to be both beautiful and heartbreaking. Known for his role on Star Trek, this book tells of his entire family’s story during the Japanese American internment in WWII. –sweet pea, King’s Books, Tacoma, WA “George Takei’s story reveals the important lessons of the WWII Japanese American Incarceration that still need to …

Dec

13

2018

Girl Squads

Girl Squads by Sam Maggs

This remarkable book shows us female friendships that changed history, from the Trưng sisters defending first century Vietnam, to pirates Anne Bonny & Mary Read, to the Zohra Orchestra of Afghan girls. Find yourself some new historical heroes! — sweet pea, King’s Books, Tacoma, WA  Find perfect gifts and inspiration for yourself at King’s Books …

Dec

2

2016

Cat Bingo

Holiday Gift Recommendations from King’s Books

The Christmas story features three kings; this year, King’s Books in Tacoma is releasing three holiday gift recommendation newsletters with ideas for any holiday gifting. As they put it, “We seek to bring you the most literate, quirky, smart, useful, and fun items possible for your gift-giving pleasure!’ Part One of their recommendations featured the categories …

Sep

6

2016

1

remark

sweet pea of King's Books

sweet pea of King’s Books
Gives a Microcosmic Interview

This interview is from the blog of Portland-based Microcosm Publishing, conducted by Elly Blue. We have long been fans of King’s Books in Tacoma, Washington. It’s a humongous store full of new and used books and it’s clear from the minute you walk in that it’s run by kindred spirits. I’m not going to say …

Dec

22

2015

James Patterson

Nine PNW Booksellers Awarded Patterson Bonuses

The holidays are a little brighter for nine Pacific Northwest independent booksellers chosen as recipients of author James Patterson’s bookseller holiday bonuses. Congratulations to: Charnee Rose of Grass Roots Books & Music, Corvallis, OR Earl Dizon of Green Bean Books, Portland, OR Carol Easter and Kevin Sampsell of Powell’s Books, Portland, OR Joan Terselich of Village Books, …

Feb

19

2013

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

“If you haven’t read this book by Tacoma author Marissa Meyer, then get cracking! A cyborg girl mechanic in New Beijing? What’s not to love? A wonderful spin on a fairy tale, perfect for both boys and girls. Plus, get ready for the release of her second book at our party Feb. 21! “—sweet pea …

Jun

13

2011

Corpus Libris, You Make Us Smile

A Los Angeles bookseller named Emily Pullen has a strangely compelling blog called Corpus Libris, where she posts photos of bodies juxtaposed with books, usually at Skylight Books, where she works. Today she features one of our NW booksellers, sweet pea Flaherty, the owner of King’s Books in Tacoma, who she photographed at WORD in Brooklyn …

Apr

7

2011

Wayzgoose, #7

Tacoma’s King’s Books will hold its seventh annual letterpress and book arts extravaganza Sunday, April 17 from 11 am – 4 pm, and we want to go! Attendees can meet local printers, print your own keepsakes (bring a T-shirt or another fabric to print on for some of these), make paper, and create letterpress magnetic …

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