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The Backyard Bird Chronicles

May

8

2025

Bestseller Spotlight: This one’s for the Birds

Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. Last week was wild, but this week, we’re all a-flutter about birds, either in the title or …

Dec

12

2024

Bestseller Spotlight: Give Books!

Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. This week, we notice a bevy of books from the PNBA Give Books Holiday Catalog on the …

Nov

21

2024

The Frozen River by April Lawhon (cover) a winter scene with woman in a red coat, shown from above)

Bestseller Spotlight: Winter Is Coming…

Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. Some parts of our region got a lot of snow this week with the bomb cyclone. Some …

Sep

19

2024

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

Bestseller Spotlight: Put a Bird on It

Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. This week, let’s enjoy birds on bestsellers. The #1 books on the Hardcover Fiction, Hardcover Nonfiction, and …

Aug

8

2024

Bestseller Spotlight: The Great Outdoors

Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. Raise your hand if you’ve gone for a hike or a walk in the last week! The …

Aug

1

2024

Bestseller Spotlight: Self-Referential Titles

On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller List is published. Every week, we love to see what books have been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we ponder patterns. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. Our theme this week is books with self-referential titles, with words that refer …

May

7

2024

The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan cover (cream background, four bird illustrations, including a hummingbird and a chickadee)

My Mother, the Reader: From Island Books’ Lori

I told my mom I was going to be writing about how much she fostered my own love of reading. She said, “You know, it all started in the library, when I had one of my first jobs as a page.” Back in the sixties, my mom was a teenager in the little desert town …

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