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The Boys in the Boat

Sep

7

2018

Bank on Bookstores piggy bank logo for Binc

Bank on Booksellers Piggy Bank Auction
Starts Sept. 9, 9:00 AM, in the NW

100 of your favorite authors/illustrators/celebrities have come together to support booksellers and their families. These talented individuals have turned humble ceramic piggy banks into works of art to raise funds to support the Binc Foundation. Binc (The Book Industry Charitable Foundation) is the only non-profit that provides financial assistance to bookstore employees who have a …

Aug

14

2018

Seattle7Writers Cook Up Some Fun (and Fundraising) with Summer BBQs

Seattle7Writers, the nonprofit collective of Pacific Northwest authors, partners with independent bookstores this summer to introduce readers to favorite authors and raise money for literacy nonprofits. In July, Island Books hosted the Seattle7Writers cookout to benefit Team Read, a nonprofit organization that pairs struggling young readers with trained teen reading coaches for one-on-one tutoring after school and …

Dec

31

2013

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David Laskin, Joann Moreno, Daniel James Brown at QABC

Five Writers, One Neighborhood Bookstore, and Two Bowls of Spiked Holiday Punch: A Community is Born

I am not, by nature, a joiner. Do I have to? is my gut reaction when the word “community” is bruited about. Maybe it has to do with being a writer. I think most deeply and live most fully when I’m alone with the screen and keyboard. Community has always struck me as a distraction.  I …

Dec

18

2013

Shelf Awareness Announces Top Books of 2013

The online literary newsletter Shelf Awareness announced its top books for 2013: 10 each for fiction, nonfiction, and kids. Congratulations to Pacific Northwest author Daniel James Brown for the selection of his nonfiction account of the University of Washington crew team’s quest for the gold in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans …