This is a link we’ve had in the files for quite some time now… Even though the titles aren’t quite so fresh, it’s still a fun tool. The Seattle Times created interactive book recommendations based on reviews from the paper. You know what’s even more fun, though? Visiting a local independent bookshop to ask a bookseller …
Kids’ Book of the Week The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken As with so many of the best stories, this one begins with a mistake: specifically, an errant splotch on an otherwise perfect illustration. While this mistake easily evolves into a feature within Luyken’s developing pen-and-ink drawings, the mistakes just keep coming. And they keep turning into …
Out of more than 100 authors proposed to appear at the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association's fall trade conference, booksellers voted San Juan Island biologist Thor Hanson a top-five choice. His Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle is an indie bookseller favorite that's catching on with customers (it recently climbed onto our regional bestseller list). …
