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Jul

5

2022

Cool Event Report: A Walk in the Forest with Jane Billinghurst and Watermark Book Company

In June, Watermark Book Company of Anacortes, WA partnered with Skagit Land Trust on a forest walk event with Jane Billinghurst, longtime translator for, editor of, and now co-author with Peter Wohlleben. From Watermark’s newsletter: What a cool author event! We had so much fun selling books at Jane Billinghurst’s forest walk. We have SIGNED …

Feb

23

2021

Portland’s Green Bean Books Suggests Black History Books for Every Month

“Just because February is coming to an end doesn’t mean you should stop reading and learning about Black History! We’ve got books to inspire, educate, and challenge.” –Green Bean Books, Portland, OR Children’s specialty bookstore Green Bean Books shared a list of children’s books about Black history for year ’round love in the February issue …

Aug

4

2020

Thinking Outside the Bookstore:
Bespoke Boxes from A Good Book

From A Good Book in Sumner, WA: We’re doing bespoke blind date boxes as a way to get you the good stuff during this time of anxious separation. Well, suffice to say the bespoke box has been a hit. Enough so that we’ve spent most of the week racing around the store, finding cool things …

May

8

2020

Delightful Distraction: Book Larder’s Podcasts

Seattle’s cookbook-focused book store, Book Larder, is known for its wide assortment of cookbooks and cooking literature, its food-themed cards and gifts, and its phenomenal cooking classes. During the shutdown, you can still shop online and, as of May 6, do curbside pick-up with Book Larder to buy cookbooks to spice up your quarantine meal …

Dec

14

2018

https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250160652

“A Very Didion Christmas” Cabaret at Seattle’s Hugo House 12/22/18

What’s more Christmassy than Joan Didion? Absolutely nothing. Seattle’s Hugo House is pleased to announce that the world premiere of A Very Didion Christmas will be held in Hugo House’s Lapis Theatre on December 22, 2018. In this uproariously inappropriate cabaret act, audiences will get to meet not one but two incarnations of the literary legend’s immortal spirit—“Malibu …

May

26

2017

“Wildman” Author to Visit Indie Bookstores on Cross-Country Trip to BookExpo

By Liz Button for Bookselling This Week on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 Author J.C. Geiger has embarked on a 4,300-mile, 10-day interactive road trip from his hometown of Eugene, Oregon, to New York City and BookExpo to promote the release of his debut young adult novel, Wildman (Disney-Hyperion, June 6). Along the way, he will be …

May

12

2016

MS Koningsdam

Elliott Bay Book Company
On the High Seas

KOMO news in Seattle shared some local bookstore excitement when they aired a story about Elliott Bay Book Company‘s work curating libraries for Holland America cruises. KOMO is running a series on a new ship, the MS Koningsdam, which will carry books selected and provided by Elliott Bay Book Company. The store is also developing …

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