This is the book you give to The Reader in your life. This isn’t just a love letter to books-this is 121 love letters to books! Each letter by an author, historian, journalist, musician, scientist, explorer, director, etc. is paired with an art piece from a different creator. That relative who only talks about literature? …
Andrew Leland is going blind. More than twenty years ago, he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa and has been experiencing a slow decline in his vision ever since. The Country of the Blind documents the physicality of this loss – how it alters Leland’s ability to move through the world – and addresses a number of societal …
From Third Place Books’ blog: We asked the booksellers at all three of our locations for their favorite books of 2021. These are the top 10 books that made it onto the majority of those lists. Check out the list below. All books are also available as digital audiobooks here. My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole …
From the Third Place Books blog, posted November 5, 2020: We asked the booksellers at all three of our locations for their favorite books of 2020. These are the top 10* books that made it onto the majority of those lists. [*Editor’s note: We’re only posting the top five so you can predict the other …
On Monday afternoon, a roomful of booksellers from around the Pacific Northwest gathered to hear a panel of their peers, members of the PNBA Book Awards Committee, present for the 2020 Book Awards Preview. Over 400 books have been nominated for the award. To be eligible, a book must have been published between October 1, …
A huge thanks to all the readers who came out on Saturday to support our fundraiser. On behalf of our customers, we are sending $7,488.00 to @RAICESTEXAS ! If you want to contribute directly, you can do so here : https://t.co/DddGnETNvM pic.twitter.com/wf8Az8ivZg — Third Place Books (@ThirdPlaceBooks) June 27, 2018 Third Place Books in Lake …
March is my birthday month, so I’m using that, and the fact that you are all basically my captive audience for an hour or so [at story time for grown-ups] to subject you to my new favorite book. I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking is a collection of short stories by local(ish) author Leyna …
Dinner at the Center of the Earth is a real tour de force with an unforgettable cast of characters: Prisoner Z who has gone from being a Mossad agent to traitor, a comatose general (who may be Sharon), the guard’s mother who could star in her own story. Many questions are posed and the answers, …
Shop at any (or all!) of the three Third Place Books locations in Seattle on Saturday October 21, 2017 to benefit hurricane relief in Puerto Rico. From Third Place Books: The scope of the damage wrought by Hurricane Maria is tragic. More than 80 percent of the residents still lack power: that’s the equivalent of more …
Idaho is the best novel I have read in years. It follows more than fifty years in the lives of Jenny, who performs a terrible act early in the book, and the family she leaves behind. The prose is truly insightful, with metaphors that leap off of the page– memory scatters like “dozens of blackbirds, …
