Now available around the world in 18 languages, this tale of love and literature reminds readers that an unexpected connection might be right around the corner (or bookshelf). Moira’s fictional store is based on our Ravenna branch, and we will never be over it. –Third Place Books, Seattle, WA You could buy a book about …
Cornejo Villavicencio talks to day laborers, a man seeking sanctuary, as well as some of the Ground Zero cleanup crew made up mostly of immigrants about their declining health after helping a country that doesn’t want to help them. She ties the informative with the personal without being dry or sentimental. (Read this then read …
Seattle Independent Bookstore Day is BACK! And so is our favorite glasses-wearing marmot! Join the celebration of local bookstores, local economies, local literature, and keeping your hard-earned dollars in your neighborhood. Activities and special giveaways to be announced! And, of course, Seattle-area indie bookstores are once again celebrating Indie Bookstore Day with the popular Bookstore Day …
Third Place Books’ Robert Sindelar shared some of the store’s favorite books of 2025 on New Day Northwest with Kelly. The Wayfinder Sky Daddy Automatic Noodle Is a River Alive? One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This They also mention What We Can Know My Friends (a Kelly’s Book Club pick) As TV …
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 …
More than a decade after Tin House released his second novel The Dismal Science, Seattle fiction fixture and 2012 Washington State Book Award winner Peter Mountford returns with the story collection Detonator, a darkly funny gaggle of ten works spanning his career. These tales appear in all sorts of highbrow landmarks – The Paris Review, …
The magic of the beautifully heartfelt epistolary novel is not merely that it perfectly captures the early 1990s and how so many of us struggled to make sense of what we were learning about the war in Sarajevo at the time, nor that it also deftly illustrates and evokes the sometimes painful journey of finding …
From Third Place Books in Seattle: June 22nd marks the 78th birthday of former Lake Forest Park resident Octavia Butler, the trailblazing author of The Parable of the Sower and the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction. Butler lived in the neighborhood of Lake Forest Park from 1996 until …
Engaged deeply with the question of the title, Robert Macfarlane has set out to demonstrate not only that rivers ARE alive, but how, and why, and in what kinds of ways. He is Virgil and Gandalf, Merlin and Hermes, our guide through what a river is or could be or should be. . . It is …
