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Dec

28

2021

Third Place Books in Seattle Picks Top 10 Books of 2021

  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 …

Jun

29

2021

Read and Stay Cool!

It might be nigh on impossible to stay cool in this kind of heat wave, but some bookstores in the Pacific Northwest DO have air conditioning. If you have a safe way to get to them, it would be worth planning a visit.   Secret Garden Books in Ballard, Seattle, WA 2214 NW Market St …

Mar

26

2021

More Women’s History Month Recommendations

Danielle of Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park, WA) shared a stack of books she recommends for Women’s History Month. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad …

Nov

20

2020

Third Place Books Announces Favorite Books of 2020

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 …

Mar

12

2020

Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo

This is a beautiful story about an unlikely friendship between a Taiwanese-American college graduate from the Midwest and a young African-American student dropout from the Mississippi Delta who is convicted of murder. Michelle Kuo details her time with Teach For America in the deep south and her relationship with her prized student with careful observations …

Oct

15

2019

2019 Washington State Book Awards Announced

On Saturday, October 12, 2019, booklovers gathered at the Seattle Public Library Central Library to celebrate books at the 2019 Washington State Book Awards ceremony and reception. The event was recorded for a podcast; as of this posting, it was not yet live on the website, but we will continue to check back here. The …

Sep

21

2018

Seattle Stores’ Sanae Ishida Picture Book Promo

Sanae Ishida celebrates her third children’s picture book with a special promotion starting this Saturday at seven Seattle independent bookstores: Elliot Bay Book Company Kinokuniya Books Lake Forest Park Third Place Books Liberty Bay Books Phinney Books Queen Anne Book Company University Book Store Sanae is dropping off an amazing hand-made kame (turtle) submarine like …

Aug

24

2018

Celebrate 20 Years of Harry Potter– and Third Place Books!

  Celebrate twenty years of Harry Potter … and twenty years of Third Place Books! Harry Potter and Third Place Books were both born in 1998: is that a coincidence? Or was something magical afoot that fateful year in Lake Forest Park? Either way, come celebrate the anniversaries of Harry and Third Place with an …

Feb

28

2018

Educated by Tara Westover

Educated by Tara Westover

Wow. What a ride. It’s astounding that Westover lived to tell the story of her escape from a childhood of neglect and casual violence. Articulate and introspective, she gradually breaks the psychological hold of her mentally ill father and discovers the world outside her Idaho mountain home, where schools and modern medicine are not considered …

Oct

31

2017

Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park)

Third Place Books Raises $6,585 for Puerto Rican Relief

From Shelf Awareness Congratulations and many thanks to Third Place Books, Seattle, Wash., which has donated 20% of all sales last weekend at its three bookstores to benefit hurricane relief in Puerto Rico. Third Place sent a check for $6,585 to the UNIDOS Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund, sponsored by the Hispanic Federation. The effort was proposed …

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