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Tina Ontiveros

Jan

12

2021

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Awards

The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, …

Dec

4

2020

Brief Black Candles by Lydia K. Valentine

This debut poetry collection from emeritus King’s bookseller(!) Valentine is a beautiful meditation on family, love, and bravery as well as racist violence and grief. With poems ranging from the joyful to the heartbreaking, support a local poet and buy this today! –sweet pea, King’s Books, Tacoma, WA  Valentine explores the ways we touch one …

Nov

10

2020

PNBA Book Awards

2021 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Shortlist Announced

The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association is happy to announce the 2021 Book Awards Shortlist, selected by a committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. This year’s committee chose the following 12 finalists, crafted by Northwest authors and illustrators, from a list of nearly 400 nominated titles published during 2020. The six …

Oct

9

2020

2021 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Preview, Part 2

Last Friday afternoon, as part of the week’s virtual regional trade show, booksellers from around the Pacific Northwest watched members of the PNBA Book Awards Committee present a selection of books they are excited about for the 2021 Book Awards. This post is the second part of the list of books mentioned during that session. …

Sep

1

2020

Bookseller Tina Ontiveros’s Memoir Hits Bookshelves (and Computer Screens)

NWbooklovers congratulates Tina Ontiveros, bookseller and book buyer at Klindt’s Booksellers in the Dalles and President of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, on the publication of her memoir, rough house. rough house will be available at independent bookstores everywhere this month. Waucoma Books in Hood River, OR is hosting a virtual book launch event with …

Nov

5

2019

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Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz

Ordinary Girls is a book that makes me feel seen. Too often, those of us who grow up below the federal poverty line spend the rest of our lives erasing ourselves. If we manage to migrate out of poverty, we do so at a cost. The gatekeepers of academia, and of literature, only want to hear …

Jun

28

2019

Wild Honey, Tough Salt by Kim Stafford

Wild Honey, Tough Salt by Kim Stafford

If you haven’t yet, it is time to read Wild Honey, Tough Salt, the latest collection of poetry from Kim Stafford. Whatever ails you– this is your medicine. With Wild Honey, Tough Salt, Kim Stafford once again shows himself a poet for the people. With his clean lines and approachable lyricism, Stafford invites readers to join him, to sit …

Feb

18

2019

Maid: Hard Work, low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Maid by Stephanie Land

Stephanie Land’s Maid gives voice to those of us who have lived below the poverty line. Land cleaned other people’s houses while her own walls were covered in black mold that made her child sick. She lost precious wages standing in line for food stamps.  She filled out endless paperwork to get childcare so she could work …

Feb

6

2018

Heart Berries

Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Heart Berries achieves that most elusive and sacred goal of literature, to make us feel less alone in the world. With a beautiful and original voice, Mailhot applies the precision of the poet to her prose. Each sentence feels necessary, each paragraph vital, as she grapples with daughterhood, motherhood, sisterhood, wifehood, and finally, selfhood. Mailhot has …

Oct

13

2017

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Sea of Poppies, The Heart's Invisible Furies, My Rice Bowl

What’s the PNBA Board Reading?

The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, the regional trade association for independent bookstores, just concluded its annual fall trade show this week. This means that the PNBA Board of Directors gathered, and when that happens, there’s a tradition of going around the room to introduce ourselves and something we’ve read lately. Below are the books that …

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