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Oct

7

2021

Bestseller Spotlight: Seeing Stars

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, when we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. Not only are there three hardcover fiction books with “star” in the title, but several other bestsellers are star-driven: by or about celebrities. Which of these are on your wish …

Feb

11

2021

Recommendations from 2021 PNBA Award Winners

On the livestreaming event celebrating the 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award Winners, an audience member asked the authors for book recommendations. Here are some of the books that came up, some literally pulled from stacks near the authors for show and tell: Entangled Life (recommended by Silvia Morena-Garcia) The Gilded Ones (recommended by Kim Johnson. …

Feb

9

2021

2021 Pacific Northwest Book Awards
Links Round-up

One silver lining from no travel and minimizing in-person contact is that event access is not geographically-dependent. This year, it means that the celebration of 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award-winning the authors and books is online and open to all registered book lovers. The event will be presented as a Zoom webinar Wednesday, February 10 …

Feb

2

2021

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Tina Ontiveros

An Original Essay by 2021 PNBA Award Winner Tina Ontiveros

My brother and I made our dad’s headstone ourselves. We bought a bag of Quikrete from Home Depot. We built a form, poured the cement, and carefully pressed metal letters in as the slab cured. We kept the words simple; Loyd’s name, relevant dates, and a fragment of his favorite poem. If you love something, …

Jan

12

2021

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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 …

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