It delights us to no end to help spread the great news about Cannon Beach Books: it has new owners! Maureen Dooley-Sroufe and Deb Mersereau, two long-time employees of Cannon Beach Book Company, have taken the reins at the delightful independent bookstore on the Oregon Coast. Many were enticed by the idea of continuing Valerie …
“Jennifer Vanderbes (Easter Island; Strangers at the Feast) takes on the ravages of war in The Secret of Raven Point. It is 1943 when 17-year-old Juliet Dufresne graduates from high school. She and her brother, Tuck, are exceptionally close. When he’s declared missing in action, she takes a nursing course, lies about her age and …
Miranda Roethler reported and wrote a comprehensive, insightful article about ebooks and the future of bookselling for one of her classes at Oregon Episcopal School, where she’s a junior. We’re publishing a condensed version of it here. Roethler is a native Portlander. She says she spends her free time swimming, hanging out with friends, watching old …
“Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West is a book about basketball like Moby Dick is a book about a whale. Yes, there’s basketball in the rundown town of Willow Creek, Montana, and a coach whose team has the dismal record of zero wins and 93 losses. When two new kids show up, it gives Coach …
Big Congrats to Cannon Beach Book Company, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary. On Main Street, one block from the ocean, the store is like a big beach house stocked with everything you need to weather a storm or hang out on the beach all day. CBBCo. specializes in contemporary and classic literature, with a large mystery …
“Brian Doyle loves words; big words, small words, fancy words, plain words, exotic words, domesticated words, adjectives, verbs and nouns especially, and because he loves words he piles them up in great juicy heaps of phrases and paragraphs and sentences and pages and whole books and makes delicious stories with them, stories about impossibly possible …
