Customer Appreciation from Sea Wolf Books’ newsletter: Faye and Dan were in town for the square dance festival (and pie eating.) Dan has been baking bread his whole life and is using a sourdough starter that’s great, great, great granddough traces back to Yukon Alaska’s gold rush in 1897. They just celebrated their 58th wedding …
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, …
Full of tons of recipes that are designed for kids to bake and cook! From sweet cakes and pies to savory breads and pastries, this cookbook has something for everyone. Each recipe features easy explanations and a specified difficulty level to help your child learn to cook. –Debbie, Wanderlust Book Lounge, Bothell, WA Start delicious …
Some books come along and are such perfect gems that you want to tell everyone. This is my book to tell everyone to read. A beautifully written book about love, art, and family. —Kelly E., Village Books, Bellingham, WA When Mona experiences temporary blindness, therapy is recommended. Her grandfather, Henry volunteers to take her, but …
This sweet little picture book is perfect for spooky season and beyond! The grumpy ghost lives in the attic alone and really prefers it that way. But when a visitor appears, he realizes the benefits of friendship. A little reminiscent of “Monsters Inc” in all the best ways. –Becky, Ridgecrest Books, Shoreline, WA Make new …
I love the story of a girl, her bunny, and her family as they adjust to their new life in the Netherlands and remember their immigration journey from Afghanistan. Funny and heartwarming. –Mimi, Wishing Tree Books, Spokane, WA Discover treasures from around the world at Wishing Tree Books and other independent bookstores.
Stirringly atmospheric and unsettling, full of grief and love and darkness but also hope, this is completely compelling! The blessed yet cursed town of Mistaken, the vivid cast of townspeople, and the mysterious threats of the world beyond their Warding Stones all captured my imagination. Greer is a character who will stick with you long …
Here is Syou Ishida’s We’ll Prescribe You Another Cat, which is a series of stories about a mysterious clinic whose primary solution to what ails you is to give you a cat. This is one of those books which either works for you as a reader or doesn’t. If you find yourself thinking “Really?”, then …
From Shelf Awareness 9/9/25: Congratulations to Inklings Bookshop, Yakima, Wash., which has begun celebrating its 25th anniversary. Through the end of the month, the store is offering customers a (cosmic) crisp, locally grown apple from Johnson Orchards and 25% off of adult & children’s classics at the register as well as a special surprise for in-store …
From Port Book and News in Port Angeles, WA: Attention Clallam County Teachers! Teachers in our community come into the bookstore quite often to buy books for their classrooms. They are often paying for these books out of their own pocket. Port Book and News would like to share this cost of getting books into …
