I loved this book! The author says it best in her acknowledgement. “I wanted to write a book that felt like a warm hug. The Spellshop is special to me because it’s filled with things that bring me joy…. This book is my gift to anyone who wants to escape and sink into a world …
Secret Garden Books in Seattle wants to spread the word that you can buy audiobooks through libro.fm and support their store. (Seattle-based audiobook company libro.fm lets you support your favorite independent bookstore by choosing your bookstore when you create a free account.) Although you do have to go to the libro.fm site to purchase the …
A charming story about how new friends can change the way you see the world and yourself, with lots of fun magical elements from Korean folklore. Learning about the world of dream magic alongside the main character feels like walking through a candy shop. I want all of it, especially the “dreampanions” which are basically …
This marvelously funny, scathingly witty novel features a biracial professor, artist’s wife and mother of two. Jane has just finished her 2nd novel, a hefty tome exploring mixed-race reality in America, but her agent’s reaction leads her, instead, to pitching screenplays to a bigwig in Hollywood’s latest venture: a superficial, hackneyed portrayal of, in her …
[Holly Jackson’s] young adult novels are hugely popular! This is her first novel for adults — and she does not disappoint. A twisty mystery/thriller with a unique premise — which she completely pulls off! Well done and page-turning! — Elaine, Edmonds Bookshop, Edmonds, WA Make this weekend a pageturer with books from Edmonds Bookshop and …
Secret Garden Books in Seattle, WA interviewed YA author Zoe Hana Mikuta. How did you find your way to being a young reader’s author? I wrote my debut, Gearbreakers (YA sapphic sci-fi) in high school — I was writing what I was reading, and it felt natural to create characters who were my age. In your …
Al-Rashid dives into the actual historical records left by the peoples who lived, loved, and died in the valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, providing us with delightful snaphots of daily life circa 1900 BCE. Folks had collicky babies, needed recipes for beer, and wanted to exorcise ghosts. Preschoolers had terrible handwriting. There was …
I’ve been a fan of comics since I was a kid, and my passion for the form grew during my employment at Heroes World distribution in the ’80s. While my co-workers at the warehouse were pouring over (and speculating on) Marvel and D.C. superhero books, I was reading Love and Rockets, Yummy Fur, Lloyd Llewllyn, Good Girls, and Raw, …
The magic of the beautifully heartfelt epistolary novel is not merely that it perfectly captures the early 1990s and how so many of us struggled to make sense of what we were learning about the war in Sarajevo at the time, nor that it also deftly illustrates and evokes the sometimes painful journey of finding …
A spicy “why choose” romance. Rachel’s life is a mess when she gets offered a place in a fellowship she was originally turned down for. She is the new PT intern for the Jacksonville Rays and is ready to dive into her work. Everything is looking up until she runs into starting forward Jake Compton …
