Focusing on the Lewis Chessmen, Nancy Marie Brown explores a famous female chiseler and the history of her chess pieces. Interestingly, their histories are based on Viking sagas, histories, architectural digs, and forceful involvement of the Roman Catholic Church in Sweden, Norway, and Greenland. The book brings forward the talented 12th century artist who carved …
The first nonfiction book by Portland novelist Pauls Toutonghi is on sale today, and Pauls will be touring the region starting tonight at Broadway Books. Broadway Books’ launch event for Dog Gone: A Lost Pet’s Extraordinary Journey and the Family Who Brought Him Home will be an evening with a delightful duo, as a matter of …
Watermark Book Company in Anacortes has a very special visitor coming to the bookstore. During the December Anacortes Art Walk on Friday December 6 from 6:30- 8:30, the America’s Cup trophy will be in the store! Celebrate the recent America’s Cup victory by Oracle Team USA over Team New Zealand by seeing and maybe even …
The day I decided to write Dishing Up Washington, a cookbook that celebrates the state’s foodways through recipes and stories, I went to my neighborhood farmers’ market. It’s on Seattle’s Phinney Ridge, in the northern part of the city, near the giant windmill sign that keeps watch over the city’s famous Red Mill Burgers. From …
“Apart from being a good biography (of which this is a species of sorts), Atlantic, by Simon Winchester, is my favorite kind of book— a literate blend of history, geography, natural sciences and people, written by an author who loves all of the above and is clearly fascinated by his subject, in this case the …
