You deserve all the love, romance readers! Independent bookstores around the country (and beyond!) celebrate romance books and romance readers with the third Bookstore Romance Day on Saturday, August 21, 2021. Visit participating stores to browse their romance selections. Register for virtual events on both Saturday and Sunday (just note: the site has East coast …
Riverwalk Books of Chelan, WA celebrated its 25-year Anniversary this month. Booksellers from all over the country (as well as one very special best-selling author) recorded a video full of messages of congratulations and thanks for Libby Manthey, the store’s owner. Treat yourself to these heartfelt (and often funny) testimonials from superstars from the literary …
Two Pacific Northwest booksellers recently joined the American Booksellers Association Board of Directors. Jenny Cohen of Waucoma Books in Hood River, OR and Tegan Tigani of Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle, WA started on the board this spring. They were the point people on a bookstore bus tour for booksellers at a recent national …
On September 29, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown met with business owners and community leaders to learn how the state can aid in the recovery after the devastating Eagle Creek Fire. She also shopped in Downtown Hood River to encourage people to patronize Gorge businesses. Her first stop was Waucoma Bookstore, which was recorded on Facebook Live. Owner …
This book is fabulous! It’s like a modern, funnier “Back to the Future” in which the main character explores different versions of himself within different timelines of both his life and the universe. He is trying to save the love of his life from her fate, and ends up endangering the fate of the world. …
This is a beautifully crafted memoir by Abu-Jaber who tells her story with such craft and honesty and in the most poetic way. I found myself being swept into the narrative so deeply and thoroughly it was hard to pull myself away. A wonderful reminder of how profound memory, loss, grace and love truly are. …
Communities all over the country are using Where’s Waldo to promote local businesses. Waldo-seekers pick up a passport, then go from shop to shop finding Waldo cut-outs (and a bonus of his dog, Woof in some places!) throughout the month of July. Most venues will hold a big Waldo party at the end of the …
Oooh, I just love a good holiday gift guide! So after I helped put one together for Queen Anne Book Company, I surfed the websites of the independent bookstores of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and found MORE. Take a browse. You might even want to share your favorite lists because not everyone is lucky …
Portland author David Wolman will discuss his new book, The End of Money, in Hood River, OR tonight at Springhouse Cellars at 6:30 pm. The event is co-sponsored by Waucoma Bookstore and the Gorge Owned Business Network. “For ages, money has meant little metal disks and rectangular slips of paper. Yet the usefulness of physical …
“In this surreal novel a cast of characters who live in the same dilapidated apartment complex in post-Soviet Russia share their pasts, hopes and fears. At times the prose is both beautiful and heartbreaking as we follow Tanya, a woman who, always with her notebook, is a chronicler of life as it is now, as …
