From Browsers Bookshop in Olympia, WA: This week, we crossed an important, if not disgusting, milestone at Browsers. In twelve years of owning a bookstore and a building in downtown Olympia, we have had our first rodent encounter. I’m also pleased to report that it has come to a satisfactory conclusion. It appears that a solitary male roof rat squeezed under our front door and decided it was a nice place to stay. During the day, it made its home …
After years of separation from their parents and relying on one another for support, teens Viola and Wilmur leave home and are swept up in an epic, pirate-y adventure. The world-building is immersive and there are lots of exciting characters to meet in the first book of a planned duology. Just a fun time all-around. …
Now available around the world in 18 languages, this tale of love and literature reminds readers that an unexpected connection might be right around the corner (or bookshelf). Moira’s fictional store is based on our Ravenna branch, and we will never be over it. –Third Place Books, Seattle, WA You could buy a book about …
On Wednesdays, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Bestseller List is published. Every week, we love to see what books have been most popular in independent bookstores around our region. As we peruse the list, we look for something special to showcase. Then we present this weekly feature: Thursday Themes. Have you seen the gorgeous ombres on this week’s …
Visit and revisit illustrations that shift before your eyes as you gain contextual understanding of the interlocked stories in this book. This mystery-horror novel is unlike anything I’ve ever read before. Truly chilling! -Lucy, Secret Garden Books, Seattle, WA On Seattle Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 25th, 2026, Secret Garden Books is hosting a …
It was a @mariasemple weekend for her old Seattle friends: watching her on stage @townhall_seattle trading zingers with @whoiskenjennings on Saturday night and hosting a book-signing visit at the store and doing some visiting with friends on Sunday. Her new novel, Go Gentle, is a heartful hoot, the kind of book for which the adjective “madcap” was invented—we’ve been trading our …
Damned to repeatedly outlive all man and creature she’s ever loved, and having fallen out with certain family, Vera comes back home to root out the source of the fountain of youth and undo its curse on her. Her search is complicated by a secretive corporation buying up every parcel in the vicinity and then …
Olivia Waite’s Nobody’s Baby [is] a cozy science-fictional novella about a baby that appears where no baby is expected and the subsequent investigation into who was making babies where folks aren’t supposed to be—you know. There are rules in space, especially when you are doing generational travel across light-years, but—you know. ANYWAY, this baby is here …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. Yesterday, Seattle had dramatic lightning, thunder, hail, and downpours. Some of last week’s bestsellers sounded a little …
I have loved Kalynn Bayron’s work since she published Cinderella is Dead. Recently she moved to middle grade fiction with the Vanquishers series about a new breed of vampire hunters. Now Bayron has turned the page again and we have Olive Oakes, detective extraordinaire. Olive is looking for mysteries in every part of her life, …
