On Saturday, July 1, 2023, Elliott Bay Book Company celebrated its 50th Anniversary. You can see a timeline of their store history on their website. A celebration event included refreshments, luminaries, music, and the unveiling of a new feature in the store. Elliott Bay Book Company’s General Manager Janis Segress captured some of the moments for nwbooklovers.org.
This book rocketed its way to the top of my all-time favorite books list. It is absolutely brilliant. It’s not a new premise – death row inmates are offered a path to freedom by fighting other inmates to the death in a gladiator style arena – but Adjei-Brenyah has taken these games to new heights …
Here’s a debut that’s caught our eye. Jacqueline Holland’s The God of Endings is a book about the gift of immortality, the curse of immortality, and how to navigate the two extremes. It’s not a vampire novel, per se, but, well, you don’t live forever without, you know, extraordinary circumstances. In The God of Endings, lonely Collette …