New Books

The Wild Beneath is an epic love story as well as a love letter to the ocean: its danger, mystery, and beauty. In the aftermath of a Pacific Northwest tsunami, Annie—who has lived on a sailboat nearly... (Anika)

Like the authors of some of my favorite recent memoirs—Hilary Peach's Thick Skin, Finn Murphy's The Long Haul, Charlotte Gill's Eating Dirt—Paré-Poupart had access to the class-elevating levers of edu... (Tom)

This is only my second time reading SGJ, but this novella has made me a fan. This Indigenous coming-of-age story is short but deep, subtle yet horrifying. After Junior's father dies in an accidental d... (Anika)

“One morning/the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident,/and didn’t see me—and I thought:/so this is the world./I’m not in it./It is beautiful.” There is a reverent curiosity in Mary Oliver... (Shane)

Sure, you’ve read memoirs about Appalachia before. And yes, you’ve read memoirs about people who feel like fish out of water at Ivy League colleges. But you haven’t read All That’s Unseen by Emilee Ha... (Nancy)

Once upon a time—1989, to be exact—there was a girl who loved colors and who couldn't seem to stop telling the truth in a town where almost everyone wished she would just stay quiet. Lia is eight year... (Tom)

“Hel drew her revolver. Sam’s eyes hooked on the gleaming barrel. Oh, Hel.” 1903, in shadows cut by gaslight, Tout-Paris clutch at their pearls as a string of beastly murders thins their numbers. The... (Shane)

Many Phinney readers (me included) are drawn to tales of the Arctic, but none drawn to strongly as Kpomassie, who encountered a book called The Eskimos from Greenland to Alaska as a teenager in Togo i... (Tom)

The initial thing you might learn about this slim novel is that it is the first by a woman from the Faroe Islands—an autonomous Danish territory between Iceland and Scotland—to be translated into Engl... (Tom)

Our Horror section—which we finally created only a year or so ago—is threatening, creature-like, to take over the entire Made-up side of our store. (The True side has its own horrors.) And not just wi... (Tom)

Local favorite Corey R. Tabor's new picture book, Bear for a Day, puts readers in the driver's seat (literally, since this bear rides a motorcycle). Each page's illustration is from the bear's perspec... (Haley)