2020 Book Awards
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This powerful and deeply-researched narrative of one woman and her family who have straddled the US-Mexico border for generations is also a page-turner that illuminates much that is hidden -- including cycles of violence and trauma and their lasting effects. While being the intimate, individual story of Aida, it also delves into US immigration history, explores the complexities of the borderlands, and shows what policy changes mean on the ground, but ultimately it is how one woman fought to survive and to build a life.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Shelftalker |
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Ted Chiang's Exhalation is a brilliant work by a brilliant writer. But amid all of the disquisitions on free will, artificial intelligence, and time travel, this collection of short stories is centrally concerned with the loves, pains, and joys that populate real life.
Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House Shelftalker |
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"Tess Gallagher's Is, Is Not is a luminous study of the interior, quiet spaces of life, and a study of transitions -- the glass before it is shattered, the step between living and dying. It is a poetry collection of grief, joy, and, most of all, deep wisdom."
Graywolf Press Shelftalker |
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Have you ever thought about your heart and all the amazing things it can do? The newest from Northwest favorite Corinna Luyken reminds us with every breathtaking turn of the page how our wondrous hearts love and hurt and mend, all to make us exactly who we are. Plus look for the hearts hidden in every spread!
Dial Books / Penguin Young Readers Shelftalker |
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Nuns with secrets. Exiled royalty. Life and death situations based on the early years of Queen Elizabeth the First. Island-raised Margaret's quite ordinary existence in the convent becomes complicated with the arrival of William- a boy her age- and her first friend, and the dethroned Queen Eleanor whose schemes of revenge will put all their lives in dire jeopardy. Portland-based graphic novelist Dylan Meconis has created a gripping historical fantasy full of exquisite details that will have readers of all ages wanting more.
Walker Books / Candlewick Shelftalker |
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The Cassandra is a novel about a moment in Pacific Northwest history that has left physical and psychological scars on our planet. Mildred Groves is a secretary for the Hanford Project who joins the war effort as a way to escape her overbearing mother. She’s always seen visions of the future and, like the eponymous mythical figure, no one believes her. Sharma Shields writes with visceral detail about both the landscape of south-eastern Washington and the interior landscape of the mind, giving us a story that is every bit as upsetting and brutal as the myth that precedes it. As the novel progresses, Shields blurs the line between prophecy and complicity, creating an intimate portrait of the costs of war, fear, and toxicity.
Henry Holt & Co. Shelftalker |
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2020 Press Release