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Check out our Children's Section for new releases and online activities in kid-dom!
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Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
By Jeff Kinney

Join Rowley and his best friend, Garg the Barbarian, as they leave the safety of their village and embark on a quest to save Roland's mom from the White Warlock.

Order your copy from us via email or telephone today!

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The Big List of Children’s Authors Doing Online Read-Alouds & Activities

With kids at home and parents looking for educational activities, many of our favorite authors are offering online read-alouds and activities on social media. We’ve rounded up over 50 of the best virtual author activities just click the link below.

​BOOKSHOP.ORG

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We understand that you want to stay home and stay healthy this winter and sometimes you just want to stay in and read...as fellow bookworms we get it. That is why we have joined forces with Bookshop.org. Simply click the button below to go directly to the Vashon Bookshop Storefront on Bookshop.org, place your order and then wait for your books to be delivered via USPS right to your door! 
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Did you know that Bookshop.org is hosting online events for readers and writers? Events are added weekly so be sure to check back often. You can learn all about it through our partnership with Bookshop.org.

Click the button below to register for the most current online event.

This week's Bookshop.org Event: NaNoWrimo!

NaNoWriMo's Grant Faulkner (Executive Director) and Aya de León (successful NaNoWriMo author and UC Berkeley writing instructor) discuss and take your Q&A on how to make November the month you finally write your story!

As always, every book purchase with Bookshop.org directly supports local independent bookstores. Click on the book cover below to purchase that title directly from Vashon Bookshop's online marketplace!

The recording of this event will be available online afterwards.

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​NPR - Book Concierge

NPR has created an online compendium of  over 2,000 recommendations from
​NPR staff and trusted critics. Click here to see the list. 

This collection of essays about Charles Schulz’s venerable comic strip might start off shakily – with selections that sweatily invoke Anton Chekhov and Eugène Ionesco, as if their authors feel the need to justify writing critically about a newspaper comic. But before long, the essays settle down and start to unpack the strip and its characters, instead of comparing them with other work. The best of these engage directly and vigorously with the unsentimental sense of melancholy that Schulz delivered to millions of American doorsteps on a daily basis.
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— Glen Weldon, editor, Arts Desk, and panelist, Pop Culture Happy Hour


​across the pond

Travel virtually this holiday season and drop in to literary festivals across the globe through Penguin Books UK website. Just click the penguin!


Safe & sound book pick up!
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Feel like getting out for a bit this winter but unsure about how to do so safely? Order your books over the phone or by email, and pick them up in our hallway without even coming into the Bookshop. Put on that face mask and pop into town for a quick trip to support your local bookshop. We are here for you!

Click on the video to see exactly how and where to pick up those books you ordered from us.


​PNBA Bestsellers

Want to know what your fellow PNW Bookworms are reading?
Check out the Pacific Northwest Independent Booksellers Association Bestseller List. Now that's a mouthful! Click the link below to see best sellers in all categories.
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Podcasts are stories for grown ups!

Here are links to some sites for grown up story times...because who doesn't need a good story now and then? Just click the icon below to go to each site.

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