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Fellow Book Worms join us here this Fall & Winter as we highlight the many literary events online and elsewhere. 
​​Let us be your guide for new stories to read for adults and children of all ages.
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Book of the week

Looking for something new to read but just can't make up your mind?
​Check out the Vashon Bookshop weekly staff pick and get reading!
Headstrong
52 Women Who Changed Science and the World

by Rachel Swaby

In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: “She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children.” It wasn’t until the second paragraph that readers discovered why the Times had devoted several hundred words to her life: Brill was a brilliant rocket scientist who invented a propulsion system to keep communications satellites in orbit, and had recently been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

​Click to read the Kirkus Review.
Kirkus Review
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​Women's History Month!
Women's History Books

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Check out our Children's Section for new releases and online activities in kid-dom!
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When Stars Are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed

Omar lives in a refugee camp. An opportunity comes around for Omar to get an education. He has to decide between an education or caring for his younger brother.

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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.
Children's Readings

​BOOKSHOP.ORG

Get your books delivered right to your door!
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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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​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. 


NPR 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
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​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!
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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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PNBA List

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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​Our mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. 

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​A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.
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​Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. Sometimes funny. Always moving. Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy. New episodes every Thursday. Produced and distributed by Symphony Space.

​Bookshop Happenings


Want to listen to local authors reading you their favorite selections?
​Or how about in-store musical events or performances?
Click the button below and prepare to be entertained right in your own home!
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