From the setting of the Holy Continent to the witty characters on it, Tessonja Odette does a wonderful job of weaving a beautifully dark and twisty world into this amazingly fun romantasy. She tells the story of Inana Westwood, a runaway performer in a world where all forms of art are banned, and a Shadow Hunter named Dominic who has a need for people like Inana. Make sure to pick up a copy of this first in a series now so you can say you've been a fan since the beginning! P.S You really don't want to miss the BEAUTIFUL map.

-Belle

Say you are a fan of a book series, perhaps 'Game of Thrones', and you have read all the books multiple times. You know the world, you know the characters. This is what you come back to read once every year or two. One day you wake up and find yourself in the world of this book series. You are naked and you have no special isekai powers, only your knowledge of the characters and the plot. How long do you think you would survive? If you do survive more than a day, how would your choices change the world you loved to read? This is what happens to Maggie in "This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me". I LOVED this book (the audio book too!) and I hope you will too.

-Helena

A coyote willow blossom carried by an ant. The night sky. A cup of tea. In her first book since "Erosion", Williams introduces us to the "Glorians"—not distant deities, but the overlooked presences of the natural world that demand our attention. Moving from the red rock deserts of Utah to the halls of Cambridge, these essays balance grief for the Great Salt Lake and the loss of her friend Barry Lopez with a stubborn insistence that beauty is still unfolding. As Richard Powers notes, reading Williams is akin to reading Whitman or Thoreau: an act of recovering a "capacious spirit" and rejoining the urgent, living world.

If you’ve ever watched a fishing boat rise from salt water to fresh at the Ballard Locks, you’ve stood at one of the most consequential engineered intersections in the Northwest. This portable, accessible guide—adapted from the authors' acclaimed 'Waterway'—unpacks the sixty-plus years of civic ambition and ecological transformation behind the canal. David B. Williams ('Homewaters') and Jennifer Ott (HistoryLink) are the perfect guides to this history. For those of us on the Olympic Peninsula, this is our "upstream" story—a direct line from the Ballard Locks to the Strait and the salmon that thread our watersheds. At $24.95, it’s a perfectly priced gift for any local history buff.

Kurlansky was a commercial fisherman before he wrote Cod and Salt. Forty short essays on fish and the compulsion to pursue them, paired with Bri Dostie's illustrations. For anglers, certainly — but also for anyone who's stood at the edge of the Elwha and felt the pull. A handsome small-format hardcover.

Haskell is, by any measure, one of the most celebrated science writers working in the naturalist tradition today — the kind of writer E.O. Wilson called "a new genre of nature writing, located between science and poetry." His new book insists we understand that flowering plants are not decoration but revolution. When angiosperms evolved, they remade the living world — reinventing plant reproduction, feeding the legions of animals (including us), building cooperation out of what had been competition, wielding beauty as a force of ecological transformation. Haskell profiles eight plants in depth — magnolias, orchids, roses, seagrasses, grasses, tea, pansies — and asks what they teach us about how thriving worlds are actually built. Elizabeth Kolbert calls it "mind-blowing."

It’s finally here: the definitive John McPhee collection. This Library of America edition brings together four complete books, including two PNW essentials: the "magisterial" Alaska portrait 'Coming into the Country' and the North Cascades-based 'Encounters with the Archdruid'. McPhee is the writer who proved that journalism and ecology are the same art, and seeing these works together makes the case for him as the 20th century's most vital voice. While $45 might seem like an investment, for 900 pages of the best nonfiction ever written, it’s a bargain. If you know someone who loves the wilderness, this completes their library.