June 30, 2024

Port Book and Newsletter June 2024

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The downtown fountain is babbling pleasantly again. There has been beautification work on the streets (new trees and improved pedestrian crossings). There has even been a new cruise ship depositing new adventurous souls downtown.

After a busy June, when we brought in a lot of books and curated some special lists to celebrate Pride month,  the upcoming calendar looks chock full:  Independence Day, the Sequim Lavender Festival, and the start of the Summer Olympics. Oh, and Shark Week, we're told. It is also National Culinary Arts Month, so keep your eye out for some special cookbooks and maybe even some recipes from us next month.

The other thing that happens this time of year is that we overcome our habitual reluctance to toot our own horn, and humbly ask that you consider voting for us in the contest Best of the Peninsula.

Best of Peninsula

Best of Olympic Peninsula

New Books

New Books June 2024

Books we are excited about

Lies and Weddings
by Kevin Kwan

-Cindy

Treaty Justice
by Charles Wilkinson

-Steven

Ilona Andrews

I have read an abundance of books. Some are bad, some are amazing, and most fall somewhere in between.

Author recommendation: Ilona Andrews

Get organized with Moleskine Notebooks

Moleskine Notebooks
Moleskine Notebooks

Is there anything more hopeful than a new planner or notebook? If you are like us, it is always a good time to get more organized. We are starting to get 2025 calendars in, and just got dozens of new styles of Moleskine notebooks and planners. Some are for 2025, and some start in July or August of this year.

Fresh start, anyone?

Preorder Alert: Robin Wall Kimmerer's 'The Serviceberry'

The Serviceberry
by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Bestsellers

Current Bestsellers

Joke of the newsletter

A man dies and is sent down to Hell.

The Devil greets him when he gets there and says "You see that right there? That's the lake of lava. What we do is just throw you right into the lake of lava."

The man says "We're underground. Technically speaking, it's a pool of magma."

The Devil says "You do realize, that's why you were sent down here in the first place?"