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2/7/2023: Beautiful and Cute Little Books!

It is not necessarily very literary or even very definable, but here is a partial list of little books that we find Beautiful and Lovely and Cute and completely gift-able!

Books: 
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women Cover Image

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women (Hardcover)

By 18 Afghan Women
$25.00
ISBN: 9781538726822
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Grand Central Publishing - October 18th, 2022
English Romantic Poets (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) Cover Image

English Romantic Poets (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (Hardcover)

By Jonathan Bate (Editor)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593535523
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Everyman's Library - October 4th, 2022
Women & Power: A Manifesto Cover Image

Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)

By Mary Beard
$15.95
ISBN: 9781631494758
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Liveright - December 12th, 2017
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book (Monk & Robot #2) Cover Image

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book (Monk & Robot #2) (Hardcover)

By Becky Chambers
$21.99
ISBN: 9781250236234
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Tordotcom - July 12th, 2022
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1) Cover Image

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1) (Hardcover)

By Becky Chambers
$20.99
ISBN: 9781250236210
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Tordotcom - July 13th, 2021

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association best seller

Between the World and Me Cover Image

Between the World and Me (Hardcover)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: One World - July 14th, 2015
Tides Cover Image

Tides (Hardcover)

By Sara Freeman
$26.00
ISBN: 9780802159175
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Grove Press - January 16th, 2022
Marigold and Rose: A Fiction Cover Image

Marigold and Rose: A Fiction (Hardcover)

By Louise Glück
$22.00
ISBN: 9780374607586
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - October 11th, 2022

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country Cover Image

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country (Hardcover)

By Amanda Gorman, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)
$15.99
ISBN: 9780593465271
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Viking Books - March 30th, 2021
Before the Coffee Gets Cold Cover Image

Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Hardcover)

By Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99
ISBN: 9781335430991
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Hanover Square Press - November 17th, 2020

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association best seller

Tales from the Cafe Cover Image

Tales from the Cafe (Hardcover)

By Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99
ISBN: 9781335630988
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Hanover Square Press - October 12th, 2021
Before Your Memory Fades Cover Image

Before Your Memory Fades (Hardcover)

By Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99
ISBN: 9781335429285
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Hanover Square Press - November 15th, 2022
Small Things Like These Cover Image

Small Things Like These (Hardcover)

By Claire Keegan
$20.00
ISBN: 9780802158741
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Grove Press - November 30th, 2021

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

Foster Cover Image

Foster (Hardcover)

By Claire Keegan
$20.00
ISBN: 9780802160140
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Grove Press - November 1st, 2022
Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition Cover Image

Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover)

By Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (Introduction by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780679406839
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Pantheon - October 8th, 1991
Galatea: A Short Story Cover Image

Galatea: A Short Story (Hardcover)

By Madeline Miller
$12.00
ISBN: 9780063280519
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Ecco - November 8th, 2022

Staff favorite author

The Lost Spells Cover Image

The Lost Spells (Hardcover)

By Robert MacFarlane, Jackie Morris
$26.00
ISBN: 9781487007799
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Anansi International - October 27th, 2020

Staff favorite illustrator

The Unwinding: And Other Dreamings Cover Image

The Unwinding: And Other Dreamings (Hardcover)

By Jackie Morris
$19.95
ISBN: 9781783529353
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Unbound - October 26th, 2021

Staff favorite illustrator

The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom Cover Image

The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom (Hardcover)

By Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith (Foreword by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525659297
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Knopf - December 3rd, 2019
The Origin of Others (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures #56) Cover Image

The Origin of Others (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures #56) (Hardcover)

By Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Foreword by)
$22.95
ISBN: 9780674976450
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Harvard University Press - September 18th, 2017
Northwest Know-How: Beer Cover Image

Northwest Know-How: Beer (Hardcover)

By Jacob Uitti, Jake Stoumbos (Illustrator)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781632173515
Availability: Backordered
Published: Sasquatch Books - May 4th, 2021
Northwest Know-How: Trees Cover Image

Northwest Know-How: Trees (Hardcover)

By Karen Gaudette Brewer, Emily Poole (Illustrator)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781632173522
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Sasquatch Books - May 4th, 2021
Northwest Know-How: Beaches Cover Image

Northwest Know-How: Beaches (Hardcover)

By Rena Priest, Jake Stoumbos (Illustrator)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781632174086
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Sasquatch Books - May 17th, 2022
Seattle Cocktails: An Elegant Collection of Over 100 Recipes Inspired by the Emerald City (City Cocktails) Cover Image

Seattle Cocktails: An Elegant Collection of Over 100 Recipes Inspired by the Emerald City (City Cocktails) (Hardcover)

By Neil Ratliff
$22.95
ISBN: 9781646432479
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Cider Mill Press - November 15th, 2022
Cold Moon: On Life, Love, and Responsibility Cover Image

Cold Moon: On Life, Love, and Responsibility (Hardcover)

By Roger Rosenblatt
$15.95
ISBN: 9781885983886
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Turtle Point Press - October 27th, 2020
On Juneteenth Cover Image

On Juneteenth (Hardcover)

By Annette Gordon-Reed
$15.95
ISBN: 9781631498831
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Liveright - May 4th, 2021
Freedom Cover Image

Freedom (Hardcover)

By Sebastian Junger
$25.99
ISBN: 9781982153410
Availability: Backordered
Published: Simon & Schuster - May 18th, 2021
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging Cover Image

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (Hardcover)

By Sebastian Junger
$22.00
ISBN: 9781455566389
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Twelve - May 24th, 2016
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good Cover Image

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Hardcover)

By Helene Tursten, Marlaine Delargy (Translated by)
$12.99
ISBN: 9781641290111
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Soho Crime - November 6th, 2018
Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals Cover Image

Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals (Hardcover)

By Ken Follett
$17.00
ISBN: 9781984880253
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Viking - October 29th, 2019
A Book of Days Cover Image

A Book of Days (Hardcover)

By Patti Smith
$28.99
ISBN: 9780593448540
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Random House - November 15th, 2022
Recitatif: A Story Cover Image

Recitatif: A Story (Hardcover)

By Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith (Introduction by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780593315033
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Knopf - February 1st, 2022
The Travelling Cat Chronicles Cover Image

The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Hardcover)

By Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel (Translated by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780451491336
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Berkley - October 23rd, 2018
A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables) Cover Image

A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables) (Hardcover)

By Alix E. Harrow
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250765352
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Tordotcom - October 5th, 2021
A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables) Cover Image

A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables) (Hardcover)

By Alix E. Harrow
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250766649
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Tordotcom - June 14th, 2022