Greetings from Port Book and News!

You probably picked up on this if you have walked into the store in the last couple of weeks, but we are extremely happy to be hosting the book launch event for Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain, the type of book we love, by people we love, about the place we love. That is on October 20th (more on that below).

We could not be more thrilled to be hosting the book launch and first reading and signing of this book.

In Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain, award-winning writer and naturalist Tim McNulty delves into the Olympic Peninsula's deeply complex history of wildlife and adventure, economic development and resource extraction, conservation and restoration, while writers from five of the sovereign tribes who maintain traditional homelands on the peninsula offer their own insights, stories and perspectives. Together, these narratives create a vivid and layered portrait of the remarkable landscape.

Enhanced by stunning photography by John Gussman, Art Wolfe, Pat O'Hara, and others, Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain celebrates the why: why the Olympics and its natural, cultural, and economic communities are worth exploring, and why sustaining a resilient future for these same communities benefits us all. Perhaps, no other region in the Northwest offers a history of such depth ‒ nor a future ripe with so much potential.

Alan Says: This book seems to rise organically out of the natural roots of the Olympic Peninsula, and from the heart and soul of its people. Salmon, Cedar, Rock and Rain will become the definitive book on this unique place ‒ a world heritage site and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. I don't see how anything could surpass it.

Contributors include: Fawn Sharpe, Quinault Indian Nation President, David Guterson, Jamie Valadez, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, Loni Greninger, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Gary Morishina, Quinault Indian Nation, Maria Parker Pascua, Makah Tribe, Wendy Sampson, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, Francine Swift, Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe.

Salmon, Cedar, Rock & Rain is published by Braided River, a conservation imprint of Mountaineers Books.

Wine down with your favorite glass and get crafty with a fun DIY Garland kit.

Each garland kit is hand drawn, converted to a digital file and then laser engraved on maple wood. Once the designs are engraved, each piece is cut out into the custom shapes. Every package is packed by hand with individual inserts, felt balls, custom cutouts, needle + thread and the paint markers.

It is now 5 months later and Iris has quit school and began working at the Oath Gazette. When Iris begins typing letters to the front line on her type writer, this enchanting tale begins.

Notes so beautifully written it feels like you are right there staring at the closet waiting for the next rush of air to deliver a note. You can feel the depth of the letters, the pain of these characters and I became engrossed in the story.

The journey that Rebecca Ross takes these characters on had me feeling like I was standing right there next to them witnessing their emotions and their feelings.

Let me just say the ending… the ending is so good! It will leave you standing in your closet hoping your floor opens up to revel the next book which comes out December 26th. I cannot stop thinking about it. It is truly the perfect combination of Historical Fiction, Fantasy and Romance. -Cassidy

Danny Caine follows up his improbably successful How to Resist Amazon and Why with a collection of case studies showing how several independent bookstores are enduring, coming-into-being and even thriving in the current social and political moment.

With policy suggestions, some cheerleading about how important indie bookstores can be for communities and downtown shopping districts, and recommendations for how consumers can help, this book showcases some interesting places with fascinating stories. From Moon Palace, on the front lines of the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis, to the center of the Drag Story Hour controversy at Loyalty Books in Washington, D.C., it's inspiring to add so many new places to my bookstore bucket list, and see how others are succeeding.

If you are reading a bookstore newsletter, then you are already supporting independent bookstores, and this book might have some stories and ideas worth checking out. -Steven

I have a neighbor who told me that for exercise he walks his cow through a small vineyard that he has on his property.

I said: Don’t tell me, you “herd it through the Grapevine.”