Fremont’s Outsider Comics is the inclusive home base for a new generation of Seattle nerds
Outsider Comics and Geek Boutique will celebrate five years in Fremont on Nov. 1. Seattle has gained independent bookstores over the last decade, but comic...
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Joie Des Livres brings life and culture to Seabrook, a tiny, new Olympic Peninsula beach town
In 2004, Seabrook sprung up on the Olympic Peninsula between Moclips and Ocean Shores. Residents of the cookie-cutter town joke about living on “The Truman...
Nearly 50 years after its founding, Edmonds Bookshop will get a new owner
Edmonds Bookshop has changed ownership just four times over the past 50 years. Owners Mary Kay Sneeringer and David Brewster bought the store two decades...
For 30 years, Magnolia’s Bookstore has stayed steadfast in one of Seattle’s most isolated neighborhoods VIEW
In Magnolia, one of Seattle’s most secluded neighborhoods, has seen innumerable changes as the city grew over the last 20 years. One thing that has...
From a new location in Pioneer Square, Arundel Books is in the business of selling dreams
In 2020, Arundel Books, like most of Pioneer Square, boarded up its windows. A mural appeared: a crystal ball, clouds and an all-seeing eye above...
Meet Three Trees Books, the tiny bookstore that makes a big impact on its Burien community
Nestled in the quiet Burien neighborhood of Seahurst, in a building shared with a post office, the small independent bookstore Three Trees Books has fostered...
How Brick & Mortar Books has become a pillar of the Redmond community
In the Eastside suburb that tech companies like Microsoft made famous, the independent bookstore Brick & Mortar has become an invaluable part of the local...
For 10 years, Book Larder has thrived by mixing 2 of Seattle’s great loves: books and food
In the mid-2000s, it seemed like recipe blogs and cooking websites might force the cookbook into retirement. After a decade in Fremont, Book Larder continues...
Seattle’s longest-running Black-owned bookstore begins a new chapter in Columbia City
The newly reopened LEMS Cultural Center and Bookstore for Life Enrichment — LEMS for short — has a long history in Columbia City that its...
Seattle’s newest bookstore, Oh Hello Again, has a novel system: categorizing books by emotions
Stepping into Oh Hello Again on Capitol Hill, the pattern-seeking part of your brain might yelp. The books are not arranged alphabetically or into typical...
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