6 FROM THE SHELF JANUARY 19�26, 2022 CHECKING OUT THE WORLD OF BOOKS Pacifi c Northwest Booksellers Association announces 2022 book awards recipients Go! staff Time is a Flower he Pacifi c Northwest Booksellers Association recently announced the recipients of the 2022 Pacifi c Northwest Book Awards. A volunteer committee of independent booksell- ers selected the winners from more than 400 nominated titles published in 2021. Original essay features from this year’s winning authors will be pub- lished on the NWBookLovers blog. PNBA and its member stores will host the 2022 Pacifi c Northwest Book Awards Celebration, a virtual event fea- turing this year’s winners, at 6 p.m. Feb. 8. Registration for this free public event is available at NWBookLovers.org. Tundra Books T 2022 WINNERS: Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr (Boise, ID) Scribner Funeral for Flaca Emilly Prado (Portland, OR) Future Tense Books Iron Widow Xiran Jay Zhao (Vancouver, BC) Penguin Teen Julie Morstad (Vancouver, BC) Unfollow Me Jill Louise Busby (Olympia, WA) Bloomsbury Publishing What Strange Paradise Omar El Akkad (Portland, OR) Knopf Publishing Group ABOUT The Pacifi c Northwest Booksellers Association is a non-profi t trade as- sociation that supports independent bookselling in Alaska, Idaho, Mon- tana, Oregon and Washington. Each year since 1965, the Pacifi c North- west Book Awards have celebrated exceptional books written by North- west authors. To learn more, visit the NWBook- Lovers blog, which promotes the au- thors and independent bookstores of the Northwest region, and also hosts the Pacifi c Northwest Inde- pendent Bestseller List, a weekly presentation of the bestselling books in the independent book- stores of the fi ve-state region. t sco oo u k n s on a ly) i d 0% d b ing b k clu 1 printe re buy with a boo (on if you a ticipate r to pa book Audio & E-Books Available WINTER HOURS Tuesday-Saturday 10-6 • Sunday 10-4 1813 Main St, Baker City, OR • (541) 523-7551 • https://bettysbooks.indielite.org