City of Girls
By Elizabeth Gilbert
A very quick and fun read set (mostly) in New York city in the 1940s. The story follows a very colorful cast of theater people with much more...
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Featured Lists
Pegasus Book Exchange: Staff Picks
When people come to our store, we're often asked "What are you reading?" Here's a list of some of our current favorites.
Save this list as a favorite to read along with us! If you'd like to buy one of our recommendations, you can purchase through one of these links and we'll get a portion of the proceeds.
West Seattle Urbanism Book Club
Our reading group meets once/month at Beveridge Place Pub to discuss books on urbanism, transportation, the built environment, and community development. Below is our reading list so far. For more meeting details, please join us on Discord.
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For a Better Tomorrow
Amongst these titles, you'll find:
- Inspiring stories of resisting tyrannic governments
- Communities coming together in times of need
- Persistent, relentless showing up for civil rights and justice
- Guidance on what makes for effective, sustainable resistance movements
- Hope that a better tomorrow is within reach if we fight for it
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Meaningful Memoirs
These authors don’t just recount what happened in their memoirs; they sit with hard questions and identify the turning points that made them who they are. Sometimes they make us laugh, sometimes the stories hit hard. Either way, there's often a lesson for us all, even in these deeply personal accounts.
Recent Notes
When Jesus Became God
By Richard E Rubenstein
This book is about the disunity of Christian orthodoxy in the 3rd and 4th centuries, particularly as it relates to the nature of Jesus' divinity. Was...
The Island of Last Things
By Emma Sloley
Can you imagine a world where you look up to the sky and see the silhouette of a bird pass overhead and you're hit with such a sense of awe that you...
The Manicurist's Daughter
By Susan Lieu
Her mom's death is one event that spurred a broad memoir of Lieu's life and relationships.
The Prophets
By Robert Jones Jr
A beautiful book that was hard to like. I can't say anything bad about it, except that by the end I was sure ready for it to be done.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
By Stephen King
A mix of great and bad short fiction. None that truly stand out as incredible or terrible to me.