Washington State University Press’s 34th annual Holiday Book Fair is set for 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, and 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, in the Terrell Library atrium. The event is free and open to the public.
Festivities include authors signing books, steep discounts of 30–50% on all titles, drawings for free books, and complimentary refreshments.
Sale prices will also be valid for phone and online orders that use coupon code HBF2025 during the online Holiday Book Fair timeline from Dec. 1–7, but those interested in purchasing WSU Press books can start browsing new releases now. Shipping is free on orders above $50.
This year’s fair features new titles on wildlife biology, Native American memoirs and art, as well as regional history. All are 30% off. These include:
- Chasing Wildlife Secrets: A Biologist’s Journey: Scott McCorquodale shares compelling, dramatic, and detailed accounts of transformative research on Pacific Northwest bears, deer, elk, and moose.
- Seattle in the Great Depression: A History of Business, Labor, and Politics Drawn from Local Chronicles: Bruce Ramsey takes readers on a narrative history of the turbulent decade that scarred a generation and defined years of policy and culture.
- Hardhat Days: My Re-Education in Seattle’s Shipyards: Written by Mike Nolan, this is the memoir of a broke and desperate college graduate who joined the gritty, dangerous — yet still often humorous — world of Seattle shipyard labor and discovered that the most worthwhile education often happens outside of a classroom.
- Listening to the Birds: A Nez Perce Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery and Healing: Roberta Tawlikitsanmay’ Paul uncovers her family’s saga, starting with a Nez Perce chief who met Lewis and Clark and ending five generations later, to heal the soul of herself and her people.
- Becoming Walla Walla: The Transformation of Cayuse Country, 1805–1879: Dennis Crockett recounts Walla Walla Valley history from the time of the Sahaptian Peoples’s first encounters with Euro-Americans to the initial expiration of the U.S. government’s treaty with the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla.
- Believing in Indians: A Mixed-Blood Odyssey: Tony Tekaroniake Evans tells a coming-of-age story from an era of assimilation and cultural erasure that led the author into a comical, informative, and heartbreaking literary journey in pursuit of his Indigenous identity.
- Ron Hilbert č̓adəsqidəb: The Life and Work of a Coast Salish Artist: Simon Ottenberg offers an astute perspective on the life and work of a courageous and controversial contemporary Coast Salish artist.
- A selection of new poetry titles from Lost Horse Press and Lynx House.
For information about the Holiday Book Fair, email WSU Press or call 509-335-7880.
