Ballast Book Company

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I wish I was a hockey player dating my teammate unfortunately I sell books

will take any opportunity I can get to talk about The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social

The Black Death by Thomas Asbridge

Ladies of the Knight by Fiona Marchbank

Princesses of the Early Middle Ages by Sharon Bennett Connolly

Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com

Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead by KJ Parker

here ye, hear ye! from plagues to princesses to paladins, here's some medieval books releasing this year that we're excited for! ⬇️

Belle from Disney's Beauty and the Beast with a dreamy look on her face holding a photoshopped copy of Heated Rivalry to her chest adoringly

when heated rivalry comes back in stock at the local bookstore

The cover of Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher on a blue background. Above the cover is a cream coloured rectangle with the text "People need to stop maligning the parasitic community!" and is a screenshot from Reddit.

@tkingfisher.com I can't stop thinking about wolf worm and I need more immediately (please)

A stack of three copies of "Parasite" by Seanan McGuire (writing as Mira Grant). There's a note between two copies that says, "Author ate a tapeworm to accurately write this book!"

"Author ate a tapeworm to accurately write this book!"

The next time you see @seananmcguire.bsky.social, ask her about Timmy.

Beloved & I saw this when we went into @ballastbookco.bsky.social, to thank them for having an ASL interpreter at yesterday's Seanan event.

XO Mina/מרים

Pictures from this weekend's @seananmcguire.bsky.social event hosted by @ballastbookco.bsky.social!
(I'm the girl in the pink cardigan & pony tail, & Beloved is the ginger in green next to me.)

These pics were taken by Ballast Books, & I got them from the their latest newsletter:
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Cropped image from Harry Styles new album which shows him in a blue t-shirt, putting on glasses and walking out of frame with white text above that says "walking into a bookstore pretending like I haven't been there every day this week"

idk if bluesky even likes harry styles

Angel Down in the North Woods where I, Sister Snake and Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Have Never Known Men

In Sorrowland, A Little Luck and a Thirst Trap get you a Sky Daddy! (Oof)

Sunrise on the Victorian Psycho, The Knight and the Moth, and The Hound(ing) that Stalks the Deep! (That last part is actually terribly accurate)

It's your Lucky Day in the Dead of Summer at Beartown where Lions are Certified Beauties!

The Adventures of a Green Dungeon Crawler Worm with Breadknives

Here's our Top 5 of 2025! Check out our bookseller picks below ⬇️

brown paper background with a few holiday packages on the left with red and gold ribbons. The shop logo for Ballast Book Co is on the top package. At the bottom, over the packages is the cover of the detective thriller, THE MYTH MAKER, and a silver award logo for BookFest Text on the right reads: BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS! MEET LOCAL AUTHOR ALIE DUMAS-HEIDT AT BALLAST BOOK CO AND GRAB A SIGNED COPY OF HER AWARD-WINNING NOVEL, THE MYTH MAKER. NOV 7, 2025 5PM-8PM BALLAST BOOK CO. 409 PACIFIC AVE #202, BREMERTON, WA MORE INFO AT ALIEDH.COM

#PNW Peeps! I'll be @ballastbookco.bsky.social Nov 7 for the First Friday Art Walk, signing copies of my award-winning novel, The Myth Maker! Come by and get copy signed for that book lover on your holiday shopping list!

A photo of an open book on a towel on a sandy beach. White serif text overlaid on top says 'the summer I didn't finish a single book on my TBR' (to be read)

based on real life events

OUR NAME NEXT TO SEANAN MCGUIRE'S NAME?! 😭🫡

A cream background with blue cursive text in centre that says 'Woman in Translation Month'. 6 books circle the text in matching blue/cream: Tender is the Flesh, The Employees, My Name is Emilia Del Valle, A Sunny Place for Shady People, The Wall, and The Vegetarian

Happy Women in Translation Month! A perfect time to celebrate and uplift women who write in languages other than English.
Some of our favorite translated authors are: Agustina Bazterrica, Marlen Haushofer, Olga Ravn, Sayaka Murata, Mariana Enriquez, Han Kang, and Isabel Allende!

And, baby, that's bookselling business for you ❤️‍🔥

From being unable to reach books on the highest shelf to climbing over the mountains of boxes delivered everyday, The Life of a Bookseller is beautiful, rapturous, and frightening 😌

Woman in a white and green renaissance outfit holding a basket and also holding back tears as her boyfriend gets down on one knee

A blonde woman in a white and green Renaissance outfit admiring the engagement ring on her finger as her boyfriend kneels down in front of her wearing a green bucket hat and white shirt

we had a proposal in our bookstore ahhh it's a love story baby just say yes !!

A stack of 5 books sitting on a stool with a blurred background. The books from top to bottom are All Fours by Miranda July, Service Model by Tchaikovsky, The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst, Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle, and Vicious by VE Schwab

Happy Paperback Book Day! Here's some of our bookseller favorites in paperback form 📕❤️

Oil painting of The Dedication by Edmund Blair Leighton depicting a knight and lady kneeling before an altar, likely dedicating themselves to a noble (AKA me dedicating myself to author T. Kingfisher like the noble she is). White text in a medieval font overlaid on top says "me pledging loyalty to T. Kingfisher"

yeah we really like books by the saint of writing @tkingfisher.com

5 baby orange kittens all walking in the same direction with a white text overlaid on top that says 'gang on the way to support small businesses' because shopping small and supporting indie businesses is COOL and helping billionaires rent historical cities is NOT

it's a prime day to shop small and support local!