Santoro’s Books is Greenwood’s full-service, independent bookstore. We offer an excellent selection of new books and old favorites, a rental library for books and audio books, frequent buyer discounts and discounts on book club selections and school orders. Special ordering from us is fast and reliable. Just send us an e-mail with your requests to: carol@santorosbooks.com . We’re always happy to make reading suggestions and encourage you to enjoy a browse through our store.

Santoro’s News and Events

ArtUp/Open Up Greenwood-Phinney Artwalk Friday, July 10th from 6:00 to 9:00PM Santoro’s will be hosting artist Reagan Jackson for this ever-popular neighborhood event. Reagan Jackson grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. As soon as it was legal to do so, she moved away. Her first stop was Seattle, which has subsequently become the home base for her many travels. Reagan is an international educator and has spent several years abroad, living and working in Japan, Chile, and Spain. Her experiences abroad have been a catalyst for her art and are also reflected in her style, use of materials, and choice of subject matter. She is a self taught painter. She first began painting, not to sell or even for the purpose of sharing with others, but as a meditation. Her portfolio to date consists of a variety of themed works such as cityscapes, butterflies, self portraits, Day of the Dead scenes, and landscapes, done on canvas with acrylic and mixed media

July 4th: Celebrate Your Independents!
July 1st through 7th is National Independents Week, and Santoro’s would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers for supporting independent businesses. We are grateful to be a part of the Greenwood-Phinney business community and actively participate in local literacy and other educational causes. 

Santoro’s will be open our regular hours on July 4th, but there will be no Storytelling with Steph on Friday, July 3rd. 

Quote of the Month:
“He had no friends and for the first time in his life he became aware of loneliness. Sometimes, in his attic room at night, he would look up from a book he was reading and gaze in the dark corners of his room, where the lamplight flickered against the shadows. If he stared long and intently, the darkness gathered into a light, which took the insubstantial shape of what he had been reading. And he would feel that he was out of time, as he had felt that day in class when Archer Sloane had spoken to him. The past gathered out the darkness where it stayed, and the dead raised themselves to live before him; and the past and the dead flowed into the present among the alive, so that he had for an intese instant a vision of denseness into which he was compacted and from which he could not escape, and had no wish to escape. Tristan, Iseult the fair, walked before him; Paolo and Francesca whirled in the glowing dark; Helen and bright Paris, their faces bitter with consequence, rose from the gloom. And he was with them in a way that he could never be with his fellows who went from class to class, who found a local habitation in a large university in Columbia, Missouri, and who walked unheeding in a midwestern air.”

~John Williams from his novel Stoner

Thank you for supporting neighborhood stores.

Santoro’s Books is located at:
7405 Greenwood Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 784-2113
carol@santorosbooks.com

Hours:
Mon - Wed: 10 - 7
Thurs - Fri: 10 - 8
Sat: 10 - 6
Sun: 12 - 5