March 2022
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New Nonfiction Roundup – April 2022
April marks the beginning of the busy spring publishing season, and this month’s crop of new books will not disappoint. Inspiring and approachable cookbooks, bold and nurturing self care titles, delightful pop culture histories and more will make your TBR pile taller than ever. And don’t forget to check out five spectacular additions to Peak… Continue reading
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Read the World: Translated Fiction
For many of us, if we want to read fiction written in a language other than English we need the help of a translator. This past week Frank Wynne, chair of the 2022 International Booker Prize, called for publishers around the world to not only recognize the work of translators with full book cover credit,… Continue reading
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Accessibility Apps for Library Users
Accessibility in apps has become more and more prevalent in tech development. Large developers, such as Microsoft, have received feedback from users underlining the needs that communities with disabilities have seen as necessary in order to successfully use mobile devices, computer programs, applications, and gaming. Thankfully, this communication has resulted in a higher industry standard… Continue reading
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A Peek at Peak Picks for April 2022
We’re adding ten Peak Picks for April! For fiction, Jennifer Egan returns with The Candy House, a sibling novel to the Pulitzer-Prize winning A Visit from the Goon Squad, which imagines a world of constant surveillance where privacy no longer exists; Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel) explores 500 years of time… Continue reading
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Visit Museums For Free Through the Library: New Partners
Seattle-area residents who have a card with The Seattle Public Library can visit more museums for free, courtesy of the Library’s Museum Pass program (www.spl.org/MuseumPass). We are excited to share that five Seattle museums have rejoined the program: the Center for Wooden Boats, the Henry Art Gallery, Museum of History & Industry, the Seattle Art… Continue reading
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THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY TO EXPAND OPEN HOURS STARTING WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30
The Central Library’s Book Spiral and Reading Room will also reopen for limited hours Starting Wednesday, March 30, The Seattle Public Library will see most Library locations return to the open hours in place prior to Jan. 21, 2022, when the Library temporarily reduced hours systemwide in response to impacts from the Omicron variant of… Continue reading
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The Negro Motorist Green Book Exhibition: March 19 – June 12, 2022
The Negro Motorist Green Book exhibition opens this Saturday, March 19, at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. This immersive, multimedia exhibit was curated by Candacy Taylor, former Harvard fellow and celebrated Green Book scholar, for the Smithsonian Institution’s Traveling Exhibition Service. The Green Book was published between 1936 and 1966 and became the… Continue reading
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Horror: What We Bring Back From the Woods
I love the way horror novels are often tied to a specific, vividly rendered place: a scary house, a sinister hospital, a remote stretch of woods. Today I’m drilling down on that last one, with a few horror novels where characters bring something unexpected back from their wilderness adventures. These novels also share a focus… Continue reading
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Rockabye Ocean: Picture Books for Bedtime
Water seems a well loved thing amongst little ones – splashing in the bath, stomping through puddles, and touching waves. With our own kiddo we often see him gravitate towards marine life like the dolphin screensaver on our tv or the marine animal bath toys that shoot water. That got me thinking about themed reads… Continue reading
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Reading Ukraine: History, Memoir and Literature
Whenever conflicts erupt on the world stage, we can count on our patrons to head to their local library to find out more. When it comes to the current conflict in Ukraine, whether you prefer the objectivity of history and political analysis, the more subjective personal experiences of those involved, or the imaginative capacity of… Continue reading
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50+ Free Things You Can Do Through The Seattle Public Library
Want to learn a language, improve your job skills, find free one-on-one tutoring, learn web design, or find a read-aloud for your child? You can do all of these things and much more through The Seattle Public Library. A dozen or so of the activities in this list do not even require a Library card.… Continue reading
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Tenth Annual Seattle Asian American Film Festival
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival (SAAFF). The festival, which shares Asian American independent films with Pacific Northwest audiences, takes place March 3 through March 13. All 102 films in the SAAFF’s 2022 program (including 13 feature-length films, 12 shorts programs, and 2 free programs) are available for… Continue reading
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New Fiction Roundup – March 2022
March delivers a Dolly Parton/James Patterson collaboration, a deep dive into the family behind John Wilkes Booth by Karen Joy Fowler, a standalone by science fiction master John Scalzi, and much more. 3/1: The Night Shift by Alex Finlay In 1999, four teen girls working at a Blockbuster Video are attacked and only one survives;… Continue reading
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New Nonfiction Roundup – March 2022
This month in nonfiction features a bevy of fantastic cookbooks, page-turners that read like fiction, thoughtful (and funny) memoirs and a host of books to help us get through the day a bit more successfully. And don’t forget to check out this month’s Peak Picks in nonfiction. What’s Cooking?Chef (and recent transplant to Seattle) J.… Continue reading
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Library Board Selects Tom Fay as New Chief Librarian of The Seattle Public Library
On Wednesday, March 2, The Seattle Public Library’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to select Tom Fay as the new Executive Director and Chief Librarian of The Seattle Public Library. The vote marks the culmination of a national search for the Library’s next Chief Librarian. Fay has been serving as the Library’s interim Chief Librarian… Continue reading