Local authors
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Writers’ Room Interview: Amontaine Aurore
Welcome back to our Writers’ Room interview series! Today we’re talking with Amontaine Aurore, a member of the 2023 Seattle Writers’ Room cohort. The Writers’ Room, located on Level 9 of the Central Library, offers a space for writers to work on their projects and access Library resources. Use of the room is through an… Continue reading
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Writers’ Room Interview: Cara Diaconoff
Welcome back to our Writers’ Room interview series! Today we’re talking with Cara Diaconoff, a member of the 2023 Seattle Writers’ Room cohort. The Writers’ Room, located on Level 9 of the Central Library, offers a space for writers to work on their projects and access Library resources. Use of the room is through an… Continue reading
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Writers’ Room Interview: Arendse Lund
Welcome back to our Writers’ Room interview series! Today we’re talking with Arendse Lund, a member of the 2023 Seattle Writers’ Room cohort. The Writers’ Room, located on Level 9 of the Central Library, offers a space for writers to work on their projects and access Library resources. Use of the room is through an… Continue reading
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WA Do I Read Next: Recent Non-Fiction Faves by Washington Authors
Each year a group of librarians from around the state take the stage at the Washington Library Association conference to share some of their favorite recent titles by Washington State authors. This year’s presentation took place on March 31, in Wenatchee, with Andrea Gough and David Wright of Seattle Public Library, as well as Jenna… Continue reading
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WA Do I Read Next: Recent Fiction Faves by Washington Authors
Each year a group of librarians from around the state take the stage at the Washington Library Association conference to share some of their favorite recent titles by Washington State authors. This year’s presentation took place on March 31, in Wenatchee, with Andrea Gough and David Wright of Seattle Public Library, as well as Jenna… Continue reading
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After dispensing with fines, Seattle Public Library dispenses with fine dispensers.
Back on January 2, 2020, joining a movement being embraced by many public libraries across the country, the Seattle Public Library decided to end its longheld practice of charging late fees for items returned after their due dates. The move has been a rousing success, restoring access to many Seattlites for whom excessive late fees… Continue reading
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PNW Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage month, but as author Nicole Chung noted, “work by Asian American writers is always timely.” The library has created some fantastic lists celebrating Asian American writers and artists for all ages to explore, but I wanted to call attention to some Pacific Northwest Asian American and Pacific Islander authors… Continue reading
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WA Do I Read Next? (Part 3)
In the final post of our trilogy of WA Do I Read Next suggestions, we share a few more recently published titles by local authors. (For more, see this Here is list of many of the books we talked about at this year’s online conference. Conventionally Yours, by Annabeth Albert (Sourcebooks) This is a sweet, new-adult… Continue reading
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WA Do I Read Next? (Part 2)
Here is the continuation of last week’s WA Do I Read Next post, in which we share a few more recently published titles by local authors shared at this year’s Washington Library Association meeting. (For more, see this Here is list of many of the books we talked about at this year’s online conference. We… Continue reading
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WA Do I Read Next? (Part 1)
The Washington Library Association met online this year instead of in Spokane. Most years there is a panel focused on Washington authors with the cheeky title “WA Do I Read Next?” This year I had the pleasure of joining this panel event online with other librarians and local authors to celebrate recently published books by… Continue reading
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Book picks from the author of ‘Growing Up Gorilla’
Clare Hodgson Meeker’s new nonfiction picture book, Growing Up Gorilla: How a Zoo Baby Brought Her Family Together, is a heartwarming true story about a baby gorilla at the Woodland Park Zoo. When a mother gorilla walks away from her newborn, the staff at the zoo finds innovative ways for mother and baby (Yola) to… Continue reading
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Peak Picks for January 2019
Eight titles will be joining our Peak Picks collection of most in-demand titles this month including a twisty thriller, a pair of dystopian novels and an Homeric odyssey round out the fiction picks. A genealogical mystery, a memoir about the working poor and a history of Indian America from Wounded Knee to Standing Rock complete… Continue reading
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Nightstand Reads: Trudi Trueit recommends middle-grade novels to read now
Seattle author Trudi Trueit’s newest book, The Nebula Secret, is part of the Explorer Academy series of novels from National Geographic. We asked Trudi to tell us about some other middle-grade books she’s been reading and loving. Here are five she recommends: Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed When Amal, a young Pakistani girl,… Continue reading
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Listen Local: Download audio books by Washington authors
If you’re looking for a downloadable audiobook, here are a half-dozen titles — general fiction, nonfiction, historical fiction, and fantasy — by local authors. She Regrets Nothing by Andrea Dunlop. Fiction The forgotten granddaughter of one of New York’s wealthiest men is reunited with her family just as she comes of age—and once she’s had… Continue reading
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#BookBingoNW2018: Graphic novels for a blackout!
One solid Summer Book Bingo blackout strategy is to stockpile quickly-read comic books that could be applied to one of a number of different squares. This strategy gives you multiple choices of where to place a title when you need to fill a certain area of bingo card real estate. Plus you’ve got options if… Continue reading
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Library Reads: 10 top picks for September 2017
Extra celebrating this month with the Library Reads Top Ten list — because two local authors are shining bright on this selection of books that librarians across the U.S. are loving! Our beloved Nancy Pearl, former librarian at The Seattle Public Library, has a debut novel you must place on hold now! And Jamie Ford,… Continue reading
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#BookBingoNW2017: Maximize your Blackout strategy with comic books
Comic books are one of your greatest strategic resources in scoring a blackout on your Summer Book Bingo card. Don’t feel like you should limit comics to the Graphic novel square. There’s a comic for any square, many of which are quick reads (helpful for that Finish in a day square). Here are comic book… Continue reading
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Books for Giving: Nonfiction by Washington authors
Keep it local this season by reading (and giving) books by Washington state authors. Here’s a selection of local authors’ nonfiction titles — a biography of the Romanov family confidante (Rasputin), a look at some pivotal feminists (Dead Feminists), an animal history of Seattle (The City Is More Than Human), a look at what went… Continue reading