travel

  • Always Available Travel Guides

    Seattleites love to travel (or at least love to read travel books). While the library has a large collection of travel books in print, they are not always available when you want them. OverDrive, our ebook provider, had a small collection with limited destinations. Until now. Continue reading

  • #BookBingoNW2018: About Travel or Read While Traveling

    Whether you’re an intrepid or an armchair traveler, visiting an unfamiliar place is an enriching experience. From Albania to Zimbabwe, there are no shortage of travel books to transport you to other locations. But how we travel is just as important as where we go, and here some books to make you a smarter traveler — an earn a square… Continue reading

  • Bringing Mexico Home

    I finally traveled abroad for the first time last year to Mexico! It was beautiful and rugged, but the best part was the food! I searched and searched the library to track down the food I fell in love with. Here are the recipes I’ve found and the stories attached: Tequila: Myth, Magic & Spirited… Continue reading

  • Book Bingo: Nonfiction

    Join The Seattle Public Library and Seattle Arts & Lectures for our 2nd annual Summer Book Bingo for adults! Follow us throughout the summer for reading suggestions based on each category.  Fancy a walk in the countryside? The English love a long walk through the rainy countryside– much like Seattleites! We here in Seattle tend to like our countryside a bit wilder,… Continue reading

  • Off-season? No problem.

    ~posted by Emily  Temperatures are dropping, we’ve turned back the clocks, and it’s safe to say that summer is long behind us. But that doesn’t mean the opportunity for travel has passed us by. In fact, there are several reasons why it’s advantageous to plan travel during the off-season. One of the biggest advantages of… Continue reading

  • October Takeover: Halloween Traditions

    ~posted by Selby Tonight is THE night for the dead to crawl out of the underworld and roam the streets. Where are the best places to celebrate both in the US and around the world? In the USA Sleepy Hollow, New York. As home of Washington Irving’s chilling tale about a headless horseman who terrorizes… Continue reading

  • Book Bingo: Set Somewhere You’ve Always Wanted to Visit

    – Posted by Meranda This summer The Seattle Public Library, in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures, is excited to offer a summer reading program for adults called Summer Book Bingo! In order to help you along on your quest to complete your bingo sheet, we have pulled together some book suggestions based on each category. Follow… Continue reading

  • Let’s Get Away

    by Marion S. Winter’s arrival makes me consider visiting places unlike Seattle. My kind of trip is exploring what’s unique about a place and its history. And having some relaxation time.  For my next trip I’m dreaming of a warm or tropical place or just getting far away. In seeking out some books, a few… Continue reading

  • Mystery Challenge: Exotic Locales

    ~ by Selby G. One of the many great things about reading a book is that it can take you anywhere. Can’t squeeze in a vacation to China? Read a book and follow the characters down alleyways in Shanghai or to a temple in Beijing. Combine those foreign landscapes with a good mystery and you… Continue reading

  • Alaska beckons

    It’s been quite the hot summer — it has many of us dreaming of going even further north to catch some cool breezes and gain additional daylight hours to play in. Alaska beckons! Ann says: Alaska is vast, beautiful and unforgiving. Many men (and a few women) have been lured to Alaska by its beauty and its… Continue reading

  • Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite!

    By Ann G. Ever wonder about what you need to know about bedbugs? First, here’s one of the better descriptions of how to check for bedbugs I’ve seen, taken from the American Academy of Dermatology.   Check more than just the bedding—they like anything with upholstery! Here’s another to-do list for a new hotel room, from entomologist… Continue reading

  • Romantic Wednesdays: I Love New York

    In a dynamic city of over eight million people, you’re bound to find some romance! Here are some noteworthy reads that will stir up love for the Big Apple. Love the One You’re With by Emily Giffin Ellen is a successful New York photographer, living in a great apartment with her adoring husband, Andy. Life seems… Continue reading

  • Columbia Branch Staff’s Favorites

    The Columbia Branch staff put up a popular Staff Picks display throughout July to celebrate this year’s Summer Reading Program. Here are some of the books the Columbia Branch staff loved: Blankets by Craig Thompson This graphic novel tells a story of coming of age, first love and early adulthood. Thompson captures those timeless themes perfectly… Continue reading

  • Your Next 5 Books: Traveling to Thailand

    In this column we regularly highlight a Your Next 5 Books submission that we find interesting, funny, unique, or useful to other readers. Submit Your Next 5 Books entry now, or stop by and see us in person, and maybe you could see your (anonymous) reading habits on Shelf Talk! Continue reading

  • Library Choo-choo!

    Traveling north, traveling north to find you Train wheels beating, the wind in my eyes Don’t even know what I’ll find when I get to you I’m in love with trains. They still have a little romance and mystery about them and a laid-back atmosphere that you don’t often get when traveling by plane or car. Continue reading

  • Your Next 5 Books: Real life adventure

    In this column we regularly highlight a Your Next 5 Books submission that we find interesting, funny, unique, or useful to other readers. Submit Your Next 5 Books entry now, or stop by and see us in person, and maybe you could see your (anonymous) reading habits on Shelf Talk! Continue reading

  • Wonderful Old Guidebooks

    Who would take along a 1930s guidebook on a cross-country road trip across the United States? John Steinbeck, for one! Steinbeck makes reference to a set of depression-era guidebooks in his well-known travelogue Travels with Charley: In Search of America, which is about his 1960 road trip around the U.S. with his French standard poodle… Continue reading

  • Bicycling Everywhere (in the Central Library)

    There have been a lot of blogs about biking, I know, I know. But I hope this one is a little different. It’s about how books on a topic can turn up anywhere. Let’s start at the top of the Central Library and work our way down. Way up on the 9th floor (History, Travel… Continue reading