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Independent Bookstore Day!
Saturday | April 29th | All Day
Join us for Indie Bookstore Day, a national celebration of indie bookstores and the customers that support them. Fun activities and prize giveaways happening all day!
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Layli Long Soldier
with Diane Tomhave
Monday | May 1st | 7:00pm
{poetry}
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations.
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Hendrick Smith at Town Hall
Monday | May 1st | 7:30pm
Elliott Bay Book Group
Tuesday | May 2nd | 6:30pm
by Javier Marias
Alice Rothchild
Tuesday | May 2nd | 7:00pm
Christopher de Bellaigue at Seattle Public Library
Wednesday | May 3rd | 7:00pm
Patricia Lockwood
Wednesday | May 3rd | 7:00pm
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Brenda Peterson
with Amaroq Weiss
Thursday | May 4th | 7:00pm
{nature}
Seattle novelist and nature writer Brenda Peterson and Amaroq Weiss, the West Coast Wolf Organizer for San Francisco’s Center for Biological Diversity, appear together tonight to talk about the successes and challenges of wolf recovery in the Northwest.
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Geraldine DeRuiter at Town Hall
Thursday | May 4th | 7:30pm
Karen Russell with Diana Xin at Washington Hall
Friday | May 5th | 7:00pm
Andrew Fisher
Friday | May 5th | 7:00pm
Annie Proulx at Seattle Public Library
Friday | May 5th | 7:00pm
Nick Srnicek
Saturday | May 6th | 7:30pm
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Julie Salverson
with Kathleen Alcalá
Sunday | May 7th | 3:00pm
{memoir}
When Julie Salverson discovers a link between Canada's north and the atomic bombs that fell on Japan, she starts a ten-year journey that connects uranium, radiation, trauma and resilience in unexpected ways.
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Jenny Forrester
with Ijeoma Oluo
Monday | May 8th | 7:00pm
{memoir}
This powerfully eloquent story reveals a rural small town comprising God-fearing Republicans, ranchers, Mormons, and Native Americans. With sensitivity and resilience, Forrester navigates feelings of isolation, an abusive boyfriend, sexual assault, and a failed college attempt to forge a separate identity.
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Roger Thurow at Folio
Monday | May 8th | 7:00pm
Global Issues Book Group
Tuesday | May 9th | 6:30pm
by Daniel J. Levitin
Piyali Bhattacharya with Anu Taranath
Tuesday | May 9th | 7:00pm
David R. Montgomery at Town Hall
Tuesday | May 9th | 7:30pm
Amy Goodman with Denis Maynohan at Town Hall
Wednesday | May 10th | 7:30pm
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Donia Bijan
Wednesday | May 10th | 7:00pm
{fiction}
Set against the backdrop of Iran's rich, turbulent history, this exquisite debut novel is a powerful story of food, family, and a bittersweet homecoming.
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Dani Shapiro
Thursday | May 11th | 7:00pm
{memoir}
The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love.
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
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Underground YA Book Group (grades 6-12)
Thursday | May 11th | 6:30pm
Seattle Reads: Meet Angela Flournoy at Seattle Public Library
Thursday | May 11th | 7:00pm
Brad Gooch at Seattle First Baptist Church
Friday | May 12th | 7:00pm
Claire Dederer at Town Hall
Friday | May 12th | 7:30pm
Jasper Bernes and Joshua Clover
Saturday | May 13th | 7:30pm
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Children's Storytime (ages 2 and up)
Saturdays | 11:00am
PJ Library: Neighborhood Song and Story
Wednesdays | 11:30am
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Arundhati Roy at Town Hall
Tuesday | June 27th | 7:30pm
{fiction}
An intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent--from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love--and by hope.
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