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Seattle Picks: Washington State Nonfiction

Learn more about the history and culture of Washington State with these recently published titles selected by our librarians. (May 2016)

The Seattle Public Library

25 items

  • Fort Lewis

    Cold War to the War on Terror

    Archambault, Alan
    BookCharleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, ©2016. — 979.778 Ar225F 2016
  • Seattle Justice

    the Rise and Fall of the Police Payoff System in Seattle

    Bayley, Christopher T.
    BookSeattle, WA : Sasquatch Books, [2015] — 364.1323 B3433B 2015
  • The Future Remembered

    the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Its Legacy

    Becker, Paula
    Book[Seattle, Wash.] : Seattle Center Foundation, [2011] — 979.7772 C33392B 2011
  • BookSeattle : University of Washington Press, [2016] — 979.7 B4463W 2016
  • BookSeattle, Wash. : Documentary Media, [2012] — 979.7772 B4534S 2012
  • Roots & Reflections

    South Asians in the Pacific Northwest

    Bhatt, Amy
    BookSeattle : University of Washington Press in association with the South Asian Oral History Project and the University of Washington Libraries, [2013] — 305.80097 B4696R 2013
  • Rhythm in the Rain

    Jazz in the Pacific Northwest

    Darroch, Lynn A.
    BookPortland, OR: Ooligan Press, c2016. — 781.65097 D254R 2016
  • Hooverville and the Unemployed

    Seattle During the Great Depression

    Gravelle, Randal,
    Book[United States] : Randal Gravelle, [2015] — 979.7772 G781H 2015
  • Han in the Upper Left

    a Brief History of Korean Americans in the Pacific Northwest

    BookSeattle, WA : Chin Music Press, 2015. — 305.8957 H1902 2015
  • Seattle Memories

    the Early Years : a Pictorial History

    Kossen, Bill
    Book[Battle Ground, Washington] : Pediment Publishing, [2015] — 979.7772 K8478S 2015
  • Desperate Times

    the Summer of 1981

    Masco, Maire
    BookTacoma, WA : Fluke Press, 2015. — 781.66097 D468M 2015
  • BookCharleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, 2015. — 796.96264 Se18o 2015
  • Eruption

    the Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

    Olson, Steve, 1956-
    BookNew York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016] — 363.3495 OL88E 2016
  • The Sea Is My Country

    the Maritime World of the Makahs, An Indigenous Borderlands People

    Reid, Joshua L.
    BookNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2015] — 979.70049 R2725S 2015
  • Midnight in Broad Daylight

    a Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds

    Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner, 1962-
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016] — 940.53092 Sa293M 2016
  • The Gang of Four

    Four Leaders. Four Communities. One Friendship

    Santos, Bob, 1934-2016
    BookSeattle, WA : Chin Music Press, c2015. — 323.09797 Sa597G 2015