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• Audition

  Kitamura, Katie M.

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  NEW FOR APRIL! Adult Fiction. "Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She's an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He's attractive, troubling, young---young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Big Chief

  Hickey, Jon, 1981-

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  NEW FOR APRIL! Adult Fiction. "Hickey's engrossing debut revolves around a tribal power struggle and a young political fixer's reckoning with his identity. At 30, narrator Mitch Caddo is the youngest-ever operations director for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Alchemy

  A Creative Practice for An Inspired Life

  Jaouad, Suleika

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  NEW FOR APRIL! Adult Nonfiction. "After being diagnosed with leukemia at 22, Jaouad was inspired by Michael Bierut, a design professor who'd asked his graduate students to perform 'one creative act for 100 days,' to start a daily…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Grain, a Green, a Bean

  One Simple Formula, Countless Meatless Meals

  Hamshaw, Gena

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  NEW FOR APRIL! Adult Nonfiction. "Dietician Hamshaw has written a timely volume supporting the growing interest in plant-based cooking. Using a basic formula to mix grains, greens, and beans, the book is broken down into sections covering…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Happy Land

  Perkins-Valdez, Dolen

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  NEW FOR APRIL! Adult Fiction. "The latest from Perkins-Valdez features a dual narrative that starts with Washington, DC, real estate agent Nikki Lovejoy being summoned to rural North Carolina by her estranged grandmother Rita. As the story…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Medicine River

  a Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

  Pember, Mary Annette,

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  NEW FOR APRIL! Adult Nonfiction. "Journalist Pember debuts with a devastating history of Indian boarding schools... and the legacy of generational trauma they unleashed. Pember traces how over the course of the late 19th and early 20th…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Notes to John

  Didion, Joan

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  NEW FOR APRIL! Adult Nonfiction. "In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had 'a rough few years.' She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Say You'll Remember Me

  Jimenez, Abby

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  NEW FOR APRIL! Adult Fiction. "When Samantha brings her new kitten to attractive veterinarian Xavier, their first interaction does not go well. Xavier instantly puts his foot in his mouth but redeems himself at Samantha's next vet visit…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sirens

  a Novel

  Hart, Emilia

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  NEW FOR APRIL! Adult Fiction. "In 19th-century Ireland, sisters Mary and Eliza were declared convicts and shipped to Australia. As they endured horrific conditions, they held on to hope and to each other. In 2019, recurring childhood…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild in Seattle

  Stories at the Crossroads of People and Nature

  Williams, David B./ Person, Elizabeth (ILT)

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  NEW FOR APRIL! Adult Nonfiction. "For award-winning natural history writer David B. Williams, to be connected to a place you need to pause and look deeply at it. Wild in Seattle is Williams' delightful journey of discovery in this city…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Are Here

  Poetry in the Natural World

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  NEW FOR APRIL! Poetry. 2025 Seattle Reads title! "Gathered by U.S. poet laureate Limón, this beautifully curated anthology of 50 previously unpublished poems challenges preconceptions about 'nature poetry' as it meditates on humanity's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Abundance

  Klein, Ezra, 1984-

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  NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Nonfiction. "Klein, a New York Times columnist, and Thompson, an Atlantic staffer, lean to the left, but they aren't interrogating the usual suspects. Aware that many conservatives have no interest in their opinions,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Close to Home

  the Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door

  Hanson, Thor

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  NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Nonfiction. "Conservation biologist Hanson, [who] lives in the Pacific Northwest...writes that readers who assume a backyard consists of weeds, shrubbery, rodents, local birds, and bugs are in for a surprise. Assisted…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dream Hotel

  a Novel

  Lalami, Laila, 1968-

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  NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Fiction. "Lalami delivers a stirring dystopian tale of dwindling privacy and freedom in the digital age. In the late 2030s, Sara T. Hussein, 38, a Muslim American art archivist, is detained by officials from the Risk…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything Is Tuberculosis

  the History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

  Green, John, 1977-

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  NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Nonfiction. "YA author Green writes that he became 'obsessed' with tuberculosis after a chance meeting at a Sierra Leone hospital with a charming young patient, Henry Reider, who was sick with drug-resistant TB. Green…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Paris Express

  a Novel

  Donoghue, Emma, 1969-

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  NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Fiction. "A French anarchist targets a passenger train in the taut latest from Donoghue, which is inspired by a true story. On Oct. 22, 1895, Mado Pelletier boards the express from Granville to Paris with a homemade…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The River Has Roots

  El-Mohtar, Amal

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  NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Fiction. "The Hawthorn family has tended the magical willows on their land for generations, providing songs of thanks in exchange for the trees' power. The residents of the town of Thistleford, sitting near the edge of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stag Dance

  a Novel & Stories

  Peters, Torrey

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  NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Fiction. "In this electrifying collection of three stories and a novella from Peters, trans characters explore desire, identity, and love. 'Infect your Friends and Loved Ones,' the postapocalyptic opener, follows…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sucker Punch

  Essays

  Koul, Scaachi

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  NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Nonfiction. "Slate journalist Koul follows up her 2017 collection One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter with a sharp companion volume that reflects on body image, the dissolution of her marriage, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sweet Farm!

  More Than 100 Cookies, Cakes, Salads (!), and Other Delights From My Kitchen on a Sugar Beet Farm

  Yeh, Molly

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  NEW FOR MARCH! Adult Nonfiction. "As a beet farmer, [Yeh is] rooted in sweetness, and her latest cookbook confirms that her smile isn't saccharine - it's pure sugar, and she dishes up everything from classics to her signature 'desserts for…Read moreRead more of this annotation