WA Do I Read Next?
Each year at the Washington Library Association conference, a panel of librarians from around the state gather to share some of their favorite titles by Washington State authors from the past year. Here is our most recent slate, as presented at WLA in Wenatchee on March 31, 2023. First, fiction, and then, non-fiction. (Created March, 2023).
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Tiny Space Gardening
This guide shows readers how to successfully grow edibles--including vegetables, herbs, and fruits--in urban spaces, such as a balcony or back patio. The book includes approximately 30 simple recipes, including starters, sides, mains, and desserts.
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The Neuroscience of You
Featuring real-world examples, tests and quizzes, this revelatory book, through unique and surprising research, shows how each brain is actually very different, both in structure and function, exactly why these variations are important and what it means for all of us.
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Beaches
Northwest Know-how is a series of accessible and engaging small format gift books that take general interest topics and dive in to what makes the Pacific Northwest special in each.
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Ma and Me
The memoir of a woman caught between her identity as a gay woman and the love and life debt she owes her mother.
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Fearlessly Different
An autistic actor opens up the world of autism to readers, while also helping those with autism to feel seen and understood, as he shares how he pushed beyond the stereotypes and obstacles that many disabled individuals face to shine on stage.
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Tricking Power Into Performing Acts of Love
In a time of great political frustration and culture wars, Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Love casts a clear eye on the dilemmas and proposes the pursuit of fun and the refusal to take power seriously as a timeless and potent political strategy.
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Being Seen
In this blend of memoir, media criticism and cultural critique, the Deafblind writer and four-time Hugo Award finalist discusses how the media represents disability in books, movies and TV, as well as her efforts to fight ableism.
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White Magic
Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, Washuta felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook necessary work to find love and meaning.
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How to Not Be Afraid of Everything
Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we fear? How can we find comfort and ancestral power in this fear?
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