THE WAVE (AND WHAT CAME AFTER)
ACT and Seattle Shakespeare present TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare from June 7 to 22, 2025. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books, films and music to enhance your experience of the show.
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The Age of Melt
Science writer Baril debuts with a stimulating introduction to ice patch archaeology, the study of human artifacts preserved in ancient blocks of ice. She also drives home how the field's existence serves as a bleak reminder of climate change's severity.
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A Psalm for the Wild-built
This is a gentle contemplation of individual meaning, presented by uniquely diverse voices, set in a world that brought itself back from the brink of destruction and forged a new way for nature and technology to coexist.
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We Don't Have Time for This
Co-president of her high school's environmental justice club, Isa Brown wants to make real change but her infuriating co-president, hustler Darius Freeman, wants to do things his own way, and as they constantly clash over everything, both their hearts and their communities are at risk.
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Wings in the Wild
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
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One Week to Change the World
One week in late 1999, more than 50,000 people converged on Seattle. Their goal: to shut down the World Trade Organization conference and send a message that working-class people would not quietly accept the runaway economic globalization that threatened their livelihoods.
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How to Manage your Eco-anxiety
How does climate change make you feel? Sad? Afraid? Powerless? Guilty? Manage your eco-anxiety with this helpful guide. Drawing on years of experience as a psychoanalyst, Anouchka Grose shares cutting-edge insights on how to manage your eco-anxiety.
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The Ones We're Meant to Find
In a near future when life is harsh outside of Earth's last unpolluted place, Cee tries to leave an abandoned island while her sister, STEM prodigy Kasey, seeks escape from the science and home she once trusted.
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Kaze no tani no Naushika
In a post-apocalyptic world in the far future, only small pockets of humanity survive. One pocket is the Valley of Wind, where a princess named Nausicaa tries to understand rather than destroy the Toxic Jungle.
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Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults
This adaptation of Kimmerer's (Potawatomi) adult book by the same name is filled with nuggets of wisdom, a wealth of information about plants, and a call to embrace the kinship between plants and humans.
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How to Change Everything
A movement is already underway to combat not only the environmental effects of climate change but also to fight for climate justice and make a fair and livable future possible for everyone. And young people are not just part of that movement, they are leading the way.
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