Summer Quest Reading Suggestions for Adults
Our Summer program is now for all ages! Read, Do and Go this summer to win prizes! Join us on a Quest!
Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list to help you on your Quest. Annotations provided by publisher unless otherwise noted.
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Great Fear on the Mountain
Fiction. A malevolent mountain terrorizes the village folk who live below. (Kirkus)
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Secret Seattle
Nonfiction. Cartoonist and creator of "Seattle Walk Report" Susanna Ryan strolls on with a quirky new illustrated guide celebrating Seattle's everyday outdoor wonders. (Publisher description)
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Neptune's Fortune
Nonfiction. Historian Sancton (Madhouse at the End of the Earth) unravels a thrilling maritime saga that spans three centuries. (Publishers Weekly)
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Fireflies in Winter
Fiction. A gripping novel about two women fighting for survival in the icy wilderness of Nova Scotia, and the love that simultaneously sustains them and threatens their very existence. (NoveList)
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When I Sing, Mountains Dance
Fiction. Set in the Pyrenees, award-winning Catalan author Solà's second novel draws on history, myth, geology, and folklore while telling the story of a family struck by tragedy but persevering. (Kirkus)
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Water Moon
Fiction. Hana Ishikawa inherits a pawnshop in Tokyo where people can pawn away not their belongings, but their choices and regrets. When she wakes up on her first day to find her shop ransacked and her father missing, she must go on a journey to recover the most precious choice in her shop. (NoveList)
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The Lost Cities of El Norte
Nonfiction. A thrilling and masterfully crafted narrative of the Conquistador Francisco Coronado's expedition across 2,500 miles of the vast uncharted North American interior--"El Norte Misterioso" --where he was turned back by fierce indigenous resistance that would thwart white rule for the next three hundred years. (NoveList)
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Beasts of the Sea
Fiction. Turpeinen’s fantastic debut interweaves the fate of an extinct aquatic species with the stories of the people who discovered and destroyed it. (Publishers Weekly)
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KosherSoul
Nonfiction. In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To Twitty, the creation of African-Jewish cooking is a conversation of migrations and a dialogue of diasporas offering a rich background for inventive recipes and the people who create them. (NoveList)
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Eco24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction
Fiction. This first of a series exploring humanity’s “communal fears, grief, and passion as we try to protect our natural world” is a triumph. (Publishers Weekly)
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