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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Oh My Mother!
Nonfiction. Exploring her complicated relationship with her mother through the "oh my god" moments in their travels together around the world, a journalist relates their many adventures, revealing the true story of two women who became comfortable with the feeling of not belonging and experienced something almost like freedom. (NoveList)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Seattle Walks
Nonfiction. In this extensively revised version of a modern-day classic, David Williams shines a light on the city's rapidly shifting urban topography--and digs deeper into overlooked human and natural history. (Publisher description)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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The Traveler: One Man's Quest For Humanity From The South Seas To Revolutionary Paris
Nonfiction. Award-winning historian Wulf draws on abundant archival sources to create a meticulously researched life of George Forster (1754-94)—Polish-born naturalist, ethnographer, explorer, and German revolutionary. (Kirkus)
Format: Book
Availability: On order
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