Seattle Staff Faves 2024: Nonfiction
Every year we ask our staff across the library system for their favorite books published in the current year. Enjoy this variety of nonfiction staff favorites, with annotations by staff members or as noted. (created November 2024)
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1967
A noted British singer-songwriter tells the story of a pivotal year in his personal and artistic evolution. A bright, nostalgic look at the exhilaration of 1967, this book - illustrated throughout with Hitchcock’s surreal sketches - will appeal to not only the author's many fans but also anyone interested in the music and culture from the golden age of psychedelia. Wistfully reflective reading.
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ADHD Is Awesome
Award-winning content creators Kim and Penn Holderness are on a mission to reboot how we think about the unfortunately named "attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder." As always, they are doing it by looking in the mirror, because they don't just study ADHD; they live it. (Publisher description)
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Feeding Ghosts
Hulls's epic, elegantly etched graphic memoir debut tangles with trauma’s long tentacles as she follows three generations of her family from Mao's China to Hong Kong in the 1960s and eventually to contemporary Northern California. The result is a revelatory work as layered as the history it explores. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Poet and the Silk Girl
Weaving together diary entries, photographs, clandestine correspondences, and haiku, psychotherapist and activist Satsuki Ina reveals how her parents navigated life, love, loss, and loyalty tests during World War II, and how the effects of mass incarceration echo across generations. (Publisher description)
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Still True
Through this collection of essays, author and activist Reagan Jackson, chronicles her journey into the world of journalism. (Publisher description)
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From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians. (Publisher description)
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The Great Wave
A prize-winning literary critic delves into the reasons for social dislocation. (Kirkus)
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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution
Candice Vadala, better known as Candida Royalle, was a feminist. She was also a "porn queen," a writer, founder of porn production company Femme (which specialized in female pleasure), and much more. In this biography of Vadala, as well as the postwar American culture that bore her and the late twentieth-century culture wars that she helped shape, Harvard historian Kamensky traces the full arc of her subject's life... (Booklist)
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American Flannel
New York Times journalist Kurutz details in this encouraging report the efforts of entrepreneurs working to bring clothing manufacturing back to the U.S. Readers will be inspired to look for the Made in America label. (Publishers Weekly)
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NoMeansNo
They were unlike any other band in the punk scene they called home. NoMeansNo started in the basement of the family home of brothers Rob and John Wright in 1979. For the next three decades, they would add and then replace a guitar player, sign a record deal with Alternative Tentacles and tour the world. All along the way, they kept their integrity, saying NO to many mainstream opportunities. NoMeansNo: From Obscurity to Oblivion is the fully authorized oral and visual history of this highly influential and enigmatic band which has never been told before now. (Publisher description)
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