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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Wake up America
Twenty-two notable progressive Black women weigh in on the question of how to build an inclusive, multiracial American democracy in these practical and inspiring essays gathered by historian Blain. (Publishers Weekly)
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Jelly Roll Blues
A cache of songs recorded by jazz great Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress in 1938 - which were shelved for more than 60 years due to their "coarse language" - provides a revealing window into the history of American popular music in the riveting latest from Wald. (Publishers Weekly)
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Disability Intimacy
Disabled writer and thinker Wong's latest book focuses on expanding the idea of intimacy beyond ableist interpretations. A poignant anthology about ability and intimacy that espouses a gorgeously original worldview. (Kirkus)
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Shima
A swirling, dreamlike collection about intergenerational Okinawan memory, American and Japanese imperialisms, and the razor-sharp longing that can haunt (and cut through) us in the diaspora. The form of these poems contend with American military concrete, water, and tradition, and ask how we can reconfigure our relationship to ancestors, indigeneity, and homeland under layers of violence and dispossession. (Bean Y.)
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Dear Bi Men
Through cutting social analysis, personal stories, and need-to-know instruction, Dear Bi Men bolsters bi+ visibility in a culture of erasure - and unapologetically centers Blackness in a particular and deeply researched guide to navigating life, work, and relationships as a Black bi+ man. (Publisher description)
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