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    • Washington State 2022 National Book Festival Selection!
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  • For Kids & Teachers
    • Letters About Literature
      • Washington’s 2019 Letters About Literature Champions Announced!
      • Past Letters About Literature programs
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    • Washington Author Tour
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    • Summer Book Bingo — for grown ups!
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Books by Higuera and LaPointe will represent Washington at the National Book Festival!

Books by Higuera and LaPointe will represent Washington at the National Book Festival!

  • Sara Peté
  • 07, 2022
  • Books, National Book Festival, New Releases from WA authors, Uncategorized, Washington authors
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The Washington Center for Book has selected one youth book and one adult book by Washington authors to represent the state at the 2022 National Book Festival: “The Last Cuentista” by Donna Barba Higuera and “Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk” by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe. Both titles will be part of the National Center for the…

2020 Washington State Book Award Winners: Live Online Events

2020 Washington State Book Award Winners: Live Online Events

  • Sara Peté
  • 02, 2021
  • Books, New Releases from WA authors, Washington authors, Washington State Book Awards
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We are thrilled to announce that we are partnering with the Washington Library Association for a series of events with our 2020 Washington State Book Award winners! All events events are free to attend but registration is required. Our fourth event will be with 2020 WSBA General Nonfiction Winner Eric Scigliano!  

5th Annual Washington State Zine Contest Winners Announced

5th Annual Washington State Zine Contest Winners Announced

  • Sara Peté
  • 10, 2020
  • New Releases from WA authors, Washington authors, Zines
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Winners of the 5th Annual Washington State Zine Contest have been announced! Winners Grades 4-6 Savage Dolphin: The Real Deal by Jayden Kammeyer Grades 7-9 Tribes: The Cowlitz by Katya Rukhlinskaia Grades 10-12 The Journey by Kaylee Lâm Adults Love Letter to Harry Allen by Elijah Janka Honorable Mentions Grades 4-6 I’m a Trans Girl Ways to Be Kind to Bees: A Bee-Zine by…

New and Notable Northwest Nonfiction – 2019 edition

New and Notable Northwest Nonfiction – 2019 edition

  • Linda Johns
  • 02, 2019
  • Books, New Releases from WA authors, Washington authors
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Guest blogger: Frank Brasile of The Seattle Public Library Are you new to the Northwest, or a lifelong resident looking for some historical perspective? 2019 is shaping up to be an exciting year for publishing about our region, so let the reading begin! The University of Washington Press is releasing a number of regionally relevant titles. Explore local fashion with…

New books for teens and kids: January 2019

New books for teens and kids: January 2019

  • Linda Johns
  • 01, 2019
  • Books, New Releases from WA authors, Washington authors
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The year is off to a great start for Washington authors! Here are some picture books, middle grade, and young adult books out this month:  PICTURE BOOKS Cheerful Chick, written by Martha Brockenbrough  Right from the moment Chick is born, she wants to lead the other animals in cheer! Unfortunately, the rest of the barnyard just isn’t quiiiite as enthusiastic. Lucky…

Books by Washington authors: May 2018

Books by Washington authors: May 2018

  • Linda Johns
  • 05, 2018
  • Books, New Releases from WA authors, Washington authors
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Books to explore this month include these titles by Washington authors: So Lucky by Nicola Griffith – FICTION From the author of Hild, this new novel is the profoundly personal and emphatically political story of a confident woman forced to confront an unnerving new reality when in the space of a single week her wife leaves her and she is diagnosed…

New books from Washington authors: Dec. 2017

New books from Washington authors: Dec. 2017

  • Linda Johns
  • 12, 2017
  • Books, New Releases from WA authors
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Look for these two novels from Washington authors this month: Fiction: Daughters of the Air by Anca L.Szilagyi: Tatiana “Pluta” Spektor was a mostly happy, if awkward, young girl—until her sociologist father was disappeared during Argentina’s Dirty War. Sent a world away by her grieving mother to attend boarding school outside New York City, Pluta wrestles alone with the unresolved tragedy…

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