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Summer Book Bingo: Recommendations from Neill Public Library

2024 Summer Book Bingo, our free summer reading program with The Seattle Public Library, is in full swing! Download your card here. Start your summer reading now and if you get a bingo or blackout, you can enter for a chance to win fantastic prizes. Connect with other Book Bingo readers by using the hashtag #BookBingoNW2024 on social […]

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Become Your Own Curator: Create Your Own Series Recommendations

By Avery Alexander, Public Programs Intern SAL’s 2024/25 Season is shaping up to be something spectacular. To make sure you get the most out of our events, we offer a number of different subscriptions, including our flexible 4-Part and 6-Part Create Your Own Series, which allow you to choose four or six events of your […]

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Summer Book Bingo: Recommendations from Charlie’s Queer Books

2024 Summer Book Bingo, our free summer reading program with The Seattle Public Library, is in full swing! Download your card here. Start your summer reading now and if you get a bingo or blackout, you can enter for a chance to win fantastic prizes. Connect with other Book Bingo readers by using the hashtag #BookBingoNW2024 on social […]

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Adult Summer Book Bingo Recommendations: Young Adult

By Avery Alexander, Public Programs Intern I hope everyone is having a ton of fun with Summer Book Bingo so far! I know I am! One category that I’ve already taken care of is “Young Adult,” with Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon. As an avid YA reader, choosing my book for this category […]

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Summer Book Bingo: Recommendations from Ridgecrest Books

2024 Summer Book Bingo, our free summer reading program with The Seattle Public Library, is in full swing! Download your card here. Start your summer reading now and if you get a bingo or blackout, you can enter for a chance to win fantastic prizes. Connect with other Book Bingo readers by using the hashtag #BookBingoNW2024 on social […]

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“Ode to King,” by Qes McCord

I have a dream- I have a dream that little black boys and girls will grow up to see their beauty. That they will understand that black is beautiful- That Black is not aggressive, and Black is not violent- black is not uneducated nor a hoodrat- black is not lazy or dirty- and black sure […]

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Teen Book Bingo Recommendations from Avery Alexander

by Avery Alexander, Public Programs Intern Rejoice! It’s officially time for 2024 Summer Book Bingo! This year we have introduced something that I’m personally extremely excited about ― the Teen Book Bingo Board! I’m not a teenager, and yet I’ve had my eye on the teen board since I first saw it. I just can’t […]

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The Launch of Summer Book Bingo 2024!

Summer is in the air! This week, we launched our 10th year of Summer Book Bingo, a free, community program brought to you by Seattle Arts & Lectures and The Seattle Public Library. To celebrate this landmark year, in addition to the adult, kids, and Lotería boards, we added a new board: the fun and […]

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“Here’s to… (A Shout-out Poem),” by Delilah Gregory

Here’s to the best things to the lemon Hi-chews to the yellows and blues to the spring day to the weather today! to Tootsie Pops to tiny little shops to Ratatouille to Toy Story 3 to weird-looking bugs to colorful mugs to cookies and cream to pints of ice cream to the lights in the […]

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“The Me I Hold Inside My Heart,” by Eka Bhuyan

She is a goddess She is cool ranch Doritos and barbecue lays There is spice on her breath and a song on her lips She is bold Sharpie She’s got a heart of cheese and masala blood She is sugar and spice (but mostly spice) She’s got a cockroach soul: (the power to survive) Her […]

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