Women's National Book Association: Seattle Chapter

09/22/2021

For some great reading…

Every season that there are books, there are lists of what books you should read. And why not? Nature adores a list. (That’s the saying, isn’t it?) Today is the first day of fall, other…

03/03/2017

The third annual Independent Bookstore Day will take place in just under two months, on Saturday, April 29, and this year 457 stores from around

03/03/2017

It's Day 3 of Women's History Month. See below for today's book reveal!

The 32 books included in the WNBA's Book-A-Day Women's History Month initiative were culled from the organization’s two 100 Books lists developed as part of the organization's centennial celebrations. They were selected based on their literary importance and the cultural and social impact they have had. We believe they represent a broad spectrum of issues critical in our multicultural and diverse world. The order in which they are being sent does not rank them but rather organizes them around the topics of government and politics, the environment, social justice, race, class, immigration, diversity, and being human.

Today's book is The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.

In The Warmth of Other Suns, Wilkerson tells the story of the six million African Americans who participated in the decades-long exodus from the South to the North and West known as the Great Migration. By focusing on the stories of three people who fled the South in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Wilkerson brings to life one of the most influential but hitherto little-understood forces that shaped twentieth-century America. As Wilkerson shows, African Americans fled persecution, death threats, and lack of opportunity in search of access to the American dream. What they found was a mixture of continued racism, urban poverty, and the possibility of a better future. It is a powerful, bittersweet history of lost roots and perseverance that must be understood in order to appreciate the persistent gap between the reality and the promise of social and political equality for all Americans.

Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York: Random House, 2010.

11/30/2016

Our 'Fifth Annual Writing Contest' is officially OPEN! Submit your best , / and ! Click the link for details http://bit.ly/2daI2ro and this with your fellow writers!

11/26/2016

Just in time for Christmas shopping...at your independent book stores!

The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.

10/30/2016

The best books of 2016, chosen by Publishers Weekly editors. The best books in fiction, mysteries, memoirs, romance, comics, kids books, and more.

10/30/2016

Have you heard? Our 'Fifth Annual Writing Contest' is officially OPEN! Submit your best , / and ! Click the link for details http://bit.ly/2daI2ro and this with your fellow writers!

09/22/2016

Happy Fall!

Happy First Day of Autumn!

09/22/2016

Yippee! Great Group Reads!

Blackass by A. Igoni BarrettThe Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFaddenBritt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik BackmanCharmed Particles by Chrissy KolayaThe Cosmopolitans by Sarah SchulmanThe Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra PatrickThe Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary by Atef Abu SaifA Hard and Heav...

09/22/2016

09/10/2016

Sorry, Netflix addicts

08/31/2016

This will be fantastic! Maria Semple was one of our Great Group Read authors with her second book, Where'd You Go Bernadette.

Elliott Bay Book Company presents: Maria Semple at Town Hall Seattle on Sat. Oct 8 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets ($32) admit one person and include a copy of Today Will Be Different (Little, Brown). This event includes an appearance by bestselling and beloved Seattle author, Maria Semple, and will inclu