Seattle Arts & Lectures C Pam Zhang, Seattle Arts & Lectures Virtual Series: Thursday, May 8 @ 7:30 pm 17 Apr 20256 May 2025 C Pam Zhang has stunned audiences with her rapturous and revelatory storytelling in her acclaimed bestselling novel Land of Milk and Honey. Sensuous and surprising, Zhang’s prose lays provocatively bare…
Movies Wilding – Best of the Fest Film screening – May 16 @ 7pm 24 Apr 20253 May 2025 Join us at the Library for a special screening of Wilding — the story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate.…
Seattle Arts & Lectures Merlin Sheldrake, Seattle Arts & Lectures Virtual Series: Wednesday, May 21 @ 7:30 pm 17 Apr 2025 A plant scientist, microbiologist, and ecologist, Merlin Sheldrake has dedicated his scientific career to the relationship between humans and “more-than-human” organisms. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, has been…
Seattle Arts & Lectures Ocean Vuong, Seattle Arts & Lectures Virtual Series: Sunday, June 1 @ 7:30 pm 17 Apr 2025 Ocean Vuong returns with The Emperor of Gladness, a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Author of the bestselling…
Seattle Arts & Lectures Kevin Kwan, Seattle Arts & Lectures Virtual Series: Thursday, May 29 @ 7:30 pm 17 Apr 2025 From Kevin Kwan, the iconic internationally bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, comes Lies and Weddings—a new outrageous, thrillingly plotted comedy of manners in which a forbidden affair…
New & Notable National IMLS Funding Cuts Have Impacts on Island Libraries 4 Apr 2025 An executive order issued by the federal administration on March 14th calls for deep cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). IMLS is an independent federal agency…