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Ongoing Event Fridays
11 am
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Multisensory Storytime
In-person Storytime is back! Join us for 30 minutes of stories, songs, and dance followed by 30 minutes of playtime in the WTBBL Conference Room.
VIRTUAL Multisensory Storytime also available! Watch on our Facebook page or YouTube channel. Caregivers of patrons age 0-5 can request a Storytime Kit to be mailed directly to their house if interested!
For more information, please call the Youth Services Librarian at 206-615-1253.
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Tuesday May 30
1 pm
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Virtual Patron Book Club
Join in on the discussion of "The Scent Keeper" by Erica Bauermeister! (DB098710) Online Catalog and Download
Raised on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, Emmeline must solve the mysteries of her past and her family when she is ripped away from the only home she has known. Her only clues are her father's strange machine and the glass bottles of collected scents he's preserved.
Contact Integrative Services Librarian Ryan Gelskey, at [email protected] or 206-386-1254 for questions and to sign up.
Or, Sign Up for WTBBL Book Club Online
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Monday June 26
1 pm
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Virtual Patron Book Club
Join in on the discussion of "Summer of '69" by Elin Hilderbrand! (DB095859) Online Catalog and Download
Welcome to one of the most tumultuous summers of the 20th century - 1969. Man lands on the moon. Civil Rights tensions run high. The Vietnam War rages. Torn apart by these events, the four Levin siblings must navigate their first summer away from each other. Jessie, feeling as though she's an only child, passes the summer at her grandmother's home in Nantucket with her mother. As the women cling to their secrets, family tensions rise against the backdrop of events that will leave the family, and history forever changed.
Contact Integrative Services Librarian Ryan Gelskey, at [email protected] or 206-386-1254 for questions and to sign up.
Or, Sign Up for WTBBL Book Club Online
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Monday July 31
1 pm
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Virtual Patron Book Club
Join in on the discussion of "Young Mungo" by Douglas Stuart! (DB107722) Online Catalog and Download
Coming of age in a housing development in Glasgow, Scotland, in the early 1990’s, James, a Catholic, and Mungo, a protestant, dream of finding somewhere they belong as their illicit friendship deepens to love. Sanctuary is found between the two boys, in rebellion against the brutal gang machismo, divisions of sectarianism, and threat of violence for being queer. Ultimately, can loving someone too much prevail against the dangers they face?
Contact Integrative Services Librarian Ryan Gelskey, at [email protected] or 206-386-1254 for questions and to sign up.
Or, Sign Up for WTBBL Book Club Online
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Monday Aug. 28
1 pm
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Virtual Patron Book Club
Join in on the discussion of "The Four Winds" by Kristin Hannah! (DB102287) Online Catalog and Download
In 1921, Elsa Wolcott marries Rafe Martinelli in face of an unreputable future as a spinster. Now, 13 years later, everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage, as millions are out of work and drought devastates America’s breadbasket. In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa―like so many of her neighbors―must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family.
Contact Integrative Services Librarian Ryan Gelskey, at [email protected] or 206-386-1254 for questions and to sign up.
Or, Sign Up for WTBBL Book Club Online
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Monday Sept. 25
1 pm
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Virtual Patron Book Club
Join in on the discussion of "Black Enough" edited by Ibi Aanu Zoboi! (DB094320) Online Catalog and Download also available in braille (BR022565).
Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and Black in America.
Contact Integrative Services Librarian Ryan Gelskey, at [email protected] or 206-386-1254 for questions and to sign up.
Or, Sign Up for WTBBL Book Club Online
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Monday Oct. 30
1 pm
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Virtual Patron Book Club
Join in on the discussion of "The Fervor" by Alma Katsu! (D107806) Online Catalog and Download.
In a remote corner of Idaho, it becomes clear to Meiko Briggs and her daughter Aiko, that something more sinister is afoot in the Japanese Internment Camp than the mysterious disease spreading. Can the doctors be trusted? Or will the Japanese yokai and jorogumo demons from Meiko’s childhood, hell-bent on infiltrating their already up-turned world, be unveiled as responsible? A sharp account of a too-recent history, “Fervor” is a deep excavation of how we decide who gets to be human, when being human matters most.
Contact Integrative Services Librarian Ryan Gelskey, at [email protected] or 206-386-1254 for questions and to sign up.
Or, Sign Up for WTBBL Book Club Online
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Monday Nov. 27
1 pm
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Virtual Patron Book Club
Join in on the discussion of "Horse" by Geraldine Brooks! (D108556) Online Catalog and Download.
Before Seabiscuit, and War Admiral, Lexington was known as the best race horse of his day. A sweeping novel, with storylines crossing three centuries, follows Lexington from Kentucky in 1850, through the Civil War with his enslaved groom, Jarret, to 1954 and an oil painting of mysterious provenance, to 2019 and the study of forgotten skeleton, and the black horsemen critical to his racing success. Brooks’ is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.
Contact Integrative Services Librarian Ryan Gelskey, at [email protected] or 206-386-1254 for questions and to sign up.
Or, Sign Up for WTBBL Book Club Online
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Monday Jan. 8
1 pm
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Virtual Patron Book Club
Join in on the discussion of "The Last Green Valley" by Mark T. Sullivan! (D106525 Online Catalog and Download.
Ukraine, 1944. After a century of ancestors farming the land, and of German heritage, and Emil and Adeline Martel are faced with the impossible decision of following the Nazis, who promise protection for “pure-blooded” Germans, or standing in the face of the Soviet invasion, and possible deportation to Siberia. Caught between two warring forces and overcoming horrific trials to pursue their hope of immigrating to the West, the Martel’s story is a brutal, complex, and ultimately triumphant tale, capturing the spirit and tenacity of a people still fighting against invasion today.
Contact Integrative Services Librarian Ryan Gelskey, at [email protected] or 206-386-1254 for questions and to sign up.
Or, Sign Up for WTBBL Book Club Online
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