Sea Wolf Books & Community Writing Center

02/18/2025

Sea Wolf's Tuesday book recommendation: "Thyme Travellers" edited by Sonia Sulaiman.

Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora's best voices in speculative fiction. Speculative fiction as a genre invites a reconfiguring of reality, and here each story is a portal into realms of history, folklore and futures.

A man stands on the shore waiting to commune with those who live in the ocean. Pilgrims stretch into the distance, passing a stone cairn with a mysterious light streaming from it. Two Australian women fervently dig a tunnel to Jerusalem. Men from Gaza swim in the sea until they drown, still unconcerned. A father and son struggle to connect over the AI scripts prompting their conversation.

Building on the work of trailblazing anthologies such as Reworlding Ramallah and Palestine +100, this volume is the first of its kind in Canada. Editor Sonia Sulaiman brings together stories by speculative fiction veterans and emerging writers from Australia to Egypt, Lebanon to Canada.

Available for pick up in the store with the additional options of ordering online, or reading as an Ebook: https://bookshop.org/a/87294/9781773636948

Prefer to listen? Here's an audiobook link:
https://libro.fm/seawolfbooks

Winter Hours:

Friday 12-3pm
Saturday 12-3pm
Sunday 12-3pm
Monday 10-2pm
Tuesday 10-2pm

02/16/2025

Sea Wolf's Sunday book recommendation: "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" (graphic edition) by Timothy Snyder and illustrated by Nora Krug.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder’s lessons for surviving and resisting America’s arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug.

“Nora Krug has visualized and rendered some of the most valuable lessons of the twentieth century, which will serve all citizens as we shape the future.”—Shepard Fairey, artist and activist.

Timothy Snyder’s New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Na**sm to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow (“4: Take responsibility for the face of the world”), an urgent reminder to research everything for yourself and to the fullest extent (“11: Investigate”), a point to use personalized and individualized speech rather than clichéd phrases for the sake of mass appeal (“9: Be kind to our language”), and more.

In this graphic edition, Nora Krug draws from her highly inventive art style in Belonging—at once a graphic memoir, collage-style scrapbook, historical narrative, and trove of memories—to breathe new life, color, and power into Snyder’s riveting historical references, turning a quick-read pocket guide of lessons into a visually striking rumination. In a time of great uncertainty and instability, this edition of On Tyranny emphasizes the importance of being active, conscious, and deliberate participants in resistance.

Available for pick up in the store with the additional options of ordering online, or reading as an Ebook: https://bookshop.org/a/87294/9780593539217

Prefer to listen? Here's an audiobook link:
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780525500902-on-tyranny

Winter Hours

Friday 10-3pm
Saturday 10-3pm
Sunday 12-3pm
Monday 10-2pm
Tuesday 10-2pm

02/15/2025

Sea Wolf's Saturday book recommendation: "A Black Women's History of the United States" by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross.

The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)—the perfect companion to An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the United States.

An empowering and intersectional history that centers the stories of African American women across 400+ years, showing how they are—and have always been—instrumental in shaping our country.

In centering Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women’s unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism. Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross offer an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African women who arrived in what became the United States to African American women of today.

A Black Women’s History of the United States reaches far beyond a single narrative to showcase Black women’s lives in all their fraught complexities. Berry and Gross prioritize many voices: enslaved women, freedwomen, religious leaders, artists, q***r women, activists, and women who lived outside the law. The result is a starting point for exploring Black women’s history and a testament to the beauty, richness, rhythm, tragedy, heartbreak, rage, and enduring love that abounds in the spirit of Black women in communities throughout the nation.

Available for pick up in the store with the additional options of ordering online, or reading as an Ebook: https://bookshop.org/a/87294/9780807001998

Prefer to listen? Here's an audiobook link:
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780807094815-a-black-women-s-history-of-the-united-states

Almost-regular hours this week:

*Friday 12-3pm
*Saturday 12-3pm
Sunday 12-3pm
Monday 10-2pm
Tuesday 10-2pm

02/14/2025

Happy Valentine's Day!

Sea Wolf's Friday book recommendation is "Salvation: Black People and Love" by bell hooks.

“A manual for fixing our culture…In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process.”—Black Issues Book Review

New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and cultural critic bell hooks continues her exploration of the meaning of love in contemporary American society, offering groundbreaking, critical insight about Black people and love.

Written from both historical and cultural perspectives, Salvation takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African Americans. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of Martin Luther King, Jr., James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou, the liberation movements of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, or hip hop and gangsta rap culture, hooks lets us know what love’s got to do with it.

Combining the passionate politics of W.E.B. DuBois with fresh, contemporary insights, hooks brilliantly offers new visions that will heal our nation’s wounds from a culture of lovelessness. Her writings on love and its impact on race, class, family, history, and popular culture will help us heal and create beloved American communities.

Available for pick up in the store with the additional options of ordering online, or reading as an Ebook: https://bookshop.org/a/87294/9780060959494

Prefer to listen? Here's an audiobook link:
https://libro.fm/seawolfbooks

Almost-regular hours this week:

*Friday 12-3pm
*Saturday 12-3pm
Sunday 12-3pm
Monday 10-2pm
Tuesday 10-2pm

02/14/2025

Happy Valentine's Day. Sea Wolf Books is in love with Betsy Gaines Quammen and you will be too. Please join us for our first non-fiction book club on Thursday, April 24 at 5pm (PST). The author will join us on Zoom to discuss. This book is perfect for this moment in history.

Books are in stock at Sea Wolf Books and can also be ordered online at:
https://bookshop.org/a/87294/9781948814874

Hope to see you IN PERSON at Sea Wolf Books! (Betsy will be the one Zooming.)

02/13/2025

02/12/2025

Sea Wolf is still a bit in hibernation but here are the hours. Please note that there are a few strange days coming up this weekend due to writing workshops and LIFE.

Hope to see you soon. Thanks to everyone who has been coming by these cold days lately. 🧡

02/12/2025

Find your next Sea Wolf Books creative writing class at www.seawolfbooks.com/classes. 🖤

02/11/2025

Please enjoy this poem by Seattle writer William P. Adams.

https://seawolfjournal.com/2025/02/11/1970s-seattle-heartbeat-william-p-adams/

Sea Wolf Journal is currently open for submissions. www.seawolfjournal.com/submissions.

02/11/2025

Sea Wolf will be closed today, Tuesday, February 11. See you next time!

02/11/2025

Sea Wolf's Tuesday book recommendation, and in the line up for our monthly book club: "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler.

Book club will discuss this on Thursday, March 27 at 5pm.

Unbelievably lucid for this current moment, and partially set in 2025, "Parable of the Sower" is particularly relevant today because it offers a chillingly accurate portrayal of societal issues like climate change, economic inequality, political unrest, and social injustice, making its dystopian future feel eerily close to our current reality, prompting readers to reflect on potential consequences of inaction and the importance of building resilient communities in the face of crisis.

This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by LeVar Burton and an afterword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times).

When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions.

Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith...and a startling vision of human destiny.

Available for pick up in the store with the additional options of ordering online, or reading as an Ebook: https://bookshop.org/a/87294/9781538732182

Prefer to listen? Here's an audiobook link:
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781440761577-parable-of-the-sower

Friday 10am-3pm
Saturday 11:30-3pm
Sunday 12-3pm
Monday 10-2pm
Tuesday 10-2pm