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All Fours
NEW FOR MAY! Adult Fiction. “Determined to become the sort of person who would do such a thing, a 45-year-old artist attempts to drive from L.A. to New York. She makes it a few towns from home before pausing at a motel, and the next morning decides to renovate room 321 in the fashion of an unforgettable Parisian hotel room. For check-ins with her husband and child, she keeps up the farce, pretending she's every place she planned to be on the 3-week round trip. …[T]his is just the start of July's first novel since The First Bad Man, a brilliant, sexy, funny, ludicrously entertaining primal scream of a coming-of-middle-age story.” Booklist
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Bite by Bite
NEW FOR MAY! Adult Nonfiction. “Poet and essayist Nezhukumatathil creates a graceful memoir centered on 40 different kinds of food, some exotic, some familiar, all evoking recollections of childhood, family, travels, friendships, and much more. With a father from India and a mother from the Philippines, some of the author's memories center on traditional food such as jackfruit, her favorite fruit, which she first tasted during a visit to her grandparents in Kerala. Her memoir is not unlike halo-halo, a mixture of unexpected ingredients that make for a delectable dessert. Savory food writing.” Kirkus
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Coming Home
NEW FOR MAY! Adult Nonfiction. “On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women's basketball team. Instead…she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months. Coming Home is both a story of survival and a testament to…the bonds that brought Brittney home to her family, and at last, to herself.” Pub description
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I Hope This Finds You Well
NEW FOR MAY! Adult Fiction. “Sue debuts with a delightfully quirky office comedy about a 33-year-old administrative assistant’s interpersonal battles in a Canadian supermarket chain’s regional office. Jolene’s days consist of eight hours of mind-numbing work, followed by drinking to forget… At the office, she adds cathartic notes in white font at the bottom of emails... When Jolene forgets to white out a nasty note… she’s forced to complete an antiharassment course and have her emails monitored. The workplace hijinks produce steady laughs, and Sue adds depth through the backstory of Ellie, with whom Jolene found solace as a fellow misfit.” PW
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It's Not Hysteria
NEW FOR MAY! Adult Nonfiction. “Dr. Karen Tang is on a mission to transform how we engage with our bodies and our healthcare. It's Not Hysteria is a comprehensive guide to common conditions and potential treatment options…to equip readers to take control of their gynecologic health. Reproductive healthcare, from abortion to gender-affirming care, is under siege. The onus continues to fall on patients to find and advocate for the care they need. In the face of uncertainty and misinformation, It's Not Hysteria is destined to become a new classic that educates and empowers women and those assigned female at birth.” Pub description
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The Last Murder at the End of the World
NEW FOR MAY! Adult Fiction. “The world has ended in a black fog, killing everyone except for 200 souls, who now inhabit a remote island. The villagers… live a basic life and work hard but are happy, cheerful, and loving. Ruled over by three elders and Abi, a sort of goddess who lives in their heads, the villagers have never known any other life. But when Niema, one of the elders, is brutally murdered, the islanders are left stunned and bewildered. One villager, Emory, who’s always been rebellious, vows to find out who killed the much-loved Niema. An extraordinary, thought-provoking book…” Booklist
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The Light Eaters: How The Unseen World Of Plant Intelligence Offers A New Understanding Of Life On Earth
NEW FOR MAY! Adult Nonfiction. “Schlanger, a staff reporter at the Atlantic, has followed multiple veins of study on plant life to reveal remarkable discoveries and some potentially revolutionary conjectures. She also weighs the skepticism of botanists and biologists who think the study of intelligence in plants is folly. However, this reticence pales when held against new studies of the ways in which plants communicate, defend themselves, and remember, as well as the considerations of how biological systems can replicate across the spectrum of species. You may never look at your houseplants or garden in quite the same way again.” Kirkus
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The Ministry of Time
NEW FOR MAY! Adult Fiction. “British Cambodian writer Bradley’s clever debut features time travel, romance, cloak-and-dagger plotting, and a critique of the British Empire. The unnamed narrator… is selected by the government to aid a newly formed agency to process time travelers from the past. Her assigned ‘expat’ is real-life polar explorer Lt. Graham Gore, who has arrived in the future sometime before his death during the ill-fated 1845 Franklin expedition… It’s a sly and ingenious vehicle for commentary on the disruptions and displacements of modern life.” PW
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Rebel Girl
NEW FOR MAY! Adult Nonfiction. “Before Hanna became a beloved musician and co-founder of the Riot grrrl movement, she was a child trying to survive domestic violence. Hanna left home for Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where …she met Tobi Vail and Kathi Wilcox, and they formed Bikini Kill. After leaving Bikini Kill, surviving Lyme disease, getting married to Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, adopting a child, and founding the band Le Tigre, Hanna reflects on everything she has learned in her long career. Her political evolution is particularly gratifying, especially for readers who grew up with Hanna's self-admittedly imperfect activism.” Kirkus
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Ella
NEW FOR MAY! Adult Fiction. “Richards, a former background vocalist for Whitney Houston, debuts with an electrifying tale of Ella Fitzgerald in the years before she was discovered on ‘Amateur Night’ at the Apollo Theater in 1934. The story begins in 1932, when 15-year-old Ella and her family struggle to get by during the Great Depression. Richards’s research brings the sights and sounds of 1930s Harlem to vivid life, and she portrays Fitzgerald’s troubling teen years with care and sensitivity. Readers will be grateful for the chance to feel so deeply acquainted with ‘The First Lady of Song.’” PW
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