May 2022 eBook Staff PicksLike this list

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• Black Nerd Problems

  Evans, William Henry, lll,

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  William Evans and Omar Holman capture not just the Black nerd experience but the American experience in these short takes on pop culture. Whether it's the pathos of hard parenting choices in Jupiter's Legacy or the painfully white gaze of Mad Men,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Camera Man

  Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century

  Stevens, Dana

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  Buster Keaton was always on the cutting edge of entertainment. As a child, he and his parents travelled the country as one of the bigger vaudeville acts. This was how Buster learned many of the physical comedy moves he was so famous for perfecting.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Constructing a Nervous System

  Jefferson, Margo, 1947-

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  In this slim but sophisticated blend of autobiography and cultural criticism, the celebrated writer Margo Jefferson draws on her memories growing up in Chicago, the daughter of a pediatrician, and throughout her career. She moves with exciting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Emergency

  a Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

  Fisher, Thomas (Board-certified emergency medicine physician),

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  Hospital emergency rooms are often treated as the stuff of medical drama in pop culture, but reality is another matter. In his sobering new book, Thomas Fisher draws on a remarkable career to express the deep frustration with the American health…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding Me

  A Memoir

  Davis, Viola, 1965-

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  Davis, the first African American to win the "Triple Crown of Acting," recounts intimate details about her heartbreaking yet triumphant path to find purpose and discover her voice in an unkind and unfamiliar world. Poverty, racism, acts of domestic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Latinist

  a Novel

  Prins, Mark,

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  This timely debut, an adaptation of the Daphne and Apollo myth, takes a deep dive into the politics and machinations of contemporary academia, also offering readers interested in classics and philology a meaty subplot to sink their teeth into.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Memphis

  a Novel

  Stringfellow, Tara M.,

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  Memphis begins in 1995 when Miriam North flees an abusive relationship, along with her two daughters Joan and Mya. The three women end up at Miriam's childhood home in Memphis, now her sister August's home. The reunion unearths trauma from a past…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• SADIE ON A PLATE

  ELLIOT, AMANDA

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  In this excellent addition to the recent subgenre of romance novels that take place during the production of a reality TV show, Sadie went from having everything - the perfect job, the perfect boyfriend - to losing it all at once. When she's offered…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sandy Hook

  An American Tragedy Became a Battle for Truth

  Williamson, Elizabeth (Journalist),

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  This is not a book about school shootings (the 2012 events of Sandy Hook are summarized in the first chapter) or guns but rather an investigation of the conspiracy theories that rose up in its immediate aftermath and their impact on the victims of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Sea of Tranquility

  A Novel

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  In 1912, a young Englishman, too rebellious for his family's taste, is packed off for Canada, where he experiences something inexplicable in a forest. In 2020, an avant-garde composer's concert includes a video that captures something strange. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tell Me Everything

  Krouse, Erika

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  Krouse's blend of true crime reportage and memoir is as captivating as fiction. Krouse was a struggling writer juggling temp jobs when an interaction at a bookstore landed her a job as a personal investigator for an attorney. Krouse's unremarkable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ten Steps to Nanette

  Gadsby, Hannah,

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  In her memoir, Gadsby, the brilliant stand-up comic made famous by her controversial yet beloved Netflix comedy special Nanette, continues to skate the line between laugh-out-loud comedy and the kind of raw honesty that takes your breath away. She…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• True Biz

  a Novel

  Nović, Sara, 1987-

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  This fictional account of Deaf life is the true biz. Readers are immersed into the halls of River Valley School for the Deaf and the daily lives of those intertwined in the Deaf community. Not an obvious mystery, it reads like one from its opening…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Young Mungo

  Stuart, Douglas, 1976-

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  In 1980s Scotland, teenage Mungo (named after the patron saint of Glasgow) lives with his selfish, alcoholic mother, his caring but distracted older sister Jodie, and his older brother Hamish, a leader of a local Protestant gang who is pushing Mungo…Read moreRead more of this annotation