New Materials - April 26, 2022

A biweekly selection from our shelves, as curated by your favorite SPL librarians!


For the week of April 26, 2022:  Fiction | Nonfiction | Graphic Novels | Movies/TV, Music & More


Fiction

All the Feels All the Feels by Olivia Dade

After his involvement in a bar fight, a fading TV star winds up under the care of a former ER therapist who finds herself falling hard for him.

Glory Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, an exhilarating novel about the fall of an oppressive regime, and the chaos and opportunity that rise in its wake.

Heartbroke Heartbroke by Chelsea Bieker

Heartbroke brims over with each character's attempt to salvage grace where they can find it. Told in bright, snapping prose that reveals a world of loss and love underneath, Chelsea Bieker brilliantly illuminates a golden yet gothic world of longing and abandonment under an unrelenting California sun.

A Killer Sundae A Killer Sundae by Abby Collette

Ice cream shop owner Bronwyn Crewse is in for two scoops of murder in this charming mystery from Abby Collette.

The Selfless Act of Breathing The Selfless Act of Breathing by JJ Bola

Michael Kabongo is a British-Congolese teacher living in London when one day he suffers a devastating loss, and his life is thrown into a tailspin. As he struggles to find a way forward, Michael spontaneously decides to go to America and become someone new, living the life of his dreams--until his money runs out.

The Sign for Home The Sign for Home by Blair Fell

When Arlo Dilly learns the girl he thought was lost forever might still be out there, he takes it as a sign and embarks on a life-changing journey to find his great love--and his freedom.

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Nonfiction

The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible by Steve Duncombe & Steve Lambert

The Art of Activism is an all-purpose guide to artistic activism, combining the creative power of the arts to move us emotionally with the strategic planning of activism necessary to bring about social change.

At the Chinese Table: A Memoir with Recipes At the Chinese Table: A Memoir with Recipes by Carolyn Phillips

This warm, refreshingly candid memoir is a coming-of-age story set against a background of the Chinese diaspora and a family whose ancestry is intricately intertwined with that of their native land. With illustrations and twenty-two recipes, At the Chinese Table is a culinary adventure like no other that captures the diversity of China's cuisines, from the pen of a world-class scholar and gourmet.

How Do I un-Remember This?: Unfortunately True Stories How Do I un-Remember This?: Unfortunately True Stories by Danny Pellegrino

With refreshing honesty and jaw-dropping absurdity, Danny invites readers to experience his most formative moments in life-from his hometown in Ohio to his hit podcast and career in entertainment today. How Do I Un-Remember This? is an unfiltered and all-too-relatable glimpse into Danny's life and the heartfelt and hilarious moments that shaped it.

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery

Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury's art and activism from iconic images like the "Kissing Doesn't Kill" poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis.

Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year That Wouldn't End Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year That Wouldn't End by Dave Pell

From the publisher of the NextDraft newsletter comes a cathartic and humorous ride through the unnerving, maddening hellscape of the 2020 press cycle, reestablishing the line between "real" news and real life.

Sassy Planet: A Queer Guide to 40 Cities, Big and Small Sassy Planet: A Queer Guide to 40 Cities, Big and Small

Check out what's up and coming in LGBTQ scenes around the world with this quirky, vibrant queer travel guide.

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Graphic Novels

Batman: The Imposter Batman: The Imposter by Mattson Tomlin

A unique new vision of Gotham, built to be the logical next step for fans of the 2022 film THE BATMAN!

Chef's Kiss Chef's Kiss by Jarrett Melendez

Now that college is over, English graduate Ben Cook is on the job hunt looking for something...anything...related to his passion for reading and writing. But when Ben stumbles upon a Now Hiring--No Experience Necessary sign outside a restaurant, he jumps at the chance to land his first job. When Ben begins developing a crush on Liam, one of the other super dreamy chefs at the restaurant, and when he starts ditching his old college friends and his old writing job plans, his career path starts to become much less clear.

The City of Belgium The City of Belgium by Brecht Evens

Evens's darkly comic stories of characters on the verge of personal discovery-people about to become who they will be for the rest of their lives-have never been more beautifully conceived, more intricately planned than in his magical new graphic novel, The City of Belgium.

The Me You Love in the Dark, Volume 1 The Me You Love in the Dark, Volume 1 by Skottie Young

An artist named Ro retreats from the grind of the city to an old house in a small town, hoping to find solace and inspiration--only to realize that the muse she finds within may not be what she expected..

Something Is Killing the Children. Vol. 4 Something Is Killing the Children. Vol. 4 by James Tynion IV

When children begin to go missing in the town of Archer's Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysterious woman arrives to reveal that terrifying creatures are behind the chaos - and that she alone will destroy them, no matter the cost.

Two Moons, Volume 1: The Iron Noose Two Moons, Volume 1: The Iron Noose by John Arcudi

In the middle of the horrors of the American Civil War, young soldier Virgil Morris discovers that he can't leave his Pawnee origins behind him. Visited by ghosts and visions, he learns that the war is not the worst evil he and his new friend, nurse Frances Shaw, face. Together - and apart - Frances and Virgil combat madness and hell itself.

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Movies/TV, Music & More

Movies/TV

Blue Bayou Blue Bayou by Justin Chon
Format: DVD

As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.

Finding Alice. Series 1. Finding Alice. Series 1.
Format: DVD

Shortly after moving into their newly finished dream house, Alice's partner, Harry, dies from falling down the stairs. Harry designed the house himself, so it's weird, wonderful, and impractical, and one more disorientation for Alice to endure along with her sense of loss and abandonment. Her beloved partner of twenty years is gone, and now she can't even find the fridge. To add to her problems, Alice discovers that Harry had a habit of hiding stuff he didn't want to deal with, and his sudden death kicks up a storm of secrets, debt, and suspicion that Alice must confront to move forward with her life.

My Life is Murder My Life is Murder
Format: DVD

A contemporary Australian detective drama about retired cop Alexa Crowe. With her old boss regularly asking for her insight on cold cases and a young police data-analyst eager to be mentored, whether Alexa wants to or not, Alexa can't seem to stop solving crime.

Music

Muse Muse by Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason
Format: CD

Classical music's star duo Sheku & Isata Sheku Kanneh-Mason have performed together all over the world. Now they present an impassioned program of Barber & Rachmaninov, including each composer's Cello Sonata and a selection of beautiful songs transcribed for cello.

Springtime in New York: 1980-1985 Springtime in New York: 1980-1985 by Bob Dylan
Format: CD

If Bob Dylan's Bootleg series of archival releases -- now in its fourth decade -- has taught fans anything, it's that preconceived notions about his catalog are often proven erroneous. Vol. 16: Springtime in New York 1980-1985 begins with the thoroughly slagged final outing in his Christian trilogy, Shot of Love (1981), and continues through the more warmly greeted albums Infidels (1983) and Empire Burlesque (1985). It reveals the many musical directions Dylan was traveling in simultaneously.

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King of the Blues : The Rise and Reign of B. B. King King of the Blues : The Rise and Reign of B. B. King by Daniel de Visé
Format: Spoken CD

This is the first full and authoritative biography of a towering figure in America's, and indeed the world's, musical and cultural history: Riley 'Blues Boy' King.

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