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Adult Services Staff Picks March 2022 |
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The Authenticity Project
by Clare Pooley
Recommended by: Claire G.
When Julian Jessup, an eccentric, lonely artist who believes that most people aren’t really honest with each other, writes the truth about his own life in a green journal and leaves it behind, others start writing in their own truth, which leads to unexpected friendship and love.
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
by Amanda Gorman
Recommended by: Brandee C.
This poetry collection by the youngest presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history harnesses the collective grief of a global pandemic and shines a light on our current moment of reckoning while offering hope and healing.
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Mouth to Mouth: A Novel
by Antoine Wilson
Recommended by: Sarah V.
When the man whose life he saved, a renowned art dealer, takes him under his wing, Jeff Cook is initiated into his world, one where nothing is what it seems, in this dramatic novel that blurs the line between opportunity and exploitation, self-respect and self-delusion, fact and fiction.
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Noor
by Nnedi Okorafor
Recommended by: Tim B.
When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.
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Oh William!: A Novel
by Elizabeth Strout
Recommended by: Kelly M.
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret--one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us.
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The Stone Face
by William Gardner Smith
Recommended by: Cathy T.
First published in 1963, The Stone Face tells the tale of a young African-American man who takes refuge from American racism in France, only to find himself complicit in a racist order of another sort. Don't judge this book by its cover!
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The Verifiers
by Jane Pek
Recommended by: Laura S.
Stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referral-only online-dating detective agency, Claudia, when a client disappears, breaks protocol to investigate and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit.
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Bill Cunningham's on the Street: Five Decades of Iconic Photography
by Bill Cunningham
Recommended by: Lori P.
This official book of photographs houses the 50-year collection of the most iconic and beloved photographs taken by prolific fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, the King of Street Style. Organized by decade with essays by and about Bill's muses and subjects like Anna Wintour, Cathy Horyn, Vanessa Friedman, and Ruth La Ferla, this book is for every fashion lover and fashionista--from NYC and beyond!
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