Staff Picks Acquisitions for April 2018

Here’s the list of 29 STAFF PICKS PROJECT acquisitions for April 2018.

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Title		Author/Artist		Description (from Amazon.com unless otherwise noted)
1.	Children of Blood and Bone	Tomi	Adeyemi	Adeyemi keeps it fresh with an all-black cast of characters, a meaningful emphasis on fighting for justice, a complex heroine saving her own people, and a brand of magic made more powerful by the strength of heritage and ancestry. Perfect for fans of the expansive fantasy worlds of Leigh Bardugo, Daniel Jose´ Older, and Sabaa Tahir.” From Booklist.
2.	Phantom Thread	Paul Thomas	Anderson, Director	DVD Set in the glamour of the 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of the British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by the scariest curse of all…love. And so begins a Gothic Romance of twists, turns and power struggles of “pure, delicious pleasure”* that is “devilishly funny and luxuriantly sensuous.”** * Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN ** Dana Stevens, SLATE
3.	Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon	Iris	Apfel	A unique and lavishly illustrated collection of musings, anecdotes, and observations on all matters of life and style, infused with the singular candor, wit, and exuberance of the globally revered ninety-six-year-old fashion icon whose work has been celebrated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and by countless fans worldwide.
4.	Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World	Andrea	Barnet	This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women—linked not by friendship or field, but by their choice to break with convention—showed what one person speaking truth to power can do.
5.	The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving	Lee	Buttala, et. al., editors	Whether interested in simply saving seeds for home use or working to conserve rare varieties of beloved squashes and tomatoes, this book provides a deeper understanding of the art, the science, and the joy of saving seeds.
6.	Japan Style	Gian Carlo	Calza	Japan Style, written by one of the world’s most respected scholars of Japanese art and culture, defines what ‘Japan style’ is. It explores specific achievements in Japanese art and architecture, but also offers an in-depth analysis of the whole of Japanese culture, its vision of the world and of humankind. Publisher: Phaidon
7.	Wild Art	David	Carrir and Joachim Pissarro	Wild Art is an incredibly brash and current collection of over 300 extraordinary artworks that are too offbeat, outrageous, kitschy, quirky, or funky for the formal art world. Publisher: Phaidon
8.	Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion	Michelle	Dean	The ten brilliant women who are the focus of Sharp came from different backgrounds and had vastly divergent political and artistic opinions. But they all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America and ultimately changed the course of the twentieth century, in spite of the men who often undervalued or dismissed their work.
9.	NW	Saul	Dibb, Director	DVD Based on Zadie Smith’s 2012 novel, two friends from a northwest London housing estate are reunited when one of them faces a messy personal crisis.
10.	Syncopation	William	Dieterie, Director	DVD Covering a quarter-century of American “syncopated” music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie) from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock-market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Kit Latimer, from New Orleans, and Johnny Schumacher, in which they share and argue over musical ideas ensues. Jackie Cooper/Adolphe Menjou (classic film)
11.	The Insult	Ziad	Doueiri, Director	DVD Academy award nominee/best foreign language dir. In today’s Beirut, an insult blown out of proportion finds Toni, a Lebanese Christian, and Yasser, a Palestinian refugee, in court. From secret wounds to traumatic revelations, the media circus surrounding the case puts Lebanon through a social explosion, forcing Toni and Yasser to reconsider their lives and prejudices. (Arabic with subtitles)
12.	Everyone Loves Tacos	Felipe	Fuentes Cruz and Ben Fordham	From simple supermarket kits to high-end restaurant revamps, a whole spectrum of taco offerings now exists for your pleasure. These small but mighty Mexican staples are finally getting the credit they deserve on the worldwide culinary stage. With this book, you can bring the buzzing atmosphere and high-quality eating experience of street food tacos into the comfort of your own kitchen…. A chapter on Salsas, Relishes and Sides, such as the classic Pico De Gallo, lets you mix and match.
13.	Where the Salmon Run: The Life and Legacy of Bill Frank Jr	Trova	Heffernan	[T]ells the life story of Billy Frank Jr., from his father’s influential tales, through the difficult and contentious days of the Fish Wars, to today. Based on extensive interviews with Billy, his family, close advisors, as well as political allies and former foes, and the holdings of Washington State’s cultural institutions, we learn about the man behind the legend, and the people who helped him along the way. (from Washington Univ. Press)
14.	How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are	Alex	Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker	This down-to-earth guide is for anybody who wants to know more about gender, from its biology, history and sociology, to how it plays a role in our relationships and interactions with family, friends, partners and strangers. It looks at practical ways people can express their own gender, and will help you to understand people whose gender might be different from your own.
15.	Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race	Debby	Irving	For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. … Then, in 2009, one “aha!” moment launched an adventure of discovery and insight that drastically shifted her worldview and upended her life plan. In Waking Up White, Irving tells her often cringe-worthy story with such openness that readers will turn every page rooting for her-and ultimately for all of us.
16.	Cabins	Philip	Jodidio	The cabins selected for this publication emphasize the variety of the genre, both in terms of usage and geography. From an artist studio on the Suffolk coast in England to eco-home huts in the Western Ghats region of India, this survey is as exciting in its international reach as it is in its array of briefs, clients, and situations. Taschen Press
17.	When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir	Patrisse	Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele	A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America―and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free.
18.	Licking Flames: Tales of a Half-Assed Hussy	Diana	Kirk	Diana Kirk is an author who exudes personality. She shares her raw unfiltered story with bite, yet layers of compassion and vulnerability of life in the Pacific Northwest and around the world. Licking Flames is like taking a swig of good unpasteurized apple cider vinegar. ~ Portland Book Review
19.	The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster	Sarah	Krasnostein	Through countless encounters with the fetid, the neglected, and the downright tragic, Parkhurst has found meaning and peace, and [author] Krasnostein a singular subject whom she approaches with well-deserved awe. (From Booklist)
20.	Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes	Nathan	Lents	As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last. The human body is one big pile of compromises. But that is also a testament to our greatness: as Lents shows, humans have so many design flaws precisely because we are very, very good at getting around them.
21.	In the Fade		Magnolia Studio	DVD (Diane Kruger) After the death of her family in a terrorist attack, Katja’s life falls apart… Katja struggles as she endures the trial against the two suspects: a young couple from the neo-Nazi scene. The trial pushes Katja to the edge and there’s simply no alternative for her: she wants justice. (German film with subtitles)
22.	Hey Ladies! The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails	Michelle	Mankowitz and Caroline Moss	Based on the column of the same name that appeared in The Toast, Hey Ladies! is a laugh-out-loud read that follows a fictitious group of eight 20-and-30-something female friends for one year of holidays, summer house rentals, dates, brunches, breakups, and, of course, the planning of a disastrous wedding. This instantly relatable story is told entirely through emails, texts, DMs, and every other form of communication known to man.
23.	The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America	Mike	McIntyre	Stuck in a job he no longer found fulfilling, journalist Mike McIntyre felt his life was quickly passing him by. So one day he hit the road to trek from one end of the country to the other with little more than the clothes on his back and without a single penny in his pocket. Through his travels, he found varying degrees of kindness in strangers from all walks of life–and discovered more about people and values and life on the road in America than he’d ever thought possible.
24.	Dark Horse	Louise	Osmond	DVD Set in Wales, DARK HORSE is the inspirational true story of a group of friends who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse. Raised on a slagheap allotment, their foal grows into an unlikely champion, beating the finest thoroughbreds in the land, before suffering a near fatal accident. Nursed back to health by the love of his owners, he makes a remarkable recovery, returning to the track for a heart-stopping comeback.
25.	You Had Better Make Some Noise: Words to Change the World		Phaidon editors	A timeless collection of quotations by visionaries who have been catalysts for change – through the ages and across the globe You Had Better Make Some Noise brings together the words of social activists, revolutionaries, artists, writers, musicians, philosophers, politicians, and more – galvanizing us all to do the same. Familiar figures – Thomas Paine to Bertrand Russell, Augustine to Gloria Steinem, Harvey Milk to Ai Weiwei, James Baldwin to Margaret Mead – are joined by a chorus of voices that have made their own indelible marks on the legacy of protest and progress.
26.	Hate Is What We Need	Ward	Schumaker	In this clothbound, hardcover volume, acclaimed artist Ward Schumaker transforms the egregious utterances of the 45th president of the United States of America into provocative text-based paintings. Translating the politics of our moment into visceral works of art, Schumaker offers an alternative to the desensitizing barrage of the news media.
27.	The Land between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees	Tom	Sleigh	Essays on the urgency of our global refugee crisis and our capacity as artists and citizens to confront it. Tom Sleigh describes himself donning a flak jacket and helmet, working as a journalist inside militarized war zones and refugee camps, as “a sort of Rambo Jr.” With self-deprecation and empathetic humor, these essays recount his experiences during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern region once called Mesopotamia, “the land between two rivers.”
28.	He/She/They-Us: Essential Information, Vocabulary and Concepts to Help You Become a Better Ally to the Transgender and Gender Diverse People in Your Life	Jessica	Soukuk	This book is glue to hold people together through the process of self exploration. It covers basic vocabulary, concepts, challenges and some ways to be a supportive ally. It was written for the layperson not well versed in the terms and language of gender and transition. It attempts to begin to provide some answers for the questions everyone has.
29.	Last Week Tonight Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo	Jill	Twiss and Marlon Bundo	With its message of tolerance and advocacy, this charming children’s book explores issues of same sex marriage and democracy. Sweet, funny, and beautifully illustrated, this book is dedicated to every bunny who has ever felt different.