{"id":95138,"date":"2022-06-23T16:33:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T20:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=95138"},"modified":"2022-06-23T17:37:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T21:37:35","slug":"best-new-books-june-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=95138","title":{"rendered":"Best new books June 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u201cOh yeah, I heard about that book!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>NMC Library has many \u201cTop 10\u201d books and other award-winning titles to kick off your summer reading. C\u2019mon up to the 2nd Floor of the Innovation Center Monday through Thursday and see what all the fuss is about.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To find these selections and many other new titles, see the NMC <a href=\"https:\/\/nmc.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-search.pl?limit=mc-loc%3A%27NEW%27&amp;sort_by=acqdate_dsc\">library catalog<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The New York Times Book Review \u2018Best Books\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95144 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/How-Beautiful-We-Were.png\" alt=\"How Beautiful We Were book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"140\" \/>How Beautiful We Were<\/em> by Imbolo Mbue<\/strong><br \/>\nMbue\u2019s sweeping and quietly devastating second novel begins in 1980 in the fictional African village of Kosawa, where representatives from an American oil company have come to meet with the locals, whose children are dying because of the environmental havoc (fallow fields, poisoned water) wreaked by its drilling and pipelines.Through the eyes of Kosawa\u2019s citizens young and old, Mbue constructs a nuanced exploration of self-interest, of what it means to want in the age of capitalism and colonialism.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Intimacies<\/em> by Katie Kitamura<\/strong><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95146 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Intimacies.png\" alt=\"Intimacies book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"137\" \/><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nIn Kitamura\u2019s fourth novel, an unnamed court translator in The Hague is tasked with intimately vanishing into the voices and stories of war criminals whom she alone can communicate with; falling meanwhile into a tumultuous entanglement with a man whose marriage may or may not be over for good. \u201cIntimacies\u201d scrutinizes the knowability of those around us, not as an end in itself but as a lens on grand social issues from gentrification to colonialism to feminism.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois<\/em> by Honor\u00e9e Fanonne Jeffers<\/strong><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95155 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The-Love-Songs-of-W.E.B.-Du-Bois.png\" alt=\"The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"137\" \/><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nThe first novel by Jeffers, a celebrated poet, is a moving coming-of-age saga, an examination of race and an excavation of American history. It cuts back and forth between the tale of Ailey Pearl Garfield, a Black girl growing up at the end of the 20th century, and the \u201csongs\u201d of her ancestors who lived through the formation of the United States. As their stories converge, \u201cLove Songs\u201d creates an unforgettable portrait of Black life that reveals how the past still reverberates today.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95150 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/No-One-Is-Talking-About-This.png\" alt=\"No One Is Talking About This book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"140\" \/>No One Is Talking About This<\/em> by Patricia Lockwood<\/strong><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Lockwood first found acclaim as a poet on the internet, with gloriously inventive and ribald verse. In her first novel, she distills the pleasures and deprivations of life split between online and flesh-and-blood interactions, transfiguring the dissonance into art. The result is a book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, hilarious and, eventually, deeply moving.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America<\/em> by Clint Smith<\/strong><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95145 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/How-the-Word-Is-Passed-A-Reckoning-With-the-History-of-Slavery-Across-America.png\" alt=\"How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"139\" \/><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nFor this timely and thought-provoking book, Smith, a poet and journalist, toured sites key to the history of slavery and its present-day legacy, including Thomas Jefferson\u2019s Monticello; Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary; and a Confederate cemetery. Interspersing interviews with the tourists, guides, activists and local historians he meets along the way, Smith holds up a mirror to America\u2019s fraught relationship with its past, capturing a potent mixture of good intentions, earnest corrective, willful ignorance and blatant distortion.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-95147 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Invisible-Child-Poverty-Survival-and-Hope-in-an-American-City-e1656019476965.png\" alt=\"Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" \/>Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City<\/em> by Andrea Elliott<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dasani Coates, a homeless New York schoolgirl, and her family, Elliott spent years following her subjects in their daily lives, through shelters, schools, courtrooms and welfare offices. The book she has produced is a searing account of one family\u2019s struggle with poverty, homelessness and addiction in a city and country that have failed to address these issues with efficacy or compassion.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On Juneteenth<\/em> by Annette Gordon-Reed<\/strong><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95151 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/On-Juneteenth.png\" alt=\"On Juneteenth book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"126\" \/><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nExploring the racial and social complexities of Texas, her home state, Gordon-Reed asks readers to step back from the current heated debates and take a more nuanced look at history and the surprises it can offer. Such a perspective comes easy to her because she was a part of history \u2014 the first Black child to integrate her East Texas school. On several occasions, she found herself shunned by whites and Blacks alike, learning at an early age that breaking the color line can be threatening to both races.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Washington Post&#8217;s \u2018Best Books\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95148 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Klara-and-the-Sun.png\" alt=\"Klara and the Sun book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"137\" \/>Klara and the Sun<\/em> by Kazuo Ishiguro<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara&#8211;an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities&#8211;watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Crossroads<\/em> by Jonathan Franzen<\/strong><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95141 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Crossroads.png\" alt=\"Crossroads book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless\u2014unless his wife beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism. Clem\u2019s sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who\u2019s been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Matrix<\/em> by Lauren Groff<\/strong><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95149 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Matrix.png\" alt=\"Matrix book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"139\" \/><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nCast out of the royal court, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future<\/em> by Elizabeth Kolbert<\/strong><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95156 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Under-a-White-Sky-The-Nature-of-the-Future.png\" alt=\"Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"139\" \/><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nTaking a hard look at the new world we are creating. She meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world\u2019s rarest fish; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a \u201csuper coral\u201d that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. In <em>Under A White Sky <\/em>she examines how interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Gold Diggers: A Novel<\/em> by Sanjena Sathian<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95143 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gold-Diggers-A-Novel.png\" alt=\"Gold Diggers: A Novel book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"133\" \/><\/em><\/strong>A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and smart but struggles to bear the weight of expectations of his Asian American enclave. He tries to want their version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor, Anita Dayal. When he discovers that Anita is the beneficiary of an ancient, alchemical potion made from stolen gold\u2014a \u201clemonade\u201d that harnesses the ambition of the gold\u2019s original owner\u2014Neil sees his chance to get ahead. But events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley&#8217;s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake<\/em> by Tiya Miles<\/strong><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95140 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/All-That-She-Carried-The-Journey-of-Ashleys-Sack-a-Black-Family-Keepsake.png\" alt=\"All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"140\" \/><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nSitting in the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called &#8220;Ashley&#8217;s Sack,&#8221; embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Michigan Notable Books<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95153 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Standpipe-Delivering-Water-in-Flint.png\" alt=\"Standpipe: Delivering Water in Flint book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"128\" \/>Standpipe: Delivering Water in Flint<\/em> by David Hardin<br \/>\n<\/strong>A brief, elegant memoir of the author&#8217;s work as a Red Cross volunteer delivering emergency water to residents of Flint, Michigan, Standpipe sets the struggles of a city in crisis against the author&#8217;s personal journey as his mother declines into dementia and eventual death. Written with a poet&#8217;s eye for detail and quiet metaphor, Standpipe is an intimate look at one man&#8217;s engagement with both civic and familial trauma.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Firekeeper&#8217;s Daughter<\/em> by Angeline Boulley<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95142 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Firekeepers-Daughter.png\" alt=\"Firekeeper's Daughter book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"137\" \/><\/em><\/strong>Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, yet even as she falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>James Beard Book Award<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-95154 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Take-One-Fish-The-New-School-of-Scale-to-Tail-Cooking-and-Eating.png\" alt=\"Take One Fish: The New School of Scale-to-Tail Cooking and Eating book cover\" width=\"90\" height=\"120\" \/>Take One Fish: The New School of Scale-to-Tail Cooking and Eating<\/em> by Josh Niland<br \/>\n<\/strong>Forget everything you thought you knew about fish cookery with Take One Fish. There are no rules when it comes to cooking fish according to James Beard award winning chef Josh Niland, only an endless world of possibilities. With 60 mind-blowing recipes from just 15 global varieties of fish, this cookbook will take you on a gustatory journey &#8211; from elaborate to easy, small to large and &#8211; always &#8211; scale to tail.<\/p>\n<p><em>Summaries and images adapted from publishers, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Michigan Notable Books and the James Beard Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOh yeah, I heard about that book!\u201d NMC Library has many \u201cTop 10\u201d books and other award-winning titles to kick off your summer reading. C\u2019mon up to the 2nd Floor of the Innovation Center Monday through Thursday and see what all the fuss is about. 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