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| Hi, there! May is National Mental Health Awareness Month; we’ve got books from therapy insiders to help you feel less alone. Plus: Escape into powerful satire, workplace dramas, a haunting thriller, and Samantha Irby’s latest hilarious essay collection. |
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| Fascinating Reads Highlighting the Power of Therapy: |
 | | Maybe You Should Talk to Someone | | Therapist Lori Gottlieb doesn’t just offer her patients advice from on high; she knows what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch. Here, she chronicles her own experience being in therapy after an unexpected breakup, interspersed with stories of her clients. | | Add to reading list |
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 | | Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life | | Christie Tate wants a therapist’s help with her eating disorder, not group therapy. But when Dr. Rosen strongly encourages her to try it, she discovers the transformative power of baring her soul in front of people she wouldn’t otherwise encounter. | | Add to reading list |
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 | | Good Morning, Monster | | Get an insider’s perspective on how a therapist helps five patients with a wide range of diagnoses in this memoir by Catherine Gildiner. Over time, Gildiner unpacks each of their traumas, offering them a chance at a better life while highlighting how these patients, who she considers heroes, helped her grow as a therapist. | | Add to reading list |
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 | | Thriller: The Liar’s Girl — only $1.99 until Saturday! | | As a student at Dublin’s elite St. John’s College, Alison fell for the attractive Will Hurley, a student moonlighting as a serial killer who’s now locked away in a psychiatric hospital. Ten years later, living in the Netherlands, she’s ready to move on, but when new murders haunt Dublin, she’s pulled back in to help the police solve a fresh wave of crime in this twisty, nail-biting thriller. | |
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- This screenwriter gave us some of our most iconic romantic comedies.
- She’s from a writing family; her parents wrote a movie inspired by her college letters to them, and her sisters are published authors.
- In one of her essay collections, she opined on feeling bad about a major body part.
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For workplace novels that go beyond The Devil Wears Prada, these two picks explore jobs that sound initially exciting but are challenging in ways that threaten to overwhelm their heroines. Tackling real-life issues like class and sexism, these young women navigate climbing the corporate ladder while staying true to their beliefs.
In The Bookends, we pick an exciting new release and pair it with an older title readers will also love. This week: |
 | | World Literature: The God of Good Looks | | After her affair with a married man gets exposed, Bianca pursues her dream of writing by working for beauty entrepreneur Obadiah. Though he has a tyrannical reputation, Bianca discovers there’s more to him than meets the eye as they work to expose corruption, salvage their reputations, and stand up for their values in this Trinidad-set novel told partly in Bridget Jones-style diary entries. | | Add to reading list |
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 | | Feminist Fiction: Not Safe for Work | | | | The unnamed narrator of this #MeToo-era novel is ready to work hard to get ahead in Hollywood—only to face tedious busywork, byzantine hierarchy, and old boys club sexism. Her mother, a famous feminist lawyer, offers advice that shocks her, and she must navigate workplace crises that pit her ambition against the entrenched power structures. | | Add to reading list |
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| Critical Love |
| This much-anticipated humorous novel by the author of Babel about book publishing, privilege, and identity has been lauded by The New York Times as a “blistering satire,” and NPR says it “takes white privilege to a sinister level.” |
 | | Satire: Yellowface | | June, a white woman, wants to succeed as a writer—and will do anything to hit it big, including stealing writer Athena’s manuscript after her death, passing it off as her own and her identity as Asian American writer Juniper Song. Success comes quickly for Juniper, but with it, plenty of scrutiny that threatens to topple her bestseller status. | | Add to reading list |
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| The Paperback |
| Beloved essayist Samantha Irby is back and funnier than ever, with wild stories that TODAY says will “have you crying and laughing.” From writing for Sex and the City sequel And Just Like That… to anaphylactic shock and pop culture, Quietly Hostile is a perfect reminder that we can find humor even in our most bizarre moments. |
 | | Humor: Quietly Hostile | | Irby writes about her life in an utterly unique way, leaving no stone or bodily function unexamined but doing so in a way that makes readers laugh with her, not at her. In her fourth essay collection, she takes us onto the red carpet and beyond, baring her obsessions, neuroses, and talent for list-making. | | Add to reading list |
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| Bookworld |
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🕺 A 544 page oral history about the iconic K-Pop boy band BTS, will release on July 9.
🏆 Davina McCall and Salman Rushdie win big at the British Book Awards.
📖 The definitive account of the disastrous relationship between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is out now. |
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| Guess the Writer Answer | | When Harry Met Sally screenwriter and Heartburn author Nora Ephron, who passed away in 2012, would have turned 82 on May 19. |
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