New Books for April 3

"Dave Karger--Turner Classic Movies on-air host, entertainment media darling, and the Oscars expert--offers a one-of-a-kind collection of original interviews with an A-list lineup of Oscar winners discussing the highs, lows, and never-before-told tales of Hollywood's most storied awards show"-- Provided by publisher.

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Positive thinking has invaded our favorite Gaulish village. And Asterix is positive it's because the Romans are up to no good! Will poetic language and optimism be enough to defeat our heroes Asterix, Obelix, and their magic potion?

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Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems--like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more--she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the reader can find entryways into change in these same areas, or can bring some of this important work being done elsewhere to where they live.

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"This is it! The conclusion of Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner's smash-hit, best-selling series is here! Until the next series, that is! In the aftermath of her encounter with The Joker, Harley's head is spinning, and she wants nothing more than to get back to her normal life...but she should know by now there's no such thing! Harley's known for her even temperament and economy of language--oh, we can't even finish that sentence. Let's face it: she's crazy, and she talks too much. So what happens when she discovers a nemesis even more insane and more hyper-loquacious? It's Harley vs. the unbelievable Redtool!"-- Provided by publisher.

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"Based on the author's grandmother's true experiences during the Holocaust in Romania, this harrowing story follows Rieke Teitler as she must decide whether holding on to her life might mean letting go of everything that has ever mattered to her."-- Provided by publisher.

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1942: as the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier falls in love with a Jewish man. When the Nazis invade shortly after the birth of her child, Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice of leaving her baby behind. 1968: Israeli naval officer Daniel Yarden recruits Sharon Bloomenthal for a secret naval operation. Sharon suspects that Danny's past may reflect that of her mysterious late mother and she sets out to track her boss' extraordinary journey as an orphan - where she is wholly unprepared for the dilemma she must face upon solving the puzzle.

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For centuries, the Everlys have seen their best and brightest disappear, taken as punishment for a crime no one remembers, for a purpose no one understands. Their tormentor, a woman named Penelope, never ages, never grows sick - and never forgives a debt. Violet Everly is the last of the Everly line, the last to suffer. Unless she can break the curse first. With her time running out, Violet will travel the edges of the world to find her mother and the key to the city of stardust, where the Everly story began.

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"In 1973, fashion icon Astrid Bricard disappeared at the legendary Versailles designer show-down. All that remained was a scrap of fabric...and a family unraveled. Everyone remembers her daringly short, silver lamé dress. An iconic photo capturing an electric moment, where emerging American designer Astrid Bricard is young, uninhibited, and on the cusp of fashion and feminism's changing landscape. Yet she can't escape the legacy of being the daughter of Mizza Bricard, infamous "muse" for Christian Dior. Now Astrid's daughter, Blythe, holds what remains of her mother and grandmother's legacies. Of all the Bricard women, she can gather the torn, shredded, and painfully beautiful fabrics of three generations of grief, heartbreak, and abandonment to create something that will shake the foundations of fashion.

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This is a global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Taking up the four critical challenges we face in a warming world - food, urban sustainability, energy transition, and conservation - scholar and activist Ashley Dawson shows how the unruly power of environmentalism from below is charting an alternative path forward, from challenging industrial agriculture through fights for food sovereignty and agroecology to resisting extractivism using mass nonviolent protest and sabotage.

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Conflict is the top reason couples seek help - but it's also an opportunity for greater intimacy, deeper connection, and lasting love. Through decades of research, Drs. John and Julie Gottman, founders of the world-famous Love Lab, have identified the five common mistakes we make when we are at odds. Readers learn the five secrets to help get back on track and harness conflict to build stronger, healthier relationships. This is an essential resource that will help couples escape the win-or-lose mentality in favour of a collaborative approach.

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"Asumi and Asimov have met the many future incarnations not only of Hatsune Miku, but Kagamine Len and Rin. But where is the original Miku who inspired so many others, and will finding her be the key to unlock the memories of who Asumi really is? Or has that truth been close by her all along...?" -- Provided by publisher.

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Justine Poole takes her job seriously providing security for wealthy and high-profile Hollywood stars. When she prevents a brazen robbery at the Beverly Hills home of two of her clients--killing two of the five armed robbers in the process--she is initially lauded in the media as a local hero. But the spotlight soon puts her in the crosshairs of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries. Unable to stand the embarrassment of his lackeys having been defeated by a lone woman, Mr. Conger puts in a call to the one man who can make his problems disappear. ... Luckily for him, the local news is as eager as he is for any information about the heroic bodyguard--and quick to broadcast their findings, regardless of what it might mean for her safety.

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Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she's going to need all her wits about her to get home again. And that's no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust. Hunt Athalar has found himself in some deep holes in his life, but this one might be the deepest of all. After a few brief months with everything he ever wanted, he's in the Asteri's dungeons again, stripped of his freedom and without a clue as to Bryce's fate. He's desperate to help her, but until he can escape the Asteri's leash, his hands are quite literally tied.

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When Enid is not listening to her favourite true crime podcasts on a loop, she's serially dating a rotation of women from dating apps. At the same time, she's trying to forge a new relationship with her estranged half-sisters after the death of her absent father. Then Enid starts to believe that someone is following her. As her paranoia spirals out of control, Enid must contend with her mounting suspicion that something is seriously wrong with her. Because at the end of the day there's only one person she can't outrun - herself.

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There's no magic formula for being "good with money." Instead, it has everything to do how identity and lived experience affect financial behaviours. Ellyce Fulmore offers a shame-free, trauma-aware approach that explores the complex, nuanced, and deeply personal relationship between your identity and your money. With chapters exploring topics such as finding safe spaces, personal values, relationship dynamics, family systems, and culture, readers will engage with how their upbringing, sense of self, trauma, and mental health impact their decisions, and begin to change their relationship with money.

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The daughter of a sea nymph and the granddaughter of a Titan, Medea is a paradox. She is at once rendered compelling by virtue of the divinity that flows through her bloodline and made powerless by the fact of her being a woman. As a child, she intuitively submerges herself in witchcraft and sorcery, but soon finds it may not be a match for the prophecies that hang over her entire family like a shroud. Medea travels the treacherous seas with the Argonauts, battles demons she had never conceived of, and falls in love with the man who may ultimately be her downfall.

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A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first seems to be a simple missing persons case soon escalates into something much more deadly, when Jack discovers the daughter is being pursued by highly trained operatives. As Jack uncovers more of the woman's backstory, the trail leads towards Afghanistan. Jack will need to face the trauma of his past to save a family's future.

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A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon. Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like justice, freedom and equality are meaningless when there is no corresponding practical application of the ideals they represent. Physical, bodily liberty is fundamental to every American's personal sovereignty. And yet, millions of Americans-including author Deborah Plant's brother, whose life sentence at Angola Prison reveals a shocking current parallel to her academic work on the history of slavery in America-are deprived of these basic freedoms every day. In her studies of Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah Plant became fascinated by Hurston's explanation for the atrocities of the international slave trade. In her memoir, Dust Tracks on a Road, Hurston wrote: "But the inescapable fact that stuck in my craw, was: my people had sold me and the white people had bought me. . . . It impressed upon me the universal nature of greed and glory." We look the other way when the basic human rights of marginalized and stigmatized groups are violated and desecrated, not realizing that only the practice of justice everywhere secures justice, for any of us, anywhere. An active vigilance is required of those who would be and remain free; with Of Greed and Glory, Deborah Plant reveals the many ways in which slavery continues in America today and charts our collective course toward personal sovereignty for all.

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From declaring my love to Vanessa Redgrave to being fed cockroaches by Steve Buscemi, from turnip-based comedy with Blackadder to being farted on by Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Graham Norton's sofa to Alan Cumming's camper van, my life has been (and continues to be) an uproarious adventure. My chapters range from "How to Stay Married" to "Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down." Discover how to break the thickest conversational ice; why swearing is actually good for you; the unexpected things I learned at school; and what my Spice Girl name would be.

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This page-turning account of starting at the lowest rung on the production ladder among enormously famous and outrageously demanding people will be devoured for its insights, gossip, humour, and storytelling. The Sopranos, often named the best TV show ever, placed the native New Jersey author in the right place at the right time to become part of television history, and to witness the effects of sudden fame and acclaim on the show's principal players. Woven in is a personal story of home life and strife, achievement and frustration, anxiety and accomplishment.

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The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection, and freedom. Tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of an open network for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship can - and must - be saved with blockchain networks, a radical new way to design fair and freely accessible internet services that put users in charge. With lucid and compelling prose, Dixon shows how the internet has undergone three distinct eras, bringing us to the critical moment we're in today.

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Drawing on her 20 years' experience, an Oxford-trained clinical psychologist provides a toolkit of clinically proven tips and short anxiety-busting exercises to help you find calm each and every day.

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Have you ever had a disproportionate emotional response that left you wondering, "Where did THAT come from? - and how can I keep it from happening again? Big feelings catch all of us off guard at times. Why is it that we so often feel tangled up in our emotions, maybe even paralyzed by them? Speaker and Bible teacher Jennie Allen uses scientific research, biblical insight, and her own story to show how, instead of striving to conceal or control your difficult emotions, you can notice and name them in ways that lead to deeper relationships, richer faith, and lasting health.

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For the Dogs, the war has only just begun. Caught up in the siege of Calais, in the midst of a brutal eleven-month blockade of a small port on the French coast, they are no longer blindly walking into the unknown. But the men still have more questions than answers about what faces them - and why. What are they really fighting for? And why does the king care so much about taking such a small French town? The Dogs aren't paid to ask questions but in their work, they have the means to make people talk. Soon, their journey will reveal who really wants this war to last for a hundred years. And as the battle rages, they hear the first, faint, chesty rattle of a natural disaster that is sweeping towards the Dogs and their world . . .

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Inspired by the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac and their associated human characteristics, Ai Weiwei masterfully interweaves ancient Chinese folklore with stories of his life, family, and career. The narrative shifts back and forth through the years - at once in the past, present, and future - mirroring memory and our relationship to time. As readers delve deeper, they will find not only a personal history of Ai Weiwei and an examination of the sociopolitical climate in which he makes his art, but a philosophical exploration of what it means to find oneself through art and freedom of expression.

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