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  She's Nice Though - Essays on...

  Mia Mercado

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  AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK • A NYLON MUST-READ • A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN AUGUST 
  “And, at the center of it all, am I actually nice or am I just performing a role I think I’m expected to play?” Mia Mercado is a razor-sharp cultural critic and essayist known for her witty and hilarious dissections of the uncomfortable truths that rule our lives. In this thought-provoking collection of new essays, Mercado examines what it means to be “polite,” “agreeable,” and “nice.” She covers topics from the subtleties of the “Bad Bitch” and why women dominate the ASMR market, to what makes her dog an adorable little freak and how you know if you’re shy. This is a book about the unspoken trick mirror of our “good” intentions: the inherent performance of the social media apology, celebrating men when they do the bare minimum, and why we trust a Midwesterner to watch our stuff when we go pee. 
  Throughout, she ponders her identity as an Asian woman and asks what “nice” even means—and why anyone would want to be it. With writing that is as precise as it is profound, and cultural references that range from trash reality television to the New York Times Sunday-morning crossword puzzle, Mercado uncovers weird, long-overdue truths about our frailties and failings. In the end, she sees them not as a source of shame but as a cause for celebration. Filled with revelations that range from the silly to the serious, 
  She’s Nice Though offers a mind-bending glimpse into the illusions and delusions of contemporary life—and reveals who we *really* are when no one is watching.

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  Life in Lashes - The Story of a...

  Kita Mean

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  The hilarious tell-all memoir by the first winner of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under 
    
  Hailing from a sleepy eastern suburb of Auckland, Nick Nash grew up feeling like he stood out for all the wrong reasons. It wasn't until he experimented with the art of drag that he found freedom in his fierce and confident alter-ego, Kita Mean. From wild nights partying like there was no tomorrow, to scrounging together delightfully camp costumes on a shoestring budget, buying an iconic cabaret bar with bestie Anita Wigl'it, and competing on the global stage alongside Kiwi and Aussie drag legends in the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under, Kita shares behind-the-scenes goss and important life lessons - many learned the hard way - about fighting your demons and being proud of your most authentic self.  
  Bursting with outrageous style and cheek, Life in Lashes is a memoir of a lost boy who found salvation as a drag queen, learned to love herself, and went on to share her fabulousness with the world.  
  HarperCollins Australia 2022

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  Solid Gold - A Red Riley...

  Stephanie Andrews

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  An unexpected alliance sends Riley to Canada and Mexico, making her an International Woman of Mystery!! 
  Riley searches for a kidnapped woman, an FBI agent hot on her trail, a supervillain in her sights. Solid Gold is another funny, fast-paced adventure about an amateur vigilante out to make the world a better place, if she doesn't get herself killed first!

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  Right Ho Jeeves

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  The second book in renowned author P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves series, Right Ho, Jeeves is a classic, humorous novel from one of the 20th century’s most widely read humorists. 
  Join Bertie Wooster as he navigates the bizarre and extraordinary world of Brinkley Manor. In an attempt to prove himself smarter than his valet Jeeves, Bertie takes it upon himself to solve the problems of his fellow guests - timid Gussie Fink-Nottle’s desire to propose to Madeline Bassett, his Aunt Dahlia’s gambling problem, the broken engagement between Tuppy Glossop and Angela Travers, and the resignation of their prized chef Anatole - all while preparing for the unpleasant job of delivering the school prizes to the students of a local grammar school. 
  But when his ingenious solutions only make the problems a million times worse, the mounting chaos soon becomes too much for Bertie to handle - but lucky for him, Jeeves is there to set things right!

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  Fatgirl: Fandom Menace

  C. S. Johnson

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  It's Fan-dumb-onium! 
  Kallie Grande-White is pretty sure she's had worse days ... hasn't she?  
  First there was fighting with a terrorist, then arguing with her possibly psychotic grandmother over his body, only to get home and realize she doesn't have a working cell phone and she didn't finish her homework over the weekend ...  
  Okay, that's pretty bad.  
  But if that's not bad enough, Kallie then discovers Fatgirl's growing fandom after the launch of a new full-blown fan website. 
  And, despite helping AB discover the current whereabouts of her radioactive recipe, Kallie learns that the search is far from over, and the chase has begun.   
  If only Blake Turner had managed not to eat some doughnuts ...  
  When it came to becoming a superhero, Kallie took the shot, and now it's time to start the doughnut chaser. Stay tuned for the next episodes!  
    
  Fatgirl: Fandom Menace makes episode 3 of this satirical science fiction superhero take on growing up, PC culture, and diet culture from award-winning, genre-hopping author C. S. Johnson.

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  The Interrogative Mood - A Novel?

  Padgett Powell

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  “If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell’s.”—Richard FordThe Interrogative Mood is a wildly inventive, jazzy meditation on life and language by the novelist that Ian Frazier hails as “one of the best writers in America, and one of the funniest, too.” A novel composed entirely of questions, it is perhaps the most audacious literary high-wire act since Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine or David Foster Wallace’s stories;a playful and profound book that, as Jonathan Safran Foer says, “will sear the unlucky volumes shelved on either side of it. How it doesn’t, itself, combust in flames is a mystery to me.”

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