Give Yourself the Gift of A New Book

School's out!  (Unless you have Monday finals, and then in that case, I'm sorry. Your freedom is coming.)

But don't flee the premises just yet, because new books are in. We have just the book to top off your TBR pile over winter break, so come browse our selection. Need a few suggestions to get you started? Check out the books below:

Peek into other lives in these memoirs and confessionals: Lisa Kotin tells the story of sugar addiction in My Confection: Odyssey of a Sugar Addict. Stand-up comedian Amy Schumer brings caustic humor to everything from one night stands and introversion to stem cells and Hollywood in her bestselling essay collection The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo. Margo Jefferson discusses life among the black elite during some of the most revolutionary times of racial, sexual, and cultural change in the 20th and 21st centuries in Negroland. Ruth Wariner chronicles her upbringing in, and escape from, a polygamist family in The Sound of Gravel. And in Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life, Kelsey Miller guides readers through her journey out of self-hatred and into self-love.

With movies like Justice League and Wonder Woman due next year, it's never too early to get yourself into the superhero mood. On the Origin of Superheroes: From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1 by Chris Gavaler explores how the elements that created Superman predated him by centuries. Barbara Brownie and Danny Graydon dig into the symbolism of iconic costumes in The Superhero Costume: Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction. Brian Michael Bendis brings us more of Jessica Jones' adventures in Jessica Jones: The Pulse: The Complete Collection, which follows her career shift to Daily Planet journalist while juggling a husband and baby. And if you're looking for a super-powered upgrade to your own life (that doesn't include a hot bath in radioactive material), check out Level Up Your Life: How to Unlock Adventure and Happiness by Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story by Steve Kamb.

Superheroes aren't the only ones hitting the big screen in 2017. Hidden Figures, the story of a team of African-American women whose mathematical genius launched an astronaut into orbit, opens in theaters everywhere in early January. Margot Lee Shetterly plumbs their story in Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.

Don't forget fiction. The narrator of Paul Beatty's incisive, hilarious, and award-winning novel, The Sellout, decides to reinstate slavery and segregation as a means of putting his hometown of Dickens, California back on the map. Lawyer Lacy Stoltz finds herself caught in a deadly case of corruption in John Grisham's latest novel, The Whistler. And 'tis the season for some murder in The Mistletoe Murder: And Other Stories by P. D. James, a collection of four Christmas-special mysteries.

Find all of these books and more in our catalog. Have a wonderful winter break!