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Take a Breather with a New Book

With only a month until finals and the semester wrapping up, things are getting hectic here in academia! But that doesn't mean you can't take a breather now and then... with a book, of course. (We're librarians; what else did you expect us to say?) Drop by the library and check out our latest goodies: April is National Poetry Month, so check out Restless Vanishings by John Michael Flynn. With movies like Wonder Woman and Justice League due this year, check out our newest comic books -- Wonder Woman, Earth One, volume 1 , written by Grant Morrison, and Batman, Earth One, volume 1 by Geoff Johns -- as well as an exploration of American superheroes through the lens of queer theory called The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics by Ramzi Fawaz. In Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood , Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show, recounts his life as the child of an illegal union and his relationship with his bold, brave mot