Now trends – books in the news – May 2025

Even library employees can have difficulty staying up to date with all book messages. From social media to local papers, books are a hot topic. In this monthly contribution we show some regional literary news and connect to our library collections so that you can keep your finger on the pulse of Pittsburgh. Last month, look at what tends and was up to date last month.

News history: Wesa – Pittsburgh Author awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Book on Harriet Tubman's role in a civil war attack
Book mentioned – Combee: Harriet Tubman, The Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the civil war By Edda L. Fields-Black
“This book offers the first full report on Harriet Tubman's Civil War Service and the Combahee River Raid. It is described how Tubman commanded a ring with spies, scouts and pilots and took part in military expeditions behind the confederated lines.”
EFORTATS: This title is also for the cash register as eBook on libbyIn Eaudio on Libbyand in Eaudio on Hoopla.

News story: City Paper – In Warhol's Musen, the author Laurence Leamer examines how the pop artist used the women who inspired him
Book mentioned – Warhol's Musen From Laurence Leamer
“From the New York Times bestselling author of Capote's Women comes an astonishing report on the revolutionary artist Andy Warhol and his scandalous relationships with the ten women he regarded as” superstars “, from 1964 and culminated four years later when Warhol was almost shot and killed.”

News history: Kdka meeting you Rachel Ekstrom, a bestselling author, about her latest books
Book mentioned – murder by cheesecake By Rachel Ekstrom Courage
“When Dorothy's disgusting date is found dead in a freezer for hotel, it not only ruins a beautiful cheesecake, but also threatens the elaborate wedding in St. Olaf, the Rose organizes.”
EFORTATS: This title is also for the cash register as eBook on HOOPLA.

News history: KDKA speaking with a local author who examines the journey of the Caesarean section recovery
Book mentioned strength in every scar: the Caesarean section trip of a mother By Ruth Fleury
“Strength in every scar: The Caesarean section trip of a mother offers a raw and warm insight into the realities of motherhood through the lens of five caesarean deliveries. The author Ruth Fleury shares her deeply personal experience, the challenges, the triumph and the strength that she discovered at every birth.”

News history: Book Riot – The complexity of the breed and gender in Appalachia
Book mentioned – black struggle for freedom in urban Appalachia Published by JZ Bennett
“The positioning of Pittsburgh as a crucial space within the region and proposes and examines how people lead the struggle for freedom and the discussions about the discussion motivated by a common obligation to liberate the discussions motivated by a joint obligation to liberate about the prison industrial complex, motivates the exemption.”

Book mentioned: here: a new generation of queer, trans and two-spirit appeal folders Published by Rae Garringer
“Topics of expansion, environmental protection, violence, relatives, racism, indigenousness, the queer love and the transferring course by the band and illustrate the resilience of the writers in the reconciliation of their complex and often contradictory connections at home. Research. “

Book mentioned: Tar Hollow Trans By Stacy Jane Grover
“Tar Hollow Trans examines the way the labels of transgender and Appalachian have been created and understood, and calculates with the way a stigmatized region, as the always popular transgender self, can find new growth spaces.”
EFORTATS: This title is also for the cash register as eBook on libby.

News story: Post Gazette – Rating: Unleasing the bear
Book mentioned – I have not considered any consequences by Sherrie Flick
“I have not taken into account the consequences that deal with the complexity of grief, desire and a special intersection between people and bears. Flicks impressively and stimulating stories follow characters such as Bobby, a local home inspector that in the daily laps in a bear suit in a bear suit and a bear in his daily round and Downs of specialist heights.