So Here’s the Thing: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut
By Alyssa Mastromonaco

In this fun, frank book of reflections, essays, and interviews, Mastromonaco brings a sharp eye and sense of humor to the myriad issues facing women around the world.

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Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope
By Karamo Brown

An insightful, candid, and inspiring memoir from Queer Eye’s beloved culture expert, Karamo Brown, as he shares his story, explores how the challenges in his own life have allowed him to forever transform the lives of those in need.

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The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose
By Oprah Winfrey

In her latest book, Oprah Winfrey shares what she sees as a guide for activating your deepest vision of yourself, offering the framework for creating not just a life of success, but one of significance.

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Tiffany Haddish: She Ready! From the Hood to Hollywood

In her first full stand up special, Haddish talks about growing up in the foster care system, dealing with bullies, homelessness, and taking Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith to the swamp. Favorite part: when she talks us through her method of seeking revenge on her cheating boyfriend and uses a ton of puns.

Watch the special here.

The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & Her Lover

By Peter GreenawayThis is a highly chromatic, sensual, and grotesque tale that follows Helen Mirren’s character as she falls in
love with another man in the restaurant her husband, a gangster, owns, but abuses. Watch if you love food, luxurious costume design, and sweet revenge.

Burning
By Chang-dong Lee

A new, award-winning slow-build thriller about a young man in Seoul who runs into an old childhood friend from where he grew up in the countryside. She brings him into her life and eventually introduces him to Ben, a man with lots of money but little empathy.

Mandy
By Panos Cosmatos

This film is a wildly and ridiculously entertaining saturated 80’s throwback with a synth and metal score, bright neon colors, and references to Hellraiser. Don’t watch if you’re looking for Mandy to have any character development, though, but if you like the idea of watching a campy hyper masculine fantasy with pretty colors and gore, you’ll enjoy this.

Internment
By Samira Ahmed

Set in a horrifying near-future, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.

With the help of friends in the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom.

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Opposite of Always
By Justin A. Reynolds

After falling for Kate, her unexpected death sends Jack back in time to the moment they first met, but he soon learns that his actions have consequences when someone else close to him dies.

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Dear Ally, How Do You Write a Book?
By Ally Carter

Have you always wanted to write a book, but don’t know where to start? Fear not, this book has answers! With honesty, encouragement, and humor, bestselling author Ally Carter is ready here to answer the questions that writers struggle with the most.

Check it out here.

Too Black to Be French?
By Isabelle Boni-Claverie

This documentary takes us through the manifestations of racism in French society, historically and today, zeroing in on how successful and rich black people experience racial discrimination and how French society tries to cover up their colonial history by claiming to be colorblind.

Playtime
By Jacques Tati

This film is a lush and humorous depiction of modernity and industrialization. Machines, objects, and functional spaces are characters, too, making sounds, shining lights, and interacting with the protagonist and other human characters throughout the film.