Now Trending – Books in the News – December 2025

Kristin
Kristin

Even Library staff can struggle to keep up with all the bookish news out there. From social media to local papers, books are a hot topic. In this monthly post we are highlighting some regional literary news and connecting you with our library collections so you can keep your finger on the pulse of Pittsburgh. Check out what was trending and topical this past month.

In the Catalog

Keep An Eye on the Figs!

Keep An Eye on the Figs!

An Ode to Pittsburgh’s International Grocers

Karen E. Lillis

“This book contains 74 striking color photographs of 37 of Pittsburgh’s international grocers. Some Pittsburgh favorites include Salim’s, Salem’s, Bombay Food Market, Bloomfield Groceria, Las Palmas, and many more.”

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One Shot Harris

One Shot Harris

The Photographs of Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris

Stanley Crouch

“As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the pre-eminent black newsweeklies in America, Charles H. Teenie Harris traveled the alleys, workplaces, nightclubs, and neighborhoods of his native Pittsburgh with a Speed Graphic camera in hand.”

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Evensong

Evensong

A Novel

Stewart O’Nan

“The Humpty Dumpty Club is distraught when their powerhouse leader, Joan Hargrove, takes a bad fall down her stairs, knocking her out of commission. Now, as well as running errands and shepherding those less able to their doctors’ appointments, they have to pick up the slack.”

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From Libby
Orpheus and Eurydice in New York / Орфей І Еврідіка В Нью-Йорку

Orpheus and Eurydice in New York / Орфей І Еврідіка В Нью-Йорку

Olena Boryshpolets

“Olena Boryshpolets’ poems cover a vast landscape, from the Ukrainian steppe and the Black Sea, now filled with Russian mines, across the Baltic Sea and across the ocean to the United States. Her journey since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has taken her from her home in Odesa to a temporary stay in Pittsburgh, where she writes poems that weave in the past and tell us about a terrible war in the middle of Europe, the fate of Ukrainians, and her love for her hometown.”

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Letters to My Younger Self

Letters to My Younger Self

Shaheen Dil

“In this collection of memoir-in-poetry, Shaheen Dil retraces her life beginning in Old Dhaka and taking her around the world and across the United States.”

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Pittsburghese

Pittsburghese

Robert Gibb

“Personal and public histories anchor this collection of elegiac poems about the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.”

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