New Releases and More for September 4, 2018

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This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Terra Nullius, Cross Her Heart, Cats vs. Robots, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

The Boy at the Keyhole by Stephen Giles

Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman

Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein

Sadie by Courtney Summers

DeadEndia: The Watcher’s Test (Book 1) by Hamish Steele

Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough

Cats vs. Robots 1: This Is War by Margaret Stohl and Lewis Peterson

What we’re reading:

Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car–And How It Will Reshape Our World by Lawrence D. Burns

Miracle Submarine by Angie Kim

More books out this week:

The Wonder That Was Ours by Alice Hatcher

The Key To Treehouse Living by Elliot Reed

All This I Will Give to You by Dolores Redondo, Michael Meigs (translator)

Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery by Mary Amato

The Rule of One (The Rule of One Series) by Ashley Saunders and Leslie Saunders

Ponti by Sharlene Teo

Gravesend by William Boyle

The Accidental War: A Novel (Praxis) by Walter Jon Williams

The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn

In Her Bones by Kate Moretti

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King

Mortals and Immortals of Greek Mythology by Françoise Rachmuhl and Charlotte Gastaut

24 Hours in Nowhere by Dusti Bowling

Hunting Houses by Fanny Britt and Susan Ouriou

Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction by Irene Gallo

Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets) by Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Citizen Illegal (BreakBeat Poets) by José Olivarez

Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Viviana Mazza (translator)

Tell Me You’re Mine by Elisabeth Norebäck

The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White

The Wildlands by Abby Geni

Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer

Santa Bruce (Mother Bruce) by Ryan T. Higgins

Tales of Valhalla: Norse Myths and Legends by Martyn Whittock and Hannah Whittock

The Chrysalis by Brendan Deneen

Monster City: Murder, Music, and Mayhem in Nashville’s Dark Age by Michael Arntfield

After the Winter by Guadalupe Nettel, Rosalind Harvey (Translator)

The Parting Gift: A Novel by Evan Fallenberg

John Woman by Walter Mosley

Leave No Trace: A Novel by Mindy Mejia

The Songaminute Man: A Tribute to the Unbreakable Bond Between Father and Son by Simon McDermott

Three Little Lies by Laura Marshall

Hole in the Middle by Kendra Fortmeyer

Lyric McKerrigan, Secret Librarian by Jacob Sager Weinstein and Vera Brosgol

The Lost Queen by Signe Pike

Dare You to Lie by Amber Lynn Natusch

I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel

The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Mingwei Song (Editor), Theodore Huters (Editor)

Lake Success: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart

Business Pig by Andrea Zuill

Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death by Erin Gibson

The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit

Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City by Albert Samaha

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling

Good Rosie! by Kate DiCamillo and Harry Bliss

American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time by Tracy K. Smith

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson (Editor), Cheryl Willis Hudson (Editor)

Vanishing Twins: A Marriage by Leah Dieterich

Chicken by Lynn Crosbie

Still Life with Monkey by Katharine Weber

Check Out the Library Weenies: And Other Warped and Creepy Tales (Weenies Stories) by David Lubar

Foe: A Novel by Iain Reid

My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man. by Kevin Powell

I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi

A Room Away From the Wolves by Nova Ren Suma

Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren

The Cats Came Back (Magical Cats) by Sofie Kelly

Lights! Camera! Alice!: The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker by Mara Rockliff and Simona Ciraolo

The Crossroads by Alexandra Diaz

And The Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness, Rovina Cai (Illustrator)

The Forbidden Place by Susanne Jansson

Two Dark Reigns (Three Dark Crowns) by Kendare Blake

Hilda and the Hidden People: TV Tie-In Edition 1 by Luke Pearson and Stephen Davies

The End of the Moment We Had (Japanese Novellas) by Toshiki Okada and Samuel Malissa

Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World by Bruce Schneier

Human Hours: Poems by Catherine Barnett

Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa by David Peace

When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica

Oh My Goth (Harlequin Teen) by Gena Showalter

The Piranhas: The Boy Bosses of Naples by Roberto Saviano, Antony Shugaar (translator)

Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird

The Frangipani Tree Mystery (Crown Colony) by Ovidia Yu

Kickdown: A Novel by Rebecca Clarren

On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson

The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories by Teresa Solana and Peter Bush

Power to the Princess by Vita Weinstein Murrow and Julia Bereciartu