New Releases for May 10, 2016

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Mongrels, The High Places, The Loney, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by A Robot in the Garden by Deborah Install, The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood, and Book of the Month. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley The High Places: Stories by Fiona McFarlane Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Last Day of Night by Graham Moore Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple What we’re reading: An Innocent Fashion by R. J. Hernandez The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang More books out this week: Everything is Teeth by Evie Wyld The Telling by Zoe Zolbrod Amp’d by Ken Pisani Speaking Freely: My Life in Publishing and Human Rights by Robert L. Bernstein Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay Soccer Without Borders: Jürgen Klinsmann, Coaching the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team, and the Quest for the World Cup by Erik Kirschbaum (Author), Jürgen Klinsmann (Author) Never Flirt with Puppy Killers: And Other Better Book Titles by Dan Wilbur Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnes Martin-Lugand A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809 – 1849 by Sidney Blumenthal The Last Supper: The Plight of Christians in Arab Lands by Klaus Wivel (Author), Mark Kline (Translator) The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt by Tracy Farr Man & Wife by Katie Chase The Best of Writers and Company by Eleanor Wachtel The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll Cosmic Hotel by Russ Franklin Jay to Bee: Janet Frame’s Letters to William Theophilus Brown by Janet Frame and Denis Harold The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers by Fouad Laroui (Author), Emma Ramadan (Translator) The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas So Much Synth by Brenda Shaughnessy Central Station by Lavie Tidhar Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley The Metaphysical Ukulele by Sean Carswell Albina and the Dog-Men by Alejandro Jodorowsky (Author), Alfred MacAdam (Translator) Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer Unrivaled (Beautiful Idols) by Alyson Noel A Million Windows by Gerald Murnane Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter by Jordan T. Camp (Editor), Christina Heatherton (Editor) Unknown Remains by Peter Leonard Summer of Supernovas by Darcy Woods Black Dove: Essays on Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me by Ana Castillo Survival (Women’s Studies Quarterly) by Frances Bartkowski (Editor), Elena Glasberg (Editor), Taylor Black (Editor) The Miracle on Monhegan Island by Elizabeth Kelly The Pier Falls: And Other Stories by Mark Haddon American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building by Claudia Roth Pierpont Let the Empire Down by Alexandra Oliver Late One Night by Lee Martin Worthy by Lisa Birnbaum Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest by Bryan Hurt (Editor) Allegheny Front by Matthew Neill Null The Mother by Yvvette Edwards The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera (Author), Lisa Dillman (Translator) The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller, translated from German by Philip Boehm Death at Breakfast by Beth Gutcheon You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice by Tom Vanderbilt A Perfect Life by Eileen Pollack The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms by Vishen Lakhiani Troublemaker by Linda Howard Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat by Gary Paulsen League of Dragons by Naomi Novik Reliance, Illinois by Mary Volmer Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency by Charles Rappleye Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick LaRose by Louise Erdrich Every Exquisite Thing by Matthew Quick The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay The Secret Birds by Tony Fitzpatrick Native Believer by Ali Eteraz Killer Deal by Sofie Sarenbrant (Author), Paul Norlen (Translator) South Haven by Hirsh Sawhney The Alchemists’ Council by Cynthea Masson The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden Prayers the Devil Answers by Sharon McCrumb The Summer Guest by Alison Anderson John Barth: A Body of Words by Charles Harris (Editor), Gabrielle Dean (Editor) The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor by John Barth The Tidewater Tales by John Barth The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving by Lisa Miller (paperback) The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips (paperback) A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm by Dave Goulson (paperback) Disgruntled by Asali Solomon (paperback) A History of Loneliness by John Boyne (paperback) The Brothers by Masha Gessen (paperback) Love is Red by Sophie Jaff (paperback) The Girl from the Garden by Parnaz Foroutan (paperback) Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay (paperback)