New Releases for May 3, 2016

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Yoga of Max’s Discontent, Sweet Lamb of Heaven, and Imagine Me Gone, and more new releases.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, The Killing Forest by Sara Blaedel, and Book of the Month.

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Books discussed on the show:

Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett

Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet

The Yoga of Max’s Discontent by Karan Bajaj

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

What we’re reading:

Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

More books out this week:

Blood Defense by Marcia Clark

Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens

Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley

The Strings of Murder by Oscar De Muriel

15th Affair by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood

The Dove’s Necklace by Raja Alem

The Blue Bath by Mary Waters-Sayer

Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor by Clinton Romesha

There Will Be Stars by Billy Coffey

The Silent Army: Seven Forges Book IV by James A Moore

The Defense by Steve Cavanagh

The Painter of Souls by Philip Kazan

Unashamed by LeCrae

The Miles Between Me: Essays by Toni Nealie

Night Shift (A Novel of Midnight, Texas) by Charlaine Harris

Voroshilovgrad by Serhiy Zhadan (Author), Reilly Costigan-Humes (Translator), Isaac Wheeler (Translator)

The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror by Joyce Carol Oates

Letters To Kevin by Stephen Dixon

The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir by Betsy Lerner

Diana’s Altar (A Detective Joe Sandilands Novel) by Barbara Cleverly

The Way Back to You by Michelle Andreani and Mindi Scott

Heat and Light by Jennifer Haigh

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick

Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz by Delmore Schwartz

Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety by Ann Y. K. Choi

The Last Good Girl by Allison Leotta

The Service of the Dead by Candace Robb

Back to Moscow by Guillermo Erades

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman

The Hotel of the Three Roses by Augusto De Angelis (Author), Jill Foulston (Translator)

The True Tails of Baker and Taylor: The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town . . . and the World by Jan Louch and Lisa Rogak

Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart

The Blood Between Us by Zac Brewer

And After the Fire by Lauren Belfer

The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan

The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett

Sergio Y. by Alexandre Vidal Porto, trans. from the Portuguese by Alex Ladd

The Debutante Is Mine by Vivienne Lorret

Traitor Angels by Anne Blankman

Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes

The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

Warrior Witch: Malediction Trilogy Book Three by Danielle L. Jensen

Tasa’s Song by Linda Kass

Ruined by Amy Tintera

The Crown by Kiera Cass

The Star-touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All-Time Greatest Hits by Mark Binelli

Existential Monday: Essays by Benjamin Fondane

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero

Cinepoems and Others by Benjamin Fondane

Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights by Ann Bausum

Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran by Barry Meier

Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement by Thomas Geoghegan

Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi by Teffi (Author), Robert Chandler (Translator), Rose France (Translator), Anne Marie Jackson (Translator)

Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo

Not Working by Lisa Owens

Amateurs by Dylan Hicks

Double Down (Lois Lane) by Gwenda Bond

Pinpoint: GPS and the Quest for Perfect Knowledge by Greg Milner

Songs from a Mountain: Poems by Amanda Nadelberg

The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan

The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine di Giovanni

Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story by Matti Friedman

Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman

White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer

The Assistants by Camille Perri

The Apartment by Danielle Steel

Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World by Gregory Woods

The Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel

Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann

The Chimes by Anna Smaill

The Outliers by Kimberly McCreight

If I Was Your Girl by Melissa Russo

The Girl from Summer Hill: A Summer Hill by Jude Deveraux

May Day: Poems by Gretchen Marquette

Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table by Ellen Wayland-Smith

Desert Boys by Chris McCormick

Rutabaga the Adventure Chef: Feasts of Fury by Eric Colossal

The Lamentations of Zeno by Ilija Trojanow

I Let You Go by Claire Mackintosh

Zero K by Don DeLillo

A Fine Imitation by Amber Brock

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

Redemption Road by John Hart

The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude

She by Michelle Latiolais

Beer Money: A Story of Privilege and Loss by Frances Stroh

Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn by Ace Atkins

The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock (paperback)

The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon (paperback)

The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley by Jeremy Massey (paperback)

The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck (paperback)

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (paperback)