New Releases and More for October 11, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Mothers, Hag-Seed, A Life in Parts, and more books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky
Drinking in America: Our Secret History by
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
The Golden Age by Joan London
The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos Hernandez
The World’s Largest Man by Harrison Scott Key
By Gaslight by Steven Price
Angels of Music by Kim Newman
A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
What we’re reading:
Ill Will by Dan Chaon
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
More books out this week:
Every Hidden Thing by Kenneth Oppel
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Conspiracy of Ravens by Lila Bowen
Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century by Simon Reynolds
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade
Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
French Girl with Mother by Norman Ollestad
Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon to be on Fire: Essays by Liza Monroy
The Return of the Honey Buzzard by Aimée de Jongh
We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative by George J. Borjas
Indestructible: One Man’s Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII by John R Bruning
Be Good Be Real Be Crazy by Chelsey Philpot
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote
Brat Pack America: Visiting Cult Movies of the ’80s by Kevin Smokler
The Abandoned Heart: A Bliss House Novel by Laura Benedict
Upstream by Mary Oliver
The Clancys of Queens: A Memoir by Tara Clancy
Around the Way Girl: A Memoir by Taraji P. Henson
Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing by Jennifer Weiner
In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine by Tim Judah
Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein by James Patterson
Age of Folly: America Abandons Its Democracy by Lewis H. Lapham
Gone ‘Til November: A Journal of Rikers Island by Lil Wayne
Future Sex by Emily Witt
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) by Eliot Weinberger
The Years That Followed by Catherine Dunne
The Hidden Keys by André Alexis
The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter by John Pipkin
Martutene by Ramón Saizarbitoria (Author), Aritz Branton (Translator)
Tetris: The Games People Play by Box Brown
Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American by Okey Ndibe
Body of Water: A Sage, a Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish by Chris Dombrowski
Just Fine with Caroline: A Cold River Novel by Annie England Noblin
Extraordinary October by Diana Wagman
Orders to Kill by Vince Flynn
Crimson Death by Laurell K. Hamilton
“Bad News”: The Turbulent Life of Marvin Barnes, Pro Basketball’s Original Renegade by Mike Carey
The Midwife by Katja Kettu (Author), David Hackston (Translator)
The Delphi Effect (The Delphi Trilogy) by Rysa Walker
Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63 by Marcelino Truong (Author), David Homel (Translator)
French Rhapsody by Antoine Laurain (Author), Emily Boyce (Translator), Jane Aitken (Translator)
The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan
Precious and Grace : No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (17) by Alexander McCall Smith
The General vs. the President : MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War by H.W. Brands
Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin
Him, Me, Muhammad Ali by Randa Jarrar
Who Killed These Girls? : Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders by Beverly Lowry
Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir by Amy Kurzweil
Still Life with Tornado by A. S. King
Draw My Life: How Animation Helped Me Break Out of My Shell and Other Stories by Dominic Panganiban
The Annie Year by Stephanie Wilbur Ash
For the Love of Meat: Nine Illustrated Stories by Jenny Jaeckel
The Real Madrid Way: How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet by Steven G. Mandis
Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee by Mary G. Thompson
Scratch by Steve Himmer
I Don’t Want to Know Anyone Too Well: Collected Stories by Norman Levine
Swan Boy by Nikki Sheehan
Little Sister Death by William Gay (paperback)
The Purpose Economy, Expanded and Updated: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World by Aaron Hurst (paperback)
God’s Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher