New Releases and More for October 25, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Am I Alone Here, On Living, Bruja, and more books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live by Peter Orner
On Living by Kerry Egan
The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz and Hatem Aly
Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain
The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein
Bruja by Wendy Ortiz
The Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss
Deceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa Hua
What we’re reading:
This is a Book About the Kids in the Hall by John Semley
The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos Hernandez
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
American Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell
More books out this week:
Wayward Heroes by Halldor Laxness (Author), Phillip Roughton (Translator)
Story of Love in Solitude by Roger Lewinter (Author), Rachel Careau
Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill
Float by Anne Carson
Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature by Shelley DeWees
The Blood Mirror (Lightbringer) by Brent Weeks
We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories by Clare Beams
Louise Nevelson: Light and Shadow by Laurie Wilson
Lunch Witch: Knee-deep in Niceness by Deb Lucke
Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Jordan Stump
Fields Where They Lay (A Junior Bender Mystery) by Timothy Hallinan
One Minute Mentoring: How to Find and Work with a Mentor—And Why You’ll Benefit from Being One by Ken Blanchard and Claire Diaz-Ortiz
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 by James D. Hornfischer
Sophie Calle: And So Forth by Sophie Calle, with Marie Desplechin
Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco by Paul V. Turner
The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe, edited by Forrest McGill
The Earth Is Weeping : The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
Boy Robot by Simon Curtis
Agnes by Peter Stamm (Author), John Cullen (Translator)
Dragons in Diamond Village: Tales of Resistance from Urbanizing China by David Bandurski
Tohyo Game, Vol. 1 by G.O., Chihiro, and Tatsuhiko
Father Figure by Lamar Herrin
The Terranauts by T.C. Boyle
Land of Love and Ruins by Oddný Eir (Author), Philip Roughton (Translator)
Secret Service Dogs: The Heroes Who Protect the President of the United States by Maria Goodavage
Hell Bay: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel by Will Thomas
Play It Loud : An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar by Brad Tolinski, Alan di Perna
Walk Through Walls by Marina Abramovic
Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert by Helen Thompson, photos by Casey Dunn
Lost Gods by Bram
Laid Waste by Julia Gfrörer
How to Read Medieval Art by Wendy A. Stein
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair
Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
@NatGeo: The Most Popular Instagram Photos by National Geographic
The Whistler by John Grisham
The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin
Frida Kahlo at Home by Suzanne Barbezat
Loan Sharks: The Birth of Predatory Lending by Charles R. Geisst
Losing Is What Matters by Manuel Pérez Subirana (Author), Allen Young (Translator)
Carmen Herrera by Dana Miller
Too Fast to Think: How Our 24/7 Hyper-connected Work Culture Is Destroying Our Creativity by Chris Lewis
Last Train from Perdition (I Travel By Night) by Robert McCammon
A Long December by Richard Chizmar
The In-Betweens by Matthew Simmons
The Book of Endless Sleepovers by Henry Hoke
The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson (paperback)
