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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, The Third Hotel, That Kind of Mother, and more upcoming books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Ambiguity Machines: and Other Stories by Vandana Singh

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg

Brass by Xhenet Aliu

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu

That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam

All the Names They Used for God: Stories by Anjali Sachdeva

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

Stray City by Chelsey Johnson

Don’t Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life by Peggy Orenstein

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust by Laura Smith

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein

We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories (Art of the Story) by Stephanie Powell Watts

Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht

When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele

Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour

Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro

What we’re reading this week:

Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt

Our Lady of the Prairie by Thisbe Nissen

The Art of the Wasted Day by Patricia Hampl

More books out this week:

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

The Spring Girls by Anna Todd

Darkness, Sing Me a Song: A Holland Taylor Mystery by David Housewright

Promise Not to Tell by Jayne Ann Krentz

Between the Blade and the Heart (Valkyrie) by Amanda Hocking

The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson

Green: A Novel by Sam Graham-Felsen

Robicheaux: A Novel by James Lee Burke

A State of Freedom: A Novel by Neel Mukherjee

Chainbreaker by Tara Sim

Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai

Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children by Sara Zaske

Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano

The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner’s Guide to Getting Good with Money by Chelsea Fagan

Ink by Alice Broadway

Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp

Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin by James L. Swanson

The Devil’s Song by Lauren Stahl

The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn

How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness by Andrea Owen

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce

The Lost Rainforest: Mez’s Magic by Eliot Schrefer,‎ Emilia Dziubak (Illustrator)

Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

The Queen of All Crows by Rod Duncan

Mouths Don’t Speak by Katja D. Ulysse

The Outcasts of Time by Ian Mortimer

Everless by Sara Holland

A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis

Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu

Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life by David Giffels

Unbound (A Stone Barrington Novel) by Stuart Woods

Don’t Cosplay with My Heart by Cecil Castellucci

In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers: 1850-1917 by Leslie S. Klinger

The Nothing by Hanif Kureishi

Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee

Black Star Renegades by Michael Moreci

Beneath the Mountain: A Novel by Luca D’Andrea

The Pyramid of Mud (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery) by Andrea Camilleri,‎ Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)

The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions by Maud Casey

Fallen Gods by James A. Moore

Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts by Alexander Langlands

A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole

Meet Cute by Various Contributors

Someone to Love by Melissa de la Cruz

The Refugees: Stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen (paperback)