New Releases for Sept. 8, 2015

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss This is Your Life, Harriet Chance, Negroland: A Memoir, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz, Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash, and Baba Yaga’s Assistant by Marika McCoola and Emily Carroll. 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: This is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson Sweetland by Michael Crummey Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity–What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves by Christian Rudder  As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem Skippy Dies by Paul Murray The Secret History by Donna Tartt What we’re reading: Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due Lum by Libby Ware More books out this week: Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1950-2013 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy, M.D. Bream Gives Me Hiccups by Jesse Eisenberg Sleepwalker: The Mysterious Makings and Recovery of a Somnambulist by Kathleen Frazier and Mark Mahowald The Afterlife Academy by Frank Cole Benjamin Franklin: Huge Pain in my… by Adam Mansbach and Alan Zweibel Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder Reckless: My Life as a Pretender by Chrissie Hynde Drowning Is Inevitable by Shalanda Stanley The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why by Arthur Benjamin The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? by Dale Russakoff The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf The Hummingbird by Stephen P. Kiernan Edgewater by Courtney Sheinmel The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes by Judith Flanders The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution by Rachel Moran The Same City by Luisgé Martín Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash Between Clay and Dust by Musharraf Ali Farooqi Fear of Dying by Erica Jong The Grammar of God: A Journey Into the Words and Worlds of the Bible by Aviya Kushner Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash Captain in Calico by George Macdonald Fraser The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable FIB by Adam Shaughnessy The Real Justine by Stephen Amidon Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell No God But Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States by Stephen Chambers Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz Barcelona Shadows by Marc Pastor Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie Make Me by Lee Child Girl Without a Name by Sandra Block Confessions of an Imaginary Friend: A Memoir by Jacques Papier by Michelle Cuevas Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy Williams Fat City by Leonard Gardner The Reflection by Hugo Wilcken Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates I Can Give You Anything But Love by Gary Indiana Idyll Threats by Stephanie Gayle The Little Water Sprite by Otfried Preussler and Winnie Gebhardt-Gayler The Little Witch by Otfried Preussler and Winnie Gebhardt-Gayler The Art of Crash Landing by Melissa DeCarlo The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt That Changed the Nation by Joe Urschel Cries for Help, Various: Stores by Padgett Powell Taking Terri Mueller by Norma Fox Mazer Brilliant by Roddy Doyle Cinderland: A Memoir by Amy Jo Burns (paperback) Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson (paperback) The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (paperback)