New Releases for Oct. 13, 2015

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Calf, Thirteen Ways of Looking, Mrs. Engels, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by And West Is West by Ron Childress and FabFitFun. 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: Calf by Andrea Kleine Thirteen Ways of Looking: Stories by Colum McCann Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories edited by Audrey Niffenegger Twain’s End by Lynn Cullen (Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan) Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim Mighty, Mighty by Wally Rudolph Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet What we’re reading: The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms: How One Man Scorched the Twentieth Century But Didn’t Mean To by Ian Thornton Upright Beasts: Stories by Lincoln Michel More books out this week: Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library by Wayne A. Wiegand We That Are Left by Clare Clark Boxes by Pascal Garnier (Author), Melanie Florence (Translator) Juventud by Vanessa Blakeslee Interlock: Art, Conspiracy, and the Shadow of Mark Lombardi by Patricia Goldstone Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage by Kathleen Winter Three Days in April by Edward Ashton Drinking in America: Our Secret History by Susan Cheever The Xenotext: Book I by Christian Bök The Mystics of Mile End by Sigal Samuel The Glacier by Jeff Wood The Masked Truth by Kelly Armstrong The Education of a Poker Player by James McManus She Came from Beyond by Nadine Darling The World of Poo by Terry Pratchett Vulgar Things by Lee Rourke Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson (paperback) The Sleep of the Righteous by Wolfgang Hilbig (Author), Isabel Fargo Cole (Translator) The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science by Siddhartha Mukherjee City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg Not in God’s Name by Jonathan Sacks The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter Ardour: Poems by Nicole Brossard Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Aging by Dick Van Dyke The Devil and Winnie Flynn by Micol Ostow and David Ostow No True Echo by Gareth P. Jones The Do-Right by Lisa Sandlin Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing by Jamie Holmes All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani Eyes by William Gass The Tears of Dark Water by Corban Addison The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf Howl: of Woman and Wolf by Susan Imhoff Bird Pillow by Andrew Battershill Rules for Werewolves by Kirk Lynn The Trench Angel by Michael Keenan Gutierrez And West is West by Ron Childress The Sea Beach Line by Ben Nadler Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello The Rose Society (A Young Elites Novel) by Marie Lu Cleopatra’s Shadows by Emily Holleman The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum by Gavin Francis Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of A Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator by Homer Hickam Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz by Maxim Biller Juba! by Walter Dean Myers Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir: With the lost photographs of David Attie by Truman Capote and David Attie Out of Mercy by Jonathan Ashley Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant Dreams of the Red Phoenix by Virginia Pye The Good Neighbor by Amy Sue Nathan A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God by Etgar Keret Newt’s Emerald: Magic, Maids, and Masquerades by Garth Nix Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini 10:04 by Ben Lerner (paperback) The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue (paperback) The Strangest by Michael J. Seidlinger In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914 by Leslie S. Klinger