New Releases for Oct. 27, 2015
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witches: Salem 1692, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Slade House, and more new releases.
This episode was sponsored by A Blossom of Bright Light by Suzanne Chazin, Trigger Warning: Short Fiction and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman and FabFitFun.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
Slade House by David Mitchell
The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson
We Five by Mark Dunn
(Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn)
Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed
Home by Leila S. Chudori (Author), John H. McGlynn (Translator)
2 am at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino
What we’re reading:
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: Stories by Helen Oyeyemi
The Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff
More books out this week:
A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George
Kid Moses by Mark R. Thornton
Government Zero: No Borders, No Language, No Culture by Michael Savage
A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising by Miron Białoszewski
Beloved Dog by Maira Kalman
Mr. Kafka: And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult by Bohumil Hrabal (Author), Paul Wilson (Translator)
Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers by Matt Kaplan
Wildflower by Drew Barrymore
Christmas Bells by Jennifer Chiaverini
A Death in the Family by Michael Stanley
Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe – and Started the Protestant Reformation by Andrew Pettegree
Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Season by Urban Meyer
Naughtier Than Nice by Eric Jerome Dickey
My Father’s Guitar and Other Imaginary Things by Joseph Skibell
Last Night’s Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors by Kate Gavino
Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President by Betty Boyd Caroli
The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion by Wendy Williams
The Uncollected David Rakoff: Including the entire text of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff
Proust by Benjamin Taylor
Food Whore by Jessica Tom
The Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest by Mark Z. Danielewski
Sinatra’s Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World by David Lehman
Sinatra: The Chairman by James Kaplan
Home by Ellen DeGeneres
Junior Seau: The Life and Death of a Football Icon by Jim Trotter
Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen
Son of the Black Sword (Saga of the Forgotten Warrior) by Larry Correia
The Palest Ink by Kay Bratt
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss
The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui’s Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory by Julie Checkoway
Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
Almost Interesting by David Spade
The Early Stories of Truman Capote
The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis
Blueblood by Matthew Iden
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers by Simon Winchester
Cold-Hearted Rake by Lisa Kleypas
The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume 1: At the Edge of Empire by Daniel Kraus
Falling Into Bed with a Duke (Hellions of Havisham) by Lorraine Heath
Playing with Fire by Tess Gerritsen
The Pathless Sky by Chaitali Sen
After Alice by Gregory Maguire
The English and Their History by Robert Tombs
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories edited by Otto Penzler
The Mulberry Bush by Charles McCarry
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik
These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly
The Circle by Bernard Minier
Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T. J. Stiles
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
The Devious Dr. Jekyll: An Electric Empire Novel by Viola Carr
Ghettoside : A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy (paperback)
Trigger Warning: Short Fiction and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman (paperback)