Francophile Bonanza
This week Alice and Kim talk about Soviet spy cats, French history, and Harper Lee and a murder trial.
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New Books
Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science by Shaili Jain
Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials’ Economic Future by Joseph C. Sternberg
The Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World by Peter Moore
The Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI by Lauren Johnson
No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Synder
The Castle on Sunset by Shawn Levy
Nonfiction About France
KIM: The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
La Belle France: A Short History by Alistair Horne
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar J Mazzeo
The Little Pleasures of Paris by Leslie Jonath
Reading Now
KIM: Becoming by Michelle Obama (audiobook)
ALICE: Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King
CONCLUSION
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