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Mother’s Day and the Busman’s MBA

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Kim is joined by guest co-host Jeff O’Neal to talk about two of the biggest nonfiction-related news stories of the year, along with books for Mother’s Day and Jeff’s Busman’s MBA.

This episode is sponsored by The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska.

Follow Up and Nonfiction News

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New Books

The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil (April 24 from Crown)

Minority Leader by Stacey Abrams (April 24 from Henry Holt)

Beneath a Ruthless Sun by Gilbert King (April 24 from Riverhead)

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson (April 24 from Viking)

Weekly Theme: Mother’s Day

Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan

Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton

Stuck in the Middle With You by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin

The Busman’s MBA

Back to Work podcast by Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury

Radical Candor by Kim Scott

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The Distraction Addiction by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi

Reading Now

Odd Girl Out by Laura James

The Power of Different by Gail Saltz

Neurotribes by Steve Silberman