New Releases and More for April 16, 2019
This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Miracle Creek, The Binding, Alice’s Island, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
The Binding by Bridget Collins
Alice’s Island: A Novel by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family by Anika Fajardo
How To Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow
Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen
Amnesty: Book 3 in the Amberlough Dossier by Lara Elena Donnelly
Flowers over the Inferno (A Teresa Battaglia Novel) by Ilaria Tuti, Ekin Oklap (translator)
What we’re reading:
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery by Alan Bradley
Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer by Eve Lazarus
More books out this week:
The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father by Janny Scott
The Mister by E.L. James
Swimming for Sunlight by Allie Larkin
The Velvet Rose by Susan Holmes McKagan
A Change of Time by Ida Jessen, Martin Aitken (Translator)
Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu
The Raven’s Tale by Cat Winters
Permission by Saskia Vogel
When You Learn the Alphabet (The Iowa Prize in Literary Nonfiction) by Kendra Allen
August Isle by Ali Standish
The Parrot’s Perch: A Memoir by Karen Keilt
The Better Sister: A Novel by Alafair Burke
City of Flickering Light by Juliette Fay
Thomas and Beal in the Midi: A Novel by Christopher Tilghman
Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf
Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life after Sexual Assault by Jen Sookfong Lee and Stacey May Fowles
The Rose by Tiffany Reisz
No Country for Old Gnomes: The Tales of Pell by Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson
The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia and Simon Bruni
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
Feast Your Eyes: A Novel by Myla Goldberg
An Anatomy of Beasts by Olivia A. Cole
The Meaning of Birds by Jaye Robin Brown
Before We Were Wicked by Eric Jerome Dickey
The Limits of the World by Jennifer Acker
Southern Lady Code: Essays by Helen Ellis
Roar by Cecelia Ahern
Lost Without the River: A Memoir by Barbara Hoffebeck Scoblic
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben
The House of the Pain of Others: Chronicle of a Small Genocide by Julián Herbert
The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin
Upon a Burning Throne by Ashok K. Banker
Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan
Winds of Marque by Bennett R. Coles
Diary of a Murderer: And Other Stories by Young-Ha Kim, Krys Lee
Normal People: A Novel by Sally Rooney
Dark Constellations by Pola Oloixarac, Roy Kesey (translator)
Under the Table: A Novel by Stephanie Evanovich
The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall by Mark W. Moffett
Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe by Ella Frances Sanders
The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel by Alexander McCall Smith
Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear by Bryce Andrews
Relight My Fire by Joanna Bolouri
The Time Collector: A Novel by Gwendolyn Womack
Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells by Pico Iyer
Hitler’s Last Plot: The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II by Ian Sayer and Jeremy Dronfield
The Question Authority by Rachel Cline