New Releases and More for April 8, 2025
This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Sky Daddy, Murder as Gulls Nest, The 10, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Sky Daddy by Kate Folk
Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd
Big Chief by Jon Hickey
Coven by Soman Soman Chainani and Joel Gennari
The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road by E.A. Hanks
A Proposal to Die For by Molly Harper
Audition by Katie Kitamura
Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Paperback Releases:
My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future by Alice Randall
The Garden by Clare Beams
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Worry by Alexandra Tanner
Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles
Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta
What We’re Reading:
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Influencers by Anna-Marie Mclemore
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell (translator)
More Books Out This Week:
Plum by Andy Anderegg
Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes
Desperate Deadly Widows by Kimberly Belle, Vanessa Lillie, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan
Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom
Authority: Essays by Andrea Long Chu
Firebird (The Fire That Binds, #1) by Juliette Cross
The Cut by C.J. Dotson
Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir by Joanna Rubin Dranger
Roll for Love by M.K. England
What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change by Emily Falk
The Gods Time Forgot by Kelsie Sheridan Gonzalez
Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris
The Geographer’s Map to Romance (Love’s Academic) by India Holton
Boys with Sharp Teeth by Jenni Howell
Horror on the Brain: The Neuroscience Behind Science Fiction by Austin Lim
Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores by Katie Mitchell and Nikki Giovanni
This Is Not a Game by Kelly Mullen
The Cat Who Saved the Library by Sosuke Natsukawa, Louise Heal Kawai (translator)
The Creation of Half-Broken People by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
My Documents by Kevin Nguyen
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Never List by Jade Presley
Slayers, Every One of Us: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On by Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs
The Float Test by Lynn Steger Strong
Their Monstrous Hearts by Yigit Turhan
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age by Vauhini Vara
Don’t Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo
Good Friends: Bonds That Change Us and the World by Priya Vulchi
The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
Encountering Dragonfly: Notes on the Practice of Re-enchantment by Brooke Williams
Mahjong: House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora by Nicole Wong
