New Releases and More for April 9, 2019
This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Descendant of the Crane, In the Neighborhood of True, Trust Exercise, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Descendant of the Crane by Joan He
The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees by Meredith May
Trust Exercise: A Novel by Susan Choi
In the Neighborhood of True by Susan Kaplan Carlton
Naamah: A Novel by Sarah Blake
You Go First by Erin Entrada Kelly
Phantoms: A Novel by Christian Kiefer
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon
What we’re reading:
With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel by Juliet Grames
More books out this week:
Working by Robert A. Caro
Riverland by Fran Wilde
Saturday’s Child: A Daughter’s Memoir by Deborah Burns
In the Key of Nira Ghani by Natasha Deen
Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer by Eve Lazarus
This Book Is Not Yet Rated by Peter Bognanni
If I Had Two Lives by Abbigail N. Rosewood
Without Protection by Gala Mukomolova
Summer of My Amazing Luck: A Novel by Miriam Toews
The Eighth Sister: A Thriller by Robert Dugoni
The Casket of Time by Andri Snær Magnason (Author), Björg Arnadóttir (Translator), Andrew Cauthery (Translator)
Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life by Humble the Poet
When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
Meet Cute by Helena Hunting
Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum by Lee Smolin
Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America by Jared Cohen
Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline
Pickle’s Progress: A Novel by Marcia Butler
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
My Coney Island Baby: A Novel by Billy O’Callaghan
Make/Shift (Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature) by Joe Sacksteder
The Red Scrolls of Magic (The Eldest Curses) by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu
How To Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Outside Looking In: A Novel by T.C. Boyle
The Lost History of Dreams: A Novel by Kris Waldherr
Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall
The Magnetic Girl by Jessica Handler
The Dream Peddler: A Novel by Martine Fournier Watson
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker
The Risk of Us by Rachel Howard
Afternoon of a Faun by James Lasdun
Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza, Thomas Bunstead (translator)
Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein
The Ash Family by Molly Dektar
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
Murmur by Will Eaves
WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game by Abby Wambach
Soon the Light Will Be Perfect: A Novel by Dave Patterson
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman
Metropolis (A Bernie Gunther Novel) by Philip Kerr
Confessions of an Innocent Man: A Novel by David R. Dow
Dreaming Darkly by Caitlin Kittredge
Through the White Wood by Jessica Leake
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
The Last by Hanna Jameson
The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris by Mark Honigsbaum
The Book of Dreams: A Novel by Nina George
How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow
We Are Mayhem: A Black Star Renegades Novel by Michael Moreci
Alien: Echo: An Original Young Adult Novel of the Alien Universe by Mira Grant
Bright by Duanwad Pimwana and Mui Poopoksakul
Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires) Sam Sykes
It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) by Trevor Noah
Trophy Life by Lea Geller
So Who’s Counting?: The Little Quote Book About Growing Older and Still Kicking Ass by Erin McHugh and Emily Luchetti
The City of Folding Faces by Jayinee Basu
All the Fierce Tethers by Lia Purpura
Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud
