New Releases and More for August 13, 2019
This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss gods with a little g, The Memory Police, The Yellow House, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
gods with a little g by Tupelo Hassman
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa and Stephen Snyder
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
Start Here by Trish Doller
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown
Play with Fire (A Breen and Tozer Mystery) by William Shaw
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
What we’re reading:
Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
The Last Stone by Mark Bowden
More books out this week:
Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls by Carrie Goldberg
Below the Line: A Charlie Waldo Novel by Howard Michael Gould
An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo
The Mage-Fire War (Saga of Recluce) by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
The Perfect Son by Lauren North
The Blessing: A Memoir by Gregory Orr
We Are the Ghosts by Vicky Skinner
The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall
Cherry on Top: Flirty, Forty-Something, and Funny as F**k by Bobbie Brown and Caroline Ryder
The Catholic School: A Novel by Edoardo Albinati, Antony Shugaar (translator)
The Swallows: A Novel by Lisa Lutz
Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson
Knock Wood: A Memoir in Essays by Jennifer Militello
The Oysterville Sewing Circle by Susan Wiggs
The Hidden Things by Jamie Mason
The Heart of the Circle by Keren Landsman
Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines by Jonathan Mooney
When the Plums Are Ripe by Patrice Nganang, Amy B. Reid (translator)
Rule of Capture by Christopher Brown
Have You Eaten Grandma?: Or, the Life-Saving Importance of Correct Punctuation, Grammar, and Good English by Gyles Brandreth
Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate by Gary Lippman
The Retreat by Sherri Smith
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle
21 | 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive by Alexandra Manglis, Kristen Case, et al.
Socialist Realism (Emily Books) by Trisha Low
Miami Midnight (Pete Fernandez) by Alex Segura
A Killer Edition (A Booktown Mystery) by Lorna Barrett
The Doll Factory: A Novel by Elizabeth Macneal
Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh (Halfway through this, but so far, so good.)
First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing . . . and Life by Joe Moran
A Keeper by Graham Norton
Campusland by Scott Johnston
The Plateau by Maggie Paxson
I Heart Oklahoma! by Roy Scranton
Hard Mouth by Amanda Goldblatt
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain
Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention by Donna Freitas
Inland by Téa Obreht
Black Light: Stories by Kimberly King Parsons
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City by Anna Sherman
The Winemaker’s Wife by Kristin Harmel
Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
Black Card by Chris L. Terry
Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh (I haven’t read all of this, but I like what I’ve read so far!)
The Accidentals by Minrose Gwin
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen
White Noise by Suzan-Lori Parks
The Bitterroots by C.J. Box
Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind (New York Review Books Classics) by Lyall Watson
Dahlia Black by Keith Thomas
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Devotion by Madeline Stevens
Blood Truth (4) (Black Dagger Legacy) by J.R. Ward
Science Comics: Cats: Nature and Nurture by Andy Hirsch
