New Releases and More for August 14, 2018
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Severance, She Begat This, His Favorites, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Severance: A Novel by Ling Ma
She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Joan Morgan
Let Me Be Like Water by S.K. Perry
Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee
Sweet Little Lies: A Novel by Caz Frear
Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf
His Favorites by Kate Walbert
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History by Camille T. Dungy
What we’re reading:
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
More books out this week:
Fresh Ink: An Anthology edited by Lamar Giles
The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón
Don’t Send Flowers by Martin Solares
The Line That Held Us by David Joy
Finding Esme by Suzanne Crowley
Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago by Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz
The Sapphire Widow: A Novel by Dinah Jefferies
Believe Me by J.P. Delaney
The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump by Ron Fein and John Bonifaz
Pinnacle City: A Superhero Noir by Matt Carter and Fiona J.R. Titchenell
Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán, Dick Cluster (Translator)
Blind Kiss by Renee Carlino
Burden: A Preacher, a Klansman, and a True Story of Redemption in the Modern South by Courtney Hargrave
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee
The Eye: An Insider’s Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art by Philippe Costamagna
Bosom Buddies: A Celebration of Female Friendships throughout History by Violet Zhang and Sally Nixon
Cherry by Nico Walker
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper
Connect: A Novel by Julian Gough
The Dark Vault: Unlock the Archive (The Archived) by Victoria Schwab
The Arid Sky by Emiliano Monge, Thomas Bunstead (Translator)
You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar
feeld by Jos Charles
Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu (Author), Joel Martinsen (Translator)
Abandoned by Allison Brennan
The Million by Karl Schroeder
Mysterium: A Novel by Susan Froderberg
My Life Uploaded by Rae Earl
Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories by Abbey Mei Otis
A Girl’s Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America’s Secret Desert by Karen Piper
A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua
Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love by Anna Moschovakis
The Story of H: A Novel by Marina Perezagua
Stars Uncharted by S. K. Dunstall
Wild Hunger (An Heirs of Chicagoland Novel) by Chloe Neill
Google It: A History of Google by Anna Crowley Redding
So Done by Paula Chase
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (Translator)
The Shakespeare Requirement: A Novel by Julie Schumacher
Bogotá 39: New Voices from Latin America by Various and Gabriela Jauregui
Feared by Lisa Scottoline
Relic by Alan Dean Foster
Chopin’s Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music by Paul Kildea
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
All Happy Families: A Memoir by Jeanne McCulloch
Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present by Peter Vronsky
Herokiller by Paul Tassi
The Point by John Dixon
Implanted by Lauren C. Teffeau
Penelope Lemon: Game On! (Yellow Shoe Fiction) by Inman Majors
The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor (translator) (paperback)
Eat Only When You’re Hungry by Lindsay Hunter (paperback)
The Hidden Light of Northern Fires by Daren Wang (paperback)
A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (paperback)
Flying Lessons & Other Stories by Ellen Oh (paperback)
