New Releases and More for August 6, 2019
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Hollow Kingdom, The Right Swipe, God Land, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America by Lyz Lenz
The Vexations by Caitlin Horrocks
The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai
Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker
Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi and Joshua David Stein
A Particular Kind of Black Man by Tope Folarin
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
What we’re reading:
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
More books out this week:
Let’s Call it a Doomsday by Katie Henry
Outfox by Sandra Brown
Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma Southon
Girl on the Block: A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter by Jessica Wragg
The American Dream?: A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito by Shing Yin Khor
The Dutch Maiden by Marente de Moor, David Doherty (translator)
The Dragon Republic by R. F Kuang
In Other Words: An Illustrated Miscellany of the World’s Most Intriguing Words and Phrases by Christopher J. Moore
Summerlings: A Novel by Lisa Howorth
Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind (New York Review Books Classics) by Lyall Watson
Swipe Right for Murder by Derek Milman
When I Was White: A Memoir by Sarah Valentine
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
Life and Other Inconveniences by Kristan Higgins
Nottingham by Nathan Makaryk
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge A Crash of Fate by Zoraida Cordova
Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury by Sigrid Nunez and Peter Cameron
The Hotel Neversink by Adam O’Fallon Price
A Swirl of Ocean by Melissa Sarno
The Runaway by Hollie Overton
I Know Everything by Matthew Farrell
To the Wren: New and Collected Poems by Jane Mead
The Gossamer Mage by Julie E. Czerneda
The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony by Rick Moody
The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
Be Recorder: Poems by Carmen Giménez Smith
A Pure Heart: A Novel by Rajia Hassib
Berta Isla: A novel by Javier Marías
Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller
The Dishwasher (Biblioasis International Translation Series) by Stéphane Larue and Pablo Strauss
All the Water in the World: A Novel by Karen Raney
The Perfect Wife: A Novel by JP Delaney
Ziggy, Stardust and Me by James Brandon
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
Sea Witch Rising by Sarah Henning
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination by Jess Row
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown
A Nice Cup of Tea by Celia Imrie
The Wolf Wants In: A Novel by Laura McHugh
Lost You: A Novel by Haylen Beck
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir and Christiane Amanpour
House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
City of Windows by Robert Pobi
Valerie: A Novel by Sara Stridsberg, Deborah Bragan-Turner (translator)
Because You’re Mine: A Novel by Rea Frey
First Cosmic Velocity by Zach Powers
Ellie and the Harpmaker by Hazel Prior
Is There Still Sex in the City? by Candace Bushnell
Hunter’s Moon: A Novel in Stories by Philip Caputo
The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán, Sophie Hughes (translator)
We Are All Good People Here: A Novel by Susan Rebecca White
Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry
In the Country of Women: A Memoir by Susan Straight
Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience by Martyn Whittock
Keeping Lucy by T. Greenwood
Love at First Like by Hannah Orenstein
The Birthday Girl: A Novel by Melissa de la Cruz
He by John Connolly
Cornelius Sky by Timothy Brandoff
Say You Still Love Me: A Novel by K.A. Tucker
Careful What You Wish For: A Novel by Hallie Ephron
Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult by Susan Ashline
King of King Court by Travis Dandro
Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing by Elissa Altman
How the Light Gets In by Katy Upperman
How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss
