New Releases and More for February 11, 2025
This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Little Mysteries, Original Sins, (S)kin, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Little Mysteries: Nine Miniature Puzzles to Confuse, Enthrall, and Delight by Sara Gran
Dead in the Frame by Stephen Spotswood
Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
(S)kin by Ibi Zoboi
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed
The Crimson Road by A.G. Slatter
What We’re Reading:
Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza
Rats, Lice and History by Hans Zinsser
More Books Out This Week:
It’s All or Nothing, Vale by Andrea Beatriz Arango
Where Shadows Bloom by Catherine Bakewell
Change of Heart by Falon Ballard
Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford
The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History by Rich Benjamin
The Forest King’s Daughter (Thirstwood, #1) by Elly Blake
The Last Hamilton by Jenn Bregman
The Pink Agave Motel & Other Stories by V. Castro
Tsunami: Women’s Voices from Mexico edited by Heather Cleary and Gabriela Jauregui
There’s No Turning Back by Alba de Céspedes, Ann Goldstein (translator)
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
The Perfect Rom-Com by Melissa Ferguson
Brother Brontë by Fernando A. Flores
Casualties of Truth by Lauren Francis-Sharma
Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice Franklin
Nothing Ever Happens Here by Seraphina Nova Glass
Can’t Help Faking in Love by Swati Hegde
Ugliness by Moshtari Hilal, Elisabeth Lauffer (translator)
Les Normaux: A Graphic Novel by Janine Janssen
After the North Pole: A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice by Erling Kagge and Kari Dickson
Dropping Beats by Nathanael Lessore
Covert Joy: Selected Stories by Clarice Lispector
New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae
You Didn’t Hear This From Me by Kelsey McKinney
The Dollhouse Academy by Margarita Montimore
We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes
Symbiote by Michael Nayak
Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories by Amanda Peters
You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego
But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo
The Poorly Made and Other Things by Sam Rebelein
Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield
Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk by Mike Sielski
The Spirit Collection of Thorne Hall by J. Ann Thomas
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
Scythe & Sparrow: The Ruinous Love Trilogy by Brynne Weaver
Mazeltov by Eli Zuzovsky
