New Releases and More for January 21, 2025

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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss The Rainfall Market, The Broposal, We Do Not Part, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang, Slin Jung (translator)

The Broposal by Sonora Reyes

Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis by Tao Leigh Goffe

The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood by Kristen Martin

We Do Not Part by Han Kang, Paige Aniyah Morris (translator)

The Favorites by Layne Fargo

A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage by Marcus Chown

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

Paperback Releases:

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson 

River Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta

The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra 

Island Witch by Amanda Jayatissa

No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall 

Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn

A Broken People’s Playlist: Stories (from Songs) by Chimeka Garricks

What We’re Reading:

Nobody in Particular by Sophie Gonzales

Wizkit 2: A Tail of Disruption by Tanya J. Scott

Nobody’s Empire by Stuart Murdoch 

More Books Out This Week:

The Choreic Period: Poems by Latif Askia Ba

A Death in Diamonds (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates ) by S. J. Bennett

Scattergood by H. M. Bouwman

Star-Crossed Egg Tarts: A Magical Fortune Cookie Novel by Jennifer J. Chow

Motheater by Linda H. Codega

Mask of the Deer Woman by Laurie L. Dove

The New Internationals by David Wright Falade

The Wickedest by Caleb Femi

Isola by Allegra Goodman

The Queen of Fives by Alex Hay

Save Me, Stranger: Stories by Erika Krouse

Strange Stones by Edward Lee, Mary SanGiovanni

The Relationship Mechanic by Karmen Lee

Zoe Brennan, First Crush by Laura Piper Lee

Something Rotten by Andrew Lipstein

The Rival by Emma Lord

She Doesn’t Have a Clue by Jenny Elder Moke

The White Peril: A Family Memoir by Omo Moses

Strange Beach: Poems by Oluwaseun Olayiwola

Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation by Bennett Parten

The Legend of Meneka (The Divine Dancers, #1) by Kritika H. Rao

The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha

The Treacherous Wife by Saundra

My Mother’s Boyfriends: Stories by Samantha Schoech

A Crown So Silver (Fair Folk) by Lyra Selene

Better Than Friends by Jill Shalvis

Earl Crush by Alexandra Vasti 

Safe Harbor by Padma Venkatraman

A Gorgeous Excitement by Cynthia Weiner 

Mona Acts Out by Mischa Berlinski

Onyx Storm (The Empyrean) by Rebecca Yarros