New Releases and More for January 21, 2025
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