New Releases and More for January 28, 2025
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Old Soul, Syme’s Letter Writer, From These Roots, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Old Soul by Susan Barker
Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton
From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy by Tamara Lanier
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su
What We’re Reading:
Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe
Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures from the National Museum of African American History and Culture edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Kevin M. Strait
The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne by Chris Sweeney
More Books Out This Week:
We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard
At the Bottom of the Garden by Camilla Bruce
The Outcast Mage by Annabel Campbell
We Rip the World Apart by Charlene Carr
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr
The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You by Neko Case
Recommended Reading by Paul Coccia
It’s a Love/Skate Relationship by Carli J. Corson
The Scorpion Queen by Mina Fears
The Oligarch’s Daughter by Joseph Finder
Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope by Catherine Coleman Flowers
We Are Watching by Alison Gaylin
Here Beside the Rising Tide by Emily Jane
Yin Yang Love Song by Lauren Kung Jessen
Spiral by Bal Khabra
The English Problem by Beena Kamlani
Wild West Village: Not a Memoir (Unless I Win an Oscar, Die Tragically, or Score a Country #1) by Lola Kirke
Underground Barbie by Maša Kolanovic, Ena Selimovic (translator)
Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids: Stories by Leyna Krow
Gate to Kagoshima by Poppy Kuroki
At Dark, I Become Loathsome by Eric LaRocca
I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang
Bronshtein in the Bronx by Robert Littell
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey
Our Winter Monster by Dennis Mahoney
Stars Around My Scars: The Annotated Poetry of Taylor Swift by Elly McCausland
The Crash by Freida McFadden
Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel by Walter Mosley
The Weekend Guests by Liza North
Pretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ’90s by Tanya Pearson
Too Soon by Betty Shamieh
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir by Kay Sohini
On the Wings of la Noche by Vanessa L. Torres
Johnny Careless by Kevin Wade
The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
Tell Me What You Did by Carter Wilson
I Think They Love You by Julian Winters