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This week, Liberty and Jeff discuss Memory Piece, James, Next Stop, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Memory Piece by Lisa Ko

James by Percival Everett

Next Stop by Debbie Fong

The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Stars Turned Inside Out by Nova Jacobs

The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System by Dante S. Lauretta

The Mars House by Natasha Pulley

The Morningside by Téa Obreht

Paperback Releases:

Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry  

Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal 

Night’s Edge by Liz Kerin  

Biography of X by Catherine Lacey  

The Killing Code by Ellie Marney  

Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina 

Zero Days by Ruth Ware 

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

What We’re Reading:

There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Adurraquib

The Hunter by Tana French

Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey

More Books Out This Week:

Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

In a Not So Perfect World by Neely Tubati Alexander

Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better by Polly Atkin 

Wild Houses by Colin Barrett

The Waves Take You Home by María Alejandra Barrios Vélez

The Divorcées by Rowan Beaird

The Princess of Las Vegas by Chris Bohjalian

Bad Animals by Sarah Braunstein 

Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler

Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh

Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis 

The Weavers of Alamaxa (The Alamaxa Duology, #2) by Hadeer Elsbai

Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico by Jamie Figueroa

One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford

Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? by Nicci French 

The Revenant Games by Margie Fuston

The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill

The Day Tripper by James Goodhand

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad: Stories by Damilare Kuku

The Last Bloodcarver (The Last Bloodcarver Duology) by Vanessa Le

Jaded by Ela Lee

Fervor by Toby Lloyd

​​The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo

The Observable Universe: An Investigation by Heather McCalden 

Under This Red Rock by Mindy McGinnis

The Tree Doctor by Marie Mutsuki Mockett

A Year of Last Things: Poems by Michael Ondaatje

No Judgment: Essays by Lauren Oyler

A Midnight Puzzle: A Secret Staircase Mystery by Gigi Pandian

Forgotten Sisters by Cynthia Pelayo

Cancelled by Farrah Penn

Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker by Jessica Pryce

Wolf at the Table by Adam Rapp 

Cascade Failure (Ambit’s Run, #1) by L.M. Sagas 

Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi, Una Dimitrijevic (translator)

Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle 

Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash

Rules for Rule Breaking by Talia Tucker

Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother’s Life by Kao Kalia Yang