New Releases and More for March 25, 2025

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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss When the Moon Hits Your Eye, Blazing Eye Sees All, The Portable Feminist Reader, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age by Leah Sottile

Garbage Town by Ravi Gupta

The Portable Feminist Reader edited by Roxane Gay

The Keeper of Lonely Spirits by E.M. Anderson

Black. Fat. Femme: Revealing the Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and Learning to Love Yourself by Jonathan P. Higgins, Ed.D

Tilt by Emma Pattee

Bearsuit Turtle Makes a Friend by Bob Shea

Elphie: A Wicked Childhood by Gregory Maguire 

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

Paperback Releases:

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

Real Americans by Rachel Khong

Diavola by Jennifer Thorne

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

​​How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin

Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo

What We’re Reading:

Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman with recipes by Roxane Gay

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

The Unveiling by Quan Barry

More Books Out This Week:

Dissolution by Nicholas Binge

The Church of Living Dangerously: Tales of a Drug-Running Megachurch Pastor by John Lee Bishop

Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen

Lovely Dark and Deep by Elisa A. Bonnin

Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America by Jane Borden

We Are Villains by Kacen Callender

How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir by Claire Cameron

Gothictown by Emily Carpenter 

Tideborn (Drowned World, #2) by Eliza Chan

A Lesson in Dying: The First Inspector Ramsay Novel by Ann Cleeves

The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie

Psychopomp by Maria Dong

The Other People by C.B. Everett

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone 

rekt by Alex Gonzalez

Nowhere by Allison Gunn

The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree by India Hayford

Saltwater by Katy Hays

Trauma Plot: A Life by Jamie Hood

Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp 

Lucky Night by Eliza Kennedy

Counting Backwards by Binnie Kirshenbaum

Cover Story by Celia Laskey

The Serpent Called Mercy by Roanne Lau

Behind the Waterline by Kionna Walker LeMalle

To Steal from Thieves by M.K. Lobb

The Evening Shades by Lee Martin 

Root Rot by Saskia Nislow

The Colony by Annika Norlin, Alice E. Olsson (translator)

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin’s Strangest Idea by Matt Ridley

Retreat by Krysten Ritter

Space Brooms! by A.G. Rodriguez

The Girl And The Robot by Oz Rodriguez and Claribel A. Ortega

Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold

A Better Ending: A Brother’s Twenty-Year Quest to Uncover the Truth About His Sister’s Death by James Whitfield Thomson 

Thrilled to Death: New and Selected Stories by Lynne Tillman 

Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen

This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead 

Sister Europe by Nell Zink