New Releases and More for May 7, 2019
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Bride Test, Somewhere Only We Know, Furious Hours, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel by Juliet Grames
Somewhere Only We Know by Maurene Goo
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday by Rob Walker
Soon the Light Will Be Perfect: A Novel by Dave Patterson
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer
What we’re reading:
A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table by Rick Bragg
More books out this week:
Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Such a Perfect Wife: A Novel (Bailey Weggins Mysteries) by Kate White
The East End by Jason Allen
Jaclyn Hyde by Annabeth Bondor-Stone and Connor White
Only Ever Her by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen
Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French by John von Sothen
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
Exiles of Eden by Ladan Ali Osman
The Missing of Clairdelune: Book Two of The Mirror Visitor Quartet by Christelle Dabos and Hildegarde Serle
How We Disappeared: A Novel by Jing-Jing Lee
Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Original Prin by Randy Boyagoda
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby
Just South of Home by Karen Strong
Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations by Craig Ferguson
Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby
Outside the Gates of Eden by Lewis Shiner
The Lingering by Sji Holliday
The Last Time I Saw You: A Novel by Liv Constantine
Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back by Gary John Bishop
The Yankee Widow by Linda Lael Miller
The Woman in the Blue Cloak by Deon Meyer
How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox
Finale: A Caraval Novel by Stephanie Garber
Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World by Lucy Ives
Finding Orion by John David Anderson
Nocturna by Maya Motayne
The Guest Book: A Novel by Sarah Blake
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder
The Body in the Wake: A Faith Fairchild Mystery by Katherine Hall Page
The Unpassing: A Novel by Chia-Chia Lin
Cinderella Liberator by Rebecca Solnit and Arthur Rackham
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki, Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Illustrator)
Love from A to Z by S. K. Ali
China Dream by Ma Jian and Flora Drew
Above the Ether by Eric Barnes
The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience by Lee McIntyre
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond
Juliet the Maniac: A Novel by Juliet Escoria
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
The Absence of Sparrows by Kurt Kirchmeier
Last Things by Jacqueline West
Black Mountain (An Isaiah Coleridge Novel) by Laird Barron
Light from Other Stars by Erika Swyler
Gather at the River: Twenty-Five Authors on Fishing by David Joy and Eric Rickstad
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors: A Novel by Sonali Dev
Is, Is Not: Poems by Tess Gallagher
The Archive of Alternate Endings: Stories by Lindsey Drager
Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins
The Daughter’s Tale: A Novel by Armando Lucas Correa
Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale by Lauren Myracle and Isaac Goodhart
The Farm: A Novel by Joanne Ramos
Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju
Hope and Other Punchlines by Julie Buxbaum
Westside by W.M. Akers
The Charmer in Chaps by Julia London
The Cowboy and His Baby by Jessica Clare
HUMANS: A Brief History of How We Fcked It All Up by Tom Phillips
Million Mile Road Trip by Rudy Rucker
The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer
A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig, Anne Milano Appel
Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal
Again, but Better: A Novel by Christine Riccio
Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
A Craftsman’s Legacy: Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning by Eric Gorges and Jon Sternfeld
The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois and Rhonda Mullins
Sleepless Night by Margriet de Moor and David Doherty
Scott Pilgrim Color Collection Box Set by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton
Queer Heroes by Arabelle Sicardi and Sarah Tanat-Jones
Angel Bones by Ilyse Kusnetz
The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science by Shaili Jain
A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How to Do: A Novel by Pete Fromm
No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir by Ani DiFranco
Atomic Frenchie, Vol. 2 by Tom Sniegoski and Tom McWeeney
All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton
After the Party: A Novel by Cressida Connolly
A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 Years in Hollywood by Irwin Winkler
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage by Bette Howland
The Unquiet Heart by Kaite Welsh
State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts by Nick Hornby
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI’s Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker
Rabbits for Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum
The Paris Diversion: A Novel by Chris Pavone
At Home with Muhammad Ali by Hana Ali
Llama Destroys the World by Jonathan Stutzman, Heather Fox (Illustrator)
The Conviction of Cora Burns by Carolyn Kirby
Electric Forest by Tanith Lee
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
The Latte Factor: Why You Don’t Have to Be Rich to Live Rich by David Bach and John David Mann
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague by David K. Randall
Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ by Andy Campbell
When Darkness Loves Us (Paperbacks from Hell) by Elizabeth Engstrom
Folded Wisdom: Notes from Dad on Life, Love, and Growing Up by Joanna Guest
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel by Kim Michele Richardson
The Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI by Lauren Johnson
The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy
