New Releases and More for May 8, 2018

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss That Kind of Mother, Undead Girl Gang, Belly Up, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Wicked River by Jenny Milchman. And don’t forget to enter for a chance to to win 15 of the year’s best mysteries! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Trigger warning for discussion of suicide starting around 3:45. Books discussed on the show: The Girl and the Grove by Eric Smith Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture by A. D. Jameson Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin Belly Up: Stories by Rita Bullwinkel Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy What we’re reading this week: Bad Man by Dathan Auerbach I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara More books out this week: The Boy from Tomorrow by Camille DeAngelis My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir by Jessica B. Harris The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea by Denis Thériault Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi,‎ Luke Leafgren (Translator) Blackout by Alex Segura Moonrise by Sarah Crossan Junk by Tommy Pico Puddin’ (Dumplin’) by Julie Murphy Allmen and the Dragonflies by Martin Suter,‎ Steph Morris (Translator) Side Life by Steve Toutonghi Sal by Mick Kitson The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine A Theory of Love: A Novel by Margaret Bradham Thornton The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie Watson Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation’s Golden Couple by Corey Mead Ramayana: An Illustrated Retelling by Arshia Sattar,‎ Sonali Zohra (Illustrator) Tell Me: Thirty Stories by Mary Robison Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock by Steven Hyden The Handsome Girl & Her Beautiful Boy by B. T. Gottfred We’ll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage and Motherhood by Jan Redford Come West and See: Stories by Maxim Loskutoff Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage by Pauli Murray From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia by Michael McFaul The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life by Richard Russo The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt Tiny Infinities by J.H. Diehl Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass by Jes Baker Bobby Sky: Boy Band or Die by Joe Shine Tomb of the Unknown Racist: A Novel by Blanche McCrary Boyd The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin,‎ Lisa Hayden (Translator) Warlight by Michael Ondaatje Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms by Michelle Tea Alternative Remedies for Loss by Joanna Cantor How to Set Yourself on Fire by Julia Dixon Evans Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H. Winthrop The Foreseeable Future by Emily Adrian Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Janet Dewart Bell Lost Empress: A Novel by Sergio De La Pava Valley Girls by Sarah Nicole Lemon King of Ashes: Book One of The Firemane Saga by Raymond E Feist The Queen Underneath by Stacey Filak MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks by Charlotte Bingham The River by Starlight: A Novel by Ellen Notbohm The Widow Nash by Jamie Harrison (paperback) No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal (paperback)