New Releases and More for November 12, 2019
This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss All-American Muslim Girl, Secondhand, Wild Life, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale by Adam Minter
Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs by Keena Roberts
The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel José Older
The Forgotten Girl by India Hill
On Swift Horses by Shannon Pufahl
All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney
Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now by A.F. Perry
The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
What we’re reading:
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
More books out this week:
Not the Girl You Marry by Andie J. Christopher
Crown of Oblivion by Julie Eshbaugh
Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5’s Secret Nazi Hunter by Robert Hutton
Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha) by Tasha Suri
Queen of the Conquered (Islands of Blood and Storm) by Kacen Callender
Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar by Steve Murphy, Javier F. Peña
Busted in New York and Other Essays by Darryl Pinckney
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid
Dictionary of the Undoing by John Freeman and Valeria Luiselli
A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston by Robyn Crawford
A is for Audra: Broadway’s Leading Ladies from A to Z by John Robert Allman, Peter Emmerich (Illustrator)
When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Dilemmas by Marie Robert
The Intangibles: Poems by Elaine Equi
Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens
The Ghost in Apartment 2R by Denis Markell
Bowie’s Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie’s Life by John O’Connell
Queen of Bones (A Havana Mystery) by Teresa Dovalpage
Color Outside the Lines: Stories about Love edited by Sangu Mandanna
Peter Watts Is An Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays by Peter Watts
Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives by Jack Carneal
Are Men Animals?: How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short by Matthew Gutmann
The Mutations: A Novel by Jorge Comensal, Charlotte Whittle (translator)
The Andromeda Evolution by Michael Crichton, Daniel H. Wilson
The Innocents: A Novel by Michael Crummey
The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North
The Sky Weaver (Iskari) by Kristen Ciccarelli
The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays by D. H. Lawrence, ed. Geoff Dyer
Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language by Nicola Gardini and Todd Portnowitz
Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
Mama Hissa’s Mice by Saud Alsanousi and Sawad Hussain
The Menace from Farside by Ian McDonald
Essays: One by Lydia Davis
The Dreamed Part by Rodrigo Fresán and Will Vanderhyden
White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation by Lauren Michele Jackson
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov
Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge by Sheila Weller
Camgirl by Isa Mazzei
What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues by Clifford Thompson
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair
Charlie Hernandez & the Castle of Bones by Ryan Calejo
Raven Lane by Amber Cowie
