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This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Sawkill Girls, A Dream Called Home, Wild Milk, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by TBRThe Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee, and Under My Skin by Lisa Unger. 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. Books discussed on the show: Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand The Oyster Thief: A Novel by Sonia Faruqi A Dream Called Home: A Memoir by Reyna Grande The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North Wild Milk by Sabrina Orah Mark The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History by Sam Maggs and Jenn Woodall What we’re reading: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders More books out this week: All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung The Hollow of Fear (The Lady Sherlock Series) by Sherry Thomas Broken Things by Lauren Oliver Under My Skin by Lisa Unger Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations by Arnold van de Laar Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels Dracul by Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker What If This Were Enough?: Essays by Heather Havrilesky The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai A Spark of Light: A Novel by Jodi Picoult Movers and Shakers: Women Making Waves in Spirits, Beer & Wine by Hope Ewing Moon of the Crusted Snow: A Novel by Waubgeshig Rice Impossible Owls: Essays by Brian Phillips My Father’s Words by Patricia MacLachlan The Wish Child: A Novel by Catherine Chidgey Priest of Bones (War for the Rose Throne) by Peter McLean (Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health by Kelly Jensen Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke Zero Sum Game by S. L. Huang The Ambassador of What: Stories by Adrian Michael Kelly Kill the Queen (A Crown of Shards Novel) by Jennifer Estep Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt History vs Women: The Defiant Lives that They Don’t Want You to Know by Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher 9 From the Nine Worlds (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard) by Rick Riordan An Easy Death (Gunnie Rose) by Charlaine Harris Bluecrowne: A Greenglass House Story by Kate Milford Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart by Alice Walker The Stranger Game by Peter Gadol Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor Anaphora by Kevin Goodan Virgil Wander by Leif Enger Consumed by JR Ward The Truly Brave Princesses (Egalité) by Dolores Brown and Sonja Wimmer We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman Hey, Marfa: Poems by Jeffrey Yang The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism by Steve Kornacki The Lumberjack’s Dove: A Poem by GennaRose Nethercott Rock Manning Goes for Broke by Charlie Jane Anders The Silver Scar: A Novel by Betsy Dornbusch Spell (Penguin Poets) by Ann Lauterbach Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography by Eric Idle And Fire Came Down (Pushkin Vertigo) by Emma Viskic There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir by Casey Gerald Jean Harley Was Here: A Novel by Heather Taylor Johnson The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee Southern Discomfort: A Memoir by Tena Clark The Chaos of Now by Erin Jade Lange Everlasting Nora by Marie Miranda Cruz Mutiny at Vesta (Shieldrunner Pirates) by R. E. Stearns The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally Devil’s Day by Andrew Michael Hurley Crosslight for Youngbird by Asiya Wadud Scribe: A Novel by Alyson Hagy Things to Make and Break (Emily Books) by May-Lan Tan Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa True Indie: Life and Death in Filmmaking by Don Coscarelli The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife Liza Jane & the Dragon by Laura Lippman and Kate Samworth Grim Lovelies by Megan Shepherd Book of the Just: Book Three of the Bohemian Trilogy by Dana Chamblee Carpenter Glitter Bomb (A Scrapbooking Mystery) by Laura Childs and Terrie Farley Moran After the Fire by Will Hill Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug Star Wars: Lando’s Luck (Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon) by Justina Ireland and Annie Wu Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells The Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series) by Roxane Gay and Heidi Pitlor The Best American Food Writing 2018 (The Best American Series) by Silvia Killingsworth and Ruth Reichl The Best American Travel Writing 2018 (The Best American Series) by Cheryl Strayed and Jason Wilson Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s by Leslie S. Klinger The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel: A Story of Sleepy Hollow by Alyssa Palombo False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia by María Sonia Cristoff, Katherine Silver (Translator) Damsel by Elana K. Arnold Gone So Long: A Novel by Andre Dubus III Honeybee Hotel: The Waldorf Astoria’s Rooftop Garden and the Heart of NYC by Leslie Day The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis The Rhythm Section: A Stephanie Patrick Thriller (Stephanie Patrick Thrillers) by Mark Burnell For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics by Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, Minyon Moore, Veronica Chambers The Dream Daughter: A Novel by Diane Chamberlain The Corset by Laura Purcell Coldwater Canyon by Anne-Marie Kinney