New Releases and More for October 24, 2023
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Let Us Descend, Micro Activism, The Comfort of Crows, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World without a Bullhorn by Omkari Williams with a forward by Layla F. Saad and illustrations by Octavia Mingerink
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time to Break Up and How to Move On by Malaika Jabali with illustration and design by Kayla E.
Nefando by Mónica Ojeda, Sarah Booker (translator)
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement by Tanisha Ford
Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature’s Toxins—From Spices to Vices by Noah Whiteman
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black
Paperback Releases:
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry
Catching the Light by Joy Harjo
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link, Shaun Tan
People Person by Candice Carty-Williams
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
What We’re Reading:
A Recipe for More: Ingredients for a Life of Abundance and Ease by Sara Elise
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill edited by Jericho Brown
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark
A Better World by Sarah Langan
Thirsty by Jas Hammonds
More Books Out This Week:
Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance edited by Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis
Everything Is Not Enough by Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström
American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860 American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860 by Edward L. Ayers
Jane and the Final Mystery by Stephanie Barron
Sir Morien: The Legend of a Knight of the Round Table by Holly Black, Kaliis Smith, Ebony Glenn
Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake
Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems by Richard Blanco
What Wild Women Do by Karma Brown
Swords in the Shadows edited by Cullen Bunn
Super Boba Café by Nidhi Chanani
Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang
I Must Be Dreaming by Roz Chast
Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends by Joan Collins
Christmas and Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror edited by Ellen Datlow
Aster of Ceremonies: Poems (Multiverse) by JJJJJerome Ellis
These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America’s Jails by Eva Fedderly
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading by Dwight Garner
When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology by Shannon Gibney, Nicole Chung
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
The Christmas Appeal: A Novella by Janice Hallett
I Died Too, But They Haven’t Buried Me Yet by Ross Jeffery
A Christmas to Remember by Beverly Jenkins
The Privilege of the Happy Ending by Kij Johnson
The Queen of Days by Greta Kelly
West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman
Sonic Life: A Memoir by Thurston Moore
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, The Seventh Man, Birthday Girl, Where I’m Likely to Find It by Jc Deveney, Haruki Murakami
Julia by Sandra Newman
America Fantastica by Tim O’Brien
Sleepless in Dubai by Sajni Patel
Freedom’s Ghost: A Mystery of the American Revolution by Eliot Pattison
Murder in Drury Lane (The Lady Worthing Mysteries) by Vanessa Riley
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
The Bigfoot Queen (The Littlest Bigfoot) by Jennifer Weiner
Miss Macintosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young
Jewel Box: Stories by E. Lily Yu