New Releases and More for October 29, 2019
This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Nothing to See Here, The Cheffe, Sisters of the Vast Black, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
The Cheffe by Marie Ndiaye
Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend
A River of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy
Ascender, Vol. 1: The Haunted Galaxy by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
White Elephant by Trish Harnetiaux
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
What we’re reading:
Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender
Blood Countess (A Lady Slayers Novel) by Lana Popović
More books out this week:
Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz
All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell
Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right by Anne Nelson
Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers by Natalie Eve Garrett
Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer
Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland
Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier and Rhonda Mullins
The Name of All Things (A Chorus of Dragons) by Jenn Lyons
The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek by Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal
Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town by Cynthia Anderson
The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada, David Boyd (translator)
The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah
Find Me by André Aciman
Kafka in a Skirt: Stories from the Wall (Camino del Sol) by Daniel Chacón
Heroine by Gail Scott
The Monsters Know What They’re Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters by Keith Ammann
Blue Moon: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child
Time Is Tight: My Life, Note by Note by Booker T. Jones
The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland
Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World by David Owen
Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan and illustrator Zach Weinersmith
When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today’s Night Sky by Erik Asphaug
Gravemaidens by Kelly Coon
The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna by Mira Ptacin
The Beautiful Ones by Prince
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin
Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk by Jon Krakauer
Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot, Cara McGee (Illustrator)
Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals by Ken Follett
The Seine: The River that Made Paris by Elaine Sciolino
If: A Mother’s Memoir by Lise Marzouk
Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever by Gavin Edwards
Twelve Nights at Rotter House by J.W. Ocker
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, Tim Parks (Translator)
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang
The Beatles from A to Zed: An Alphabetical Mystery Tour by Peter Asher
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War by S. C. Gwynne
Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy by Donald L. Miller
Death and the Seaside by Alison Moore
Girls Like Us by Randi Pink
Airline Maps: A Century of Art and Design by Mark Ovenden and Maxwell Roberts
Laughter at the Academy by Seanan McGuire
Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley
