New Releases for April 12, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Regional Office is Under Attack!, A Murder in Time, and Vexation Lullaby, and more new releases.
This episode was sponsored by the Book of the Month Club, Penguin Random House Audio, and Send Me Swooning.
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Books discussed on the show:
A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain
The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
The Bed Moved: Stories by Rebecca Schiff
I Know What I’m Doing — and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction by Jen Kirkman
Vexation Lullaby by Justin Tussing
A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry
Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder by Paul Thomas Murphy
We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out by Annie E. Clark and Andrea L. Pino
What we’re reading:
The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
More books out this week:
Fever at Dawn by Péter Gárdos
Y.T. by Alexei Nikitin
The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
How to Smoke Pot (Properly): A Highbrow Guide to Getting High by David Bienenstock
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
Are We There Yet? by Dan Santat
King Maybe (A Junior Bender Mystery) by Timothy Hallinan
A Man of Genius by Janet Todd
Down the Darkest Street by Alex Segura
The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay
67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence by Howard Means
Crash Course: Essays From Where Writing and Life Collide by Robin Black
First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower
The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible by Chanan Tigay
The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang
Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering by David A. Kessler
Island in the Sea: A Majorca Love Story by Anita Hughes
Down for the Count: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America by Andrew Gumbel
The Houseguest by Kim Brooks
Animal Internet: Nature and the Digital Revolution by Alexander Pschera (Author), Elisabeth Lauffer (Translator)
Undone by John Colapinto
My Mrs. Brown by William Norwich
The Duke of Wellington, Kidnapped!: The Incredible True Story of the Art Heist That Shocked a Nation by Alan Hirsch
Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America by Amy Goodman and David Goodman
Summerland by Michael Chabon (reissue)
Death Is Stupid by Anastasia Higginbotham
300 Days of Sun by Deborah Lawrenson
The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal by Howard Blum
Movie Stars by Jack Pendarvis
Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It by Bob Boilen
Loreena’s Gift by Colleen M. Story
The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Seymour M. Hersh
Bardo or Not Bardo by Antoine Volodine
Mount Pleasant by Patrice Nganang (Author), Amy Reid (Translator)
The Big Book of Exit Strategies by Jamaal May
F*ck That: An Honest Meditation by Jason Headley
something to food about: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs by Questlove
Sunset City by Melissa Ginsburg
Rare Objects by Kathleen Tessaro
The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, A Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History by Darrin Lunde
Poisonous by Allison Brennan
Blood in the Soil: A True Tale of Racism, Sex, and Murder in the South by Carole Townsend
Lives of the Poets (with Guitars): Thirteen Outsiders Who Changed Rock & Roll by Ray Robertson
Ear to the Ground by David L. Ulin and Paul Kolsby
Strike by Delilah S. Dawson
Springtime by Michelle de Kretser
Most Wanted by Lisa Scottoline
OCDaniel by Wesley King
The Obsession by Nora Roberts
The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece by Laura Cumming
Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work by Cathy Rose Salit
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe’s Crisis and America’s Economic Future by Yanis Varoufakis
Close Your Eyes by Michael Robotham
An Honorable Man by Paul Vidich
Listen to Me by Kristen Proby
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark
Dreamology by Lucy Keating
Daredevils by Shawn Vestal
On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light by Cordelia Strube
play dead by francine j. Harris
Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus by Chester Brown
The Dinner Party by Brenda Janowitz
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
Post-: Poems by Wayne Miller
There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow by Jeffrey J. Selingo
The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America by David Rolf
“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf
Montauk by Max Frisch
The Blondes by Emily Schultz (paperback)
The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman (paperback)
Armada by Ernest Cline (paperback)