New Releases for April 5, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Kill ‘Em and Leave, I Will Find You, Dodgers, and more new releases.
This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, The Nutmeg Tree by Margery Sharp, and Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly.
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Books discussed on the show:
Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride
I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her by Joanna Connors
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City by Laura Tillman
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson
Dodgers by Bill Beverly
Country of Red Azaleas by Domnica Radulescu
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
Asking for It by Louise O’Neill
What we’re reading:
‘A’ is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
More books out this week:
In the Labyrinth of Drakes: A Memoir by Lady Trent (A Natural History of Dragons) by Marie Brennan
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
Bucky F*cking Dent by David Duchovny
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
Taste as Experience: The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Food (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) by Nicola Perullo
Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
The Pug List: A Ridiculous Little Dog, a Family Who Lost Everything, and How They All Found Their Way Home by Alison Hodgson
Jane Two by Sean Patrick Flanery
Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai by Jim Colucci
CRUSH: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing and the Power of Their First Celebrity Crush edited by Cathy Alter and Dave Singleton
The Mirror King by Jodi Meadows
Company Time edited by Jim Corrigan
A Burglar’s Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh
Now Go Out There (and Get Curious) by Mary Karr
Now and Again by Charlotte Rogan
What We Find by Robyn Carr
Some Women by Emily Liebert
Pretentiousness: Why It Matters by Dan Fox
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of Baseball’s Most Valuable Commodity by Jeff Passan
Miss Julia Inherits a Mess by Ann B. Ross
Paper Girls: Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
The Edge of Worlds by Martha Wells
Dominion: The Chronicles of the Invaders by John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard
When We Collided by Emery Lord
Tell the Wind and Fire by Sarah Rees Brennan
Once Upon a Dream: A Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell
Consequence: A Memoir by Eric Fair
Everything I Found on the Beach by Cynan Jones
The End of Fun by Sean McGinty
Our Young Man by Edmund White
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani
Alice & Oliver by Charles Bock
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis by Thomas Piketty (Author), Seth Ackerman (Translator)
The Story of Kullervo by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss
The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
Ramshackle Ode: Poems by Keith Leonard
To the Left of Time: Poems by Thomas Lux
The Dig by John Preston
True Stories at the Smoky View by Jill McCroskey Coupe
Three-Martini Lunch by Suzanne Rindell
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
Fellside by M. R. Carey
All Tomorrow’s Parties by Rob Spillman
True Crimes by Kathryn Harrison
Septimania by Jonathan Levi
The Winemakers: A Novel of Wine and Secrets by Jan Moran
Houses by Borislav Pekić
The 14th Colony by Steve Berry
The Beast: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward
Kill and Be Killed by Louis Begley
The Girl From Home by Adam Mitzner
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth
I Want My Epidural Back: Adventures in Mediocre Parenting by Karen Alpert
Flamecaster (Shattered Realms) by Cinda Williams Chima
Chasing the North Star by Robert Morgan
Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again by Kimberly Williams-Paisley
The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found by Jeanne Safer
Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Keep Me Posted by Lisa Beazley
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Rivals of Versailles by Sally Christie
Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood’s Messy Years by Catherine Newman
Hurts Like a Mother by Jennifer Weiss and Lauren Franklin
The Wurst of Lucky Peach: A Treasury of Encased Meat by Chris Ying and the editors of Lucky Peach
American Wino: A Tale of Reds, Whites, and One Man’s Blues by Dan Dunn
Mother, Can You Not? by Kate Siegel
The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks and Jordie Bellaire
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Sarit Yishai-Levi (Author), Anthony Berris (Translator)
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto by Lesley Hazleton
The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh
Like My Teacher Always Said…: Weighty Words, Crazy Wisdom, the Road to Detention, and Advice We Could Never Forget, Even If We Tried by Erin McHugh
Booked by Kwame Alexander
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living by Krista Tippett
The Glittering Court by Richelle Mead
Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does by Philip Ball
Lumberjanes Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan by Shannon Watter, Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis and Brooke A. Allen
Romancing the Nerd by Leah Rae Miller
The Railwayman’s Wife by Ashley Hay
Born for This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do by Chris Guillebeau
Miller’s Valley by Anna Quindlen
Rapture: Poems by Sjohnna McCray
The Decent Proposal by Kemper Donovan
Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday by Christine Reilly
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Alight by Scott Sigler
The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake
Family Jewels by Stuart Woods
The History of Great Things by Elizabeth Crane
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings by Stephen O’Connor
Opportunity Knocks by Alison Sweeney
The Bricks That Built the Houses by Kate Tempest
Proxies: Essays Near Knowing by Brian Blanchfield
My Journey with Maya by Tavis Smiley
The Yellow Sofa by José Maria de Eça de Queirós
Now in paperback:
Natural Born Heroes: Mastering the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance by Christopher McDougall
Lord Fear: A Memoir by Lucas Mann
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by Meghan Daum
Motorcycles I’ve Loved by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
One with You: A Crossfire Novel by Sylvia Day
We Never Asked for Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
