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. 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: 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 Political Suicide: Missteps, Peccadilloes, Bad Calls, Backroom Hijinx, Sordid Pasts, Rotten Breaks, and Just Plain Dumb Mistakes in the Annals of American Politics by Erin McHugh 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