New Releases and More for August 23, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Behold the Dreamers, The Couple Next Door, Unknown Caller, and more books.
This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Spontaneous by Aaron Harmer, and The Beauty of Darkness: The Remnant Chronicles: Book Three by Mary E. Pearson.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Unknown Caller by Debra Spark
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
Security by Gina Wohlsdorf
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves The World Again by A. C. Wise
I Hate Fairyland Volume 1: Madly Ever After by Skottie Young
By Night Under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz (Author), Eric Mosbacher (Translator)
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
Harmony by Carolyn Parkhurst
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
What we’re reading:
Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic by David J. Schwartz
On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor
More books out this week:
Conventional Wisdom by Arthur Drooker
We’re Still Right, They’re Still Wrong by James Carville
The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence Wright
Spontaneous by Aaron Harmer
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston
Surrender, New York by Caleb Carr
The One Man by Andrew Gross
A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State by Meredith Tax
The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 by Laila Parsons
First Star I See Tonight by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? by Ian Brown
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson
Mirror Image by Michael Scott
The Huntress : The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher by Alice Arlen and Michael J. Arlen
We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson
The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis
Falter Kingdom by Michael J. Seidlinger
Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness by Michael P. Branch
The Consolations of Mortality: Making Sense of Death by Andrew Stark
The Mannings: The Fall and Rise of a Football Family by Lars Anderson
The Kind Folk by Ramsey Campbell
A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between by Linda Thompson
The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis by Elizabeth Letts
The Outside Lands by Hannah Kohler
Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto (Author), Esther Allen (Translator)
Dictator by Robert Harris (paperback)
M Train by Patti Smith (paperback)
The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities by Stephen Breyer (paperback)
The Vegetarian by Han Kang (paperback)
The Novel Habits of Happiness (Isabel Dalhousie Series) by Alexander McCall Smith (paperback)
Scrapper by Matt Bell
The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone by Adele Griffin