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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, White Houses, Votes for Women, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

White Houses by Amy Bloom

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink edited by Kevin Young

Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

We Are Gathered by Jamie Weisman

What we’re reading this week:

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Fire and Ice) by George R. R. Martin

Okay Fine Whatever by Courtenay Hameister

The Wonder Down Under by Ellen Støkken Dahl  and Nina Brochmann, MD

More books out this week:

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

A Dangerous Crossing: A Novel (Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak Novels) by Ausma Zehanat Khan

Madness is Better Than Defeat by Ned Beauman

Starlings by Jo Walton

Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers by Sara Ackerman

Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel

The Plea: A Novel by Steve Cavanagh

You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] by Andrew Hankinson

The Invention of Ana: A Novel by Mikkel Rosengaard

Love by Hanne Orstavik (Author),‎ Martin Aitken (Translator)

Hotel Silence by Audur Ava Olafsdottir,‎ Brian FitzGibbon (Translator)

Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves by Matthew Sweet

Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50 by Agnes Poirier

Some Hell by Patrick Nathan

Thirty-Seven by Peter Stenson

Mister Tender’s Girl by Carter Wilson

The Legacy: A Thriller (Children’s House) by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human by Adam Piore

Mrs.: A Novel by Caitlin Macy

Winter Kept Us Warm: A Novel by Anne Raeff

Gunpowder Moon by David Pedreira

Olympus Bound by Jordanna Max Brodsky

Song of a Captive Bird: A Novel by Jasmin Darznik

Don’t Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin

Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

The Driest Season: A Novel by Meghan Kenny

The Château: A Novel by Paul Goldberg

The Radicals by Ryan McIlvain

Too Afraid To Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood by Ali Cobby Eckermann

The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers by Brian Turner

All the Castles Burned by Michael Nye

Vengeance by Zachary Lazar

Look for Her: A Novel (Keene and Frohmann) by Emily Winslow

The Best Team Wins: The New Science of High Performance by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton

Honor Among Thieves (Honors) by Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre

The Queen of Hearts by Kimmery Martin

Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher

Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World by Melissa A Schilling

Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation by Liza Featherstone