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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss And After Many Days, The Silence of the Sea, The Widow, and more new releases.

This episode was sponsored by Third Love and The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir

And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile

The Widow by Fiona Barton

The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund

What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera

Hair: A Human History by Kurt Stenn

Perfect Days by Raphael Montes

We’ve Already Gone This Far: Stories by Patrick Dacey

What we’re reading:

Barkskins by Annie Proulx

What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin

More books out this week:

The Bulgarian Truck: Bulgarian Truck: A Building Site Beneath the Open Sky by Dumitru Tsepeneag (Author), Alistair Ian Blyth (Translator)

A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold

Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awat’ovi Massacre by James F. Brooks

Dodge Rose by Jack Cox

See Me for Who I Am: Student Veterans’ Stories of War and Coming Home edited by David Chrisinger

Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet by Terese Svoboda

Prancing Novelist: In Praise of Ronald Firbank by Brigid Brophy

Concerto for Sentence: An Exploration of the Musico-Erotic by Emiliya Dvoryanova (Author), Elitza Kotzeva (Translator)

At the Writing Desk by Werner Kofler (Author), Lauren K. Wolfe (Translator)

Son of the Morning by Mark Adler

I Saw Her That Night by Drago Jancar (Author), Michael Biggins (Translator)

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

The Immortals (Olympus Bound) by Jordanna Max Brodsky

Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion by Susan Jacoby

Cities I’ve Never Lived In: Stories by Sara Majka

Calamity (The Reckoners) by Brandon Sanderson

Rebel, Bully, Geek, Pariah by Erin Jade Lange

Some of the Parts by Hannah Barnaby

Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

Age of Blight: Stories by Kristine Ong Muslim

Marked by Laura Williams McCaffrey

Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man by William Shatner, with David Fisher

Riders by Veronica Rossi

The Shadow Queen by C. J. Redwine

United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good by Cory Booker

Hide by Matthew Griffin

Floodgate by Johnny Shaw

The Last Weynfeldt by Martin Suter (Author), Steph Morris (Translator)

All the Winters After by Seré Prince Halverson

Free Men by Katy Simpson Smith

Tender by Belinda McKeon

Cometh the Hour by Jeffrey Archer

The Village by Nikita Lalwani

The Opposite of Everyone by Joshilyn Jackson

Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World by Clara Parkes

Ascending the Boneyard by C. G. Watson

The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life by Jessa Crispin

Girl in the Dark by Marion Pauw

The Child Poet by Homero Aridjis (Author), Chloe Aridjis (Translator)

Why They Run the Way They Do: Stories by Susan Perabo

The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig

Beast: Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Man-Eaters: The Mystery of the Monsters of the Gévaudan by S. R. Schwalb and Gustavo Sánchez Romero

Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin

Bluescreen by Dan Wells

Why We Came to the City by Kristopher Jansma

Seeing Red by Lina Meruane (Author), Megan McDowell (Translator)

Listen to the Lambs by Daniel Black

The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America by Ann Neuman

Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body by Kate Hudson

Tales by Amiri Baraka

The System of Dante’s Hell by Amiri Baraka

Take the Fall by Emily Hainsworth

A Doubter’s Almanac by Ethan Canin

Ginny Gall by Charlie Smith

The Beautiful Possible by Amy Gottlieb

The Blue Hour by Douglas Kennedy

The Word for Yes by Claire Needell

Interior Darkness: Selected Stories by Peter Straub

The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton

Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man by Robert Christgau (Now in paperback)

Oh! You Pretty Things by Shanna Mahin (Now in paperback)

The Flying Circus by Susan Crandall (Now in paperback)