New Releases for Jan. 5, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Mr. Splitfoot, The Gun, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, and more new releases.
This episode was sponsored by The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald and FabFitFun.
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Books discussed on the show:
A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back by Kevin Hazzard
Mr Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura (Author), and Allison Markin Powell (Translator)
Silver Bullets by Elmer Mendoza (Author), Mark Fried (Translator)
Shame and Wonder: Essays by David Searcy
The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee’s Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World by Gulwali Passarlay
Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy
What we’re reading:
The Great Forgetting by James Renner
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (Author), Katrina Dodson (Translator)
More books out this week:
A Hard And Heavy Thing by Matthew J. Hefti
Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill
Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction by Elaine Frantz Parsons
My Confection: Odyssey of a Sugar Addict by Lisa Kotin
After the Crash by Michel Bussi
Angels Burning by Tawni O’Dell
What I Tell You In the Dark by John Samuel
Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (but also my mom’s, which I know sounds weird) by Michael Ian Black
What She Left by T.R. Richmond
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
Blackout by David Rosenfelt
The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo (Author), Lola Rogers (Translator)
Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
My Name Is Not Friday by Jon Walter
Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
The Last Dream Keeper by Amber Benson
But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens (Author), Sandra Smith (Translator)
KooKooLand by Gloria Norris
Midnight Taxi Tango by Daniel José Older
Choose Joy: Finding Hope and Purpose When Life Hurts by Sara Frankl and Mary Carver
Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson by Juan F. Thompson
A Doctor in the House: My Life with Ben Carson by Candy Carson
The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela
Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life by Kelsey Miller
The Angels’ Share by Garfield Ellis
Best Friends Forever by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Passenger 19 by Ward Larsen
New Leaf by Catherine Anderson
The Impostor Queen by Sarah Fine
Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
Travelers Rest by Keith Lee Morris
The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
The Book of Mastery by Paul Selig
Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author by Herman Wouk
The Voronezh Notebooks by Osip Mandelstam
Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles by Jon Wilkman
Thief of Lies by Brenda Drake
Forty Thieves by Thomas Perry
Stars Over Sunset Boulevard by Susan Meissner
The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story by Christopher Castellani
Silence by Shūsaku Endō (Author), William Johnston (Translator)
The Past by Tessa Hadley
The Restaurant Critic’s Wife by Elizabeth LaBan
No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering by Clara Bensen
The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems by Larry Levis
City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence
When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History’s Unknown Chapters by Giles Milton
The Children’s Home by Charles Lambert
Where We Belong: Journeys That Show Us The Way by Hoda Kotb
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
Mind Hacking: How to Change Your Mind for Good in 21 Days by Sir John Hargrave
This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth by Karen Branan
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World’s Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley by Eric Weiner
Radioactive!: How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World by Winifred Conkling
White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess In Between by Judy Batalion
Thicker Than Water by Kelly Fiore
How To Be Alive by Colin Beavan
Books out in paperback:
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation by Dean Jobb
The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbo (Author), Neil Smith (Translator)
The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant
Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
The Missing One by Lucy Atkins
