New Releases for Jan. 5, 2016

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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. 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: 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