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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, Grace, Before the Feast, and more new releases.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, TryAudioBooks.com, and Read Me Like a Book by Liz Kessler.

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Books discussed on the show:

Before the Feast by Saša Stanišić (author) Anthea Bell (translator)

Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Ramona Ausubel

Grace by Natashia Deón

Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead

I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg

Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don’t Learn Them from Movies Anymore) by Hadley Freeman

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

What we’re reading:

Sabriel by Garth Nix

The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz

More books out this week:

Last Sext: Poetry by Melissa Broder

The Girls by Emma Cline

Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley

Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping by Dan White

I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro

War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing: Library of America by Lawrence Rosenwald and James Carroll

The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood : The Spy Who Stole the Crown Jewels and Became the King’s Secret Agent by Robert Hutchinson

Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry

Arcade by Drew Nellins Smith

Love Unites Us: Winning the Freedom to Marry in America by Kevin Cathcart (Editor), Leslie Gabel-Brett (Editor)

In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi

The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich

Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley

The Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love by Sarvenaz Tash

The Tumbling Turner Sisters by Juliette Fay

Steeplejack (Alternative Detective) by A. J. Hartley

The Sadness by Benjamin Rybeck

Field of Graves (A Taylor Jackson Novel) by J.T. Ellison

Murder on the Quai by Cara Black

Love Wins: The Lovers, Lawyers and Activists Who Brought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality by Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell

If I Forget You by Thomas Christopher Greene

Brighton by Michael Harvey

Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire) by Yoon Ha Lee

Worldly Goods by Alice Petersen

The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home by Natalie Livingstone

Before by Carmen Boullosa (Author), Peter Bush (Translator)

Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin by Ann Patty

Read Me Like a Book by Liz Kessler

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire by Karl Jacoby

Marked for Life by Emelie Schepp

Barkskins by Annie Proulx

The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

Bay of Sighs by Nora Roberts

Autofocus by Lauren Gibaldi

The Insides by Jeremy Bushnell

A Great and Terrible King : Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris

Lanterne Rouge: The Last Man in the Tour de France by Max Leonard

Éric Rohmer: A Biography by Antoine de de Baecque (Author), Noël Herpe (Author), Steven Rendall (Translator), Lisa Neal (Translator)

The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

We Were Never Here by Jennifer Gilmore

The Devils of Cardona by Matthew Carr

The Familiar. Vol. 3: Honeysuckle & Pain by Mark Z Danielewski

Walking the Dog by Elizabeth Swados

Widowmaker by Paul Doiron

The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World by Steve Hely

The Port-Wine Stain by Norman Lock

Here’s to Us by Elin Hilderbrand

Radio Girls by Sarah-Jane Stratford

Last Last Orders by Arno Camenisch (Author), Donal McLaughlin (Translator)

Confessions of a Madman by Leila Sebbar (Author), Rachel Crovello (Translator)

Death and Mr. Pickwick by Stephen Jarvis (paperback)

The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader (paperback)

The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows (paperback)

Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpoint (paperback)

The Ambassador’s Wife by Jennifer Steil (paperback)

God is Not Here : A Soldier’s Struggle with Torture, Trauma, and the Moral Injuries of War by Lieutenant Colonel Bill Russell Edmonds (paperback)

The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America by Ai-jen Poo (paperback)