New Releases for May 10, 2016
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Mongrels, The High Places, The Loney, and more new releases.
This episode was sponsored by A Robot in the Garden by Deborah Install, The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood, and Book of the Month.
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Books discussed on the show:
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
The High Places: Stories by Fiona McFarlane
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Last Day of Night by Graham Moore
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
What we’re reading:
An Innocent Fashion by R. J. Hernandez
The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
More books out this week:
Everything is Teeth by Evie Wyld
The Telling by Zoe Zolbrod
Amp’d by Ken Pisani
Speaking Freely: My Life in Publishing and Human Rights by Robert L. Bernstein
Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay
Soccer Without Borders: Jürgen Klinsmann, Coaching the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team, and the Quest for the World Cup by Erik Kirschbaum (Author), Jürgen Klinsmann (Author)
Never Flirt with Puppy Killers: And Other Better Book Titles by Dan Wilbur
Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnes Martin-Lugand
A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809 – 1849 by Sidney Blumenthal
The Last Supper: The Plight of Christians in Arab Lands by Klaus Wivel (Author), Mark Kline (Translator)
The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt by Tracy Farr
Man & Wife by Katie Chase
The Best of Writers and Company by Eleanor Wachtel
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
Cosmic Hotel by Russ Franklin
Jay to Bee: Janet Frame’s Letters to William Theophilus Brown by Janet Frame and Denis Harold
The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers by Fouad Laroui (Author), Emma Ramadan (Translator)
The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas
So Much Synth by Brenda Shaughnessy
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley
The Metaphysical Ukulele by Sean Carswell
Albina and the Dog-Men by Alejandro Jodorowsky (Author), Alfred MacAdam (Translator)
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
Unrivaled (Beautiful Idols) by Alyson Noel
A Million Windows by Gerald Murnane
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter by Jordan T. Camp (Editor), Christina Heatherton (Editor)
Unknown Remains by Peter Leonard
Summer of Supernovas by Darcy Woods
Black Dove: Essays on Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me by Ana Castillo
Survival (Women’s Studies Quarterly) by Frances Bartkowski (Editor), Elena Glasberg (Editor), Taylor Black (Editor)
The Miracle on Monhegan Island by Elizabeth Kelly
The Pier Falls: And Other Stories by Mark Haddon
American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building by Claudia Roth Pierpont
Let the Empire Down by Alexandra Oliver
Late One Night by Lee Martin
Worthy by Lisa Birnbaum
Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest by Bryan Hurt (Editor)
Allegheny Front by Matthew Neill Null
The Mother by Yvvette Edwards
The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera (Author), Lisa Dillman (Translator)
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller, translated from German by Philip Boehm
Death at Breakfast by Beth Gutcheon
You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice by Tom Vanderbilt
A Perfect Life by Eileen Pollack
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to
Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms by Vishen Lakhiani
Troublemaker by Linda Howard
Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat by Gary Paulsen
League of Dragons by Naomi Novik
Reliance, Illinois by Mary Volmer
Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph
Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency by Charles Rappleye
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Every Exquisite Thing by Matthew Quick
The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay
The Secret Birds by Tony Fitzpatrick
Native Believer by Ali Eteraz
Killer Deal by Sofie Sarenbrant (Author), Paul Norlen (Translator)
South Haven by Hirsh Sawhney
The Alchemists’ Council by Cynthea Masson
The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
Prayers the Devil Answers by Sharon McCrumb
The Summer Guest by Alison Anderson
John Barth: A Body of Words by Charles Harris (Editor), Gabrielle Dean (Editor)
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor by John Barth
The Tidewater Tales by John Barth
The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving by Lisa Miller (paperback)
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips (paperback)
A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm by Dave Goulson (paperback)
Disgruntled by Asali Solomon (paperback)
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne (paperback)
The Brothers by Masha Gessen (paperback)
Love is Red by Sophie Jaff (paperback)
The Girl from the Garden by Parnaz Foroutan (paperback)
Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay (paperback)
