New Releases and More for May 16, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Push, York: The Shadow Cipher, An Awkward Age, and more books for dads and grads.
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Books discussed on the show:
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner
The Awkward Age by Francesca Segal
York: The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby
The Push: A Climber’s Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits by Tommy Caldwell
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, and Elle Morton
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
What we’re reading:
The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
More books out this week:
Grace and the Fever by Zan Romanoff
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Target Omega: A Thriller (A Mike Garin Thriller) by Peter Kirsanow
Papi: MY Story by David Ortiz
It’s Always the Husband by Michele Campbell
The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. Edge
Dark Cities edited by Christopher Golden
New Boy (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Tracy Chevalier
This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information by Kyle Cassidy
No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories by Lee Child
Lilli de Jong by Janet Benton
Grit by Gillian French
Tacky Goblin by T. Sean Steele
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
To Love the Coming End by Leanne Dunic
Rough Patch by Nicole Markotic
Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country: and Other Stories by Chavisa Woods
The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage by Anja Reich-Osang (Author), Imogen Taylor (Translator)
Florence in Ecstasy by Jessie Chaffee
August by Romina Paula, Jennifer Croft (Translator)
Yawn: Adventures in Boredom by Mary Mann
Give a Girl a Knife: A Memoir by Amy Thielen
You Were Here by Gian Sardar
Being a Dad Is Weird: Lessons in Fatherhood from My Family to Yours by Ben Falcone
The Flight: Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 Transatlantic Crossing by Dan Hampton
Lou: Fifty Years of Kicking Dirt, Playing Hard, and Winning Big in the Sweet Spot of Baseball by Lou Piniella and Bill Madden
Vanguard by Jack Campbell
A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women’s Work by Miranda Pennington
Mozart’s Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Broken River by J. Robert Lennon
Thick as Thieves (Queen’s Thief) by Megan Whalen Turner
The Simplicity of Cider by Amy E. Reichert
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
The Worlds We Think We Know: Stories by Dalia Rosenfeld
Bad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters by Mark Kingwell
The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century by Chuck Klosterman
Full Wolf Moon by Lincoln Child
Flame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh
There’s a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak by Jonathan Cott
Evensong by Kate Southwood
G-Man (Bob Lee Swagger) by Stephen Hunter
Price of Duty: A Novel (Patrick McLanahan) by Dale Brown
Same Beach, Next Year by Dorothea Benton Frank
Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays by Fenton Johnson
The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord
Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life by Jonathan Gould
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art by Rüdiger Safranski, David Dollenmayer (Translator)
Seeing People Off by Jana Beňová
