New Releases and More for May 16, 2017

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Push, York: The Shadow Cipher, An Awkward Age, and more books for dads and grads.

This episode was sponsored by Amazon Kindle, The Battlemage, and Grand Central Publishing’s instant book club sweepstakes.

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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