New Releases and More for May 9, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Lives of the Monster Dogs, Ramona Blue, Binti, and more.
This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, Woman No. 17 and Grand Central Publishing’s instant book club sweepstakes.
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Books discussed on the show:
Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
Man of the Year: A Memoir by Lou Cove
Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
Binti and Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam M. Grant Ph.D.
What we’re reading:
Fresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell
More books out this week:
Woman No. 17 by Edan Lepucki
Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters–And How to Get It by Laurie Mintz
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
Mother Land by Paul Theroux
The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness by Paula Poundstone
The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems by Tomas Transtromer (Author), Robert Bly (Translator)
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama by David Garrow
The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah
A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like by Ashley Graham
House of Names by Colm Tóibín
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson
It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Party Girls Die in Pearls: An Oxford Girl Mystery by Plum Sykes
Nature Poem by Tommy Pico
Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War by Eva Dillon
D’Arc (War with No Name) by Robert Repino
Becoming Bonnie by Jenni L. Walsh
Nearly Nero: The Adventures of Claudius Lyon, the Man Who Would Be Wolfe by Loren D Estleman
Deadmen Walking: A Deadman’s Cross Novel (Dark-Hunter: Deadman’s Cross Trilogy) by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Some Rise by Sin by Philip Caputo
I Must Have You by JoAnna Novak
Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life by Jim Al-Khalili
The Pierre Hotel Affair: How Eight Gentlemen Thieves Plundered $28 Million in the Largest Jewel Heist in History by Daniel Simone (Author), Nick Sacco (Author)
Kitchen Disco by Clare Foges (Author), Al Murphy (Illustrator)
Assassin’s Fate: Book III of the Fitz and the Fool trilogy by Robin Hobb
There Your Heart Lies by Mary Gordon
Public Relations by Katie Heaney & Arianna Rebolini
That Thing We Call a Heart by Sheba Kerim
Dear Reader by Mary O’Connell
Sycamore by Bryn Chancellor
Large Animals: Stories by Jess Arndt
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
The Bolt Supremacy: Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory by Richard Moore
A Twisted Vengeance: A Kate Clifford Novel by Candace Robb
The Coroner’s Daughter by Andrew Hughes
The Berlin Project by Gregory Benford
Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D by David Kushner, Koren Shadmi (illustrator)
Jovienne by Linda Robertson
Killing Gravity (The Voidswitch Saga) by Corey J. White
Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan (Author), George Miller (Translator)
Among the Lesser Gods by Margo Catts
Juan Pablo and The Butterflies by JJ Flowers
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays by Tom McCarthy
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories by Penelope Lively
Birdy Flynn by Helen Donohoe
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia
The Gift by Barbara Browning
Shtum by Jem Lester
Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami (Author), Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen (Translators)
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney (paperback)
The Strings of Murder by Oscar de Muriel (paperback)
