New Releases and More for October 3, 2017

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Her Body and Other Parties, We Were Eight Years in Power, Manhattan Beach, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Lighter Than My Shadow and 27 Hours.

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Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.   Books discussed on the show: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (editors) Malagash by Joey Comeau We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan Origin by Dan Brown Reservoir 13: A Novel by Jon McGregor

Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham

Best American Short Stories 2017 edited by Meg Wolitzer The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Glaser This Is How It Begins: A Novel by Joan Dempsey An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco Fresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides The Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency) by K Arsenault Rivera   What we’re reading: The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg

Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson

  More books out this week: 27 Hours by Tristina Wright Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig Winter Storms (Winter Street) by Elin Hilderbrand Joni: The Anthology by Barney Hoskyns Before the Devil Breaks You (The Diviners) by Libba Bray The Orphan of Florence: A Novel by Jeanne Kalogridis Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb From a Certain Point of View: 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars Without Merit by Colleen Hoover Satellite by Nick Lake Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind by Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur The Relive Box and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle The Adventurers Guild by Zack Loran Clark, Nick Eliopulos Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani Seven Suspects (The Bobbi Logan Series) by Renee James Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me by Carrie DiRisio, Linnea Gear (Illustrator) Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar Where the Sun Shines Out by Kevin Catalano Quillifer by Walter Jon Williams Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker (and Reader) by Nick Mamatas (Compiler), Molly Tanzer (Compiler) Dunbar (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Edward St. Aubyn The Witches’ Tree: An Agatha Raisin Mystery (Agatha Raisin Mysteries) by M. C. Beaton Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling, Jim Kay (Illustrator) Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 3 The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin Things I’m Seeing Without You by Peter Bognanni The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson Old Scores: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel by Will Thomas Earth Hates Me: True Confessions from a Teenage Girl by Ruby Karp Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen Far From the Tree by Robin Benway If You Knew My Sister by Michelle Adams To the Back of Beyond by Peter Stamm, Michael Hofmann (Translator) Advice from the Lights: Poems by Stephen Burt Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore Shai & Emmie Star in Break an Egg! (A Shai & Emmie Story) by Quvenzhané Wallis Blackwing by Ed McDonald There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Nights by Laura van den Berg William Shakespeare’s The Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh (William Shakespeare’s Star Wars) by Ian Doescher Sparked by Helena Echlin and Malena Watrous Fear by Dirk Kurbjuweit Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror (John Dies at the End) by David Wong London and the South-East by David Szalay The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook Everyone is Watching by Megan Bradbury Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo, Allison M. Charette (Translator) The Secrets on Chicory Lane: A Novel by Raymond Benson The Trials of Solomon Parker by Eric Scott Fischl The Bloodprint (The Khorasan Archives) by Ausma Zehanat Khan The Devils You Know by M.C. Atwood Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor Not Your Villain (Sidekick Squad Book 2) by C.B. Lee All That Man Is by David Szalay (paperback) Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey (paperback)