The Arctic & the Tropics
This week Alice and Kim talk arctic explorers, murder in the tropics, and the mixed reactions to nonfiction bestseller Girl, Wash Your Face.
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Follow Up
Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
BuzzFeed: “Girl, Wash Your Face” Is A Massive Best-Seller With A Dark Message
Tidying Up with Marie Kondo
New Books
Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby Ellin
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein
It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America by Reniqua Allen
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
Weekly Theme: The Arctic
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff
Ada Blackjack: A True Tale of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven
The Tropics
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker
The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon by Chris Feliciano Arnold
Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen by Linda M. Heywood
Reading Now
American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
Remember the Ladies: Women in America, 1750-1815 by Linda Grant De Pauw
CONCLUSION
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