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All the Books! Podcast, Episode #25: New Releases for Oct. 27, 2015

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Liberty Hardy

Senior Contributing Editor

Liberty Hardy is an unrepentant velocireader, writer, bitey mad lady, and tattoo canvas. Turn-ons include books, books and books. Her favorite exclamation is “Holy cats!” Liberty reads more than should be legal, sleeps very little, frequently writes on her belly with Sharpie markers, and when she dies, she’s leaving her body to library science. Until then, she lives with her three cats, Millay, Farrokh, and Zevon, in Maine. She is also right behind you. Just kidding! She’s too busy reading. Twitter: @MissLiberty

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witches: Salem 1692, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Slade House, and more new releases.

This episode was sponsored by A Blossom of Bright Light by Suzanne Chazin,  Trigger Warning: Short Fiction and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman and FabFitFun.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

Slade House by David Mitchell

The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson

We Five by Mark Dunn

(Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn)

Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed

Home by Leila S. Chudori (Author), John H. McGlynn (Translator)

2 am at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino

What we’re reading:

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: Stories by Helen Oyeyemi

The Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff

More books out this week:

A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George

Kid Moses by Mark R. Thornton

Government Zero: No Borders, No Language, No Culture by Michael Savage

A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising by Miron Białoszewski

Beloved Dog by Maira Kalman

Mr. Kafka: And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult by Bohumil Hrabal (Author), Paul Wilson (Translator)

Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers by Matt Kaplan

Wildflower by Drew Barrymore

Christmas Bells by Jennifer Chiaverini

A Death in the Family by Michael Stanley

Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe – and Started the Protestant Reformation by Andrew Pettegree

Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Season by Urban Meyer

Naughtier Than Nice by Eric Jerome Dickey

My Father’s Guitar and Other Imaginary Things by Joseph Skibell

Last Night’s Reading:  Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors by Kate Gavino

Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President by Betty Boyd Caroli

The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion by Wendy Williams

The Uncollected David Rakoff: Including the entire text of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff

Proust by Benjamin Taylor

Food Whore by Jessica Tom

The Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest by Mark Z. Danielewski

Sinatra’s Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World by David Lehman

Sinatra: The Chairman by James Kaplan

Home by Ellen DeGeneres

Junior Seau: The Life and Death of a Football Icon by Jim Trotter

Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen

Son of the Black Sword (Saga of the Forgotten Warrior) by Larry Correia

The Palest Ink by Kay Bratt

Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss

The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui’s Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory by Julie Checkoway

Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell

Almost Interesting by David Spade

The Early Stories of Truman Capote

The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis

Blueblood by Matthew Iden

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall

Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers by Simon Winchester

Cold-Hearted Rake by Lisa Kleypas

The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume 1: At the Edge of Empire by Daniel Kraus

Falling Into Bed with a Duke (Hellions of Havisham) by Lorraine Heath

Playing with Fire by Tess Gerritsen

The Pathless Sky by Chaitali Sen

After Alice by Gregory Maguire

The English and Their History by Robert Tombs

Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell

The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories edited by Otto Penzler

The Mulberry Bush by Charles McCarry

Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik

These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly

The Circle by Bernard Minier

Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T. J. Stiles

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

The Devious Dr. Jekyll: An Electric Empire Novel by Viola Carr

Ghettoside : A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy (paperback)

Trigger Warning: Short Fiction and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman (paperback)