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This week Alice and Kim talk about Barack Obama’s summer nonfiction picks, the world’s deadliest predator, and true stories inside cults and places with cult-like thinking.
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Skin Deep by Gavin Evans, published by Oneworld Publications and
Chase Darkness with Me by Billy Jensen.
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Follow Up
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare
Nonfiction in the News
Barack Obama’s summer reading list
Publisher’s Weekly:
Workman to Publish AOC Bio
New Books
Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation by Annahid Dashtgard
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard
Cults!
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the People’s Temple by Jeff Guinn
Without You, There is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami
Reading Now
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
