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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Meet Me in Another Life, White Magic, Dial A for Aunties, and more great books.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:

Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey

Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

White Magic by Elissa Washuta

Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan

Don’t Call it a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Sarah Berman

Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations by Jonny Sun

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders

WHAT WE’RE READING:

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

Rejected Princesses by Jason Porath

Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle

Monster in the Middle by Tiphanie Yanique

The History of Bones: A Memoir by John Lurie 

MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK:

Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells 

Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Other Side of the Door by Nicci French

The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 by Jon Grinspan

Good Night, Earth by Linda Bondestam and Galit Hasan-Rokem

Trots and Bonnie by Shary Flenniken 

Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Dusapin, Aneesa Abbas Higgins (translator)

Buses Are a Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person, Richard Rooker

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew H. Knoll

Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West by Blaine Harden

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown

Park Bagger: Adventures in the Canadian National Parks by Marlis Butcher

The Groundhog Forever by Henry Hoke

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale

Rescue at Lake Wild by Terry Lynn Johnson

Ways to Grow Love by Renée Watson, Nina Mata (Illustrated by)

The Others by Sarah Blau

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace

The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin

Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses by Kristen O’Neal

Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump by Ben Philippe

Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur

Anna K Away by Jenny Lee 

Revelations by Mary Sharratt

A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray by Dominique Barbéris, John Cullen

Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be A-holes: Unfiltered Advice on How to Raise Awesome Kids by Karen Alpert

Little and Often: A Memoir by Trent Preszler

Slingshot by Mercedes Helnwein

Everything Is Fine: A Memoir by Vince Granata

How To Train Your Earl (First Comes Love Book 3) by Amelia Grey 

The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

River Magic by Ellen Booraem

How Y’all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived by Leslie Jordan