New Releases and More for August 27, 2019
This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Pumpkinhead, Wonton Terror, Last Ones Left Alive, and more great books.
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Books discussed on the show:
Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks
A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi
Wonton Terror: A Noodle Shop Mystery by Vivien Chien
All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat
Dead Voices by Katherine Arden
What we’re reading:
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
More books out this week:
This Book of Mine by Sarah Stewart
The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains by Joseph LeDoux
The Sixth Wicked Child: A 4MK Thriller Book 3 by J D, Barker
The Battle by Karuna Riazi
From the Shadows by Juan José Millás, Thomas Bunstead (Translator), Daniel Hahn (Translator)
Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire (Star Wars) by Delilah S. Dawson
The Aussie Next Door by Stefanie London
The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel by Christy Lefteri
Human Relations and Other Difficulties: The Collected essays of Mary-Kay Wilmers
Everything Inside: Stories by Edwidge Danticat
The Girl Who Lived Twice: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series by David Lagercrantz
Overthrow: A Novel by Caleb Crain
The Passengers by John Marrs
The Truth Behind the Lie: A Novel by Sara Lövestam
A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman
Tin Badges: A Novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child by Laura Cumming
Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?: A Novel by Brock Clarke
The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age by Bina Venkataraman
Shadow School: Archimancy by J. A. White
Doxology: A Novel by Nell Zink
March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women: A Library of America Special Publication by Kate Bolick, Carmen Maria Machado, Jane Smiley, and Jenny Zhang
The Extinction Agenda by Michael Laurence
What Red Was: A Novel by Rosie Price
The Secret Life of Sam Holloway: A Novel by Rhys Thomas
Tell it to the World: An Indigenous Memoir by Stan Grant
Sidelined by Suzanne Baltsar
The Ventriloquists: A Novel by E.R. Ramzipoor