New Releases and More for February 25, 2025

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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Greenteeth, On Her Terms, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill

On Her Terms by Amy Spalding

Soma by Fernando Llor and Carles Dalmau

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza, Robin Myers and Sarah Booker (translators) 

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution’s Greatest Romance by Riley Black

The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker

All the Parts We Exile by Roza Nozari

Paperback Releases:

A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal

The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann, Anthea Bell (translator)

Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes

Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley

What We’re Reading:

Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen

I’m Not Your Muse: Uncovering the Overshadowed Brilliance of Women Artists & Visionaries by Lori Zimmer, Maria Krasinski

Digger by Ursula Vernon 

Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi 

King Sorrow by Joe Hill

More Books Out This Week:

The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst

The Fourth Consort by Edward Ashton

Shark Girl by Kate Beaton

Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley

Crush by Ada Calhoun

The Talent by Daniel D’Addario

Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein

Boy by Nicole Galland

True Failure by Alex Higley

Back After This by Linda Holmes

Mornings Without Mii by Mayumi Inaba, Ginny Tapley Takemori (translator)

Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell by Paul Lisicky

A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay

Notes on Surviving the Fire by Christine Murphy

A Touch of Blood by Sajni Patel

Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce

The Magpie at Night: The Complete Poems of Li Qingzhao (1084–1151) by Li Qingzhao and Wendy Chen

The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler, Katy Derbyshire (translator)

The Dark Mirror (The Bone Season Book 5) by Samantha Shannon 

The Blanket Cats by Kiyoshi Shigematsu, Jesse Kirkwood (translator)

Show Don’t Tell: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld 

Momo Arashima Duels the Queen of Death by Misa Sugiura

The Otherwhere Post by Emily J. Taylor

Creep: A Love Story by Emma van Straaten

Book Boyfriend by Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis