New Releases and More for June 12, 2018

This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Convenience Store Woman, Revenant Gun, What Truth Sounds Like, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Annotated and Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Visit here for a chance to win a $500 gift card to the bookstore of your choosing. Books discussed on the show: Who is Vera Kelly? By Rosalie Knecht What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman Ocean Light by Nalini Singh Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale What we’re reading this week:

Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary, 1852–1903 by Christian Perrissin and Matthieu Blanchin

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee More books out this week: The Mutual UFO Network by Lee Martin Run For Your Life by Silvana Gandolfi Mad Boy by Nick Arvin Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush

Tell Me No Lies by Adele Griffin Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World by Oren Harman Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work by Sarah Kessler Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen The Strange by Jerome Ruillier The Unforgettable Guinevere St. Clair by Amy Makechnie How I Learned What I Learned by August Wilson Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold The Life Lucy Knew by Karma Brown Tasting the Past: The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine by Kevin Begos Little Big Love by Katy Regan Because I Come from a Crazy Family: The Making of a Psychiatrist by Edward M. Hallowell Bearskin: A Novel by James A McLaughlin The Tidings of the Trees by Wolfgang Hilbig, Isabel Fargo Cole (Translator) The Woman in the Woods: A Thriller (Charlie Parker) by John Connolly My German Brother: A Novel by Chico Buarque,‎ Alison Entrekin (Translator) Hangman by Jack Heath Raised by Unicorns: Stories from People with LGBTQ+ Parents edited by Frank Lowe The House That Lou Built by Mae Respicio Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein by Jamie Bernstein All That I Can Fix by Crystal Chan The Color of Bee Larkham’s Murder by Sarah J. Harris The Verdun Affair by Nick Dybek Implosion: Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter by Elizabeth W. Garber A Place for Us: A Novel by Fatima Farheen Mirza Blown by Mark Haskell Smith Albert Einstein Speaking by R.J. Gadney The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir Supermoon by H. A. Swain Splinter in the Blood by Ashley Dyer The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses) by Terri-Lynne DeFino Lying in Wait: A Novel by Liz Nugent The Traitor’s Niche: A Novel by Ismail Kadare,‎ John Hodgson (Translator) Good Trouble: Stories by Joseph O’Neill Fight No More: Stories by Lydia Millet Tell Me Lies: A Novel by Carola Lovering The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes) by Sabaa Tahir The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson The Removes: A Novel by Tatjana Soli Starless by Jacqueline Carey Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt (paperback)