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.
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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)
