New Releases and More for March 4, 2025

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This week, Liberty and Danika discuss The River Has Roots, Love Points to You, Tea You at the Altar, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

Love Points to You by Alice Lin

Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope by Amanda Nguyen

Tea You at the Altar by Rebecca Thorne

The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses (translator)

Woodworking by Emily St. James

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

Paperback Releases:

Held by Anne Michaels 

Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina 

Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston 

The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul 

Clear by Carys Davies  

The Murder of Mr. Ma by SJ Rozan, John Shen Yen Nee 

Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis 

The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin 

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

What We’re Reading:

Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson

The Café at the Edge of the Woods by Mikey Please 

Ghosted: A Social History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking by Alice Vernon

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco by Karen Finley

More Books Out This Week:

I Am Made of Death by Kelly Andrew

Glory Daze: A Glory Broussard Mystery by Danielle Arceneaux

On the Clock by Claire Baglin, Jordan Stump (translator)

Doggerel: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts

We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown

Universality by Natasha Brown

Once Was Willem by M.R. Carey

The Immortal Woman by Su Chang

I Leave It Up to You by Jinwoo Chong

Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave (Finlay Donovan, #5) by Elle Cosimano

The Undoing of Violet Claybourne by Emily Critchley

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton

The Encanto’s Curse by Melissa de la Cruz

Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle, #3) by Tracy Deonn

A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames

The Love Simulation by Etta Easton

Sacramento Noir edited by John Freeman

See Friendship by Jeremy Gordon

One Good Thing by Georgia Hunter

The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir by Martha S. Jones

The King’s Messenger by Susanna Kearsley 

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami

Emberclaw (Dragon Scales, #2) by L.R. Lam

Something Cheeky by Thien-Kim Lam

Solving for the Unknown by Loan Le

Guatemalan Rhapsody: Stories by Jared Lemus

Mothers and Other Fictional Characters by Nicole Graev Lipson

The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy 

Firstborn Girls: A Memoir by Bernice L. McFadden

Red Dog Farm by Nathaniel Ian Miller

Same River, Twice: Putin’s War on Women by Sofi Oksanen

A Song for You and I by K. O’Neill

A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl by Nanda Reddy

Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid

Broken Fields (A Cash Blackbear Mystery) by Marcie R. Rendon

Stone Angels by Helena Rho

When the Bones Sing by Ginny Myers Sain

Sir Lewis by Michael Sawyer

Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star by Mayukh Sen

Say Everything: A Memoir by Ione Skye

Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven

Dear Manny by Nic Stone

Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder

Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa

Divining the Leaves by Shveta Thakrar

The Scorpion and the Night Blossom (The Three Realms, #1) by Amélie Wen Zhao