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This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Chilling Effect, Bloodlust & BonnetsRed at the Bone, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Elevator Pitch: A Novel by Linwood Barclay

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry

Chilling Effect: A Novel by Valerie Valdes

Bloodlust & Bonnets by Emily McGovern

Opioid, Indiana by Brian Allen Carr

The Heart and Other Viscera: Stories by Félix J. Palma

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson

What we’re reading:

Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) by Edith Wharton

Weather: A Novel by Jenny Offill

More books out this week:

A Death in Harlem: A Novel by Karla Holloway

Snazzy Cat Capers: The Fast and the Furriest by Deanna Kent and Neil Hooson

House of Rage and Sorrow: Book Two in the Celestial Trilogy by Sangu Mandanna

Strangers She Knows (Cape Charade) by Christina Dodd

One Person, No Vote (YA edition): How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden

Lampedusa: A Novel by Steven Price

Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience by Michael S A Graziano

Coventry: Essays by Rachel Cusk

The Widow of Pale Harbor by Hester Fox

Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard and Pablo Strauss

Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Lies in White Dresses: A Novel by Sofia Grant

The Stranger Inside: A Novel by Lisa Unger

Art Sparks: Draw, Paint, Make, and Get Creative with 53 Amazing Projects! by Marion Abrams and Hilary Emerson Lay

What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr

Against the Wind by Jim Tilley

The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care by Anne Boyer

Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick

The Liars of Mariposa Island by Jennifer Mathieu

A Mistake: A Novel by Carl Shuker

A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes) by Jin Yong, Anna Holmwood  (Translator)

The Umbrella Academy Volume 3: Hotel Oblivion by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba

Call Upon the Water: A Novel by Stella Tillyard

Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser

Space Between: Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity by Nico Tortorella

Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results by Josh Gondelman

Night Boat to Tangier: A Novel by Kevin Barry

Becoming Beatriz by Tami Charles

Guts by Raina Telgemeier

Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke

Pavi Sharma’s Guide to Going Home by Bridget Farr

The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue by Karina Yan Glaser

On Division: A Novel by Goldie Goldbloom

Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman

The Babysitters Coven by Kate M. Williams

A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie

Savage Gods by Paul Kingsnorth

The Sound of the Hours by Karen Campbell

Love on Lexington Avenue (The Central Park Pact) by Lauren Layne

The Tea Dragon Festival by Katie O’Neill

How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together by Dan Kois

Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation by Stuart Gibbs

We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer

Neon Empire by Drew Minh

System Failure (3) (Epic Failure Trilogy) by Joe Zieja

On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein

That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph

Hudson’s Kill: A Justice Flanagan Thriller by Paddy Hirsch

Land of Wolves (Walt Longmire) by Craig Johnson

A Cosmology of Monsters: A Novel by Shaun Hamill

The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans and Other Possible Phenomena by Mike Pearl

A Single Thread: A Novel by Tracy Chevalier

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

Inheritance: A Novel by Evelyn Toynton

Steel Tide (Seafire) by Natalie C. Parker

A Golden Grave: A Rose Gallagher Mystery by Erin Lindsey

Think Black: A Memoir by Clyde W. Ford

The Great American Documents: Volume II: 1831-1900 by Ruth Ashby, Russell Motter, et al.