New Releases and More for December 5, 2017
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Elmet, Roomies, The Last Black Unicorn, and more great books.
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Trigger warning for discussions of child abuse and sexual assault at 11:28 – skip ahead to 15:55.
Books discussed on the show:
The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book by Dan Harris and Jeffrey Warren
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Roomies by Christina Lauren
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
The Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
What we’re reading this week:
Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
More books out this week:
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse) by James S. A. Corey
Bryant & May: Wild Chamber: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery by Christopher Fowler
The Crims by Kate Davies
Glass Town by Steven Savile
The Rebels of Gold by Elise Kova
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
Alive in Shape and Color: 16 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired by Lawrence Block
Cuba on the Verge: 12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country by Leila Guerriero
The Vanishing Princess by Jenny Diski
One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning by David Moody
The Years, Months, Days: Two Novellas by Yan Lianke, Carlos Rojas (Translator)
Beau Death by Peter Lovesey
Year One: Chronicles of the One, Book 1 by Nora Roberts
Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art by Sam Wasson
One Station Away: A Novel by Olaf Olafsson
Jane on the Brain: Exploring the Science of Social Intelligence with Jane Austen by Wendy Jones
Ultraluminous by Katherine Faw
Immortal Life: A Soon to Be True Story by Stanley Bing
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
A Lady in Shadows: A Madeleine Karno Mystery by Lene Kaaberbøl
Recipe for Hate by Warren Kinsella
Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills
You Can Run by Steve Mosby
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age by David N. Schwartz
The Last Draft: A Novelist’s Guide to Revision by Sandra Scofield
God’s Last Breath by Sam Sykes
Record of a Night too Brief (Japanese Novellas) by Hiromi Kawakami, Lucy North (Translator)
