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**All the Books!**

All the Books! is a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week’s new book releases.

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New Releases and More for April 16, 2019 Apr 16, 2019

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This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Miracle Creek, The Binding, Alice’s Island, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by Libro.fm, ThirdLove, and The Fall of Crazy House.

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Books discussed on the show:

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

The Binding by Bridget Collins

Alice’s Island: A Novel by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo

Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family by Anika Fajardo

How To Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow

Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen

Amnesty: Book 3 in the Amberlough Dossier by Lara Elena Donnelly

Flowers over the Inferno (A Teresa Battaglia Novel) by Ilaria Tuti, Ekin Oklap (translator)

What we’re reading:

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery by Alan Bradley

Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer by Eve Lazarus

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All the Backlist! April 12, 2019 Apr 12, 2019

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This week, Liberty discusses a few great older books, including The Crow Road.

This episode is sponsored by Mike Mignola’s Hellboy.

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Books discussed on the show:

Descendant of the Crane by Joan He

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The Crow Road by Iain Banks

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

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New Releases and More for April 9, 2019 Apr 09, 2019

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This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Descendant of the Crane, In the Neighborhood of True, Trust Exercise, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!; Unscripted by Claire Handscombe; and MIRA Books and Park Row Books and their Books about Books campaign..

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Books discussed on the show:

Descendant of the Crane by Joan He

The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees by Meredith May

Trust Exercise: A Novel by Susan Choi

In the Neighborhood of True by Susan Kaplan Carlton

Naamah: A Novel by Sarah Blake

You Go First by Erin Entrada Kelly

Phantoms: A Novel by Christian Kiefer

Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon

What we’re reading:

With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel by Juliet Grames

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All the Backlist! April 5, 2019 Apr 05, 2019

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This week, Liberty discusses a few great older books, including Dry Bones in the Valley.

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Books discussed on the show:

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Bone by Jeff Smith

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver

Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman

Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

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New Releases and More for April 2, 2019 Apr 02, 2019

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Women Talking, The Affairs of the Falcóns, Finding My Voice, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!; Once and Future by Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta from JIMMY Patterson Books; and The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer from Graydon House Books.

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Books discussed on the show:

I Miss You When I Blink: Essays by Mary Laura Philpott

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero

No Happy Endings: A Memoir by Nora McInerny

Women Talking by Miriam Toews

Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward by Valerie Jarrett

The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

What we’re reading:

Calvin: A Novel by Martine Leavitt

Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer

At Briarwood School for Girls by Michael Knight

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All the Backlist! March 29, 2019 Mar 29, 2019

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This week, Liberty discusses a few great older books, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.

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Books discussed on the show:

How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature by Marc Hamer

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

How Not To Die Alone by Richard Roper

How Could She by Lauren Mechling

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn

How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman

How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny

How To Be Human by Paula Cocozza

How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays by Kiese Laymon

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Check, Please: Book 1 by Ngozi Ukazu

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New Releases and More for March 26, 2019 Mar 26, 2019

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This week, Liberty and Katie discuss My Lovely Wife, Good Talk, Dig, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders; The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton, published by Graydon House Books; and Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, publishers of The Handmaid’s Tale graphic novel.

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Books discussed on the show:

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience by Anuradha Bhagwati

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

Dig by A.S. King

Guestbook: Ghost Stories by Leanne Shapton

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski PhD, Amelia Nagoski DMA

On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing by Katherine Dunn