E297: New Releases and More for February 9, 2021

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 11 a.m.

This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss The Gilded Ones, Kink, The Witch’s Heart, and more great books. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The Gilded Ones (Deathless #1) by Namina Forna  A Tip for the Hangman: A Novel of Christopher Marlowe by Allison Epstein Zorrie by Laird Hunt   Kink: Stories edited by Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida Voice Lessons: How a Couple of Ninja Turtles, Pinky, and an Animaniac Saved My Life by Rob Paulsen A Lady’s Formula for Love (The Secret Scientists of London, #1) by Elizabeth Everett WHAT WE’RE READING: Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffin MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights by Ayaan Hirsi Ali The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions by Nell Frizzell Loner by Georgina Young  Rafael (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Book 28) by Laurell K. Hamilton  A Song with Teeth: A Los Nefilim Novel by T. Frohock  The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro  The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles  Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh FEM by Magda Carneci, Sean Cotter (translator) Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet by Mael Renouard and Peter Behrman de Sinety Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History by Lauren Marino and Alexandra Kilburn Dreyer’s English (Adapted for Young Readers): Good Advice for Good Writing by Benjamin Dreyer Unfinished: A Memoir by Priyanka Chopra Jonas Ian Fleming’s War: The Inspiration for 007 by Mark Simmons The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP by Alex Tresniowski A Year with Swollen Appendices by Brian Eno  Eleven Sooty Dreams by Manuela Draeger, J. T. Mahany (translator) The Burning Girls by C. J. Tudor Ellis Island by Georges Perec, Harry Mathews (translator) The Velocity of Revolution by Marshall Ryan Maresca  The Power Wish: Japan’s Leading Astrologer Reveals the Moon’s Secrets for Finding Success, Happiness, and the Favor of the Universe by Keiko, Rieko Yamanaka (translator) Summer Brother by Jaap Robben, David Doherty (translator) Come On Up by Jordi Nopca, Mara Faye Lethem (translator) We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility by Lauren Edmondson Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad  The Love Proof by Madeleine Henry  Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of King Edward Longshanks by Kelcey Wilson-Lee Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas by Sam Maggs and Kendra Wells Reckless, Glorious, Girl by Ellen Hagan City of the Uncommon Thief by Lynne Bertrand Slough House by Mick Herron A Stranger in Town: A Rockton Novel by Kelley Armstrong    Super Host by Kate Russo  A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation by John Matteson  Memory Craft: Improve Your Memory with the Most Powerful Methods in History by Lynne Kelly The Vineyard at Painted Moon by Susan Mallery The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox  Black Widows by Cate Quinn  In the Shadow of the Moon: America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race by Amy Cherrix American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950-2000 by Peter Vronsky Game Changer by Neal Shusterman Silent Night by Nell Pattison In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale (translator) The Power Couple by Alex Berenson We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott  The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask Nobody Knows What They’re Doing: The 10 Secrets All Artists Should Know by Lee Crutchley  The Love Square by Laura Jane Williams Possession by Katie Lowe Engines of Oblivion by Karen Osborne Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason The Weak Spot by Lucie Elven As Far As You’ll Take Me by Phil Stamper This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth The Bride Bet (Girl Meets Duke) by Tessa Dare Love and Other Lies by Ben McPherson The Delivery by Peter Mendelsund Rabbit Island by Elvira Navarro, Christina MacSweeney (translator) Bug by Giacomo Sartori, Frederika Randall (translator) Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard  Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City by Rosa Brooks Wild Rain: Women Who Dare by Beverly Jenkins The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell: Speed, Grace, and the Negro Leagues by Lonnie Wheeler Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation by Claudio Lomnitz The Iron Raven by Julie Kagawa Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin A Pho Love Story by Loan Le The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck  Love and Other Poems by Alex Dimitrov The Girl From Shadow Springs by Ellie Cypher Rain Is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia L. Smith Hot British Boyfriend by Kristy Boyce  Amid the Crowd of Stars by Stephen W. Leigh Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever by Kareem Rosser Girlhood: Teens around the World in Their Own Voices by Masuma Ahuja Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings by Alan Lightman Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America by Christine Leigh Heyrman  We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough The Electric Kingdom by David Arnold Rebel Daughter by Lori Banov Kaufmann Curse of the Divine by Kim Smejkal Sparring with Smokin’ Joe: Joe Frazier’s Epic Battles and Rivalry with Ali by Glenn Lewis See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.