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Month: April 2017
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April New Books Megalist!
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, so you know what that means: IT’S A SPECTACULARLY GOOD NEW RELEASE DAY. There is something here for everyone! So many great books, including the sequel to Sleeping Giants and new books from Valeria Luiselli, Mary Gaitskill, and Colum McCann! *Muppet arms* And you can hear about several of these books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, such as American War, What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky, and Marlena.
This week’s newsletter is sponsored by Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama.
For five days, the parents of a seven-year-old Japanese schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter’s kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. And they would never see their daughter alive again.
Fourteen years later, the mystery remains unsolved and the stigma of the case known as “Six Four” has never faded.
Yoshinobu Mikami, a former detective who was involved in the original case and who is now himself the father of a missing daughter—is forced to revisit the botched investigation. Mikami is hoping to help finally put the notorious case to rest. But what he uncovers are secrets that he never could have imagined.
The Long Dry by Cynan Jones
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton by Susan Bordo
Killings by Calvin Trillin
Pretty Fierce by Kieran Scott
The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures by Library of Congress
The Lost Order by Steve Berry
A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry by Robert Hass
Falstaff: Give Me Life (Shakespeare’s Personalities) by Harold Bloom
Earthly Remains: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery by Donna Leon
History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town by Filip Springer (Author), Sean Bye (Translator)
A Fever of the Blood by Oscar de Muriel
Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions by Richard Harris
A Horse Named Steve by Kelly Collier
Dance Is for Everyone by Andrea Zuill
The End of Our Story by Meg Haston
Blood Enemies by Susan R Matthews
Red Sister by Mark Lawrence
Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel
Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic
Living in the Weather of the World: Stories by Richard Bausch
What To Do About The Solomons by Bethany Ball
The Last Chance Olive Ranch (China Bayles Mystery) by Susan Wittig Albert
All By Myself, Alone by Mary Higgins Clark
Journey Across the Hidden Islands by Sarah Beth Durst
Kinship of Clover by Ellen Meeropol
Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life by Sally Bedell Smith
Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body by Jessamyn Stanley
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah
The Second Girl by David Swinson
Matilda Empress by Lise Arin
A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System by T. R. Reid
The Way Home in the Night by Akiko Miyakoshi
Prisoner of Ice and Snow by Ruth Lauren
The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me by Paul Joseph Fronczak and Alex Tresniowski
My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time by Dean Buonomano
Afterland: Poems by Mai Der Vang
Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr
The End of the Day by Claire North
The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas by Daniel Drezner
Nevertheless: A Memoir by Alec Baldwin
A Twist in Time by Julie McElwain
H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer
Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays by Mary Gaitskill
The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince by Mayte Garcia
Pink Mist by Owen Sheers
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter by Matthew Dennison
Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy by Anne Lamott
Marlena by Julie Buntin
The Chosen: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward
The Drowning King by Emily Holleman
Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys
Gem & Dixie by Sara Zarr
Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice by Colum McCann
Resurrecting the Shark: A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil by Susan Ewing
Ragdoll by Daniel Cole
Arnie: The Life of Arnold Palmer by Tom Callahan
Definitions of Indefinable Things by Whitney Taylor
To The Stars Through Difficulties by Romalyn Tilghman
Geekerella: A Fangirl Fairy Tale by Ashley Poston
Silver and Salt by Elanor Dymott
A Little More Human by Fiona Maazel
On Reading, Writing and Living with Books edited by Pushkin Press
Poisoned: How a Crime-Busting Prosecutor Turned His Medical Mystery into a Crusade for Environmental Victims by Alan Bell
Get It Together, Delilah! by Erin Gough
The Moon and the Other by John Kessel
It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going! by Chelsea Clinton
American War by Omar El Akkad
No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts
Miss You by Kate Eberlen
Blood Plagues and Endless Raids: A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft by Anthony R. Palumbi
The Breaking Light (Split City Book 1) by Heather Hansen
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe
The Trials of Walter Ogrod: The Shocking Murder, So-Called Confessions, and Notorious Snitch That Sent a Man to Death Row by Thomas Lowenstein
The Meating Room: A DCI Gilchrist Investigation by T. Frank Muir
99 Poems: New & Selected by Dana Gioia (paperback)
The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney (paperback)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (paperback)
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler (paperback)
The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp (paperback)
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith (paperback)
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg (paperback)
Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown (paperback)
Shrill by Lindy West (paperback)
That’s it for me today – time to get back to reading! If you want to learn more about books new and old (and see lots of pictures of my cats, Millay and Steinbeck), or tell me about books you’re reading, or books you think I should read (I HEART RECOMMENDATIONS!), you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!
Stay rad,
Liberty
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Tee + Water Bottle last day
Dress up and hydrate for your warm-weather adventures! Today’s the last day to save 25% when you pair any adult t-shirt and water bottle.
Need some reading material to keep you company out there in the sun? The new Book Mail box is out, and it’s going fast. Snag one now!
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Unbound Worlds Cage Match
Cage Match is back! Unbound Worlds is pitting science fiction characters against fantasy characters in a battle-to-the-death tournament, and you can win a collection of all 32 books featured in the competition. Enter now for your chance to win this library of sci-fi and fantasy titles!
Go here to enter, or just click the image below. Good luck!
I’ve just moved house and donated probably hundreds of books I didn’t like or won’t ever read, so this article that offers a behind-the-scenes look at working at bookstores that accept donations was so interesting. It’s mostly tips about how to make the employees’ lives easier. Did you know that houses with cats make bad houses from which to donate books? I did not. They don’t want your encyclopedia sets. Or bootleg audiobooks (people bootleg audiobooks?). If you wouldn’t pay $5 for the book, no one else will likely do it, either. Who knew!
Women over the age of 60 in the Indian village Fangane are getting chance to learn to read thanks to a “grandmother’s school.” Only 65% of Indian women are literate, compared to 82% of men (sexism and child marriages are cited as the main reasons), and this school offers classes for two hours a day, six days a week, timed so the women can finish their daily work or chores as well.
In news straight out of 2004, Microsoft is opening a digital bookstore that will allow users to read on Microsoft Edge, the new browser that’s replacing Explorer (finally). The store will be available starting April 11th, with the new Microsoft update scheduled for that day. The store will offer “hundreds of thousands” of both back and front list titles. With Amazon, Kobo, and B&N already pretty solid in the digital book world, the question of how much impact this will actually have is an open one.
Thanks to Unbound Worlds’ Cage Match 2017 for sponsoring this week’s newsletter.
Cage Match is back! Unbound Worlds is pitting science fiction characters against fantasy characters in a battle-to-the-death tournament, and you can win a collection of all 32 books featured in the competition. Enter now for your chance to win this library of sci-fi and fantasy titles!
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Macmillan Giveaway
We have a prize pack of YA Science Fiction & Fantasy books to give away today, courtesy of Macmillan.
The prize pack includes:
- one advance copy of Roar by Cora Carmack
- one hardcover copy of Metaltown by Kristen Simmons
- one hardcover copy of Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter (A Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, Kansas State Reading Circle, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults)
- one hardcover copy of Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the image below. Good luck!
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Cage Match is back! Unbound Worlds is pitting science fiction characters against fantasy characters in a battle-to-the-death tournament, and you can win a collection of all 32 books featured in the competition.
Enter now for your chance to win this library of sci-fi and fantasy titles!
We have 10 copies of Claire LaZebnik’s Things I Should Have Known to give away to 10 Riot readers.
Here’s what it’s about:
From the author of Epic Fail comes the story of Chloe Mitchell: a girl on a quest to find love for her autistic sister, Ivy. Ethan, Ivy’s classmate, seems like the perfect match. It’s unfortunate that his older brother, David, is one of Chloe’s least favorite people but Chloe can deal, especially when she realizes that David is as devoted to Ethan as she is to Ivy. Winsome and witty, this is a novel about sisterhood, autism, and first love. Things I Should Have Known will steal readers’ hearts and remind us all of a different kind of normal.
Go here to enter for a chance to win, or just click the cover image below. Good luck!
