Books We're Thankful For, Nov. 24, 2015

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🗓️ 24 November 2015

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of the books they are thankful for, including The Giant’s House, When Women Were Birds, and The Known World. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot’s Best of 2015 box. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin The Babysitter’s Club by Ann M. Martin The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken Sula by Toni Morrison My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams The Known World by Edward P. Jones Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen Zazen by Vanessa Veselka The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho What we’re reading: The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories by Carlos Velázquez (Author), Achy Obejas (Translator) Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.
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0:27.0	This episode is sponsored by The Edge of Lost by acclaimed author Christina McMorris.
0:31.0	The Edge of Lost is an epic journey from the islands of Ireland to New York in the 1920s, to San Francisco Bay, and back again. A young Irish boy immigrates to America with the help of a well-meaning Italian family coming of age in the shadows of
0:43.7	prohibition-era organized crime on the vaudeville circuit and ultimately in the
0:47.9	prison island of Alcatraz where he forges an unlikely friendship with a
0:51.5	prison guard's daughter changing the course of both of their lives.
0:55.2	The Edge of Lost is now available everywhere books are sold and at Kensington Books.com.
1:00.0	Visit Christina Mick Morris.com for more information and that's Christina with the K.
1:04.5	So K-R-I-S-T-I-N-A- Mick Morris.com. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
1:25.0	This is episode 29 and today in preparation for the holidays we are talking about some of the books we are thankful for.
1:31.0	I'm Liberty Hardy here with my fellow
1:33.6	well redhead Rebecca shinsky and we're coming to you from book riot.com.
1:37.3	Hey girl hello you're back from the big city. I am.
1:42.6	I went to the National Book Award Ceremony
1:46.1	and it was amazing.
1:48.6	I am surprised that you're still here,
1:50.6	because if anything could make you feel like you had swallowed a cat
1:53.4	and broken out in kittens it would be attending the National Book Awards. I could not I just
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