New Releases and More for August 18, 2020

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🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Raybearer, The Less Dead, Betty, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life; Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community; and Flatiron Books, publisher of His & Hers by Alice Feeney. 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. 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: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko The Less Dead by Denise Mina Betty: A Novel by Tiffany McDaniel The Switch by Beth O’Leary Ikenga by Nnedi Okorafor Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy by Kelly Jensen Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice by Chris Hamby Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner WHAT WE’RE READING: Unpregnant by Jeni Hendricks and Ted Caplan Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife by Ariel Sabar The Last Banner: The Story of the 1985-86 Celtics and the NBA’s Greatest Team of All Time by Peter May No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	New Epic eats banging barbecue from McCoy's. Fire up your taste but with a blend of
0:07.0	smoky, sweet and subtle spice. Epic flavor, epic crunch, epic eats, because only the real McCoy's tastes like the real McCoy's. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and
0:34.7	enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 273 and
0:39.2	today we are talking about books being released on August 18th, 2020 and more. I'm Liberty Hardy here
0:45.1	with Tears of Price and we're coming to you from Book Riot.com.
0:48.6	Hello again. Hey there, how are you? I'm pretty good. Good. It's been really stupid hot here in Maine.
0:58.8	The last few days, but it's about to break. I am feeling the same way in Michigan. I'm currently sitting in a
1:06.7	room that has no air circulation because we have to record and we can't have any background noises so you know it's just we're powering through
1:16.7	the things that we sacrifice for summer podcasting it's true I actually I went up into the White Mountains for just to drive the other day and it was like 90 something here at home and I was like I'm going to go into the mountain it's going to be cooler
1:33.2	and it wasn't even cooler there. I'm like this is a cheat. I feel treated.
1:35.8	It was supposed to be cooler. It was actually warmer. I was like forget it. Turn around came back but it was a nice drive it was pretty. That's good at least. but it was a nice drive, it was pretty.
1:42.8	That's good at least.
1:44.5	Yeah, it was a good reminder that like the world is out there,
1:47.0	you know, because I've been in the house for so long
1:49.0	and I'm not supposed to interact with people
1:51.7	because I have garbage lungs and all the stuff so it was nice to just
1:55.1	like get out anyway.
1:57.4	It's funny how just like a simple drive or getting somewhere new even if you don't like come in contact with anybody can be really, really nice.
2:08.0	I drove to Lake Michigan a couple of weeks ago just like in the middle of the week and sat on the beach red for a couple of hours got the worst
2:15.8	sunburn but it was so nice because I'm like this is something new it's not sitting in my house
2:20.7	all day yeah it's good to like just get out and stretch your legs,
2:24.1	even if there's no one else around.
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