New Releases and More for August 21, 2018

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Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

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🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Small Animals, Tragedy Plus Time, Underbug, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Google Play, Impostor’s Lure, and Bombas. And don’t forget to enter to win 16 books from the Recommended podcast! And check out the new Read Harder Journal. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a 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 Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark Sanpaku by Kate Gavino The Stars Now Unclaimed (The Universe After) by Drew Williams Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir by Adam Cayton-Holland Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear by Kim Brooks Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen (translator) Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology by Lisa Margonelli What we’re reading: Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:14.6	enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 172 and
1:19.0	today we are talking about books being released on August 21st, 2018 and more.
1:24.1	I'm Liberty Hardy, here is Maria Christina Garcia Lynch
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