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All the Books!

New Releases and More for December 5, 2017

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Elmet, Roomies, The Last Black Unicorn, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Breathing Books, ThirdLove, and OwlCrate. 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. Trigger warning for discussions of child abuse and sexual assault at 11:28 – skip ahead to 15:55. 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 Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book by Dan Harris and Jeffrey Warren The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish Roomies by Christina Lauren No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi Elmet by Fiona Mozley The Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak  What we’re reading this week: Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for today's show comes from the reckless series by Cornelia Funk.

0:04.0

Giving books as presents this holiday season, Cornelia Funk's reckless, the petrified flesh,

0:09.4

follows Treasure Hunter Jacob Reckless and his companion Fox through Adventures in the Mirror World.

0:15.0

You may have read Funk's middle grade series, Inc. World.

0:17.8

Reckless brings her rich storytelling to a more mature young adult and new adult reader. Reckless, The Petrified Flesh is available on Amazon,

0:25.2

but publisher Breathing Books would love for you to find it at your local indie bookstore.

0:28.9

For more info visit www.

0:31.5

Breathing-Books.com. Visit

0:35.0

W.W. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and

0:48.4

enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 136 and today we are talking about books

0:54.5

released in December 2017 and more. I'm Liberty Hardy here with my fellow

0:59.2

well redhead Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from Book Riot.com.

1:03.0

Hello, it's December.

1:07.0

Reunited and it feels so good.

1:09.0

I know, I missed you.

1:11.0

I had to come up with something.

1:12.0

I was like, Amanda my my fellow and everything was like

1:16.7

evil.

1:17.7

I was like I don't know what it gots the book Goths.

1:25.0

Littigoths? I don't know. I'll come up with something. You guys did a great show together

1:30.5

though and it was fun to listen to. Thank you it's fun to do. I'm

1:34.7

happy to be back for the whole month because tomorrow afternoon we're going to

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