This week, Alice and Kim talk Revolutionary War history, Persian empresses, and the tragic fire that society buried.

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NEW BOOKS

Don't You Ever by Mary Carter Bishop                                  

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire by Robert E. Fiesler 

Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal

No One Tells You This: A Memoir by Glynnis MacNicol 

From the Corner of the Oval by Rebecca Dorey-Stein

WEEKLY THEME: Revolutionary History

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts

Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison

Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

SEGMENT THREE: Fiction/Nonfiction

The Ensemble by Aja Gabel

Gone by Min Kym

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte

How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution by Jack Horner and James Gorman

READING NOW

Stalking God by Anjali Kumar

Drinking in America: A History by Mark Edward Lender

OTHER

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Age of Jackson Podcast

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