This week Alice and Kim talk arctic explorers, murder in the tropics, and the mixed reactions to nonfiction bestseller Girl, Wash Your Face.

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Follow Up

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

By the Book podcast

BuzzFeed: “Girl, Wash Your Face” Is A Massive Best-Seller With A Dark Message

Tidying Up with Marie Kondo

New Books

Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Marriedby Abby Ellin

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein

It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America by Reniqua Allen

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land

Weekly Theme: The Arctic

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff

Ada Blackjack: A True Tale of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven

The Tropics

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker

The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon by Chris Feliciano Arnold

Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen by Linda M. Heywood

Reading Now

American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover

Remember the Ladies: Women in America, 1750-1815 by Linda Grant De Pauw

CONCLUSION

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