This week Alice and Kim talk about a ton of March new releases and books to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8.

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NEW BOOKS

Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Brian Switek

Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate Hubbard

Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler

The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in by Ayser Salman

Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State by Charles Gardner

An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz

Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri

America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today by Pamela Nadell

Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powers, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova

The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl’s Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster by Tim Crothers

I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi

Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History by Canyon Sam

The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iranby Nazila Fathi

Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin Americaby Dana Frank

READING NOW

This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live by Melody Warnick

Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America by Michael P. Winship

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