This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss The Mistress of Bhatia House, The Librarianist, The Centre, and more great books.

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Books Discussed On the Show:

The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt

The Mistress of Bhatia House by Sujata Massey

The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans by Laura Trethewey

Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark by Greg Skomal and Ret Talbot 

Kiss Mi, Mi Amor by Alana Quintana Albertson 

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe by Aomawa Shields  

The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy by Moiya McTier 

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 

Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin  

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

The Carnivale of Curiosities by Amiee Gibbs

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