This week, Liberty and Danika discuss The New People, Cool Machine, The Princess Trap, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

The New People by Andrea Uptmor

The Masala Chai Mystery Club by MJ Soni

The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert

Yes, Chef by Grace Reilly

Lord of the Wood by E.M. Anderson

Funerals are for the Living by Sami Ellis

Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy) by Colson Whitehead

The Mortons by Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld 

Vera Stein Is Fine by Julie Murphy

Yellow Pine by Claire Vaye Watkins

Fatal Glitch: Camp Zero by Eliot Schrefer, Erin Entrada Kelly

Unsayable: A Life in Writing by Michael Cunningham

What We're Reading:

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell

The Talking Bone by Rene Denfeld

Serious Music by Percival Everett

Life Beyond Measure: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale by Ed Yong

Paperbacks:

An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories by Ed Park 

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris 

Necessary Fiction by Eloghosa Osunde

Links:

Jamie Smart and the rise of Bunny vs. Monkey

Bestsellers:

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi  

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan  

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke  

Whistler by Ann Patchett  

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman  

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

Tempting Venom by Rina Kent

Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 by Kamome Shirahama

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

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