This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Starter Villain, Cleat Cute, When a Brown Girl Flees, and more great new books.

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison

When a Brown Girl Flees by Aamna Qureshi

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.

The Only Girl in Town by Ally Condie

North Woods by Daniel Mason

The Widely Unknown Myth of Apple and Dorothy by Corey Ann Haydu

The National Book Awards longlist

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