This week, Liberty and Sharifah discuss The Water Dancer, The Dutch House, The Shadow King, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht

The World That We Knew: A Novel by Alice Hoffman 

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison

The Shadow King: A Novel by Maaza Mengiste 

Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger 

Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker

What we’re reading:

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

The Unwilling by Kelly Braffet

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