This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, Into the Black, and The Lie Tree, and more new releases.

This episode was sponsored Open Road Media’s Margery Sharp e-books and Book Riot Live.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

Before We Visit the Goddess by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Hystopia by David Means

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

Maestra by L. S. Hilton

Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own by Kate Bolick

Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her by Rowland White

What Works: Gender Equality by Design by Iris Bohnet

What we’re reading:

Ghostly Echoes by William Ritter

Heartburn by Nora Ephron (audio)

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