This week Alice and Kim talk underdog robots, a school with no tests, and monsters of the Midwest. This is For Real.

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NONFICTION IN THE NEWS

Ann Shen’s Bad Girls Throughout History is being made into a series.

The film version of Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy will hit theaters in January 2020!

NEW BOOKS

Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country by B.J. Hollars

The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age by Bina Venkataraman

Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe

Scan Artist : How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked by Marcia Biederman

SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK

The Class: A Life-Changing Teacher, His World-Changing Kids, and the Most Inventive Classroom in America by Heather Won Tesoriero

Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education ed. By Mildred Wigfall Robinson and Richard J. Bonnie

The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein

Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua Davis

READING NOW

KIM: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia

ALICE: Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood by Karina Longworth

CONCLUSION

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