This week Alice and Kim share some books about odd jobs plus cover new nonfiction about Hong Kong, prison, and cold cases.

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Follow Up

Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur

Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton

New Nonfiction

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim

Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis

Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home by Lauren Kessler

Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases by Paul Holes

Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpot

Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen

Books About Jobs

Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina MacLaughlin

The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife

Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Reading Now

The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

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