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Her fiery past may incinerate her hard-won future. Years ago, Lieutenant Abby Mullen survived the infamous Wilcox cult. Now working as a hostage negotiator for the NYPD, nothing phases her anymore… at least she thought. When fellow survivor Eden Fletcher comes to Abby for help finding her kidnapped son, Abby can’t help but wonder why a kidnapper would target Eden. But Eden refuses to talk. She’s silent about the relics of their shared past hanging on her walls. About the kidnapper’s possible motives. About what’s happened in the years since she and Abby parted ways.
Happy Tuesday, star bits. Guess what??? I saw my first woodchuck of the season this weekend! And if you think I didn’t whip my shirt off like Brandi Chastain and cheer in my living room when I saw it, you would be wrong. Moving on: It’s an amazing book day! If I had to choose one book to tell you about today, it would be The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade. It’s an incredible multigenerational dysfunctional family saga set in New Mexico, and it is big and substantial and delicious. I could have easily read another 400 pages.
I did also read and love several more of today’s books, but there are still soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read, like Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian, Paradise, Nevada by Dario Diofebi, Poison Priestess by Lana Popovic, and Blow Your House Down by Gina Frangello.
As with each first Tuesday megalist, I am putting a ❤️ next to the books that I have had the chance to read and loved. You can also hear about several new releases on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Danika and I discussed The Five Wounds, Zara Hossain Is Here, Caul Baby, and more. Okay—everyone buckled in? Get ready to click your little hearts out, because here come the books! – XO, Liberty
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The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade ❤️
Allegorizings by Jan Morris
Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan
Crowe’s Requiem by Mike McCormack
The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching
The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin ❤️
An Indian among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike
Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins ❤️
Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian
My Good Son by Yang Huang
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Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price ❤️
The Outdoor Scientist: The Wonder of Observing the Natural World by Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
The Bookstore on the Beach by Brenda Novak
Aru Shah and the City of Gold (Pandava Quartet) by Roshani Chokshi ❤️
Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Merci Suárez Can’t Dance by Meg Medina
Aven Green Sleuthing Machine (Volume 1) by Dusti Bowling ❤️
Whisper Down the Lane: A Novel by Clay McLeod Chapman
First, Become Ashes by K.M. Szpara
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Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson ❤️
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku
Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story by Mazie K. Hirono
The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes by Xio Axelro
Zoe Rosenthal Is Not Lawful Good by Nancy Werlin
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer ❤️
Tower of Babel by Michael Sears
Getting It in the Head: Stories by Mike McCormack
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Batalion
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Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi ❤️
Your Mama by NoNieqa Ramos and Jacqueline Alcántara
Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall ❤️
The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano: A Novel by Donna Freita
Face: One Square Foot of Skin by Justine Bateman
Cruella: Hello, Cruel Heart by Maureen Johnson ❤️
An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler (translator)
The Elephant of Belfast: A Novel by S. Kirk Walsh
Broken Horses: A Memoir by Brandi Carlile
Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour by Rickie Lee Jones
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Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp
A River Called Time by Courttia Newland
The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik
Girl Warriors: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth by Rachel Sarah
The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin
Lucky by Marissa Stapley
My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance by Syan Rose
The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris
A Better Life: Poems by Randall Mann
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Paradise, Nevada by Dario Diofebi
Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 by Richard Thompson
The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
Mother May I: A Novel by Joshilyn Jackson
I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust : A Memoir of Autism and Hope by Valerie Gilpeer and Emily Grodin
We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy by Natalie Baszile
I’m Waiting for You: And Other Stories by Bo-Young Kim
The Infinity Courts by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (translator)
Leonora in the Morning Light by Michaela Carter
Between the Bliss and Me by Lizzy Mason
Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason by Gina Frangello
Poison Priestess (Lady Slayers) by Lana Popovic
First Responder: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Love on New York City’s Frontlines by Jennifer Murph