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. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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