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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Not a Happy Family, Summer Fun, A Song Everlasting, and more great books. Pick up an All the Books! shirt, sticker, and more right here. Follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify 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. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena  Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton A Song Everlasting by Ha Jin I Am Not Starfire by Mariko Tamaki with art by Yoshi Yoshitani Fierce Little Thing by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Red Wolf by Rachel Vincent The Accursed Vampire by Madeline McGrane  While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory WHAT WE’RE READING: Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. Pan MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Radar Girls by Sara Ackerman The Rocky Road to Ruin: An Ice Cream Shop Mystery by Meri Allen Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Line of California’s Wildfires by Jaime Lowe When We Were Strangers by Alex Richards The Breakup Monologues: The Unexpected Joy of Heartbreak by Rosie Wilby  Rhode Island Red (A Nanette Hayes Mystery) by Charlotte Carter  A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha by Rodrigo Garcia  Weird Kid by Greg van Eekhout Three Words for Goodbye by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb The Man Ban by Nicola Marsh How to Find Your Way in the Dark by Derek B. Miller The Silver Blonde by Elizabeth Ross They’ll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman The Minister Primarily by John Oliver Killens  The Great Peace: A Memoir by Mena Suvari Safe in My Arms by Sara Shepard Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin The Perfect Ruin by Shanora Williams Star Wars The High Republic: Out of the Shadows by Justina Ireland  New Teeth: Stories by Simon Rich  Walls by L.M. Elliott Queer Stepfamilies: The Path to Social and Legal Recognition by Katie L. Acosta Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California by Matthew Specktor The Second Season by Emily Adrian  The Runaway Heiress by Meg Tilly The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit by John V. Petrocelli World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story by Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro Shooting Out the Lights: A Memoir by Kim Fairley  Much Ado about Nauticaling (A Whit and Whiskers Mystery Book 1) by Gabby Allan We Want What We Want: Stories by Alix Ohlin  Just One Look by Lindsay Cameron Rovers by Richard Lange  Small Favors by Erin A. Craig  Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith  The Women’s March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession by Jennifer Chiaverini  Nadiya Bakes: Over 100 Must-Try Recipes for Breads, Cakes, Biscuits, Pies, and More by Nadiya Hussain Godspeed by Nickolas Butler Heartbreak For Hire by Sonia Hartl A Good Day for Chardonnay (Sunshine Vicram #2) by Darynda Jones  Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea by Edith Widder, Ph.D See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.