Summary: This week, Alice and Kim talk Revolutionary War history, Persian empresses, and the tragic fire that society buried. While you're here, don’t forget Book Riot’s YA giveaway! Go here to win $500 of the year’s best YA fiction and nonfiction. bookriot.com/500yagiveaway NEW BOOKS Don't You Ever by Mary Carter Bishop Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire by Robert E. Fiesler Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal No One Tells You This: A Memoir by Glynnis MacNicol From the Corner of the Oval by Rebecca Dorey-Stein WEEKLY THEME: Revolutionary History Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar SEGMENT THREE: Fiction/Nonfiction The Ensemble by Aja Gabel Gone by Min Kym The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution by Jack Horner and James Gorman READING NOW Stalking God by Anjali Kumar Drinking in America: A History by Mark Edward Lender OTHER Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Age of Jackson Podcast
