This week Alice and Kim talk about the guy who got Capone, a chef who got his start selling candy on the subway, and the first people to stand up to the KKK.
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Follow Up
My Own Devices by Dessa
Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli
Kate McKinnon is also going to play Elizabeth Holmes for a Hulu adaptation
Kidlit These Days
New Books
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country by Simon Winder
The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father by Janny Scott
Freedom’s Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America’s First War on Terror by Charles Lane
Notes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi
Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years by Cathy Guisewhite
Death and Taxes
April 15 was Tax Day in the United States. In 1913, the 16th Amendment was ratified, permanently legalizing an income tax.
A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and more Efficient Tax System by T.R. Reid
Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero by Douglas Perry
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh
The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln–Teddy Roosevelt–Wilson How the Income Tax Transformed America by Steven R. Weisman
Reading Now
KIM: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski PhD (Author), Amelia Nagoski DMA
ALICE: The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
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