This week Alice and Kim talk assassins, night witches, and the serial killer who was almost impossible to catch.
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Follow Up
John Oliver did a segment on climbing Mount Everest and how the “expedition industry has devalued a once-historic achievement” and also made it a lot more dangerous.
New Books
Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected by Nnedi Okorafor
Reading Behind Bars: A Memoir of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian by Jill Grunenwald
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India’s Quest for Independence by Anita Anand
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Outspoken: Why Women’s Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Freeby Veronica Rueckert
Young Adult Nonfiction
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
We Say #NeverAgain: Reporting by the Parkland Student Journalists, edited by Melissa Falkowski and Eric Garner
Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote by Susan Zimet
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Reading Now
ALICE: Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor’s Struggle for Home in Rural America by Ayaz Virji
KIM: Rough Magic by Laura Palmer
Leaving the Witness by Amber Scorah
CONCLUSION
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