This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss This Wretched Valley, Escaping Mr. Rochester, Beautyland, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer

Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney

So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes

Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson

Ilium by Lea Carpenter

The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro

You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrique, Natasha Wimmer (translator)

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