E35: YA Nonfiction, or "Nonfiction for Busy Adults"

This week Alice and Kim talk assassins, night witches, and the serial killer who was almost impossible to catch. This episode is sponsored by the Pre-Loved Podcast. Check it out on the podcatcher of your choice! And don’t forget to share For Real with nonfiction-loving friends/family/long-forged acquaintances on social media, tagging @bookriot. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. 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 You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork  RATE AND REVIEW us on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.