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This week Alice and Kim talk about true stories that have been turned into movies! Plus, new nonfiction about feminism, capitalism, activism, and beavers.

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More Than a Woman by Caitlin MoranHaving and Being Had by Eula Biss

What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action by Jane FondaFamily in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter by Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao

Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man’s Quest to Rewild Britain’s Waterways by Derek GowHere She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America by Hilary Levey Friedman

Books Into MoviesJust Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings by Stella TilyarEat, Pray, Love, One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth GilbertThe Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean

Reading NowGhosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan

Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy by Malcolm GaskillSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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