359 || February New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode of From the Front Porch, Annie and Olivia are discussing their favorite newly released titles of the month and highlighting books you’ll want to add to your TBR list! The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf. Mutual: Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘em Dead by Elle Cosimano Annie's List: Other People’s Clothes by Calla Henkel Black Girls Must Be Magic by Jayne Allen What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson Cost of Living by Emily Maloney Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow Good Enough by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka Olivia’s List The Appeal by Janice Hallett The Boy Who Met a Whale by Nizrana Farook The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocomb Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee Out of a Jar by Deborah Marceno The Verifiers by Jane Pek The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart Other Books Mentioned: Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett (back-ordered) Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison (back-ordered) So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler (printing on-demand only) Brood by Jackie Polzin From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. This week, Annie is reading The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford. Olivia is reading The Verifiers by Jane Pek. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Libro.FM: Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story -- one that supports community. All you need is a smart phone and the free Libro.fm app. Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link: libro.fm/redeem/FRONTPORCH Flodesk: Do you receive a weekly or monthly newsletter from one of your favorite brands? Like maybe From the Front Porch (Or The Bookshelf)... Did you ever wonder, ‘how do they make such gorgeous emails?’ Flodesk is an email marketing service provider that's built for creators, by creators, and it’s easy to use. We’ve been using it for a couple of years now, and I personally love it. And right now you can get 50% off your Flodesk subscription by going to: flodesk.com/c/THEFRONTPORCH

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
0:08.0	Music
0:24.0	Blessed are you who hold hope with an open hand.
0:27.0	You who try not to fix your gaze on time's far horizon or get drunk on what might yet be.
0:34.0	And blessed are you who avoid walking too far down memory lane, getting stuck wondering if that was as good as it gets.
0:41.0	If you've peaked or feeling resentful about all that has disappointed before.
0:46.0	Blessed are you who know that sometimes you need to stay right here, at least for a minute.
0:53.0	Kate Boller, good enough.
0:56.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week we're back with our monthly series New Release rundown.
1:06.0	I'm joined by the bookshelf's floor manager, Olivia Schaefer, to talk through the books we're most excited about for February.
1:12.0	Throughout the year, we'll feature other bookshelf staffers and friends in these monthly bookish chats designed to beef up your TBR.
1:20.0	And as a bonus for podcast listeners, if you purchase or pre-order any of the books, Olivia and I talk about on today's episode, you can enter New Release Please at checkout for 10% off your order.
1:32.0	Just go to bookshelfthomasville.com and enter New Release Please at checkout for 10% off your order.
1:39.0	Hi, Olivia.
1:41.0	Hey.
1:43.0	Are you excited to talk about books?
1:45.0	I am. It feels like it's been a little while.
1:48.0	I just looked and it looks like we last recorded one of these in November because December is such a weird publishing month.
1:55.0	So it really has been a minute.
1:57.0	Yeah.
1:58.0	Okay, that makes sense.
2:00.0	Well, you earlier this week were talking about reading for this episode and I kept thinking, why, when are we recording and truly into yesterday?
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