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All the Backlist! August 12, 2022

All the Books!

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Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This week, Trisha recommends two non-fiction books by excellent storytellers, and both are great on audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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You're listening to All the Backlist, a weekly show about books that aren't new.

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I'm your host for the week, Trisha Brown, and this is episode 374.5.

0:22.0

Speaking of 0.5, we are nearly halfway through August, and for many of us, that means that

0:27.0

summer is drawing to a close.

0:29.0

Based on actually all of the pumpkin beer and Halloween decor I have seen around summer is actually already over.

0:34.0

I would say flannel also, because I keep seeing flannel, but I live in the Pacific Northwest.

0:39.0

That's kind of a evergreen year round situation.

0:42.0

But anyway, for those of you who are trying to sneak in one last trip to the beach or to the mountains,

0:48.0

or anyone who's just dashing around doing back to school shopping,

0:51.0

I have got a couple of audiobook wrecks for the week that will hold your attention for the last road trip or shopping trip

0:58.0

or whatever else you need for the summer.

1:01.0

And we will get right to those after we thank our All the Backlist sponsor.

1:07.0

Today's episode is brought to you by Poisoned Pin Press.

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So Dawn's shift is strange.

1:13.0

At least that's what everyone thinks at VIXT, the nutritional supplement company,

1:16.0

where Dawn works as an accountant.

1:18.0

She never says the right thing, she has no friends, and she's always at her desk at precisely 8.45 am.

1:25.0

So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker, Natalie Farrell,

1:29.0

beautiful popular top sales rep five years running, is surprised.

1:34.0

And then she receives an unsettling anonymous phone call that changes everything.

1:38.0

It turns out Dawn wasn't just an awkward outsider, she was being targeted by someone close.

1:43.0

And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leads her wondering,

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