You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host Liberty Hardy and I'm little in the middle but I've got much backlist.

This is episode 246 and a half and today I'm going to talk about a couple of great

backlist titles. So hello happy Friday!

Oh, happy Valentine's Day! Oh I just realized it's Valentine's Day. That's

exciting if that's your thing, you know, Valentine's Day. Some people enjoy it.

All I want for Valentine's Day is baby Yoda, which is what I also want for my birthday and Christmas. I am quickly amassing quite a baby

yoda collection here in my office and I need to stop but I just can't. I love baby yoda. Baby y Yoda is my Valentine I'm making heart eyes right now

but moving on to books I'm going to talk about a couple great books today

but before we do that we're going to listen to a sponsor.

This episode is sponsored by Vengeance of the Pirate Queen by Tricia Lovellar.

As an assassin working for the Pirate Queen, Surinda is surprised when her new task is to captain a hand-picked crew on a rescue mission.

Unfortunately, her Sailing Master is Kiran, and though he may be the best Helmsman the Pirate Queen has,

Surinna finds him a real pain. As the crew of the vengeance faces dangerous waters

and deadly sea creatures, they accidentally kind of sort of awaken the king of the undersea, a being who can control the dead.

I hate when that happens.

The rescue mission quickly turns into a fight to save the world, but first surrender

must save herself from becoming an undead queen.

This book had me at the title.

Vengeance, Pirates. Great, I'm sold.

But it's also being described as being very Pirates of the Caribbean meets the mummy, and look sign me up twice. We've got

adventure we've got a swoon worthy romance a very kind of banter-filled hate to

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