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 33, and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the week's new releases and more

Episode 33 the Larry Bird episode

Um hi I have a fun theme today. It's going to be super themey.

Before I get started on today's books, I just want to take a second to say thank you.

Thank you to everyone out there who is like. I just want to take a second to say thank you.

Thank you to everyone out there who is listening, who has been listening.

It's so much fun to get to talk about books every week,

even though it makes me so so so nervous, which I'm sure you've heard me say before

it's worth it because I love talking about books books are the greatest thing and

I just love being able to help people find books that

makes them happy because that's all I want is for people to read books and be

happy unless they suck then I don't care but I want the good people to read books and be happy

so you're all good and I'm gonna tell you about some great books today there I

was looking at the week's new releases and there are a lot of books out this week that have animals in the title,

including American Panda, Call Me Zebra, The Humming Birds, and the Seabirds Cry.

So I thought, why not some cool books that have animals in the title?

I know that I've mentioned a few with critters before, but I've got a few great ones today that I haven't talked about starting with 15 dogs by Andre Alexis.

It's about a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo.

They're like, I wonder what would happen if we gave animals intelligence and emotions like humans have and so they decide to like try it out and you know one of them I can't remember which one is like they're not going to be able to handle it.

So they give these dogs in a Toronto Veterinary Clinic human emotions and skills and

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