All the Backlist! March 23, 2018

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🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This week, Liberty discusses The Earthquake Bird, The Color Purple, Let the Right One In, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Odeyemi. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts 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 on the show: The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones The 25th Hour by David Benioff The Color Purple by Alice Walker A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Fingersmith by Sarah Waters The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by ITVX.
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0:31.7	You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.
0:35.3	I'm your host Liberty Hardy and I'm little in the middle but I've got much backlist.
0:39.3	This is episode 39 and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the week's new releases and more. so,
0:43.0	and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the weeks, new releases, and more.
0:45.0	So hello, I have my theme already,
0:49.0	and today's sponsor actually ties into that theme,
0:52.0	completely coincidentally, which I will explain
0:55.0	after I tell you about them.
0:56.6	Today's sponsor is Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adiami.
1:00.9	And the synopsis goes, Zellie Attabola remembers when the soil of Orisha hummed with magic.
1:07.0	Burners ignited flames, tighter's beckoned waves, and Zellie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls.
1:12.0	But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Zellie's Reaper Mother summoned forth souls.
1:12.6	But everything changed the night magic disappeared.
1:15.0	Under the orders of a ruthless king, Madie were killed, leaving Zellie without a mother and her
1:19.2	people without hope.
1:20.7	Now Zellie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy.
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