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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 47 and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the

week's new releases and more. So hello, hello happy Friday all you people out

there in Bookland I have some great books to talk about, but before I tell you

about them, I would like to tell you that today's episode is sponsored by The Optimistic

Decade by Heather Abel. It's out now from Algonquin books. It says here,

Framed by the oil shell bust the real estate boom and protests against Reagan and

the Gulf War, Heather Abel's The Optimistic Decade is a brilliant

exploration of the bloom and fate of idealism as seen through the lives of five unforgettable characters.

There's Caleb Silver, beloved founder of Back to the Land Camp Lamalow.

There's Dawn and his son Donnie,

Rancers who gave up their land to Caleb and now want it back.

Rebecca Silver, a college student, determined to become an activist like her father and

undone by the spell of Lamalow and new love and David a teenager

who has turned Lamalow into his personal religion. Nathan Hill, the author of The Nick, says

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