Hello and welcome you are listening to all the backlist a weekly show about books

that are not new. I'm your host for the week Tricia Brown and this is episode

number 485.5. There's a lot going on all over the world including here in the US. A lot of it is not good.

So if you are deeply mired in any of that, hurricane recovery or anything else, even if you're a little mired in it, I hope that you

and your community are able to find some calm and some relief and some books and some time to read,

because if you are listening to this podcast my guess is that books are something that you can count on in times of challenge.

So good luck Godspeed. We are thinking of all of you all over the country. Many of us in the US are also still very focused on the presidential election, which is as I record this in three weeks. So just for like the last two months or just as I've done for

the last two months I am here to give you one book that will give you some insight

into the electoral process in the United States, and one book that is completely, entirely, and

fully unrelated. Like it doesn't even take place in this hemisphere. So this is the last month of this

little pattern of Rex by me, I promise in November we're going

to go hard into just escapist fiction.

But for now, we're going to talk a little bit about who gets to vote, and then we are going to jump

over to Australia

circa 2008 for something entirely different and we're going to do it all on the

other side of the break. Today's episode is brought to you by Penguin Teen, publisher of Pick the Lock by AS King.

Jane Vandermaker Cook would like her mother back.

As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian

mansion with her younger brother and her mendacious father who confines Jane's mother to a system of nomadic tubes whenever she's at home.

And then there's weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milerad, the gardener, and his rat Brutus. For Jane this all seems normal until she suddenly

gains access to the files for a lifetime of security camera videos. Her

lifetime. This is obviously super weird, but it's from Michael L. Prince Award winner

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