You're listening to All the More Books, a weekly show about books of all kinds.

I'm your host, Vanessa the Yes.

Episode is airing on Friday, June 19th.

And today I have three books to recommend to you, two of which

are great for some of the celebrations that we've got going on this month. Of course, June

is Pride here in the U.S. And also today, being June 19th, is Juneteenth here in the U.S.

So I've got one book that is a really fantastic new queer, cozy mystery. A book that I was going to recommend about Juneteenth is sadly out of print.

So instead I'm going to recommend a different book that I really love that is more focused on just bits of black history that most people don't know about.

And then my third is just sort of a wild card.

There was a lot of fun because I figured we could all use more fun in these times. And so before I get to each of these two things. One, apologies, if my voice sounds a little funny, there is a cold that really, really, really really wants to invade my sinus cavity that I'm trying to will away. And two, I'm just not in my usual recording environment. But we're going to get past that. We're going to talk about books. make make everything better. Let us dive in. But first, let's hear from our sponsor.

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