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From the Front Porch

Episode 367 || April New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode of From the Front Porch, Annie and Olivia are discussing their favorite newly released titles of the month and highlighting books you’ll want to add to your TBR list! The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf. Annie’s List: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Sign for Home by Blair Fell Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott Left on Tenth by Delia Ephron Hope and Glory by Jendella Benson Search by Michelle Huneven Olivia’s List: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum Karthik Delivers by Sheela Chari When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle Donut: the Unicorn Who Wanted to Fly by Laura Gehl and illustrated by Andrea Zuill Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda The Boy with Flowers in His Hair by Jarvis From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.  A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.  Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, The 101st annual Rose Show and Festival, here in Thomasville, Georgia. If you want to come for the weekend and experience the flowers, fun, food, and shopping in beautiful Thomasville GA, plan your visit at thomasvillega.com. This week Annie is reading Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li. Olivia is reading Metropolis by B.A. Shapiro. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are... Donna Hetchler, Angie Erickson, Cammy Tidwell, Chantalle C, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, Laurie johnson and Kate Johnston Tucker. Libro.FM: Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story -- one that supports community. All you need is a smart phone and the free Libro.fm app. Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link: https://tidd.ly/3C2zVbb Flodesk: Do you receive a weekly or monthly newsletter from one of your favorite brands? Like maybe From the Front Porch (Or The Bookshelf)... Did you ever wonder, ‘how do they make such gorgeous emails?’  Flodesk is an email marketing service provider that's built for creators, by creators, and it’s easy to use. We’ve been using it for a couple of years now, and I personally love it. And right now you can get 50% off your Flodesk subscription by going to: flodesk.com/c/THEFRONTPORCH

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to From the Front porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.

0:24.0

I am still drawn to what I don't understand, because I imagine that if I can understand more,

0:29.0

I might better anticipate what happens in life. I'm old enough to know better, but old habits die hard,

0:35.0

and it's tempting to think that if I can just find all the foreshadowing, then I will know. How does everything turn out?

0:47.0

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia,

0:52.0

and this week we're talking April Books in our new release rundown.

0:56.0

I'm joined by the Bookshelf's floor manager and children's book buyer Olivia Schaefer to talk through the books we're most excited about this month.

1:04.0

Before we get to today's episode, though, I wanted to let you know that this week we officially announced our Jenny Han Summer Book Club.

1:11.0

This is the third and final installment in our nostalgic YA Book Club.

1:16.0

We first gathered over Zoom in 2020 to reread the babysitters' club books, then in 2021 we read Young Adult Lit from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.

1:27.0

This summer we're reading Jenny Han's Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy in advance of the TV adaptation, which is coming later this year.

1:35.0

You can join our Summer Long Book Club just three months long May, June, and July by purchasing a book bundle of all three books in the trilogy.

1:43.0

Just click or tap the link in our show notes or go to bookshelfthomasville.com.

1:47.0

Our virtual meetings begin in May and we would love to see you there.

1:51.0

Now back to the show and the business of new releases.

1:54.0

Hi, Olivia.

1:55.0

Hey.

1:56.0

Can you believe this is going to be the end of our Young Adult Book Club journey together?

2:02.0

It's weird.

2:03.0

It's so weird.

2:05.0

It's super weird.

2:06.0

It's been like a two year long nostalgia book read.

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