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From the Front Porch

Episode 371 || May New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 54 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! Don’t forget our Summer Literary Lunch is coming up later this month! Tickets are on sale now and you can find them online here. The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf. Annie’s List: Book Lovers by Emily Henry Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A. J. Verdelle Jameela Green Ruins Everything by Zarqa Nawaz Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi The Golden Season by Madeline Kay Sneed Olivia’s List: The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A F Steadman The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson Breathless by Amy McCulloch The Change by Kirsten Miller Disappeared by Bonnar Spring Gieger by Gustaf Skordeman Hide by Kiersten White 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.  This week Annie is reading The Bridesmaids Union by Jonathan Vatner. Olivia is reading The Measure by Nikki Erlick. 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.

0:08.0

You were too old to love forts. You were 16, a girl with a learner's permit and a boyfriend now.

0:30.0

But I didn't remind you of this because that was the fun of being sisters.

0:34.0

Sometimes you got to be younger than you were, and I got to be older.

0:39.0

Allison Espake notes on your sudden disappearance.

0:45.0

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

0:50.0

And this week I'm joined by retail floor manager Olivia Schaeffer to chat about books releasing.

0:57.0

Don't forget, our summer literary lunch is coming up later this month.

1:01.0

If you've never joined us, these are the bookshelves quarterly virtual events designed to work around your literal or metaphorical lunch breaks.

1:08.0

I discuss my favorite books of the upcoming season, and I do so with your reader's decision fatigue in mind.

1:14.0

Tickets are on sale now for our summer conversation.

1:17.0

You can find them online at bookshelfthomasville.com, just click events, or tap the link in our show notes.

1:24.0

Don't forget to, as Olivia and I chat about these new titles.

1:27.0

If you purchase or pre-order any of the books we talk about today, you can enter new release please at checkout for 10% off your order.

1:35.0

Just go to bookshelfthomasville.com, click or tap podcast, then shop from the front porch to see today's titles.

1:43.0

Hi, Olivia.

1:44.0

Hey.

1:45.0

I know we used to do this weekly, which I cannot honestly begin to comprehend.

1:51.0

But it feels like these monthly chats come along pretty quickly.

1:55.0

They do.

1:57.0

The months really are flying by, and I don't know what to do about it.

2:01.0

I know.

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