Episode 380 || July New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie and Olivia are back for another New Release Rundown. They’re sharing the July releases they’re excited about to help you build your TBR list. Don’t forget, if you purchase or preorder any of the books they talk about, you can enter the code NEWRELEASEPLEASE at checkout for 10 percent off your order. The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Annie’s list: Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola Sister Mother Warrior by Vanessa Riley The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield Big Girl: A Novel by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir by Erica L. Sánchez Any Other Family by Eleanor Brown Olivia's list: The First Rule of Climate Club by Carrie Firestone Chester Keene Cracks the Code by Kekla Magoon Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore The It Girl by Ruth Ware Upgrade by Blake Crouch Dead Water by C. A. Fletcher The Witchery by S. Isabelle 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 Midcoast by Adam White. Olivia is reading Dead Water by C. A. Fletcher. 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	I'm starting to think that living a dramatic story-worthy life and happiness are at worst mutually exclusive and at best giving each other a run for their money.
0:35.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week we're hosting another new release roundup with retail floor manager Olivia Schaefer.
0:50.0	Barring Catastrophe, by the time you hear this, we will have launched our new website and point of sale system and we are thrilled that years and I do mean years of research, work, and effort will have finally resulted in this great change for our store.
1:05.0	We hope you'll be patient with us as we work out the kinks in this new system and as you explore our new website for the first time.
1:11.0	We have some fun perks for customers who purchase from us over the next couple of weeks as we ensure the full functionality of the site.
1:18.0	Just follow us on Instagram at bookshelftivill or visit the new site at bookshelftomasville.com for more information.
1:27.0	We are thrilled with these fun and exciting and hard-won changes and we hope you will be excited with us.
1:34.0	Don't forget to, as Olivia and I chat about these titles, if you purchase or pre-order any of the books we talk about today, you can enter new release please at checkout to get 10% off your order.
1:46.0	Just go to the new website at bookshelftomasville.com and then instead of shopping around, you can just see new releases on the homepage.
1:54.0	We're very excited about this and hopefully it's true.
1:58.0	By the time you listen to this episode, you will see all of today's titles under the podcast on the homepage.
2:06.0	So we're really excited about that change.
2:08.0	Olivia, hi, hello.
2:10.0	Hello.
2:11.0	It's so weird to direct people to a website that we have seen but no one else has seen.
2:16.0	I was like, wait, how do they shop new releases? It's just on the homepage.
2:21.0	Yeah, so easy.
2:23.0	So easy and with a great search function.
2:27.0	A working search function.
2:29.0	Yes, a working search bar. It's very exciting.
2:32.0	We've seen it. We're excited.
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