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From the Front Porch

Episode 393 || New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s another New Release Rundown! Annie and Olivia are sharing October releases they’re excited about to help you build your TBR. 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. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website: Annie's list: Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken The Night Ship by Jess Kidd Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro Olivia's list: Malice House by Megan Shepherd A Rover's Story by Jasmine Warga Two Degrees by Alan Gratz This Story is Not about a Kitten by Randall de Seve Undercover Latina by Aya de Leon Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega Outside Nowhere by Adam Borda Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen 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 People Person by Candice Carty-Williams. Olivia is reading The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik. 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, Cammy Tidwell, Chantalle C, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, Laurie Johnson, and Kate Johnston Tucker.

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

While Doe Shankman, the latest in a long line of shankmans, air to all of it, the rage, the fear, the kind-heartedness, the confusion, the loneliness, the instinct for survival that stretches back from the hospital.

0:37.0

He will walk from the hospital in Avalon to a house in New Jersey to a shuttle in a country that no longer exists.

0:43.0

This too, he will carry.

0:45.0

He will move through his life, as we all do, without knowing what has preceded him or what lies ahead.

0:52.0

Danny Shapiro, Signal Fires

0:57.0

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

1:03.0

and this week, we're hosting another new release rundown with retail floor manager, Olivia Schaefer.

1:08.0

Another session of From the Front porch Book Club is getting ready to meet in November.

1:13.0

Earlier this year, we added new levels of support over on Patreon.

1:16.0

You've heard me talk about them a lot, but for just $20 a month, you can become a Book Club companion.

1:22.0

This Patreon level includes all the benefits of our $5 tier.

1:25.0

That's monthly Q&As, conquer a classic episodes, plus access to our From the Front porch Book Club.

1:32.0

In August, we discussed CJ Hauser's The Crane Wife.

1:35.0

In September, Olivia and Erin discussed Acts of Violet.

1:39.0

And in November, we'll be discussing my October shelf subscription selection, which I'm thrilled to talk about.

1:45.0

All of our book selections for our From the Front porch Book Club are selections by our shelf subscription program,

1:50.0

and they can be found in our online store.

1:52.0

To become a $20 a month Patreon supporter, just go to www.fromthefrontportchpodcast.com

1:59.0

and click Support.

2:01.0

You can also go to patreon.com forward slash From the Front porch.

2:05.0

Our next meeting is Wednesday, November 2nd, and we would love to have you.

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