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From the Front Porch

Episode 441 || New Release Rundown: September

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s another New Release Rundown! Annie and Olivia are sharing the September releases they’re excited about to help you build your TBR. When you purchase or preorder any of the books they talk about, enter the code NEWRELEASEPLEASE at checkout for 10% off your order! To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website (type “Episode 441” into the search bar to easily find the books mentioned in this episode): Annie's books: Happiness Falls by Angie Kim How Far to the Promised Land by Esau McCauley (9/12)  The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff (9/12)  This Is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara (9/26) Olivia's books: Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon (9/5) The Improbable Tales of Baskerville Hall by Ali Standish (9/12) Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter (9/19) The Widely Unknown Myth of Apple & Dorothy by Corey Ann Haydu (9/19) 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 You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. 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...Ashley Ferrell, Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Kate O’Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins.

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

While everyone believed she wanted to care for her mother in her grief, it had only been partly bad.

0:30.0

It was mostly that she needed her mother. She was long-sum, too. She could not explain that part.

0:35.0

She was not a girl anymore. She had not been for a long time, though on some level, she wanted to tell the girl.

0:41.0

We feel like girls for all our lives, even after we choose careers, get married, it's all play-acting.

0:48.0

Bahini Vara, this is salvaged.

0:51.0

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

0:57.0

And this week, I'm joined by Bookshelf Operations Manager Olivia Schafer to give you a rundown of our favorite new books releasing in September.

1:06.0

September is a big month for the Bookshelf and for Thomasville.

1:09.0

This month, we're helping the Thomas County Library relaunch our Area One Book program.

1:14.0

For ten years, the Thomas County Library has hosted South Georgia's first and only One Book program,

1:20.0

where our entire community reads the same book together and celebrates that book with a variety of literary events.

1:27.0

This year, we're reading You're Not Listening, What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy.

1:33.0

And our celebration of Murphy's book will culminate in a visit from the author at the Thomas County Board of Education Auditorium on Thursday, September 28th.

1:43.0

Tickets are $10 and can be found in store at the Bookshelf or online at OneBookThomasCounty.org.

1:52.0

You have plenty of time to get tickets and to read You're Not Listening right along with us.

1:57.0

Grab your copy at the Bookshelf, the library, or read along with us from far away by snagging a copy at your own local indie.

2:04.0

Visit OneBookThomasCounty.org for more details about this year's event. We hope to see you there.

2:10.0

Now, back to the show. As we go through September new releases, just keep in mind our online sales manager, Aaron, has made browsing our podcast book selections easier than ever.

2:19.0

Just go to BookshelfThomasL.com, type episode 441 into the search bar, and you'll see all of today's books listed ready for you to purchase.

2:28.0

You can use the code New Release Please at checkout. I said really weird.

2:33.0

You can use code New Release Please at checkout for 10% off your order of today's titles.

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