Episode 528: May New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s another New Release Rundown! Annie, Erin, and Olivia are sharing the May 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, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 528) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie's books: Poetry is Not a Luxury by Anonymous (5/6) My Friends by Fredrik Backman (5/6) Sleep by Honor Jones (5/13) Olivia's books: Billions to Burn by Taylor Banks (5/6) The Language of the Birds by K.A. Merson (5/13) The Ascent by Allison Buccola (5/20) Erin's books: The Names by Florence Knapp (5/6) Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson (5/13) The Love Haters by Katherine Center (5/20) 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, Tiktok, and Facebook, 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 Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. Olivia is reading King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby. Erin is listening to The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon. 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...Beth, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, Jammie Treadwell, and Amanda Whigham.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast simultaneously be the brightest light and the darkest depths, because that's how we learn to figure out our horizons.
0:38.0	Frederick Bachman, my friends.
0:41.5	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:45.7	Thomasville, Georgia.
0:47.2	Today, I'm joined by Bookshelf Operations Manager Olivia and online sales manager, Aaron,
0:52.5	to give you a rundown of our favorite new books
0:55.0	releasing in May. If you are a new or newish listener, you might not realize from the front porch
1:01.6	is a production of the bookshelf, a small independently owned bookstore in rural South Georgia.
1:07.1	By listening to our show and recommending it to friends, you are helping keep our indie bookstore
1:12.0	in business. And if you like what you hear, one way you can financially support us is through Patreon.
1:18.8	Last year, we read the classic American novel Loansome Dove with over 1,000 Patreon supporters,
1:24.8	and in January, we kicked off our 2025 reading of Don Quixote.
1:30.1	For $5 a month, you can access our monthly Conqueraclassic recaps, as well as our porch
1:35.9	visits, which are monthly live Zoom Q&As, where we talk about everything from pop culture
1:40.9	to nail polish, to what books you should take on your next vacation.
1:45.1	To learn more about our various Patreon tiers and their benefits, you can visit patreon.com
1:50.7	forward slash from the front porch.
1:53.7	Now, back to the show.
1:56.0	Hi, guys.
1:57.4	Good morning.
1:57.9	We're here, believe it or not, to talk about May books, we're just flying
2:02.4	through this year. Really are. Halfway. It's simultaneously dragging and blink and it's over.
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