Episode 532 || June 2025 New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 55 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 June 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 532) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie's books: Flashlight by Susan Choi (6/3)Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (6/3)Among Friends by Hal Ebbott (6/24) Olivia's books: The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark (6/3)King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby (6/10)The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick (6/17) Erin's books: A Family Matter by Claire Lynch (6/3)Kakigori Summer by Emily Itami (6/10)Welcome to Murder Week by Karen Dukess (6/10) 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 Audition by Katie Kitamura. Olivia is reading The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell. Erin is listening to Audition by Katie Kitamura. 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 about books, small distraction, a clear sense of desire was like the edge of a pool, a thing off which she could push.
0:34.9	Hal Ebbett, among friends.
0:41.1	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. Today, I'm joined by Bookshelf Operations
0:46.4	Manager Olivia and online sales manager, Aaron, to give you a rundown of our favorite new
0:51.8	books releasing in June.
0:58.4	If you are a new or newish listener, you might not realize that from the front porch is a production of the bookshelf, which is a small, independently owned bookstore in rural
1:02.7	South Georgia.
1:03.9	By listening to our show and recommending it to your friends, you're helping keep our indie
1:08.5	bookstore in business.
1:10.0	And if you like what you hear, one way you
1:12.5	can financially support us is through Patreon. Last year, you might know we read the classic
1:17.9	American novel Lonesome Dove with over a thousand Patreon supporters. And this year, we kicked
1:23.4	off our reading of Don Quixote. For $5 a month, you can access those monthly Conquer a Classic Recap episodes, as well as our porch visits, which are monthly live Zoom Q&As, where we talk about everything from pop culture to nail polish to what books you should take on your next vacation.
1:42.1	To learn more about our Patreon tiers and benefits, just visit patreon.com forward slash
1:48.4	from the front porch.
1:50.4	Now, back to the show.
1:52.4	Hey, guys.
1:54.2	Hi.
1:54.8	Hey.
1:55.3	Welcome.
1:56.2	Welcome to June.
1:57.4	Happy summer.
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