Episode 545 || September 2025 New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s another New Release Rundown! Annie and Erin share the August 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 545) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie's books: Buckeye by Patrick Ryan (9/2)Little Movements by Lauren Morrow (9/9)The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham (9/16) Erin's books: To The Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage (9/2)At Last by Marisa Silver (9/2)The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey (9/16) Fall Literary First Look tickets Thank you to this week’s sponsor, Discover Thomasville. Gracefully tucked within the storied Red Hills of South Georgia, Thomasville curates a distinguished Downtown experience that meanders along several blocks of our iconic red brick streets. Here, bespoke boutiques, master craftsmen, coveted antique art purveyors, and celebrated culinary artisans converge in harmony with the cultural richness of the Pebble Hill Plantation art tour and the tranquil allure of Birdsong Nature Center. Here, you Discover the Soul of the South. Here, you Discover Thomasville. Learn more by visiting thomasvillega.com/news. 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 One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune. Erin is reading A Rather Peculiar Poisoning by Chrystal Schleyer. 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 business, day are in the process of creating their personhood.
0:29.8	Despite all the bumps in the road, Audrey thinks, it's exhilarating to watch.
0:35.5	Ellen Hildebrand and Shelby Cunningham, The Academy.
0:41.4	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:45.8	Thomasville, Georgia.
0:47.3	Today, I'm joined by the Bookshelf's online sales manager, Aaron, to give you a rundown
0:51.6	of our favorite new books releasing in September.
0:55.0	If you are a new or newish listener, you might not realize that from the front porch is,
0:59.6	in fact, a production of the bookshelf, a small independently owned bookstore in rural
1:04.0	South Georgia. By listening to our show and recommending it to your friends, you are helping
1:08.9	keep our indie bookstore in business.
1:15.6	And if you like what you hear, one way you can financially support us is through Patreon.
1:21.5	Last year, we read the classic American novel Lonesome Dove with over 1,000 Patreon supporters.
1:26.9	And this year, we kicked off our 2025 reading in January of Don Quixote.
1:32.5	So for $5 a month, you can access our monthly Conquer a Classic Recaps, as well as our porch visits, which are monthly live Q&A's where we talk about everything from pop culture
1:37.2	to nail polish to what books you should take on your next vacation.
1:41.0	I'll also give you a hint that we are wrapping up Don Quixote in October,
1:45.1	which means we are already brainstorming our 2026 Conquer a Classic selection. So if you want to
1:51.6	be the first to know about what book we're choosing, you can join us on Patreon and we'll be
1:56.4	continuing those episodes and looking forward, believe it or not, believe it or not, to 2026. So to learn more
2:02.3	about Patreon tiers and benefits, visit patreon.com forward slash from the front porch. Now, back to the show.
2:10.8	Hi, Erin. Hi. I'm so glad we're doing this again. I missed this. I missed you. It feels right. All is right in the world again. It does feel a little bit normal. Today is my batch recording day. So I already recorded reading recap. And I did have a moment where I was like, do I know how to do this. Do I remember how to talk? And I think I do. I think we're going to be fine. Yeah. Yeah. But it's been a minute. Yeah, it's been a minute. We,
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