Episode 567 || February 2026 New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s a New Release Rundown! Annie, Erin, and Olivia share the February 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 567) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie's Books: This Is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen Olivia's Books: Warning Signs by Tracy Sierra Birdy by N West Moss PostScript by Cory McCarthy Erin's Books: Good People by Patmeena Sabit The Reservation by Rebecca Kauffman A Good Animal by Sara Maurer 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 Homeschooled by Steffan Merrill Block. Olivia is reading Detour by Jeff Rake and Rob Hart. Erin is listening to Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser. 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, Beth, Cammy Tidwell, Gene Queens, Jammie Treadwell, Joseph Shorter IV, Kimberly, Linda Lee Drozt, Nicole Marsee, Stephanie Dean, and Wendi Jenkins.

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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. Because staying young forever wasn't just impossible.
0:28.0	It was exhausted.
0:29.8	No one was meant to shoulder that amount of possibility for very long.
0:35.8	Grant Ginder, so old, so young.
0:41.4	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:46.1	Thomasville, Georgia.
0:47.5	Today I'm joined by the Bookshelf's operations manager, Olivia, and Bookshelf
0:51.8	floor manager, Aaron, to give you a rundown of our favorite new books
0:55.5	releasing in February. Do you like hearing from Olivia and Aaron each month? Well, what if I told
1:02.6	you there was a way to have book selections by bookshelf staffers like Olivia and Aaron delivered
1:08.1	to your door each month? Our shelf subscription program offers just that.
1:12.9	Each month, members of our team selects their favorite book of the month to mail out to shelf
1:17.0	subscribers. There's a local pickup option, too, for those closer to our home in downtown
1:21.6	Thomasville. This year, we're offering two adult shelf subscription options, the Annie, lots of literary fiction and
1:28.8	nonfiction, and the revolving shelf subscription, perfect for the adventurous, eclectic reader.
1:34.7	Revolving shelf subscribers will receive books chosen by Olivia, shop mom Susie, shop dad, Chris,
1:41.2	and Nancy. If you are more of an audiobook listener, we have good news for you.
1:46.9	This year, we have you covered with our audiobook subscription, offered in partnership with
1:51.3	our friends at Libro FM.
1:53.2	You'll receive digital audiobooks selected each month by Bookshelf Floor Manager Aaron.
1:58.8	For more information about our shelf subscription program,
2:02.1	including kidlit options selected each month by me and Isaac, though Isaac doesn't know it,
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