New Releases and More for August 12, 2025

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss House of Monstrous Women, The Witch’s Orchard, Loved One, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Book Riot is hiring a digital content specialist! If you love books and know the ins and outs of social media strategy, and especially social video, consider joining the team. Find details and apply by August 22, 2025, at riotnewmedia.com/careers. Use code BOOKRIOT to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan at https://incogni.com/bookriot This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: House of Monstrous Women by Daphne Fama The Witch’s Orchard by Archer Sullivan Too Old for This by Samantha Downing Loved One by Aisha Muharrar Fonseca by Jessica Francis Kane The Grand Paloma Resort by Cleyvis Natera The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown Rosa by Any Other Name by Hailey Alcaraz For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever had the urge to sneak behind the cordoned off areas of a museum?
0:05.8	Or roam the halls after closing time?
0:08.7	The Smithsonian's flagship podcast, Side Door, will sneak you behind the scenes of the world's
0:14.6	largest museum and research complex.
0:17.6	Come learn about the ghosts that supposedly walk the museum halls after dark.
0:21.6	How a train robbery gave rise to criminal forensics, why leeches are actually the coolest thing ever, and how to get away with murder in the Arctic.
0:30.6	Maybe.
0:31.6	You'll discover stories of history, science, art, and culture you won't find in a display case.
0:42.2	You can listen to Side Door wherever you get your podcasts, or find us online at sI.edu slash Side Door.
0:45.1	Music You're listening to All The Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
1:06.4	Today we are talking about books being released on August 12th, 2025, and more. I'm Liberty
1:12.1	Hardy, here with Vanessa Diaz, and we're coming to you from book riot.com. Vanessa, hello.
1:18.6	Hello, Liberty. We're finally at it. Yes, trying to figure out sounds and technical problems and
1:24.9	what's going to work with what?
1:30.4	Yeah, I was just telling Liberty, this is bookwright on the road for me.
1:34.9	I am due to a heat wave and other things, just doing a little bit of a working staycation. So I'm not in my usual recording location in case my sound is a little different than usual.
1:40.2	But we're powering through and making the best of it.
1:42.9	I still will never understand. I mean, I've been doing this for the best of it. I still will never understand.
1:44.4	I mean, I've been doing this for over 10 years now. I still will never understand how I can
1:49.3	hear sounds that don't appear on the recording or how I can hear chimes and dings that you can't
1:56.5	hear even though we're speaking. Like, I'll never understand it's all in the air it's so easy but it's like
2:03.0	but to me like how can she like my alarm is going off oh no how does she not hear that like it's just
	...

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