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All the Books!

New Releases and More for August 12, 2025

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

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. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services?

0:04.8

So we started the business two years ago.

0:07.2

We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs.

0:12.5

But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy.

0:18.0

Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at Apple.com forward slash

0:23.6

HelloVet.

0:36.6

You're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.

0:43.2

Today we are talking about books being released on August 12, 2025, and more.

0:48.3

I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Vanessa Diaz, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.

0:53.9

Vanessa, hello. Hello, Liberty. to you from book riot.com. Vanessa, hello.

0:55.3

Hello, Liberty. We're finally at it. Yes. Trying to figure out sounds and technical problems and

1:01.8

what's going to work with what. Yeah, I was just telling Liberty, this is book riot on the road.

1:06.9

For me, I am due to a heat wave and other things just doing a little bit of a working

1:11.0

staycation so I'm not in my usual recording location in case my sound is a little different

1:16.5

than usual. But we're powering through and making the best of it. I still will never understand.

1:21.2

I mean, I've been doing this for over 10 years now. I still will never understand how I can hear

1:26.4

sounds that don't appear on the recording or how I can hear chimes and dings that you can't hear even though we're speaking. Like, I'll never understand it. It's all in the air. It's so easy, but it's like, 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, it's so weird to me. Yes, she like my alarm is going off oh no how does she not hear that like it's just

1:45.2

it's so weird to me yes i often apologize for noises people are like i have no idea what you're talking

1:49.4

about and then when i don't hear one which is exactly what happened to liberty and i just now

1:52.6

it's just like i hear noise like i don't oh it's so weird but your recording didn't pick it up so that's

1:59.6

good great you know it'll it'll you know probably be something But your recording didn't pick it up, so that's good. Great.

2:00.8

You know, it'll, it'll, you know, probably be something else later.

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