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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Hemlock & Silver, The Unseen, What Hunger, 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: Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher What Hunger by Catherine Dang The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas The Unseen by Ania Ahlborn Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders The Once and Future Me by Melissa Pace Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City by Bench Ansfield Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill 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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0:47.0	You're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
0:51.9	Today we are talking about books being released on August 19, 2025, and more.
1:11.7	I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Emily Martin, and we're coming to you from bookbriot.com. Emily, hello. Oh, jinks. Yeah, something like that. Was it at 1, 2, 3, you owe me a Coke? Yeah. I don't know. That's so dumb. Like, where did that even come from? I'm going to have to look better at a flavor. I don't even like Coke.
1:12.6	Can you owe me something else?
1:14.7	But I said it first. So you owe me. Wait, but I said jinx first. I don't know. Okay, we'll call it even. All right. It's fine. Yeah. so we've already had our talk about cats and the weather like before the show started sorry everyone
1:32.4	yeah cats cats are being cats yep that's the update yep so we're going to talk about books
1:42.6	um that's exciting my throat is a little hoarse because i've So we're going to talk about books.
1:45.6	That's exciting.
1:50.5	My throat is a little hoarse because I've been having trouble with my asthma.
1:53.4	So I'm very sorry if I sound kind of creaky today.
2:00.0	The terrible wildfires in Canada, the smoke has been coming down here. I hope everybody is okay up there. So,
2:04.6	let's see. Has anything exciting happened recently since I talked to last? I don't think so.
2:11.5	Nothing exciting. No. I had just... I did have an absolute panic this afternoon because this hasn't happened to me in a long time,
2:21.1	but I kind of was like sort of half dozing off and I woke up and I was like,
2:26.1	I have to record with Emily in like an hour. Oh my goodness. Ah, I'm not ready. And like raced around
2:32.2	and then realized that no, we were actually recording at 545, your time.
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