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This is episode 2, and today we're talking about new books released on May 19, 2015.

I'm Liberty Hardy, here with my fellow Will Redhead,head Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from bookriot.com and Rebecca

Holy cat! Holy cats! We had such a big first week.

It's been amazing.

Everyone has been so incredible.

If you are listening to this and you listened to it last week,

so our first episode, thank you for doing that, for running with us from the very beginning,

and for there being so many of you.

We found ourselves on the iTunes new and noteworthy feature this morning and that was a really great way to start the day.

It was amazing. It's just thank you to everyone who was out there listening.

And thanks to all of you who are joining us this week. Thank you to everyone who was out there listening.

And thanks to all of you who are joining us this week.

We have tons of great books, and so I'll just let Liberty take it away.

I, okay, I might just take it away for the entire 30 minutes because I'm so excited about this book.

So you might have to get out the big hook and pull me off the stage because I've been waiting

eight months to talk about this book. I think I read it back in October. My math probably doesn't work there, but the book I am referring to is uprooted by Naomi Novick, and it is the bees knees, the cats particulars, the snakes hips, and as Colonel Potter would say the oysters ice skates.

This book is so fantastic.

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