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The Handsell: February 17, 2020

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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This week on The Handsell, Amanda recommends Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble. This episode is sponsored by Random House Children’s Books. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Olivia Culpo here to tell you all about the launch of the new Abercrombie spring denim collection,

0:05.5

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0:11.4

styles, and washes. Every jean is available in both their classic fit and viral curve love.

0:17.5

Shop in the app, online, and in stores. Hello, get Booked listeners.

0:40.4

Welcome to The Hand Cell, a new special weekly installment of Get Booked that's all about books

0:45.9

that we just can't resist shouting about.

0:48.7

This is Amanda Nelson, and today's Hand Cell is Mods Line by Margaret Verbal.

0:53.9

I'm going to give a trigger warning for this title for harm to animals. Today's Handsell is Mods Line by Margaret Verbal.

0:57.4

I'm going to give a trigger warning for this title for harm to animals.

1:03.9

Now, before I get into talking about today's hand cell, I want to give you a quick, you know, catch up about what this episode is about in case you've missed the last few.

1:08.5

This should be the third one, I think, going up.

1:11.0

But the Handsell is going to be a weekly bonus edition of the podcast where instead of answering

1:16.0

your reading recommendation requests like we usually do on our Thursday show, we're just

1:20.5

going to be recommending a book to you that we want to talk about. If you're unfamiliar with

1:26.0

bookselling, a hand sell is what a bookseller does when they're

1:30.1

working in their store and they're selling you a book by hand. They hand it to you. They talk

1:34.8

about it. They sell you. They sell you. Jen and I are both former independent booksellers. So we

1:40.5

have a lot of practice doing this. One of the reasons why we were picked to host to get booked is because we have experience doing this.

1:48.0

But we kind of were wanting to scratch the edge of hand-selling things that y'all don't necessarily ask for, that we don't get a lot of chances to recommend.

1:55.8

So that's what we're doing here on this show.

1:58.2

So I'm going to get to talking about Mods Line by Margaret

2:00.9

Verbal as soon as we hear from our first sponsor.

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