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This is the book ride podcast. I am Jeff O'Neill.

And I'm Rebecca Schinsky.

And it's June, Rebecca.

First Tuesday of June, big new book released day. But more importantly for us, it's June it books.

I will tell a truth here as I move some things around for our list.

It's been a while since we had a month where you needed to do that so that somebody wouldn't just run the board for the whole episode.

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