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Feb 2024
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Episode 462 || New Release Rundown: Febr...

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This week on From the Front Porch, it’s another New Release Rundown! Annie, Olivia, and Erin are sharing the February releases they’re excited about to help you build your TBR. When you purchase or preorder any of the books they talk about, enter the code NEWRELEASEPLEASE at checkout for 10% off your order!

To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (type “Episode 462” into the search bar and tap enter to find the books mentioned in this episode), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app:

Annie's books

Dixon, Descending by Karen Outen (releases 2/6)

Leaving by Roxana Robinson (releases 2/13)

Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley (releases 2/27)

Olivia's books

Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra (releases 2/6)

The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown (releases 2/13)

The Framed Women of Ardemore House by Brandy Schillace (releases 2/13)

Erin's books

The Women by Kristin Hannah (releases 2/6)

My Side of the River by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez (releases 2/13)

The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo (releases 2/13)

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. 

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Come & Get It by Kiley Reid. Olivia is reading The Framed Women of Ardemore House by Brandy Schillace. Erin is also reading The Framed Women of Ardemore House by Brandy Schillace.

If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Our Executive Producers are...Ashley Ferrell, Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Kate O’Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins.

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