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May 2024
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Summer Bonanza IV: 20 Books to Read This...

Tina @tbretc and Hannah @hanpickedbooks
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In today’s episode of Book Talk, etc, we’re sharing 20 books to add to your summer reading lists with our fourth annual Summer Book Bonanza! 

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Loving Lately
3:31 - Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God (T)
6:13 - Episode 306 of My Favorite Murder
6:38 - Spotify Premium for Audiobook Listening (H)

Latest Reads
10:27 - These Impossible Things (T)
15:33 - Greenwich Park (H)

Summer Bonanza!
26:00 - The God of the Woods | Liz Moore (H)
27:46 - The Nature of Disappearing | Kimi Cunningham Grant (T)

29:03 - Hum | Helen Phillips (H)
30:39 - We Used to Live Here | Marcus Kliewer (T)

32:03 - The Great Hemisphere | Mateo Askoripour (H)
33:59 - The Family Experiment | John Marrs (T)

35:45 - The Lion Women of Tehran | Marjan Kamali (H)
37:39 - All the Colors of the Dark | Chris Whitaker (T)

39:05 - Same As it Ever Was | Claire Lombardo (H)
40:43 - We Burn Daylight | Bret Anthony Johnston (T)
41:36 - The Waco Siege And The Branch Davidians

42:40 - All This and More | Peng Shepherd (H)
44:41 - Burn | Peter Heller (T)

47:03 - Bury Your Gays | Chuck Tingle (H)
49:37 - The Wedding People | Alison Espach (T)

51:00 - Not in Love | Ali Hazelwood (H)
52:48 - What You Leave Behind | Wanda M. Morris (T)

54:11 - The Eyes are the Best Part | Monika Kim (H)
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