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Oct 2024
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Episode 497 || October New Release Rundo...

The Bookshelf Thomasville
About this episode

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s another New Release Rundown! Annie, Erin, and Olivia are sharing the October 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 497” into the search bar and tap enter to find the books mentioned in this episode), or shop on The Bookshelf’s official app:

 

Annie's books:

Book of George by Kate Greathead (10/8)

This is Even After Everything by Stephanie Duncan Smith (10/15)

What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci (10/15)

 

Olivia's books:

The Last Dragon on Mars by Scott Reintgen (10/1)
And He Shall Appear by Kate van der Borgh (10/1)
The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak (10/8)

 

Erin's books:

The Undercurrent by Sarah Sawyer (10/8)

The President's Lawyer by Lawrence Robbins (10/8)

Women's Hotel by Danielle M Lavery (10/15)

 

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, Tiktok, and Facebook, 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 The X-Files: Perihelion by Claudia Gray. Olivia is reading The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents by Nicki Pau Preto. Erin is reading The Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.

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...Jennifer Bannerton, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Susan Hulings, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, and Amanda Whigham.

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