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ONCE UPON A TOME is an insightful, vivid, and very funny memoir about the rare bookselling. Oliver Darkshire stopped by the show to talk about his time at Henry Sotherans in London, book culture and book people, with a detour about RPGs!
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Maria Dong stopped by the show to discuss LIAR, DREAMER, THIEF, a gripping page-turner and sensitive exploration of mental health. Maria and Jenn discuss genre, constructing fantasy worlds, and what makes a narrator “unreliable.”
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COME HOME SAFE is a riveting YA novel about two falsely accused children caught up in the American justice system. The book’s author, ABC News legal analyst and NYC Legal Aid Society public defender Brian Buckmire, stopped by the show to talk about “the talk,” and how the book aims to facilitate difficult conversations.
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Alyssa Wees’ adult fantasy debut is a lovely dark fairy tale set in 1930s Chicago. Jessikah and Jenn talked to Alyssa about growing up on fairy tales, ballet, and the interesting connections between dance and death.
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Margot Douaihy’s SCORCHED GRACE, the flagship publication of Gillian Flynn Books, is a thrilling mystery with a protagonist you’ll love immediately: a queer, tattooed, chain-smoking nun trying to stop a mysterious arsonist targeting her NOLA convent.
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Jenn sat down with Zach Weinersmith, accomplished cartoonist and author of BEA WOLF, which adapts Beowulf into a middle-grade comic. They chat about Old English word-play and the overlaps between medieval warrior culture and contemporary kid culture.
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Emily George has given us the coziest of cozy mysteries with a twist with A HALF-BAKED MURDER, in which a down-on-her-luck baker opens a marijuana-themed bakery and finds herself wrapped up in solving a murder!
