Episode 032 - Staff Summer Reads!!

New York Times best-selling author and renaissance man James McBride joined Todd to talk about his new book, "The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store". The book, based in Pottstown, PA, is on sale now in-store and online at aaronsbooks.com Support Book Pros(e) by rating and subscribing to our podcast wherever you listen! Follow us! Instagram: @aaronsbooks TikTok: @bookprose, @aaronsbookslit Theme Music by Wolves Incidental Music by ColorFilm

Author Elizabeth L. Silver was kind enough to chat with me about her new book, The Majority (on shelves now!), and I can't wait for you to hear about this story. A fictional story of America's first female Supreme Court Justice (think RBG or Sandra Day O'Connor) that encapsulates the importance of intersectionality in the highest court of our land. (Spoiler alert: Sam met RBG when she and Todd lived in D.C. years ago, and she loves to remind me) :) Support Book Pros(e) by rating and subscribing to our podcast wherever you listen! Follow us! Instagram: @aaronsbooks TikTok: @bookprose Theme Music by Wolves Incidental Music by ColorFilm

After celebrating July 4th, this episode will offer another viewpoint on the "Westward Expansion" that helped mold this country into what it is today - the good and the bad. Listen as Kristin talks with New York Times Best-Selling author Kathleen Grissom about her newest book, Crow Mary. Signed copies are available for purchase in our shop! You can find more information about Kathleen Grissom on her website: https://kathleengrissom.com/ Support Book Pros(e) by rating and subscribing to our podcast on whichever platform you listen to! Follow us! Instagram: @aaronsbooks TikTok: @aaronsbooks Theme music by Wolves Incidental music by Colorfilm

Hey there podcast pals, on today’s episode we have a conversation with NYT best-selling author Ashley Poston! Her newest book, The Seven-Year Slip came out yesterday, June 27th! Ashley also gives us some of her favorite upcoming titles for your beach TBR pile! Topics also discussed in this episode: Sliding Doors! Liminal spaces! Parallel lives! Are the kids okay?!? Post-pandemic therapy reading! Let’s make The Seven Year Slip the next BookTok hit!!

Hey podcast peeps! On today's episode, we have NYT bestselling author Steven Rowley! His newest book, The Celebrants is a great summer read - full of humor and heart that will make you want to call all your friends and family and tell them how much they mean to you. You can purchase your copy in our shop or online at www.aaronsbooks.com. This episode contains a discussion of trauma, death, and suicide. Listen at your own discretion. Theme music by Wolves Incidental music by Colorfilm

Heyo Podcast Pals! This week's episode features your friendly, neighborhood book sellers and what's on our TBR for this summer. Have a listen and let us know what's on YOUR summer reading list! Topics also discussed on this episode: New Horror book club fun starts in July!!  Lindsey can’t keep her list under 3!!!!  The UK covers are usually better!! Welcome to the A&A power hour!! Alexis doesn’t want to be implicated in a crime!  Kristin hears ghosts in the store?! Theme music by Wolves Incidental music by Colorfilm

Have you read the popular #booktok title It Ends With Us? On today's episode we talk about what we loved and didn't love about this viral sensation. Spoiler alert: we didn't love it. Topics also discussed in this episode: Kristin is mad about pop culture and society! Trend culture! (ugh!) Tiktok! Booktok! Ellen Degeneres! This whole book is a RED FLAG!! We’re solving all of the world’s ethical problems!  Theme music by Wolves Incidental music by Colorfilm

Buzzy Jackson is the award-winning author of three books of nonfiction and has a Ph.D. in History from UC Berkeley. A recent fellow at the Edith Wharton Writing Residency, she is also a member of the National Book Critics’ Circle and writes for the Boston Globe and BookForum. Her newest book To Die Beautiful came out May 2nd and she joins Kristin today to talk about this breathtaking WW2 historical fiction. Find out more about Buzzy and her research into Hannie's story here: https://www.buzzyjackson.com/ Theme music by Wolves Incidental music by Colorfilm

Welcome back Book Nerds! On today's episode, Kristin talks with author, screenwriter, and performer Laura Hankin whose previous books include A Special Place for Women and Book of the Month and Library Reads selection Happy & You Know It. Her newest title - The Daydreams - came out May 2nd. Topics also discussed in this episode: Kristin gets nervous and talks too fast! We love us some O.G./O.C. Seth Cohen! The 2000s were weird for SO MANY reasons!! Was Jessica Fletcher really a serial killer??? Theme music by Wolves Incidental music by Colorfilm

Welcome back book nerds! On today’s episode we have one of our book swap pairings. This time it's Bailey and Kristin talking about Kristin’s pick Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell. Join us as we talk Shakespeare, grief, selfish 16th-century men, and how we want to go out in a Viking funeral pyre.  Topics also discussed in this episode: Shakespeare was kinda a dead-beat dad! Bailey is mad that ol’ Willy Shakes was successful! Women didn’t have it great in the 16th century! Shakespearean generational trauma!! Bailey hates and respects this book! If Bailey saw Shakespeare today, she’d punch him for Judith! What do we do with art that we love by horrible people?!? Kristin offends Taylor Swift’s army of fans! Guys, the Bubonic Plague was scary! Vats of acid, The Joker, Mordor, and dragons! Theme music by Wolves Incidental music by Colorfilm