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Episode 568 | The Bookshelf Recommends: 831 Stories
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- From the Front Porch
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- Feb 12, 2026
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Summary
This week on From the Front Porch, it’s an episode of The Bookshelf Recommends! In this series, Annie (and occasionally other team members) curates a stack of books in a certain genre or theme for you – just as if you walked into our brick-and-mortar store, The Bookshelf. This time, Annie, Caroline, and Kyndall chat about publisher 831 Stories, the romance genre, and their favorite 831 Stories novellas. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 568) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie: Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff Caroline: Set Piece by Lana Schwartz Kyndall: Hardly Strangers by AC Robinson 831 Stories Book Bundle, including all three novellas Silent Reading Hour tickets 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 Reservation by Rebecca Kauffman. Caroline is reading Comedic Timing by Upasna Barath. Kyndall is reading Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It by Brooke Averick. 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…