In today’s Happy Half Hour we have an investigation behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operations, a mesmerizing story about faith and family, a supernatural YA thriller about an eerie town, and a chilling account of what happened three decades ago in Waco, TX.
COBALT RED: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara | 9781250284303 | 1/31/23
PICTURE IN THE SAND by Peter Blauner | 9781250851017 | 1/3/23
WHERE DARKNESS BLOOMS by Andrea Hannah | 9781250842626 | 2/21/23
WACO RISING: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America’s Modern Militias by Kevin Cook | 9781250840523 | 1/31/23
Additional titles we mentioned:
RADICAL INCLUSION: Seven Steps Toward Creating a More Just Society by David Moinina Sengeh | 9781250827746 | 5/2/23
FIRE AND FURY: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff | 9781250301468 | available now
SAY ANARCHA: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women’s Health by J.C. Hallman | 9781250868466 | 6/6/23
THE TALK by Darrin Bell | 9781250805140 | 6/6/23
TRUE STORY: What Reality TV Says About Us by Danielle J. Lindemann | 9780374279028 | available now
ONCE UPON A PRIME: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature by Sarah Hart | 9781250850881 | 4/11/23
THE SECRET DIARIES OF CHARLES IGNATIUS SANCHO by Paterson Joseph | 9781250880376 | 4/11/23
NOTHING SPECIAL by Nicole Flattery | 9781635574319 | 7/11/23
THE OLD LION: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt by Jeff Shaara | 9781250279941 | 5/16/23
ANANSI’S GOLD: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo | 9781635574739 | 8/1/23
AFRICA RISEN: A New Era of Speculative Fiction by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Zelda Knight | 9781250833006 | 11/15/22
WITHIN THESE WICKED WALLS by Lauren Blackwood | 9781250787101 | available now
THE INGENUE by Rachel Kapelke-Dale | 9781250834560 | 12/6/22
BLOOD DEBTS by Terry J. Benton-Walker | 9781250825926 | 4/4/23
THE EXHIBITIONIST by Charlotte Mendelson | 9781250286932 | 7/4/23
THE MILITIA HOUSE by John Milas | 9781250857064 | 7/11/23
WHERE ECHOES DIE by Courtney Gould | 9781250825797 | 6/20/23
GWEN & ART ARE NOT IN LOVE by Lex Croucher | 9781250847218 | 5/2/23
MISTAKES WERE MADE by Meryl Wilsner | 9781250841001 | available now
THE WREN IN THE HOLLY LIBRARY by K.A. Linde | 9781649374073 | 8/1/23
ALTHEA: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson | 9781250246554 | 8/15/23
COURTIERS: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor by Valentine Low | 9781250282569 | 1/24/23
ALL HALLOWS by Christopher Golden | 9781250280299 | 1/24/23
GHOSTED: A Northanger Abbey Novel by Amanda Quain | 9781250865076 | 7/25/23
HESTER by Laurie Lico Albanese | 9781250278555 | available now
IN SEARCH OF AMRIT KAUR: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World by Livia Manera Sambuy | 9780374106010 | 3/14/23
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