Happy Half Hour (7/31/23)

In today’s Happy Half Hour, we discuss a sweeping coming-of-age novel set in 1970s Jamaica, a debut historical thriller about a world at war, a magical story of one witch putting her soul at stake, and a queer opposites-attract romance with a fake dating scheme!

SONGS OF IRIE by Asha Ashanti Bromfield | 9781250846808 | 10/10/23
THE GOLDEN GATE by Amy Chua | 9781250903600 | 9/19/23
WHAT BECAME OF MAGIC by Paige Crutcher | 9781250905529 | 9/26/23
FLY WITH ME by Andie Burke | 9781250886378 | 9/5/23

Additional titles we mentioned:

TILL THERE WAS YOU by Lindsay Hameroff | 9781250902917 | 2/20/24
CANTO CONTIGO by Jonny Garza Villa | 9781250875754 | 4/9/24
SCHRADER’S CHORD by Scott Leeds | 9781250232076 | 9/5/23
THE SOUNDTRACK OF SILENCE: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life by Matt Hay | 9781250280220 | 1/9/24
THE SUNSET CROWD by Karin Tanabe | 9781250280466 | available now
BROTHERS AND SISTERS: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the ‘70s by Alan Paul | 9781250282699 | available now
THE LAST DAYS OF THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLERS by Sarah Tomlinson | 9781250890481 | 2/13/24
DIVA by Daisy Goodwin | 9781250279927 | 1/23/24
THE WHARTON PLOT by Mariah Fredericks | 9781250827425 | 1/23/24
OF HOAXES AND HOMICIDE: A Dear Miss Hermione Mystery by Anastasia Hastings | 9781250848581 | 1/30/24
A TRAITOR IN WHITEHALL by Julia Kelly | 9781250865489 | 10/3/23
THE BELL IN THE FOG by Lev AC Rosen | 9781250834256 | 10/10/23
WHERE YOU END by Abbott Kahler | 9781250873248 | 1/16/24
READING GENESIS by Marilynne Robinson | 9780374299408 | 3/12/24
THE WITCHES OF BONE HILL by Ava Morgyn | 9781250835437 | 9/26/23
NOT YOUR CRUSH’S CAULDRON by April Asher | 9781250808035 | 2/13/24
A WITCH’S GUIDE TO BURNING by Aminder Dhaliwal | 9781770466999 | 3/26/24
REMEDIAL MAGIC by Melissa Marr | 9781250884138 | 3/27/24
WHEN I’M DEAD: A Black Harbor Novel by Hannah Morrissey | 10/31/23
THE FORTUNE SELLER by Rachel Kapelke-Dale | 9781250286130 | 2/13/24
HEARTLESS HUNTER by Kristen Ciccarelli | 9781250866905 | 2/20/24
THE HEIRESS by Rachel Hawkins | 9781250280039 | 1/9/24
FUNNY FEELINGS by Tarah DeWitt | 9781250329363 | 10/17/23
WHEN GRUMPY MET SUNSHINE by Charlotte Stein | 9781250867933 | 2/6/24
GWEN & ART ARE NOT IN LOVE by Lex Croucher | 9781250847218 | 11/28/23
THE PLUS ONE by Mazey Eddings | 9781250847041 | 4/4/24
YOURS FOR THE TAKING by Gabrielle Korn | 9781250283368 | 12/5/23
ARYA KHANNA’S BOLLYWOOD MOMENT by Arushi Avachat | 9781250895110 | 1/9/24
LOVE INTEREST by Clare Gilmore | 9781250880543 | 10/10/23
PROJECTIONS by S. E. Porter | 9780765396778 | 2/13/24

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