Happy Half Hour (9/30/24)

Today, we’re chatting about people who are maintaining some of the world’s oldest and rarest cultural traditions, a dystopian world featuring a cast of characters on the margins of a strange and exclusive new society, and a young warrior who dreams of proving his worth in an elite tournament.

CUSTODIANS OF WONDER: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive by Eliot Stein | 9781250281098 | 12/10/24
THE SHUTOUTS by Gabrielle Korn | 9781250323484 | 12/3/24
BREATH OF THE DRAGON by Shannon Lee and Fonda Lee | 9781250902672 | 1/7/25

Additional titles we mentioned:
THE GOLDEN ROAD: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple | 9781639734146 | 4/29/25
PROPAGANDA GIRLS: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS by Lisa Rogak | 9781250275592 | 3/4/25
LOOKING AT WOMAN LOOKING AT WAR: A War and Justice Diary by Victoria Amelina | 9781250362612 | 2/18/25
I’LL LOVE YOU FOREVER: Notes from a K-Pop Fan by Giaae Kwon | 9781250886231 | 3/18/25
THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP by Sarah Kendzior | 9781250879882 | 4/1/25
SLAYERS, EVERY ONE OF US: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On by Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs | 9781250286246 | 4/8/25
ELEVEN PERCENT by Maren Uthaug | 9781250329646 | 4/22/25
BROTHER BRONTË by Fernando A. Flores | 9780374604165 | 2/11/25
LOST ARK DREAMING by Suyi Davies Okungbowa | 9781250890757 | 5/21/25
THE LIES WE CONJURE by Sarah Henning | 9781250841063 | 9/17/24
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE HUMAN EMPIRE: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction by Henry Gee | 9781250325587 | 3/18/25
THE DEVOURER by Alison Ames | 9798890030788 | 1/7/25
THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by Amal El-Mohtar | 9781250341082 | 3/4/25
THE DEATHLY GRIMM by Kathryn Purdie | 9781250372598 | 3/25/25
GIFTED & TALENTED by Olivie Blake | 9781250883407 | 4/1/25
ONYX STORM by Rebecca Yarros | 9781649377159 | 1/21/25
FIREBIRD by Juliette Cross | 9781250339942 | 4/8/25
BRIGHTER THAN SCALE, SWIFTER THAN FLAME by Neon Yang | 9781250357342 | 5/6/25
THE SCORPION QUEEN by Mina Fears | 9781250852946 | 1/28/25
THE BACHELORETTE PARTY by Camilla Sten | 9781250868503 | 6/10/25

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