Happy Half Hour (9/29/25)

Today, we’re chatting about a daughter who returns home to become her father’s caretaker and repair their strained relationship; a girl at Oxford who has one week to prove her innocence in her best friend’s murder, and catch the real killer; and a woman who is determined to save a struggling hip hop music and lifestyle magazine, and her own dreams.

BEFORE I FORGET by Tory Henwood Hoen | 9781250276797 | 12/2/25
OXFORD BLOOD by Rachael Davis-Featherstone | 9781250342300 | 1/13/26
IF I RULED THE WORLD by Amy DuBois Barnett | 9781250378125 | 1/27/26

Additional titles we mentioned:
A GOOD ANIMAL by Sara Maurer | 9781250383563 | 2/24/26
SAOIRSE by Charleen Hurtubise | 9781250400642 | 2/24/26
I COULD BE FAMOUS: Stories by Sydney Rende | 9781639735860 | 1/13/26
THEY WANT US DEAD by CL Montblanc | 9781250340535 | 4/28/26
LOVE BY THE BOOK by Jessica George | 9781250282545 | 4/7/26
LIBERTY ISLAND by Virginia Hume | 9781250285645 | 5/5/26
DEATH’S DAUGHTER by S.A. Barnes | 9781250388483 | 5/5/26
HEART OF RUIN by A.C. Arthur | 9781649378477 | 11/3/26
HEARTLESS HEATHENS by Santana Knox | 9781250428967 | 6/16/26
ENOLA HOLMES AND THE CLANGING COFFIN by Nancy Springer | 9781250407580 | 2/10/26
DARK IS WHEN THE DEVIL COMES by Daisy Pearce | 9781250334411 | 4/28/26
MY HUSBAND’S WIFE by Alice Feeney | 9781250337818 | 1/20/26
THE RED WINTER by Cameron Sullivan | 9781250362766 | 2/24/26
HEART’S GAMBIT by J.D. Myall | 9781250365408 | 2/3/26
THE FOREST ON THE EDGE OF TIME by Jasmin Kirkbride | 9781250376831 | 2/3/26
DARKENING SONG by Delphine Seddon | 9781250373229 | 3/10/26
THE SURVIVOR by Andrew Reid | 9781250393289 | 3/24/26
THE FAIR-WEATHER FRIEND by Jessie Garcia | 9781250364456 | 1/20/26
THE AGE OF CALAMITIES by Senaa Ahmad | 9781250378477 | 1/13/26
WITCH SEASON by Julia Bianco | 9781250384393 | 6/30/26
RED CITY by Marie Lu; read by André Santana, Eunice Wong, Natalie Naudus, and Sid Sagar | 9781250395719 | 10/14/25
BEFORE I FORGET by Tory Henwood Hoen | 9781250276797 | 12/2/25