Happy Half Hour (2/23/26)

Today, we’re chatting about a girl who is on a mission to reinvent herself before transferring to a new university, but doesn’t expect to fall in love; an eighty-year-old rule-follower who embarks on a series of funny hijinks and petty crimes to reclaim her life; and a woman who leases a mare part-time only to find her affection for the animal becoming all-consuming.

RANI DESHPANDE TAKES THE WHEEL by Arushi Avachat | 9781250895905 | 5/19/26
GOOD JOY, BAD JOY by Mikki Brammer | 9781250284433 | 5/19/26
MARE by Emily Haworth-Booth | 9780374617707 | 5/19/26

Additional titles we mentioned:
THE SHIPPERS by Katherine Center | 9781250408051 | 5/19/26
HOW TO FIND A GUY IN FIVE WEDDINGS by Cynthia Timoti | 9781250343482 | 5/12/26
STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED by Kasie West | 9781250349163 | 4/14/26
BURNOUT SUMMER by Jenna Ramirez | 9781250410924 | 5/12/26
SCANDAL OF THE SUMMER by Alexandra Vasti | 9781250414250 | 6/23/26
BEACH THRILLER by Jamie Day | 9781250358233 | 6/9/26
THE FOREST BECOMES HER by Julie Carrick Dalton | 9781250889751 | 7/14/26
WASP’S NEST by Kat Stoddard | 9781250387967 | 6/30/26
CRASH INTO ME by Robinne Lee | 9781250412751 | 7/7/26
ENORMOUS WINGS by Laurie Frankel | 9781250423771 | 5/5/26
FLIRTING WITH MURDER by Amanada Sellet | 9781250360199 | 4/21/26
WE BURNED SO BRIGHT by TJ Klune | 9781250881236 | 4/28/26
HUNGERED by Amanda Rizkalla | 9781250420756 | 5/19/26
AGNES LIVES! by Hallie Elizabeth Newton | 9781639738564 | 6/23/26
THE HILL by Harriet Clark | 9780374614546 | 5/5/26
WHEN DEALING WITH DRAGONS by Dana Swift | 9781250402431 | 6/30/26
GREEN CITY WARS by Adrian Tchaikovsky | 9781250290335 | 6/23/26
PALACES OF THE CROW by Ray Nayler | 9780374620752 | 5/19/26
HER SHARP EMBRACE by Kate Koenig | 9781250321244 | 6/9/26
THE COURT OF VENUS by Ben Banta | 9781250437136 | 9/29/26