Happy Half Hour (10/19/26)

Today, we’re chatting about two rivals from warring cities who must navigate the underworld and confront horrifying consequences; a girl who tried to end the world—and now has to save it; and the archeologists and linguists who work to discover the most extraordinary language decipherments in history.

DEATHSWORN by Meg Smitherman | 9781250462756 | 1/12/27
WHAT MAKES A MONSTER by Emily Cooper | 9781250432698 | 2/16/27
THE BOOK OF LOST LANGUAGES: An Epic Quest to Decipher the Past by Daniel Harbour | 9781635579253 | 1/19/27

Additional titles we mentioned:
FORSAKEN CROWN by Jenna Wolfhart | 9781649379955 | 1/5/27
THE ONLY IMMORTALS by Laura Steven | 9781250333919 | 4/6/27
THIS WRETCHED ALCHEMY by Tina Mars | 9781250456564 | 11/10/26
THE DREAMWITCH by Monique Hazel | 9781250428677 | 2/9/27
WE WON’T BE HERE WHEN IT ENDS by Mark Oshiro | 9781250812285 | 4/6/27
THE HOUSE WHERE NOTHING HURTS by Ali Fountain | 9781639738519 | 2/16/27
NOT MY TYPE by Jayci Lee | 9781250907806 | 2/16/27
MUCH ADO ABOUT EVERYTHING by Madeline Bell | 9781250373496 | 3/23/27
HER ADVANTAGE by Hannah Bicknell | 9781037402890 | 3/30/27
THE BOOK OF LOST CHANCES by Jennifer Lundquist | 9781250366993 | 3/16/27
WE USED TO BE HEROES by Thomas Elrod | 9781250406613 | 5/11/27
GILDED WINGS by Emily Thiede | 9781250407863 | 1/12/27
A STUNNING DEBUT by Marisa Walz | 9781250397430 | 7/6/27
THE READER ON THE 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent | 9781035093069 | 4/13/27
GHOST/WRITER by Diana Peterfreund | 9781250475398 | 4/13/27
THE ORCHID CODE: How Temperament Shapes Who We Become and Why Some Children Need More to Flourish by Aliza Pressman | 9781250462312 | 4/6/27
GOOD LOOKS & BAD MANNERS: American Women Who Shook Up Paris, from the Belle Epoque to the New Wave by Joanna Scutts | 9781250445094 | 4/20/27
GLOAMING: Folklore, Recipes and Crafts to Spark Glimmers of Joy in the Darker Months by Rosie Steer | 9781526694928 | 1/12/27
THE ONE WE BURIED by Kate Alice Marshall | 9781250437365 | 1/26/27
WE WERE SUPPOSED TO FIND THIS by Emily Snyder | 9781250440730 | 3/16/27
SPEECHLESS by Jordan Sawyer | 9781250432537 | 1/12/27