Today, we’re chatting about the owner of a magical curiosity shop and the cursed girl she meets who turns everything she touches into magic; a woman who returns home to become her father’s caretaker in hopes of repairing their strained relationship; and a historian on the hunt for an artifact at a prestigious and mysterious […]
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Happy Half Hour (6/16/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a crown princess who becomes a prisoner in her own home and sets out to change her fate; a woman who gets pulled into a cult horror film that is determined to have a sequel; a podcaster and producer who fall in love over email without realizing they know (and hate) […]

Happy Half Hour (6/9/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a young woman who gets turned into a werewolf and must decide to either turn herself in or live a life on the run; a healer’s daughter who strikes an impossible bargain to save her mother from execution; and two feuding co-stars in a Jane Austen film adaptation who accidentally travel […]

Happy Half Hour (5/19/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a college sophomore who must survive becoming a vampire—and the cute boy who discovers his secret; a remarkable child who transforms a small, rural community; and a girl trying to piece together what really happened to her troubled, socialite sister two decades later. THE GOOD VAMPIRE’S GUIDE TO BLOOD & BOYFRIENDS […]

Happy Half Hour (5/12/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a young actress desperate to have a normal teenage summer at a small town book festival; Alyson Stoner’s memoir that shares their powerful story for the first time; and five sisters in a small village in eighteenth-century England whose neighbors are convinced they’re turning into dogs. WISH YOU WERE HER by Elle […]

Happy Half Hour (5/5/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a girl who sets out to prove there’s a murderer at large in her small town where legends haunt the present day; a mother who embarks on an odyssey through the afterlife to save her son who is literally and figuratively lost at sea; and two exes who go on a […]

Happy Half Hour (4/28/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a golem who must master the magic that binds her together to save herself and her friends; a librarian, a timid gardener, and a sentient rose who must work together to save their magical greenhouses; and two zookeepers at the last zoo in the world, who hatch a plan to smuggle […]

Happy Half Hour (4/14/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a necromancer trying to resurrect her sister who gets embroiled in bigger, world-ending plans instead; a thrill-seeking young woman who joins a radical theater troupe; three estranged high schoolers who are pulled into a video game to pursue the disappearance of their friend; and a professor who learns that an unflattering version […]

Happy Half Hour (4/7/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a girl investigating the mysterious newcomer in town after a classmate goes missing, two heroines trying to save a lighthouse that guides the dead to the afterlife, and classmates at an academy for monsters who must work together to survive ravenous faculty members. SOUL OF SHADOW by Emma Noyes | 9781250342966 […]

Happy Half Hour (3/24/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a girl racing across D.C. to decode the clues her father left behind and save the country; a mother who has been deceiving her twin daughters throughout their lives to keep them “safe”; and a woman who receives a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reconnect with her friend and repair what she broke. […]