On today’s Happy Half Hour, we’re chatting about a ghost who sets his living sister up with a ghost hunter, a young musician coming of age in the spotlight as public opinion threatens to ruin her, and a man returning home from prison to try to save his family’s butcher shop. THE GHOST OF US […]
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Happy Half Hour (3/25/24)
Today, we’re discussing a mysterious New York City love story that starts with a set-up, an elite prep school murder revisited years later, and a girl who’s brought her ex-bestie back from the dead and is determined to keep her alive. CHLOE BAKER’S LOST DATE by Katie Wicks | 9781990778605 | 5/7/24 WHEN WE WERE […]
Happy Half Hour (2/26/24)
Today, we’re chatting about a beautifully wrought novel on the relationship between trauma and the creative impulse, a sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a shocking past and her dangerous new patient, and a YA contemporary fantasy duology in which a teen finds out they’re a reincarnated god from another world. THORN TREE by […]
Happy Half Hour (2/12/24)
Today, we’re chatting about a rivals-to-lovers romance between two competing high school Mariachi stars, a family saga about a husband and wife grappling with their marriage while raising their twins, and a sapphic romance where two women can’t seem to agree on what to do with a failing flower farm. CANTO CONTIGO by Jonny Garza […]
Happy Half Hour (2/5/24)
Today we have a horror-ific Happy Half Hour in store where we’ll chat about a space crew trying to survive on an abandoned planet, Black girls battling monsters (both human and supernatural), and a family running a funeral parlor and fighting vampires! GHOST STATION by S.A Barnes | 9781250884923 | 4/9/24THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN […]
Happy Half Hour (1/29/24)
Join us today to hear about a woman reckoning with a past toxic relationship she thought she’d left behind, a TV reporter racing to solve the murder of someone she just interviewed, and a Muslim teen finding her voice in a post-9/11 America. LIKE HAPPINESS by Ursula Villarreal-Moura | 9781250882837 | 3/26/24OFF THE AIR by […]
Happy Half Hour (1/8/24)
For our first episode of 2024, we’re kicking off the year right with a tale of three young alchemists navigating dark academia, a story about an art history student whose life eerily mirrors that of a deceased famous artist, and a horror-comedy about a dysfunctional family vacationing in Italy. INFINITY ALCHEMIST by Kacen Callender | […]
Happy Half Hour (11/13/23)
Today we can’t wait to chat about a famous opera singer and the relationship she had with a wealthy Greek shipping magnate, four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history, and a woman waking up from a coma to a twin sister who is lying to her. DIVA by Daisy Goodwin […]
Happy Half Hour (10/23/23)
In today’s Happy Half Hour, we have a thriller set in the world of NYC theater, the start to a YA fantasy duology with a teen who finds out they’re a reincarnated god, a second chance romance for two newly single parents, and a mystery where a woman has to figure out whether or not […]
Happy Half Hour (10/2/23)
This Happy Half Hour features a delightful medieval rom-com, an atmospheric gothic mystery set in the Cornish countryside, a hilarious cozy mystery with a little old lady to root for, and a near-future dystopia story of queer love and betrayal. GWEN & ART ARE NOT IN LOVE by Lex Croucher | 9781250847218 | 11/28/23THE CURSE […]