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GGALLEY 2017ALA & PrepubAlert LIBRARY JOURNAL Signing Guide BY BARBARA HOFFERT

It wouldn’t be summer without the American Library Association’s (ALA) annual conference, and it wouldn’t be ALA without Library Journal’s annual Galley & Signing Guide. Here are over 200 titles ranging from literary fi ction and top pop to the latest history and self-help works. Compared with BookExpo, few publishers have their books on a giveaway schedule, so you can mostly wander at will. It’s especially pleasing to see the ever- increasing interest of smaller presses to bring giveaways to the event. Many thanks to Sourcebooks, Booth 3031, for its long- standing support as sponsor of this guide.

2511 Hachette No giveaway schedule as of press time, so check frequently for your favorites. HOT POP: Matthew Weiner’s Heather, the Totality, the Mad Men powerhouse’s debut about an upscale Manhattan couple vying for their daughter’s attention; Jennie Melamed’s Gather the Daughters, about young women in a dystopian society rebelling against their repressive fate; Fonda Lee’s Jade City, the award-winning YA author’s adult debut, featuring a mythical island protected by magical jade and the power-hungry family about to wreck everything; Louisa Morgan’s A of Witches, with fi ve generations of witches wending their spell-touched way from 1800s Brittany to World War II London; and Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks, whose heroines struggle in an oppressive Americai whereh abortionb i and in vitro fertilization are illegal and the Personhood Amendment holds sway. COOL THRILLERS: James Patterson & Richard DiLallo’s The Store, about a near-future emporium that can deliver anything but hides dark secrets a struggling writer is trying to uncover; Attica Locke’s Bluebird, Bluebird, the multi-award winner’s portrait of a black Texas Ranger, struggling in an unwelcome environment, who must

1 investigate the murders of a local white woman and a black lawyer from Chicago; Sarah Bailey’s The Dark Lake, with Australian Det. Sgt. Gemma Woodstock trying to solve the murder of Rosalind Ryan, once the bright star of their high school; Joe Ide’s Righteous, the much-anticipated follow-up to IQ, last year’s spiky-tongued debut about a genius loner in Los Angeles driven by moral concerns to solve crimes in the manner of Sherlock Holmes; and Sara Blaedel’s The Undertaker’s Daughter, the next thriller starring Chief Inspector Louise Rick, from ’s Queen of Crime. HISTORY: Liza Mundy’s Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II, best-selling author’s account of the more than 10,000 women who wrestled meaning from codes during World War II; Kate Winkler Dawson’s Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City, a veteran documentary producer’s account of huge and unexpected death in 1952 smog-shrouded London; Odd Arne Westad’s The : A World History, a refreshed global view from the Bancroft Prize–winning Harvard historian; Bettany Hughes’s Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, a study of the world’s most enduring political entity (it’s been around for 6,000 years), from a research fellow at King’s College London; and Laura Spinney’s Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, about the devastating pandemic that claimed between 50 million and 100 million lives worldwide, from science journalist/literary novelist Spinney.

FIXING THE WORLD: Dar Williams’s What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding America’s Communities One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time, a noted folk musician’s take on what has made small towns stumble and what can make them thrive; Alexis Okeowo’s A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa, four blended narratives about principled resistance to modern slavery, Boko Haram, and more; and Sarah Thebarge’s Well: Healing Our Beautiful, Broken World from a Hospital in West Africa, the author’s account of blending faith and healing during her medical mission to Togo. FIXING THE SELF: Meg Jay’s Supernormal: Childhood Adversity and the Amazing Untold Story of Resilience, a clinical psychologist’s portrait of those who rise above early hardship; Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne’s Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing; Proven Steps To Inspire Confi dence and Seize New Growth, the INSEAD strategy professors’ sequel to their Blue Ocean Strategy, which has sold 3.6 million copies worldwide; Tim Federle’s Life Is Like a Musical: How To Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star, with the former Broadway dancer (and author of hit cocktail books) using his performer smarts to explain how to succeed in life, work, and love; and Amy Dresner’s My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean, from a privileged upbringing to addiction, knife waving, and 240 hours of court-ordered community service, then back up. MORE NONFICTION: Kate Fagan’s What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen, the heartbreaking story of University of Pennsylvania student and star athlete Maddy Holleran’s suicide; George Weigel’s Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II, with the New York Times best-selling author and papal biographer detailing a unique friendship; and Emory neuroscientist Gregory Berns’s What It’s Like To Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience, telling us what it’s like to be a dog, a bat, a dolphin, and even an extinct Tasmanian tiger. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS: Saturday, 6/24, 11:00 a.m., Angela P. Dodson, Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box, a veteran journalist’s study of the battle for women’s suffrage. Sunday, 6/25, 3:00 p.m., Melissa Scholes Young, Flood, a debut featuring a young woman anxiously returning to her hometown, Hannibal, MO, where Mark Twain was a boy. Monday, 6/26, 9:30 a.m., Sarah Skilton, Club Deception, about the woman behind an exclusive society of magicians. BOOK BUZZ: Friday, 6/23, 5:30–6:10 p.m., Book Buzz Theater, Exhibit Hall, McCormick Place, with Ingram Content Group.

2 3 2714 Macmillan SERIOUSLY GOOD FICTION: National Book Award winner Alice McDermott’s The Ninth Hour, how a young Irish immigrant’s suicide in early 1900s Brooklyn resonates for generations; and Robin Sloan’s Sourdough, a second novel from the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore featuring San Francisco–based software engineer Lois Clary whose life burbles upward when she’s bequeathed an obstreperous sourdough starter. DEBUT NOVELS: Cherise Wolas’s The Resurrection of Joan Ashby, about a literary star who marries for love, then fi nds herself distracted from her life goals by family concerns; Estep Nagy’s We Shall Not All Sleep, about two at-loggerheads families that share a small Maine island; Ashley Shelby’s South Pole Station, about a young artist hopefully accepting a National Science Foundation grant to work in Antarctica; Laurie Gelman’s Class Mom, whose heroine takes an unconventional approach to the title job; and Deborah E. Kennedy’s Tornado Weather, about a community’s uneasy connections when a child disappears. GET THRILLED: Ryan Gattis’s Kung Fu High School, the darkly satiric story of a brutal school and the kung fu champion who refuses to join the violence; Ali Land’s Good Me, Bad Me, an international best seller starring teenage Milly, struggling to stay good when she’s given a new identity after turning in her serial killer mother; Lisa Scottoline’s Exposed, with the law fi rm Rosato & DiNunzio torn apart by confl icting interests; Andrew Gross’s The Saboteur (galleys and ALCs), Norwegian resistance fi ghter Kurt Nordstrum’s efforts to take out a German factory trying to build an atomic bomb; and J.D. Robb’s Secrets in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel, with Lt. Eve Dallas investigating the murder of a gossip columnist who saved her worst secrets for blackmail. MORE CHILLS: Ashley Weaver’s The Essence of Malice, fourth in the Edgar-nominated, 1930s-set mystery series starring sparkling British amateur sleuth Amory Ames; Sharon Bolton’s Dead Woman Walking, about a woman alone in the wilderness after spotting a murder; and Denise Chamberlain’s The Stolen Marriage, whose heroine married impulsively and now feels somehow threatened in her husband’s hometown. SF/FANTASY: Natasha Pulley’s The Bedlam Stacks, about a former East India Company smuggler who agrees to locate quinine in Peru, though others who’ve tried have died, killed by something fantastical beyond an edge- of-forest boundary; Charles Stross’s The Delirium Brief: A Laundry Files Novel, eighth in the Hugo Award–winning series, wherein the secret British government agency battling unsavory creatures from beyond spacetime suddenly becomes public knowledge; Malka Older’s Null States, a follow-up to the hailed Informancy, with the global organization that has guaranteed peace and democracy for 30 years suddenly in trouble; and Jay Kristoff’s Godsgrave, with assassin-in-training Mia Corvere thinking she can avenge the murder of her family at the grand games in Godsgrave. NONFICTION: Heather Harpham’s Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After, from an award-winning writer, performer, and teacher of physical theater who had her child alone when her partner initially demurred, then learned that the baby was seriously ill; Joyce Maynard’s The Best of Us: A Memoir, the New York Times best-selling author’s portrait of fi nding her true partner in late middle age, then losing him to pancreatic cancer; and Manoush Zomorodi’s Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self (200 galleys), recommendations to stop distracting yourself with social media and use boredom to spark creativity, from the host of WNYC’s Note to Self. GRAYWOLF GIVEAWAYS: Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties, a much- anticipated debut collection offering spiky, genre-bending stories charting the lives of women and the violence visited upon them; award-winning Norwegian novelist Gaute Heivoll’s Across the China Sea, whose protagonist recalls the community his parents established at the end of World War II for those who could not care for themselves; and Kevin Young’s

4 Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, an examination of the hoax as a quintessentially American phenomenon and race as the biggest hoax of all, from the multi-award-winning poet/critic Young, director of NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS: Friday, 6/23, 5:30 p.m., Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks, a Gen-X librarian’s mash notes to books that have mattered to her (get personalized book recommendations, too). Saturday, 6/24, 9:30 a.m., Jenny D. Williams, The Atlas of Forgotten Places, about a German aid worker who goes after her American niece, missing while volunteering in Africa.

2920, 3020 Simon & Schuster BIG-NAME FICTION: Thomas Keneally’s Crimes of the Father, featuring a renegade priest who must investigate allegations of a colleague’s sexual abuse; Thomas Mullen’s Lightning Men, following Darktown with the Atlanta Police Department’s fi rst African American offi cers battling racial tension when family members move into a formerly all-white neighborhood; Nelson DeMille’s The Cuban Affair, how the captain of a charter fi shing boat gets drawn into a plan to sail away with $60 million hidden somewhere in Cuba; Alice Hoffman’s Rules of Magic, about the Owenses, cursed in love (see Practical Magic) and three Owens children who want to break the rules; Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, about a quiet 46-year-old divorcée’s sexual awakening even as her only child fi nds his privileged- white-guy retrosexism bombing at college; Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s

5 story of the fi rst female diver at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, repairing ships during World War II, and a family secret dating to the Depression; and Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing, follow-up fi ction to the National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, about an extended family fractured along race lines and shifting between the tense truths of Southern rural poverty and prejudice and an African American–rooted magic realism. FIVE HOT DEBUTS: Nancy Pearl’s George and Lizzie, the beloved readers’ advisory librarian on a husband and wife whose very different upbringings color their marriage; German-born, Los Angeles–based Emanuel Bergmann’s The Trick, with a ten-year-old desperate for a love potion that can reunite his parents turning to an aging magician whose tricks helped him survive a concentration camp; Jane Robins’s White Bodies, psychological suspense about a woman who suspects that her twin sister is being abused by her husband, who then dies suddenly; Liz Nugent’s BookExpo Buzz Book Unraveling Oliver, about an award-winning children’s book author who inexplicably beats his wife unconscious; Catherine Burns’s The Visitors, featuring a timid spinster whose domineering brother fi nally dies, forcing her to acknowledge the shrieks occasionally heard in the basement; Kathleen Barber’s Are You Sleeping, about a hugely popular podcast that reopens the long-ago murder of Josie Burhman’s father, which she’s kept secret; and Danya Kukafka’s Girl in Snow, which unwinds the stories of three people painfully connected to sparkling high schooler Lucinda Hayes, found dead on a playground carousel. COMMERCIAL FICTION: British author Sarah Vaughan’s Anatomy of a Scandal, with a wife convinced that her husband, accused of a heinous crime, is taking the fall to protect her deceitful family; award-winning Australian author Ashley Hay’s A Hundred Small Lessons, with Elsie leaving her longtime home for a nursing facility even as a young family moves in; American folklore–imbued Sharyn McCrumb’s The Unquiet Grave, with West Virginia’s fi rst black attorney recalling a distraught mother’s claim that the ghost of her just-married daughter appeared to say her sudden death was no accident; Molly Harper’s Sweet Tea and Sympathy, launching the contemporary romance series “Southern Eclectic” with the story of a big-city event planner falling in love with a small Georgia town and maybe the elementary school principal; and Lisi Harrison’s The Dirty Book Club, the No. 1 New York Times best-selling author’s debut adult novel, which opens with new-in-town M.J. invited to join a long-standing erotic book club by a gray-haired neighbor. BEST-SELLING FICTION IN TRANSLATION: Ernest van der Kwast’s The Ice Cream Makers, an international best seller about a poet who must decide whether he should return home to Italy to help run the family’s ice cream business; New York Times best-selling Maria Dueñas’s The Vineyard, opening in late 1800s Mexico with the protagonist winning a vineyard in Spain he plans to sell until he meets a widow intent on protecting it as her heritage; Rodrigo Hasbun’s Affections, the English-language debut of a Granta Best of Young Spanish- Language Novelist, featuring a cameraman for Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl who fl ees with his family to Bolivia and becomes obsessed with a lost Inca city; and Maja Lunde’s internationally best- selling The History of Bees, her fi rst book for adults, which ranges from 1852 England to 2007 America to 2098 China, where bees are long gone. NONFICTION: New York Times best-selling author Denise Kiernan’s The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home, which tells the story behind the grand Biltmore, constructed by George Vanderbilt and still owned by his descendants; Yvette Manessis Corporon’s Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil, telling how the three-time Emmy Award–winning writer, author, and producer reunited with descendants of the Jewish family her grandmother helped protect in Greece during World War II; Jill Bialosky’s Poetry Will Save Your Life, with the award-winning poet and novelist organizing her coming-of-age story around 43 distinguished works of poetry; Michael Ausiello’s Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, with the longtime entertainment journalist chronicling what happened when his husband was diagnosed with a lethal form of neuroendrocrine cancer; A.J. Jacobs’s It’s All Relative, the New York Times best-selling author’s account of constructing his family tree when a heretofore unknown eighth cousin reached out to say, “We have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database”; Bruce Handy’s Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult, the Vanity Fair contributing editor’s waltz through the joys (and valuable insights) gleaned from reading Where the Wild Things Are, Charlotte’s Web, and more; and New York Times best-selling author Doug 6 Stanton’s The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle To Survive the Vietnam War, the portrait of a large and bloody military campaign. BOOK BUZZ: Monday 6/26, 9:15–10:00 a.m., Book Buzz Theater, Exhibit Hall, McCormick Place, adult and children’s books.

3031 Sourcebooks GIVEAWAYS ON A SCHEDULE: Friday, 6/23, 6:00 p.m., Carter Wilson’s Mister Tender’s Girl (100 galleys), about a woman anxiously sensing that she’s being watched while she struggles to recover from a near-lethal beating as a teenager by two girls claiming they were following orders from Mister Tender, a creepy pop fi ction character. Saturday, 6/24, 9:00 a.m., Adrian J. Walker’s End of the World Running Club (200 galleys), a UK best seller about a man in a postapocalyptic world who realizes that to reach his wife and children, then travel with them to safety, he must run, frantically run. Sunday, 6/25, 10:15 a.m., Kelly Grey Carlisle’s We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir (100 galleys), with the author unfolding a startling tale of resilience as she’s raised on a boat by porn shop– owning grandparents after her mother’s murder. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS: Saturday, 6/24, 9:00 a.m., Nic Joseph, The Last Day of Emily Lindsey (100 galleys), about Det. Steven Paul’s efforts to fi gure out what’s happened when a woman is found holding a bloody knife and able to communicate only with a single spooky drawing. Sunday, 6/25, 11:00 a.m., Denise Swanson, Dead in the Water (100 galleys), with the New York Times best-selling author launching a new series with her Scumble River characters, now reeling from a twisty tornado’s hit that might be hiding the town councilman’s murder and the subsequent disappearance of the police chief; and 3:30 p.m., Marie Benedict, Carnegie’s Maid (125 galleys), following the triumphant debut The Other Einstein, imagining the love between Andrew Carnegie and his maid, Irish immigrant Clara Kelly, as the force behind his philanthropy.

3120–3432 Ingram Content Group Consortium 3124, CONSORTIUM, SATURDAY, 6/24: 9:00 a.m., Helen Benedict’s Wolf Season (Bellevue Literary), with the lives of three women and their troubled offspring upended by a hurricane hitting upstate New York; 11:00 a.m., Niña Weijers’s The Consequences (DoppelHouse), a multi-award-winning Dutch novel starring gifted young conceptual artist Minnie Panis; and 1:30 p.m., Katayoun Medhat’s The Quality of Mercy (Leapfrog), with small-town cop Franz Kafka and Navajo cop Robbie Begay joining forces to solve a murder. 3124, CONSORTIUM, SUNDAY, 6/25: 9:00 a.m., Yuri Herrera’s Kingdom Cons (And Other Stories), from a leading Mexican writer, featuring a street performer known as the Artist navigating the dangerous “court” of the drug- traffi cking King; and 1:30 p.m.. Kristin Jarvis Adams’s The Chicken Who Saved Us: The Remarkable Story of Andrew and Frightful (Behler), about an autistic boy’s bond with a pet chicken. 3120B, AKASHIC: Pete Hamill’s A Killing for Christ, the 50th anniversary edition of the author’s classic thriller; Montana Noir, edited by James Grady & Keir Graff, scary doings in Big Sky country, with contributors ranging from Thomas McGuane to Debra Magpie Earling; Nelson George’s To Funk and Die in LA, fourth in the “D Hunter” music noir

57 series, with the former bodyguard wrestling with the murder of his grandfather; Lauren Stahl’s The Devil’s Song, with rising prosecutor Kate Magda realizing that she might have a personal link to a serial killer she’s pursuing; Katia D. Ulysse’s Mouths Don’t Speak, whose heroine returns home to Haiti after the awful 2010 earthquake; Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts, a dystopian fantasy starring quietly rebellious Aster, whose family has lived for generations in the hold of the creaky HSS Matilda, putatively carrying the last of humanity to a Promised Land; Lauren Sanders’s The Book of Love and Hate, a complex thriller starring a woman who tracks her philanthropic father to Israel, then enters into illegal activities and a triangular relationship with her father’s lover; and Robert Arellano’s Havana Libre, following Edgar fi nalist Havana Lunar, with Dr. Mano Rodriguez working undercover in Miami when bombs set by Cuban exiles shatter Havana’s peace. 3121B, UNCIVILIZED: Brian Evenson & Jesse Ball’s The Deaths of Henry King, chronicling the protagonist’s dying again and again, with illustrations by Lilli Carré; and Kevin Czap’s Fütchi Perf, depicting a brave new ethnically diverse and gender-complex world, from the winner of the second annual Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) Emerging Talent Award. 3122B, PROSPECT PARK: Helena Ventura’s Talk Like a Californian: A Hella Fresh Guide to Golden State Speak, from a pen-named California mystery writer; and Jennifer Worick’s Things I Want To Punch in the Face, a second edition of the popular humorist’s sharp-tongued diatribes. 3123B ARSENAL PULP: Evany Rosen’s What I Think Happened: An Underresearched History of the Western World, a “femmoir” by comedian Rosen, taking a feminist angle on history; Marcelino Truong’s Saigon Calling: London 1963–75, a sequel to Truong’s well-received fi rst graphic novel detailing his family’s move from Saigon to London after the assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem; Julie Maroh’s Body Music, following the New York Times best-selling Blue Is the Warmest Color, a graphic novel exploring rich manifestations of love; and Emily Wight’s Dutch Feast, daringly rethinking Dutch cooking. 3221A, BIBLIOASIS: Kevin Hardcastle’s In the Cage, the Trillium Award winner’s debut novel, portraying a cage fi ghter who enters a life of crime when his career is short-circuited by injury; Alison Moore’s The Lighthouse, the celebrated writer’s Man Booker short-listed fi rst novel; and Jorge Carrión’s Bookshops: A Cultural History, with literary critic Carrión refl ecting on the bookstore as a key cultural space. 3221B, OPEN LETTER: Jean-Marie Blas de Robles’s Island of Point Nemo, a slyly funny literary puzzle from the award- winning author, involving multilingual codes, an infamous villain, three crazy detectives, strange debris on a Scottish beach, an ereader factory in France, and more; and Guðbergur Bergsson’s Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller, the Nordic Prize winner’s story of a retired bank clerk who decides to write a memoir (after all, everyone else does), hoping that his meditations on things like the monetary value of noise pollution will cure society’s ills. 3221C, NEW VESSEL: Saturday, 6/24, 3:00 p.m., Edgardo Franzosini’s The Animal Gazer, a prize-winning Italian novelist’s reimagining of the life of sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti (yes, he’s related to the famous automaker); Sunday, 6/25, 2:00 p.m., Igiaba Scego’s Adua, with Somali immigrant Adua, now in Italy, considering a return home as sectarian violence there diminishes; and 3:00 p.m., Clara Beaudoux’s The Madeleine Project: Uncovering a Parisian Life, with the young author documenting the belongings of her apartment’s previous owner, nonagenarian Madeleine. 3222A, FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY: Ariel Gore’s We Were Witches, from a LAMBDA award winner, fi ction about a single teenage mother who gets into college but fi nds her way blockaded by persistent male bias; Go Home! Twenty-Four Journeys from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and the Feminist Press, edited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, with authors dropping the model minority myth and getting real in fi ction, poetry, and memoir; Brontez Purnell’s Since I Laid My Burden Down, a debut novel about a queer black man’s return from San Francisco to his Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral; and Helen LaKelly Hunt’s And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America’s First Feminists, what happened before the Seneca Falls Convention.

8 9 3222B, WAVE: CAConrad’s While Standing in Line for Death, poetry as ritualistic reconnecting and healing from depression, from a Lannan/McDowell Fellow; Joanne Kyger’s There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera, the inaugural book of Wave’s new interview series, featuring San Francisco Renaissance leading light Kyger; and Cedar Sigo’s Royals, a fourth volume of vibrant, shardlike poetry exploring the author’s Native American identity. 3223A, TALONBOOKS: Wajdi Mouawad’s Anima, the latest twisty fi ction from the Lebanese Canadian writer, actor, and director, featuring a man learning about his wife’s murder from the family cat, the birds at the window, and more; Philippe Arseneault’s award-winning Zora, a Cruel Tale, a darkly gothic story of one young woman’s adventures somewhere along the old Russian-Finnish border; and Dominique Scali’s In Search of New Babylon, a postmodern tale of dreaming impossible dreams in the lawless 1860s American West. 3224, CENTRAL RECOVERY: Nancy Van Dyken’s Everyday Narcissism: Yours, Mine, and Ours, recognizing and dealing with the standard-issue narcissism that most of us have; Resmaa Menakem’s My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, body-centered psychology recognizing how African Americans in particular have physically absorbed the impact of white supremacy; and Kari Wagner- Peck’s Not Always Happy: An Unusual Parenting Journey, about adopting and raising a son with Down syndrome. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, SATURDAY, 6/24: 11:00 a.m., Charles Garfi eld, Life’s Last Gift: Giving and Receiving Peace During the Dying Time, training in end-of-life care from psychologist and Shanti founder Garfi eld, Central Recovery Press, 3224; and 12:45 p.m., Sophie Yanow, War of Streets and Houses, an Ignatz Award Nomination for Outstanding Graphic Novel, Uncivilized Books, 3121B. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, SUNDAY, 6/25: 10:45 a.m., Sophie Yanow, War of Streets and Houses, Uncivilized Books, 3121B; 11:00 a.m., Gina Sorell, Mothers and Other Strangers, a daughter’s travels to her family’s South African homestead after the death of her beautiful but caustic mother, Prospect Park, 3122B; 11:00 a.m., Louise Nayer, Poised for Retirement: Moving from Anxiety to Zen, for baby boomers everywhere, Central Recovery, 3224; and 2:00 p.m., Jill Orr, The Good Byline: A Riley Ellison Mystery, about a young library assistant convinced that an old friend’s death is not suicide, Prospect Park, 3122B. Perseus Distribution 3127, NEW PRESS: Alice Echols’s Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking, with the author discovering a building-and-loan scam her family hushed up for 70 years; John Prados’s The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness, from a senior research fellow on national security affairs at the National Security Archive; Alain Mabanckou’s Black Moses, about a resourceful orphan navigating the very real dangers of 1970s–1980s Congo-Brazzaville (fi nished books); Susan Burton & Cari Lynn’s Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women (fi nished books), a South Los Angeles woman’s journey from grieving mother to drug addiction and prison to helping others like herself; Astrid Dehe & Achim Engstler’s Eichmann’s Executioner, reimagining Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann’s trial and execution; and Paul Butler’s Chokehold: Policing Black Men, with a former federal prosecutor showing that all African American men are under constant suspicion. 3424, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL/HIPPOCRENE/SELECT: Joan C. Williams’s White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America (120 galleys), with a distinguished law professor explaining that working class does not mean poor and that working-class concerns are misunderstood; Clayton M. Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Life? (100 galleys), the Harvard Business School professor’s address to 2010 graduates about their personal lives; and Clayton M. Christensen & other’s HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2017: The Defi nitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review.

IN-BOOTH SIGNING, SATURDAY, 6/24: 3:30 p.m., Deepa Iyer, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh

10 Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future, the America Book Award–winning title on cultural complexity and the continuing persecution of American minorities, New Press, 3127. Publishers Group West 3425, ECW: Dietrich Kalteis’s Zero Avenue (20 galleys), about an upcoming Vancouver punk star who pays her bills by running dope; Ron Corbett’s Ragged Lake: A Frank Yakabuski Mystery (20 galleys), with Detective Yakabuski investigating the murder of an entire family at a squatter’s cabin as a blizzard sweeps over the Northern Divide; Anna Porter’s The Appraisal (20 galleys), with an art expert fl ying to Budapest to handle the sale of a painting and fi nding corruption and murder instead; Randal N.M. Graham’s Beforelife (20 galleys), whose protagonist lands in Heaven to fi nd that no one past the Pearly Gates believes there’s such a thing as life on Earth; Jack Todd’s Rose & Poe (20 galleys), Shakespeare’s wondrous The Tempest retold from the perspective of Caliban and his mother; and Joey Comeau’s Malagash (20 galleys), an arresting-sounding work about a young woman capturing her father’s words and thoughts as a computer virus so that he will live on after his death. HOUSE OF ANANSI, 3426: Ian Hamilton’s The Princeling of Nanjing, continuing the “Triad Years” series, with Ava Lee in Shanghai helping a friend who’s being pushed back into the drug trade. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, COUNTERPOINT, 3421: Friday, 6/23, 6:00 p.m., Abby Geni, The Lightkeepers, the 2016 Discover Great New Writers Award Winner for Fiction. Saturday, 6/24, 10:00 a.m., Alton Logan, Justice Failed: How “Legal Ethics” Kept Me in Prison for 26 Years, from an African American man jailed for a murder he did not commit. Sunday, 6/25, 10:00 a.m., Elizabeth Rosner, Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, about our need to keep alive memories of collective tragedies like the Holocaust and the Killing Fields. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, UNNAMED, 3422: Saturday, 6/24: 12:00 p.m., Malu Halasa, Mother of All Pigs, a debut novel about three generations of women surviving small-town restrictiveness in the Middle East; and 2:00 p.m., Rebecca Entel, Fingerprints of Previous Owners, about a maid at a Caribbean resort who secretly excavates local plantation ruins. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, NEW WORLD LIBRARY, 3420B: 2:00 p.m., Erin Leyba, Joy Fixes for Weary Parents: 101 Quick, Research-Based Ideas for Overcoming Stress and Building a Life You Love; and 3:00 p.m., Scott Stabile, Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart. BOOK BAGS + BOOKS: Book bags with Christopher Brookmyre’s The Last Hack (Grove), Ian Hamilton’s The Princeling of Nanjing (House of Anansi), Susan Burton’s Becoming Ms. Burton (New Press), and Anna Porter’s The Appraisal (EWC) will be given away at Booths 3130, 3231, 3323, and 3423. TICKET GIVEAWAY: Five tickets, valued at $60 apiece, for the United for Libraries event The Laugh’s on Us, Sunday, 6/25, 5:30–7:30 p.m., Hilton Chicago, International South. Maybe you’ll get lucky. BOOK BUZZ: Friday, 6/23, 5:30–6:10 p.m., Book Buzz Theater, Exhibit Hall, McCormick Place with Hachette Book Group.

3311 W. W. Norton Lots and lots of titles will be given away at this booth, but here are the highlights. FICTION GIVEAWAYS: Claire Messud’s The Burning Girl, with Cassie venturing farther and farther afi eld during adolescence until she puts friendship with Julia—and her own life—in danger; and Mark Helprin’s Paris in the Present Tense, which features contented widower Jules Lacour, maître at Paris-Sorbonne, who suddenly fi nds the pleasures of the present vying with obligations to past and principle. NONFICTION GIVEAWAYS: Caitlin Doughty’s From Here to Eternity, new approaches to death 115 and how people cope worldwide, from the author of the New York Times best-selling Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; Michael Korda’s Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk; Defeat into Victory, with British-born Korda weaving memoir into his account of 1940, a crucial year during the war and indeed the entire century; Stephen Greenblatt’s The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, with Pulitzer Prize winner Greenblatt investigating the deep roots and complex legacy of the famous biblical story; Danielle Allen’s Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A., a Harvard professor’s recall of a high-aspiring young cousin sentenced to 13 years in jail for carjacking and killed three years after his release; Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland, about folks who can’t quite afford to retire becoming “workampers,” riding around in their RVs as migrant laborers; Beth Ann Fennelly’s Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs, prose poem–like meditations from the poet/novelist that add up to her life; and Judith Mackrell’s The Unfi nished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice, looking at a famed palazzo in Venice from the perspective of three of its most distinguished residents. BOOK BUZZ: Saturday, 6/24, 11:00–11:45 a.m., Book Buzz Theater, Exhibit Hall, McCormick Place, with Workman.

3420 Grove Atlantic LITERARY GLITTER: Sarah Schmidt’s See What I Have Done (182 galleys), a retelling of the notorious Lizzie Borden murders that depicts an abusive household; Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From (100 galleys), a London Book Fair hit that opens with London sinking beneath the water as a woman escapes northward with her newborn baby; Lily Tuck’s Sisters (50 galleys), about a newly married woman contending with the invasive memory of her husband’s fi rst wife; Helen Dunmore’s Birdcage Walk (75 galleys), historical fi ction about a young Englishwoman who welcomes the French Revolution, even as her property developer husband dreads its threat of social turmoil; Bradford Morrow’s The Prague Sonata (75 galleys), about a musicologist given the yellowed pages of an entrancing but incomplete sonata who heads to Prague to fi nd the missing movements and the score’s original owner; and Laura Lee Smith’s The Ice House (75 galleys), about a man facing business failure, a scary medical diagnosis, and estrangement from his son. CHILLERS: Christopher Brookmyre’s The Last Hack: A Jack Parlabane Thriller (50 galleys), featuring reporter Jack Parlabane, working at a promising online news start-up when a valuable but shady source calls in a debt; Mark Billingham’s Love Like Blood: A Tom Thorne Novel, with Thorne helping DI Nicola Tanner investigate when she loses her partner to a brutal murderer Nicola believes was gunning for her; Deon Meyer’s Fever (100 galleys), a stand-alone by the celebrated South African thriller writer, set in a virus-devastated world and featuring the community that grows around gentle Willem Storm and his sharpshooter young son; John Lawton’s Friends and Traitors (75 galleys), with Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard on a pleasure trip in Vienna when he encounters spy Guy Burgess, who wants to come home; James Carlos Blake’s The Ways of Wolfe: A Border Noir (50 galleys), with the long-imprisoned Axel Prince Wolfe, disgraced heir of Blake’s famous bordertown family, desperate to see the daughter he barely knows; Lachlan Smith’s Wolf’s Revenge (50 galleys), with attorney-detective Leo Maxwell defending a young woman cornered into murdering a member of the Aryan Brotherhood; and Mattias Boström’s From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon (25 galleys), a Swedish author’s study of how Sherlock became legend. MEMOIR: Eileen Myles’s Afterglow (a dog memoir) (75 galleys), how a pit bull named Rosie transformed the life of the poet and “kick-ass counter-cultural icon” (The New Yorker); Xiaolu Guo’s Nine Continents (75 galleys), from a Granta Best of Young British Novelists, a fi erce, angry memoir of her Chinese upbringing; and James Beard Award–nominated Cree Lefavour’s Lights on, Rats Out (25 galleys), explaining how dangerously important her psychiatrist became when she developed the disquieting habit of applying sizzling cigarettes to her skin.

12 3516 Harlequin DARK-EDGED: Neil Olson’s The Black Painting (100 galleys), about the theft of a reputedly cursed painting, which sunders a venerable East Coast family; Nicola Cornick’s House of Shadows: An Enthralling Historical Mystery (75 galleys), how an ancient, possibly magical pearl connects three women across four centuries and an estate in Oxfordshire; Kaira Rouda’s Best Day Ever (50 galleys), about a seemingly devoted husband whose plans for a romantic getaway might be bad news for his wife; J.T. Ellison’s Lie to Me (50 galleys), about seemingly happy couple Sutton and Ethan Montclair and the trouble that comes Ethan’s way when Sutton leaves without warning; and A.F. Brady’s The Blind (50 galleys), about a troubled psychiatrist treating a patient no other doctor will approach precisely because he seems so normal. LIGHTER-EDGED: Brianna Wolfson’s Rosie Colored Glasses (100 galleys), an autobiographical debut about a child of divorce caught between her rigid father and a mother named Rosie who’s warm and loving and suddenly crazy; Eva Woods’s Something Like Happy (100 galleys), with retiring Annie brought to life by new friend Polly’s scheme to try 100 new ways to be happy in 100 days; Robyn Carr’s The Summer That Made Us (75 galleys), about a television talk show host revisiting her childhood home and fi nding different memories of what happened during a fateful last summer there; Susan Mallery’s Secrets of the Tulip Sisters (75 galleys), with tulip farmer Kelly Murphy’s life disrupted by the return of her troublemaking sister and the local, hot-for-Kelly bad boy. LITERARY GEM: Christopher Meades’s Hanna Who Fell from the Sky (50 galleys), a U.S. debut from a Canadian award winner about a young woman in an isolated religious community challenged to reconsider everything she’s been taught. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, SATURDAY, 6/24: 10 a.m., Kaira Rouda, Best Day Ever; and Jamie Raintree, Perfectly Undone, whose doctor heroine resists a marriage proposal because she is burdened with guilt over her sister’s death; and 2:00 p.m., Summer Heacock, The Awkward Path to Getting Lucky, a debut featuring Kat Carmichael, avoiding sex as painful, who might get help from the handsome physical therapist who frequents her bakery. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, SUNDAY, 6/25: 10:30 a.m., J.T. Ellison, Lie to Me, and A.F. Brady, The Blind; 1:00 p.m., Neil Olson, The Black Painting; and 2:15 p.m., Christopher Meades, Hanna Who Fell from the Sky, and Brianna Wolfson, Rosie Colored Glasses.

3611 HarperCollins CLASSY FICTION: Nicole Krauss’s Forest Dark (180 galleys), transformative moments in Tel Aviv for two secular American Jews, larger-than-life Jules Epstein, who’s given away most of his possessions, and young novelist Nicole, offered the project of a lifetime; and Gregory Maguire’s Hiddensee (180 galleys), with Maguire again rethinking a classic, this time that immortal Christmas tale The Nutcracker. FICTION GIVEAWAYS, FOR FUN: Liv Constantine’s The Last Mrs. Parrish (200 galleys), about an envious woman who schemes to get the glamorous life she thinks she deserves by wending her way into a golden couple’s good graces; Susan Wiggs’s Map of the Heart (150 galleys),ll ) about b a young widow, settled into a quiet town with her teenage daughter, who receives a package that blows open her family’s hidden past; Karin Slaughter’s The Good Daughter (150 galleys), a stand-alone featuring a New York–based lawyer returning to Atlanta (and some family sorrow) when her father needs help defending a young woman accused of a school shooting; Sophie Hannah’s Keep Her Safe (150 copies), the author’s fi rst American-set novel, with a chipper British tourist starting to suspect that the guest in the room next to hers made headlines when she disappeared years ago; Claire Kendal’s The Second Sister (150 galleys), with a young

135 woman in danger as she desperately tries to fi gure out why her older, look-alike sister disappeared; Jenny Colgan’s Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery (100 galleys), with a storm set to disrupt the holidays in Polly’s Cornish coastal village and sugar-and-spice bakery. AUTHOR MEMOIRS: Armistead Maupin’s Logical Family (300 copies), with Lambda Pioneer Award winner Maupin explaining how he got from straitlaced North Carolina to San Francisco, which he details so lovingly in his best-selling “Tales of the City” series; and Amy Tan’s Where the Past Begins (200 galleys), with the author digging into a diffi cult childhood and never-before-discussed relationship with her father to clarify how all these experiences led inevitably to her becoming a writer. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, SATURDAY, 6/24: 9:00 a.m., Joseph Cassara, The House of Impossible Beauties, an edgily written debut about the Hispanic LGBTQ community; 10:00 a.m., Nikki Giovanni, A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and Laughter, the beloved poet/activist offering verse about the people and events that have shaped her life; 11:00 a.m., Elise Hooper, The Other Alcott, a debut novel reenvisioning the life of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa’s little sister; Karen Harper, The It Girls, fi ction based on the lives of sisters Elinor and Lucy Sutherland, famous for being famous in the early 1900s; and Devin Murphy, The Boat Runner, a debut about a teenage Dutch boy taking risks and growing to manhood during World War II; 1:00 p.m., Craig Grossi, Craig & Fred, by a marine sergeant in Afghanistan who rescued a goofy-happy dog he named Fred, who returned the favor by helping Grossi through post-traumatic stress stateside; 2:00 p.m., Megan Stielstra, The Wrong Way To Save Your Life, the noted essayist on conquering fear; creating art; dealing with motherhood, marriage, and an underwater mortgage; and more; and 3:00 p.m., Sarah Miller, Caroline, historical fi ction that tells the “Little House” saga from the perspective of the mother. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, SUNDAY, 6/25: 9:00 a.m., Lori Rader-Day, The Day I Died, about a handwriting expert, asked to evaluate a ransom note, who suspects that the kidnapper is actually protecting the young victim; 10:00 a.m., Sara Paretsky, Fallout, with famed investigator V.I. Warshawski in silo-dotted Kansas, hunting for a young fi lm student and a waning fi lm star; 11:00 a.m., Julia Quinn, The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband: A Bridgertons Prequel, with orphaned Cecilia Harcourt fl eeing to the American Colonies and pretending to be the wife of her brother’s wounded best friend (initially unconscious and conveniently handsome); 12:00 p.m., Jeffrey Cranor, It Devours! A Welcome to Night Vale Novel, the second fi ctional outing based on the No. 1 international podcast; 2:00 p.m., Sarah Beth Durst, The Reluctant Queen, second in the fantasy trilogy begun with the Alex Award–winning The Queen of Blood; and 4:00 p.m., David Litt, Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years, the author’s light, bright years as a special assistant to the president and senior presidential speechwriter. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, MONDAY, 6/26: 9:00 a.m., Kate White, Even If It Kills Her: A Bailey Weggins Mystery, with our crime-writing heroine trying to help a college classmate discover who killed her entire family 16 years ago; and 10:00 a.m., A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window, a much-buzzed debut thriller about a reclusive New Yorker who thinks she sees a crime committed outside her window. BOOK BUZZ: Saturday, June 24, 8:30–10:00 a.m., McCormick Place West, S101.

3620 Workman GREAT FICTION FROM ALGONQUIN: Robert Olmstead’s Savage Country, the 1873-set story of a fi nancially pressed widow taking over the buffalo hunt her husband had planned and facing fl oods, fi res, rattlesnakes, and the heart-destroying task of slaughtering noble animals; Jessica Keener’s Strangers in Budapest, set in Hungary’s capital after the fall of communism, as a young American couple learn that the older man friends have asked them to look after has actually returned to exact revenge; Christopher Swann’s Shadow of the Lions, a debut about a man’s reckoning with the past when he returns to teach at the prep school where a friend vanished; Hallgrímur Helgason’s Woman at 1,000 Degrees,

14 with a tough-old-bird narrator peaceably awaiting death in a Reykjavík garage; and Gabrielle Zevin’s Young Jane Young, about a Congressional intern who tries to escape the media glare when her affair with her married boss becomes public but fi nds that the past won’t stay past. GREAT NONFICTION: Marta McDowell’s The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes That Inspired the Little House Books (Timber), fl ora and fauna for Wilder fans on the 150th anniversary of her birth; Dan Rather’s What Unites Us (Algonquin, chapbooks), original essays about America’s core values from the legendary TV journalist; David Tanis’s David Tanis Market Cooking (Artisan), techniques and recipes pulled from the world’s cuisine; Matt Jennings’s Homegrown: Cooking from the Ocean, Orchard, Forest, and Farm (Artisan), using bursting- fresh ingredients to redefi ne New England cuisine; Scott Freeman’s Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest To Heal the Land (Timber), restoring an environmentally devastated creek in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula and fi nding a better way to live; Beverly Gray’s Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How “The Graduate” Became the Touchstone of a Generation (Algonquin), revisiting a fi lm classic 50 years later; and Gayatri Devi’s The Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias (Workman), with neurologist Devi arguing that Alzheimer’s is a spectrum disorder. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS: Saturday, 6/24, 1:45 p.m., Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways To Cure Everything (Workman), from a physician and a historian, scary cures like leeches, arsenic drops, radium spa hotels, and morphine for babies. Sunday, 6/25, 1:00 p.m., Morgan Babst, The Floating World (Algonquin), about the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, as an older daughter’s refusal to evacuate tears apart a deep-rooted New Orleans family. Monday, 6/26, 10:30 a.m., Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, (Algonquin) about newlyweds shattered when the husband is convicted of a crime he did not commit. BOOK BUZZ: Saturday, 6/24, 11:00–11:45 a.m., Book Buzz Theater, Exhibit Hall, McCormick Place, with Norton.

3720 Penguin Random House TOP LITERARY FICTION: Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere (250 galleys), a suburban family’s turmoil when a free-spirited mother and daughter arrive in town, with the New York Times best-selling author ultimately investigating the meaning of parenthood; Gabriel Tallent’s My Absolute Darling (200 galleys), with 14-year-old Turtle realizing that life with her troubled father is both unhappy and dangerous and cannot continue; Emily Culliton’s The Misfortune of Marion Palm (120 galleys), about a luxury-hungry Brooklyn Heights, NY, mother who embezzles $180,000 from her children’s school; and Sam Graham-Felsen’s Green (100 galleys), about a rare (and shunned) white kid at Boston’s Martin Luther King Middle School who’s befriended by a loner from the projects, a debut from the chief blogger for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. EDGE-OF-SEAT THRILLERS: Krysten Ritter’s Bonfi re (300 galleys), from actor/producer Ritter, the story of a successful environmental lawyer returning to her hometown and connecting the town’s main employer, Optimal Plastics, with the disappearance of a popular girl over a decade ago; Karen Cleveland’s Need To Know (250 galleys), with CIA counterintelligence analyst Vivian Miller digging up a dangerous secret while investigating Russian sleeper cells in the United States; Nick Petrie’s Light It Up: A Peter Ash Novel (200 galleys), a sequel to Paris Burning, with combat veteran Peter Ash protecting vulnerable cannabis entrepreneurs in Colorado; Shari Lapena’s A Stranger in the House (200 galleys), with a woman found injured in a shady part of town claiming she crashed her car, which neither the police nor her husband believe; Ken Follett’s A Column of Fire (200 galleys), about a 1500s Englishman, impossibly in love with a young woman on the opposite side of the country’s religious confl ict, working in Queen Elizabeth’s secret service; and Louisa Luna’s Two Girls Down (170 galleys), featuring bounty hunter Alice Vega and disgraced cop Max Caplan hunting for two young sisters

15 who disappeared from a strip mall parking lot in Pennsylvania. TOP POP FICTION: Max Brooks’s Minecraft: The Island (250 galleys), the No. 1 New York Times best-selling author’s fi rst offi cial Minecraft novel, with castaways on a beach contending with the zombies that emerge at nightfall; Anne Ostby’s Pieces of Happiness (250 galleys), from a Norwegian author, the story of fi ve women friends in their sixties who decide to live together on a cocoa farm in Fiji; Francesca Hornak’s Seven Days of Us (200 galleys), darkly funny doings about a family in quarantine over Christmas; Meg Mitchell Moore’s The Captain’s Daughter (120 galleys), about a wife and mother who returns to her Maine hometown to help her injured lobsterman father and starts wondering what her life would have been like had she stayed; Mary Lynn Bracht’s White Chrysanthemum (200 galleys), about two Korean sisters separated during World War II when one protects the other from capture by the Japanese; Jonathan Skariton’s Séance Infernale (175 galleys), with movie memorabilia dealer Alex Whitman tasked with fi nding the fi rst-ever fi lm of moving-picture inventor Augustin Sekuler, who boarded a Paris-bound train in 1890 and vanished; Hannah Tunnicliffe’s A French Wedding (150 galleys), about six college friends reuniting on the coast of Brittany for a big birthday celebration, with spats, secrets, and romantic complications all coming to the fore; and Holly Goddard Jones’s The Salt Line (150 galleys), with America sequestered behind a salt line to protect citizens from a ferocious troop of disease-carrying ticks and the risk takers held hostage by defensive outer-zone survivors after venturing beyond the line. NONFICTION GIVEAWAYS: Rhett McLaughlin & Link Neal’s Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality: A Field Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and Tomfoolery (300 galleys), a life guide (of sorts) from the YouTube superstars and creators of Good Mythical Morning; Ben Blum’s Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime (220 galleys), a shocker about the author’s cousin, an upright young man in training as a U.S. Army Ranger persuaded by fellow soldiers to commit armed robbery the day before their deployment; and Oliver Sacks’s The River of Consciousness (200 galleys), a collection of key essays from the late, great neurologist. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, SATURDAY, 6/24: 11:30 a.m., DC Comics Hour; 2:30 p.m., Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes, about a half-Chinese orphan raffl ed off at Seattle’s 1909 World’s Fair, shocking true-to-life fi ction from the New York Times best-selling and LibraryPicks author; Fiona Davis, The Address, with out-of-luck party girl Bailey, whose grandfather was ward to star architect Theodore Camden, uncovering family secrets when she agrees to redecorate the apartment of a Camden great-granddaughter at the famed Dakota in New York; Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists, a BookExpo Buzz Book telling the story of four children whose fates seem determined when they visit a fortune teller; and Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues, truly inventive stuff about a man in love with Death herself, which leads to his being reincarnated over 10,000 lifetimes; and 3:00 p.m., Augustus Rose, The Readymade Thief, about a teenager taking refuge in a for runaways who’s being pursued by powerful men with bad intentions. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, MONDAY, 6/26: 10:00 a.m., Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere. BOOK BUZZ: Sunday, 6/25: 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., McCormick Place, S106a.

3727 Other Press Pick up giveaways and sign up for Other’s newsletter at the same time. GALLEY GIVEAWAYS, FICTION: Ethiopian-born Swedish writer Jenny Rogneby’s Leona: The Die Is Cast (50 galleys), featuring a female detective at Stockholm’s Violent Crimes Division who’s in deep when a naked, bloodied seven-year-old girl helps steal millions from a bank; Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat (30 galleys), a 1943 Turkish classic fi nally available in English, about the emotionally wrought relationship between a reserved young Turkish man and an unconventional woman artist in interwar Berlin; Mihail Sebastian’s For Two Thousand Years (20 galleys), available in English for the fi rst time, a

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17 1934 classic about a Jewish student in restive Romania as World War II looms; best-selling and multi-award- nominated Israeli novelist Eshkol Nevo’s Three Floors Up (20 galleys), a cascade of stories about the often-troubled residents of an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building; and Peter Stamm’s To the Back of Beyond (20 galleys), the Man Booker International Prize nominee’s story of a man who walks away from his family in the midst of a chilly Alpine winter.

GALLEY GIVEAWAYS, NONFICTION: Edgar Feuchtwanger & Bertil Scali’s Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929–1939 (50 galleys), a historian recalling being raised in a prominent German-Jewish family in Munich, right across the street from Adolf Hitler; Mark Mazower’s What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home (75 galleys), a professor recalling the fate of family members caught up in the Russian Revolution, the Terror, and more; Elisabeth Åsbrink’s 1947: Where Now Begins (20 galleys), an award- winning journalist/author’s blend of history and family memoir as she looks at the crucial year of 1947, when her father resided in a refugee camp for children whose parents were murdered by the Nazis; Patience Ibrahim & Andrea Claudia Hoffmann’s A Gift from Darkness (20 galleys), heartrending testimony from a woman kidnapped by the Boko Haram who fi ghts to protect her unborn child; and Cristina De Stefano’s : The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend (20 galleys), a big biography of the most famous Italian journalist of the 20th century, told in a rat-a-tat, you-are-there present tense. BOOK GIVEAWAYS, FICTION: Jonathan Rabb’s Among the Living, Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation, Simon Mawer’s The Glass Room, Malin Persson Giolito’s Quicksand, Philippe Djian’s Elle, Jan-Philipp Sendker’s The Art of Hearing Heartbeats and A Well-Tempered Heart, Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home, Ernst Haffner’s Blood Brothers, Saleem Haddad’s Guapa, Kyung-Sook Shin’s I’ll Be Right There, Minae Mizumura’s A True Novel, and Ninni Holmqvist’s The Unit. BOOK GIVEAWAYS, NONFICTION: Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café and How To Live; or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, Shahan Mufti’s The Faithful Scribe: A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family and War, Rachel Aspden’s Generation Revolution: On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East, Gideon Rachman’s Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline from Obama to Trump and Beyond, Baz Dreisinger’s Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World, George Prochnik’s The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, Anka Muhlstein’s Monsieur Proust’s Library, and John Preston’s A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment.

3729 Soho BIG FICTION GIVEAWAYS: Brian Allen Carr’s Sip (120 galleys), a dystopic debut about a world in chaos because people are getting high sipping others’ shadows and the three people rushing to fi nd a cure for the addiction; Agatha and Macavity Award–winning Sujata Massey’s Widows of Malabar Hill (100 copies), the debut of a new series set in 1920s Bombay, starring Perveen Mistry, one of India’s fi rst female lawyers; and Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (100 galleys), a multi-award-winning Irish novel, lucid yet daring, about the spirit of Marcus Conway contemplating his life on All Souls Day. IN-BOOTH SIGNING: Saturday, 6/24, 10:00 a.m., Cara Black, Murder in Saint-Germain (100 copies), next in the New York Times best-selling and recently repackaged series starring indefatigable Aimée Leduc, helping a friend in the Brigade Criminelle track down a war criminal from the former Yugoslavia. BOOK BUZZ: Friday, 6/23, 6:15–7:00 p.m., Book Buzz Theater, Exhibit Hall, McCormick Place, Soho Crime Beach Reading.

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