BEA GALLEY 2016 & Signing Guide BY BARBARA HOFFERT PrepubAlert LIBRARYJOURNAL

This year, BookExpo America’s show fl oor is more structured than ever, with many publishers having strict schedules for giveaways and signings. Though publishers advise that times can shift some, windows of opportunity are narrow and giveaways available only as supplies last, so planning a battle strategy well in advance is important. Covering nearly 200 titles and dozens of signings, this BEA Galley & Signing Guide should help your march down the aisles. A special thanks to Sourcebooks for sponsoring this guide; check out its titles and author events at booth 2333.

1717 Hachette Book Group WEDNESDAY, MAY 11

Topnotch giveaways: 1:00 p.m., Robert Hicks’s The Orphan Mother, with midwife Mariah Reddick, once a slave, seeking justice for her murdered son; Alice Adams’s Invincible Summer, a big-buzzing debut about four post-college friends readjusting their sights in London; and Beth Macy’s Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South, important nonfi ction about two African American brothers kidnapped in 1899 and displayed as circus freaks. Chiller giveaways: 1:00 p.m., David Casarett’s Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness, an award-winning physician’s launch of a series about an ethicist nurse acting as detective in Thailand; Claire North’s The Sudden Appearance of Hope, a thriller whose antiheroine takes criminal advantage of her spooky anonymity; Holly Overton’s Baby Doll, a young woman’s walk into uncertain freedom after being held eight years by a kidnapper; Melanie Raabe’s The Trap, whose author protagonist is writing a novel meant to snare her sister’s killer; and Emma Flint’s Little Deaths, the newbie author’s psychological thriller (and BEA Editors’ Buzz Book) about a wayward 1960s Queens mother accused of murdering her children.

1 Nonfi ction giveaways (but don’t miss Macy’s Truevine at 1:00 p.m.): 3:00 p.m., Kate Coyne’s I’m Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters and Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism, with People’s executive editor cozying up to the rich, slick, and famous; and Eben Weiss’s The Ultimate Bicycle Owner’s Manual: The Universal Guide to Bikes, Riding, and Everything for Beginner and Seasoned Cyclists, advice from the ultimate biker, in case you want to ride around the show fl oor; and 4:00 p.m., Jessi Klein’s You’ll Grow Out of It, coming of age with the award-winning head writer and an executive producer of Inside Amy Schumer. Signings: 2:00 p.m., Neil Abramson, Just Life, the lawyer and animal rights activist’s new novel about a struggling no-kill shelter beset by a quarantine order; and 3:00 p.m., Nicholas Sparks, See Me, his 2015 best seller about (what else?) star-crossed lovers. THURSDAY, MAY 12 Giveaways: 9:00 a.m., Affi nity Konar’s Mischling, a fi rst novel about twins at Auschwitz, with one vanishing and the other searching for her post-liberation; Julissa Arce’s My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive, smartly refocusing the immigrant conversation; Neil Abramson’s Just Life; and Emma Flint’s Little Deaths. 10:00 a.m., David Casarett’s Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness; Claire North’s The Sudden Appearance of Hope; and Holly Overton’s Baby Doll. More giveaways: 11:30 a.m., Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, a saga of seesawing family fortunes from the author of Free Food for Millionaires; 2:00 p.m., Lauren Leader-Chivee & Karl Weber’s Crossing the Thinnest Line: The Possibility, Power, and Payoff of Embracing Diversity, activism from one of Fortune’s 55 Most Infl uential Women on Twitter; and 3:00 p.m., Leigh Himes’s The One That Got Away, a debut whose heroine magically gets to ask the question, What if I’d said yes to that other guy?; and Eben Weiss’s The Ultimate Bicycle Owner’s Manual: The Universal Guide to Bikes, Riding, and Everything for Beginner and Seasoned Cyclists. Signings: 10:00 a.m., Noah Hawley, Before the Fall, with the award-winning creator of FX’s Fargo sending a ferry to the bottom of the bay; 11:00 a.m., Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different, about a woman suddenly forced to kick her self-improvement plan into high gear; 2:00 p.m., Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, valuing small-group loyalty and commitment, as exemplifi ed by soldiering; 3:00 p.m., Vivian Howard, Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South, Southern yumminess from the co-creator of PBS’s A Chef’s Life; and Min Jin Lee, Pachinko; and 4:00 p.m., Elin Hilderbrand, Here’s to Us, with ex-wives and children mourning a celebrity chef’s death on the island of Nantucket. Hachette Book Group Tenth Anniversary Breakfast, Thursday, May 12, 9:00 a.m. Here’s your chance to meet Noah Hawley, Maria Semple, Neil Abramson, Emma Flint, and more over coffee and doughnuts. Grab some galleys, too. FRIDAY, MAY 13 Fiction giveaways: 9:00 a.m., Brad Meltzer & Tod Goldberg’s The House of Secrets, hush-hush family stuff and a book hidden in a corpse; James Patterson & Maxine Paetro’s Woman of God, risky business for a woman pope; Amanda Ortlepp, Claiming Noah, about two pregnancies, one in vitro, and a baby kidnapping; Alice Adams’s Invincible Summer; David Casarett’s Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness; Claire North’s The Sudden Appearance of Hope; Holly Overton’s Baby Doll; and Melanie Raabe’s The Trap. Nonfi ction giveaways: 9:00 a.m., Ian Purkayastha & Kevin West’s Truffl e Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground, from fi rst forage to multi-million-dollar specialty foods company; and Ben Tankard’s The Full Tank of Life: Fuel Your Dreams, Ignite Your Destiny, from a former NBA player now serving as motivational speaker, volunteer pastor, reality TV star, and award-winning mover and shaker on the gospel/jazz scene.

2 3 Afternoon giveaways: 1:00 p.m., Wm. Paul Young, The Shack, the No. 1 New York Times best seller, soon to hit the silver screen, about confronting God and loss; and 2:00 p.m., Jessi Klein’s You’ll Grow Out of It. Signings: 10:00 a.m., Michael Connelly, Trunk Music, a Harry Bosch classic (look for a Connelly booth takeover at this time); and 11:00 a.m., Michael Koryta, Rise the Dark, a woman’s mysterious last words and her husband’s hunt for her killer. James Patterson Booth Takeover, 9:00 a.m. Introducing “Bookshots, “Patterson’s new quick-read series featuring thrillers under $5 and 150 pages or under. With a special giveaway, Patterson & Chris Grabenstein’s Word of Mouse, a new middle-grade story illustrated by Joe Sutphin. Mulholland Booth Takeover, 1:00 p.m. Hachette Book Group’s thriller imprint gives itself a pat on the back while giving you galleys of Ben H. Winters’s Underground Airlines, a riveting tale of bounty hunting in a contemporary America where slavery persists; and Joe Ide’s IQ, whose Holmesian genius loner sometimes helps the LAPD (it’s getting set for television).

1729, 1829 Workman WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 Giveaways: 1:00 p.m., Debra Lee Baldwin & Laura Serra’s Sensational Succulents: An Adult Coloring Book of Amazing Shapes and Magical Patterns, juicy fun for show-fl oor coffee breaks (Timber, 25 fi nished books); and 2:00 p.m., Allan J. Hamilton, MD’s Lead with Your Heart: Lessons from a Life with Horses, how all you really need to know can be learned from horses, by a notable horse trainer and developer of equine-assisted learning programs who moonlights as a Harvard-trained brain surgeon (Storey, 100 samplers). Signings: 3:00 p.m., Edmund Harriss, Patterns of the Universe: A Coloring Adventure in Math and Beauty, with 57 designs and 12 more readers can create (Experiment, 75 fi nished books); and Larry Watson, As Good as Gone, stellar reading starring an old-timey, tough-as-rawhide cowboy hero tending his grandchildren for a week (Algonquin, 100 galleys). THURSDAY, MAY 12 Giveaways: 9: 00 a.m., Debra Lee Baldwin & Laura Serra’s Sensational Succulents: An Adult Coloring Book of Amazing Shapes and Magical Patterns (Timber, 25 fi nished books); 11:30 a.m., Christine Shahin’s Natural Hair Coloring: How To Use Henna and Other Pure Herbal Pigments for Chemical-Free Beauty (Storey, 50 fi nished books); 1:00 p.m., Ian Brown’s Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?, a CBC and Globe and Mail Best Book (Experiment, 192 galleys); and 3:30 p.m., Jerry Nelson’s Dear County Agent Guy: Calf Pulling, Husband Training, and Other Curious Dispatches from a Midwestern Dairy Farmer, heartland humor (Workman, 100 fi nished books). Signings: 10:45 a.m., YA-to-adult author Gayle Forman, Leave Me, about a working mother so frantic she fails to notice her heart attack (you can relate, right?) (Algonquin, 200 galleys); 1:30 p.m., Emily Paster, Food Swap: Specialty Recipes for Bartering, Sharing & Giving—Including the World’s Best Salted Caramel Sauce (Storey, 75 books ); and 2:00 p.m., Nicole Curtis, Better Than New: Lessons I’ve Learned from Saving Old Homes (and How They Saved Me), part memoir and part self-help from the host of the HGTV and DIY Network hit Rehab Addict (Artisan, 150 galleys). FRIDAY, MAY 13 Giveaways: 9:00 a.m., Debra Lee Baldwin & Laura Serra’s Sensational Succulents: An Adult Coloring Book of

4 Amazing Shapes and Magical Patterns (Timber, 25 fi nished books); 10:00 a.m., Jeremy Gavron’s A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son Investigates His Trailblazing Mother’s Young Suicide, about a struggling Sixties feminist’s untimely death and its consequences (Experiment, 192 galleys); and 3:00 p.m., Patrick Dawson & Greg Kletsel’s The Beer Geek Handbook: Living a Life Ruled by Beer—and, hey, there’s a beer tasting. (Storey, 50 fi nished books). Signings: 10:00 a.m., Marta McDowell, All the Presidents’ Gardens: Madison’s Cabbages to Kennedy’s Roses, How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America (Timber, 75 fi nished books); and 2:00 p.m., Carolyn Eckert, Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways To Unleash Your Creativity (Storey, 75 fi nished books).

1840, 1841 W.W. Norton Liveright: Norton giveaways, for tough-minded dreamers (booth 1840): Alan Moore’s Jerusalem, epic, visionary fi ction from the cult comics master, with that old Saxon capital, Northampton, sliding about in time (250 copies; distributed 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 5/11, and 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, 5/12, and Friday, 5/13, while supplies last, which they won’t); Winston Groom’s El Paso, with the Forrest Gump guy writing a big novel that puts us splat in the middle of the Mexican Revolution (400 copies); Marcy Dermansky’s The Red Car, with a former mentor’s gift of a siren-red sports car forcing a woman to rethink her life (150 copies); and Ruth Franklin’s Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, portraying Jackson as a true American gothic battling domestication in the 1950s (50 copies). Norton giveaways, seriously good stuff (booth 1841): Patrick Phillips’s Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, a National Book Award poetry fi nalist’s chronicle of early 1900s racial violence in Forsyth County, GA, which led to the county’s being declared “whites-only” and forcing 1,100 citizens on the run (400 copies); Ann Hood’s The Book That Matters Most, whose recently divorced heroine learns to heal through her book club’s titular mission (400 copies); and Laurence Scott’s The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in a Digital World (100 copies), a Samuel Johnson Prize fi nalist arguing that the online world constitutes a new and tricky dimension.

1846 Thames & Hudson Glittery giveaways: Laurie Wilson’s Louise Nevelson: Light & Shadow, in time for surging interest in Nevelson, a thoroughgoing biography of the dramatic artist from an art historian who’s been writing about her since the late 1970s (200 galleys); and David Thomson’s Television: A Biography, with a fi lm critic surveying six decades in the cultural life of the small screen, now undergoing radical transformation (200 galleys).

5 1850 Overlook Press For-fun giveaways: R. Scott Bakker’s The Great Ordeal, Bk. 3, last in the “The Aspect-Emperor” fantasy trilogy, with war entailing a frazzled wizard, a missing royal son, and human fl esh–eating armies; William Brodrick’s The Discourtesy of Death: A Father Anselm Novel, friar–turned–barrister–turned CWA Gold Dagger Award winner Brodrick’s new mystery featuring barrister-turned-clergyman-turned-detective Father Anselm’s quest to determine whether the partner of a disabled woman killed her; and Darryl W. Bullock’s Florence Foster Jenkins: The Life of the World’s Worst Opera Singer, a portrait in courage about a fl at-noted singer wildly popular for (not despite) her awful delivery, to be played by Meryl Streep in a forthcoming fi lm.

1953 Other Press Fiction giveaways: David Trueba’s Blitz, from the award-winning Spanish director, screenwriter, and novelist, about a suddenly upended young architect’s affair with an older German woman in Munich (75 galleys); thriller-to-literary author Jonathan Rabb’s Among the Living, a Holocaust survivor’s tumultuous choices in postwar Savannah, GA, where he lives with his only surviving relatives (150 galleys); Craig Larsen’s The Second Winter, about the decades-long consequences when a Danish farmer steals a necklace from one of the Jewish refugees he profi tably slips into Sweden (150 galleys); and Peter Stamm’s Agnes, returning to the celebrated Swiss novelist’s best-selling debut, which features a man writing an increasingly and dangerously embroidered narrative about his lover (75 galleys). Nonfi ction giveaways: Saul Friedländer’s When Memory Comes and Where Memory Leads: My Life, the reissue of a classic of Holocaust literature and its continuation, respectively, from the Prague-born Pulitzer Prize winner (75 galleys apiece); John Preston’s A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot in the Houses of Parliament, an account of the 1970s Jeremy Thorpe scandal, from the Sunday Telegraph critic and novelist (e.g., The Dig) (75 galleys); Suzanne O’Sullivan’s Is It All in Your Head? True Stories of Imaginary Illness, case studies from a neurologist about the body’s ability to mirror psychic stress (75 galleys); and Gregor Hens’s Nicotine, the ex-smoking German writer and translator’s examination of addiction as weakness, solace, and a door opening up memory (75 galleys). Signing: 11:00 a.m., Friday, 5/13, Jonathan Rabb, Among the Living.

1958 Macmillan WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 Giveaways: 1:30 p.m., B.A. Paris’s Behind Closed Doors, a debut psychological thriller about a seemingly perfect couple (so why are there bars on a bedroom window?) (200 galleys); 2:00 p.m., Alexander Weinstein’s Children of the New World: Stories, sf-like literary fi ction about the Internet as social and emotional reframer (200 galleys); 3:00 p.m., Heather Graham & Jon Land’s The Rising, a scarefest from two veteran authors (150 galleys); 3:30 p.m., Lian Hearn’s Emperor of the Eight Islands, fi rst of four 2016 books in a brimming epic/fantastical series (200 fi nished books); and 4:30 p.m., F. Paul Wilson’s PPaPanaceanacea, aboutbt a medical examiner juggling one cult’s claim to possess a cure-all panacea and another’s

6 violently calling it anathema because God means humans to suffer (150 galleys); and Rae Meadows’s I Will Send Rain, whose heroine fi ghts for her family’s survival during the Dust Bowl (200 galleys). Signings: 2:00 p.m., Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am, a grand, Abraham and Isaac– inspired story of a family facing impossible choices (300 galleys); and 2:30 p.m., Loren D. Estelman, Shoot, featuring fi lm archivist Valentino, blackmailed into fi nding a blackmailer who possesses a fi lm that could create a scandal (100 fi nished books). THURSDAY, MAY 12 Giveaways, morning: 10:00 a.m., Lev Grossman’s Warp, a reissue of the backstory to the protean “Magicians” trilogy (200 galleys); 10:30 a.m., Charlaine Harris’s All the Little Liars, wherein sleuthing librarian Aurora Teagarden’s brother goes missing with some soccer teammates (200 galleys); and Keith Donohue’s The Motion of Puppets, the darkly unsettling (and very promising) tale of a woman trapped as a puppet in a toy store (200 galleys); and 11:00 a.m., Wendy Walker’s All Is Not Forgotten, about a putative miracle drug that wipes away memories of horrifi c events—but not the horrifi c feelings (200 galleys & 200 ALCs). Giveaways, afternoon: 1:30 p.m., Susan Faludi’s In the Darkroom, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and best- selling author’s meditation on the father who wasn’t there (200 galleys); 2:30 p.m., Steven Price’s By Gaslight, an atmospheric tale of William Pinkerton, detective’s son, and the gentlemanly Adam Foole on separate hunts through Victorian London’s underworld (200 galleys); 4:00 p.m., Charles Foster’s Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide, the author’s effort to understand animals by nose-snuffl ing through dirt like a badger, catching fi sh in his teeth like an otter, and more (400 galleys); and 4:30 p.m., Glennon Doyle Melton’s Love Warrior: A Memoir, coping after a marriage is blown to smithereens (300 galleys); and Sarah Domet’s The Guineveres, whose four young heroines, raised by nuns, share a name and a strong reaction to the comatose soldiers suddenly dropped in their midst (300 galleys). Signings: 11:30 a.m., Louise Penny, A Great Reckoning, with Armand Gamache, former chief of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, following a map to a terrifying secret (100 galleys); and 3:30 p.m., Stacey Kade, 738 Days, featuring 15-year-old Amanda, kidnapped and held for years in a room adorned only with the poster of once hot young TV star Chase Henry, who meets Chase after her escape with initially disastrous results. FRIDAY, MAY 13 Giveaways: 9:30 a.m., B.A. Paris’s Behind Closed Doors (200 galleys) and Andrew Gross’s The One Man, historical thrills about rescuing a key physicist—from Auschwitz (200 galleys); 11:30 a.m., Ronald H. Balson’s Karolina’s Twins, pulled-from-real-life fi ction about an elderly Holocaust survivor returning to Poland to honor an old friend’s request (200 galleys); 1:00 p.m., Scott Stambach’s The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko, an exceptional debut starring a 17-year-old who has lived his entire life in Ukraine’s Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children (200 galleys); and 2:30 p.m., Stephanie Gangi’s The Next, another buzzing debut, whose heroine has died of breast cancer but is too burdened by resentments to move on (200 galleys). Signing: 3:00 p.m., Sylvia Day, One with You, the last installment of the ever so hot “C“Crossfi fi re” ” quintet i (300 fi nished books). Mac Snack Book Attack, 9:30 a.m. A special event for #LibrariansOnly! with lots of galleys, breakfast goodies, and personalized readers’ advisory recommendations from library marketing manager Anne “Sweet Teeth” Spieth and colleagues.

7 2016, 2017 Simon & Schuster WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 Giveaways: 1:00 p.m., Ezekiel Boone’s The Hatching, a horror debut opening deep in the jungles of Peru (150 galleys); and Alexandra Horowitz’s Being a Dog: Following the Dog into a World of Smell, from the author of the best-selling Inside a Dog, a better understanding of those lovable creatuers via their phenomenal wet noses (150 galleys); 1:45 p.m., Paul Brinkley-Rogers’s Please Enjoy Your Happiness: A Memoir, the Pulitzer Prize–winning war correspondent’s recall of a still reverberant affair with an older Japanese woman in 1959 (150 galleys); and Dan Slater’s Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel, boys with guns, killing for drug lords (150 galleys); 2:30 p.m., Iain Reid’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things, edgy psychological writing whose protagonist inexplicably abandons his girlfriend on the way to visiting his parents (200 galleys); and Cookie Johnson’s Believing in Magic (150 galleys); and 3:15 p.m., Alice Hoffman’s Faithful, illuminating a girl’s guilt about an accident that tragically alters her best friend’s life (150 galleys). Signing: 2:00 p.m., Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here, the No. 1 LibraryReads pick about an obsessive woman’s quiet transformation, a small town’s redemption, and the joys of soccer (200 galleys). THURSDAY, MAY MAY 12 Giveaways, morning: 9:00 a.m., Paul Brinkley-Rogers’s Please Enjoy Your Happiness: A Memoir (150 galleys); 9:45 a.m., Alexandra Horowitz’s Being a Dog: Following the Dog into a World of Smell (150 galleys); 10:30 a.m., Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Cabin 10, murder on a luxury cruise, from the author who broke out last year with In a Dark, Dark Wood (200 galleys); and Dan Slater’s Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel (150 galleys); 11:15 a.m., Maya S. Penn’s You Got This: Unleash Your Awesomeness, Find Your Path, and Change Your World, from the teen entrepreneur and TED Talk star (100 galleys); and Nicolaia Rips’s Trying To Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel, about a starry upbringing in a legendary setting (200 galleys). Giveaways, afternoon: 12:00 p.m., Rob Rufus’s Die Young with Me: A Memoir, how the punk rocker’s love of music carried him through his battle with cancer (150 galleys); and Iain Reid’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things (100 galleys); 1:00 p.m., Alice Hoffman’s Faithful (150 galleys); 1:45 p.m., Tilar J. Mazzeo’s Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto (150 galleys); 2:15 p.m., Ben Utecht’s Counting the Days While My Mind Slips Away: A Love Letter to My Family, with the NFL tight-end preserving his thoughts now as he faces memory loss after fi ve concussions (200 galleys); 3:00 p.m., Fredrik Backman’s Britt-Marie Was Here (100 galleys); and 4:00 p.m., Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris’s Fireside Grown-Up Guides (150 galleys), a series whose topics range from mindfulness to moms to hangovers. Signings: 11:00 a.m., Thomas Mullen, Darktown, a 1948-set mystery (and BEA Editors’ Buzz Book) with the Atlanta Police Department’s fi rst black offi cers crossing the color line to solve a murder (300 galleys); and 3:00 p.m., Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, the tribulations of three British friends/lovers as World War II heats up (300 galleys). FRIDAY, MAY 13 Giveaways: 9:00 a.m., Ezekiel Boone’s The Hatching (150 galleys); 9:45 a.m., Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Cabin 10 (100 galleys); 10:30 a.m., Tilar J. Mazzeo’s Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto (150 galleys); 11:15, a.m., Rob Rufus’s Die Young with Me: A Memoir (150 galleys); 12:00 p.m., Cookie Johnson’s Believing in Magic (150 galleys); and 12:45 p.m., Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris’s Fireside Grown-Up Guides (150 galleys).

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9 2058–2067 Consortium WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 Signing: 1:00 p.m., T. Sean Steele, Tacky Goblin, wickedly witty debut fi ction, featuring a brother and sister sorting themselves out in Los Angeles and Chicago, which began as a blog and went on to win Curbside’s inaugural Wild Onion Novella contest (Curbside Splendor, booth 2058B). THURSDAY, MAY 12 Signings: 10:00 a.m., John Bruna, The Wisdom of a Meaningful Life: The Essence of Mindfulness (Central Recovery Press, booth 2066); 12:00 p.m., Zoe Zolbrod, The Telling: A Memoir, with a young novelist speaking out on childhood sexual abuse (Curbside Splendor, booth 2058B); and 3:00 p.m., Diane Cameron, Never Leave Your Dead: A True Story of War Trauma, Murder, and Madness, an award-winning columnist on her stepfather (Central Recovery Press, booth 2066). FRIDAY, MAY 13 Signings: 11:00 a.m., Chase Joynt, coauthor of You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition, about the lives of two artists in transition, one from female to male and the other from near-death to being fully alive (Coach House Books, 2060A); and 1:00 p.m., Toni Nealie, The Miles Between Me, a debut essay collection from New Zealand native Nealie (Curbside Splendor, booth 2058B). In addition, Nobrow (booth 2059A ) will be giving away hot-off-the-press Hilda comics, and the fi rst seven people each day will get a Hilda doll for free; and Coach House (booth 2060A ) will be giving away galleys of Giller Award winner André Alexis’s The Hidden Keys.

2141 HarperCollins WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 Giveaways: 1:30 p.m., Paulette Jiles’s News of the World, with a former soldier who reads newspapers to big crowds in post–Civil War Texas suddenly saddled with a child’s care; and Helen Sedgwick’s The Comet Seekers, sparkling love between a female astronomer and a male base-camp chef in Antarctica, with time-travel implications; 3:30 p.m., Margot Livesey’s Mercury, about a beautiful thoroughbred, newly boarded at the suburban Boston stable, that upends the life of stable owner Viv; and Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, a mega blogger’s argument that we’d be happier if we didn’t try so chirpily hard. THURSDAY, MAY 12 Giveaways: 10:00 a.m., T.C. Boyle’s The Terranauts, about a bunch of never-say-die scientists living in an enclosed, presumably sustainable compound; and Tama Janowitz’s Scream: A Memoir of Glamour and Dysfunction, moving from downtown 1980s New York to the sadder-but-wiser present; 11:00 a.m., Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth, how a book they inspired makes the friendly Cousins and Keatings step-siblings reconsider everything; Elizabeth Lesser’s Marrow, whose New York Times best-selling author recounts drawing closer to her sister after donating bone marrow to her; 2:00 p.m., Karin Slaughter’s The Kept Woman, with a dead body and his ex-wife’s husband making trouble for series star Will Trent; and Gilly Macmillan’s The Perfect Girl, an Edgar Award–nominated author’s tale of a teenage musical prodigy stalked by tragedy; and 4:00 p.m., Rachel 10 Gibson’s Just Kiss Me, with a class-crossed couple fi nding the love they missed together as teenagers; and Danielle Trussoni’s The Fortress, the best-selling novelist/memoirist seeking to rebuild her marriage in a 13th-century fortress. FRIDAY, MAY 13 Giveaways: 10:00 a.m., Io Tillett Wright’s Darling Days, the famed artist/activist’s recall of an unorthodox Eighties childhood; and Jessie Burton’s The Muse, with one artist’s aspirations connecting 1930s Spain and 1960s London; and 12:00 p.m., Shelley Dewees’s Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature, which says hello to Mary Robinson, Catherine Crowe, Sara Coleridge, and more; and Sarah Gray’s A Life Everlasting, from a mother who tracked the donation of her terminally ill infant’s organs to research, now explaining how such research works.

2240, 2241 Harlequin Giveaways, all chillers: Mary Kubica’s Don’t You Cry, which makes readers ponder the relationship between a roommate who absconds from a Chicago apartment and the stranger who wanders seductively into a small-town Michigan coffee shop; Meg Little Reilly’s We Are Unprepared, a former Treasury spokesperson’s account of splintered relationships as a terrible storm approaches a Vermont village, separating those who want to work together and those strictly out to save themselves; and Anna Snoekstra’s Only Daughter, with a smug young woman pretending to be a bereft family’s long-vanished daughter realizing that she’s put herself in danger.

2258 Perseus Books Group Giveaways, fabulously varied nonfi ction: Gary Younge’s Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives, a BEA Editors’ Buzz Book drawing on a terrible statistic: on average seven victims under 20 are shot dead each day in America; David Sax’s The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter, highlighting a sales boom in non–web based stuff; Dan Ackerman’s The Tetris Effect: The Game That Hypnotized the World, chronicling our most popular video game; Mychal Denzel Smith’s Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education, life for young black men today; John Simpson’s The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary, from the former chief editor at the OED; Brad Snyder with Tom Sileo’s Fire in My Eyes: An American’s Journey from Being Blinded on the Battlefi eld to Gold Medal Victory, from a U.S. Paralympic Team gold medal winner; Kyle Schwartz’s I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids, based on a classroom exercise that went wildly viral; Benjamin K. Bergen’s What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves; and Tyler Nordgren’s Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets.

11 2333 Sourcebooks WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 Giveaways: 1:00 p.m., Cuyler Overholt’s A Deadly Affection, featuring a young female psychiatrist in early 20th-century New York who struggles to prove one of her patients innocent of murder (250 galleys); and Craig Carlson’s Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France, whose intrepid young author fell in love with the City of Light and decided to open an American diner there (250 galleys); and 2:00 p.m., Theo Nicole Lorenz’s Unicorns Are Jerks: A Coloring Book Exposing the Cold, Hard, Sparkly Truth (250 galleys). Signing: 3:00 p.m., Harlan Cohen’s The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College, funny writing about college chaos, in its sixth edition so it must be good (200 galleys). THURSDAY, MAY 12 Giveaways: 9:00 a.m., Randall Silvis’s Two Days Gone, a chilly thriller set in northwestern Pennsylvania as winter descends (500 galleys); and 11:00 a.m., Mel C. Miskimen’s Sit Stay Heal: How an Underachieving Labrador Won Our Hearts and Brought Us Peace, healing from an elderly parent’s death with the help of a devil-may-care Lab Marley might have liked (200 galleys). Signings: 10:00 a.m., Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, the LibraryReads pick about a young Swedish woman who comes to Broken Wheel, IA, for her pen pal’s sake and stays (sharing books) for the entire town (250 fi nished books); and 11:30 a.m., Marie Benedict, The Other Einstein, reimagining Albert Einstein’s brilliant physicist wife (350 galleys). FRIDAY, MAY 13 Giveaways: 9:00 a.m., Marie Benedict’s The Other Einstein; 11:00 a.m., Amanda Bouchet’s A Promise of Fire, fi rst in the fantasy romance “Kingmaker Chronicles Trilogy” featuring a young woman whose circus soothsayer persona masks deeper powers (250 galleys); and 1:00 p.m., Greer Macallister’s Girl in Disguise, featuring America’s fi rst female private detective, who tread the backstreets of 1850s Chicago.(250 galleys).

2358 Grove Atlantic Giveaways: Robert Olen Butler’s Perfume River, with the Pulitzer Prize–winning author revealing the long-term consequences of the Vietnam War—indeed, all war—while exploring marital and familial strife; no booth signing, but 500 galleys altogether will be available for the autograph-area signing Thursday, 5/12, 3:00 p.m., and at the booth; Rabih Alameddine’s Angel of History, the follow-up to the National Book Award fi nalist An Unnecessary Woman, starring a gay Arab American poet in San Francisco wrestling with Satan (500 galleys); and Patrick Hoffman’s Every Man a Menace, international drug traffi cking from last year’s breakout author, a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award fi nalist (300 galleys). WEDNESDAY, MAY MAY 11 Signing: 3:00 p.m., John Freeman, ed., Freeman’s: Family, the second issue of a new anthology from renowned literary critic Freeman, with fresh work from Tracy K. Smith, Valeria Luiselli, Patrick Modiano, Alexander Chee, and more (250 galleys) 12 THURSDAY, MAY 12 Signing: 11:30 a.m. Emily Fridlund, History of Wolves, a BEA Editors’ Buzz Book, the fi rst novelist’s coming-of- age bone chiller about a 15-year-old girl who’s been dangerously ignored (500 galleys).

2433 Penguin Random House Titles for both giveaways and signings total 200 galleys apiece. WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 Signing: 3:00 p.m., Jennifer Close, The Hopefuls, about love, marriage, and ambition in Washington, DC, from the author of Girls in White Dresses. THURSDAY, MAY 12 Giveaways: 9:00 a.m., Fodor’s Chicago, for off-the-show-fl oor fun; 9:30 a.m., Trevor Nh’Noah’s BornBCi a Crime, justj a sampler, but who doesn’t want to sample writing from the host of The Daily Show; and Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s Reputations, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner’s new work about a celebrated political cartoonist suddenly challenged about his past; 12:00 p.m., Rena Olsen’s The Girl Before, whose heroine happily takes up with her architect landlord, then learns that the previous tenant died mysteriously; 12:30 p.m., Lauren Collins’s When in French: Love in a Second Language, wherein American Lauren fi nds

13 love with Frenchmen Olivier and climbs the language barrier; and Lee Johnson’s The Most Dangerous Place on Earth, a bittersweet fi rst novel that revisits high school with several iconic characters; and 1:00 p.m., Julie Baird’s Victoria: The Queen; An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire. Signings, morning: 10:00 a.m., Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night, reimagining Thomas Edison’s electrifying billion-dollar suit aimed at eliminating competitor George Westinghouse; and Faith Salie, Approval Junkie: Adventures in Caring Too Much, laugh-worthy essays from the journalist/comedian (e.g., CBS News Sunday Morning) on her lifelong quest for acceptance; 11:00 a.m., George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo, with the award-winning writer fi nally going for long fi ction in a story that opens with the death of Abraham Lincoln’s son Willie; and Brunonia Barry, The Faith Petal, with the witchy author returning to contemporary Salem for a peek at murder; 11:30 a.m., Nathan Hill, The Nix, from debut author Hill, a BEA Editors’ Buzz Book about hunting for a mom who might be a radical. Signings, afternoon: 2:00 p.m., Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a memoir organized in textbook fashion according to subjects like social studies and language arts; and Terry McMillan, I Almost Forgot About You, with Dr. Georgia Young getting restless for something more in life; 2:30 p.m., Jay McInerney, Bright, Precious Days, continuing the story of Russell and Corrine Calloway, seen in Brightness Falls and The Good Life; and Emma Cline, The Girls, about Sixties teenager Evie, falling in with the dangerously wrong crowd; 3:00 p.m., Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things, a jaw dropper about white supremacists insisting that the African American nurse attending their newborn be reassigned; 3:30 p.m., Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, imaginative doings with slaves Cora and Caesar escaping on tracks that are actually underground; and 4:00 p.m., Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, whose protagonist is an aristocratic Russian forced into house arrest at the Metropol, right across the square from the Kremlin. FRIDAY, MAY 13 Giveaways: 10:00 a.m., Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime (sampler); 12:00 p.m., Brit Bennett’s The Mothers, from debut novelist Bennett, a BEA Editors’ Buzz Book about young love and heartbreak in a contemporary black community in Southern California; and Rena Olsen’s The Girl Before; 1:30 p.m., Marisa Silver’s Little Nothing, about a young outcast’s triumph; and Listen While You Color (audio); 1:00 p.m., Shanthi Sekaran’s Lucky Boy, an affecting tale of two mothers, one a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian American wife; 3:00 p.m., Carolyn Parkhurst’s Harmony, about a family’s last-ditch effort to put things right with bright but socially maladjusted young Tilly; and 4:00 p.m., Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow. Signings: 9:00 a.m., Emily Giffi n, First Comes Love, about sisters with not such sisterly feelings; 9:30 a.m., Candice Millard, Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill, Churchill being noble and gutsy as he looks toward his political future; 10:00 a.m., Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors (The Passage, Bk. 3), wrapping up a blockbuster with a surprising backstory; and Blake Crouch, Dark Matter, wherein Jason Dessen fi nds himself living a new, initially wonderful, increasingly terrifying life; 10:30 a.m., Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, a Ghana-born authors tale of half-sisters from 1700s Africa with very different fates; and 11:30 a.m., Richard Russo, Everybody’s Fool, putting Sully from Pulitzer Prize winner Russo’s breakout novel, Nobody’s Fool, on the knife edge of mortality.

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