BOOKEXPO GALLEY& 2019 Signing Guide by BARBARA HOFFERT

BOOKEXPO GALLEY& 2019 Signing Guide BY BARBARA HOFFERT

Once again, Library Journal aims to help you negotiate the ever-crowded, always-exciting show floor at BookExpo by offering its annual Galley & Signing Guide. Organized chronologically, the guide offers descriptions of nearly 200 key giveaway titles from publishers large and small, plus signings by authors you’ll surely want to meet. Crucially, many publishers have timed giveaways, so check the schedule, and please be aware that schedules and even what’s being given away can change. A huge thanks to Sourcebooks, Booth 1629, for its long-standing support as sponsor of this guide.

706–920 Ingram Content Group GIVEAWAYS:

712C, FODOR: Fodor’s Inside Paris, for visitors, by Parisians, with customized neighborhood maps, distinctive hand-drawn illustrations, and lists like Best Bets and Instagram-Worthy Spots. (So au courant!)

720, TURNER PUBLISHING: Jane Austen & Bryan Kozlowski’s The Jane Austen Diet: Austen’s Secrets to Food, Health, and Incandescent Happiness, eating healthfully the Regency way; J.W. Ocker’s Twelve Nights at Rotter House, from the Edgar Award winner, creepy fiction about a travel writer determined to stay at the notorious Rotterdam Mansion for 13 nights—so what about the title? Kim Hooper’s Tiny, fiction about a marriage torn apart by a child’s death; and Amanda Rosenberg’s That’s Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill, the award-

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721, RAMSEY PRESS: Ken Coleman’s The Proximity Principle: The Proven Strategy That Will Lead to a Career You Love, all about being in the right place at the right time near the right people to get the job you want, from the host of the top-rated EntreLeadership Podcast.

728, AGATE PUBLISHING: Leslie Lennox’s Pesto: The Modern Mother Sauce; More Than 90 Inventive Recipes That Start with Homemade Pesto Sauce, from the founder of Hope’s Gardens, an artisanal pesto company based in Atlanta, bound to make you hungry on the show floor.

730C, FROMMER’S: Pauline Frommer’s Frommer’s Easyguide to New York City 2019, updated annually and—I love this—purported to include “opinionated advice” on what to see and what not to see after you leave the exhibit hall.

732B, GREYSTONE BOOKS: Roberta Staley’s Voice of Rebellion: How Mozhdah Jamalzadah Brought Hope to Afghanistan, a biography of the celebrated Afghan pop singer, once a refugee in Canada and now a champion of women’s rights; Alfred Fidjestøl’s Almost Human: The Story of Julius, the Chimpanzee Caught Between Two Worlds, about a chimp in Norway who has inspired pop songs and best-selling books; Henning Beck’s Scatterbrain: How the Mind’s Mistakes Make Humans Creative, Innovative, and Successful, with an acclaimed neurologist (and science slam speaker) explaining how our mental goofs actually help us; Bernd Brunner’s Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season, a meditation on the gorgeousness of snowy winter; and Marc Hamer’s How To Catch a Mole, a different kind of memoir from a British homeless teen–turned–railway worker–turned–fines arts marketer– turned–gardener who swears he will no longer catch moles.

733, GROVE ATLANTIC: Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein (300 galleys), a centuries-leaping retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein from the Whitbread, BAFTA, Rhys, and two-time Lambda Award winner; Candace Bushnell’s Is There Still Sex in the City? (250 galleys), fiction featuring 50- plus women wrestling with marriage, motherhood, divorce, Tinder dates, and insanely expensive face creams two decades after Sex and the City; Henry Porter’s White Hot Silence (200 galleys), with former MI6 agent Paul Samson rescuing a Greek aid worker held hostage by terrorist-linked Mafiosi, from a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger winner;Tom Bradby’s Secret Service (200 galleys), with senior MI6 agent Kate Henderson hunting a Russian mole burrowed deep in the UK government, from a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger short-listee; Walter Mosley’s Elements of Fiction (200 galleys), a master’s guide to pushing past boundaries while writing; and Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House (200 galleys), the story of Broom’s blended family, raised in the yellow shotgun house her mother bought in New Orleans East.

823C, PLATA PUBLISHING: Robert T. Kiyosaki’s FAKE: Fake Money, Fake Teachers, Fake Assets: How Lies Are Making the Poor and Middle Class Poorer, helping to sort through the disinformation of our lives; plus Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad and Kiyosaki & Donald Trump’s Why We Want You To Be Rich, perennial favorites.

824, F + W MEDIA: Cornelia Bartlette’s Knits from the Greenhouse: Knitting Patterns for Plant-Based Fibers and Courtney Spainhower’s Elemental Knits: A Perennial Knitwear Collection, two big books from F + W Media’s Interweave imprint; plus 52 Gifts from Me to You: Fresh, Simple Expressions To Show Your Love, a compilation from the North Light Books imprint.

825B, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Mike Berners-Lee’s There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years, a statistically rich resource on getting this planet through current environmental and economic crises, from the founder of Small World Consulting.

828, COACH HOUSE BOOKS: Saskia Vogel’s Permission, an erotic debut featuring a grieving young actress who gets caught up in the life and desires of the dominatrix next door; Grégoire Courtois’s The Laws of the Skies, a bloody literary tale of not so much fun in the woods as 12 children and three adult chaperones go camping; and

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3 Alexandra Kimball’s The Seed: Infertility Is a Feminist Issue, blending history, memoir, and reportage to argue that feminism has ignored the pain of infertile women and to highlight the need to address it.

828, ICON: David Whitehouse’s Apollo 11: The Inside Story, drawing on extensive interviews with key astronauts, NASA personnel, and politicians and written by a BBC science correspondent and editor who has worked for NASA. Sounds authoritative.

828, SCRIBE: Emiliano Monge’s Among the Lost, the multi-award-winning Mexican novelist’s black-edged, surreal vision of illegal immigration, focused on human-trafficked lovers Estela and Epitafio;Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s Beautiful Revolutionary, fiction inspired by the events at Jonestown, from one of the 2015 Melbourne Writers Festival’s 30 Under 30; and Jadan Carroll’s (Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time, amazing stories of amazing dogs from Cerberus to Rin Tin Tin, collected by music manager/programmer Carroll and illustrated by Berlin-based Australian artist Molly Dyson. Woof!

833A, WORLD EDITIONS: Adeline Dieudonné’s Real Life, darkly funny doings about one girl’s coming of age with a domineering game-hunter father and head-bowed mother, an award-winning debut novel from a Belgian actress/comedian; and Gary Baker’s The Museum of Lost Love, with couple Katia and Goran setting off to investigate their own lost loves after visiting a Zagreb museum that features mementos of shattered relationships.

IN-BOOTH SIGNING, THURSDAY, 5/30: At 11:00 a.m., Grove Atlantic (733), Richard Stengel, Information Wars, or, actually, the disinformation wars, from Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the Obama administration; and Red Lightning Books (826), Lauren Kessler, A Grip of Time: When Prison Is Your Life, drawing on the author’s experiences in her Lifers’ Writing Group; at 11:30 a.m., Polis Books (728a), John Vercher, Three-Fifths, a debut thriller about a biracial man passing for white; at 2:00 p.m., Polis Books (728a), Alex Segura, Miami Midnight, next in the Pete Fernandez mystery series; and at 3:00 p.m., Polis Books (728a), Erica Wright, Famous in Cedarbille, crime fiction with a silver-screen slant.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, FRIDAY, 5/31: At 11:00 a.m., Red Lightning Books (826), Lyz Lenz, God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America; and at 2:30 p.m., Plata Publishing (823c), Ken McElroy, Return to Orchard Canyon.

739 MIT Press GIVEAWAYS: Leah Plunkett’s Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online, a legal expert’s warning that we are unknowingly compromising our children’s privacy (and hence their well-being), starting when we post those cute baby pictures and continuing through digital surveillance in high school; and a Fall 2019 sampler including advance chapters from Vaclav Smil’s Growth, Dan Russell’s The Joy of Search, Ramesh Srinivasan’s Beyond the Valley, Alice Gorman’s Dr. Space Junk vs. the Universe, John Gribbin’s Six Impossible Things, and more.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, THURSDAY, 5/30: At 10:00 a.m., Dr. Rebecca Thompson’s Fire, Ice, and Physics: The Science of Game of Thrones, just so you’ll understand the physics of an ice wall and the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters as the curtains close on the blockbuster HBO series; and at 2:00 p.m., Kathryn D. Sullivan’s Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention (image sampler), with the first American woman to walk in space chronicling her work as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope. Kudos to this role model for every STEM-hungry female student.

4 1220 DC Comics Home of iconic brands DC (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman), Vertigo (Sandman), and MAD, DC Comics publishes more comic books, graphic novels, and manga each year than you can count. Check out the offerings at the booth, especially Kelly Sue Deconnick’s Aquaman. Vol. 1: Unspoken Water.

1221 Penguin Random House Please check the Penguin Random House booth for a schedule of giveaways and signings, not available at press time. Authors appearing at the annual Penguin Random/Library Journal BookExpo Breakfast include Karen Abbott, The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America, chronicling prosecutor Mabel Walker Willebrandt’s efforts during Prohibition to bring down German immigrant George Remus (“King of the Bootleggers”) and the affair Remus’s wife conducted with Willebrandt’s best investigator; Elizabeth Ames, The Other’s Gold, a debut following four friends through life from the moment they meet at Quincy-Hawthorne College; Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, with beekeeper Nuri and his artist wife (blinded by the tragedy she has witnessed) as they flee Aleppo and travel through Turkey and Greece on to Great Britain; Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea, with grad student Zachary Ezra Rawlins following enigmatic clues (a bee, a key) to a mysterious underground library; and Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age, a timely debut novel featuring high-profile white blogger Alix, whose African American babysitter is accused by a security guard of kidnapping Alix’s toddler. Go to https://tinyurl.com/PRHAuthorBreakfast19 to get egalleys of any of the breakfast titles.

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5 1307 Workman Publishing GIVEAWAYS, WEDNESDAY, 5/29: At 12:30 p.m., Jaquira Díaz’s Ordinary Girls (100 galleys), the two-time Pushcart Prize winner’s wrenching story of growing up queer and biracial in Puerto Rico and Miami; and at 1:30 p.m., Georgina Reid (text) & Daniel Shipp’s (photogs.) The Planthunter: Truth, Beauty, Chaos, and Plants (25 galleys), a paean to the natural world via plants, first launched in cyberspace.

GIVEAWAYS, THURSDAY, 5/30: At 9:00 a.m., Agnes Loonstra (illus.) & Ester Scholten’s (text) Crazy Cat Lady and Isabel Cerna’s Crazy Plant Lady (50 finished books each), for feline and flora fanatics.

GIVEAWAYS, FRIDAY, 5/31: At 12:30 p.m., Kate Frey’s Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden (25 finished books), green-thumb rules from an expert.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, WEDNESDAY, 5/29: At 3:00 p.m., Tim Mason, The Darwin Affair (250 galleys), a mystery showing how the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria and the death of a petty thief are connected.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, THURSDAY, 5/30: At 11:00 a.m., Massimo Pigliucci & Gregory Lopez, A Handbook for New Stoics: How To Thrive in a World Out of Your Control—52 Week-by-Week Lessons (100 galleys), unusual self-help from a City College of New York philosophy professor and the founder and facilitator of the New York City Stoics Meetup; at 1:30 p.m., Exley author Brock Clarke, Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? (175 galleys), about a middle-aged milquetoast whose life gets a sudden makeover when he meets an aunt he never knew at his mother’s funeral; at 2:30 p.m., Pamela Paul & Maria Russo, How To Raise a Reader (100 galleys), from the editor and children’s book editor, respectively, at the New York Times Book Review; at 3:00 p.m., Patricia Schultz’s 1,000 Places To See Before You Die (150 galleys), a second edition featuring over 200 new entries and 28 new countries; and at 4:00 p.m., Eric Nuzum, Make Noise: A Creator’s Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling (100 galleys), from the man who launched NPR into the podcast era.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, FRIDAY, 5/31: At 9:30 a.m., Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls; and at 10:30 a.m., Gabriel Bump, Everywhere You Don’t Belong, a young black man’s coming-of-age debut novel, set on Chicago’s South Side and already an award winner.

1338, 1339 Hachette GIVEAWAYS, WEDNESDAY, 5/29: At 12:00 p.m., international best seller Emma Donoghue’s Akin, with 79-year- old widower Noah benefiting greatly when he takes the 11-year-old great nephew he’s just met on a family fact-finding trip to Europe; Edgar nominee Atticia Locke’s Heaven, My Home, with job- and marriage-troubled Texas Ranger Darren Matthews investigating the disappearance of nine-year-old Levi King in a Texas town with throwback racist attitudes; and Alix E. Harrow’s The Ten Thousand Doors of January, a big-print-run magic realist debut set in the early 1900s, and featuring a young woman, trapped as ward to a wealthy man, liberated by a mysterious book she finds; at 2:00 p.m., Kheryn Callender’s Queen of the Conquered, an island-set fantasy whose heroine is ready to use her mind-controlling abilities to gain the crown—and revenge the murder of her parents by the royals; at 3:00 p.m., Jenny Slate’s Little Weirds, wherein the actress/comedian talks about heartbreak, honeysuckle, haunted houses, and a spiritual guide dog; and at 3:30 p.m., Stephen Chbosky’s Imaginary Friend, an adult book and the author’s follow-up to his multi-million-copy best-selling debut YA novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, with young Christopher vanishing in the woods for six days and returning with a mission.

GIVEAWAYS, THURSDAY MORNING, 5/30: At 9:00 a.m., Susannah Cahalan’s The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness, the Brain on Fire author’s reconsideration of a 1970s experiment that exposed vast fault lines in the nation’s asylums; Adrian McKinty’s The Chain, with an ongoing

6 chain of child kidnappings conceived by Edgar– and two-time Ned Kelly Award–winning Irish crime novelist McKinty; and Alix E. Harrow’s The Ten Thousand Doors of January; at 10:00 a.m., Kheryn Callender’s Queen of the Conquered; at 11:00 a.m., mega-best-selling David Baldacci’s One Good Deed, introducing former World War II soldier Archer, just out of prison after a wrongful conviction and stepping into a job that could get him in trouble; and Whiting Award–winning Stephen Wright’s Processed Cheese, about a down-and-out couple who go on a wild romp involving cars, jewels, travel, and more after a bag of money drops down on them from the sky—but what about the money’s owner?

GIVEAWAYS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 5/30: At 12:00 p.m., Kira Jane Buxton’s Hollow Kingdom, a sharply written debut about a pet crow on a mission to save humanity in a virus-engulfed world; at 1:00 p.m., Jason Zook’s Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way for Finding Happiness in Work, Life, and Love, from a creative entrepreneur who has earned millions doing original things like having more than 1,600 companies pay him to wear their T-shirt; at 2:00 p.m., Ben Orlin’s Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World, the popular math blogger’s explanation of how calculus and everyday life do a little tango together; Leslie Jamison’s Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays, fresh thoughts from the author of New York Times best-selling The Empathy Exams on subjects from the little-known Sri Lankan war to 52 Blue, dubbed the world’s loneliest whale; and Alix E. Harrow’s The Ten Thousand Doors of January; at 3:00 p.m., Kherynn Callender’s Queen of the Conquered; and at 4:00 p.m., Natasha Lester’s The Paris Orphan, the tale of an American model–turned–war photographer who struggles to save the orphaned Victorine in occupied World War II France.

GIVEAWAYS, FRIDAY, 5/31: At 9:00 a.m., Susannah Cahalan’s The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness, and Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know, with the New York Times best-selling outlier expert investigating why we deal so badly with people we don’t know—from Chamberlain trusting Hitler to lots of people trusting Bernie Madoff; and Kherynn Callender’s Queen of the Conquered; at 10:00 a.m., Gemma Clarke’s Soccerwomen: The Icons, Rebels, Stars, and Trailblazers Who Transformed the Beautiful Game (finished book), from a British sports journalist based in America; at 11:00 a.m., Ben Orlin’s Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World and Stephen Wright’s Processed Cheese; at 12:00 p.m., Atticia Locke’s Heaven, My Home; and at 1:00 p.m., Kherynn Callender’s Queen of the Conquered.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, THURSDAY, 5/30: At 10:00 a.m., James Patterson and the publisher’s traditional Patterson booth takeover; at 11:00 a.m., Jenny Slate, Little Weirds; and at 3:00 p.m., Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, FRIDAY, 5/31: At 11:00 a.m., Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside, a memoir from the winner of the 2016 U.S. National Championships in figure skating, who became the first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a medal in a Winter Olympics.

1411 Blackstone Publishing Blackstone Audio has expanded to include a wide range of intriguing print books. Stop by the booth for the latest offerings, especially Edgar finalistCatherine Ryan Howard’s Rewind and Cadwell Turnbull’s The Lesson, a much buzzed-about SF debut.

1521 W. W. Norton GIVEAWAYS, WEDNESDAY, 5/29: Eric Foner’s The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, with the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian arguing that the three Reconstruction amendments linked equality to the Constitution, making for our “second founding”; and Landis Blair’s The Envious Siblings:

57 And Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes, eight cheerfully skin-creepy vignettes from the author of the prize-winning graphic novel The Hunting Accident.

GIVEAWAYS, THURSDAY, 5/30: Caitlin Doughty’s Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, with everyone’s favorite mortician (remember Smoke Gets in Your Eyes?) answering questions posed by young fans to reveal what happens when our bodies turn to dust…or whatever; Steven Pressfield’s36 Righteous Men, with two New York detectives learning that the Jewish legend of 36 righteous men justifying humankind’s existence is all too real, as those good guys are getting knocked off by a serial killer; Paul Freedman’s American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way, with the Yale historian showing how distinctive and delicious American specialties like Louisiana gumbo and New England clam chowder gave way to baloney like powered milk, processed cheese—and packaged baloney; Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s JGV: A Life in 12 Recipes, with the world-renowned chef-restaurateur, born into a coal-business family in France’s Alsace region, tracing his career recipe by beloved recipe; and Xaviera Plas-Plooij & others’ The Wonder Weeks: A Stress-Free Guide to Your Baby’s Behavior, the revision of a book that has sold two million copies worldwide and drew on an app claiming four million downloads.

GIVEAWAYS, FRIDAY, 5/31: Edward Berenson’s The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town, the NYU historian’s account of the only accusation of blood libel in America, involving the reputed kidnapping of a child by Jews for ritual murder in 1928; and Mira Ptacin’s The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna, a visit to a Maine camp founded in 1876 that has hosted generations of female spiritualists and mediums hoping to link to the beyond.

THAMES & HUDSON GIVEAWAYS: Mary Wilson’s Supreme Glamour: The Inside Story of the Original Pop Fashionistas (400 blads), the story of the Supremes, with the accent on their fabulous outfits, written with Mark Bego and with a foreword by Whoopi Goldberg; Quentin Blake & Will Self’s Moonlight Travellers (300 galleys), traveling through a dark and eerie nightscape with Hans Christian Andersen Award–winning illustrator Blake, complemented by text from edgy, award-winning novelist Self; Martin Gayford’s The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters, and Revelations (200 galleys), the distinguished Spectator art critic chatting with renowned artists; Nancy Princenthal’s Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s (200 galleys), from a PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld award winner, a look at how sexual violence against women soared during the supposedly liberation-stirred Seventies and how artists like Yoko Ono, Marina Abramovic, Nancy Spero, and Jenny Holzer reacted; and Desmond Morris’s Postures: Body Language in Art (150 galleys), with the elebrated Naked Ape anthropologist/artist explaining how understanding body language can help us understand art.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, WEDNESDAY, 5/29: At 1:00 p.m., Rion Amilcar Scott, The World Doesn’t Require You: Stories, a follow-up to his PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize–winning debut collection and again set in fictional Cross River, MD, founded by the leaders of a triumphant slave revolt.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, THURSDAY, 5/30: At 11:00 a.m., Mary Wilson, Supreme Glamour (blads), stop by in the name of love for Wilson’s fashion show; and at 3:00 p.m., Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, with a woman becoming a warrior as Mussolini threatens to invade Ethiopia, following the acclaimed Beneath the Lion’s Gaze.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, FRIDAY, 5/31: At 10:00 a.m., James Poniewozik, Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America, with the chief television critic of the New York Times looking at the history of media and particularly TV to understand where we are today politically.

1544, 1545 Macmillan GIVEAWAYS, WEDNESDAY, 5/29: At 2:00 p.m., Alex North’s The Whisper Man, a debut thriller whose protagonist seeks a new start after the death of his wife by moving with his son to a new town that, alas, once played host to a

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GIVEAWAYS, THURSDAY, 5/30: At 9:00 a.m., Therese Anne Fowler’s A Good Neighborhood, about class and race–differentiated next-door neighbors coming into conflict about a historic oak tree and the love affair blooming between the teenagers on either side of the property line; and at 11:00 a.m., Alexis Schaitkin’s Saint X, tense psychological drama about a young woman who encounters a man who was a suspect in the years- ago murder of her older sister on a Caribbean vacation.

GENRE-HOUR GIVEAWAYS, THURSDAY, 5/30: At 9:00 a.m., Book Club picks: Therese Anne Fowler’s A Good Neighborhood, Megan Phelps-Roper’s Unfollow: A Memoir, and Heather Webber’s Midnight at the Blackbird Café; at 12:00 p.m., SF/Fantasy picks: Kel Kade’s Fate of the Fallen, Liu Cixin’s Supernova Era, and Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth; and at 2:00 p.m., Mystery/Thriller picks: Alice Blanchard’s Trace of Evil, Megan Goldin’s The Escape Room, Liska Jacobs’s The Worst Kind of Want, Katie Lowe’s The Furies, Robert Pobi’s City of Windows, Spencer Quinn’s Heart of Barkness, and Danny Tobey’s God Game. All 20 galleys each.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29: At 3:00 p.m., Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House, with the New York Times best-selling YA author going adult by introducing a teen from Los Angeles’s druggie underworld who gets a mysterious invitation to attend Yale after surviving a multiple murder.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, THURSDAY, MAY 30: At 10:00 a.m., Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt, about a bookseller in Acapulco whose family must flee the city after her journalist husband writes a gut-punch exposé of the jefe of a new drug cartel decimating the city; at 11:30 a.m., Aarti Namdev Shahani, Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares, the award-winning NPR technology correspondent about her family’s troubles after immigrating to Queens and setting up their own business; at 1:30 p.m., Megin Goldin, The Escape Room, with four hyper-competitive Wall Streeters thrown into a team-building exercise requiring escape from a locked elevator—except it’s not what it seems; at 2:00 p.m., Ben Lerner, The Topeka School, the MacArthur fellow’s coming-of-age novel about the explosive consequences when a high school senior seeks to help an outsider; and at 2:30 p.m., Annalee Newitz’s The Future of Another Timeline, set in a contemporaneous world that boasts the possibility of time travel, which a small group of men is trying to coopt for the elite.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, FRIDAY, 5/31: At 9:30 a.m., Kel Kade’s Fate of the Fallen, the launch of a new fantasy-plus series by the New York Times best-selling author of the King’s Dark Tidings and starring Matthias, eager to hop to it when he learns he’s destined to save the world; at 11:00 a.m., Tochi Onyebuchi’s Riot Baby, the successful YA author’s adult sf debut, with superpower-gifted Ella helping her equally gifted brother when he is imprisoned for being black in America; and at 1:30 p.m., Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, an sf novel debut from a multi- award-nominated author of short fiction, featuring lesbian necromancers and an indentured young orphan named Gideon who could win her freedom serving as the swordswoman for the Ninth Necromancer.

1629 Sourcebooks GIVEAWAYS, WEDNESDAY, 5/29: At 12:00 p.m., Oonagh Duncan’s Healthy as F*ck: The Habits You Need To Get Lean, Stay Healthy, and Kick Ass at Life, all the tough-talking tips you’ll need to get together body and soul, from an award-winning trainer who serves a booming online fitness community; and at 1:00 p.m., Gina LaManna’s Pretty Guilty Women, an internationally buzzing title wherein four women each confess to acting alone in a man’s murder during a rehearsal dinner at a swanky resort.

GIVEAWAYS, THURSDAY, 5/30: At 9:00 a.m., Jeffrey Siger’s The Mykonos Mob, with Athens Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis wrestling with bigger forces than he’s ever encountered after the murder of a corrupt former police

10 colonel on that glorious, fun-for-all island, Mykonos; and Katarina Bivald’s Check in at the Pine Away Motel, from the author of the internationally best-selling The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, with motel manager Henny seeing the three people she loves the most reunited at her funeral and hovering about long enough to help them rediscover happiness.

GIVEAWAYS, FRIDAY, 5/31: At 9:00 a.m., Anne Gardiner Perkins’s Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant, from a Yale graduate and the first woman editor in chief of the Yale Daily News, why Yale fought to keep women out, why it then fought to get them in, and what the experience was like for the first women to attend; and Marie Benedict’s Lady Clementine, a spirited fictional account of Clementine Churchill, something the New York Times best-selling author of The Only Woman in the Room should do well; and at 10:30 a.m., David P. Wagner’s Roman Count Down, from a retired foreign service officer who spent nine years in Italy, with American Rick Montoya eager to launch a translation business in Rome but compelled by his police officer uncle to join an investigation of a count’s murder.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS: THURSDAY, 5/30: At 10:30 a.m., Billy Jensen, Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders, from an investigative journalist whose effective use of social media and other unexpected tools to solve cold-case murders has attracted police attention, making him the world’s first-ever digital consulting detective (move over, Sherlock!); at 1:00 p.m., Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America, recounting Austin’s experiences as a single African American woman trying to adopt a black baby boy in foster care and realizing that motherhood in America is viewed strictly in terms of whiteness; and 2:30 p.m., Kelli Estes, Today We Go Home, with Larkin Bennett back in the Pacific Northwest after a deadly attack on her convoy in Afghanistan and discovering the diary of a woman who disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union during the Civil War.

1838, 1839 Simon & Schuster GIVEAWAYS, LITERARY: Carol Anshaw’s Right After the Weather, with 40-plus Cate, who’s trying to settle down, discovering the violence within when she finds best friend Neale being assaulted by petty criminals;Andrew MacDonald’s When We Were Vikings, an award-winning Canadian writer of short fiction with a book pitched as “Mark Haddon meets Graeme Simsion” and starring an intrepid heroine who wants to become a real-life Viking; and Cara Wall’s The Dearly Beloved, a debut about two young couples whose lives intersect when the husbands are appointed co-ministers of a much-loved old New York City church in the 1960s.

GIVEAWAYS, LITERARY HISTORICAL: Petina Gappah’s Out of Darkness, with the award- winning Zimbabwean author envisioning loyal followers carrying the body of explorer/missionary Dr. David Livingstone 1,500 miles to the African coast for its final trip to England; Elizabeth Macneal’s The Doll Factory, a Caledonia Novel Award–winning debut about beautiful Iris, who agrees to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost if he gives her art lessons but unaware that a man she met at London’s Great Exhibition is stalking her; and Jon Clinch’s Marley, wherein Scrooge struggles to break free of the sinister Marley, a former schoolfellow with whom he’s built a shipping empire surreptitiously and venally based on the slave trade.

GIVEAWAYS, THRILLERS: Lisa Jewell’s The Family Upstairs, with 25-year-old Libby Jones astonished to learn that she has inherited a tumbledown townhouse located in a classy London neighborhood, to which two shadowy individuals also lay claim; Chris Hauty’s Deep State, with powerful figures in the government working in the shadows to subvert the rule of law—and maybe assassinate a politician or two; and Katrine Engberg’s The Scar Keeper, good scares and the first in a series featuring police sergeants Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner.

115 GIVEAWAYS, MORE FICTION: Christina Lauren’s Twice in a Blue Moon, more romance from the hugely best-selling Lauren, as rising actress Tate walks onto the set and encounters her first love, who betrayed her; T. Kingfisher’sThe Twisted Ones, with Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon in horror mode as Mouse discovers her step- grandfather’s journal and starts encountering the twisted things described in its pages; and Rivers Solomon & others’ The Deep, inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song from Daveed Diggs’s rap group, Clipping, and featuring an underwater universe inhabited by the water-breathing descendants of pregnant African women tossed overboard by slavers.

GIVEAWAYS, TO THE DOGS: Alexandra Horowitz’s Our Dogs, Ourselves, a study of how canines have changed the course of human development and continue to change our lives today, from the author of the No. 1 New York Times best-selling Inside of a Dog.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, THURSDAY, 5/30: At 10:00 a.m., Lisa Taddeo, Three Women, plumbing desire in America today with the true stories of homemaker/mother Lina, whose husband refuses even to kiss her; Maggie, shattered when her married high school teacher breaks off their affair; and successful restaurateur Sloane, whose husband enjoys watching her with sex partners her chooses; at 11:00 a.m., Jennifer Weiner, Mrs. Everything, ranging from the 1950s to the present as it follows two sisters pushing against the limits of their radically changing world; at 12:30 p.m., Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir, with the deservedly award-winning poet and popular Buzzfeed host blending prose and verse to limn being young, black, and gay from the South; at 1:30 p.m., Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew, using her magical touch to show triumph over horror as a rabbi’s daughter constructs a golem to save a girl named Lea from the Nazis; at 2:00 p.m., William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land, the Edgar Award winner in literary mode with a 1930s-set story of three friends at a school for Native Americans who escape trouble by rafting down the river; and at 3:00 p.m., Nelson DeMille & Alex DeMille, Deserter, about a Delta Force captain who has been captured by the Taliban—but did he desert first?

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, FRIDAY, 5/31: At 9:30 a.m., Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes, about the uneasy relations between the families of two NYPD policemen who start out as rookies in the same Bronx precinct in 1973; at 11:45 a.m., Philippa Gregory, Tidelands, which opens on Midsummer’s Eve in 1648 with Alinor helping a young man on the run find his way safely across the soul-hungry marshes of south-coast England; and 1:00 p.m., Thomas Wheeler & Frank Miller’s Cursed, a YA title with crossover potential whose authors are keynote speakers at ALA.

2046 HarperCollins GIVEAWAYS, WEDNESDAY, 5/29, AT 12:00 P.M.: Kassandra Montag’s After the Flood, a London Book Fair hit, with a futuristic America now just a string of mountaintop islands after massive flooding, as Myra dodges pirates and sets out to find her older daughter in the cold northern seas; Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House, the beloved best-selling author’s story of icily smart Maeve and the brother she protects, pulling ever closer when they are exiled from the family home by their stepmother; Isha Sesay’s Beneath the Tamarind Tree, from award-winning former CNN anchor Sesay, an account of the Boko Haram kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria and the eventual rescue 21 girls, whom she accompanied; and Tilman Fertitta’s Shut Up and Listen! Hard Business Truths That Will Help You Succeed, entrepreneurial tips from small business owner–turned–multibillionaire Fertitta, head of a hospitality empire.

GIVEAWAYS, WEDNESDAY, 5/29, AT 1:30 P.M.: Jo Boaler’s Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers, a mathematician and Stanford education professor who presents evidence that our capabilities aren’t limited by genetics or locked in by age; Soren Sveistrup’s The Chestnut Man, an acclaimed producer/ scriptwriter taking the book plunge with the story of a psychopath terrorizing Copenhagen, who always leaves

12 behind a doll made of matchsticks and chestnuts; Clyde W. Ford’s Think Black: A Memoir of Sacrifice, Success, and Self-Loathing in Corporate America, about both the author’s father, who battled institutional racism and the prejudice of colleagues as IBM’s first black software engineer, and his own experiences at IBM decades later; and Kindra Hall’s Stories That Stick: How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Your Business, with award-winning professional storyteller Hall isolating four unique stories that business folks already have on hand to win over new customers.

GIVEAWAYS, WEDNESDAY, 5/29, AT 4:00 P.M.: Meg Waite Clayton’s The Last Train to London, with playwriting Jewish teenager Stephan and whip-smart Christian girl Žofie-Helene of Vienna among the many endangered children smuggled out of continental Europe by Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance; Gilly Macmillan’s The Nanny, with the title character’s abrupt disappearance unsettling young Hannah and perhaps related to the human remains found years later on the family estate; and Jeffrey Colvin’s Africaville, a heady debut spanning three generations of the Sebolt family, who live in a Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves and deal with issues of racism, identity, cross-racial relationships, and home.

GIVEAWAYS, THURSDAY, 5/30, AT 10:00 A.M.: Daniel Nieh’s Beijing Payback, a debut thriller whose protagonist learns that his recently deceased father had defied the globe-stretching Chinese crime syndicate with which he was once associated; Steph Cha’s Your House Will Pay, the mystery writer’s crossover title about two families, one African American and one Korean, in a Los Angeles ready to boil over following yet another racially motivated shooting; Jesse Ball’s The Divers’ Game, the National Book Award finalist’s story of a wildly unequal world divided into the pats, who may kill quads without remorse or retribution, and the quads, who are just trying to survive; and Chanelle Benz’s The Gone Dead, whose heroine returns to her family’s Mississippi Delta shack and learns disquietingly that she went missing as a little girl the day her father died.

GIVEAWAYS, THURSDAY, 5/30, AT 2:30 P.M.: Cassandra King Conroy’s Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy, a memoir of the author’s marriage to a Southern literature great; Karin Slaughter’s The Last Widow, with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Will Trent and Sara Linton, the bureau’s newish medical examiner and Will’s lover, battling an evil group intent on launching a deadly epidemic; and Kate Quinn & others’ Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution’s Women, with contributions from Quinn, Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, Heather Webb, Sophie Perinot, and E. Knight.

GIVEAWAYS, THURSDAY, 5/30, AT 3:30 P.M.: Tara Swart’s The Source: The Secrets of the Universe, the Science of the Brain, with neuroscientist, and MIT senior lecturer Swart giving scientific validation to the Law of Attraction, i.e., the idea that we can attract whatever we want, thus reshaping our lives as we reshape our minds; Rene Denfeld’s The Butterfly Girl, a follow-up to The Child Finder, with protagonist Naomi getting involved in a hunt for missing Oregon girls, though she’s sworn to focus on finding her long-gone sister;Robyn Cadwallader’s Book of Colours, historical fiction about three people working together in 1321 London to create an illuminated manuscript of prayers for a wealthy noblewoman; Joshilyn Jackson’s Never Have I Ever, with prototypical wife, mother, and cookie baker Amy Whey realizing that new book-club member Angelica Roux knows her darkest secret and wants payback; and Laura Lippman’s Lady in the Lake, a stand-alone from the multi- award winner about a trapped Sixties housewife who escapes to become a journalist, eventually investigating the death of an African American woman whose ghost pushes her onward.

GIVEAWAYS, FRIDAY, 5/31, AT 10:00 A.M.: Jessica Wragg’s Girl on the Block: A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter, a memoir from the butcher and Online Operations Manager at London’s famed The Ginger Pig, who also has an MA in creative writing; Ji-min Lee’s The Starlet and the Spy, about a young Korean woman working for the U.S. forces postwar who ends up as the translator for a visiting Marilyn Monroe; Veronica Rueckert’s Outspoken: Why Women’s Voices Get Silenced and How To Set Them Free, advice on speaking out at work and at home, from the Peabody Award–winning former host at Wisconsin Public Radio; Valerie Valdes’s Chilling Effect, with Capt. Eva Innocente cruising through space with the crew of La Sirena Negra, delivering modest goods for barely there prices, when her sister is kidnapped; and John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker’s The Killer Across the

135 Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI’s Original Mindhunter, with the No. 1 New York Times best-selling Douglas demonstrating his unique skills as a criminal profiler as he chronicles four of the nastiest criminals he has encountered.

GIVEAWAYS, FRIDAY, 5/31, AT 11:00 A.M.: David Koepp’s Cold Storage, the famed screenwriter/director’s debut, featuring bioterror operative Roberto Diaz’s efforts to corral a truly life-threatening organism that has escaped from cold storage far beneath the earth’s surface.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, WEDNESDAY, 5/29: At 12:30 p.m., Marissa Orr, Lean Out: The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace, with a woman who has worked at both Google and Facebook arguing that current efforts to close the corporate gender gap has actually hurt women and that what’s really needed is a redefinition of the successful leader; and at 2:30 p.m., Heddi Goodrich, Lost in the Spanish Quarter, literary meta-fiction featuring a heroine who recalls her student life in Naples, from an American-born, Naples-raised author now living in New Zealand who translated her own book from the Italian. Also a launch party for HarperCollins’s HarperVia imprint, which will focus on international fiction.

In-booth signings, Thursday, 5/30: At 11:00 a.m., Kevin Wilson, Nothing To See Here, from the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author, with Lillian agreeing to nanny former roommate Madison’s two stepchildren, who have an unfortunate tendency to burst into flame when upset; at 12:15 p.m., Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa, a Book Expo 2019 Buzz Book and debut novel with a jaw-dropping first printing whose title character must decide whether she was victim or willing participant in her affair as a teenager with her English teacher; and 1:30 p.m., John R. Brandt, Nincompoopery: Why Your Customers Hate You—And How To Fix It, with the CEO and founder of the MPI Group offering correctives to bad customer service and worse business practices.

2046 Harlequin GIVEAWAYS, WEDNESDAY, 5/29, AT 1:00 P.M.: Tarryn Fisher’s The Wives, a thriller about a woman gracefully accepting of the fact that her husband has two other wives she doesn’t know but shocked when she finally meets one of them, who is clearly being abused; Megan Angelo’s Followers, a speculative fiction debut from former Glamour contributing editor Megan Angelo, set in a world where celebrities live their entire lives on camera; Noelle Salazar’s The Flight Girls, women’s/historical fiction in which Audrey Coltrane signs up to train pilots in Hawaii, then joins the Women Airforce Service Pilots when World War II breaks out; and E.R. Ramzipoor’s The Ventriloquists, debut fiction about World War II resistance fighters in Belgium risking all to crank out a newspaper (Le Faux Soir) satirizing the Reich.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, THURSDAY, 5/30: At 11:00 a.m., Julia London, The Princess Plan, a Victorian-era romance that has Prince Sebastian of Alucia in London, playing detective when his secretary is murdered and fascinated with Eliza Tricklebank, whose gossip gazette has received an anonymous tip about the crime; at 1:00 p.m., Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls, and E.R. Ramzipoor, The Ventriloquists; at 2:00 p.m., Karine Jean-Pierre, Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America, a memoir cum handbook about explaining how the chief public affairs officer for MoveOn.org got involved in politics; and at 3:00 p.m., Tarryn Fisher, The Wives, and Megan Angelo, Followers.

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, FRIDAY, 5/31: At 9:30 a.m., Tarryn Fisher, The Wives, and Megan Angelo, Followers; at 10:30 a.m., Julia London, The Princess Plan; and at 12:00 p.m., Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls, and E.R. Ramzipoor, The Ventriloquists.