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Spotlight on Book Club Picks SPOTLIGHT ON BOOK CLUB PICKS Saturday, January 26 • 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm WSCC-Exhibit Floor Visit these participating publishers to find new titles perfect for your book club, and for information about ALA’s Book Club Central (www. bookclubcentral.org), a place for engaging content and information for book clubs designed in consultation with expert librarians. Sponsored by Book Club Central, United for Libraries, At the exhibits entrance, pick up a Book Club Central bag featuring Booklist, and ALA Conference Services resources, book selections, and more from participating publishers. Penguin Random House and advance copies. Pick up free Book Club Central bookmarks, rib- bons, and buttons. Booth 700 HarperCollins Publishers Booth 1101 Stop by to enter to win one of 10 “Book Club in a Bag” totes filled with a free copy of Becoming by Michelle Obama and an Out of Print library collection scarf. Galley sign- HarperCollins will be giving away galleys of The Quintland Sisters by ings at 2:00 pm with Karen Russell (Orange Shelley Wood, My Coney Island Baby by Billy O'Callaghan, Resistance World and Other Stories, Knopf), Lauren Women by Jennifer Chiaverini, Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok, Kate (The Orphan's Song, Putnam), and Lydia Fitzpatrick (Lights All and The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz. Night Long, Penguin Press); at 3:00 pm with Martha Hall Kelly (Lost Roses, Ballantine Books), Steven Rowley (The Editor, Putnam), and Jayson Greene (Once More We Saw Stars, Knopf); at 4:00 pm with Harlequin Blake Crouch (Recursion, Crown) and Chuck Wendig (Wanderers, Del Booth 1112 Rey). Grab copies of the newest Book Club Brochure. Stop by the booth to meet Annie Ward, who will be signing copies of Beautiful Bad begin- Books on Tape ning at 2:00 pm. Booth 701 Help patrons get ready for book club with audio- W.W. Norton & Company books! Bestselling author (and audiobook fan!) Booth 2205 Debbie Macomber will sign FREE CD editions of Cottage by the Sea from 2:00–2:45 pm in the BOT Giveaways of Greek to Me: Adventures of the booth for the first 100 attendees. Plus, find more Comma Queen by Mary Norris, The Wall: A listening suggestions to enhance book clubs at Novel by John Lanchester, Patsy: A Novel by your library. Nicole Dennis-Benn, More News Tomorrow: A Novel by Susan Richards Shreve, and Mostly Dead Things: A Novel by Kristen Arnett. Macmillan Booth 810 GiveawaysGiveaways of Writing,Writing, Written by StephenStephen DixonDixon (Fantagraphics(Fantagraphics Books)Books) and IsIs ThisThis How You See Me? byby JaimeJaime HernandezHernandez (Fantagraphics(Fantagraphics ARC giveaways of The Guest Book by Sarah Books).Books) Blake, Daughter Of Moloka'i by Alan Brennert, Cape May by Chip Cheek, The Girl He Used To Know by Tracey Garvis Graves, Montauk Book Club Central/United for Libraries by Nicola Harrison, Light From Other Stars Booth 2307 by Erika Swyler, The Time Collector by Gwendolyn Womack, and The Girls At 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib. Enter for a chance to win a special edition Sarah Jessica Parker tote bag Book giveaways of Daughter Of A Daughter Of A Queen by Sarah Bird, filled with all of SJP’s picks for Book Club Central. Pick up free Book Club This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel, The Great Alone by Kristin Central bookmarks, ribbons, and buttons. Hannah, The Other Woman by Sandie Jones, and Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang. Ingram: Cairo – Hoopoe Press Booth 2312 Booklist Publications Giveaways of In the Spider's Room by Muhammad Abdelnabi and Sarab Booth 815 by Raja Alem. Join Booklist for resources for your book club from ALA’s Book Club Central (www.bookclubcentral.org), and enter to win a basket of books 2019 ALA MIDWINTER MEETING & EXHIBITS | ALAMIDWINTER.ORG | #ALAMW19 Ingram: Hallmark Publishing House of Anansi Booth 2312 Booth 2407 Giveaways of Sunrise Cabin by Staceyy Donovanan and ThThe Christmas Giveaways of That Tiny Life by Erin Frances Fisher and Son of Two Company by Alys Murray. Fathers by Jacqueline Park. GraphicArtsBooks Counterpoint Press/Catapult Booth 2316B Booth 2409A Giveaways of A Normal Life by Kim Rich, Tomboy Bride by Harriet Giveaways of Speaking of Summer by Kalisha Backus, pH: a Novel by Nancy Lord, Jimmy Bluefeather by Kim Heacox, Buckhanon, A Job You Mostly Won't Know and Saving Miss Oliver's by Stephen Davenport. How To Do by Pete Fromm, Prince of Monkeys by Nnamdi Ehirim, To Keep the Sun Alive by Rabeah Ghaffari, Rough Magic: Riding Simon & Schuster the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Booth 2325 Prior-Palmer, and The Summer Demands by Visit the booth from 2:00–3:00 pm to pick up Deborah Shapiro. an ARC of Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner. Meet librarian Nancy Pearl from 3:00–4:00 Hachette Book Group pm and receive a signed copy of her novel George & Lizzie. Giveaways include recom- Booth 2504 mended titles, bookmarks, and other book Hachette’s great galley giveaways for group club resources. reads from Grand Central Publishing and Orbit imprints: A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum, A Boy and His Dog at the End of Grove the World by C. A. Fletcher, Roar by Cecilia Booth 2404A Ahern, and The Witch’s Kind by Louisa Giveaways of Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi, Happiness Morgan—author signing at 2:00 pm. by Aminatta Forna, The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, and The Parisian by Isabella Hammad. Workman Booth 2525 TouchWood Editions Giveaways will include gal- Booth 2404B leys of Spies of No Country Giveaways of A Deceptive Devotion by Iona Whishaw. by Matti Friedman, A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian, and Courting Mr. Lincoln by Louis Bayard. to Book Club Central partners Libraries Transform,Thank youBooklist, United for Libraries, Penguin Random House, OverDrive, and Sisters in Crime. Check out all of Sarah Jessica Parker’s picks for Book Club Central so far—including excerpts, reader’s guides, discussion questions, and more, at www.bookclubcentral.org/sjp-picks. www.bookclubcentral.org 2019 ALA MIDWINTER MEETING & EXHIBITS | ALAMIDWINTER.ORG | #ALAMW19.
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