Galley Signing Guide

LIBRARYJOURNAL PrepubAlert 2014 ALA LAS VEGAS Galley & Signing Guide BY BARBARA HOFFERT

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302–303 Simon & Schuster Fiction essentials: Garth Stein’s A Sudden Light  with the author of the phenomenal The Art of Racing in the Rain working his usual magic for a teenage boy in the Paciﬁ c Northwest; Lalita Tademy’s Citizen’s Creek, an eye-opener from the Oprah Pick author about a slave whose gift as a translator during the American Indian Wars helps him buy his freedom; and Colm Tóibín’s Nora Webster  , the IMPAC award winner’s portrait of a widow reclaiming her life.

1 Fiction tears and laughter: Matthew Thomas’s We Are Not Ourselves , a big fall debut (and BookExpo America Buzz Book) featuring an Irish American couple in the mid-20th-century coping with the husband’s worsening illness; Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove , an international best seller from Sweden about a curmudgeon whose life is upended by the new family next door; Randy Susan Meyers’s Accidents of Marriage , about a marital clash of temperaments that results in a serious accident; Colleen Oakley’s Before I Go , a debut heartbreaker featuring a dying wife’s determined search for her replacement; Emma Hooper’s Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a charming literary debut wherein 82-year-old Etta leaves husband Otto to trek 3,232 kilometers across Canada to the see the sea (Russell is a devoted friend, and James is a coyote); Santa Montefi ore’s Secrets of the Lighthouse , whose heroine abandons stuffy London for Ireland’s Connemara coast, where she fi nds a haunted lighthouse; Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera’s The Awakening of Miss Prim  (fi nished books), an international best seller about what educated young Prudencia Prim learns working as a librarian in an isolated French village; and mystery-writer-changing-direction Peggy Webb’s The Language of Silence , whose heroine is inspired by her tiger-taming grandmother to abandon her heavy-fi sted husband for the circus. Fiction chills: Brad Thor’s Act of War , with covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath on not one but two missions to save America; Tawni O’Dell’s One of Us , featuring a forensic psychologist shocked when he returns to his blue-collar mining-town roots; Benjamin Whitmer’s Cry Father , the story of a bereaved father who must also counter a violent friend (comparisons to Cormac McCarthy seem apt); Faceoff (fi nished books), a big thriller anthology edited by David Baldacci; David Cronenberg’s Consumed, the famed fi lmmaker’s debut with a truly creepy-sounding horror story (surprised?); Douglas Brunt’s The Means , a political thriller from the New York Times best-selling author; Dwayne Alexander Smith’s Forty Acres , an ambitious debut thriller about a young black lawyer who discovers a conspiracy to reintroduce slavery, with black men as the masters; Caroline Kepnes’s You , about two lovers whose obsession will soon get the better of them; and Glenn Meade’s The Last Witness , sobering news-that-stays-news about a woman tracking down the killers who left her, as a child, “the last witness” of atrocities at a Bosnian prison camp. Historical fi ction: Donald McCaig’s Ruth’s Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind , the retelling of a classic by an old hand at Southern fi ction; Tosca Lee’s The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen , the retelling of a biblical story by an author who always delivers heart-pumping Christian fi ction; Elizabeth Fremantle’s Sisters of Treason , a tale of the two sisters of Lady Jane Grey, from the author of the triumphant debut Queen’s Gambit; and Lois Leveen’s Juliet’s Nurse , a servant’s-eye view of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Great nonfi ction: Brando Skyhorse’s Take This Man: A Memoir, the PEN/Hemingway Award winner’s memoir about coming of age with a mother who systematically reinvented his childhood; S.C. Gwynne’s Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson , highlighting Jackson’s accomplishments during the Civil War; Baptist de Pape’s The Power of the Heart: Finding Your True Purpose in Life , packed with spiritual self-help; Kate Mayfi eld’s The Undertaker’s Daughter , a real-life Six Feet Under from the daughter of a small-town undertaker; Carter Paysinger & Steven Fenton’s Where a Man Stands: Two Different Worlds, an Impossible Situation, and the Unexpected Friendship That Changed Everything , Paysinger’s memoir of being a disadvantaged kid who became an inspiring teacher and coach—and then the fi rst black principal (not without upheaval) of rich, progressive Beverly Hills High School; and Harold Holzer’s Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion , from the chair of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. In-booth signings: On Saturday, 6/28, at 12:00 p.m., Dorothy Hearst, Secrets of the Wolves and Spirit of the Wolves, wrapping up her trilogy on Kaala, the wolf responsible for keeping peace between her kind and humankind; and at 3:00 p.m., Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, much picked as a Best Book last year and soon to be in paperback. Buzzzz: Don’t miss the Simon & Schuster Book Buzz at the Book Buzz Theater, Monday, 6/30, at 9:30–10:00 a.m.

2 3 322 Grove Atlantic Seven ﬁ ction gems: Lily King’s Euphoria (100 books), sexual and intellectual tensions among three anthropologists in the Territory of New Guinea in the 1930s, recently reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review; Malcolm Brooks’s Painted Horses  (200 galleys), a gorgeous, Montana-set debut of the changing West, circa 1950, that’s both an Indie Next and a Discover Great New Writers pick; Audrey Magee’s The Undertaking  (50 galleys), a debut about World War II told, remarkably, from the German perspective and shortlisted for the Baileys Woman’s Prize for Fiction(formerly the Orange Prize); Paula Daly’s Keep Your Friends Close  (100 galleys), which hits home as effectively as her smash debut, Just What Kind of Mother Are You?; Patrick Hoffman’s TheThhe WhiteWhite VVaVann  (75 galleys), a San Francisco–set crime debut featuring unsettlingly cross-the-line characters and already attracting a following; Deon Meyer’s Cobra  (150 galleys), putting you on the edge of your seat in South Africa; and Conjunctions founding editor Bradford Morrow’s The Forgers  (75 galleys), appealing to the cognoscenti with a rare-books backdrop. History at its best: Elizabeth Mitchell’s Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure To Build the Statue of Liberty  (100 galleys), history you probably don’t know regarding an ambitious French sculptor’s bid (helped by fund-raising smarts) to create a distinctive monument; and Brian Moynahan’s Leningrad: Siege and Symphony; The Story of the Great City Terrorized by Stalin, Starved by Hitler, Immortalized by Shostakovich (75 galleys), an acute and absorbingly told study of horriﬁ c history through culture.

334 Perseus Books Group Fiction giveaways: Ben Mezrich’s Seven Wonders , from the author of New York Times best-selling nonﬁ ction, a thriller about hunting for a secret linking the Seven Wonders of the World (200 galleys); and Cecilia Ekbäck’s gothic debut, Wolf Winter (100 galleys), set in the remote reaches of 1717 Swedish Lapland, where a newly arrived family confronts dark secrets and suspicious death (100 galleys). Top nonﬁ ction giveaways: Chris Taylor’s How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise and National Review senior editor Richard Brookhiser’s Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln were the publisher’s biggest hits at BookExpo America. With only about 20 to 50 galleys apiece for distribution, better run fast. Also look for Irvin Yalom’s Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy (35 galleys), the much- anticipated follow-up to 1989’s Love’s Executioner; and Jonathan Beckman’s intriguing true-crime How To Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair  (75 galleys). The contemporary scene: British-Iranian journalist Ramita Navai’s City of Lies: Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran  (60 galleys), featuring some unexpected characters, like the religious militiaman who undergoes a sex change; Peter Pomerantsev’s Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (60 galleys), an on-the-street look from a contributor to Newsweek and the London Review of Books; G. Eric Kuskey with Bettina Gilois’s Billion Dollar Painter: The Triumph and Tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light (100 galleys), the story of Kinkade’s roller-coaster gallery and licensing business; Lisa Lovatt-Smith’s Who Knows Tomorrow: A Memoir of Finding Family Among the Lost Children of Africa (100 samplers), from a children’s advocate in rural Ghana who once served as international editor of Vogue; and Paige McKenzie’s The Haunting of Sunshine Girl (100 samplers), behind the scenes at the hot-hot YouTube web series, especially for the younger crowd.

4 Last-chance nonﬁ ction: The following are in short supply. Cornell historian Edward E. Baptist’s The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism ; MacArthur Fellow Ruth DeFries’s The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis ; Justin Martin’s Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians ; Roberto Trotta’s The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There- Is, from a theoretical cosmologist in the astrophysics group of Imperial College London; Fraenkel Prize winner Alexander Watson’s Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I ; Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson’s To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party; Harlow Giles Unger’s John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation , from a big biographer of the Founding Fathers; George Benson with Alan Goldsher’s Benson: The Autobiography , from a jazz-plus musician/songwriter with ten Grammys; and Adam Tanner’s What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data—Lifeblood of Big Business—and the End of Privacy as We Know It, which won’t stay in Vegas if you grab one of the ten available copies. In-booth signing: On Saturday, June 28, at 11:30 a.m., Ben Mezrich, Seven Wonders. On Sunday, June 29, at 12:00 p.m., Liz Climo, The Little World of Liz Climo. On Monday, June 30, at 10:00 a.m., Oscar Goodman, Being Oscar: From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas, introduced at United for Libraries’ “First Author, First Book” panel, Sunday, 6/29, at 8:30 a.m., N220. For fun: Liz Climo T-shirts, celebrating the author, illustrator, and Simpsons storyboard revisionist, who will introduce The Little World of Liz Climo at United for Libraries’ “Quirky Books for Quirky Librarians” panel, Saturday, 6/28, at 3:00 p.m., N252; plus, Dirty Library tote bags (for Mary Dauterman & Peter Antosh’s Dirty Library: Twisted Children’s Classics and Folked-Up Fairy Tales), Lessons in Balance posters (for Scout’s Lessons in Balance: A Dog’s Reﬂ ections on Life, from the Tumblr blog Stuff on Scout’s Head, featuring the nimble pit bull); and Culinary Birds stickers (for John Ash’s Culinary Birds).

343 Consortium Giveaways: On Saturday 6/28, at 9:00 a.m., Kerry Howly’s Thrown (galley, Sarabande Books), one young woman’s take on male cage fi ghting and a big hit at BookExpo America; and at 11:00 a.m., Robert Weiss & Jennifer P. Schneider’s Closer Together, Further Apart: The Effect of Technology and the Internet on Parenting, Work, and Relationships (fi nished book, Gentle Path Press). In-booth signings: On Saturday 6/28, at 10:00 a.m., Laurie Gardner, The Road to Shine: A Story of Adventure, Life Lessons, and My Quest for More (Central Recovery Press); at 1:00 p.m., clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Jennifer Kunst, Wisdom from the Couch: Knowing and Growing Yourself from the Inside Out (Central Recovery Press); at 1:30 p.m., Benjamin Parzybok, Sherwood Nation (galley, Small Beer Press), fresh fi ction about an apocalyptic drought, introduced at United for Libraries’ “Quirky Books for Quirky Librarians” panel, Saturday, 6/28, at 3:00 p.m., N252; and at 2:00 p.m., Hilary Sloin, Art on Fire (Bywater Books), a genre-bending putative biography/critique of a subversive painter that won the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award. More in-booth signings: On Sunday, June 29, at 10:00 a.m., Greg McBride, Weightless: My Life as a Fat Man and How I Escaped (Central Recovery Press). On Sunday, June 29, at 12:30, Ana Castillo, Give It to Me (The Feminist Press at CUNY), fi ction about a Latina’s struggle to get it right in life and love, introduced at United for Libraries’ “Hot Picks for Book Clubs,” on Sunday, 6/29, at 10:30 a.m., N236; at 1:00 p.m., Gregory Pergament, Chi Kung in Recovery: Finding Your Way to a Balanced and Centered Recovery (Central Recovery Press); at 3:00 p.m., Suzanne Greenberg, Lesson Plans (Prospect Park Books), a novel about homeschooling that was an LJ Editors’ Spring Pick; and at 4:00 p.m., Jesse Moynihan, Forming II (Nobrow Press), continuing Moynihan’s tongue-in- cheek graphic novel trilogy on civilization and its discontents. On Monday, 6/30, at 10:00 a.m., Dan Mager, Some Assembly Required: A Balanced Approach to Recovery from Addiction and Chronic Pain (Central Recovery Press).

5 363 Harlequin You’ll be able to pick up a range of galleys and books at this booth, but the publisher is focusing on giveaways at the author signings, with 50 to 75 galleys available except as indicated. Some good YA crossover included here. In-booth signings: On Saturday, 6/28, at 9:30 a.m., Jason Mott, The Wonder of All Things , about a girl’s gift of healing, from the author who started out big with The Returned; at 11:00 a.m., Jeaniene Frost, The Beautiful Ashes , ﬁ rst in a new paranormal series, “A Broken Destiny,” with not-yet lovers who are really star-crossed and introduced at United for Libraries’ “Isn’t It Romantic?” panel, Saturday, 6/28, at 8:30 a.m., N263; at 1:00 p.m., Julie Kagawa, Talon, launching the “Talon Saga,” her new YA series; and at 2:00 p.m., and Robin Talley, Lies We Tell Ourselves , YA ﬁ ction about girls on opposite sides of the civil rights struggle in 1959 Virginia. More in-booth signings: On Sunday, 6/29, at 9:30 a.m., Robyn Carr, Four Friends  (50 books), a tale of multiple divorces (and what next?) from the RITA Award–winning author; at 11:00 a.m., Michelle Madow, Diamonds in the Rough, second in the “Secret Diamond Sisters” series, and Adi Alsaid, Let’s Get Lost , a YA charmer about four teenagers linked by Leila and her cherry-bright car and introduced at United for Libraries’ “First Author, First Book” panel, Sunday, 6/29, at 8:30 a.m., N220 (long signing lines for Alsaid at BookExpo America); and at 3:00 p.m., Mary Kubica, The Good Girl , debut romantic suspense featuring spirited Mia and her renegade kidnapper. On Monday, 6/30, at 9:30 a.m., Heather Gudenkauf, Little Mercies , about a troubled social worker and the needy child who comes her way.

414 Workman Giveaways: The publisher will be handing out nearly 250 fi nished copies of Gabrielle Zevin’s enticing spring hit, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, during the opening festivities. Otherwise, there’s no giveaway schedule. Top-pick giveaways: Michele Raffi n’s The Birds of Pandemonium: Life Among the Exotic and Endangered  (176 galleys), about the efforts of Pandemonium Aviaries to save our fi ne feathered friends and already attracting a fl ock of readers; Lin Enger’s The High Divide  (224 galleys), raising tough moral questions, individually and collectively, with the story of a man’s disappearance into the late 1800s Montana Badlands; Brock Clarke’s The Happiest People in the World  (160 galleys), political satire that uses the thriller format to parse issues of individual freedoms (not surprising from the author of An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England); and Bill Roorbach’s Remedy for Love  (300 galleys), unexpected romantic suspense from the author of Life Among Giants, set during a raging Maine blizzard. Check out this promising new fi ction: Tim Johnston’s Descent  (200 galleys), Rocky Mountain–set suspense about a daughter’s disappearance, from an award-winning short story writer; and Gregory Sherl’s The Future for Curious People  (192 galleys), futurist romance both offbeat and probing, from an award-winning poet. More good nonfi ction: Bill Alexander’s Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart  (96 galleys), about trying to get that French joie de vivre while stumbling over the conjugations; Mark Bailey & Edward Hemingway’s Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling Through Hollywood History  (96 galleys), which mixes famed fi lm stars and liquor, then shakes well for a frothy tale with recipes included; Sean Brock’s Heritage  (ten galleys), the fi rst cookbook from a James Beard Award–winning chef who’s saving the Southern culinary tradition by reimagining it (Crispy Pig Ear Lettuce Wraps, anyone?); and Francis Mallman’s Mallman’s Fire (ten galleys), live-fi re cooking anywhere, anytime, from the star of food television in the Spanish-speaking world. Ooh, hot!

6 No books but a big push: There are no giveaways, except for fun promotion items, but the drums will be beating for Mimi Sheraton’s 1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die: A Food Lover’s Life List (from black trufﬂ es to frozen Milky Ways); Heidi Murkoff with Sharon Mazel’s What To Expect: The First Year, blazing away in its third edition; Dan Kainen & Carol Kaufmann’s Oceans: A Photicular Book, using Kainen’s Photicular technology to make sea horses and sand tiger sharks really move; and Rufus Butler Seder’s Peanuts: A Scanimation Book, next in the 5.7 million-copy-strong Scanimation series.

423 Hachette Literary glitter: David Bezmozgis’s The Betrayers  (150 galleys), a second novel after the perfectly rendered The Free World, about a former Soviet Jewish dissident who’s betrayed and been betrayed; Laird Hunt’s Neverhome  (100 galleys), the Anisfi eld-Wolf Book Award winner and two-time PEN fi nalist fulfi lling his promise with an in-demand Civil War historical, a BookExpo America Buzz Book; and the ever-edgy Frederick Barthelme’s There Must Be Some Mistake  (50 galleys), tapping into the zeitgeist with the story of divorced, fi ftyish, unwillingly retired Wallace Webster, pondering his life in a Texas condo where accidents are escalating. Top pop fi ction: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child’s The Lost Island: A Gideon Crew Novel (150 galleys), which sends Crew after a page from the Book of Kells that hides an intriguing secret; James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge’s Burn  (50 galleys), which returns Det. Michael Bennett to New York; Danish crime queen Sara Blaedel’s The Forgotten Girls  (50 galleys), which opens with a dead woman who might be one of the long- ago “forgotten girls” at a mental hospital; Lauren Beukes’s Broken Monsters  (50 galleys), a fantasy-thriller meld following The Shining Girls, with Detroit detective Gabriella Versado unsettled by the discovery of a body that is half-boy and half-deer; Elin Hilderbrand’s Winter Street  (50 galleys), which celebrates Christmas on Nantucket; Charles Martin’s A Life Intercepted  (100 galleys), the New York Times best-selling author’s story of a man falsely accused of crime who goes all out to win back his wife; sf giant Greg Bear’s War Dogs  (50 galleys), which launches a new military space adventure; and Melissa de la Cruz’s Vampires of Manhattan: The New Blue Bloods Coven  (100 galleys), with the sort of ineffably cool immortals that grace the hit TV series Witches of East End, based on the author’s novels. Fiction chills: Angus Watson’s Age of Iron (150 galleys), fi rst in a historical fantasy series pitting cutthroat druids against equally cutthroat Iron Age warriors; Claire North’s Touch (150 galleys), whose protagonist seeks to avenge the killing of one of the bodies to which he’s been able to roam (North’s hit debut, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, has been optioned for fi lm); Peter May’s The Blackhouse and The Lewis Man (100 books), a boxed set of the fi rst two novels in May’s Scotland-bleak, award-winning Lewis trilogy; Asa Larsson’s The Second Deadly Sin (125 galleys), fi fth in the Rebecka Martinsson thriller series (there’s a rampaging bear); Harriet Lane’s Her  (100 galleys), taut psychological suspense from the author of Alys, Always; Thomas O’Malley & Douglas Graham Purdy’s Serpents in the Cold (25 galleys), featuring two buddies chasing a serial killer in 1950s Boston; and Scott Blackwood’s See How Small  (25 galleys), a nerve-jangling tale about three murdered girls watching over the their Texas town. More hot genre fi ction: Courtney Cole’s If You Leave (50 galleys), a dark and forthright second entry in the New Adult “Beautifully Broken” series, launched with a self-published best seller; Drusilla Campbell’s In Doubt  (50 galleys), an issue-driven trade paperback original about a California shooting and one woman’s effort to help the accused; Breena Clarke’s Angels Make Their Hope Here  (50 galleys), historical fi ction from an Oprah Pick author about an escaped slave attempting to fi nd peace in an integrated New Jersey town; Elena Mauli Shapiro’s In the Red (25 galleys), upmarket erotic fi ction about a Romanian American college student’s affair with an older man; and Philip Gulley’s A Place Called Hope  (75 galleys), a new series starring Sam Gardner, the pastor at the center of the popular “Harmony” series.

7 Promising upcomers in fi ction: Lucy Atkins’s The Missing One (150 galleys), a debut whose heroine pursues the truth about her distant mother after her death; Hannah Pittard’s Reunion  (50 galleys),a second novel that brings together a deceased man’s fi ve ex-wives and children for the pretense of mourning; Greg Baxter’s Munich Airport  (50 galleys), a second novel, after the haunting The Apartment, about a man contemplating his sister’s mysterious death while stuck with the coffi n at a fog-bound airport; Flannery O’Connor Award winner Jessica Treadway’s Lacy Eye , about a couple’s savage beating (leading to the father’s death), reputedly by their daughter’s boyfriend; Shelly King’s The Moment of Everything  (50 galleys), a Frankfurt Book Fair hit starring a laid-off techie who fi nds herself by joining a Bay Area book club; and Daniela Krien’s Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything (64 galleys), a fi ction-in-translation debut about an illicit affair going wrong at the time of German reunifi cation. Nonfi ction giveaways: Maureen Corrigan’s So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures  (75 galleys), from the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air; Walter Mischel’s The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control  (50 galleys), expanding the author’s famed 1960s–1970s studies of delayed gratifi cation into a self- help book; Susan Ottaway’s A Cool and Lonely Courage: The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France  (50 galleys), real-life heroism better than any thriller; PBS host Tavis Smiley with David Ritz’s Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year  (25 galleys); Leroy Barber with Velma Maia Thomas’s Red, Brown, Yellow, Black, White—Who’s More Precious in God’s Sight?: A Call For Diversity in Christian Missions and Ministry  (25 galleys), from the executive director of Word Made Flesh Ministries; John C. Maxwell’s Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership  (25 galleys); and Becca Stevens’s The Way of Tea and Justice: Rescuing the World’s Favorite Beverage from Its Violent History (25 galleys), from an Episcopal priest whose ministries include leading a movement to assure fair wages and decent working conditions for tea laborers worldwide. In-booth signings: On Saturday, 6/28, at 12:30 p.m., Chris Scotton, The Secret Wisdom of the Earth, a debut set in a remote Appalachian town whose citizens battle the degradation wrought by a huge mountaintop removal project; and at 3:00 p.m., Shelley Coriell, The Broken, whose journalist heroine survives a serial killer, introduced at United for Libraries’ “Isn’t It Romantic?” panel, Saturday, 6/28, at 8:30 a.m., N263. On Sunday, 6/29, at 11:30 a.m., Kimberly Elkins, What Is Visible, a prominent debut novel based on the real-life story of Laura Bridgman, the fi rst deaf and blind person to learn language, introduced at United for Libraries’ “First Author, First Book” panel, Sunday, 6/29, at 8:30 a.m., N220. Buzzzz: Don’t miss the Hachette Book Buzz at the Book Buzz Theater, Saturday, 6/28, at 11:45–12:00 p.m.

449 Penguin Don’t-miss ﬁ ction giveaways: Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies , the New York Times best-selling author’s new novel about small-town murder; Lev Grossman’s The Magician’s Land , wrapping up “The Magicians” trilogy with the young hero gracefully matured; Deborah Harkness’s The Book of Life , wrapping up the “All Souls” trilogy with witch/historian Diana Bishop and vampire/scientist Matthew Clairmont back in the present; Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings , an indelible portrait of Jamaica, prompted by the attempted assassination of reggae star Bob Marley in 1976; Rene Steinke’s Friendswood, about a small town defending itself against environmental catastrophe; Paolo Giordano’s The Human Body , about Italian soldiers in AfAfghanistan, h i ffollowing ll i the internationally best-selling, Premio Strega–winning The Solitude of Prime Numbers; Ann B. Ross’s Etta Mae’s Worst Bad Luck Day, next in the magnolia-scented New York Times best-selling “Miss Julia” series; Jussi Adler- Olsen’s The Marco Effect: A Department Q Novel, more Danish mayhem, with a Gypsy boy at its heart; multi- award-nominee Sarah Waters’s The Paying Guests , revealing the risks of taking in boarders in post–World War I London; Tana French’s The Secret Place , battling rival cliques at a Dublin-area girls’ school to discover who killed the swoon-worthy lad dumped on the school lawn; and Alex Marwood’s The Killer Next Door , a taut new

8 psychological thriller from the Edgar Award–nominated author of The Wicked Girls. Don’t-miss debut fi ction giveaways: M.O. Walsh’s My Sunshine Away, a BookExpo America Buzz Book about a sweet Louisiana childhood shattered by family troubles, a terrible crime, and the fallout from fi rst love; Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You , a rock-steady examination of how a daughter’s death destabilizes a mixed- race family; and Jess Row’s Your Face in Mine , a daring novel that uses the novel idea of racial-reassignment surgery to investigate our understanding of identity. Don’t-miss nonfi ction giveaways: Damien Echols & Lorri Davis, Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row , drawing on the correspondence between Echols, on death row as one of the West Memphis Three, and the woman who would become his wife; Betty Halbreich with Rebecca Paley’s I’ll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist , a memoir of survival and transformation from the 86-year-old director of Solutions at Bergdorf Goodman; and Geralyn Lucas’s Then Came Life: Living with Courage, Spirit, and Gratitude After Breast Cancer , catching up with the author of Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy. Mystery giveaways: Anna Lee Huber’s A Grave Matter: A Lady Darby Mystery, third in the historical mystery series, taking us to 1830 Scotland; M.J. McGrath’s The Bone Seeker: An Edie Kiglatuk Mystery , third in the Canadian Arctic–set series; M.L. Longworth’s Murder on the Île Sordou: A Verlaque and Bonnet Provençal Mystery, proving that there’s murder even on idyllic Mediterranean islands; the multi-award-nominated Rennie Airth’s Reckoning: A John Madden Novel by the Author of River of Darkness, with several murders tied together by letters concerning the former Scotland Yard detective; Anne Rutherford’s The Twelfth Night Murder: A Restoration Mystery; Charlie Lovett’s First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen, following The Bookman’s Tale; and the New York Times best-selling Margaret Coel’s Night of the White Buffalo: A Wind River Mystery. Women’s fi ction giveaways: Big-big Jojo Moyes’s The Ship of Brides , an earlier work available here for the fi rst time, and Silver Bay, available here for the fi rst time in paperback; Jan Karon’s Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good: The New Mitford Novel, the fi rst Mitford outing since 2005; Lucy Dillon’s A Hundred Pieces of Me, a woman post-divorce, from the nationally best-selling author of Lost Dogs; Karen White & others’ Grand Central: Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion , a terrifi c anthology from numerous popular authors, inspired by New York City’s majestic train station; Nicole R. Dickson’s Here and Again, about a woman who reaches out after her husband’s death in Iraq; Wendy Wax’s The House on Mermaid Point , about an aging rock star, three women, and their Florida Keys bed-and-breakfast; Devan Sipher’s The Scenic Route, from a writer of the New York Times’s “Vows” wedding column; Jamie Langston Turner’s To See the Moon Again, from a popular Christian novelist going mainstream; and Emily Liebert’s When We Fall , whose heroine starts seeing the fl aws in her marriage. Suspense/thriller giveaways: Pushcart nominee David Bell’s The Forgotten Girl , bringing the tension home as a prodigal sister returns just long enough to drop off her daughter and vanishes; Sam Cabot’s Skin of the Wolf , touch-of-paranormal suspense about the bloodshed surrounding an Iroquois ritual mask; M.A. Lawson’s Viking Bay, second in a new series starring in-your-face DEA agent Kay Hamilton, by Mike Lawson of “Joe DeMarco” fame using a pen name; Barbara Palmer’s Claudine , about a Yale post-graduate student and high-class escort whose dual life combusts because of murder; Todd Moss’s The Golden Hour, a realistic political-thriller debut set in Africa that trades on Moss’s past experience as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of African Affairs; and James Naughtie’s The Madness of July, a Cold War thriller debut with a protagonist cheekily named Will Flemyng. Historical fi ction giveaways: Maggie Anton’s Enchantress: A Novel of Rav Hisda’s Daughter , featuring dark magic and Talmudic lore in fourth-century Babylonia (the fi rst book in this series was an LJ Best Historical Fiction pick); Hazel Woods’s This Is How I’d Love You , about a young woman’s coming of age in New Mexico during World War I; E.B. Moore’s An Unseemly Wife , debut fi ction about Amish life in the 19th century, inspired by the author’s great-grandmother; Alyson Richman’s The Garden of Letters , a serious-minded novel

9 whose heroine joins the Italian resistance during World War II; Eliza Granville’s Gretel and the Dark, already making waves as it successfully links the stories of a girl in Nazi Germany and a psychoanalyst in fi n de siècle Vienna; Vanessa Manko’s The Invention of Exile, an affecting debut about an early 1900s Russian immigrant falsely accused of anarchism; and John Spurling’s The Ten Thousand Things, about painter/bureaucrat Wang Meng’s travels through an increasingly lawless 14th-century China. Fantasy/sf giveaways: Cherie Priest’s Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches , a new series from the author of the “Clockwork Century” books that turns Lizzie Borden’s legend into dark fantasy; Sylvia Izzo Hunter’s Midnight Queen: A Noctis Magicae Novel , fi rst in a Regency-set fantasy series; multi-award-winning sf author Stephen Baxter’s Proxima, about colonizing a far-off star; and Anthony Ryan’s Tower Lord: A Raven’s Shadow Novel fantasy, the second book in an epic fantasy trilogy about spilling blood in the name of faith. New adult giveways: A.L. Jackson’s Come to Me Softly , next in the New York Times best-selling “The Closer to You” series, with former bad boy Jason seeking a second chance at life and love after tragedy has befallen his family; and Kim Karr’s Frayed , next in the New York Times best-selling “Connections” series, with Ben Covington seeking a second chance at life and love after losing his fi ancée. General fi ction giveaways: National Book Award fi nalist Jean Thompson’s The Witch: And Other Tales Re-told , modern retellings of fairytales that reclaim their darkness; Stuart Rojstaczer’s The Mathematician’s Shiva , a funny little heartbreaker about Sasha’s brilliant mathematician mother, who reputedly solved a big math problem before dying but didn’t reveal the solution; Nina Darnton’s The Perfect Mother , a headlines-ripped work about a woman rushing to help her daughter, an American exchange student accused of murder; and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family, more over-the-edge work from the New York Times best-selling writer, considered one of Russia’s best. Nonfi ction giveaways: Sigrid MacRae’s A World Elsewhere: An American Woman in Wartime Germany, about the marriage of MacRae’s German aristocrat father and American blueblood mother between the world wars and their subsequent heartbreak; Val Wang’s Beijing Bastard: Into the Wilds of a Changing China , about a dutiful Chinese American daughter who came of age by shaving her head and then returning to the land her parents fl ed; Doug Swanson’s Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker , a gaudy noir tale about the founder of the big-deal World Series of Poker; Robert Timberg’s Blue-Eyed Boy: A Memoir , a distinguished journalist’s account of surviving severe burns as a U.S. Marine lieutenant during the Vietnam War; Rebecca Alexander with Sascha Alper’s Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found , a young psychotherapist’s account of losing her eyesight; Sarah Wildman’s Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind , learning about a grandfather’s true love, who stayed behind when he fl ed newly annexed Austria; and Mark Edmundson’s Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game , by a former high school football player who’s now a noteworthy essayist teaching English at the University of Virginia. In-booth signings: On Friday, 6/27, at 5:30 p.m., Laura Lane McNeal, Dollbaby, a debut novel and LibraryReads pick; Elizabeth Little, Dear Daughter, a debut mystery whose heroine may have killed her mother; and Isabella Allen, Murder, Simply Stitched: An Amish Quilt Shop Mystery. On Saturday, 6/28, at 10:00 a.m., Shaunta Grimes, Rebel Nation, featuring one remarkable heroine in a world stripped of humans by the plague; and Josh Hanagarne, The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Book Lover’s Adventures, one of the most purely affi rmative books you’ll ever read; at 11:00 a.m., Elaine Viets, Catnapped!: A Dead-End Job Mystery; and Sue Ann Jaffarian, Ghost of a Gamble, fi rst in the author’s “A Ghost of Granny Apple” series. At 2:00 p.m., Penelope Douglas, Rival, third in her New Adult “Fall Away” series, introduced at United for Libraries’ “Isn’t It Romantic?” panel, Saturday, 6/28, at 8:30 a.m., N263.

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11 More in-booth signings: On Sunday, 6/29, at 10:00 a.m ., Shari Shattuck, Invisible Ellen, about two women’s friendship; at 11:30 a.m., Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, one of last year’s best-loved books; at 12:00 p.m., Anya Ulinich, Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel; at 1:00 p.m., Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead, well-crafted Manhattan-set horror, and Julie Lawson Timmer, Five Days Left, a poignant debut about stepping up and letting go, introduced at United for Libraries’ “Hot Picks for Book Clubs,” on Sunday, 6/29, at 10:30 a.m., N236; at 3:00 p.m., Jean Kwok, Mambo in Chinatown, ballroom dance steps following Girl in Translation; and at 4:00 p.m., Eric Kaplan, Does Santa Exist?: A Philosophical Investigation, wickedly smart and funny observations on how we ground our beliefs, from a force behind the hit TV sitcom The Big Bang Theory. Buzzzz: Don’t miss the Penguin Adult/Young Readers Joint Book Buzz at the Book Buzz Theater, Saturday, 6/28, 4:00–4:30 p.m.

502 HarperCollins Big-name fi ction giveaways: Dennis Lehane’s The Drop (105 galleys), coming in paperback in September 2014, with a movie in the wings; Lauren Oliver’s Rooms (55 galleys), the YA sensation’s fi rst adult novel, featuring ghosts as socially challenged as the family they are haunting; Thrity Umrigar’s The Story Hour (145 galleys), a probing look at the dangerously close relationship between psychologist Maggie and her patient, Lakshmi; Richard Kadrey’s The Getaway God: A Sandman Slim Novel (101 galleys), with our hero going up against the Wildfi re Ripper, linked to a conspiracy that connects Heaven, Hell, and Los Angeles; Stephanie Evanovich’s The Sweet Spot (245 galleys), a like-minded follow-up to the author’s New York Times best-selling Big Girl Panties; and Wilbur Smith’s Desert God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt (245 galleys), described as Game of Thrones meets ancient Egypt. Hot genre fi ction giveaways: Lisa Turner’s The Gone Dead Train (245 galleys), a Southern gothic mystery set in Memphis (love those bluesmen and the Santeria priest); Blake Butler’s Three Hundred Million (61 galleys), literate chills about a cat-and-mouse game between a psychopath and a detective; Molly McAdams’s Sharing You (100 galleys), a New Adult novel about passion, infi delity, and the ties that bind; and Andrew Taylor’s The Scent of Death (145 galleys), winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award 2013 from the Crime Writers’ Association, about a London clerk investigating the claims of dispossessed loyalists in post-Revolutionary New York. Debut fi ction giveaways: Alice Simpson’s Ballroom (301 galleys), about the undaunted patrons of a fading New York City dance hall; Caitlin Moran’s How To Build a Girl (120 galleys), about 14-year-old Johanna’s efforts to reinvent herself as the appropriately named Dolly Wilde, from the author of How To Be a Woman; Jean Love Cush’s Endangered (195 galleys), whose protagonist struggles to save her teenage African American son from prison; Alix Christie’s Gutenberg’s Apprentice (105 galleys), historical fi ction about a time of great technological change; Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist (145 galley), the study of an unsettled young wife in 17th-century Amsterdam that rocked BookExpo America and the 2013 London Book Fair; Katy Simpson Smith’s The Story of Land and Sea (325 galleys), a quietly affecting tale of love and death in the Revolutionary era, a BookExpo America hit; Carolyn T. Dingman’s Cancel the Wedding (245 galleys), about a young woman who starts reexamining her life after following her mother’s last wishes; and Sarah Creech’s Season of the Dragonfl ies (245 galleys), whose heroine takes over the family’s perfume business in a cloud of blue dragonfl ies. And don’t miss Judith Frank’s All I Love and Know (195 galleys), a timely second novel (after Crybaby Butch) about gay couple Matthew and Daniel’s upheaval after Daniel’s twin brother and sister-in-law are killed in a bombing in Jerusalem, particularly when the issue of adopting the children arises. Nonfi ction giveaways, World War II: New York Times best-selling author Caroline Moorehead’s Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France (95 galleys), how one heroic village, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, saved thousands 12 wanted by the Gestapo; R.D. Rosen’s Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors (95 galleys), focusing on three girls to tell the story of Jewish children who survived the Holocaust by hiding; James A. Grymes’s Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust—Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour (101 galleys), about the violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust and the Israeli violin maker who has been lovingly restoring them to honor those who lost their lives, including 400 members of his own family; and Duncan Barrett’s GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love (185 galleys), a paperback original that was a Sunday Times best seller in Britain. More nonfi ction giveaways: Taffi Dollar’s Embracing the Love God Wants You To Have: A Life of Peace, Joy, and Victory (101 galleys); and Al Vernacchio’s For Goodness Sex: Changing the Way We Talk to Teens About Sexuality, Values, and Health (151 galleys). In-booth signings: On Saturday, 6/28, at 10:00 a.m., Diane Cook, Man v. Nature: Stories, a debut collection from a much-published author; at 11:00 a.m., Carrie La Seur, The Home Place, a debut novel about a young woman returning to Montana after her sister’s death; at 12:00 p.m., Mary McNear, Up at Butternut Lake, a bittersweet second book in the series; at 1:30 p.m., Andrew Mayne, Angel Killer: A Jessica Blackwood Novel, about a magician turned FBI agent, by a magician turned reality TV star, introduced at United for Libraries’ “Quirky Books for Quirky Librarians” panel, Saturday, 6/28, at 3:00 p.m., N252; and at 3:00 p.m., Holly Brown, Don’t Try To Find Me, about a runaway teenage daughter. More in-booth signings: On Sunday, 6/29, at 11:00 a.m., Tessa Dare, Romancing the Duke, fi rst in the “Castles Ever After” series; at 12:30 p.m., John Searles, Help for the Haunted, an Alex Award–winning crime novel; at 2:00 p.m., M.P. Cooley, Ice Shear, a debut thriller set in upstate New York; and at 3:30 p.m, Stephanie Evanovich, The Sweet Spot. On Monday, 6/30, at 9:00 a.m., James Rollins, The Kill Switch: A Tucker Wayne Novel, fi rst in a new series starring Capt. Tucker Wayne and his military dog, written with Grant Blackwood. No books but a big push: smart and funny Amy Poehler’s Yes Please; Alan Cumming’s Not My Father’s Son, a heartbreaking and ultimately redemptive tale of family secrets; Ron Rash’s Above the Waterfall, a tale of contemporary Appalachia from the author of the sensational Serena; Richard Ford’s Let Me Be Frank with You, continuing the saga of Sportwriter Frank Bascombe; Marilyn Johnson’s Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble, from the author of This Book Is Overdue!; and Agatha Christie/Sophie Hannah’s The Monogram Murders, with Hannah writing a new Hercule Poirot mystery. Buzzzz: Don’t miss the HarperCollins Book Buzz on Sunday, 6/29, 8:30–10:00 a.m., N111.

528 Macmillan Big-name giveaways: Rainbow Rowell’s Landline  (100 advance listening copies), phone magic from the YA blockbuster author–turned–adult novelist; Tony Parsons’s The Murder Man (50 galleys), an internationally best-selling British novelist’s foray into crime fi ction, with widowed police offi cer Max Wolfe chasing a relentless throat slasher; and Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale (80 limited-edition bound manuscripts), love, family, and anguish as World War II erupts. More pay-attention giveaways: Eula Biss’s brilliantly conceived On Immunity: An Inoculation (75 galleys), a BookExpo America Buzz Book that starts with the idea of vaccines and deepens to a study of fear; Linda Francis Lee’s The Glass Kitchen (60 books), a charmer with Texan Portia Cuthcart cooking up a magical storm in Manhattan; Shamus Award–nominated Chuck Greaves’s The Last Heir  (60 books), with attorney Jack MacTaggart investigating whether a Napa Valley heir is really dead; Brian Doyle’s The Plover, (60 galleys) a splendidly written story of one man’s search for self and solitude by sailing the Pacifi c (loved it); Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation (108 books) and Authority (100 books), the fi rst two volumes

13 of the dystopian “Southern Reach” trilogy, with knockout writing from a World Fantasy Award winner; and Katherine Faw Morris’s Young God  (112 books), a brash dazzler of a debut about teenage Nikki’s determination to maintain her family’s domination of the Carolinas drug trade. Education giveaways: James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small (250 books), the Common Core Aligned Teacher’s Edition; and Great American Documents: Vol. 1: 1620–1830  (40 books), edited by Ruth Ashby, with Ernie Colón (illus.), offering 20 key documents and narrated by Uncle Sam. In-booth signings: On Friday, 6/27, at 5:30 p.m., Jane K. Cleland, Blood Rubies: A Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery, and Hannah Dennison, Murder at Honeychurch Hall, fi rst in a series set at an English manor house. On Saturday, 6/28, at 11:00 a.m., and Sunday 6/29, at 10:30 a.m., Kelli Stanley, City of Dragons (fi nished books), City of Secrets (fi nished books), and City of Ghosts (samplers), from the Macavity Award–winning and Shamus Award– nominated series set in 1940s San Francisco. On Sunday, 6/29, at 11:00 a.m., Entertainment Weekly senior writer Anthony Breznican, Brutal Youth, a debut novel about three freshmen surviving a troubled Catholic high school. Special librarian treat: On Saturday, 6/28, at 3:00 p.m., N243, “I’m a Librarian! NO! I’m an Author! NO! I’m a Librarian AND an Author,” featuring librarians Ashley eaver, Murder at the Brightwell, a debut mystery featuring British aristocrats at a 1930s seaside resort; Will Thomas, Fatal Enquiry: A Baker & Llewelyn Mystery, next in the Shamus and Barry Award–nominated series (the author offers his perspective at United for Libraries’ “First Author, First Book” panel, Sunday, 6/29, at 8:30 a.m., N220); and Kat Spears, Sway, a touching YA debut novel about a young man learning to love.

542 Random House Hot fi ction giveaways: Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things  (200 galleys), a fantastical apocalyptic love story across space; Christos Tsiolkas’s Barracuda (100 galleys), following the Commonwealth Prize–winning The Slap, about a teenager whose Olympic-level swimming talent propels him socially upward; David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks  (100 galleys), six elegant and absorbing narratives in the past, present, and future tied together by an otherworldly mystery (love it!); Julie Shumacher’s Dear Committee Members (125 galleys), relating a professor’s life of woe through the letters of recommendation he writes; Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage  (115 galleys), a shattering and limpidly written work about a young man whose friends suddenly shun him; Jane Smiley’s Some Luck  (100 galleys), the Pulitzer Prize winner’s down-to-earth account of a mid-20th-century farm family; and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven  (350 galleys), a BookExpo America Buzz Book, the literary apocalyptic tale of a troupe traversing a blasted landscape. More hot fi ction giveaways: Robert Jackson Bennett’s City of Stairs  (100 galleys), high fantasy at a mysterious colonial outpost from a multi-award-winning author; Jodi Picoult’s Leaving Time (200 galleys), about a daughter’s desperate search for her vanished naturalist mom (love those elephants); Kathy Reichs’s Bones Never Lie  (150 galleys), forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan’s 17th outing; and John Twelve Hawks’s Spark  (125 galleys), whose antihero neutralizes (read: kills) anyone troubling the monster multinational corporation that employs him. Hot debut fi ction giveaways: Merritt Tierce’s Love Me Back (150 galleys), about waitress and single mom Marie’s sex- and drug-fueled crash, from a National Book Award “5 Under 35” honoree; Andrew Lovett’s Everlasting Lane (100 galleys), a coming-of-age tale set in the English countryside; Yannick Grannec’s The Goddess of Small Victories (50 galleys), whose librarian protagonist learns about love while reconstructing the life of mathematical genius and misanthrope Kurt Gödel; Rebecca Alexander’s The Secrets of Life and Death  (100 galleys), a blend of mystery and fantasy that oscillates between modern England and 1500s Kraków; and Helen Giltrow’s The Distance  (125 galleys), a debut thriller about a Londoner who can’t seem to escape her secret criminal past.

14 Hot nonﬁ ction giveaways: Christian Rudder’s Dataclysm: Who We Are When We Think No One Is Looking  (150 galleys), with the OKTrends founder showing what plundering all that social media data can tell us; Gary Krist’s Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans Empire (100 galleys), set in the early 1900s Big Easy; Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn’s A Path Appears: Enriching the Lives of Others—and Ourselves (100 galleys), a study by the Pulitzer Prize winners of individuals who are making a difference and how we can help them; and Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette  (175 galleys), about an exhilarating polar exploration turned brutal survival test in the late 1800s Arctic. No books but a big push: Girls creator, writer, and star Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”; celebrated Harvard historian Jill Lepore’s The Secret History of Wonder Woman; Mette Ivie Harrison’s The Bishop’s Wife , a debut mystery by a practicing Mormon that was a big BookExpo America draw; Eliza Kennedy’s I Take You , a debut about a hard-partying young woman who really shouldn’t be engaged; Lee Child’s Personal: A Jack Reacher Novel, about an assassin gunning for world leaders; Ian McEwan’s The Children Act, featuring a beleaguered woman judge contending with marital issues; Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic to the Stars, which sends Shopaholic heroine Betsy to Hollywood; Anne Rice’s Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles, with vampires at one another’s throats; John Cleese’s So Anyway…, the actor’s memoir; and Pierce Brown’s Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy, Bk. 2), a follow-up to his terriﬁ c top LibraryReads pick, Red Rising. In-booth signings: On Saturday, 6/28, at 11:30 a.m., Ian Doescher, William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return, last in the “William Shakespeare Star Wars” trilogy. On Sunday, 6/29, at 11:30 am., Rebecca Rasmussen, Evergreen, about the vast American wilderness and two siblings raised apart, introduced at United for Libraries’ “Hot Picks for Book Clubs,” on Sunday, 6/29, at 10:30, N236; at 3:00 p.m., Karin Slaughter, Cop Town, with a serial killer in 1970s Atlantic targeting policemen. On Monday, 6/30, at 10:00 a.m., Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven . Buzzz: On Sunday, 6/29, 10:30–11:30 a.m., Random House Library Marketing’s High Rollers’ Book Brunch, N109.

616 W.W. Norton Class-act giveaways: Nicholas Carr’s The Glass Cage: Automation and Us, how machinery has affected us over the millennia; Diane Ackerman’s The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us, a hopeful look at how humans interact with the environment; Johanna Skibsrud’s Quartet for the End of Time, reimagining the events leading to French composer Olivier Messiaen’s composition of the title quartet in a German prison camp; John Branch’s Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard, how the 2011 death of a young hockey star helped illuminate the dangers of professional sports; William Giraldi’s Hold the Dark, with child snatching by wolves hiding a human evil in a remote Alaskan village (buzzing); Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days, an award winner and European bbest sellerll iin whichhi h the repeated life and death of a single woman protagonist sums up German history; Forrest Gander’s The Trace, a novel by a distinguished poet tracing an American couple’s journey through Mexico in the footsteps of writer Ambrose Bierce; and Ellen Stimson’s Good Grief: Life in a Tiny Vermont Village, funny reﬂ ections on resettling a family in Vermont. In-booth signings: On Friday, 6/27, at 6:00 p.m., Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, from the creator and host of the “Ask a Mortician” web series, introduced at United for Libraries’ “Quirky Books for Quirky Librarians” panel, Saturday, 6/28, at 3:00 p.m., N252; and on Saturday, 6/28, at 3:00 p.m., Ann Hood, An Italian Wife, one woman’s saga from early 1900s Italy to Sixties America, introduced at United for Libraries’ “Hot Picks for Book Clubs,” on Sunday, 6/29, at 10:30 a.m., N236.

15 646 Soho Press Really big giveaways: BOMB magazine’s Bomb: The Author Interviews (400 galleys), 30 years of interviews from that on-the-edge creative publication; Robert Repino’s Mort(e) (250 galleys), about an animal takeover of the world and housecat–turned–war hero Mort(e)’s hunt for a dog named Sheba; Dylan Landis’s Rainey Royal (300 galleys), about a teenage girl’s not-so-easy coming of age in 1970s Greenwich Village; and YA author Adele Griffi n’s The Unfi nished Life of Addison Stone (500 galleys), a two-time National Book Award fi nalist’s tale of a teenage art phenomenon vivifying the downtown New York art scene, introduced at United for Libraries’ “Hot Books from Small Presses” panel, on Sunday, 6/29, at 3:00 p.m., N218. Really big crime fi ction giveaways: Mette Ivie Harrison’s The Bishop’s Wife  (250 galleys), a debut mystery by a practicing Mormon; Timothy Hallinan’s Herbie’s Game (500 galleys), fourth in the Junior Bender series, and For the Dead (50 galleys), about a family threatened by dangerously incrimating photos on a stolen iPhone; Ed Lin’s Ghost Month (300 galleys), launching a new series whose sleuthing hero runs a food stand in the Taipei Night Market; Stephanie Barron’s Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas: Being a Jane Austen Mystery  (300 galleys), 12th in the series, featuring murder at a stately manor on Christmas Eve, 1814; Fuminori Nakamura’s Last Winter, We Parted  (200 galleys), a Japanese master’s tale about an interviewer increasingly skeptical of a convicted man’s guilt; Golden Dagger Award winner Mick Herron’s Nobody Walks (300 galleys), about a man investigating his son’s death; Stuart Neville’s The Final Silence (250 galleys), whose heroine inherits a house from her uncle with a room full of ghastly mementos; and Peter Lovesey’s The Stone Wife (300 galleys), 14th in the enduringly popular Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond series.

662 Sourcebooks Great galley giveaways, on a schedule: On Friday, 6/27, at 5:30 p.m., Allegra Jordan’s The End of Innocence  (150 galleys), a debut about American Helen Windship Brooks and German poet Wils, who fall in love at Harvard in 1914, then fi nd themselves on opposites sides of a world war. On Saturday, 6/28, at 9:00 a.m., Greer Macallister’s The Magician’s Lie  (500 galleys), a debut (and BookExpo America hit) about an illusionist accused of murdering her husband; and at 3:30 p.m., Grace Burrowes’s The Captive  (100 galleys), romance featuring the taut relationship between Christian Severn, Duke of Mercia, seeking to punish those who captured and tortured him, and a hopeful Gillian, Countess of Greendale. On Monday, 6/30, at 9:00 a.m., Libby H. O’Connell’s The American Plate: A Culinary History in 100 Bites (100 galleys), a history of American food, from Native American traditions onward, by the lead historian for the History Channel; and at 10:30 a.m., Ella Leya’s The Orphan Sky (100 galleys), featuring a young piano prodigy in 1979 Azerbaijan who is sent to spy on a painter and instead falls in love. In-booth signing: On Sunday, 6/29, at 10:30 a.m., Teresa J. Rhyne, The Dogs Were Rescued (and So Was I) (100 galleys), a follow-up memoir to the New York Times best-selling The Dog Lived (And So Will I), with the author reaching out to rescue not just the dog who rescued her but a beagle buddy. No books but a big push: Sonya Cobb’s The Objects of Her Affection, fi ction about Sophie Porter’s bid to keep her house from foreclosure by becoming a world-class art thief; Susanna Kearsley’s Season of Storms, historical romance from the New York Times best-selling author about the initial staging of a decades-old play whose inspiration, Celia Sands, vanished before it could be performed (and why does the woman playing the female lead have the same name?); and Katie MacAlister’s The Truth About Leo, a new Regency from the New York Times best- selling author about an impecunious Danish princess who fi nds a wounded man (and hope) in her garden.