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F EATURES 20 Western Manga’s New Golden Age The boom in North American manga publishing is being driven by some surprise hits that suggest fans in the West are ready for titles that would have been considered too risky in the past.

26 If You See Something, Write It A.M. Homes’s first short story collection in 28 years, The Days of Awe, showcases her sharp dialogue, her humor, and her keen visual sense. 1–32 Children’s Institute 2018 ABA’s mini–Winter Institute, focused on children’s books, authors, and bookselling, heads to the Big Easy June 19–21 to mark its sixth anniversary.

N EWS 5 BookExpo 2018 After a confusing opening day at the trade show, publishers and booksellers settled into discussing industry issues and getting ready for the fall season. 6 Fiction Softness Leads to Sales Dip in Late May Texas Book Festival 2018 Print unit sales in the week ended May 27 fell 1% from the similar week last year, with declines in adult and juvenile fiction offsetting Celebrating our 23rd year. gains in nonfiction. 8 NYRF Maps a Booming Marketplace The inaugural New York Rights Fair was held last week at the Metro- Two days 250+ authors politan Pavilion and brought together 70 panelists from all over the world. The event served as the official rights fair of BookExpo. The biggest book party in Texas, in 9 S&S Staffers Take Book from Screen to Page support of libraries and literacy. A roman à clef by a character on the TV show Younger, which is set in the New York publishing world, is being published in June by Simon & Schuster. Author lineup revealed in August!

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2017 D EPARTMENTS & COLUMNS 16 Books in Spanish We survey Spanish-language titles published in May, including a novel 76,000,000 by Laura Restrepo and a collection of essays by Juan Gabriel Vásquez. 60 Soapbox by Jennifer Cody Epstein Web ad impressions After an author dies, her writing group launches her novel in grand style. 30,000,000 B ESTSELLERS ● Adult Hardcovers 12 ● Adult Paperbacks 13 Web page views ● Children’s 14 ● iBooks 15

R EVIEWS 14,500,000 Fiction Nonfiction 28 General Fiction 42 General Nonfiction opened emails 32 Mystery/Thriller 48 Lifestyle 36 SF/Fantasy/Horror 38 Romance/Erotica Children’s 40 Comics 55 Picture Books 11,000,000 57 Fiction unique visitors 29 Q&A with Crystal Hana Kim 42 Boxed Review 1,140,000 Flights social followers 31 Boxed Review If You Leave 1,000,000 Me print copies 56 45 Review Roundup Q&A with Adam Kirsch Back-to-school books

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BookExpo 2018 After a confusing opening day at the trade show, publishers and booksellers settled into discussing industry issues and getting ready for the fall season

he year’s edition of BookExpo loor caused for book buyers and, in some kicked off Wednesday, May cases, publishers. 30, at New York’s Javits Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari was one of Center with a well-received the exhibitors in the section that opened pepT talk by Barnes & Noble chairman on Wednesday. CEO Michael Kerber said B&N chairman Len Riggio delivered the Len Riggio on the importance of physical that though he had retailer traffic and opening keynote speech. bookstores and lots of confusion over the conducted meetings that day, it was clear split nature of the exhibition loor. Under that book buyers were frustrated because said she had no idea that parts of the floor a plan implemented this year by they couldn’t visit all of the houses they were open to publishers on Wednesday. BookExpo organizer Reed Exhibitions, came to see until Thursday. Kerber gave Another new element that caused publishers had the option to exhibit Reed credit for trying some new things some confusion throughout the three Thursday and Friday at BookExpo and to improve the show, but said it is not days of BookExpo was the inaugural Saturday and Sunday at the consumer- clear in which direction Reed wants to New York Rights Fair (see “New York focused BookCon, which was also at move event. Rights Fair Maps a Booming Javits, or to exhibit for all three days of The biggest company taking advantage Marketplace,” p. 8), which ran concur- BookExpo but not at BookCon. As a of the three-day BookExpo option was the rently with BookExpo at the Metropolitan result, the roughly 150 companies that Ingram Content Group, which had a large Pavilion on West 18th Street. A collabo- exhibited on Wednesday occupied only exhibit for its various service operations, ration between BolognaFiere, which runs about one-quarter of the show floor, as well as a large space for its distribution the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, while the balance of the exhibits were clients, which are part of Ingram Publisher Publishers Weekly, and Combined Book still being set up for a Thursday opening. Services. Phil Ollila, chief content officer Exhibit, NYRF hosted exhibitors from Though the exhibitors had no problems of Ingram, said on Wednesday that he was the U.S. and from around the world. In with Wednesday foot traffic, they had pleased with how things went. “I think it an agreement reached with Reed, NYRF lots of issues with the confusion the split was a good way to start the show,” he became the official rights fair for noted. “It is great to BookExpo, with shuttle buses moving have our distribution between the two locations. A number of clients and our other BookExpo attendees, however, wondered businesses all in one why the center had been moved and said place.” they would like to see NYRF colocate Phillip Ruppel, chief with BookExpo at the Javits next year. operating officer at Logistical concerns aside, this years’s Phaidon, said he was BookExpo featured some of the biggest “very pleased with the names from across the publishing and first day of the show— bookselling businesses. Riggio, who was we were busy the entire once viewed by independent booksellers day.” as their archenemy, was introduced as the But in a sign of the keynote speaker by ABA CEO Oren uncertainty that hov- Teicher, who acknowledged that such a David Bolduc (l.), owner of Boulder Book Store, PW’s Bookstore ered over the opening thing “would have been impossible to of the Year, and John Mesjak, PW’s Rep of the Year, ank PW day, the head of a large imagine not so long ago.” Both men editorial director Jim Milliot. independent publisher emphasized that the long-term interest

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The Weekly Scorecard More Fiction Softness Leads To Dip in Sales in Late May

Declines in both adult and juvenile fiction print unit sales offset gains in nonfiction in the week ended May 27, 2018, resulting in a 1% decline in print unit sales overall compared to the similar week in 2017, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The 5% decline in adult fiction compared to the week ended May 28, 2017, came despite a solid performance by Stephen King’s The Outsid- er, whi sold nearly 97,000 copies in its first week, taking the top spot on the category bestseller list. The Outsider drained mu of the sales from adult fiction. The Cast by Danielle Steel was in second place, selling a little more than 15,000 copies. The top Among the new 100 bestselling adult fiction titles sold more than 637,000 copies initiatives at in the week, a decline of 8% from the similar week in 2017. Print BookExpo were unit sales in juvenile fiction also fell 5%. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! aisle concierges by Dr. Seuss was the top-selling title in the week in both 2017 and (above), who were 2018, selling about 48,000 and 46,000 copies, respectively. The on hand to guide big difference from last year was in the young adult section attendees, and of the juvenile category, where sales were softer. War Storm by “editors’ hours” (l.), Victoria Aveyard was the top-selling young adult novel in the where booksellers week ended May 27, 2018, selling more than 9,000 copies. Last met one-on-one with editors. year at this time, six young adult novels sold more copies than War Storm, led by Cassandra Clare’s Lord of Shadows, whi sold of the general public is for B&N and indie bookstores to survive nearly 33,000 copies. Print unit sales in the adult fiction category in tandem. rose 2% over 2017. John McCain’s The Restless Wave sold more than 33,000 copies in its first week, trailing only Magnolia Table “I don’t see the independent bookstore in mortal competition by Joanne Gaines on the category bestseller list. with B&N,” Riggio said. “The more bookstores the better.” Thursday morning began with a leadership panel featuring Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House; Simon & UNIT SALES OF PRINT BOOKS BY CHANNEL (in thousands) Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy; and Macmillan CEO John MAY 28, MAY 27, CHGE CHGE 2017 2018 WEEK YTD Sargent. The importance of protecting free speech, especially in the wake of President Trump’s attempt to block the publication Total 11,390 11,270 -1% 3% of Fire and Fury (published by Macmillan) was a prominent Retail & Club 10,059 10,003 -1% 3% topic. All three executives also agreed that the financial status Mass Merh./Others 1,331 1,267 -5%-0.4% of the business is stable. Dohle, citing a “fairly healthy coexis- tence between print and digital,” said, “There is no reason to be UNIT SALES OF PRINT BOOKS BY CATEGORY (in thousands) pessimistic.” Sargent added a note of caution, pointing out that MAY 28, MAY 27, CHGE CHGE the industry still faces some serious challenges in protecting the 2017 2018 WEEK YTD current ecosystem amid changing consumer buying habits. Adult Nonfiction 4,742 4,832 2% 4% In another largely upbeat panel, a trio of copyright heavy- Adult Fiction 2,509 2,393 -5% -4% weights agreed that though the industry may have its issues Juvenile Nonfiction 978 1,030 5% 7% with Trump, when it comes to copyright policy, the publishing Juvenile Fiction 2,880 2,745 -5% 4% industry stands with the president. “The Obama administration was not kind to copyright,” said Keith Kupferschmid, CEO of the Copyright Alliance. “The Obama administration, and UNIT SALES OF PRINT BOOKS BY FORMAT (in thousands) President Obama in particular, was somewhat enamored with MAY 28, MAY 27, CHGE CHGE 2017 2018 WEEK YTD Silicon Valley, and in particular one company in Silicon Valley: Hardcover 3,060 3,187 4% 7% Google.” He characterized Google as “enemy #1 when it comes to copyright.” Trade Paperba 6,606 6,429 -3%-0.3% But the panelists agreed that the Trump administration’s Mass Market Paperba 992 930 -6% -3% stance is different. “I would say that so far we are very pleased Board Books 459 471 3% 11% with the access, and the interest we have with the Trump admin- Audio 58 42 -27% -25% istration,” said Maria Pallante, CEO of the AAP. Authors Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger added that there seems to be a “reset”

SOURCE: NPD BOOKSCAN AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. NPD’S U.S. CONSUMER MARKET PANEL in Washington when it comes to copyright policy. COVERS APPROXIMATELY 80% OF THE PRINT BOOK MARKET AND CONTINUES TO GROW. News

At the ABA Town Hall and Annual new novel, The Feral Meeting, Teicher urged booksellers to Detective, is a book that push American publishers to debut the Anne Holman of the centralized web-based invoicing program King’s English in Salt known as Batch. The use of Batch, Teicher Lake City “can’t wait to said, will allow indie booksellers to radi- read.” cally streamline invoicing, payments, and A novel that several returns. “I can’t overstate what a game- booksellers mentioned changing event Batch could be for the was Tommy Orange’s bottom line of indie bookstores of all debut, There, There. sizes,” he said, adding that the ABA board Another anticipated has approved a “serious financial commit- debut is a novel about ment” to bring Batch—which has been a Muslim Indian- developed in the U.K.—to the U.S. in American family: January 2019. Fatima Farheen Mirza’s Children’s breakfast host Jacqueline Woodson (center), with speakers A Place for Us. And Meg Medina (l.), Dave Eggers, Yuyi Morales, and Viola Davis (r.). Books and Authors Pamela Klinger-Horn Along with all the meetings and panels, of Excelsior Books in Excelsior, Minn., children’s book buyer and specialist at there was plenty of discussion about couldn’t say enough about Vox by Community Bookstore in Brooklyn, is books. One of the most-talked-about Christina Dalcher. eager for Carmela Full of Wishes by Matt titles wasn’t even available at the show: Two titles that touch on the struggles de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Crown, the publisher of Michelle of the working class were high on book- Robinson. Another illustrated title that Obama’s memoir, Becoming, had post- sellers’ lists: Heartland: A Memoir of was stirring up interest at the show was cards of the book’s cover but no galleys Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Jacqueline Woodson’s forthcoming pic- to distribute. Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh and ture book, The Day You Begin, illustrated Jonah Zimiles of Words Bookstore in Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s by Rafael López. Maplewood, N.J., was touting Gary Will to Survive by Stephanie Land. On the graphic novel front, Heather Shteyngart’s new novel, Lake Success, as There were plenty of children’s books Herbert of Children’s Book World in was David Enyeart of Common Good that excited booksellers at BookExpo as Haverford, Pa.,was looking forward to Books in St. Paul, Minn. Mike Fusco- well. In terms of the big picture books of Jarrett Krosoczka’s Hey Kiddo. Straub of Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, the show, several booksellers shared their Buzzworthy novels for teens drew long N.Y., was high on Lauren Groff’s story excitement for We Don’t Eat Our Classmates lines at publishers’ booths and the auto- collection Florida. And Jonathan Lethem’s by Ryan T. Higgins. Philipp Goedicke, graphing stations. Brittany Lockhart, a YA bookseller at Barnes & Noble in Hackensack, N.J., was ready to claim her galley of Bridge of Clay, Marcus Zusak’s highly anticipated follow-up to The Book Thief. She was also excited about Deb Caletti’s A Heart in a Body in the World. © all photos stevekagan.com Jamie Kurtz, general manager at Books- a-Million in Paramus, N.J., was queued up to get a signed copy of Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel. Contemporary YA was also in high demand at the show. Among the most highly anticipated were People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins and Wildcard, book two in Marie Lu’s YA Warcross duology. —Jim Milliot, with reporting by PW staff The editors who presented new titles during the Adult Book Buzz: (l.to r.) Bryn Clark, Flatiron; Krisham Trotman, Hachette; Zachary Wagman, Ecco; Fiona McCrae, Graywolf; For more coverage of BookExpo, go to moderator Chris Morrow of Northshire Books; Cary Goldstein, S&S; and Becky Saletan, PRH. publishersweekly.com/bookexpo.

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New Event New York Rights Fair Maps a Booming Marketplace

he inaugural New York Rights Fair brought together 70 panel- Tists from all over the world: © jd urban literary agents, scouts, foreign rights associates, ilm producers, literary man- agers, and other publishing professionals working in a marketplace packed with both challenges and opportunities. The event was held at New York’s Metropolitan Pavilion from May 30 to June 1 and was the oficial rights fair of BookExpo, which ran concurrently at the Javits Center. “We were delighted by the diversity of participants and the breadth of the programming,” said George Slowik Jr., president and CEO of PWxyz, the parent company of Publishers Weekly, which A panel titled “Adaptations around the World” with (l. to r.) PW’s Ed Nawotka, Blinder Films’ organized NYRF with Bologna Book Katie Holly, Airctraft Pictures’ Andrew Rosen, Vendome Pictures’ Sarah Borch Jacobsen, and Fair and Combined Book Exhibit. “It got Working Title’s Surian Fletcher-Jones New York publishers out of their offices—which was the goal, simply.” rise of smartphones, podcasts, and on- Scouting, talking about big numbers NYRF counted 1,500 registered par- demand entertainment. being posted there. “It’s an exciting place ticipants, and an additional 1,700 Thursday’s programming focused on to be right now.” BookExpo participants with rights, the transition from “Page to Screen.” The scouts and agents also discussed exhibitor, or press badges were eligible to Panelists repeatedly described how how the rise of TV and episodic streaming attend as well. Each day of programming streaming services and increased TV adaptations has supercharged the rights at the trade and licensing show focused spending have created a literary rights marketplace. Veteran Intellectual on a single theme, beginning with “The free-for-all. Surian Fletcher-Jones, head Property Group literary manager Jerry Global Landscape” on Wednesday. of development for the television arm of Kalajian described the acquisition frenzy: Audiobooks were a hot topic throughout the U.K.’s Working Title Films, said this “The economics from just last year until the day. In 2010, there were 6,000 audio- “golden age” of TV has dramatically today have shifted so dramatically it books published in the U.S. Estimates amplified competition for literary source makes your head spin. I had seven-figure suggest that by 2017, that number had material. “The culture and the climate offers for books that haven’t been read swelled to 80,000 audiobooks, due to the feels like producers are circling before yet. That’s how nuts it is.” something has even been The exhibition hall featured about 160 written,” she noted. exhibitors from around the world, Friday’s theme was “The Pillars including collective French, Italian, and of Rights,” and book scouts, film Nordic exhibits. “You never know what scouts, co-agents, and other lit- to expect the first time, but it was per- erary professionals gave views fect,” said Nathalie Carpentier, founder of from the trenches of literary French Pulp Editions, an exhibitor. The acquisition. China was a popular publisher counts a backlist of 2,200 pop- topic in the opening panel about ular French fiction titles from the second foreign rights and book scouts. half of the 20th century and used the fair “The market has matured quite a to connect with the East Coast publishing © jd urban CAA’s Talitha Watkins (l.) and sociologist Nancy bit,” said Rachel Hecht, the and film community. “We will be back Wang Yuen on the “Diversity and Dollars” panel. owner of Rachel Hecht Children’s next year,” she said. —Jason Boog

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Life Imitates Art Two ‘Younger’ Fans, and S&S Staffers, Find a New Project in Their Favorite Show

or Dana Trocker and Christine different. It’s a first in so far Pride, it was a no-brainer. When as it’s a product of what is Fthe two Simon & Schuster arguably the first TV show employees saw that a central character on set entirely in the world of

the TV show Younger, which is set in the book publishing. photo courtesy of viacom world of New York book publishing, was Though Hollywood has releasing a novel, they wanted life to imi- long been fascinated by tate art. So they made a call. Now writers, it’s remained decid- Marriage Vacation, the book-within-the- edly less interested in the show, is a real book that will release on people who make their the same day as the fifth season’s pre- books a reality. But Younger miere: June 5. has won over the hearts and Marriage Vacation is not the first novel minds of many in the to find life in a plot line on a TV show. industry for its sustained On Younger, Pauline Turner Brooks (played by Jennifer West- Publishers have released books that grew focus, albeit through rose- feldt), poses with copies of her new book, Marriage Vacation. out of soap opera plot lines. A character tinted lenses, on the book on Lost, who didn’t survive the fateful business. Created by Darren 20-something in order to get an editorial plane crash that launched the ABC series, Starr (who also created Sex and the City) assistant job at a publishing house after also claimed a byline for a bestseller and based on a novel of the same name her marriage and New Jersey suburban titled Bad Twin (Hyperion). But Marriage by Pamela Redmond Satran, the show, life suddenly crumble. Vacation, a roman à clef written in the which airs on TV Land, follows plucky Trocker, an associate director of mar- show by the character Pauline Taylor 40-something Liza (played by Sutton keting, and Pride, a senior editor, said Brooks, and in real life by Jo Piazza, is Foster), who reinvents herself as a plucky they struck on the idea of making

The Appeal of ‘Younger’ “Using Younger as precedent, I’ve put in an ofﬁcial request for an editorial What is it that book people like so much about Younger? S&S staffers clothing budget—outcome is still TK.” explained, sharing some of their favorite publishing references and —Zack Knoll, associate editor plot lines from the past four seasons of the show.

“At the Hamptons Literary Festival, there is a panel about how Simon met Schuster. I feel “My favorite publishing moment is when Liza and Kelsey like that would be a pretty short conversation, realize the Cat Marnell character isn’t writing her book and but it’s a delightful shout-out.” secretly sell her contract to another house at a proﬁt—it’s a —Dana Trocker, associate director howler, but wouldn’t it be amazing if that was really allowed?” of marketing —Joﬁe Ferrari-Adler, executive editor

“The #ShowUsYourOates campaign was genius; it was completely absurd, but also a “For me the prize goes to the Edward L.L. Moore—ahem, George hilarious representation of the lengths we’ll R.R. Martin—story line. It’s absurd and pokes fun at the industry in so go to to get people talking about a book.” many ways. I think it peaks at his turn writing under the female nom —Julianna Haubner, associate editor de plume Aubrey Alexis.” —Amanda Lang, publicity manager

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Market Watch President George Slowik Jr. Publisher Cevin Bryerman Industry Stocks: May Performances Editorial Director Jim Milliot May was a quiet month for both the stock V-P, Business Development Carl Pritzkat Company April 30 May 31 Change market and the Publishers Weekly Stock Adult Book Director Louisa Ermelino Index. The Dow rose 1% in the month, while Scholastic 41.40 44.99 8.7% Children’s Book Editor Diane Roback the PWSI slipped 0.5%. Six of the 11 compa- Executive Editor Jonathan Segura nies listed on the PWSI saw increases in Barnes & Noble 5.55 5.85 5.4% Associate Publisher Joe Murray their share prices in the month, and four Pearson 11.42 11.98 4.9% Art Director Clive Chiu saw declines. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Managing Editor Daniel Berchenko share price held even at $6.80. The biggest John Wiley 65.95 67.80 2.8% News Director Rachel Deahl price movement in May was at LSC Com- Senior News Editor Calvin Reid munications, whose stock price dropped CBS 49.20 50.37 2.3% Associate News and Digital Editor John Maher 25.6%. The printer’s first-quarter financial IDW Holdings 44.84 44.89 0.1% Features Editor Carolyn Juris results released in the month were a huge Deputy Reviews Editor Gabe Habash disappointment. LSC had a loss of 32¢ per Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 6.80 6.80 0 share in the quarter and even when the Senior Editors Peter Cannon, Mark Rotella News Corp 15.98 15.03 -5.9% Senior Reviews Editor Rose Fox loss was adjusted for one-time costs, the loss came to 11¢ per share. Analysts had Reviews Editors Annie Coreno, Alex Crowley, Educational Dev. Corp. 24.30 22.60 -7.0% been looking for earnings of 17¢ per share. Everett Jones, Hannah Kushnick, Meg Lemke, Educational Development Corp. reported B&N Education 7.19 6.34 -11.8% Seth Satterlee, Leigh Anne Williams an 82% increase in earnings in the fiscal Children’s Reviews Editor Amanda Bruns year ended Feb. 28, 2018, over fiscal 2017, LSC Communications 17.48 12.66 -25.6% BookLife Editor Adam Boretz but analysts were concerned that the Publishers Weekly Senior Writer Andrew R. Albanese fourth quarter appeared a little soft, result- Bookselling & International Editor Ed Nawotka ing in the stock price falling 7% for the Stock Index 290.91 289.31 -0.5% Senior Religion Editor Lynn Garrett month. Religion Editor Emma Koonse Wenner Dow Jones Avg. 24,163.15 24,415.84 1.0% Associate Editor, Children’s Books Emma Kantor SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Associate Children’s Reviews Editor Matia Burnett Assistant Editor Drucilla Shultz Associate Art Director Nicole Cadavid Copy Editor Robby Ritacco Marriage Vacation—a tell-all written by tapped an industry veteran to help it Senior Marketing Director Krista Rafanello the absent-but-suddenly-returned wife of depict the business in a more realistic way. Marketing & Events Director Bryan Kinney Sales Coordinator Deena Ali Liza’s boss and sometimes love interest, The publishing consultant—his identity Marketing/Licensing Director Christi Cassidy Charles—a real book because, they said, has remained a secret—looks over scripts Director of Special Editorial Projects Craig Morgan Teicher Director of Strategic Development Seth Dellon they’re “huge fans of the show.” The col- and offers pointers on how to make refer- Digital Media Coordinator Michael Morris leagues said that after seeing the book ences to the business more accurate. (Alas, Audience Development Coordinator Marian Amo V-P, Operations Patrick Turner enter into the plot line of the show’s in two instances, scenes where copies of Business Manager Esther Reid Director of Operations Ryk Hsieh fourth season, they placed a call to Viacom PW were to make an appearance ended up Correspondents: about partnering to publish the title. on the cutting-room floor.) New England Alex Green 781-405-5066 Midwest Claire Kirch 218-310-1867 “It’s a commercially appealing idea for Starr said some off-camera promotions South Dennis Abrams 713-416-6823 a novel without the show,” Pride said of are in the works for the real Marriage West Coast Jason Boog 917-577-6332 Asia Teri Tan ([email protected]) the book, which follows a woman who, Vacation, but the novel will get its biggest Contributing Editors Ivan Anderson, Aída Bardales, like the character credited with writing push from the fact that it plays a promi- Peter Brantley, Michael Coffey, Sue Corbett, Laura Dawson, Liz Hartman, Brian Kenney, it, has something of a midlife crisis, nent role in the forthcoming season. “The Daniel Lefferts, Sally Lodge, Heidi MacDonald, abandoning her seemingly perfect Upper book is important for season five,” Starr Daisy Maryles, Shannon Maughan, Marcia Z. Nelson, Diane Patrick, Karen Raugust, Sonia Jaffe Robbins, East Side existence as a wife and mother explained, noting that it “changes the Judith Rosen, Wendy Smith, Sybil Steinberg, Clare Swanson, Wendy Werris to pursue the professional dreams and lives” of a number of the show’s main Production/Manufacturing Publishing Experts goals she previously tossed aside. characters. —Rachel Deahl Circulation Director Next Steps Marketing Web Engineering Mediapolis And Starr, for his part, was immedi- IT Support ACS Int’l ately drawn to the idea of Marriage Call for Interns Amelia Beckerman, William Floyd, Cathleen Kenney, Evan Phail, Kristoff Ramsamujh Vacation becoming a real book. “When Information HOW TO REACH US S&S reached out, I was beyond thrilled 71 W. 23rd St., Suite 1608, New York, NY 10010 and flattered,” he said, adding that he Feature: Phone: 212-377-5500; fax: 212-377-2733; Travel Books email: [email protected] “loved” that actual editors thought there Issue: Aug. 13 Deadline: June 20 To subscribe, change an address, report delivery problems, was a book in the fictional novel he and Information on what’s new in travel pub- or inquire about back issues, call 800-278-2991 or 818-487-2069, or fax 818-487-4550. his writing staff had cooked up. lishing: guidebooks and narrative non- For inquiries about reprints & permissions, But it shouldn’t surprise Starr too iction; new imprints, series, or digital email [email protected] ventures for publishers; and more. 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10 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 Behind the Bestsellers MAY 21–27, 2018 BY CAROLYN JURIS

Outsider Chance Against the Tide

Stephen King has the #1 book in the country with The Outsider, Sen. John McCain has the #4 book in the which our review called a “nicely executed extension of his Bill country with his memoir The Restless Hodges detective trilogy.” First-week print unit sales were better Wave, coauthored by Mark Salter, McCain’s than those for any of the books in the series. former chief of staff and collaborator on several other books. McCain’s subjects include his work toward bipartisan immigration reform, in the chapter “Fighting the Good Fight (with and Against Ted Kennedy).” Another political memoir debuts at #6 in hardcover nonfiction: Facts and Fears by James R. Clapper. In the introduction, Clapper, who was director of national intelligence under President Obama, details what led him to write the book: “My fear is that many Americans are questioning if facts are even knowable, as foreign adversaries and our national leaders continue to deny objective reality while advanc- ing their own ‘alternative facts.’ ”

NEW & NOTABLE GATESKEEPER BEACH HOUSE REUNION Bill Gates posted a list of “five books worth reading this summer” Mary Alice Monroe on his Gates Notes blog May 21. In the week ended May 27, four of #5 Hardcover Fiction the five titles saw bumps in print unit sales compared to the prior The fifth installment in Monroe’s Beach House series arrives on week; the fifth, Origin Story by David Christian, pubbed May 22. the heels of a Hallmark Channel TV movie adaptation of the first book.

BAD BLOOD John Carreyrou #13 Hardcover Nonfiction Pulitzer–winning Wall Street 225% 118% 98% 48% Journal reporter Carreyrou ® ® ® ® expands on his investigation into Silicon Valley biotech firm TOP 10 OVERALL Theranos in what our starred review called “a bracing cautionary tale about visionary RANK TITLE AUTHOR IMPRINT UNITS entrepreneurship gone very wrong.” 1 The Outsider Stephen King Scribner 96,713 2 Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Dr. Seuss Random House 46,058 FURYBORN 3 Magnolia Table Joanna Gaines Morrow 39,497 Claire Legrand 4 The Restless Wave McCain/Salter Simon & Schuster 33,482 #17 Children’s Frontlist Fiction 5 The Soul of America Jon Meacham Random House 20,762 Our review said of this fantasy 6 The Cast Danielle Steel Delacorte 15,858 trilogy opener, “Action and 7 Into the Water Paula Hawkins Riverhead 15,073 steamy romance abound, but 8 The Midnight Line character development takes a back seat Lee Child Dell 14,036 9 to worldbuilding and an excessively com- Princess Patterson/Jones Grand Central 14,027 10 plicated mythology.” How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan Penguin Press 14,001

WWW.PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM 11 Information supplied by NPD BookScan. Copyright © 2018 Adult Bestsellers | MAY 21–27, 2018 The NPD Group. All rights reserved. Hardcover Frontlist Fiction RANK LW TITLE AUTHOR IMPRINT ISBN UNITS

1 – The Outsider Stephen King Scribner 9781501180989 96,713 2 1 The Cast Danielle Steel Delacorte 9781101884034 15,858 3 3 The Fallen David Baldacci Grand Central 9781538761397 11,844 4 2 The 17th Suspect Patterson/Paetro Little, Brown 9780316274043 11,297 5 – Beach House Reunion Mary Alice Monroe Gallery 9781501193293 7,693 6 9 Warlight Michael Ondaatje Knopf 9780525521198 7,004 7 6 Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate Ballantine 9780425284681 6,972 8 5 The High Tide Club Mary Kay Andrews St. Martin’s 9781250126061 6,875 9 8 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng Penguin Press 9780735224292 6,316 10 4 By Invitation Only Dorothea Benton Frank Morrow 9780062390820 5,925 11 12 The Great Alone Kristin Hannah St. Martin’s 9780312577230 5,580 12 7 Twisted Prey John Sandford Putnam 9780735217355 5,463 13 11 The Woman in the Window A.J. Finn Morrow 9780062678416 5,391 14 14 The Favorite Sister Jessica Knoll Simon & Schuster 9781501153198 4,328 15 10 The Crooked Staircase Dean Koontz Bantam 9780525483427 4,256 16 13 The Hellfire Club Jake Tapper Little, Brown 9780316472319 3,469 17 15 Circe Madeline Miller Little, Brown 9780316556347 3,255 18 – Season of Storms Andrzej Sapkowski Orbit 9780316441636 2,961 19 18 I’ve Got My Eyes on You Mary Higgins Clark Simon & Schuster 9781501171680 2,915 20 23 An American Marriage Tayari Jones Algonquin 9781616208776 2,794 Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction RANK LW TITLE AUTHOR IMPRINT ISBN UNITS

1 1 Magnolia Table Joanna Gaines Morrow 9780062820150 39,497 2 – The Restless Wave McCain/Salter Simon & Schuster 9781501178009 33,482 3 2 The Soul of America Jon Meacham Random House 9780399589812 20,762 4 3 How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan Penguin Press 9781594204227 14,001 5 6 Barracoon Zora Neale Hurston Amistad 9780062748201 13,236 6 – Facts and Fears James R. Clapper Viking 9780525558644 13,199 7 7 12 Rules for Life Jordan B. Peterson Random House Canada 9780345816023 12,693 8 5 A Higher Loyalty James Comey Flatiron 9781250192455 10,518 9 4 Three Days in Moscow Bret Baier Morrow 9780062748362 10,246 10 8 Girl, Wash Your Face Rachel Hollis Nelson 9781400201655 9,121 11 9 I’ll Be Gone in the Dark Michelle McNamara Harper 9780062319784 6,420 12 11 Educated Tara Westover Random House 9780399590504 5,890 13 – Bad Blood John Carreyrou Knopf 9781524731656 5,638 14 34 Factfulness Hans Rosling Flatiron 9781250107817 5,183 15 12 Robin Dave Itzkoff Holt 9781627794244 4,946 16 13 War on Peace Ronan Farrow Norton 9780393652109 4,933 17 – I Love Capitalism! Ken Langone Portfolio 9780735216242 4,682 18 17 Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson Norton 9780393609394 4,293 19 – Getting Back to Happy Chernoff/Chernoff TarcherPerigee 9780143132776 4,207 20 16 Fascism Madeleine Albright Harper 9780062802187 3,963

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1 1 The Midnight Line Lee Child Dell 9780399593505 14,036 2 – Don’t Let Go Harlan Coben Dutton 9781101984277 8,266 3 – Herons Landing Joann Ross HQN 9781335949356 8,187 4 3 Camino Island John Grisham Dell 9781524797157 7,949 5 7 The Couple Next Door Shari Lapena Penguin Books 9780525505310 7,384 6 6 The Right Time Danielle Steel Dell 9781101883969 6,955 7 4 One Last Breath Lisa Jackson Zebra 9781420136135 6,906 8 2 Dangerous Minds Janet Evanovich Bantam 9780553392760 6,872 9 5 Nighthawk Cussler/Brown Putnam 9780399184024 6,721 10 10 All by Myself, Alone Mary Higgins Clark Pocket 9781501131127 5,689 11 8 Navy Brides Debbie Macomber Mira 9780778331216 5,570 12 15 Luckiest Girl Alive Jessica Knoll Pocket 9781501194894 5,161 13 9 Woman of God Patterson/Paetro Vision 9781455569335 5,136 14 12 Flamingo Diner Sherryl Woods Mira 9780778369752 5,087 15 13 The Good Daughter Karin Slaughter Morrow 9780062430250 5,037 16 11 Map of the Heart Susan Wiggs Avon 9780062425492 5,026 17 14 Golden Prey John Sandford Putnam 9781101988848 4,941 18 19 The Fix David Baldacci Vision 9781455586585 4,106 19 32 Texas Grit Barb Han Harlequin 9781335526441 3,893 20 16 16th Seduction Patterson/Paetro Vision 9781538744413 3,839 Trade Paperback Frontlist RANK LW TITLE AUTHOR IMPRINT ISBN UNITS

1 1 Into the Water Paula Hawkins Riverhead 9780735211223 15,073 2 2 Princess Patterson/Jones Grand Central 9781538714430 14,027 3 – Less Andrew Sean Greer Back Bay 9780316316132 11,008 4 3 Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari Harper Perennial 9780062316110 9,958 5 4 Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann Vintage 9780307742483 9,729 6 5 Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance Harper 9780062300553 9,094 7 8 Everybody, Always Bob Goff Nelson 9780718078133 8,711 8 7 The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur Andrews McMeel 9781449486792 8,459 9 6 Two Kinds of Truth Michael Connelly Grand Central 9781455524174 8,271 10 9 Come Sundown Nora Roberts Griffin 9781250123084 7,248 11 10 A Dog’s Way Home W. Bruce Cameron Forge 9780765374660 6,629 12 16 Pachinko Min Jin Lee Grand Central 9781455563920 5,721 13 14 Small Great Things Jodi Picoult Ballantine 9780345544971 5,279 14 23 The Couple Next Door Shari Lapena Penguin Books 9780735221109 5,142 15 12 The Lying Game Ruth Ware Scout 9781501156205 5,078 16 15 End Game David Baldacci Grand Central 9781455586622 4,920 17 18 Same Beach, Next Year Dorothea Benton Frank Morrow 9780062390790 4,888 18 13 The Midnight Line Lee Child Bantam 9780525482895 4,862 19 19 The People vs. Alex Cross James Patterson Grand Central 9781538745519 4,852 20 21 We Were the Lucky Ones Georgia Hunter Penguin Books 9780399563096 4,781

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1 The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo #3) Rick Riordan Disney-Hyperion 9781484746431 12,327 2 War Storm Victoria Aveyard HarperTeen 9780062422996 9,107 3 Dog Man and Cat Kid (Dog Man #4) Dav Pilkey Graphix 9780545935180 11,321 4 The Getaway (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #12) Jeff Kinney Amulet 9781419725456 6,596 5 A Tale of Two Kitties (Dog Man #3) Dav Pilkey Graphix 9780545935210 5,028 6 Positively Izzy Terri Libenson HC/Balzer + Bray 9780062484963 3,736 7 A Court of Frost and Starlight Sarah J. Maas Bloomsbury 9781681196312 3,869 8 Children of Blood and Bone Tomi Adeyemi Holt 9781250170972 3,669 9 Refugee Alan Gratz Scholastic Press 9780545880831 3,394 10 Big Nate: Silent but Deadly Lincoln Peirce Andrews McMeel 9781449489915 2,733 11 Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (movie tie-in) Becky Albertalli HC/Balzer + Bray 9780062792167 2,657 12 Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush... (Dork Diaries #12) Rachel Renée Russell Aladdin 9781534405608 2,583 13 Endling: The Last Katherine Applegate HarperCollins 9780062335524 2,565 14 Turtles All the Way Down John Green Dutton 9780525555360 2,442 15 Restart Gordon Korman Scholastic Press 9781338053807 2,410 16 The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo #1) Rick Riordan Disney-Hyperion 9781484746417 2,402 17 Furyborn Claire Legrand Sourcebooks 9781492656623 2,351 18 A Wrinkle in Time (movie tie-in) Madeleine L’Engle FSG 9781250153272 2,304 19 The Wild Robot Escapes Peter Brown Little, Brown 9780316382045 2,278 20 The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I Funny Ever Patterson/Grabenstein LB/Patterson 9780316349611 2,266 21 Alien vs Bad Guys (The Bad Guys #6) Aaron Blabey Scholastic 9781338189599 2,244 22 One of Us Is Lying Karen M. McManus Delacorte 9781524714680 2,146 23 Scythe Neal Shusterman Simon & Schuster 9781442472433 2,122 24 Star Wars: Most Wanted Rae Carson Disney Lucasﬁlm 9781368016308 2,074 25 The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo #2) Rick Riordan Disney-Hyperion 9781484746424 2,019 Children’s Picture Books RANK TITLE AUTHOR IMPRINT ISBN UNITS

1 Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Dr. Seuss Random House 9780679805274 46,058 2 An Elephant & Piggie Biggie! Mo Willems Disney-Hyperion 9781484799673 11,354 3 Seuss-isms! Dr. Seuss Random House 9780553508413 10,151 4 First 100 Words Roger Priddy Priddy 9780312510787 8,981 5 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Philomel 9780399226908 6,594 6 A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo Twiss/Keller Chronicle 9781452173801 5,990 7 Goodnight Moon Brown/Hurd HarperFestival 9780694003617 5,624 8 Love You Forever Robert Munsch Firefly 9780920668375 5,106 9 The Wonderful Things You Will Be Emily Winfield Martin Random House 9780385376716 4,838 10 I Wish You More Rosenthal/Lichtenheld Chronicle 9781452126999 4,585 11 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Martin/Carle Holt 9780805047905 4,395 12 Giraffes Can’t Dance Andreae/Parker-Rees Cartwheel 9780545392556 4,370 13 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein HarperCollins 9780060256654 4,165 14 Little Blue Truck Schertle/McElmurry HMH 9780544568037 3,967 15 Solo: A Star Wars Story: The Official Guide Pablo Hidalgo DK 9781465466907 3,845 16 Dear Zoo Rod Campbell Little Simon 9781416947370 3,588 17 Dr. Seuss’s ABC Dr. Seuss Random House 9780679882817 3,465 18 What Do You Do with a Chance? Yamada/Besom Compendium 9781943200733 3,443 19 Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss Random House 9780394800165 3,389 20 What Do You Do with an Idea? Yamada/Besom Compendium 9781938298073 3,373 21 On the Night You Were Born Nancy Tillman Feiwel and Friends 9780312601553 3,351 22 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Martin/Archambault Little Simon 9781442450707 3,198 23 The Pout-Pout Fish Diesen/Hanna FSG 9780374360979 3,153 24 Your Baby’s First Word Will Be Dada Fallon/Ordóñez Feiwel and Friends 9781250071811 3,143 25 Animals – DK 9780756634681 3,136

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Fiction & Literature

RANK TITLE AUTHOR IMPRINT ISBN 1 The Swans of Fifth Avenue Melanie Benjamin Delacorte 9780345539755 2 Sacred Stone Cussler/Dirgo Putnam 9781101204856 3 The House Girl Tara Conklin Morrow 9780062207524 4 Fall of Giants Ken Follett Penguin Books 9781101543559 5 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng Penguin Press 9780735224308 6 The Cast Danielle Steel Delacorte 9781101884041 7 The Great Alone Kristin Hannah St. Martin’s 9781250165619 8 Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver HarperCollins 9780061839924 9 The High Tide Club Mary Kay Andrews St. Martin’s 9781250126092 10 The Way Life Should Be Christina Baker Kline Morrow 9780061857256 11 By Invitation Only Dorothea Benton Frank Morrow 9780062390837 12 The High Season Judy Blundell Random House 9780525508724 13 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood HMH 9780547345666 14 Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate Ballantine 9780425284698 15 Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan Anchor 9780385536981 16 Then She Was Gone Lisa Jewell Atria 9781501154669 17 The Alice Network Kate Quinn Morrow 9780062654205 18 The Favorite Sister Jessica Knoll Simon & Schuster 9781501153211 19 Shogun James Clavell Dell 9780307490896 20 Warlight Michael Ondaatje Knopf 9780525521204

Science Fiction & Fantasy

RANK TITLE AUTHOR IMPRINT ISBN 1 Virtual Light William Gibson Spectra 9780307831187 2 The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin Orbit 9780316229302 3 Goldilocks and the Bear Vivienne Savage Payne & Taylor – 4 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers Harper Voyager 9780062444127 5 The Power Naomi Alderman Little, Brown 9780316547659 6 The Flowers of Vashnoi Lois McMaster Bujold Spectrum Literary Agency – 7 Star Wars: Last Shot Daniel José Older Del Rey 9780525622154 8 The Damned Trilogy Alan Dean Foster Open Road 9781504044523 9 The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss DAW 9781101147160 10 The Wise Man’s Fear Patrick Rothfuss DAW 9781101486405

Mysteries & Thrillers

RANK TITLE AUTHOR IMPRINT ISBN 1 The Outsider Stephen King Scribner 9781501181016 2 Use of Force Brad Thor Atria/Bestler 9781476789408 3 Pretty Girls Karin Slaughter Morrow 9780062429063 4 Fear Nothing Lisa Gardner Dutton 9780698148529 5 The Perfect Mother Aimee Molloy Harper 9780062696816 6 The Fallen David Baldacci Grand Central 9781538761373 7 The 17th Suspect Patterson/Paetro Little, Brown 9780316412261 8 The Next Girl Carla Kovach Bookouture 9781786813855 9 Buried Prey John Sandford Putnam 9781101515037 10 Twisted Prey John Sandford Putnam 9780735217362

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FICTION The protagonist embarks on a journey in Morin aims to teach parents how to raise Los divinos search of the secrets of her family’s past mentally strong and resilient children. (The Divine) and of her own identity. Laura Restrepo A por todas Alfaguara Llámame por tu nombre (On Fire) ISBN 978-1-947783-55-3 (Call Me by Your Name) John O’Leary Restrepo offers a fictional account of one André Aciman Spanish Publishers of the most shocking crimes committed Alfaguara ISBN 978-84-9111-292-1 in Colombia in recent history. ISBN 978-1-947783-70-6 O’Leary, a motivational speaker, tries to The story of a powerful romance that blos- help readers transform their lives into a El fabricante de muñecas soms between an adolescent boy and a series of extraordinary moments. (The Dollmaker of Krakow) guest at his parents’ summer mansion. The R.M. Romero film adaptation won the 2017 Academy El arte de vivir Spanish Publishers Award for best adapted screenplay. (The Art of Living) ISBN 978-84-16700-64-6 Thich Nhat Hanh Romero fuses fairy tales, folklore, and Madonna con abrigo de piel Spanish Publishers World War II history in the story of (Madonna in a Fur Coat) ISBN 978-84-16720-15-6 Karoline, a living doll, and a Polish doll Sabahattin Ali Hanh presents seven meditations with maker. Spanish Publishers the goal of opening up new perspectives ISBN 978-84-9838-834-3 on readers’ lives and relationships. Hijo único A young Turkish man arrives in Berlin in (Only Child) the 1920s to learn the secrets of his La clave de la confianza Rhiannon Navin family trade: soap making. He roams the (The Confidence Code) HarperCollins Español streets looking for something truly Katty Kay and Claire Shipman ISBN 978-141-85-9761-0 inspiring. Océano Narrated by a seven-year-old boy, this ISBN 978-607-735-604-2 novel explores the immediate and lasting La obra maestra This book aims to help women of all ages effects that a school shooting has on a (The Masterpiece) and at all stages of their careers under- family and community. Francine Rivers stand the importance of confidence. Tyndale House Honrarás a tu padre y a tu madre ISBN 978-1-4964-0816-7 Contra el cáncer (Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother) As a personal assistant gets to know the (Fat for Fuel) Cristina Fallaras enigmatic L.A. artist who hired her, the Joseph Mercola Spanish Publishers jagged pieces of their pasts begin to fit Grijalbo ISBN 978-84-339-9851-4 together. ISBN 978-607-31-6196-1 In this guide, bestselling author and NONFICTION natural-health practitioner Mercola 13 cosas que los padres argues that nearly all disease is caused by mentalmente fuertes defective metabolic processes. no hacen (13 Things Mentally La felicidad en esta vida Strong Parents Don’t Do) (Happiness in This Life) Amy Morin Papa Francisco Aguilar Origen ISBN 978-607-31- ISBN 978-1-947783-38-6 6195-4 A collection of homilies and other texts

16 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 LA BUENA HIJA UNA CHICA DESCONOCIDA HABANA REQUIEM by Karen Slaughter by Mary Kubica by Vladimir Hernandez 978-07-180-7447-0 978-14-185-9855-6 978-14-002-1203-3

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Angel Hernández Vida Spanish Publishers ISBN 978-082-97-6821-3 ISBN 978-84- Written by a skeptic who became a 944717-0-4 Christian and then a pastor, this book Hernández attempts addresses 10 difficult objections raised to teach readers to against Christianity, using a mix of the- understand the foun- ology, philosophy, and science. dations of chance and the laws that govern Viajes con un mapa en blanco it in an entertaining (Traveling with a Blank Map) from Pope Francis. and original way. Juan Gabriel Vásquez Alfaguara Gimnasia para la visión Una mente en paz consigo misma ISBN 978-84-204-1961-9 (Vision Gym) (A Mind at Home with Itself) This book collects essays by Vásquez, Wolfgang Hätscher-Rosenbauer Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell winner of the IMPAC Award and the Spanish Publishers Spanish Publishers Premio Alfaguara, about the art of the ISBN 978-84-414-3814-9 ISBN 978-84-16720-18-7 novel. He argues that we have not Hätscher-Rosenbauer proposes a series of Katie examines The Diamond Sutra, an invented the novel: the novel has exercises to help readers stimulate their ancient Buddhist text, in an effort to invented us. eyes and improve their vision. reveal the nature of the mind. CHILDREN’S/YA Las matemáticas y el azar Mentiras que creemos sobre Dios Ada Magnífica, científica (Mathematics and Chance) (Lies We Believe About God) (Ada Twist, Scientist) Paul Young Beascoa Atria Español ISBN 978-84-488-4966-5 ISBN 978-1-5011-9501-3 The creators of the bestselling picture The bestselling author of The Shack offers books Rosie Revere, Engineer and Iggy Peck, a conversational exploration of ideas Architect are back with a story about the about God. power of curiosity in the hands of a child who is on a mission to use science to Por los ojos de mi padre understand her world. (Through My Father’s Eyes) Franklin Graham El barco de los muertos Grupo Nelson (The Ship of the Dead) ISBN 978-071-80-1402-5 Rick Riordan Graham details the life of his father, Montena evangelist Billy Graham, and describes ISBN 978-84-9043-824-4 his own journey, as seen through his Magnus Chase, a once-homeless teen, is father’s eyes. a resident of the Hotel Valhalla and one of Odin’s chosen warriors. El poder de la bondad: 30 días para mejorar cualquier relación Cosechando amigos (The Kindness Challenge) (Harvesting Friends) Shaunti Feldhahn Kathleen Contreras Origen Piñata ISBN 978-1-945540-95-0 ISBN 978-1-55885-858-9 Feldhahn argues that three simple steps An unlikely friendship results in a com- can make any interaction better and any munity garden, in this bilingual picture relationship thrive. book that aims to teach young readers— and the adults in their lives—that El problema de Dios coming together will enable them to (The Problem of God) harvest more than just vegetables Mark Clark

18 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 La maldición de la ira del abusón (The Curse of the Bully’s Wrath) René Saldaña Jr. Si es en español, lo tenemos! If it’s in Spanish, we have it! Piñata ISBN 978-1-55885-866-4 Detective extraordinaire Mickey Rangel tries to figure out how to turn the new Things are going to get bully at school into a friend—or, at the very least, into a nicer person. weird around here... Los Sábados y Domingos de Maya y Annie (Maya and Annie on Saturdays and Sundays) Gwendolyn Zepeda Piñata ISBN 978-1-55885-859-6 Two girls who are friends become sisters in this bilingual picture book that explores blended families from a multicultural perspective, combining Asian- and Latin-American cultural My Weird School Series traditions.

Una grieta en el espacio (A Wind in the Door) Madeleine L’Engle Océano ISBN 978-607- 527-143-9 The sequel to A Wrinkle in Time sends Meg and Calvin on a mission inside Charles Wallace to save his life and restore the balance of the universe.

Una historia de contrarios (A History of Opposites) Roger Zanni Combel ISBN 978- 84-9101- 170-5 This book aims to help COMING SOON! children learn the concept of www.lectorum.com opposites [email protected] | (800) 345.5946 based on illustrations that recreate the Victorian era. ■

WWW.PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM 19 Manga publishers embrace steady growth and new hits

BY DEB AOKI

ver the past decade,

North American © deb aoki manga publishing has gone from double- digit annual growth to Ocompany-crushing declines and back again. In 2018, publishers are cautiously optimistic in a manga market with steady sales in print and digital. The market is being driven by some surprise hits that suggest North American fans are ready for titles that would have been considered too risky—“too Japanese”— in the past. Last year and, so far, this year have been good for several publishers. Kurt Pictured at the manga publishers panel last year at San Diego are (l. to r.) Viz Media’s David Brothers Hassler, Yen Press’s publishing director, and Leyla Aker, Penguin Random House’s Ben Applegate, Dark Horse’s Michael Gombos, Udon’s Erik Ko, and JY/Yen Press’s JuYoun Lee. reports “double-digit growth” so far in 2018, compared to the same period last year. “I think any publisher would be and graphic novels overall are leveling off world, continue to be popular. But pub- thrilled with the early [2018] results after five years of pretty explosive lishers are taking note of a growing we’re seeing,” he says. growth,” says Ben Applegate, associate demand for slightly unconventional fare Lianne Sentar, marketing lead for director of publishing services at Penguin that appeals to older readers. indie manga publisher Seven Seas Random House. Though the rate of This spring’s breakout anime and Entertainment, is similarly upbeat: growth has slowed, he says, “in many manga hit, Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for “We’ve had some huge hits in the past ways, we’re living in the golden age of Otaku, written and drawn by Fujita, is a year—strong backlist titles that keep manga in terms of the breadth and depth good example of this. This quirky selling, continuing series that have of the titles available.” romantic comedy follows the romantic enjoyed a new wave of popularity, and misadventures of office workers in their brand-new books that made a big A New, Diverse Golden late 20s and early 30s who balance their splash.” Age for Manga? business responsibilities with their Norihide Tominaga, v-p of Shojo manga (which targets undying, geeky love for video games, business development from girls), teen romances, and manga, and cosplay. Kodansha published online e-book and manga magical girl adventure works, the first volume (a two-in-one combined retailer BookWalker, reports such as Cardcaptor Sakura edition) of the manga the same week the that its revenue in 2018 to Clear Card; action-packed, anime premiered on Amazon Prime, and date is up 400% from the anime-driven shonen (boys) series sales are picking up steam as word- same period in 2017. manga such as My Hero of-mouth spreads. Others offer a more sober— Academia; and Isekai, a fantasy “There is definitely an appetite for but still optimistic—assess- subgenre featuring stories in shojo/josei [manga targeting older ment of the current state of which ordinary people are women] out there, and edgy comedy,” the business. “Sales for manga transported to a magical says Alvin Lu, general manager of

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Kodansha Advanced Media, which that love becomes harder to sequel, My Solo Exchange oversees digital distribution of find and relationships more Diary, which continues Kodansha manga and prose. “It’s the complicated as they get older. Kabi’s story: though she’s kind of titles you might more likely see On the quirkier end of the received much acclaim fol- adapted as TV drama than, say, anime, scale is Dead Dead Demon’s lowing her manga’s success, if I may generalize. These are not Dededede Destruction by Asano happiness continues to elude things I’m used to seeing driving the Inio, from Viz Media. In this her. business in a shonen-manga-dominated unusual sci-fi saga, Tokyo is at In a similar vein, Seven world.” the mercy of a huge spaceship Seas is publishing another Other romantic fare for grown-up hovering in the skies above the essay manga, The Bride Was tastes includes Moteki and After the Rain city, and it seems that the fate a Boy by Chii, about a trans- from Vertical and Tokyo Tarareba Girls of the Earth is in the hands of two high gender woman who falls in love with a from Kodansha Comics. Moteki is a school girls. cisgender man, gets gender-reassign- quirky comedy by Mitsurou Kubo Another offbeat title that caught fire ment surgery in Thailand, and gets (cocreator of hit ice-skating anime Yuri in 2017 is My Lesbian Experience with married in Japan. It’s a surprisingly on Ice) and focuses on a hapless single Loneliness by Nagata Kabi, an autobio- cute and cheery story that answers a lot guy who suddenly becomes popular graphical manga from Seven Seas of frequently asked questions about with women. After the Rain follows a Entertainment about a young woman transgender issues in a matter-of-fact slice-of-life friendship between a dealing with extreme anxiety and way. Seven Seas is also releasing 30-something restaurant manager and a depression. Nonfiction or essay manga is Claudine, a melodramatic take on the teenage girl. And the main characters of a popular genre in Japan, but until now, travails of a girl who struggles with her Tokyo Tarareba Girls by Akiko not much has been made available in masculine side, by Riyoko Ikeda, cre- Higashimura (creator of Princess Jellyfish) English. Seven Seas is following up the ator of the classic manga Rose of are a trio of single women who discover success of My Lesbian Experience with a Versailles. The house is also launching a BEST SELLING MANGA FOR THE BEST COLLECTIONS!

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North America, with pub- light novels outperforming manga story through its original art, and lishers such as Seven Seas, the manga iterations of in a format that this story is not available Vertical, and Yen Press all those series—something in, even for readers in Japan.” mentioning light novels as that wasn’t always the case Classic western novels adapted into highlights among their historically. Light novels comics in the manga style are also current and upcoming have established them- enjoying a modest renaissance. From its releases. Yen Press men- selves as an increasingly initial release of three titles back in 2014, tions the whimsically important component of Udon Entertainment’s Manga Classics titled I’ve Been Killing our business. We’re plan- imprint now has almost 20 titles in print Slimes for 300 Years and ning to increase our light or about to be released, including short Maxed Out My Level as a novel output by about 30% stories by Edgar Allen Poe, Bram Stoker’s light novel standout hit, this year over last.” Dracula, and Mark Twain’s The Adventures and Seven Seas reports strong presales of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Also for Didn’t I Say to Make My Abilities Deluxe Editions, Manga coming to the Manga Classics line are Average in the Next Life?! and Monster Classics, Manga Lit two works by Shakespeare: Romeo and Girl Doctor. BookWalker account man- Back-catalogue titles being re-presented Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. ager Meilyne Tran also notes that light in premium formats are also enjoying Udon publisher Erik Ko presented novels compose 40% of the e-book some success, as well as reprints of classic these titles at the recent Toronto Comic retailer’s total sales, even though light manga. Kodansha’s deluxe 35th-anni- Arts Festival during its Librarian and novel titles represent only 20%–30% of versary box set of the seminal sci-fi/ Educators Day, as well as at the London its total current inventory. action manga series Akira received an Book Fair in April. He was impressed by According to Yen Press’s Hassler, “It’s Eisner Award nomination and is also the response he received and will show- not at all unusual for us now to see the going back to press for a new printing. case these books at the American Library Viz Media is bringing back perennial Association Annual Conference in New fan favorite Fullmetal Alchemist in an Orleans in June. expanded hardcover edition with new Also coming in October from Viz: a cover art and bonus content not available manga adaptation of Mary Shelly’s in previous editions. Seven Seas is betting Frankenstein by horror manga master on the success of the Devilman Junji Ito. Crybaby anime on Netflix, publishing hardcover editions The Anime Effect, of the original Devilman and Amplified by Cutey Honey manga by Go Netflix and Nagai, as well as deluxe hard- Amazon cover editions of Captain Anime is a powerful driver of Harlock and Space Battleship manga sales in North Yamato by Leiji Matsumoto. America. These days, there’s Also appearing on the high more anime available on more end of the manga publishing channels to more viewers, and scale is Dark Horse Comics’ gallery edi- it’s available in English faster than ever tions. The publisher is releasing a new before, thanks to simulcast streaming work based on the final chapter of Lone services that release the latest series— Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike and Goseki often within hours of their broadcast in Kojima. Dark Horse manga editor Carl Japan. In addition to Crunchyroll, a dig- Horn says the idea behind this coffee- ital subscription service that caters table book is “to reproduce the artwork, largely to an anime-savvy fan base, as closely as possible, as the original Netflix and Amazon are investing in and artist would have seen it on his or her bankrolling streaming anime series. drawing board—including things like Anime’s presence is also growing on stray marks from pencils, doodles in the cable channels such as Cartoon Network, margin, paste lines, and Wite-out.” He on-demand cable outlets, and even in adds, “Dark Horse’s Lone Wolf and Cub is movie theaters via short-run or one- the first attempt to publish an entire night screenings, such as Crunchyroll’s

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movie nights series for The Ancient digital magazines such as Viz Media’s Magus’ Bride. Weekly Shonen Jump, and by purchasing “With the proliferation of players in single chapters via digital outlets such as the anime streaming space and the sheer Comixology or Amazon Kindle. number of anime out there, we’ve seen Crunchyroll’s manga service recently the marketing effect of anime adapta- added a download-to-own e-book store tions become more muted,” says PRH’s to its service. “The Crunchyroll Manga Applegate. “But they are, of course, still Shop has also been growing with more very important.” e-books from our partners Kodansha Unlike in Japan, where the popularity Comics, Vertical Comics, and Seven Seas of manga and light novels generally pre- Entertainment,” says Robert Newman, cedes their anime and movie adapta- Crunchyroll’s licensing manager. tions, in North America anime is often A new addition to the digital manga the way fans discover stories that were publishing lineup is virtual reality or VR inspired by manga or light novels. manga. Manga publisher and game devel- Unfortunately, long lead times for oper Square Enix has been previewing the licensing and publishing have often first chapter of an immersive VR adapta- resulted in a gap between when an anime tion of Tales of Wedding Rings by Maybe at airs and when manga or light novel tie- trade shows and conventions, the first ins to the series are made available in chapter of which will be available for pur- English. The good news is that pub- chase soon via game distribution plat- lishing is now better forms such as Steam. equipped to anticipate While digital sales are demand resulting from a growing steadily, most sales popular anime, and pub- of manga are still from print lishers are getting ahead of editions sold through book- the curve by making related stores and comic shops. But print or digital editions avail- with so many titles being able before or at the same released every week and time as the anime airs. changing patterns in con- For example, the first vol- sumer buying habits, pub- umes of Yen Press’s Kakegurui: lishers are looking to social Compulsive Gambler, by Homura media to get the word out about their Kawamoto and illustrated by Toru new and upcoming releases. Naomura, were on shelves well before the “Though bricks-and-mortar is still anime debuted on Netflix. Same goes for king for manga saleswise, Amazon’s Land of the Lustrous by Haruko Ichikawa share of physical manga sales has been from Kodansha Comics, a dazzling fantasy growing,” Applegate says. “So it’s get- series about a world of genderless gem ting more important for us to communi- warriors that was available in print before cate directly with our fans, which is why the anime aired on Amazon Prime. we’ve put much more focus onto our email list and social media.” Digital Manga Enjoys What’s next for manga? Many pub- Steady Growth lishers are gearing up for Anime Expo in Adoption and readership of digital pub- Los Angeles in early July, where they’ll lishing is increasing, as the catalogue of likely make their next wave of new title new and midlist titles grows. Piracy is announcements for winter 2018 and still a concern, but there are now more where publishers will make their next legal options to read the latest chapters big bets on what manga fans want to from hot manga series in English as soon read most next year and beyond. ■ as they hit the newsstands in Japan, via all-you-can-read subscription services Deb Aoki writers regularly for Publishers such as Crunchyroll Manga and weekly Weekly about manga.

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efore A.M. Homes writes a short story or a novel, she first has to see it in her head. The visual component, she says, is very important to her. So it’s no surprise that Homes, the author of 12 books, also writes for television—including, most Brecently, the mystery series Mr. Mercedes, based on the novel by Stephen King. “I want to write a book about writing and drawing,” Homes says. “I think that when you take things out of one language and put them into another, you get a lot of information about what is happening.” Homes’s method of visualizing was useful while she was writing the short stories that make up her most recent collection, The Days of Awe, out in June from Viking. The title comes from the 10-day period beginning with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom Kippur, the Jewish High Holidays, but it also refers to the disjointed state of the world today. “It’s like the beauty and horror of the atomic bomb,” Homes says. “We are blinded by it and also awestruck and paralyzed.” Homes writes about serious topics but always imbues them with her sense of humor. Of the author’s many strengths, one that stands out is her use of dialogue. She grew up reading plays by Edward Albee. He was one of her mentors and, she says, “a real person in my life.” She was an artist in residence at the Albee Foundation in Montauk, N.Y., and then she saw Albee sometimes on Long Island, where they both had houses. “We talked a lot about being adopted,” Homes says. Both she and Albee are adopted; Homes wrote a memoir about being adopted, The Mistress’s Daughter (2007). “Multiple times he gave me the vote of confidence that I very much needed.” Homes also read Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, and avant-

garde British playwright Carol Churchill, and from these greats © marion ettlinger she learned how to make her characters come alive through character observes the wives of his friends and notices they “all conversation. “How can you say what you want to say without wear the same watches, like tribal decorations, symbols of their naming it, while also saying something else simultaneously?” status.” Homes is interested in what we as a society consume Homes asks. “How can you write a sentence that says what you and are consumed by, but she’s also fixated on objects as visual want to say, but adds extra—but also that is not maximal, the- reminders. In “Hello Everybody,” a girl remembers her dead atrical dialogue?” From Miller, she became interested in brother by looking at his G.I. Joe toys. American realism and psychological undercurrents. In “Days of Awe,” a novelist and war correspondent have an There are many recurring themes in Homes’s books, but one affair at a summit on genocide. One of the guest speakers is a that connects several of the stories in Days of Awe is the signifi- German man “whose guilt about civilian passivity during [World cance of physical objects. In “Brother on Sunday,” the main War II] led him to relentlessly collect and catalog the personal

26 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 Author Profile Wr ite It effects of those who disappeared.” He hid items such as candle- approaches short stories differently than novels. “I always say a sticks on his family’s farm for the Jews who never returned. novel is like taking the train cross-country, because you have a Objects are how we memorialize people, Homes says. One of lot of time to go from New York to Ohio to Pennsylvania, and her prized possessions is the inside of a relative’s watch. The case you are going to go the northern route or southern route,” she is gone because the family had to sell it during World War II, says. “In a short story, basically, the train has left and you get on but the heart of it is still there. She keeps it in a drawer next to in Chicago. It’s like something has already happened. I say to my the sore throat surgery medal she received when she was two students [at Princeton, where Homes is a lecturer], ‘Why have years old. These objects are strikingly different, but serve as we been called here? What is it you need us to pay attention to? reminders of the past. Why are we supposed to stop everything else we were doing and “You can’t move through life carrying all of history with you,” come be in your story now?’ So there is a compression.” Homes says. “If you leave history behind, like much of America Interestingly enough, Homes’s most recent novel, May We is doing right now, and just go on without any history, then you Be Forgiven, is written with the compression of a short story. have no capacity to make informed decisions. That’s interesting “It started as a story, and it was supposed to stop after the wife to me.” was killed, that was sort of the end, and it just kept going,” But it’s not just inanimate objects that fascinate Homes. She’s she says. “I remember at various points thinking, ‘Why is this fixated on the ways that people interact. In “The National Cage taking so long?’ And then when I gave it to my editor at Bird Show,” strangers convene in a chat room and talk over each Viking, Paul Slovak, he called me and was like, ‘Chapters?’ other, instead of with each other. One character is a young girl And I never thought about that. He said there are no space living a privileged life in an Upper East Side apartment, and breaks in it. I said, ‘We can put breaks in if you need to go to another is a soldier at war. The others serve as a chorus, according the bathroom. But chapters are a whole different thing to Homes: “They are reflective of all the disconnects. People just because chapters have a shape, too. There is a reason. You can’t want to talk, and don’t necessarily want to engage.” It’s only when just throw chapters into something.’ ” they begin responding to each other that a community forms. Homes stays busy between writing books, writing for televi- Whether Homes is looking sion, teaching, sitting on several boards (she says it’s important at the material world or what to her to be part of the literary community), and raising a teenage lies beneath, her writing gets daughter. “The upside is I never don’t have something to do. And at the core of being human. the downside is I never don’t have something to do. I have no “From the very beginning social life that is not professional in some aspect.” of my career—or when I Homes’s main challenge is finding the time and space to started writing, before I work—which is ironic, since she cochairs the board of Yaddo, an had a career—it’s always organization that awards residencies to writers. Last summer, her been about the space daughter went to summer school at Oxford, and Homes stayed between a public and pri- in a house on campus. Jeanette Winterson helped her out by vate self,” she says. bringing roast chicken and other food, and loaning her a rickety It took Homes a while bicycle. to write all of the stories At Oxford Homes finally realized why some of the stories in this book (Days of weren’t working. “I wasn’t taking enough risks,” she says. Once Awe is her first collec- she figured that out, she says, she was able to finish writing the tion since The Safety of book. ■ Objects, which was published 28 years Michele Filgate is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and a ago), and she contributing editor at Literary Hub.

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Shortly after on and became drawn to Buddhism as a head of the English department at Payne arriving at the festival, between screenings replacement. Though Hurley occasionally University. Life just isn’t kind to Fitger, and excursions close to the novel’s titular enters the point of view of the otherwise- who suffers indignities that include a hotel, Clare spies a man from afar who unnamed master, he remains a shadowy cramped, wasp-infested office, an acerbic looks exactly like Richard. Though she figure. Nicole’s spiritual journey is real- assistant, and having to observe his ex- knows it’s impossible, Clare soon becomes istically convoluted, and Hurley subtly wife’s relationship with the hapless dean. convinced her husband has somehow been brings out the parallels between the Even worse, Fitger must create an unlikely resurrected and begins searching for him. potential for sexual abuse in Buddhism alliance among his eccentric group of Toying with horror tropes and conventions, and Catholicism. This thoughtful novel teachers to unite against Roland Gladwell, and displaying shades of authors such as carefully untangles the often knotty an economics professor who has his sights Julio Cortázar, van den Berg turns Clare’s interconnection between romantic and set on eliminating the English department journey into a dreamlike exploration of religious love, revealing the dangers altogether. Fitger attempts to placate the grief. 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Troy comes at satisfying and fun novel is bolstered by its student fuels Hurley’s quietly chilling the request of his younger brother, memorable campus setting and its quirky debut. In her early 20s, aimless, and Harlan, whose wife, Bettie, has left him cast. (Aug.) grieving the recent death of her father, and taken all their money. The two Nicole begins attending a zendo in the brothers steal a car and hit the road in French Exit Boston area and is drawn to the master search of Bettie, unaware of the sleeping Patrick deWitt. Ecco, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978- who dispenses wisdom there. He selects passenger in the backseat, Martha 0-06-284692-1 her out of the group for a secret sexual Zacharias, an 11-year-old runaway from a In this entertaining novel (subtitled a relationship, which continues for years. Mennonite community. 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28 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 Review_FICTION lawyer husband amassed defending the indefensible. Insolvency comes as a shock [Q&A] to Frances despite repeated warnings her PW financial adviser about her extravagant Talks with Crystal Hana Kim lifestyle. She reluctantly accepts an offer to occupy a friend’s Parisian flat and sets Life During Wartime sail with her rakish, lovesick son, Malcolm; her house cat, Small Frank; and her last In Kim’s debut novel, If You Leave Me (Morrow, July), a young €170,000. On board, she concocts a secret woman’s choice between lovers changes the lives of those around her plan to spend every penny, while Malcolm during the Korean War. befriends a medium who can see the dying (they’re green). In Paris, the book finds its What drew you to write the story of novels about complicated women surest footing, as Small Frank flees and a this family, and to tell it through five growing up in wartime conditions. lonely neighbor connects Frances to a points of view? doctor, his wine merchant, and a private I began with Haemi Lee, who is the How do you think the tension between eye, who locates the medium to contact central figure of the novel. However, tradition and modernization that runs the cat, who may hold some secrets. The as I delved into the intricacies of this through the novel will resonate for love of Malcolm’s life and her dim-witted family surviving the Korean War and modern readers? fiancé also arrive, as does the owner of the the love triangle between Haemi, Haemi wants a college education and now extremely crowded flat. DeWitt’s Kyunghwan, and Jisoo, I realized that desires autonomy, and yet she rejects novel is full of vibrant characters taking multiple voices were necessary. By Seoul’s modernization after the war and good-natured jabs at cultural tropes; also giving voice to the two men in clings to the comfort of her traditional readers will be delighted. (Aug.) her life; her younger brother, Hyunki; clothes. Similarly, I think that people and eventually her daughter, Solee, I often have complex feelings about the The Sea Queen could create mul- traditions they’ve Linnea Hartsuyker. Harper, $27.99 (464p) tiple layers of grown up with versus ISBN 978-0-06-256373-6 meaning and a the modernization that ©nina subin ©nina Hartsuyker’s second volume in her richer texture to the surrounds us. Though trilogy (after The Half-Drowned King) con- novel overall. the tradition and mod- tinues the saga of Ragnvald Eysteinsson, set ernization in my novel in ninth-century Norway, a turbulent How did your is very different from period of bloody unrest. Ragnvald is one of research into the what we face now, I Norway’s collection of minor kings. He is novel’s setting think the core ques- loyal to King Harald, who owns the most change the story you tion of “how much land and wants to unite all Norway under set out to tell? should we embrace his rule, but the rivalries of rebellious petty I grew up hearing technological change kings and the threat of Swedish invasion my grandmother’s and should we be could mean all-out war, and he needs stories about sur- skeptical?” remains Ragnvald’s help. Their greatest enemies are viving the Korean the same. Solvi and King Hakon; their greatest ally is War, so I quickly Svanhild the Sea Queen, Ragnvald’s sister chose Korea in the 1950s as the What do you hope readers come to and Solvi’s estranged wife. Amid Norway’s starting point of my novel. Then, I understand about this era of Korean shifting warlord loyalties, Ragnvald and did a lot of research—I read memoirs, culture and history? Harald are cruel manipulators, but pored over photos of refugee life I hope that by experiencing this story Svanhild proves that Norse women can be during the war, and studied how through Haemi, Kyunghwan, Jisoo, just as vicious and cunning as Norse men. South Korea was transformed after- Hyunki, and Solee’s eyes, readers can Blood oaths, feuds, insults to honor, ward. The information I found was imagine what it felt like to grow up betrayals, and greed fuel the story’s most often about the soldiers’ expe- during this tumultuous time in instances of torture and murder, and the Norsemen are merciless in punishment. riences. I was more interested in Korea’s history. I hope readers come Though overlong, this is an ambitious tale how the women left behind were away from the book considering the of Norwegian medieval warfare told in affected—how these women were ways in which we have all been shaped richly colorful and accurate historical detail. scarred in less visible ways. What I by the social, cultural, and political Hartsuyker’s novel reveals just how tenuous couldn’t find in research I made up expectations of our time. life is when disputes are settled with sword for in imagination and by reading —Victoria Sandbrook Flynn and battle-axe. (Aug.)

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Severance like many young New Yorkers, with retired magician Frank and, although he Ling Ma. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 whether she should pursue her artistic is much older, they form a fast friendship. (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-26159-7 passion (photography) or commit to her Holly is flooded by memories of Sam, and In this shrewd postapocalyptic debut, corporate job. The novel alternates Frank provides Holly with a shoulder to Ma imagines the end times in the world between Candace’s vivid descriptions of cry on, as he can relate to her in a way that of late capitalism, marked by comforting, increasingly plague-ridden, deserted many others don’t as he has also experienced debilitating effects of nostalgia on its New York and her eventual pilgrimage the loss of a former lover. When Frank has a characters. The world has succumbed to to an Illinois shopping mall with a band stroke, Holly faces a crossroads: will she Shen Fever, a “disease of remembering” of survivors, whose leader is a menacing refuse to get over Sam’s death, or will she that renders its victims zombie-like, former IT specialist. There are some sus- find a way to move on? The story unfolds doomed to “[mimic] old routines and pense elements, but the novel’s strength over the course of a year, slowly revealing gestures they must have inhabited for lies in Ma’s accomplished handling of the details of Holly and Sam’s relationship years.” The affected aren’t dangerous, just the walking dead conceit to reflect on as she processes her loss. While sections disturbingly similar to the living in their what constitutes the good life. This is a jumping between Holly’s present with slavish devotion to habit. The narrator, clever and dextrous debut. (Aug.) Frank and past memories of Sam can be Candace Chen, works at a specialty disjointing at first, by the book’s satisfying Manhattan book publisher, overseeing Let Me Be Like Water conclusion, readers will feel they have the printing of specialty Bibles, “the S.K. Perry. Melville House (PRH, dist.), $17.99 grown alongside loving and resilient purest form of product packaging, the trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-61219-726-5 Holly. (Aug.) same content repackaged a million times Perry’s moving debut follows a woman over.” Most of the production takes place moving on after a loss by concentrating on Chariot on the Mountain in China, the source of the fever and the small but important aspects of daily Jack Ford. Kensington, $26 (320p) ISBN 978- Candace’s birthplace. She narrates the life. Holly has moved to Brighton from 1-4967-1309-4 swift spread of the fungal infection, which London after the death of her boyfriend, The stunning travails of Kitty Payne, begins to ravage the city as she struggles, Sam. At the beach, Holly randomly meets an actual Virginia slave who was freed and then kidnapped by her master’s nefarious nephew, come to life in this suspenseful and affecting novel from Ford (The Walls ★ Flights of Jericho). Following the death of her Olga Tokarczuk, trans. from the Polish by Jennifer Croft. master (who fathered her with another Riverhead, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-53419-8 slave), Kitty believes her life and the lives of her three children are in jeopardy, inner of the Man Booker International Prize, because she thinks that without the this novel from Tokarczuk (House of Day, House master’s protection, his wife might sell Wof Night) is an indisputable masterpiece of her and her children and break up her “controlled psychosis,” as one of the characters family. After a botched escape attempt, phrases it. Written in a cacophony of voices, the book’s rather than punish her, Mary Maddox, themes accumulate not from plot, but rather associations wife of the deceased master, confesses her and resonances. It begins in Croatia, where a tourist, husband’s deathbed wish to set Kitty and Kunicki, is lazily smoking cigarettes beside his car in an her children free and helps to make that island olive grove, waiting for his wife and son to return happen: she hides Kitty and her family in from a short walk. Except they don’t, and Kunicki must a carriage and takes them to the free state frantically search for his lost family in a sun-drenched paradise, 10 kilometers in of Pennsylvania through the Underground diameter. The novel then, after some number of pages and disjointed narratives, Railroad. Despite the unfortunate use of joins the peculiar anatomist Dr. Blau’s journey to the seaside village home of a stereotypical dialect and an unnecessary recently deceased rival. This prompts the retelling of the sad, true tale of Angelo preface that reveals much of the plot, the Soliman, born in Nigeria, who had lived as a dignified and respected Viennese climax of the book is a riveting 1846 courtier, only to be mummified and displayed by Francis I as a racial specimen court case—the first in history in which a “wearing only a grass band.” This rumination on anatomy brings into the text the slave brings a lawsuit against a white anatomist Philip Verheyen, born in 1648 in Flanders, who keeps his amputated man. Using actual transcripts, Ford does leg, preserved in alcohol, on the headboard of his bed. The novel continues in this an excellent job portraying the warring vein—dipping in and out of submerged stories, truths, and flights of fantasy factions of the time: those in the South stitched together by associations. Punctuated by maps and figures, the discursive who wanted to preserve their way of life, novel is reminiscent of the work of Sebald. The threads ultimately converge in a and those who felt slavery was unjust. remarkable way, making this an extraordinary accomplishment. (Aug.) The author adeptly depicts a little-known slice of American legal history. (Aug.)

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Hunting Party Agnès Desarthe, trans. from the French by ★ If You Leave Me Christiana Hills. Unnamed (PGW, dist.), $17 Crystal Hana Kim. Morrow, $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-264517-3 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-944700-71-3 In this spirited novel, a well-meaning family struggles to balance tradition and change in wife convinces her sensitive husband, Kim’s marvelous debut. Sixteen years old and Tristan, to embark on a hunting trip with living in a refugee camp in 1951 Busan, South a few overzealous locals from their new A Korea, Lee Haemi is not interested in marrying hometown in the French countryside. but knows the plight of her situation might necessitate Opening with a marvelously clever pas- it. War has put everything on hold except starving, sage told from the point of a view of a dying, and desperation. Her decision to find a husband— rabbit, the early chapters establish borne partially out of hope for finding help for her ailing Tristan’s inability to connect with his little brother, Hyunki—ripples through the lives of rugged fellow hunters, especially the those around her, especially the cousins who compete for outspoken and aggressive Dumestre. her affections: quiet, studious Yun Kyunghwan and After the rabbit from the first chapter is loyal, clever Yun Jisoo. Kyunghwan and Jisoo are both conscripted and go off to grazed by a bullet, Tristan, who doesn’t war, where the former is injured and the latter becomes inured to the staggering want the rabbit to be killed, hides it in violence and cruelty he witnesses. After the fighting, Jisoo asks Haemi to marry his game bag and carries it around. The him, and she agrees, feeling he is the best option to guarantee the safety of her excursion becomes complicated first by family. After they move to a small town and start a family of their own, Kyunghwan Dumestre seriously injuring himself upon tries to get into college and fails; instead, he lands several demeaning jobs before falling into a sinkhole, and later by a massive storm that arrives as Dumestre eventually working his way up the ladder through a series of factory jobs. In a and Tristan wait for the other hunters to crucible of political upheaval, modernization, and tumultuous love, Haemi is come back to the spot with help, pushing faced with choosing between safety and her own passions when Kyunghwan the two dissimilar men to similarly reenters her life. Kim’s lyrical intergenerational saga resonates deeply and will intense emotional reckonings. Dumestre appeal to readers who enjoyed The Orphan Master’s Son. (Aug.) intercuts the dramatic storm sequences with meditative flashbacks to Tristan’s past, and while some of these interludes and Dom are slipping away from her, she nameless narrator agrees to take on the detract from the momentum and thematic begins to dissect her past with Dom and biography project when offered it by an coherence of the novel, the writing is the children in hopes of remembering that acquaintance. Unfortunately for both the dynamic regardless of stakes or subject day and the events leading up to it. narrator and the reader, the narrator has matter. Though the scope of the novel Maddie soon realizes that her family life few sources, none of whom are terribly expands a tad too wide by the end, may not have been as perfect as she forthcoming. Nestor’s daughter, Emma, is Desarthe (Chez Moi) is excellent when she thought, and she wonders if she’s actually coy; stripper and aspiring novelist Anya narrows her sights on the psychology of wandering through life as a shadow of her Luchinskaya has met Nestor only a few her individual characters, whether they’re former self. She begins to question her times; his psychiatrist friend Bernard human or animal. (July) own existence—contemplating whether LaBelle is dead. Nestor has been out of her life is just a dream, or the delusional sight for some time, only surfacing in The Perfect Family thoughts of her disordered mind. The connection with the death in a house fire Samantha King. Kensington, $15.95 trade truth of that horrible day is eventually of a mother and son near the area where paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-1535-7 revealed, but the chaotic finale will both Nestor and the narrator grew up. A King’s tense debut opens with a stretch reader credulity. King, a psycho- dramatic plot turn midway through the masked gunman bursting into Maddie therapist, paints a convincing portrait of a story drastically alters the narrator’s Castle’s home, forcing her to makes a woman in extreme psychological distress. course of action, leaving him at sea. The seemingly impossible choice: she must This is a suspenseful, creepy novel. (July) novel is a patchwork of the narrator’s choose which of her 10-year-old twins, meanderings about New York and Annabel and Aiden, the gunman will kill. Outposts assorted odd vignettes and occurrences. Following the decision and the gunman’s Sean Akerman. Threekookaburras, $24.95 Nestor is described as “one sprawling escape, Maddie is a shadow of the woman trade paper (236p) ISBN 978-0-9953692-2-1 question mark,” and the same could be she was, barely speaking, an outsider in Akerman’s aimless novel tells the story said of this work. The whole is a mass of Aiden and her husband Dom’s lives. of an impoverished scholar and his attempt loose ends that may satisfy readers of Maddie’s memories of that day aren’t com- to forge a career for himself by writing the unconventional narratives but will leave plete: she frequently forgets large swaths biography of Nestor Dunn, a notably others wishing for something more of time, and the guilt of choosing Annabel reclusive yet lauded man of letters. grounded. (BookLife) to die has crushed her. Feeling as if Aiden Threatened by “financial squalor,” the

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into their friend Gerard Holloway, who ★ A Short Film About Disappointment invites them to attend the dress rehearsal of a new play he’s producing. Amory Joshua Mattson. Penguin Press, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-525-52284-3 admires Gerald and his wife’s successful movie critic certain no one reads his reviews fills marriage, since she and charming, cavalier them with details of his personal life in this sharp, Milo have had difficulties in the past. So funny debut set in America’s Central Hub some Amory is shocked to hear that Gerard is A having an affair with his beautiful leading time in the future. Narrating reviews (there are 80 lady, Flora Bell. Someone has been leaving in total) instead of chapters, Noah Body begins with a critique of Having, Not Having, Being, Not Being, a film threatening letters in Flora’s dressing he sees while hiding in a theater from a man he has room, though Milo thinks the threats are angered. Noah’s strong opinions and acerbic humor, inconsequential—until Amory finds Flora’s body hanging from a curtain rope. though entertaining to the reader, undermine his own Suspects include Flora’s dissolute brother, personal relationships, including the burgeoning her ex-lover costar, and her jealous under- romance with a doctor he consults because he believes study. When it comes to theater folk, the himself possessed by his ex–best friend. Noah also best way to uncover a killer is to put on a dreams about writing, directing, and starring in his own movie. Contemporary show, and with the collaboration of Milo cinema still features vampires, monsters, heists, crime family melodramas, and and canny Detective Inspector Jones, historical dramas such as Unsurfable, which depicts how most of the world’s data clever Amory devises a drama to force a and wealth were erased. Noah envisions his own film in the Renaissance and sets confession. Lovers of classic, twisty about trying to get it actually made. With weapons-grade wit, Mattson satirizes British mysteries will have jolly good movies, reviewers, and life in the data age. Even the almost-touching scene when fun. Author tour. Agent: Ann Collette, Rees robotic AlmostPerson Lawrence observes a sunset ends in edgy irony. Mattson’s Literary Agency. (Sept.) exhilarating novel is rife with ingenious humor and inventiveness. (Aug.) ★ Our House The Paris Writers Circle weaknesses, such as Carol’s desperation to Louise Candlish. Berkley, $26 (416p) Norma Hopcraft. Jaguar Publishing, $14.99 have a man in her life. Though grammatical ISBN 978-0-451-48911-1 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-0-9994089-1-9 errors are distracting, there are some British author Candlish makes her Hopcraft’s uneven novel reveals how insightful observations that capture the U.S. debut with an artfully plotted, four expatriates living in Paris find escape essence of writing as an art (“Fiction is the affecting page-turner. Fiona Lawson gets from their personal woes in a writing lie that tells the truth”). Numerous the shock of her life when she returns group. Anjali, in her early 20s, is trying to details about Paris interwoven from a brief getaway to the beloved reconcile the expectations of her Indian throughout also capture the rich history London townhouse where she alternates parents with her own desire to be a free and essence of the city. The novel will custody with her estranged husband, and independent woman. John is an appeal most to those looking for a Bram, of their two children: another American who devotes himself to his straightforward story set in Paris, but family seems to be moving in. Bram has successful investment company located those seeking a memorable cast of char- apparently sold the home out from in Paris while his relationship with his acters should look elsewhere. (BookLife) under her and the kids—and vanished, wife and daughter withers. Carol, a single along with the £2 million payday. Even mother from Britain, struggles with her more devastating betrayals await the fear of losing a job and her anguish about Mystery/Thriller doughty Fi. Alternating narratives—one finding love. And Philippe, an American Fi’s, the other Bram’s—raise the tension. pastor, clings to his faith as he watches An Act of Villainy: In a particularly inspired move, much of alcoholism consume his daughter’s life. An Amory Ames Mystery Fi’s account comes via her emotionally All four find comfort in their creative Ashley Weaver. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) raw tale on a true crime podcast, The writing and in the increasingly constructive ISBN 978-1-250-15975-5 Victim, with tweets from the audience and supportive discussions that positively At the start of Weaver’s elegant fifth serving as a kind of Greek chorus. affect their personal lives. Hopcraft’s mystery set in 1930s England (after 2017’s Movingly chronicling the decline of a characters are hampered by hackneyed The Essence of Malice), London socialite marriage that once looked as solid as the descriptions that often overstate their Amory Ames and her husband, Milo, run couple’s stately red-brick residence, ▲ Our Reviewers Paul Goat Allen Henry Carrigan Stefan Dziemianowicz Michael Kurland Dai Newman Suzanne Shablovsky Sabrina Alli Donis Casey Idris Grey Pam Lambert Eric Norton Erin Talbert Allen Appel Kristin Centorcelli Patricia Guy Diane Langhorst Tim Peters Marta Tandori Nancy Bilyeau Phoebe Cramer Bob Hahn Adam Lipkin Leonard Picker Julia Tilford Nancy Bloch Jessica Daitch Katrina Niidas Holm Constance L. Martin Gwyn Plummer Ira Zarov Vicki Borah Bloom Nora E. Derrington Michael M. Jones Sheri Melnick Lorraine Savage Charlene Brusso Bryan Dumas Kendra Korte Julie Naughton Liz Scheier

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Candlish manages to stash a couple of believes that plaintiffs’ counsel, ruthless ways. Aspiring graphic designer Julia is trump cards, setting up a truly killer South Philly lawyer Nick Machiavelli, swept off her feet by rich and charismatic, climax. American fans of domestic sus- manufactured the litigation, but she can’t if cryptic, lawyer Bryce Covington, and pense will want to see more from this fathom how or why. The firm’s defense drawn into his community at the Church talented author. Agent: Deborah Schneider, attorney, Roger Vitez, claims to have of the Life, led by the reverend and his Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents/ICM everything under control, but when John wife, whom Bryce considers his parents, Partners. (Aug.) is murdered and one of the partners and eventually into the mystical becomes a suspect, Bennie, Mary, and Gathering, in which chosen members Make Them Sorry: Judy refuse to stand idly by. Colorful commune with God. But after they A Camaro Espinoza Novel characters, breezy writing, and a sharp wit marry, Bryce’s controlling jealousy and Sam Hawken. Mulholland, $26 (320p) ISBN 978- keep the tone light, while the ever- the church’s attitudes on wifely behavior 0-316-55938-6 increasing stakes propel the story toward a isolate Julia from work, friends, family, Hawken’s kick-ass third Camaro convenient but otherwise gratifying and medical help for the injuries Bryce Espinoza thriller (after 2017’s Walk Away) denouement. Scottoline insightfully causes her, while Julia’s secret delving finds the hard-drinking, motorcycle- explores the challenges facing powerful into Bryce’s history reveals his dark and riding, mixed marital arts enthusiast women at work and at home. 400,000- violent past. Tense snippets of story that finally achieving some semblance of exis- copy announced first printing. Agent: Robert share bits of Bryce’s childhood or tele- tential peace in Miami, Fla., where she Gottlieb, Trident Media Group. (Aug.) graph Julia’s final acts aren’t enough to runs a charter fishing business. But when build complexity, and Olsen’s depiction of a woman approaches her asking for help Last Looks Julia’s mental state rarely evokes the depth dealing with a stalker, Camaro reluctantly Howard Michael Gould. Dutton, $26 (304p) of conflicted feelings or fear that would agrees to teach her self-defense skills, only ISBN 978-1-5247-4249-2 make the novel affecting. Agent: Sharon to become entangled with killers from a Former LAPD detective Charlie Waldo, Pelletier, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. (Aug.) Colombian paramilitary drug cartel the PI hero of TV writer-producer Gould’s involved in money laundering and drug quirky first novel, is living in a cabin in The Middleman smuggling. Complicating matters is the woods with no plumbing when he Olen Steinhauer. Minotaur, $26.95 (368p) Ignacio Montellano, a Miami homicide receives an unexpected visitor, former ISBN 978-1-250-03617-9 detective, whose friendship with the girlfriend Lorena. Lorena asks Waldo to This smart polemical thriller from prickly Camaro may not only jeopardize take the case of TV star Alistair Pinch, bestseller Steinhauer (All the Old Knives) his career but also their lives. Tightly who’s accused of murdering his wife in a starts off strong, but loses its way. On plotted if a bit predictable in places, the drunken stupor; others later threaten him June 18, 2017, hundreds of people action-packed narrative derives its real with dire consequences if he does take the around the U.S. get a call, then discard power from the complex character of case. Nasty whether drunk or sober, Pinch their phones, credit cards, IDs—and dis- Camaro, whose toughness and bad attitude loves only his five-year-old daughter, appear. They are members of the Massive make Jack Reacher look like a choir boy. Gaby, but he’s a great actor and may not Brigade, a cult organized by social justice Fans of Zoë Sharp’s Charlie Fox will love have killed his wife, so Waldo agrees to revolutionary Martin Bishop. He Camaro, especially her memorable one- investigate. Traveling all over Los Angeles believes American politics has failed, and liners: “I’ve never killed anyone who didn’t by bike, Waldo succeeds in getting beaten repairing it requires radical change, need to be dead.” Agent: Oli Munson, A.M. up by a succession of strangers, including which appears to come about when Heath (U.K.). (Aug.) a thug who wants some item that he simultaneous political assassinations are claims Lorena gave Waldo, who has no carried out at July 4 celebrations around Feared idea what he’s talking about. On the plus the country. Steinhauer has captured a Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) side, Waldo is befriended by Jayne White, very contemporary, very American ISBN 978-1-250-09959-4 Gaby’s beautiful kindergarten teacher, angst—“people are going to have to pull In bestseller Scottoline’s thought-pro- who’s much more than she seems. Well- a trigger, just to be heard”—but the voking sixth Rosato & DiNunzio novel drawn characters compensate for the book’s muddled second half will leave (after 2017’s Exposed), three men complain loosely tied-together, sometimes confusing many readers frustrated because the to the Pennsylvania Human Relations plot. Agent: Jay Mandel, WME. (Aug.) polarities aren’t that clear. Rachel Commission that lawyers Bennie Rosato, Proulx, an earnest FBI agent, is obvi- Mary DiNunzio, and Judy Carrier With You Always ously one of the good guys, but the declined to hire them because of their Rena Olsen. Putnam, $15 trade paper (352p) ostensible bad guys are less well-delin- gender. Though false, the allegation will ISBN 978-1-101-98239-6 eated—and the denouement is unsatis- be difficult to disprove—particularly Olsen follows her debut, The Girl Before, fying. Steinhauer fans will hope for a since Rosato & DiNunzio’s lone male with a tale of domestic abuse set in rural return to form next time. 150,000-copy associate, John Foxman, told one of the New York that suffers from a predictable first printing. Agent: Stephanie Cabot, accusers that he feels marginalized at plot, a bland female narrator, and abusive Gernert Co. (Aug.) work. Mary, who’s seven months pregnant, characters who behave in stereotypical

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★ The Bouncer Freysson’s rooms of a duffel bag stuffed wants him to negotiate the return of two David Gordon. Mysterious, $25 (272p) with cash suggests that the man was Renoir paintings looted by members of a ISBN 978-0-8021-2800-3 involved in something underhanded. The fascist gang in 1944 from the home of One night at Club Rendezvous (“Queens’ police inquiry parallels that of a psycholo- Maurizzio Bezzecca. Maurizzio’s finest gentleman’s club, conveniently gist-turned-journalist, Ísrún, who hopes grandson, Holocaust survivor Solomon close to the airport”), the NYPD, a SWAT her digging will strengthen her profes- Bezzecca, who witnessed the crime as a team, and the Feds roll in as part of a sional standing. Meanwhile, Hlynur 16-year-old boy, wants the paintings back coordinated citywide sweep for anyone Ísaksson, a colleague of Ari Thór’s, has in part because one of them is a portrait of with even remote terror connections and been receiving threatening emails that his grandfather. Though Val believes the arrest several people, including bouncer revive memories of a past shame. The rela- cause futile because Solomon has already Joe Brody, the hero of this impressive tively mundane murder solution doesn’t lost his case in court, he vows to try. Once in crime novel detract from Jónasson’s impressive ability Milan, Val approaches the Renoirs’ current from Edgar- to make human despair palpable. Agent: owner, an art supplier who bought them at finalist Gordon David Headley, DHH Literary Agency a flea market in Hungary for practically (Mystery Girl). (U.K.). (Aug.) nothing, but things quickly fall apart, and During his the paintings are stolen again. Filled with temporary One on One: A Buddy Steel art lore and plenty of Milan local color, detainment in Mystery this standalone will keep readers turning a crowded Michael Brandman. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 the pages. (Aug.) holding cell, (262p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1027-3; $15.95 trade Joe runs across paper ISBN 978-1-4642-1029-7 A Tale of Two Murders an acquaintance At the start of Brandman’s smooth if Heather Redmond. Kensington, $26 (320p) who persuades superficial sequel to 2017’s Missing ISBN 978-1-4967-1715-3 him to take part in a weapons heist. The Persons, Deputy Sheriff Buddy Steele Set in 1835, this languid series launch job goes wrong, but Joe survives and ends receives a call to go to a murder scene at from Redmond (the Redcakes series) turns up in a much more complicated situation. the high school in Freedom, Calif., an Charles Dickens, then a journalist for the Meanwhile, frustrated FBI agent Donna upscale costal community just a couple Evening Chronicle, into a detective with Zamora keeps running across Joe as she of hours’ drive from L.A. For all intents mixed results. A dinner at the home of his tries to move from receiving tips to actual and purposes, Buddy is the acting sheriff editor, George Hogarth, is interrupted by field work. Joe, “a hard-luck kid from of San Remo County in place of his sheriff a scream from a neighboring house, where Queens whose file read like a roller coaster father, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease. Dickens and George’s fetching daughter, of comebacks and blown chances,” proves Henry Carson, the popular assistant Kate, find that 17-year-old Christiana his mettle in the quest to bring down the principal and coach of the Freedom High Lugoson has suffered a collapse that will terrorists. Gordon’s sharply drawn sup- swim team, has been stabbed to death in soon prove fatal. When the reporter porting cast adds a nice balance to all the his office. Buddy’s investigation takes learns that 17-year-old Marie Rueff died action. Cinematic writing makes this an him into murky waters, with sex games, under similar circumstances exactly a obvious candidate for graphic novel or bullying, and cover-ups bobbing to the year earlier, he suspects foul play and film adaptation. Agent: Douglas Stewart, surface. Meanwhile, he has to deal with a investigates the possibility that both were Sterling Lord Literistic. (Aug.) prolific graffiti artist who’s defacing poisoned. His unimpressive probing, property all over town. Buddy’s no-non- aided by Kate, yields multiple suspects Blackout sense approach to crime solving gets with motives including hatred and greed. Ragnar Jónasson, trans. from the Icelandic by results, but along the away some readers Redmond’s opening line (“‘Epiphany is Quentin Bates. Minotaur, $28.99 (272p) may lose patience with the repetitive truly the best of times,’ Charles Dickens ISBN 978-1-250-17105-4 dialogue. Brandman’s three Jesse Stone exclaimed”) sets the tone, and she makes Jónasson’s captivating third Ari Thór novels (Robert B. Parker’s Damned if You sporadic efforts to evoke Dickens’s style Arason whodunit to be translated into Do, etc.) were more satisfying. (Aug.) throughout. Readers interested in fictional English (after 2017’s Nightblind) finds Ari depictions of Dickens that insert him into Thór, a policeman in the small Icelandic A Long Time Coming a mystery plot will be better served by town of Siglufjördur, troubled by his Aaron Elkins. Thomas & Mercer, $15.95 trade such books by Dan Simmons and William recent breakup with the woman he once paper (268p) ISBN 978-1-5039-0238-1 Palmer. Agent: Laurie McLean, Foreword considered the only one for him. He’s dis- This engrossing mystery from Edgar- Literary. (Aug.) tracted from his personal woes by a winner Elkins (the Gideon Oliver series) murder case; someone has killed con- takes Val Caruso from New York, where Quick on the Draw tractor Elías Freysson by smashing him in he’s a curator at the Metropolitan Susan Moody. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978- the face with a length of timber studded Museum of Art, to Milan, where his friend 0-7278-8731-3 with a nail. The victim was known for his Esther Lindauer, the director of the Moody’s pleasant third mystery fea- charitable work, but the discovery in Institute for the Recovery of Stolen Art, turing London art historian Alex Quick

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(after 2017’s Quick off the Mark) opens with a plea from wealthy 25-year-old ★ Without Fear Sandro Grainger. He wants his friend David Hunt and R.J. Pineiro. Forge, $27.99 (528p) Alex, a former police detective, to discreetly ISBN 978-0-7653-9400-2 investigate some thefts that occurred earlier in the year at the Venetian apartment he unearthing of a tactical nuclear bomb in of his uncle, the Marchese Cesare Antonio Afghanistan left behind by Soviet forces drives de Farnese de Peron. Sandro recently Hunt and Pineiro’s outstanding follow-up to their spotted a ring in a London pawnshop that T debut, 2017’s Without Mercy, to which this is a he’s sure is his uncle’s. Alex travels to prequel, set in 2005. The CIA sends Col. Hunter Stark Venice, where one of the suspects she and his operators to retrieve the weapon in Afghanistan, interviews soon turns up dead. Then where a friendly fire incident instigated by a bumbling Sandro is kidnapped, and the Marchese is NATO general kills a CIA team and almost wipes out asked to pay a hefty ransom. Meanwhile, Stark’s unit. Shortly thereafter, Stark and his surviving Alex’s dear old neighbor in Longbury, a men join some Marines and come under heavy fire short train ride from London, has inherited while attacking a suspected IED factory. In one of many gripping battle scenes, two possibly valuable drawings that may Stark and the Marines are rescued by Laura Vacarro, a courageous U.S. Air Force be the work of Tiepolo. Could all these captain flying an A-10 Warthog, who plays a major role in Without Mercy. The incidents somehow be related? Casting action is complicated but never confusing, and the characters are complex as her trained eye on the noble Venetian well as nuanced. Familiar names—George W. Bush, George Tenet, Donald families, Alex discovers that the rich Rumsfeld—supply a vein of realism that adds depth. This military adventure aren’t all that different from the lower orders when it comes to murder. thriller deserves to become a genre classic. Agent: Matthew Bialer, Sanford J. Coincidences abound, but armchair Greenburger Assoc. (Aug.) travelers will enjoy spending time in Venice. Agent: Jane Conway-Gordon, Jane Conway-Gordon Ltd. (U.K.). (Aug.) treasonous conduct that draws in innocent tells Billy that a bombing in a bar that bystanders. Will the three survive? Fans was followed by a retaliatory killing will ★ Before She Sleeps of The Handmaid’s Tale won’t want to miss lead to yet another killing. Billy sets out Bina Shah. Delphinium, $25 (256p) ISBN 978- this one. Agent: Jessica Wollard, David to stop it. Burrowes paints a vivid picture 1-88-328576-0 Higham Assoc. (U.K.). (Aug.) of the inevitability of violence and the Nuclear war and disease have ravaged resulting human wreckage in this worthy the world in this haunting dystopian Trusted like the Fox novel. (Aug.) thriller from Pakistani author Shah (A Wesley Burrowes. Somerville (Dufour, dist.), Season for Martyrs). In Green City, capital $26 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-0-9955239-7-5 Sins of the Fathers of the Sub-West Asia Region, the few Irish playwright and screenwriter Anthea Fraser. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978- remaining women have become Burrowes (1930–2015) movingly exam- 0-7278-8790-0 breeding commodities forced to have ines the Protestant-Catholic divide in Sexual peccadillos drive the plot of this multiple husbands. Despite repression, this nominal thriller. In 1972, Bill well-crafted standalone from British some women rebel and found an alter- Burgess, a successful TV writer in Dublin author Fraser (A Tangled Thread) about nate community, the Panah. These who grew up in Belfast, visits Duncairn, three families, each with its own secrets women go out at night, hidden under Northern Ireland, where he spent about and long-buried resentments. Mark veils and covered in gold powder pre- a year living with relatives as a boy in Richmond, who has problems at home venting their DNA from being detected 1941. Back then, relations between and at work, is waiting in line in London’s on scanners, to provide nonsexual intimacy Catholics and Protestants in the small King’s Cross train station to buy a ticket to high government officials, who crave town were not pleasant, but generally not to York when Helena Crawford, who has being held. Among the rebels are Lin, kid- violent or fatal, as revealed in flashbacks. mistaken him for her hired escort, whirls napped when she was seven by an aunt By 1972, attitudes and stances have hard- into his life. Mark soon finds himself who groomed her to become the Panah’s ened, and the atmosphere is one of suspi- agreeing to accompany Helena to ruler, and Sabine, who seeks refuge from cion, wariness, and hostility. Billy is slow Scotland for her parents’ ruby wedding Green City after her father arranges an to realize just how much the people he anniversary and to pose as her fiancé, undesirable marriage for her. Reuben Faro, knew as a child have changed. Old friends Adam Ryder. Flashback six months to the the head of the governmental ruling body, like Ernie Swindle warn Billy he’s asking 60th birthday party of Peter Kingsley, the is in love with Lin. He protects the too many questions about current poli- father of Mark’s now-estranged wife, in Panah, aware that he will be punished tics, and in one case his inquisitiveness Kent. Trouble is brewing between Peter severely if discovered. Lin, Sabine, and leads to some Ulster men giving him a and Mark’s father, who have been friends Reuben become enmeshed in perilous and beating. The suspense grows when Ernie for decades. Although those expecting

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serious crimes will be disappointed, Fraser killers who have the word puppet carved into president James Atwater. A widower skillfully keeps the reader guessing as to their chests. Cole doesn’t hesitate to go over whose wife died in a car crash and whose who will be/has been sleeping with the top, both in terms of the killings and 19-month-old daughter died of leukemia, whom. This is soap opera of the highest the dialogue (at one point Rouche asks, Atwater is hiding a secret that could end order. Agent: Juliet Burton, Juliet Burton “How do you catch a killer who’s already his administration: he’s sleeping with Literary Agency (U.K.). (Aug.) dead?”). But this is a book that wears its Robin Holdridge, a “full-blown, one- intentions on its sleeve, and readers going hundred percent, dyed-in-the-wool Weekend at Thrackley in expecting even more gruesome thrills knockout” who just happens to be the vice Alan Melville. Poisoned Pen, $12.95 trade than Ragdoll will be satisfied. Agents: Esther president’s wife. As Washington Post paper (248p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0971-0 Newberg and Zoe Sandler, ICM. (July) reporter Henry Saperstein investigates In this slight entry in the British rumors of the affair, a group of terrorists Library Crime Classics series, first pub- ★ Queen’s Progress: led by Musa Abu Tabou, whose “heavily lished in 1934, Melville (1910–1983) A Kit Marlowe Mystery haired body was as dark as his soul,” plot mixes Wodehousian humor (“Girls rarely, M.J. Trow. Crème de la Crime, $28.99 (224p) to assassinate Atwater. Hamilton maxi- of course, look their best immediately ISBN 978-1-78029-104-8 mizes suspense by alternating between after they have been knocked down by Set in 1591, Trow’s dazzling ninth Kit the White House soap opera, which large Rolls-Royce cars”) with murderous Marlowe mystery (after 2017’s Eleventh includes more shocking revelations, and mayhem. Failed would-be author Jim Hour) sends playwright and spy Marlowe the violent progress of Abu Tabou’s team. Henderson, who rarely manages to get out into the English countryside to help make Several graphic sex scenes may be too of bed for breakfast, gets an intriguing arrangements for the aging Elizabeth I’s explicit for some readers. Fans of TV series letter from Edwin Carson, a stranger who forthcoming royal progress, during which like Scandal and 24 will be intrigued. claims to have known Jim’s late father. she will visit various loyal subjects (BookLife) Carson invites Jim for a weekend getaway wealthy enough to host her. But his true at his Surrey home, Thrackley; motivated mission is to by the prospect of free food and free drink, make sure that SF/Fantasy/Horror Jim accepts the offer. He’s pleased to find the queen will an old school chum, Freddie Usher, is also be in safe hands ★ The Philip José Farmer on the guest list. Freddie, who informs during the Centennial Collection Jim that Carson is the world’s leading progress—and Edited by Michael Croteau. Meteor, $50 authority on precious stones, explains that that turns out to (940p) ISBN 978-1-945427-12-1 he was included so that Carson could be very much in This prodigious centennial celebration of assess the Usher family jewels. Other doubt; this was SFWA Grand Master Farmer (1918–2009) guests have brought their jewels—which a time of many is a superb retrospective of his seven decades become the target of a thief. Melville Catholic plots as a writer. It features abundant stories that keeps the action moving, but the light- against the became his signature works, including ness of the plot and characters doesn’t bear throne, and some of the queen’s subjects “The Lovers” and “Mother,” both from the the weight of an 11th-hour reveal. (Aug.) are anything but loyal. Indeed, “if Her 1950s and memorable for their frank treat- Majesty had invited herself to the Vatican, ment of sexual themes that were then taboo Hangman she couldn’t be in more danger,” says Tom in science fiction, as well as “Riverworld,” a Daniel Cole. Ecco, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0- Sledd, the stage manager at the Rose foundational story for his multibook series 06-265398-7 Theatre who’s Marlow’s garrulous number of the same name about an afterlife world of Early in Thriller Award–finalist Cole’s two in spycraft. As the conspiracy unfolds, endless resurrections and reincarnations. fevered sequel to 2017’s Ragdoll, Det. Chief the surprises that come with it are very Farmer’s fondness for Tarzan, Doc Savage, Insp. Emily Baxter, of London’s New well sprung. Real figures, ranging from and other fictional heroes led him to cast Scotland Yard, is visited by CIA agent the “wizard earl” of Northumberland to them in stories often incongruous with Damien Rouche and FBI agent Elliot “Will Shaxsper,” add to the fun. A rich and their pulp origins—such as “The Jungle Curtis. They think she might be interested imaginative story line, leavened with Rot Kid on the Nod,” a clever Tarzan pas- in a recent murder at the Brooklyn Bridge humor, sets this at the forefront of Tudor tiche as though written by William S. (not that could be the work of someone copying historicals. (July) Edgar Rice) Burroughs—and to treat them the notorious serial killer Lethaniel as real people deserving of authoritative “Ragdoll” Masse, whom she help put Presidential Prey analysis, as he recounts in the essay behind bars. Baxter protests that she can James F. Hamilton IV. Battleworld Media, “Writing Doc’s Biography.” Croteau has be of no help in what to her is a clearly $15.95 trade paper (386p) ISBN 978-0-6920- organized Farmer’s work by decade, pro- unrelated case on the other side of the 4495-7 viding pithy overviews of his output and world, but in the end, of course, she travels Stronger on plot than on character, allowing Farmer to comment on it himself to New York, where she joins a team of Hamilton’s melodramatic political through reprints of autobiographical investigators who get on the trail of copycat thriller focuses on the travails of U.S. essays. This book is an exemplary tribute to

36 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 Review_FICTION one of science fiction’s postwar luminaries. multiculturalism through a kaleidoscopic most dangerous foe: Bobby Cross, the Agent: Chris Lotts, Lotts Agency. (Aug.) collection of witness statements and news immortal who ran her down when she was reports. These frequently unidentified, only 16. Bobby’s car runs on the spirits of The Future Is Blue poignant voices show confusion, pain, and the restless dead, and for him, Rose is the Catherynne M. Valente. Subterranean, $40 righteous indignation from many angles, girl that got away. Rose loves her unlife: (376p) ISBN 978-1-59606-874-2 and include one bomber’s mother, govern- her true love, Gary Daniels, is finally with In this challenging collection of 15 ment officials, participants in shadowy her, 60 years after her death, and Rose reprints and originals with a variety of sharia courts, aggrieved white working- enjoys ushering the newly dead into their tones, themes, and styles, Valente’s class men, and a range of bystanders. The next state of being. Rose has a tattoo that unique knack for bending genres and orderly nature of their accounts suggests protects her from Bobby, but when he confounding the senses is on full display. depositions at an inquest, implying an damages the tattoo, Rose must become Her approach is dreamlike, even halluci- eventual return to normalcy, but their flesh and blood again—to her horror—and natory, leaping from one idea to the next words offer no sense of justice or easy enlist the help of her onetime nemesis, with dizzying frequency and skill. Her answers. Characters rarely recur, though folklorist Laura Moorehead. McGuire multilayered, complicated narratives several pieces by a police officer recount gives the headstrong Rose a rich history require careful, in-depth reading to his failure to intervene in the torture of a and firmly anchors her in her present as grasp their full meaning. In the title terror suspect, building a haunting pic- she crisscrosses the country and spends story, set on a drowned Earth, the last ture of guilt and trauma. This complex time in her diner, the Last Dance, with humans dwell on floating cities of gar- picture of a fraught political future will those she loves. This stunning, richly bage, forever holding out vain hope for leave readers unsettled by its terrifying imagined story of love and destiny fea- dry land. “Two and Two Is Seven” glee- plausibility. (Aug.) tures an irresistible heroine and is one of fully plays with alliteration as it exam- the accomplished McGuire’s best yet. ines the lives of ancient machines resigned ★ The Girl in the Green Silk Gown Agent: Diana Fox, Fox Literary. (July) to life in a hidden valley. “Down and Out Seanan McGuire. DAW, $16 (352p) ISBN 978- in R’lyeh” reads like a hybrid of H.P. 0-7564-1380-4 Competence Lovecraft, George Orwell, and Hunter S. In McGuire’s beautifully written Gail Carriger. Orbit, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0- Thompson as it asks just what the Elder second story featuring hitchhiking ghost 316-43388-4 Gods are waiting for. “Major Tom” focuses Rose Marshall (after 2014’s Sparrow Hill In this charming, laugh-out-loud steam- on the intersection of humanity and artifi- Road), set in the same world as the punk escapade, set in an 1895 populated cial intelligence. Even the most straight- InCryptid series, Rose must confront her by a variety of supernatural creatures, the forward offerings are often beautiful and sometimes frustrating, and some, such as “The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild,” are ★ Crusade: The Paladin Trilogy, Book 3 almost impenetrable in their surreal lan- Daniel M. Ford. Santa Fe Writers Project, $19.95 trade paper (768p) ISBN 978-1- guage and artistic construction. This col- 939650-75-7 lection is best suited for completists and devoted fans of Valente’s short works. ord brings the Paladin trilogy (Ordination, Agent: Howard Morhaim, Howard Morhaim Stillbright) to a triumphant conclusion, wrapping Literary. (Aug.) F up a memorable tale of duplicitous diplomacy, dangerous magic, and stealthy intrigue. With a ★ 2020 costly victory at the Battle of Thornhurst behind Kenneth Steven. Arcade, $22.99 (160p) them, warrior Allystaire Stillbright and his cohort ISBN 978-1-62872-881-1 must now bring together a vulnerable host of Steven imagines a chillingly plausible squabbling baronies before the malevolent Temple near future in which a terrorist attack in of Braech, while the Sea Dragon assembles forces to the United Kingdom sparks a radical destroy the newly returned Goddess and her followers. white nationalist backlash. Four young Allystaire strives to bring peace to a chaotic world, South Asian Muslims detonate a bomb on feeling a heavy responsibility to not only earn a reputation for moral strength a sleeper train, killing over 160 people. In and honor—becoming far more worthy of respect than the ruthless “landless the aftermath, incendiary demagogue Eric exile” he once was—but also set an example for others. Creating a fighting Semple runs for Parliament in the fictional force devoted to the Goddess, Allystaire and his companions risk everything to northern England town of Sudburgh, defeat Braech and its minions. Ford’s saga of warring faiths draws the reader espousing the views of White Rose, a xeno- into a vivid world brimming with fascinating characters: some good, some phobic nationalist group. His unexpected bad, and some just determined to survive. This sterling conclusion to an victory leads to violence against both impressive fantasy epic will leave readers cheering. (Sept.) Muslims and Brits, and his own kidnapping. Steven views the fracturing of British

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crew of the Spotted Custard return for a third family is torn apart by the collapse of civi- and successful brothers try to protect her adventure (after Imprudence). The focus lization after a massive solar flare disrupts from scandal, and deserve their matches in shifts to the British airship’s purser, Miss technology around the world and sparks future books. This is a believable and win- Primrose Tunstall, a straitlaced, proper all manner of natural disasters. While ex- ning romance between two people who young woman who finds her perceptions military medic Cameron finds refuge in a don’t know how much they need love. of self and propriety increasingly challenged cabin community in the Pacific Agent: Robin Rue, Writers House. (Aug.) by Tasherit, an immortal werelioness who Northwest, her husband, Alex, and dia- persistently, and often nakedly, flirts with betic 12-year-old daughter, Piper, are left The Highland Chieftain: her. But romance, however unconventional, stranded in New York City. They must Lords of the Highlands, Book 4 takes a backseat to adventure. Primrose trek across an increasingly dangerous Amy Jarecki. Forever, $7.99 mass market and Tasherit must engineer a helium heist country to reunite with Cameron. (352p) ISBN 978-1-5387-2960-1 to save their ship, and then the Custard is Cameron reluctantly assumes leadership Jarecki’s sensual fourth Lords of the dispatched to Peru to investigate rumors of her group of residents and refugees and Highlands historical (after The Highland of a new breed of vampires. While there’s has to deal with personality clashes and Guardian) highlights the allure of the a healthy dose of action in the form of resource management. Meanwhile, Alex early-18th-century Scottish Highlands airship pirates and other hazards of the and Piper must evade marauders and amid the turmoil of Jacobite rebellion. open sky, the emphasis is on the character- weather gone wild, as well as the ever- Lady Mairi MacKenzie, proud daughter of driven, romantic comedy of manners at its present threat of Piper running out of the Earl of Cromartie, was crushed when heart. Carriger excels at wry humor and insulin. This is a strong tale of survival her longtime fiancé, the Earl of Seaforth, clever phrasing, and her ensemble cast is against all odds, and Hunt’s portrayal of a wed another, but she refused Laird Dunn thoroughly charming and satisfyingly devastated society is chilling, but the MacRae’s subsequent offer of marriage, diverse. There’s a genuine sense of whimsy story feels overly ambitious, with a new believing it was only made as a favor to and fun running throughout this story, hazard around every corner—Alex and Seaforth. After Dunn protects Mairi making it a treat for fans of the series. Piper encounter two flash floods in a short during an attack of British redcoats, she Agent: Kristin Nelson, Nelson Literary. (July) period of time, for instance. The book is realizes that his proposal was sincere, optimistic in tone, with an emphasis on based on his enduring affection and admi- Retreads humanity’s resilience, and lands squarely ration of her. The danger is constant as Steve Hobbs. Hatchet Mountain, $14.99 in the middle of the disaster genre Dunn tries to hide Mairi from the red- mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-9993177-0-9 without venturing to innovate. (BookLife) coats. When he whisks her away to safety, Adventurers trapped in the unknown, her father thinks Dunn’s kidnapped her unfriendly parallel universe known as the and puts a price on his head. Sexual ten- Hole must find their way back to Earth in Romance/Erotica sion heats up the pages as Mairi agrees to this action-packed journey between two wed Dunn against her father’s wishes. worlds. Business owner Sam and his friend When a Duke Loves a Woman: Mairi’s fortitude and sense of indepen- and bodyguard, Oscar, cross through a fis- A Sin for All Seasons, Book 2 dence make her an admirable protagonist sure in spacetime and get trapped in the Lorraine Heath. Avon, $7.99 mass market for this fast-paced, expertly crafted Hole, where time goes by much faster. As (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-267602-3 romance. Agent: Elaine Spencer, Knight they search for a way home, they In the enjoyable second Sin for All Agency. (Aug.) encounter helpful and harmful humans, Seasons novel (after Beyond Scandal and dangerous creatures, and resurrected Desire), Heath explores Victorian class and A Respectable Woman people called retreads. Hobbs (New Hope) wealth disparities. Fiercely independent Susanna Bavin. Allison and Busby, $25 ends each chapter on a cliff-hanger as he tavern owner Gillie Trewlove doesn’t hesi- (448p) ISBN 978-0-7490-2129-0 cleverly switches back and forth between tate to save a man who’s mugged by a Escaping one’s past is at the heart of Sam and Oscar’s perilous travels and the young gang. She doesn’t recognize the this endearing historical romance from story of Meg, a retread who’s adjusting to handsome stranger as Antony Coventry, Bavin (The Deserter’s Daughter), set in a her new life centuries after her death. She’s Duke of Thornley, who was searching the small English town after World War II. sure her true love is still alive, even poverty-stricken and dangerous An unexpected visit from a district nurse though they were parted 200 years before. Whitechapel area of London for his no- inadvertently exposes the ugly secret Nell Fans of love everlasting combined with show bride. Having been raised in Hibbert’s husband has been hiding treacherous and fascinating fights for sur- Whitechapel alongside her four adoptive through most of their marriage: a second vival will be completely captivated by brothers, Gillie agrees to help Thorne find wife, who’s just had his baby. Angered by Hobbs’s twisty narrative. (BookLife) his fiancée and ensure her safety. her husband’s betrayal, pregnant Nell Unfeminine Gillie is surprised and runs away from Annerby with her beloved Solar Reboot pleased that Thorne finds her attractive, young son, Alf, in tow. Two years later, Matthew D. Hunt. Matthew D. Hunt, $24.99 but they both know their different social “widowed” Nell and Alf have a new life in (328p) ISBN 978-0-692-91671-1 stations will prevent them from having Chorlton, Manchester, aided by friends In this dramatic apocalyptic thriller, a more than a heated affair. Gillie’s sweet such as window cleaner Jim Franks, but a

38 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 Review_FICTION random act of kindness on Nell’s part sub- home state of Minnesota, his cantankerous ★ Liar, Liar sequently exposes her past and threatens father has a stroke—and Ethan comes Lisa Jackson. Kensington, $26 (416p) ISBN 978- her family’s future. Bavin’s character- face-to-face with his biggest regret: 1-61773-467-0 driven narrative, peppered with colloquial Delilah Jane, the childhood sweetheart he Twenty years after celebrity imperson- dialogue, rings with authenticity. abandoned eight years earlier. Now a ator Didi Storm disappeared in Las Vegas Although Jim’s secret profession as a nurse in their hometown of Forest Lake, with her young twins, abandoning her lawyer is somewhat fortuitous and the Lilah sees Ethan’s father being admitted teen daughter Remmi, a woman dressed plotting is predictable, the sweet attrac- to the hospital and knows that Ethan’s to look like her jumps to her death from a tion between him and Nell give the story arrival won’t be far behind. Ethan knows San Francisco heart, while Bavin’s finely sculpted cast of that breaking up with Lilah was the big- building in this secondary characters, most of whom are gest mistake he ever made, but he begins twisty, sus- struggling with postwar poverty, give the trying to woo her back. But having been penseful story true substance. The focus on histor- abandoned first by her father and then by romantic thriller ical and emotional authenticity will leave Ethan, Lilah’s not sure she wants to try from bestseller readers heartily satisfied. Agent: Laura again—especially when she finds out Jackson Longrigg, MBA Literary. (Aug.) Ethan may just see her as a good luck (Ruthless). The charm. Hunting imbues her characters, apparent suicide The Good Luck Charm especially Lilah, with quick wit and of Didi’s look- Helena Hunting. Forever, $14.99 trade paper enjoyable depth, and the curveball she alike, which (352p) ISBN 978-1-5387-6014-7 throws into the plot at the end is truly Remmi wit- Hunting (Getting Down) sparkles in this surprising, yet believable. Lively sup- nesses, follows the publication of a true well-plotted contemporary about a strug- porting characters, including Lilah’s sassy crime tell-all chronicling the events of gling and superstitious hockey player, his sister, Carmen, add fun to the mix. Didi’s disappearance. With the help of her devastated ex-lover, and the hope and joy Readers will hope for a return to Forest long-ago flame, Noah, Remmi desperately of second chances. Just after NHL player Lake. Agent: Kimberly Brower, Brower attempts to uncover what happened to Ethan Kase is traded from Chicago to his Literary & Management. (Aug.) both her vanished mother and her twin

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siblings all those years ago, while Det. to her and posed by Garrick’s betrothal drags on Dani Settler with the SFPD reopens Didi’s describes the interminably, but fans of romantic passion cold case. Their separate investigations plot of his will forgive much when sparks fly reveal a tangled web of lies, money, and book, which between the lovebirds. (BookLife) familial betrayal. As Remmi gets closer to features a Noah and narrows in on the truth of her Swedish man past, an unnamed marksman hunts her in and an Comics her present. The many threads of this American action-packed, female-driven mystery are woman. The Flocks tied together by the mesmerizing, larger- lines between L. Nichols. Secret Acres, $21.95 trade paper than-life character of Didi Storm, who fact and fiction (320p) ISBN 978-0-9991935-2-5 haunts the book to its final pages. Agent: are blurred This moving, skillfully wrought Robin Rue, Writers House. (July) when Alice indulges in a memorable coming-of-age graphic memoir shares night of passion with Jonas and meets up Nichols’s struggle to integrate his queer Uncharted again with him in Paris for a romantic identity with a devout Southern Baptist Julie Johnson. Johnson Ink, $3.99 e-book interlude. Then Jonas shares some of the upbringing: “No matter how hard I tried, I (241p) ASIN B0774KN1KJ details of his sordid history, and their siz- never heard ‘me’ when they said ‘we.’ ” In this unusual but thoroughly enjoy- zling sexual encounters hint at a dark- Nichols, who is targeted as a lesbian while able contemporary romance, Johnson ness in Jonas that he has worked to sup- growing up (“I heard she’s a dyke”) and now (Like Gravity) pairs a teenage babysitter press. Jonas warns Alice that she will identifies as a transgender man, first pre- and a moody photographer who survive a want nothing to do with him once she sented these stories in a series of pamphlet plane crash at sea. Seventeen-year-old reads the manuscript, and though his comics. Throughout the narrative, Nichols Violet Anderson is embarking on the warning proves true, she is forced to face depicts himself as a button-eyed rag doll, journey of a lifetime: a summer spent him again when he visits her publishing perpetually set apart from “normal” family nannying in the South Pacific. Her first house. Hunter has written her protago- and peers, developing same-sex crushes encounter with acerbic photographer nists with great depth, carefully while still attempting to reconcile his reli- Beck Underwood comes at LAX over a revealing how their pasts have shaped gious faith with the virulently anti-LGBTQ mistakenly claimed bag, and when she their personalities in this page-turner, messages baked into the culture: “Instead of finds out he’s traveling on her flight, which is filled with vivid sex scenes and questioning the church’s teachings, I threw she’s not happy. But soon Violet wishes intense emotion. (BookLife) myself even further in.” Nichols is a tal- that was all she had to worry about: the ented artist, often utilizing symbology private jet crashes in a remote area of the The Earl’s Entanglement: (such as the arrows that point at him when- South Pacific, taking all but three of the Border, Book 5 ever he feels his secrets have been exposed) plane’s passengers to a watery grave. Cecelia Mecca. Altiora, $3.99 e-book (290p) in almost incantatory fashion. Over time, After days of drifting, Violet, Beck, and ISBN 978-1-946510-10-5 Nichols establishes his own flock of family their severely injured companion end up Mecca’s formulaic fifth Border medi- and community as a fully integrated person. on a deserted island. The author skill- eval romance (after The Scot’s Secret), set Written and drawn with equal parts raw fully weaves a narrative that avoids in the turbulent northern region of honesty and a wide-open heart, this lovely cliché. Though the story is more survival England and nearby Scotland, is full-color book should have crossover appeal than romance and some of the details are redeemed by the chemistry between its for younger readers, middle school and up, gruesome, the reader can’t help but be protagonists. Garrick Helmsley, a opening up the experience of any reader captivated by Violet and Beck, their recently returned Crusader who’s heir to challenged by their gender identity, sexu- explosive chemistry, and their dramatic two earldoms (one on each side of the ality, and/or conflicting religious beliefs. tale. (BookLife) border), does not want a wife but is per- (Sept.) suaded by his mother that he will forfeit One More Night his Scottish title and property to a The Great North Wood Rebecca Hunter. Rebecca Hunter, $3.99 jealous uncle if he remains unwed. He Tim Bird. Avery Hill, $14.99 (68p) ISBN 978-1- e-book (229p) ASIN B074G1Q6DY agrees to marry the daughter of a powerful 910395-36-3 Hunter takes readers on a sensual chieftain to help solidify his inheritance. Bird’s longest work since his British journey in this scrumptious contempo- Then he inconveniently meets lovely Lady Comic Award–winning Grey Area is a rary romance. While dining at a Emma Waryn, who wins his heart. Emma breathlessly romanticized depiction of Stockholm pub, New York editor Alice is single by choice; after a lifetime of rules London’s once great forest, the Great O’Connor meets Jonas Hällström, a imposed by her father and brothers, she North Wood. Though much has been Swedish author whose manuscript she has no interest in a man telling her what destroyed to make way for industrializa- acquired at the Stockholm Book Expo. to do. Nonetheless, she’s captivated by the tion, Bird sees evidence and echoes of his The mutual attraction between Alice and handsome knight. The 13th-century set- ancestral forest everywhere. Speaking Jonas is instantaneous when he sits next ting is unconvincing and the conflict through a wandering fox, Bird ushers

40 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 Review_FICTION readers on a tour of London past and teach them something important about Jonas, Juno, Rey, Felix, and Sam. The child present, noting where vague traces of the believing in oneself, too. (June) troops, grouped by the region where they Wood still linger in borough boundaries, were found, are thrown into survival tests place names—and, in the case of Sydenham ★ Coin-Op Comics Anthology: and pushed to their limits, even unto death, Hill Woods, where “nature took back the 1997–2017 as they are formed into war machines. land, and the magic started to return.” The Peter and Maria Hoey. Top Shelf, $29.99 Those who live through it emerge with deceptively simple cartoons belie a rich, (200p) ISBN 978-1-60309-427-6 unshakable bonds, determined to defeat lovingly doodled set of landscapes and This spectacular volume collects 20 years the mysterious alien antagonists. The vignettes that effortlessly reflect the folk- of comics self-published in the Hoeys’ own program’s unethical nature is never lore Bird references. But although his titular series as well as in Blab. The result is downplayed or glossed over, but the story visual storytelling is a delight, Bird fum- impressive not only because of the sibling follows how the children grow and develop bles with how to handle the Romani people team’s skill as illustrators but also the within it as they cope with anger, grief, in his narrative of Gipsy Hill—reprinting thoughtful construction of each piece, and love, and what it means to be trained long-used racial slurs (a character calling their rich pro- killers. Reminiscent of Rucka’s Lazarus themselves “gypsy”) without analysis, duction values. series, the narrative is drawn with detailed, ignoring the historically adversarial rela- The Hoeys’ art expressive art that captures the distinctive tionship between the English and the deco aesthetic is personalities of its ensemble cast. Visually Romani, and erasing that identity from the driven by their appealing, emotionally satisfying, and full folktale “The Story of Ned Righteous.” interest in jazz, of fight, this fast-paced adventure will have Despite evocative visuals and an obvious classic cinema, broad appeal to fans of science fiction, passion for the material, Bird’s rose-colored and pioneering animation; however, their postapocalyptic futures, and elite warrior glasses limit the accuracy of his work, storytelling dips into formal, fractured narratives. (June) giving it a dated, quaint, feel. (June.) experiments. In “The Windy Parade,” the 12-panel pages tell different stories My Solo Exchange Diary, Vol. 1 Claudine depending on if they’re read one at a time or Nagata Kabi, translated from the Japanese by Riyoko Ikeda, trans. from the Japanese by as a whole. “Une Lune Andalouse” (cow- Jocelyne Allen. Seven Seas, $14.99 trade paper Jocelyne Allen. Seven Seas, $13.99 trade ritten by C.P. Freund) is a mash-up of (168p) ISBN 978-1-62692-889-3 paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-62692-891-6 Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window with Luis In this vulnerable autobiographical Featuring flowing layouts and glamor- Bunuel and Salvadore Dali’s Un Chien follow-up to Kabi’s surprise-hit debut ously stylized, statuesque figures, the first Andalou, merging the suspense of the manga, My Lesbian Experience with English translation of this novella, origi- former with the transgressive elements of Loneliness, Kabi writes to her past self: nally published in 1978, from the creator the latter, all while emphasizing the films’ “Dear Nagata Kabi, hello. This is Nagata of The Rose of Versailles is well-timed to common element of voyeurism. The running Kabi.” She updates herself on new events, spark conversation around transgender “Saltz and Pepz” strips are a tribute to Floyd shares deep and not-so-deep thoughts, and representation in literary history. The tale Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse comics, but frequently panics over her messy life. follows Claudine, a transgender man, as with a nasty, modern sensibility. “Valse Compared to the previous manga, this he goes through life in early-20th-century Mecanique” (again, co-written by Freund) sequel is looser, with less of the driving, France seeking unconditional love and limns the tenuous relationship between man neurotic urgency that distinguished acceptance among friends, family, and and machine, inspired by Fritz Lang’s film Loneliness. Kabi is still struggling to under- society—and perhaps even from him- Metropolis. Each page is a feast for the eyes. stand sex and love, still dominated by her self—as he navigates thorny family secrets This is a striking assemblage of two decades disapproving parents, still awkwardly and dramatic twists of fate. Each part of of challenging, entertaining, and crisply learning how to be an adult—but circum- Claudine’s life is framed by the types of beautiful stories. (June) stances are slowly becoming less dire. She pushback and doubt trans people face. moves into her own apartment and even Claudine’s psychiatrist friend provides ★ Orphans, Vol. 1: The Beginning goes on a nervous first date. All these frequent voice-over to help the reader Roberto Recchioni and Emiliano Mammucari. developments are illustrated in Kabi’s dis- understand Claudine’s plight and char- Lion Forge, $19.99 trade paper (352p) tinctive sketchy, high-energy art, with her acter; however, the cultural verbiage is ISBN 978-1-942367-17-8 cartoon avatar appearing as a cute, spindly occasionally dated, and the translation An explosive, apocalyptic opening figure with big worried eyes. She depicts stiff. The reading of each page, too, introduces this enthralling military sci-fi her inner conflicts with fanciful visuals: requires closer attention than modern series where the action and emotional when she discovers that her mom has read manga, which may prove challenging for beats never let up. After an alien weapon her comics, for example, a rope squeezes some fans—though arguably easier for devastates Earth, the survivors are willing her heart. While it feels less essential than readers of Western comics. However, to do anything to take the fight to the its predecessor, fans will be eager to check technical details aside, this is a properly enemy, including training orphaned chil- in on Kabi and cheer for her floundering PG-13 melodrama of the type teenagers dren to become elite soldiers. The central movements toward happiness. (June) love to swoon over—and it might just child squad includes six members: Ringo,

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enough physiology to make scientific Nonfiction details easily understood, Jahaur empha- sizes how brave, desperate, and sometimes Creating Things That Matter: foolhardy experiments led to important The Art and Science of developments, such as the heart-lung Innovations That Last machine, which allows doctors to perform David Edwards. Holt, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-1- heart surgeries that take longer than a few 25014-718-9 minutes without causing brain damage. In this fascinating study, Edwards, a Alongside these medical success stories, Harvard professor and inventor, explores Jauhar shares personal encounters with an adventurous approach to creating new heart disease, through the deaths of family products and services, positing it as crucial members and through his own diagnosis to a challenging period when “our many with coronary blockages. Jauhar achieves inventions, from skyscrapers to polyester a balanced tone throughout, sharing pro- clothing,” are causing as many problems as found admiration for what can be accom- they solve. He distinguishes “commercial” plished by treating the heart as a machine, and “cultural” approaches to creation— while also urging the reader, and the med- respectively concerned with a short-term ical community, not to undervalue of the impact on others, and with gratifying one- significance of the “emotional heart.” To self—from his preferred “aesthetic” this end, he points to the fraught emotional approach, which expresses one’s personal dynamics of providing devices like defi- sense of the world but can also leave a brillators that can prolong life but also lasting impression on others. Edwards provoke traumatic stress and constant fear cites insights from students in his Harvard A portrait of Katherina Hetzeldorfer, who was in the patients who use them. class, “How to Create Things & Have executed in 1477 for seducing women in Germany, Throughout, Jauhar is thoughtful, self- Them Matter,” and provides in-depth case as seen in Ria Brodell’s Butch Heroes (reviewed reflective, and profoundly respectful of study examples—a chef who “changed the on p. 44). doctors and patients alike; readers will trajectory of haute cuisine” and helped respond by opening their own hearts a popularize it; a prolific patent holder and ceeds to the provocative changes coming little bit, to both grief and wonder. 22 engineer who exhibits “aesthetic empathy” with improvements in genetic analysis b&w illus. (Sept.) in his collaborations with others; the exec- and gene-editing technology. Rees also utive producer of the American Repertory examines how a workforce largely Live Long and... What I Might Theater, whose populist reimaginings of replaced by automation and artificial Have Learned Along the Way Shakespeare provide an example of “get- intelligence could find itself freed to William Shatner, with David Fisher. St. Martin’s/ ting people to do the unexpected, and to pursue lifelong learning and even space Dunne, $26.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-250-16669-2 enjoy it.” Edwards also draws historical exploration, eventually choosing to Shatner, with the assistance of Fisher examples from the Italian Renaissance to abandon human shape for “post human” (coauthor of Shatner’s previous memoirs), help readers understand “the stream of bodies modified through genetic and opens this frank and witty memoir by innovation coming at us today.” His work cyborg technologies to be better suited to admitting, “I have lived a fortunate life.” imparts an invigorating sense of discovery hostile new environments. Reaching far Shatner, known for his portrayal of Captain and of hope for a more innovative, compas- ahead, Rees even considers how contact Kirk on TV’s Star Trek (and later in the Star sionate, and collaborative future. (Oct.) with alien life might change the human Trek films), grew up in Montreal and is race. This far-ranging but easily understood candid about his loneliness as a child. He On the Future: collection of ideas shares and communicates lived at home until he graduated from Prospects for Humanity the enthusiasm of Rees’s “techno-optimist” McGill University, and his relationship Martin Rees. Princeton Univ., $18.95 (136p) view of the prospects for humanity. (Oct.) with his mother was complex (he asked his ISBN 978-0-691-18044-1 mother whom she loved most, and she The latest work from Rees (From Here to ★ Heart: A History answered, “Daddy, because he gives me Infinity), who has served as the U.K.’s Sandeep Jauhar. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, things”). Shatner lauds the courage of his astronomer royal since 1995, offers forecasts $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-16865-0 friend Christopher Reeve after Reeve broke of impending technological developments Cardiologist Jauhar (Intern) moves his neck in a horse-riding accident, and and words of hope for the human ability to beautifully between “dual tracks” of laments the loss of close friend Leonard use science to repair a wounded planet and “learning about the heart... but also what Nimoy, “who understood addiction, who improve lives. Rees begins with a look at was in my heart,” with passages of knew all about alcoholism and warned me how “clean” technology can help reduce memoir counterbalancing a lay-reader- it was more powerful than I possibly could carbon emissions and diminish the imme- friendly history of the development of car- understand.” Shatner delivers sage advice diate problems of climate change. He pro- diac medical technology. Covering on romance, wealth (“Live within your

42 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 Review_NONFICTION means... try to stay out of debt”), and his oppressive state as evidence of a “creeping account of his subject’s life that doesn’t prolific career, and his honesty will reso- corporate coup d’état,” decries the fiction shy away from negatives, such as a reputa- nate with readers (he was so broke at one of an economic recovery, and paints the tion as a “dictator” among his colleagues, point that “when Star Trek was canceled, I election of Donald Trump and the ascen- or the obsessive dedication to work that was Captain Kirk, though I couldn’t cash a dancy of “his coterie of billionaires, gen- exacted a toll on Abbey’s family life. But $15 check”). At 87, Shatner movingly erals, half-wits, Christian fascists, crimi- those failings are put in perspective by reflects on his long life as a gifted, trou- nals, racists and moral deviants” as Abbey’s immense contributions to space bled, hard-working entertainer. (Sept.) embodying “the moral rot unleashed by science, including his advocacy, as the unfettered capitalism.” He turns an person responsible for the selection and Vanishing Twins: A Marriage unflinching eye on the opioid crisis, the training of astronauts, for the recruitment Leah Dieterich. Soft Skull, $16.95 (304p) evisceration of organized labor, and the of women and minorities. NASA buffs ISBN 978-1-59376-291-9 resurgence of hate groups, and supports will be fascinated by this profile of an Dieterich (Thxthxthx: Thank Goodness his contention that laborers are on a undervalued figure whose most significant for Everything) chronicles her romantic life “global plantation built by the powerful” legacy, Cassutt concludes, was at the in this intimate and passionate memoir, with harrowing descriptions of sex work human level—making “spaceflight avail- which focuses on the link between iden- in the pornography-industrial complex. able to all, regardless of citizenship, tity and love. The narrative’s central met- In Hedges’s view, the few positive gender, color, or ethnic background.” aphor comes from the phenomenon of the responses left to Americans are to band Agent: Stephen Barr, Writers House. (Aug.) fetal “vanishing twin,” when “one twin together for small-scale socialist enter- becomes less viable and is... absorbed by prise and community, and engage in “a Blood Papa: the other twin.” Dieterich explores each of global fight for life against corporate tyr- Rwanda’s New Generation her relationships as the quest to become anny” as exemplified by the protests Jean Hatzfeld, trans. from the French by either the viable or absorbed twin. In her against industry might and police power Joshua David Jordan. Farrar, Straus and husband, Eric, an architect and artist, she in Standing Rock, S.Dak., and Ferguson, Giroux, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-27978-3 recognizes the nurturing compatibility of Mo. Though this account is trenchant, French journalist Hatzfeld (The Antelope’s a partner, observing, “It’s like we’re the even the staunchest adherents of Hedges’s Strategy), who has authored three previous same person. We finish each other’s sen- unreconstructed socialist views may feel books about the 1994 Rwandan genocide— tences. This is what we’ve been taught to drained by the unrelenting bleakness of the planned slaughter of more than 800,000 desire and expect of love.” Then Elena, a its worldview. (Aug.) members of the Tutsi ethnic group by filmmaker, enters Dieterich’s life. Hutu political elites—investigates the Dieterich develops a romantic relation- The Astronaut Maker: How One legacy of those massacres to powerful ship with Elena, and in the process Mysterious Engineer Ran Human effect. He interviews young adults from explores questions of fidelity, monogamy, Spaceflight for a Generation Nyamata district who were either too and the malleability of sexual identity. Michael Cassutt. Chicago Review, $30 (512p) young at the time to remember the events Dieterich’s self-exploration is also ISBN 978-1-61373-700-2 or who were born in the years following, informed by her experience as a ballerina, Cassutt (coauthor of We Have Capture) and some of their parents and teachers. as when she observes that the dancers in traces the arc of American space flight in Surprisingly, the offspring of the Hutu the George Balanchine ballet Agon never this captivating biography of a NASA genocidists appear to have suffered more “merge their bodies into one and become figure largely unknown to the general deeply than those of the Tutsi survivors, set dressing.” Like her relationships, the public despite his essential contributions according to Hatzfeld: Tutsi children structure and style of the book explores to the lunar missions and the Space receive educational stipends from the unconventionality. Dietrich writes in Shuttle. Over an almost 40-year career, government, which has led to unequal short passages that could be read as prose George Abbey rose through the agency’s opportunities, and the killers’ children poetry. The narrative, though, is seamless, ranks, from his start in 1964 as a low-level feel deep shame. “We pay for sins we as she traverses a period of uncertainty and engineer, to become the director of flight didn’t commit,” laments the daughter of questioning into comfortably claiming operations for one Hutu prisoner. Despite, or perhaps her queer identity. (Sept.) the Johnson because of, the government’s prohibition Space Center, on talk of ethnicity, “deep down, a lot of America: The Farewell Tour and eventually young people from both ethnicities con- Chris Hedges. Simon & Schuster, $27 (400p) the center’s ceal a desire for revenge,” admits the ISBN 978-1-5011-5267-2 director. daughter of a Tutsi survivor. This book, Journalist Hedges’s latest critique of Drawing on more of an ethnography than a history, late-stage capitalist America is forceful interviews with exposes the effects of the genocide’s stub- and direct, reflecting a weary despair Abbey and born legacy on the next generation, but backed up by diligent reporting. He sees about 50 others, is not an introduction to the events of the ills of drugs, gambling, pornography, Cassutt renders 1994. Readers approaching it without hate groups, mass incarceration, and an a balanced prior knowledge of the genocide or

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Hutu-Tutsi relations will have a hard Hetzeldorfer, who was drowned for technology, severe weather, and under- time fully understanding it, but those seducing women in 15th-century mining men to accomplish their goals. who have context will find this an illu- Germany, or Ann Marrow, an American Primary among their many antagonists in minating update. (Aug.) writer who in 1777 was sentenced to this account is Cliff Henderson, million- three months in an English prison and aire promoter and organizer of the Brainstorm: Detective Stories one day in a pillory for wearing men’s national air races, who first manipulates from the World of Neurology clothing. Not all of the biographies are women to promote his sport and then has Suzanne O’Sullivan. Other Press, $27.95 about punishment. Petra Ruiz enlisted in them banned from competing in it. The (336p) ISBN 978-1-59051-866-3 Mexico’s Constitutionalist Army in 1913 women’s victorious fight against his ban In an informative if less than riveting under the name Pedro and became a opens the door to even greater success and casebook, neurologist O’Sullivan (Is It All respected lieutenant during the Mexican recognition as equals to men in the air. in Your Head?) draws on clinical experiences Revolution. In 18th-century Italy, This fast-paced, meticulously researched with patients suffering from epilepsy to people in the hill town of Montepulciano history will appeal to a wide audience examine the mysterious connections petitioned for the canonization of both as an entertaining tale of bravery and between memory, imagination, fear, and Giovanni Bordoni, who was born as an insightful look at early aviation. seizure. She dubs epilepsy “the ultimate Catterina Vizzani, but the medical exam- Agent: Richard Abate, 3 Arts Entertainment. disease chameleon” and in 12 case studies ination following his death revealed that (Aug.) tries to shed light on the much misunder- he was female. Each of the paintings fea- stood affliction. Though the storytelling is tures the subject at the forefront of a King Con: The Bizarre Adventures disappointingly pedestrian, the author suc- symbolic scene. Catharina Linck, for of the Jazz Age’s Greatest Impostor ceeds both in showing the brain as the most example, a Prussian woman who lived as Paul Willetts. Crown, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0- sophisticated of all puzzles and in giving a a man in the 17th century and was prose- 451-49581-5 sense of the intricate problem solving that cuted for sodomy, is pictured headless at In this extensively detailed biography, goes into the diagnosis and treatment of the scene of her execution. This is a Willetts (Rendezvous at the Russian Tea brain ailments. She is candid about her serious—and seriously successful—queer Rooms) traces the brazen and bizarre life uncertainties—the risks of surgery, the side history recovery project. (Aug.) of Edgar Laplante, an early 20th century effects of medications, the limitations of drifter and conman extraordinaire. technology. Movingly, she recounts her Fly Girls: Laplante came of age as a traveling struggle to understand a medical puzzle—a How Five Daring Women Defied All vaudeville performer who was at first healthy-looking patient with an abnormal Odds and Made Aviation History content to capitalize on small-scale brain scan—and her sense of helplessness Keith O’Brien. HMH/Dolan, $28 (368p) schemes impersonating celebrities while when another patient has a seizure during ISBN 978-1-328-87664-5 collecting speaking fees in small-town a clinic visit. However, the frequent asides Journalist O’Brien (Outside Shot) tells venues. Over time, he became bold on the history of brain research tend to the exciting story of aviators who, though enough to make up identities of his own, impede the stories’ flow, and the excite- they did not break the aviation industry’s the most famous being American Indian ment of “detective stories” promised by glass ceiling, put a large crack in it. He “Chief White Elk.” Adorned in a feath- the subtitle never arrives. However, the focuses mostly ered headdress, he addressed spellbound various viewpoints included from patients on five impor- crowds as he spoke of the plight of “his” coping with epilepsy will make this a tant fliers: embittered Native people—all the while valuable resource for anyone interested in Louise Thaden, profiting off the ticket sales of those who the topic. (Aug.) a studious pilot, paid to see him speak. Later, Laplante fell mother, and into the good graces of two Austrian Butch Heroes wife; Ruth countesses whose “heaven-sent gullibility” Ria Brodell. MIT, $24.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-262- Nichols, who allowed him to leech off their vast wealth 03897-3 was brave and and reach the pinnacle of his hustler life, Visual artist Brodell delivers an ambi- willing to do soliciting hefty loans from the family tious and wonderfully celebratory ode to anything to be while staying in Europe’s fanciest hotels. the lives of 28 people over many centuries the best; Amelia Willetts’s biography occasionally gets “assigned female at birth” who “had docu- Earhart, the smartest of the bunch, with bogged down by detail—a passage about mented relationships with women, and average flying ability, but the weight of Laplante’s short-term residence at the whose gender presentation was more mas- powerful money behind her; Ruth Elder, Montana Soldier’s Home leads to a long culine than feminine.” Inspired by gorgeous and bright, who went on to star tangent about his education at the Catholic prayer cards, the book pairs in films; and Florence Klingensmith, a Sockanosset School for Boys 17 year ear- short, densely detailed biographies with high school dropout and a naturally tal- lier—but he keeps the narrative alive with stylized gouache portraits in bold satu- ented pilot and mechanic who could chal- the colorful anecdotes from Laplante’s rated colors. Many of the stories involve lenge the men head-to-head in speed remarkable life. (Aug.) violence or persecution, like Katherina racing. They fought against rudimentary

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Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs Nathalie Molina Niño, with Sara Grace. [Q&A] TarcherPerigee, $16 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-313220-2 PW Talks with Adam Kirsch While observing the existence of steep obstacles, Nino, founder of Brava Why Letters Matter Investments, dispenses approachable, energetic inspiration for women aspiring Kirsch, senior editor at the New Republic, has edited the first to become startup creators. Speaking from edition of the letters of critic Lionel Trilling, Life in Culture personal experience, she makes note of (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sept.) the discouraging effects of female and minority under-representation in busi- Why publish a volume of letters such a huge number down to the 270 ness, with only 2.5% of venture capital from any author? And why Trilling in the book? funding going to women, of whom only in particular? To choose, I focused on what engaged about 0.2% are women of color. Her focus Letters give you a sense of writers his mind, which was often politics, is on scale; through her own firm, which behind their public faces. First, they the issues that mattered to liberals in invests in companies that will benefit offer a more intimate look at the author. New York City in the 1930s, ’40s, and women, she aims to “level the playing Second, they provide a historical back- ’50s. He wanted to make liberals of field for a billion women,” rather than ground and context to what the his period think twice—about Stalin, make one woman the “next Zuckerbergian author was writing about. As for for instance. You can see real histor- billionaire.” Stating that “you have to Trilling, I love his work. I became ical events unfolding in real time in hack the system as it is,” Niño dispenses interested in editing the the letters. I also chose various “hacks” in five sections, succes- letters as I looked at the letters that reveal his sively titled “Ready,” “Set,” “Go,” Columbia University Jewish background, “Fund,” and “Grow.” They include, in archives, after I wrote Why although he kept it at “Ready,” the admonition “You Don’t Trilling Matters. I found arm’s length. He never Need a Hoodie”—understanding that the that his was a substantial hid that he was Jewish, skill set associated with entrepreneurship archive, something but he didn’t want to be is not limited to men—and, in “Grow,” waiting to be discovered. labeled a Jewish writer. “Out-Kardashian the Kardashians”— successfully using social media marketing What surprised and inter- Morality and political techniques without having to rely on ested you most about engagement were central celebrities. This is a must-read for any Trilling’s letters? to Trilling’s thoughts woman whose has a great idea and the Most surprising were the about literature. Does he nagging thought that doors are closed to early letters from Trilling to his wife, offer any insights for our own times? her; Niño helps to blow them open. Agent: Diana, because they show his naked Trilling was definitely on the left, and Joy Tutela, the David Black Literary Agency. and vulnerable side. He revealed his interested in writing about deficiencies (Aug.) self-doubts to her as he usually didn’t of the left. He wanted to explore the to others. Interestingly, Trilling left’s unexamined assumptions at a time Playing to the Gods: Sarah writes about problems we still when liberalism was in the ascendance. Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the struggle with today—for example, That’s not like today, where the right is Rivalry That Changed Acting Forever Huckleberry Finn. In one letter, an in ascendance. It’s impossible to know Peter Rader. Simon & Schuster, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4767-3837-6 editor wants to replace the “n”-word what he would say today. when reprinting a Trilling essay, but Screenwriter Rader makes his first foray Trilling won’t allow it—he feels he What did you most enjoy about into nonfiction with this delectable tale of needs to stay faithful to Twain’s text. editing the collection? two feuding stage actresses at the end of Reading Trilling can help us under- Like many people, I think there is the 19th century. Sarah Bernhardt (1844– 1923), the better known of the two, com- stand how people might have thought something magical about handling manded the stage, never disappearing into differently 50 years ago than today. paper and ink, some of it almost 100 her roles. Wildly popular and a self-pro- years old. In a hundred years, when we motional genius, she transformed acting You say in the introduction that look back to today, we’ll no longer be from disreputable entertainment to high Trilling wrote more than 600 letters dealing with handwritten documents. art and mined her professional and private per year for 50 years—how do you cull —Diane Reynolds lives to invent the “eccentric celebrity” archetype. Born in Paris to an unmarried

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Jewish courtesan, Bernhardt used sex to context. The World Series has the barest The Contest: The 1968 Election secure patrons and break into acting. connection to the war or the epidemic, and the War for America’s Soul Eleonora Duse (1858–1924), born to a and is significant retrospectively only Michael Schumacher. Univ. of Minnesota, family of wandering Italian troubadours, because the Boston Red Sox didn’t win $34.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-8166-9289-7 first appeared on stage at age four. She the Series again for 86 years. The author Drawing largely from oral histories and later adopted an acting method different muddies the waters further by discussing papers of the major candidates, from her idol Bernhardt, disappearing the women’s suffrage movement and Schumacher, author of biographies of Eric into her characters. Her revolutionary Woodrow Wilson’s failed efforts to Clapton, Francis Ford Coppola, and Allen style ushered in a new era of acting that bring the United States into the League Ginsberg, delivers a straightforward threatened to leave Bernhardt behind. of Nations. This book contains a lot of account of how the candidates in the 1968 Writing in a style both humorous and noteworthy facts, but readers seeking to American presidential election grappled romantic, and throwing in juicy tidbits learn something new about the three with events and their own inner demons. (catty notes, cheating lovers) all along, subjects listed in the title should look Sensing electoral doom given the unpopu- Rader follows the careers of both women, elsewhere. (Aug.) larity of the Vietnam War, Lyndon leading to their 1895 dueling stage per- Johnson backed out of a second-term run, formances in London (in which Bernhardt Ballots and Bullets: Black Power leaving the race to three candidates: intentionally tried to undermine Duse by Politics and Urban Guerrilla Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who tried putting on the same play Duse had Warfare in 1968 Cleveland and failed to break with Johnson over the already planned—but premiering two James Robenalt. Lawrence Hill, $27.99 war, dooming his candidacy in the pro- days earlier) and the subsequent escalation (304p) ISBN 978-0-897-33703-8 cess; Republican Richard Nixon, who, of their rivalry (in which Duse “hijacked” Cleveland attorney Robenalt decon- determined not to let the prize slip a role from Bernhardt in a performance for structs the events leading to a violent through his fingers a second time, shed the U.S. president). This entertaining 1968 confrontation between black his ignominious 1960 persona and rein- chronicle illustrates how both women nationalists and the Cleveland police vented himself as a vigorous glad-hander; captivated audiences and made a lasting that left three officers, three nationalists, and arch-segregationist Independent impact on the theater. Agent: Becky Sweren, and two civilians dead in this valuable George Wallace, who drew Nixon right- Aevitas Creative Management. (Aug.) history. Robenalt meticulously examines ward into the embrace of Southern racists. the larger forces that drove the 1960s At the July Democratic convention, there September 1918: black nationalism movement and the was violent confrontation between War, Plague, and the World Series motivations and experiences of the indi- Chicago police and the Yippies, Students Skip Desjardin. Regnery, $29.99 (320p) vidual black nationalists involved in the for a Democratic Society, the Black ISBN 978-1-62157-620-4 uprising. Particularly insightful are the Panthers, and other antiestablishment Google executive and former Yahoo discussions of the national debates groups who turned up to protest. Like the sportswriter Desjardin attempts to link among black people about how to election itself, the book is anticlimactic: WWI, the Spanish flu epidemic, and the improve the status of black Americans, there’s plenty of good storytelling but no 1918 World Series in this unconvincing specifically the contrast among the paci- new revelations. This durable history historical account. The city of Boston is fist views of Martin Luther King, the underlines all the nuances for readers who portrayed as an important common more militant internationalist view of lived it and showcases the period’s drama thread, but using the city as a linking Malcolm X, and the even more militant for readers new to one of the defining factor doesn’t shed any new light on this view of other radical groups. Equally sagas of the ’60s. (July) time of well-documented upheaval. The illuminating is Robenalt’s frank descrip- descriptions of the war and the flu and tion of the inequities affecting A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, their effects are well-researched, but the Cleveland’s black population, which and the Cold War Struggle in Poland calamities consumed other parts of the included high unemployment, a tattered Seth G. Jones. Norton, $27.95 (320p) United States just as much as they did relationship with the police, inadequate ISBN 978-0-393-24700-8 Boston. And, medical care, and animus directed at Jones (In the Graveyard of Empires: while Desjardin them by the city’s politicians’ and law America’s War in Afghanistan), a political writes vividly enforcement, while one participant said, scientist at the Center for Strategic and about baseball, “It started over 200 years ago,” when International Studies, offers a complex the role of rising asked why the militancy now. The and well-written account of a major U.S. star Babe Ruth, moment-by-moment description of the intelligence operation of the Cold War. and tussles firefight between police and black When the power struggle between between players nationalists is chilling. Readers will find Poland’s Communist government and and owners over much to contemplate in this balanced the popular pro-democratic, unionist money, these report. Agent: Jane Dystel, Dystel, Goderich Solidarity movement led to the procla- events seem and Bourret. (July) mation of martial law in December trivial in this 1981, President Ronald Reagan saw an

46 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 Review_NONFICTION opportunity to bring the Cold War just the populist right but the post- Galantière: The Lost home to the Soviet empire by guile modern, literary theory of the academic Generation’s Forgotten Man rather than force. He was the behind- left—formerly subversive critical Mark I. Lurie. Overlook Press LLC, $22 (412p) the-scenes patron of Operation stances that, she argues, have ISBN 978-0-9991002-2-6 QRHelpful, which furnished Solidarity bequeathed a nihilistic rejection of Lurie’s dutiful biography of Lewis with resources to print leaflets, finance reason and Enlightenment values. Galantière (1895–1977), his first cousin radio and television broadcasts, and Citing writers including Hannah once removed, tells a clear-cut tale of a organize demonstrations. By 1989 the Arendt, George Orwell, and David man who crossed paths with Sherwood movement had gotten Poland closer to Foster Wallace, Kakutani offers a Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and James free elections, and two years later a sophisticated, wide-ranging exploration Joyce, among Solidarity leader was elected president. of theories of propaganda and debased many other lit- Despite the useful foreign assistance, speech and their insidious effects. erary notables, the keys to the operation’s success were Unfortunately, she takes her critique to helping them in Polish: old-line trade unionists, ideal- extremes, likening Trump to Hitler, significant ways. istic intellectuals, and Catholic clergy. Lenin, and Mussolini, conjuring omnip- Galantière grew Some names remain familiar, like those otent conspiracies of Kremlin-backed up in a tenement of Solidarity cofounder Lech Wałe˛sa and tweeters, and spying totalitarian por- in Chicago and Karol Wojtyła, later and better known tents everywhere. Like much anti- was educated at as Pope John Paul II. The person-to- Trump ire, Kakutani’s polemic trades in a settlement person nature of the operation is ideally the same histrionics that it deplores. house, a suited to Jones’s narrative format and (July) reformist educational institution of the the vivid character sketches that inform era; by the time he was a teenage he was it. This account will reward readers Wanna Bet? fluent in French and deeply conversant in interested in human and government A Degenerate Gambler’s European literature. He worked as a clerk behaviors in high-risk, high-stress situa- Guide to Living on the Edge at a prominent Chicago bookstore and tions. (July) Artie Lange, with Anthony Bozza. St. Martin’s, met many authors there, including $27.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-12117-2 Anderson, whom he befriended. After The Death of Truth: Notes on Comedian and actor Lange returns Galantière’s French skills gained him a Falsehood in the Age of Trump with his third memoir (after Crash and position with the U.S. legation to the Michiko Kakutani. Crown/Duggan, $22 Burn), a collection of tales from his drug- International Chamber of Commerce in (224p) ISBN 978-0-525-57482-8 and sex-fueled life. The stories are linked Paris, Anderson asked him to find a Honest, factual debate is expiring at by Lange’s belief that “risk and thrill” are French translator for Winesburg, Ohio. the hands of Donald Trump and Vladimir the driving forces to his creativity, so he Anderson introduced Galantière to Putin, according to this overwrought decided “to pinpoint a handful of the Hemingway, and Galantière wrote a rave jeremiad. Kakutani, the Pulitzer- biggest risks” that have defined his life. review of Hemingway’s first short story winning former New York Times book Some of his tales will be familiar to his collection. Galantière also wrote plays critic, presents fans, such as how he quit a job as a long- with John Houseman, translated novels a dire view of shoreman in Newark to take a stab at a by Antoine de Saint-Exupèry, and served discourse in a career in comedy. Newer stories detail variously as president of PEN America, a world of fakery the numerous sexual relationships he had Federal Reserve Bank economist, and an and fanaticism: during the height of his success as part of ACLU director. Lurie’s straightforward scientific exper- the Howard Stern show from 2001 to biography may not fully restore tise on topics 2008, and the many ways he’s managed Galantière’s name to literary history, but like climate to win and lose thousands of dollars gam- it draws an appealing portrait of a man change gets bling, as part of his being “addicted to who made his own way among the literati attacked as self- thrills and allergic to boredom.” But of his day. (BookLife) interested while his constant need for “action” can baloney; Russian become repetitive, the heart of the book Pride and Prejudice disinformation operations churn out fake is how stand-up comedy, for him, is “the Jane Austen, illus. by Ellie Fabe. Beauty Panic, news that induces public confusion and ultimate risk” (he rails against “spine- $30 (158p) ISBN 978-0-692-50341-6 sways elections; President Trump lies less” younger comics who “work out a Collagist Fabe adds flair to Jane Austen’s continually—5.9 times per day, safe set of material that does not offend”). Pride and Prejudice with 39 original illus- Kakutani specifies—with impunity; Lange’s entertaining book makes it clear trations that accompany the unabridged America and the world are divided into that, no matter how wild and risky his text. Fabe’s collages overlay bright, water- warring tribes in ideological bubbles lifestyle may be, he takes comedy more color-washed scenes with retro cut-paper impermeable to objective data or civi- seriously than anything else. (July) figures and objects sampled from fashion lized discussion. Kakutani blames not magazines from the 1930s to the ’50s.

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Accompanying each tableau is a quote gate of home cooks, as this is far from a African American History and Culture’s from the Pride and Prejudice passage that collection of novelties. Those who take café, and Harris (The Martha’s Vineyard inspired it. Like Austen’s book, Fabe’s the time to set aside their scraps are Table) present the museum café’s recipes work explores arcane customs of beauty guaranteed to find a few new tricks in this fascinating cookbook. Included are and courtship, pageantry and social here. (Oct.) recipes for hoppin’ john, shrimp and grits, artifice: in one collage, a housewife buttermilk fried chicken, chocolate chess holds a tray of drinks while a man sits ★ Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook pie, and many more. African, Caribbean, happily with a sandwich in hand in the Dorie Greenspan. HMH/Martin, $35 (368p) Native American, European, and Latin- distance. While tinged with irony and ISBN 978-0-544-82698-4 American influences appear throughout more than a dash of social commentary, Greenspan (Around My French Table), in dishes such as Jamaican jerk chicken, the collages nevertheless have a spirit of five-time James Beard Award winner, duck and crawfish gumbo, fried okra, and glee and evidence deep reverence for the shares her favorite day-to-day recipes in numerous smoked and barbecued dishes. novel. As Fabe describes in a preface, this standout cookbook. Greenspan Organized into “Salads and Sides,” “Soups Austen “was a little bit mean—the way spends part of the year in France, and the and Stews,” “Mains, Pickles/Snacks/ real people are mean—so there are both Gallic influence is felt in such recipes as a Breads,” and “Sweets/Drinks,” recipes are heroes and nincompoops. Family is both roast chicken with a Dijon vinaigrette, coded by geographic area (“Agricultural beloved and annoying. That is Austen’s and a salmon brandade. New York’s fla- South,” “Creole Coast,” “Northern genius, her ability to describe people in vors show up in a smoked-salmon and States,” and “Western Range”) and all their frailty and humor.” This is a cream-cheese–filled Lower East Side include historical background: for sweet and visually appealing homage. brunch tart; example, pork shoulder is from the agri- (BookLife) stuffed cabbage; cultural South, served with an Eastern and Basta Pasta Carolina vinegar sauce, and “hickory or potato salad, hardwood chips is a must” if smoked; Lifestyle named for a shrimp and grits comes from the creole Manhattan coast, and “for authenticity, use stone- Food & Drink Italian restau- ground grits”; and salmon croquettes Cooking with Scraps: rant. There are originated in the northern states and the Turn Your Peels, Cores, tastes of her dish often “shows up on the breakfast Rinds, Stems, and Other Odds travels as well, such as a Luang Prabang table, sometimes scrambled into eggs.” & Ends into Delicious Meals chicken-chili sandwich she ate nightly In these refined café dishes, Lucas and Lindsay-Jean Hard. Workman, $19.95 (200p) on a visit to Laos, and a bourbon roasted Harris deliver a delicious food history ISBN 978-0-7611-9303-6 pork loin inspired by a trip to Kentucky. lesson for home cooks. (Oct.) In this terrific collection, Food52 She offers a wide range of intriguing writer Hard offers 60 different ways to soups and salads, including a gingered Basque Country get the most out of one’s fruit, herb, turkey meatball soup; tomato and berry Marti Buckley. Artisan, $35 (336p) ISBN 978- and vegetable scraps. “According to the gazpacho; and cauliflower tabbouleh. 1-57965-777-2 National Resource Defense Council,” Easy, delicious weeknight meals abound, Buckley, an American writer who relo- Hard writes, “40 percent of the food in such as a quick tahini pork tenderloin; cated to San Sebastian, Spain, shares her the United States goes uneaten.” Home umami-heavy burgers; and squid with affection for Basque cuisine in this cooks are probably familiar with the miso-seasoned corn; Giverny tomatoes delightful debut collection of rustic rec- concept of using stale bread for bread (prepared with lime zest, sugar, and flake ipes. Her introduction provides a brief crumbs and croutons, but they might salt) and a sheet-pan supper of balsamic culinary history, as well as a primer on not have considered using mushroom, chicken with baby potatoes. She includes Euskara, the Basque language. carrot, or sweet potato odds and ends such exceptional desserts as a molasses Throughout, she explores the region’s cui- for a strata (a layered casserole), quick coffee cake and chocolate-covered chai sine, such as a pintxo, a generally more pickles, or vegetable tempura. Boozy tea bars. Whether readers are just dis- complex version of the more familiar infusions that, e.g., combine lemon and covering Greenspan or are part of her Spanish tapas. Eleven types are offered, brandy, bourbon and roasted corn fan base, they will be thrilled with this. including a shrimp kabob with pepper husks, or a mix of jalapeño and tequila (Oct.) vinaigrette, laced with bacon and served are simple, as is incorporating pickle upon a baguette slice. The seafood section brine into a Bloody Mary or potato Sweet Home Café Cookbook: features lots of salt cod, balanced with salad. Even stems are put to use: basil A Celebration of African more exotic options like scorpion fish stems are used to create a buttermilk American Cooking pâté. Vegetable and meat dishes are com- dressing; parsley stems are mixed into Editors of the NMAHC. Smithsonian, $29.95 bined in a single chapter that features a fresh, zesty tabbouleh. Hard’s plain- (224p) ISBN 978-1-58834-640-7 dark and deep entrees like blood sausage spoken style and culinary ingenuity is Lucas, supervising chef of the and beef cheeks, as well as several types of sure to win over even the most profli- Smithsonian’s National Museum of peppers including the prized piquillos,

48 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 Review_NONFICTION which are protected by a government Winter Drinks: 70 Essential (black cherries) or the already herbaceous designation. An expansive dessert chapter Cold-Weather Cocktails gin (bayberry, elderberries) are easy entries, is heavy on dairy options, like Basque The editors of Punch. Ten Speed, $19.99 as is brandy (persimmon). Viljoen offers an sheep’s curd, and punctuated with a (160p) ISBN 978-0-399-58166-3 array of recipes for each plant—21 for field variety of pastries (anise-scented fritters, The editors of Punch magazine have put garlic, and another 18 for ramps alone. brioche buns with buttercream). Each together an enticing medley of cock- Such dishes as lamb’s quarter and beet leaf chapter ends with an overview of one of tails—classic and modern—to be enjoyed phyllo triangles, a dandelion pad thai, the seven Basque provinces where readers in the winter months. The editors first list pawpaw ice cream, and a citrusy spice- learn, for instance, of the gourmet sea salt the cocktail families, which include the bush and tequila skirt steak are sure to produced in Araba. This is a colorful, cocktail (“a simple combination of spirit, whet readers’ palates. As long as readers well-researched set of accessible Basque sweetener, water, and bitters”), the sour heed Viljoen’s explanations—typically recipes. (Sept.) (“made with a base spirit, fresh citrus, and related to sourcing, preparation or, in the a sweetener”), and the Collins (“a sour case of ramps, sustainability—they’ll be Wine Food: New Adventures in lengthened with the addition of sparkling set. The book’s imaginative yet practical Drinking and Cooking water”). “The Essential Winter Classics” recipes make it one of the best resources Dana Frank and Andrea Slonecker. Ten section includes recipes for the of its type. It’s a terrific entry point for Speed/Jones, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399- Manhattan, French 75 (gin, cognac, would-be foragers, as well as experts 57959-2 lemon juice, simple syrup, champagne), interested in making the most of their Sommelier Frank and cookbook author and hot buttered rum. The authors some- bounty. (Aug.) Slonecker (The Picnic) pair more than 75 times winterize summer drinks, such as dishes with wines to create delicious the mojito, in which they “sub out white Coconuts & Kettlebells: flavor combinations. The authors first rum for rich, brooding black strap and A Personalized 4-Week Food provide useful information like storage mint for muddled rosemary.” A chapter and Fitness Plan for Long-Term advice (someplace cool and dark, where titled “Herbs, Citrus, Spice” touts the Health, Happiness, and Freedom the bottle can lie on its side), and a list of Revolver (bourbon, orange bitters, and a Noelle Tarr and Stefani Ruper. Morrow, typical characteristics of “flawed” wines, flamed orange twist); and the “Rich, $27.50 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-269029-6 such as the brownish color that occurs Warming” chapter includes the Amaro Tarr and Ruper, hosts of the Well-Fed from oxidation. Each recipe opens with a Caldo, made with amaro, hot water, and Women podcast, propose a four-week plan charming anecdote: in a recipe for fried lemon twist. The editors include tips for for good health for women in this uneven chicken with General Tso’s sauce, for serving big batches (use ratios rather than guide. Their plan focuses on food quality example, the authors write, “Since multiplying ounces), and suggestions for rather than quantity, espouses a 2,000 you’re taking General Tso out for a stocking the pantry. For those looking for calorie minimum instead of the FDA- picnic, you should plan to pack one of ways to celebrate during the dead of recommended 2,000 calories per day the best outdoor-friendly summertime winter, this is a smart and handy go-to maximum, and implements a simple, wines: txakoli... because it has a touch guide. (Sept.) kettle bell–centric exercise plan. The of fizz... and is fantastic with fried food.” duo offer suggestions for satiating crav- Readers will enjoy twists on classic duos ★ Forage, Harvest, Feast: ings for carbs and fats, as well as man- like spaghetti squash parmigiano served A Wild-Inspired Cuisine aging the four inflammatory foods with Chianti Classico, or chicken pot pie Marie Viljoen. Chelsea Green, $40 (464p) (grains, dairy, oils, and refined sugar) that accompanied by white Burgundy. Other ISBN 978-1-60358-750-1 can impede weight loss. Over the course combinations are more adventurous, Viljoen, a former garden designer, shows of four weeks, dieters follow one of two such as Indian-spiced duck breast with readers how to take advantage of the tre- Paleo-inspired plans, according to burst grapes paired with red Bordeaux, mendous culinary opportunity that foraged whether they identify as fat or carb lovers. and mango rice noodles in coconut milk foods offer. Through 500 recipes, she Meal plans for each type are included, and fish sauce paired with champagne. explores the culinary possibilities for 36 with such doable recipes as an apple, Sprinkled throughout the book are wild plants, most of which, like dandelions, bacon, and sweet potato hash; coconut Pairing Cheat Sheets that list additional quickweed, hon- chai latte; DIY bone broth; and a bison fun pairings: a glass of rosé with chicken eysuckle, ramps, chili. The exercise component of the tikka masala, or Finger Lakes Riesling and pawpaw (if plan can easily be performed at home, with Vermont cheddar. Unfortunately, you live in the requiring a little space and a set of kettle- there is no dessert chapter, which would South) are easily bells; detailed photos and instructions have been a great way to round out an found. Infusions ensure proper form. Although the authors otherwise joyful mix. In all, the authors with spirits, spend considerable time making their offer a fresh and helpful way to pair wine namely the neu- nutritional and health claims, they aren’t and food. Agent: Alia Habib, Gernert Co. tral vodka (try fir backed by scientific sources. Still, readers (Sept.) twigs, Viljoen interested in improving their health suggests), rum could do worse than following this

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yogurt, and one-pot meals like paprika are designed to ★ Experience in Groups Geoffrey G. O’Brien. chicken with Castelvetrano olives. avoid spills, Wave, ISBN 978-1-940696-66-9, Apr. Ferraro certainly has a friendly approach, scraps, and stains, and make use of ★ Ghost Of Diana Khoi Nguyen. Omnidawn, but little new ground is broken. (July) common materials like markers, con- ISBN 978-1-63243-052-6, Apr. struction paper, and yarn. Chapman The Kitchen Shortcut Bible: organizes the 72 projects into themed ★ Moss & Silver Jure Detela, trans. from the More than 200 Recipes to chapters, e.g., “Under the Sea,” “On the Slovenian by Raymond Miller and Tatjana Jamnik. Ugly Duckling, ISBN 978-1-937027-94-0, Apr. Make Real Food Real Fast Road,” or “Let’s Go Camping,” with all Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. Little, the projects in a given chapter working Terrible Blooms Melissa Stein. Copper Canyon, Brown, $30 (252p) ISBN 978-0-316-50971-8 together to create a scene. Chapman ISBN 978-1-55659-529-5, Apr. Weinstein and Scarbrough (The Great explains that crafters can choose individual Live at the Bitter End: A Trial by Opera Big Pressure Cooker Book) present a projects or create an entire scene to play Ed Pavlic. Saturnalia, ISBN 978-0-9899797-6-4, Mar. refreshing and informative go-to book of with. Not all the projects work accord- The Real Horse Farid Matuk. Univ. of Arizona, time-saving recipes using common ingre- ingly—it’s hard to imagine the appeal of ISBN 978-0-8165-3734-1, Mar. dients and tools for faster meals. Their making a tiny towel without a mini tips and techniques are not gimmicky beach umbrella or surf board to go with Soap for the Dogs Stacey Tran. Gramma, ISBN 978-0-9987362-5-9, Mar. hacks focused on just cooking more it—but for the most part Chapman’s efficiently, but instead are innovative concept works. The directions are child NONFICTION shortcuts. Breakfasts offer variations on friendly with photos that illustrate each Hummingbirds Between the Pages Chris no-bake high protein cookies (carrot step of the process. This is a great Arthur. Mud Creek, ISBN 978-0-8142-5484-4, July cake, dried fruit, and nuts) and imagina- resource for parents of children four and Who Will Speak for America? edited by tive uses of waffle irons for hash browns, older looking for simple and fun crafts to Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin. Temple omelets, and cheese blintzes. No-fuss pass the time on the weekends. (July) Univ., ISBN 978-1-4399-1624-7, July light meals include quick box-grater gaz- My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie pacho; spicy pine nut salsa made with Editor’s note: Reviews noted as “BookLife” are for Todd Fisher, with Lindsay Harrison. Morrow, vegetable-peeler noodles (no spiralizer self-published books received via BookLife, PW’s ISBN 978-0-06-279231 , June needed); and veggie burgers. Weeknight program for indie authors.

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It’s Your First Day of School, Children’s/YA Busy Bus! Jody Jensen Shaffer, illus. by Claire Messer. Beach Lane, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4814- Picture Books 9467-0 First-day jitters aren’t just for kids. As Back to School another school year dawns, a new-to-the- Kindergarrrten Bus! route school bus wonders if he’s up to the Mike Ornstein, illus. by Kevin M. Barry. job of transporting students. Luckily, Sleeping Bear, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1- Ben the bus driver makes sure that Busy 58536-398-8 Bus—contemporary of Bossy, Zippy, What if your kindergarten school bus Bouncy, and Big Buses—is shipshape. driver were a pirate? Ornstein (The Daddy Fans of stories about trucks and how Longlegs Blues) and Barry (illus. for Ghost things work will enjoy the behind-the- Cat) imagine that he’d run a tight ship scenes action at the bus barn as Ben makes (“Keep ye hooks—errr, I mean hands—to adjustments and preparations (“He fills ye self!”) and wouldn’t tolerate any first- Busy Bus’s tanks with gas. /Gussshhhh!”), day trepidation (“There’ll be no blubberin’ Back-to-school anxiety finds itself up a tree in and inspects the fire extinguisher and first on me bus!”). But when the pirate’s parrot Mae’s First Day of School (reviewed on this page). aid kit. Messer’s digitally colored, lino- goes missing, the driver reveals that he’s print-and-ink images showcase a sunny just as fearful of the unknown as anybody, Activities for young readers, as well as fleet of anthropomorphized yellow vehi- and then it’s up to the once-nervous kids resources and information for caregivers, cles with headlight eyes and windshield- to become sources of sage advice (“Being are included in the final pages. The wiper eyebrows, which expressively raise brave is when you’re scared but you still do blend of confident voice and positive as Busy Bus expresses his trepidation, and what you have to do”) and lead a version of tone renders this a pleasant primer. Ages then form a rainbow arch when Busy Bus the pirate’s song (“We may be scared, but 3–6. (Apr.) happily settles into his first day on the we’ll see it through!/ ’cause we mates gotta job. Ages 3–8. (July) do what we mates gotta do!”). With its Hello School! over-the-top cartooning and abundance of Priscilla Burris. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99 Mae’s First Day of School crowd-pleasing “arrr” sounds, this clever (32p) ISBN 978-039-917202-1 Kate Berube. Abrams, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978- comedy may be powerful enough to defuse With child-friendly simplicity, Burris 1-4197-2325-4 the worry of an entire classroom of reluc- (Five Green and Speckled Frogs) offers a Mae insists that school is a no-go for tant school-goers. Ages 1–4. (July) gentle overview of the first day of school her: “What if the other kids didn’t like for a class of young, ethnically diverse her, and what if she was the only one who ABC Ready for School: children. Enthusiastic phrases printed on didn’t know how to write, and what if she An Alphabet of Social Skills small banners on each spread mark the missed her mother?” She hides in a big Celeste C. Delaney, illus. by Stephanie Fizer transitions from one activity to another, tree by the school door and is soon joined Coleman. Free Spirit, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978- from start-of-day introductions and circle on a branch by like-minded girl Rosie and 1-63198-174-6 time through snack time, counting, then by “tall lady” Ms. Pearl—whom, New author Delaney draws on her nature studies, recess, and more until readers will quickly surmise, is none other background as an occupational therapist finally, the kids “say our goodbyes.” On than Mae and Rosie’s teacher. But instead in this picture book, which uses the each spread, text bubbles show the stu- of coaxing the girls down, Ms. Pearl folds alphabet to introduce a series of social dents’ reactions (“It’s cookie time!” “My her arms stubbornly and announces her and emotional learning skills designed daddy’s a cookie monster.” “Hmmm, intention to stay in the tree, too: “What if to prepare young children for kinder- which one should I pick?”); these scraps the kids don’t like me? Or what if I forget garten. Each page highlights a letter of enthusiastic dialogue help keep the how to spell Tuesday? Or what if I miss within a key word or phrase, followed by story firmly rooted in the students’ my cat?” Berube (Hannah and Sugar) is an a description of how a child might expe- immediate experience, as do the creative astute and funny portraitist of children’s rience the concept, and Coleman’s details in the uncluttered illustrations. anxieties, and the first day of school is expansive cast of diverse children dem- Even the view from the school window tailor-made for her talents. Ages 3–7. onstrate it in action. (“Play./ You will resembles a child’s drawing, with its (July) play during your days at school./ You stylized, pointy sun and tree covered in will use your imagination and pretend./ oversize red circle apples. Lively and Mermaid School When you play games, you can help reassuring, this is a strong choice for Joanne Stewart Wetzel, illus. by Julianna your team”). Other examples include helping new students set first-day Swaney. Knopf, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399- “Move past mistakes,” “Be yourself... expectations. Ages 3–5. (July) 55716-3 and be honest,” and “Express yourself.” A mermaid’s first day of school is strik-

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Welcome Back (to School)!

Familiar characters head to school in these series books.

It’s Show and Tell, Dexter! the farm animals visit Dinkelmeyer Lindsay Ward. Two Lions, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5039-0137-7 Elementary School, he is excited: “He had In his second outing, Dexter, a toothy, orange dinosaur toy, not been to school in a very, very long is freaking out about show-and-tell day at his owner, Jack’s, time!” The cows, chickens, and pigs are school. Dexter’s anxiety peaks—with psychosomatic symp- eager as well, until Farmer Brown tells toms such as “tummyache” and “clammy claws”—as he ques- them “School is very serious,” and they are tions his self-worth: “What if Jack doesn’t think I’m cool not to moo, cluck, or oink, which dampens enough for Show and Tell anymore?” Happily, Dexter nails it their enthusiasm. Things begin “quiet, by just being himself. Ward’s gentle art features cut-paper serious, and calm” as the visitors arrive, but all bets are off when forms with residual pencil outlines, providing an ad hoc the recess bell rings: “And the pigs got oinky and holler, hoot, quality to the spreads. Readers prone to anxiety over big hollered!” A conclusion shows Duck behind the principal’s desk. events should be tickled by the idea that a toy has concerns While the end may raise questions (was Duck the principal all too. Ages 3–7. (July) along?), readers will grasp the idea that there is room at school for being serious and having fun. Ages 4–8. (July) The Secret Life of Squirrels: Back to School! Nancy Rose. Little, Brown, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-50621-2 Mr. Monkey Visits a School Rose, whose staged squirrel photographs first gained Jeff Mack. Simon & Schuster, $8.99 (64p) ISBN 9781-5344-0429-8 popularity through social media, offers her fourth outing to Some days, just making it to school is an accomplishment. In feature furry backyard visitors. Mr. Peanuts, a school bus book two of Mack’s series, the lanky Mr. Monkey is invited to a driver, and Rosie, a teacher, are preparing for the school year. school to perform his new trick: juggling with tennis rackets, an In Rosie’s classroom, the two unpack books, hang a welcome umbrella, and a suitcase. But en route to the banner, post classroom rules, and set up the art corner. The school (after first forgetting to put on story’s allure lies in the squirrels’ seemingly natural presence pants), Mr. Monkey encounters a car- within the carefully constructed miniature scenes—an effect crushing cow in the middle of the road and achieved, an appended note explains, “by hiding peanuts in and is forced to improvise a new means of trans- around the props.” Ages 4–8. (July) portation. Once at the school, he misplaces the props he needs to perform his trick and Ready or Not, Woolbur Goes to School! nervously stammers before the audience of Leslie Helakoski, illus. by Lee Harper. HarperCollins, $17.99 (32p) kids, but his improvisational talents come ISBN 978-0-06-136657-4 in handy. Mack’s episodic story presentation and expressive The fiercely independent sheep introduced in Woolbur physical comedy offer natural appeal for early readers. Ages 4–8. starts school in this infectious follow-up. On the first day of (July) class, Woolbur prepares excitedly: he accents the wild spikes of wool on his head with red yarn, and he dons his bum- Best Frints at Skrool blebee backpack. “Let’s go!” he exclaims. Woolbur tackles Antoinette Portis. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1- each new experience with aplomb. When classmates express 62672-871-4 doubt or anxiety throughout the day, Woolbur exuberantly In their second outing (following Best Frints in the Whole chimes in with the refrain “Isn’t it great?” (“ ‘I can wait my Universe), alien best friends Omek and Yelfred are pink and turn,’ said Woolbur./ ‘But there are so many of us,’ said purple, with reptilian tails and pincer arms, and they “go to Llama/... ‘I know,’ said Woolbur./ ‘Isn’t it great?’ ”). His skrool, just like here on planet Earth.” Also like on Earth, enthusiasm catches on, leaving the friendly-faced animals of meeting new friends at skrool can lead to hurt feelings. In Barnyard Elementary smiling and eager to return. Mixed- bright, gestural cartoon characters, Portis depicts Yelfred as he media digital collage art captures the energy of the school has fun with a new “frint,” a red, cube-like alien named Q-B, day, as well as Woolbur’s cozy environment at home, under- leaving Omek watching dejectedly from the sidelines, scoring the story’s upbeat, encouraging tone. Ages 4–8. antennae drooping. At “yunch,” Omek is once again alone, but (June) when an epic food fight (“Everyone is sharing!”) leads Omek to team up with Yelfred and Q-B, they become a tight three- Click, Clack, Quack to School! some: “On Boborp, what makes things the most fun... is a best Doreen Cronin, illus. by Betsy Lewin. Atheneum, $17.99 (40p) frint and a best best frint.” With humor and tenderness, Portis ISBN 978-1-5344-1449-5 explores the uncertainty and unexpected joys that come with When Farmer Brown receives a letter requesting that he and navigating childhood friendships. Ages 4–8. (June)

52 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 Review_CHILDREN’S ingly similar to the one experienced by of doom that ruminating on the unknown visual energy. Making his debut, talent- her human counterparts. Once the can bring, while Brasil’s art blends crea- to-watch Calabrese brings flawless comic making-new-friends jitters dissipate, turely details and photographic accents to timing and a fresh twist to the back-to- things go swimmingly: the narrator and stylized effect. Ages 3–6. (July) school theme. Ages 4–8. (July) her classmates bond with each other and their teachers, take ownership of their On the First Day of First Grade coral reef cubbies, learn math concepts Tish Rabe, illus. by Sarah Jennings. Harper, Fiction with seashells, and sing their “A-B- $9.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-266851-6 Seas.” They’re also riveted at story time In a cumulative text that echoes “The Winnie’s Great War by a “fantasy” about “boys and girls who 12 Days of Christmas,” an enthusiastic Lindsay Mattick and Josh Greenhut, illus. by have no tails/And can’t breathe child chronicles the high points of Sophie Blackall. Little, Brown $16.99 (256p) undersea.” The message in the soothing, starting a new school year in a first grade ISBN 978-0-316-44712-6 sing-song rhymes by Wetzel (Playing classroom. The adventure begins as the Expanding upon their Caldecott- Juliet) is evident: “When I arrive, there’s brown-skinned narrator, along with a winning picture book, 2015’s Finding no one here/ That I have met before./ multi-ethnic procession of children, Winnie, Blackall and Mattick add But I can make new friends at school./ wave goodbye to their parents and cheer- Greenhut (the Flat Stanley series) to their I’m always glad for more.” Readers may fully make their way to their new desks. team for this amplified tale of the bear be heartened by the little mermaids’ (“On the first day of first grade/ I had who traveled from the Canadian woods independence (no parents appear) and fun right away/ laughing and learning across the Atlantic during World War I their ability to quickly master a new all day!”) By day three, “choosing books to the London environment. Unflappable, doll-like to read” makes the growing list of enjoy- Zoo, where she characters and sea-green-toned water- able class activities, followed by throwing became the colors by Swaney (If You’re Happy and a ball and building with clay. On day 12, inspiration for You Know It!) lend the pages a dreamy, a lively show-and-tell session, which Milne’s Winnie comforting feel. Ages 3–7. (July) includes “showing my pet bunny,” the Pooh. marks an exciting finale to the first few Narrated by a No! I Won’t Go to School weeks of school. Artwork by Jennings descendant of Alonso Núñez, illus. by Bruna Assis Brasil, (Feelings) features a steady stream of Captain Harry trans. by Dave Morrison. Tilbury House, cheery faces and colorful classroom tools Colebourn, who $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-884486-46-6 sure to prove inviting to prospective stu- adopted A child’s imagination inflates school dents. Ages 4–8. (June) Winnie, and told to Colebourn’s great- fears in Mexico-based author Núñez’s first great-grandson, the story focuses on English-language book. The child—who Lena’s Shoes Are Nervous: Winnie’s gentle, fun-loving nature and wears round glasses and has a swooping A First-Day-of-School Dilemma her devotion to Colebourn throughout cowlick—doesn’t believe the hype: “Mom Keith Calabrese, illus. by Juana Medina. their journey in wartime Europe. Brief says I’ll make friends,/ that the place is so Atheneum, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5344- excerpts from Colebourn’s diaries ground cool,/ that I’ll 0894-4 the book in historical reality, while learn new Lena is pumped to start kindergarten, Winnie’s relationships with horses and things,/ that but she may have to call the whole thing rats—even a Canadian infantry’s billy I’ll really like off. As she explains to Dad, her shoes, goat—create a warm animal story. Winnie school!” which are essential to her first day expresses herself in language throughout Instead, the ensemble, are having serious second the narrative, but she communicates with child says thoughts. While Dad waits patiently, Colebourn through expressions and move- “No!” to school, Lena enlists her headband, who is “friends ments (“ ‘I’m not getting in,’ Winnie said believing that with everybody,” to listen to the shoes’ by lying down in the mud”). Well- “The teacher’s a monster/ with big claws fears (“School is big and loud and different detailed descriptions carry the reader and four heads,/ jaws that can crush you,/ and they’d really rather not go”) and along on the trip, and Colebourn and and eyes that turn red!” In sophisticated remind them of “other times they were all Winnie’s strong friendship, rendered pen-and-ink and photographic collages, scared but decided to be brave, together,” believably and movingly, is the emotional Brazilian illustrator Brasil renders the such as getting vaccinated and an heart of the story. Final art not seen by teacher as a hydra and the school bus as a encounter with a big dog. Lena throws in PW. Ages 8–12. Authors’ agents: (for horned monster, and sharp-featured stu- some reverse psychology—“Looks like I’ll Mattick) Jackie Kaiser, Westwood Creative dents wear expressions of wide-mouthed have to wear my slippers,” she tells her Artists; (for Greenhut) Kim Witherspoon, terror. When the child’s frightful fantasies shoes, and it’s off to school for everyone. InkWell Management. Illustrator’s agent: turn out to be unfounded, readers may Medina (ABC Pasta) employs digital car- Nancy Gallt, Gallt and Zacker Literary find it’s a little bit of a letdown. Even so, tooning, a mix of fluid ink lines and flat, Agency. (Sept.) Núñez is effective at conveying the sense bright colors, to supply a steady flow of

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Totally Middle School aged neighbor, who invites him to play Leeann is anxious and sad. She’s also Edited by Betsy Groban. Delacorte, $16.99 soccer and quickly becomes Darius’s first angry—not just at the shooter, but at the (192p) ISBN 978-1-5247-7220-8 real friend ever. While the book doesn’t people who turned Sarah into a martyr Featuring an eclectic mix of short sto- sugarcoat problems in the country (unjust whose dying thought was of faith, and at ries from a number of beloved authors, this imprisonment and an outdated view of herself for not clearing things up sooner. collection explores three topics— mental illness are mentioned), it mainly Searching for the truth, Leeann asks the “Family,” “Friends and Fitting In,” and stays focused on the positive—Iran’s other five students who were in the shoot- “Finding Yourself”—in a variety of for- impressive landscape and mouthwatering er’s range, four of whom have become her mats, from food, the warmth of its people—as it closest friends, to tell their stories, and poems to comic shows how a boy who feels like an outcast their narratives are folded into the book. panels. at home finds himself and true friendship The fifth survivor has left town, but Margarita Engle overseas. Ages 12–up. Agent: Molly Leeann tracks her down. As the truths takes on the O’Neill, Waxman Leavell. (Aug.) mount up and displace each other, the sur- “dreaded/ vivors must come to terms with what they dreadful/ dead- ★ The Sacrifice Box did and didn’t do that day, and how dif- line-looming/ Martin Stewart. Viking, $17.99 (368p) ferent that may be from what people think first-in-my-life- ISBN 978-0-425-28953-2 happened. Keplinger (The DUFF) effec- time/ Middle During the summer of 1982, five tively conveys how the stories they’ve told School/ Mixer,” unlikely friends—Sep, Arkle, Lamb, and have been told about the shooting while Katherine Hadley, and Mack—stumble upon a have shaped each survivor’s sense of who Paterson and granddaughter Jordan offer strange stone box, and to memorialize they are. The result is an original and advice-laden Facetime and text exchanges their time together, they each agree to engrossing narrative about scars, recovery, between two cousins (“organize, organize, leave something important to them inside and how the stories we tell can both sus- organize”). A David Wiesner comic visual- it. They estab- tain and hobble us. Ages 12–up. Agent: izes finding one’s place in an intimidating lish three simple Brianne Johnson, Writers House. (Aug.) new setting, and Linda Sue Park and Anna rules: “Never Dobbin’s story, told in part from a dog’s come to the box We Regret to Inform You: perspective, considers cross-species family alone. Never An Overachiever’s Guide to life. The stories look at eras and cultural open it after College Rejection differences, as well, from Gary Schmidt’s dark. Never take Ariel Kaplan. Knopf, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978- searing story about a boy’s neighbor back your sacri- 1-5247-7370-0 heading off to the Vietnam War, to Hena fice.” Four years Mischa Abramavicius, 18, is certain Khan’s present-day tale of a Pakistani later, none of the that being the best student at exclusive immigrant connecting with her new class- original group Blanchard High will open doors to a top mates. The collection, “dedicated to has remained college and set her on a path toward a middle schoolers everywhere” (“This, too, friendly. But when dead things begin to better future. Despite her high test scores shall pass”), deals honestly and sensitively reanimate, and those sacrificed items and a stellar GPA, however, Mischa is with this volatile time. Ages 9–12. Agent: make a surprising return, the group real- rejected from every school that she Doe Coover, Doe Coover Agency. (Aug.) izes that someone has broken the rules, applies to, including her safety school. and it’s up to them to fix things. Stewart Detecting that someone has purposefully ★ Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Riverkeep) again creates an atmospheric derailed her life, Mischa attempts to get Adib Khorram. Dial, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978- coming-of-age story with brilliantly exe- help from her school’s dean and college 0-525-55296-3 cuted elements of horror and comic relief. counselor. When no help is forthcoming, First-time author Khorram’s coming- He weaves in moments of laugh-out-loud, she teams up with a group of girl hackers, of-age novel brings to life the sights, almost absurdist humor to balance the who call themselves the Ophelias, to find sounds, smells, and tastes of a culture story’s most frightening aspects, all the out who might be cruel enough to act steeped in tradition. After learning that while carefully structuring a tale about against her. In her sophomore effort, her Iranian father is ailing, high school growing up and leaving childhood Kaplan (Grendel’s Guide to Love and War) sophomore Darius’s mother decides to behind. Ages 12–up. Agent: Molly Ker takes on the highly stressful world of col- take the family to visit her father and rela- Hawn, Bent Agency. (Aug.) lege admissions. Written with humor and tives in Iran. Suffering from chronic heart, her cautionary tale is a reminder depression and bullied at school in That’s Not What Happened. that students are more than their GPA America, Darius isn’t sure how he’ll fare Kody Keplinger. Scholastic Press, $18.99 and test scores—or, as one Ophelia puts in a country he’s never seen. It doesn’t take (336p) ISBN 978-1-338-18652-9 it, “That avatar is not you.” Ages 12–up. him long to adjust as people welcome him As the anniversary of the school Agent: Hannah Bowman, Liza Dawson with open arms, however, especially after shooting that killed eight people, Assoc. 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Finding Yvonne financial situation, but he’s haunted by his Brandy Colbert. Little, Brown, $17.99 (278p) mother’s disappearance and descent into ISBN 978-0-316-34906-2 retrogression. He’s also worried about his Colbert (Little & Lion) delivers best friend, who wants to join Lakeshore another emotionally layered story, this Academy’s Burners Club, led by charis- time centered around Yvonne, a young matic, cruel Nicholas. When Julian meets African-American woman struggling to enigmatic Cody and her friends, who don’t figure out what Burn, he learns secrets that could change she wants to do their lives, and deaths, forever. Hines’s with her life— fast-paced tale effectively explores the torn between insidious intentions of a surveillance state whether to bent on controlling mortality, and offers attend a music an intriguing group of teens who are conservatory and worth rooting for as they unravel a truly try to become a terrifying conspiracy. Ages 14–up. Agent: professional vio- Jim McCarthy, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. linist, or give up (Aug.) the violin and choose another The Other Side of Lost profession. Lonely at home, where her Jessi Kirby. HarperTeen, $17.99 (320p) mother left years earlier and her father is ISBN 978-0-06-242424-2 largely absent, Yvonne finds solace in Everything in Mari’s life is for show. She’s baking. Her dad, a celebrated L.A. chef, and a popular social media presence, and her fans his friend see talent in Yvonne’s cakes and love her Instagram and YouTube posts— tarts, and they encourage her to consider whether they’re inspirational quotes, yoga pastry chef training. Meanwhile, Yvonne is shots, or floating between two boys: Warren, her charming father’s sous chef, and a street violinist. moments with Yvonne’s character is steady and compelling her boyfriend, as she struggles to connect with her always another social stoned, workaholic father and decide what, media star. The if anything, she wants from her romantic truth is, he’s not partners. Colbert shows a clear knack for really her boy- secondary characters, and she surrounds friend, and Mari Yvonne with a best friend who’s her equal is incredibly in thoughtfulness, as well as the ever- lonely. Turning gentle, if prone to mistakes, Warren. As 18 reminds her Yvonne’s struggles grow to include life- of Bri, the cousin she grew up with, and changing decisions, this accessible, nuanced how they’d grown apart before Bri’s death novel will reward patient readers. Ages 14– from a hiking accident. When Mari gets up. Agent: Tina Dubois, ICM Partners. (Aug.) real about her sadness on YouTube, her star falls, and she decides to follow Bri’s old plan Nine to walk the John Muir Trail—all 200-plus Zach Hines. HarperTeen, $17.99 (368p) miles through the Sierra Nevada moun- ISBN 978-0-06-256726-0 tains. It’s not a hike for neophytes, but Mari Hines’s chilling debut takes place in an has Bri’s pack, provisions, itinerary, even alternate America where each person gets her boots, and she soon makes friends on nine lives. The first eight times someone the trail. The telling is at times oversimpli- dies, he or she “Burns” (moves on to the fied—with Mari’s troubles chalked up to next life, returning in a brand-new body). her parents’ divorce and Bri idealized— To prevent overpopulation, people are but Kirby (Moonglass) skillfully evokes offered incentives to be euthanized in the extreme beauty and challenges of the licensed extinguishment clinics on a set hike and the importance of making friends schedule, but Burners hold illegal, elabo- who like you even when you’re dirty, tired, rately staged, and gruesome suicide par- and honest. Ages 14–up. Agent: Leigh ties. At 17, Julian Dex is still a One; he Feldman, Leigh Feldman Literary. (Aug.) ■ needs to Burn to help his family’s dire

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“Over Kleenex and laptops, we plotted carrying on.” Friends and Colleagues After an author dies, her writing group launches her novel in grand style By Jennifer Cody Epstein

Kafka described writing as “utter solitude, the sometimes needing a nap upon arrival. In 2016, descent into the cold abyss of oneself.” And it’s true her agent resubmitted the final revision of her enough that the most wrenching part of the creative novel as The Realist. Once again, the rejections struggle must be endured alone, often miserably. streamed in—again so laudatory she made them But communal midwifery often follows—assistance fodder for a satirical piece we workshopped: “I can from a coven of trusted voices that writers rely upon easily see this book sitting on the shelf next to to get to the finish line. such classics as I, Claudius; Midnight’s Children; and Wolf Hall,” her imaginary editor crowed. ut what happens when a book reaches that “That said, I am not going to throw my hat into finish line without its author? It wasn’t a the ring on this one, because—I’ll just put it Bquestion I’d envisioned confronting when bluntly—the book is not fuckable enough.” I met Sarah Coleman. A respected film/photog- In early 2017, burned-out by cancer therapies raphy critic and mother of two, she initially struck and editorial rejections alike, Sarah announced that Sarah Coleman me as astute, intense, and reserved. But the preface she was self-publishing. It was a race against the she crafted in a 2009 historical fiction seminar that I led knocked clock. She selected a London-based private press, SilverWood my socks off. Based on the life of sociologist/photographer Lewis Books, perfected the cover, and obtained rights to her favorite Hine (1874–1940), it actually opened on Berenice Abbot Abbott photos. The last time I met her, we discussed the book’s (1898–1991), the brash, gay champion of photographic realism. website, launch party, and a new clinical study she’d enrolled in. I urged Sarah to keep going and invited her into a Brooklyn A few weeks later, she’d left the study but was thrilled with her writing group I was forming. She was an Upper West Sider but novel’s progress. joined despite the commute. Thanksgiving arrived, and we learned that Sarah was in hospice, During the next year, Sarah’s novel evolved into a dual narra- though she was fighting death tenaciously. “I think it’s her book tive about Hine and Abbott. But in 2013, her agent urged her launch party [that] she doesn’t want to miss,” her husband texted. to make the novel exclusively Abbott’s. Abbott stole every Sarah passed away on Dec. 3, 2017, a week before copies of scene, with her hardscrabble origins and a creative wanderlust The Realist arrived at her apartment. At the memorial service, that carried her from 1920s Paris to ’30s New York and into our group wept together, then assembled, as always, to work- artistic battle with Man Ray and Alfred Stieglitz. Sarah reworked shop—only this time, we were workshopping Sarah’s now- her novel, and her agent sent the manuscript out in late 2014. orphaned novel’s future. Over Kleenex and laptops, we plotted There were regretful refusals. In a historical fiction market carrying on. We had a common purpose: to celebrate The Realist dominated by novels about female partners of famous men and launch it into the world. And celebrate we did. (think The Paris Wife, The Aviator’s Wife), a gay woman taking The launch party featured a cabaret singer and champagne on the photographic establishment was a tough sell. “The cocktails. Copies of the book flew off the sales table. The word irony,” Sarah quipped. “If only Abbott had been Man Ray’s spreading part has been harder, though we’ve landed pieces in straight lover instead of his lesbian protégé...” the Los Angeles Review of Books and The Common, and are planning Then, in August 2015, as our group prepared to reconvene, events in the New York area. Whether or not this boosts sales, Sarah sent me a heart-stopping note: “I got a cancer diagnosis this there is comfort in knowing that just as we were there after the week. It is lung and liver.” The prognosis was devastating, yet “cold abyss” of The Realist’s creation, we are here to launch The still Sarah thought of her book. “I’m going to work on the novel,” Realist after the loss of its author. ■ her email concluded. “I’m very close to finishing a full rewrite.” Over the course of the next year—and a battery of tests and Jennifer Cody Epstein’s third novel, Wunderland, will be published by experimental treatments—Sarah trekked to our meetings, Crown in 2019.

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ABA’s mini–Winter Institute, focused on children’s books, authors, and bookselling, heads to the Big Easy to mark its sixth anniversary

By Judith Rosen

he Children’s Institute has Bourbon Street, New Orleans “ become a vitally important part of ABA’s overall education efforts,” says Oren T Teicher, CEO of the American Booksellers Association. “This year’s event offers more programming, more keynote talks, more authors, and more opportunities for booksellers to connect and share ideas, success stories, and their passion for building an even larger community of young readers nationwide.” With more than 275 booksellers and more than 70 authors and illustrators planning to descend on New Orleans for Children’s Institute 6, to be held at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel from June 19 to 21, attendance at the 2018 conference will be record breaking. The city, which is celebrating its tricentennial this

year, will also host the American Library © CHRIS LITHERLAND Association’s annual conference and exhibition from June 21 to 26. Daughter Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of Teicher notes that there will be more the Clinton Foundation, will advocate for educational sessions—19 in total—than a different type of activism. With her pic- at previous Children’s Institutes, along ture books She Persisted and She Persisted with a “compelling roster” of keynote Around the World (both from Philomel), speakers and featured presenters. Much of Clinton wants to empower the next gen- the programming, particularly the talks, eration with examples of diverse women will focus on two topics that have long who have made a difference. been flash points for ABA and the book Keynoter Temple Grandin, best known industry as a whole: diversity and activism. coming anthology We Rise, We Resist, We for her advocacy on behalf of those with One of the standout sessions on diver- Raise Our Voices: Words and Images of Hope autism and her autobiography, Thinking sity will bring together Wade Hudson (Crown, Sept.), edited by the Hudsons. in Pictures, will talk about her debut chil- and Cheryl Willis Hudson, husband- In the closing keynote, Angie Thomas, dren’s book, Calling All Minds (Philomel). and-wife founders of Just Us Books, author of The Hate U Give, will likely In it she addresses the importance of cre- which has been publishing multicultural bridge both themes. She believes authors ativity and thinking like an inventor; children’s books for three decades; writer and booksellers must provide young both were a key part of her life growing Kwame Alexander; and Phoebe Yeh, v-p readers with “as many opportunities as up and continue to be today. and publisher of Crown Books for Young possible to expand their mind-sets.” Just Breathe (Running Press Kids,

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of Intent.com, a platform focused on personal, social, and global Ages 13-18 wellness—will offer insights on balance and purpose during the $18.99 conference’s opening keynote. As part of the diversity effort, a central focus will be on ensuring bookstores are welcoming places for all. A session will be devoted to “Reaching Underserved Communities.” Another session will offer tips for reaching out to young people, regardless of their orientation: “Creating and Implementing Successful LGBTQ Youth Programs.” Other programming gets down to the nuts and bolts of bookselling, starting with a 101-level seminar on the principles of bookstore finance. There will be a workshop on creating eye- Ages 7-11 catching chalkboards, as well as sessions on planning successful $27.99 large-scale events and selling STEM and STEAM books. Social media continues to be an important part of bookselling. To help, Eva Chen—director of fashion partnerships at Instagram and author of the debut picture book Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes (Feiwel and Friends, Nov.)—will give pointers on how to build a bookstore brand at a special session on ampli- fying one’s presence on social media. The self-proclaimed “fashion nerd” has 884,000 Instagram followers and counting. And no booksellers’ gathering would be complete without at least a few parties. In addition to the opening night reception Ages 6-10 and kid lit costume party, there will be a late-night screening $19.99 party of the Netflix series Hilda. The show, which stars Claire Skinner, Daisy Haggard, and Bella Ramsey, is based on Luke Pearson’s Hilda graphic novel series. Scholastic is also bringing back its popular Meet & Treat After Party, open to all attendees. Once home to William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Truman Capote, New Orleans shares the 25th spot (with Tulsa) on the list of America’s most literate cities. It’s ahead of Miami, Phoenix, Memphis, and Los Angeles, to name just a few, when it comes to bookstores, libraries, and publications. But the city is also, as Teicher notes, “one of the most welcoming cities in the U.S.” In that spirit, Teicher continues, “All of us at ABA are looking forward to welcoming a record number of book- lernerbooks.com sellers to what we hope will be the most successful Children’s MK117-0618 Institute yet.” ■

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Mallika Chopra make with her young readers: there is no one right Teaching kids how to way to achieve mindfulness. reduce stress “The goal of the book is to provide a set of tools: here are different things you can do to stop your After the publication of her memoir, thoughts from racing or reduce what’s worrying Living with Intent: My Somewhat you,” Chopra says. Messy Journey to Purpose, Peace, and Chopra has taught meditation to thousands of Joy (2015), Mallika Chopra was sur- people and has a lot of experience working with prised by a request she got almost parents and kids. “When I had my kids, I met so everywhere she went. “When I was many moms who were trying to find balance and on tour for that book, always the some sense of purpose,” she says. “And our kids are first question I got from parents living in an anxious time. We need to teach them was, ‘What about our kids?’ ” says how to reduce stress and increase positive Chopra, whose father, new age guru thinking.” Deepak Chopra, had taught her to Chopra says she identifies meditate when she was nine. “I with stressed-out mothers. taught my daughters [to meditate] She wishes she was the “most when they were six or seven. But I chill” mom on the block, but

thought, how does one do a kids’ © TONY SALVAGIO it isn’t so. “People assume I’m book on this?” a certain way, but honestly, I’m Luckily, at about the same time, Running Press publisher like everybody else, trying to Kristin Kiser, who had worked with Chopra a decade earlier on take care of my kids, running 100 Promises to My Baby (2005), had the same idea: Would them around, managing my Chopra be interested in writing a book on mindfulness expressly work,” she says. “I was giving a for kids? speech to a group of women once The result is Just Breathe: Meditation, Mindfulness, Movement, and realized that, in my head, I and More (Running Press, July), a how-to guide for kids filled was also running a list: I have to with techniques for using yoga, slow walking, and meditation get the dry cleaning, I forgot to to minimize anxiety, manage stress, and increase happiness. sign the permission slip my daughter needed, are we out of dog Chopra offers a buffet of strategies, encouraging kids to try dif- food?” Her commitment to mindfulness stemmed from that ferent things until they find what works best for them. phase in her life when she felt she was constantly busy and “For some kids, quiet meditation will be all they need,” completely unproductive. Chopra says. “But for some kids, movement is important “I think for kids, [they need to] see that it’s okay to be con- because it’s hard to sit still.” fused and stressed and to fail—that’s just part of life,” Chopra A lifelong, but irregular, practitioner of meditation, Chopra says. “The key is to find ways to anchor ourselves and find peace does not meditate every day. “It comes in and out of my life, but and balance when we need it.” —Sue Corbett it is an incredible gift my parents gave me to teach me how to meditate,” she says. “Once you learn, you always have that tool.” Mallika Chopra will give Nor does Chopra live for yoga. “Everyone assumes I am probably a big yogi, but I have joked before that I can’t even do the opening keynote on downward dog,” she says. A year ago she and her husband Wednesday, June 20, 7:45–8:45 a.m., decided to give yoga another try, but even if they don’t stick in the Grand Ballroom. with it this time around, it proves a point that Chopra hopes to

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Chelsea Clinton ments and an evocative illustration from Fostering political activism Boiger. Many of the women will be unfa- miliar to American readers, such as Viola On tour this spring for She Persisted Around Desmond, who refused to leave the the World: 13 Women Who Changed History whites-only section of a Canadian movie (Philomel, out now), author, vice chair of theater in 1946; Wangari Maathai, a the Clinton Foundation, and former first Kenyan who spearheaded efforts to pro- daughter Chelsea Clinton was asked the tect her country’s environment; and Kate same question at every stop: “What can we Sheppard, who fought for the rights of be doing?” indigenous Maori women. “Some of that is a reaction to the cur- Many of their sto- rent climate, but some of it is part of ries were new to young people’s awakening. They want to Clinton as well. That be involved at their school. They want to was part of the reason solve problems. They want to do good in she decided to write a the world, and we all have a responsi- sequel. “There is an bility to nurture that,” Clinton says. ongoing struggle for Her new book, a companion to the equality around the bestselling 2017 picture book She world,” Clinton says. Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed “We need to tell even the World, follows the same format. Each woman is featured more stories of remark- in a single spread, with a brief encapsulation of her achieve- able women who have

Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson 30 years of publishing multicultural books

Just Us Books is a small press dedicated to publishing multicultural children’s books and run by the husband-and-wife team of Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson. Last year at BookExpo, Wade, the president and CEO, bumped into Phoebe Yeh, v-p and publisher of Crown Books for Young Readers. “After catching up on family, Phoebe asked what we were working on,” Hudson says. “I told her about the [We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices] anthology, and she was really excited about its potential— and ultimately, [she] made us an offer.” We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices (Crown, © STEPHAN HUDSON © STEPHAN HUDSON Sept.), edited by Wade and Cheryl, who is pub- noticing how their grandniece and other children were fright- lisher and editorial director of Just Us, brings together poems, ened about the future given the heightened climate of hatred letters, personal essays, and art by more than 50 children’s in this country. “What could we tell them to assure them of book authors and illustrators to empower young people. our support, comforting embrace, and love? We decided to Contributors range from Kwame Alexander (who will be do an anthology of contributors who had already been writing, appearing with the Hudsons and Yeh at a special session on illustrating, and connecting with young people,” Wade adds. the book) to Sharon Draper, Ellen Oh, Jason Reynolds, and Together, under the Just Us umbrella, the couple began pub- Jacqueline Woodson. lishing children’s literature as a natural outgrowth of their The idea for We Rise, Wade and Cheryl say, came from artistic and political interests: both came of age during the

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positively changed the course of history.” She may not yet be ready for that many words at bedtime now, The title of both books references Republican Senate Majority “but soon,” Clinton says. Leader Mitch McConnell’s censure of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Growing up in Little Rock, Clinton’s parents read books Democrat: “She was warned. Nevertheless, she persisted.” aloud to her, even when her father was governor. Her favorites When he spoke during the 2017 confirmation hearings for featured heroines who were problem solvers: Harriet the Spy and Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions, Warren was trying to read Coretta Meg Murry of A Wrinkle in Time. “I loved Meg’s indomitable Scott King’s words on the floor of the Senate. spirit and her determination to do right by her family,” Clinton The phrase not only inspired Clinton’s picture book biogra- says. phies but it has become a feminist rallying cry. Clinton has only Still, to find herself part of a wave of books about strong one regret. “I sent both books to Senator Warren, but I wished women changing the world is surprising and gratifying. “I don’t I had thought to send them to Senator McConnell too,” she says. remember there being books that were specifically about “He is owed a thank-you for the great title.” activism like the books we’re seeing now,” Clinton says. “And On tour, Clinton has been glad to meet mothers and fathers I couldn’t be prouder that the She Persisted books are part of who bring their daughters and, especially, their sons to hear her that groundswell.” —Sue Corbett speak. “I love it when I meet little boys who tell me who their favorite strong woman is,” she says. As the mother of two young children herself, Clinton is both Chelsea Clinton will give a producer and a consumer of the current bounty of books celebrating female achievement and inspiring kids to be the change a breakfast keynote on they want to see in the world. She bought Vashti Harrison’s Thursday, June 21, 7:45–8:45 a.m., Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (2017), an elementary in the Grand Ballroom. school-age collective biography for three-year-old Charlotte.

1960s and ’70s “black is beau- produced by black creators and sharing strategies that parents tiful” era. Cheryl was an art and organizations could use to encourage reading. editor and design manager for Just Us publishes roughly four titles a year. Its all-time best- educational publishers, while seller, Book of Black Heroes from A to Z, by Wade and Valerie Wade worked in public relations Wilson Wesley, was first published in 1993 and has sold nearly and created plays for the black one million copies in various formats. “We have revised it sev- theater. eral times, and it still is one of our top sellers, read by people of “We wanted our children— all ages,” Cheryl says. In the future, she adds, “we’d love to do who weren’t born yet—to have another powerful collection like We Rise, as well as other out- the kinds of books that we standing stand-alone titles.” never had for ourselves growing “The struggle for diversity and inclusion in children’s book up,” Cheryl says. “When we publishing is not new,” Wade points out. “We are proud to have started our own family, those been a part of the movement, and we continue to be a part of it. interests moved us to create children’s books for trade pub- We are also proud that we have played a role in helping more lishing.” Between them they have authored more than 55 people of color enter the publishing industry.” books for children. —Diane Patrick When their book proposals for black-centered manuscripts were rejected by commercial trade publishers, the couple Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson decided to publish Afro-Bets ABC Book, featuring the Afro-Bets Kids, six black characters they had created. In 1988, they will appear in conversation with formed Just Us Books to respond to a need in the marketplace Phoebe Yeh and Kwame Alexander in for authentic, nonstereotypical children’s books centered on the a morning keynote titled African-American experience. Much has changed, Wade notes, citing advances in digital “We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices!” technology, social media, and online bookselling. He adds that on Thursday, June 21, 10:15–11 a.m., over the years, they spent time educating wholesalers, distribu- in Grand D. tors, and bookstore buyers about the market for children’s books

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An unforgettable TORY OF FRIENDSHIP from the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Gardener “Charming and inspiring.” —ADAM GIDWITZ, Newbery Honor–winning author of The Inquisitor’s Tale “Irresistible.” —KATE MILFORD, bestselling author of Greenglass House “Hopeful and heartbreaking.” —BILLIE BLOEBAUM, bookseller at Third Street Books © ROSALIE WINARD

Temple Grandin Igniting young minds through science and art

A renowned inventor, professor of animal science at Colorado On Sale State University, and activist for the autism community, 9.25.18 Temple Grandin recently added children’s book author to her list of accomplishments. Grandin, who has written a dozen books for adults, including her autobiography, Thinking in Pictures (1995), made her children’s book debut last month with Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Meet Inventor (Philomel). The book offers 25 projects that kids can do on their own, often using household materials, and it interweaves anecdotes from Grandin’s own childhood in the 1950s. “When I was a at the child, I loved to make things,” she says. “I spent hours experi- Ci6 Author Reception menting, making bird kites and parachutes. If it flew, I liked it. I’d spend hours making things out of markers, crayons, and and get an advance tape—and I had a Singer Sewhandy [a children’s sewing copy of Sweep. machine].” During school visits across the country, Grandin says she has been disheartened to find a de-emphasis on tactile learning. “Kids today aren’t making things anymore. I’m a teacher, and I’m seeing kids getting through school now who don’t know how to use protractors or rulers or compasses. Instead, I see them

10 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 Children’s Institute getting addicted to video games. We need to get kids doing hands-on things.” Through Calling All Minds, Grandin attempts to provide a blueprint to help kids with creative thinking and problem- solving. In addition to DIY projects, Grandin says that the book is filled with biographies of inventors, including women and African-American innovators, along with pictures of their inventions. The book also includes copies of patents. Growing up on the autism spectrum, Grandin says that she faced social and academic difficulties, including having trouble reading. She didn’t learn to read until she was in the third grade. But she didn’t let her learning obstacles diminish her inquisitive spirit. When she wasn’t developing inventions, Grandin says, “I loved to read books about famous inventors. I was really interested in Elias Howe, the inventor of the sewing machine; Thomas Edison; and Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamship.” One of the joys and challenges of writing the book, Grandin On Sale says, was “duplicating [her] childhood projects,” from building 10.2.18 a windup helicopter to constructing an optical illusion known as an Ames room. The author encourages young readers to scav- enge for materials to find what works best. “Kids will have to experiment,” she adds. Several of the projects in Calling All Minds reveal Grandin’s sense of humor and mischief. “Officially, I recommend throwing your water bombs against a tree or the side of your house. Unofficially, siblings are more fun,” she writes. A childhood spent tinkering prepared Grandin for a career of invention and innovation. Grandin also credits her success to the support of her grandfather John C. Purves (coinventor of the autopilot)—to whom the book is dedicated—and exceptional teachers. She says of her high school science teacher Mr. Carlock, “He is a really great example of how a good teacher can turn a lousy student around. Studying became a goal toward becoming a scientist.” The book’s emphasis, however, is less on Grandin’s achieve- Meet ments and more on providing fuel for young minds. At ANDREA BEATY Children’s Institute, Grandin will discuss her lifelong love of inventing and the value of diverse intellectual and artistic at the approaches. “I do a lot of speaking events, and I always talk Ci6 Author Reception about different kinds of thinking: visual, mathematical, and and get an word thinking,” she says. She urges gatekeepers “to take the advance copy of thing a kid is good at and build on it.” Above all, Grandin says, the Questioneers #1. “I’m interested in seeing these kids who are different getting up and being successful.” —Emma Kantor Grab a free Questioneers Temple Grandin will give tote bag in the Galley Room. the afternoon keynote on Thursday, June 21, 2:15–3 p.m., in Grand D.

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29 Dates Tracey Hecht Melissa de la Cruz Never too old to read aloud

When writer and entrepre- neur Tracey Hecht, who The Voice In My Head has written, directed, and Dana L. Davis produced several films, talked with publishers about her idea for a series of middle grade readaloud Nexus novels, she was met with Lindsay Cummings silence. The notion that and Sasha Alsberg kids don’t want to read aloud with adults once they graduate from picture books has long been the perceived wisdom. So Hecht decided to publish Rebel Girls the 10-book Nocturnals series (about three animal friends who solve nighttime mysteries) herself through Fabled Films Press, Elizabeth Keenan part of the Fabled Films entertainment company she founded in New York City in 2007. “I really care about a book being a special thing. I think readaloud can be part of this screen-based time,” Hecht says. Brief Chronicle of Another She advocates reading as a shared activity and wants to encourage Stupid Heartbreak kids to engage with books the same way they do with YouTube videos. “Entertainment is dialogue-driven,” she adds, “which is Adi Alsaid why the Nocturnals is readaloud based.” To give the series, which launched with the publication of The Nocturnals in April 2016, a strong readaloud rhythm, Hecht and her coauthors, most recently Sarah Feiber, write using “a VISIT US AT: Inkyardpress.com loose 3-2-1 iambic pentameter.” Each of the three characters has its own word count. Tobin, a pangolin, utters two words for

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every three words that Bismark, a sugar glider, says. Dawn, the fox, underscores the conversation with a single word. Hecht is also in the midst of cowriting a 15-book series for younger readers, ages five to seven, titled the Nocturnals Grow & Read Early Reader series, which launched in September 2017. Book two, the most recent volume, The Slithery Shakedown, came out in April. The books are grouped into three reading levels based on their Lexile score. For early readers, Hecht relies on a different rhythm. “I use a beat storytelling style, which you can hear throughout,” she says. “If you were singing it, it would be a ba-ba-baaa, ba-ba, baaaa. I can tell when the writing is off when that staccato is not consistent.” These books also focus on a phonetic sound and use alliteration to showcase it. In book three, The Peculiar Possum (Oct.), Hecht introduces Penny the possum. In addition, Hecht has professional readers—frequently Bailey Carr, who narrated Laurie Halse Anderson’s Fever 1793 and other audiobooks—read the manuscripts aloud to workshop new material. Carr often accompanies Hecht on school visits as well.

Reading aloud isn’t only baked into the writing of each book, © ANISSA PHOTOGRAPHY it has been a critical part of the promotion for the Nocturnals, which now has four books in print with the publication of The Angie Thomas Hidden Kingdom in February. Two years ago, when book one came Proud to be a social out, Fabled Films partnered with the New York Public Library justice warrior to create a readaloud writing program for middle grade students and teachers in neighborhood schools. Since then, Hecht has Much has changed for Angie conducted the program in more than 60 schools, libraries, and Thomas in the year and a half bookstores around the country. Fabled Films also created a pro- since the publication of her gram kit for virtual school visits that includes a 3-2-1 dialogue debut novel, The Hate U Give, writing workshop along with makerspace activities, word about an African-American games, and crafts. teenager who witnesses her best More recently, Fabled Films has partnered with Wyndham friend being gunned down by a Grand Hotels on a pilot program called Reconnected, a police officer during a traffic Wyndham Grand Family Experience, which is intended to stop. Inspired by the Black encourage families to spend time together by building a blanket Lives Matter movement, the fort, creating shadow puppets, or reading the Nocturnals. book immediately struck a Coming in 2019 is a new as-yet-unnamed series in diary chord with readers. It was an instant bestseller and recently format by Hecht and Feiber, which features human protagonists received an Indies Choice Award for Young Adult Book of the and is geared to the upper end of middle grade. “It’s fun to be Year; according to her publisher, Balzer + Bray, it has sold back in development,” says Hecht, who doesn’t want the new 850,000 copies in all formats to date. series to interfere with the books already planned. “The thing “My life is completely different now,” says Thomas, a life- about the Nocturnals is it takes a long time to establish yourself long resident of Jackson, Miss., who seldom left her home state as a new publisher and a new author. We want to make sure we before the novel came out. “I travel just about every week. finish all 10 of the Nocturnals.” —Judith Roen Now I’m traveling to Germany, Australia, the U.K.” This year alone she has been a featured speaker at a number of festivals, including the Chicago Humanities Festival, Los Angeles Tracey Hecht will participate Times Festival of Books, North Texas Teen Book Festival, and in a panel titled “How to Run Successful YallWest. Virtual Author Visits” on Thomas conceptualized The Hate U Give while she was a student in the creative writing program at Belhaven University, Thursday, June 21, 3:15–4:15 p.m., in Jackson. To write it, she drew on her imagination and on her in Grand Chenier. real-life experiences growing up poor, African-American, and female.

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In her next novel, On the Come Up provide young readers with “as many (HC/Balzer + Bray, Feb. 2019), Thomas opportunities as possible to expand their Angie Thomas will give the addresses issues she’s experienced or her mind-sets.” After all, she points out, “the closing keynote address on friends have. In it, she writes about Bri, young people I am writing for now will an aspiring teenage rapper whose be voting soon and will also be running Thursday, June 21, mother loses her job, resulting in the this country someday.” 4:30–5:15 p.m., family facing the prospect of —Claire Kirch in Grand D. homelessness. When Thomas was a teenager, she says that when her mother lost her job: “[It] changed my life; it turned everything upside down.” That memory, she says, helped shape On the Come Up. So did witnessing a shoot-out between two drug dealers in a local park when she was a child. Thomas has friends who have lost parents to gun violence and to addiction. Thomas herself is an aspiring rapper. But she denies that Bri is her fictional alter ego. They do have similar tempera- ments, she admits. “Bri and I both have KATIE & KEVIN TSANG that mentality that no matter what’s at the happening, we’re going to make it,” she Children’s Institute says. 2018 Author Reception! The writer happily accepts the label of “social justice warrior” and all that it implies. “I am an author who uses my art as my activism,” she says. “Story is one of the greatest ways to build empathy with people. After 320 pages of walking in the shoes of my characters, I’d like to think that you’d have some empathy for OCTOBER 2018 • 9781454932550 [them].” Given today’s political climate, Thomas sees her role, and that of indie booksellers, as more essential than ever. She doesn’t hesitate to speculate that many in the Trump Administration Pick up your copy of must not have read much when they were younger. “If our current political leaders 24 HOURS IN NOWHERE and BUSINESS PIG had read books about people who are not in the Galley Room! like them when they were young,” she says, “we wouldn’t have to vote down building walls. We’d want to build bridges instead. We wouldn’t have to have Black Lives Matter. We wouldn’t have to fight for LGBTQ rights. We wouldn’t have a lot of these fights that we have.” SEPTEMBER 2018 • 9781454929246 SEPTEMBER 2018 • 9781454926849 Lauding booksellers for championing The Hate U Give, Thomas insists that authors and booksellers together must

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n recent years, children’s and teen lenging,” Goel says. “Heather used book festivals have taken off as her discretionary budget for her children’s specialty bookstores and library for the first year to fund a lot © DAUVAL large stores with strong children’s of stuff. She used her connections to Isections try to get more kids get our venue from the [school] dis- reading. Many stores partner with trict, supplies, and snacks.” local schools and libraries to create suc- By partnering, the organizers cessful festivals; others serve as official were able to use the skills of their booksellers to established festivals, respective trades to set the founda- including one of the country’s largest, tion for the festival. Goel worked on the National Book Festival in “building relations out,” estab- Washington, D.C. Though each event lishing connections with publishers, Authors Dhionelle Clayton (l.) and Tomi Adeyemi might be distinct, there are a few key securing authors, and handling speak at the NoVa Teen Book Festival. elements that each one shares: to be suc- book sales. Schubert forged ties with cessful, a festival needs authors, volun- librarians, young readers, and teen from Patterson and raised an additional teers, financial support, a good venue, volunteers. $25,500 from community sponsors to and young readers in droves. Since 2009, the festival has grown sig- launch the Western New York Children’s nificantly and drew 4,000 readers for 38 Book Expo. Since then, the festival has It Began as an author events last year. The organizers grown rapidly. Buffalo’s mayor has Experiment have also found new partners to provide declared the week before the festival a Now entering its 10th year, the Texas financial support and stability. The fes- children’s literature week. A nonprofit Teen Book Festival began “as an experi- tival now has a home on the campus of group has been formed to raise funds, and ment,” according to Meghan Goel, chil- St. Edward’s University and is sponsored Media College has stepped in to provide dren’s book buyer at Austin’s BookPeople by the Texas Book Festival. financial resources and curricular support and blogger for PW. The festival was the that helps school teachers prepare their brainchild of local middle school Too Much of a students for author visits. The festival librarian Heather Schubert, and Good Thing? also offers a dedicated day of workshops BookPeople was there at the start. Like Goel, Kim Krug, owner of Monkey for 150 public school teachers; the ses- “The first year was the most chal- See, Monkey Do... Children’s Bookstore sions count toward professional con- in Carpenter, N.Y., found herself tinuing education credits. at the helm of a book festival Even with a background in corporate somewhat by accident. “We have sales and marketing, Krug says that the a huge literacy problem in one drawback to the festival is, paradoxi- Buffalo,” Krug says. After cally, its success. “It’s a strong passion of attending the Rochester mine to see that the Book Expo con- Children’s Book Festival, she tinues,” Krug says. But she finds it “a thought, “We need that. We juggling act” that leaves her too little want that in Buffalo.” In 2014, time to focus on her own store. Recently Krug decided to apply for a she began partnering with Read to James Patterson grant to start a Succeed in hopes of handing off some of Author Kiki Thorpe makes fairy crowns with young small festival. the organizing work. “We need more readers at Denver’s Festival of Stories. The store received $8,500 help and resources so that the bookstore

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doesn’t suffer,” Krug notes. “It’s a full- nearby One More Page Books, located in time job and then some.” The next fes- Arlington, Va., carefully manage its par- tival takes place on November 10. ticipation in the NoVa Teen Book Festival, which first took place in 2014. Only Getting Started The festival was created by author Having just completed the inaugural Danielle Ellison, then an employee at the year of the Children’s Festival of Stories, bookstore and a youth services librarian Denver bookstore owner Dea Lavoie at Arlington Central Library. Book buyer already has her eye on how to balance Lelia Nebeker now leads the bookstore’s growing an annual festival in a sustain- participation in the festival and culti- able way. When Lavoie and her husband vates relationships with publishers and opened Second Star to the Right (a chil- publicists so that she can help the festival dren’s bookstore and toy store) three- set up author programming early. and-a-half years ago, they recognized the After four years, Nebeker says that need for a festival for young readers. NoVa “has reached the point where it has With donated space from Denver Arts become a profitable venture.” Next year and Venues, Lavoie created a one-day fes- it will move from Washington Lee High tival with an emphasis on diversity to School to a larger venue. reach inner-city school students. The festival, which took place in March, Money, Money, Money drew more than 1,000 readers, and 155 Goel says profitability has to be a con- educators attended the opening reception stant consideration. The teen book fes- with authors. Lavoie will continue to tival has “always been profitable” for organize the festival next year, but with BookPeople, according to Goel, but that’s the store in the midst of planning a move nothing to take for granted. “As book- and expansion that will triple its retail stores we have to be conscious all the time space to 3,000 sq. ft., she hopes to have a about what we are committing to and nonprofit in place to manage fund-raising. how much labor and inventory and cost “I’d love to be the main bookseller,” she we are investing in an event,” she says. says, “but with more volunteers.” “Offsite events especially can be less profitable than you think sometimes.” Partnering for Success With profitability comes the opportu- At Politics and Prose Bookstore in nity to do more creative work as well. Washington, D.C., finding the right BookPeople just launched a new program level of involvement is crucial. The to promote reading for pleasure in part- bookstore sells books for the nership with the Austin Independent Gaithersburg and National Press Club School District: the 5 Book Dive Summer festivals each year along with the Reading Challenge. “It’s the partnerships National Book Festival, for which it that have helped us do so many other became the official bookseller in 2014. things throughout the year,” Goel says. “It helps that the three occur at different “It creates an interesting dialogue that times of year. It also helps that we’ve never really dies down; it creates a new been involved with them for several dynamic.” ■ years now, so we know what to expect,” owner Bradley Graham says. A panel titled Still, the National Book Festival stretches the store’s capacity, requiring a “Planning and Executing staff of 70. To do it while keeping the Successful Book Festivals” store open, Graham says he relies on help will take place on from partners, including Ingram, book publishers, and the staff of the American Thursday, June 21, 1–2 p.m., Booksellers Association. in Grand Chenier. Close partnerships have also helped

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Jonathan Auxier Mac Barnett Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster Mac Undercover (Mac B., Kid Spy #1) Amulet, Sept.; $18.99, hardcover Orchard, Sept.; $12.99, hardcover Publicity plans: Author tour; prepub First printing: 50,000 buzz campaign; prepub author appear- Publicity plans: Author tour; animated ances; national publicity campaign; trailer; preorder advertising; video adver- online and social media advertising; pro- tising; educator advertising; floor motional author video; school and library display. conference promotions. James Bond meets Diary of a Wimpy From the bestselling author of The Kid in this new fully illustrated chapter Night Gardener comes this standalone Jennifer Lynn Barnes book series. The precious crown jewels novel about the power of friendship. have been stolen, and there’s only one Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite person who can help the Queen of possibly the best “climbing boy” (an Jennifer Lynn Barnes England: her newest secret agent, Mac B. orphan owned by a chimney sweep in Little White Lies Mac travels around the globe in search of Victorian London). But when she gets Disney-Hyperion, Nov.; $17.99, hardcover the stolen treasure. But will he find it in stuck in a deadly chimney fire, she fears First printing: 35,000 time? Ages 7–10. her time has come. Instead, she wakes up Publicity plans: IndieBound white box Illustrator Mike Lowery will not be in an abandoned attic, and she is not mailing; online advertising; AMS/social attending. alone. Huddled in the corner is a creature media campaign; promotional blogger/ made from ash and coal—a golem who vlogger campaign; YA-themed holiday saved her life. Together, these two out- roundup advertising campaign; cross- casts carve out a life together. Ages 8–12. promotion through back-of-book ads in the Naturals backlist; cross-promotion on Freeform social, Hyperion Teens social, and author’s social media; blog tour and select conferences and book festivals. Gilmore Girls and Pretty Little Liars go Southern in this comic mystery. A girl raised by a down-on-her-luck single © SONYA SONES © SONYA mom allows her wealthy grandmother to Mac Barnett bribe her into becoming a proper Southern debutante—all in the hopes of Jonathan Auxier finding out who her father is. Ages 12–up.

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at Harlequin. Harlequin Teen Rebrands “Together they represent a strong, creative Nearly a decade after Harlequin introduced the Harlequin community of estab- Teen imprint in August 2009, broadening its presence in lished and emerging the young adult market, the press is poised to relaunch the voices bringing imprint under a new name, Inkyard Press. unforgettable stories Starting in January 2019, all Harlequin YA titles will be to our ever-expanding published under Inkyard. The list will include The Evil readership.” Queen, first in a fantasy trilogy by bestselling author Gina “Our mission to publish books that resonate remains at Showalter. Her novel Intertwined was one of the books on the heart of the imprint,” adds Natashya Wilson, editorial the original Harlequin Teen list. Other Inkyard titles director of Harlequin Teen, who will lead Inkyard. “We will include 29 Dates, a romantic contemporary novel by Melissa continue to publish bestselling, award-winning, critically de la Cruz, and The Voice in My Head by Dana L. Davis, about acclaimed novels for readers of young adult fiction.” a teen girl who convinces her family, including her termi- Over the past year, Harlequin Teen has increased its nally ill twin sister, to go on a road trip. Inkyard will con- annual title count to 30, which is where it will stay as it tinue to publish a wide range of books, from contemporary transitions to Inkyard. Other books on the 2019 list include and mainstream novels to genre fiction. Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings’s sequel to Zenith, The rebrand is intended to give Harlequin’s YA list a titled Nexus; Elizabeth Keenan’s Rebel Girls, a feminist sister fresh feel. “The name Inkyard is original and evocative: ink, story chronicling the abortion issue as it played out in the the very foundation of the written word, and yard, an open 1990s; and Adi Alsaid’s Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid space to explore,” says Margaret Marbury, v-p of editorial Heartbreak, an exploration of love. —J.R.

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that means sled catapults, snowball bat- Andrew Cangelose and tles, and one monstrous Christmas cele- Josh Shipley bration. But their winter wonderland This Is a Taco! turns dark when a villainess begins CubHouse, out now; $15.99, hardcover hunting them. And this villainess is dif- Publicity plans: Book trailer. ferent—she’s a human. Ages 8–12. Read along as Taco the squirrel writes his own story. Ages 4–7. Vera Brosgol Be Prepared This Is a Whoopsie! First Second, out now; $22.99, hardcover; CubHouse, Oct.; $15.99, hardcover $12.99, paperback Publicity plans: Advertising timed First printing: 100,000 with the release of This Is a Taco! Publicity plans: Author tour with Hope This is a book that is supposed to be Andrea Beaty Larson; book festival and regional trade about all that a moose can do, but show appearances; media campaign; Whoopsie may not be the right moose prepub advertising; dedicated series for the job. Ages 4–7. Andrea Beaty website; outreach to educators and librar- Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters ians; promotion at school and library (The Questioneers, Book 1) conferences. Amulet, Oct.; $12.99, hardcover In this graphic memoir, all Vera wants First printing: 250,000 to do is fit in, which isn’t easy for a Publicity plans: Author tour; prepub Russian girl in the suburbs. Her friends author appearances; print, online, and live in fancy houses, and their parents can social media advertising; 12-copy floor afford to send them to the best summer display; tote bag; downloadable activity camps. Vera’s single mother can only kit; dedicated website; extensive social afford Russian summer camp. Vera is media outreach; school and library sure she’s found the one place she can fit promotions. J.C. Cervantes Rosie Revere is back and starring in her first chapter book. When Rosie’s beloved Aunt Rose and her pals, the J.C. Cervantes Raucous Riveters—who built airplanes The Storm Runner during World War II—need her help, it’s Disney/Riordan, Sept.; $16.99, hardcover up to Rosie to save the day. Will Rosie First printing: 25,000 be able to invent a contraption to help Publicity plans: Seven-city author tour one of the Riveters paint in the annual with school visits; blog tour; IndieBound mural competition? Thanks to some help white box mailing; online advertising; from her classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Vera Brosgol nine-copy frontlist floor display; promo- Twist, Rosie creates the Paintapolooza! tional blogger/vlogger campaign tar-

and, along with the Riveters, rediscovers © GEORGE BAIER in, but camp is not what she geting Percy Pack/Rick Riordan brand the meaning of home. Ages 6–9. imagined. Ages 10–14. influencers; digital advertising campaign Illustrator David Roberts will not be via @readriordan social; cross-promotion attending. Jess Butterworth on readriordan.com and Read Riordan Running on the Roof of the World social; promotion on Disney Books social Max Brallier Algonquin Young Readers, out now; $16.95, and disneybooks.com; cross-promotion The Last Kids on Earth and the Cosmic hardcover on author’s website and social media; Beyond First printing: 10,000 regional holiday catalogue advertising. Viking, Sept.; $13.99, hardcover Publicity plans: Regional author tour. Zane has always enjoyed exploring the First printing: 150,000 This story of adventure, survival, dormant volcano near his home in New Publicity plans: Author tour; national courage, and hope is set in the vivid Mexico, even though hiking it is chal- media campaign. Himalayan landscape of Tibet and India. lenging with his limp. What Zane doesn’t It’s the first winter after the Monster Ages 10–13. know is that the volcano is a gateway to Apocalypse. For Jack and his buddies, another world and he is at the center of a

22 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ JUNE 4, 2018 Children’s Institute NOTABLE AUTHORS AND ENGAGING STORIES powerful prophecy to release an evil god from an ancient Mayan relic. Ages 8–12. YOUR NEXT READ IS A BLINK AWAY! Jared Chapman T. Rex Time Machine Chronicle, Sept; $16.99, hardcover Solo First printing: 12,500 Kwame Alexander with Publicity plans: Advertising; social media campaign; promo- Mary Rand Hess tion at school and library conferences; promotion at fairs and Hardcover $18.99 festivals. 9780310761839 When two hungry dinosaurs jump into a time machine, they Swing encounter the many wonders of the modern world: police cars, Kwame phones, and microwaves. They don’t know how they’ll get Alexander with home—but why would they want to? Ages 3–5. Mary Rand Hess Hardcover, jacketed $18.99 Eva Chen 9780310761914 October 2, 2018 Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes Feiwel and Friends, Nov.; $18.99, hardcover First printing: 75,000 Publicity plans: Author appearances; outreach to parenting A Touch of Gold bloggers and digital influencers; preorder advertising campaign; Annie Sullivan Hardcover, jacketed $17.99 advertising and Instagram advertising targeting Chen’s fan base 9780310766353 and parenting influencers; downloadable activity kit; dedicated August 14, 2018 landing page at JunoValentine.com; social media campaign on MacKids and on Chen’s social channels; featured at teacher/ librarian conferences; outreach to key educators and librarians. Juno Valentine’s favorite shoes aren’t flashy. They are comfy Meet the Sky and perfect for jumping in mud puddles. There’s just one thing McCall Hoyle wrong with them: they’re missing. On her search to find them, Hardcover, jacketed $17.99 Juno meets Frida Kahlo, Gloria Steinem, Sally Ride, and other 9780310765707 September 4, 2018 influential women—and tries on their shoes. Ages 4–6. Illustrator Derek Desierto will not be attending.

Lesa Cline-Ransome The Color of Lies Finding Langston CJ Lyons Holiday House, Aug.; $16.99, Hardcover, jacketed $17.99 9780310765356 hardcover JOHN HALPERN November 6, 2018 First printing: 50,000 Publicity plans: Author tour, including conferences, trade shows, and festivals; special pitch and Pretty in Punxsutawney galley mailing to reviewers and Laurie Boyle Crompton influencers. Hardcover, jacketed $17.99 9780310762164 In this debut his- Lesa Cline- January 15, 2019 torical novel by the Ransone author of the acclaimed picture book Before She Was Harriet, a boy discovers Chicago’s postwar South Side and /BlinkYABooks @BlinkYABooks the poetry of Langston Hughes. Ages 8–12. /BlinkYABooks /BlinkYABooks

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Tony DiTerlizzi not developing schizophrenia like her The Broken Ornament mother. But when a newspaper intern- Simon & Schuster, Sept.; $17.99, hardcover ship results in Lily witnessing a mother First printing: 100,000 elephant trying to kill her three-week- Publicity plans: Author tour. old calf, Lily can’t abandon the story. When a beloved ornament breaks, will With the calf in danger of dying from

© ERIN SUMMERILL SONES © SONYA it ruin the holidays or save them? grief, Lily must decide whether to risk Ally Condie Brendan Reichs Bestselling author and Caldecott Honor everything on a road trip to save the calf’s illustrator DiTerlizzi offers a new life. Ages 13–up. Ally Condie and Christmas story. Ages 4–8. Brendan Reichs Laurie Forest The Dark Deep Terry and Eric Fan The Iron Flower Bloomsbury, Oct.; Ocean Meets Sky (The Black Witch Chronicles, Book 2) $16.99, hardcover Simon & Schuster, out now; $17.99, Harlequin Teen, Sept; $19.99, hardcover First printing: hardcover First printing: 125,000 100,000 First printing: 100,000 Publicity plans: Author tour; outreach Publicity plans: Publicity plans: National review to national and local media; major digital Author tour and coverage. outreach. appearances at festi- From the creators of The Night Gardener While the Resistance struggles to vals; advertising; comes a new picture book about a boy fight back against the harsh rulings of downloadable event who sets sail to find a place his grandfa- the Mage Council, more and more kit; extensive social media campaign and ther told him about: the spot where the Gardnerian soldiers, led by Lukas Grey, Instagram tour. ocean meets the sky. Ages 4–8. descend upon the University. Though Bestselling authors Condie and Reichs Elloren tries to keep him at arm’s length, join forces to create this darkly sus- Chris Ferrie Lukas is convinced that she is the next penseful middle grade debut. It’s Stranger ABCs of Space (Baby University) Black Witch. Caught between her Things meets The Goonies. Ages 8–12. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, out now; $9.99, growing feelings for the rebellious Yvan board book Guriel and the seductive power offered Sarah Crossan Publicity plans: Author appearances, by Lukas, Elloren must find a way to stay Moonrise including school and library visits and true to what she knows is right and pro- Bloomsbury, May; $17.99, hardcover trade shows; big mouth mailings to tect everyone she loves. Ages 13–up. First printing: 30,000 booksellers and librarians; social media Publicity plans: Extensive social media campaign. campaign and Instagram tour; national ABCs of Space introduces babies (and

media outreach. grownups) to a new scientific concept for APPEL © DAN In this novel written in verse by every letter of the alphabet—from Carnegie Award–winner Sarah Crossan, asteroid, binary star, and comet, all the Joe’s brother is on death row in Texas. As way to zenith. Ages up to 3. his final appeal approaches and his execu- Coauthor Julia Kregenow will not be tion date is set, Joe grapples with ques- attending. tions about life, death, love, and forgive- ness. Ages 14–up. Nancy Richardson Fischer Stuart Gibbs When Elephants Fly Harlequin Teen, Sept.; $18.99, hardcover First printing: 75,000 Stuart Gibbs Publicity plans: Author appearances; Spy School Goes South outreach to national and local media; Simon & Schuster, Oct.; $17.99, hardcover major digital outreach. First printing: 150,000 T. Lillian Decker is a high school Publicity plans: Author tour. senior with a 12-year plan: avoid stress, In this latest addition to the best- drugs, alcohol, and boyfriends, and take selling Spy School series, Ben is taken to © EROLF MARRIOTT Sarah Crossan regular psych quizzes to make sure she’s Mexico by his nemesis in the hopes that

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Liza Jane & The Dragon 3 x 4 Noodlephant Everimal Laura Lippman, Ivan Brunetti Jacob Kramer, Lucas Zanotto Illustrated by Kate Samworth September 4, 2018 Illustrated by K-Fai Steele June 15, 2018 October 2, 2018 9781943145348 January 15, 2019 9780935112368 9781617756610 Hardcover, $12.95, 40 pages, 6” x 9” 9781592702664 Hardcover, $19.95, 32 pages, Hardcover, $16.95, Juvenile Fiction / Concepts / Counting & Hardcover Picture Book, $18.95, 8.5” x 8.5” 32 pages, 9” x 10” Numbers 80 pages, 9” x 11” Juvenile Fiction / Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Ages 3 and Up Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Imagination & Play Emotions & Feelings Values & Virtues Ages 2 to 5, Grades P to K Ages 1 to 8 TOON Books Ages 4 to 8 Consortium Callaway Arts & Entertainment Black Sheep Enchanted Lion Books Ingram Publisher Services Consortium Consortium

Missing Mike Absolutely Everything A Winter’s Promise Shari Green Christopher Lloyd, Christelle Dabos, September 14, 2018 Illustrated by Andy Forshaw Translated by Hildegarde Serle 9781772780451 October 15, 2018 September 25, 2018 Hardcover, $16.95, 248 pages, 9781999802837 9781609454838 8” x 5.8” Juvenile Nonfiction / History Trade Paperback, $19.95, Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Dogs Hardcover, $21.99, 336 pages, 368 pages, 8.8” x 6.1” Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 8 9.8” x 7.3” Young Adult Fiction / Ages 9 to 12 Girls & Women Pajama Press Ages 15 and Up Ingram Publisher Services What on Earth? Ingram Publisher Services Europa Editions Publishers Group West

Surface Tension Thirteen Ways of Looking Summer of Jordi Perez Mike Mullin at a Black Boy Amy Spalding May 8, 2018 Tony Medina, April 3, 2018 9781939100160 Illustrated by Javaka Steptoe, R. 9781510727663 Hardcover, $17.99, 350 pages, Gregory Christie & Ekua Holmes Hardcover, $16.99, 284 pages, 8.5” x 5.5” February 13, 2018 8.3” x 5.5” Young Adult Fiction / 9780998799940 Young Adult Fiction / Thrillers & Suspense Hardcover, $16.95, 40 pages, Romance / Lgbt Ages 13 to 18 8.5” x 6.5” Ages 12 to 18, Grades 6 to 12 Juvenile Fiction / People & Places Tanglewood / United States / Sky Pony Press Publishers Group West African American Two Rivers Distribution Ages 6 to 11 Penny Candy Books Publishers Group West

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he’ll finally be able to take down distribution; advertising targeted at edu- SPYDER. Ages 8–12. cators and librarians; materials distribution at conferences; discussion guide. Andy Griffiths When a family buys a house in a strug- The 91-Story Treehouse gling town for just one dollar, they’re Feiwel and Friends, July; $13.99, hoping to start over—but have they hardcover traded one set of problems for another? First printing: 150,000 Ages 10–14. Publicity plans: Prepub advertising; Illustrator Ryan Andrews will not be social media and email marketing cam- attending. paigns; dedicated series website; promo- Rebecca Hanover tion at school and library conferences; Julie Kagawa outreach to educators and librarians. including book festivals; advertising; Shadow of the Fox Andy and Terry live in a 91-story tree- prepub buzz campaign; cover reveal; Harlequin Teen, Oct.; $19.99, hardcover house. (It used to be a 78-story treehouse, big mouth bookseller and librarian First printing: 100,000 but they keep getting ideas for new sto- mailings; trade show appearances and Publicity plans: 10-city book tour; out- ries.) Good thing there are so many fun giveaways; extensive social media reach to national media and local news- things to do in the treehouse, because campaign. papers; major digital outreach. Andy and Terry get stuck babysitting Dark secrets abound in the start of a The latest from the bestselling author Mr. Big Nose’s three grandchildren. genre-bending duology from Emmy of the Iron Fey series is based on the How much trouble could they possibly Award-winning writer Hanover. When Japanese mythology that Kagawa grew get into? Ages 6–10. six clones join Emmaline’s prestigious up with. Shadow of the Fox is set in a beau- boarding school, she must confront the tiful and perilous land of shape-shifters heartbreak of seeing her dead best friend’s and samurai, kami and legends, humans face each day in class. Ages 14–up. and demons. Ages 14–up. Monica Hesse The War Outside Little, Brown, Sept.; $17.99, hardcover First printing: 75,000 Publicity plans: Author appearances; advertising; prepub buzz campaign; school and library conference Andy Griffiths promotions. Edgar Award winner Hesse sheds light Gene Ha on hidden history in this novel set in Mae 1944. World War II seems far away to Julie Kagawa Roar, July; $14.99, trade paperback American teenagers Haruko and Margot, Publicity plans: National publicity until they’re uprooted to a family intern- Elliott Kalan campaign for pop culture and parenting ment camp because their parents are Horse Meets Dog publications; library appearances. from Japan and Germany. When the pair HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, Oct.; $18.99, Mae’s beloved older sister, Abbie, has meet at the camp’s school, they assume hardcover been missing for years. But no one could they’ll be leaving soon. As time drags on, First printing: 50,000 have imagined the truth—that she’d dis- everything around them starts to fall Publicity plans: Not available at press appeared into a world of epic fantasy. apart. How can Margot and Haruko time. That is, until she returns. Ages 12–up. know who to trust? Ages 12–up. TV comedy writer Kalan presents a case of mistaken species identity in this Rebecca Hanover Jennifer Richard tale where Dog thinks Horse is just an The Similars Jacobson oversized dog with funny paws. And Sourcebooks Fire, Jan. 2019; $17.99, The Dollar Kids Dog? Just a tiny baby horse with a weird hardcover Candlewick, Aug.; $17.99, hardcover tail. That’s what Horse thinks, anyway. First printing: 75,000 Publicity plans: Author appearances, Illustrator Tim Miller will not be Publicity plans: Author appearances, including Nerdcamp; extensive ARC attending.

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Kody Keplinger Liz and Lucy Lareau That’s Not What Happened It’s Not Rocket Science (Geeky Fab 5, Vol. 1) Scholastic Press, Aug.; $18.99, hardcover Papercutz, July; $12.99, hardcover First printing: 35,000 First printing: 30,000 Publicity plans: “I read YA” group Publicity plans: Local media and conven- author tour; extensive advertising to tion appearances; digital ad campaign. consumers and educators; feature at teen Who says girls can’t do science and festivals; social media assets, including tech? The Geeky Fab 5 series, by Liz digital chapter sampler and audio clip; Lareau and her middle grade–age extensive social media campaign via @ daughter, proves otherwise with a diverse ireadya community cast of characters. The story’s based on From bestselling author Keplinger Lucy’s experiences in elementary school. comes an exploration of the aftermath Ages 7–11. of a high school shooting tragedy, which shows the power of narrative and Daniel Lieske how we remember what we’ve lost. The Journey Begins Ages 12–18. (Wormwood Saga, Vol. 1) CubHouse, out now; $9.99, trade paper Publicity plans: Announced via the Hollywood Reporter; offered as part of 2018 Free Comic Book Day. This fantasy epic follows Jonas, a boy from the human world, who stumbles into an alternate universe through a painting in his grandmother’s attic. When the portal closes behind him, Jonas must find another way home. Ages 9–12.

© ALEKSANDR KARJAKA Laura Lippman Kody Keplinger Liza Jane & the Dragon Black Sheep, Oct.; $16.95, hardcover First printing: 15,000 Publicity plans: Author appearances; Jacob Kramer and targeted outreach to Baltimore/D.C. illustrator K-Fai Steele area; exclusive sneak peaks of the artwork Noodlephant offered to print and online publications; Enchanted Lion, Jan. 2019; $18.95, aggressive social media campaign; out- hardcover reach to schools and libraries; Lexile lev- First printing: 15,000 eling and guided reading leveling; fea- Publicity plans: West Coast tour with a tured in the Akashic Digits program for book launch at ALA Midwinter in Seattle; East Coast book launches; 10% of all author, illustrator, and publisher proceeds will go to a nonprofit organization fighting for prisoner rights. © LESLIE UNRUH. Determined to do something to push back against an unjust law, Noodlephant and her friends invent a machine that transforms pens into penne, pillows into ravioli, and radi- ators into radiatori. With that, the pasta parties are back! Ages 4–8. Laura Lippman Children’s Institute CELEBRATING 20 YEARS of EXCELLENCE in CHILDREN’S PUBLISHING e-book promotion; giveaways on LibraryThing and through Advance Access. Meet Liza Jane believed she could find better parents. So she fired her mom and Jennifer Sattler dad and hired the first applicant who 2016 © MACLEOD PAPPIDAS at the Author Reception came to the door—a dragon. What could possibly go wrong? Ages 1–8. on Wednesday, June 20! Illustrator Kate Samworth will not be attending. Corinna Luyken Rafael López We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands Scholastic Press, Oct.; $17.99, hardcover vindication she craves. Ages 3–5. Publicity plans: Author appearances; free Coauthor Marcy Campbell will not be audio (text) download in English and attending. Spanish; dedicated web page; social media campaign; educator advertising; poster. Tahereh Mafi Illustrator Rafael López brings new life A Very Large Expanse of Sea to the song “He’s Got the Whole World HarperTeen, Oct.; $18.99, hardcover in His Hands” with this adaptation. The First printing: 200,000 rhythmic verse and repetitive emphasis on Publicity plans: Not available at press 978-1-58536-416-9 • $16.99 “we” and “our” encourages inclusiveness time. “Sattler’s fable provides a model for and celebrates unity and diverse friend- From the bestselling author of the how a sharing and caring community ships all around the world. Ages 3–5. Shatter Me series comes this contempo- will win against a selﬁ sh bully’s ugly rary #ownvoices novel about a hijab- inﬂ uence … Truly, a tale for our times.” wearing Muslim teenager in a post-9/11 —Kirkus Reviews world who deals with Islamophobia while simultaneously falling in love for New Board Book Series the first time. Ages 13–up. Mélina Mangal The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just Millbrook, Nov.; $19.99, hardcover

© CANDICE LOPEZ Publicity plans: Advertising; prepub Rafael López buzz; web promotions and reviews through Goodreads, NetGalley, and Corinna Luyken social media; school and library trade Adrian Simcox Does Not Have a Horse show promotions; free downloads avail- Putnam, Aug.; $17.99, hardcover able at lernerbooks.com. First printing: 50,000 This picture book presents the life and Publicity plans: National media cam- accomplishments of a long overlooked Dirty Birdies • 978-1-58536-389-6 • $7.99 Jungle Gym • 978-1-58536-390-2 • $7.99 paign; select events. African-American scientific pioneer, Bundle Up • 978-1-53411-002-1 • $7.99 Adrian Simcox tells anyone who will whose observations of sea creatures listen that he has a horse—the best and revealed new insights about the origins most beautiful horse anywhere. But Chloe of life. Ages 6–10. Proud to be a 2018 does not believe him. Adrian Simcox lives Illustrator Luisa Uribe will not be in a tiny house and has holes in his shoes. attending. Children’s Institute The more Adrian talks about his horse, the angrier Chloe gets. But when she calls Lizzy Mason Silver Sponsor him out at school and complains about The Art of Losing him to her mom, Chloe doesn’t get the Soho Teen, Jan. 2019; $18.99, hardcover sleepingbearpress.com 866-918-3956 Children’s Institute

PW TALKS WITH Lizzy Mason Mason, director of publicity at Bloomsbury Children’s Books, will be on the other side of the autographing table to promote her debut novel, The Art of Losing (Soho Teen, Jan. 2019).

How did you come to write the fore we got an offer from Soho book? Teen. This was not a short pro- My parents sent me to rehab when cess—and this is the fourth book I was 16, so my high school expe- I’ve written in nine years—so even rience was pretty different from working in publishing doesn’t most people’s. Being sober as a make it easier to get a book pub- teenager changed lished. But this my life and made book is the most me the person I personal one I’ve am today. But it written, and it was incredibly © MEREDITH RICH feels right that it’s difficult to feel so my debut. different—and so lost—at a time What’s it like to when I just want- be on the other ed to fit in. So side of the pro- when I began cess as the au- writing The Art thor instead of of Losing, I want- the publicist? ed to show the Very surreal and realities of teen incredibly excit- addiction, espe- ing. I know too cially the way it much about some affects relation- things, which ships with family is both and friends. It helpful and soon became a story about making over- mistakes, accepting things you whelming, can’t change, and figuring out but I’ve what to do when everything also learned changes and you have to reimag- a lot, espe- ine your future. cially about the editorial How long did it take you to side. I’m also write the novel and to get it coming into published? this experi- I started writing the book in April ence with a tremendous 2015 and signed with my agent, amount of support from the kid lit Stephen Barbara, the following community, which has been amaz- spring. Then, between revising ing and reminds me how lucky I am and submission, it was a year be- to work in this industry. —J.R. Children’s Institute

First printing: 75,000 Aladdin, Nov.; $19.99, hardcover Publicity plans: Author appearances; First printing: 150,000 cover reveal; digital marketing and Publicity plans: Author tour; national advertising campaigns; giveaways; web- advertising; digital marketing; educa- site advertising. tion/library promotions. The Art of Losing is a coming-of-age In the seventh book in the bestselling

debut, which offers an exploration of Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie © TIMOTHY GREENFIELD-SANDERS addiction, sisterhood, and loss. Ages must let the past and present blur 14–up. together, because the deadliest secrets are always the ones that get erased. Ages Shannon Messenger 8–12. David Barclay Moore Flashback (Keeper of the Lost Cities, Book 7) Charlotte Milner The Bee Book David Barclay Moore DK, out now; $15.99, hardcover The Stars Beneath Our Feet First printing: 25,000 Knopf, out now; $16.99, hardcover Publicity plans: Author interviews; Publicity plans: Prepub buzz tour; blogger outreach; social media support; author tour; appearances at multiple seed packets and promotional posters for festivals. bookstore and school events. In this debut novel, which celebrates This book introduces children to hon- the healing power of art, a boy tries to eybees and explains why they matter, steer a safe path through the projects in why they’re declining, and what we can Harlem in the wake of his brother’s Shannon Messenger do. Ages up to 9. death. A NYT Notable Children’s Book 2017 and a PW Best Book of 2017. Ages 10–up. Coming soon from Yuyi Morales Dreamers Holiday House/Porter, Sept.; $18.99, hardcover First printing: 75,000 Publicity plans: Author appearances, Dead men tell no tales. Except to Alex. including conferences, trade shows, and When he’s around, they can't shut up - festivals; special pitch and galley mailing especially the ghost of Mark Twain. to reviewers and influencers. Coming in July! This picture book is both a memoir of the author’s own journey from Mexico to the United States and an illustrated man- ifesto showing that immigrants have so Petunia’s tired of being overlooked just much to offer to their new country. because she’s six inches tall. But when the Enchanted Forest is threatened, can she measure up to the task? Coming in September!

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Simultaneously published in Spanish as threatens the king’s reign and forces Lei Soñadores. Ages 4–8. to decide just how far she’s willing to go for her freedom. Ages 15–up. Naomi M. Moyer Black Women Who Dared Rachel Noble and Second Story, Sept.; $18.95, hardcover Zoey Abbott Publicity plans: Author book launch; Finn’s Feather print and digital advertising; social Enchanted Lion, June; $17.95, hardcover media campaign. First printing: 15,000 Artist Moyer presents the inspirational Publicity plans: Regional bookstore tour, stories of 10 black women and women’s from New Orleans to Athens, Ga., at pub- Daniel José Older groups from U.S. and Canadian history. lication; Pacific Northwest tour in Oct.; Among them are antislavery activists, rollout in Australia, where Noble lives. clip available. business women, health-care activists, Finn knows his brother is gone. But he It’s 1863. Dinosaurs roam the streets of civic organizers, and educators. Ages 9–13. also knows that Hamish sent the beautiful New York City as the Civil War rages white feather on his doorstep. Ages 4–8. between raptor-mounted armies down South. Magdalys Roca and her friends Daniel José Older from the Colored Orphan Asylum are on a Dactyl Hill Squad field trip when the Draft Riots break out Scholastic/Levine; Sept.; $16.99, hardcover and a number of orphans are kidnapped. Publicity plans: Author tour; extensive Magdalys and her friends flee to Brooklyn consumer and educator advertising; and settle in the Dactyl Hill neighbor- interactive online game; dedicated web- hood, where black and brown New Yorkers site; digital chapter sampler and audio have set up a safe haven from the threats of

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WWW.PUBLISHERSWEEKLY.COM 31 NEW Picture Books Children’s Institute coming Fall 2018 Manhattan. They train to fly on dactylback from and plot to rescue their friends. Ages 8–12. blue manatee Cherie Priest The Agony House press Scholastic/Levine, Sept., $18.99, hardcover First printing: 20,000 Publicity plans: Social media assets; digital chapter sampler; social media campaign via @ireadya community; educator advertising. KaeLyn Rich A haunted house, a killer ghost, and a long-lost comic come to life in this Facebook Live or Instagram Live conver- package of novel and comics from the sation between Rich and Sam Maggs; author of I Am Princess X. Ages 12–up. authorless event kit. Illustrator Tara O’Connor will not be Rich offers an activism handbook for attending. teen girls ready to fight for change, social By Doug Cenko justice, and equality. Ages 14–up. ISBN: 978-1- 936669-70- 7 Hardcover * $17.99 Dan Richards Stu Truly Yellow Jacket, July; $16.99, hardcover First printing: 30,000 See You at Publicity plans: Author appearances. In this coming-of-age story, 12-year- Children’s old Stu struggles to navigate the murky Institute! waters of adolescence. To impress the © CARRIE DUNCAN new girl in school, he finds himself living Betty Quan a lie, which seems to be growing beyond his control. Ages 8–12. Betty Quan Grandmother’s Visit Bill Richardson Groundwood, Sept.; $17.95, hardcover The Bunny Band First printing: 4,000 copies Groundwood, Aug.; $16.95, hardcover Publicity plans: Select advertising; First printing: 6,000 copies advance copy mailing. Publicity plans: Advertising; advance Grace says goodbye to Grandmother in copy mailing. this book about love and loss. Ages 4–7. A rhyming tale about a badger and a Illustrator Carmen Mok will not be band of bunnies. Ages 4–7. attending. Illustrator Roxanna Bikadoroff will not By Dr. John Hutton be attending. Illustrated by Doug Cenko ISBN: 978-1- 936669-69- 1 KaeLyn Rich Hardcover * $17.99 Girls Resist! A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution Quirk, Aug.; $14.99, trade paper First printing: 50,000 Publicity plans: Big mouth mailing to teen activists, celebrities, LGBTQ community organizations, and political groups; downloadable action plan with a discussion guide for using the book with teens; sticker and chaplet giveaways; short videos featuring the author; Bill Richardson Children’s Institute All About Series Tony Sandoval and thinking step-by-step, she’s Watersnakes learning to solve problems, just like a Magnetic Collection, Nov.; $19.99, coder. Ages up to 3. hardcover Publicity plans: Review attention. Hamish Steele Mila is a solitary teenager ready to DeadEndia: The Watcher’s Test (DeadEndia, put another boring summer vacation Book 1) behind her until she meets Agnes, an Nobrow, Aug.; $14.95, trade paper adventurous girl who turns out to be a First printing: 25,000 ghost. She’s not just a regular ghost. Publicity plans: Promotion vianobrow. Agnes carries the essence of an ancient net and social media; extensive ARC dis- fallen king and a mouth full of teeth tribution; poster celebrating Pride that used to be his guardian warriors. Month and Trans Awareness Week; print Ages 8–12. and online advertising campaign; Lexile leveling and Common Core strands and guided reading levels provided; teaching guides. Barney and Norma are just trying to get by and keep their jobs, but working at the Dead End theme park also means battling demonic forces, vengeful ghosts, time-traveling wizards, and—scariest of all—their love lives. Follow the lives of the young adult employees of a haunted Check out these house theme park, which may or may not other amazing early Jonathan Auxier also serve as a portal to hell, in this reader books from graphic novel from the author of Pantheon. Ages 12–up. the award-winning Kevin Charles Smith All About … Series Demon Pirate (Bilge Rat—Pirate Barack Obama Adventurer, Book Three) Journey, Sept.; $14.95, trade paper Benjamin Franklin First printing: 7,500 Frederick Douglass Publicity plans: $30,000 budget; release on International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Helen Keller The Black Tarantula emerges as a Mohandas Gandhi pirate scourge, extending his reign of Roberto Clemente terror across the West Indies. Only one brave hero is capable of thwarting him. Steve Wozniak To do so, he will have to employ every David Ezra Stein And more… trick in his arsenal. But will that be enough? Ages 13–up. And these David Ezra Stein All About places Ruth Spiro Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Baby Loves Coding Surprise The Appalachian Trail Charlesbridge, out now; $8.99, board book Candlewick, Sept.; $16.99, hardcover The Grand Canyon First printing: 50,000 First printing: 40,000 copies Publicity plans: Author events, Publicity plans: Major festival and con- The Great Lakes including Nerdcamp, Illinois Reads, ference appearances, including the And more… book festivals, and Chicago-area appear- National Book Festival; consumer, ances; advertising. school, and library advertising; targeted As baby practices the screen-free con- outreach to educators and librarians; a Visit us at ALA New Orleans cepts of sequencing, cause and effect, poster, activity kit, and sticker sheets; #booth #3161 We will be doing All About giveaways throughout the show. Children’s Institute

online and social media outreach. nauts on missions in space. He, The little red chicken is back—and as Champion, Bug, and Daisy are the canine silly as ever—in Stein’s follow-up to the crew aboard the spaceship Laika. When Caldecott Honor–winning Interrupting the mission takes a disastrous turn, the Chicken. Ages 4–8. dogs find themselves alone on their severely damaged ship. Survival seems Brenna Thummler impossible. But Barkonauts always com- A CLEVER MYSTERY Sheets plete their mission. Ages 8–12. CubHouse, Aug.; $12.99, trade paper FOR KIDS Publicity plans: National campaign in Kiersten White Miles and Fargo, Turtle pop culture and parenting publications; The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein featured as part of ICv2’s Kids Graphic Delacorte, Sept.; $18.99, hardcover TM Detectives, solve a crime Novel Week; review campaign to YA Publicity plans: Five-city author tour; without leaving their tank. vloggers/YouTube reviewers. cover revealed via video on getunder- Told in dialogue and cre- Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A lined.com; Random House’s teen Law and Order practical 13-year-old in charge of the community. ated by family laundry business, her daily rou- Bestselling author White reimagines writer, Elaine Loeser. tine features unforgiving customers, Mary Shelley’s classic as told from the point unbearable PE classes, and the fastid- of view of Elizabeth, Victor Frankenstein’s Creative Child magazine’s ious Mr. Saubertuck, who is committed adopted sister. The book’s publication is 2018 Book of the Year! to destroying everything she’s worked timed to coincide with the 200th anniver- for. But then her world collides with a sary of the original novel. Age 12–up. www.turtledetectives.com ghost, Wendell, who lost his life much amazon.com • bn.com too young. Ages 8–12. Katie and Kevin Tsang Sam Wu Is Not Afraid of Ghosts Delicious Titles Sterling, Oct.; $12.95, hardcover FROM Publicity plans: Author tour; advertising; print and online publicity cam- press paign; targeted mailing to librarians and booksellers; heavy promotion on all author social media channels; classroom © BLUE LILY discussion guide with activities; author Kiersten White Skype sessions for classroom and bookstore events. 978-0-9976085-2-6 After an unfortunate incident in the Leslie C. Youngblood Space Museum, Sam goes on a mission to Love Like Sky prove to the school bully and all his friends Disney-Hyperion, Nov.; $16.99, hardcover that he’s not afraid of anything—just like First printing: 25,000 the heroes on his favorite show, Space Publicity plans: Author appearances;

978-0-9976085-0-2 Blasters. And when it looks like his house IndieBound white box mailing; online is haunted, Sam gets the chance to prove advertising; spotlight on disneybooks. how brave he can be. Ages 7–12. com; promotion on Hyperion Teens Illustrator Nathan Reed will not be social and cross-promotion on author’s attending. social media; outreach to middle grade reviewers and trade media; online media

978-0-9976085-0-2 Greg van Eekhout outreach; blog tour. Voyage of the Dogs In this middle grade debut, 11-year-old HarperCollins, Sept.; $17.99, hardcover G-baby must bring her “blended up” CARDINALRULEPRESS.COM First printing: 50,000 family together when her little sister,

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