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638-639 Consortium Akashic (649A): Grab Nina Revoyr’s Sierra Nevada–based Lost Canyon and out-there Joe Meno’s Marvel and a Wonder any time (200 galleys each); on Thursday, 5/28, at 2:15 p.m., stand in line to get books signed by Kaylie Jones (The Anger Meridian), Matthew McGevna (Little Beasts), and Barbara Taylor (Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night). Bellevue Literary Press (650): Explore the impact of your surroundings (the Javits Center?) with top-notch science writer Colin Ellard’s Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life (50 galleys); on Thursday, 5/28, at 2:30 p.m., ask dynamo short story writer Robert Lopez to sign Good People (150 galleys).

1 Biblioasis (642A): The publisher’s fi ction goes way creepy with Anakana Schofi eld’s Martin John (100 galleys), which crawls inside a deviant’s mind; Kathy Page’s Frankie Styne and the Silver Man (50 galleys), about a vengeful author who’s physically deformed; Kevin Hardcastle’s Debris (25 galleys), a rural noir collection recalling Daniel Woodrell; and Samuel Archibald’s Quebec–best selling debut collection, Arvida (25 galleys), featuring attempted murder, ritual mutilation, haunted houses, and more. A nice nonfi ction segue: A.J. Somerset’s Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun (50 galleys). Central Recovery Press (651): Signings for self-helpers: On Wednesday, 5/27, at 3:00 p.m., Bud Mikhitarian & Greg Williams, Many Faces, One Voice: Secrets from the Anonymous People. On Thursday, 5/28, at 10:00 a.m., Linda Dahl, Loving Our Addicted Daughters Back to Life: A Guidebook for Parents; and at 1:00 p.m., Maggie Lamond Simone, Body Punishment: OCD, Addiction, and Finding the Courage To Heal. On Friday, 5/29, at 10:00 a.m., Arnie Wexler & Sheila Wexler, who with Steve Jacobsen wrote All Bets Are Off: Losers, Liars, and Recovery from Gambling Addiction. City Lights (638a): The artistically daring can look for some Shock Treatment: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition, as signed by the author, artist Karen Finley on Thursday, 5/28, at 2:00 p.m. Only 20 copies, so hurry. Coach House Books (648): A big pitch for Andrew Battershill’s Pillow (200 galleys), about an animal-loving former boxer trying to shed the life of crime. Coffee House Press (642): You can walk away from this booth with Laurie Foos’s The Blue Girl (50 galleys), about moon pies and secrets; Selah Saterstrom’s Slab (50 galleys), whose ambitious heroine rises up after Katrina; Paul Metcalf’s Genoa: A Telling of Wonders (50 galleys), an anniversary edition of the author’s meditation on great- grandfather Herman Melville; Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth (150 galleys), from the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and a National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honoree; Caroline Casey & others’ edited tome, Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong, a Kickstarted book on the Internet’s obsession with cat videos (50 galleys); Lincoln Michel’s Upright Beasts (50 galleys), short stories all about us; Brian Evenson’s A Collapse of Horses (50 galleys), stories from the literate/scary author; Pulitzer Prize fi nalist Ron Padgett’s Alone and Not Alone and Ted Mathys’s Null Set, both poetry (yes, poetry!) with 25 galleys each; Quintan Ana Wikswo’s The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far (25 galleys), stories from a human rights activist–turned–artist/author; and debut novelist Julie Iromuanya’s Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (25 galleys). Curbside Splendor Publishing (640): Doing its splendid edgy-but-readable thing, the publisher passes out Patrick Wensink’s Fake Fruit Factory, small-town black comedy; Dave Reidy’s The Voiceover Artist, about a stutterer with a dream; and Vanessa Blakeslee’s Juventud, a debut from the winner of the 2014 IPPY Gold Medal in Short Fiction. Just 20 each, though. Feminist Press at CUNY (640A): Visionaries, run to this booth for editors Alexandra Brodsky & Rachel Kauder Nalebuff’s The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future (100 galleys). Stick it out for the author signings: on Thursday, 5/28, at 2:00 p.m. by New York Times–dubbed rebel anti-caterer Rossi (The Raging Skillet: The True Life Story of Chef Rossi, 100 galleys), and on Friday, 5/29, at 2:00 p.m., by protean Sarah Schulman (The Cosmopolitans, 100 galleys), here in fi ction mode. Haymarket Books (638): Signings for the radically engaged. On Thursday, 5/28, at 1:00 p.m., American Indian studies professor Steven Salaita will sign Uncivil Rites, about his fi ring by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for tweets critical of Israel. On Friday, 5/29, at 1:00 p.m., Remi Kanazi will sign Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine, poetry that moves from Middle East crisis to U.S. militarism to Islamophobia.

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3 Stonebridge Press (652): The wild at heart will want to investigate photographer Nikki Silver’s Unshaven: Modern Women, Natural Bodies, images of uninhibited women who don’t wield razors, and gender-queer porn performer Jiz Lee’s Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy, a compilation of stories about porn performers outing themselves to family and friends.

738 Perseus Books Group Giveaways, seriously: Arthur Benjamin’s The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why; Pedro Domingos’s The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World; award-winning food writer Bee Wilson’s First Bite: How We Learn To Eat (chapbooks); Meera Subramanian’s A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka; Margee Kerr’s Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear, a University of sociologist’s take on why we love to be scared; Harlow Giles Unger’s Henry Clay: America’s Greatest Statesman; Stephen R. Bown’s White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen’s Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic; and Ryan Berg’s No House To Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions, about his work in a group home for disowned and homeless LGBTQ teenagers. Giveaways, more lighthearted: Clara Bensen’s No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering, love and travel launched by OKCupid; Ilyse Mimoun’s Choose Your Own Love Story: Adventures in Dating, Do Overs, and Finding Your Happily Ever After; Justin Hill’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend, a novelization of the movie script based on the writings of Wang Dulu; Ali Adler’s How To F*ck a Woman (by a woman); G. Bruce Boyer’s True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear, from a Town & Country contributing fashion editor; and Dick Van Dyke with Todd Gold, Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Aging. In-booth signings: On Wednesday, 5/27, at 3:00 p.m., Margee Kerr, Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear. On Thursday, 5/28, at 2:00 p.m., Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi (Strong Is the New Sexy: A Kick Ass Memoir), the Jersey Shore star’s girl-power revelations on how she got in shape mentally and physically. On Friday, 5/29, at 11:00 a.m., Tim Federle (Gone with the Gin: Cocktails with a Hollywood Twist), a good, stiff drink from the author of Hickory Daiquiri Dock.

939A Grove Atlantic Edge-of-your-seat giveaways: Belinda Bauer’s Rubbernecker  (200 galleys), trouble in the cadaver lab that led Bauer to the 2014 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award; New York Times best-selling Alice LaPlante’s Coming of Age at the End of Days  (200 galleys), whose teenage heroine gets sucked into a doomsday cult; Paula Daly’s The Mistake I Made  (200 galleys), more domestic thrills from the popular British author, and you wouldn’t make her mistake; Macdonald Fraser’s Captain in Calico  (150 galleys), the “Flashman” series author’s fi rst novel, just now published; and John Katzenbach’s The Dead Student (150 galleys), an international best seller about a young man convincedidth that his uncle was not a suicide. In-booth signings: On Thursday, 5/28, at 11:00 a.m., Jesse Eisenberg’s Bream Gives Me Hiccups & Other Stories  (400 galleys), bright, absurdist moments from the Academy Award-nominated actor, also a fl edgling playwright, and at 3:00 p.m., David Payne’s Barefoot to Avalon (200 galleys), the admirable novelist’s account of spiraling downward after his brother’s accidental death. On Friday, 5/29, at 11:30 a.m., National Book Award winner Lily Tuck’s The Double Life of Liliane (300 galleys), autobiographical fi ction about a daughter living between two parents and two worlds.

4 1039-1139 Workman Algonquin in-booth signings: On Wednesday, 5/27, at 2:30 p.m., B.A. Shapiro’s The Muralist (500 galleys), the Art Forger author’s next novel, which opens with the disappearance of a woman artist in 1940s New York. On Thursday, May 28, at 11:00 a.m., Ron Childress’s And West Is West (500 galleys), techno-fostered moral quandaries that won the author the 2014 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction; and at 2:00 p.m., Jonathan Evison’s This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!  (500 galleys), about an elderly widow reassessing her life (on a cruise!). On Friday, 5/29, at 11:00 a.m., Barry Moser’s We Were Brothers: A Memoir (350 galleys), the famed illustrator’s account of painfully growing apart from his brother. Giveaways: Tal Ronnen’s Crossroad: Extraordinary Recipes from the Restaurant That Is Reinventing Vegan Cuisine  (100 galleys), on Thursday, 5/28, from Artisan (hey, he’s cooked for Oprah!); Kathryn Aalto’s The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk Through the Forest That Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood  (100 galleys), discovering East Sussex’s ancient Ashdown Forest with Winnie, Piglet, and friends, from Timber; and Jon Birger’s Date-onimics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game (200 galleys), which (sadly) proves that there really aren’t enough men to go around, on Thursday morning, 5/28, from Workman. More in-booth signings: On Thursday, 5/28, at 11:30 a.m., Sandra Boynton will sign an original, frameable, and probably good-enough-to-eat print promoting the thoroughly revised and redrawn edition of 1982’s Chocolate: The Consuming Passion; and at 2:00 p.m., Deanna F. Cook is cookin’ with Cooking Class: 57 Fun Recipes Kids Will Love To Make (and Eat!) (200 fi nished copies). On Friday, 5/29, at 10:00 a.m., you’ll want to hug Tracey Stewart as she signs Do Unto Animals: A Friendly Guide to How Animals Live, and How We Can Make Their Lives Better (100 galleys), and at 3:00 p.m., Austin Kleon drops in to sign backlist titles Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work, as well as a brochure/sampler of the forthcoming Show Your Work Journal.

1920–21 W.W. Norton Giveaways on a schedule: Short fi ction master Bonnie Jo Campbell’s Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories, about the complicated relationships of mostly working-class women (Wednesday afternoon, 5/27); David Locke Hall’s Crack99: The Takedown of a $100 Million Chinese Software Pirate, suspense with crucial consequences from federal prosecutor and former U.S. Navy intelligence offi cer Hall (Thursday morning, 5/28); John Seabrook’s The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory, which explains how today’s songs are engineered to hold your attention (Friday morning, 5/29); and Alex Honnold with David Roberts’s Alone on the Wall, from a premiere American rock climber famed for his free solo ascents; I can’t even look at the pictures (Friday morning, 5/29). Giveaways while they last: Adrienne Celt’s The Daughters, debut fi ction about an opera diva who rediscovers her voice by tracking her family history back to the rusalka of Slavic mythology; Eli Gottlieb’s Best Boy, moving fi ction about an autistic man whose happy life in a residential community is rudely disrupted; and Piu Marie Eatwell’s The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue, a truth-is-stranger-than-fi ction tale about a duke who really loved his privacy. In-booth signings: On Thursday, 5/28, at 10:30 a.m., Resurrectionist author Matthew Guinn inscribes The Scribe, tingling historical fi ction about a serial murderer after black entrepreneurs in early 1880s Atlanta; and at 3:30 p.m., Whiting Award winner Vu Tran introduces Dragonfi sh, a smart debut thriller blending the pain of migration with the sizzling dangers of the Vietnamese underworld in Las Vegas.

5 1927 Thames & Hudson A criminal-to-miss giveaway: In 1969, Professor P. V. Glob’s The Blog People told the story of the 2,000-year-old bodies found preserved in the bogs of Ireland, northwest England, Denmark, the Netherlands, and northern . Most appear to have been victims of unseemly violence. Using new scientifi c techniques that will thrill any thriller reader’s heart, Miranda Aldhouse-Green’s Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe’s Ancient Mystery updates the original title. The full-page images will make you shiver.

2038 HarperCollins Fiction giveaways, bloody stuff: mega-best-selling Karin Slaughter’s Pretty Girls, psychological chills about estranged sisters shattered by two tragedies 20 years apart who draw close again to understand what happened; Lisa Ballantyne’s Everything She Forgot, whose heroine begins recovering a chilling secret from her past after a stranger saves her from a fi ery wreck—then disappears; Wendy Corsi Staub’s Blood Red, mass market best-selling author’s fi rst in a new series about a small town with a big, bad secret; Crazy Heart author Thomas Cobb’s Darkness the Color of Snow, about a young policeman and a former friend whose deadly if accidental clash leaves a community in mourning; and Ben McPherson’s Line of Blood, a debut about a London family torn apart by a next-door neighbor’s murder and the subsequent investigation. Fiction giveaways, smart stuff: Gregory Maguire’s After Alice, which shows us what happens when friend Ada slides down the rabbit hole after Alice (it’s profound); Nikesh Shukla’s Meatspace, a high-profi le, multitasking British author’s novel about two cyber-obsessed brothers trying to fi gure out who they are in meatspace, e.g., the fl esh-and-blood real world; Patrick deWitt’s Undermajordomo Minor, black comedy about a hapless fellow hired as assistant to the majordomo of creepy Castle Von Aux; Ron Rash’s Above the Waterfall, which brings together burned-out Appalachian sheriff Les and runaway park ranger Becky; and Parnaz Foroutan’s The Girl from the Garden, a novel about Persian Jews in the early 1900s that draws on the Iranian-born author’s family history and won a PEN USA’s Emerging Voices fellowship. Giveaways, fun stuff: Adriana Trigiani’s All the Stars in the Heavens—movie stars, that is, as Trigiani heads to glittering 1930s Hollywood to reimagine the real-life affair of Loretta Young and Clark Gable. Also, two debut novels: Melissa DeCarlo’s The Art of Crash Landing, whose down-on-her-luck heroine uncovers a family secret when she revisits her mother’s hometown, and Ellen Herrick’s The Sparrow Sisters, a magic-touched tale of two New England sisters dealing with new love and their town’s long-hidden fears. Nonfi ction giveaways: Joyce Carol Oates’s The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age, a memoir about hard lessons learned growing up on a farm (and bonding with a beautiful red hen); Mary Karr’s The Art of Memoir, insight from a main instigator of the genre; and Don Miguel Ruiz & Barbara Emry’s The Toltec Art of Life and Death: A Story of Discovery, lessons for all gleaned by Ruiz during his spiritual travels while in a coma. All giveaways are between 100 and 200 copies apiece. In-booth signings: On Thursday, 5/28, at 11:00 a.m., Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, about the world’s best-ever guitarist and his ability to transform lives with his magical blue strings. On Friday, 5/29, at 2:00 p.m., Adriana Trigiani, All the Stars in the Heavens, meet-and-greet with chapbooks.

6 2541 Houghton Miffl in Harcourt Monster giveaways: Just three books, but with 1,000 galleys apiece, including Amy Stewart’s Girl Waits with Gun , a 1914-set novel generating in-house frenzy and showing how Constance Kopp protects her family by becoming one of the country’s fi rst female deputy sheriffs; Paul Theroux’s Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads , his fi rst-ever travelog about America; and Clare Clark’s We That Are Left , about two landed sisters coping after the Great War. In-booth signing: On Wednesday, 5/27, at 2:30 p.m., Amy Stewart, Girl Waits with Gun.

2620—21 Simon & Schuster Hot giveaways, fi ction and nonfi ction: Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills’s The Survivor (600 galleys), which takes durable Flynn protagonist Mitch Rapp to places worldwide; Mary-Louise Parker’s Dear Mr. You (300 galleys), which tells the multi- award-winning actress’s life through letters to men (real or imagined) who have infl uenced her; Paul Cleave’s Trust No One  (300 galleys), whose author protagonist writes crime fi ction that’s all too real; Susan Barker’s Incarnations  (300 galleys), about a lowly Beijing taxi driver visited by his past incarnations; Reba Riley’s Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing (300 galleys), which recounts the author’s reclamation of both health and faith; and William Paul Young’s Eve (excerpt booklets), inspirational fi ction from the New York Times best-selling author. In-booth signing: On Wednesday, 5/27, at 2:00 p.m., Jennifer Arnold & Bill Klein, Life Is Short (No Pun Intended): Love, Laughter, and Learning To Enjoy Every Moment , uplift from the stars of TLC’s The Little Couple. On Thursday, 5/28, at 10:45 a.m., Kunal Nayyar, Untitled Essay Collection, self-deprecating humor from the guy who plays Raj on The Big Bang Theory; at 11:15 a.m., Ruth Ware, In a Dark, Dark Wood , a spiky thriller about one really bad weekend and frightening echoes from the past (a BEA Editors’ Buzz Book); and at 3:15 p.m., Elisabeth Egan, A Window Opens  , a debut from the Glamour books editor about the work-life imbalance. More in-booth signings: On Friday, 5/29, at 10:00 a.m., Alice Hoffman, Museum of Extraordinary Things and The Dovekeepers, anticipating the release of The Marriage of Opposites in August; at 11:30 a.m., Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family , the agent/memoirist’s fi rst novel, an interlocking study of individuals connected by a terrible tragedy, beautifully written; and at 2:00 p.m., Felicia Day, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), from the actress who brought you Geek & Sundry on YouTube.

2908–09, 3009 Harlequin Romance signings, Thursday, 5/28, at 10:30 a.m.: Julia London, The Scoundrel and the Debutante (books); Susan Mallery, Hold Me (books); Jodi Thomas, Ransom Canyon (galleys); Kristan Higgins, If You Only Knew (galleys); RaeAnne Thayne, Redemption Bay  (galleys) & A Cold Creek Reunion (books); Marie Force, Fatal Affair: Book One (books); and Nancy Robards Thompson, My Fair Fortune (books). Second chance, Friday afternoon! Women’s fi ction signings, Thursday, 5/28, at 3:30 p.m.: Robyn Carr, One Wish (books); Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby  (galleys); Alex Brunkhorst, The Gilded Life of Matilda

7 Duplaine  (galleys); Pam Jenoff, The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach  (galleys); and Carla Neggers, Keeper’s Reach (galleys). Women’s fi ction signings, Friday, 5/29, at 10:30 a.m.: Heather Graham, The Betrayed (books); Robyn Carr, Never Too Late (books); Mary Kubica, Pretty Baby (galleys); Alex Brunkhorst, The Guilded Life of Matilda Duplaine (galleys); and Karma Brown, Come Away with Me (galleys). Romance signings, Friday, 5/29, at 3:30 p.m.: Julia London, The Scoundrel and the Debutante (books); Susan Mallery, Hold Me (books); Jodi Thomas, Ransom Canyon (galleys); Kristan Higgins, If You Only Knew (galleys); RaeAnne Thayne, Redemption Bay  (galleys) & A Cold Creek Reunion (books); Marie Force, Fatal Affair: Book One (books); and Nancy Robards Thompson, My Fair Fortune (books). All signings listed here are in the booth, with about 100 galleys apiece will be available for each author at each signing.

2919 Hachette Big-name fi ction giveaways: Oscar Hijuelos’s Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise, the Pulitzer Prize winner’s fi nal, posthumous novel, which sends Mark Twain and explorer Henry Stanley to Cuba in search of Stanley’s father; Chris Holm’s The Killing Kind , the celebrated “Collector” trilogy author’s tale of a hit man who pulls the trigger only on those like him; Candace Bushnell’s Killing Monica , revealing a Sex and the City feel as she chronicles an author preparing to do in her idealized fi ctional alter ego; and Newt Gingrich & Pete Earley’s Duplicity: A Washington Thriller , about the takeover of the newly reestablished U.S. embassy in Mogadishu—during a presidential election, no less (see the subtitle). More fi ction giveaways, fresh out the gate: Emily Holleman’s Cleopatra’s Shadows, literary historical fi ction about the Egyptian ruler’s put-upon younger sister; New York Times correspondent Jonathan Weisman’s No. 4 Imperial Lane  , starring a young American in Thatcher’s England and opening up to embrace colonial African history; Sunil Yapa’s Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, about lives colliding during Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests (pay attention, Yapa has studied with some great authors); Vaseem Khan’s The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra , featuring Mumbai inspector Ashwin Chopra, whose “unexpected inheritance” on the verge of retiring includes an unsolved murder and a baby elephant (he’ll be back again); Virginia Baily’s Early One Morning  , the British author’s fi rst American publication, following her McKitterick Prize–winning debut; Lila Bowen’s Wake of Vultures , black-edged fantasy about a half-breed girl with sight, by a pseudonymous author but fi rst in a series; and New Hampshire librarian Max Wirestone’s The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss, about bad-luck Dahlia and a new job that leads to murder: a big-ticket debut billed for crossover fi ction-loving geeks. Helping-hand nonfi ction giveaways: New York Times best-selling minister T.D. Jakes’s Destiny: Step into Your Purpose , -based, world-renowned pastor Brian Houston’s Live Love Lead: Your Best Is Yet To Come , and New York Times best-selling author, coach, and speaker John C. Maxwell’s Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters. Hundreds of galleys apiece, so don’t be shy. In-booth signings: On Thursday, 5/28, at 11:00 a.m., Newt Gingrich, Duplicity: A Washington Thriller; at 12:00 p.m., Nelson DeMille, Radiant Angel, which features former Anti-Terrorist Task Forcer John Corey suddenly wrestling with the Russians; and at 3:00 p.m., Jami Attenberg, Saint Mazie, reimagining real-life Mazie Phillips, patron saint of Depression down-and-outers on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. On Friday, 5/29, at 12:00 p.m.,

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9 Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Blue Labyrinth, Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast’s 2014 venture (Crimson Shore arrives in November); at 2:00 p.m., Michael Koryta, Last Words, a plunge into Indiana’s snaking underground caves in search of a murderer; at 3:00 p.m., Brad Meltzer, The President’s Shadow, whose hero, part of a secret society tasked with defending the President, knows that the bloody arm in the garden is meant as a message; and at 4:00 p.m., Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Stroll, with her second Christmas novel—set on Nantucket, of course. James Patterson booth takeover: On Friday, 5/29, at 9:00 a.m. Patterson fans who just can’t get enough will be able to grab galleys and see their hero in action. No signings, but Patterson will make a special announcement.

3039 Sourcebooks Something-for-everyone giveaways: Debut novelist Kelli Estes’s The Girl Who Wrote in Silk  (200 galleys, 5/28), whose contemporary heroine is linked by a bit of silk to a Chinese girl who lived a century ago; award-winning historical novelist Susan Higginbotham’s Hanging Mary , which takes us to the boarding house where Lincoln’s assassination was planned and asks how much owner Mary Surratt really knew (200 galleys, 5/28); Swedish author Katarina Bivald’s big-buzz The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend  (500 galleys, 5/29), which has sold rights in 20 countries and features a young woman who memorializes a friend by opening a bookstore in the town of Broken Wheel (defi nitely a Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society feel); and Peter Zheutlin’s heartening Rescue Road; One Man, Thirty Thousand Dogs, and a Million Miles on the Last Hope Highway  (200 galleys, 5/29), about Greg Mahle, who drives from Ohio to the rural South twice a month to rescue abused and abandoned dogs, then fi nds them caring “forever homes”; the related Rescue Road Trips website has 30,000 likes on Facebook. In-booth signings: On Wednesday, 5/27, at 2:00 p.m., Melissa Cistaro, Pieces of My Mother  (200 books), a wrenching memoir from the events coordinator at San Francisco’s Book Passage about being abandoned by her mother as a child. On Thursday, 5/28, at 10:30 a.m., Charles Belfoure, House of Thieves  , about an architect in darkly gilded 1880s New York who pays off his son’s enormous gambling debt by helping a bunch of cutthroats rob the stately mansions whose design he knows intimately; following the international best seller The Paris Architect.

3056 Macmillan Literary fi ction giveaways: Jonathan Franzen’s much-wanted Purity (200 galleys), whose heroine, Purity (aka Pip), leaves her Oakland squat for an internship in South America with the do-gooding Sunlight Project; Michael Golding’s A Poet of the Invisible World (200 galleys), about a young man’s adventures in the world after his early Sufi training; plus three debuts: Stephanie Clifford’s high-rising Everybody Rise  (100 galleys), featuring a young social climber in New York (fi lm rights optioned); H.S. Cross’s Wilberforce (200 galleys), about out-of-control students and one desperate teacher hitting up against the confi nes of all-male St. Stephen’s Academy; and Benjamin Johncock’s The Last Pilot  (200 galleys), about a pilot-turned-astronaut coping with family tragedy. Genre fi ction giveaways: Award-winning sf novelist/editor Adam Christopher’s genre-blending Made To Kill  (200 galleys), whose private-investigator hero has memory-tape limits and is programmed to turn a profi t, plus a pack of debuts: Elsa Hart’s Jade Dragon Mountain  (200 galleys), featuring an exiled Chinese imperial librarian reluctantly investigating murder (in-house raves); Michael Binder’s Keep Calm (200 galleys), about an American ex-cop forced into action after a bombing at 10 Downing Street; J.S. Law’s Tenacity  (200 galleys), whose

10 author uses his experience in the Royal Navy Submarine Service to craft this tale of suspicious death aboard the submarine HMS Tenacity; and law-enforcement veteran Neal Griffi n’s Benefi t of the Doubt (200 galleys), about a just-sprung killer set on revenge. Nonfi ction giveaways: Shane White’s Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire (200 galleys), whose subject reigned in pre–Civil War New York; plus two spikily funny memoirs, Dan Marshall’s Home Is Burning  (200 galleys), a BEA Editors’ Buzz Book whose author returned home at age 25 to care for his ailing parents; and Jenny Lawson’s Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (200 galleys), in which the popular blogger confronts boundless depression and anxiety. In-booth signings: On Thursday, 5/28, at 10:30 a.m., Sloane Crosley, The Clasp  , whose late-twenties protagonists seek a necklace that vanished in Nazi-occupied (hints of Guy de Maupassant); at 11:30 a.m., Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York: Stories, in-depth narrative following the blog/ book photo blockbuster, Humans of New York (posters); at 1:30 p.m., Charlie Jane Anders’s All the Birds in the Sky, from the editor in chief of io9.com, Gawker Media’s beloved sf/fantasy site; and at 2:30 p.m., Damon Tweedy, M.D., Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Refl ections on Race and Medicine , a BEA Editors’ Buzz Book, with Tweedy traveling from a segregated, working-class neighborhood to Duke University Medical School and still having to wrestle with issues of race and identity. On Friday, 5/29, at 11:30 a.m., Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl, and I hear she’s signing Special Editions; and at 1:30 p.m., Helen Philips’s The Beautiful Bureaucrat , about the eerily disaffected offi ce where Josephine is at fi rst grateful to fi nd work.

3119 At this big booth, signing is the name of the game. Random will give away titles only at signings, with quantities set at 200 galleys/books apiece, while Penguin will make last- minute decisions on giveaways but has focused on pen-in-hand authors. Random signings, Thursday, 5/28: At 9:00 a.m., Melanie Benjamin, The Swans of Fifth Avenue, a fi ctional visit with glittering friends Truman Capote and Babe Paley; at 10 a.m., Diana Nyad, Find a Way: One Wild and Precious Life, with the record-shattering long-distance swimmer giving her life story and advice; at 10:00 a.m., Ernest Cline, Armada , following up Ready Player One with a teenage gamer saving the world; at 10:30 a.m., Anthony Marr, The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories, bright bits set mostly in the ldlandscape of fh the phenomenal A Constellation of Vital Phenomena; at 10:30 a.m., Jennifer McMahon, The Night Sister, about a staringly empty hotel in Vermont with a secret that once destroyed the bond between three little girls; at 11:00 a.m., Vanessa Diffenbaugh, We Never Asked for Wings, plumbing an immigrant mother’s struggle balancing children and jobs (yes, plural); at 11:00 a.m., Lee Child, Make Me, sending Jack Reacher to the strange little town of Mother’s Rest; at 11:30 a.m., Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire , a $2 million debut about tangled relations in soon-to-be-blacked-out 1970s New York (BEA Editors’ Buzz Book); at 12:00 p.m., Jonathan Galassi, Muse  , the publishing icon’s debut novel—about publishing; at 12:00 p.m., Kathy Reichs’s Speaking in Bones  , with forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan getting help from amateur detective Hazel “Lucky” Strike; at 2:00 p.m., Tess Gerritsen, Playing with Fire, whose violinist heroine uncovers something especially dark while playing the moody “Incendio Waltz”; at 2:30 p.m., Ta-nehisi Coates  , Between the World and Me, understanding himself through racial history and racial history through himself; at 3:00 p.m., Jason Gay, Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living , makes-you-giggle takes on modern life from the daily sports columnist at ; at 3:00 p.m., Lauren Redniss, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future, an engaging explanation of all sorts of weather in graphic format; and at 3:30 p.m., Brené Brown’s Rising Strong, the No. 1 New York Times best-selling author’s book about being brave.

11 Random signings, Friday, 5/29: At 9:00 a.m., John Grisham, Rogue Lawyer, written in true Grisham mode; at 10:00 a.m., Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife  , a thriller inspired by the Southwest water wars and the author’s fi rst for adults since his multi- award-winning debut, The Windup Girl; at 10 a.m., Adam Johnson’s Fortune Smiles: Stories , following the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Orphan Master’s Son; at 11:00 a.m., Don Winslow, The Cartel,  with another bone-shaking novel about the drug wars spanning the U.S.-Mexico border; at 11:00 a.m., Bobby Flay, Brunch at Bobby’s: 140 Recipes for the Best Part of the Weekend, from the busy chef-owner of three Mesa Grill restaurants; at 11:30 a.m., Annie Barrows  , The Truth According to Us, about family and history in Depression-era Macedonia, WV; at 12:00 p.m., Susan Casey, Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins, great science writing showing that those sleek creatures can count, save others, and throw tantrums; at 2:00 p.m., MindyMi d Kaling, K li WhyWh Not Me?, stabbingly funny essays from the actress who gave us The Mindy Project; at 2:00 p.m., Paula McLain, Circling the Sun  , after The Paris Wife, a bracing novel about famed aviator Beryl Markham; and at 2:30 p.m., Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road, with Steinem as constant traveler in her fi rst book in 20 years. Penguin signings, Wednesday, 5/27: At 2:00 p.m., Maira Kalman, Beloved Dog , a visual lovefest from the famed illustrator; at 2:30 p.m., Kate Gavino, Night’s Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors, with over 100 contemporary authors illustrated and quoted; at 3:00 p.m., Jen Lancaster, I Regret Nothing , with the New York Times best-selling author still going after self-improvement (hmm, futile?); at 3:30 p.m., Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters, about two estranged sisters, a childhood attack, and an attacker who won’t let go; and at 4:00 p.m., Tom Foreman, My Year of Running Dangerously: A Dad, a Daughter, and a Ridiculous Plan , about the CNN corresondent’s brave (and maybe foolish) quest to run a marathon with his daughter. Penguin signings, Thursday, 5/28: At 11:30 a.m., J. Ryan Stradal, Kitchens of the Great Midwest  , a debut novel (surprise!) in which food fi gures strongly in one young woman’s upbringing; at 12:30 p.m., Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies , reshaping our view of marriage with a fabulous he-and-she approach; at 12:30 p.m., Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History, with President Thomas Jefferson challenging the kidnapping of American ships and sailors; at 1:30 p.m., Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord , a Pulitzer Prize winner’s reimagining of King David; at 2:30 p.m., , The Magician’s Land , saying good-bye to Fillory and hello to over a half-dozen best-book honors last year; and at 3:30 p.m., Rebecca Makkai , The Hundred-Year House, gracing us with distinctive new stories. Penguin signings, Friday, 5/29: At 12:30 p.m., Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Transformed My Life, so you can get happy, too; at 1:30 p.m., Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You, a much-praised portrayal of family mourning; at 2:30 p.m., Delia Ephron (text) & Ed Koren (illus.), Do I Have To Say Hello?: Aunt Delia’s Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-Ups, manners for everyone; and at 3:30 p.m., Sara Donati, The Gilded Hour, 1880s New York–set fi ction featuring descendants of Donati’s “Wilderness” series characters.

3240 Soho Press Fiction giveaways: Ruth Galm’s Into the Valley, whose aimless, California-based heroine has left the Fifties behind but doesn’t quite mesh with the Sixties; and Matt Bell’s Scrapper, about a man whose rescue of a kidnapped boy in blighted Detroit brings him local glory and an urge for justice. Crime fi ction giveaways: Peter Lovesey’s Down Among the Dead Men (150 galleys), which thrusts Chief Superintendent Peter Diamond of Bath into a missing-persons case even as he deals with police corruption involving an old friend; Lisa Brackmann’s Dragon Day  (200 galleys), the wrap-up to the China-set Ellie McEnroe thriller

12 trilogy; Mette Ivie Harrison’s His Right Hand (100 galleys), second in the big-out-the- gate mystery series featuring Mormon bishop’s wife Linda Wallheim; Heda Margolius Kovály’s Innocence; Or, Murder on Steep Street, set in grimly Communist 1950s Prague, in English for the fi rst time and written by the author of the Holocaust memoir Under a Cruel Star; David Downing’s One Man’s Flag (100 galleys), the second Jack McColl spy novel, with the British battling Bengali terrorists and their German allies in 1915; and Mick Herron’s Real Tigers (100 galleys), the third novel set at London’s Slough House, MI5’s home for disgraced spies, one of whom gets himself kidnapped. More crime fi ction giveaways: F.H. Batacan’s Smaller and Smaller Circles  (50 galleys), billed as literary noir and featuring two priests in the Philippines hunting for a serial killer; Fuminori Nakamura’s The Gun (50 galleys), about a university student obsessedbdihhh with the gun he’s found near a dead man; Tim Hallinan’s The Hot Countries (50 galleys), which opens with a stranger arriving at the Expat Bar on Patpong Road in Thailand, in search of series protagonist Poke Rafferty; Martin Limon’s The Ville Rat (100 galleys), the tenth outing of sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, whose only clue to a woman’s strangling in 1974 South Korea is a calligraphed poem; Stuart Neville’s Those We Left Behind (200 galleys), more edgy, Belfast-set thrills, with a young man targeted for vengeance after serving his term for his stepfather’s murder; and James R. Benn’s The White Ghost (100 galleys), the tenth World War II–set Billy Boyle mystery, with Billy investigating the murder of a native coast watcher whose body is discovered by one Jack Kennedy. In-booth signing: On Thursday, 5/28, at 12:00 p.m., James R. Benn, The White Ghost.

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