GGALLEY 2017ALA & PrepubAlert LIBRARY JOURNAL Signing Guide BY BARBARA HOFFERT It wouldn’t be summer without the American Library Association’s (ALA) annual conference, and it wouldn’t be ALA without Library Journal’s annual Galley & Signing Guide. Here are over 200 titles ranging from literary fi ction and top pop to the latest history and self-help works. Compared with BookExpo, few publishers have their books on a giveaway schedule, so you can mostly wander at will. It’s especially pleasing to see the ever- increasing interest of smaller presses to bring giveaways to the event. Many thanks to Sourcebooks, Booth 3031, for its long- standing support as sponsor of this guide. 2511 Hachette No giveaway schedule as of press time, so check frequently for your favorites. HOT POP: Matthew Weiner’s Heather, the Totality, the Mad Men powerhouse’s debut about an upscale Manhattan couple vying for their daughter’s attention; Jennie Melamed’s Gather the Daughters, about young women in a dystopian society rebelling against their repressive fate; Fonda Lee’s Jade City, the award-winning YA author’s adult debut, featuring a mythical island protected by magical jade and the power-hungry family about to wreck everything; Louisa Morgan’s A Secret History of Witches, with fi ve generations of witches wending their spell-touched way from 1800s Brittany to World War II London; and Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks, whose heroines struggle in an oppressive Americai whereh abortionb i and in vitro fertilization are illegal and the Personhood Amendment holds sway. COOL THRILLERS: James Patterson & Richard DiLallo’s The Store, about a near-future emporium that can deliver anything but hides dark secrets a struggling writer is trying to uncover; Attica Locke’s Bluebird, Bluebird, the multi-award winner’s portrait of a black Texas Ranger, struggling in an unwelcome environment, who must 1 investigate the murders of a local white woman and a black lawyer from Chicago; Sarah Bailey’s The Dark Lake, with Australian Det. Sgt. Gemma Woodstock trying to solve the murder of Rosalind Ryan, once the bright star of their high school; Joe Ide’s Righteous, the much-anticipated follow-up to IQ, last year’s spiky-tongued debut about a genius loner in Los Angeles driven by moral concerns to solve crimes in the manner of Sherlock Holmes; and Sara Blaedel’s The Undertaker’s Daughter, the next thriller starring Chief Inspector Louise Rick, from Denmark’s Queen of Crime. HISTORY: Liza Mundy’s Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II, the New York Times best-selling author’s account of the more than 10,000 women who wrestled meaning from codes during World War II; Kate Winkler Dawson’s Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City, a veteran documentary producer’s account of huge and unexpected death in 1952 smog-shrouded London; Odd Arne Westad’s The Cold War: A World History, a refreshed global view from the Bancroft Prize–winning Harvard historian; Bettany Hughes’s Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, a study of the world’s most enduring political entity (it’s been around for 6,000 years), from a research fellow at King’s College London; and Laura Spinney’s Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, about the devastating pandemic that claimed between 50 million and 100 million lives worldwide, from science journalist/literary novelist Spinney. FIXING THE WORLD: Dar Williams’s What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding America’s Communities One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time, a noted folk musician’s take on what has made small towns stumble and what can make them thrive; Alexis Okeowo’s A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa, four blended narratives about principled resistance to modern slavery, Boko Haram, and more; and Sarah Thebarge’s Well: Healing Our Beautiful, Broken World from a Hospital in West Africa, the author’s account of blending faith and healing during her medical mission to Togo. FIXING THE SELF: Meg Jay’s Supernormal: Childhood Adversity and the Amazing Untold Story of Resilience, a clinical psychologist’s portrait of those who rise above early hardship; Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne’s Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing; Proven Steps To Inspire Confi dence and Seize New Growth, the INSEAD strategy professors’ sequel to their Blue Ocean Strategy, which has sold 3.6 million copies worldwide; Tim Federle’s Life Is Like a Musical: How To Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star, with the former Broadway dancer (and author of hit cocktail books) using his performer smarts to explain how to succeed in life, work, and love; and Amy Dresner’s My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean, from a privileged upbringing to addiction, knife waving, and 240 hours of court-ordered community service, then back up. MORE NONFICTION: Kate Fagan’s What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen, the heartbreaking story of University of Pennsylvania student and star athlete Maddy Holleran’s suicide; George Weigel’s Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II, with the New York Times best-selling author and papal biographer detailing a unique friendship; and Emory neuroscientist Gregory Berns’s What It’s Like To Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience, telling us what it’s like to be a dog, a bat, a dolphin, and even an extinct Tasmanian tiger. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS: Saturday, 6/24, 11:00 a.m., Angela P. Dodson, Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box, a veteran journalist’s study of the battle for women’s suffrage. Sunday, 6/25, 3:00 p.m., Melissa Scholes Young, Flood, a debut featuring a young woman anxiously returning to her hometown, Hannibal, MO, where Mark Twain was a boy. Monday, 6/26, 9:30 a.m., Sarah Skilton, Club Deception, about the woman behind an exclusive society of magicians. BOOK BUZZ: Friday, 6/23, 5:30–6:10 p.m., Book Buzz Theater, Exhibit Hall, McCormick Place, with Ingram Content Group. 2 3 2714 Macmillan SERIOUSLY GOOD FICTION: National Book Award winner Alice McDermott’s The Ninth Hour, how a young Irish immigrant’s suicide in early 1900s Brooklyn resonates for generations; and Robin Sloan’s Sourdough, a second novel from the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore featuring San Francisco–based software engineer Lois Clary whose life burbles upward when she’s bequeathed an obstreperous sourdough starter. DEBUT NOVELS: Cherise Wolas’s The Resurrection of Joan Ashby, about a literary star who marries for love, then fi nds herself distracted from her life goals by family concerns; Estep Nagy’s We Shall Not All Sleep, about two at-loggerheads families that share a small Maine island; Ashley Shelby’s South Pole Station, about a young artist hopefully accepting a National Science Foundation grant to work in Antarctica; Laurie Gelman’s Class Mom, whose heroine takes an unconventional approach to the title job; and Deborah E. Kennedy’s Tornado Weather, about a community’s uneasy connections when a child disappears. GET THRILLED: Ryan Gattis’s Kung Fu High School, the darkly satiric story of a brutal school and the kung fu champion who refuses to join the violence; Ali Land’s Good Me, Bad Me, an international best seller starring teenage Milly, struggling to stay good when she’s given a new identity after turning in her serial killer mother; Lisa Scottoline’s Exposed, with the law fi rm Rosato & DiNunzio torn apart by confl icting interests; Andrew Gross’s The Saboteur (galleys and ALCs), Norwegian resistance fi ghter Kurt Nordstrum’s efforts to take out a German factory trying to build an atomic bomb; and J.D. Robb’s Secrets in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel, with Lt. Eve Dallas investigating the murder of a gossip columnist who saved her worst secrets for blackmail. MORE CHILLS: Ashley Weaver’s The Essence of Malice, fourth in the Edgar-nominated, 1930s-set mystery series starring sparkling British amateur sleuth Amory Ames; Sharon Bolton’s Dead Woman Walking, about a woman alone in the wilderness after spotting a murder; and Denise Chamberlain’s The Stolen Marriage, whose heroine married impulsively and now feels somehow threatened in her husband’s hometown. SF/FANTASY: Natasha Pulley’s The Bedlam Stacks, about a former East India Company smuggler who agrees to locate quinine in Peru, though others who’ve tried have died, killed by something fantastical beyond an edge- of-forest boundary; Charles Stross’s The Delirium Brief: A Laundry Files Novel, eighth in the Hugo Award–winning series, wherein the secret British government agency battling unsavory creatures from beyond spacetime suddenly becomes public knowledge; Malka Older’s Null States, a follow-up to the hailed Informancy, with the global organization that has guaranteed peace and democracy for 30 years suddenly in trouble; and Jay Kristoff’s Godsgrave, with assassin-in-training Mia Corvere thinking she can avenge the murder of her family at the grand games in Godsgrave. NONFICTION: Heather Harpham’s Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After, from an award-winning writer, performer, and teacher of physical theater who had her child alone when her partner initially demurred, then learned that the baby was seriously ill; Joyce Maynard’s The Best of Us: A Memoir, the New York Times best-selling author’s portrait of fi nding her true partner in late middle age, then losing him to pancreatic cancer; and Manoush Zomorodi’s Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self (200 galleys), recommendations to stop distracting yourself with social media and use boredom to spark creativity, from the host of WNYC’s Note to Self.