BOOKEXPO GALLEY& 2019 Signing Guide BY BARBARA HOFFERT Once again, Library Journal aims to help you negotiate the ever-crowded, always-exciting show floor at BookExpo by offering its annual Galley & Signing Guide. Organized chronologically, the guide offers descriptions of nearly 200 key giveaway titles from publishers large and small, plus signings by authors you’ll surely want to meet. Crucially, many publishers have timed giveaways, so check the schedule, and please be aware that schedules and even what’s being given away can change. A huge thanks to Sourcebooks, Booth 1629, for its long-standing support as sponsor of this guide. 706–920 Ingram Content Group GIVEAWAYS: 712C, FODOR: Fodor’s Inside Paris, for visitors, by Parisians, with customized neighborhood maps, distinctive hand-drawn illustrations, and lists like Best Bets and Instagram-Worthy Spots. (So au courant!) 720, TURNER PUBLISHING: Jane Austen & Bryan Kozlowski’s The Jane Austen Diet: Austen’s Secrets to Food, Health, and Incandescent Happiness, eating healthfully the Regency way; J.W. Ocker’s Twelve Nights at Rotter House, from the Edgar Award winner, creepy fiction about a travel writer determined to stay at the notorious Rotterdam Mansion for 13 nights—so what about the title? Kim Hooper’s Tiny, fiction about a marriage torn apart by a child’s death; and Amanda Rosenberg’s That’s Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill, the award- DON’T MISS NEFERTITI AUSTIN SIGNING MOTHERHOOD SO WHITE 5/30 AT 1:00 P.M. | SOURCEBOOKS BOOTH #1629 1 winning comedy writer’s personal take on mental health. 721, RAMSEY PRESS: Ken Coleman’s The Proximity Principle: The Proven Strategy That Will Lead to a Career You Love, all about being in the right place at the right time near the right people to get the job you want, from the host of the top-rated EntreLeadership Podcast. 728, AGATE PUBLISHING: Leslie Lennox’s Pesto: The Modern Mother Sauce; More Than 90 Inventive Recipes That Start with Homemade Pesto Sauce, from the founder of Hope’s Gardens, an artisanal pesto company based in Atlanta, bound to make you hungry on the show floor. 730C, FROMMER’S: Pauline Frommer’s Frommer’s Easyguide to New York City 2019, updated annually and—I love this—purported to include “opinionated advice” on what to see and what not to see after you leave the exhibit hall. 732B, GREYSTONE BOOKS: Roberta Staley’s Voice of Rebellion: How Mozhdah Jamalzadah Brought Hope to Afghanistan, a biography of the celebrated Afghan pop singer, once a refugee in Canada and now a champion of women’s rights; Alfred Fidjestøl’s Almost Human: The Story of Julius, the Chimpanzee Caught Between Two Worlds, about a chimp in Norway who has inspired pop songs and best-selling books; Henning Beck’s Scatterbrain: How the Mind’s Mistakes Make Humans Creative, Innovative, and Successful, with an acclaimed neurologist (and science slam speaker) explaining how our mental goofs actually help us; Bernd Brunner’s Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season, a meditation on the gorgeousness of snowy winter; and Marc Hamer’s How To Catch a Mole, a different kind of memoir from a British homeless teen–turned–railway worker–turned–fines arts marketer– turned–gardener who swears he will no longer catch moles. 733, GROVE ATLANTIC: Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein (300 galleys), a centuries-leaping retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein from the Whitbread, BAFTA, Rhys, and two-time Lambda Award winner; Candace Bushnell’s Is There Still Sex in the City? (250 galleys), fiction featuring 50- plus women wrestling with marriage, motherhood, divorce, Tinder dates, and insanely expensive face creams two decades after Sex and the City; Henry Porter’s White Hot Silence (200 galleys), with former MI6 agent Paul Samson rescuing a Greek aid worker held hostage by terrorist-linked Mafiosi, from a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger winner; Tom Bradby’s Secret Service (200 galleys), with senior MI6 agent Kate Henderson hunting a Russian mole burrowed deep in the UK government, from a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger short-listee; Walter Mosley’s Elements of Fiction (200 galleys), a master’s guide to pushing past boundaries while writing; and Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House (200 galleys), the story of Broom’s blended family, raised in the yellow shotgun house her mother bought in New Orleans East. 823C, PLATA PUBLISHING: Robert T. Kiyosaki’s FAKE: Fake Money, Fake Teachers, Fake Assets: How Lies Are Making the Poor and Middle Class Poorer, helping to sort through the disinformation of our lives; plus Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad and Kiyosaki & Donald Trump’s Why We Want You To Be Rich, perennial favorites. 824, F + W MEDIA: Cornelia Bartlette’s Knits from the Greenhouse: Knitting Patterns for Plant-Based Fibers and Courtney Spainhower’s Elemental Knits: A Perennial Knitwear Collection, two big books from F + W Media’s Interweave imprint; plus 52 Gifts from Me to You: Fresh, Simple Expressions To Show Your Love, a compilation from the North Light Books imprint. 825B, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Mike Berners-Lee’s There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years, a statistically rich resource on getting this planet through current environmental and economic crises, from the founder of Small World Consulting. 828, COACH HOUSE BOOKS: Saskia Vogel’s Permission, an erotic debut featuring a grieving young actress who gets caught up in the life and desires of the dominatrix next door; Grégoire Courtois’s The Laws of the Skies, a bloody literary tale of not so much fun in the woods as 12 children and three adult chaperones go camping; and 2 HONEST, VULNERABLE, UPLIFTING A MEMOIR OF RACE, GENDER, AND PARENTING IN AMERICA AVAILABLE “A sharp reminder September that in our society, • 2019 • PARENTING IS NOT A COLOR-BLIND EXPERIENCE.” —K. J. Dell’Antoinia, author of How to Be a Happier Parent BOOKEXPO AUTHOR SIGNING: 5/30, 1:00 p.m. Sourcebooks Booth #1629 3 Alexandra Kimball’s The Seed: Infertility Is a Feminist Issue, blending history, memoir, and reportage to argue that feminism has ignored the pain of infertile women and to highlight the need to address it. 828, ICON: David Whitehouse’s Apollo 11: The Inside Story, drawing on extensive interviews with key astronauts, NASA personnel, and politicians and written by a BBC science correspondent and editor who has worked for NASA. Sounds authoritative. 828, SCRIBE: Emiliano Monge’s Among the Lost, the multi-award-winning Mexican novelist’s black-edged, surreal vision of illegal immigration, focused on human-trafficked lovers Estela and Epitafio; Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s Beautiful Revolutionary, fiction inspired by the events at Jonestown, from one of the 2015 Melbourne Writers Festival’s 30 Under 30; and Jadan Carroll’s (Definitely) the Best Dogs of All Time, amazing stories of amazing dogs from Cerberus to Rin Tin Tin, collected by music manager/programmer Carroll and illustrated by Berlin-based Australian artist Molly Dyson. Woof! 833A, WORLD EDITIONS: Adeline Dieudonné’s Real Life, darkly funny doings about one girl’s coming of age with a domineering game-hunter father and head-bowed mother, an award-winning debut novel from a Belgian actress/comedian; and Gary Baker’s The Museum of Lost Love, with couple Katia and Goran setting off to investigate their own lost loves after visiting a Zagreb museum that features mementos of shattered relationships. IN-BOOTH SIGNING, THURSDAY, 5/30: At 11:00 a.m., Grove Atlantic (733), Richard Stengel, Information Wars, or, actually, the disinformation wars, from Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the Obama administration; and Red Lightning Books (826), Lauren Kessler, A Grip of Time: When Prison Is Your Life, drawing on the author’s experiences in her Lifers’ Writing Group; at 11:30 a.m., Polis Books (728a), John Vercher, Three-Fifths, a debut thriller about a biracial man passing for white; at 2:00 p.m., Polis Books (728a), Alex Segura, Miami Midnight, next in the Pete Fernandez mystery series; and at 3:00 p.m., Polis Books (728a), Erica Wright, Famous in Cedarbille, crime fiction with a silver-screen slant. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, FRIDAY, 5/31: At 11:00 a.m., Red Lightning Books (826), Lyz Lenz, God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America; and at 2:30 p.m., Plata Publishing (823c), Ken McElroy, Return to Orchard Canyon. 739 MIT Press GIVEAWAYS: Leah Plunkett’s Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online, a legal expert’s warning that we are unknowingly compromising our children’s privacy (and hence their well-being), starting when we post those cute baby pictures and continuing through digital surveillance in high school; and a Fall 2019 sampler including advance chapters from Vaclav Smil’s Growth, Dan Russell’s The Joy of Search, Ramesh Srinivasan’s Beyond the Valley, Alice Gorman’s Dr. Space Junk vs. the Universe, John Gribbin’s Six Impossible Things, and more. IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS, THURSDAY, 5/30: At 10:00 a.m., Dr. Rebecca Thompson’s Fire, Ice, and Physics: The Science of Game of Thrones, just so you’ll understand the physics of an ice wall and the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters as the curtains close on the blockbuster HBO series; and at 2:00 p.m., Kathryn D. Sullivan’s Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention (image sampler), with the first American woman to walk in space chronicling her work as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope.