ALA GALLEY 2013 & Signing Guide BY BARBARA HOFFERT PrepubAlert LIBRARYJOURNAL Opening on Thursday, Digital Galleys June 27, in Chicago, the American Via NetGalley Library Association conference (www.netgalley.com), professional readers can access digital galleys, and doesn’t mean just meetings, meetings, publishers can choose how to provide access. We’ve noted meetings. It also means books, books, here if a title is available for request books, with the floor awash in or if the title is private. giveaways and authors standing by to The galley is available sign. Here’s Library Journal’s latest 4 for request. ALA Galley & Signing guide, which Readers can ask publicists will take you chronologically from 1 for a NetGalley widget, which can be emailed to grant approved booth to booth and is organized access for that particular title. to highlight titles to your taste. For the most part, publishers NOTE If you’re an ALA member, add don’t have giveaway schedules this year, so keep checking. your member number to your NetGalley Profile to make it easier for publishers Once again, embedded icons will guide the digitally inclined to approve your requests! Questions? straight to NetGalley. Huge thanks to Macmillan for Email [email protected]. sponsoring this guide! 2020 Workman Galley giveaways: A smal number of big, juicy titles are coming your way at this booth, boasting 300 copies apiece except as indicated. Lee Smith’s Guests on Earth 4 takes us to a North Carolina sanatorium to meet Zelda; Lauren Grodstein’s The Explanation for Everything 4 examines an explosive student-teacher relationship; Robert Morgan’s The Road from Gap Creek 4 follows up 1999’s Gap Creek, an Oprah Book Club selection; David Henry & Joe Henry’s Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him 4 offers a portrait of the iconic comedian by two brothers who knew him (150 galleys); and Alice Hoffman’s Survival Lessons 4 offers advice from a best-selling novelist on finding beauty in the bad (finished books). 1 In-booth signings: On Saturday, June 29, at 11:00 a.m., Sue Sanders, Mom, I’m Not a Kid Anymore 4 , on raising preteens; and at 1:00 p.m., Marci Alboher, The Encore Career Handbook (also at the Retirees’ Roundtable at 10:30 a.m.). On Sunday, June 30, at 10:00 a.m., Matti Friedman, The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible, winner of the 2013 Sophie Brody Award (also Literary Tastes at 8:00 a.m.); at 11:00 a.m., Abby Stokes, Is This Thing On?, everything you every wanted to know about computers but were afraid to ask (also on Saturday, July 29, at 3:00 p.m., United for Libraries’ “Quirky Books for Quirkier Librarians”); and at 2:00 p.m., Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings 4 , 2012 winner of Barbara Kingsolver’s PEN/Bellwether Prize. For fun: On Saturday, June 29, at 2:00 p.m., don’t miss the Workman/Norton Book Buzz, S104B. 2103 Macmillan Galley giveaways: Easy lifting for Macmillan’s biggest giveaway, 120 advanced listening copies of Sophie McKenzie’s Close My Eyes 4 , a scary breakout title from the award- winning British children’s and YA author. (At its heart is in fact a missing child.) Other big giveaways, especially for the crime fiction set: Hank Phillippi Ryan’s The Wrong Girl, next in this award-winning investigative reporter’s Jane Ryland and Jake Brogan series; Carla Norton’s The Edge of Normal 1 , winner of the Royal Palm Literary Award for best unpublished mystery; and Douglas Corleone’s Good as Gone 1 , featuring a former U.S. Marshal investigating a child abduction case. Two other very different biggies: David Gibbins’s Total War Rome: Destroy Carthage, based on the hugely popular video game (really), and Tom Perrotta’s delicious story collection, Nine Inches. If you’re vigilant, you can grab the following limited-quantity giveaways. Four personal favorites: Marlen Suyapa Bodden’s The Wedding Gift, a debut about black–white tensions in the antebellum South blurbed by Tom Wolfe and Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Amy Grace Loyd’s The Affairs of Others 4 , a penetrating debut about a young widow’s relationships with her neighbors, perfect for Claire Messud fans; Ronald Frame’s Havisham 1 , which imagines the younger years of the iconic Dickens character, from an award-winning British author; and Diane Chamberlain’s Necessary Lies 1 , a breakout title examining social and racial tensions in rural mid-20th-century North Carolina. You’ll also have to rush to get commercial titles that include Jay Kristoff’s Kinslayer, second in his Japanese dystopian steampunk series, “Lotus War”; Agatha Award winner G.M. Malliet’s Pagan Spring, a cozy set (charmingly) in Nether Monkslip; Maggie Barbieri’s departure from her “Murder 101” series, Once Upon a Lie; Michael Gruber’s energized The Return 1 ; and C.W. Gortner’s The Tudor Conspiracy 4 , an historical set at Bloody Mary’s court. In-booth signings: On Sunday, June 30, at 9:00 a.m., Gregg Hurwitz, Tell No Lies 1 , the latest thriller from the New York Times best-selling author and International Thriller Writers Award nominee. For fun: On Saturday, June 29, at 10:00 a.m., Macmillan authors grace the Pop Top Stage for Mystery Day: Tasha Alexander, Behind the Shattered Glass: A Lady Emily Mystery; Charles Finch, An Old Betrayal; Julia Keller, Bitter River; Eleanor Kuhns, Death of a Dyer; and Theresa Schwegel, The Good Boy. At 1:00 p.m., Wolf Haas, The Bone Man (Melville House). On Sunday, June 30, Macmillan authors will appear at the Pop Top Stage for Science Fiction/Fantasy Day: At 10:00 a.m., Jonathan Maberry; at 10:45 a.m., Cory Doctorow; at 11:30 a.m., Brandon Sanderson; at 1:15 p.m., John Scalzi (also on Saturday, July 29, at 3:00 p.m., United for Libraries’ “Quirky Books for Quirkier Librarians”); at 2:45 p.m., David Brin; at 3:30 p.m. Elizabeth Bear. Also on Sunday, June 30, at 8:30 a.m., McCormick Place, S104b, Book Battle IV, as library marketing honchos Talia Sherer of Macmillan and Chris Vaccari of Sterling (booth no. 1909) duke it out over their favorite forthcoming titles. 2 3 2108 Hachette Head by this booth for some commercial blockbusters, including Nicholas Sparks’s The Longest Ride, a tale of two couples, getting a million-copy first printing, and George Pelecanos’s The Double 4 , a new Spero Lucas thriller so hot you can get it with a coupon only (check LJ’s Aisle by Aisle coupon book). Then there’s James Patterson & David Ellis’s Mistress, a stand-alone about infatuation, and James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge’s Gone 1 , a Det. Michael Bennett thriller about a criminal’s vengeance. Leila Meacham’s Somerset 4 gives background to the best-selling Roses, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s You Should Have Known follows her best-selling Admission (did you see the film?), and Deborah McKinlay’s That Part Was True 4 limns a relationship that opens with a British woman’s letter to a famed American author. Daniel Woodrell’s The Maid’s Version, about a deadly 1929 dancehall explosion in the author’s hometown, offers exemplary literary thrills. More thrills: Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale’s The Thicket 4 , featuring a young man in early 1900s East Texas set on avenging his family; James Sheehan’s The Alligator Man, about a lawyer father and son fighting to save a man accused of murder; andTed Dekker’s Outlaw, inspirational suspense that starts deep in the jungle. With Shaman 4 , Kim Stanley Robinson offers an Ice Age epic, and Mira Grant’s Parasite 4 features a future world where genetically engineered tapeworms keep the human species healthy— except now they’re getting restless. If you like fiction debuts, don’t miss Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites 4 , based on the real-life story of a woman convicted of murder in 1829 Iceland and a shivery and thought-provoking international sensation (also at the AAP Bookalicious Authors Breakfast, McCormick Place Convention Center, on Saturday, June 29, at 8:30 a.m.). Other debuts to look for include Mary Simses’s The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Café, a heart warmer whose attorney heroine remakes her life in her grandmother’s hometown; Rachel Urquhart’s The Visionist, a disturbing account of a teenage girl’s travails at an 1840s Shaker community; and, helping to launch the publisher’s new Redhood imprint, Saskia Sarginson’s The Twins 4 , a tale of twin sisters psychologically bound yet deeply divided. You’ll want to investigate all five of these nonfiction titles, especiallyChris Kluwe’s Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies: On Myths, Morons, Free Speech, Football, and Assorted Absurdities 1 , pointed reflections on society from one smart Minnesota Vikings punter; Bill Minutaglio & Steven L. Davis’s Dallas 1963 1 , the portrait of a wild and woolly city on the eve of John F. Kennedy’s assassination; and Alan Weisman’s Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? 4 , on mastering the fate of humanity as its numbers grow. Also check out Jeanne Murray Walker’s The Geography of Memory: A Pilgrimage Through Alzheimer’s 4 , about caretaking, childhood recollections, and the nature of memory itself, and Nadia Bolz-Weber’s Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint, a gritty and unexpected spiritual memoir. In-booth signings: On Saturday, June 29, at 3:00 p.m., Mary Simses, The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Café.