Opening on Thursday, June 27, in Chicago, the American Library Association conference doesn’t mean just meetings, meetings, meetings. It also means books, books, books, with the floor awash in giveaways and authors standing by to sign. Here’s Library Journal’s latest ALA Galley & Signing guide, which will take you chronologically from booth to booth and is organized

to highlight titles to your taste. For the most part, publishers don’t have giveaway schedules this year, so keep checking. Once again, embedded icons will guide the digitally inclined straight to NetGalley. Huge thanks to Macmillan for sponsoring this guide!

2020 WorkmanGalley 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).

2013 ALA GALLEY Signing Guide

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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 MacmillanGalley 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.

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2108 HachetteHead 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; and Ted 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, especially Chris 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.

For fun: On Saturday, June 29, at 10:30 a.m., at the ALA Book Buzz Theater, McCormick Place South, Level 1, Room S104, a chance to learn about Hachette and Marvel books for the fall. Also, at the booth, pick up buttons celebrating Mira Grant’s Parasite and Elliot James’s Charming 4 , a contemporary fantasy debut.

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2112 Random HouseGalley giveaways: For award-worthy fiction you cannot miss, start with Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland 1 , a tale of two brothers split by politics but bound by love, with 250 galleys available. Also grab Loving Frank author Nancy Horan’s Under the Wide and Starry Sky, about Robert Louis Stevenson and his American wife, Fanny (200); Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Gardens 4 , a juicy story of politics and family in 1950s Queens (200); and Aimee Bender’s sparkle-eyed, original story collection, The Color Master 4 (125).

Three important novels that follow sensational debuts include Marisha Pessl’s Night Film 4 , a deeply literate chiller to match her deeply literate coming-of-age story,

Special Topics in Calamity Physics (150); Jamie Ford’s Songs of Willow Frost 4 (100), featuring a Chinese American boy’s hunt for his mother during the Depression, recalling the pathos of Ford’s 1.3 million-copy best seller, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (100); and Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation, like her Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Last Things a meditation on the travails of family intimacy (100).

Hot commercial fiction leads off with Koren Zailckas’s Mother, Mother 4 , not surprisingly a tale of family dysfunction from the author of the best-selling memoir, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (200); Anne Rice’s The Wolves of Midwinter 1 , a second paean to wolfen power after The Wolf Gift (150); and Debbie Macomber’s charming Christmas novel, Starry Night 4 (100).

Crime fans get to travel abroad with French author Pierre Lemaitre’s angst-inducing (and buzzing) Alex 4 , about Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven’s hunt for a smart, beautiful girl kidnapped and left to die (100); Italian author Roberto Costantini’s The Deliverance of Evil (75), a psychological thriller featuring Commissario Michele Balistreri’s decades-long struggle over lovely Elisa Sordi’s murder; and British debut author P.D. Viner’s tough’n’gritty Last Winter of Dani Lancing 4 , about the consequences of a college student’s murder for her parents and boyfriend (100).

Deep, impressive, and among my favorites, the historical fiction leads off with Rhidian Brook’s The Aftermath 1 , about a British colonel who requisitions a charming Hamburg home during post–World War II reconstruction but doesn’t evict the owner (150). Jo Baker’s Longbourn 1 will delight Janeites with its portrait of life downstairs at the Bennets (100), while mezzo-soprano’s Vivien Shotwell’s Vienna Nocturne sweeps in with a debut that tells the story of a real-life soprano’s affair with Mozart (100).

Nonfiction gets this publisher’s biggest giveaway with Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s mind-stopping Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital 4 , which probes patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital devastated by Katrina and will surely vanish quickly (250). Bill Bryson’s One Summer: America, 1927 will have its share of quick pickups, too (150). English lit fans, grab Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch (100); foodies, Luke Barr’s Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste 4 is all yours (100).

Memoir fans, note New York Times best-selling author Kelly Corrigan’s Glitter and Glue, about an adult daughter realizing what she owes her mother (150). And for something really original, check out Anya Von Bremzen’s Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking 4 , the three-time James Beard award winner talking about growing up in the Soviet Union by way of the food she ate—or couldn’t, owing to restrictions and shortages (100).

In-booth signings: On Saturday, June 29, at 11:00 a.m., Pierce Brown, Red Rising 1 , a dystopian debut about low-caste revolt in a future society (also at the AAP Bookalicious Authors Breakfast, McCormick Place Convention Center, 8:30 a.m.); at 3:00 p.m., Lee Sandlin, The Distancers: An American Memoir 4 , spanning seven generations of a family both distinctive and typically American.

For fun: On Saturday, June 29, at 11:30 a.m., a brand-new Book Buzz presenting works from Random House

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publishing partners, among them Quirk Books, Blue Apple Books, NYRB, and more, McCormick Place South, Level 1, Room S104B. On Sunday, June 30, at 10:30 a.m., the annual Fall 2013 Book Brunch, McCormick Place North, Level 2, Room N227A. Also, check out the “What Will You Read If You Survive?” poster featuring readalikes for Max Brooks’s World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.

2300 NortonGalley giveaways: Six absolute eye-catchers including Allan Gurganus’s seamlessly gorgeous Local Souls, a series of novellas and the author’s first work in over a decade; Dara Horn’s A Guide for the Perplexed, which daringly reveals the impact of technology on memory and the self via a tale of two sisters; Andre Dubus III’s startling story collection, Dirty Love; Mark Slouka’s Brewster, getting some attention with its tale of two teenage boys bonding in a rough-and-tumble 1968 town; P.S. Duffy’s The Cartographer of No Man’s Land, reflecting the impact of World War I on a village in Nova Scotia and the author’s debut at age 65; and Charles Palliser’s Rustication, a spooky 1863-set tale from the author of The Quincunx. There’s also a sampler of Tom Nissley’s A Reader’s Book of Days.

In-booth signings: On Friday, June 28, at 6:00 p.m., Charles Blackstone, Vintage Attraction, a novel from Bookslut’s managing editor. On Sunday, June 30, at 2:00 p.m., David Quammen, Spillover, a Carnegie Award and a National Book Critics Circle finalist.

For fun: On Saturday, June 29, at 2:00 p.m., don’t miss the Workman/Norton Book Buzz, S104B. And check out the posters promoting Judith & Nicholas Martin’s Miss Manners Minds Your Business, Chicago congressman Luis Gutierrez’s Still Dreaming, John Lloyd & others’ 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts To Blow Your Socks Off, Oretta Zanini de Vita & Maureen B. Fant’s Sauces & Shapes: Pasta the Italian Way, Graham Robb’s The Discovery of Middle Earth, and Mary Beard’s seriously buzzing Confronting the Classics.

2308 HarperCollinsGalley giveaways: Galleys will flow throughout the show, with quantities averaging 150–200 copies. Any galleys remaining after signings (see below) will be distributed at the booth. Hot fiction (with initial print runs of 100,000-plus) includes Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement, a forthright assessment of parental failing and the courtesan’s life in early 1900s China; Joshilyn Jackson’s Someone Else’s Love Story, about a romance that starts with a rescue at a gas station holdup; Anne Hillerman’s Spider Woman’s Daughter, with Hillerman picking up her father’s beloved Leaphorn and Chee series; Sena Jeter Naslund’s The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman, whose heroine is writing a novel about painter Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun; and Tom Franklin & Beth Ann Fennelly’s The Tilted World, about love, danger, and

moonshining as the Mississippi rises in 1927.

Two personal favorites that smart readers must pick up: multi-award-winning David Vann’s Goat Mountain, a searingly told story of tragedy during the annual deer hunt at a family’s California ranch; and debut author Yangsze Choo’s The Ghost Bride, an intriguing tale about a penniless young woman in 1890s Malaysia who agrees to become the “ghost bride” of a wealthy family’s recently deceased son.

You can put a little chill in your summer with Cosmopolitan editor-at-large John Searles’s Help for the Haunted, about young Sylvie Mason’s coping with the spooky loss of her parents; amazing shape-shifting author Adam Mansbach’s The Dead Run, a horror story set along the U.S.–Mexican border; librarian-in-training David Wellington’s Chimera, a tale of genetically modified killers from the popular author of serialized zombie novels;

mom-and-son team Charles Todd’s A Question of Honor, fifth in the charming Bess Crawford mystery series; and Joyce Maynard’s After Her, starring teenage Rachel, whose efforts to help her detective father snare a killer make matters worse.

But if you’d prefer cozier trade paperback originals, there’s Diane Hammond’s Friday’s Harbor, another novel (after Hannah’s Dream) set at the Max L. Biedelman Zoo but now starring a killer whale named Friday; Pamela Mingle’s The Pursuit of Mary Bennet, which imagines the life of Elizabeth Bennet’s klutzy younger sister; and children’s author Jane O’Connor’s Almost True Confessions, which switches to adult mystery and features a hapless copyeditor heroine whose author is strangled by a Hermès scarf.

Nonfiction leads off with Ann Patchett’s This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, fine-tuned essays on life, love, and happiness that act as both memoir and meditation; and Simon Winchester’s far-ranging The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible, a fantastic crossroads of history and science. Roger Rosenblatt’s The Boy Detective recalls a postwar Manhattan childhood (the author has worked in every genre from journalism to drama but recently has shone in memoir), and Carla Kaplan’s Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance offers openhearted writing from a leading scholar in race, gender, and literature. Meanwhile, Mark Lee Gardner’s Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West’s Greatest Escape takes us back to the James gang’s last shoot-’em-out.

In-booth signings: On Saturday, June 29, at 9:00 a.m., Richard Kadrey, Kill City Blues, Sandman Slim’s fifth outing (also at 10:30 a.m., United for Libraries’ “Crossing Over: Teen Books for Everyone!”); at 10:00 a.m., J. Lynn, Wait for You, a No. 1 best-selling ebook now in trade paperback original, by author Jennifer L. Armentrout in another guise; Molly McAdams, Taking Chances, an ebook best seller now in trade paperback original; and Shannon Stoker, The Registry, a trade paperback original launching a New Adult series (also at 11:30, LIVE! at Your Library Reading Stage).

Also on Saturday, June 29, at 11:30 a.m., Stephanie Evanovich, Big Girl Panties, a much-buzzed debut about slimming down while loving it up (also at 12:30 p.m., LIVE! at Your Library Reading Stage); at 1:30 p.m., Stephen Kiernan, The Curiosity, about love, media obsession, and a frozen man revived (also at 3:00 p.m., United for Libraries’ “Quirky Books for Quirkier Librarians”); at 3:30 p.m., Catherine McCord, Weelicious Lunches: 140 Fast, Fresh, and Easy Recipes (also at 2:00 p.m. at the Cookbook Pavilion).

On Sunday, June 30, at 10:00 a.m., Susanna Daniel’s Sea Creatures, the follow-up to her PEN/Bingham prize-winning debut, Stiltsville; at 11:30, Lizzie Skurnick, Shelf Discovery, from the veritable queen of the teen classic (learn more about her new imprint with Ig Books at the Consortium booth, no. 2637); and at 12:00 p.m., Amy Gail Hansen, The Butterfly Sister (also at 10:30 a.m., United for Libraries’ “First Author, First Book”).

On Monday, July 1, at 9:00 a.m., Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape, the trade paperback reprint of top romance author Phillips’s tale about running away from Mr. Right (also at 10:00 a.m., LIVE! at Your Library Reading Stage); at 9:30 a.m., Kristina Riggle, The Whole Golden World, a trade paperback original about a teenage daughter’s affair (also at 10:00 a.m., LIVE! at Your Library Reading Stage); and at 11:00 a.m., Wally Lamb, We Are Water, about marriage, remarriage, gay marriage, and family complications in the 21st century (also United for Libraries’ Gala Author Tea, Monday, July 1, at 2:00 p.m.).

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2312–2412 Simon & SchusterGalley giveaways: The publisher is handing out a small but potent bunch of books and galleys for fiction fans—only about 100 each, so don’t tarry. Debut author Sahar Delijani’s Children of the Jacaranda Tree 1 (finished books) shatteringly portrays children reconciling with loss in post-revolutionary Iran (Delijani was born in Tehran’s Evin Prison), Thomas Keneally’s Daughters of Mars 1 sends two Australian nurses to the front during World War I (galleys), Jayne Anne Phillips’s Quiet Dell 4 fearlessly portrays a serial killer executed near the author’s hometown (galleys), and Jeannette Walls’s The Silver Star (finished books) offers a scalding tale of two teenage sisters victimized by circumstance.

For pop fiction fans, there’s Lisa Unger’s In the Blood 1 , psychological suspense about a woman whose lies are getting her in trouble (galleys); Philippa Gregory’s White Princess 4 , a Cousins’ War novel for all those Anglophiles, telling the story of Elizabeth of York (galleys); Susan Crandall’s Whistling Past the Graveyard 4 , featuring a runaway girl’s journey through 1963 Mississippi and a step beyond the author’s typical romantic suspense (finished books), and Lynn Cullen’s Mrs. Poe 4 , about a woman tangled up with both moody Edgar and his younger wife (galleys).

In-booth signing: On Saturday, June 29, at 12:00 p.m., David Finch, The Journal of Best Practices, a memoir about confronting Asperger syndrome to save a marriage. On Sunday, June 30, at 1:00 p.m., Mary Alice Monroe, The Summer Girls 1 , with sisters reuniting under the sun; and at 3:30 p.m., Jean Thompson, The Year We Left Home, the late 20th century as lived by one American family. On Monday, July 1, at 9:30 a.m., Alice Wood’s Wealth Watchers, redefining “a penny saved is a penny earned” for the new millennium.

For fun: Don’t miss Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?, ALA Auditorium Speaker series, on Saturday, June 29, at 8:30 a.m. He’s signing afterward.

2331 SourcebooksGalley giveaways: On Saturday, June 29, at 4:00 p.m., James Whitfield Thomson’s Lies You Wanted To Hear 4 , a debut novel about a woman undone by hiding the truth (125 galleys). On Sunday, June 30, at 10:00 a.m., Dianne Dixon’s The Book of Someday 4 , a story of three women whose lives mysteriously intersect that has the publisher buzzing (375 galleys); and at 1:30 p.m., Charles Belfoure’s The Paris Architect 4 , about a man whose eyes are opened to injustice when he builds hiding places for Jews during World War II (125 galleys).

In-booth signing: On Friday, June 28, at 6:00 p.m., Dianne Dixon, The Book of Someday 4 (125 galleys). On Saturday, June 29, at 1:30 p.m., Julie Ann Walker,

Born Wild (125 galleys).

For fun: On Friday, June 28, at 5:30 p.m., 200 T-shirts will be given away, handy if you haven’t packed right for the trip.

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2403 SohoGalley giveaways: As always, this rising-star publisher offers an intriguing mix of top-notch crime fiction and distinctive literary work—so be grateful galleys are piled sky high. Here you can pick up Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnete Friis’s Death of a Nightingale, next in the New York Times best-selling series starring Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg (750); Colin McAdam’s aptly named A Beautiful Truth, told jointly by a family that has adopted a chimp and the chimpanzees in a Florida research institute (700); Barbara Cleverly’s A Spider in the Cup, with series regular Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Joe Sandilands linking a local murder to a U.S. senator visiting 1933 London (600); James R. Benn’s A Blind Goddess, another Billy Boyle World War II

mystery, with the Irish American cop from Boston back in England and facing more mayhem (500); Okey Ndibe’s original Foreign Gods, Inc., featuring a New York–based Nigerian cab driver desperate enough to plan the theft of a village relic (400); and Timothy Hallinan’s The Fame Thief, third in a mystery series starring one-time Hollywood burglar Junior Bender, now a private eye (265).

In-booth signings: On Saturday, June 29, at 2:00 p.m. Colin McAdam, A Beautiful Truth. On Sunday, June 30, at 12 p.m., Okey Ndibe, Foreign Gods, Inc., and at 2:00 p.m., Timothy Hallinan, The Fame Thief.

2417 Penguin Group (USA)Galley giveaways: As always, Penguin comes bearing an extraordinary array of titles— 79 are listed here, and more are promised. There’s no distribution schedule, so circle back often with empty book bags, and check the groupings below so that you can find titles to your taste.

Top-notch fiction: For luscious writing from high-end, mostly big-name fiction writers, see Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things 4 , an historical marking the author’s welcome return to fiction that unites passions for science and the spiritual; Patrick Flanery’s Fallen Land 1 , a literary thriller about our changed landscape that follows up an extraordinary debut, Absolution; Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are Completely Beside

Ourselves 1 , which rethinks our humanity as it chronicles one young woman’s bond with the chimpanzee raised briefly as her sister; James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird 1 , which daringly cracks race and gender conventions in its portrayal of a boy born into slavery who joins John Brown’s crusade disguised as a girl; Ivan Doig’s Sweet Thunder 1 , which delights us by returning Morrie Morgan to Butte, MT, in 1920; and newcomer Suzanne Rindell’s The Other Typist 1 , a stunningly atmospheric novel about infatuation and betrayal set during the Jazz Age.

Top-notch nonfiction: History, politics, and social issues are understood through the personal in six significant titles that include David Laskin’s The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century 4 , about one family’s branching out from a late 1800s yeshiva town to encompass triumph and tragedy; David Schickler’s The Dark Path 1 , a memoir of a boyhood spent wrestling with God and sex; Jen Lin-Liu’s On The Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta 1 , traveling the Silk Road to discover culture through food; Najla Said’s Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family 1 , about a hunt for cultural identity from Edward Said’s actor daughter; Ann Mah’s Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris 4 , by a journalist and diplomat’s wife; and Anna Badkhen’s The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village, an award-winning reporter’s portrait of an Afghan village presented through the weaving of a carpet.

Hardcover chills: Start out with Valerie Plame & Sarah Lovett’s Blowback 4 , the outed agent’s first novel, written with veteran author Lovett; Michael Sears’s next financial thriller, Mortal Bonds 1 , after Sears’s Edgar-

nominated debut novel, Black Fridays; Alex Grecian’s The Black Country, another 1880s Scotland Yard mystery after Grecian’s best-selling debut, The Yard; and Jon Steele’s Angel City 4 , second in his spiritually edgy “Angelus Trilogy.” Don’t forget Sam Cabot’s Blood of the Lamb 4 , a supernatural thriller written pseudonymously by Edgar Award winner S.J. Rozan and academic Carlos Dews; Lyndsay Faye’s Seven for a Secret 4 , another thriller about the newly formed New York Police Department; and Sophie Hannah’s Kind of Cruel 1 , the internationally best-selling author’s new Zailer/Waterhouse mystery.

Also check out Rhys Bowen’s Heirs and Graces 1 , R.J. Ellory’s City of Lies, M.A. Lawon’s Rosarito Beach 1 , Eric Lundgren’s The Facades, Nancy Martin’s Little Black Book of Murder: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery, Carol O’Connell’s It Happens in the Dark 1 , Royce Prouty’s Stoker’s Manuscript 1 , David Rich’s Middle Man: A Lieutenant Rollie Waters Novel 1 , and Victoria Thompson’s Murder in Chelsea. And if clash-of-sword historicals stir you, try Simon Scarrow’s The Gladiator: The Enemies of the Roman Empire Seek Their Revenge.

Paperback chills: First, look for Tonino Benacquista’s Malavita, a Mafia farce that will soon grace the silver screen, courtesy of Martin Scorsese, with Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Tommy Lee Jones in attendance. And you can’t go wrong with Fred Vargas’s Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery 4 , the latest from the three-time Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger winner. In addition, check out David Bell’s Never Come Back 1 , G.B. Joyce’s The Black Ace 1 (an ice hockey mystery), New York Times best seller Victoria Laurie’s Deadly Forecast: A Psychic Eye Mystery, Luke McCallin’s The Man from Berlin (set in 1943 Sarajevo), Kent J. Messum’s Bait 4 , Clare O’Donohue’s The Double Wedding Ring: A Someday Quilts Mystery Featuring Nell Fitzgerald 1 , and Felicity Young’s Antidote to Murder.

Hardcover women’s fiction: Lots of works by best-selling authors, including Luanne Rice’s The Lemon Orchard 4 , a story of healing with unexpected social commentary; Tracey Garvis Graves’s Covet 1 , about friendship veering toward forbidden romance (Covet made her name with a hit self-published ebook); Jojo Moyes’s The Girl You Left Behind 4 , two love stories linked by a World War I painting; Liane Moriarty’s The Husband’s Secret 4 , involving three women and more than one secret; Beth Hoffman’s Looking for Me, a charming follow-up to Saving CeeCee Honeycutt; Jennifer Chiaverini’s The Spymistress 1 , about a real-life Southern aristocrat who spied for the Union; and Rosie Thomas’s Constance, a tale of reckoning from an award-winning romance writer. Also check out Anne-Marie Casey’s debut, No One Could Have Guessed the Weather, about a woman forced by financial crisis to move to New York and finds that she love it.

Paperback women’s fiction: Grab New York Times best-selling author Sarah Jio’s Morning Glory 1 , about a Seattle houseboat community’s secrets, before it disappears. Other available titles include Toby Devens’s Happy Any Day Now (half-Korean, half-Jewish cellist Judith Soo Jin Raphael in midlife crisis), Marianne Ellis’s Amish-set tale of strained marriage, Summer Promise; Beth Kendrick’s The Week Before the Wedding (trouble), Holly Robinson’s The Wishing Hill (difficult mother, caretaking daughter), Renee Swindle’s Shake Down the Stars (friendship trumps divorce), and Janis Thomas’s Sweet Nothings 1 (baking trumps divorce).

Four fantasy debuts: Anthony Ryan’s Blood Song, an epic fantasy featuring a young lad delivered to the Sixth Order and henceforth committed to fighting servants of the Dark; Luke Scull’s The Grim Company, about a motley crew fighting for freedom now that the gods are dead and tyranny rules; Django Wexler’s The Thousand Names: Book

One of The Shadow Campaigns 1 , a military fantasy with battles fought by sword, musket, and magic; and two trade paperback originals: Shaunta Grimes’s time-traveling Viral Nation 4 and John Mantooth’s Year of the Storm, about a boy who must trust a stranger after his family disappears in a storm.

Three intriguing literary titles: Will Ferguson’s Scotiabank Giller Prize winner, 419 1 , about an editor immersed in the consequences of an Internet swindle, including her own father’s death; Jonathan Grimwood’s The Last Banquet, an Enlightenment-set story of one man’s quest to experience the world through every possible flavor (pickled wolf ’s heart, anyone?), from a two-time winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award

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for Best Novel; and John Ralston Saul’s Dark Diversions 1 , whose elusive narrator travels in the most polished circles, nationally and internationally—but for what purpose?

Two paperback pop fiction titles: Jeff High’s More Things in Heaven and Earth: A Novel of Water Valley, first in a sweet new series about a doctor launching his career in small-town Tennessee, and Don Rearden’s The Raven’s Gift 1 , an on-the-edge tale about two teachers just throwing themselves into their assignment in a Yup’ik Eskimo village when a deadly epidemic hits.

Paperback historicals: Everyone loves Stephanie Thornton’s hot-blooded accounts of sixth-century Constantinople, so be sure to pick up The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora 1 . Alyson Richman’s The Mask Carver’s Son, a debut set in 1890s Japan, seems especially promising with its clash of father and son, East and West, while Jillian Cantor’s Margot intrigues by presupposing that Anne Frank’s sister survived. Other titles to consider include Elizabeth Cooke’s Rutherford Park (for Downton Abbey fans), K.B. Laugheed’s The Spirit Keeper 1 (a captivity tale), Emily Liebert’s You Knew Me When 1 (about estranged friends), Kate Quinn’s The Serpent and the Pearl 1 (if you love those Borgias), and Renée Rosen’s Dollface (if you love the Jazz Age).

Nonfiction: You’ll have great fun with Paul Samuel Dolman’s Hitchhiking with Larry David: An Accidental Tourist’s Summer of Self-Discovery in Martha’s Vineyard 1 and Jen Lancaster’s The Tao of Martha, My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I’m Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog, from the queen of the laugh-as-you-better-yourself memoir. The science-minded will appreciate Daniel Clery’s A Piece of the Sun: The Quest for Fusion Energy and Tim Spector’s Identically Different: Why We Can Change Our Genes, while oenophiles will go for Ray Walker’s The Road to Burgundy: The Unlikely Story of an American Making Wine and a New Life in France 1 . In paperback, look for Jonathan Goldstein’s I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow 1 , humor on turning 40 from the host of the radio show WireTap, and Ross Petras & Kathryn Petras’s Wretched Writing: A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language.

In-booth signings: On Friday, June 28, at 5:30 p.m., Putnam’s 175th Anniversary Champagne Celebration serves as the occasion for a host of author signings. Go meet and greet Lyndsay Faye, Seven for a Secret 1 , her next historical thriller (also at Literary Tastes, Sunday, June 30, at 8:00 a.m.); Ace Atkins, The Broken Places, third in the Quinn Colson series; Ingrid Thoft, Loyalty 1 , a debut thriller with one tough heroine (also at United for Libraries’ “Shoot Between the Lines” on Sunday, June 30, at 3:00 p.m.); and Suzanne Rindell, The Other Typist 1 , a bold new debut. All are finished books except for Faye’s.

On Saturday, June 29, at 11:30 a.m., Jennifer Chiaverini, The Spymistress 1 , a Civil War saga (also at the AAP Bookalicious Authors Breakfast, McCormick Place Convention Center, on Saturday, June 29, at 8:30 a.m.) and Laura DiSilverio, Malled to Death: A Mall Cop Mystery, third in the series; at 12:30 p.m., Anton DiScalfani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls 4 , an exceptional coming-of-age story (also at 10:30 a.m., United for Libraries’ “Crossing Over: Teen Books for Everyone”) and Margaret Dilloway, The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns, an affecting second novel (also RUSA Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Forum at 12:30 p.m.).

Also on Saturday, June 29, at 1:30 p.m., Tracey Garvis Graves, Covet 1 , sexy stuff (also at LIVE! at Your Library Reading Stage at 1:00 p.m.) and Josh Hanagarne, The World’s Strongest Librarian 4 , and one of the coolest, too (also at 3:00 p.m., United for Libraries’ “Quirky Books for Quirkier Librarians”); at 2:30 p.m., Eric Lundgren, The Facades, spooky Midwestern doings (also at LIVE! at Your Library Reading Stage at 10:00 a.m. and Mystery Day at the Pop Top Stage at 11:00 a.m.) and Zane Lovitt, The Midnight Promise, tough-as-nails Australian crime fiction (also at Mystery Day at the Pop Top Stage at 1:00 p.m.).

On Sunday, June 30, at 10:00 a.m., Derek Sherman, Race Across the Sky 4 , a debut novel about an ultramarathoner’s relationship with his brother (fiction for runners!) and Jim C. Hines, Codex Born: Magic Ex Libris: Book Two 1 (also at Science Fiction/Fantasy Day at the Pop Top Stage at 2:00 p.m.); at 11:30 a.m., Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go, a last-chance scenario (also at Literary Tastes, Sunday, June 30,

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at 8:00 a.m.) and Sara Paretsky, Critical Mass: A V.I. Warshawski Novel, an explosive novel (also LIVE! at Your Library Reading Stage at 11:00 a.m.).

Also on Sunday, June 30, at 1:00 p.m., Elliott Holt, You Are One of Them 1 , a Cold War coming-of-age thriller (also at 10:30 a.m., United for Libraries’ “First Author, First Book”); at 2:00 p.m., Jean Thompson, The Humanity Project, about charity and relationships, and JoJo Moyes, Me Before You, revitalizing romance (also United for Libraries’ Gala Author Tea, Monday, July 1, at 2:00 p.m.); at 4:00 p.m., Nicole Knepper, Moms Who Drink and Swear and Sara Levine, Treasure Island! (both authors will also appear at United for Libraries’ “The Laugh’s On Us”).

For fun: On Saturday, June 29, at 3:00 p.m., Penguin Group Adult & Young Readers Joint Book Buzz, ALA Book Buzz Theater, McCormick Place South, Level 1, Room S104A. Also, look for the big orange Penguin truck, which will be loaded with books to survey, on site near the Pop Top Mystery and LIVE! Reading Stage areas. And don’t miss Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed, ALA Auditorium Speaker series, on Saturday, June 29, at 10:30 a.m. He’s signing afterward.

2424 HarlequinGalley giveaways: Jason Mott’s The Returned 4 , about the consequences of loved ones coming back from the dead, is the publisher’s big book of the summer. Aside from the 100 galleys available at the booth, there will be signings on Saturday, June 29, at 2:30 p.m., at LIVE! @ Your Library Reading Stage and on Sunday, June 30, 10:30 a.m., at United for Libraries’ “First Author, First Book.”

Other galleys at the booth include Elaine Hussey’s The Sweetest Hallelujah 4 , about a dying black woman in the pre–Civil Rights South who needs a mother for her daughter (150), Bella Andre’s I Only Have Eyes for You, whose heroine has loved bad-boy Jake since age five (150), Shona Patel’s Teatime for the Firefly 4 , about a young woman in

1940s India who defies her horoscope to find true love (150), and Chelsea Cameron’s My Favorite Mistake 4 , featuring guy-and-girl college roommates fighting attraction (100).

In-booth signings: On Saturday, June 29, at 11:00 a.m., Lisa Edwards, A Dog Named Boo: How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other—and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way, a four-star heartbreaker about an abused animal trainer and her special-needs buddy, Boo, who becomes an exemplary service dog; and at 1:30 p.m., Lorretta Nyhan, coauthor (with Suzanne Palmieri Hayes), I’ll Be Seeing You 1 , about two 1940s American women who forge a friendship through letters.

2531 Grove AtlanticGalley giveaways: At 100 galleys apiece, the big giveaways are Paula Daly’s Just What Kind of Mother Are You?, a debut novel about a harassed mother’s single, tragic oversight regarding a friend’s child that’s already catching fire, and Dani Shapiro’s Still Writing: The Pleasures and Perils of a Creative Life 4 , writing on writing from a noted novelist/memoirist.

At 50 galleys apiece, five novels are getting a smaller sendoff, but each is a gem worth its weight in your bag, so stop by early. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler’s second thriller, The Star of Istanbul 4 , puts correspondent/spy Christopher Marlowe Cobb aboard the Lusitania; a Commonwealth Writer’s Prize winner, Aminatta Forna takes

us to a Croatian village disturbed post-independence by English visitors in The Hired Man 4 ; John Lawton’s Then We Take Berlin, 4 a departure from the author’s Inspector Troy series, puts a slick World War II operator in

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the midst of a human smuggling case 15 years after the war; National Book Award winner Bob Shacochis’s The Woman Who Lost Her Soul 4 tracks one woman through several decades of significant 20th-century history; and Whitbread Award winner Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate 4 revisits the infamous 1612 Pendle witch trials in England.

In-booth signings: On Saturday, June 29, at 12:00 p.m., Mark Billingham, The Dying Hours 4 , a never-before-published Tom Thorne novel. On Sunday, June 30, at 12:00 p.m., Kent Wascom, The Blood of Heaven, a bold debut set on the early 1800s Southern frontier. Also at 10:30 a.m., United for Libraries’ “First Author, First Book.”

2631 Perseus Book GroupAs always, Perseus comes through with a host of interesting nonfiction titles, though quantities are limited. History diehards will want Leanda de Lisle’s Tudor: The Family Story 4 , Adrian Tinniswood’s The Rainborowes: One Family’s Quest to Build a New England 4 , Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Goring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of World War II 4 , and Monique Brinson Demery’s Finding the Dragon Lady: The Mystery of Vietnam’s Madame Nhu 4 , especially poignant to Vietnam-era readers. Former U.S. senator Olympia Snowe’s Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress addresses a more current concern.

Kathy Freston’s The Lean: A Revolutionary (and Simple!) 30-Day Plan for Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss and Mika Brzezinski’s Obsessed: America’s Food Addiction—and My Own offer practical and philosophical perspectives on our food craziness. Jane Barthelemy’s Paleo Desserts shows that you can have your cake and be a caveman, too (finished books). Other popular titles: Eila Mell’s Project Runway: The Show That Changed Fashion, John Bradshaw’s Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet 4 , Peter Conners’s JAMerica: The History of the Jam Band and Festival Scene (from a former Deadhead), Molly Knight Raskin’s No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet, and Helen Peppe’s Pigs Can’t Swim: A Memoir (about her backwoods Maine upbringing).

Lee Hirsch & Cynthia Lowen’s Bully: An Action Plan for Teachers, Parents, and Communities To Combat the Bullying Crisis remains one of the publisher’s most enduring recent titles, as does Melissa Francis’s Diary of a Stage Mother’s Daughter. Other well-received books, just out and being distributed as finished copies, include Scott Barry Kaufman’s Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined, a challenge to our traditional way of measuring intelligence, Sally Satel & Scott O. Lilienfeld’s Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience, about the limitations of a hot new area in science, and Tim Federle’s Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist.

Finally, fiction fans don’t have to leave empty-handed. Tan Twan Eng’s Man Booker Prize longlisted The Gift of Rain and Man Asian Prize winner The Garden of Evening Mists will be available, as will be Bridget Siegel’s Domestic Affairs: A Campaign Novel.

In-booth signings: On Saturday, June 29, at 2:30 p.m., Jane Barthelemy, Paleo Desserts. On Sunday, June 30, at 11:00 a.m., Tim Federle, Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist; at 1:00 p.m., Monique Demery, Finding the Dragon Lady: The Mystery of Vietnam’s Madame Nhu.

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2637 ConsortiumGalley giveaways: This booth has a strict giveaway schedule, so plan accordingly. On Saturday, June 29, at 9:00 a.m., Mari Jungstedt’s Killer’s Art (Stockholm Text), an internationally best-selling crime novel from Sweden; at 12:30 p.m., Roy Kesey’s Any Deadly Thing (Dzanc Books), a second collection of award-winning stories; at 3:00 p.m., Mike Madrid’s Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics (Exterminating Angel Press); and at 3:30 p.m., Jessica Stilling’s Betwixt and Between (Ig Publishing), a twisty take on Peter Pan

On Sunday, June 30, at 9:00 a.m., popular Swedish crime writer Anna Jansson’s Strange Bird (Stockholm Text), about a pandemic on a remote island; at 10:00 a.m.,

Antoine Laurain’s The President’s Hat (Gallic Books), a best-selling French fable set during the Mitterrand years; at 12:00 p.m., Dan Beachy-Quick’s An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky (Coffee House Press), a noteworthy poet’s first novel; at 1:30 p.m., Alexander Pushkin’s The Queen of Spades (Pushkin Press, finished book); at 3:00 p.m., Susan Stinson’s Spider in a Tree (Small Beer Press), a fictional look at Jonathan Edwards, famed Colonial theologian and also a slaveholder; and at 3:30 p.m., Melissa Haynes’s Learning to Play with a Lion’s Testicles (Behler Publications, finished book), whose author volunteered for a Big Five conservation project in South Africa.

In-booth signings: On Saturday, June 29, at 10:00 a.m., Rus Bradburd, Make It, Take It (Cinco Puntos Press), a novel about college basketball; at 10:30 a.m., Barbara Victoria, It’s Not About You, Except When It Is: A Field Manual for Parents of Addicted Children (Central Recovery Press); at 11:00 a.m., Franki Elliot, Piano Rats (Curbside Splendor Publishing), edgy urban poetry and prose from a young Los Angeles writer; and at 11:30 a.m., Samantha Irby, Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby, Creator of the Blog Bitchesgottaeat (Curbside Splendor Publishing), from a writer/performer who makes humor of hot guys, magical tacos, and being black.

Also on Saturday, June 29, at 12:00 p.m., Matt Dembicki, District Comics: An Unconventional History of Washington, DC (Fulcrum Publishing), a graphic anthology (also at 11:00 a.m., on Saturday June 29, Graphic Novel Stage); at 1:30 p.m., Tod Davies, Lily the Silent (Exterminating Angel Press), a girl-power story in fantasist garb (also at 10:30 a.m., on Saturday, June 29, United for Libraries’ “Crossing Over: Teen Books for Everyone!”); at 2:00 p.m., Michael Czyzniejewski, Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions (Curbside Splendor Publishing), an illustrated story collection; and at 2:30 p.m., investigative reporter Adam Schrager, The Sixteenth Rail: The Evidence, the Scientist, and the Lindbergh Kidnapping (Fulcrum Publishing), a study of the forensic scientist who did important work in solving the infamous kidnapping.

On Sunday, June 30, at 10:30 a.m., Deborah Shouse, Love in the Land of Dementia: Finding Hope in the Caregiver’s Journey (Central Recovery Press); and at 1:00 p.m., Robyn Cruze & Espra Andrus, Making Peace with Your Plate: Eating Disorder Recovery (Central Recovery Press).

For fun: While strolling through the Consortium area, ask the folks at Ig Publishing about their new imprint, Lizzie Skurnick Books. Named for the critic/editor/bon vivant who will choose the titles, this imprint will re-release favorite YA titles published between the 1920s and 1980s, aiming at the adults (mostly but not exclusively women) who recall and treasure these titles. Cool!

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