Here's our ALA Annual author schedule and some other recent & forthcoming books to watch out for! Thanks for reading!
ALA Annual ScheduleWe will be in booth 1737 and we look forward to seeing those of you who are able to attend! I'm including our events for both adult and childrens/teen books (green text). FRIDAY, 6/28- Exhibits open 5:30pm-7:00pm
- 6:15pm-7:00pm: Henry Herz will sign copies of I Am Gravity (Tilbury House) in the Norton booth.
SATURDAY, 6/29SUNDAY, 6/30MONDAY, 7/1
Recent Adult Book Buzz Presentations
With humor and insight, scholars and writers V. Efua Prince and Hoke S. Glover III offer brief breakdowns of one hundred influential, archetypal, and infamous figures, building a new framework that emphasizes their humanity.
Reginald Dwayne Betts, who wrote the introduction for Crazy as Hell, has been working hard to improve access to books and literacy programs in prisons. About the new book's unusual price ($13.54), he
says: "When I worked as a librarian during my years in prison, I was paid only 54 cents an hour, which may shock readers, but anyone who has served time knows exactly what kind of wages are paid to folks inside. As I see it, it's crazy as hell to pay someone 54 cents an hour to be a librarian inside. In fact, it's crazy as hell to pay anyone only 54 cents an hour for any job. It's crazy as hell that W.W. Norton & Company has agreed to publish Crazy as Hell. And it's crazy as hell that Norton will be sending Freedom Reads 54 cents from the proceeds of each copy sold of Crazy as Hell. Freedom Reads will use those funds to open Freedom Libraries in prison cellblocks across the nation to ensure that people inside have access to literature. It's all crazy as hell." -- Reginald Dwayne Betts, Founder &
CEO of Freedom Reads
Just Announced: Coming Soon
Global best-selling home cook Nagi Maehashi (RecipeTin Eats) is back to solve the perennial problem of what’s for dinner tonight... and every night. (October, Countryman Press)
A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment. (August, Norton)
Paperback edition coming in August with a new afterword on Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial and its aftermath. (August, Norton)
LibraryReads SuggestionsLibraryReads is a nationwide monthly staff picks list voted on by public library staff. Anyone who works in a public library is welcome to participate! Find out more about LibraryReads here. You can find all our monthly suggestion catalogs on Edelweiss. August Votes due by 7/1- Villa E, by Jane Alison (Norton): "[A] concentrated tale of an epic duel between two temperamentally opposite artists.... In prose, by turns, as exquisite as Eileen’s creation and as seething as Le Grand’s lust, Alison incisively evokes artistic
genius and angst, while infusing a historic scandal with profound heartache and resolve." -Booklist
- Mystery Lights, by Lena Valencia (Tin House): "These are stories full of menace and delight, drawing from that deep well of human complexity, perversity, sincerity, and hope. Mystery Lights is gorgeous." -Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love
- Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell, by Nicholas Meyer (Mysterious Press): "Nicholas Meyer, a master storyteller, brings Holmes and Watson triumphantly to life during the English, American and Mexican intrigues of the Great War. His witty and riveting mystery, based on a crucial historical event, has a brilliant climax." -Jeffrey Meyers
- I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine, by Daniel Levitin (Norton): Neuroscientist
and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals the deep connections between music and healing.
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September Votes due by 8/1- Playground, by Richard Powers (Norton): A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.
- Quarterlife, by Devika Rege (Liveright): India’s literary novel of the year—an enthralling, award-winning debut from a “blazingly original voice” (Vauhini Vara).
- Safe Enough: And Other Stories, by Lee Child (Mysterious Press): A great way to read Lee Child's non-Reacher stories! These twenty intriguing, thrilling, and rapid-fire fictions are sure to please new and longtime fans of Child and to illuminate a side of the author’s work unknown to Reacher devotees.
- Still Life: A
Novel, by Katherine Packert Burke (Norton): "Katherine Packert Burke has written such a warm book on red-state trans loneliness and the very real loves, cis and trans, that circle it. I love the jokes and nicknames; the riffs on Paul Cézanne, Stephen Sondheim, and Gossip Girl; and the care with which its three core characters face their losses and departures. I loved them—and more importantly, Burke does too. You’ll feel it." -Jeanne Thornton, author of Summer Fun
- Five-Dog Epiphany: How a Quintet of Badass Bichons Retrieved Our
Joy, by Marianne Leone (Akashic): "An actor, screenwriter, and essayist reflects on how caring for five small dogs helped her come to terms with the death of her quadriplegic, nonverbal son . . . Candid and bighearted, this book about the healing power of animal companionship will warm the hearts of animal lovers and general audiences alike. Joyful, affecting reading about love and family." -Kirkus Reviews.
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