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Library Journal Day of Dialog, October 3, 2019
Cambridge Public Library
449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

Join Library Journal for its first-ever Day of Dialog Cambridge, which puts the most anticipated librarian-only gathering on the road.

This exciting event offers a close-up look at the biggest forthcoming books from Winter–Spring 2020, featuring top authors in fiction and nonfiction and Editors’ Picks and Book Buzz panels for a broader perspective.

So many publishers that have already lined up to participate! Expect to see HarperCollins, Macmillan, Sourcebooks, Imagine, MIT Press, BiblioBoard, Page Street Publishing, and many others.

You’ll enjoy free ARCs and access to exclusive author signings. You’ll connect with key library marketing representatives and network with library colleagues. And attendance is absolutely free!

LJ Day of Dialog is designed for librarians, educators, and library students. If you have any questions, email us!

10:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Fiction 1
Afia Atakora, Conjure Women, Random House: Penguin Random House
Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt, Flatiron Books: Macmillan
Gish Jen, The Resisters, Knopf: Penguin Random House
Jennifer Rosner, The Yellow Bird Sings, Flatiron Books: Macmillan
Ran Walker, Daykeeper, Indie Author Project

10:50 AM – 11:10 AM

Signing Break

11:10 AM – 11:45 PM

Editors' Picks

Imagine: Charlesbridge
MIT Press
Page Street Publishing

11:45 AM – 12:20 PM

Science
Ainissa Ramirez, The Alchemy of Us, How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another, MIT Press
Robert Tougias, Birder on Berry Lane: Three Acres, Twelve Months, Thousands of Birds, Imagine: Charlesbridge
Muhammad Zaman, Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens, Harper Wave: HarperCollins

12:20 PM – 12:30 PM

Signing Break

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM – 2:10 PM

Book Buzz
ECW
Sourcebooks
Penguin Random House

2:10 PM – 3:00 PM

Social Issues
Mimi LeMay, What We Will Become, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Anne Gardiner Perkins, Yale Needs Women, Sourcebooks
Leah Plunkett, Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online, MIT Press
Bob Schron, Taking a Knee, Taking a Stand: African American Athletes in the Fight for Social Justice, Imagine: Charlesbridge
Larry Tye, Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

3:00 PM – 3:20 PM

Signing Break

3:20 PM – 4:00 PM

Book Buzz 2
HarperCollins
Houghton
Indie Author Project
Macmillan

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM

Fiction 2
Erica Boyce, The Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green: Sourcebooks
Anne Emery, Postmark Berlin: ECW
Kerri Maher, The Girl in the White Gloves, Berkley: Penguin Random House
Peter Swanson, Eight Murders, William Morrow: Harper
Laura Zigman, Separation Anxiety, Ecco: Harper

4:50 PM – 5:10 PM
Book Signings