| Program 9:30AM - 10:25AM ET
Visceral Thrills
Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson, Dark Intercept, Tyndale House Publishers
Lucy Foley, The Paris Apartment, William Morrow: HarperCollins
Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls, St. Martin’s Press: Macmillan
Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, The Golden Couple. St. Martin’s Press: Macmillan
Moderator: Jeff Ayers, Co-Executive Director, Thrillerfest
9:30AM - 10:25AM ET
Fiction: The Consequences of Conflict
David R. Gillham, Shadows of Berlin, Sourcebooks Landmark: Sourcebooks
Natasha Lester, The Riviera House, Forever: Hachette Book Group
Heather B. Moore, The Slow March of Time, Shadow Mountain Publishing
Yara Zgheib, No Land to Light On, Atria: Simon & Schuster
Moderators: Marianne Paterniti, Book Group Coordinator, Darien Library, CT
Pat Sheary, Head of Adult Programming, Darien Library, CT
10:30AM - 11:10AM ET
The Literary/Speculative Fiction Mix
Jennifer Egan, The Candy House, Scribner: Simon & Schuster
Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating, HarperVia: HarperCollins
Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark, William Morrow: HarperCollins
Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere, Celadon: Macmillan
Moderator: Luke Gorham, Galesburg P.L., IL
10:30AM - 11:10AM ET
Four Top Mystery Debuts
Eli Cranor, Don’t Know Tough, Soho Crime
Eva Jurczyk, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Poisoned Pen: Sourcebook
Nita Prose, The Maid, Ballantine Books: Penguin Random House
Brendan Slocomb, The Violin Conspiracy, Anchor: Penguin Random House
Moderator: Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN
11:10AM - 11:30AM ET Break
11:30AM - 12:25PM ET
Thrills To Ponder
Delilah S. Dawson, The Violence, Del Rey: Penguin Random House
Robyn Gigl, Survivor’s Guilt, Kensington Publishing Corp.
Joseph Kanon, The Berlin Exchange, Scribner: Simon & Schuster
Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution, William Morrow: HarperCollins
Moderator: MIchael Pucci, South Orange P.L., NJ
11:30AM - 12:25PM ET
Rebuilding Family
Daniel Black, Don’t Cry for Me, Hanover Square: Harlequin
Joshua Ferris, A Calling for Charlie Barnes, Little, Brown: Hachette Book Group
Kai Harris, What the Fireflies Knew, Tiny Reparations: Penguin Random House
Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Latecomer, Celadon: Macmillan
Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake, Ballantine: Penguin Random House
Moderator: Lillian Dabney, The Seattle Athenaeum
12:30-1:00 Break
1:00PM - 1:55PM ET
History
Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age, Norton: W. W. Norton & Company
Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon To Understand the Soul of a Nation, Ecco: HarperCollins
Jason Sommer, Shmuel’s Bridge: Following the Tracks to Auschwitz with My Survivor Father, Imagine: Charlesbridge
Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank, Harper: HarperCollins
Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, & Philip Wang. Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, Mariner Books: HarperCollins
Moderator: Stephanie Sendaula, Associate Editor, LJ Reviews
1:00PM - 1:55PM ET
Linking Stories Through Time
Quan Barry, When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East, Pantheon: Penguin Random House
Jonathan Evison, Small World, Dutton: Penguin Random House
Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches, Graydon House: Harlequin
Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility, Knopf: Penguin Random House
Moderator: Lisa Peet, News Editor, Library Journal
2:00PM - 2: 55PM ET
Historical Fiction: The Stories We Tell
John Adcox, Christmas Past, The Story Plant
Jabari Asim, Yonder, S. & S.: Simon & Schuster
Jillian Cantor, Beautiful Little Fool, Harper: HarperCollins
Hernan Diaz, Trust, Riverhead: Penguin Random House
Moderator: Julie Kane, Washington & Lee Lib., Lexington, VA
2:00PM - 2:55PM ET
Social Justice Issues
Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How To Become American, Norton: W. W. Norton & Company
Maude Barlow, Still Hopeful, ECW Press
Valena Beety, Manifesting Justice, Kensington Publishing Corp.
Laura Coates, Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness in an Unfair System, S. & S.: Simon & Schuster
Paul Klein, Change for Good, ECW Press
Moderator: Leah Huey, Dekalb, P.L., IL
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Break
3:30PM - 4:30PM ET
Fiction: Crossing Boundaries
Diana Abu-Jaber, Fencing with the King: A Novel, Norton: W. W. Norton,
Myriam J A Chancy, What Storm, What Thunder, Tin House Books, dist. by W. W. Norton & Company
Andrea Yaryura Clark, On A Night of a Thousand Stars, Grand Central Publishing: Hachette Books Group
Mesha Maren, Perpetual West, Algonquin: Workman
Thrity Umrigar, Honor, Algonquin: Workman
Moderator: Barbara Hoffert, Editor, Prepub Alert, LJ
3:30PM - 4:30PM ET
Fiction: Aiming To Heal
Erin Bartels, The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water, Revell: Baker Publishing Group
Vanessa Miller, Something Good, HarperChristian
Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio, HarperVia: HarperCollins
Jodi Picoult, Wish You Were Here, Ballantine Books: Penguin Random House
Moderator: Lynnanne Pearson, Skokie P.L., IL |
