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| March 12, 2018 |  Public Library Association Galley Roundup 2018 Barbara Hoffert - @barbarahoffert As with ALA Midwinter, I'm not able to do a full-scale gally guide for the Public Library Association conference coming in Philadelphia. But I can provide a roundup highlighting over 100 key titles that attendees can hunt down and cart away. Even if you're not attending, check out this list to see what publishers are excited about for the coming year. |
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 Ackerman, Harkness, Hosseini, & More | Barbara’s Fiction Previews Coming from Riverhead, Khaled Hosseini's Sea Prayer, a meditation on the refugee crisis inspired by the terrible photograph of a Syrian child found drowned on a Turkish beach, leads a list of impressive fiction titles for fall. Elliot Ackerman also investigates the consequences of Middle East war, Deborah Harkness revisits the vampire world, and Gary Shteyngart returns after seven years with a new novel on contemporary America. |
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 Dear America | Barbara’s Nonfiction Picks Jose Antonio Vargas's Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen is a memoir examining what it means to be American by a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who is among our most prominent undocumented citizens. Other authors addressing America today include National Book Critics Circle award winners Carol Anderson and Ben Fountain. |
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 Cleeves, Todd, Weaver, & More | Mystery Previews Lots of key long-running mysteries series showing up this September, but Jude Deveraux offers her first mystery, Peter Blauner pens his second Lourdes Robles title, and Chris McGeorge debuts with Guess Who, a creepy locked-room mystery starring a child detective. |
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Spring/Summer Debut Novels - Aja Gabel's The Ensemble
- Elaine Castillo's America Is Not the Heart
- Mick Kitson's Sal
- Malcolm Hansen's They Come in All Colors
- R.O. Kwan's The Incendiaries
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 The Wide World | Literary Fiction This month's smart reading includes works by Italian authors Luce D’Eramo and Roberto Saviano, British authors Diana Evans and Olivia Laing, Singaporean-born, UK-based Sharlene Teo, Dublin-born, UK-based Heln Cullen, plus Daniel Mason taking us to the Carpathian Mountains during World War I. But Millions editor Lydia Kiesling keeps us in America. |
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 GonzoFest 2018 Literary Journalism Contest Together with the Louisville Public Library and BiblioBoard, we're celebrating the national expansion of the GonzoFest Literary Contest and invite all public libraries, their independent authors, and writer communities to enter a single piece of literary nonfiction journalism in the tradition of the late Hunter S. Thompson. The call for entries is now open, and a $1,000 Prize will be granted to the Literary Winner. |
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