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WINTER INSTITUTE 2017

Minneapolis will play host
to 650 booksellers
Keynote speakers include
Roxane Gay and Ann Patchett
Paul Currie discusses the
evolution of Foyles We round up
authors to watch

More Than One Million Copies in Print

A Year on the New York Times
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Chilling Out in
Minneapolis
By Judith Rosen

This years destination for ABAs premier educational conference

may put the winter back in Winter Institute; it will also bring
together more booksellers, publishers, and authors than ever

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hen the American Booksellers Association

announced that it had chosen Minneapolis
or the Mini-Appleas the site for Winter
Institute 12, jokes began making the rounds
in the bookselling and publishing ranks about
putting the winter back in Winter Institute.
But given Minneapoliss ranking as Americas most literate city
according to the most recent survey by Central Connecticut State
University, this chilly locale with a plethora of great bookstores
and libraries could make an ideal setting for this years annual
postholiday gatheringABAs biggest to date.
From the beginning, the ABA sought an intimate feel for the
institute. And for the first decade, it capped attendance at 500
booksellers to maintain that intimacy. As the institutes popularity has grown, the size of the conference has begun to creep
up. Last year for the first time bookseller attendance grew
slightly. Now the cap has been raised againroughly 30%
above 2015, with approximately 650 booksellers expected to
attend, according to senior strategy officer Dan Cullen.
We have continued to cap the number of attendees any store
can send, and we still do have a wait list, Cullen says. We are

trying to accommodate increased demand from booksellers and

publishers without losing the overall character of the event.
Publisher growth has come from university presses and from
the increased attendance of houses of varied sizes. This year the
ABA encouraged small and midsize publishers and others with
more limited marketing budgets to participate in a new feature,
publisher consultation stations. Fourteen presses, including
many attending for the first time, signed up to meet with booksellers from 2:155 p.m. on January 30.
In addition, over 110 authors of books for children and adults
will appear at the institute over three days worth of plenary
sessions, featured talks, author receptions, and special events,
including Scholastics annual Meet and Treat Afterparty.
Attending authors include featured keynoters (see p. 4),
American Booksellers for Freedom of Expression director Chris
Finan (Drunks: An American History), and yoga instructor
Jessamyn Stanley (Every Body Yoga), who will lead a half-hour
yoga session every morning at 6:45 a.m. For PWs reviewers top
picks of authors to meet at the show, see p. 18.
Winter Institute is continuing to become one of the most
important events on the independent bookstores annual calendar, and ABA is very happy we have been able to grow the
attendance slightly, to accommodate additional booksellers and
sponsoring companies, ABA CEO Oren Teicher says. This
year we will see bookseller attendees from all 50 states and a
record number of 89 sponsoring publishers, bringing more than
110 authors.
As for the decision to come to Minneapolis in January, Teicher
notes that both the bookselling and publishing communities of
the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) are extraordinarily
vibrant. We are grateful, Teicher says, for all the input and
participation we have received from them in preparing for
[the institute]. We at ABA are very much looking forward to

welcoming everyone to WI 12 in just a few weeks.

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CONVERSATIONS
WITH KEYNOTERS

Bookstores and Diversity, with

Bad Feminist Author Roxane Gay
Since the publication of her bestselling collection of essays, Bad
Feminist, in 2014, 42-year-old Roxane Gay, an associate professor of English at Purdue University, has gone from strength
to strength. Her 2015 TED Talk about the book went viral. Her
first novel, An Untamed State, will be brought to the screen for
Fox Searchlight Pictures by Gina Prince-Bythewood and Gugu
Mbatha-Raw, director and star respectively of Beyond the Lights.
Gay will cowrite the screenplay. She became one of the first
black women to write for Marvel, for its World of Wakanda
series. Gay has a new collection of short fiction, Difficult Women
(Grove), which pubbed in January, and a memoir, Hunger: A Memoir
of (My) Body (Harper) coming in June.
In her TED Talk, Gay says that writing, in tandem with
reading, literally saved her life. When she was 12, a group of
boys broke her in a gang rape. My voice was stolen from me,
she says, adding that she wrote [herself] back together by
reading the words of women who might understand a story like
mine, as well as books by women who understood what it was
like to move through the world with brown skin. Initially, she
explains, she taught herself how to write like those writers, but then
she learned to write as myself [and] found my voice again.
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his years breakfast keynoters are authors who care deeply about business
especially the business of writing good books. They include bestselling author
Roxane Gay, whose newest collection of short stories, Difficult Women, is just
out, and Kim Scott (Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your
Humanity), who has been an adviser to a number of tech companies and was a
member of the faculty at Apple University. In addition, acclaimed Nashville author and bookseller Ann Patchett (Commonwealth) will be in conversation with 60 Minutes correspondent
Lesley Stahl (Becoming Grandma) about writing, publishing, and bookselling, with a focus on
the special connection between authors and indie booksellers.

Through the combination of writing and

feminism, Gay became
a little bit brave, she
says. Her hope is that
the words she writes
will help other women
realize that none of us
are the nothing the
world tries to tell us we
are.
Now Gay calls on
booksellers to be
Roxane Gay
braver than they
already are. She says
that while booksellers do rise to the occasion when they need tobecause they
want to see independent bookselling
thrive and because they recognize the
importance and role of independent bookstores in communitiesthat is no longer
enough. She urges booksellers to use their
power to advocate for diverse books as powerfully and confidently as they can. The responsibility for diversifying the

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publishing industry is, in part, in their control because a change

in demand will change the supply, Gay says. They can [also]
create and contribute to community and do outreach to underserved populations. Bookselling doesnt only have to happen
within the space of a store.
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a.m. in Nicollet Grand Ballroom.

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TV journalist Lesley Stahl, a longtime correspondent for 60 Minutes,

will be in conversation with bestselling author Ann Patchett, who is
also co-owner of five-year-old
Parnassus Books in Nashville and
whose novel Commonwealth was published by Harper in September
2016.
Ann Patchett
Its uncertain whether the discussion will veer too far into the subject
of Stahls most recent book, released
last spring, Becoming Grandma: The
Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting
(Blue Rider). But should it, Patchett
knows what its like to be on the
other end. While Stahl currently
spends time caring for her grandchildren, Patchett has experience
caring for her grandmother. In her
collection of essays This Is the Story
of a Happy Marriage, Patchett writes
about her close relationship with
her grandmother, whom she cared for before her death.
The idea for Stahls book came when Blue Rider president and
publisher David Rosenthalwho had worked with her on her
first book, Reporting Live (1999)nudged her to write about 60
Minutes. If I do that Ill get fired for telling all the hidden
secrets, or it will be so boring no one will want to read it, she
responded. They met for lunch to discuss it, yet Stahl spent most
of her time talking about her granddaughter (she now has two)
rather than her reporting. Im sure I was obnoxious but I just
went on and on, she says. Rosenthal told her, Thats your book:
being a grandmother. Stahl wasnt sold, but Rosenthal asked
her to think about it, and she found that she couldnt stop. She
used her journalism skills to explore the experience of
grandparenting.
Stahl hopes her book will help change attitudes and stigmas
about grandmothers. The average age of a grandmother in the

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Last year the bookstore further expanded with the addition
of a bookmobile, Parnassus on Wheels, a longtime dream of
co-owner Karen Hayes. Patchetts own dream is to have an airport bookstore, which is currently in the works with Hudson
Group. I spend a third of my life in airports, Patchett says.
Anisse Gross
See Patchett and Stahls breakfast keynote on Sunday, January 29,
7:459 a.m. in Nicollet Grand Ballroom.

How to Be a
Kickass Boss,
with Kim Scott
Management coach Kim Scott,
author of Radical Candor: Be a
Kickass Boss Without Losing Your
Humanity (St. Martins, Mar.),
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U.S. is 50, she says. Thats truly young. The idea that grandmothers are little old ladies with permed gray hair who
spend all day in the kitchen making chocolate chip cookies is
long gone. A lot of grandmothers today have Ph.D.s and
M.B.A.s and are still working. The book is also about the
relationship between mothers and grandmothers. I hope a lot
of young women read it to understand their mothers better,
Stahl adds.
Patchett is not only an accomplished author but also one of the
most respected indie booksellers in the business. Late last spring,
her store doubled in size, to 2,500 sq. ft., when a neighboring
store closed. Initially Patchett had no interest in annexing the space,
but middle grade author Maile Meloy (the Apothecary series), who
was visiting Parnassus at the time, urged her to go with the
timing you get.
The expansion has allowed the store to do more face-out
books and stock more copies of titles, Patchett says, as well as
hold larger events in-store, like a recent one with Colson
Whitehead for The Underground Railroad. Instead of having
one copy of The Great Gatsby we have four, she says. We were
always running out of stuff and not having a book that we
should have had in the store. Other personal favorites that
Patchett likes to have on hand include Moss Harts Act One,
Patti Smiths Just Kids, Jane Gardams Old Filth, and Some

happened to her at that time back to back.

First, 10 employees independently emailed her
the same article. [It] said that people would
much rather have a boss who is an asshole than
one who is nice and incompetent, Scott says.
It made her wonder which kind of boss her
employees thought she was, and if those were
the only two options.
Then, while Scott was walking her golden
retriever puppy, it jumped into the street and
was almost hit by a car. A man who saw the near
accident said to her, I can see you really love
that dog, [but] youre going to kill that dog if
you dont teach it to sit. Scott realized that the
man cared about her but was also challenging
her. Those two events coalesced into her concept of radical
candor, which combines caring with challenging.
Scott believes it is important to be candid with your
employees. Ever since we learned to speak, our parents have
told us some version of If you dont have anything nice to say,
dont say anything at all. But when you become a boss, its
actually your job to say it, Scott says.
Much of Scotts background is in coaching CEOs in Silicon
Valley. She was also a member of the faculty at Apple University

and worked at Google, leading its AdSense,

YouTube, and DoubleClick teams. But Scott
believes that the idea of radical candor isnt only
for bosses in the tech world. Its just as important for other types of bosses, including
booksellers.
In writing Radical Candor, Scott, who has also
written three novels, wanted to create a management book that felt more like a collection of short
stories. Management can feel so dry and so
boring. But its actually incredibly, intensely
emotional, Scott says. Its all about human relationships. In the book, Scott focuses on the boss/
employee relationship and the institution of
bossdom, which she describes as a recent
phenomenon.
The reason why I have loved my career in business and the
reason I wrote the novels and this book is at a certain level all
the same reason, Scott says. Im really interested in how people
can learn to love their work and the people who they work with.
Anisse Gross
See Scotts breakfast keynote on Monday, January 30, 7:458:45 a.m.
in Nicollet Grand Ballroom.

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BOOKSELLING IN
THE TWIN CITIES
Bookstore diversity and literary culture combine for a vibrant book market
hen it comes to bookstores, Minneapolis and
Saint Pauls 3.5 million residents are well
served. Of the American Booksellers
Associations 65 Minnesota members, 37, or
more than half, are located in the Twin Cities
metro area, which is also home to 13 Barnes
& Noble outlets, including one of the retailers new concept
stores, and seven Half Price Books locations.
Booksellers attribute the vibrance of the areas indie scene to
much more than a national trend that has seen the channel
become revitalized in recent years. Booksellers see local indies
vitality rather as an outgrowth of the areas long-held tradition
of philanthropy and civic engagement. Together with the states
96% adult literacy rateamong the highest in the nationthe
Twin Cities has created a culture in which government, foundations, and citizens dont just value books and reading. They also
support literary nonprofit organizations with their dollars.
Theres just a lot happening here that brings attention to
books and authors. Were fortunate to live in a community where
literacy is a priority, says Holly Weinkauf, owner of Saint Pauls
32-year-old Red Balloon Bookshop. At the 2016 Minnesota
Book Awards gala, the bookstore sold $10,000 worth of books.
There are all these organizations being successful promoting
books, literacy, and reading. All that together makes for a healthy
book community, says David Enyeart, events manager of Saint
Pauls Common Good Books, which Garrison Keillor opened in
2006. Since moving five years ago from an 1,800-sq.-ft. basement on affluent Cathedral Hill into a 3,000-sq.-ft. storefront
across the street from Macalester College, sales at Common Good
have risen a total of 20%. The bookstore recently sold $13,000
worth of books at the Opus & Olives annual library fund-raiser,
plus another $13,000 in presales. There are a lot of people here
who understand what books will do for them, the importance in
their lives. It helps us sell them books, Enyeart says.
The Twin Cities vibrant literary culture attracts some of the
countrys biggest authors, and bookstore calendars are always
packed. Twenty-year-old Excelsior Bay Books in Excelsior,
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Red Balloon Bookshop (top), a childrens specialty store in Saint

Paul, and Excelsior Bay Books, a general store in Excelsior, add to
the areas vibrancy.

Minn., takes full advantage of the opportunity to book touring

authors. Since the summer of 2015, the bookstore has held a
monthly Literature Lovers Night Out to give readers a chance
to interact with nationally and internationally well-known

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writers. Septembers event, which included William Kent

Krueger (Maniou Canyon) and Michael Perry (Roughneck Grace)
drew a record 140 people and had to be moved to a nearby
church. Tickets sold out in 20 minutes. It was overwhelming,
says Excelsior Bays events coordinator Pamela Klinger-Horn.
We always sell a couple thousand dollars worth of books at these
events, [and] there is a trickle effect even after the programs.
A map created by Minneapoliss Moon Palace Books for
National Bookstore Day 2015 showcases the sheer number of
indies in the area. The map features 20 new and used indie
bookstores inside the Minneapolis city limits and another eight
in Saint Paul. In the intervening year and a half since the map
was created, new bookstores have continued to open and grow.
In July, Moon Palace moved from the back of its building into
the front area, doubling in size to 1,700 sq. ft. Despite ongoing
construction outside the store, co-owner Angela Schwesnedl
reports that sales have risen 30% since the expansion.
In September, Milkweed Books opened in Minneapoliss
Open Book building complex, which is dedicated to the literary
arts. Affiliated with Milkweed Editions, the 750-sq.-ft. bookstores curated inventory of 1,200 titles consists of literary
fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from small presses that dont
typically receive prime placement in chain stores.
Later this spring, new bookseller Zsam Morgan is planning
a soft opening for Babycakes Book Stack in Saint Pauls
Lowertown. Babycakes will focus on multicultural and international childrens books. With the addition of Babycakes, the
Twin Cities will arguably become the nations hub for childrens
bookselling. In addition to the Red Balloon and Minneapoliss
Wild Rumpus, the area also has eight Creative Kidstuff stores,
which sell childrens books and educational toys and games.
Saint Paul also boasts the only bookstore that specializes in
young adult literature, Addendum. The bookstore opened five
years ago inside a larger bookstore, Subtext. After moving into

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a standalone storefront in 2015, Addendum added crossover

adult books, which further pumped up sales.
Travelers flying into the Twin Cities dont even have to leave
the airport to shop at a local bookstore. Of five new bookstores
scheduled to open later this year in Minnesota, two will be
located inside the MinneapolisSaint Paul International
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Bookstore Diversity
Milkweed Books manager Hans Weyandt, who began his bookselling career at Saint Pauls now closed the Hungry Mind (later
known as Ruminator Books) and who was a co-owner of
Micawbers, says that the health of the local indie bookstore scene
can be attributed in large part to its diversity. Although uptown
Minneapolis boasts a large general bookstore, 18,000-sq.-ft. Magers
and Quinn, which stocks 120,000 new and used titles, the area
also contains a number of smaller specialized bookstores.
Small bookstores fill underserved niches. Among these bookstores is one founded by bestselling author Louise Erdrich that
Weyandt describes as truly singular. Founded more than 15
years ago, Birchbark Books & Native Arts is an 800-sq.-ft.
general bookstore that features an outsize collection of literature
by Native American authors for both children and adults, published in English as well as in Native languages.
On the other side of a chain of lakes from Birchbark, another
800-sq.-ft. store, Once Upon a Crime, has specialized in mysteries for three decades. It was purchased by Dennis Abraham
and Meg King-Abraham on April 1 last year, the bookstores
29th anniversary.
In Saint Paul, Hmong ABC, which bills itself as the first and
only Hmong bookstore in the world, has operated for more than
two decades. And Daybreak Press Global Bookshop, which
specializes in books from around the world on faith, social justice, and feminism, has moved across the river to the University
of Minnesota area a year after launching in Saint Paul in 2014.
Not only are Saint Paulites still crossing the river to visit the
store, but owner Tamara Gray reports that heavier foot traffic at
the new location is pushing up sales.
One of the few remaining black bookstores in the country,
Ancestry Books specializes in literature by and about indigenous
peoples and people of color. The bookstore closed in August
2015 after a little over a year in business. But founder Chaun
Webster reopened it last winter as a recurring weekend pop-up
outlet at Juxtaposition Arts, a local arts organization.
With so many different types of bookstores catering to
readers, Moon Palaces Schwesnedl says that the metro areas
indie scene has reached a critical mass, which means that
physical bookstores should continue to do well. Minnesotans
are cranky and independent, Schwesnedl adds. Theyll shop
at a local store over Amazon any day. Theres a reason that the
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In recent years, we as a company have been committed to discovering
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oyles flagship bookstore on Charing

Cross Road in London is one of the
most famous bookshops in the
U.K.and one of the most innovative. In 2014, the store, which has
been in operation since 1903, moved
down the street from its dusty, labyrinthine former
premises into a sleek new space in the building that
was formerly home to Central St. Martins College Currie
of Art and Design. That same year Foyles, which
now includes three other locations in London as well stores in
Birmingham, Bristol, and Stratford, was reinvented with the
theme of physical meets digital.
Today each Foyles employee carries a tablet in a sling, which
gives the employees mobile access to a proprietary app that
directs customers to titles on the shop floor and lets employees
take home-delivery orders for books that arent in stock. The
booksellers have told me that they feel naked if they dont have
their tablets with them, says Foyles CEO Paul Currie. Having
tablets also helps younger booksellers, who may have less extensive knowledge of the stores stocks, get up to speed faster, he adds.
That said, Currie, who came to Foyles in April 2015 from
U.K. cosmetics company Molton Brown, notes that he has actually dialed back on digital. He prefers to emphasize the seductiveness of the physical bookstore and to increase the interactions between customers and booksellers. I think in the digital
age our competitive advantage is our people, Currie says. The
Internet offers what bookselling was 20 or 30 years ago: shelves
in alphabetical order from which you pick a book, buy it, and
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Get ready for

your 2017 book
obsession!

Interior shots of Foyles

flagship store on Charing
Cross Road in London
highlight the light-filled,
modern design.

leave. That is Amazon. In our bookstores, we want customers

to feel the logic, empathy, and connection that is human.
A cornerstone of Curries brief tenure has been the implementation of a professional-development program for booksellers.
Dubbed Barnum, after the 19th-century circus impresario to
whom the original founders of Foyles were once compared, the
program promotes four principles (which Currie will discuss
during his Winter Institute address) aimed at helping booksellers be more mindful and connect better with customers.
Traditionally, book lovers tend to be self-contained, and many
were attracted to the profession of bookselling because they
wanted an extension of their hobby, Currie says. We try to
help them be more open and aware, reminding them that the
bookselling profession is about sharing that love.
While Foyles flagship is some 37,000 sq. ft. in size, the satellite and regional stores are significantly smaller, at 4,5005,000
sq. ft. Currie has promoted former booksellers to head the retailers in-house digital-marketing and customer-experience teams.
Ultimately, he says, the goal is to make the bookstores more
sticky, whether that is by offering knitting circles or wirelessaudio listening stations, where one can hear recordings of
authors discussing their latest books.
We have seven stores and our nearest competitor, Waterstones,
has 270, so we have to work with our strengths, Currie says.
We can do this by becoming known as the family-owned local
book retailer, one that is playful, fun, and relevant. For this
reason, were not afraid of Amazon. We are not an algorithm.
Nor are we librarians. We are passionate booksellers. We want
to be considerate of peoples needs and be of genuine service to
our community.

We now have a lady Jack

Sparrow on our hands!
Anna Banks, author of the New York Times
bestseller Of Triton

This ones not to

be missed.
Publishers Weekly, starred review

Meet Trisha Levenseller at Indies Introduce in the

NorthStar Ballroom on Saturday, Jan 28th

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MEET INTERNATIONALLY BEST-SELLING

THRILLER WRITER BRIAN FREEMAN

Coming
May 2017!
Signing free galleys during the Closing Reception,
Monday, January 30th at 5:30 p.m.

Coming in early 2017 from Quercus

The Freedom Broker
K.J. Howe

Minds of Winter
Ed OLoughlin

AUTHORS
AND
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TO WATCH
FOR AT
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Compiled by Judith Rosen

The Freedom Broker combines

terrific thriller writing and fascinating
research about hostage rescues. This is
fact and fiction at its best.
James Patterson,
#1 New York Times best-selling author

The novel is a tapestry of time

and place, a study of human nature,
and a celebration of exploration
and adventure.
Booklist, (Starred Review)

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American War
Omar El Akkad
Knopf, Apr.
$26.95 hardcover
First printing: 75,000
Why the buzz: Omar El
Akkad has reported on the war
in Afghanistan, the Arab
Spring uprising, and the Black Lives Matter
movement here in the United States.
American War is a remarkable novel made
all the more daring perhaps by the unsettling times we find ourselves in right now.
Sonny Mehta, chairman and editor-inchief, Knopf

michael lionstar

Adult

Publicity & marketing plans: Author tour; online and print

advertising campaign, including Goodreads, NPR.org, LitHub,

and Facebook; newsletter ad campaign with major newspapers;
prepub bookseller events; prepub giveaways through Goodreads,
First to Read, and Read It Forward; book trailer; author Q&A;
reading-group guide and promotion; jacket blowups.
Opening: When I was young, I collected postcards.

What would you do

if you were the moon?

Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery

to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
Susan Burton
New Press, May
$26.95 hardcover
First printing: 40,000
Why the buzz: When Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow)
introduced us to her, we knew we had to publish Susans book.
Someone with Susans background is usually in prisonor dead.
Through Susans remarkable story readers will understand the
human cost of mass incarcerationand be inspired by her new
life of activism.
Ellen Adler, publisher, New Press
Publicity & marketing plans: Eight-city author tour, including
womens prisons and events with criminal-justice-reform advocates; advertising; outreach to womens media, urban media, and
recovery communities; co-op available.
Opening: The women take their first step of freedom at the
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Down City:
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Leah Carroll
Grand Central, Mar.
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First printing: 50,000

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$26 hardcover
First printing: 40,000
Why the buzz: The Bedlam Stacks is a gorgeous literary fantasy
novel, a follow up to Pulleys beloved debut, The Watchmaker of
Filigree Street. Two members of the British East India company
are sent on a clandestine mission to procure highly valuable
quinine trees in the magical landscape of 19th-century Peru.
Marie Coolman, senior director of publicity and
communications, Bloomsbury
Publicity & marketing plans: Advertising; prepub blogger and
bookseller mailings; online consumer-review campaign.
Opening: Although I hadnt been shot at for years, it took me
a long time to understand that the bang wasnt artillery.

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Why the buzz: Leah Carroll has written

Publicity & marketing plans: 12-city

a deeply moving memoir of a hardscrabble childhood in blue collar

America. [It] reminds me of two of the
greats: The Glass Castle and The Liars
Club. This book is nothing if not a reckoning with Leahs past and the legacy of
her parents and the city that made them:
Providence, R.I. Maddie Caldwell,
assistant editor, Grand Central
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
appearances; early reader campaign to book
groups and social-reading networks; Barnes
& Noble Discover Great New Writers.
Opening: On the night she died, my
mom drove to a motel to buy cocaine
with two men: Peter Gilbert and Gerald
Mastracchio.

author tour; prepub online buzz campaign; prepub author media luncheon;
camp memories Instagram promotion;
ABA White Box mailing.
Opening: The bugler needs no alarm.

andrea paulseth

The Hearts of Men

Nickolas Butler
Ecco, Mar.
$26.99 hardcover
First printing: 50,000
Why the buzz: Nickolas Butler is one
of the most exciting young writers
working today. What struck me about
this novel was that Nick manages to get
all the details of his painfully real characters and his perfectly evoked sense of
time and place absolutely right, but he
uses them to tell a much larger, richer
story about family, fidelity, and morality.
Megan Lynch, v-p, editorial director
and Butlers editor, Ecco

Little Fires Everywhere:

A Novel
Celeste Ng
Penguin Press, Sept.
$26 hardcover
Why the buzz: As she did in her celebrated
debut, Everything I Never Told You, Celeste
Ng has written a masterly work that
plumbs the secret depths of a seemingly
perfect community. Little Fires Everywhere
meticulously takes apart the tidy, progressive haven of Shaker Heights, Ohio. Its also
an incisive examination of how little we can
ever know what drives other peopleor
even ourselves. Ginny Smith Younce,
senior editor and Ngs editor, Penguin
Press
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
tour; advertising; prepub bookseller
events; literary-blog and literary-podcast
campaign; outreach to online and instore book clubs; major social media
campaign featuring giveaways, targeted
advertising, and shareable designs; jacket
blowups; promotional author video;
IndieBound White Box mailing.
Opening: Everyone in Shaker Heights
was talking about it that summer: how
Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend
and burned the house down.
The Middlepause:
On Life After Youth
Marina Benjamin
Catapult, Mar.
$16.95 paperback
First printing: 15,000
Why the buzz: We live in a culture that
creates such anxiety around aging that its
almost impossible to approach midlife
with anything but foreboding. Thank
goodness for Marina Benjamins The
Middlepause, a smart, unsentimental look
at middle age that serves as both a personal
and a cultural history. This is a vital book

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for everyone. Erin Kottke, director of

publicity, Catapult
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
tour; extensive national media campaign
with emphasis on womens, broadcast,
and literary media.
Opening: I live on a small square in
northeast London.
Mrs. Fletcher
Tom Perrotta
Scribner, Aug.
$26 hardcover
First printing: 200,000
Why the buzz: Written with his trademark pathos, humor, wit, razor-sharp
insight, cultural understanding, and bighearted empathy, Perrottas new novel
combines the caustic campus politics of
Election with the darker anxieties of Little
Children. Its the story of a mother and a
son, and its a glorious look at the difficulties and delights of redefining ourselves as we grow older. Liese Mayer,
editor, Scribner
Publicity & marketing plans: Seven-city
author tour; prepub events; social media
outreach and giveaways; Goodreads promotion and giveaways; book club
promotion.
Opening: It was a long drive and Eve
cried most of the way home, because the
big day hadnt gone the way shed hoped,
not that big days ever did.
My Absolute Darling
Gabriel Tallent
Riverhead, Aug.
$28 hardcover
First printing: 75,000
Why the buzz: This deeply empathic,
emotionally urgent novela survival
story about a fierce, haunted young girl
in the thrall of her tortured fatherwill
live inside you long after you finish
reading. Inspired by the teenagers he
met while leading youth trail crews in
the Pacific Northwest, Gabriel Tallent
has created an all-consuming story of
Turtles heart-stopping fight for her own
soul. Jynne Dilling Martin, publicity
director, Riverhead
Publicity & marketing plans: Author

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appearances; online advertising; social media and online promotion; book club promotion.
Opening: The old house hunkers on its hill, all peeling white
paint, bay windows, and spindled wooden railings overgrown
with climbing roses and poison oak.
The Orphans Tale
Pam Jenoff
Mira, Feb.
$15.99 paperback
First printing: 300,000
Why the buzz: With echoes of The
Nightingale and Water for Elephants, The
Orphans Tale has mesmerized all who have
read it. Pam depicts the circus in vivid
detail: the grace of the aerialists, the bright
colors of the tents, the sounds and smells
of the animalsand in stark contrast
to the horrors of war. Erika Imranyi,
editorial director, Park Row Books
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
appearances; advertising, including in-book advertising in selected Mira titles; book group and
social-reading-networks promotion; promotion
through early reader review programs, including
Goodreads; extensive blogger and social media campaign.
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The People We Hate at the Wedding

Grant Ginder
Flatiron, June
$25.99 hardcover
First printing: 100,000
Why the buzz: The People We Hate at the Wedding had me at the
title, but then there was that great first chapter where they open
the wedding invitations and jealously try to figure out how
much it cost, and then came the House Hunters binge watching
and Klonopin popping, along with keen insights into love and
family. James Melia, editor, Flatiron
Publicity & marketing plans : Author tour; print, digital,
Instagram, Facebook, and video-on-demand advertising; 7,500
ARCs; Summer Beach Reads campaign, including a sweepstakes with swag; bridal-industry collaborations and giveaways;
video trailer.
Opening: Christ, Alice thinks, staring at the envelope, these
invitations must have cost a fucking fortune.
The Radium Girls:
The Dark Story of Americas Shining Women
Kate Moore
Sourcebooks, May
$26.99 hardcover
Why the buzz: Kate Moores astonishing narrative history

Coming

reads like a thriller. Everyone whos met these incredible women

has felt a personal passion to tell their story, and we are so excited
to illuminate this piece of hidden history. The Radium Girls
reminds us that no matter the darkness, our strength and perseverance can be enough to change the world. Grace MenaryWinefield, associate editor, Sourcebooks
Publicity & marketing plans: Author tour; advertising; drivetime-radio tour; prepub excerpt campaign; reading-group
outreach.
Opening: The scientist had forgotten all about the radium. It
was tucked discreetly within the folds of his waistcoat pocket,
enclosed in a slim glass tube in such a small quantity that he
could not feel its weight.

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Stephen Florida
Gabe Habash
Coffee House, June
$25 hardcover
First Printing: 10,000
Why the buzz: When we
found it in the queue, three of
us read it within three days
and we immediately made an
offer. Between the voice,
edging into the uncanny, and
the heart in it, we couldnt not
have it. Caroline Casey,
managing director, Coffee
House

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Publicity & marketing plans:

Author tour, including AWP and BEA

bookseller dinners; advertising; 500-copy
galley run.
Opening: My mother had two placentas and I was living off
both of them.
Temporary People
Deepak Unnikrishnan
Restless, Mar.
$17.99 paperback
First printing: 10,000
Why the buzz: We launched the Restless Books Prize for New
Immigrant Writing last year hoping to find an urgent new voice
to exemplify immigrants essential role in our culture. Those
hopes were exceeded by the bold, transfiguring work of
Deepak Unnikrishnan. Temporary People suffuses the anonymous laborers of the Gulf with unforgettable vividness.
Nathan Rostron, editor and marketing director, Restless
Publicity & marketing plans: 10-day author tour; prepub
media lunch; ABA Indies Introduce selection for winter/
spring 2017.
Opening: In a labor camp, somewhere in the Persian Gulf, a
laborer swallowed his passport and turned into a passport.

Freitass opinion, based on interviews with 184 students

at 13 colleges in the U.S. and 884 survey responses, is that
there are more insidious problems than rampant bullying
and sexting.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Freitas invites the reader to tour American collegiate life as
she showcases how social media exacerbates the pressure
that todays students feel to be happy and successful.
The Happiness Effect demonstrates how timeless
collegiate practices are being reshaped by the anxiety
and stress students face, asking hard questions about
technology and social life.
danah boyd, author of Its Complicated:
The Social Lives of Networked Teens
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At the Edge of the Universe

Shaun David Hutchinson
Simon Pulse, Feb.
$17.99 hardcover
Ages 14 and up
First printing: 75,000
Why the buzz: At the Edge of the Universe
offers readers a surreal, high-concept
story as well as a heartbreaking metaphor for the power of loss. Were so
proud to publish Shaun not only for the
masterful novels he writes but also for
his openness and willingness to be a role
model who can inspire troubled teens to
see that they are not alone in our universe. Liesa Abrams, v-p, editorial
director, Simon Pulse and associate editorial director, Aladdin
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
appearances; advertising; prepub buzz
campaign; VIP blogger campaign;
Riveted Community featured title;
SimonTeen social media promotion.
Opening: I sat beside the window pretending to read Platos Republic as the rest
of the passengers boarding Flight 1184
zombie-walked to their seats.
The Case of the Stinky Stench
Josh Funk
Sterling, May
$16.95 hardcover
Ages 58
Why the buzz: We couldnt wait to read
the next installment in Josh Funks hilarious chronicles of our favorite
breakfast-food heroes, Lady
Pancake and Sir French
Toast. In their second adventure, they have to solve the
mystery of whos causing the
terrible odor in the fridge.
The case takes them from
Marshmallow Coast to Corn
Chowder Lake, where they
meet an actual red herring. Christina
Pulles, senior editor, Sterling
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
tour; advertising; book trailer; activity
kit available; Skype visits to schools.
Opening: Back in the kitchen and

deep in the fridge, past Trifle Tower,

across Taco Bridge, on a vacation at
Marshmallow Coast, sat Lady Pancake
beside Sir French Toast.
City of Saints & Thieves
Natalie C. Anderson
Putnam, Jan.
$18.99 hardcover
Ages 12 and up
First printing: 100,000
Why the buzz: Tiny, the heroine of this
knockout of a debut, is nothing short of
a sensation. Youll be instantly pulled
into her story by the bravado of her voice
and compelled to stay by the trueness of
her heart. In between, prepare yourself
for a thrilling, breathless journey where
betrayal lurks around every corner and an
ending you wont see coming. Stacey
Barney, senior editor, Putnam
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
appearances with Penguin Teen on Tour;
advertising; prepublication buzz campaign;
extensive online promotion and social
media outreach; preorder campaign with
two Boston-area stores; a Barnes & Noble
Discover Great New Writers and an Indies
Introduce winter/spring 2017 selection.
Opening: If youre going to be a thief,
the first thing you need to know is that
you dont exist.
The Cruelty
Scott Bergstrom

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Childrens/YA

Feiwel and Friends, Feb.

$18.99 hardcover
Ages 17 and up
First printing: 100,000
Why the buzz: I love a good unputdownable thriller. I started The Cruelty
late at night and then couldnt sleep
and not only because of the tension of a
teenage girl searching for her kidnapped
father. This is more about a girls painful
but necessary evolution, her quest to
hold onto a modicum of control in this
violent and unfair world.Liz Szabla,
editor-in-chief, Feiwel and Friends
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
appearances, including book festivals
and trade shows; advertising; blogger
outreach; promotions on Goodreads and
Fierce Reads.
Opening: The boys are waiting for the
beheading.
Daughter of the Pirate King
Tricia Levenseller
Feiwel and Friends, Feb.
$17.99 hardcover
Ages 12 and up
First printing: 25,000
Why the buzz: I adore pirates, and this
book has everything a good pirate yarn
needs: sea battles, sword fights, ancient
treasure maps, action, adventure, romance,
and even a little bit of magic. And, most
important of all, [it has] a truly kick-butt
heroine, who is strong, smart, capable,
and, as befitting a pirate princess, quite
ruthless when necessary. Whats not to
love? Holly West, editor, Feiwel
and Friends
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
appearances; YA blog tour; advertising;
a Fierce Reads title; a Winter/Spring
2017 Indies Introduce selection.
Opening: I hate having to dress like a
man.
Dinosaur Bob and His
Adventures with the Family
Lazardo
William Joyce
Atheneum, Apr.
$17.99, hardcover
Ages 48

First printing: 40,000

Why the buzz: Bill Joyces earlier

works were classics the moment they

were first published. Each is an epic
adventure in a mere 32 pages; the lush
and sumptuously rendered watercolors
and acrylics create the worlds that kids
dream of and wish to fall into. So to have
the opportunity to bring these gems to
a new generation is a dream for me as an
editor. Caitlyn M. Dlouhy, v-p and
editorial director, Caitlyn Dlouhy Books,
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
tour, including book-festival appearances; advertising.
Opening: The Lazardos were an interesting family.
Dragonwatch:
A Fablehaven Adventure
Brandon Mull
Shadow Mountain, Mar.
$18.99 hardcover
Ages 8 and up
First printing: 100,000
Why the buzz: The focus is on the
dragons who now view their safe sanctuaries as prisons, and they want out. In that
quest we are introduced to the personalities, foibles, and wisdom of the dragon
characters. A young Fablehaven reader
once told me, Dragons are really misunderstood: they look mean and scary, but
we just need to get to know them better.
Now we will. Ilise Levine, sales and
marketing manager, Shadow Mountain
Publicity & marketing plans: Eightweek school tour; six-figure marketing
campaign; advertising; Decked Out for
Dragonwatch contest with winners
chosen by the author; readers guide;
poster; Dragon wisdom stickers; pins;
bookmarks.
Opening: Kendra Sorenson jogged
through the warm mist, damp gravel
crunching underfoot, wondering if the
moisture in the air was falling enough to
be called rain.
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, Feb.

$17.99 hardcover
Ages 14 and up
First printing: 100,000
Why the buzz: The Hate U Give is not
only a complex and nuanced portrayal of
racism and police brutality; its also an
authentic depiction of a black teen girl
finding her voice with the support of her
loving, complicated family and community. An essential, urgent novel by a
remarkable new talent. Donna Bray,
v-p and copublisher, Balzer + Bray
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
appearances, including at the North
Texas Teen Book Festival and the
Houston Teen Book Con; advertising;
discussion guide; Indie Red Box easel
and discussion-guide mailing.
Opening: I shouldnt have come to this
party.
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
Benjamin Alire Senz
Clarion, Mar.
$17.99 hardcover
Ages 12 and up
First printing: 75,000
Why the buzz: For all the editorial love
I bear for the book, sometimes only a
writer can find the right words. Awardwinner Bill Konigsberg called this novel
a story about learning how to be a gentle
person in a world thats mostly filled
with fear. What the world needs now is
a book like this one. What more can I
possibly say? Anne Hoppe, v-p,
associate publisher, Clarion
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
appearances; advertising; bookmarks;
social media campaign.
Opening: I have a memory that is almost
like a dream: the yellow leaves from
Mimas mulberry tree are floating down
from the sky like giant snowflakes.
The Lotterys Plus One
Emma Donoghue
Scholastic/Levine, Mar.
$17.99 hardcover
Ages 812
Why the buzz: Emma Donoghue has
given us a loud, loving, boisterous family
for the 21st centurya family thats

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tried hard to create a small piece of utopia

in their rambling Victorian house. This
beautiful, funny novel does more than
make you laugh. It makes you think
about the bonds of family, about how
best to stand up for oneself, and about
acceptance.Arthur A. Levine, v-p and
publisher, Arthur A. Levine Books
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
appearances; advertising; video book
trailer; featured in LGBTQ Read with
Pride campaign; featured on Scholastic
social media networks and websites.
Opening: Only eight people at breakfast today, which feels weird.

BRIAN HARKIN

Just Fly Away

Andrew McCarthy
Algonquin Young Readers, Apr.
$17.95 hardcover
Ages 12 and up
First printing: 75,000
Why the buzz: [Heroine] Lucy Willows
is a seeker, and travel is at the heart of her
story. Lucy captured me with her
refreshing directness. While plots often
turn on whats not said, Lucy plunges
into big questions. And befitting her creators history, Lucys literal routefrom
the Jersey shore to the lobster shacks and
lighthouses of Maineis equally essential
to her self-discovery. Elise Howard,
publisher, Algonquin Young Readers
Publicity & marketing plans: 18-city
author tour; ew.com cover reveal with
exclusive excerpt; downloadable readers

guide and author Q&A.

Opening: I suppose if I thought about
it I would have to say that I had a premonition when we were down the shore that
something bad was going to happen.

ture-book campaign.
Opening: It had been a long time. So
long that many had forgotten or had
begun to doubt that such a being as Old
Turtle had ever really existed.

Midnight at the Electric

Jodi Lynn Anderson
HarperTeen, June
$17.99 hardcover
Ages 14 and up
First printing: 75,000
Why the buzz: Effusive isnt a big enough
word to describe the in-house praise. Who
else but Jodi Lynn Anderson could bring
three distinct young women stunningly to
life and in the process show us more tenderly how theirno, how ourfates are
entwined? Gorgeous, moving, and quietly
unforgettable, Midnight at the Electric is
Jodis masterpiece. Jennifer Klonsky,
editorial director, HarperTeen
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
appearances, including at TLA; extensive
ARC distribution and big-mouth mailings; ABA White Box promotion; online
and social media advertising; promotion
at seasonal festivals.
Opening: From above, Miami looked as
if it were blinking itself awake; the rising
sun reflected against the citys windows.

What Girls Are Made Of

Elana K. Arnold
Carolrhoda Lab, Apr.
$18.99 hardcover
Ages 12 and up
Why the buzz: What Girls Are Made Of
stands out for its unflinching look at the
darkest crevices of what it means to be
female. It follows the journey of Nina, who
is grappling with what love means and
trying to embrace who she really is. Raw
and compelling, this book will surprise
readers with its unconventional narrative
approach. Alix Reid, editorial director,
Carolrhoda Lab and Carolrhoda Books
Publicity & marketing plans: Advertising;
Web and major trade show promotions;
bookmarks, discussion guides, and free
downloads.
Opening: When I was 14, my mother
told me there was no such thing as
unconditional love.

Old Turtle:
Questions of the Heart
Douglas Wood, illus. Greg Ruth
Scholastic Press, Mar.
$19.99 hardcover
Ages 48
Why the buzz: Twenty-five years ago,
independent booksellers made Douglas
Woods small press picture-book sensation Old Turtle a national bestseller. This
companion book is another timeless tale
of wisdom, and its universal spiritual
themes find their perfect complement in
the ethereal paintings of Greg Ruth. The
book promises to delight fans of the first
book while speaking to the concerns of
the world today. Anamika Bhatnagar,
associate publisher, Scholastic
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
appearances; advertising; included in
outreach for the Story Starts Here pic-

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Yvain: The Knight of the Lion

M.T. Anderson
Candlewick, Mar.
$19.99 hardcover
Ages 12up
Why the buzz: The incomparable M.T.
Anderson has taken us to a near-future
Earth in Feed, to besieged Leningrad in
Symphony for the City of the Dead, and now
to Arthurian forests in his first graphic
novel, Yvain. In Andersons retelling, the
12th-century epic poem ripples with
action, but also reveals themes of gender,
power, love, and hate. Jennifer Roberts,
v-p of publicity and executive director of
marketing campaigns, Candlewick
Publicity & marketing plans: Author
tour; extensive galley distribution; illustrations by Andrea Offermann to be
showcased in a social media campaign
and across all corporate digital-marketing platforms; discussion guide.
Opening: I shall speak of love... and of
hate.

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