Roaring Reads Book Buzz 2020 #ALAMW20 @PRHLibrary Booth #1440
The Hope of Glory Jon Meacham HC: 978-0-593-23666-6 eBook: 978-0-593-23667-3 AD: 978-0-593-21562-3 Convergent Books | 150,000 February 18, 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham explores the seven last sayings of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels, combining rich historical and theological insights to reflect on the true heart of the Christian story.
Powershift Daymond John with Daniel Paisner
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me Bess Kalb
HC: 978-0-593-13623-2 eBook: 978-0-593-13624-9 AD: 978-0-593-16800-4 Currency | 100,000 March 10, 2020
HC: 978-0-525-65471-1 eBook: 978-0-525-65472-8 AD: 978-0-593-16972-8 Knopf | 100,000 March 17, 2020
New York Times bestselling author and star of ABC's Emmy Award-winning Shark Tank reveals how to drive the change you want to see in your life by mastering the three prongs of success: influence, negotiation, and relationships.
A funny, warm, and brilliantly original memoir in which a grandmother speaks to her granddaughter from beyond the grave, telling, with candor and irresistible humor, stories from both their lives—of kinship, loyalty, tenacity, and love.
The Glass Hotel Emily St. John Mandel HC: 978-0-525-52114-3 eBook: 978-0-525-52115-0 AD: 978-0-525-59670-7 CD: 978-0-525-59667-7 LP: 978-0-593-17173-8 Knopf | 200,000 March 24, 2020 From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, whitecollar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise.
Booth Signing: 1/27 @11:00am
The Immortals of Tehran
Three Hours in Paris
Ali Araghi
Cara Black
HC: 978-1-61219-818-7 eBook: 978-1-61219-819-4 Melville House | 75,000 April 7, 2020
HC: 978-1-64129-041-8 eBook: 978-1-64129-042-5 Soho Crime | 100,000 April 7, 2020
This generations-spanning novel carries one extraordinary family to the brink of the Iranian Revolution—and marks the debut of a literary talent to watch.
History books agree that in June of 1940, after Paris had fallen to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light. What has been lost to posterity is why he left in such a hurry— and why he never came back.
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Grady Hendrix HC: 978-1-68369-143-3 eBook: 978-1-68369-144-0 Quirk Books | 100,000 April 7, 2020 Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster.
Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker HC: 978-0-385-54376-7 eBook: 978-0-385-54377-4 AD: 978-0-593-20833-5 Doubleday | 100,000 April 7, 2020 The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
Booth Signing: Today, 1/26 @12:30pm
The Book of Lost Friends Lisa Wingate HC: 978-1-9848-1988-8 eBook: 978-1-9848-1989-5 AD: 978-0-593-21327-8 CD: 978-0-593-21325-4 LP: 978-0-593-28641-8 Ballantine Books | 500,000 April 7, 2020 From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new novel inspired by littleknown historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
Pretty Things Janelle Brown
Sue Monk Kidd
C Pam Zhang
HC: 978-0-525-47912-3 eBook: 978-0-525-47913-0 AD: 978-0-593-21001-7 CD: 978-0-593-20999-8 Random House | 200,000 April 21, 2020
HC: 978-0-525-42976-0 eBook: 978-0-698-40819-7 AD: 978-0-593-21284-4 CD: 978-0-593-21282-0 LP: 978-0-593-28596-1 Viking | 750,000 April 21, 2020
HC: 978-0-525-53720-5 eBook: 978-0-525-53722-9 AD: 978-0-593-16695-6 LP: 978-0-593-17184-4 Riverhead | 50,000 April 7, 2020 An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush—two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home.
Two wildly different women— one a grifter, the other an heiress—are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a pageturner from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear.
What's Left of Me Is Yours
He Started It
Yes to Life
Stephanie Scott
Samantha Downing
Viktor E. Frankl
HC: 978-0-385-54470-2 eBook: 978-0-385-54471-9 AD: 978-0-593-16926-1 Doubleday | 60,000 April 21, 2020
HC: 978-0-451-49175-6 eBook: 978-0-451-49177-0 AD: 978-0-593-21456-5 Berkley | 100,000 April 28, 2020
HC: 978-0-8070-0555-2 eBook: 978-0-8070-0556-9 AD: 978-0-8070-0565-1 Beacon Press | 100,000 May 5, 2020
A gripping debut set in modernday Tokyo and inspired by true events, for readers of Everything I Never Told You and The Perfect Nanny, What's Left of Me Is Yours follows a young woman's search for the truth about her mother's life— and her murder.
In the latest thrillingly savage stand-alone from the twisted mind behind mega hit My Lovely Wife comes the story of a family—not unlike your own—just with a few more violent tendencies thrown in.
Extraordinary uncovered work by the 16 million copy bestselling author of Man's Search For Meaning published in English for the first time.
The Book of Longings
"I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus." So begins the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings, an extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny in a time of great despair and great hope.
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings Helen Jukes HC: 978-1-5247-4786-2 eBook: 978-1-5247-4787-9 AD: 978-0-593-17020-5 Pantheon | 30,000 May 5, 2020 An inspiring, up-close portrait of beekeeping—a year of living dangerously—observing and capturing the wondrous, complex ecosystem of honeybees and their hive, and the emotional, spiritual transformation that changed the way the author sees, and is in, the world.
Ghosts of Harvard
Exile Music
Francesca Serritella
Jennifer Steil
HC: 978-0-525-51036-9 eBook: 978-0-525-51037-6 AD: 978-0-593-15464-9 LP: 978-0-593-21402-2 Random House | 75,000 May 5, 2020
HC: 978-0-525-56181-1 eBook: 978-0-525-56182-8 AD: 978-0-593-16652-9 Viking | 75,000 May 5, 2020
In this page-turning and affecting fiction debut, a Harvard freshman becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brother's suicide. Then she starts hearing voices.
Based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, Exile Music is the captivating story of a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia.
Eat a Peach
The Vanishing Half
David Chang with Gabe Ulla HC: 978-1-5247-5921-6 eBook: 978-1-5247-5922-3 AD: 978-0-593-20839-7 Clarkson Potter | 125,000 May 19, 2020
The chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious gets uncomfortably real in his debut memoir.
Brit Bennett HC: 978-0-525-53629-1 eBook: 978-0-525-53697-0 AD: 978-0-525-63716-5 CD: 978-0-525-63713-4 LP: 978-0-593-28610-4 Riverhead | 100,000 June 2, 2020 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
All Adults Here Emma Straub HC: 978-1-59463-469-7 eBook: 978-0-698-40798-5 AD: 978-0-593-16673-4 CD: 978-0-593-16671-0 LP: 978-0-593-17180-6 Riverhead | 150,000 May 5, 2020 A warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family—as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes.
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo JoAnn Wypijewski HC: 978-1-78873-805-7 eBook: 978-1-78873-807-1 Verso | 50,000 May 5, 2020 An exquisite examination of a sexual culture in crisis. Wypijewski takes the most famous sex panics of the last decades and turns them inside out, weaving what together becomes a searing indictment of modern sexual politics.
The Growing Season
A Burning
Sarah Frey
Megha Majumdar
HC: 978-0-593-12939-5 eBook: 978-0-593-12940-1 AD: 978-0-593-21027-7 Ballantine Books | 50,000 June 2, 2020
HC: 978-0-525-65869-6 eBook: 978-0-525-65870-2 AD: 978-0-593-21211-0 LP: 978-0-593-21476-3 Knopf | 100,000 June 2, 2020
One woman's tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business— without ever leaving the land she loved.
For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.
The Lost Diary of Venice
Always the Last to Know
Super Host
Margaux DeRoux
Kristan Higgins
Kate Russo
Anbara Salam
HC: 978-1-9848-1948-2 eBook: 978-1-9848-1949-9 AD: 978-0-593-16722-9 Ballantine Books | 75,000 June 9, 2020
TR: 978-0-451-48945-6 eBook: 978-0-451-48946-3 Berkley | 150,000 June 9, 2020
HC: 978-0-593-18770-8 eBook: 978-0-593-18771-5 AD: 978-0-593-21170-0 LP: 978-0-593-28605-0 Putnam | 100,000 June 9, 2020
HC: 978-0-593-09934-6 eBook: 978-0-593-09936-0 AD: 978-0-593-21367-4 Berkley | 60,000 June 9, 2020
Two impossible love stories are fatefully connected by one artistic legacy in a stunning debut that leaps between the mysteries of late-Renaissance Venice and the dramas of present-day America.
Sometimes you have to break a family to fix it. From New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins, a new novel examining a family at the breaking point in all its messy, difficult, wonderful complexity.
People secretly wonder about the personal lives of their AirBnb hosts, and this novel offers fantastic insight in the people behind one fictional London rental.
Belladonna
A lush, coming-of-age novel set in 1950s Italy that stares into the heart of longing and at the friendships that have the power to save and destroy us.
A Knock at Midnight
Seven Lies
How Beautiful We Were
One to Watch
Brittany K. Barnett
Elizabeth Kay
Imbolo Mbue
Kate Stayman-London
HC: 978-1-9848-2578-0 eBook: 978-1-9848-2579-7 AD: 978-0-593-21019-2 Crown | 75,000 June 16, 2020
HC: 978-1-9848-7971-4 eBook: 978-1-9848-7972-1 AD: 978-0-593-21336-0 LP: 978-0-593-28609-8 Pamela Dorman Books | 100,000 June 16, 2020
HC: 978-0-593-13242-5 eBook: 978-0-593-13243-2 AD: 978-0-593-20996-7 CD: 978-0-593-20995-0 LP: 978-0-593-21330-8 Random House | 75,000 June 16, 2020
TR: 978-0-525-51044-4 eBook: 978-0-525-51043-7 AD: 978-0-593-21013-0 Dial Press Trade Paperback | 75,000 June 23, 2020
An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity—from a powerful new voice in the movement to transform the system.
Told in a seductive first-person voice, this is a story full of toxic secrets, tangled friendships, and the way compulsive love can make us do the unthinkable.
From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company.
In this joyful, razor-sharp debut, Bea Schumacher, a devastatingly stylish plus-size fashion blogger is tapped to be the next star in the TV dating show, Main Squeeze. Can she find messy, real-life love in the midst of a made-for-TV fairy tale?
Future Bestsellers
La milla verde
The Splendid and the Vile
The Gift of Forgiveness
Stephen King
Erik Larson
Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt
Chris Bohjalian
TR: 978-1-9848-9874-6 eBook: 978-1-9848-9875-3 Vintage Espanol | 10,000 February 4, 2020
HC: 978-0-385-34871-3 eBook: 978-0-385-34872-0 AD: 978-0-593-16718-2 CD: 978-0-593-16716-8 LP: 978-0-593-17207-0 Crown | 400,000 February 25, 2020
HC: 978-1-9848-7825-0 eBook: 978-1-9848-7826-7 AD: 978-0-593-16648-2 Pamela Dorman Books | 100,000 March 10, 2020
HC: 978-0-385-54480-1 eBook: 978-0-385-54481-8 AD: 978-0-593-16941-4 CD: 978-0-593-16939-1 LP: 978-0-593-17174-5 Doubleday | 125,000 March 17, 2020
Now in Spanish, Stephen King's classic #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscarnominated film starring Tom Hanks.
Redhead by the Side of the Road Anne Tyler HC: 978-0-525-65841-2 eBook: 978-0-525-65842-9 AD: 978-0-593-17075-5 CD: 978-0-593-17073-1 LP: 978-0-593-17159-2 Knopf | 200,000 April 7, 2020 From the beloved and bestselling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz.
A fresh, inspiring book on learning how to forgive—with firsthand stories from those who have learned to let go of resentment and find peace
The Red Lotus
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend, an emergency room doctor trained to ask questions, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met.
Death in Her Hands
Devolution
Ottessa Moshfegh
Max Brooks
HC: 978-1-9848-7935-6 eBook: 978-1-9848-7936-3 AD: 978-0-593-16538-6 LP: 978-0-593-17190-5 Penguin Press | 75,000 April 21, 2020
HC: 978-1-9848-2678-7 eBook: 978-1-9848-2679-4 AD: 978-0-593-16808-0 LP: 978-0-593-28592-3 Del Rey | 300,000 May 12, 2020
HC: 978-0-399-17895-5 eBook: 978-0-399-17896-2 AD: 978-0-593-21049-9 CD: 978-0-593-21047-5 Ballantine Books | 350,000 June 2, 2020
From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z reinvents the Bigfoot legend with a thriller that blends fact and fiction, natural and supernatural— human and beast.
In the irresistible new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and Something Borrowed, a young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace.
The Lies That Bind Emily Giffin
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