Featured Authors: LJ DOD Fall 2021

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Featured Authors LJ DOD Fall 2021

The Maid

Wish You Were Here

Small World

Joan Is Okay Weike Wang

Jodi Picoult

Nita Prose

Jonathan Evison

HC: 978-1-9848-1841-6 eBook: 978-1-9848-1842-3 CD: 978-0-593-50863-3 DN: 978-0-593-50865-7 Ballantine Books | 500,000 On Sale November 30, 2021

HC: 978-0-593-35615-9 eBook: 978-0-593-35616-6 DN: 978-0-593-45269-1 LP: 978-0-593-51084-1 Ballantine Books | 150,000 On Sale January 4, 2022

HC: 978-0-593-18412-7 eBook: 978-0-593-18414-1 DN: 978-0-593-45221-9 Dutton | 75,000 On Sale January 11, 2022

HC: 978-0-525-65483-4 eBook: 978-0-525-65484-1 DN: 978-0-593-41229-9 Random House | 75,000 On Sale January 18, 2022

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising).

A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut.

A career's work from a beloved author's first book for Dutton, Small World is a historic epic set in multiple time periods, in which the characters interconnect in the most intriguing and meaningful ways.

A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry.

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Survivor’s Guilt Robyn Gigl HC: 978-1-4967-2828-9 Kensington | 30,000 On Sale January 25, 2022 Attorney and LGBTQ+ activist Robyn Gigl tackles the complexities of gender, power, public perception, and human trafficking with a ripped-fromthe-headlines plot in her second legal thriller featuring Erin McCabe. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.

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The Violin Conspiracy

The Violence

What the Fireflies Knew

Delilah S. Dawson

Kai Harris

Brendan Slocumb

HC: 978-0-593-15662-9 eBook: 978-0-593-15663-6 DN: 978-0-593-45605-7 Del Rey | 100,000 On Sale February 1, 2022

HC: 978-0-593-18534-6 eBook: 978-0-593-18535-3 DN: 978-0-593-51098-8 LP: 978-0-593-55658-0 Tiny Reparations Books | 75,000 On Sale February 1, 2022

HC: 978-0-593-31541-5 eBook: 978-0-593-31543-9 DN: 978-0-593-55497-5 LP: 978-0-593-58412-5 Anchor | 125,000 On Sale February 1, 2022

A mysterious plague that causes A coming-of-age novel told from the random bouts of violence is perspective of eleven-year-old KB, as sweeping the nation. Now three she and her sister try, over the generations of women must navigate course of a summer, to make sense their chilling new reality in this of their new life with their estranged moving exploration of identity, grandfather after the death of their cycles of abuse, and hope. father and disappearance of their mother. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.

A riveting tale about a Black classical musician whose family heirloom violin is stolen on the eve of the most prestigious classical music competition in the world. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.


Featured Authors LJ DOD Fall 2021

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Black Cake Charmaine Wilkerson HC: 978-0-593-35833-7 eBook: 978-0-593-35834-4 DN: 978-0-593-50522-9 LP: 978-0-593-55913-0 Ballantine Books | 100,000 On Sale February 1, 2022 In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past—a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.

Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel HC: 978-0-593-32144-7 eBook: 978-0-593-32145-4 CD: 978-0-593-55207-0 DN: 978-0-593-55200-1 LP: 978-0-593-55659-7 Knopf | 200,000 On Sale April 19, 2022

The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss.

When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East Quan Barry HC: 978-1-5247-4811-1 eBook: 978-1-5247-4812-8 DN: 978-0-593-55843-0 Pantheon | 25,000 On Sale February 22, 2022 From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upon Sticks, a luminous novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia, as estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty, conflict, and renewed understanding.

Don't Know Tough

Grace D. Li

HC: 978-1-64129-345-7 eBook: 978-1-64129-346-4 Soho Crime | 75,000 On Sale March 8, 2022

HC: 978-0-593-18473-8 eBook: 978-0-593-18607-7 DN: 978-0-593-51096-4 Tiny Reparations Books | 40,000 On Sale April 5, 2022

Fright Night Lights meets Southern Gothic, this thrilling debut is for readers of Megan Abbott and Wiley Cash. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.

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Trust Hernan Diaz HC: 978-0-593-42031-7 eBook: 978-0-593-42033-1 DN: 978-0-593-55712-9 LP: 978-0-593-55656-6 Riverhead Books | 100,000 On Sale May 3, 2022

Portrait of a Thief

Eli Cranor

Pitched as The Farewell meets Ocean's Eleven, Portrait of a Thief is a lyrically written heist novel based on a true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums; about diaspora, unlikely friendships, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. Click for More Information.

The Hacienda Isabel Cañas HC: 978-0-593-43669-1 eBook: 978-0-593-43671-4 DN: 978-0-593-55268-1 Berkley | 75,000 On Sale May 10, 2022

From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends comes his much-anticipated novel about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception.

Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches.

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Manifesting Justice Valena Beety HC: 978-0-8065-4151-8 Citadel On Sale May 31, 2022 Through the lens of her work with the Innocence Movement and her client Leigh Stubb—a woman denied a fair trial in 2000 largely due to her sexual orientation—innocence litigator, activist, and founder of the West Virginia Innocence Project Valena H. Beety examines the failures in America's criminal legal system and the reforms necessary to eliminate wrongful convictions. Click for More Information.


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