Featured Authors: Library Journal Day of Dialog Spring 2021

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Today’s Featured Authors #LJDOD2021

Matrix

The Lincoln Highway

Concepcion

Say It Loud!

Lauren Groff

Amor Towles

Albert Samaha

Randall Kennedy

HC: 978-1-59463-449-9 eBook: 978-0-698-40513-4 CD: 978-0-593-45373-5 DN: 978-0-593-45375-9 LP: 978-0-593-45965-2 Riverhead Books | 150,000 On Sale September 7, 2021

HC: 978-0-7352-2235-9 eBook: 978-0-7352-2237-3 CD: 978-0-593-45209-7 DN: 978-0-593-45211-0 LP: 978-0-593-45987-4 Viking | 500,000 On Sale October 5, 2021

HC: 978-0-593-08608-7 eBook: 978-0-593-08610-0 DN: 978-0-593-45366-7 Riverhead Books | 40,000 On Sale October 12, 2021

HC: 978-0-593-31604-7 eBook: 978-0-593-31605-4 DN: 978-0-593-41385-2 Pantheon | 50,000 On Sale September 7, 2021

One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies.

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America.

A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience.

A gathering of essays by the acclaimed Harvard legal scholar and public intellectual, that explores all the relevant cultural and historical issues of the past quarter-century having to do with race and race relations in America.

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A Slow Fire Burning

Velvet Was the Night

Paula Hawkins

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

HC: 978-0-7352-1123-0 eBook: 978-0-7352-1125-4 CD: 978-0-593-45315-5 DN: 978-0-593-45317-9 LP: 978-0-593-45964-5 Riverhead Books | 1,000,000 On Sale August 31, 2021

HC: 978-0-593-35682-1 eBook: 978-0-593-35683-8 DN: 978-0-593-45607-1 LP: 978-0-593-50850-3 Del Rey | 250,000 On Sale August 17, 2021

With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers worldwide in The Girl on the Train and Into the Water, Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting story of deceit, murder, and revenge. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome gangster, and the mystery of the missing woman that brings them together. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.

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Harlem Shuffle

What Strange Paradise

Colson Whitehead

Omar El Akkad

HC: 978-0-385-54513-6 eBook: 978-0-385-54514-3 CD:978-0-593-45554-8 DN:978-0-593-45556-2 LP: 978-0-593-46018-4 Doubleday | 350,000 On Sale September 14, 2021

HC: 978-0-525-65790-3 eBook: 978-0-525-65791-0 DN: 978-0-593-34928-1 LP: 978-0-593-39657-5 Knopf | 50,000 On Sale July 20, 2021

From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.

From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War: a new novelbeautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving-that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.


Oh William!

Our Country Friends

The War for Gloria

Elizabeth Strout

Gary Shteyngart

Atticus Lish

HC: 978-0-8129-8943-4 eBook: 978-0-8129-8945-8 CD: 978-0-593-41611-2 DN:978-0-593-41613-6 Random House | 250,000 On Sale October 19, 2021

HC: 978-1-9848-5512-1 eBook: 978-1-9848-5513-8 DN: 978-0-593-50478-9 LP: 978-0-593-50386-7 Random House | 100,000 On Sale November 2, 2021

HC: 978-1-5247-3232-5 eBook: 978-1-5247-3233-2 DN: 978-1-5247-3233-2 LP: 978-0-593-41443-9 Knopf | 40,000 On Sale September 7, 2021

Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind.

Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation –a powerful, emotionally rich novel about love, friendship, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist The New York Times calls "one of his generation's most original and exhilarating writers.”

From the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life—a searing, tender, haunting story about fathers and sons, sons and mothers, and a young boy's struggle to become a man.

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The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki HC: 978-0-399-56364-5 eBook: 978-0-399-56365-2 DN: 978-0-593-41792-8 Viking | 100,000 On Sale September 21, 2021 A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being. Request an eGalley on Edelweiss. Request an eGalley on NetGalley.

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The Man Who Died Twice Richard Osman HC: 978-1-9848-8099-4 eBook: 978-1-9848-8100-7 DN: 978-0-593-45149-6 LP: 978-0-593-45981-2 Pamela Dorman Books | 100,000 On Sale September 28, 2021 The second gripping novel in the #1 internationally bestselling Thursday Murder Club series, the first of which Kate Atkinson called "A little beacon of pleasure in the midst of the gloom. . . Such Fun!“

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