GalleyChat Tomorrow
Please join us at 4 p.m., EDT, tomorrow, to talk about galleys of forthcoming books (if you haven’t joined a GalleyChat before, click here for details).
Many of you have unpacked your ALA boxes, so there will be lots to talk about.
Here’s some titles that may come up:
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This title has come up at every one of our previous GalleyChats. I read it during the recent NYC heat wave and it was the perfect antidote. There’s plenty of heat because it’s set in South Florida, but there is also plenty of swimming, boating and a community of summer homes built on stilts. No high drama or madness here, thank heaven; just an engrossing story of an “ordinary” woman as she meets the man she will marry, forms lasting friendships, and raises a family. It’s refreshing to read about good, caring people who struggle with many of the same issues we all do, but who bring an extra ounce of wisdom to it.
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Of course, Laura Lippman already has a following, but this standalone is poised to bring her to a whole new audience.
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This book had me at the opening line, “Pimps make the best librarians.” The author knows; he had to draw on prison inmates to help run his library.
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I met author Rebecca Costa during her signing at ALA. She’s a real force and I wouldn’t be surprised to see her on the talk shows this fall. The book’s scary subtitle addresses her central question; “Why can’t we think our way out of our problems any more?”
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This debut sounds like a good, old-fashioned saga about a 76-year old former Russian ballerina who reviews her past as she puts together an auction catalog of her jewels.
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Isabel was the last speaker on the First Author panel at ALA and she had us hanging on her every word as she spoke passionately about the migration of African Americans to the North, told through the stories of ordinary people who made the trek.
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The true story of a woman recovering from an illness. Her friend gives her a very strange gift; a snail in a terrarium
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By the author of An Arsonist’s Guide to Writer’s Home in New England; it was a librarians’ Shout & Share pick at BEA and was featured at Algonquin’s booth at ALA.