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Tayari Jones: SILVER SPARROW
(Algonquin hardcover/ISBN: 9781616200664/ $19.95)
Celebrating Southern Writers, Saturday, June 25, 1:30-3:30 PM,
Morial Convention Center, Room 335-336
LIVE @ Your Library Stage Reading, Sunday, June 26, 11:30 AM
• “… absorbing… vivid… sparkling…” – Anita Shreve, in the Washington Post
• “… full of perverse wisdom and proud joy….” –O, The Oprah Magazine
• “… pulls off a minor miracle…” MORE
Jon Michaud: WHEN TITO LOVED CLARA
(Algonquin hardcover/ISBN: 9781565129498/$23.95)
LIVE @ Your Library Stage Reading, Sunday, June 26, 12 noon
First Author, First Book, Sunday, June 26, 1:30-3:30 PM,
Morial Convention Center, Room 269
• “I read it in gulps.” –Marilyn Johnson, author of THIS BOOK IS OVERDUE!
Andrew Schloss: HOMEMADE SODA
(Storey original trade paperback/ISBN: 9781603427968/$18.95)
“What’s Cooking @ ALA?” stage, Monday, June 27, 10:30-11:30 PM
• “…in a class by itself.” — Booklist starred review
Kelli & Peter Bronski: ARTISANAL GLUTEN-FREE CUPCAKES
(The Experiment Trade Paperback with French Flaps/
ISBN 978-1-61519-036-2/$16.95)
“What’s Cooking @ ALA?” stage Saturday, June 25, 2:30-3:30 PM,
located at the back of the 3000 Aisle.
We’ll be giving away advance readers’ editions, as well,
including:
HOMEMADE SODA, by Robert Morgan
(Algonquin hardcover/ISBN: 9781565126268/$29.95/
Due to be published on Oct. 18, 2011)
RUNNING THE RIFT, by Naomi Benaron
(2010 Bellwether Prize Winner)
(Algonquin hardcover/ISBN: 9781616200428/$24.95/
Due to be published on Jan. 17, 2012)
Speaking of the Bellwether, exciting news…. PEN and Barbara Kingsolver
have partnered to form the new iteration of the award,
the PEN/Bellwether Prize— PEN will handle promoting the prize and the
submissions process and Algonquin will handle promoting the books.
(We have the next two under contract already.)
THE SMARTEST WOMAN I KNOW, by Ilene Beckerman,
of LOVE, LOSS & WHAT I WORE fame
(Algonquin hardcover/ISBN: 9781565125377/$15.95/
Due to be published on Sep 5, 2011)
THE TASTE OF SALT, by Martha Southgate
(Algonquin hardcover/ISBN: 9781565129252/$13.95/
Due to be published on Sep 13, 2011)
WHEN SHE WOKE, by Hillary Jordan
(Whose MUDBOUND won the very first Bellwether Prize and an ALEX award!)
(Algonquin hardcover/ISBN: 9781565126299/ $24.95/
Due to be published on Oct 4, 2011)
RECLAIMING OUR FOOD, by Tanya Denckla Cobb
(Storey original paperback/ISBN: 9781603427999/$24.95/
Due to be published on Oct 21, 2011)
BARNHEART, by Jenna Woginrich
(Storey original paperback/ISBN: 9781603427951/$14.95/
Due to be published on Jan 7, 2012)
HOW CARROTS WON THE TROJAN WAR, by Rebecca Rupp
(Storey original paperback/ ISBN: 9781603429689/$14.95/
Due to be published on Oct 14, 2011)
Michael Rockliff
Director, Library Sales and Marketing
Workman Publishing Company
225 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014-4381
mrockliff@workman.com