ALA Midwinter 2016

Buzzing with
The Biblio Bunch

Why We Came to the City

I'm Traveling Alone

Try Not to Breathe

Kristopher Jansma

Samuel Bjrk

Holly Seddon

Sarah Bakewell

HC: 978-0-525-42660-8
eBook: 978-0-698-15213-7
AD: 978-0-14-752451-5
Viking | 30,000
February 16, 2016

HC: 978-0-525-42896-1
eBook: 978-0-698-19380-2
AD: 978-0-399-56506-9
Viking | 30,000
February 23, 2016

HC: 978-1-101-88586-4
eBook: 978-1-101-88587-1
AD: 978-0-399-56761-2
Ballantine Books | 50,000
February 23, 2016

HC: 978-1-59051-488-7
eBook: 978-1-59051-489-4
Other Press | 50,000
March 1, 2016

A warm, funny, and heartfelt novel

about a tight-knit group of
twentysomethings in New York
whose lives are upended by
tragedy.

From a bold new voice in

international crime fiction, a
chilling debut in which two
detectives must hunt down a
vengeful killerand uncover the
secret that ties each of them to the
crime.

A young journalist struggles to

keep the demons of her alcoholism
at bay as she finds her purpose
again in tackling the mystery of a
shocking headline-making crime,
still unsolved after fifteen years.

Behave

Smarter Faster Better

Rain Dogs

Andromeda Romano-Lax

HC: 978-0-8129-9339-4
eBook: 978-0-679-64542-9
AD: 978-0-449-80651-7
CD: 978-0-449-80650-0
Random House | 250,000
March 8, 2016

Adrian McKinty

Lyndsay Faye

TR: 978-1-63388-130-3
eBook: 978-1-63388-131-0
Seventh Street Books | 30,000
March 8, 2016

HC: 978-0-399-16949-6
eBook: 978-0-698-15595-4
AD: 978-0-147-52487-4
Putnam | 75,000
March 22, 2016

HC: 978-1-61695-653-0
eBook: 978-1-616-95654-7
Soho Press | 40,000
March 1, 2016
A novel of passion and ambition
based on the life of one of the most
controversial scientistsand
mothersof the 20th century.

From the author of The Power of

Habita fascinating new book that
explores the science of
productivity, and why, in todays
world, managing how you think
can transform your life.

Tasked with investigating an

ordinary suicide in a rather
out-of-the-ordinary place,
Detective Sean Duffy doggedly
pursues another explanation.

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At the Existentialist Caf

A spirited account of one of the

twentieth centurys major
intellectual movements and the
revolutionary thinkers who came to
shape it.

Jane Steele

A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a

gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the
author whose work The New York
Times described as "riveting" and
The Wall Street Journal called
"thrilling."

The Summer Before

the War
Helen Simonson
HC: 978-0-8129-9310-3
eBook: 978-0-679-64464-4
AD: 978-1-101-88860-5
CD: 978-1-101-88859-9
LP: 978-0-451-48211-2
Random House | 150,000
March 22, 2016
From the author of Major
Pettigrews Last Standa
compelling work of fiction from the
bestselling author that reaches far
beyond the small English village in
which it is set.

Master of the Grill

Dodgers

Lab Girl

The Editors at
America's Test Kitchen

Bill Beverly

Hope Jahren

HC: 978-1-101-90373-5
eBook: 978-1-101-90374-2
AD: 978-1-101-92360-3
CD: 978-1-101-92359-7
Crown | 125,000
April 5, 2016

HC: 978-1-101-87493-6
eBook: 978-1-101-87494-3
AD: 978-1-101-89021-9
Knopf | 150,000
April 5, 2016

TR: 978-1-940352-54-1
eBook: 978-1-940352-56-5
Americas Test Kitchen | 100,000
April 5, 2016
Part field guide to grilling and
barbecuing and part cookbook
from the experts at Americas Test
Kitchen.

For fans of Colson Whitehead,

Teju Cole, and Richard Price
comes a dark literary crime novel
with a coming-of-age narrative.

An illuminating debut memoir of a

woman in science; a moving
portrait of a longtime collaboration,
in work and in life; and a
stunningly fresh look at plants that
will forever change how you see
and think about the natural world.

Lilac Girls

something to food about

Martha Hall Kelly

Questlove

Curtis Sittenfeld

Helen Brown

HC: 978-1-101-88307-5
eBook: 978-1-101-88306-8
AD: 978-1-101-88961-9
CD: 978-1-101-88960-2
Ballantine Books | 35,000
April 5, 2016

HC: 978-0-553-45942-5
eBook: 978-0-553-45943-2
AD: 978-0-399-56724-7
Clarkson Potter | 50,000
April 12, 2016

HC: 978-1-400-06832-6
eBook: 978-0-812-99761-3
AD: 978-0-307-73667-3
CD: 978-0-307-73666-6
LP: 978-0-399-56684-4
Random House | 100,000
April 19, 2016

TR: 978-1-4967-0148-0
eBook: 978-1-4967-0149-7
Kensington | 30,000
April 26, 2016

Inspired by the life of a real World

War II heroine, this powerful debut
novel reveals an incredible story of
love, redemption, and terrible
secrets that were hidden for
decades.

Essays and conversations between

The Roots Questlove and ten
inspiring chefs on what makes
their creative clocks tick.

Eligible

A modern reinvention of Jane

Austen's classic novel Pride and
Prejudice, from the author of Prep.

Tumbledown Manor

From New York Times bestselling

author Helen Brown comes a witty,
uplifting novel about a woman who
discovers that it's never too late to
build the homeand the
lifeyou've always longed for.

Sleeping Giants

A Fine Imitation

Boy Erased

Sylvain Neuvel

Amber Brock

Garrard Conley

Martin Seay

HC: 978-1-101-88669-4
eBook: 978-1-101-88670-0
AD: 978-0-14-752263-4
Del Rey | 50,000
April 26, 2016

HC: 978-1-101-90511-1
eBook: 978-1-101-90512-8
AD: 978-0-14-752654-0
CD: 978-0-14-752653-3
Crown | 50,000
May 3, 2016

HC: 978-1-59463-301-0
eBook: 978-0-698-15555-8
AD: 978-0-399-56743-8
Riverhead | 25,000
May 10, 2016

HC: 978-1-61219-514-8
eBook: 978-1-61219-515-5
Melville House | 50,000
May 10, 2016

An inventive debut in the tradition

of World War Z and The
Martian, Sleeping Giants is a
literary thriller fueled by a quest for
truthand a fight for control of
earthshaking power.

An intoxicating debut that sweeps

readers into a privileged Manhattan
socialite's restless life and the
affair with a mysterious painter that
upends her world.

A Country Road, A Tree

The After Party

Jo Baker

Anton DiSclafani

HC: 978-1-101-94718-0
eBook: 978-1-101-94719-7
AD: 978-0-399-56627-1
CD: 978-0-399-56626-4
LP: 978-0-399-56758-2
Knopf | 75,000
May 17, 2016

HC: 978-1-59463-316-4
eBook: 978-0-698-16123-8
AD: 978-0-14-752463-8
CD: 978-0-14-752462-1
Riverhead | 100,000
May 17, 2016

From the bestselling author

of Longbourn, a stunning new
novel that follows an unnamed
writerSamuel Beckettwhose
life and extraordinary literary gift
are permanently shaped in the
forge of war.

From the nationally bestselling

author of The Yonahlossee Riding
Camp for Girls comes a story of
1950s Texas socialites and the one
irresistible, controversial woman at
the bright, hot center of it all.

A beautiful, raw and

compassionate memoir from a
survivor of 'ex-gay' therapy.

The Mirror Thief

A globetrotting, time-bending,
wildly entertaining literary
masterpiece in the tradition
of Cloud Atlas.

My Best Friend's
Exorcism

The City of Mirrors

Grady Hendrix

HC: 978-0-345-50500-2
eBook: 978-0-8041-7764-1
AD: 978-0-307-70209-8
CD: 978-0-307-70206-7
Ballantine Books | 300,000
May 24, 2016

HC: 978-1-59474-862-2
eBook: 978-1-59474-863-9
Quirk Books | 75,000
May 17, 2016
It's Beaches meets The Exorcist in
this heartwarming and horrifying
coming-of-age novel by the author
of Horrorstor.

Justin Cronin

The third and final installment in

the bestselling Passage trilogy,
following The Passage and The
Twelve.

Sweetbitter

Smoke

June

Liar Liar

Stephanie Danler

Dan Vyleta

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

M.J. Arlidge

HC: 978-1-101-87594-0
eBook: 978-1-101-87595-7
AD: 978-0-399-56631-8
CD: 978-0-399-56630-1
Knopf | 100,000
May 24, 2016

HC: 978-0-385-54016-2
eBook: 978-0-385-54017-9
AD: 978-0-7352-0677-9
CD: 978-0-7352-0676-2
LP: 978-0-7352-0920-6
Doubleday | 200,000
May 24, 2016

HC: 978-0-553-44768-2
eBook: 978-0-553-44769-9
AD: 978-0-451-48287-7
CD: 978-0-451-48286-0
Crown | 100,000
May 31, 2016

TR: 978-1-101-99135-0
eBook: 978-1-101-99136-7
NAL | 75,000
June 7, 2016

A lush, raw, thrilling novel of the

senses about a year in the life of a
uniquely beguiling young woman,
set in the wild, alluring world of a
famous downtown New York
restaurant.

Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
HC: 978-1-101-94713-5
eBook: 978-1-101-94714-2
AD: 978-0-451-48419-2
CD: 978-0-7352-0982-4
LP: 978-0-7352-0819-3
Knopf | 150,000
June 7, 2016
A riveting debut about race,
history, ancestry, love, and time
that traces the descendants of two
sisters torn apart in eighteenthcentury Africa across three
hundred years in Ghana and
America.

Detective Helen Grace gets caught

in an inferno of death and
destruction in the red-hot new
thriller from the author of Eeny
Meeny, Pop Goes the Weasel,
and The Dolls House.

A wildly imaginative, irresistibly

page-turning novel set in an
alternate historical England, in
which the emission of Smoke
marks the sinful and poor.

From the bestselling author

of Bittersweet comes a novel of
suspense and passion about a
terrible mistake made sixty years
ago that threatens to change a
modern family forever.

I Almost Forgot About

You

The Girls

False Choices

Emma Cline

Liza Featherstone

HC: 978-0-8129-9860-3
eBook: 978-0-8129-9861-0
AD: 978-0-14-752402-7
CD: 978-0-14-752401-0
LP: 978-0-7352-0818-6
Random House | 200,000
June 14, 2016

TR: 978-1-78478-461-4
eBook: 978-1-78478-462-1
Verso | 50,000
June 14, 2016

Terry McMillan
HC: 978-1-101-90257-8
eBook: 978-1-101-90258-5
AD: 978-1-101-91308-6
CD: 978-1-101-91307-9
LP: 978-0-399-56676-9
Crown | 200,000
June 7, 2016
The inspiring story of a woman
who shakes things up in her life to
find greater meaning. Tracy
McMillan is back with what she
does best!

Girlstheir vulnerability, strength,

and passion to belongare at the
heart of this stunning first novel for
readers of The Virgin Suicides and
A Visit from the Goon Squad.

Is Hillary Clinton a friend or foe of

feminism? An all-star lineup of
American feminists, including
Roxane Gay, Laura Flanders,
Medea Benjamin, and Frances Fox
Piven weigh in on what a truly
feminist agenda would look like.

Radio Girls

The Crow Girl

Sarah-Jane Stratford

Erik Axl Sund

TR: 978-0-451-47556-5
eBook: 978-0-698-19529-5
NAL | 40,000
June 14, 2016

HC: 978-0-385-34987-1
eBook: 978-0-385-34988-8
AD: 978-0-7352-0903-9
Knopf | 100,000
June 14, 2016

The Great War is over, and change

is in the air, in this novel that
brings to life the exciting days of
early British radio and one woman
who finds her voice while working
alongside the brilliant women and
men of the BBC.

An international bestseller. In this

psychological thriller, a police
detective must confront a hideous
evil that forces her to question how
much suffering one person can
inflict upon another before creating
a monster.

Anne Tyler

How to Set a
Fire and Why

HC: 978-0-8041-4126-0
eBook: 978-0-8041-4127-7
AD: 978-0-451-48397-3
CD: 978-0-451-48396-6
Hogarth | 150,000
June 21, 2016

HC: 978-1-101-87057-0
eBook: 978-1-101-87058-7
AD: 978-0-451-48415-4
Pantheon | 40,000
July 5, 2016

Vinegar Girl

Jesse Ball

William Shakespeares The Taming

of the Shrew retold by Anne Tyler,
Pulitzer Prize winner and New York
Times bestseller.

The highly acclaimed author of A

Cure for Suicide now gives us a
singular, blistering novel about a
teenage girl who has lost
everythingand will burn
anything.

Watching Edie

The Wolf Road

Nine Women, One Dress

Dark Matter

Beth Lewis

Jane L. Rosen

Blake Crouch

Camilla Way

HC: 978-1-101-90612-5
eBook: 978-1-101-90613-2
Crown | 50,000
July 5, 2016

HC: 978-0-385-54140-4
eBook: 978-0-385-54143-5
AD: 978-0-7352-0829-2
CD: 978-0-7352-0828-5
Doubleday | 50,000
July 12, 2016

HC: 978-1-101-90422-0
eBook: 978-1-101-90423-7
AD: 978-1-101-92450-1
CD: 978-1-101-92449-5
Crown | 150,000
August 2, 2016

HC: 978-1-101-99163-3
eBook: 978-1-101-99164-0
AD: 978-0-7352-0737-0
NAL | 75,000
August 2, 2016

A charming, hilarious romp of a

novel that brings together nine
unrelated women, each touched by
the same little black dress that
weaves through their lives,
bringing a little magic with it.

From the author of the bestselling

Wayward Pines trilogy, a brilliant
science-fiction thriller in which a
man is kidnapped, knocked
unconsciousand awakens in a
world inexplicably different from
the reality he thought he knew.

True Grit meets The Road in this

post-apocalyptic psychological
thriller narrated by a young girl
who has just learned that her
adopted father may be a serial
killer, and that she may be his next
victim.

A dazzling work of psychological

suspense that weaves together the
past and present of two womens
twisted friendship.

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