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Diversity = by or about people from under-represented communities

HOT = has come up many times. Multiple chatters have read and loved.

Interest = One or more GalleyChatters are interested in reading

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New = first time title has been mentioned on GalleyChat

PAST DUE = Library Reads voting deadline has passed

WARM = Gaining attention, several have read

Bisac Category Description

Publisher Name

Format Description

Fiction / African American & Black / Women

William Morrow Paperbacks

No DRC -- Nanette Donohue @surferrosa From my highly anticipating shelf on Edelweiss -- Publishers Summary The incredible untold story of Ann Lowe Jackie Kennedys wedding dress designer a Black woman who made some of the most famous dresses of all time only to be forgotten by history

Fiction / Thrillers / Crime

Woman in the Library

Poisoned Pen Press

Trade Paperback

Strong GalleyChat interest

DEBUT Jenna Friebel @jenna_friebel MEXICAN GOTHIC meets REBECCA …So so pumped for THE HACIENDA by Isabel Cañas which should be a great fall read for me even though it doesnt come out until May 2022

Fiction / Thrillers / Crime

RedheadFangirl @RedheadFangirl CITY ON FIRE by Don Winslow april 2022 Irish and Italians criminals in Providence RI and Danny Ryan who wants out but then a bloody conflict comes along Def a favorite of 2021 for me -- AUG Vicki Nesting @VNesting Don Winslows books are always wonderful and his latest CITY ON FIRE is no exception Could barely put it down to sleep If you are a fan of well-written crime fiction be sure to pick this up -- MAY LMR Virginia Stanley @VStan523 Don Winslow is back with a new series An epic crime saga about the Irish and Italian crime syndicates in America during the 1980s and 1990s

Fiction / Historical / Ancient

DEBUT No DRC -- Nanette Donohue @surferrosa From my highly anticipating shelf on Edelweiss -- Publishers Summary While recent novels have tackled the perspective of female characters from Greek and Norse mythology there hasnt been one that has looked at the Indian epics in the same manner This one interrogates the role of women in these myths and gives voice to a much maligned character in a way that will appeal to both crossover and fantasy readers

Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense

William Morrow Paperbacks

GalleyChat interest

Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators

Allen, Samantha Jayne

Hardcover with dust jacket

DEBUT -- Jane Jorgenson @madpoptart Debut mystery PAY DIRT ROAD by Samantha Jayne Allen will appeal to fans of Jane Harper but set in Texas

Fiction / Science Fiction / Cyberpunk

Memory Librarian

No DRC -- Nanette Donohue @surferrosa From my highly anticipating shelf on Edelweiss -- Publishers Summary … singer-songwriter actor fashion icon activist and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums exploring how different threads of liberation-queerness race gender plurality and love-become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape…and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms…REPRESENTATIVE COLLECTION Partnering with strong voices in the Black and LGBTQ+ community Janelle combines authenticity with her creativity at a time when readers very much demand this

Fiction / Coming Of Age

Hanff Korelitz, Jean

Latecomer 10-Copy Signed Prepack

Multiple Copy Pack

No DRC, Link is to the 10 copy prepackaged -- single copy ISBN 978-1250790798 -- not yet listed on Edelweiss -- Robin B<br>~@robinsbooks Its a ways off but also eager for Jean Korelitzs next book THE LATECOMER

Roanhorse, Rebecca

Gallery / Saga Press

Joe_Jones @Joe_Jones FEVERED STAR by Rebecca Roanhorse I cant wait to dive back into the world she created in BLACK SUN

Fiction / Family Life

One Lucky Summer

Leslie DeLooze @readerleslie Reading the charming and often funny ONE LUCKY SUMMER by Jenny Oliver is like a Rosamunde Pilcher novel lovely sense of place with some Jenny Colgan relationships and a bit of TJ Klune magical adventures thrown in

DEBUT -- NO DRC Nanette Donohue @surferrosa From my highly anticipating shelf on Edelweiss -- LMR librarylovefest @librarylovefest stoked about is WOMAN EATING by Claire Kohda A biracial half-human half-vampire millennial trying to find her way in a world Its a fun dark humor read Claire will be at LJs DOD in Sept -- Publishers Summary Claire Kohdas stunning debut novel offers an edgy literary and multicultural twist on the classic vampire tale that is both fresh and moving Kohda brilliantly crosses multiple genres-think MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION mixed with MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER and a dash of TWILIGHT -- Kohda is a diverse author who mines her British and Japanese background in her storytelling

Fiction / Fantasy / Historical

Martinez, Gama Ray

God of Neverland

Shari Suarez @ShariSuarez Im obsessed with Peter Pan retellings and GOD OF NEVERLAND by Gama Ray Martinez looks like a good one -- Publishers Note DIVERSE VOICES Gama is of Mexican descent and while this is not an ownvoices story its important to have more BIPOC authors in the fantasy space in keeping with Voyagers commitment to having stories told from as many perspectives as possible

Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy

Sourcebooks Casablanca

Trade Paperback

No DRC -- JULY Lucy Lockley I enjoyed WITCH PLEASE & am hoping an ARC for Bk 2 BOSS WITCH coming out April 2022 will be coming my way

Fiction / Historical

Barenbaum, Rachel

Grand Central Publishing

No DRC yet -- Nanette Donohue @surferrosa From my highly anticipating shelf on Edelweiss

Fiction / Family Life / Siblings

Robin B @robinsbooks For literary fiction these both look intriguing Gina Sorells THE WISE WOMEN and Nina LaCours YERBA BUENA

Fiction / Thrillers / Domestic

St. Martin's Press

Hardcover with dust jacket

DRC on NetGalley -- Several anticipating

Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological

Several anticipating

All the White Spaces

Atria/Emily Bestler Books

DEBUT Ingram Library Services @TheLibraryLife_ If youre looking to grow your transgender genre collections consider ALL THE WHITE SPACES by Ally Wilkes @UnheimlichManvr Keywords according to the authors twitter acct post WW1 setting Antarctic ships ghosts death trans

Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense

Several anticipating

Fiction / Asian American

Peach Blossom Spring

Little, Brown and Company

DEBUT Hachette Library @HachetteLib As firmly as our feet are planted in the here and now lets look ahead to 22 Melissa Fus debut follows 3 generations of a Chinese family on their search for a place to call home

Fiction / Thrillers / Domestic

St. Martin's Press

Hardcover with dust jacket

KC Davis @kcdvs I just finished THE GOLDEN COUPLE by @greerkh and @sarahpekkanen A delightful domestic slow-burn Well done girls well done -- Strong interest plus several Much Loves on Edelweiss

Fiction / Historical

Last Confessions of Sylvia P.

No DRC DEBUT -- Nanette Donohue @surferrosa From my highly anticipating shelf on Edelweiss -- Publishers Summary Inspired by real events this modern historical novel features many famous real-life characters including Sylvia Path Robert Lowell Robert Frost and Ted Hughes

Don't Know Tough

PRH/Random House

Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs

PRH/Random House

Janet Lockhart @HartGami A moving memoir about facing the unthinkable with grace and love IN LOVE

Fiction / Thrillers / Crime

Patterson, James

Little, Brown and Company

Ingram Library Services @TheLibraryLife_ Everyone in our dept lost our minds when we learned that @DollyParton has a book coming out RUN ROSE RUN co-written with James Patterson @JP_Books is set in Nashville just 20 minutes north of our Ingram offices/warehouse We cant wait until March 2022

Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy

Hook, Line, and Sinker

A Paperback Original -- Also Available as a Hardcover Library Edition 9780063212749

Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths

All the Queen's Men

No DRC -- Robin B @robinsbooks For those eager for the next book featuring QEII solving mysteries ALL THE QUEENS MEN is due to be published this spring No DRC but Im sure one will appear at some point -- Ed Note previous title THE WINDSOR KNOT was a LibraryReads pick

Stringfellow, Tara M.

PRH/Random House

DEBUT Mara @mrlzbth MEMPHIS by Tara M Stringfellow is the moving story of three generations of Black women and the struggles they face Really vividly drawn sympathetic characters who made me want to keep reading

Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy

St. Martin's Griffin

Trade Paperback

DEBUT Jenna Friebel @jenna_friebel Who knew dentistry could be romantic A BRUSH WITH LOVE by Mazey Eddings looks so adorable -- From publishers summary Contributor Bios<br>~MAZEY EDDINGS is a neurodiverse author dentist …Shes made it her personal mission in life to destigmatize mental health issues and write love stories for every brain

Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy

Astronaut and the Star

Brilliance Publishing

Trade Paperback

No DRC bandherbooks @bandherbooks Hopefully coming soon to request I have to yell about The Astronaut and the Star by Jen Comfort rocketing its way into your hearts March 2022 I devoured an adance copy and it is a delightfully funny and steamy & horny slow-burn contemporary romance -- Comfort also writes fantasy & paranormal romance under Kitt Masters

Smith, Jennifer E.

Unsinkable Greta James

PRH/Random House

Jenna Friebel @jenna_friebel Ive read several of Jennifer E Smiths YA books so Im interested in her upcoming adult title THE UNSINKABLE GRETA JAMES

Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural

Poisoned Pen Press

Trade Paperback

Fiction / Psychological

Robin B @robinsbooks I feel like Ive been waiting forever for John Searles to publish another book as I loved HELP FOR THE HAUNTED Coming in March is HER LAST AFFAIR and I cant wait

Fiction / Historical / World War II

Harper Paperbacks

Beth Mills @BethMills2 Enjoyed Lisa Barrs WOMAN ON FIRE a thriller about a race to recover a painting stolen by the Nazis -- Also Available as a Hardcover Library Edition 9780063211261

Fiction / Thrillers / Technological

PRH/Random House

Dan Brooks he/him @danthebookman71 Today at lunch I just started THE PARADOX HOTEL by @robwhart Not very far in but I have a really good feeling about this one -- Robin B @robinsbooks I remember last year Rob Harts THE WAREHOUSE was popular and hes back with a new mindbending novel THE PARADOX HOTEL

Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological

Wrobel, Stephanie

Felker-Martin, Gretchen

Trade Paperback

Ingram Library Services @TheLibraryLife_ MANHUNT by Gretchen Felker-Martin @scumbelievable caught horror lover Beckys eye Its set in post-apocalyptic New England & follows transgender & non-binary people Becky loves the @TorNightfire imprint which pubs books for the dead living and everyone in between -- Publishers Summary MANHUNT is a timely powerful response to every gender-based apocalypse story that failed to consider the existence of transgender and non-binary people from a powerful new voice in horror

True Crime / Murder

FUTUENDI GRATIA @thuglibrarian SCOUNDREL How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him the Conservative Establishment and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman Murderer who conned the people around him including conservative William F Buckle into helping set him free

Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure

St. Martin's Press

Hardcover with dust jacket

Jane Jorgenson @madpoptart Loved MICKEY7 by Edward Ashton outside of a slightly too abrupt ending First line This is gonna be my stupidest death ever And thats all I needed -- Several anticipating

Fiction / Historical

Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

PRH/Random House

History / Social History

Index, A History of the

W. W. Norton & Company

Hardcover with dust jacket

ADULT DEBUT --Robin B @robinsbooks For family drama looking forward to YERBA BUENA by Nina LaCour and WISE WOMEN by Gina Sorrell -- AUG Jenna Friebel @jenna_friebel One of the 2022 queer lady books Im very interested in YERBA BUENA/ Nina LaCour contemporary realistic fic SPEAR/ Nicola Griffith fantasy/ Arthurian myth retelling THE VERIFIERS/ Jane Pek mystery -- LJ Prepub Alert Sara Foster flees home at age 16 and eventually ends up as a popular if slightly mysterious bartender at the Los Angeles restaurant Yerba Buena When directionless undergraduate Emilie Dubois takes a job arranging flowers at the restaurant the connection between her and Sara sizzles But can love conquer all including the troublesome past A first adult novel from Printz Award-winning YA author LaCour with a 150000-copy first printing

Fiction / Dystopian

DRC added since Aug chat -- KaiteStover @MarianLiberryan Climate change news getting to you Pick up CLEAN AIR @blakesarah @AlgonquinBooks @workmanupdate for a fictional yet oh so real take on deadly allergies The air that you breathe may be your last --JULY LMR WorkmanLibrary@workmanupdate …we have some killer novels coming in early 2022 - HONOR PERPETUAL WEST and CLEAN AIR

Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense

Morrow, Bethany C.

Jenna Friebel @jenna_friebel Pitched as GET OUT meets MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER which is definitely up my alley CHERISH FARRAH by Bethany C Morrow is another one I cant wait to read

Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy

Not the Witch You Wed

St. Martin's Griffin

Trade Paperback

bandherbooks @bandherbooks It truly will be a witchy fall and I for one am thrilled PAYBACKS A WITCH by Lana Harper THE EX HEX by Erin Sterling NOT THE WITCH YOU WED by April Asher

Olde Heuvelt, Thomas

Hardcover with dust jacket

Ingram Library Services @TheLibraryLife_ Thomas Olde Heuvelt @Olde_Heuvelt author of the popular HEX returns with ECHO set in the Swiss Alps Sounds as if this chiller would be a great read-alike for fans of THE WHITE ROAD by Sarah Lotz

Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy

Bellefleur, Alexandria

Count Your Lucky Stars

Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths

Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead

Hardcover with dust jacket

Robin B @robinsbooks The 2nd Finlay Donovan mystery is on @edelweiss_squad

Fiction / African American & Black / Women

Black Girls Must Be Magic

No DRC, Second in trilogy First one BLACK GIRLS MUST DIE EXHAUSTED 9780063137905 Sept caught GalleyChat attention -- LJ Prepub Alert Allen will be debuting this fall with BLACK GIRLS MUST DIE EXHAUSTED featuring Tabitha Walkers hard choices after a medical diagnosis threatens to upend her picture-perfect life In this next in her three-book series originally self-published Tabitha faces single motherhood With a 150000-copy paperback and 10000-copy hardcover first printing

Fiction / Family Life

Family She Never Met

Sourcebooks Casablanca

Trade Paperback

Beth Mills @BethMills2 … favorite recent read -- from the publisher Caridad is of Cuban descent and THE FAMILY SHE NEVER MET blends a strong family saga story with romantic womens fiction in the vein of Kristan Higgins and Karen White

Fiction / African American & Black / Historical

Hanover Square Press

GalleyChat LMR HarlequinForLibraries @HQforLibraries Daniel Black DontCryForMe will be at @LibraryJournals Fall Day of Dialog this year Also @HesterBFox ALullabyForWitches dont miss them -- LJ Prepub Alert On his deathbed a Black father named Jacob writes a letter to his gay son Isaac to whom he has not spoken in many years Jacob seeks not only reconciliation but the opportunity to communicate family and ancestral truths to his only son as he recalls a rural Arkansas background dating to the days of enslavement his painfully chaotic relationship with Isaacs mother and his sorrow at the collapse of their family Above all he senses where he failed as a father From the multi-award-nominated author of Tell Me of a Home with a 75000-copy first printing

Fiction / African American & Black / Mystery & Detective

Slocumb, Brendan

PRH/Random House

DEBUT GalleyChat interest -- LJ Prepub Alert Asserting himself in a profession that has not proved accepting Black classical violinist Ray McMillian is thrilled to learn that the instrument he plays-once his great-grandfathers-is actually an invaluable Stradivarius Hes devastated when its stolen before the all-important Tchaikovsky Competition and further learns that descendants of the family that had enslaved his great-grandfather claim its theirs Slocumb knows his strings an award-winning music educator he has performed with numerous symphonies and serves as concertmaster for the NOVA Symphony Orchestra serving Northern Virginia Community College

Wilkerson, Charmaine

PRH/Random House

DEBUT interest from several GalleyChatters -- LJ Prepub Alert Estranged siblings Byron and Benny come together over their mothers death and their confusion regarding her final legacy shes left them a traditional Caribbean black cake made from a venerable family recipe along with a voice recording sharing her story as a young swimmer who left her island home with suspicions of murder hanging over her head But she doesnt tell her whole story and Byron and Benny have more secrets to discover Bought in a sizzling auction -- From the publisher AN OWN VOICES DEBUT NOVEL Wilkerson spent much of her childhood in Jamaica before returning to the US to attend Barnard and Stanford Inspired by her own mothers black cake recipe and her experiences as the first-generation daughter of Caribbean immigrants living in the US and Europe Wilkerson is able to bring extraordinary life to her characters and settings

Fiction / African American & Black

What the Fireflies Knew

Tiny Reparations Books

DEBUT GalleyChat interest -- LJ Prepub Alert With her father dead of an overdose and her family in financial extremis owing to his addiction Black preteen Kenyatta Bernice KB is sent with teenage sister Nia from Detroit to her estranged grandfathers home in Lansing MI A burdened mother an irascible grandfather and a suddenly distant sister shes growing up not to mention the only intermittently friendly white kids across the way-KB is having a tumultuous summer indeed But its a chance to find herself From debuter Harris

Lullaby for Witches

Trade Paperback

HarlequinForLibraries @HQforLibraries Speaking of books about witches @HesterBFox ALullabyForWitches will be at @LibraryJournals Fall Day of Dialog this year We will also have Daniel Black DontCryForMe there--dont miss them

Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera

Jane Jorgenson @madpoptart First in a new series HUNT THE STARS by Jessie Mihalik was stellar heh If you enjoy Becky Chambers but like some romance with that this is for you

LMR Virginia Stanley @VStan523 Novelist Jennifer Haigh once again delivers a powerful punch in the novel MERCY STREET a womans clinic in the heart of the Boston Women in crisis THEIR stories Its a novel for right now a story of the polarized American present

Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Poisoned Pen Press

Trade Paperback

HOT multiple Much Loves on Edelweiss DEBUT Jill Minor @JillRhudy Going to post this one again because I loved it so much THE DEPARTMENT OF RARE BOOKS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS by @msevav wont be out until January 2022 so I can just keep chatting it up -- AUG Janet Lockhart @HartGami When Liesl Weiss is promoted due to the sudden illness of her boss she must juggle prickly staff demanding donors university politics and the disappearance of a prized book…a wonderful debut -- Terena Bell @TerenaBell [Its] excellent I read it maybe a month ago and have been recommending it all over the place -- JULY LMR Sourcebooks Library @SBKSLibrary What holds more secrets in the library the ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who preserve them

Fiction / Historical / Medieval

Good Wife of Bath

William Morrow Paperbacks

DRC added since August chat -- Nanette Donohue<br>~@surferrosa I am looking forward to THE GOOD WIFE OF BATH by Karen Brooks--Ive read a couple of her other books and enjoyed them plus this ones about the Wife of Bath from the Canterbury Tales

Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological

PRH/Random House

Several anticipating

Fiction / Historical

Her Hidden Genius

Sourcebooks Landmark

KC Davis @kcdvs Always a winner is mariebenedict and HER HIDDEN GENIUS coming out from @SBKSLibrary in January I cannot wait to read it and pass it along to my niece who has just started her PhD in this field -- AUG Several anticipating -- LMR Norton Library Mktg @WWNortonLibrary …to brush up on Rosalind Franklin before Marie Benedicts new book [HER HIDDEN GENIUS Sourcebooks Jan 25] comes out heres a nonfiction title about her and DNA research -- THE SECRET OF LIFE Rosalind Franklin James Watson Francis Crick and the Discovery of DNAs Double Helix by Howard Markel 9781324002239

Hardcover with dust jacket

Jenna Friebel @jenna_friebel SPACE HORROR at the top of my TBR DEAD SILENCE by SA Barnes

Fiction / Thrillers / Crime

DEBUT Cari Dubiel @caridubiel I got totally lost in Janice Halletts THE APPEAL Told entirely in correspondence it investigates a happening among a community theater group To say more would spoil it but its a perfect riddle and highly satisfying

Psychology / Mental Health

Emotional Inheritance

Little, Brown Spark

FUTUENDI GRATIA @thuglibrarian EMOTIONAL INHERITANCE A Therapist Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma by Galit Atlas Similar to MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE by Lori Gottlied Inherited trauma is buzzword of the times we live

Fiction / Thrillers / Crime

Gudenkauf, Heather

Trade Paperback

DRC on NetGalley -- Heavy anticipation -- HARDCOVER LIBRARY EDITION 9780778333166

Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological

Brazier, Eliza Jane

Good Rich People

Jane Jorgenson @madpoptart If you love the delicious awfulness of Samantha Downings characters then youll love the new thriller by Eliza Jane Brazier GOOD RICH PEOPLE

Nagamatsu, Sequoia

How High We Go in the Dark

DEBUT FUTUENDI GRATIA @thuglibrarian HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK by Sequoia Nagamatsu Debut work being compared to STATION ELEVEN that follows a cast of characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague -- AUG LMR librarylovefest @librarylovefest One of most deeply moving humanistic books Ive ever read Brought me back to when I first read CIVILWARLAND IN BAD DECLINE by George Saunders -- Publishers Summary<br>~For fans of CLOUD ATLAS and STATION ELEVEN a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice …Sequoia Nagamatsu is a Japanese-American writer

Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs

This Will Be Funny Later

No DRC -- FUTUENDI GRATIA @thuglibrarian THIS WILL BE FUNNY LATER A Memoir by Jenny Pentland The daughter of Rosanne Barr writes about growing up in a chaotic but funny household

Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense

Grand Central Publishing

LMR Hachette Library @HachetteLib As firmly as our feet are planted in the here and now lets look ahead to 22 Noah Hawleys new novel is an adventure that finds unquenchable lights in dark corners

Fiction / Thrillers / Crime

Desolation Canyon

Hardcover with dust jacket

Fiction / Cultural Heritage

EarlyWord @earlyword New DRC alert HONOR byThrity Umrigar Her Carnegie Medal keynote here youtube/1i8bfCalZvE - Libraries made her a writer beginning with a tiny library in India Coming to the US she was blown away by the large open public libraries -- Janet Schneider @janet_schneider On my tbr now Thanks @earlyword Thrity Umrigar is a fave and so generous to book clubs -- LMR WorkmanLibrary@workmanupdate …we have some killer novels coming in early 2022 - HONOR PERPETUAL WEST and CLEAN AIR -- Virginia Stanley@VStan523 Thrity Umrigar gave SUCH a great speech at the Carnegies -- Publishers Summary When Indian American journalist Smita returns to India to write the story of a young widow Meena and the murder of her husband its Smitas first time back since her family left when she was a child Both Smita and Meena were raised in a culture where a woman exercising a basic human right-the right to love and marry whoever she chooses-is met with brutal punishment While Meenas fate hangs in the balance Smita must reckon with the privilege that becoming an American has given her as well as face the trauma that shaped her as a child and led to her family leaving -- Author Bio Thrity Umrigar is the bestselling author of THE SPACE BETWEEN US which was a finalist for the PEN/Beyond Margins Award as well as six other novels a memoir and three picture books Her books have been translated into several languages and published in over fifteen countries She is the winner of a Lambda Literary Award and the Seth Rosenberg Prize and is a Distinguished Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University

Fiction / Fantasy / Epic

Daughter of the Moon Goddess

DEBUT-- Jenna Friebel @jenna_friebel I dont know if anything else in 2022 will be as beautiful as this cover Also sounds like such an exciting fantasy DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS/ Sue Lynn Tan

Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs

I Came All This Way to Meet You

Robin B @robinsbooks excellent memoir @jamiattenberg I CAME ALL THIS WAY TO MEET YOU her journey of becoming a published writer …kept me riveted

Fiction / Historical

Strong interest beginning back in April

Fiction / Thrillers / Crime

Willingham, Stacy

Flicker in the Dark

Hardcover with dust jacket

DEBUT AUG Mara @mrlzbth A FLICKER IN THE DARK by Stacy Willingham was a very suspenseful read about a woman who wonders who she can really trust when local girls start disappearing again 20 years after her father was convicted as a serial killer One of the best thrillers Ive read in a long time -- JW Bookworm @jwbookworm Who else wants to read A FLICKER IN THE DARK @svwillingham again for the first time Best first line in a while I thought I knew what monsters were -- JULY Sharon Layburn @sharonlayburn A FLICKER IN THE DARK my first 2022 read was exactly what I wanted- a fast paced breathlessly plotted thriller about the daughter of a serial killer who 20 years later finds herself in the midst of another string of murders -- LMR Macmillan Library<br>~@MacmillanLib This is one of our departmental favorites So happy to hear you enjoyed it -- Strong interest from other GalleyChatters

Andreades, Daphne Palasi

PRH/Random House

DEBUT GalleyChat interest -- LJ Prepub Alert Speaking as a choral we Andreadess brown girls-among them Nadira Gabby Naz Trish and Angelique-grow up together in Queens New York wrestling with their immigrant roots their parents rules their aspirations regarding both careers and boys and their desire to fit into American culture Will they always be friends loyal to the end as they swear Excerpts from this debut novel have claimed O Henry and Kenyon Review Short Fiction honors

St. Martin's Press

Hardcover with dust jacket

KC Davis @kcdvs A stunning cover RECKLESS GIRLS by @LadyHawkins will delight fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley -- AUG Mara @mrlzbth RECKLESS GIRLS was a perfect suspenseful vacation read When two women hire Lux and her boyfriend to take them out to a notoriously creepy remote island on their boat theyre surprised to encounter a couple already there Things start out friendly but that doesnt last