Please join us on December 7th for an all-day virtual celebration of authors and their forthcoming titles! Be in the know, and get a jump on your TBR pile and order list! Check out our lineup of amazing authors — including both beloved bestsellers and exciting debut talent — and start planning your day. Can’t make it on the 7th? The entire event and all of its sessions will be available for three months. There’s no excuse to miss out! 

Program 

10:00 - 10:25 AM ET | Exhibit Hall Opens 
  

10:25 – 10:55 AM ET | Opening Keynote with Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars (Knopf) 
Moderator: Allison Waukau (Menominee/Navajo), President of American Indian Library Association (MN) 
  

TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS 
  

11:00 – 11:50 AM ET | Family Ties (MG) 
The importance and complexity of family, friends, and identity are explored in these middle grade novels. 

Ruth Behar, Across So Many Seas (Penguin Young Readers) 
Debbie Fong, Next Stop (Random House Children’s Books) 
Mae Respicio, Isabel in Bloom (Random House Children’s Books) 
Andrea Wang, Summer at Squee (Penguin Young Readers) 
Moderator: Marybeth Kozikowski, Sachem Public Library, Holbrook (NY) 
  

11:00 – 11:50 AM ET | Crime and Prose 
Feel-good mysteries and fierce crime fiction offer twisty, compelling, reads. 

Justine Champine, Knife River (The Dial Press) 
Tana French, The Hunter (Viking) 
Sara Koffi, While We Were Burning (Putnam) 
Jamal Mayfield, Smoke Kings (Melville House) 
Kirsten Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Dutton) 
Moderator: Liz French, Senior Editor, LJ Reviews      

In-Booth Chat 

12:30 – 1:30 PM ET | Step into the Audiobook Booth for a live lunchtime Q&A with award-winning PRH Audio producers! How does an audiobook get cast? How long does it take to record a book? Enter YOUR burning questions about audiobook production into the chat box during this interactive lunch hour—Senior Executive Producers Diane McKiernan and Orli Moscowitz will be standing by to chat with you! (PRH Audio/Books on Tape)

TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS 
  

11:55 – 12:45 PM ET | Girl Power for Young Adult & Young Readers 
From humorous and clever to brutally ambitious, these female leads let nothing stand in their way. 

JaNay Brown-Wood, Mahogany (Charlesbridge) 
Kate DiCamillo, Ferris (Candlewick) 
Lindsay Eagar, Made Glorious (Candlewick) 
Kami Garcia, Teen Titans: Starfire (DC Comics) 
Farrah Rochon, Fate Be Changed (Disney/Hyperion) 
Moderator: Myiesha Speight, Book Reviewer, SLJ 

 
11:55 – 12:45 PM ET | Literary Launches 
Debuts to note range from a novel told entirely through a phone call to a slightly surreal psychological satire. 

Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame (Pamela Dorman Books) 
Holly Gramazio, The Husbands (Doubleday) 
Ashton Lattimore, All We Were Promised (Ballantine Books) 
Alana Biden Lytle, Man's Best Friend (Putnam) 
Melissa Mogollon, Oye (Hogarth) 
Moderator: Ashley Rayner, Librarian at NORC, University of Chicago (IL) 

 
TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS    
  

12:50 – 1:40 PM ET | Book Club Best Bets             
From contemporary cozies to historical sagas, these titles will keep readers talking. 

Samuel Burr, The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers (Knopf) 
Eve J. Chung, Daughters of Shandong (Berkley) 
Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel (Random House) 
Maurice Carlos Ruffin, American Daughters (One World) 
Hillary Yablon, Sylvia's Second Act (Pamela Dorman Books) 
Moderator: Jen Jumba, MLIS, Popular Department Manager, Cleveland Public Library (OH)                            

 
12:50 – 1:40 PM ET | Who Runs the World? 
These nonfiction titles explore the many ways women shape history even as they struggle to gain equal footing. 

Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, Black Women Taught Us (Random House) 
Katie Rogers, American Woman (Crown) 
Katie Gee Salisbury, Not Your China Doll (Dutton) 
Julie Satow, When Women Ran Fifth Avenue (Doubleday) 
Karen Valby, The Swans of Harlem (Pantheon) 
Moderator: Dontaná McPherson-Joseph, Collection Management Librarian, Oak Park Public Library (IL)   
  

1:45 – 2:15 PM ET | Lunch Keynote with Phillipa Soo, Piper Chen Sings (Random House Children’s Books) 
Moderator: Allison Tran, Library & Cultural Services Supervisor, City of Mission Viejo (CA) 
  

TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS 
  

2:20 – 3:10 PM ET | Secrets, Sins & Sagas 
Witches, elves, the fae, and more feature in novels set in enchanting worlds, including one involving a vast and mysterious library. 

Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (Del Rey) 
Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood (Del Rey) 
Mark Lawrence, Book That Broke the World (Ace) 
Roselle Lim, Night for Day (Ace) 
A.G. Slatter, Briar Book of the Dead (Titan Books) 
Moderator: Kristi Chadwick, Massachusetts Lib. Syst., Northampton 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

2:20 – 3:10 PM ET | Who Am I? and Other Questions That Have No Answers (YA) 
Teens struggle with familial expectations, medical racism, and structural queerphobia as they try to figure out who they are and what they want. 

Jumata Emill, Wander in the Dark (Random House Children’s Books) 
Walela Nehanda, Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir (Penguin Young Readers) 
Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows (Penguin Young Readers) 
Patricia Park, What's Eating Jackie Oh? (Random House Children’s Books) 
Moderator: Lisa Krok, MLIS, MEd, Adult and Teen Services Manager, Morley Library (OH) 

 
3:15 – 4:05 PM ET | Culture, Class & Community 
Deeply considered novels trace characters navigating profound questions, situations, and desires. 

Kaveh Akbar, Martyr! (Knopf) 
Rachel Khong, Real Americans (Knopf) 
Liz Moore, The God of the Woods (Riverhead Books) 
Phillip B. Williams, Ours (Viking) 
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (One World) 
Moderator: Faye A. Chadwell, Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications, Penn State University (PA) 
  

4:30 - 5:00 PM ET | Mystery Debuts                                                                        
New voices in the puzzler game take readers on dangerous rides and into locked rooms. 

Kate Brody, Rabbit Hole (Soho Crime) 
L. Divine, An Epitaph for Jezebel (Kensington)                                      
Jon Lindstrom, Hollywood Hustle (Crooked Lane) 
Nishita Parekh, The Night of the Storm (Dutton) 
Moderators: Brian Kenney, Director, White Plains Public Library (NY) and Henrietta Thornton, Co-Founder, firstCLUE 

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