Barbara Hoffert's BEA Galley & Signing Guide 2011
By Barbara HoffertMay 19, 2011
You can tell by the note of not-so-quiet desperation pervading the publishing world this week that BookExpo America is upon us (May 23–26). Yes, it's the annual book lovefest that, if it doesn't kill us, will make us stronger. Tasked with tracking down the show's most intriguing titles, especially those that could be toted away in galley form, I drew on my last six months of work as Prepub Alert editor and all my handy publishing contacts to come up with the following list.
Given the size of the show, it's hardly comprehensive, and I ended up featuring mostly big trade houses mostly by accident; in the frenzied run-up to BEA it was who I could reach. No matter, there are some amazing books here, many of which I've seen in one form or another and would willingly carry home from the floor despite my aching back. For more information on some of the titles represented, go to Prepub Alert.
PENGUIN | HARPERCOLLINS | MACMILLAN | BLOOMSBURY | NORTON | HACHETTE | S. & S. | PERSEUS | WORKMAN | WILEY | RANDOM | GROVE/ATLANTIC | HARLEQUIN
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— 3252 Penguin. The galley giveaways include Jussi Adler-Olsen's Keeper of Lost Causes (Scandinavian thrills), Christopher Buehlman's Those Across the River (Southern thrills), Amor Towles's Rules of Civility (social mores circa 1930s), Simon Garfield's Just My Type (i.e., just my typeface; really fun), and Dominique Browning's Slow Love (a Plume reprint), as well as blads for Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner in graphic-novel format (see Martha Cornog's write-up). Too many books being heralded here to list, but they range from big-big commercial fiction by Patricia Cornwell, Sue Grafton, J.D. Robb, and John Sandford, to more literary efforts (Lev Grossman's Magician King), to serious nonfiction (Daniel Yergin's The Quest, Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature). Booth signings include children's illustrator Peter Sis with a fable for adults, The Conference of the Birds, at 2:30, 5/24, and first novelist Towles at 2:30, 5/25. What's really hot: Dutton Senior Editor Denise Roy will promote Seré Prince Halverson's The Underside of Joy, about two women who love the same child, at the BEA Editors Buzz, at 4:30, 5/23. And what you'll want to celebrate: Penguin Classic's 65th anniversary, featured in the booth.
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— 3338 HarperCollins. Galley giveaways from the Harper imprint include Deborah Lawrenson's The Lantern, huge for the publisher and a DuMarier lookalike; plus S.J. Watson's Before I Go To Sleep, an international thriller sensation; and Drama from celebrated actor John Lithgow, luncheon speaker at LJ's Day of Dialog, 5/23. I'm really excited about the Ecco imprint giveaways: Russell Banks's disturbing Lost Memory of Skin and Lucette Lagnado's The Arrogant Years, a follow-up memoir to The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit. Important signings, all in the Autographing Area: Lithgow at 1:30, 5/24; Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After (an evocative first novel I'm reading now), at 10:00, 5/25; Alafair Burke, Long Gone, at 2:30, 5/25; Lagnado at 3:30, 5/25; Robert Lipsyte, The Accidental Sportwriter, at 3:30, 5/25; Lawrenson at 3:30, 5/25; and Jennifer Haigh, Faith, at 4:00, 5/25.
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The big books for the Morrow imprint include Marisa de los Santos's reunion-based Falling Together and Tom Ryan's hike-with-his-dog story, Following Atticus, the publisher's two galley giveaways. In addition, look for the well-crafted Graveminder, best-selling YA author Melissa Marr's transition to the adult market; she's participating in a discussion, "YA to Adult: An Author Perspective," Insight Stages at 3:30, 5/25 (Midtown Stage), and interviewing Charlaine Harris at 12:30, 5/25, at the NYPL's Bryant Park Reading Room at 42nd Street-under the leafy trees. She's also signing in the Autographing Area at 11:00, 5/25, and the booth at 10:30, 5/26 (children's books only). Other signings in the Autographing Area: Andrew Gross, Eyes Wide Open, at 10:30, 5/25; Dorothea Benton Frank, Folly Beach, at 10:00, 5/25; de los Santos, Falling Together, at 9:30, 5/25; Mary Jane Clark, To Have and To Kill, at 11:00, 5/25; Melanie Notkin, Savvy Auntie, at 5/26, 10:30; Wendy Corsi Staub, Hell To Pay, at 10:30, 5/25; and M.C. Hackett, Proof of Heaven, at 1:00, 5/25. Romance readers, rejoice: you can line up for signings by Sarah Maclean, Eleven Scandals To Start To Win a Duke's Heart, at 9:30 in the booth and 10:30 in the Autographing Area, 5/25; Eloisa James, When Beauty Tamed the Beast, at 10:00, 5/25, in the Autographing Area; and Julia Quinn, Just Like Heaven, at 12:00 in the Autographing Area and 2:30 in the booth. The Lady Most Likely, which James and Quinn wrote with Connie Brockway, will also be promoted.
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— 3352 Macmillan. Galleys giveaways are on a tight schedule here, so plan accordingly: Siri Hustvedt's The Summer Without Men and Amy Kathleen Ryan's Glow at 9:30, 5/24; Arnaldur Indridason's Operation Napoleon and Mark Williams and Danny Penman's Mindfulness at 2:30, 5/24; and Orson Scott Card and Emily Card's Laddertop, Vol. 1, at 3:30, 5/24; Yangzom Brauen's Across Many Mountains and Stella Tillyard's Tides of War, at 9:00, 5/25; Steve Sem-Sandberg's The Emperor of Lies and W. Bruce Cameron's Emory's Gift at 10:00, 5/25; Jill Abramson's Puppy Diaries, John Hart's Iron House, and Chevy Stevens's Never Knowing at 11:00, 5/25; Louise Penny's Trick of the Light at 2:00; and Amy Kathleen Ryan's Glow (again) at 3:00, 5/25. There will also be booth signings, another opportunity to grab galleys while chatting with authors: David Hagberg, Abyss, at 11:00, 5/24; Amy Waldman, The Submission, at 2:00, 5/24; Kathie Lee Gifford, The Three Gifts, at 4:00, 5/24; and Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers, at 2:30, 5/25.
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Farrar, Straus is poster king, with large posters of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot, Steve Sem-Sandberg's The Emperor of Lies (a novel of the Lodz ghetto), Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum's That Used To Be Us, Hector Tobar's The Barbarian Nurseries, Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, Andrew Feinstein's The Shadow World, and Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke. In addition, there are small posters of Jonathan Gruber's Health Care Reform, Siddhartha Deb's The Beautiful and the Damned, and Frank Bill's Crimes in Southern India. All these books will be hotly promoted, of course; let me toss out three other favorites you should ask about: Denis Johnson's nuanced novella, Train Dreams; Péter Nádas's literary blockbuster, Parallel Stories; and The Third Reich, yet another work by that Latin American marvel, Roberto Bolaño. Catch Eugenides discussing his tale of confused love, Eighties style, at the BEA Breakfast, 5/25, and Waldman introducing The Submission, her forthright first fiction on the post-9/11 world, at LJ's Day of Dialog, 5/23. Rumor: Feinstein's The Shadow World, about the international arms trade, might be this publisher's surprise hit.
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A final word on Holt titles. Aside from the giveaways of Abramson's Puppy Diaries (so cute) and Tillyard's Tides of War (grounded historical fiction), the publisher is promoting Nathan Wolfe's The Viral Storm, Peg Tyre's The Good School, Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, Tony Horwitz's Midnight Rising, Lauren Manning's Unmeasured Strength (a 9/11 memoir), and Elisabeth Badinter's The Conflict (which argues, provocatively, that today's concept of super-engaged motherhood is wrecking feminist achievements). Horwitz will appear on the "Truth or Dare" panel at LJ's Day of Dialog, 5/23, and at "The Heard Word: BEA's Audiobook & Author Tea," 5/25. His book and O'Reilly's are likely the biggest, but aside from the Puppy book, I'd vote for Badinter's jeremiad and Wolfe's The Viral Storm, on the threat of pandemic from an author dubbed "the Indiana Jones of virus hunters."
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— 3358 Bloomsbury. It says something that the publisher's two biggest galley giveaways (with 400 galleys each) are so different: there's Dava Sobel's A More Perfect Heaven, which will reintroduce you to Copernicus, and New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's What I Hate, a witty visual compendium of things she dreads-including, apparently, yellow tote bags, which are being distributed for promotional purposes and to help you bring books home. Both authors are doing booth signings, Sobel at 11:30, 5/24, and Chast at 2:00, 5/25. Other books getting big giveaways are Sam Brower's Prophet's Prey, Shannon Hale's Midnight in Austenland, and Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones (a heartbreaker of a first novel, big things expected). In addition, look for Jeffrey Masson's Dogs Make Us Human (blads only, lovely photos), David Kennedy's Don't Shoot, Seymour Chwast's original take on The Canterbury Tales, and Lloyd Jones's Hand Me Down World (more heartbreaking fiction, about an African mother hunting for her stolen baby). In addition, you could snag Dark Hershey Kisses in honor of Schott's Quintessential Miscellany—and two UK copies may be on display.
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— 3424 Norton. Make room in your tote for Diana Abu-Jabar's Birds of Paradise, Anne Enright's The Forgotten Waltz, Bonnie Jo Campbell's Once Upon a River, and Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. I've seen them all, and they are all essential reading. Abu-Jabar is getting a good sendoff from Norton Vice President Alane Salierno Mason at the BEA Editors Buzz, at 4:30, 5/23; she'll also be doing a booth signing at 3:00, 5/24, and will appear at the AAP Librarian Lunch, 5/24. Enright will participate in the BEA Breakfast, 5/26, and will do a booth signing that day at 10:00. In addition, Brooke Gladstone, coauthor with Josh Neufeld of The Influencing Machine, will do a booth signing at 2:00, 5/24, and David Reynolds (Mightier Than the Sword) will talk history at LJ's Day of Dialog, 5/23.
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— 3620 Hachette. Good news from the Little, Brown imprint: there's a big push on for Chad Harbach's smart and witty-sounding debut novel, The Art of Fielding; Vice President/Publisher Michael Pietsch will pitch it at the BEA Editors Buzz at 4:30, 5/23; galleys will be at the booth for grabbing on Tuesday morning; and Harbach signs in the booth at 1:00 on 5/25. More good stuff: Andrew Weil's Spontaneous Happiness with be celebrated with galley giveaways Tuesday afternoon and a special Happy Hour (get it?) in the South Atrium at 4:00 on 5/25; Elin Hilderbrand will sign Silver Girl at 3:30, 5/24 (look for the gleaming poster, plus beer in special-edition Hilderbrand koozies); and James Patterson will sign The Christmas Wedding at 2:00 on 5/25 (get your slice of wedding cake while you're at it). Other galley giveaways: Ayad Akhtar's American Dervish and Luis Alberto Urrea's Queen of America on Wednesday morning, Thomas Mullen's The Revisionists on Wednesday afternoon, and Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child and James Patterson's Kill Alex Cross (but no cake) on Thursday morning. Put it all in a tote bag from thrilling Mulholland Books.
For other imprints, big galley giveaways include Theresa Weir's The Orchard, Tom Rob Smith's Agent 6, and Julianna Baggott's Pure from Grand Central; Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee's Forbidden and Florence Henderson's Life Is Not A Stage from Center Street; and Michael J. Sullivan's Theft of Swords and Kristen Painter's Blood Rights from Orbit. Booth signings include Henderson at 10:00, 5/24; David Baldacci, One Summer, at 11:00, 5/24 (he's also at the AAP lunch, 5/24); and Painter, at 10:00, 5/26. Look for the posters of The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma and 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson.
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— 3653 S. & S. Galley giveaways: James Lee Burke's Feast Day of Fools, Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, and Susan Orlean's Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend. (Go Rinty!) Booth signings: Nasar at 10:00, 5/24 (bring calculators?), and Orlean at 2:00, 5/25 (bring Milk-bones?). Other books getting a big heave-ho: Pearl Jam's Pearl Jam Twenty (grab the groovy tote bags), Chris Matthews's Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero, and Elissa Schappell's Blueprints for Building Better Girls. Already buzzing: Blueprints, a heart-cutting collection of stories from Tin House cofounder and Vanity Fair contributing editor Schappell that you must ask about, as well as Jaycee Dugard's embargoed memoir, A Stolen Life. And you won't be able to miss The Last Testament: A Memoir, as told by God with David Javerbaum. There are neat pens as giveaways, though the Almighty won't be signing; the rumored 6,900,000,000 first printing is likely an exaggeration.
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— 4106 Perseus. Yes, there are galley giveaways, including Stanley Weintraub's Pearl Harbor Christmas, Charles Bracelen Flood's Grant's Final Victory, Jerry Blavat's You Only Rock Once, Erin Brockovich's Hot Water, Bob Graham's Keys to the Kingdom, Leymah Gbowee and Carol Mithers's Mighty Be Our Powers, and Simon Kuper's Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, Neurotics, and Ordinary Men Who Dominate the World's Most Popular Sport (you need the subtitle to appreciate that one). Two abbreviated handouts with a Hollywood theme: Linda Evan's Recipes for Life (a blad) and Joe Pantoliano's Asylum; A Memoir About Hollywood, Mental Illness, Recovery, and Being My Mother's Son (a chapbook, and another subtitle you need to see). Also, you can pick up a finished copy of Seventeen's Ultimate Guide to Style; I will. Aside from Seventeen and Soccer Men, Perseus titles already getting talked about include Glenn L. Carle's Interrogator: An Education; Conor O'Clery's Moscow, December 25, 1991; and Mara Hvistendahl's Unnatural Selection, on the dangers of choosing boys over girls. Booth signings: Teresa Giudice, Fabulicious!, at 11:00, 5/24; Mika Brzezinski, Knowing Your Value, at 2:00, 5/24; and Evans, Recipes for Life, at 3:00, 5/24; Kevin Sorbo, True Strength, at 10:30, 5/25; Lisa Bloom, Think, at 11:00, 5/25; and Pantoliano, Asylum, at 1:00, 5/25; also 2:30 in the Autographing Area.
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— 4152 Workman. If you want to know what it's like to write a first novel and work as a librarian at The New Yorker, come to a booth signing at 10:00, 5/24, and meet Jon Michaud, author of When Tito Loved Clara. Michaud will also enjoy a one-on-one interview with librarian, author, and longtime LJ reviewer Cynthia Johnson at LJ's Day of Dialog, 5/23. Other busy authors: Ilene Beckerman, who'll talk up The Smartest Woman I Know at an AAP dinner, 5/23, and will do a booth signing at 1:30, 5/24; Naomi Benaron, introducing her 2010 Bellwether Prize winner, Running the Rift, at ALTAFF's "From Writer to Reader," at 10:00, 5/26, and doing a booth signing at 2:30, 5/24; and Barbara Kafka, The Intolerant Gourmet, doing a Meet and Greet in the booth at 4:00, 5/24, after a booth signing at 1:00. More booth signings: Andrew Schloss, Homemade Soda, at 10:30, 5/24; Grace Bonney, Design*Sponge at Home, at 1:00, 5/24; and Patricia Schulz, 1000 Places To See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, at 3:00, 5/24 (also at 2:00 in Autographing Area). Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, at 10:00, 5/25; Kevin Fox, Until Next Time, at 11:30, 5/25; Rufus Butler Seder, Wizard of Oz Scanimation, at 2:00, 5/25; Martha Southgate, Taste of Salt, at 2:30, 5/25; Tanya Denckla Cobb, Reclaiming Our Food, at 4:00, 5/25 (also at 3:00 in the Autographing Area). Also, Sophie Blackall, Missed Connections, at 10:00, 5/26. Some interesting events: Workman author Bob Miller appears on the BEA panel "Why Now Is the Time More than Ever for Publishers To Invest in Print" (let's here it!) at 11:00, 5/25; and Workman stages an open house at its offices, 225 Varick Street, at 6:00, 5/25.
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— 4220 Wiley. It's Dummies time for this publisher, as the venerable series celebrates its 20th anniversary. The celebration includes photo ops with the Dummies Man in the booth, 11:00-3:00, 5/24, and 10:00-5:00, 5/25; Dummies Minibook giveaways, at 11:00, 5/24, 4:00, 5/25, and 10:00, 5/26; and Dummies Doll giveaways, at 10:00, 5/24, 4:00, 5/25, and 11:00, 5/26. Dummies books signings, too: Marsha Collier's Starting an e-Bay Business for Dummies, at 11:00, 5/24, and Andy Rathbone's Windows 7 For Dummies, at 3:00, 5/25. Featured books include Paul Dunay and Richard Krueger's Facebook Marketing For Dummies and Jean McFadden Layton and Linda Larsen's Gluten-Free Baking for Dummies; in addition, look for Leslie Poston, coauthor of Twitter For Dummies, at an educational workshop at 11:00, 5/25. Two non-Dummies I'd like to highlight: Alexis Stewart and Jennifer Hutt's Whateverland, with a booth signing at 1:00 on 5/25 (Stewart is Martha's Stewart's daughter), and Paul McFedries's iPad 2 Portable Genius—what's not to love? In addition, this publisher is doing book drawings at 4:00 each day, with beer and popcorn on 5/24 and cupcakes on 5/25. Watch the stampede.
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— 4420 Random. From the Knopf/Doubleday Publishing Group, don't miss these cool galley giveaways at the following booth signings: Craig Thompson, Habibi, at 12:00, 5/24 (okay, just a chapter excerpt; see Martha Cornog's write-up); Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse, at 2:00, 5/24 (actually, the book); Colson Whitehead, Zone One, at 2:30, 5/24 (he's gone paranormal on us!); Michael Harvey, We All Fall Down, at 11:00, 5/25 (thriller cops); Esmeralda Santiago, Conquistadora, at 1:00, 5/25 (a juicy saga); Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus, at 3:00, 5/25 (buzzzzz); Chuck Palahniuk, Damned at 3:30, 5/25 (rather funny); and Jennifer Close, Girls in White Dresses (sweetly elegant), at 11:30, 5/26. Look for the darkly gorgeous poster of Morgenstern's The Night Circus, which will be touted by Doubleday executive editor Alison Callahan at the BEA Editors Buzz at 4:30, 5/23. Morgenstern will also be at the Random House/LJ Book and Author Breakfast, along with Habibi and Santiago. On the Insight Stages: Habibi chats with PW's Calvin Reid, at 3:30, 5/24 (Uptown Stage), while debut novelist Close appears at 10:30, 5/26 (Midtown Stage). Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic, appears (with galleys) at both LJ's Day of Dialog, 5/23, and "The Legacy: Feminism in Fiction Today," occasioned by Granta's spring issue, The F Word (Feminism), at 2:00, 5/24. (Other speakers: Edwidge Danticat, Lydia Davis, and Francine Prose.) Personal faves: Smooth and spooky Morgenstern, breakaway Whitehead, and deeply felt Otsuka.
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Over at the Random House Publishing Group, it's no more 19th century for Charles Frazier, who's doing a booth signing of his Fifties-set Nightwoods at 10:00, 5/24; other signers include Vanessa Diffenbaugh (The Language of Flowers) in the booth at 10:00, 5/24; Robert Massie, Catherine the Great, in the booth at 2:00, 5/25; Ellen Feldman (Next to Love), in the booth at 10:30, 5/26; and Jim Lehrer (Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain), in the Autographing Area at 3:00, 5/25. First novelist Diffenbaugh, who I'm hearing good things about (she's for fans of Janet Fitch's White Oleander, claimed LJ's reviewer) will also appear at the Random House/LJ Book and Author Breakfast. Lehrer hosts the BEA Breakfast on 5/26 and Diane Keaton (Then Again) will charm us as a speaker at the 5/25 BEA Breakfast.
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The Crown Publishing Group kicks off BEA with Fanboy Ernest Cline's appearance at the Random House/Library Journal Book and Author Breakfast, 5/24, to discuss his game and gaming Ready Player One. Cline also does a booth singing at 10:30, 5/25, and galley giveaways will start Wednesday morning. Other giveaways: Moni Mohsin's Duty Free, Tuesday morning; Ed Levine's Serious Eats booklet, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings; and John Verdon's Shut Your Eyes Tight, Thursday morning. Other booth signings: Lisa Unger, Darkness, My Old Friend, at 11:00, 5/24; Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) at 10:30, 5/25; Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, at 10:00, 5/26. (He's also at the Adult Book & Author Breakfast, 5/26.) Insight Stages: Check out Geoffrey Gray, discussing Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper with New York magazine's Jon Homans, at 4:00, 5/24 (Midtown Stage), and Steve Perry, discussing Push Has Come To Shove with former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, at 4:00, 5/25 (Uptown Stage).
Finally, in case you're planning a getaway, check out the Fodor's 75th Anniversary Giveaway at 1:00, 5/25; and Tyra Banks will be doing a booth signing of Modelland, her Delacorte Books for Young Readers publication, at 2:30 at 5/24. Adult fascination, too.
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— 4621 Grove/Atlantic. Authors with pens: Karl Marlantes does a 2:30 booth signing of his new nonfiction, What It Is Like To Go to War, 5/24, plus a 10:00 ABA Lounge signing of his best-selling debut novel, Matterhorn, 5/25. Francisco Goldman, who breaks out this year with Say Her Name, a New York Times Book Review cover champ and No. 1 Indie Next Pick for April, signs at the booth, at 3:00, 5/25. Former poet laureate Kay Ryan signs this year's Pulitzer Prize winner, The Best of It, at the booth, at 12:00, 5/24. For another Pulitzer Prize winner, catch Robert Olen Butler, A Small Hotel, in the Autographing Area at 2:00, 5/25, plus speaking at one of the Insight Stages at 2:00, 5/25. All cool, but the author I really want you to track down is first novelist Alice LaPlante, who's signing her remarkable and pristinely heartrending Turn of Mind in the booth at 11:00, 5/24. Also hear Mark Bowden talk up Worm: The Story of the First Digital World War with the Atlantic's Scott Stossel at Insights Stages at 12:00, 5/25 (Midtown Stage). Galley giveaways: Lily Tuck's meditative I Married You for Happiness, her first novel since the NBA Award-winning News from Paraguay. And thriller fans, rush to pick up Deon Meyer's edgy Trackers and Mike Lawson's House Divided (just a few galleys), plus mass-market House Secrets.
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— 4638 Harlequin. So many books, such little space in your tote bag. The biggest titles here in terms of print run are Debbie Macomber's Christmas Cookbook (really buzzing, and a blad will be available), Rebecca Coleman's The Kingdom of Childhood, and Julie Kagawa's The Iron Queen. Coleman and Kagawa will be getting special promotion, as will Linda Lael Miller's A Creed in Stone Creek and Kristan Higgins's Until There Was You. Miller will have her own booth signing at 10:00, 4/24, and Kagawa will appear at School Library Journal's Day of Dialog, 5/23, and the BEA Librarians Lunch, 5/24. Galley giveaways on all of these, of course, plus Jennifer Blake's By His Majesty's Grace, Laura Caldwell's Claim of Innocence, Stephanie Chong's Where Demons Fear To Tread, Victoria Dahl's Good Girls Don't, Heather Graham's Heart of Evil, Hannah Harrington's Saving June, Kristan Higgins's Until There Was You, Susan Mallery's Only Mine, Carla Neggers's Saint's Gate, Brenda Novak's Inside, Deanna Raybourn's The Dark Enquiry, Emilie Richards's Sunset Bridge, Gena Showalter's Lord of the Vampires and Twisted, Cara Lynn Shultz's Spellbound, and Rachel Vincent's Blood Bound and If I Die. Exciting "Hour" booth events, too: on 5/24, Paranormal at 11:00, Series at 1:00, and Kimani at 2:00; on 5/25, Fresh Fiction at 10:00, Contemporary Romance at 11:00, Thriller/Suspense at 1:00, and Nonfiction at 2:00 (featuring Kimberly Snyder The Beauty Detox Solution and Sarah Matheny's Peas and Thank You, both grabbing attention). YA crossover recommendation for you and your girl: Vincent's smart and affecting titles, from Harlequin Teen.
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