A Quieter BEA

This year’s BookExpo reflected the ongoing national economic issues as well as those within the publishing industry, smaller booths, less advance reading copies, fewer giveaways, and lighter traffic. While I heard ALOT about the newest books, I wasn’t able to find even one advance reading copy (ARC). It seems they were gone almost as soon as the exhibits opened on the first day. Although some lucky early bird attendees were able to nab a few copies (below).

Also, a new trend, instead of giving out actual physical copies, some of the publishers were handing out cards with urls, inviting readers to take a look electronically. Anyway, here are some of the many new books recommended by the librarian book buzz panel, most due out in the fall:
*Why Italians Love to Talk About Food by Elena Kostioukovitch
*La Cucina – The Regional Cooking of Italy (Rizzoli)
*Organizing the Disorganized Child by Martin L. Kutscher and Marcella Moran (Harper Studio)
*Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertising (Echo)
*The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba (Author), Bryan Mealer (Author) (Harper Collins)
*Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The After Life by Francine Prose (Harper Collins)
*The Longest Night (children’s) by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by Ted Lewin (Holiday House)
*Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle (children’s) by Major Brian Dennis, Mary Nethery, Kirby Larson (Little, Brown)
*The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Catherine Howe (Hyperion)
*American Adulterer by Jed Mercurio (Simon and Schuster)
*Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim (MacMillan)
*A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog by Dean Koontz (Hyperion)
*Stitches: A Memoir by David Small (graphic novel) (W.W. Norton and Co.)
*How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood by William J. Mann (Houghton Miffline Harcourt)
*Nurture Shock – New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman (12/Hachette)
*Box 21 by Rosslund-Hellstrom (Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Friendly Fire: Ten Tales of Today’s Cairo by Alaa Al Aswany (American University in Cairo Press)
*Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens by Gaynor Arnold (Crown)
*Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
*The Sand Fish: A Novel from Dubai by Maha Gargash (Harper)
*Matilda Savitch: A Novel by Victor Lodato
*Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle (Algonquin)
*On the Line by Serena Williams (Grand Central)