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Booksellers to Moderate BookExpo Editors’ Buzz Panels [4]
- By Rosemary Hawkins [5]
BookExpo’s popular adult, young adult, and middle grade Editors’ Buzz panels, featuring book editors discussing their favorite upcoming titles, will each be moderated this year by a bookseller from an American Booksellers Association member store.
The Adult Editors’ Buzz Panel, to be held on Wednesday, May 31, from 1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Room 1E12/13/14 of the Javits Convention Center, will be moderated by Annie Philbrick of Bank Square Books [6] in Mystic, Connecticut, and Savoy Bookshop in Westerly, Rhode Island.
The adult panel’s featured titles include:
- Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent (Publisher: Scout Press; Publication Date: August 22, 2017)
- Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo (Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Publication Date: August 22, 2017)
- My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent (Publisher: Riverhead Books; Publication Date: August 29, 2017)
- The World of Tomorrow by Brendan Mathews (Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; Publication Date: September 5, 2017)
- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (Publisher: Putnam; Publication Date: January 9, 2018)
- The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (Publisher: William Morrow; Publication Date: January 23, 2018)
The Young Adult Editors’ Buzz Panel, on Thursday, June 1, from 10:00 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. in Room 1E12/13/14, will be moderated by Heather Hebert of Children’s Book World [7] in Haverford, Pennsylvania.
The YA panel’s featured titles include:
- Spinning by Tillie Walden (Publisher: First Second Books; Publication Date: September 12, 2017)
- Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi (Publisher: Razorbill; Publication Date: September 12, 2017)
- All the Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry (Publisher: Algonquin Books for Young Readers; Publication Date: October 10, 2017)
- The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater (Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers; Publication Date: October 17, 2017)
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone (Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers; Publication Date: October 17, 2017)
The Middle Grade Editors’ Buzz Panel, to be held on Friday, June 2, from 11:00 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. in Room 1E12/13/14, will be moderated by Anne Holman of The King’s English Bookshop [8]in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The middle grade panel’s featured titles include:
- Auma’s Long Run by Eucabeth Odhiambo (Publisher: Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group; Publication Date: September 1, 2017)
- The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag (Publisher: Graphix; Publication Date: September 1, 2017)
- Greetings From Witness Protection! by Jake Burt (Publisher: Feiwel & Friends; Publication Date: October 3, 2017)
- The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore (Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers; Publication Date: October 24, 2017)
- The Unicorn Quest: The Whisper in the Stone by Kamilla Benko (Publisher: Bloomsbury Children’s Books; Publication Date: January 30, 2018)
All ABA Regular Bookstore and Provisional members are entitled to receive free BookExpo admission badges [9]if they provide their ABA Membership ID number upon registration. Booksellers in need of their ID number should contact ABA Member Relationship Manager Nathan Halter [10] at (800) 637-0037, ext. 7514.
For information about ABA programming at BookExpo, visit BookWeb.org [11].