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Galley Talk: 'My Lady Jane'

| 03/15/2016 @ 03:00PM

At Brazos Bookstore in Houston, children's specialist Liz Wright talks up a new novel that speaks to her fascination with the history of British royalty.
Galley Talk: 'The Courtesan' by Alexandra Curry

| 08/14/2015 @ 07:00PM

What are booksellers reading? This week, Stephanie Crowe, of the Page & Palette bookstore in Fairhope, Ala., recommends The Courtesan by Alexandra Curry.
Galley Talk: 'In the Language of Miracles' by Rajia Hassib

By Teresa Steele | 07/17/2015 @ 07:00PM

In Rajia Hassib’s In the Language of Miracles (Viking, Aug.), Samir and Nagla Al-Menshawy are living the American dream.
Galley Talk: 'Orhan's Inheritance' by Aline Ohanesian

By Carol Schneck Varner | 03/13/2015 @ 07:00PM

Writing an enjoyable novel about the Armenian genocide might seem like an impossible task, but Orhan’s Inheritance (Algonquin, Apr.), a powerful debut by Aline Ohanesian, balances an unflinching portrayal of the horrors of war against a captivating tale of family, love, and survival.
Galley Talk: 'The Valley' by John Renehan

By Luisa Smith | 02/13/2015 @ 07:00PM

In John Renehan’s "The Valley" (Dutton), Lieutenant Black is disheartened by his time in the Army, insulted by superiors, confused by his mission, and ready to give up trying.
Galley Talk: 'The Secret Wisdom of the Earth' by Christopher Scotton

By Sarah Bagby | 12/19/2014 @ 07:00PM

Christopher Scotton’s debut novel, The Secret Wisdom of the Earth, is riveting.
Galley Talk: 'The High Divide' by Lin Enger

By Pam Cady | 08/29/2014 @ 07:00PM

Early one morning in 1886, Ulysses Pope leaves his family, with a chicken under one arm, to embark on a journey that he hopes will save his immortal soul.
Galley Talk: 'Dr. Mütter’s Marvels' by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

By Ann Mayhew | 08/01/2014 @ 07:00PM

Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz’s new biography, Dr. Mütter’s Marvels (Gotham, Sept.), is set in Philadelphia in the middle of the 19th century.
Booksellers and Librarians, Send Us Your Galley Talk!

| 05/08/2014 @ 08:00AM

PW is extending the submission guidelines for its "Galley Talk" column (where booksellers write about what galleys they've read and enjoyed), to include librarians.
Galley Talk: 'The Accident' by Chris Pavone

By Betsy Burton | 02/28/2014 @ 07:00PM

The Accident (due March 11) more than lives up to the promise of Chris Pavone’s previous page-turner, The Expats. It’s dawn in Manhattan.
Galley Talk: 'Half Bad'

| 01/23/2014 @ 03:00PM

Of all the 2014 YA novels she's read to date, Amanda Hurley, manager of Inkwood Books in Tampa, Fla., puts Sally Green's "Half Bad" at the top of the list of titles she'll particularly enjoy handselling this spring.
Galley Talk: 'The Martian' by Andy Weir

By Martin Sorenson | 12/06/2013 @ 07:00PM

Wow. I mean, Wow! Since Andy Weir’s The Martian (Crown, February) is fiction that involves science, of course it will be designated as science fiction.
Galley Talk: The Country Bookshop

| 12/05/2013 @ 03:00PM

Angie Tally, children's manager at the Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, N.C., is eager to introduce three YA novels to customers in the new year.
Galley Talk: 'Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World that Made Him,' by David Henry and Joe Henry

By Pete Mock | 11/08/2013 @ 07:00PM

Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World that Made Him (Algonquin, Nov.), David and Joe Henry’s biography of the comedian and actor, is one of the best books I’ve read this year.
Galley Talk: 'The Impossible Knife of Memory'

| 10/22/2013 @ 03:00PM

Jessilynn Norcross, owner and children's buyer at McLean and Eakin Booksellers in Petosky, Mich., is looking forward to Laurie Halse Anderson's The Impossible Knife of Memory, due from Viking on January 7.
Galley Talk: 'Under the Wide and Starry Sky' by Nancy Horan

By Rita F. Maggio | 10/18/2013 @ 07:00PM

Having been totally absorbed in Loving Frank by Nancy Horan when I read it, I eagerly awaited her follow-up, Under the Wide and Starry Sky (Ballantine, Jan.), and was certainly not disappointed.
Galley Talk: Jamie Ford's 'Songs of Willow Frost'

By Emily Adams | 09/13/2013 @ 07:00PM

Jamie Ford’s second novel, Songs of Willow Frost (Ballantine, Sept.), handily lives up to the promise of its much-praised predecessor (and Ford’s debut), Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.
Galley Talk: 'The Midnight Dress'

| 09/05/2013 @ 03:00PM

Alicia Michielli, assistant manager of Talking Leaves Books in Buffalo, N.Y., is eager to handsell Karen Foxlee's The Midnight Dress when it is released in October.
Galley Talk: 'The Year of Billy Miller'

| 08/08/2013 @ 03:00PM

Jennifer Green, owner of Green Bean Books in Portland, Ore., shares her thoughts on The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes, which she'll be eagerly handselling when it's released in September.
Galley Talk: 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' by Tom Kizzia

| 06/15/2013 @ 12:00AM

Longtime Alaskan journalist Tom Kizzia is the only person who could have written Pilgrim’s Wilderness (Crown, July), an in-depth, heart-wrenching book.

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