Friday Focus: Day of Dialog 2013

Day of Dialog is an annual event for librarians on the day before Book Expo America begins.  Held at McGraw-Hill headquarters in New York City, it is hosted by Library Journal magazine and sponsored by several publishers and book-related vendors.

The day is a great combination of food; networking; author, editor, and librarian panels; and free books and book-related items.  This year's panels featured:

• editors' picks of forthcoming novels from HarperCollins, Penguin Group (USA), Perseus Books, Basic Books, Algonquin, and Random House
• ideas for introducing poetry to readers
• library collection development
• the art of science writing
• the best voices in fiction (with authors Caleb Crain, Allan Gurganus, Al Lamanda, Richard North Patterson, and Amy Tan)

I came away enthused about the many great reads that will be released in the coming months, and a suitcase full of ARCs and books.  Here's a look at my new reading material:

From Five Star/Gale Cengage:
   
Sunset (book); Sunrise (ARC)

ARCs from HarperColllins Imprints (Ecco, HarperCollins, Harper Perennial, and William Morrow):
                       

                       

                                       

ARC from Ig Publishing:  
   



ARC from Knopf Doubleday:

         

ARCs from W.W. Norton:


Books from Open Road Integrated Media:
                     

ARC from Penguin Group (USA):
  

Books from Perseus/Weinstein Publishing:
                       

ARCs from Quercus:
                                   

All of these fabulous books whet my appetite for . . . more books at BEA 2013!

Catherine

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