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Get Ready for ALA Annual: Your First Look at Fall’s Must-Read Titles!
Grab a Galley is back and offering a sneak peek at the season’s most anticipated fall titles—from captivating fiction and thrilling mysteries to inspiring nonfiction and the hottest debut voices. These are the books your patrons will be buzzing about come fall.
Our publishing partners have handpicked a selection that spans all genres, so there’s something for every reader—whether they’re into heart-pounding adventures or thought-provoking narratives. Add as many titles as you like to your virtual Swag Bag (no limits on the number you can choose!), but remember, supply is limited!
Explore the full collection and stock up on the books that will fly off the shelves at your library this fall.
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Fiction
Add All 20 Fiction Titles To Swag Bag-
1 of 20 titles
Academy of Outcasts
Vault Books
All Oz Carnavon ever wanted was to become a master mage. But he’s without the natural gifts or wealth required for entry into a magical academy. But Carnavons never give up. An epic fantasy where a magicless man-on-the-run stops at nothing to earn a place in a magic academy – not even the threat of hell. From the New York Times bestselling author of Monster Hunter International!
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2 of 20 titles
Against All Odds (Grimm’s War, Book 1)
Vault Books
From USA Today bestselling author Jeffery H. Haskell comes a military science fiction epic in the tradition of Honor Harrington and Star Trek. If you love heroes and starships, you will love to stand with Commander Jacob T. Grimm in Against All Odds, in print and widely distributed for the very first time!
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3 of 20 titles
An Arcane Inheritance
Poisoned Pen Press
Determined to prove she belongs at Warren University, Ellory Morgan uncovers chilling déjà vu and occult secrets buried within the school’s elite halls. As sinister forces resurface, she must confront a past she can't remember—and a secret society willing to sacrifice anyone to maintain their power. If she fails, she risks losing herself forever.
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4 of 20 titles
A Brew for Chaos
Severn House
Leaves are changing, pumpkins are being picked, and the small coastal town of Bellamy Bay is caught up in the excitement of the approaching Oktoberfest craft beer competition. But when a serial killer nicknamed The Fisherman apparently strikes again, it's up to herbal apothecary worker (and secret mermaid descendant) Alex Daniels to solve the puzzling case.
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5 of 20 titles
Contact Front (Drop Trooper, Book 1)
Vault Books
Go to war or go to jail. For small-time street hustler Cam Alvarez, the choice is simple. He has no family, no friends, no place in the world…nothing to lose. When his latest con results in the death of a cartel hitman, Cam opts to join the Marines and leave Earth to fight a vicious alien enemy. Military sci-fi from bestselling author Rick Partlow!
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6 of 20 titles
Echoes of a Silent Song
Kregel Publications
In this split-time romance, a burned-out choral composer and conductor resorts to teaching high school choir. The long-suffering accompanist at the school is less than impressed with his attitude. But together they discover a composition by a musical genius, and as rumors fly, they dig into the past.
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7 of 20 titles
The Glass Eel
Mysterious Press
In this gripping debut thriller, struggling divorcée Jeanette King becomes embroiled in a criminal smuggling ring when she discovers her ex-husband’s cache of black market baby eels.
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8 of 20 titles
The Hawk Is Dead
Macmillan
Her Majesty Queen Camilla’s favorite fictional detective, Roy Grace, returns in his most difficult case yet.
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9 of 20 titles
House of Dusk
DAW Books
A romantic epic fantasy featuring a fire-wielding nun grappling with her dark past and a young spy caught between her mission and a growing attraction to an enemy princess, this standalone novel is perfect for fans of Tasha Suri, Samantha Shannon, and Shannon Chakraborty.
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10 of 20 titles
Ironbound (Ironbound, Book 1)
Vault Books
An epic fantasy adventure where the will to survive – and the need for revenge - cuts cold and deep. Wanting to fuse with a Cor Heart, an otherworldly metal, since he was a boy, Castor’s dreams are shattered by a vicious attack. Now, Castor must survive the Iron City before he can get revenge on the ones who took everything from him.
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11 of 20 titles
Mad Sisters of Esi
DAW Books
Susanna Clarke's Piranesi meets Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler in this stunning meta fantasy that asks: in the devastating chaos of the world, where all is in flux, and the truth is ever-changing, what will you choose to hold on to? And what stories will you choose to tell?
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12 of 20 titles
Pantomime
DAW Books
At once a unique, fantastical world and a coming-of-age story, Pantomime is a queer exploration of identity, first love, and prophecy that follows Micah, a circus aerialist keeping two extraordinary secrets: one—he was born between male and female, and two—he’s the key to an ancient, magical prophecy. Historical fantasy fans will love this series.
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13 of 20 titles
Portraits of Decay
Ruadán Books
Reveling in occult rituals gone wrong, body horror, and the creeping dread of the Southern Gothic, Portraits of Decay paints the enthralling tableau of up-and-coming New Orleans artist Jefferson Fontenot turned into a zombie by his dangerously obsessive girlfriend as his muse risks everything to find a cure.
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14 of 20 titles
Quantum Nightmares
Flare Books
Quantum Nightmares, a collection of dystopian sci-fi, contains nuggets of bizarre truth to explain today’s United States, where myth collides with belief and fact is hard to find. "Rodriguez unloads a truckload of nightmares in a baker's dozen worth of stories, enveloped in a weird, circular narrative… [L]aced with surreal shades of Philip K. Dick and other unusual suspects." — Kirkus
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15 of 20 titles
A Scheming in Parliament
Kregel Publications
A Scheming in Parliament is book two in Erica Vetsch’s regency romance series, Of Cloaks & Daggers. Brimming with intrigue and danger, the plot propels Philippa Cashel and Sir Bertrand Thorndike to join forces against the corruption threatening to topple England’s government.
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16 of 20 titles
A Simple Kindness in Flatsboro
Kregel Publications
In this charming Southern novel, secret do-gooder Andy Clark and former beauty queen Della Rose Miller rekindle their friendship and navigate trusting God in all circumstances.
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17 of 20 titles
A Special Interest in Murder
Severn House
When twenty-four-year-old neurodivergent sleuth Ada Latia notices something amiss in a photograph accompanying a sensationalist article about the murder of an autistic child, she's drawn into a twisty and puzzling case surrounding an Idaho school. A page-turning, red-herring-filled murder mystery, perfect for fans of Nita Prose, Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz.
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18 of 20 titles
Through Water and Stone
Kregel Publications
“A gripping tale of twisted family bonds set in Utah’s Zion National Park. . . . Readers will be swept up.” —Publishers Weekly A split-time historical fiction novel where Talia Eriksson navigates the rocky path into her ancestry with law enforcement ranger Blake Mitchell by her side.
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19 of 20 titles
Who Killed One The Gun?
Forest Avenue Press
Private eye One the Gun and his right-hand dame Two the True Blue are on the trail of the killer of Five the No Longer Alive. Throw in a time loop or twelve, and it’s a dilly of a pickle. Gigi Little’s noir-soaked debut pays homage to the radio classics of the forties while investigating the consequences of unchecked power.
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20 of 20 titles
The Witch of Willow Sound
ECW Press
A spooky, atmospheric, and fast-paced feminist tale about women called witches and the parts of our history we’d rather forget. Inspired by real East Coast traditions and witch lore, this is a modern gothic tale that explores family lost and found and throws firelight on dark truths about what societies do with the people, and the past, they don’t want.
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