About This Contest
About This Contest
Grab a Galley is hittin’ the road! Whether you’re gearing up for a regional trade show or running your store from home, this Grab a Galley edition is packed with must-have titles zipping across the country to your shelves, ready to captivate your readers.
Our publishing partners have outdone themselves with this fantastic selection of titles spanning virtually every genre and category.
Explore thrillers, rom-coms, sci-fi, suspense, topical nonfiction, middle-grade graphic novels, YA fantasy, and enchanting picture books. Scroll through and add galleys to your virtual Swag Bag as you go. There’s no limit to the number of galleys you may select. Browse the entire collection now and stock up on this Fall’s hottest picks!
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Nonfiction & Memoir
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1 of 35 titles
A.J. Foyt: Volume 1
Octane Press
A.J. Foyt: Volume 1 is the new authorized biography on world-renowned sports hero A.J. Foyt. Garner interviewed dozens of the largest names in motorsports—including Foyt himself—to compile this book that is as much a history of racing in America as it is a history of one of the greatest names in the sport.
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2 of 35 titles
Abundant Soul, Abundant Life: The Art of Living You
Living and Dying Media Group
Dive into a transformative journey with this groundbreaking book that redefines purpose and guides us to true abundance, happiness, and prosperity. Discover practical strategies to break free from limitations and cultivate fulfillment. An enlightening read for those seeking a profound shift to a more meaningful existence. “Quite extraordinary… Don’t miss it.” – Neale Donald Walsch, NYT bestselling author, Conversations with God.
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3 of 35 titles
The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos
Patagonia
Ecologist Mark J. Easter offers low-carbon, in-season alternatives that make your favorite foods more climate-friendly, and also more delicious. The first step, however, is learning how food is grown, produced, harvested, and shipped. Through stories of food producers already bending the climate emissions curve and contributing to climate solutions, The Blue Plate offers a full understanding of what’s for dinner.
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4 of 35 titles
The Book of Forgotten Witches
Watkins Publishing
We invite you on a journey through a moonlit world, where every shadow tells a tale of magic, persecution and persistence. In this beautifully illustrated volume, discover witches real and legendary from across the globe, now largely forgotten. Each chapter linking to a card of the Major Arcana and stage in the alchemical process of turning base metal into gold.
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5 of 35 titles
Career Break Compass: Navigating Your Path to a Balanced Life Through Intentional Time Off
The Collective Book Studio
Career Break Compass is for high achievers and decision makers finding themselves losing drive from overwork, lack of work-life balance, emotional exhaustion, etc. After recognizing burn out in her own career, Nguyen decided to take a break and planned her time, breaking it into four sections: Play, Pause, Plan, and Pursue.
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6 of 35 titles
Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities in Latin American and the Caribbean
IMF Publications
Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the most diverse regions with respect to climate-related risks. Climate change presents both challenges and opportunities for economic and social development. This book offers policy options for climate mitigation, adaptation, and green energy transition. Given the structure of emissions in the region, a broad range of mitigation tools will be needed.
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7 of 35 titles
Dear Food, I Love You. I Hate You. Don’t Leave Me! Workbook 1
One Step To Wellness
Dear Food, I Love You. I Hate You. Don’t Leave Me! This best-selling, award-winning Christian weight loss program is a spiritual diet plan designed to help you stop overeating and improve your health. The Bible based diet program is a Bible study with workbooks to use alone or as a Bible study for small groups. Grab your copy today!
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8 of 35 titles
A Dumb Birds Field Guide
Chronicle Books
Professional birding amateur and national bestselling author of Field Guide to Dumb Birds series Matt Kracht has had it with these motherfucking birds. His new book is a warning, a field guide to help you identify and stay away from the absolute worst piece of shit birds ever to plague this planet Earth. Featuring an all new scientific scale devised by the author that proves how awful they really are.
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9 of 35 titles
Elk Love: A Montana Memoir
She Writes Press
"A superbly written true story of love and self-discovery." - Kirkus Reviews "Healing and invigorating, this memoir is like a breath of fresh air...The narrative is vibrant, poetic...." - 5-Stars, Readers' Favorite In a modern world where listening is rare, Elk Love explores an intimate place where loneliness gives way to wonder, where the natural world speaks of what matters most.
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10 of 35 titles
Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation
Haymarket Books
From the author of Abolish the Family, a provocative compendium of the feminisms we love to dismiss and making the case for the bold, liberatory feminist politics we’ll need to stand against fascism, nationalism, femmephobia, and cisness. At once a left transfeminist battlecry against cisness, a decolonial takedown of nationalist womanhoods, and a sex-radical retort to femmephobia in all its guises, Enemy Feminisms is above all a fierce, brilliant love letter to feminism.
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11 of 35 titles
Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
Harper Select
"Ghosts of Panama," set in 1989, is the true story of Special Agent Rick Yell, whose intelligence source provides critical information during U.S.-Panama tension under Noriega's regime. Following an American Marine's murder, Yell's investigations influence national decisions, leading to an invasion that endangers those he holds dear. This thrilling narrative uncovers the unseen world of counterintelligence during a historic assignment.
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12 of 35 titles
Hiking Hidden Gems in America’s National Parks
Falcon Guides
Skip the crowded trails and dive into breathtaking vistas and untold stories with this exclusive guide, packed with vibrant full-color photography, captivating personal anecdotes, rich historical context, and insider tips. Alvarez unveils the well-guarded secrets, mesmerizing landscapes, and intriguing tales concealed within our nation's treasured parks. Prepare to be amazed as you experience nature's most extraordinary wonders like never before.
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13 of 35 titles
How to Be a Grown Up: The 14 Essential Skills You Didn’t Know You Needed (Until Just Now)
Chronicle Books
How to Be a Grown Up is a guide to everything you need to be an adult—how to launch your career, find your purposes (right now), invest your money, and much more.
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14 of 35 titles
How We Heal: A Journey Toward Truth, Racial Healing, and Community Transformation from the Inside Out
Disruption Books
A powerful case for hope through racial healing from the President and CEO of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
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15 of 35 titles
Icons of Style: in 100 Garments
Laurence King Publishing
Icons of Style by Josh Sims examines, garment by garment, the most important and famous items in fashion history - their provenance and history, the stories of their design, the brand/company that started it all and how the item shaped fashion today, from Laurence King Publishing.
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16 of 35 titles
Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis
Patagonia
Jon Waterman writes about his years of adventurous travel in Arctic North America, observing climate change and its effects on the Inuit people. He traveled over 500 miles on foot and by packraft down the Noatak river to investigate and document the changes. He urges actionable steps to mitigate further thawing and preserve the Arctic's extraordinary biodiversity and cultural heritage.
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17 of 35 titles
It Takes Two to Torah: An Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through The Five Books of Moses
Mandel Vilar Press
Take a tour of the entire Torah through one challenging, instructive, at-times-irreverent, animated conversation. Based on their highly successful podcast for Tablet Magazine, Dov Linzer (an Orthodox rabbi) and Abigail Pogrebin (a Reform journalist) talk and debate their way through the Five Books of Moses with candor, humor, emotion, scholarship and personal revelation in 54 engaging chapters.
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18 of 35 titles
Kokoro: Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well Lived
Storey Publishing
Kokoro is an invitation to cultivate stillness and contentment in an ever-changing, uncertain world, inspired by ancient and contemporary Japanese wisdom. Drawing on a thousand years of Japanese literature, culture, and philosophical ideas to explore the true nature of time and what it means to be human, Kokoro--which mysteriously translates as "heart-mind"--is a meditation on living well
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19 of 35 titles
Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul
W Publishing
Ann Wroe, obituaries editor for The Economist, reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences and through people she has known, studied, or merely glimpsed in windows, she movingly explores what makes a life and how that life lingers after. In this dazzlingly original blend of poetry, biography, observation, and memoir, Wroe explores the experience of trying to capture the essence of a person.
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20 of 35 titles
Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn: A Walk on the Wild Side with Andy Warhol’s Most Fabulous Superstar
Feral House
A young, aspiring writer desperate for a break…and the legendary Andy Warhol superstar who gave him the story of a lifetime. It’s a celebration of chutzpa and love as Holly, the embodiment of Auntie Mame, introduces Jeff to her glamorous (and sometimes larcenous) world. In turn, Jeff uses his writing (and typing) talent to give Holly a second chance at fame.
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21 of 35 titles
Mothers and Other Fictional Characters
Chronicle Books
Mothers and Other Fictional Characters by award-winning essayist Nicole Graev Lipson (Chronicle Prism) untangles what it means to be a girl, a woman, a lover, a partner, a daughter, and a mother in this intimate and riveting debut memoir, weaving in literary references from Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” to Shakespeare’s gender-bending heroine Rosalind together with her personal experiences.
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22 of 35 titles
Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World
Rootstock Publishing
An ideal collection for reading by the fire on a cold night” (Publishers Weekly), these essays on life, love, loss, and a quaint Vermont town, by the founding president of VCFA and bestselling author of The Headmaster’s Wife, make the perfect gift book this holiday season. New mass-market paperback—stocking-stuffer size!—available 10/22.
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23 of 35 titles
Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life
NYU Press
Tells the story of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through her evolving public persona from campaign wife to First Lady to fallen idol to treasured national icon.
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24 of 35 titles
The Practical Tarot Method
Beyond Words
Reading tarot shouldn’t have to be a guessing game or a test on memorization. The Practical Tarot Method: Learning to Read Tarot Cards Intuitively is designed to demystify the process of interpreting tarot, making it more approachable and fun to learn.
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25 of 35 titles
Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience
Sasquatch Books
Therapist and wildly popular attachment research expert Eli Harwood, illuminates the science that explores our innate human need to bond with other humans, and helps us harness it as the only parenting approach proven to have a lasting impact. Though there have been countless studies on how attachment styles affect our romantic relationships, Eli reframes the subject for parents.
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26 of 35 titles
Small Town Living: A Coast-to-Coast Guide to People, Places, and Communities
Running Press
Celebrate the joys of small town life in this stunning, coast-to-coast photographic ode to country stores and main streets. Called "an idyllic celebration of the rural life" by Publishers Weekly, Small Town Living follows author and photographer Erin Austen Abbott as she traverses the country to find creative people who have opted for cozy towns over metropolitan bustle.
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27 of 35 titles
Snoopy and the Spy
Octane Press
Snoopy and the Spy dives into the 1980s farm crisis, when two of the world’s toughest competitors were locked in a high-horsepower arms race to create the best piece of agricultural equipment. From that conflict came one salesman who would do whatever it took to ensure his company stayed on top. This is his story.
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28 of 35 titles
Still LIfe at Eighty
Mandel Vilar Press
Meditating on mortality with wit and wisdom, Nicholas Delbanco, the legendary director of writing programs at Bennington and Michigan, celebrates friendships, family, and foundational sites of memory. His friendships with numerous iconic writers—like John Ashbury, James Baldwin, Russell Banks, John Updike—dispense rollicking anecdotes and revealing insights. Eight decades of memories are encased in a memoir brimming with acumen and affection.
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29 of 35 titles
Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
The New Press
In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, the National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the “pride paradox” that has given the right’s appeals such resonance.
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30 of 35 titles
The Story of Perfume: A lavishly illustrated guide
Laurence King Publishing
In The Story of Perfume by Elisabeth de Feydeau, readers will be transported into the precious and mesmerizing world of perfume. Light, floral, exotic or heady, perfume can be both a precious ally for self-care or the ultimate weapon of seduction. From its origins in ancient times to today's colossal cosmetic industry, the story of perfume is rich and enticing, from Laurence King Publishing.
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31 of 35 titles
Swell: A Sailing Surfer’s Voyage of Awakening
Patagonia
Embarking on a life of freedom that most only dream about, Liz Clark set sail for the South Pacific as captain of her 40-foot sailboat, Swell, in search of surf, self, and the wonder that lies beyond the unbroken horizon. Her memoir chronicles ten years, 20,000 miles, countless challenges, and one amazing cat. Now in paperback, Swell inspires adventurers everywhere.
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32 of 35 titles
Taste in Music: Eating on Tour with Indie Musicians
Chronicle Books
In this unique and deeply thoughtful collection, musician Alex Bleeker (Real Estate) and food and travel journalist Luke Pyenson (formerly of Frankie Cosmos) take readers on tour with a diverse lineup of inspiring indie musicians from around the world, sharing meals and travel experiences, peeking behind the curtain at this singular and singularly misunderstood way of life.
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33 of 35 titles
Toxic Striving: Why Hustle and Wellness Culture Are Leaving Us Anxious, Stressed, and Burned Out—and How to Break Free
New Harbinger Books
In this groundbreaking book, a clinical psychologist guides readers to move beyond the relentless pursuit of perfection, societal ideals, and external validation at the expense of their physical, mental, and emotional health, and instead turn inward for guidance. Readers will gain the insight needed to reconnect with their true values, reclaim their mental health, and live by their own rules.
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34 of 35 titles
The Watkins Book of Urban Legends
Watkins Publishing
A rich collection of urban legends from around the world, with a history and analysis of each tale, compiled by a leading authority in the field. Including new tales and old tales repurposed for new audiences. The first popular book to bring together stories with traditional and digital media origins and to examine how social media has affected their very nature.
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35 of 35 titles
A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery
Greystone Books
A Woman Among Wolves by Diane K. Boyd is the debut memoir from "the Jane Goodall of wolves," one of the first women in the United States to study wild wolves in their natural habitat—a story of passion, resilience, and determination praised by Erica Berry (Wolfish) as "gripping and vital" and Dr. Jane Goodall herself as "fascinating and beautifully written."
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