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Spring Bookseller Grab a Galley is live—and the buzz is already building.
Whether you just got back from Winter Institute or you’re planning Spring lists straight from the shop floor, this edition of Grab a Galley is built for booksellers. It’s your chance to get early access to the Spring titles everyone will be handselling, recommending, and talking about in the months ahead.
From breakout fiction and buzzy nonfiction to children’s, YA, and graphic novels, our publishing partners have pulled together a lineup worth spending time with. Browse by category, add galleys to your virtual Swag Bag as you go, and grab as many as you like—there’s no limit.
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Fiction
Accelerated Growth Environment
Lauren C. Teffeau
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1 of 26 titles
Accelerated Growth Environment
Shiraki Press
Dr. Jorna Benton is the Principal Scientist for the Climasphere, a massive, sea-going ecological nursery on a mission to restore collapsing ecosystems… but when an explosion rocks the vessel, Jorna becomes the prime suspect. To clear her name, she must confront the secret she’s been running from all these years: a family and a faith that could destroy her.
Age of Stone (Rise of Mankind, Book 1)
Jez Cajiao
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2 of 26 titles
Age of Stone (Rise of Mankind, Book 1)
Aethon & Vault
In the games Matt has played, dungeons are places to raid and conquer. When the world is stripped of electricity, and the first mana-twisted beasts start to prowl, the games all come to an end. Can Matt thrive in this new reality or will he fall to the odds stacked against him? A dark fantasy, dungeon core LitRPG, epic adventure!
All We Hide
Robyn Gigl
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3 of 26 titles
All We Hide
Soho Crime
In this twisty, poignant police procedural from the author of the Erin McCabe Legal Thrillers, a trans detective working for the District Attorney’s Office takes on the cold case murder of a local trans woman—and her investigation unravels the threads of a county-wide conspiracy as well as a personal mystery that’s haunted her since childhood.
Awaken Online, Book 1: Catharsis
Travis Bagwell
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4 of 26 titles
Awaken Online, Book 1: Catharsis
Aethon & Vault
Jason logs into Awaken Online, fed up with reality. He's in desperate need of an escape, and this game is his ticket to feeling the power and freedom lacking in his real life. Jason quickly finds himself pushed down a path he didn't expect. In this game, he isn't the hero. In fact, he might be the villain.
Born in Fire (Demon Days, Vampire Nights, Book 1)
K.F. Breene
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5 of 26 titles
Born in Fire (Demon Days, Vampire Nights, Book 1)
Aethon & Vault
A Romantasy smash! Supernatural Bounty Hunter isn’t the sort of thing you see on LinkedIn. But with a rare type of magic like hers, Reagan Somerset doesn’t have many options. When hot, old-as-sin vampire offers her a job, she’ll have to work by his side to help solve a top-secret case that uncovers a web of lies and treachery.
The Brunswick: A World War II Novel of the American South
Callie Murray
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6 of 26 titles
The Brunswick: A World War II Novel of the American South
Revell
In 1939 Georgia, Cora Cain runs The Brunswick, her family’s struggling general store and hotel. When Thomas Watkins arrives seeking solace after his mother’s death, a connection sparks. But their relationship and courage are tested when they shelter Jewish refugee children, including ten-year-old Charlotte, whose father faces persecution in Austria.
But Won’t I Miss Me
Tiffany Tsao
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7 of 26 titles
But Won’t I Miss Me
HarperVia Books
Set in an alternate reality where pregnancy endows women with exceptional powers, one new mother uncovers terrifying truths about herself and life in this philosophical and propulsive tale of a woman and mother in crisis.
The Color of Time
Millie Abecassis
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8 of 26 titles
The Color of Time
Shiraki Press
Princess Cyrelle's brother, the King of Cicia, commands her hand in marriage. To avoid this, she flees to the edge of the galaxy...but her refuge has its own rebellion brewing. With the fate of two kingdoms on the line and nowhere left to run, Cyrelle must learn to be true to herself, to her people, and to her heart.
The Deep End of Love
Christina Suzann Nelson
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9 of 26 titles
The Deep End of Love
Kregel Publications
Christy Award-winning author Christina Suzann Nelson draws readers in through this emotionally engaging and inspirational novel on the power of motherly love, now revised and updated. A teen’s pregnancy comes to light and her dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer sink like a stone, leaving waves of uncertainty in its wake. Suddenly, three women are pulled into the undertow.
Deep Time: A Novel
Susan Sizer Bogue
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10 of 26 titles
Deep Time: A Novel
She Writes Press
An exciting Grand Canyon river rafting trip inspires Lauren Brown to study geology. She thrives on the adventures graduate geology affords her. While observing Mount St. Helens, she must flee for her life when the mountain erupts catastrophically. According to the Rocky Mountain Reader, “In Deep Time, Bogue has effortlessly woven together a compelling love story and an action-adventure story….”
Eyes of The River: An Appalachian Novel
Cindy K. Sproles
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11 of 26 titles
Eyes of The River: An Appalachian Novel
Kregel Publications
In this heart-wrenching Appalachian novel, Lizzy Haney is on the run in the shadowed hollers of the early-twentieth-century Appalachian Mountains. Falsely accused of murder and desperate to reunite with her brother River, she happens upon an unexpected friend to help her dodge the law and save the missing youngin’. All the while, she seeks one thing: freedom.
He Who Fights With Monsters, Book 1: Outworlder
Shirtaloon a.k.a Travis Deverell
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12 of 26 titles
He Who Fights With Monsters, Book 1: Outworlder
Aethon & Vault
Waking up in a mysterious world of magic and monsters isn’t easy. For Jason, making the career jump from office-supplies-store middle manager to heroic interdimensional adventurer is surreal. It's hard to be good when your powers are evil. To survive, he’ll have to discover new things within himself: courage, wit, and magic powers. But first, he’s going to need pants.
Jake’s Magical Market, Book 1
J.R. Mathews
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13 of 26 titles
Jake’s Magical Market, Book 1
Aethon & Vault
Meddling gods. A magical card system. Monsters run amok. An apocalypse no one predicted. Jake’s working at the neighborhood market under his apartment when the world ends. He expected nuclear war, a computer virus, or even climate change burning everyone to a crisp to end civilization. But cruel gods from another world? Who would’ve guessed that? A slice-of-life LitRPG fantasy!
The Last Renter: An Archer Island Thriller
Caleb Mason
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14 of 26 titles
The Last Renter: An Archer Island Thriller
Publerati
“In Caleb Mason’s stirring follow-up to Thickafog, Evan Olson and his wife become entangled with an emotionally disturbed renter woman on Maine’s remote Archer Island. Mason sustains nerve-shredding suspense in scenes set at the Olsons’ storm-battered farmhouse and treats his potentially lurid premise with sensitivity and care. Readers will be wowed. Mason has done it again.” – PW Starred Review
Left on Rancho: A Novel
Francesco Paola
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15 of 26 titles
Left on Rancho: A Novel
SparkPress
Andrew Eastman, a burned-out tech entrepreneur, travels to the Mojave Desert to help a friend turn around his legal weed operation. What he finds is more than just a flailing startup. He asks too many questions, uncovering a vast conspiracy. As bodies pile up around him, he has one last decision to make—one that will forever change him.
The Light Remains
Samantha Keller
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16 of 26 titles
The Light Remains
Catalyst Press
Against the backdrop of complicated, beautiful 1960s South Africa, an epic family saga unfolds. Eve Hunter has grown up on her family's farm, but she's inherited more than a love of the land—she's inherited their sorrow. A story about the weight of family loyalty, the price of independence, and the choices that define us when duty and desire collide.
Pot Shot
Laura Piper Lee
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17 of 26 titles
Pot Shot
Union Square & Co.
To open her cannabis dispensary, a chronically ill woman must defeat the surly doctor next door in this hilarious and steamy romantic comedy.
Ranger’s Oath (Fall of Radiance, Book 1)
Blake Arthur Peel
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18 of 26 titles
Ranger’s Oath (Fall of Radiance, Book 1)
Aethon & Vault
Ranger’s Apprentice meets An Ember in the Ashes in RANGER’S OATH (Fall of Radiance, Book 1), an epic fantasy where friendship fights failure – and the monsters thought to be only legends – where understanding is greater than intolerance, and where unity is more important than division. The eBook smash is now a hardcover from author Blake Arthur Peel and AETHON: Vault!
Rune Seeker, Vol. 1
J.M. Clarke & C.J. Thompson
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19 of 26 titles
Rune Seeker, Vol. 1
Aethon & Vault
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves meets My Hero Academia in RUNE SEEKER, Vol. 1, a LitPRG/Progression fantasy adventure, where the weakest person among his people will rise to unimaginable power. Explore a mysterious world of fallen civilizations, strange monsters, and deadly secrets. The Everfail will rise. His enemies will fall. Now in hardcover from AETHON: Vault!
Short Circuit
Wolf Haas
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20 of 26 titles
Short Circuit
HarperVia Books
A clever, electrifying puzzle of a novel, inspired by MC Escher’s optical illusions, in which two mirrored plots—a man waiting for an electrician and a mafia informant entering witness protection—converge in a mind-blowing finale. Translated from German by Jamie Bulloch.
Split Second (Book 1)
Douglas E. Richards
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21 of 26 titles
Split Second (Book 1)
Aethon & Vault
Michael Crichton’s Timeline meets Peter Cline’s The Fold in SPLIT SECOND, a science fiction thriller from New York Times bestselling author Douglas E. Richards, with a stunningly unique take on time travel, where traveling fractions of a second back in time can change the fate of humanity. Now in hardcover for the first time from AETHON: Vault!
Squad Kill
Jack Campbell
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22 of 26 titles
Squad Kill
Aethon & Vault
Getting home alive will take everything they have. Navy officer Osiris “Oz” Aquino is commander of seven castoff Marines on a research starship dispatched to an alien planet. Here, researchers discover signs of intelligent life: ruined cities and skeletal remains. The only things living in the ruins are adorable aliens they dub “squonks.” It all seems run-of-the-mill, until it isn't...
The Ten Realms, Book 1: The Two Week Curse
Michael Chatfield
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23 of 26 titles
The Ten Realms, Book 1: The Two Week Curse
Aethon & Vault
Follow the journey of Erik and Rugrat, two combat-hardened soldiers who are transported from Earth to the mystical Ten Realms after contracting the "two-week curse." The story details their rapid adaptation to this new reality, where they utilize their military discipline and modern medical knowledge to master magic, alchemy, and smithing. For fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl and Solo Leveling.
Vesper
Evan Marks
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24 of 26 titles
Vesper
Kinderspiel Press
A sharply observed literary novel centered on the titular Vesper, a fiercely independent consultant navigating modern dating, work and power in Manhattan. Blending the cultural zeitgeist of Sex and the City with the philosophical depth of Milan Kundera, it's perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton, Sarah Rose Etter and Adelle Waldman.
Warship (Black Fleet Saga, Book 1)
Joshua Dalzelle
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25 of 26 titles
Warship (Black Fleet Saga, Book 1)
Aethon & Vault
In the 25th century humans have conquered space. What would happen if humans were suddenly threatened by a new enemy? Would humanity fold and surrender or meet force with force? From USA TODAY bestselling author Joshua Dalzelle, comes WARSHIP (Black Fleet Saga, Book 1), science fiction with an all-new vision of humanity’s future. Now in hardcover from AETHON: Vault!
Wine for Roses
Emily O'Malley Liu
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26 of 26 titles
Wine for Roses
Shiraki Press
The reclusive trustee of an old Victorian residence hires the son of a hedge witch for a singular task: to make the estate's roses bloom, for the first time in decades. As Louis and Ethan grow closer, they become increasingly desperate to break the garden's bloodthirsty curse... but the garden isn't letting them go without a fight.
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