Collection Highlights: National Book Festival

Collection Highlights: National Book Festival

Contributed by Jordan Farinelli, Collection Development Librarian

September 2021

The 2021 National Book Festival, presented by the Library of Congress, will again be held virtually this year. This year’s festival will be held from September 17th-26th. Over 100 authors will participate, both during pre-recorded and live events. A schedule of author conversations can be found here: https://www.loc.gov/events/2021-national-book-festival/schedule/

Check out a sampling of the newest releases from this year’s live author conversations lineup:

• Michael J. Fox: DB 101333  – No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

• Tana French: DB 100859  – The Searcher

• Kelli Jo Ford: DB 101551  – Crooked Hallelujah

• Elizabeth Hand: DB 101652  – Generation Loss

• Alex Michaelides: DB 103810  – The Maidens

• Maria Hinojosa: DB 102205  – Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: DB 103668  – Notes on Grief

• Kristin Hannah: DB 102287  – The Four Winds

• Maggie Shipstead: DB 103266  – Great Circle

• Brit Bennett: DB 99791  – The Vanishing Half

• Peter Godfrey-Smith: DB 101356  – Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

• Julia Sweig: DB 102825  – Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

• Margot Livesey: DB 100990  – The Boy in the Field

• Sue Miller: DB 100599  – Monogamy

• Dan Gutman: DB 103111  – Houdini and Me

Please note that these books are available for download on BARD and can only be mailed on a Books on Demand (BOD) cartridge. To have these books sent to you, please contact the reference desk. BOD, our new circulation system, significantly decreases the wait time for new books. For more information about BOD, see here: https://mdlbpd.blogspot.com/2021/03/books-on-demand-update.html or, send an email to reference.desk@maryland.gov.