Publishers Weekly - 02.09.2019

78 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Fall Indie Books

the way people look at animals, relate to farmland, use water, and think about popula-

tion. He argues that even if cultured meat does not “succeed,” it functions—much

like science fiction—as a crucial mirror that we can hold up to our contemporary fleshy

dysfunctions.

Univ. of Texas

Press

Big Wonderful Thing:

A History of Texas

Stephen Harrigan (Oct., $35,

hardcover)

First printing: 35,000 or more

Publicity & marketing highlights:

Ten-plus-city national fall author

tour, including stops at Texas

libraries and festivals; spring

author tour; first serial in Texas Monthly; extra ARCs and Big Mouth mailing.

Harrigan (The Gates of Alamo) offers a Texas-size look (over 900 pages) at the Lone

Star State. Larry McMurtry calls it “a wonderful new history of Texas. It tells us all we

need to know and little that we don’t need to know. It’s a splendid effort.”

CHILDREN’S/YA

Granity

Studios

Legacy and the

Queen

Annie Matthew,

created by Kobe

Bryant (Sept.,

$16.99, hardcover)

First printing:

100,000

Publicity & marketing

highlights: Author appearances and media tour, including Orange County Children’s Book

Festival, International Literacy Day in Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Today; cover

reveal on the Ellen DeGeneres Show in April; preorder campaign begun at Wimbledon.

Tennis means life and death for the residents of the magical kingdom of Nova, and

for 12-year-old Legacy, it’s the only thing getting her through the long days taking

care of the other kids at the orphanage. That changes when she hears about Nova

ruler Silla’s tournament for less fortunate citizens to come and prove themselves and

win entrance to the Academy, where they can train to compete at nationals. Ages

13–up.

Greystone Kids

Can You Hear the Trees Talking?: Discovering the Hidden Life of the Forest

Peter Wohlleben (Oct., $17.95, hardcover) 

First printing: 50,000

Publicity & marketing highlights: Catalogues, including ABC Best Books for Young

“These poems are brilliant

and funny and sad and utterly

essential. They will completely

unravel you in the most marvelous

possible way.”

—Lev Grossman

NEW FROM BOA EDITIONS

LEARN HOW TO LIVE A

HEALTHY LIFE AND LEAVE

A LEGACY OF WELLNESS

ISBN: 9780778806332

HC with jacket | 7.5 x 10 | $29.95

Distributed by Firefly Books, Ltd.

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