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On Thursday, May 31, BookExpo America returns to the Big Apple, and librarians on the hunt for hot galleys won’t be disappointed if my findings are any indication. Using Barbara Hoffert’s Prepub Alert contact list, I compiled a sizable list of must-gets. Without further ado, here they are by publisher:

• HarperCollins: Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers and Run by Ann Patchett (Truth and Beauty)
• Simon & Schuster: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest To Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs and The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel by Stephen Hunter (Havana)
• Free Press: Redemption Falls by Joseph O’Conner (Star of the Sea)
• Crown: The 12-Second Sequence by Jorge Cruise, Look Me in the Eye by John Robinson, Switching Time by Richard Baer, and Witch’s Trinity by Erika Mailman
• Three Rivers Press: 13 Bullets by David Wellington (Monster Island)
• Harmony: Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram
• Shaye Areheart Books: Mad Dash by Patricia Gaffney (The Saving Graces)
• Random House: Away by Amy Bloom (A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You), Identical Strangers by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein, Tipperary by Frank Delaney (Ireland), and The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens (The Law of Dreams)
• Ballantine: The View from Mount Joy by Lorna Landvik, Loving Frank by Nancy Horan, The Faraday Girls by Monica McInerny, and Midnight Rambler by James Swain (Loaded Dice)
• Broadway Books: Outside In by Courtney Thorne-Smith and Scream-Free Parenting by Hal Edward Runkel
• Farrar, Straus & Giroux: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (Jesus’ Son), The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoag, Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano
• Houghton Mifflin: Exit Ghost by Philip Roth (Everyman), Maynard and Jennica by Rudolph Delson, The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss (Wild Life), and Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
• Clarion: Beanball by Gene Fehler
• Kingfisher: Tree Shaker: The Story of Nelson Mandela by Bill Keller and Zodiac Girls: Discount Diva by Cathy Hopkins
• Penguin: The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, Lottery by Patricia Wood, How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill, Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell, and The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
• Grove/Atlantic: The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman and The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong (The Great Transformation)
• Harcourt: A Slave No More: The Emancipation of John Washington and Wallace Turnage by David W. Blight and The Spanish Bow by Andromeda Romano-Lox

It’s May already - how time flies, alas.

Here are the titles reviewed in our web-only, freely accessible Xpress Reviews section.

Xpress Reviews for Week of May 1, 2007
** - means that it is a starred title

FICTION
Conroy, Robert. 1945. Ballantine.

**Ignatius, David. Body of Lies. Norton.

**Koontz, Dean. The Good Guy. Bantam.

**Los Angeles Noir. Akashic.

Miner, Valerie. After Eden. Univ. of Oklahoma.

Skloot, Floyd. Patient 002. Rager Media.

NONFICTION
After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age. Smithsonian: HarperCollins. 2007. 256p. ed. by Martin Collins.

Bego, Mark. Billy Joel: The Biography. Thunder’s Mouth: Avalon, dist. by Publishers Group West.

Carr, Matthew. The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism, from the Assassination of Tsar Alexander II to Al-Qaeda. New Pr, dist. by Norton.

Cliff, Nigel. The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama and Death in Nineteenth-Century America. Random.

Cruise, Jorge. The 3-Hour Diet™ Cookbook: Lose up to 10 Pounds in the First 14 Days. Collins: HarperCollins.

**Gura, Trisha. Lying in Weight: The Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women. HarperCollins.

Kolata, Gina. Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss—and the Myths and Realities of Dieting. Farrar.

**Morwood, Mike & Penny van Oosterzee. A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the “Hobbits” of Flores, Indonesia. Smithsonian: HarperCollins.

AUDIO
Binchy, Maeve. Whitethorn Woods. Books on Tape.

Roby, Kimberla Lawson. Love & Lies. Sound Library: BBC Audiobooks America.