Great Author Lineup on Tap for Wi3 Reception

The first full day of educational programming at next month's Third Annual Winter Institute (Wi3) will come to a celebratory conclusion at a reception featuring more than 35 of independent booksellers' favorite authors. Thanks to the support of Wi3's publisher partners, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Friday, January 25, all participants in the American Booksellers Association's education event are invited to enjoy refreshments as they meet the authors who will be on hand to autograph their books.

"We are grateful to our publisher partners for their generosity in providing such a stellar group of authors for this event," said ABA Senior Director of Publisher Initiatives Mark Nichols. "Booksellers are in for a very exciting evening!"

Scheduled to appear at Friday evening's Author Reception at the Louisville Marriott Downtown are:

• Warren Adler, Funny Boys (Overlook)
• Ethan Canin, America, America: A Novel (Random House)
• Alan Cheuse, The Fires: Two Novellas (Literary Ventures Fund/Santa Fe Writers Project)
• Kerry Cohen, Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity (Hyperion)
• Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks (Little, Brown)
• Andre Dubus III, The Garden of Last Days: A Novel (Norton)
• Leif Enger, So Brave, Young and Handsome: A Novel (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Stephen Evans, The Marriage of True Minds (Unbridled Books)
• Nancy Yi Fan, Sword Quest (HarperCollins Children's Books)
• Meredith Hall, Without a Map: A Memoir (Beacon Press)
• Katie Hickman, The Aviary Gate: A Novel (Bloomsbury, dist. by Macmillan)
• Rep. Jay Inslee, Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy (Island Press)
• Hilary Jordan, Mudbound: A Novel (Algonquin)
• Keiko Kasza, Badger's Fancy Meal (Penguin Young Readers Group)
• Jeffrey Kluger, Simplexity: Why Hard Things Are Easy and Easy Things Hard (Hyperion)
• Vincent Lam, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: Stories (Weinstein Books)
• E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks: A Novel (Hyperion Books for Children)
• Stephen Marks, Confessions of a Political Hitman: My Secret Life of Scandal, Corruption, Hypocrisy and Dirty Attacks That Decide Who Gets Elected (and Who Doesn't) (Sourcebooks)
• Jonathan Miles, Dear American Airlines: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin)
• Anson Montgomery, The Golden Path, Volume One: Into the Hollow Earth (Chooseco)
• Kate Morgenroth, They Did It With Love (Plume)
• Carla Neggers, The Angel (MIRA)
• Jack O'Connell, The Resurrectionist (Algonquin)
• Jason Pinter, The Guilty (MIRA)
• Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Norton)
• Laura Joh Rowland, The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte (Overlook)
• Robyn Scott, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood (Penguin Press)
• Marisa Silver, The God of War: A Novel (Simon & Schuster)
• Sasa Stanisic, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (Grove Press)
• Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain (HarperCollins)
• Kim Sunee, Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home (Grand Central)
• Bridget Starr Taylor, The Adventures of Isabel (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky)
• Jack Todd, Sun Going Down: A Novel (Touchstone)
• Daniel Waters, Generation Dead (Hyperion Books for Children)
• Tobias Wolff, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (Knopf)
• Tara Yellen, After Hours at the Almost Home (Unbridled Books)