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  • Friday, June 23, 2023
  • 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM CT
    Kate Robards: The Three Deaths of Willa Stannard
  • 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM CT
    Bonnie Jo Campbell: The Waters: A Novel
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM CT
    Celebrate 20 Years of The Pigeon!
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM CT
    Meredith Rusu: There’s a Yeti in My Tummy
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM CT
    Shawnee Gibbs / Shawnelle Gibbs: Ghost Roast
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Book giveaway: 365 Gays of the Year (Plus 1 for a Leap Year) by Lewis Laney
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Book giveaway: LPBD Amanda Gorman by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Heather Dugan: Beyond the Book Club: Building real community in a digital world
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Joe Coleman Legendary Lead Singer of the Platters
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Karl Stewart: The Legend of See Bird: Kiamichi
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Matt Dragovits: A Tale for Christmas - Zach's Quest
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Richard V. Battle: The Unopened Present
  • 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Swag giveaway: Exclusive Frances Lincoln 40 tote bag + books!
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM CT
    Victoria Gilbert: A Cryptic Clue
  • 6:00 PM – 6:45 PM CT
    Signing - Kimberly Wilson: A PENNY'S WORTH
  • 6:00 PM – 6:50 PM CT
    Joseph Coelho book signing - One Little Word
  • 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Dave Scheidt, Wrapped Up
  • 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Eliot Schrefer: QUEER DUCKS
  • 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Gabi Burton: SING ME TO SLEEP
  • 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Jen St. Jude: IF TOMORROW DOESN'T COME
  • 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Joanna Ho: THE SILENCE THAT BINDS US signing
  • 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Trang Thanh Tran: SHE IS A HAUNTING
  • 6:15 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Katherine Roy: Making More: How Life Begins
  • 6:15 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Yuval Zommer: The Big Book of Nature Art
  • 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM CT
    Book giveaway: Here and Queer by Rowan Ellis
  • Saturday, June 24, 2023
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM CT
    Sherri Winston, THE BRAID GIRLS
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Adam Wallace: A Very Dinosaur Birthday
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Laurie Halse Anderson: Shout
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Sabaa Tahir: All My Rage
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Sy Montgomery: THE BOOK OF TURTLES signing
  • 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Gary Jansen: Remember Us With Smiles
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Amber Raymond: I Have Choices (The Power of Thought)
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    David Petrovic and Sandy Petrovic: Expect A Miracle: Understanding and Living with Autism
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Marcie May: The Adventures of Penny & Tubs
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Matt Dragovits: A Tale for Christmas: Zach's Quest
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Patricia Davison: Jack Black
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Renee Goodwin: GG Cleans House – Learning Teamwork
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Shreya Gupta: Flamingo Feet
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    R.G. Taylor: Spike and the Holiday Parade
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Swag giveaway: Exclusive Frances Lincoln 40 tote bag + books!
  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Mayo Clinic Press Kids and Alicia the Dog: Helping Paws Academy
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Genevieve Valentine: Two Graves
  • 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM CT
    Kelsey James: THE WOMAN IN THE CASTELLO
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Alana Tyson and London Ladd: My Red White and Blue
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    AMI POLONSKY, author of WORLD MADE OF GLASS
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Fraco Aureliani/ Catherine Satrun/ Sarah Satrun: Fae and the Moon
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Frank Sennett: Shadow State
  • 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM CT
    Signing - David Ferraro: THE ALCHEMY OF MOONLIGHT
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Frederick L. Jones and Tony Dawkins from Saturday AM
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    John Cho: Troublemaker
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Kevin O'Brien: THE ENEMY AT HOME
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Laurie Halse Anderson/Ashes
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Michaela Goade: Berry Song
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Beth Bacon: The Panda Cub Swap
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Jessica Willis Fisher, Unspeakable
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Pepper Basham: Positively, Penelope
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Robert Genetski: Is There Evidence for God?: An Economist Searches for Answers
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Shaun Hayes: The Gray Choice: Lessons on My Journey from Big-Time Banking to the Big House (and Back)
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Sherri Winston: LOTUS BLOOM AND THE AFRO REVOLUTION, SHARK TEETH
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Signing - Sy Montgomery: OF TIME AND TURTLES
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Wendy Walker: What Remains. In-booth book signing at Blackstone booth #3022
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Zack Kaplan: Break Out (Graphic Novel) - Saturday
  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Alex Teplish: Survivor : Aron's Story (Graphic Novel & Interactive Virtual Museum)
  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Don Helin: Twins (Military Thriller)
  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Edy Nathan author of It's Grief: The Dance of Self-Discovery Through Trauma and Loss
  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Steve Physioc: The Walls of Lucca
  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Steve Physioc: Walls of Lucca, Above the Walls, Walks in the Wind, Catching the Wind
  • 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Book giveaway: Held by the Land by Leigh Joseph
  • 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Anna Bliss: BONFIRE NIGHT
  • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Dr. Artika R. Tyner: Justice Makes a Difference
  • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Jennie Wood: Paper Planes
  • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Nathan Hill: Wellness
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Shirin Shamsi: Zahra's Blessing
  • 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM CT
    Guy Brown: How Cats Say I Love You and Look Up To See
  • 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM CT
    Angela Joy and Janelle Washington/CHOOSING BRAVE
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Annie Cathryn: The Friendship Breakup
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Father and His Son Author Book Signing
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Ralph Shayne: Hour of Need
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Victoria Gilbert: A Cryptic Clue
  • 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    David Hu: The P Word
  • 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    Jas Hammonds/WE DESERVE MONUMENTS
  • 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    Larry Hilton, author of Streets of Tears
  • 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    Samira Ahmed: Hollow Fires
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Annie Wu: Two Graves
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Baptiste Paul & Jacqueline Alcántara: Climb On! & The Field
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Charles Waters and Traci Sorell: Mascot
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Dr. La Verne Ford Wimberly: My Sunday Best
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Jen Ferguson: THE SUMMER OF BITTER AND SWEET signing
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Johnny Teague: The Lost Diary of Anne Frank
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Lynn Austin: Long Way Home
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Ray Xu: Alterations
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Signing - Jean Kwok: THE LEFTOVER WOMAN
  • 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT
    Ashley Belote: Listen Up Louella
  • 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT
    Dave Mason - EO-N (Thriller)
  • 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT
    Davinder Kaur: Forced to Marry Him: A Lifetime of Tradition and the Will to Break It
  • 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT
    Heather Dugan: Beyond the Book Club: Building real community in a digital world
  • 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    A.L. Grazidea/ICEBREAKER
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Alli Frank & Asha Youmans: The Better Half
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Chad Corrie: Shadow Regent (Graphic Novel) and Sons of Ashgard (Graphic Novel) - Saturday
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    There Are (No) Stupid Questions in Science: Leah Elson. In-booth book signing at Blackstone booth #3022
  • 12:00 PM – 12:20 PM CT
    Edy Nathan author of It's Grief: The Dance of Self-Discovery Through Trauma and Loss
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM CT
    Kiel Phegley: Strikers
  • 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM CT
    Angeline Boulley/WARRIOR GIRL UNEARTHED
  • 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM CT
    Author Montana Wakefield: Chasing Time (Adrielle Maddox)
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Art Baltazar:Yahgz The Craynobi Tales Volume 1
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Daniel Kraus/1-2-3-4, I Declare a Thumb War (Graveyard Girls: Book #1)
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Doug Greco: To Find A Killer - The Homophobic Murders of Norma and Maria Hurtado and the LGBT Rights Movement
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Joel A. Sutherland: House of Ash and Bone
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Kitt Thomas: My Fade is Fresh
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Liza Ferneyhough: Nana, Nenek & Nina
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Robert Genetsk: Is There Evidence for God?: An Economist Searches for Answers
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Steven Graham Jones: My Heart is a Chainsaw, The Babysitter Lives, Don't Fear the Reaper, Earthdivers
  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM CT
    Cancelled: Julianne Stanz: Braving the Thin Places
  • 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Jerry Craft: SCHOOL TRIP signing
  • 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Richard V. Battle: The Unopened Present
  • 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Van Jensen/ARCA, Pinocchio Vampire Slayer, Two Dead, Walk Together
  • 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Book giveaway: Advance reader copy of Brilliant Bites by Maegan Brown
  • 12:30 PM – 12:50 PM CT
    Steve Physioc: Walls of Lucca, Above the Walls, Walks in the Wind, Catching the Wind
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM CT
    Kyle Higgins, Cherish Chen, & Melissa Flores: The Massive-Verse
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM CT
    Marisa Moore: Plant Love Kitchen
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM CT
    Signing - Ally Carter: THE BLONDE IDENTITY
  • 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM CT
    Traci Sorell: Contenders
  • 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM CT
    Becca Kinzer: Dear Henry, Love Edith
  • 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM CT
    Ben Clanton: A Super Scary Narwhalloween
  • 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM CT
    Eoin Colfer/ JUNIPER'S CHRISTMAS
  • 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM CT
    Joseph Coelho: Courage Out Loud, One Little Word, and Poetry Prompts
  • 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM CT
    Kelly Yang/Finally Seen
  • 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM CT
    Meredith Rusu: There’s a Yeti in My Tummy
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Bethany Turner: Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Cancelled: Keith Carreiro: The Immortality Wars
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Herbie J Pilato - Retro Active Television: An In-Depth Perspective on Classic TV’s Social Circuitry
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Joe Coleman: (former lead singer of The Platters) - My Time to Shine
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Karl Stewart - Getting the Green Light: Finding Inspiration
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Len McBride: America's Harvest
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Rick Robinson - A Fish Ate My Homework: A Beginner's Guide to Fly Fishing
  • 1:30 PM CT
    Nikkolas Smith: Born on the Water
  • 1:30 PM – 1:50 PM CT
    Mariama Lockington/IN THE KEY OF US
  • 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Meet the Rainbow Fish!
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Amy Chu: Carmilla: The First Vampire (Graphic Novel)
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Leah Johnson, Ellie Engle Saves Herself
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Whitney Moran: I Want to Build a Seahouse
  • 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM CT
    Jennie Wood: Paper Planes
  • 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Hannah Batsel: The Knight of Little Import
  • 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Harmony Becker/HIMAWARI HOUSE
  • 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Rajani LaRocca: The Secret of the Dragon Gems & A Vaccine is Like a Memory
  • 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM CT
    Cindy Morgan: The Year of Jubilee
  • 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM CT
    Signing - Alex Brown: DAMNED IF YOU DO
  • 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM CT
    Taryn Souders- The Mystery of Radcliffe Riddle – In booth signing at – VIRCO INC - Booth #2234
  • 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM CT
    Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile: Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice
  • 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM CT
    Art Baltazar: YAHGZ The Craynobi Tales Signing
  • 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM CT
    Ashley Belote - Author/Illustrator The Me Tree, A Partridge in the We Tree, Listen Up Louella
  • 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM CT
    Gary Jansen: Remember Us With Smiles
  • 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM CT
    Guy Brown: How Cats Say I Love You
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Gina L. Maxwell: The Dark King
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Jasmine Warga: A ROVER'S STORY
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Jeneva Rose: You Shouldn't Have Come Here. In-booth book signing at Blackstone booth #3022
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Kraig Kann: Can You Get Our Attention?
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Michael Hyacinthe, Kevin & Stephanie Kammeraad: Wimee Creates with Vehicles and Colors
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Raissa Figueroa & Nina Mata: We Are One
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Sarah Anne Carter: Orphan Wish Island
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Signing - Wanda Morris: ANYWHERE YOU RUN
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Tillie Walden: Clementine Book Two
  • 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Author Montana Wakefield: “Chasing Time (Adrielle Maddox YA series )
  • 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Daniel Boyd: WrestleDreamia: A Boy's Strange Journey Into The Squared Circle
  • 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Hannah Templer/Cosmoknights, Cosmoknights 2, Flung out of Space
  • 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Larry Hilton: Streets of Tears
  • 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Book giveaway: Anti-Racist Art Activities for Kids by The Anti-Racist Art Teachers
  • 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM CT
    Davinder Kaur, the award-winning author of Forced to Marry Him: A Lifetime of Tradition and the Will to Break It
  • 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM CT
    Cancelled: Keith Carreiro, Author of The Immortality Wars
  • 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Meet the Rainbow Fish!
  • 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM CT
    Len McBride, America’s Harvest
  • 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM CT
    Dave Mason - EO-N (Thriller)
  • 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM CT
    Don Helin - Twins (Military Thriller)
  • 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM CT
    Herbie J Pilato - Retro Active Television: An In-Depth Perspective on Classic TV’s Social Circuitry
  • 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM CT
    Jason Reynolds & Jason Griffin/Ain't Burned All the Bright
  • 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM CT
    Richard Battle - Made in America by AmeriCANS Not AmeriCANTS
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Cancelled: Keith Carreiro: The Immortality Wars
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Cecil Castellucci: Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories Volume 1 (Graphic Novel) and Shifting Earth (Graphic Novel) - Saturday
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Linda Magoon: Live Free and Hike: Finding Grace, Healing, and Self-Discovery Atop New Hampshire’s 48 White Mountain Summits
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Michael Tyler: The Smallest Spot of a Dot
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Rajani LaRocca: MIRROR TO MIRROR signing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Rob Smat: Power to the Players - The Real Gamestop Story and Why Its Only Getting Started
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    X. Fang: Dim Sum Palace
  • 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Angela Halgrimson: Yeti Needs a Haircut
  • 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Laura Khoury: The Tale of Mallory Mouse: From Foster Care to Adoption
  • 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    S Alston: I AM Mighty Me (Mighty Me Series for Children)
  • 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Sheila Alston: I AM Mighty Me (Mighty Me Series Book 1)
  • 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Tracy Mattes: Church Dog and The Girl in the Mirror
  • 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM CT
    Rebecca Yarros: Fourth Wing
  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Diana Sudyka, author and illutstrator of LITTLE LAND
  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Meet the Rainbow Fish!
  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Rebecca Keller: You Should Have Known
  • 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM CT
    Kristen Schroeder: ALIEN TOMATO
  • 3:30 PM – 4:20 PM CT
    Robert Genetski, Is There Evidence for God?: An Economist Searches for Answers
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    Pornsak Pichetshote: The Good Asian: 1936 Edition
  • 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM CT
    Claudia Guadalupe Martinez: Not a Monster
  • 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM CT
    Daniel Boyd -Miss Dirt Turtle's Garden Club
  • 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM CT
    Joe Coleman (former lead singer of The Platters) - My Time to Shine
  • 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM CT
    Kraig Kann - Can You Get OUR Attention?
  • 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM CT
    Rick Robinson - A Fish Ate My Homework: A Beginner's Guide to Fly Fishing
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Book giveaway: Advance reader copy of The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful by Milo Rossi
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Herbie J Pilato - Retro Active Television: An In-Depth Perspective on Classic TV’s Social Circuitry
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Johnny Teague: The Lost Diary of George Washington
  • 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM CT
    Meet the Rainbow Fish!
  • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    AMELIA BRUNSKILL, author of WOLFPACK
  • Sunday, June 25, 2023
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM CT
    Natalia Sylvester: BREATHE AND COUNT BACK FROM TEN signing
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Court Stevens: Last Girl Breathing
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Ashley Belote: The Me Tree
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Rick Robinson Award-Winning Thriller Author of Opposition Research
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Stennetta Anthony: Ella Learns to Dance
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Book giveaway: Advance reader copy of Cooking with the CrunchBros by Jeff and Jordan Kim
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Swag giveaway: Exclusive Frances Lincoln 40 tote bag + books!
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM CT
    Kraig Kann - Can You Get OUR Attention?
  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    KEIR GRAFF, author of MINERVA KEEN'S DETECTIVE CLUB
  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Loris Lora and Anika Aldamuy Denise: PHENOMENAL AOC signing
  • 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM CT
    Meet the Rainbow Fish!
  • 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM CT
    Karina González and Krystal Quiles/The Coquíes Still Sing: A Story of Home, Hope, and Rebuilding
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Anya Davidson: Night and Dana
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM CT
    Sue Burke: Dual Memory
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Liz Lee Heinecke book signing - The Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Ecology for Kids
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Lucy Noland and SJ Russell: To Bird or Not to Bird; To Snail or Not to Snail
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Marcie May - The Adventures of Penny & Tubs
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Marla Frazee/In Every Life
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Montana Wakefield: Author of "Chasing TIme" (Adrielle Maddox YA series)
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Chad Corrie: Shadow Regent (Graphic Novel) and Sons of Ashgard (Graphic Novel) - Sunday
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Lauren Thoman: I'll Stop The World
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Meet author and kitchen pantry scientist Liz Lee Heinecke!
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Rea Frey: The Other Year
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Sonora Reyes: THE LESBIANA'S GUIDE TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Vanessa Miller: The Light On Halsey Street
  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Alex Teplish: Survivor : Aron's Story (Graphic Novel & Interactive Virtual Museum)
  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Patricia J. Murphy: God Is Everywhere (Wise Words for Little Ones Series)
  • 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Meet the Rainbow Fish!
  • 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    Signing - Brooke Hartman: PEGA SISTERS GO TO CAMP
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Dr. Ronnie Gladden: White Girl Within: Letters of Self-Discovery Between a Transgender and Transracial Black Man and His Inner Female
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Mia Wenjen: Food for the Future
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Nikkolas Smith: Black Panther Wakanda Forever: The Courage to Dream
  • 10:45 AM – 11:15 AM CT
    Ann Jacobus: The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent
  • 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM CT
    Samantha Edwards: A Tale as Tall as Jacob
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Alice B. McGinty: Feasts and Festivals Around the World & Pancakes to Parathas
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Daniel Kraus: Wrath
  • 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    Adriane Doherty: Sweet Dreams Chicago
  • 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    Amina Luqman-Dawson: Freewater
  • 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    James Ransome/On Her Wings
  • 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    Matt Dragovits - Zach's Quest: A Tale for Christmas
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Anitra Rowe Schulte & Christopher Denise: Willow and Bunny
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Court Stevens, Last Girl Breathing
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Elaine Dimopoulos: The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Johnnie Christmas: SWIM TEAM signing
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Mac Smith: Scurry
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Martin Lemelman: The Miracle Seed
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Mary Wissinger Women in Engineering, Women in Medicine, and Women in Botany
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Randy O'Brien: Gettysburg by Morning
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Raymond Arroyo: The Unexpected Light of Thomas Alva Edison
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Signing - Piper Huguley: BY HER OWN DESIGN
  • 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT
    Daniel Boyd: Tavey's First Hunt
  • 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT
    Don Helin author of Award-Winning Political Thriller, Missing
  • 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CT
    Karl Stewart: The Seventh Cruise (WWII Novel)
  • 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Meet the Rainbow Fish!
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Cecil Castellucci: Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories Volume 1 (Graphic Novel) and Shifting Earth (Graphic Novel) - Sunday
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Gillian McDunn: WHEN SEA BECOMES SKY
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT
    Van Jensen/ARCA, Pinocchio Vampire Slayer, Two Dead, Walk Together
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM CT
    Francie Dekker: Our World of Dumplings
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM CT
    Kao Kalia Yang and Rachel Wada: From the Tops of the Trees
  • 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM CT
    Donna Barba Higuera - Alebrijes
  • 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM CT
    Friends & Fiction: Patti Callahan Henry: The Secret Book of Flora Lea, Kristin Harmel: The Paris Daughter, Kristy Woodson Harvey: The Summer of Songbirds, Mary Kay Andrews: Bright Lights, Big Christmas
  • 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM CT
    Vashti Harrison: Big
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Art Baltazar:Yahgz The Craynobi Tales Volume 1 Sunday June 25th 2023
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Deke Moulton: Don't Want to Be Your Monster
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    Nikkolas Smith: THAT FLAG signing
  • 12:30 PM – 12:50 PM CT
    Meet the Rainbow Fish!
  • 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    APRIL HARRISON, illustrator of H IS FOR HARLEM
  • 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM CT
    Mystery, Suspense, Thrills: Five acclaimed Young Adult authors sign their adventurous forthcoming titles!
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM CT
    Kyle Starks: I Hate This Place
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM CT
    Signing - Lori Rader-Day: THE DEATH OF US
  • 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM CT
    Lily Anderson/SCOUT'S HONOR
  • 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM CT
    Ashley Hope Pérez: Out of Darkness
  • 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM CT
    Keah Brown signs Secret Summer Promise (Levine Querido)
  • 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM CT
    Mary Wissinger: Women in Engineering, Women in Medicine, Women in Botany
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Dare Coulter, illustrator of AN AMERICAN STORY
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Ellen Oh and Linda Sue Park: YOU ARE HERE
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Kemper Donovan, The Busy Body
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Nate Davenport & Luke Freshwater: Bryson the Brave Bison
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT
    Ruth Spiro: Baby Loves Coding
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Olivia Goodreau: But She Looks Fine - From Illness to Activism
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Hannah Templer/Cosmoknights, Cosmoknights 2, Flung out of Space
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Heather Dugan: The Friendship Upgrade
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Joe Coleman (former lead singer of The Platters) - My Time to Shine
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Marcie May - The Adventures of Penny & Tubs
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Steven Graham Jones: My Heart is a Chainsaw, The Babysitter Lives, Don't Fear the Reaper, Earthdivers
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM CT
    Zack Kaplan: Break Out (Graphic Novel) - Sunday
  • 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM CT
    Monique Gray Smith: Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults
  • 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM CT
    Signing - Loretta Ellsworth: TANGLE-KNOT
  • 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM CT
    Karl Stewart - The Green Light
  • 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM CT
    Thien Pham/Family Style
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Ben Clanton: A Super Scary Narwhalloween
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Brian Pinkney: HEY OTTER! HEY BEAVER! signing
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Katherine Reay: A Shadow In Moscow
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Nancy Bo Flood: Walking Grandma Home
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Pintip Dunn: Malice
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Shadra Strickland: JUMP IN!
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    Signing - Ehigbor Okosun: FORGED BY BLOOD
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    W. Maxwell Prince: Art Brut, Ice Cream Man
  • 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Matt Dragovits: Zach's Quest: A Tale for Christmas
  • 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM CT
    CORI DOERRFELD, author and illustrator of BENEATH
  • 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM CT
    Vicki Johnson: Molly's Tuxedo
  • 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM CT
    Heather Dugan - The Friendship Upgrade
  • 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM CT
    Joseph Coelho poetry performance and book signing - One Little Word
  • 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM CT
    Minh Lê: Enlighten Me
  • 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM CT
    Sherri Duskey Rinker: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    AJ Coleman: Keep Those Feet Moving: A Widower’s Eight-Step Guide to Coping with Grief and Thriving Against All Odds
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey: Link + Hud: Heroes By A Hair
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Rachel McMillan: The Castle Keepers
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
    Rafer Roberts/Mike Norton: The Rock Gods of Jackson, Tennessee (Graphic Novel)
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    Ibi Zoboi: NIGERIA JONES signing
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    Jeff Lemire: Fishflies, Bone Orchard Mythos
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT
    Signing - Aida Rodriguez: LEGITIMATE KID
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT
    Jackie Khalilieh: Something More
  • Monday, June 26, 2023
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM CT
    Rachel Elliott: THE REAL RILEY MAYES signing
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
    Book giveaway: LPBD Amanda Gorman by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
  • 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM CT
    Katie Siegel: CHARLOTTE ILLES IS NOT A DETECTIVE
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Dustin Brady: World's Worst Time Machine
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Liz Lee Heinecke: The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Ecology for Kids
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Hannah Templer/Cosmoknights, Cosmoknights 2, Flung out of Space
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT
    Signing - Kim van Alkemade: COUNTING LOST STARS
  • 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM CT
    Kemper Donovan: THE BUSY BODY
  • 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM CT
    Heather Redmond: DEATH AND THE SISTERS
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT
    Sergio Ruzzier: FISH AND WAVE signing
  • 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    Christopher Denise: Knight Owl
  • 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    The Hammock - Inspirations From My Heart to Yours
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Art Baltazar:Yahgz The Craynobi Tales Volume 1
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
    Melissa Iwai: GIGI AND OJIJI signing
  • 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM CT
    Jana Tropper: Animal Rescue Friends
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM CT
    Sylvia Notini: JUST A GIRL signing
  • 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM CT
    Claribel Ortega, FRIZZY
  • 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM CT
    Federico Erabia, signs Pedro & Daniel
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
    MATTHEW CORDELL, author of the CORNBREAD & POPPY series