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Harbor Springs Festival of the Book 2025

The list for the 2025 Harbor Springs Festival of the Book presenters coming September 26th through 28th!

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  • Alafair Burke is the Edgar-nominated New York Times best-selling author of fourteen suspense novels, including The Ex, The Wife, The Better Sister, and Find Me, and co-author of the best-selling Under Suspicion series. A former prosecutor, Burke is…
    Book, 2025New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. — FIC BUR
  • Jannie Ho was born in Hong Kong, raised in Philadelphia, and studied illustration at Parsons School of Design in New York. After working as a graphic designer and art director at fun places such as Nickelodeon, Scholastic, and TIME Magazine for…
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : Holiday House, 2025. — J GN HO
  • Nnedi Okorafor is an award-winning, New York Times-bestselling writer of mostly science fiction and fantasy for both children and adults. Her debut novel, Zahrah the Windseeker, won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Nnedi…
    Book, 2025New York : First Second, 2025. — J GR NVL OKOR
  • Joseph Finder is the New York Times best-selling author of sixteen suspense novels, including House on Fire, The Fixer, and Suspicion. Two of his novels have been adapted into major motion pictures—Paranoia (starring Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman)…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025]. — FIC FIND
  • Allegra Goodman is the author of six novels, including the national bestseller Sam, which was a “Read with Jenna” book club selection; two short story collections; and a novel for young readers. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and…
    Book, 2025New York : The Dial Press, [2025]. — FIC GOOD
  • Gregg Hurwitz is the author of the New York Times best-selling Orphan X novels. Critically acclaimed, his novels have been international bestsellers, graced top ten lists, and published in thirty-three languages. Additionally, he’s sold scripts to…
    Book, 2025New York : Minotaur Books, 2025. — FIC HURW
  • owyn Ivey was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. She worked for nearly a decade as a bookseller at independent Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska, and prior to that, as a reporter for the local newspaper,…
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, 2025. — FIC IVE
  • Karen Russell is the author of six fiction books, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Born and raised…
    Book, 2025New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. — FIC RUS
  • Shelby Van Pelt was an instant New York Times bestseller and a “Read With Jenna” book club pick in 2022 with her debut novel Remarkably Bright Creatures. In 2023, she was awarded the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Ecco, ©2022 — FIC VANP
  • The Containment

    Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North

    Adams, Michelle, 1963-
    Michelle Adams is the Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. The former co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, she served on the Biden administration’s…
    Book, 2025New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2025] — 344.7307 ADAM
  • By the Fire We Carry

    the Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land

    Nagle, Rebecca,
    Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist and citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is the author of By The Fire We Carry: The Generation-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land and the writer and host of the podcast This Land. Her writing on Native…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — 323.1197 NAGL
  • The Wide Wide Sea

    Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

    Sides, Hampton
    Hampton Sides, a narrative historian, is best known for his gripping nonfiction adventure stories set in war or depicting epic expeditions of exploration. He is the author of the best-selling histories Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound On…
    Book, 2024New York : Doubleday, [2024] — 910.92 SID
  • Allie Millington is a New York Times Bestselling author of books for the young and young at heart. Her debut middle grade novel, Olivetti, was an instant national bestseller and received a glowing review by Tom Hanks. Allie released two new books…
    Book, 2025New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2025. — J FIC MILL
  • Rosanne Parry is the author of the best-selling Voice of the Wilderness novels and nonfiction picture books. She grew up in Oregon, loving the wild places and fabulous libraries that surrounded her. Parry sells books at Annie Blooms and writes in…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — J FIC PARR
  • Brianne Farley is the author of Secret Tree Fort and Ike's Incredible Ink. She illustrated Dozens of Doughnuts by Carrie Finison, the Charlotte the Scientist books by Camille Andros, and Building Books by Megan Wagner Lloyd. Farley studied creative…
    Book, New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2025. — JE FARL
  • Travis Jonker graduated from Petoskey High School and is now the school librarian for Dorr Elementary (Dorr, MI). He is the author of The Very Last Castle, Blue Floats Away, The Ship in the Window, and Caboose, as well as the author-illustrator of…
    Book, 2025New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2025. — JE JONK
  • Rebecca Lee Kunz grew up in Oklahoma and went on to earn a BFA in painting from the College of Santa Fe. Kunz is an artist and owns Tree of Life Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she runs her business and raises three daughters. A citizen of the…
    Book, 2024Hoboken, NJ : Levine Querido, 2024. — JE ROGE
  • Nick Brooks is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and musician from Washington, DC. His first YA novel, Promise Boys, debuted in January 2023 and was the largest publishing deal for a Young Adult debut in history. The book received critical acclaim,…
    Book, 2025New York : Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 2025. — YA FIC BROO
  • Death in the Jungle

    Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

    Fleming, Candace
    Candace Fleming is the prolific and versatile award-winning author of many books for children and young adults. School Library Journal praised her most recent title, Murder Among Friends, which received four-starred reviews, as a "chilling…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Anne Schwartz Books, [2025]. — YA 988.11 FLEM