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Contents Non-Fiction New Power by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms Imagine It Forward by Beth Comstock The Future Is History by Masha Gessen The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes Belonging by Nora Krug Into The Hands of the Soldiers by David Kirkpatrick The Old World Is Dying by Anand Gopal Endurance by Scott Kelly Patriot Number One by Lauren Hilgers Among the Living and the Dead by Inara Verzemnieks The Internationalists by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro The Captain Class by Sam Walker Big Game by Mark Leibovich The New Analog by Damon Krukowski Fiction The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li Green by Sam Graham-Felsen The Windfall by Diksha Basu Backlist and Forthcoming from Ron Rash Rights Held by the Publisher God by Reza Aslan Atlas Obscura King Zeno by Nathaniel Rich Selected Backlist

Non-Fiction New Power How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World and How to Make it Work For You

In this indispensable guide to navigating the twenty-first century, two visionary thinkers reveal the unexpected ways power is changing--and how "new power" is reshaping politics, business, and life.

Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in our chaotic, connected age? In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms confront the biggest stories of our time--the rise of mega-platforms like Facebook and Uber; the out-of-nowhere victories of Obama and Trump; the unexpected emergence of movements like #MeToo--and reveal what's really behind them: the rise of "new power."

For most of human history, the rules of power were clear: power was something to be seized and then jealously guarded. This "old power" was out of reach for the vast majority of people. But our ubiquitous connectivity makes possible a different kind of power. "New power" is made by many. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It works like Doubleday (April 3, 2018) a current, not a currency--and it is most forceful when it surges. The Editor: Kris Puopolo battle between old and new power is determining who governs us, how Material: Finished book we work, and even how we think and feel.

New Power shines fresh light on the cultural phenomena of our day and uncovering the new power forces that made them huge. Drawing on examples from business, activism, and pop culture, Heimans and Timms explain how to build new power and channel it successfully.

In an era increasingly shaped by new power, this groundbreaking book offers us a new way to understand the world--and our role in it.

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UK: Macmillan | Brazil: Intrinseca | China: CITIC | France: Plon | Germany: Siedler| Holland: Business Contact | Japan: Diamond | Korea: Business Books Co. | Taiwan: CommonWealth Magazine Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms Jeremy Heimans is the co-founder and CEO of Purpose, a company specializing in building social movements. He was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2012.

Henry Timms is executive director of the 92nd Street Y. In 2014 he was named the NonProfit Times Influencer of the Year and in 2015, one of Crain’s New York Business 40 Under 40.

PRAISE FOR NEW POWER:

“Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms’ book on new power could not be coming at a better time. With hyperconnectivity enabling new forms of leadership and mobilization, this book challenges all of us to think about the values we hold and how we can all be part of building a more open, equitable, and participatory world.” —Richard Branson

“The networked age has revolutionized the way the public engages with institutions and organizations. New Power is an essential and extremely insightful guide for anyone who wants to maximize the opportunities for progress and impact in today’s new tightly connected world.”- —Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn

“A must-read, New Power is a gift to our movements. It’s not just about going viral—it’s about connecting millions of people to roll up our sleeves and create the changes we long for.” —Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter

“This book will inform and inspire all those wanting to make change . . . and achieve a goal against all odds.” —Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a UN Messenger of Peace

“This fascinating book will transform your understanding of how to gain power—and how to use it for good.” —Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take

“If you do not understand new power, you will not fare well in the new networked world of the 21st century. It’s that simple.” —Anne-Marie Slaughter, president & CEO, New America

“A wonderfully incisive contribution that not only explains how the dynamics of power are changing, but also provides the tools—and the confidence—to harness those changes to build businesses, spread ideas, and make a better world.” —Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever Imagine it Forward Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change From one of today’s foremost innovation leaders, an inspiring and practical guide to mastering change in the face of relentless uncertainty.

The world will never be slower than it is right now, says Beth Comstock, global thought leader and the former Vice Chair and head of marketing and innovation at General Electric. But confronting the relentless pace of change is hard. Employees get downsized; companies find themselves disrupted as challengers steal away customers. To thrive in today’s world, every one of us has to become a change-maker.

In Imagine It Forward, Comstock shares lessons from a thirty- year career as the change-maker-in-chief at GE. In a candid and personal narrative, Beth describes her successes and failures from the front lines of business, across industries ranging from media Currency (Sept. 18, 2018) to health, finance to the Industrial Internet. She demonstrates Editor: Roger Scholl how she helped to turn a process-heavy, risk-averse culture into one that increasingly embraced transparency, adaptability, Material: Edited Ms. iteration, and discovery. And she shows how each one of us can become a “change maker”—an instigator of change –by giving ourselves permission to imagine a better way.

For Comstock, confronting today’s accelerating change requires an extraordinary degree of problem-solving, collaboration, and forward-thinking leadership. Imagine It Forward masterfully points the way for leaders large and small.

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UK: Ebury Press | China: Booky | Korea: Mirae | Taiwan: Commonwealth Beth Comstock Beth Comstock is the former Vice Chair of GE, where for twenty-five years she led GE's efforts to accelerate new growth. She built GE's Business Innovations and GE Ventures, which develops new businesses, and oversaw the reinvention of GE Lighting. She was named GE’s Chief Marketing Officer in 2003, and served as President of Integrated Media at NBC Universal, from 2006-08, overseeing the company's digital efforts, including the early formation of Hulu. She is a corporate director of Nike. Written about and profiled extensively in the media, she has been named to the Fortune and Forbes lists of the World's Most Powerful Women.

Among the practical takeaways Comstock offers in Imagine It Forward:

·Give yourself permission. Every change maker must learn to give herself permission to push outside expectations and boundaries.

·The power of discovery. Discovery is the process of bringing the outside into your organization. It is about infusing yourself and your team with a spirit of inquiry and curiosity, turning the world into a classroom.

·Find a Spark. Bring in provocateurs to challenge established ways of thinking; they can be a powerful catalyst for change.

·Story Craft. Strategy is a story well told. To innovate successfully, you have to craft a new narrative about what the organization stands for in order to change how people think and act.

“Ideas are rarely the problem,” writes Comstock. “What holds all of us back, really—is fear. It’s the attachment to the old, to ‘What We Know.’” The Future Is History How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Winner of the 2017 National Book Award

Putin’s bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a new strain of autocracy.

Award-winning New Yorker columnist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her world in recent times. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own—as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, Riverhead (Oct. 3, 2017) Editor: Rebecca Saletan sexual and social beings. Material: Finished Book Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the Putin regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today’s terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent,The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time.

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Masha Gessen is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of nine books, including Perfect Rigor, Blood Matters, Ester and Ruzya, and The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy. In her 2012 bestselling book The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, she gave the chilling account of Putin’s rise to the Russian presidency. Gessen has written about Russia, autocracy, L.G.B.T. rights, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump, among others, for The New York Review of Books and the New York Times.

PRAISE FOR THE FUTURE IS HISTORY:

Finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Awards Named a Best Book of 2017 by the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Newsweek

“[Gessen’s] scathing essays in the New York Review of Books warning of President Trump’s flirtation with Putin and his creeping authoritarianism have made her a public intellectual with a viral following. ... This is by far Gessen’s best book, a sweeping intellectual history of Russia over the past four decades, told through a Tolstoyan gallery of characters. ... Ambitious, timely, insightful and unsparing.” —Susan B. Glasser, Washington Post

“Fascinating and deeply felt … Gessen successfully shows how Putin’s Russia has gradually acquired [the characteristics of a totalitarian state], though in muted and less extreme forms.”—Francis Fukuyama, New York Times Book Review

“Masha Gessen is humbly erudite, deftly unconventional, and courageously honest. At this particular historical moment, when we must understand Russia to understand ourselves, we are all very lucky to have her.” —Tim Snyder, author of On Tyranny

“Brilliant and sobering … writing in fluent English, with formidable powers of synthesis and a mordant wit, Gessen follows the misfortunes of four Russians who have lived most of their lives under Putin. … Gessen vividly chronicles the story of a mortal struggle.”—Newsday

The World As It Is A Memoir of the Obama White House From Barack Obama’s closest aide comes a revelatory behind-the- scenes account of his presidency—and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive.

For nearly ten years, Ben Rhodes saw almost everything that happened at the center of the Obama administration—first as a speechwriter, then as deputy national security advisor, and finally as one of Obama's closest friends. He started every morning in the Oval Office, traveled the world with Obama, and was at the center of some of the most consequential and controversial moments of the presidency. Now he tells the full story of his partnership— and, ultimately, friendship—with a man who also happened to be a historic president of the United States.

In The World As It Is, Rhodes shows what it was like to be there— from the early days of the Obama campaign to the final hours Random House (June 12, 2018) of the presidency. This is a rare look inside the most poignant Editor: Andy Ward and consequential moments of the Obama presidency—waiting out the bin Laden raid in the Situation Room, responding to the

Arab Spring, reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran, leading secret negotiations with the Cuban government, and confronting the resurgence of nationalism that culminated in the election of Donald Trump.

This is the most vivid portrayal yet of Obama’s worldview and presidency, that takes you inside the room for conversations with foreign leaders, and an essential record of the forces that shaped the last decade. The World As It Is promises to offer sensational news about Obama and the world.

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UK: The Bodley Head | Holland: De Bezige Bij Ben Rhodes From 2009 to 2017, Ben Rhodes served as deputy national security advisor to President Barack Obama, overseeing the administration’s national security communications, speechwriting, public diplomacy, and global engagement programming. Prior to joining the Obama administration, from 2007 to 2008 Rhodes was a senior speechwriter and foreign policy advisor to the Obama campaign. A native New Yorker, Rhodes has a BA from Rice University and an MFA from New York University.

PRAISE FOR THE WORLD AS IT IS:

“This stylish, beautifully written political memoir reminds us that the local and the universal are intimately braided. Ben Rhodes steps into the river of history and charts a course through some of the most significant and alarming landscapes of our times. In this meditation on story-telling and power, Rhodes helps make sense of the bewildering times we currently inhabit. Alongside President Obama, he shakes us out of the ruts of ordinary perception and manages to find hope in the face of most available evidence.” – Colum McCann

“The World As It Is is a page-turning, unfiltered, altogether human look at Barack Obama’s presidency. Ben Rhodes — one of Obama’s closest and most important advis- ers — opens up the defining issues of the presidency: from the role of race and the rise of conspiracy theories to the hunt for bin Laden, the Syria “red line” debate, and the secret negotiations Ben himself led to normalize ties with Cuba. Insightful, funny, and moving, this is a beautifully observed, essential record of what it was like to be there.” – Samantha Power, Ambassador to the United Nations, 2013-2017, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Problem from Hell

"Ben Rhodes is one of the most brilliant minds and powerful storytellers I’ve ever known. In The World As It Is, he doesn’t just bring you inside the room for the key moments of Obama’s presidency, he captivates you with the journey of an idealistic young staffer who becomes the President’s close friend and advisor – a journey that both cynics and believers will find riveting and hopeful." – Jon Favreau, Speechwriter to President Obama, 2009-2013, founder of Pod Save America Belonging A German Reckons with Home and History A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award- winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family’s wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history.

Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow throughout her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. For Nora, the simple fact of her German citizenship bound her to the Holocaust and its unspeakable atrocities and left her without a sense of cultural belonging. Yet Nora knew little about her own family’s involvement in the war: though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it.

In her late thirties, after twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Returning home, she visits archives, conducts research, Scribner (October 2, 2018) and interviews family members. Her extraordinary quest, spanning Editor: Kathy Belden continents and generations, pieces together her family’s troubling Material: Edited Ms. story and reflects on what it means to be a German of her generation.

Agent: Alexander Jacobs Belonging wrestles with the idea of Heimat, the German word for the place that first forms us, where the sensibilities and identity of one generation pass on to the next. In this highly inventive visual memoir—equal parts graphic novel, family scrapbook, and investigative narrative—Nora Krug draws on letters, archival material, flea market finds, and photographs to attempt to understand what it means to belong to one’s country and one’s family.

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UK: Particular Books | Brazil: Companhia das Letras France: Gallimard | Germany: Penguin | Holland: Balans | Italy: Stile Libero Sweden: Nortstedts | Spain: Salamandra Nora Krug Nora Krug’s drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and Le Monde. Her animations were shown at Sundance, and she is the recipient of fellowships from the Maurice Sendak Foundation, Fulbright, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and of medals from the Society of Illustrators and the New York Art Directors Club. She is an associate professor in the Illustration Program at Parsons School of Design in New York and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BELONGING:

"Belonging is an astoundingly honest book that conducts a devastating - and irresistible - investigation into one family’s struggle with the forces of history. I could not stop reading it, and when I was done, I could not stop thinking about it. By going so deeply into her family’s history, Krug has in some ways written about us all." – Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm

"Nora Krug has created a beautiful visual memoir of a horrific time in history. A time that torments us to this day. Asking questions and searching for the truth, she will not turn away from the legacy of her family and her country. She asks the question of how any of us survive our family history." – Maira Kalman, author and illustrator of And The Pursuit of Happiness and The Principles of Uncertainty Into The Hands of the Soldiers Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East A candid narrative of how and why the Arab Spring sparked, then failed, and the truth about the West's role in that failure and the subsequent military coup that put Sisi in power--from the Middle East correspondent of the New York Times.

In 2011, Egyptians of all sects, ages, and social classes shook off millennia of autocracy, then elected a Muslim Brotherhood president. The 2013 military coup replaced him with a vigorous strongman, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has cracked down on any dissent or opposition with a degree of ferocity Mubarak never dared. What went wrong? Is the Arab world stuck between military and theocratic authoritarianism? And how did Washington manage to be so feckless and reactive?

Egypt has for centuries set in motion every major trend in politics and culture across the Arab world, from independence Viking (August 7, 2018) and Arab nationalism to Islamic modernism, political Islam, and Editor: Wendy Wolf the jihadist thought that led to Al Qaeda and ISIS. The Arab Spring revolts of 2011 spread from Cairo, so people naturally Material: Edited Ms look to its disastrous democratic experiment with cynical exasperation; but they fail to understand the dynamics of the uprising, the hidden story of its failure, and Washington's part in that tragedy. Kirkpatrick arrived in Egypt less than six weeks before the uprising broke out. The book juxtaposes his account of Tahrir Square, the elections, and the eventual coup, with new reporting on the conflicts within the Obama administration over how to handle the tumult.

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"With compelling anecdotes, David D. Kirkpatrick walks us through the labyrinth of Egyptian politics, military rule, the quixotic judicial system, and grassroots feminism. This book is both astute and insightful, and often as comical as it is tragic." —Lynsey Addario, author of It's What I Do

David D. Kirkpatrick is an international New York Times correspondent based in London. From 2011 through 2015 he was the Cairo bureau chief. The Old World Is Dying The Untold Story of America, ISIS, and the Syrian Revolution From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Anand Gopal, a personal exploaration of the Syrian Civil War, a source of profound tragedy and one of the most complex conflicts of our time.

Anand Gopal arrived in Taftanaz, a town in north-west Syria, in 2012, hours after the regime’s tanks had blasted much of it to rubble. Since then, the country has become the nexus of the deadliest multi-state conflict since World War II. The civil war has seen chemical weapons, torture, and slavery, resulted in a death toll of half a million people and rising, caused a global refugee crisis, and contributed to the rise of ISIS.

Yet, Gopal’s experiences in Taftanaz, standing in a square filling with men and women bearing pre- dictatorship flags and revolutionary banners, inspired him to take a different view. Over the next five years, he visited towns and provinces across Syria, where he continued to witness acts of community and resilience: individuals organizing strikes, advocating for women’s rights, sounding the alarm of Assad’s next barrel bomb. But where he found most reason for hope was in an ancient town twenty miles from the Turkish border: Minbej. For two years, without government and state services, Minbej’s citizens established a revolutionary council, the first truly democratic government in Syria’s history. An experiment in hope.

The Old World is Dying tells the story of the revolution from the perspective of this town, whose history serves as a microcosm for the Syrian struggle. At its heart, the book follows the lives of five characters as they experienced the events that unfolded in Minbej, and who make vivid the spirit of revolution, and the reasons for its failure. Through extraordinary reporting and analysis, the book’s characters bring to light untold truths about the Syrian struggle, presenting a powerful challenge to our pre-conceptions about the revolution, Syria, and the Middle-East. Metropolitan Books (2020) Editor: Grigory Tovbis Material: Proposal Agent: Alice Whitwham

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Anand Gopal’s first book, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes, was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and the 2014 National Book Award. His article “The Hell After ISIS” in The Atlantic won a George Polk award for magazine reporting and “The Uncounted,” his recent cover story for New York Times Magazine has been nominated for a Pulitzer and won a National Magazine Award. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia in network analysis and political violence and is a professor at Arizona State’s Center for Religion and Conflict. He speaks Dari, Pashto, and Arabic. Endurance A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery

A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record- breaking year aboard the International Space Station—an account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years.

The veteran of four spaceflights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. Kelly's humanity, compassion, humor, and determination resonate throughout, as he recalls his rough-and-tumble childhood and the youthful inspiration that sparked his astounding career, and as he makes clear his belief that Mars will be the next step in spaceflight. A natural Knopf (October 17, 2017) storyteller and modern-day hero, Kelly has a message of Editor: Jonathan Segal hope that will inspire for generations to come. Material: Finished Book New York Times Bestseller Over 150,000 copies sold Optioned for feature by Sony As featured in the two-part PBS documentary “A Year in Space”

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Scott Kelly is a former military fighter pilot and test pilot, an engineer, a retired astronaut, and a retired U.S. Navy captain. A veteran of four space flights, Kelly commanded the International Space Station (ISS) on three expeditions and was a member of the yearlong mission to the ISS. During the Year in Space mission, he set records for the total accumulated number of days spent in space and for the single longest space mission by an American astronaut.

PRAISE FOR ENDURANCE:

“Captivating, charming . . . . [Kelly] pulls back the curtain separating the myth of the astronaut from its human realities. . . . It is easy to imagine future generations of explorers and daredevils harnessing the lessons and truths within the pages of Endurance as the blueprints for their own trips into the unknown.” —The New York Times Book Review

“[Endurance] is a memoir of the right stuff that will hypnotize any space geek.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Kelly brings life in space alive—the wonder and awe of it, and also the jagged edges, the rough parts of living in confined quarters in an alien element, far from everything familiar and beloved. . . . Endurance, with its honest, gritty descriptions of an unimaginable life, a year off Earth, is as close as most readers will come to making that voyage themselves.” —The Financial Times

“Kelly’s account is insightful, at times humorous, heart-tugging at others. And it’s inspiring enough to change the life of some lost kid, just like The Right Stuff did for him.” —USA Today Patriot Number One American Dreams in Chinatown

The deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City, forging a life between two worlds.

In 2014, in a snow-covered house in Flushing, Queens, a village revolutionary from Southern China considered his options. Zhuang Liehong was the son of a fisherman and the spark that had sent his village into an uproar—pitting residents against a corrupt local government. Under the alias Patriot Number One, he had stoked a series of pro-democracy protests, hoping to change his home for the better. Instead, sensing an impending crackdown, Zhuang and his wife, Little Yan, left their infant son with relatives and traveled to America.

In Patriot Number One, Hilgers follows this dauntless family through a world hidden in plain sight: a byzantine network of employment agencies and language schools, of underground asylum brokers and illegal dormitories that Flushing’s Chinese community relies on Crown (March 20, 1018) for survival. As the irrepressibly opinionated Zhuang and the more pragmatic Little Yan pursue legal status and struggle to reunite with Editor: Rachel Klayman their son, we also meet others piecing together a new life in Flushing. Material: Finished Book Tang, a democracy activist who was caught up in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, is still dedicated to his cause after more than a decade in exile. Karen, a college graduate whose mother imagined a bold American life for her, works part-time in a nail salon as she attends vocational school, and refuses to look backward.

With a novelist’s eye for character and detail, Hilgers captures the joys and indignities of building a life in a new country—and the stubborn allure of the American dream.

PRAISE FOR PATRIOT NUMBER ONE:

“Hilgers… has written a penetrating profile of a man and much more besides: an indelible portrait of his wife and their marriage; a canny depiction of Flushing, Queens; a lucid anatomy of Chinese politics and America’s immigration system. Such a comprehensive project could have easily sprawled across a book twice as long, but Patriot Number One stays close to the people it follows, in a narrative as evocative and engrossing as a novel.” —The New York Times

“[A] clear-eyed, humane look at modern immigration… Hilgers’ narrative intercuts between the dramatic rebellion in Wukan and a vibrant portrait of Flushing’s Chinese diaspora built around fine-grained character studies drawn with equal parts empathy and humor. The result is a quintessentially American story of exile and renewal.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Lauren Hilgers

Lauren Hilgers lived in Shanghai, China for six years. Her articles have appeared in Harper’s, Wired, Businessweek, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in New York with her husband and their daughter.

“With admirable attention to narrative detail, [Hilgers] gives a nuanced portrait of a vibrant working-class immigrant neighborhood…. This excellent book makes a powerful argument for why the U.S. should always remain a place of sanctuary, benefiting immensely from those who arrive from other shores.” —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

“Zhuang and Little Yan jump off the page fully realized; it’s impossible not to root for them and their friends… A highly readable story about starting over in a new land; a must-read for all.” —Library Journal (Starred Review)

"Hilgers captures the small poignant moments of the immigrant experience... Patriot Number One tells a powerful human story about America and the world in 2018." —San Fransisco Chronicle

“A timely, informative book that offers a truthful account of the immigrant and exile experiences in the Chinese-American context. Hilgers captures the lives of her subjects with generosity, nuance, and psychological acuity.” —Ha Jin, author of Waiting, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

“Patriot Number One is a wonderfully intimate portrait of Chinese immigrants. Lauren Hilgers followed her irrepressible protagonist (or rather he followed her) from a village in southern China to Queens, N.Y., and her book is chockablock with fresh observations and humor about both worlds.” —Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy

“With her fluent Chinese and meticulous reporting, Lauren Hilgers has crafted a deeply sympathetic portrait of some of the country’s newest Chinese-Americans.” —Peter Hessler, author of River Town and Oracle Bones Among the Living and the Dead A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe

An exquisite story of war, exile, and reconnection.

"It's long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born... that at some point each year the dead will come home," Inara Verzemnieks writes in this story of war, exile, and reconnection. Raised by her grandparents in the United States, Inara grew up among expatriates, scattering smuggled Latvian sand over the coffins of the dead, singing folk songs about a land she had never visited.

Her grandmother Livija’s stories recalled one true home: the family farm where, during World War II, Livija was separated from her sister, Ausma; they wouldn’t meet W.W. Norton (July 11, 2017) again for more than fifty years. Inara travels to this Editor: Alane Mason remote Latvian village and comes to know Ausma and Material: Finished Book Agent: Alexander Jacobs her traumatic exile to Siberia under Stalin, as she pieces together Livija’s survival through years as a refugee. Weaving these two parts of the family story together, she Rights sold: gives us a profound and cathartic account of loss, survival, and resilience. UK: One | France: Hoebeke

PRAISE FOR AMONG THE LIVING AND THE DEAD:

"Verzemnieks’s account is personal, but by writing about national identity and asylum her book addresses our most urgent political questions. It insists with quiet elegance that, though the past eludes us, we cannot elude our past." —The Guardian

“A highly polished memoir of enormous heart.” — Kirkus (Starred Review) Inara Verzemnieks

Inara Verzemnieks teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa. She has won a Pushcart Prize and a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing.

“Thoughtful and eloquent … intimate and poetic. ... Who doesn’t want to know where they come from? And since Verzemnieks writes so well, who wouldn’t want to accompany her on her journey? ... The obscure, tiny country she describes still occupies the frontier between empires … Verzemnieks is solid on her history. Even more, she offers a model for how to navigate it.”—David Bezmozgis, New York Times Book Review

“The book often has a dreamy quality of reverie or incantation, as Verzemnieks reconstructs, imagines and inhabits other people’s memories and accounts of war and flight. … This book is important. We are now experiencing another global refugee crisis [and] … this exquisitely written book shows how recovery can come generations later through rebuilding connections—to people, the natural world, the past.”—Robin Shulman, Washington Post

“Elegiac … magical … dreamy and nightmarish as a living Grimms’ fairy tale ... The author’s arresting descriptions take in life’s redeeming loveliness as well as its brutality. ... She’s found that magical combination of history and personal history, with a story that she alone could tell.”—Rebekah Denn, Christian Science Monitor

“The astute reportorial sensitivity of a master Eastern European historian like Timothy Snyder, as filtered through the lyric sensibility of a García Márquez, and suffused in the aching nostalgia of a latter-day Proust.”—Lawrence Wechsler, author of The Passion of Poland The Internationalists How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

A bold and provocative history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty transformed the modern world.

On a hot summer afternoon in 1928, the leaders of the world assembled in Paris to outlaw war—for the first time in history. Though the Peace Pact they signed, which failed to prevent the outbreak of the Second World War, has long been either overlooked or dismissed, Yale scholars Hathaway and Shapiro contend that it marked a critical turning point in world history. The treaty, in their telling, helped birth an international order in which disputes between nations no longer need be settled by armed conflict. Simon & Schuster (Sep. 12, 2017) Editor: Ben Loehnen The Internationalists places the Peace Pact in the long Material: Finished Book history of international law from the seventeenth century through the present. It tells of a centuries-long struggle of ideas over the role of war in a just world order, and the little- known thinkers who championed them. Accessible and gripping, this is a landmark work of original scholarschip that speaks eloquently to our present moment—when so many seem to be retreating from the global system this book’s heroes fought so hard to build.

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UK: Allen Lane |China: Social Scienes Academic Press | Germany: Siedler Italy: Neri Pozza | Japan: Bungeishunju | Spain: Tres Puntos Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro Oona A. Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. She has published essays and opinion pieces in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, and Foreign Policy.

Scott J. Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, where he is the Director of the Center for Law and Philosophy.

PRAISE FOR THE INTERNATIONALISTS:

“Among the best and most important books on war I’ve read… It will change the way you remember the twentieth century and read the news in the twenty- first.”—Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now

“Genuine originality is unusual in political history. The Internationalists is an original book. There is something sweet about the fact that it is also a book written by two law professors in which most of the heroes are law professors. Sweet but significant, because one of the points ofThe Internationalists is that ideas matter.”—Louis Menand, The New Yorker

“[The Internationalists] is an impassioned history of how the liberal international order came into being and why it must be defended as never before. ... [An] important book.”—The Economist

“The Internationalists is a fascinating and challenging book, which raises gravely important issues for the present. ... Given the state of the world, The Internationalists has come along at the right moment.”—Financial Times

“Partly a rich history of the emergence of the modern international legal order and partly an empirical study of the change in war the authors say the law helped produce ... indispensable.”—Deborah Pearlstein, Washington Post

“The two authors argue for the historic importance of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, an international agreement usually dismissed by historians as ineffectual and quixotic.”—New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) The Captain Class A New Theory of Leadership

From the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal’s sports section comes a bold new theory of leadership drawn from the elite captains who inspired their teams to achieve extraordinary success.

The sixteen most dominant teams in history have one thing in common: Each had the same type of captain—a singular leader with an unconventional set of skills. Drawing on original interviews with athletes, general managers, coaches, and team-building experts, Walker identifies the seven core qualities of the Captain Class—from extreme doggedness and emotional control to tactical aggression and the courage to stand apart. Told through riveting accounts of some of the Random House (May 16, 2017) most pressure-soaked moments in sports history, The Editor: Andy Ward Captain Class will challenge your assumptions of what Material: Finished Book inspired leadership looks like.

“One of the best sports business books of 2017”—Sports Illustrated

"The Captain Class is a great read...Most business and leadership books lapse into clichés. This one was fresh."— Jeff Immelt, former Chairmen and CEO, General Electric

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UK: Ebury | Australia: Penguin Australia | Hungary: Prtvonal Konyvkiado Japan: Hayakawa | Spain: Debate | Taiwan: Souler Sam Walker

Sam Walker is The Wall Street Journal’s formerdeputy editor for enterprise, the unit that oversees the paper’s in-depth page-one features and investigative reporting projects. A former reporter, columnist, and sports editor, Walker founded the Journal’s prizewinning daily sports coverage in 2009. He is the author of Fantasyland, a bestselling account of his attempt to win America’s top fantasy baseball expert competition (of which he is a two-time champion).

PRAISE FOR THE CAPTAIN CLASS:

“When we think about the athletes who make their teams great, we tend to think about high-scoring hotshots. But in his new book The Captain Class, Sam Walker argues that while star players help, the true hallmark of a top-tier team is a captain who works hard behind the scenes.”—Time Magazine

“The premise alone is intriguing: The former sports editor of the Wall Street Journal, now a deputy page one editor, spent years coming up with a list of the 16 most dominant teams in sports, and then looked for what they had in common. His answer? Each team had what the book’s summary calls a captain.” —Washington Post

“One of the best business and leadership books of the year so far”—Amazon

“I can’t tell you how much I loved The Captain Class. It identifies something many people who’ve been around successful teams have felt but were never able to articulate. It has impacted my thoughts around how we build our culture.” —David Walsh, The Sunday Times

“The Captain Class offers a tremendous insight into the world of elite-level captains, their roles, influences and foibles. …Walker is a wonderful writer [and he] has created a genuinely fascinating study of why captains are so influential in successful teams, yet are almost always misjudged and wrongly characterised.” —Joe Short, The Daily Express Big Game The NFL in a Time of Boom, Doom, and Maximum America

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Town, an equally merciless probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football, at a moment of peak success and high anxiety.

Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life than he’d care to admit tuned into pro football. In the tradition of Bill Buford's Among the Thugs, Big Game chronicles a four-year odyssey that has taken Leibovich deeper inside the NFL than anyone has gone before.

Ultimately, this is a chronicle of what may come to be seen as “peak football”–the high point of the sport’s economic success and cultural dominance, but also the moment when it all began to turn. It is an era of explosive revenue growth, as deluxe new Penguin Press (Sept. 4, 2018) stadiums spring up all over the country, but also one of creeping Editor: Scott Moyers existential fear. Football was never thought to be easy on the body– players joke darkly that the NFL stands for “not for long” for good Material: Edited Ms. reason. But as the impact of concussions on brains has become the inescapable ear-ring in the background, it became increasingly difficult to enjoy the simple glory of football without the buzz- kill of its obvious toll. Big Game explores America's glorification of hypermasculinity at the expense of mostly black bodies and paints a portrait of the drippingly wealthy team owners, who regard the teams as Trump regards the US- as their own personal fiefdoms.

Pro football, this hilarious and enthralling book proves, may not be the sport America needs, but it is most definitely the sport America deserves. Mark Leibovich Mark Leibovich is The New York Times Magazine chief national correspondent. In 2011, he received a National Magazine Award for his story on Politico’s Mike Allen and the changing media culture of Washington. Prior to coming to the Times Magazine, Leibovich was a national political reporter in the Times’ DC bureau. He has also worked at The Washington Post. Leibovich is the author of This Town and Citizens of the Green Room.

PRAISE FOR THIS TOWN:

“This Town is funny, it’s interesting, and it is demoralizing … I loved it as much as you can love something which hurts your heart.”—John Oliver

“In addition to his reporting talents, Leibovich is a writer of excellent zest. At times his book is laugh-out-loud (as well as weep-out-loud). He is an exuberant writer, even as his reporting leaves one reaching for Xanax…[This Town] is vastly entertaining and deeply troubling.”— Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review

"What lingers from This Town is what will linger in Washington well after its current dinosaurs are extinct: the political culture owned by big money.”—Frank Rich, New York Magazine

“Many decades from now, a historian looking at where America lost its way could use This Town as a primary source.”—Fareed Zakaria

“Like a modern-day Balzac to US capital power players….hilarious….perceptive.” —Richard McGregor, Financial Times

“Provides a lancing, often hysterically funny portrait of the capital’s vanities and ambitions.” —The New Yorker

“Here it is, Washington in all its splendid, sordid glory…[Leibovich] seems to wear those special glasses that allow you to x-ray the outside and see what’s really going on. Start to finish, this is a brilliant portrait – pointillist, you might say, or modern realist." —David Shribman, The New York Times

“Not since Truman Capote’s “Answered Prayers” knocked New York society on its heels with its thinly fictionalized revelations of real players who had thought the author was their friend has a book so riled a city’s upper echelons."—Lois Romano, Politico The New Analog Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World

What John Berger did to ways of seeing, well-known indy musician Damon Krukowski does to ways of listening in this lively guide to the transition from analog to digital culture.

Why, in the digital world, with so much information and processing power at our fingertips, does it often seem like we are communicating less well than before? Our voices carry farther than they ever have, but how, and how well, are they really being heard? These are the questions the musician Damon Kruwkoski set out to explore, looking at the way the switch from analog to digital communications is influencing our perceptions The New Press (Apr. 25, 2017) and changing our ideas of time, space, love, money, Editor: Carl Bromley Material: Finished Book power and noise. Agent: Alexander Jacobs Taking a set of experiences from the production and consumption of music that have changed since the analog era – the disorientation of headphones, flattening of the voice, silence of media, loudness of mastering, and manipulation of time – as a basis for a broader exploration of contemporary culture, The New Analog gives us a brilliant meditation on keeping our heads amid the digital flux.

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“Pink Floyd, meet Jane Jacobs. Elegantly written ... The New Analog could also be put next to Susanne Langer’s Philosophy in a New Key, Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget, Amiri Baraka’s Jazz and the White Critic, and any number of other texts that try to bring the professionalized notions of ‘data’ and ‘information’ (and, by extension, ‘signal’) into balance with the sometimes undervalued notion of lived experience.”—Ben Ratliff, 4Columns Damon Krukowski

Damon Krukowski was in the indie rock band Galaxie 500 and is currently one half of the folk-rock duo Damon & Naomi. He has written for Pitchfork, Artforum, Bookforum, Frieze, The Wire, and on his blog International Sad Hits. He has published two books of prose poetry, serves as co- publisher of the literary press Exact Change. He has taught at Harvard University.

PRAISE FOR THE NEW ANALOG:

“It would be easy—and possibly justified—for him to spew a bitter, geezer-fied rant about how great things were at the end of the last century … Instead, Krukowski takes a less emotional yet still pointedly passionate look at what’s been lost in the digital era. Again, it’s the noise. Noise is beautiful. Noise is tangible and real. It’s information.”—Los Angeles Times

“Wonderful ... Though it draws from academic sound studies, the book is conversational and accessible. Krukowski’s ultimate aim is to encourage people to think about how we are situated in the digital present, and to look for moments when we’re allowing others … to make decisions about our information for us.”— Pitchfork

PRAISE FOR “WAYS OF HEARING,” THE HIT PODCAST INSPIRED BY THE BOOK:

“You will immediately recognize the moments [Damon] evokes and feel surprised, sad even, that you hadn’t thought to miss them.” —The Financial Times

“It offers the immediate pleasures of a great podcast—interesting ideas presented in a sound-rich, thoughtfully produced narrative format. And because it makes us think about the act of listening itself, in ways that feel timely and vital … On the page or in your headphones, Krukowski is present, engaged and eager to share ideas.”—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker

“A reasoned, incisive podcast about digital-age recording and listening.”—Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise

Fiction The Italian Teacher

A masterful novel about the son of a great painter striving to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of The Imperfectionists.

Conceived while his father, Bear, cavorted around Rome in the 1950s, Pinch learns quickly that Bear’s genius trumps all. After Bear abandons his family, Pinch strives to make himself worthy of his father’s attention—first trying to be a painter himself; then resolving to write his father’s biography; eventually settling, disillusioned, into a job as an Italian teacher in London. But when Bear dies, Pinch hatches an improbable scheme to secure his father’s legacy—and make his own mark on the world.

Viking (March 20, 2018) Taking us from Roman apartments to SoHo galleries Editor: Andrea Schulz to the South of France, The Italian Teacher explores the Material: Finished Book power of great art and what it costs those closest to its creators. With his signature humanity and humor, Tom Rachman examines a life lived in the shadow of greatness, cementing his place among his generation’s most exciting literary voices.

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UK: riverrun | ANZ: Text | Canada: Doubleday Canada | Germany: dtv Italy: La Nave de Teseo

Rights sold for THE IMPERFECTIONISTS (2010):

The Rise & Fall of Great Powers:

ANZ/Text; Brazil/Record; Czech Republic/Host; Denmark/Politikens; Germany/DTV; Italy/Mondadori; The Netherlands/Meulenhoff; Romania/ Tom Rachman

Tom Rachman is the author of The Rise & Fall of Great Powers (2014) and The Imperfectionists (2010), an international bestseller that has been translated into 25 languages. Rachman, who was born in London in 1974 and raised in Vancouver, worked for the Associated Press as a foreign-desk editor in New York, and then became a correspondent in Rome in 2002. His writing appears in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian, among others.

PRAISE FOR THE ITALIAN TEACHER:

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Amazon.com, Instyle, Poets and Writers, Southern Living, Seattle Times, Chicago Review of Books, Newsday, and The Boston Herald

“Deliciously ironic and deeply affectionate… this is a novel about art and the mercurial currents of fate that determine how it’s celebrated, valued and commodified. But more than anything else, The Italian Teacher is about fathers and sons, the anxiety of influence, and the sly ways we go about carving a little space for ourselves in the shadow of great masters.” — The Washington Post

“Rachman wrestles with age-old questions: What is the purpose of art? How do we judge excellence? Does fame matter? . . . [The Italian Teacher] moves with the energy and gusto of Bear. With Pinch/Charles, it broods and hopes and plumbs the depths. That’s a lot to expect of any novel, yet The Italian Teacher delivers in spades.” —Dan Cryer, San Francisco Chronicle

“A poignant, touching tale about living in the shadow of a brazen artistic genius. . . Unforgettable.” –USA Today

“[An] artful page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“A momentous drama of a volatile relationship and the fundamental will to survive.” —Booklist (Starred Review)

“The Italian Teacher is a marvel—an entertaining, heartbreaking novel about art, family, loyalty, and authenticity. Tom Rachman is an enormously talented writer--this book is alive, from the first page to the last”—Tom Perotta, bestselling author of The Leftovers Only to Sleep A Philip Marlowe Novel Commissioned by the estate of Raymond Chandler, Only To Sleep brings one of literature's most enduring detectives back to life – as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure.

The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe – now in his seventy-second year – is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver- tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers, with a case that has his name written all over it.

For Marlowe, this is his last roll of the dice, his swan Hogarth (July 24, 2018) song. His mission is to investigate the death of Donald Editor: Parisa Ebrahimi Zinn – supposedly drowned off his yacht, and leaving Material: Edited Ms. behind a much younger and now very rich wife. But is Agent: Adam Eaglin Zinn actually alive? Are the pair living off the spoils?

Set between the border and badlands of Mexico and California, Lawrence Osborne’s resurrection of the iconic Marlowe is an unforgettable addition to the Raymond Chandler canon.

Option Publishers for The Chandler Estate:

UK: Hogarth | Albania: IDC Publishing Czech Republic: Mlada Fronta | Denmark: Art People | France: Gallimard Finland: WSOY | Germany (Switzerland): Diogenes | Georgia: Palitra Greece: Kedros | Israel: Keter Books | Italy: Feltrinelli | Japan: Hayakawa Korea: Bookhouse Publishing | Norway: NRK | Poland: C&T Portugal: Sextante Editora | Romania: Adevarul Holding Spain (Catalan): RBA Libros| Spain: Debosillo | Sweden: Modernista AB Lawrence Osborne Lawrence Osborne was born in England but has traveled and lived all over the world. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven, Hunters in the Dark and Beautiful Animals. His non-fiction includes Bangkok Days, and the drinking odyssey, The Wet and the Dry. His short story 'Volcano' was selected for Best American Short Stories 2012, and he has written for the New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, the New Yorker, Forbes, Harper’s and other publications. He currently lives in Bangkok.

Beautiful Animals (2017)

"Let’s not mince words. This is a great book. Truly difficult to put down, the novel exerts a sickening pull. Its climax and resolution will not disappoint. The social perspective is sophisticated, smart and uncomfortable, and the story is cracking." —Lionel Shriver, Washington Post

"A sinister and streamlined entertainment in the tradition of Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh, and the early Ian McEwan . . . surprising and dark and excellent."—New York Times

UK: Hogarth | Germany: Piper Verlag | Holland: Prometheus | Italy: Adelphi Hogarth (2017)

Optioned for film at auction by Amazon Studios and John Lesher (Birdman, Fury)

Hunters in the Dark (2016)

"Sumptuous and sinister, languorous and tense, this is a novel that gives Osborne’s remarkable talents haunting scope." —The Sunday Times

"Osborne is hitting mean form as a writer of exotic literary thrillers. ... Sensual, dream-like and gripping." —Monocle

UK: Hogarth | France: Callman-Levy | Italy: Adelphi Hogarth (2016) For foreign rights, please contact Lance Fitzgerald ([email protected]) Number One Chinese Restaurant

A stunning debut about family, ambition, and loyalty, set against the unforgettable ups and downs of restaurant life.

The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family’s controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay.

Owner Jimmy Han hopes to leave his late father’s homespun establishment for a fancier one. Jimmy’s brother, Johnny, and Johnny’s daughter, Annie, ache to return to a time before a father’s absence and a teenager’s silence pushed them apart. Nan and Ah- Jack, longtime Duck House employees, are tempted to turn their Holt (June 19, 2018) thirty-year friendship into something else, even as Nan’s son, Pat, Editor: Barbara Jones struggles to stay out of trouble. And when Pat and Annie, caught in Material: Advance Copies a mix of youthful lust and boredom, find themselves in a dangerous game that implicates them in tragedy, their families must decide Agent: Adam Eaglin how much they are willing to sacrifice to help their children.

Generous in spirit, unaffected in its intelligence, poignant, and darkly funny, Number One Chinese Restaurant shares an unforgettable story about youth and aging, parents and children, and all the ways that our families destroy us while also keeping us grounded and alive.

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UK: One Lillian Li Lillian Li received her BA from Princeton and her MFA from the University of Michigan. She is the recipient of a Hopwood Award in Short Fiction, as well as Glimmer Train’s New Writer Award. Her work has been featured in Guernica, Granta, and Jezebel. She is from the D.C. metro area and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2013, she was a Granta New Voice.

PRAISE FOR NUMER ONE CHINESE RESTAURANT:

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by The Millions and Cosmopolitan

"With echoes of Stewart O’Nan’s Last Night at the Lobster, Li’s insightful debut takes readers behind the scenes of a Chinese restaurant, the Beijing Duck House... Li vividly depicts the lives of her characters and gives the narrative a few satisfying turns, resulting in a memorable debut." —Publishers Weekly

“A darkly comic novel about complicated families—those created by blood and those forged through circumstance. With wit and heart, Li explores a Chinese-American community torn between ambition and loyalty as each character strives for a world bigger than the restaurant that has bound them together. An exciting debut.” —Brit Bennett, New York Times bestselling author of The Mothers

“I adored the vitality of this deviously charming and smart debut. Full of impassioned and ever-yearning characters, the novel practically thumps with heartache and sharp humor. The prose sparkles, too, with the rhythm and sting of exquisitely close observation and hard-earned wisdom, announcing Lillian Li as a striking new literary talent.” —Chang-rae Lee, New York Times bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and Native Speaker

“Lillian Li is a brilliant young writer and someone to watch. Her work understands human secrets generally as well as secret places both in the world and in the mind; her narratives are complex, mysterious, moving, and surprising.” —Lorrie Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Bark and Birds of America Green

A coming-of-age novel about race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in America, written by a former Obama campaign staffer and propelled by an exuberant, unforgettable narrator.

Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won’t even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the city’s best public high school—which, if practice tests are any indication, isn’t likely—he’ll be friendless for the foreseeable future.

Nobody’s more surprised than Dave when Marlon Wellings sticks up for him in the school cafeteria. Mar’s a loner from the public housing project on the corner of Dave’s own gentrifying block, and he confounds Dave’s assumptions about black culture: He’s Random House (Jan. 2, 2018) nerdy and neurotic, a Celtics obsessive whose favorite player is the Editor: Caitlin McKenna gawky, white Larry Bird. Before long, Mar’s coming over to Dave’s Material: Finished Book house every afternoon to watch vintage basketball tapes and plot their hustle to Harvard. But as Dave welcomes his new best friend into his world, he realizes how little he knows about Mar’s. Cracks gradually form in their relationship, and Dave starts to become aware of the breaks he’s been given—and that Mar has not.

Infectiously funny about the highs and lows of adolescence, and sharply honest in the face of injustice, Sam Graham-Felsen’s debut is a wildly original take on the American dream.

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Turkey: Hep Kitap Sam Graham-Felsen Sam Graham-Felsen is a journalist, digital media pioneer, and former chief blogger for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. He regularly speaks to corporate, university, and political audiences about his experiences on the campaign trail.

PRAISE FOR GREEN:

“Prickly and compelling . . . Graham-Felsen lets boys be boys: messy-brained, impulsive, goatish, self-centered, outwardly gutsy but often inwardly terrified.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

“A coming-of-age tale of uncommon sweetness and feeling.”—The New Yorker

“A riot of language that’s part hip-hop, part nerd boy, and part pure imagination . . . Green earns . . . a spot on the continuum of vernacular in the American literary tradition, from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to The Catcher in the Rye and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”— The Boston Globe

“A heartfelt and unassumingly ambitious book.”—Slate

“Superb . . . a memorable first novel . . . [Green is replete with] wonderful characters, fully realized and multidimensional.”—Booklist (Starred Review)

“[A] subtly humorous, surprisingly touching coming-of-age narrative . . . a memorable and moving portrayal of a complicated but deep friendship that just might survive the weight placed on it.”— Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“A fierce and brilliant book, comic, poignant, perfectly observed, and blazing with all the urgent fears and longings of adolescence.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk

“Though it raises serious questions about race and inequality with a poignancy that took me aback, Green is also funny and beautifully written, with not a word out of place, and somehow managing to be both true to its young narrator’s voice and bracingly intelligent in its depiction of a brutal societal impasse. I enjoyed this more than anything else I’ve read in ages.”—Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. The Windfall

A heartfelt comedy of manners, Diksha Basu’s debut novel unfolds the story of a family discovering what it means to “make it” in modern India.

For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha’s lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corners, gossipy neighbors, and small dramas. They thought they’d settled comfortably into their golden years, pleased with their son’s acceptance into an American business school. But then Mr. Jha comes into an enormous and unexpected sum of money, and moves his wife from their housing complex in East Delhi to the super-rich side of town, where he becomes eager to fit in as a man of status: skinny ties, hired guards, shoe-polishing machines, and all. Crown (June 27, 2017) Editor: Hilary Teeman The move sets off a chain of events that rock their Material: Finished Book Agent: Adam Eaglin neighbors, their marriage, and their son, who is struggling to keep a lid on his romantic dilemmas and slipping grades, and ultimately force the Jha family to reckon with what really matters. Hilarious and wise, The Windfall illuminates with warmth and charm the precariousness of social status, the fragility of pride, and, above all, the human drive to build and share a home. Even the rich, it turns out, need to belong somewhere.

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UK: Bloomsbury | France: Le Mercure de France | Spain: Alianza de Novelas

FORTHCOMING IN 2019 from Crown and Bloomsbury:

THE WEDDING PARTY by DIKSHA BASU

35-year-old Indian-American TV producer, Teena, travels from New York to Delhi to attend the week-long traditional wedding of her fabulous and wealthy cousin. Accompanying Teena are her divorced parents, her mother's younger (and white) boyfriend, Teena's hard-partying boss, and an extended cast of family and friends. Over the course of the celebrations. and amidst hilarious drama, Teena begins to reckon with the romantic and professional troubles brewing in her life. Diksha Basu

Diksha Basu is a writer and occasional actor. Originally from New Delhi, India, she holds a BA in Economics from Cornell University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and now divides her time between New York City and Mumbai.

A People Pick Entertainment Weekly’s Must-List A TIME Magazine Pick Rolling Stone’s Culture Index Pick One of Esquire’s Best 30 Books of 2017

“It’s haves and have-mores in this hilarious yet heartfelt novel about an Indian family struggling to acclimate to their newfound wealth, while also competing with their wealthier neighbors.”—Entertainment Weekly

“[A] charming satire … What Kevin Kwan did for rich people problems, Diksha Basu does for trying-to-be-rich-people problems.”—People

“…The right sort of summer refreshment.”—New York Times

“A delightful comedy of manners.”—NPR (Weekend Edition)

“A Delhi family gets schooled in upward mobility in Diksha Basu’s ultra-charming debut.”—Vogue

“[A] fun and heartfelt comedy of manners, which looks at the ups and downs of upward mobility, the things you gain and what you leave behind.”—Rolling Stone (Culture Index Pick) The Risen A suspenseful tale of two brothers whose lives are altered irrevocably by the events of one long-ago summer, one bewitching young woman—and the secrets that could destroy their lives. “An important novel—and an intriguing one—from one of our master storytellers.” (The News & Oberver)

UK: Canongate | ANZ: Text | France: Le Seuil

Ecco (2016) Serena A story of greed, corruption, and revenge set against 1930s America’s emerging environmental movement. Now a film starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper; hailed as a Best Book of the Year by many publications and as a “masterfully written” (SF Chronicle) novel that “recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy” (The New Yorker).

Above the Waterfall A haunting tale about a sheriff contending with the ravages of crystal meth and his own duplicity in a small Appalachian town. “One of the few writers at work today with the insight, the talent and the vision to show us how ... we’re able to achieve a certain redemption.” (Washington Post)

Ecco (2015) Ron Rash Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestseller Serena and Above the Waterfall, in addition to four prizewinning novels; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University.

FORTHCOMING FROM DOUBLEDAY (Lee Boudreaux ed.):

THE RETURNED (Summer 2019), a story of love and friendship tested by class, family ties, and war, set in 1950s small-town North Carolina, in which a young bride and her newborn child die under suspicious circumstances soon after the baby's father is deployed to Korea, leaving the soldier's best friend and cemetery caretaker to unravel the mystery.

INTO THE VALLEY (Spring 2020), a new short story collection which features a novella that continues the story of his most popular novel SERENA.

Agent: Adam Eaglin

For all European rights (including Turkey and Russia) please contact Anna Jarota ([email protected])

PRAISE FOR RON RASH:

“One of the great American authors at work today.”—New York Times

“Rash is particularly good at capturing the hazy space where otherworldly phantoms mingle with human meanness ... Rash never lays down a dull or clunky line.”—Washington Post

Rights Held by the Publisher God A Human History

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine, and sounds a call to embrace a deeper, more expansive understanding of God.

In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, Aslan takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large.

In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as one long and remarkably cohesive attempt to understand Random House (Nov. 7, 2017) the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. Editor: Hilary Redmon According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God Material: Finished book is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. More than just a history of our understanding of God, this book is an attempt to get to the root of this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality. Whether you believe in one God, many gods, or no god at all, God: A Human History will challenge the way you think about the divine and its role in our everyday lives.

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For foreign rights, please contact Rachel Kind ([email protected]) or Joelle Dieu ([email protected])

PRAISE FOR GOD: “Tantalizing . . . Driven by Aslan’s grace and curiosity, God . . . helps us pan out from our troubled times, while asking us to consider a more expansive view of the divine in contemporary life.”—The Seattle Times Reza Aslan Reza Aslan is a religious scholar and professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. He is also the president and CEO of Aslan Media Inc., which runs BoomGen Studios, a media company focused entirely on entertainment about the Greater Middle East and its Diaspora communities. He has degrees in religion from Santa Clara University, Harvard, and UC Santa Barbara, as well as an MFA from the University of Iowa, where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction.

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth A momentous work of popular scholarship and runaway bestseller, this provocative biography challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus.

Rights sold in: UK, Arab Territories, ANZ/New Zealand, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Brazil, China, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Random House (2016)

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam A “literate, accessible introduction to Islam” (New York Times), from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Zealot.

Rights sold in: UK, Holland, Germany, Korea, Denmark, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Greece, Random House (2005/11) France, China, Turkey, Italy, Poland, Spain, Arab Territories, Lithuania

Beyond Fundamentalism “A very persuasive argument for the best way to counter jihadism” (Washington Post) and an analysis of the war on terror in a post-9/11 world.

UK: William Heinemann | Japan: Fujiwara Shoten | Spain: Ediciones Urano

Random House (2009) Atlas Obscura An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders Over 650,000 copies in print!

Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world.

Here are natural wonders—the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of Workman fire called the Gates of Hell, and much, much more. Created Editor: Suzie Bolotin by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura Material: Finished Book revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, and the mysterious. With compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveler as the die-hard adventurer.

“In this gorgeous collection, the celebrated Atlas Obscura website is condensed into 480 pages of awe-inspiring destinations.”—Entertainment Weekly

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For foreign rights, please contact Kristina Peterson ([email protected]) King Zeno New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose. The lives of a traumatized cop, a conflicted Mafia matriarch, and a brilliant trumpeter converge, and the Crescent City gets the rich, dark, sweeping novel it so deserves.

New Orleans, a century ago: a city determined to reshape its destiny and, with it, the nation’s. Downtown, a new American music is born. In Storyville, prostitution is outlawed and the police retake the streets with maximum violence. In the Ninth Ward, laborers break ground on a gigantic canal that will split the city, a work of staggering human ingenuity intended to restore New Orleans’s faded mercantile glory. The war is ending and a prosperous new age dawns. But everything is thrown into chaos by a series of murders committed by an ax-wielding maniac with a peculiar taste in music.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Paris Review Staff Pick

A January Pick by Salon, Town and Country, Southern Living, and LA MCD (January 9. 2018) Magazine Editor: Sean McDonald "A groaning board of tasty literary treats . . . King Zeno offers a gritty, Material: Finished Book panoramic portrait of the Big Easy . . . Full of sharply rendered characters, gallows humor and finely observed descriptions. The fact that Rich comes so close to executing this ambitious literary banquet is in itself a remarkable achievement." -John Michaud, The Washington Post

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Nathaniel Rich is the author of two novels: Odds Against Tomorrow and The Mayor’s Tongue. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and his essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, and The Daily Beast. He is also the author of a book about film noir, San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present. He lives in New Orleans. Endurance A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery

A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record- breaking year aboard the International Space Station—a candid account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years.

The veteran of four spaceflights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenge of long- term spaceflight, both life-threatening and mundane: the devastating effects on the body; the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts of Earth; the Knopf (October 17, 2017) catastrophic risks of colliding with space junk; and the Editor: Jonathan Segal still more haunting threat of being unable to help should Material: Finished Book tragedy strike at home—an agonizing situation Kelly faced when, on a previous mission, his twin brother's wife, American Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was shot while he still had two months in space. Kelly's humanity, compassion, humor, and determination resonate throughout, as he recalls his rough-and-tumble New Jersey childhood and the youthful inspiration that sparked his astounding career, and as he makes clear his

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Moonwalking with Einstein The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Joshua Foer An international bestseller and blockbuster phenomenon chronicling Foer’s unlikely journey from forgetful journalist to Memory Champion.

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Among the Ten Thousand Things A Novel Julia Pierpont A national bestselling debut, winner of the Scott Fitzgerald Prize, about an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and about love and time lost. Hailed as “luscious and smart” (New York Times), “astonishing” (Financial Times) and “a twisty, gripping story that packs an emotional wallop.” (O Magazine)

UK: Oneworld | France: Stock | Italy: Mondadori Random House (2015) Peak Secrets from the New Science of Expertise Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool A “breakthrough” (Seth Godin) and an “empowering, encouraging” (Publisher’s Weekly) account of how to master almost any skill from the world’s reigning expert on expertise.

Rights sold in: UK, Brazil, Canada, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam Harcourt (2016)

Better Living Through Criticism How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth A. O. Scott From the chief film critic at the New York Times, an “intelligent, informed and oftenty funny account” (New York Times) of the role of the critic—and a passionate argument for criticism in everyday life.

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Diane Arbus Portrait of a Photographer Arthur Lubow The “defining biography” (Publisher’s Weekly) of one of the most influential and beguiling photographers of the twentieth century. “Enormously satisfying” (Boston Globe) and “superbly crafted” (Washington Post).

UK: Jonathan Cape | China: China Nationality Art Photograph Publishing House Random House (2015) The Man Without a Face The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin Masha Gessen The bestselling investigative account of how a low-level KGB operative became the most powerful man in Russia. A Slate and San Francisco Chronicle best book of the year.

UK: Granta | Brazil: Nova Fronteira | Croatia: Profil | Czech: Akropolis Denmark: Rosinante | Estonia: Tanapaev | Finland: Otava | France: Fayard Germany: Piper | Greece: Patakis | Holland: Ambo | Israel: Books in the Riverhead (2012) Attic | Italy: Bompiani | Japan: Kashiwa Shobo | Lithuania: Barzda Norway: Gyldendal Norsk | Poland: Proszynski | Romania: Pandora Spain: Debate | Sweden: Brombergs | Taiwan: China Times | Turkey: Epsilon The Brothers The Road to an American Tragedy Masha Gessen “A gripping narrative and a stunning piece of investigative journalism” (Christian Science Monitor), called “reminiscent of Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower” (Los Angeles Times), the definitive account of the events that led the Tsarnaev Brothers to perpetrate the Boston marathon bombing.” A Time Best Book of the Year.

UK: Scribe | Italy: Carbonio Riverhead (2015)

Words Will Break Cement The Passion of Pussy Riot Masha Gessen In the “fullest account so far” (Los Angeles Times), Gessen reconstructs how this punk protest group resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies.

Riverhead (2014) Perfect Rigor A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century Masha Gessen The “fascinating, moving” (Tom Stoppard) story of mathematics’ most reclusive genius.

When in French Love in a Second Language Lauren Collins “A thoughtful, beautifully written meditation on the art of language and intimacy.” (New York Times) A “terrific” (Vogue) memoir from the New Yorker staff writer about learning to live (and love) in French, and to discover, across history and culture, whether the languages we speak make us who we are. A New York Times bestseller and Amazon Best Book of the Month.

UK: 4th Estate | France: Flammarion | Korea: KL Penguin Press (2016)

The Filter Bubble How the Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think Eli Pariser An eye-opening account and “powerful indictment” (Wall Street Journal) of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling and limiting the information we consume.

UK: Viking | Brazil: Zahar | China: Remnin Univarsity Press | Germany: Hanser | Indonesia: MAXincube | Italy: Il Saggiatore | Japan: Hayakawa | Korea: Sigongsa | Russia: Mann-Ivanov-Ferber | Spain: Taurus | Taiwan: Penguin Press (2011) Rive Gauche Ashley’s War The Untold Story Gayle Tzemach Lemmon A New York Times bestseller about the first female special forces unit in Afghanistan, and the inspiring, tragic story of its first member killed-in-action. In development as a feature with Fox 2000 and Reese Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard (Gone Girl, Wild).

Brazil: Rocco | Italy: Piemme | Japan: Kadokawa | Poland: Proszynski Spain: Peninsula Harper (2015)

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe Gayle Tzemach Lemmon The true story of a fearless young woman who not only reinvented herself as an entrepreneur to save her family but, in the face of ferocious opposition, brought hope to dozens of women in war-torn Kabul.

UK: John Murray | Brazil: Seoman | China: Beijing Booky | China (Uyghur): Xinjiang People’s Publishing | Germany: Irisiana Verlag | India Harper (2011) (Marathi): Mehta | Indonesia: PT Gramedia Pustaku | Italy: Sperling & Kupfer | Lithuania: Baltos Lankos | Norway: Histoire & Kultur | Poland: Proszynski | Spain: Aguilar | Taiwan: New Century | Turkey: Geoturka Make Your Home Among Strangers A Novel Jennine Capo Crucet A “smart, scathing and hilarious” debut (Curtis Sittenfeld) about a daughter of immigrants to Miami caught between the worlds of an elite university and her mother’s defense of a young Cuban refugee, named an NYTBR Editor’s Choice and Winner of the 2016 International Latino Book Award.

St. Martin’s (2015) No Easy Day The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL Mark Owen The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.

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No Hero The Evolution of a Navy SEAL Mark Owen The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic, No Easy Day, by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen reveals the evolution of a SEAL Team Six operator.

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story A Life of David Foster Wallace D. T. Max The bestselling biography of the most influential American writer of his generation, named a Best Book of 2012 by The New York Times, The Guardian, The Economist and more.

UK: Portobello | China: Horizon Media | France: Editions de l’Olivier Germany: Kiepenheuer & Witsch | Italy: Stile Libero | Romania: Vellant Spain: Debate Viking (2012) Indecision A Novel Benjamin Kunkel Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis in this generation-defining novel, hailed by Jay McInerney (New York Times) as “the funniest and smartest coming-of-age novel in years.”

Odds Against Tomorrow A Novel Nathaniel Rich Hailed by Rolling Stone as “the first great climate-change novel,” an all-too-plausible literary thriller, an unexpected love story, and a philosophically searching inquiry into the nature of fear.

Long-listed for the 2015 Prix Médicis

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Prudence A Novel David Treuer A “masterful” (Los Angeles Times) novel about love, loss, race and desire in World War II-era America, charting the reverberations of a shocking act of violence at a rustic Minnesota resort. Hailed by Toni Morrison as “wondrous and mesmerizing,” and “tender and devastating” by Anthony Marra in the Washington Post.

France: Albin Michel Riverhead (2015) Excellent Sheep The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life William Deresiewicz A sharp-eyed, bestselling manifesto on what elite education should be—but isn’t—providing, and a clarion call to our brightest young minds. “Anyone who cares about American education should ponder this book,” writes the New York Times Book Review.

China: Sunnbook | Japan: Sanseido | Korea: Darun | Taiwan: Sun Color Free Press (2014) Rights inquiries: [email protected]

A Jane Austen Education How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter William Deresiewicz A vindication of the women’s novel, an eloquent memoir of a young man’s life transformed by literature, and a novel-by-novel account of the life lessons that Austen has to teach us all.

Grace A Memoir Grace Coddington A Financial Times Best Book of the Year about American Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington’s early career as a model to her rise as a prominent, endearing icon in fashion today.

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