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Donohue, Keith THE MOTION OF PUPPETS A Novel October 2016 (finished copies available)

In the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter inside.

The next morning Theo wakes up to discover his wife is missing. Under police suspicion and frantic at her disappearance, he obsessively searches the streets of the Old City. Meanwhile, Kay has been transformed into a puppet, and is now a prisoner of the back room of the Quatre Mains, trapped with an odd assemblage of puppets from all over the world who can only come alive between the hours of midnight and dawn. The only way she can return to the human world is if Theo can find her and recognize her in her new form. So begins a dual odyssey: of a husband determined to findhis wife, and of a woman trapped in a magical world where her life is not her own.

Keith Donohue is the national bestselling author of the novels The Stolen Child, The Angels of Destruction, and Centuries of June. His work has been translated into two dozen languages, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among other publications. A graduate of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Donohue also holds a Ph.D. in British rights: Picador English from The Catholic University of America. He lives in Maryland. Translation rights sold:

Indonesian/Mizan Praise for THE MOTION OF PUPPETS: Polish/Proszynski “At once old and new, borrowed and original, The Motion of Puppets Portuguese (Br.)/ disdains both genre and mainstream expectations to turn readers’ Darkside Books attention to the permeable boundary between life and its mimicry.” --The Washington Post Turkish/Nemesis

"A masterpiece of psychological horror...Intricately plotted, absorbing, Rights sold, The Boy Who and suspenseful, this is a moving, modern story set in what feels like a Drew Monsters: fairy-tale world but is actually terrifyingly realistic." –Booklist, starred review Chinese (Complex)/ Delightpress “Donohue shifts between the two worlds of the mundane and the Indonesian/Mizan magical so readily that the boundary between them begins to fade. Underneath all the changes, his story has the emotional depth, the love Polish/ Proszynski and grief of the old myth, only transposed to the sad, leaves-falling Portuguese (Br.)/ ‘October country’ of the mind.” Darkside Books --The Wall Street Journal Turkish/Nemesis

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Goldberg, Paul THE CHATEAU A Novel February 2018 (galleys available)

It is January 2017 and Bill has hit rock bottom. Yesterday, he was a successful science reporter at The Washington Post. Today, fired from his job, with exactly $1,219.37 in his checking account, he learns that his college roommate, a plastic surgeon known far and wide as the “Butt God of Miami Beach,” has fallen to his death under salacious circumstances. With nothing to lose, Bill heads for Florida, ready to begin his own investigation— a last ditch attempt to revive his career. There’s just one catch: Bill’s father, Melsor.

Melsor Yakovlevich Katzenelenbogen (so-named in tribute to Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and the October Revolution)—poet, literary scholar, political dissident, small-time-crook—is angling for control of the condo board at the Chateau Sedan Neuve, a crumbling high-rise populated mostly by Russian Jewish immigrants. The current board is filled with fraudsters, and Melsor will use any means necessary to win the election. And who better to help him—through legal and illegal means—than his estranged son?

Featuring a colorful cast of characters, THE CHATEAU injects the crime novel genre with surprising idiosyncrasy, subverting it with dark comic farce in a setting that becomes a microcosm of Trump’s America.

Paul Goldberg is the author of The Yid and two books on the Soviet human All rights: Picador rights movement, and has co-authored (with Otis Brawley) the book How We Do Harm. He is the editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, a Rights sold, The Yid: publication focused on the business and politics of cancer. French/Sonatine “The Yid is about Stalin’s worst enemy as well as his favorite prey. Mr. Goldberg fuses these characters and all that they suggest to Stalin—Paul Robeson for Lewis, Anna Akhmatova for one of the book’s women—into one hellish vision to haunt that dictator during his last hours on earth.” — Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“The Yid is darkly playful and generous with quick insights into the vast weirdness of its landscape.… We are most immersed in the past, I think, when we watch someone manipulate it. This might be, ironically, a lesson Stalin taught too, but it’s still an apt one for readers to consider when engaged with such a fine enterprise as this one.” —Glen David Gold, The Washington Post

“The Yid [is a] rollicking romp of a novel… In something like the mode of writer-director Quentin Tarantino in his films Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, Goldberg offers The Yid as a literary score-settling machine: a way for one of history's most brutal villains to receive a kind of cosmic comeuppance at the hands of those he victimized in real life. The difference is that unlike Tarantino, whose revenge fantasies undercut their higher purpose with an excess of sensational violence, Goldberg is less interested in the body than he is in the soul…. The Yid is as hilarious as it is appalling, and vice versa.” —Kevin Nance, Chicago Tribune

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Mak, Geoffrey LORDS A Novel August 2018 (manuscript available)

Geoffrey Mak’s LORDS explores the fluid nature of identity and the British rights: Picador subversive power of protest through the story of Lou, a young Asian Translation rights: Curtis American expatriate journalist stationed in Ankara during the Arab Spring Brown, Ltd. who becomes intrinsically entangled in all sides of political upheaval through his involvement with a promiscuous government official, a whistleblowing hacker and an ambassador’s disillusioned daughter. Each pursue their own agendas as Lou struggles to find stability in a world falling apart around him.

Blending reportage with brave and heartbreaking characters of his own invention, Mak’s LORDS is a roman à clef of unique perspective and clear prescience. Much like The Flamethrowers and Leaving the Atocha Station, LORDS tackles questions of the morality of dissent, the erosion of reasoned discourse and the politics of basic human relationships.

Geoffrey Mak is a writer and designer based in Brooklyn. The founding Fiction Editor of The Offing, hi writing has appeared in Guernica, Flavorwire, Forbes, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Millions, among other publications.

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Shelby, Ashley SOUTH POLE STATION A Novel July 2017 (finished copies available)

Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver?

These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career as a painter. So she applies to the National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Program and flees to Antarctica—the bottom of the Earth—where she encounters a group of misfits motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. There’s Pearl, the cook whose Carrot Mushroom Loaf becomes means toward her Machiavellian ambitions; the oxymoronic Sal (he is an attractive astrophysicist); and Tucker, the only gay black man on the continent who, as station manager, casts a watchful eye on all.

The only thing they have in common is the conviction that they don’t belong anywhere else. Enter Frank Pavano—a climatologist with unorthodox beliefs. His presence will rattle this already unbalanced community, bringing Cooper and the Polies to the center of a global controversy and threatening the 800-million-year- old ice chip they call home. In the tradition of And Then We Came to the End and Where’d You Go Bernadette?, SOUTH POLE STATION is a warmhearted comedy of errors set in the world’s harshest place.

Ashley Shelby is a former editor at Penguin and a prize-winning writer and British rights: Picador journalist. She received her MFA from Columbia University and is the author of Translation rights: ICM Red River Rising: The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival of an American City, a narrative nonfiction account of the record-breaking flood that, in 1997, devastated Grand Rapids, North Dakota. The short story that became the basis for South Pole Station is a winner of the Third Coast Fiction Prize; this is her first novel.

"[An] enjoyable first novel...Shelby is very good on social interactions at the end of the earth, and South Pole Station crackles with energy whenever science takes center stage"."—Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post

"Few places evoke feelings of isolation and existential crisis like the South Pole. In this terrific debut, Ashley Shelby achieves not only that but also a grand sense of comedy...[South Pole Station] is a lovely, satirical, and emotionally complex novel about coming to terms with heartbreak and re-finding one’s self through art."—LitHub (16 Books to Read This Month)

"Most associate [climate fiction] with 'sci-fi' and therefore sci-fi's most recognizable tropes...But what if we expand the genre's definition to works that address issues of climate change in the here-and-now, in worlds that aren’t speculative or futuristic at all, but rather, unnervingly familiar? What we would find are some of the most urgent, funny, and beautifully written works in contemporary fiction. Case in point: Ashley Shelby’s South Pole Station." —Chicago Review of Books

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Wolff, Dana I. THE PRISONER OF HELL GATE A Novel July 2016 (finished copies available)

Karalee Soper, a graduate student at Havermeyer University’s school of public health, grew up hearing tales of her heroic great grandfather, George A. Soper, who tracked down and locked away Irish immigrant cook Mary Mallon—the infamous disease carrier who came to be called Typhoid Mary. So when partying on a pleasure cruise with her closest friends, she finds herself in an area of the East River known as Hell Gate—in sight of the long-uninhabited island where Mary languished bitterly for decades—and can’t resist the temptation to sneak ashore for a secret visit.

Soon five curious and precocious twenty-somethings are wandering among the macabre ruins of abandoned Riverside Hospital. Budding experts on the history of communicable disease, these students think they’ve mastered everything there is to know about Typhoid Mary and North Brother Island. But they don’t know who tends the garden by the crumbling greenhouse. They don’t know about the ghosts of the General Slocum shipwreck. They don’t know the intentions of the hermit woman who offers to cook them dinner. And, worst of all, they know nothing of the sinister history lurking in the DNA of Karalee Soper, who will soon learn to her horror that the real prisoner of Hell Gate is the person she least suspects.

In the tradition of Shirley Jackson if she wrote a season of American Horror Story, THE PRISONER OF HELL GATE is a deeply unsettling and expertly crafted work of literary horror. All rights: Picador

Dana I. Wolff is the pseudonym of a former publishing executive who has also worked as a literary agent and consultant. The Prisoner of Hell Gate is Wolff's first novel.

"[The Prisoner of Hell Gate] presents a classic horror scenario....with a decidedly millennial twist...Wolff's way with characterization and situation recalls Stephen King's grounded, relatable style (with Mary Mallon rendered particularly vividly), and she employs genre tropes deftly."—Kirkus Reviews

"Wolff’s imperturbable calmness adds punch to the inevitable grisliness. A strong, quick, and perfectly upsetting little shocker."—Booklist

"A rich mix of alternative history and historical fact seasoned with the writing chops and style of a seasoned pro, Dana I. Wolff's The Prisoner of Hell Gate is a dazzling tour de force. I was sucked in from the opening pages and immersed by a story that is as thrilling as it is tantalizing. I hope we hear more from this author." —Vincent Zandri, New York Times bestselling author of The Remains

"Not all nightmares are dreams…Beautifully written, The Prisoner of Hell Gate is a throwback to a time when dark fiction was more than just blood, guts and gore. Dana I. Wolff has written an instant classic, a tale where the horror is psychological as well as physical, and sneaks up behind you like a shambling corpse—or a vengeful killer…"—Allan Leverone, New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Midnight

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Womack, Gwendolyn THE FORTUNE TELLER A Novel June 2017 (finished copies available)

Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, specializing in deciphering ancient texts. And when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of a remarkably powerful seer, describing devastating wars and natural disasters in detail thousands of years before they occurred. Stranger still, it appears to have been written just for her.

The more she reads, the more Semele begins to question her entire life. But what happened to the cards? As the manuscript’s auction date approaches and the mystery of her connection to it deepens, Semele can’t shake the feeling that she’s being followed. Only one person can help her make sense of it all: her client, Theo Brossard. Yet Theo is arrogant and elusive, concealing secrets of his own, and there’s more to Semele’s desire to speak with him than she would like to admit. Can Semele even trust him?

Someone wants to interfere with the auction—someone who knows the cards exist and that the manuscript is tied to her. Semele realizes it’s up to her to stop them: She no longer has a choice. British rights: Picador Translation rights: Picador Originally from Houston, Texas, Gwendolyn Womack began writing theater Translation rights sold: plays in college while freezing in the tundra at the University of Alaska, Polish/Wydawnictwo Kobiece Fairbanks. She holds an MFA in directing for theater and film from California Institute of the Arts in Directing, and was a semi-finalist in the Academy’s Rights sold, The Memory Painter: Nicholl Fellowship. Her first novel, The Memory Painter, was a finalist for two Canadian/HarperCollins, RWA PRISM contests. She now resides Southern California with her husband Czech/Albatros, Hebrew/Matar, and her son. Portuguese (in Brazil)/Editora Record, Serbian/Vulkan “Another tale by Womack that can’t be put down. Superb storytelling. Rounded characters. Stakes worth killing—or dying—for. This is summer reading for every season.”—New York Journal of Books

“Womack makes a romantic case for the existence of destiny...and does a beautiful job...Dive into this sweeping, romantic journey that will leave you breathless and a little unsure of where in time you've landed.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Well-drawn historical flashbacks, engaging characters, and a twisty ending make this thrilling blend of neuroscience, romance, and ancient worlds good bets for Da Vinci Code and Outlander fans.” —Booklist

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Yun, Jung SHELTER A Novel March 2016 (finished copies available)

Kyung Cho owns a house he can't afford. Despite his promising career, he and his wife have always lived beyond their means. Now their bad decisions have caught up with them, and Kyung is anxious for his family's future.

A few miles away, Kyung's parents live in the town's most exclusive neighborhood, surrounded by the material comforts that Kyung wants so badly for his wife and son. His own childhood, however, was far from comfortable. Kyung enjoyed every imaginable privilege, but never kindness nor affection. He can hardly bear to see his parents, much less ask them for help. Yet when an act of violence leaves his parents unable to live on their own, the dynamic suddenly changes, and he takes them in. As the safe distance between them collapses, Kyung is forced to question what it means to be a good husband, father, and son, while the life he knew begins to crumble and his own anger demands to be released.

As SHELTER veers swiftly toward its startling conclusion, Jung Yun leads us through dark and violent territory, where, unexpectedly, the Chos discover hope. In the tradition of The House of Sand and Fog, SHELTER is a masterfully crafted debut that asks what it means to provide for one's family and, in answer, delivers a story as riveting as it is profound.

Jung Yun was born in South Korea, grew up in North Dakota, and was educated at Vassar, the University of Pennsylvania, and UMass Amherst. Her work has appeared in Tin House, The Best of Tin House, and she is a recipient of an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize.

"Gripping... Yun shows how, although shelter doesn’t guarantee safety and British rights: Picador UK blood doesn’t guarantee love, there’s something inextricable about the relationship between a child and a parent…Shelter is captivating.” Translation rights: Picador —The New York Times Book Review Rights sold: Korean/Gimm-Young "Yun's debut may be a family drama, but it has all the tension of a thriller. It's Publishers, a sharp knife of a novel—powerful and damaging, and so structurally Turkish/Timas Publishing elegant that it slides right in....it gets better and richer with every page... House Shelter is a marvel of skill and execution, tautly constructed and played

without mercy."— Los Angeles Times A Barnes and Noble "The combination of grisly James Patterson thriller and melancholic Discover Great New suburban drama shouldn’t work at all. Yet Ms. Yun pulls it off. The proximity Writers Selection of Kyung's parents and the atmosphere of grief and panic launch him on a spiral of self-destruction that’s impossible to turn away from." —The Wall Street Journal

"In Shelter, Jung Yun takes Tolstoy’s idea that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way and packages it in the most familiar expression of the American Dream: owning a home. What the parents and children in this novel discover is that they can neither take shelter in their houses nor their families. This is domestic drama at its best, a gripping narrative of secrets and revelations that seized me from beginning to end." —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Sympathizer

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Chang, Jeff WE GON’ BE ALRIGHT Notes on Race and Segregation September 2016 (finished copies available)

For readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Rebecca Solnit, WE GON' BE ALRIGHT is a provocative and timely collection of essays from a celebrated cultural critic on race, diversity, and re-segregation

Built around a central essay looking at the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the events in Ferguson, Missouri, surrounding the death of Michael Brown, Chang questions the value of "the diversity discussion" in an era of increasing racial and economic segregation. He unpacks the return of student protests and reveals how the debate over inclusion and free speech was presaged by similar protests in the 1980s and 1990s. The author of Can't Stop Won't Stop looks at how culture impacts our understanding of the politics of this polarized moment. Throughout these essays Chang includes the voices of many of the leading activists as he charts how popular voices on the ground and in social media have catalyzed the push for protest and change.

In this slim volume of highly relevant, powerful essays, Chang examines some of the most contentious issues in the current discussion of race and inequality.

Jeff Chang has been a hip-hop journalist for more than a decade and has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, Vibe, The Nation, URB, Rap Pages, Spin, and Mother Jones. He was a founding editor of Colorlines Magazine, senior editor at Russell Simmons’s 360hiphop.com, and cofounder of the influential hip-hip label SoleSides, now Quannum Projects. He lives in California. All rights: Picador

Jeff Chang has been a hip-hop journalist for more than a decade and has Rights sold, written for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, Vibe, The Nation, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: URB, Rap Pages, Spin, and Mother Jones. He was a founding editor of UK/Random House UK Colorlines Magazine, senior editor at Russell Simmons’s 360hiphop.com, and Brazilian/Cosac & Naify cofounder of the influential hip-hip label SoleSides, now Quannum Projects. He Finnish/Like lives in California. French/Editions Allia Italian/Shake Publishing "In the song that inspired the author’s title, Kendrick Lamar repeatedly asks his Japanese/Rittor Music listeners, 'Do you feel me?' Chang’s text, in essence, poses the same question. Korean/Eumhaksekeye Enriched and stimulated as much by his passion as his ideas, I’m pleased to Serbian/Redbox answer with a resounding yes." Spanish/Caja Negra —Jabari Asim, Bookforum Swedish/Reverb

“When absorbed individually, the author's incisive essays will educate and inform

readers. Collectively, Chang creates a chain-linked manifesto arguing for an end to racially charged violence and discrimination and urging global open- mindedness to the struggle of the oppressed. … A compelling and intellectually thought-provoking exploration of the quagmire of race relations.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)

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Chemerinsky, Erwin THE CONSTITUTION Reclaiming Our Founding Text September 2018 (manuscript available November 2017)

Constitutional scholar, Dean of UC Berkeley Law, and one of the prominent attorneys British rights: Picador representing the plaintiffs in President Trump's emoluments suit, Erwin Chemerinsky's Translation rights: THE CONSTITUTION: RECLAIMING OUR FOUNDING TEXT, is a call to arms for Hill Nadell Literary Agency progressives in which the idealism of the Preamble provides an intellectual framework for a new liberal view of government while refuting the Republican's claim of "value neutral judging.”

Erwin Chemerinsky is a prominent scholar in United States constitutional law and federal civil procedure. He served as the founding dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law from 2009 to 2017, and is currently the dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

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Daum, Meghan and Yanagihara, Hanya (editors) SELFISH, SHALLOW, AND SELF-ABSORBED Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids March 2015 (finished copies available)

If last decade's great fallen taboo and attendant cultural obsession was the “fertility crisis”—namely, discussions among women about how hard it can be to get pregnant—this decade's is shaping up to be something very different: Women admitting they don't want to get pregnant—ever.

Though there are as many ways of looking at the choice not to have children as there are women who've made that choice, emotions around the issue seem uniformly passionate. While some remain invested in notions of childbearing as life's greatest purpose and see parenthood as the chief hallmark of adulthood, others are calling for an end to the assumption that everyone wants to (or should) have kids. And while it's a sign of progress that parenthood has become a more equal opportunity gambit thanks to medical technology, the flipside is that those who remain childless despite these opportunities are often marginalized, considered incomplete, or simply left out of national conversations of the Lean In variety.

The fifteen essayists of SELFISH, SHALLOW, AND SELF-ABSORBED are lauded writers who do not have children (sometimes by chance, but often by choice). Some have spoken publicly, though not necessarily at great length, about knowing since girlhood that they did not want to have children. Others perhaps have been ambivalent or coped with disappointment when closing the door on the possibility once and for all. But though no two contributors' paths will be alike, the editors hope that essays in SELFISH, SHALLOW, AND SELF-ABSORBED will ultimately be united by a sense of Translation rights: Picador peace, even joy, in carving out a life that does not involve parenthood. Contributors include Pam Houston, Kate Christensen, Elliot Holt, Sigrid Nunez, Jeanne Safer, Translation rights sold: Michele Huneven, Danielle Henderson, Rosemary Mahoney, MG Lord, Anna Chinese (Simp.) / Holmes, Tim Kreider, Geoff Dyer, Lionel Shriver, Brian Frazer, and Courtney Shanghai 99 Hodell. Korean / Hyeonamsa Publishing Co., Ltd. Meghan Daum is an author, magazine writer and, for the past eight years, an opinion columnist at The Los Angeles Times, where she has a wide and enthusiastic following. Hanya Yanagihara is a longtime editor at Conde Nast Traveler.

“Anthologies aren't famous for changing attitudes en masse, but at the very least this one gives voice to the complexities of assuming and enjoying a 'child-free' life....The sixteen essays are cleverly arranged, creating a satisfying intellectual and emotional arc....The reader is treated to nearly every reason one might choose to forgo having children.” —Kate Bolick, The New York Times Book Review

“[A] searing collection...The child-burdened should come away from this engaging collection with a rich sense of what they have missed.” —Katie Roiphe, The Washington Post

“A round of applause to Meghan Daum for putting this book together....Entertaining and heartfelt.” —The Boston Globe

“Provocative.” —Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair

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Fedden, Victoria THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL LIFE A Memoir June 2016 (finished copies available)

If you think it sucks to be living with your parents--and your husband--when you're nine months pregnant and thirty-six years old, just wait till the IRS shows up with the FDA in tow. Welcome to Victoria Fedden's life.

THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL LIFE is the story of how Victoria lost her family and lost her mind-and how she became a mother and (more or less) recovered both. It's a story that started with Pink Sheets and contains words like "meconium" (otherwise known as baby poop, as Victoria and her husband would discover); a story populated by an ailing mini-pin named Bomboclaat, a recovering addict whose straight-male escort service landed him on television, and a mom who was convinced a non- organic strawberry would seriously harm her son, a sweet toddler named... Poet.

If you haven't figured it out already, it's a story that takes place mostly in Southern Florida, told by an uproariously funny writer who's as talented as she was terrified of becoming a mother.

Victoria Fedden received her MFA in Creative Writing from Florida Atlantic University. Her blog "Wide Lawns and Narrow Minds" was voted 2011's best Humor Blog by the South Florida Sun Sentinel, and her personal essays have been anthologized in I Still Just Want to Pee Alone, Scary Mommy's Guide to Surviving the Holidays, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and My Other Ex. She also regularly contributes to Elephant Journal, and her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Scary Mommy, Babble, and xoJane, among other blogs and websites. She lives with her All rights: Picador family in Fort Lauderdale, and online at victoriafedden.com.

“Fedden, whose places a high priority on caring for her troubled family, details with unfailing honesty and humor [their] joys and meltdowns...[Her mother and stepfather] are straight out of a Carl Hiaasen novel: AARP-age criminals who take pride in having a couch that was used in a porn film, shop at Costco, and are friends with gigolos, Russian mobsters, and singer Michael Bolton, among others." —Publishers Weekly

“A scandalously funny memoir about starting a new family while taking care of the felonious one you’ve already got.”—O, The Oprah Magazine

"This Is Not My Beautiful Life by Victoria Fedden is a roller-coaster of a story that proves that sometimes the truth IS stranger than fiction. Cancel all your plans today, because you will get nothing else accomplished once you start this book. Is 'unputdownable' a word? Well, it is now. This book is unputdownable!" —Jen Mann, New York Times bestselling author of People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges

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Feliciano Arnold, Chris THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER Life and Death in the Twenty-first Century Amazon February 2018 (manuscript available)

During the 2014 World Cup, an isolated Amazonian tribe emerged from the jungle on the misty border of Peru and Brazil, escaping massacre at the hands of illegal loggers. A year later, in the jungle capital of Manaus, a bloody weekend of reprisal killings inflames a drug war that blurs the line between cops and kingpins. Both events reveal the dual struggles of those living in and around the vast, endangered Amazon jungle. As indigenous tribes lose their ancestral territory every day to loggers and drug runners, local communities in cities such as Manaus, are plagued by intense violence due to the ongoing drug wars and entrenched corruption within the police and government. The chaos and violence echo the atrocities that have haunted the rain forest since Europeans first arrived in the New World.

Following doctors and soldiers, environmental activists and indigenous Olympic archers, among others, THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER traces development in the Amazon from the arrival of the first Spanish flotilla. Veteran journalist Chris Arnold grounds his story in rigorous first-hand reporting and in-depth research, revealing a portrait of Brazil and the Amazon that is complex, bloody, and often tragic.

Chris Feliciano Arnold has written for Harper’s, The Atlantic, Outside, Sports

Illustrated, Los Angeles Times, Salon, The Millions, The Rumpus, McSweeney's and other outlets, including Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil’s most All rights: Picador respected newspaper. Born in Brazil, he is a dual U.S.-Brazilian citizen who has traveled to the country throughout his adult life. He first visited Manaus (the capital city of Amazonas) in 2006 when he journeyed the length of the Amazon from Manaus to Belém by riverboat. Since then, he has returned to the Amazon regularly, establishing a diverse network of friends and colleagues in neighborhoods across the region.

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Ghobash, Omar Saif LETTERS TO A YOUNG MUSLIM January 2017 (finished copies available)

In a series of personal letters to his sons, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a short and highly readable manifesto that tackles our current global crisis with the training of an experienced diplomat and the personal responsibility of a father. Today’s young Muslims will be tomorrow’s leaders, and yet too many are vulnerable to extremist propaganda that seems omnipresent in our technological age. The burning question, Ghobash argues, is how moderate Muslims can unite to find a voice that is true to Islam while actively and productively engaging in the modern world. What does it mean to be a good Muslim?

What is the concept of a good life? And is it acceptable to stand up and openly condemn those who take the Islamic faith and twist it to suit their own misguided political agendas? In taking a hard look at these seemingly simple questions, Ghobash encourages his sons to face issues others insist are not relevant, not applicable, or may even be Islamophobic. These letters serve as a clear-eyed inspiration for the next generation of Muslims to understand how to be faithful to their religion and still navigate through the complexities of today’s world. They also reveal an intimate glimpse into a world many are unfamiliar with and offer to provide an understanding of the everyday struggles Muslims face around the globe.

Omar Saif Ghobash is the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia. In addition to his post in Moscow, Ambassador Ghobash sponsors the Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation and founded Arabic rights: c/o author the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in collaboration with the Booker British rights: Picador UK Prize in London. Ambassador Ghobash studied law at Oxford and math at Translation rights: Picador the University of London. Rights sold: Chinese (Complex)/ “Letters to a Young Muslim follows the literary tradition of a family elder Good Publishing passing down insights to a younger generation… Ghobash is especially German/Rowohlt, qualified to take on this task…. Intelligence and focus illuminate his words. Indonesian/Widiasarana The compassion and humility his faith gives him is an inspiration to readers Spanish/Seix Barral whether they are young followers of Islam looking for answers or curious Turkish/Profil non-Muslim readers looking to better understand the religion…. In the end, Ghobash encourages the reader to accept a modern, enlightened path that embraces diversity, not just within Islam but among all religions… It is this sort of wisdom that creates hope for a world in which people are smart enough to work together toward a common good rather than claw at one another while slowly sinking in quicksand.” —Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The New York Times Book Review“

"Letters to a Young Muslim is much more than a father’s advice to his impressionable young sons. It is a call to a generation of Muslims to reclaim A their faith from the bigots and assert their individuality. It is a powerful Harding, Kate & celebration of common humanity and compassion over religious particularity Mukhopadhyay, Samhita and hatred and deserves to be read widely by people of all faiths and none." NASTY WOMEN —The Sunday Times Book Review Feminism, Resistance, and "A gentle, cautious work, which addresses thorny questions with a parent's Revolution in Trump's America compassion and a diplomat's delicate tread." —Harper's October 2017 (finished copies available)

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The 2016 election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency was a devastating blow to marginalized people around the country—immigrants, Muslims, the LGBTQ community, and black Americans. Intersecting with every one of those groups were women, who despaired over the halt in progress of their rights as equal citizens, causing worry for their reproductive health, their safety from emboldened sexual predators, and their children’s futures. Adding insult to injury, women had to watch one of the most qualified candidates in history, Hillary Clinton, lose to an ignorant demagogue who built a campaign on racialized masculine anxiety. The message was clear. In 2016, a woman’s soaring ambitions and qualifications can still be shut down by the oldest trump card in the book: white male supremacy.

What will it mean now, to be a woman in Trump’s America? Has the country become more sexist, or only shown its true colors? When 53 percent of white women voted for Trump and 94 percent of black women voted for Hillary, can we even speak about “women” as a cohesive group? How can we work together, going forward?

NASTY WOMEN will be a collection of critical essays from a diverse set of leading feminists, on these questions and many others, representing a wide range of American feminist experiences. All rights: Picador

Contributors include Cheryl Strayed, Rebecca Solnit, Jessica Valenti, Samantha Irby, Anna Holmes, Katha Pollitt, and Nicole Chung, among others.

SAMHITA MUKHOPADHYAY is a writer, editor, speaker, and technologist. Currently the Editorial Director of the Identities vertical at Mic, she is also the former Executive Editor of Feministing.com and author of Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life.

KATE HARDING is the author of Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture—and What We Can Do About It, a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. She is also a co-author of The Book of Jezebel and Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere.

Lydon, Alexandra THE BROAD SQUAD The True Story of Boston’s First Female Cops and the City They Saved

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September 2019 (manuscript available April 2018)

Soon to be a major motion picture from New Line Cinema, starring Melissa McCarthy

THE BROAD SQUAD tells the explosive true story of the first female police in one of Boston’s most turbulent decades. Taking place in the 1970s, the book chronicles the transition of black and white women into the notorious old boys’ club of the Boston Police Department, as they find themselves on the front lines of a racially divided city and became unwitting participants in a social revolution.

In the vain of David Simon’s Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, THE BROAD SQUAD will bring authenticity and realism into this side of policing.

Alexandra Lydon is originally from Boston, Massachusetts and is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her acting credits include roles in primetime dramas such as 24, Prison Break, House, CSI, and Desperate Housewives. She co-created, co-wrote, and performed in the UCB comedy Worst Laid Plans; alongside Amy Poehler, Whitney Cummings, and Casey Wilson in years of bicoastal, sold out shows. She later adapted the stage show into a book published by Abrams Image, and subsequent comedy album published by Random House in 2010.

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Mask, Deirdre THE ADDRESS BOOK

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What Our Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Power, Race, and Wealth May 2019 (proposal available)

In the tradition of Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of British rights: Profile the City, comes Deirdre Mask’s THE ADDRESS BOOK: What Our Street Translation rights: Picador Addresses Reveal about Identity, Power, Race, and Wealth.

On a hot summer day, Mask drove to West Virginia to write a story for The Atlantic. She had discovered that rural West Virginia did not have street addresses--the streets had no names, and the houses had no numbers. Not only that, but most residents didn’t even want addresses. When Mask's article appeared in the magazine, letters from readers poured in from around the world. What at first seemed just a quirky story had tapped into a deep, unanswered question: What does it mean to have a street address? And what does your address say about the place where you live?

Each chapter of THE ADDRESS BOOK will tell a story about a different time and place, but the narratives are closely linked by the overarching question of the power street addresses have in shaping our lives. Why do black South Africans find street names “glamorous?” Can a street name dictate the value of your home? Can you change a neighborhood by changing its street names? Why doesn’t Tokyo have street names at all? How is it that a street address can save a life? A work of narrative nonfiction, THE ADDRESS BOOK answers these questions and many more through in-depth reporting and the very human stories behind the secret history of our addresses.

For anyone with an address or anyone interested in urban planning, race issues, social and economic inequality, politics, business, finance, or any of the myriad issues that street addresses affect, THE ADDRESS BOOK will be take readers on an illuminating and entertaining journey around the world.

Deirdre Mask is a writer whose articles about street names have appeared in The Atlantic and The Guardian. After graduating from Harvard College summa cum laude, she spent a year at University of Oxford on a Harlech Scholarship before returning to Harvard for law school. Following law school, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, she spent three years working as a lawyer and federal judicial clerk before completing a master’s in writing at the National University of Ireland as a Mitchell Scholar. Originally from North Carolina, she has taught writing at Harvard and social science at LSE.

Schulman, Andrew WAKING THE SPIRIT

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A Musician’s Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul August 2016 (finished copies available)

Andrew Schulman, a fifty-seven-year old professional musician living in New York City, died on the night of July 16, 2009 at 8:30 PM following an eight-hour operation for pancreatic cancer. At 8:32 PM, Andrew was brought back to life and immediately put into a medically induced coma. For the next three days no one in the hospital thought that Andrew would survive. "The Miracle" that saved his life happened three days later. "The Miracle" was music.

Despairing of his chances, his wife had put on his favorite Bach concerto. The music sparked something in him, and his vital signs began to improve. Once recovered, Andrew resolved to dedicate his life to bringing music to critically ill patients at Beth Israel's SICU. In this book you'll learn the astonishing story of how he came to be America's first medical musician, and about the inspiring people he's touched along the way—both patients and doctors. With research and testimonials by some of the best neurologists, oncologists, and other medical professionals in the country, this book explores the power of music to heal the body and inspire the spirit.

Andrew Schulman is the Resident Musician in the Surgical ICU at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. He is the founder and artistic director of the Abaca

String Band, which performs regularly throughout the United States and Europe.

He is also a solo guitarist, and has performed his original music and arrangements at venues as diverse as the Improv and The White House. He All rights: Picador lives in New York City with his wife.

Translation rights sold: “[A] heartfelt chronicle of unorthodox medicine… With a winning combination of Turkish/Andante Publishers anecdotal bedside stories, personal experience, and the research of T neuroscientists, neuromusicologists, and fellow musicians, the author offers

evidence of the calming, stabilizing, and synchronous ("entrainment") physical effects music therapy can have on a patient's nervous system, pain, and overall health…. An inspirational testament to the limitless benefits of music and its role

in palliative health care.”

—Kirkus Reviews

"Waking the Spirit is an inspiring story that teaches many important spiritual lessons, but the principal one is that to give thanks, you have to give. By healing others, he healed himself. You will never listen to music in the same way again.”

—John Kralik, author of 365 Thank Yous

"An inspiring personal story of the ageless power of music to comfort and to heal

supported with plentiful compelling scientific evidence.”

—Caroline Stoessinger, author of A Century of Wisdom

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CHASING NEW HORIZONS

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Inside Humankind’s First Mission to Pluto June 2018 (manuscript available November 2017)

On July 14, 2015 the New Horizons spacecraft, a 1000-pound robot emissary All rights: Picador from Earth packed with scientific instruments, conducted the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted. New Horizons flew by the dwarf planet Translation rights sold: Pluto, its giant moon Charon, and Pluto’s retinue of four smaller moons, giving Chinese (Complex)/ humanity, for the first time, a view of a previously unseen realm of our Solar China Times System. Pluto is the Mount Everest of the Solar System, the last, farthest and most extreme place to be explored. Nothing quite like this mission had occurred in decades—a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s storied Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune in the late 1980s. And nothing like it is on the books to happen, ever again.

Capturing this historic exploratory mission in detail, CHASING NEW HORIZONS will go deep on the incredible findings and photographs the probe has sent back to Earth. Co-written by the scientist leading the mission and an award winning science writer, it will be the definitive book on the New Horizons mission. Offering a view behind the scenes on an expedition to the last major unexplored territory of the Solar System, as well as a deeply human story in the vein of The Right Stuff, CHASING NEW HORIZONS is a riveting story of discovery from an insider’s perspective, as well as a personal story of dogged determination, risk, sacrifice, perseverance and triumph.

Alan Stern, Principal Investigator for NASA’s New Horizons Pluto mission, is writing this book with co-author David Grinspoon, an experienced science writer, which goes behind the scenes of the entire New Horizons mission, from Stern’s earliest days fighting to get the mission approved to the remarkable new insights into our universe that New Horizons has sent back to us.

Warner, Andy

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BRIEF HISTORIES OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS October 2016 (finished copies available) New York Times Best Seller

BRIEF HISTORIES OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS is a graphic novel chock full of hilarious histories of the mundane things that surround us. The stories of items ranging from the toothbrush to kitty litter are told in a funny and engagingly weird style that connects with readers of almost any age. It’s a both a book of histories, and a book about histories, whimsically exploring how legends form around commonplace things. Its chapters are peppered with changing trade routes, ballpoint pen riots and really bad Victorian-era practical jokes. Above all, BRIEF HISTORIES OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS takes joy in finding the true, hidden stories that underpin the most humdrum things we interact with - and then making fun of them.

Andy Warner’s comics have been published by Slate, American Public Media, Symbolia, The Showtime Network’s Years of Living Dangerously, KQED, popsci.com, Medium, The Center for Constitutional Rights, The United Nations Refugee & Works Agency, Generation Progress, Buzzfeed and Upworthy. He holds a BA from Cornell in Near Eastern Studies and an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies. He teaches comics at Stanford and California College of the Arts. He lives in San Francisco and he comes from the sea.

Andy is currently at work on a new book for Picador, SPRING RAIN, due in 2019. A graphic memoir, it depicts the author's time as a foreign student in Beirut, Lebanon and his intense friendships with other expats and locals in All rights: Picador Beirut's queer community as the violence of the Arab Spring erupts in the city.

“A must-read. You may well spend hours perusing its punchy pages. . . . Andy Translation rights sold: Warner has sparked my curiosity about microwave ovens and piqued my taste Chinese (Simplified)/ Guanxi for cinnamon with this remarkable book. Brief Histories of Everyday Objects Normal University Press combines scholarship, wit, and some of the best gray-scale design I’ve ever French/Editions Magnard seen in a comic book.” Vuibert for Librairie Vauvert —Larry Gonick, The Cartoon History of the Universe Korean/Green Knowledge

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“Funny, clever, and very well done indeed.” Spanish/Ediciones B —Comicsbeat

“Ever wonder how the postcard, the bathtub, the ballpoint pen, the microwave, or kitty litter came to be? Warner has you covered with fun and quick backgrounds on objects we take for granted today.” —io9

"The most delightfully irreverent illustrated history lesson since Larry Gonick’s Cartoon History of the Universe (1990)." —Booklist

“Warner’s writing and drawing are both utterly up to the task of turning everyday objects into colorful stories.” —Popmatters

Zaske, Sara ACHTUNG BABY

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An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children January 2018 (galleys available)

When Sara Zaske moved from Oregon to Berlin with her husband and toddler, she knew the transition would be multi-layered, adding parenting and then the birth of another child into the mix. She was surprised to discover that German parents give their children a great deal of freedom—much more than Americans. In Berlin, kids walk to school by themselves, ride the subway alone, cut food with sharp knives, and even play with fire. German parents did not share her fears and their children were thriving. Was she doing the opposite of what she intended, which was to raise capable children? Why was parenting culture so different in the States? Through her own family's often funny experiences as well as interviews with other parents, teachers, and experts, Zaske shares the many unexpected parenting lessons she learned from living in Germany. Achtung Baby reveals that today's Germans know something that American parents don't (or have perhaps forgotten) about raising kids with “selbstandigkeit” (self-reliance), and provides many new and practical ideas American parents can use to give their own children the freedom they need to grow into responsible, independent adults. Our American anxiety is a culturally specific modern stumbling block—which readers can overcome using Zaske’s crucial insights into the German perspective on parenting. British rights: Piatkis/Little Brown Translation rights: Picador SARA ZASKE is an American writer who lived in Berlin for six and half years. Translation rights sold: Her articles on her family's experiences in Germany have appeared on Polish/Relacja Time.com, The Times newspaper in the UK, and Germany's largest Sunday Russian/Sindbad paper, Bild am Sontag. She now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children.

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