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RANDOM HOUSE ● a division of Penguin Random House LLC April 2021 Nonfiction Ballantine: Ballantine Bantam Delacorte Press Dell Del Rey Crown: Crown Currency Harmony & Rodale Random House: Random House The Dial Press Hogarth Modern Library One World Roc Lit 101 RANDOM HOUSE A DIVISION OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, LLC. 1745 Broadway, 10th Floor New York, NY 10019 Please direct foreign rights queries to: Denise A. 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Eduardo Briceño also explores the concepts of the Learning Zone vs. the Performance Zone, Stem Habits, and other actionable strategies for growth. Ballantine September 2022 Eduardo Briceño is the Co-Founder & CEO of Mindset Works, the leading provider of growth mindset Hardcover development services and programs. Since he co-founded it in 2007 with Carol Dweck, Lisa Blackwell, Business & Economics and others, Mindset Works has supported thousands of schools and businesses in their advancement of learning-oriented cultures and systems. He is also a frequent Eduardo is a frequent keynote speaker Editor: Jennifer Hershey at leading national and international conferences, and his two TEDx talks, The Power of Belief and How Rights: World to get better at the things you care about have each been viewed by millions. Eduardo grew up in Co-Agents: Ballantine Caracas, Venezuela, and he holds Bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Engineering from the University Status: Manuscript August of Pennsylvania, as well as an MBA and M.A. in Education from Stanford University. 2021 MEL BROOKS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Mel Brooks Mel Brooks, the internationally acclaimed director, producer, writer, and actor, needs no introduction. The Hollywood legend is in an elite group as one of the only people to win all four major entertainment awards: the Tony, the Emmy, the Grammy, and the Oscar. At long last, this is the cradle-to-nonagenerian memoir his fans have been waiting for, following Brooks from his Brooklyn childhood and his Army service in World War II, through smash hits like The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein, Ballantine and his continued success as one of the most beloved entertainers of our time—and it’s hilarious, June 2022 provocative, and heartfelt throughout. Hardcover Memoir Mel Brooks was born in Brooklyn in 1926. He began his career as a comic and TV writer on the variety show Your Show of Shows, and together with Buck Henry, creating the long running TV series Get Smart. Editor: Pamela Cannon Brooks won his first Oscar in 1964 for writing and narrating the animated short The Critic, and his second Rights: World for the screenplay of his first feature film, The Producers in 1968. Many hit comedy films followed Co-Agents: Ballantine including The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of Status: Manuscript August the World Part I, Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and Dracula: Dead and Loving It. His film 2021 company, Brooksfilms Limited, also produced critically-acclaimed films such as The Elephant Man, The Fly, Frances, My Favorite Year and 84, Charing Cross Road. In 2009, Brooks received a Kennedy Center Honor, recognizing a lifetime of extraordinary contributions to American culture. His recent projects include three Emmy-nominated HBO comedy specials: Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again, Mel Brooks Strikes Back!, and Mel Brooks Live at The Geffen. In 2016, Brooks was invited to the White House, where President Obama presented him with the National Medal of Arts—the highest award given to artists by the United States government. He was married to Academy Award-winning actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005, and their son, Max Brooks, is the New York Times bestselling author of WORLD WAR Z, among other books. Rights sold: UK/BC: Cornerstone/PRH > TABLE OF CONTENTS - 1 - Non-Fiction | April 2021 CHASING MESSI by George Dohrmann A book tracing the development of a cast of young soccer players who will represent redemption for the US Men’s National Team in the coming years, after its disastrous failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. Using this rock-bottom moment for US soccer as a launch pad, the book tackles the larger problem of where the US has been as a soccer-playing nation, where they are going, and how they’ll get there. Ballantine George Dohrmann is a senior editor and writer at The Athletic. He is the author of PLAY THEIR HEARTS November 2022 OUT (2010) and SUPERFANS (2018), and he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 as a staff writer at the St. Paul Hardcover Pioneer Press. Prior to joining The Athletic, he was an investigative reporter at Sports Illustrated, and a Sports & Recreation / sports reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors Soccer for his investigative reporting, enterprise reporting, and feature writing. Dohrmann lives in San Francisco with his family. Editor: Emily Hartley Rights: World Publisher of SUPERFANS: Korean: Random House Korea Co-Agents: Ballantine Status: Manuscript May 2021 THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE MONARCH by Dan Fagin A narrative that follows the amazing yearly cycle of the monarch butterfly, beginning and ending in the mountains of Michoacán, and venturing as far as Canada and California. Part armchair travel, part history – readers will go with the three most prominent living monarch scientists into the field, unspool monarch DNA, climb mountains on horseback in Mexico and march in the Butterfly Parade in Pacific Grove, California, even visit Fagin’s hometown on Long Island, as he and his writer wife organize a clumsy but heartfelt campaign to lure monarchs back to their leafy suburb. In the end, readers will gain Bantam a deeper understanding of the world’s most charismatic insect, and a renewed sense of hope about the February 2024 future of life in the age of man. Hardcover Nature / Science / History Dan Fagin won the Pulitzer Prize for TOMS RIVER (2013) for general nonfiction. He is also the winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism; the National Academy of Sciences Book Editor: Andy Ward Award; and the SEJ Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. He is a professor of journalism and the Rights: World director of the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University. At Co-Agents: Ballantine Newsday, Fagin’s stories about cancer and environment were awarded both of the leading science Status: Manuscript August journalism prizes in the United States. 2023 > TABLE OF CONTENTS - 2 - Non-Fiction | April 2021 THE PARIS LINE: A True Story of War, Friendship, and Two Heroic Women in Occupied France by Matthew Goodman A thrilling, propulsive story about truly inspiring characters – two conventional, seemingly unremarkable women, who are called upon by the circumstances of history to discover within themselves a capacity for heroism, resistance and toughness they might never have imagined themselves capable of. Ballantine In the early days of the Nazi occupation of France, two middle-aged women, close friends, a February 2025 transplanted Jewish New Yorker American named Etta Shiber and a British