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THE GIFT OF ANGER And Other Lessons From My Grandfather, Mahatma

Gandhi

By Arun Gandhi

US publisher: Jeter Publishing / Simon & Schuster (NA) To publish: April 2017

Material available: Final PDF available

Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency

Rights sold: Brazil (Sextante) China (Hainan) France (Marabout/Hachette) Germany (DuMont) Greece (Dioptra) Holland (HarperCollins Holland) Arun Gandhi was just twelve years old when his parents dropped him off Israel (Armchair) at Sevagram, his grandfather’s famous ashram. To Arun, the man who Italy (Giunti) fought for India’s independence and was the country’s beloved Korea (Sejong) preeminent philosopher and leader was simply a family member. He lived Latin American (Spanish) there for two years under his grandfather’s wing until Gandhi’s Portugal (Planeta Manuscrito) assassination. Taiwan (Commonwealth) Turkey (Altim) While each chapter contains a singular, timeless lesson, The Gift of Anger UK/Commonwealth (Penguin UK) also takes you along with Arun on a moving journey of self-discovery as he learns to overcome his own struggle to express his emotions and Discover vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the harness the power of anger to bring about good. He learns to see the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of world through eyes under the tutelage of his beloved grandfather and the twentieth century—Mahatma Gandhi—in this poignant and provides a rare, three-dimensional portrait of this icon for the ages. timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as Arun Gandhi founded the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, recounted by Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi. In the current following a 30-year journalism career at The Times of India. Currently, he troubled climate, in our country and in the world, these lessons are travels and speaks regularly at approximately 50 to 60 venues annually needed more than ever before. and is a very popular speaker on college campuses.

MY JEWISH YEAR

By Abigail Pogrebin and A.J. Jacobs

US publisher: Fig Tree Press (North American rights) To publish: March 2017

Material available: Final PDF available

In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs (who in fact writes the Foreword to this book) and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin’s MY JEWISH YEAR, a lively chronicle of the author’s journey into the spiritual heart of Judaism.

Although she grew up following some holiday rituals, Abigail Pogrebin realized how little she knew about their foundational purpose and contemporary relevance; she wanted to understand what had kept these holidays alive and vibrant, some for thousands of years. Her curiosity led her to embark on an entire year of intensive research, observation, and writing about the milestones on the religious calendar. Praise for MY JEWISH YEAR: MY JEWISH YEAR travels through this calendar’s signposts with candor, humor, and a trove of information, capturing the arc of Jewish "The book is a frank reckoning with the author’s own heart, but it’s also observance through the eyes of a relatable, wandering―and about the myriad ways Jews relate to each other. Jewish and non-Jewish wondering―Jew. readers alike will appreciate this thoughtful and intimate journey through a very Jewish year." – Booklist Abigail Pogrebin, a former 60 Minutes producer, is the author of the NYT bestselling book Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being "[An] insightful, clever, funny, and compulsively readable volume…both Jewish, among others. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, New humorous and inspiring. Even knowledgeable Jews will find wisdom and York magazine, The Daily Beast, Tablet, and beyond. A frequent speaker at new perspectives in these pages." – Publishers Weekly synagogues and Jewish organizations, Pogrebin has for seven years produced and moderated her own interview series at the JCC of “A modern take on a pilgrim’s journal, this account will offer insight for called “What Everyone’s Talking About.” Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike. Readers who are interested in becoming more observant will find it especially worthwhile.” – Library Journal

LOVE, AFRICA A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival

By Jeffrey Gettleman

US publisher: HarperCollins (World English rights) To publish: May 2017

Material available: Final PDF available Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency

From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a memoir about finding love and finding a calling in a place both beautiful and violent.

A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade, he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for , fulfilling his teenage dream of living in Africa. LOVE, AFRICA is the story of how he got there—and of his difficult, winding path toward becoming a good reporter and a better man. As the New York Times Bureau Chief, Jeffrey Gettleman covers twelve At nineteen, Gettleman fell in love, twice. On a community service trip African countries and has written extensively on internal conflicts in in college, he went to Africa—a terrifying, exciting, dreamlike continent Kenya, Congo, Somalia, Sudan, and Ethiopia. LOVE, AFRICA is his first in the throes of change that imprinted itself on his imagination and heart. book. One day, he vowed, he would return there to stay. But around the same time he also fell in love with Courtenay, a fellow Cornell student. Praise for LOVE, AFRICA: Courtenay became a lawyer in America, and all Gettleman wanted was to be with her. But he also hungered to be in Africa. For the next decade he “Jeffrey Gettleman has true grit." – Angela Duckworth, author of Grit would waver between these two abiding passions. Finally, after a great deal of growing up, he learned to be honest with himself about what he “Gettleman’s memoir of his life, his love and the excitement and perils of wanted—a realization that ultimately fulfilled both of his deepest desires. journalism is a page-turner. The portrait of Africa that emerges is disturbing, tender and harsh. A tremendous read. I couldn't put it down.” A beautifully rendered coming-of-age story in the tradition of Barbarian – Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone Days, LOVE, AFRICA is a tale of passion, professional rivalries, tortuous long-distance relationships, marital strife, forgiveness, “Jeffrey Gettleman's beautifully written memoir is about many kinds of parenthood, and happiness that explores the power of finding yourself in love: for a continent, for a family, for the truth….LOVE, AFRICA offers the most unexpected of places. a key to understanding humankind's past and future and a key to understanding our hearts.’’ – Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In

THIS IS JUST MY FACE

By Gabourey Sidibe

US publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (US rights) To publish: May 2017

The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir—wise, complex, smart, funny—a life experience different from anything we’ve read.

Gabourey Sidibe—“Gabby” to her legion of fans—skyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Daniels’s acclaimed movie Precious. In THIS IS JUST MY FACE, she shares a one-of-a-kind life story in a voice as fresh and challenging as many of the unique characters she’s played onscreen. With full-throttle honesty, Sidibe paints her Bed-Stuy/Harlem family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway. Sidibe tells the engrossing, inspiring story of her first job as a phone sex “talker.” And she shares her unconventional (of course!) rise to fame as a movie star, alongside “a superstar cast of rich people who lived in mansions and had their own private islands and amazing careers while I lived in my mom's apartment.”

Sidibe’s memoir hits hard with self-knowing dispatches on friendship, Praise for THIS IS JUST MY FACE: depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight (“If I could just get the world to see me the way I see myself,” she writes, “would my body still be a thing you walked away thinking about?”). Irreverent and “Gabourey Sidibe’s delightful memoir This Is Just My Face: Try Not To untraditional, THIS IS JUST MY FACE takes its place on the shelf of Stare offers a memorable look into what happens when a black girl’s writers from Mindy Kaling to David Sedaris to Lena Dunham. dreams come true, from the inside out… Sidibe is fearless, incredibly funny and gorgeously open.” – Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist Gabourey Sidibe is an award-winning actress who is best known for the title role of Precious. She has starred on Fox’s smash-hit show Empire, " Frank, funny, and insanely charming,… [Y]ou'll root for her on every along with FX’s American Horror Story and Difficult People. THIS IS JUST page—we are blessed by her honesty, passion and wit.” MY FACE is her first book. – Lena Dunham, author of Not That Kind of Girl

“[A] unique and universal book by a young woman who is both a total surprise and an instant classic.” – Gloria Steinem

WE'RE GONNA NEED MORE WINE YOU’RE ON AN AIRPLANE

By Gabrielle Union By Parker Posey

US publisher: Dey Street / HarperCollins (NA rights) US publisher: Blue Press / Penguin (NA rights) To publish: September 2017 To publish: October 2017

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In the vein of Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl, Roxane Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Virago/Little, Brown UK) Gay’s Bad Feminist, and Caitlin Moran’s How to Be a Woman, comes WE’RE GONNA NEED MORE WINE; a fun, rollicking From the "Queen of the Indies" Parker Posey comes an irreverent, collection of cross cultural, personal stories by actress Gabrielle hilarious, and enchanting memoir full of personal stories, Union. whimsical how-tos, recipes, and eccentric illustrations.

Imagined as a deep conversation, from one woman to another, all Parker Posey is a singularly gifted actress with a wickedly funny women (twenties, thirties, forties, and beyond) are hungry for a voice as personality that belies her movie star status, her cross-generational bold and audacious as Gabrielle Union’s, who can illuminate stories fame stems from starring roles in such unforgettable movies as Dazed that, now more than ever, demand telling. If you’ve ever felt like an and Confused, Party Girl, and You've Got Mail. outsider trying to fit in, a pretender trying to “keep up appearances,” this one’s for you. With remarkable candor and a refreshing perspective on life in the spotlight, Posey opens up about the art of acting, life on the set, and Gabrielle’s essays are gutsy, honest, outrageous, heartbreaking, and wise the realities of its accompanying fame. She explores her relationships on issues ranging from high school culture, dating, cliques, popularity, with brilliant directors like Christopher Guest and Woody Allen. A fitting in, self esteem, race, sex, and family. funny and authentic childhood set Posey up for a life of creating and entertaining, which not only extends to acting but to the craft of Gabrielle Union is an actress and NAACP Image Award winner who pottery, sewing, collage, yoga and cooking, all of which readers will find has appeared in such films as Bring It On, Think Like a Man and The Birth in this highly entertaining book. of a Nation. She can currently be seen in the lead role on the critically acclaimed BET series, Being Mary Jane. She is also an outspoken activist For fans of Nora Ephron's spot-on commentary, Jenny Lawson's for women’s reproductive health and victims of sexual assault, and is absurdly comical foibles, Amy Sedaris's unexpectedly hilarious quips, currently an Ambassador in Susan G. Komen for the Cure's Circle of and Carrie Brownstein's cool-girl appeal, YOU’RE ON AN Promise and a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood’s breast health AIRPLANE proves Posey has a voice that will enchant fans and initiative. She has also served on President Barack Obama’s National newcomers alike. Advisory Committee for Violence Against Women. Parker Posey recently appeared in Woody Allen's latest two films, Café Society and Irrational Man. She is currently playing Dr. Smith in 's remake of Lost in Space.

THE NEUROSCIENTIST WHO LOST HER MIND remembers everything that happened with absolute clarity, and now, the A Memoir of Madness and Recovery neuroscientists and expert on mental illness has experienced what it is actually like to be insane.

By Dr. Barbara Lipska & Elaine McArdle THE NEUROSCIENTIST WHO LOST HER MIND will give readers a profoundly new understanding into the physiological basis of US publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (North American rights) mental illness and dementia, affording them a greater sympathy for those To publish: Spring 2018 battling mental illness.

Material available: Proposal available Dr. Barbara Lipska is the director of the human brain bank at the Edited MS available in Fall 2017 National Institute of Mental Health. Her primary research interests are in mental illness and human brain development. She is an internationally Japanese subagent: Tuttle Mori Agency recognized leader in human postmortem research and animal modeling of schizophrenia. Rights sold: Brazil (Sextante) France (Lattes) Elaine McArdle is an award-winning journalist, lawyer with a degree Germany (Heyne) from Vanderbilt Law School, who for twenty years has been writing for Korea (Prunsoop) newspapers and magazines, including The Boston Globe, Boston magazine, Poland (Agora) and many others. Her previous co-writing credits include The Migraine Romania (Trei) Brain. Spain (Planeta) UK (Transworld)

A first-person harrowing account of a descent into madness, THE NEUROSCIENTIST WHO LOST HER MIND will find a wide readership with those who embraced When Breath Becomes Air, My Stroke of Insight, and Brain on Fire.

Dr. Barbara Lipska is the director of the brain bank at the National Institutes of Mental Health, and one of the top experts in the world on the neuroscience of schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.

Lipska was diagnosed with melanoma in January of 2015, a devastating piece of as this disease had killed her first husband, whom she had lived with in their native Poland. In the summer of 2015, the melanoma spread to her brain, causing small tumors to form. As a result, she literally lost her mind—she went through a 60-day period of temporary madness, exhibiting paranoia and schizophrenia-like symptoms. Once the doctors discovered what was going on, they removed the tumors and Dr. Lipska returned to complete normality. With one difference: she

THE FOX HUNT Escape from Yemen YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED ME AN UBER

By Mohammed al Samawi By Meredith Goldstein US publisher: William Morrow/HarperCollins (NA rights) To publish: Spring 2018 US publisher: Grand Central / Hachette (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2017 Material available: Edited MS available in May 2017

Japanese subagent: The English Agency YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED ME AN UBER is an edgy, Rights sold: Brazil (HarperCollins Brazil) heartfelt book project by renowned Boston Globe columnist Germany (Edel) Meredith Goldstein! Italy (HarperCollins Italy) Poland (Czarna Owca) Destined to enchant readers of Cheryl Strayed, Aziz Ansari, and Jenny UK (Scribe) Lawson, YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED ME AN UBER offers

Meredith’s spirited, honest account of her own dating life while she THE FOX HUNT is a profound story of personal transformation dishes out savvy advice through her “Love Letters” column, which set against a high-stakes, page-turning thriller. addresses everything from infidelity, stale marriages, family grief, work

Four Millennials stare at their iPhones. They’ve been glued to Facebook, romances, and what makes true, lasting love so unmistakable. Twitter, WhatsApp, and Skype for the past six hours. But they’re not posting vacation photos, watching cat videos, or typing up 140-character YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED ME AN UBER is divided into 12 reviews of local brunch spots. They’re orchestrating a daredevil rescue chapters, each focusing on a struggle many readers share. Besides operation that’s taking place halfway across the world. Within thirty Meredith’s own sympathetic but to-the-point advice, what makes the minutes, they’ll learn if they’ve saved the life of a young Muslim-Yemeni “Love Letters” column—and by extension, this book—so unique are the peace-activist—the author, Mohammed al Samawi—or if he’s been shot commentators who regularly chime in with their own advice, and so we by Al Qaeda operatives. come to know them as intimately as we do Meredith.

And so Mohammed puts his faith, and his one shot at freedom, in the Meredith Goldstein began at the Boston Globe as an entertainment hands of a rag-tag group of Facebook friends he barely knows. Near- journalist. On a lark, she started an advice column that rapidly drew wave strangers to one another, with exactly zero experience in extraction or after wave of readers—and is now over 1 million readers’ strong and military strategy, the team of four turns to the only tool or tactic they growing exponentially by the day. The questions and answers fielded in have: social media. In this unforgettable survival story, weak ties become her “Love Letters” column have touched a nerve with people united by strong bonds as ordinary people come together to accomplish the the human quest for love and connection. Meredith is the previous extraordinary. author of the novel The Singles, which was published in April 2012.

Mohammed al Samawi works for the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy as a Regional Project Coordinator. THE FOX HUNT is his first book.

HOUSE OF STICKS THE GLASS OF FASHION A Memoir A Lifetime of Lessons in Style By Ly Tran

By Hamish Bowles US publisher: Scribner (North American rights) To publish: Summer 2018 US publisher: Knopf (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2017 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2017 Ly Tran recounts an extraordinarily powerful story about the immigrant experience that evokes The Glass Castle. Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Little, Brown UK) Ly Tran and her three brothers were born in the Mekong Delta region of . After the in 1975, Ly and her family Mixing encyclopedic knowledge and boundless curiosity, Hamish emigrated to . They arrived in February 1993, leaving Bowles brings us into a world where fashion, style, and history rice paddies, mango trees, and a hut for a towering building in collide. . Ly had her first job in America at the age of four, doing sweatshop labor at home with her family. In time, she and her Hamish Bowles began his storied fashion career by creating a makeshift mother eventually opened up their own nail salon. fontange at age four. He then won a British Vogue talent contest at age fourteen, and went on to become the youngest fashion director ever at It was during Ly's time working in the nail salon that she began to Harpers & Queen at age twenty-two. Now International Editor at Large understand her own past. On days when it was just Ly and her mother, at Vogue, THE GLASS OF FASHION is Hamish’s collection of the they would practice on fake nails as she relayed stories about Ly's equivalent of four PhDs in fashion, interior design, decorative arts, and brothers in Vietnam before she was born, how she swam across the architecture. Mekong to avoid a lurking matchmaker, or how Ly's grandmother was sold to a Cambodian family in exchange for three pigs. In THE GLASS OF FASHION, Hamish will take the reader on an international journey narrated through a pastiche of people, places, HOUSE OF STICKS is in part about poverty and getting by, and personal moments, and professional opinion. Wielding his erudite, yet hope. As Ly takes us through her journey as a young immigrant, the playful writing, Hamish keenly explores the spaces between style, obstacles she faced as a female in her family and in Brooklyn, she fashion, and culture. Not just for fashion insiders, this is a book aimed reveals the mechanisms by which she shielded herself against her for the culturally curious, creatively ambitious, and style obsessed—from harsh reality, and the faith that carried her through. a man who has learned from the most significant tastemakers of the last several . Ly Tran graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Creative Writing and Linguistics. She is a recipient of a MacDowell Hamish Bowles has been the editor-at-large for Vogue since 1995. Colony Fellowship and an Arts Omi residence.

DID I DO GOOD? THIS REALLY HAPPENED A Memoir By Owen Benjamin

US publisher: W.W. Norton (North American rights) By Isaac Mizrahi To publish: Fall 2018

US publisher: Flatiron Books (North American rights) Material available: Proposal available To publish: Spring 2018 Edited MS available in June 2018

Material available: Proposal available Up-and-coming comedian Owen Benjamin’s DID I DO GOOD? Edited MS available in Fall 2017 will appeal to readers of Aziz Ansari’s Modern Love and Amy

Schumer’s The Girl with the Lower-Back Tattoo! A memoir from the multitalented and omnipresent Isaac Mizrahi, a household name in the fashion world for over two decades. Owen Benjamin is your everyman. He’s good at following directions, enjoys putting his body and mind through unnecessary pain, and loves Famed fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi’s memoir THIS REALLY naps and high fives. He’s aggressive and determined, and if he’d been HAPPENED weaves together recollections, pronouncements, brought up in a different setting he’d probably be working in a lumber opinion, and anecdotes that at once entertain and enlighten. yard moving heavy things or playing third string tight end in the Canadian Football league. From Isaac’s tortuous childhood in an Orthodox community of Brooklyn to his adolescence spent on the dance floor at Studio 54, his In other words, Owen’s not a PhD or a personal relations counselor; he’s time at Parsons School of Design to the heady 1990s, when his friends a guy like any other guy–just a hell of a lot funnier. In DID I DO and muses, supermodels such as Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, and GOOD? he’ll use wit and historical evidence to take on the big, age-old Naomi Campbell ruled the runway, Isaac tells the story of coming into questions: Why do men with caring girlfriends think their single lives his own and becoming a fashion celebrity, all with his beloved wit and would look like AXE Bodyspray commercials? Why do women fantasize voice. about Ted Bundy types and not the nice guy at H&R Block? And, why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle? Isaac Mizrahi is an American fashion designer, TV presenter, and creative director of Xcel Brands. He is best known for his eponymous DID I DO GOOD? will be as practical and constructive as Aziz fashion lines. Ansari’s Modern Love; as weird and sincere as Rob Delaney’s Rob Delaney; as sensitive as Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me; as personal as Justin Halpern’s I Suck At Girls; and as manly as Nick Offerman’s Paddle Your Own Canoe.

Owen Benjamin is a comedian and actor. He’s performed his unique stand-up sets on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Chelsea Lately, Inside Amy Schumer, and Presents: Owen Benjamin. DID I DO GOOD? is his first book.

LIFE IN THEORY THE PRIEST, THEY CALLED HIM William S. Burroughs & the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll By Toph Eggers By Casey Rae US publisher: Crown (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 US publisher: University of Texas Press (NA rights) To publish: Fall 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in June 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in June 2018 Japanese subagent: Tuttle Mori Agency

Rights sold: Germany (Piper) THE PRIEST, THEY CALLED HIM is poised to be the Holland (Signatuur / Bruna) definitive biography of a Beat-era legend, whose legacy carries Italy (Giunti) into present-day rock music. UK / Commonwealth (Oneworld) William S. Burroughs is well known as a pivotal writer of the beat Toph Eggers, the younger brother of who was generation, but his lasting and critical influence on rock music and its prominently featured in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering formative musicians is a story that hasn’t been told. Burroughs altered Genius, is now thirty-three years old. LIFE IN THEORY is his the destinies of an astounding array of musicians in the latter half of candid memoir of the surreal trajectory of his life and the toll of the 20th century—such as Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Patti Smith, and Kurt Cobain, among many others—and Casey Rae has being defined by a persona he did not create. outlined a compelling case for Burroughs’ powerful impression on rock

music, which will be supported by interviews, research, and original The publication of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Toph’s reporting. older brother Dave had profound consequences Toph could not have foreseen. It was required reading for his freshman class at college, Casey Rae has written op-eds for Los Angeles Times, New York Times, students came to interview him “for extra credit.” A girlfriend broke it Billboard, and The Hill, among other publications, and has appeared on off with him on the advice of her therapist. What followed is the NPR, CNBC, Bloomberg News, and SiriusXM. He teaches courses on trajectory of a vulnerable young man who increasingly steeled himself music at Georgetown University and Berklee College of Music in Boston. against any pain. He’s a sought after speaker who’s given talks at SXSW, Consumer In many ways, LIFE IN THEORY fills a gap in the world of Electronics Showcase, CMJ, Aspen Institute, and on the university circuit memoirs. Toph’s memoir reaches out to the fans of those book with a at Harvard University and Harvard Law School, Columbia University, candor rarely found in memoirs by men. NYU and NYU Law, University of California, Berkeley Law School, McGill University, University of Toronto, and many other institutions. Toph Eggers is a writer, director, and screenwriter. LIFE IN THEORY is his first book.

AUGUST WILSON THE WIDOWER’S NOTEBOOK The Kiln in Which He Was Fired

By Jonathan Santlofer US publisher: 37 Ink / Simon & Schuster (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 US publisher: (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019

Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in June 2018 The first and fully authorized biography of August Wilson by veteran theater critic, Patti Hartigan.

An exquisite account of the tragic sudden death of his wife Joy and Playwright August Wilson’s story begins with his birth in a two-room its wrenching aftermath, THE WIDOWER’SNOTEBOOK offers tenement in Pittsburgh. Wilson’s mother, Daisy, a daughter of a page-turning chronicle of the author’s profound loss and an sharecroppers, was a spirited and disciplined mother who made time to unprecedented portrait of the male psyche. play dodgeball and baseball with her children. Wilson’s father, German- born, left the family when he was a young boy. These two themes of Rendered in evocative novelistic prose, the book opens on a hot humid abandonment and a loving, but strict mother play out in Wilson’s life summer’s day when author Jonathan Santlofer discovers his wife Joy and art. gasping for breath on their living room couch. He captures his frenzied 911 call, the EMT’s heroic efforts to save Joy’s life on the floor of their Jazz saved him and by the time he was 37, Wilson was accepted by the apartment and in the ambulance racing across Manhattan, and his National Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater ominous Kafka-esque hours pacing Bellevue’s ER waiting room before Center. Soon, his plays were produced on Broadway and he was a laconic internist informs him that Joy would never return home again. receiving Pulitzers and Tonys. Most important, Wilson changed That night, Jonathan leaves the hospital with a small slip of paper on American theater and culture. He set out to write a series of plays which he had scribbled the name of the doctor who would be chronicling the experience of African Americans in the 20th Century, performing an autopsy on Joy’s corpse. and his American Century Cycle is the true attempt at an American epic in the vein of Homer, Virgil, and Dante. It is an unprecedented THE WIDOWER’S NOTEBOOK is a masterful portrait of a achievement. marriage, of the untethered freedoms and complexities of finding oneself single again, and of the unique ways in which men grieve, heal, But demons bubbled underneath this achievement. Wilson never got and strive to move past trauma. It stands to emerge as a major work of over his sense of abandonment, and was a chronic womanizer who was narrative nonfiction, a book that does for the grieving male soul what unable to achieve intimate relationships with women. Hartigan tells a Andrew Solomon’s Noonday Demon did for depression, or what fascinating, complicated, page-turning biography of extravagant success, Caroline Knapp’s Drinking: A Love Story did for alcoholism. internal vulnerability and an ability to grow.

Jonathan Santlofer is the previous author of five novels: The Death Patti Hartigan has covered August Wilson for three decades. She was Artist, Color Blind, The Killing Art, The Murder Notebook, and Anatomy of a fellow at the Pew Charitable Trust National Arts Journalism Program Fear. THE WIDOWER’S NOTEBOOK is his first work of and won the Paul Tobenkin Award from Columbia University’s School nonfiction. of Journalism.

UPCOMING MINDFULNESS / SELF-HELP TITLES

THE TOTAL ME-TOX

How To Ditch Your Diet, Move Your Body, & Love Your

Life (On Your Own Terms)

By Beth Behrs with Wendy Shanker

US publisher: Weinstein Books (North American rights) To publish: May 2017

Material available: Final PDF available

Actress Beth Behrs’s new book is a lighthearted, down-to-earth, and holistic guide to giving up the junk-food lifestyle and achieving complete physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

As the actress currently starring in CBS's smash-hit comedy 2 Broke Girls, Beth Behrs seems like she has it all figured out. But it wasn't until recently that Beth learned how to eat well, stay in shape, and be mindful of the way she was living. After reaching a nutritional low point in college, Beth was faced with medical issues related to over-snacking, Beth Behrs is a young and in-demand actress well-known for her excess stress, and not enough exercise. Like many women, Beth didn't starring role in CBS’s 2 Broke Girls. She is also an active philanthropist have the time, money, or inclination to attend weekly fitness classes or to and supporter of youth, environmental, and arts education foundations. change her diet to only leafy greens and super fruits. It was too She resides in Los Angeles. overwhelming to change everything at once—but she knew she had to start somewhere. So that's what she did.

Beth's new approach to life is joyful and positive, and she is committed to teaching others how to feel good by treating themselves better. Her book offers fun and practical advice for 21st-century girls and women hoping to lead more grounded and fulfilling lives. It includes motivational stories from Beth's journey toward wellness, recipe suggestions and shopping lists, and photos of meal prep and dinner parties.

AN OASIS IN TIME How a Day of Rest Can Save Your Life

By Marilyn Paul

US publisher: Rodale (North American rights) To publish: August 2017

Material available: Edited MS available

AN OASIS IN TIME is a must-read for anyone looking to live a calmer, richer, more fulfilling life.

Now, more than ever, people are seeking a reprieve from the constant pressure to achieve, produce, and consume. While many turn to mindfulness and meditation, organizational change expert Marilyn Paul, Ph.D. offers a complementary solution that is as radical as it is ancient. In her new book AN OASIS IN TIME, Paul focuses on the profound benefits of taking a day off each week for deep rest and nourishing renewal.

Drawing on Sabbath tradition, contemporary research, and her own personal experience, Paul shows you how to design your weekly time off, carve out the time from your busy schedule, and most importantly, change your mindset so you can have the pleasure of regularly slowing Praise for AN OASIS IN TIME: down every week. From spending meaningful time in nature to creating a special, calming environment, Paul provides you with practical strategies “Marilyn Paul’s gentle and thoughtful AN OASIS IN TIME…gives both for stepping off the treadmill whatever your religious beliefs. practical guidelines on how to plan for regular time off, and shows how starting small, slowing down and keeping it simple can reconnect us with Marilyn Paul, PhD, is the author of the bestselling It's Hard to Make a what’s most important and help us reclaim our souls.” – Brigid Schulte, Difference When You Can't Find Your Keys. She is a coach, author, speaker, New York Times bestselling author of Overwhelmed and senior consultant with Bridgeway Partners, an organizational consulting group based in Boston. Marilyn and her work have been "Marilyn Paul makes a compelling case that an ancient ritual can vastly featured in USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, and Yoga improve your quality of life in a hectic modern world. I'm convinced!" Journal. – Cal Newport, author of Deep Work

“The practical advice in Marilyn Paul’s new book is precisely what we need to close the gap between what we know we should do, and what we actually do.” – Peter Bregman, author of Four Seconds

STRENGTH IN STILLNESS The Power of Meditation

By Bob Roth

US publisher: Simon & Schuster (North American rights) To publish: September 2017

Material available: Edited MS available in June 2017

Rights sold: Brazil (GMT Editions) Czech Republic (Euromedia) Germany (Kamphausen) Holland (Kosmos) Italy (Giunti) Korea (Human ComedY0 Poland (Illuminatio) Portugal (Penguin Portugal) Spain (Aguilar/ Spain) Taiwan (Fine Press) UK/Commonwealth (Simon & Schuster UK)

Bob Roth, the world-renowned Transcendental Meditation guru, Since learning to teach Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as a young skeptic, Bob Roth has been dedicated to brings you STRENGTH IN STILLNESS: A Guide to Meditation. spreading the life-changing technique. He hosts the Sirius XM radio show, “Success Without Stress” and speaks regularly on meditation to STRENGTH IN STILLNESS is a meditation guide geared toward industry leaders at gathering such as Google Zeitgeist and Aspen Ideas skeptics and curious first-timers. This light, fun read to bust their Festival. Roth maintains 50 engagements yearly, at venues up to 3,000 perceptions of what meditation is and demystify, using plainspoken attendees. He donates all his speaking fees to the David Lynch language and vivified with personal stories inspired by Bob’s 45-year Foundation’s work with military veterans with PTSD and their families. career of teaching meditation to everyone from students to Fortune 500 companies to single moms to celebrities. Bob Roth is one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in the world. For nearly five decades, he has helped bring Roth’s simple and authoritative guide seeks to help spread the power of Transcendental Meditation to millions of people around the world— in Transcendental Meditation to a world in need. Fast-paced and accessible, 35 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Roth’s STRENGTH IN STILLNESS, is a must-read for the millions Some of his noteworthy clients include Oprah Winfrey, Jerry Seinfeld, of people searching for a way to survive and thrive in the ever-increasing Paul McCartney, Katie Couric and Ellen DeGeneres.. Bob is Co-Founder stress of 21st century life. of the David Lynch Foundation, a charity whose mission is to bring meditation to those in need.

AGELESS SOUL Ripening, Maturing, and Feeling Fulfilled as We Get

Older

By Thomas Moore

US publisher: St. Martin’s Press To publish: October 2017

Material available: Final PDF available

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AGELESS SOUL is a revolutionary and inspiring new book that reframes the way we imagine aging, by New York Times bestselling author Thomas Moore.

With the international Baby Boomer population growing at AGELESS SOUL radically distinguishes aging from merely “growing unprecedented rates, AGELESS SOUL will give readers everywhere old”, and it will appeal to readers of bestselling books that challenge our vital new perspective and guidance on the rich experiences and hardened views of a topic we thought we knew, from Susan Cain’s Quiet opportunities that lie ahead for all of us. We’re living, working, and to Adam Grant’s Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, but also engaging with the world longer than ever before in our entire human to readers hungry for universal stories and inspiring lessons about how to history. And yet, as Moore points out in his new book, our society still live meaningfully at every stage of life, in the vein of Randy Pausch’s The tends to give young people all the glory, failing to recognize and nurture Last Lecture and Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie. AGELESS SOUL the tremendous resources and dazzling possibilities presented by men offers suggestions for living the richest, most soulful life—which is the and women moving beyond middle age and into their older years. best way to age—nudging along readers of all ages and states in their journey towards maturity, personal development, and lifelong happiness. While acknowledging the physical and emotional challenges of aging, Moore embraces the joy, intellectual edge, and profound self-fulfillment Thomas Moore is the author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul that can accompany our every passing year. Aging, Moore says, is a (which was on The New York Times bestseller list for 44 weeks), and lifelong process, and is something for us to honor, to own, and to nineteen other books on spirituality. He holds a Ph.D. in religion from celebrate. Syracuse University and is a former monk, musician, and university professor. At 75 years strong, he currently lectures all over the world on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts.

BLOOM CLOSE TO OM Hitting Your Stride at Any Age or Stage By Andrea Marcum By Rich Karlgaard US publisher: St. Martin’s Press (North American rights) US publisher: Crown Business (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2018 To publish: Spring 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2017 Material available: Proposal available

Edited MS available in Fall 2017 Not assigned in Japan

Japanese subagent: The English Agency By the end of CLOSE TO OM, you will not only know a lot about Rights sold: China (Beijing Mediatimes) yoga and its poses, but you’ll also know more about you: who you Korea (Korean Economic Daily) are, what you want, and how to get there—on and off your mat. Taiwan (Prophet Press) Many people think that yoga, is simply about twisting your body into Business leader and publisher of Forbes magazine Rich Karlgaard’s pretzel-like shapes to gain strength and flexibility. And while the poses BLOOM is poised to hit a nerve among the countless people who are important, they are, as Andrea Marcum likes to say, the frosting on the cake. Yoga is the yoke of body, mind and spirit, and CLOSE TO OM feel that they’re lagging behind their peers, and that they haven’t offers a program that teaches us all three aspects of yoga. yet tapped into their professional or personal potential. The progression in CLOSE TO OM is the architecture of every yoga BLOOM makes a powerful argument: finding yourself and attaining true practice – and will show you that how you do your yoga is how you do success is possible at any age. Rather than glorifying young, Mark your life. Today yoga is everywhere—and in our fast paced 24/7 world, Zuckerburg-like prodigies, BLOOM calls upon us to allow ourselves to we need what it offers more than ever, body, mind and spirit. hit our strides our own way and in our own time. As the publisher of Forbes magazine and host of its most prestigious global business and Andrea Marcum is the perfect guide for this journey. She’s been thought-leadership conferences (and as a highly successful entrepreneur teaching yoga in LA for about 16 years, currently at Yogaworks and who “bloomed” much later than many of his peers), Rich Karlgaard has numerous major events around the country, including Wanderlust the platform passion, to make BLOOM the next paradigm-shifting title festivals, as well as leading corporate and private retreats all over the in the vein of StrengthsFinder or The 4-Hour Work Week. Strikingly, there world. has not yet been a big-idea nonfiction book concerning “late bloomers”, making BLOOM the first major work to relay this message.

Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes magazine, is an entrepreneur, business thought leader, and the previous author of Soft Edge, Life 2.0, and Team Genius.

BUY ME ONCE AGILE AND ADAPTIVE Making Wise Decisions during Stress, Uncertainty, and By Tara Button Change

To publish: Spring 2018 By Elizabeth Stanley

Material available: Proposal available US publisher: Avery/Penguin (North American rights) Edited MS available in Fall 2017 To publish: Spring 2018

Rights sold: UK / Commonwealth (HarperCollins) Material available: Proposal available

Edited MS available in September 2017 Tara Button, founder of a company buymeonce.com, believes that, in an age of overconsumption, where we buy cheap, temporary Rights sold: China (CITIC) things, we are starving ourselves spiritually as well as harming the planet. Instead, why not surround yourself with the best things you Our biological wiring is the same as it was 200,000 years ago, when we can find, buy less rubbish and be more friendly to the Earth? were cavemen (and cavewomen) and our daily decisions had to do with, for example, which animals we could kill vs. which animals could kill us. Tara’s company started late last year, and in January, an article appeared Back then, we responded to stress with a brief surge of adrenaline, focus, on her in the Telegraph that went viral: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ and energy, and then we retreated to our caves to recover. Today, we interiors/home/the-rise-of-buy-me-once-shopping/ respond to stressful decision-making with the same biological cocktail, but we no longer allow our systems to properly recover. We are always Quite soon after, she was featured in the Guardian, on US television, and on; we never withdraw to our caves to turn off. Mindfulness alone may on the radio, and her story has become so popular that she is currently not ameliorate these effects, and can sometimes even exacerbate shopping a three-part documentary series based on her work to both the symptoms of stress. So what can we do? BBC and Channel 4 (both are interested). When Elizabeth Stanley began researching body-based trauma therapies Since she has received all this attention, Tara has become the champion she started to understand her nervous system in a way that mindfulness of a lifestyle she calls “mindful curation”, a way of living in which we hadn't provided. She then combined nervous-system regulation carefully choose each object in our lives, making sure we have the best, techniques with mindfulness training and began teaching the most classic, most pleasing – and longest lasting – kettles, desks, pots combination, called Mindfulness-Based Mind Fitness Training, or and pans, scissors, coats and dresses. Instead of surrounding ourselves MMFT, to her colleagues in the military and other high-stress with throwaways from H&M and appliances designed with built-in professions: first responders, law enforcement officials, professional obsolescence, Tara advocates a life that celebrates what lasts, what’s athletes, teachers, intelligence agents, high-level business executives, and classic, and what really suits the person living it (and which can be lived others. And now Liz is ready to bring MMFT to readers with her book on any budget). Poised to be the next Marie Kondo, Tara’s philosophy is AGILE AND ADAPTIVE. not quite minimalism – it’s not quite tidying up – and it’s not quite mindfulness, but instead her book celebrates all three and encourages us Elizabeth Stanley is a military veteran, an associate professor of security to live happier and healthier lives. studies at Georgetown University, and the founder of the nonprofit The

Mind Fitness Training Institute. Tara Button is founder and CEO of BuyMeOnce.com.

THE ENERGY THAT HEALS US The Secrets Behind Trustworthy Energy Medicine and How to Make It Work for You

By Dr. Jill Blakeway

US publisher: HarperCollins (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018

Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2018

Rights sold: Spain (Urano) UK/Commonwealth (Scribe)

In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Jill Blakeway shares her findings of the ways energy medicine is being used and harnessed today.

As the Founder and Director of the YinOva Center, the largest acupuncture and Chinese medicine practice in the U.S., Dr. Jill Blakeway is one of the most respected healers in the country. Energy medicine is the fastest growing area of alternative healing today, from acupuncturists, reiki masters, “hands-on” healers, craniosacral therapists, to other practitioners who claim to promote healing by removing blockage and restoring balance to the unseen energy field surrounding the body, otherwise known as “Qi.”

Dr. Blakeway is a scientist and skeptic at heart who has made it her life’s work to try and understand and replicate the often-inexplicable energy work she does. She has aligned herself with the world’s top healers, researchers, and practitioners of energy medicine to understand and apply this powerful healing force. Dr. Blakeway takes the reader on a journey from hard science to the spiritual and back again in a never- ending quest to get to the heart of this powerful mode of healing.

Dr. Jill Blakeway is the founder of The YinOva Center and the author of the bestselling Making Babies: A Proven 3 Month Program for Maximum Fertility and Sex Again: Recharging Your Libido. She has appeared in such media as The Dr. Oz Show, CNN, The Early Show, Good Morning America, NBC News, ABC News, The New York Times, Elle, and Martha Stewart Living.

UPCOMING NARRATIVE NONFICTION ALL SHIPS FOLLOW ME A Family’s Inheritance of War THE LADIES OF THE VIEW How Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, By Mieke Eerkens and Their Quarreling Co-Hosts Transformed Daytime TV US publisher: Picador (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2017 By Ramin Setoodeh Material available: Proposal available US publisher: Thomas Dunne/Macmillan (North American rights) Edited MS available in May 2017 To publish: June 2017 Rights sold: Holland (De Geus) Material available: Edited MS available Poland (Agora)

Laced with humor and a cast of larger-than-life characters, this is A brilliant and heartrending World War II memoir by Dutch- both a timely chronicle of 21st century daytime television and a American author Mieke Eerkens, on par with Laura Hillenbrand’s classic tale about power. Unbroken and Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes.

When Barbara Walters launched The View in 1997, ABC executives ALL SHIPS FOLLOW ME is an untold World War II story that repeatedly told her that hosting the show would tarnish her reputation as challenges our perception of victim and perpetrator, and blurs the lines of a serious newswoman. Ten years later, The View was being watched daily war. In March 1942, a ten-year-old boy living in the Dutch East Indies in the living rooms of tens of millions of Americans and launched the was interned, like a hundred thousand other Dutch civilians, in a careers of Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Joy Japanese concentration camp doing hard labor for three years, until the Behar. But the daily chat-fest didn’t just comment on the news, it became atomic bombings caused the Japanese to surrender. Meanwhile, across the news. The women of The View were opinion-makers and power the globe, Dutch police carried a crying five-year-old girl out of her home brokers, and no one questioned the show’s importance or its place in at the war’s end, abandoned and ostracized as a daughter of Nazi history. sympathizers in the Netherlands. It was the post-war period of reckoning, the so-called “hatchet day” where Nazi collaborators were As viewership continued to top the charts, a seemingly endless series of tortured in the same concentration camps where the Jews had just been clashes among the stars (and their guests) and a revolving door of co- liberated from. hosts earned front-page coverage in magazines and newspapers. National headlines chronicled Rosie O’Donnell’s feud with Donald Trump, Many years later, the boy and girl met as adults, and married and had Whoopi Goldberg’s conversations about race, and Walters’ struggle to children. The author is one of these children, and ALL SHIPS maintain control of it all. FOLLOW ME is her remarkable memoir of the inheritance of war.

Ramin Setoodeh is the New York bureau chief for Variety. He was Mieke Eerkens teaches creative writing for UCLA Extension’ Writers formerly a senior writer at Newsweek. Program. Her work has appeared in various places such as The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, PEN America, Pank, and Guernica.

CODE GIRLS THE N.W.A. STORY The Untold Story of the Women Codebreakers Who Helped Win World War II By Gerrick Kennedy

By Liza Mundy US publisher: Atria / Simon & Schuster (World English rights) To publish: Spring 2018 US publisher: Hachette Books (North American rights) To publish: October 2017 Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2017

Material available: Edited MS available in Summer 2017 On the heels of the successful film Straight Outta Compton, THE Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency N.W.A. STORY charts the dramatic rise and decline of the revolutionary hip-hop group, N.W.A. Rights sold: Holland (BBNC) Poland (Bellona) The story of N.W.A centers around three core players: the tough, pugnacious Eric “Eazy-E” Wright; the lyricist and actor, O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson; and the lady’s man, funk master Andre “Dr. Dre” Young. In the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Within a decade, these men would release two studio albums that would CODE GIRLS is the astonishing, untold story of the young sell more than ten million copies; rearrange the racial, social, and American women who cracked key Axis codes, helping to secure commercial climate in America; and bring bombastic, sonic, gangsta rap Allied victory and revolutionizing the field of cryptanalysis. to the forefront of the popular music scene.

Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite THE N.W.A. STORY is broken into three pivotal acts: 1986-1989, the colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during formation of N.W.A. in south central LA and the release and reception World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these of their incendiary debut album "Straight Outta Compton"; 1990-1992, women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code- when Ice Cube breaks off and releases a solo album and Death Row breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave Records, an emerging player in the Compton music scene, threatens them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy N.W.A's supremacy; 1993-1995, the violent disputes between N.W.A nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research members set against the backdrop of the aftermath of the Rodney King and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy riots, the solo success of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, and the death of Eazy-E brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, from AIDS in 1995. The nine years that make up N.W.A’s coming of age and scientific accomplishment. as adults, musicians, and forces within the music industry are packed full of plot twists, broken alliances, vicious schemes, and themes of betrayal Liza Mundy is a former reporter for and the author and revenge. of a bestselling biography of Michelle Obama, Michelle, and the acclaimed nonfiction book, The Richer Sex. Gerrick Kennedy has been a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times covering contemporary music for over six years.

THE MASTERMIND JUSTIN.TV

By Evan Ratliff By David Goldenberg

US publisher: Random House (North American rights) US publisher: W.W. Norton (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 To publish: Fall 2018

Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in June 2018 Edited manuscript available in June 2018

Rights sold: Japan (Hayakawa) Set in the high-stakes tech scenes of Yale, Boston, and Silicon Poland (Agora) Valley, JUSTIN.TV is a true story of brash ingenuity and intense Romania (SC Publica) rivalry, of Redbull vodkas and self-driving cars, of overnight UK/Commonwealth (Transworld) celebrities and Ivy League geniuses, and of cut-throat investors and

extraordinary innovators. THE MASTERMIND is the bracing true story of a man who is quite likely the most prolific criminal kingpin in the world. In JUSTIN.TV, readers will follow , a brilliant 32-year-old risk-taker, and his team— (the visionary), (the THE MASTERMIND begins with the savage murder of a female real tech wizard), and (the diplomat)—through the conception estate agent in the Philippines in 2012. It was a crime that baffled and sale of two tech start-ups. The second start-up—originally called Philippine authorities but turned out to be connected to a dastardly Justin.TV, featuring Justin streaming his life 24/7—would pivot into criminal network that spanned the globe. Readers will follow author , an enormous digital home for Internet personalities, professional Evan Ratliff on a breathless trail, as he discovers that the murder is gamers, advertisers, developers, and hundreds of millions of video game linked to two American hit men, who in turn have been employed by a fans across the world. decorated American ex-soldier who has taken a job as the enforcer for an international crime syndicate. The cartel is headed by a figure who In the book, Justin Kan and Emmett Shear guide their startup through a Philippine federal agents refer to as “The Mastermind,” a 44-year-old jungle of competitors, dodging piracy suits and billionaires in suits South African named Paul Le Roux, whose empire spans continents and looking to buy them out, first in Boston and then in San Francisco, where employs hundreds of innocent and not-so-innocent accomplices. they incite a titanic bidding war between Google and . The story of Twitch’s creation and ascent explores how live-streaming has THE MASTERMIND homes in on a new kind of internet-enabled permanently changed entertainment, and our reality by enabling content Cartel. It’s a tale of ambition and triumph, of corrupt entrepreneurs and creators to completely bypass traditional entertainment—cable, live the dark corners of the web, of rogue hit men and a capsized ship venues, movie theatres—and interact directly with live audiences online. carrying $100 million dollars’ worth of cocaine in its hull. It’s a story about the precarious balance of privacy and security, and the psychology David Goldenberg writes a column for FiveThirtyEight and has written of brilliant, twisted criminals. about technology, business, and sports for Wired, Slate, WSJ.com, Mental Floss, ESPN, NewYorker.com, and Business 2.0. Evan Ratliff is the co-founder of The Atavist magazine, working as its editor-in-chief since its founding in 2011. THE MASTERMIND is his first book.

THE EQUIVALENTS THE WOMEN WITH SILVER WINGS The Untold Story of the Five Friends Who Started a The Epic Untold Story of The Women Airforce Service Personal, Political, and Artistic Revolution Pilots of World War II

By Maggie Doherty By Katherine Landdeck

US publisher: Knopf (North American rights) US publisher: Crown / Penguin Random House (WE rights) To publish: Spring 2019 To publish: Fall 2019

Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Edited MS available in Spring 2019

THE EQUIVALENTS will tell the moving and momentous story In the vein of Hidden Figures, The Girls of Atomic City, The Boys of the first all-women’s artist colony, at the Radcliffe Institute in the in the Boat, and Unbroken comes THE WOMEN WITH SILVER early 1960s, where the writer Tillie Olsen, poets Maxine Kumin WINGS, a major new work of narrative nonfiction that tells the and Anne Sexton, painter Barbara Swan, and sculptor Marianna untold story of the America’s first female military pilots.

Pineda all became friends, collaborators, and conspirators. The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, or the WASPs,

were the first women ever to fly for the US military. These expert pilots All the five Equivalents were wives and mothers who refused the flew every type of plane the military had—and flew every mission, some domestic limitations that those fixed Mad Men-era identities implied. First extraordinarily dangerous, except for combat missions. Without the and foremost, these women were artists who, given money and rooms in WASPs, the would not have had enough combat pilots to which to write and think, articulated in prose, sculpture, poetry, paint— win the war, and yet these pilots faced enormous resistance, and above all in their friendships—what so many of their silenced sisters discrimination, and limitations every step of the way. They were forcibly could not. And it was the all-too-rare community at Radcliffe that disbanded before the war was won, and then erased from US history by assured their ascendancy and continuing relevance. the very military whom they so proudly served.

THE EQUIVALENTS will introduce readers to these five women as But the WASPs took none of this discrimination lying down. Their story they worked and suffered in isolation, narrate vividly how they entered is an epic adventure brimming with audacity, inspiration, stunning the Radcliffe Institute and why it changed their personal and professional reversals, and tear-jerking triumphs. The WASPs prove that great, lives, and trace their trajectories back into the wider world as their sweeping social progress is rarely linear and that while battles may be lost, careers took off, their friendships frayed, and the women’s liberation that is never cause to give up the war. THE WOMEN WITH SILVER movement reached a fever pitch. In its combination of the personal and the political, the story of these five women and the history of the WINGS is an unputdownable, universal story about determined young American woman, women who just wanted to fly.

Maggie Doherty is a historian, literary scholar, and critic. She received Katherine Landdeck is an Associate Professor of History at Texas her BA from and her PhD in English from Harvard Woman's University, where the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) University. Her writing has appeared in Dissent, The New Republic, the archives are housed. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, an Emmy Award Boston Review, n+1, and the Times Literary Supplement. nominee, and the world's foremost expert on the history of the WASPs.

BLACK AND WHITE How Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison Defeated Slavery

By Linda Hirshman

US publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NA rights) To publish: Fall 2020

Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2020

The story of how two second-generation founding fathers, the unsung heroes of American history, wouldn’t stop fighting until all men were “forever free.”

BLACK AND WHITE will tell the interwoven stories of the iconic orator and memoirist Frederick Douglass and the foremost white abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison by zeroing in on the almost thirty years during which the two men worked side by side, and then on different sides, to end slavery.

By looking at these formative years—which begin when Douglass is in his early 20s and Garrison is in his mid-30s—Linda animates the unexplored mentor/protégée dynamic and brings clarity and depth to the evolving friendship-turned-rivalry. She also introduces a new character, the aristocratic, self-righteous female abolitionist, Maria Weston Chapman, whose commitment to the cause, and hostility toward Douglass, played a hitherto unexamined role in the movement.

Linda Hirshman is an American lawyer, pundit, and the author of Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution, Get to Work: A Manifesto For Women of the World, The Woman's Guide to Law School, and Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex.

UPCOMING CURRENT AFFAIRS / SCIENCE TITLES

DARWIN’S FIRST THEORY Exploring Darwin’s Quest to Find a Theory of the Earth

By Rob Wesson

US publisher: Pegasus (North American rights) To publish: April 2017

Material available: Final PDF available Japanese subagent: The English Agency

An immersion into the landscape that absorbed Charles Darwin and led him to conceive his original theory of plate tectonics, which segued in to the Theory of Evolution.

Everybody knows—or thinks they know—Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people do not know is that Darwin was on board the HMS Beagle as a geologist on a mission to examine the land, not flora and fauna. Tracing Darwin’s footsteps in South America and beyond, Praise for DARWIN’S FIRST THEORY: geologist Rob Wesson sets out on a trek across the Andes, repeating the nautical surveys made by the Beagle’s crew. “Readers interested in Darwin, the earth sciences, and field-based

By following Darwin’s path, Wesson experiences the landscape that research will find this well worth their time.” absorbed Darwin, follows his reasoning, and immerses himself in the – Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW same questions about the earth. Upon Darwin’s return from the five-year journey, he conceived his theory of tectonics―his first theory. These “[Wesson] hits the jackpot when he concentrates on his subject and reveals that 20 years before Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species, his concepts and attitudes―the vastness of time; the enormous cumulative impact of almost imperceptibly slow change; change as a constant genius was already in evidence… A welcome addition to Darwin studies.” feature of the environment―underlie his subsequent discoveries in – Kirkus evolution. “An illuminating retelling of a neglected episode in epoch-making Rob Wesson received a BS in earth science from MIT, and a PhD in science.” – Booklist geophysics from Stanford University. He is currently a Scientist Emeritus

at the United States Geological Society.

PROOF OF GOD .

The Shocking True Answer to the World’s Most Important Question

By Ptolemy Tompkins & Bernard Haisch

US publisher: / S&S (North American rights) To publish: September 2017

Material available: Edited MS available in June 2017

Ptolemy Tompkins, collaborator on the bestsellers Proof of Heaven and Proof of Angels, has teamed up with renowned astrophysicist

Bernard Haisch to prove God’s existence.

Is there a God? If so, does God care about us? Or is human life a mere accident of physics? For centuries, these fundamental questions have been integral to every culture and religion the world has known—and have not been answered, save by faith. When it comes to finding answers about how the universe came into existence, “God” is simply another theory. A theory that, many say, is no longer needed. Ptolemy Tompkins is the co-author of Proof of Angels, and the In PROOF OF GOD, writer Ptolemy Tompkins has joined forces with collaborator with Eben Alexander on the bestseller Proof of Heaven. His internationally acclaimed astrophysicist Bernard Haisch to demonstrate writing has been featured in Beliefnet.com, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York that not only is God real, but that it is science itself that proves it. Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Structured in seven compelling chapters examining core features of our universe (Gravity, Mass, Energy), PROOF OF GOD blows up the Bernard Haisch, PhD is an astrophysicist and author of more than 130 misconceptions put forth by recent “anti-religion” bestsellers. Written in scientific publications. He was a scientific editor of the Astrophysical simple language, it shows believers that far from being an enemy of their Journal for ten years. His professional positions include deputy director of faith, science is, if anything, its greatest justification. Above all, it is a the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics at U.C. Berkeley; and deeply personal narrative about a scientist’s journey to understanding visiting scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute für Extraterrestrische Physik how God’s fingerprints are all over our universe. in Garching, Germany.

In PROOF OF GOD, a committed seeker and a spiritual scientist come together to present a view of creation that makes it not only possible, but essential, to accept both science and God as true.

THE CASE FOR IMPEACHMENT TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI The Battle for the New Libya By Allan Lichtman By Frederic Wehrey US publisher: Dey Street/ HarperCollins (World English) To publish: April 2017 US publisher: Farrar, Straus (North American rights) To publish: November 2017 Material available: Final PDF available Material available: Edited MS available in May 2017 In THE CASE FOR IMPEACHMENT, Distinguished Professor of History at American University Allan J. Lichtman illuminates Written with bravura, based on daring reportage, and informed exactly how the impeachment of President Trump might work by by deep knowledge, TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI is the showing how his actions—past or future—make him uniquely definitive account of Libya’s fall.in Near Eastern studies from vulnerable to impeachment proceedings. Princeton University.

From his dealings with Russia, to his conflicts of interest at home and The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two abroad, to the numerous civil suits involving him, Lichtman zeroes in on years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, Mr. Trump’s key areas of weakness. the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic migrant crisis. Professor Lichtman also offers a fascinating look at presidential impeachments throughout American history, including the often- An Arabic-speaking Middle East scholar, Wehrey interviewed the key overlooked story of Andrew Johnson’s impeachment, little known details actors in Libya and paints vivid portraits of lives upended by a country about Richard Nixon’s resignation, as well as Bill Clinton’s hearings. in turmoil: the once-hopeful activists murdered or exiled, Many historians and legal scholars agree that we are facing uncharted revolutionaries transformed into militia bosses or jihadist recruits, an political waters and most citizens—politics aside—want to know where aging general who promises salvation from the chaos in exchange for a the country is headed. Professor Lichtman has correctly predicted every return to the old authoritarianism. He traveled where few or no Presidential election since 1984, including the election of 2016. Now, he Western journalists have gone, from the shattered city of Benghazi, is focusing on the 45th President of the United States, demonstrating his birthplace of the revolution, to the lawless Sahara, to the coastal view that it is not a question of if President Trump will be impeached, stronghold of the Islamic State in Qadhafi’s hometown of Sirte. TO but a question of when. THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI is a fast-paced narrative that blends frontline reporting, analysis, history, and tells the story of how it all Allan J. Lichtman is Distinguished Professor of History at American went so wrong. University in Washington, DC. He is the author or co-author of eight books, including most recently, FDR and the Jews. Frederic Wehrey is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His writing has appeared in , The New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications. He has consulted on Libya for the United Nations.

THE END OF EPIDEMICS The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It

By Dr. Jonathan D. Quick

US publisher: St. Martin’s Press (North American rights) To publish: January 2018

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In THE END OF EPIDEMICS, Harvard Medical School faculty member Dr. Jonathan Quick persuades readers of what some of the world’s very best scientists know: that the next pandemic is coming, one that will wipe out tens if not hundreds of millions of lives.

Combining riveting narrative with compelling evidence from the last 100 years of scientific research, THE END OF EPIDEMICS shows how prevention is possible by looking at key major historical health crises and investigating what leaders and governments and societies have done right Dr. Jonathan D. Quick is President of Management Sciences for and wrong, to prevent and respond effectively to lethal microbes and Health, a nonprofit global health organization that develops sustainable viruses and pandemic disease. health systems in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, and is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health THE END OF EPIDEMICS will tell the stories of smallpox and the Boston University School of Public Health. eradication, the rapid containment of SARS, and the world’s recent disastrous initial response to the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. It will sound alarms that desperately need to be sounded. But it will also hold out tremendous hope, showing how, against all odds, heroic men and women have previously triumphed over lethal diseases and offering an authoritative 7-step plan we can follow to protect ourselves from suffering colossal losses.

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS New Discoveries Revealing a Lost World the most remarkable creatures to ever live on our planet, and their evolutionary story is a spellbinding tale that directly affects the development of the modern world—even the evolution of humans. The By Stephen L. Brusatte first person, character-driven narrative will also give the reader a front- row seat to Steve’s own journey studying dinosaurs. He has made US publisher: William Morrow (North American rights) discoveries that have contributed to every chapter of their history—from To publish: Spring 2018 their start as small cat-sized creatures to the development of enormous size and even feathers by some species during their heyday, to the Material available: Proposal available unexpected asteroid impact that ended the Age of Dinosaurs and ushered Edited MS available in Fall 2017 in the Age of Mammals. Every chapter of the book will include stories of fieldwork or discovery from clay quarries in Poland where some of the Japanese subagent: The English Agency oldest dinosaurs were found, the windy coasts of Scotland where some of the earliest huge dinosaurs were discovered, to the mountains of Rights sold: China (United Sky) Transylvania and the deserts of North America where some of the last- Germany (Piper) surviving dinosaurs have been studied. Holland (Ambo Anthos) Italy (UTET) THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS is an amazing story Poland (Znak) of evolution and will tell readers what we really know about dinosaurs UK/Commonwealth (Pan Macmillan) and how we know it. And in doing so, the book explores the question of why dinosaurs are even relevant today. Dinosaurs tell us that evolution is THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS is a major and unpredictable, that organisms constantly change in response to their soon-to-be landmark work of narrative science and transform environments, and that extinctions happen. And by dying out they paved everything we know about dinosaurs! the way the way for us—without their extinction, humankind would not be here. Most people think of dinosaurs as evolutionary failures—big, stupid, lumbering, primitive monsters. Over the past two decades, however, Stephen L. Brusatte is a 33-year-old paleontologist on the faculty of the much of what we thought we knew about these creatures has been School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburg in Scotland. After completely transformed. New species are being found almost weekly receiving his PhD from Columbia University. He has published widely in revealing new types of dinosaurs of different sizes and ages. Scientists are academic journals, discovered and named 10 new species of dinosaurs, also using new technologies including CAT scanners, particle and led groundbreaking studies on how dinosaurs went extinct. accelerators and animation software, and what Steve calls the Freakonomics approach to paleontology. These finds and methods are helping paleontologists fill in the evolutionary gaps and better understand how dinosaurs changed over time.

We now know that dinosaurs were remarkably successful: they thrived for more than 150 million years, diversified into thousands of species as climates changed and continents drifted apart, and weathered mass extinctions and extreme environmental changes. Dinosaurs were some of

THE POWER OF DREAMS THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS

By Alice Robb By Jing Tsu

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Rights sold: China (China Renmin University Press) Rights sold: China (CITIC) France (Flammarion) Holland (Spectrum) Greece (Aiora) Italy (Hoepli) Holland (Karakter) Taiwan (Rye Field) Hungary (Libri) UK/Commonwealth (Penguin UK) Israel (Matar) Italy (Rizzoli) THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS follows the bold and Japan (Hayakawa) cunning innovators who adapted the ancient Chinese character- Poland (Agora) based script to a 20th-century world defined by the West and its Portugal (Penguin Random House Portugal) alphabet. It will tell the story of how China was able to transform Romania (Litera) itself from a marginalized country into one of the world’s most Russia (Azbooka/Atticus) powerful and ascendant nations Serbia (Vulkan) Spain (Blackie Books) THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS will chronicle the dramatic Turkey (NTV) events responsible for China’s unexpected linguistic and geopolitical UK/Commonwealth (Pan Macmillan) triumph. How China went from a crumbling empire to a capitalist juggernaut is as breathtaking as the revolution that the Chinese script has In THE POWER OF DREAMS, Alice Robb takes readers on her undergone during that same time period, in large part because the one journey to uncover why we dream, why dreaming matters, and how we literally helped underwrite the other. Ingenious linguists, mathematicians, can improve our dream life. Through her encounters with scientists who and poets risked their careers and reputations, and sometimes their lives, are at the forefront of dream research, she probes how nightmares and to tackle profoundly complex technological issues that opened the lines disruptive dreams may indicate physical and mental illness (including of communication between the East and West and led to a new kind of cancer, depression, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s), along with the mutual dependency. fascinating question of whether psychic dreams are real. Jing Tsu is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, a literary scholar and cultural Alice Robb is a journalist who has written for The New Republic, New historian of modern China at Yale University. She was born in Taipei, York Magazine, Women and the World, The New Statesman, Foreign Policy, Elle, Taiwan, and raised in New Mexico, USA. VICE, Bustle, and Fusion.

HEART WHALEBONE A Cardiologist’s Notes on an Elusive Organ

By Nicholas Pyenson By Sandeep Jauhar

US publisher: Viking (NA rights) US publisher: Farrar, Straus (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 To publish: Fall 2018

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Rights sold: China (United Sky) Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Scribe) UK/Commonwealth (Collins) HEART offers a book that is at once personal and universal, Following the lead of Nathaniel Philbrick's In The Heart Of The capturing Sandeep’s own inspiring obsession with the mysteries of Sea, Philip Hoare's The Whale and Susan Casey's Voices In The the human heart, together with the fascinating, frightening, and Ocean, WHALEBONE is a major new addition to the collection of motivating (stay calm, go for daily runs, don’t eat too much popular whale literature. cholesterol-rich food) history and science of the organ inside of each us that both initiates and claims our lives. In this rare and remarkable new book project, Smithsonian scientist Nicholas Pyenson invites readers onto the frontline of In the same way that Siddhartha Mukherjee’s masterful book The Emperor paleontological whale research, from the cool halls deep inside the of All Maladies helps quell our curiosities and anxieties about cancer by Smithsonian's priceless fossil collection to the frigid fishing decks on sharing the rich science and history of its treatment and potential cure, Antarctic whaling stations to the largest fossil whalebone site on earth, in Sandeep’s HEART will offer the same profoundly moving and the blazing hot desert of Chile. Along the way, Nick explains how whales intellectually satisfying exploration of heart attacks and cardiovascular migrated from land to sea millions of years ago and how they got so big. disease, what causes them, the millennia of scientific exploration into He explains why whales strand on the beach, what happens to whales their etiology and treatment, and the devastating human experience of when they die, and what the origin and fate of whale skeletons tells us living through and dying from (or losing our loved ones to) them. Then, about the deepest parts of the ocean and the effects of climate change. too, as he places his stethoscope to the side and picks up his literary

WHALEBONE explores the future of whales in the age of humans, , Sandeep, with HEART, will also offer an unprecedented and predicts which whale species will be winners and the losers as our exploration into the metaphorical and psychological implications of the planet and oceans grow warmer. heart.

Nicholas Pyenson is the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Sandeep Jauhar, MD, PhD, is the director of the Heart Failure Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, in Program at Jewish Medical Center. He is the author of the Washington, D.C. A National Geographic Explorer, he has led over a critically acclaimed books Intern and Doctor and writes regularly for The dozen scientific expeditions during the last decade. He is the author of New York Times. over 50 scientific papers, including several in Nature and Science.

CHANGING GENDER Transgender History from the 19th Century until Now STRONGER

By Susan Stryker By Michael Joseph Gross

US publisher: Farrar, Straus (North American rights) US publisher: Dutton (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 To publish: Fall 2018

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Set to be the definitive narrative of the transgender movement, Rights sold: Romania (Publica) CHANGING GENDER brings the vast process to life of the movement through character-driven story-telling and will ignite a From Vanity Fair reporter Michael Joseph Gross, an exploration of new understanding of gender itself. human strength, combining the narrative power of John McPhee and the practical wisdom of Atul Gawande. For many people, the Transgender Movement first came to their attention earlier this year when 16 million viewers tuned in to watch Caitlyn Jenner’s 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer. Since then it seems In STRONGER, Michael Joseph Gross makes a wide-ranging as if there has been an explosion of attention to transgender celebrity journey—through ancient mythology and modern history; muscle culture—from the New York Times’ “Transgender Today” profiles and physiology and the science of mind; psychology and sociology; military Amazon’s Emmy-winning series Transparent to the opening of the first physical fitness and movie superhero training — to understand how transgender modeling agency in Los Angeles. people of all ages, at all levels of athletic ability, define and experience strength. With vivid narratives and deep insight, STRONGER But as Susan writes, this moment didn’t come out of the blue. It is but a promises to spark a global conversation about the significance of thin veneer that rests atop more than a century of history. exercise and athletics, based on a central premise of the book: CHANGING GENDER will weave incisive biographical portraits of strengthening the body is as vital as eating and sleeping, not only to activists, artists, doctors, scientists, politicians, lawyers, media-makers health and longevity, but to the moment-by-moment quality of daily life. and everyday citizens into the tapestry of a broader narrative of sweeping social transformation. By the time readers finish CHANGING Michael Joseph Gross is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, where he GENDER, their view of the world they already live in will be utterly covers topics including politics, technology, and national security. He transformed. has also written extensively for publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and GQ. Gross is the author of the book Starstruck: Susan Stryker is an Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker. She When a Fan Gets Close to Fame, published in 2006 by Bloomsbury earned her Ph.D. in US History from University of California-Berkeley. Publishing.

THE TOWN OUTSIDE TIME FINDING NORMAL How Nostalgia Shapes Our Memories, Our Culture, and Sex, Empathy, and Taboo in the Wireless World Ourselves By Alexa Tsoulis-Reay By Amanda R. Martinez US publisher: St. Martin’s Press (NA rights) US publisher: Crown (World English rights) To publish: Spring 2019 To publish: Fall 2018 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Edited MS available in June 2018 This smart, original, and provocative book will offer a first-of-its- Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency kind deep dive into our culture's changing perceptions of human

love, relationships, and sexual behavior. It will immerse readers in THE TOWN OUTSIDE TIME examines the universal the lives of people whose experiences, attractions, and identities are phenomenon of nostalgia, arguing that it has reached a cultural now entering the mainstream consciousness. tipping point throughout the world.

Building on the wild success of her "What It's Like" series for New York We’ve all experienced the bittersweet pangs of nostalgia: moments in magazine—see: What It's Like to Date a Horse or What It's Like to which we indulge a sentimental yearning for the sights, smells, and Date Your Dad sounds of the past. In this accessible, beautifully written narrative, , both of which spent an entire week as the number one Amanda R. Martinez presents cutting-edge research conducted by articles on nymag.com—FINDING NORMAL will highlight the psychologists, neuroscientists, and sociologists across the world, author’s pioneering work taking readers into rarely studied—and rarely uncovering a scientific basis for nostalgia as an inherently positive spoken about—subcultures. emotion, a coping mechanism that fortifies the mind, shapes identity, and imbues our lives with a sense of meaning. Martinez also delves Informed by cutting edge findings of psychologists and social scientists, into the emotion’s darker side, exploring the ways in which and grounded in exhaustive reporting, this compulsively readable book technology has given us overly ready access to the sweetness of fond will feature fascinating stories and timeless themes about people who are, by choice or design, challenging once-immutable definitions of family, memories, turning nostalgia into an emotional “fast-food.” relationships, and desire, stories that are likely to push readers to the

limits of empathy. FINDING NORMAL will run the gamut from the From a London studio in which technology is used to “resurrect” dead entertainers, to Beijing restaurants styled after 1980s-era elementary curious to the shocking, revealing that despite the real differences that distinguish one person from another, we are all trying to know and be school classrooms, THE TOWN OUTSIDE TIME sweeps us on a ourselves, to find our place in this world. whirlwind tour of nostalgia.

Alexa Tsoulis-Reay is a senior writer at New York Magazine, where she ’ Amanda Rose Martinez s journalism has appeared in The Atlantic, started the hugely successful What It’s Like series online. Alexa holds an Scientific American, and Seed magazines. She holds degrees in science MA in English from Melbourne University and an MA in Magazine writing from MIT and playwriting from Yale. Journalism from New York University. Her writing has also appeared in Glamour, Slate, Vice, Bitch, and Newsweek.

TOGETHER WE WALK TOWARDS THE FIRE BREAK IT UP Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, and the Rise of Trump The Secret History of America's Imperfect Union

By Rosie Gray By Richard Kreitner

US publisher: HarperCollins (North American rights) US publisher: Little, Brown (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019

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In TOGETHER WE WALK TOWARDS THE FIRE, Rosie Gray The fiery thesis of BREAK IT UP is simple: the United States did does for Breitbart News what Gabriel Sherman did for Fox in The not and will never live up to its name. Loudest Voice in the Room and Brad Stone did for Amazon in The Everything Store. The thirteen highly autonomous and distinct colonies could barely agree In 2016, all roads led to Breitbart: Trump, Bannon, the alt-right, nativist to fight Great Britain together, so a detailed plan for uniting them into a populism, fake news, anti-globalism, and of course Milo Yiannopoulos. democratic republic was certainly not in the offing in 1776. And ever What'll happen in 2017? Steve Bannon and Breitbart News were early, since our country's founding, there have been two inextinguishable key, and consistent amplifiers of Trump's populist message as well as warring forces in the American mind: the impulse to preserve the Union, ruthlessly effective attackers of Hillary Clinton, and by the time Bannon and the desire to dissolve it. The states of the United States of America officially joined the campaign team, Breitbart was acting as a Pravda. have never been effectively united in the first place. Steve Bannon is now the closest advisor to President Trump, and Breitbart News is starting to spearhead the same anti-establishment, anti- With a scholar's command, journalist's curiosity, and novelist's prose, globalist movements in France and Germany. Boston Globe contributor and Nation magazine editor Richard Kreitner will take readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, With access to key characters and first-hand experience of many revealing how powerful and persistent disunion movements are. This described events and those to come, journalist Rosie Gray will take disunionist impulse found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as readers deep inside the secretive Breitbart world: its formation under BREAK IT UP will show, the seduction of secession has never gone provocateur Andrew Breitbart; its maturation under a Goldman Sachs away. In the way Nancy Isenberg's White Trash recently struck a national banker cum Biosphere 2 financier cum Riefenstahl-style documentarian; vein, or Colin Woodard's American Nations forced readers to think about and its ongoing relationship to Trump and Bannon while it positions regionalism, BREAK IT UP will help readers make fresh sense of our itself at the vanguard of journalism, reporting on and swelling the global fractured age. tide of populist-nationalism. Richard Kreitner is an editor at The Nation and his essays, reviews, and Rosie Gray has been publishing viral, news-breaking stories about the criticism have appeared in The Nation, The Boston Globe, and The Baffler. Right for the past five years, commands a dedicated following of more than 70,000 Twitter followers, and appeared on many liberal and conservative programs, pod casts, and radio shows.

UPCOMING FICTION

TROPHY SON

By Douglas Brunt

US publisher: St. Martin’s / Macmillan (North American rights) To publish: May 2017

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TROPHY SON offers an unprecedented window into the high- stakes world of competitive tennis in a coming-of-age story, told through the eyes of a young tennis prodigy.

For Anton Stratis, tennis is all hate and suffering—a relentless path chosen for him by his overbearing father. Unfortunately for Anton, he was born a tennis prodigy. He’s plucked out of an ordinary high-school life to train in isolation around the clock—and, later, around the world. For years, the phenom only has books, and his loving older brother, to keep him company, and in time the beautiful Ana, an actress with an intense path of her own,

When Anton finds himself facing a stalemate on the court, struggling to Douglas Brunt’s first novel, Ghosts of Manhattan, was a New York Times nudge up his rank, his coach offers him a new, unconsidered challenge: bestseller. Until 2011, Douglas Brunt was CEO of Authentium, Inc., a give us one good year and then commit or walk away. Under intense security company. pressure, Anton caves and begins using steroids, which help him rise to become the number one tennis player in the world. But when Anton’s drug-taking is discovered, he realizes the physical and psychological toll tennis has taken and decides to change his life in profound ways.

In part a meditation on ambition, family, and what it means to create a meaningful life, TROPHY SON is also a page-turning novel about a young man’s riveting experience on the courts and transports the reader to a rarefied world only a fraction of people get to encounter.

FINAL GIRLS

By Riley Sager

US publisher: Dutton / Penguin Random House (NA rights) To publish: July 2017

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“The first great thriller of 2017 is almost here: Final Girls by Riley Sager. If you liked Gone Girl, you'll like this.” – Stephen King Riley Sager is a writer, editor and graphic designer. Riley now lives in Princeton, , and is working on a second novel.

Ten years ago, college freshman Quincy Carpenter survived a massacre straight out of a horror movie. With that single, terrible event, she Praise for FINAL GIRLS: became a member of a club no one wants to belong to. The media dubbed them the Final Girls: seemingly well-adjusted Lisa Milner, " This is the best book of 2017, the FINAL GIRLS need you." troubled nomad Samantha Boyd, and Quincy, who has managed to – Lisa Gardner carve a new life for herself in New York City and has no interest in meeting the other girls. But that all changes when Lisa commits suicide, "A great thriller that gave me goosebumps and kept me reading into the prompting Sam to blow into Quincy's life like a violent storm cloud. night. There were so many unexpected revelations that I had no idea where it was going. A must read.” – Katerina Diamond Bound by their shared trauma, the two quickly bond. But Sam is temperamental, unpredictable, and has a taste for danger. With her life "An intriguing original idea… Fresh voice, great characterization and possibly at risk, Quincy must uncover the truth about Lisa's demise. To unexpected surprises. This stayed in my mind because it was different.” do that, shell need to free herself from Sam’s ever-tightening influence, – Jane Corry even if it means that the two remaining Final Girls will dwindle to one.

THE COTTINGLEY SECRET

By Hazel Gaynor

US publisher: William Morrow (World English rights) To publish: August 2017

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home turns the clock back one hundred years to a time when two young girls from Cottingley, Yorkshire, convinced the world that they had done the impossible and photographed fairies in their garden. Now, in THE COTTINGLEY SECRET, Hazel Gaynor reimagines their story.

1917… It was inexplicable, impossible, but it had to be true—didn’t it? When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, claim to have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when one of the great novelists of the time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, becomes convinced of the photographs’ authenticity, the girls become a national sensation, their Hazel Gaynor is The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author discovery offering hope to those longing for something to believe in of A Memory of Violets, The Girl Who Came Home, and The Girl from the amid a world ravaged by war. Frances and Elsie will hide their secret for Savoy. many decades. But Frances longs for the truth to be told.

One hundred years later… When Olivia Kavanagh finds an old manuscript in her late grandfather’s bookshop she becomes fascinated by the story it tells of two young girls who mystified the world. But it is the discovery of an old photograph that leads her to realize how the fairy girls’ lives intertwine with hers, connecting past to present, and blurring her understanding of what is real and what is imagined. As she begins to understand why a nation once believed in fairies, can Olivia find a way to believe in herself?

REINCARNATION BLUES

By Michael Poore

US publisher: Del Rey (North American rights) To publish: August 2017

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With elements of Cloud Atlas and A Visit from the Goon Squad, REINCARNATION BLUES is the type of genre-bending story that will absorb you long after you’ve turned the last page. Michael Poore is the previous author of Up Jumps the Devil. His short Milo is a truly old soul who has been reincarnated 9,995 times, and fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Southern Review, Agni, Fiction, and that’s just fine with him. He has been a cricket, a soldier, a Japanese Asimov’s. widow, a tree, and countless other things. He has five more lives to get it right. Achieving perfection seems perfectly boring, and constantly being reincarnated means he can continue his love affair with Death (or “Suzie”, as she prefers to be called). But what Milo is just learning is that souls aren’t infinite, and he’s fast approaching the point where his soul will blip out of existence forever if he doesn’t achieve perfection. He only has five more lives to get things right, and he’s going to need every single one of them to save himself and, he comes to learn, possibly all of humanity.

THE MAP OF HOPEFUL BROKEN THINGS her family are forced to flee as refugees across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety—along the very route By Jennifer Zeynab Maccani Nour’s fabled mapmakers took nine hundred years before in their quest to map the world. As they decide to take the risk, the journey becomes more and more dangerous as they make their way towards Europe, and US publisher: Touchstone / S&S (North American rights) Nour must do everything she can to keep her family together. To publish: May 2018

Material available: Edited MS available in August 2017 Jennifer Zeynab Maccani is the daughter of a Muslim father and a Syrian Christian mother. THE MAP OF HOPEFUL BROKEN Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency THINGS is her first book.

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THE MAP OF HOPEFUL BROKEN THINGS is a brilliant tour de force that turns the Syrian refugee crisis from a news story into a deeply human story.

It is the summer of 2011, and Nour has just lost her father to cancer. And as if that was not enough upheaval, her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family and their homeland. In order to keep her father’s spirit alive as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story--- the tale of Rawiya, a young girl from the 11th century who apprentices herself to a famous mapmaker.

But the Syria Nour's parents knew is changing, and it isn’t long before protests and shelling rumble through their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a shell destroys Nour’s house and almost takes her life, she and

THE SWEETEST FRUITS The first voice is that of Rosa, Hearn’s Greek mother, who was forced to abandon her cherished son in Ireland when he was only four years old. By Monique Truong Rosa relates her heartbreaking tale to the wet nurse who accompanies her on her unwilling voyage back to Greece.

US publisher: Viking (North American rights) The second voice is that of Althea Foley, the African-American cook in To publish: Spring 2018 Hearn’s boarding house in Cincinnati, where he began his rapid rise as a

newspaper reporter. In defiance of Ohio’s anti-miscegenation laws, Material available: Edited MS available in December 2017 Althea married Hearn, only to have the marriage declared void after his

death. Her telling is a passionate defense of marriage for love. Rights sold: Germany (CH Beck)

Hearn’s career took him next to , where he became the THE SWEETEST FRUITS is an ambitious and ingeniously confidante of Elizabeth Bisland, one of the most famous journalists of imagined story of identity, revelation, and the power of words. her time. The final say belongs to Koizumi Setsu, the extraordinary woman Hearn married in Japan. Daughter of a samurai, Setsu was the th THE SWEETEST FRUITS circles the life of the late 19 -century original source for the Japanese ghost tales that made Lafcadio famous. writer , whose tale is related by the four women who Monique brings to life a woman whose tenacity, will to survive, and played a pivotal role in his unique, itinerant career. Famous in Europe pragmatism were her constant companions. and America for his interpretations of Japanese ghost stories, Lafcadio was the author of more twenty books of astonishing range—from Creole Monique Truong has earned many writing awards and honors, cooking to stories of the supernatural in Mozambique. A shape-shifter including the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship; the New York Public who reinvented his identity throughout his restless travels, he traversed Library Young Lions Award; the Asian American Literary Award; the four continents and renamed himself on each one. His life took him American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation from Greece to Ireland to Cincinnati to New Orleans to the French Award; and a Guggenheim Fellowship. West Indies, and finally to Japan, where he spent the last fourteen years of his life as Koizumi Yakumo. Monique Truong’s previous foreign publishers:

Who was this itinerant, elusive man? THE SWEETEST FRUITS China – Shanghai Ying introduces him in the eyes of the four women who were Lafcadio’s Germany – CH Beck intimates and inspiration in each of his incarnations. Each tells her own Holland – De Bezige Bij story of her life with Hearn, all of them are as full of wanderlust and Italy – Guanda & Giunti transformation as Lafcadio himself. Why these women relate their Japan – Sairu stories—at what pivotal moment in each of their lives do they offer up Portugal – Europa-America their memories and for what purpose—is the axis on which the novel Russia – Astrel / SPB Publishers turns. Each has a different motivation: to justify abandonment, to Serbia – Sezam Books establish legitimacy, to preserve honor, or simply to love him. Though entirely distinct in their race and geography, they share a defining trait: each is a gifted storyteller.

LAST CHRISTMAS IN PARIS Arthur Harding—Thomas’s uncle—to report from the trenches as a paid employee to support the government’s war propaganda. She’s longed to pursue her passion for writing and now is her chance. With the tables By Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb turned, now it is Evie’s life that’s at stake and Thomas’s letters that keep her connected to home. As their earlier bravado is replaced by searing US publisher: William Morrow (World English rights) honesty, Evie and Thomas begin to share their most intimate hopes and To publish: Spring 2018 fears, and from the innocence of childhood friendship a far deeper connection begins to bloom. But when Evie’s journalism skills entangle Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2017 her in a scandal which puts her country— and her love—at risk, can Thomas ever forgive her? An epistolary novel that spans four Christmases—from 1914 to 1918—LAST CHRISTMAS IN PARIS explores the ruins of war, Hazel Gaynor is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author the strength of love, and the enduring hope of the Christmas season. of four novels, including A Memory of Violets and The Who Came Home.

When Thomas Harding is told he has a matter of weeks to live, he is Heather Webb is the acclaimed historical fiction author of Becoming determined to visit Paris one last time in the hope that he can lay the Josephine, Rodin's Lover, and the fiction anthology WWI anthology titled ghosts of his past to rest. With him, he takes a packet of letters written Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War. during the Great War, the treasured possessions he has kept for over fifty years.

When Evie Elliot watches her brother, Will, and his best friend Thomas go off to the front, they revel in the grand adventure, assuming all will end quickly. The trio even plan to meet in Paris at Christmas to celebrate the war’s end. Evie promises to write them both to keep them company during their time away. But as Christmas looms, there’s no end to the war in sight, leaving Evie listless and the men fearful of what’s to come. When tragedy strikes, Evie sinks into despair, seeking solace only in the weekly letters that arrive from France.

As the fighting intensifies at the front, Thomas learns that he has more to fear than gas masks and falling shells. His father is failing at home, leaving their Fleet Street newspaper vulnerable to takeover by his tyrant uncle, a ruthless businessman who infamously owns shares in half of London. With his fortune, his home, and his life at stake, Thomas seeks solace in the only way he can—through Evie’s letters.

Just as Thomas returns home with a near-fatal injury, Evie joins the front on a mission of her own. She’s been elected by family friend

THE KILLING DRINK ABOUT TIME By Jamey Bradbury

By Grace Dane Mazur US publisher: William Morrow To publish: Spring 2018 US publisher: Random House (World English rights) To publish: Spring 2018 Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2017

Material available: Edited MS available in June 2017 Rights sold: France (Gallmeister) Italy (Edizioni E/O) Rights sold: France (Gallimard) Poland (Marginesy)

THE KILLING DRINK is the coming-of-age story of a half-feral ABOUT TIME by Grace Dane Mazur is a contemporary comedy girl who connects more with animals than she does people, in the of manners about two polar-opposite families: the Cohens and the vein of John Ajvide’s Let the Right One In and M.R. Carey’s The Barlows. Extremely funny, yet also trenchant, ABOUT TIME Girl With All the Gifts. will strongly appeal to readers of Curtis Sittenfeld, Helen Simonsson, and Cynthia d'Aprix Sweeney. Tracy Petrikoff was born with a gift for trapping and hunting. In the Alaska wilderness that abuts her family’s isolated home, she spends all We meet the Cohen and Barlow families during an eventful rehearsal day tracking animals and running with her dogs in the forest. She’s dinner on the night before a wedding. The Barlows are a Wall Street been abiding by the rules her mother instilled in her before she died: Journal-reading family of lawyers stepped in golf, trust funds, and Never Lose Sight of the House, Never Come Home with Dirty Hands, corporate transactions. The Cohens are an intellectual and wildly and, above all else, no matter what happens, Never Make a Person impractical family of historians, scientists, and social activists. The Bleed. Until the day an eerily familiar stranger appears from the tree novel takes place over the course of a single day, where it becomes line, nearly dead from a vicious knife wound. Made by a hunting knife clear that neither of the families is more eccentric than the other. much like the one in Tracy’s pocket.

Filled with biting social observation and beautiful descriptive prose, Did Tracy almost kill a man? She cannot remember that day’s hunt at ABOUT TIME is a haunting portrayal of miscommunication, secrets, all, just memories of blood and snow. With the Iditarod, Alaska’s most and the power of love. It features an ensemble cast of exceptionally famous dog sled race, fast approaching, Tracy can temporarily forget vivid and real characters who range from the age of three to the late the stranger as she helps her father prepare. Then a teenage wanderer nineties. named Jesse Goodwin turns up at the door, looking for a job and carrying secrets of his own. But Tracy’s father doesn’t seem to notice that Jesse’s hiding something, and Tracy realizes she can’t warn her Grace Dane Mazur is the previous author of Trespress, her debut father about this new stranger without admitting to him that she may novel published in 2002, along with Silk, a collection of short stories. have broken her mother’s most important rule. She currently works as fiction editor at Tupelo Press. Jamey Bradbury’s fiction has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Sou’wester, and Zone 3. THE KILLING DRINK is her first book.

A LADY’S GUIDE TO LITERATURE LOVELOCK By Sally Franson

US publisher: Random House (North American rights) By Heather Young To publish: Spring 2018 US publisher: William Morrow (North American rights) Material available: Edited MS available To publish: Spring 2018

Rights sold: Israel (Keter) Material available: Partial MS available Italy (Garzanti) Edited MS available in Fall 2017 Poland (Znak) Rights sold: France (Belfond) The debut A LADY'S GUIDE TO LITERATURE has all the depth of A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Set in the Great Basin, the cradle of humanity’s history in the Banks, along with the riotous humor of Bridget Jones' Diary. Americas, LOVELOCK will examine the bonds between mothers and sons, sons and fathers, and the debts we owe our dead, both Ambitious brand consultant and relentless fame seeker Casey recent and distant. Pendergast is a star. Or she will be, whenever the producers of The Bachelorette see her audition tape. But until that day comes, she’s On Pi Day, the math teacher in the small Nevada town of Lovelock crushing it at her job in PR and swiping right on every potential Tinder turns up burned to death in the middle of the desert. After the murder date. investigation stalls, the town is quick to forget the quiet, unassuming man who moved to Lovelock only seven months before. But history Casey’s icy boss Celeste tells her that she’s now on a new, confidential teacher Claire, one of the few people who befriended him, starts to project called Nanü, a PR campaign devoted to taking the most wonder: why would he leave a professorship at the University of overlooked and underpaid famous people there are—successful Nevada to teach middle school math in a dead-end place like Lovelock? authors—and pair them with struggling brands for a fraction of the What was he running from? What was he hiding? And what about her cost of a real celebrity. And if she should convince one of Celeste’s student, the misfit boy who found the body but won’t tell anyone what target authors to sign up, she just might get personally introduced to he was doing out in the sagebrush in the middle of the night? the producer of the local Real Housewives franchise. Book-lover and reality-TV lover that she is, Casey jumps at the chance, especially since As Claire probes the mystery of Adam Merkel’s life and horrifying the first writer she’s supposed to approach is Ben Winter, handsome death, she ends up reconsidering her own life, including the tragedy literary It-boy and genuinely nice guy. that forced her to abandon her dream becoming an anthropologist and

her complicated relationships with the men she loves: her 12-year-old But as Casey meets and woos her literary idols, and as her relationship son, her deadbeat ex-husband, and, most of all, the father she adores with Ben grows more romantic, she starts to question the morality of but can’t forgive. mixing art and money. Can she make it out of the job of a lifetime with her soul intact? Heather Young is the previous author of The Lost Girls, which is

currently nominated for the Edgar Award. Sally Franson is an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota.

THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S DAUGHTER

By Hazel Rowley

US publisher: William Morrow (World English rights) To publish: Fall 2018

Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2018

A dazzling novel inspired by the extraordinary women who kept the lights in America and England over the past 200 years.

1838: Northumberland, England: Twenty-two-year-old Grace Darling lives a quiet life with her parents at Longstone Lighthouse where her father, William, is the lightkeeper. When Grace assists her father with the rescue of survivors of a shipwreck in a furious storm, her notoriety quickly spreads throughout England. Feted by royalty and admired by artists who flock to the lighthouse to paint her portrait, Grace becomes a reluctant heroine. When artist, Charles Lovelace, becomes stranded at Longstone during a storm, he and Grace develop a close friendship but despite the longing in her heart, Grace cannot allow herself to fall in love. Charles confesses his feelings for Grace in a letter which he conceals behind his portrait, and when Grace tragically dies, Charles is devastated. His letter remains hidden, and his portrait of Grace falls into obscurity.

1938: Newport, Rhode Island. On the night of her wedding, a desperately unhappy bride walks into the ocean. But she is saved by the reclusive local lighthouse keeper, and is given a second chance to make something of her life. Unaware of a dangerous storm developing hundreds of miles away, the new Mrs. Calloway tries to make the best of things, but she cannot stop thinking about the lighthouse keeper who saved her life, nor the captivating portrait of a young Victorian woman given to her as a wedding gift.

Hazel Gaynor is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of four novels, including A Memory of Violets and The Who Came Home.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED NONFICTION

TRUFFLE BOY My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground

By Ian Purkayastha and Kevin West

US publisher: Hachette Books (North American rights)

Published: February 2017

Material available: Final PDF available

The unexpected journey of a young misfit who, as a purveyor of truffles and other specialty foods, built a clientele of New York's chicest chefs and restaurateurs.

Ian Purkayastha is New York's leading truffle importer and boasts a devoted clientele of top chefs nationwide, including Jean-Georges Vongerichten, David Chang, Sean Brock, and David Bouley. But before he was purveying the world's most expensive fungus, Ian was just a food-obsessed teenager in rural Arkansas—a misfit with a peculiar Praise for TRUFFLE BOY: fascination for rare and exotic ingredients.

"A unique blend of bildungsroman and foodie/truffle primer sure to Rife with tales from the hidden underbelly of the elite restaurant scene, appeal to a wide audience… An informative and charming food and TRUFFLE BOY chronicles Ian's high-stakes dealings with a truffle travel memoir." – Kirkus kingpin in Serbia, meth-head foragers in Oregon, crooked businessmen and maniacal chefs in Manhattan, gypsy truffle hunters in the forests of "In this delightful chronicle, Purkayastha charmingly recounts his own Hungary, and a supreme adventure to find "Gucci mushrooms" in the rags-to-riches tale… his passion for truffles animates his story." Himalayan foothills—the land of the gods. He endures harsh failures along the way but rebuilds with tremendous success by selling not just – Publishers Weekly truffles but also caviar, wild mushrooms, rare foraged edibles, Wagyu beef, and other nearly unobtainable ingredients demanded by his "Ian tells his story in funny, thoughtful, and occasionally Michelin-starred clients. downright incredible anecdotes." – Food & Wine

Ian Purkayastha is the owner of Regalis Foods, a Brooklyn-based purveyor of exotic foods with an extensive client list of Michelin star restaurants.

THE EDUCATION OF WILL A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog

By Patricia McConnell

US publisher: Simon & Schuster (North American rights) Published: February 2017

Material available: Final PDF available Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency

Rights sold: Germany (Kynos)

In this powerful, soul-searching memoir, beautifully written in the vein of A Pack of Two and Wild, animal behaviorist Dr. Patricia McConnell recounts for the first time the compelling story of her dark past, memories of which are triggered by a troubled dog named Will.

Patricia McConnell combines brilliant insights into canine behavior— gained from her work with aggressive and fearful dogs—with heartwarming stories of her own dogs and their life on the farm. Now, she reveals that it wasn’t just the dogs that had serious problems. For decades, Patricia secretly grappled with her own guilt and fear, which Praise for THE EDUCATION OF WILL were rooted in the harrowing traumas of her youth. "This powerful memoir twines the lives of an extraordinary dog and an Patricia is forced to face her past by her love for a young Border Collie extraordinary woman. Their courageous, compelling story will named Will, whose frequent, unpredictable outbreaks of fear and fury profoundly deepen your understanding of people and animals, fear and shake Patricia to her core. In order to save Will from this dangerous shame, love and listening." behavior, she must find her own will to heal, and along the way learn – Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus that will power by itself is not enough. Interweaving enlightening stories of her clients’ dogs with tales of her deepening bond with Will, "Replete with McConnell’s fascinating and often humorous insights Patricia recounts her fight to reclaim her life. about working with wonderful and sometimes wounded dogs, this is much more than a book about training dogs…[it] engages in an intimate and challenging conversation with the reader: about saving Patricia McConnell, Ph.D. is one of the country’s most respected yourself, saving others, and allowing others to save you.” animal behaviorists, specializing in treating serious aggression in dogs – Cat Warren, author of What the Dog Knows for over 25 years. Her first book, The Other End of the Leash, has sold over 250,000 copies and is published in 13 languages.

WHAT DOESN'T KILL US How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude and

Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength

By Scott Carney

US publisher: Rodale (North American rights) Published: January 2017

Material available: Final PDF available

Rights sold: Bulgaria (Kibea) Czech Republic (Dobrovsky) France (Amphora) Germany (Plassen) Japan (Hakusuisha) Poland (Galaktyka) Romania (Preda) Russia (Exmo) In WHAT DOESN’T KILL US, Scott Carney investigates the Slovakia (Eastone) fundamental philosophy at the root of this movement, which is that the Spain (Alfaomega) human body is intrinsically connected to the environment it inhabits so UK/Commonwealth (Scribe UK) if the environment changes, the body can change. Can our minds, through environmental conditioning, fundamentally “hack” our bodies In WHAT DOESN’T KILL US, Scott Carney leads readers for the better? through a global adventure story exploring the science, risk, and promise of environmental conditioning for our bodies. Scott Carney is an investigative journalist and anthropologist who is the previous author of two nonfiction titles: The Red Market and A Death Every year, millions of people push the limits of human endurance in a of Diamond Mountain. movement built around the ultimate goal of building a better body. Variously called Spartans, Tough Mudders, Boot Campers, Paleodieters, and CrossFitters, these athletes comprise a global counter-cultural Praise for WHAT DOESN’T KILL US: movement that is growing exponentially. These people train in laboratories, abandoned warehouses, in barren fields of snow; crawl in “The narrative is filled with personal details that will engage [and] mud, trudge through ice-cold pools, or run ultra-marathons. Although astonish…Expanding on his unnerving close-up account, the author they come from different backgrounds, they share a unifying ideology: also examines the research being done on the role of brown adipose the comforts of the modern age have made us weak. tissue in the body and a variety of military and sports medicine training practices.” – Kirkus

BRAIN-POWERED WEIGHT LOSS

By Eliza Kingsford

US publisher: Rodale (North American rights) Published: January 2017

Material available: Final PDF available

Finally, the secret to successful weight loss has been found. It has nothing to do with the stomach. As BRAIN-POWERED WEIGHT LOSS affirms, it’s all about the brain.

In BRAIN-POWERED WEIGHT LOSS, psychotherapist and weight management expert Eliza Kingsford shows that more than 90 percent of people who go on diet programs (even healthy ones) fail or eventually regain because they have a dysfunctional relationship with food. Changing this relationship by changing the way you think about and behave around food is what it takes to permanently achieve weight- loss success. Kingsford’s 11-step first-of-its-kind program enlists dozens of mind-altering and behavior-changing exercises and techniques that shows you how to: Eliza Kingsford, MA, LPC, is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in weight management, food addiction, body image, and eating disorders. · Identify and reverse the conscious and unconscious thinking errors She joined the Wellspring Weight Loss Camp in 2007 as a behavioral and food triggers that lead to the behaviors that drive our food coach and was promoted to its executive director in 2014. A certified decisions. personal trainer, group fitness instructor, and lifelong athlete, Kingsford has been passionate about combining psychological intervention, · Let go of the mindset of going on or off a diet in favor of a nutrition, and exercise since she began her graduate studies at the conscious quest to pursue a lifestyle of healthy eating and everyday University of Colorado more than a decade ago. activity—one that can last forever.

· Successfully use what Kingsford calls “dealing skills” to outsmart high-risk situations, tame stressful times, and prevent an eating “slip” from leading to a setback or all-out binge.

HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE By David France

US publisher: Knopf (North American rights) Published: November 2016

Material available: Final PDF available

Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Picador UK)

From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name—an Oscar nominee—the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refused to die without a fight.

Intimately reported, this is the story of the men and women who, watching their friends and lovers fall, ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted with shame and hatred, chose to fight for their right to live. We witness the founding of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), the rise of an underground drug market in opposition to the prohibitively expensive (and sometimes toxic) AZT, and the gradual movement toward a lifesaving medical breakthrough.

With his unparalleled access to this community, David France Praise for : illuminates the lives of extraordinary characters, including the closeted Wall Street trader-turned-activist; the high school dropout who found “Prepare to have your heart buoyed and broken in this riveting purpose battling pharmaceutical giants in New York; the South account…This highly engaging account is a must-read for anyone African physician who helped establish the first officially recognized interested in epidemiology, civil rights, gay rights, public health, and buyers' club at the height of the epidemic; and the public relations American history.” – Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW executive fighting to save his own life for the sake of his young daughter. Expansive yet richly detailed, this is an insider's account of a “David France brilliantly chronicles AIDS in America during the 1980s pivotal moment in the history of American civil rights. and 1990s… Powerful… American history, memoir, public health, and a call-to-action are perfectly and passionately blended here. Spectacular David France is the author of Our Fathers, a book about the Catholic and soulful.” – Booklist, STARRED REVIEW sexual abuse scandal. He coauthored The Confession with former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey. “A lucid, urgent updating of ’ and a fine work of social history.” – Kirkus

THE POSITIVE POWER OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS How Harnessing Your Darker Feelings Can Help You

See A Brighter Dawn

By Dr. Tim Lomas

Publisher: Piatkus (UK/Commonwealth rights) Published: October 2016

Material available: Final PDF available

Hailed as “a truly inspirational new book” by the Daily Mail, THE POSITIVE POWER OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS shows how the darker states of emotion are vital to a better understanding of ourselves and a more fulfilled life.

The pursuit of happiness is universal. Most of us would like to experience more joy and elation. But when we feel like we are falling short of this ideal, we can often feel downcast. We may even see “darker” emotional states, from sadness and anger to envy and Praise for THE POSITIVE POWER OF NEGATIVE anxiety, as character defects or serious illnesses. In fact, there is unexpected value in the emotions most of us see as 'negative'. In EMOTIONS: subtle ways, the more negative emotions can bring us to a richer state of wellbeing. For example, sadness can open our hearts to the “This book is far more than an argument for tolerating bad feelings. fragile beauty of life, enabling us to appreciate what we would usually Drawing on philosophy, the arts, psychology and personal experience, take for granted. While anger may seem unpleasant, if channeled Tim Lomas shows how sadness, anxiety, anger and the rest can be a well, it can be a great catalyst for change and improvement in path to growth. His surprisingly uplifting message is that learning to society. harness our negative emotions will expand our capacity for joy.” – Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote Dr. Tim Lomas is one of Europe’s leading experts on positive psychology and the program leader at the University of East “A truly inspirational new book.” – Daily Mail London’s MSc in Applied Positive Psychology (the preeminent postgraduate course in Europe). He has published numerous “In this useful and enjoyable book, Tim Lomas shows how our feelings scientific papers, has written for The Guardian, and lives in Oxford. give us the clues for how to make a better life. Learn to listen to your inner voice of wisdom.” – Professor Stephen Joseph, author of Authentic

WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE

By Deborah Ziegler

US publisher: Emily Bestler Books / S&S (NA rights) Published: October 2016

Material available: Final PDF available

Rights sold: Germany () UK & Commonwealth (Ebury UK)

The mother of Brittany Maynard, the young woman who made worldwide headlines by choosing death with dignity after a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer, tells the story of her daughter’s life, her experience coming to terms with Brittany’s decision, and the last year they spent together celebrating life.

In this poignant, powerful book, Deborah Ziegler makes good on the promise she made to her only child: that she would honor her daughter and carry forward her legacy by sharing their story and offering hope. But WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE is not a book about death— instead, it is a book about a life well-lived and offers a call to live every Praise for WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE: day to its fullest. As evidenced in blockbuster titles such as The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, " this painfully honest memoir, Deborah, Brittany’s mother, records facing the end of life can yield invaluable lessons for the living. the surgeries, treatments, and soul-searching that went into honoring Brittany’s path…Brittany’s story…will have a ready audience, and WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE traces the last year of Brittany’s life Deborah’s frank account of their struggles will be comforting to others from her devastating diagnosis to her final day in November facing this difficult decision.” – Booklist, STARRED REVIEW 2014. During this time, Brittany made a bucket list of all of the sights and places she hadn’t yet seen, and set out to check them off one by "A graceful and touching gift of love and posthumous devotion from one. WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE is an unforgettable story of the mother to daughter." – Kirkus enduring power of a mother and daughter’s love, and a lesson in how every life is precious, to be lived in fullness until the last minute.

CHOICE OR CHANCE Understanding Your Locus of Control and Why It Matters

By Stephen Nowicki

US publisher: Prometheus (World English rights) Published: May 2016

Material available: Final PDF available

Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency

How much do you believe that what happens to you is the result of your own actions—or do circumstances beyond your control largely determine your fate?

Locus of Control (LOC) is a phrase used by psychologists to describe a widely effective way of assessing an individual’s potential for success— personal, social, and financial. LOC measures how much you believe what happens to you is the result of your own actions or, conversely, of forces and circumstances beyond your control. People who accept that they are largely in control of their lives tend to do better than Praise for CHOICE OR CHANCE: those who feel that fate or external factors rule what they do, especially in novel and difficult situations. “In this masterpiece, Nowicki gets it right and delivers what he promises. In an incredibly engaging way, he convincingly conveys why This book explains LOC research, until now mainly confined to locus of control is vital to people’s physical and mental well-being, academic circles, in terms easily understandable to the average person. relationships, and achievement in all aspects of life.” – Nadine J. The author, a clinical psychologist who has spent nearly five decades Kaslow, PhD investigating and writing about LOC, helps the reader to explore his or her own locus of control and what those orientations might mean for “This is a treat to read. It will be of benefit to all of us, young and old, how life is lived. He discusses the extensively documented relationship as it provides insights into how we can improve our lives, and especially between LOC and academic achievement, personal and social how to enable our children and grandchildren, our pupils and adjustment, health, and financial success. workmates to overcome problems.” – Jean Golding, PhD

PROOF OF ANGELS The Definitive Book on the Reality of Angels and the

Surprising Role They Play in Each of Our Lives

By Ptolemy Tompkins and Tyler Beddoes

US publisher: Howard Books / S&S (North American rights) Published: February 2016

Japanese co-agent: The English Agency

Rights sold: Brazil (Fontanar /) Czech Republic (Noxi) France (Trédaniel) Holland (Ankh-Hermes) Italy (Rizzoli) Poland (Illuminatio) Portugal (Planeta Manuscrito) Romania (Lifestyle Publishing) Slovakia (Fortuna Libri) UK/Commonwealth (Simon & Schuster UK)

From the collaborator of the blockbuster bestseller Proof of PROOF OF ANGELS weaves real-life stories into a rich narrative, Heaven comes the definitive book proving angels are real, all exploring the history, nature, and significance of angels in our lives. It around us, and interacting in our lives every day. proves that the barrier between the spiritual and the scientific is less certain than we often think. Not only does Tompkins offer a highly In March 2015, millions worldwide were captivated by news reports of entertaining look into a universally fascinating topic, but he also the dramatic rescue of an eighteen-month old girl, Lily Groesbeck, delivers a fresh and deeply reassuring message: we are not alone. who’d somehow survived for hours in an overturned car partially submerged in an icy-cold Utah river after her mother apparently lost Ptolemy Tompkins has been an editor at Guideposts and Angels on control of the vehicle. A voice the responding officers assumed was Earth magazines and is the author of four books. His writing has the child’s mother still trapped inside urged them on: “Help me, help been featured in Beliefnet.com, Harper’s, The New York Times, and the me.” Yet, once the two victims were recovered, it was clear that the Los Angeles Times. voice could not have come from Lily’s mother: she’d been killed on impact. Tyler Beddoes studied Criminal Justice and Journalism at Utah Valley University. He joined the Police Department in Spanish Fork, New York Times bestselling author Ptolemy Tompkins, with the help of Utah in 2006. Proof of Angels is his first book. Tyler Beddoes, one of the responding officers who helped rescue Lily, share details of this modern-day miracle and explore the evidence for the existence of angels in our world.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED FICTION

JOURNEYMAN

By Marc Bojanowski

Publisher: Soft Skull/Counterpoint (North American rights) Granta (UK/Commonwealth rights)

Published: February 2017 Material available: Final PDF available

Visceral, muscular, and exquisitely crafted, JOURNEYMAN is a state-of-the-nation novel about dwelling, building, belonging, love and the value of a place to call home.

Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and an itinerant by nature. While fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, he builds tract homes across California, travelling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas, Nolan uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads west towards the ocean. On his way he passes through his brother's town where events force him to stay put. Bereft Praise for JOURNEYMAN: of his trailer and his tools, with only the little-used and much- neglected mechanisms of his heart to rely on, Nolan turns to the task “JOURNEYMAN profoundly traces the cost of hanging on to those of building the foundations of a meaningful life. narratives long after they’ve ceased to be beneficial.” – New York Times Evocative of Steinbeck’s Cannery Row and McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses in its tender, thoughtful, and humorous exploration of the "Bojanowski's novel is layered and thoughtful.” – Kirkus struggles and tensions of family, class, race, and manual labor. Journeyman is an important, timely novel about men and brothers “JOURNEYMAN is a textured, deceptively linear novel that throws finding their way in the 21st century. some curves and carries a trace of Cormac McCarthy." – Booklist

Marc Bojanowski received his MFA in creative writing from the "This spare, mesmerizing novel is realist fiction at its best… Marc New School. He is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel Bojanowski delivers contemporary but somehow timeless storytelling The Dog Fighter which was a finalist for the that unfolds effortlessly.” Young Lions Award. – Joe McGinnis Jr., author of The Delivery Man

THE BRAND NEW CATASTROPHE By Mike Scalise

US publisher: Sarabande Books (North American rights) Published: January 2017

Material available: Final PDF available

Winner of the Center for Fiction's Doheny Prize, THE BRAND NEW CATASTROPHE is a moving, funny exploration of how we define ourselves by the stories we choose to tell.

Raucous family memoir meets medical adventure in this heartfelt, hilarious book exploring the public and private theaters of illness. After a tumor bursts in Mike Scalise’s brain, leaving him with a hole in the head and malfunctioning hormones, he must navigate a new, alien world of illness maintenance. His mother, who has a chronic heart condition and a flair for drama, becomes a complicated model as she competes with him for the status of "best sick person."

Mike Scalise's work has appeared in The New York Times, , Agni, Indiewire, The Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf, Yaddo, the Praise for THE BRAND NEW CATASTROPHE: Ucross Foundation, and was the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. "A very funny book about the frailties of the flesh, the absurdities of modern medicine, and how to stay sane amid it all. Scalise's voice is fantastically entertaining, unfailingly honest." – Dave Eggers, author of and Heroes of the Frontier

"Like the dynamo spawn of Louis CK and Oliver Sacks, Mike Scalise's startling and slyly hilarious memoir is a heartfelt reminder of how astonishing...it is to be a body. An essential book for those who've lived through catastrophe, or only imagined it." – Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

VALIANT GENTLEMEN By Sabina Murray

US publisher: Grove Press (World English rights) Published: November 2016

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Based on true events, VALIANT GENTLEMEN is PEN/Faulkner winner Sabina Murray’s epic novel that begins at the pinnacle of the Colonial era and chronicles its dramatic fall with the onset of World War I.

VALIANT GENTLEMEN is a vivid imagining of the lives of famed two African explorers, who begin as dear friends but then diverge on radically different paths: the Irish Roger Casement and the British Herbert Ward. Roger and Herbert meet in Africa in the 1880s, working for the British Colonial Service. As Roger becomes increasingly drawn to protesting the violence and terror of the colonies, Herbert becomes obsessed with a quest for fame and recognition.

Roger becomes an internationally recognized hero for his role in exposing the horrific exploitation and violence of the Congo, while Praise for VALIANT GENTLEMEN: Herbert moves to France resting on the laurels of his career. Roger’s disdain for colonialism intensifies into outright hatred of the British “Brimming with exquisite detail and clever humor…[Murray] maintains Empire. He begins to meet with Irish nationalists and activists, and in an impressive balance of historical accuracy and dramatic momentum, encouraging Irish nationalists to fight against England (especially with crafting a stellar fiction that shows how the grand course of history can the onset of World War I), he puts his life on the line for his beliefs. be shaped by the smallest disagreements between friends.” – Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW Reminiscent of Euphoria by Lily King and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, VALIANT GENTLEMEN is a sweeping story that explores “Valiant Gentlemen is an adventure set amid the secret history of the friendship, patriotism, and betrayal. Taking place in Africa, England, modern world—the personal revolutions inside the revolutionary Roger France, Ireland, the United States, South Africa, and South America, it Casement, a man who took part in or bore witness to so much of the exposes the horrific legacy of colonialism and the fight to reform it. history we live with now, brought to vivid, thrilling life here. This novel is made out of history but is every bit a modern marvel.” Sabina Murray is the previous author of two short story collections – Alexander Chee, author of Queen of the Night and two novels, the most recent of which was the roundly praised A Carnivore’s Inquiry.

GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT

By Lily Brooks-Dalton

US publisher: Random House (North American rights) Published: August 2016

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Rights sold: China (United Sky) France (Presse de la Cité) Italy (Nord) Japan (Sogensha) Poland (Czarna Owca) Taiwan (Delight Press) Turkey (Yabanci) UK/Commonwealth (Weidenfeld and Nicholson)

GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT has been compared to bestsellers like The Snow Child, Station 11, and The Age of Miracles.

Augustine, a brilliant, aging scientist, is fascinated by the stars. For years he has scanned the universe, trying to quantify infinity. When news of a catastrophic event arrives at the remote research center in the Arctic where he works, he elects to stay behind. But shortly after the last airlift departs, Augustine discovers a child—Iris. She rarely speaks but hums Praise for GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT: an eerie tune. In spite of the observatory's state of the art equipment, Augustine is unable to establish contact with the outside world; all “Brooks-Dalton’s prose lights up the page in great swathes, her dialogue communication has gone dark. Time means very little in deep space. sharp and insightful, and the high-concept plot drives a story of place, elusive love, and the inexorable yearning for human contact.” Mission Specialist Sullivan is aboard the Aether, on its return flight – Publishers Weekly from Jupiter. They are the first human beings to delve this deep into space and it has changed the crew. Suddenly, in a vacuum of “GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT is a remarkable and gifted debut information, the crew must determine the best course of action. Faced novel. Lily Brooks-Dalton is an uncanny chronicler of desolate spaces, with the cold, barren sweep of the Arctic and the vast silence of space, whether it’s the cold expanse of the universe or the deepest recesses of what will they do next and how will they survive? the human heart.” – Colson Whitehead Lily Brooks-Dalton is the previous author of Motorcycles I Have Loved, and Good Morning, Midnight is her debut fiction title.

BOTTOMLAND

By Michelle Hoover

US publisher: Grove/Atlantic (North American rights) Published: March 2016

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Not assigned in Japan

An epic literary novel that spans the early 20th century, BOTTOMLAND tells the story of the Hess family, immigrants from Germany, who settle in the rich farmland of Iowa in the ’ 1890 s. At its center is the disappearance, in 1919, in the middle of the night, of two of the family’s daughters.

At once intimate and sweeping, BOTTOMLAND—the anticipated second novel from Michelle Hoover—follows the Hess family in the years after World War I as they attempt to rid themselves of the Anti- German sentiment that left a stain on their name. But when the youngest two daughters vanish in the middle of the night, the family must piece together what happened while struggling to maintain their life on the unforgiving Iowa plains.

In the weeks after Esther and Myrle's disappearance, their siblings desperately search for the sisters, combing the stark farmlands, their neighbors' houses, and the unfamiliar world of far-off Chicago. Have the Praise for BOTTOMLAND: girls run away to another farm? Have they gone to the city to seek a new life? Or were they abducted? Ostracized, misunderstood, and increasingly "Hoover skillfully interweaves many of the Hess family members' isolated in their tightly-knit small town in the wake of the war, the Hesses narratives. Her descriptions of the bleak rural landscape is chilling.” fear the worst. Told in the voices of the family patriarch and his children, – Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW this is a haunting literary mystery that pans decades before its resolution. Hoover deftly examines the intrepid ways a person can forge a life of "Deftly imagined and written, Hoover's second novel offers an their own despite the dangerous obstacles of prejudice and oppression. intriguing, modern take on a classic American landscape.” – Kirkus

Michelle Hoover teaches creative writing at Brandeis University. She "A novel as poignant as it is clear-eyed.” – Booklist has been a Bread Loaf Writers Conference scholar, the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, and MacDowell fellow.

CITIES I’VE NEVER LIVED IN By Sara Majka

US publisher: Graywolf (World excl. UK/Commonwealth) Published: February 2016

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A New York Times Editors' Choice and one of The Millions' Most Anticipated books of 2016, the linked stories in Sara Majka’s debut collection upends our ideas of love and belonging, and asks how much of ourselves we leave behind with each departure we make. CITIES I’VE NEVER LIVED IN exposes, with great sadness and great humor, the ways in which we are most of all citizens of the places where we cannot stay.

Fearlessly riding the line between imagination and experience, fact and fiction, these stories offer intimate glimpses of a young New England woman whose life must begin afresh after a divorce.

Traveling the roads of Maine and the train tracks of Grand Central Station, moving from vast shorelines to the unmade beds of strangers, Praise for CITIES I’VE NEVER LIVED IN: these fourteen stories circle the dreams of a narrator who finds herself turning to storytelling as a means of working through the world and of “A collection that leaves you longing…for places that you, the reader understanding herself. have never been. Prodigal with insight into why and how people love and leave, and love again. Humane, dazzling, and knowing.”—Kelly Link Sara Majka earned her MFA from the University of Massachusetts-

Amherst and was a fiction fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work “Arresting… These are modest-seeming stories that hold deep truths, Center. Her short stories have been published in The Gettysburg by a writer of great promise.” – The New York Times Book Review Review, Massachusetts Review, PEN America, A Public Space, VQR, American Short Fiction, and BRICK, among others. “Graceful.” – O Magazine

“These stories are sparse and fierce and move elegantly to the very heart of the reader. The voice remains with me, has left an emotional trace like a person I lived with and loved and often recall.” – Catherine Lacey

HONEY FROM THE LION

By Matthew Neill Null

US publisher: Lookout Books (North American rights) Published: September 2015

Rights sold: France (Gallmeister) Italy (Bompiani)

In this lyrical and suspenseful debut novel, a turn-of-the-century logging company decimates 10,000 acres of virgin forest in the West Virginia Alleghenies and transforms a brotherhood of timber wolves into revolutionaries.

After fleeing his childhood farm in the wake of scandal, Cur Greathouse arrives at the Cheat River Paper & Pulp Company s Blackpine camp, where an unlikely family of sawyers offers him new hope. But the work there is exacting and dangerous with men’s worth measured in ledger columns. Whispers of a union strike pass from bunk to bunk. Against the rasp of the misery whip and the crash of felled hemlock and red spruce, Cur encounters a cast of characters who will challenge his loyalties: a minister grasping after his dwindling Praise for HONEY FROM THE LION: congregation, a Syrian peddler who longs to put down his pack and open a store, a slighted Slovenian wife turned activist, and a trio of “HONEY FROM THE LION is a magisterial achievement, suffused reckless land barons. Cur must accept or betray the call to lead a with the Faulknerian values of love, honor, pity, pride, compassion, rebellion and finally reconcile a forbidden love. and sacrifice, concerning nothing less than the cohesion of an

American civilization. Matthew Null is a brilliant writer and his first A startling elegy that establishes its author as a tremendous new literary novel is a gift.” voice, HONEY FROM THE LION evokes the ecological – Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena devastation and human tragedy behind the Gilded Age, and sings both the land and ordinary lives in all their extraordinary resilience. “HONEY FROM THE LION is provocative in its exploration of Matthew Neill Null is a recipient of the Mary McCarthy Prize and the transgression and redemption and exhilarating in its lyric evocations of Michener Copernicus Society of America Award, and his fiction this rugged American landscape. Matthew Neill Null establishes appears in American Short Fiction, Ecotone, the Oxford American, himself as a perceptive seer of haunted souls and as an astonishing Ploughshares, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American stylist. HONEY FROM THE LION is a debut to celebrate.” Mystery Stories. – Laura van den Berg, author of The Isle of Youth and Find Me

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