RANDOM HOUSE ● a division of Penguin Random House LLC September 2020 Nonfiction BBD: Ballantine Bantam Delacorte Press Dell Del Rey Crown: Crown Currency Harmony & Rodale Random House: Random House The Dial Press Hogarth Modern Library One World RANDOM HOUSE A DIVISION OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, LLC. 1745 Broadway, 10th Floor New York, NY 10019 Please direct foreign rights queries to: Denise A. 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The Hollywood legend is in an elite group as one of the only people to win all four major entertainment awards: the Tony, the Emmy, the Grammy, and the Oscar. At long last, this is the cradle-to-nonagenerian memoir his fans have been waiting for, following Brooks from his Brooklyn childhood and his Army service in World War II, through smash hits like The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein, Ballantine and his continued success as one of the most beloved entertainers of our time—and it’s hilarious, May 2021 provocative, and heartfelt throughout. Hardcover Memoir Mel Brooks was born in Brooklyn in 1926. He began his career as a comic and TV writer on the variety show Your Show of Shows, and together with Buck Henry, creating the long running TV series Get Smart. Editor: Pamela Cannon Brooks won his first Oscar in 1964 for writing and narrating the animated short The Critic, and his second Rights: World for the screenplay of his first feature film, The Producers in 1968. Many hit comedy films followed Co-Agents: BBD including The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, History of Status: Manuscript the World Part I, Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and Dracula: Dead and Loving It. His film December 2020 company, Brooksfilms Limited, also produced critically-acclaimed films such as The Elephant Man, The Fly, Frances, My Favorite Year and 84, Charing Cross Road. In 2009, Brooks received a Kennedy Center Honor, recognizing a lifetime of extraordinary contributions to American culture. In 2013, he was the subject of an Emmy-winning American Masters documentary on PBS called Mel Brooks: Make a Noise, and he was the 41st recipient of the AFI’s Life Achievement Award. His recent projects include three Emmy-nominated HBO comedy specials: Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again, Mel Brooks Strikes Back!, and Mel Brooks Live at The Geffen. In 2016, Brooks was invited to the White House, where President Obama presented him with the National Medal of Arts—the highest award given to artists by the United States government. He was married to Academy Award-winning actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005, and their son, Max Brooks, is the New York Times bestselling author of WORLD WAR Z, among other books. Rights sold: UK/BC: Cornerstone/PRH > TABLE OF CONTENTS - 1 - Non-Fiction | September 2020 THE BOTTOM LINE FOR BABY: From Sleep Training to Screens, Thumb Sucking to Tummy Time—What the Science Really Says by Tina Payne Bryson How do you tackle the overwhelming amount of available parenting advice and figure out what really matters? Bestselling author Dr. Tina Payne Bryson has sifted through all of the most important and popular parenting theories and approaches, weeding out the unnecessary and offering parents a focused, simplified perspective to help them sift through all mountains of information to arrive at an approach that will work best for their children, themselves, and their families. With a comprehensive approach that considers a child’s relational, emotional, intellectual, behavioral, and physical well-being, THE BOTTOM LINE FOR BABY tackles the 60 most common, pressing, controversial, and confusing questions that new parents wrestle with—from breastfeeding and co-sleeping to pacifiers and weaning, Ballantine from sleep scheduling and introducing solids to baby massages and vaccinations, from circumcision to September 2020 screen time, and more! Trade Paperback Family & Relationships / Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., is a pediatric and adolescent psychotherapist, the Director of Parenting for Parenting the Mindsight Institute, and the Child Development Specialist at Saint Mark’s School in Altadena, California. With Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., she is co-author of THE WHOLE-BRAIN CHILD (2011), NO-DRAMA Editor: Marnie Cochran DISCIPLINE (2014), THE YES BRAIN (2018), and the forthcoming THE POWER OF SHOWING UP (January Rights: World 2020). She keynotes conferences and conducts workshops for parents, educators, and clinicians all over Co-agents: BBD the world. Dr. Bryson earned her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, and lives near Los Status: Manuscript Angeles with her husband and three children. available Publishers of THE POWER OF SHOWING UP: Chinese/simplified: Beijing Huazhang Graphics; French: Editions Les Arenes; German: Random House; Hungarian: Ursus Libris; Italian: Raffaello Cortina; Japanese: Daiwa Shobo; Lithuania: Vaga; Polish: Grupa Wydawnicza Relacja; Portuguese/Brazil: Editora Planeta do Brasil; Romanian: Grup Media Litera; Spanish: Alba; Swedish: Akademius; Turkish: Diyojen; Vietnamese: 1980 Books Rights sold: Polish: Grupa Wydawnicza Relacja; Spanish: Alba; Turkish: Diyojen; UK/BC: John Murray CHASING MESSI by George Dohrmann A book tracing the development of a cast of young soccer players who will represent redemption for the US Men’s National Team in the coming years, after its disastrous failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. Using this rock-bottom moment for US soccer as a launch pad, the book tackles the larger problem of where the US has been as a soccer-playing nation, where they are going, and how they’ll get there. Ballantine George Dohrmann is a senior editor and writer at The Athletic. He is the author of PLAY THEIR HEARTS April 2022 OUT (2010) and SUPERFANS (2018), and he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 as a staff writer at the St. Paul Hardcover Pioneer Press. Prior to joining The Athletic, he was an investigative reporter at Sports Illustrated, and a Sports & Recreation / sports reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors Soccer for his investigative reporting, enterprise reporting, and feature writing. Dohrmann lives in San Francisco with his family. Editor: Emily Hartley Rights: World Publisher of SUPERFANS: Korean: RH Korea Co-Agents: BBD Status: Manuscript February 2021 > TABLE OF CONTENTS - 2 - Non-Fiction | September 2020 THE AFTERGRIEF: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss by Hope Edelman From the internationally bestselling author of MOTHERLESS DAUGHTERS (Da Capo, 1994) comes a paradigm-shifting book that validates a new approach to dealing with the grief process and explains why we get “stuck,” why that’s normal, and how grief can even help us grow. Drawing on more than 25 years of working with people who have experienced loss, Edelman offers a new way of understanding the long-tail of grief over time, exploring its quiet wisdom, and making meaning from it so that we might also experience the growth it can seed. Hope Edelman is the author of five nonfiction books, including THE POSSIBILITY OF EVERYTHING (2009). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Glamour, Real Simple, Parents, and Self, among others. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and teaches at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. She Ballantine lives in Topanga, California, with her husband and two daughters. October 2020 Hardcover Publishers of THE POSSIBILITY OF EVERYTHING: ANZ: HarperCollins; Chinese/complex: China Times; Family & Relationships / Dutch: Meulenhoff Boekerij; Portuguese/Brazil: Record Self-Help Rights sold: