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Sarah Blaskey, Caitlin Ostroﬀ, Nicholas Nehamas, Jay Weaver THE GRIFTER’S CLUB Trump, Mar-a-Lago, and the Selling of the Presidency

An astonishing look inside the gilded gates of Mar-a-Lago, the palatial resort where President Trump conducts government business with aggressive disregard for ethics, security, or even the law.

Donald Trump’s Palm Beach club has thrummed with scandal since the beginning of his presidency. The resort’s days were filled with security breaches and the guest list with freelance political operatives seeking to influence foreign policy, with implications all World English: P ublicAffairs over the world. As Trump re-branded Publication: A ugust 2020 Mar-a-Lago “the Winter White House” and began spending weekends there, affairs of state Available Material: Full MS spilled out into full view of the club’s members, Agent: D avid Patterson and vast sums of taxpayer money and political donations flowed into the club’s coffers, and into the pockets of the president.

With appearances from Trump’s family, Jeﬀrey Audio: H achette Epstein, mystiﬁed foreign leaders, outmatched UK: H odder & Stoughton Secret Service, and club members working hustles of their own, T he Grifter’s Club s hocks in its details of the corruption, intrigue, and absurdity that occurs where President Trump is at his most relaxed and most himself, Mar-a-Lago.

“T he Grifter's Club i s an illuminating … and often outrageous peek behind the walls of Mar-a-Lago in the time of Trump.” ― C arl Hiaasen

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Gabrielle Bluestone HYPE How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Took Over the Internet — And Why We Followed

From former VICE journalist and executive producer of hit Netﬂix documentary FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age—and why we can’t stop falling for them.

Drawing from scientiﬁc research, marketing campaigns, and exclusive documents and interviews, Gabrielle Bluestone delves into the irresistible hype that fuels our social media ecosystem, whether it’s from the trusted inﬂuencers that peddled Fyre, the notorious North American: H anover Square music festival failure, or the consumer reviews Publication: A pril 2021 that sold Juicero. A cultural examination that is as revelatory as it is relevant, H ype pulls back Available Material: Full MS (Oct 2020) the curtains on the manipulations behind our Agents: R oss Harris and David never-ending scam season—and how we as Patterson consumers can stop getting played.

Gabrielle Bluestone is a journalist and licensed attorney from New York whose writing has Audio: H arlequin appeared in the N ew York Times, W ashington Brazil: A lta Books Post, N ew York Observer, S unday Times UK: Harper UK Magazine, and E squire. She is the Emmy-nominated producer of Netﬂix’s F yre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened and the associate producer of D iﬀerent Flowers, winner of the 2017 Kansas City FilmFest Festival Prize.

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Hannah Brencher FIGHTING FORWARD Your Nitty Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies that Hold You Back

At the darkest point of a life-altering depression, Hannah Brencher took a silver marker and labeled a composition book “Fight Song.” In that little notebook, she poured hope-filled truths and affirmations, knowing that one day, she—and you—would need a reminder to stay in the fight. Drawn from those glow-in-the-dark words, F ighting Forward i s your empowering invitation to show up, claim hope, and take back your life one small win at a time.

With a heap of hope for those who long to move from anxiety and fear into action steps, the North America: Z ondervan power-ballad essays in this book will encourage Publication: J an 2021 you to savor the milestones you’ve already reached, root yourself in the next small step, Available Material: Full MS welcome healthy routines into your day, and Agent: Ma ckenzie Brady Watson apply grace like sunscreen in the process of your own becoming.

Audio: B rilliance Hannah Brencher is the author of C ome Matter Here and I f You Find This Letter. Named as one

of the White House’s “Women Working to Do Good” and a spokesperson for the United States Postal Service, Hannah founded The World Needs More Love Letters in 2011. Hannah has been featured in T he Wall Street Journal, Oprah, Glamour, USATODAY.com, C hicago Tribune, and dozens of other publications.

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Angela Chen ACE What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what we can all learn about desire and identity by using an Ace lens to see the world.

What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through the world not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about consent, about compromise, about the structures of society? This accessible guide to asexuality shows that the issues that aces face—confusion around sexual activity, the intersection of North America: B eacon Press sexuality and identity, navigating diﬀerent needs Publication: S eptember 2020 in relationships—are conﬂicts that all of us experience as we move through the world. Available Material: Full MS Through interviews, cultural criticism, and Agent: R oss Harris memoir, ACE invites all readers to consider big-picture issues through the lens of asexuality.

Audio: Beacon Angela Chen is a reporter and writer in New York. Currently a senior editor covering ethics and policy at MIT Technology Review, her reporting and criticism have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Paris Review, Electric Literature, Catapult, and more. Chen is an active member of the ace community and has spoken about the challenges and opportunities of writing about asexuality for the mainstream media.

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Charlie English THE GALLERY OF MIRACLES & MADNESS Insanity, Art and Hitler’s First Mass-Murder Program

In 1919, a young German psychiatrist named Hans Prinzhorn was assigned an unusual task at the University of Heidelberg’s psychiatric hospital: to collect the art that the patients were producing, in the hopes that it might create a window into the minds of the mentally ill. Two years later, the collection had ballooned to 5,000 pieces and electrified the art world, inspiring some of the most celebrated cultural movements of the modern era, from Dada to Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Once it North America: Random House fell into Hitler’s hands however, the collection would prove lethal – both for art in Nazi Publication: S ummer 2021 Germany, and for its creators. Available Material: Full MS In THE GALLERY OF MIRACLES & MADNESS, Agent: S tuart Krichevsky Charlie English tells the story of a group of troubled amateur artists who influenced the path Audio: Penguin Random House of 20th Century art beyond measure — and UK: HarperCollins UK were among the first to die in the Holocaust when Adolf Hitler turned his attention to their “degenerate art.”

Foreign rights to this title are handled Charlie English is the former head of by Lutyens & Rubinstein. international news at the G uardian. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he is the author of two previous works of narrative nonﬁction, The Storied City and T he Snow Tourist. He lives in London.

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Katie Fricas CHECKED OUT

As an aspiring young cartoonist and book lovin' lesbian in New York City, Katie Fricas was working a dead-end day job at a shoe store and brooding over a tattoo artist who would never love her back. On a visit to the public library after work one day, she inadvertently stumbles upon the true story of a carrier pigeon who rescued a battalion of US Army soldiers in WWI and decides on the spot to turn it into an epic graphic novel.

When she suddenly lands a new day job at a private library on New York's Upper East Side, she feels like her research can go deep, and perhaps she will finally be able to finish her book while working among them. World English: D rawn + Quarterly But library culture is more than Katie bargains Publication: 2 022 for, and she soon finds herself a crucial cog in Available Material: proposal the machinery that makes the small, insular Agent: Ma ckenzie Brady Watson institution tick. As the days turn into weeks and weeks into months, Katie finds herself feeling increasingly stuck in the NYC grind and begins to wonder if she will ever finish her book... or find love, for that matter!

Checked Out is an autobiographical graphic novel - at once a love letter to the library during a time when life is becoming increasingly digital and the story of an artist working to make her literary dreams come true.

Katie Fricas has published work in T he New York Times Book Review, NewYorker.com, The Guardian, PEN American and L A Review of Books, among others.

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Jessica Goudeau AFTER THE LAST BORDER Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America

The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees has been central to America's identity for centuries— y et America has periodically turned its back at the times of greatest humanitarian need. A fter the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the twenty-ﬁrst century American dream, having won the "golden ticket" to settle as refugees in Austin, Texas.

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Jessica Goudeau has written for T he Atlantic, Audio: P enguin Random House Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, among other places, and is a former columnist for Catapult. She produced projects for T een Vogue ("Ask a Syrian Girl") and "A Line Birds Cannot See," a documentary about a young girl who crossed the border into the US on her own. Goudeau has spent more than a decade working with refugees in Austin, TX.

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Elon Green LAST CALL A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch. He looks bland and inconspicuous. Not at all like a serial killer. But that’s what he is, and he has his sights set on a gray haired man. He will not be his ﬁrst victim. Nor will he be his last.

The Last Call Killer preyed upon gay men in New York in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Yet because of the sexuality of his victims, the skyhigh murder rates, and the AIDS epidemic, his murders have North America: C eladon been almost entirely forgotten. Publication: Ma rch 2021 This gripping true-crime narrative tells the story Available Material: Full MS of the Last Call Killer and the decades-long Agent: D avid Patterson chase to ﬁnd him. And at the same time, it paints a portrait of his victims and a vibrant community navigating threat and resilience.

“In this astonishing and powerful work of Audio: Ma cmillan Audio nonﬁction, Green meticulously reports on a series of baﬄing and brutal crimes targeting

gay men...Green has shed light on those whose lives for too long have been forgotten.” ―David Grann, #1 NYT bestselling author

Elon Green h as written for T he New York Times Magazine, T he Atlantic Monthly, T he New Yorker, and more. He has been an editor at Longform for nearly a decade.

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Jean Guerrero HATE MONGER Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda

Stephen Miller is one of the most inﬂuential Trump White House advisors. He has crafted Trump’s speeches, and designed policies that ban Muslims and persecute and harm immigrants, all in service of achieving a whiter, closed, fearful America.

Jean Guerrero charts the thirty-four-year-old’s astonishing rise to power.. H atemonger r eveals who helped radicalize and coach the young Stephen Miller, and identifies without flinching where he fits within the American white supremacist far right. Guerrero also shows how World: W illiam Morrow his racist beliefs and power have already hurt Publication: A ugust 2020 people, how he has made himself indispensable to Trump, and the further profound damage that Available Material: Full MS could be done to both the ideal and any reality Agent: D avid Patterson of America as a welcoming, inclusive country.

Hatemonger has gotten a tremendous amount

of attention, been praised in T he Washington Post, J ezebel, GEN, Remezcla, V anity Fair, Audio: H arperCollins Mother Jones, and with the author appearing on Fresh Air, Democracy Now, Morning Joe and more.

Jean Guerrero i s an Emmy-winning investigative border reporter and the author of C rux: A Cross-Border Memoir, which won the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers prize. She is a contributor to the N ew York Times a s well as NPR, and PBS. Her writing is featured in Best American Essays 2019.

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Rachel McCarthy James WHACK JOB A History of Axe Murder

WHACK JOB is a page-turning history of violence in three acts, told via a series of murders from prehistory to the present day. In Part I, early humans invent the rudimentary handaxe and almost immediately put it to murderous use; as civilization blossoms, so too does violence. In Part II, the axe’s lethal powers are harnessed by the state, in the bloody theaters of warfare and execution. And in Part III, axe murder becomes a part of our mythology, causes a sea change in the way we consume the news, and ﬁnally ﬁnds a long second life as a grisly punchline. World: S t. Martin’s Delivery: F ebruary 2022 In a narrative that is equal parts true crime and object history, WHACK JOB tells the sometimes Available Material: Proposal rollicking, sometimes sobering, and always Agent: L aura Usselman fascinating story of our oldest form of homicide.

Rachel McCarthy James i s the author of the 2017 true crime book T he Man from the Train, in Audio: Ma cmillan collaboration with her dad Bill James. Her writing and reporting has appeared in H azlitt, Bitch, McSweeney’s, The Week, and R obot Butt. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

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Sebastian Junger FREEDOM

Unlike the rest of the animal kingdom, humans are uniquely able to defeat larger adversaries: small men can defeat larger men, small armies can out-maneuver larger armies, small companies can take down huge corporations. Our capacity for freedom and self-determination is derived exclusively from this singular ability. In a follow up to his bestselling T ribe, Sebastian Junger combines history, anthropology, boxing, special forces training, mixed martial arts and a ﬁrst-person account of his 400-mile experiment in high-speed vagrancy to create a meditation and manual for how to out-think and defeat the powers-that-be.

USA: Simon & Schuster Sebastian Junger i s the New York Times Publication: Ma y 18, 2021 bestselling author of T ribe, War, The Perfect Available Material: MS Nov 2020 Storm, Fire, and A Death in Belmont. Together with Tim Hetherington, he directed the Agent: S tuart Krichevsky documentary R estrepo, which was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. He has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Audio: S imon & Schuster Prize for journalism. He lives in New York City.

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Michio Kaku THE GOD EQUATION The Quest for a Theory of Everything

Michio Kaku, renowned theoretical physicist and author of the #1 N ew York Times bestseller T he Future of the Mind, Hyperspace a nd P hysics of the Impossible t ells the story of the greatest quest in all of science.

When Newton discovered the laws of motion and gravity, he uniﬁed the rules of heaven and earth. From then on, physicists have been discovering new forces and incorporating them

into ever-greater theories. But the major breakthroughs of the twentieth North America: D oubleday century—relativity and quantum mechanics—are Publication: A pril 6, 2021 incompatible, and so since then, physicists have Available Material: Full Manuscript been endeavoring to combine these two theories. This would ultimately tie all the forces Agent: S tuart Krichevsky in the universe together into one beautiful equation that can unlock the deepest mysteries Audio: P enguin Random House of space and time. That epic journey is the story UK: Penguin Press of this book.

Chinese (Complex): China Times German: Rowholt Michio Kaku i s a professor of physics at the City Italian: Rizzoli University of New York, cofounder of string ﬁeld Japanese: NHK theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including the N ew Korean: Gimm Young York Times bestsellers P hysics of the Polish: Proszynski Impossible, P hysics of the Future, The Future of Portugal: Bertrand the Mind, a nd T he Future of Humanity. He is the Russian: Alpina science correspondent for CBS’s T his Morning and host of the radio programs S cience Turkish: ODTU Yayincilik Fantastic and E xplorations in Science.

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Michael Loynd THE WATERMEN

The Rise of the Modern Olympics and the Birth of an American Dynasty

On the surface, Charles Daniels had a glamorous childhood. But, in reality, Daniels suffered from extreme anxiety made worse by the demands of a cruel and narcissistic father, who eventually mired the family in scandal after scandal. Daniels’s only source of joy was swimming, an obscure activity that, at the turn of the century, was most notably associated with poor, naked kids splashing around in the East River. And he wasn’t very good at it, at least not at first. Eventually, though, he caught the eye of Otto Whale and Lou De B. Handley, two misfits like Daniels, who were hell-bent on building a North American: B allantine US swim program strong enough to rival the Publication: 2 021 British Empire’s 70 year juggernaut. And that’s precisely what they did. Available Material: Full MS Agent: Ma ckenzie Brady Watson The Waterman: The Rise of the Modern Olympics and the Birth of an American Dynasty uses Charles Daniels’s ascent from a lonely,

neglected kid to an international icon to propel the reader through the equally compelling Audio: R andom House Audio history of how sports became professionalized, how a French aristocrat reinvented the Olympic Games, and how America took its place as a global power. Blending this fascinating history with unforgettable characters, T he Watermen is destined to become a classic like S eabiscuit and The Boys In the Boat.

Michael Loynd i s a representative on the IOC’s World Union of Olympic Cities, a member of the International Society of Olympic Historians, and an Olympic lecturer.

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Sophie Lucido Johnson DEAR SOPHIE LOVE SOPHIE

A graphic memoir in which “Adult Sophie” responds (in her inﬁnite wisdom!) to diary entries from her youth, ranging in subject from unrequited love to gender identity to body image to self harm. Only along the way, she ﬁnds that perhaps she still has some lessons to learn.

A perfect read for the whole family.

Sophie Lucido Johnson i s the author of Ma ny Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) and the creator of the forthcoming Right Sold: H arper One Audible Original L ove Without Sex. Her work has Publication: F all 2 021 been published in The New Yorker, The Available Material: Full text w/ partial Guardian, Guernica, Jezebel, and The Believer, among others. art Agent: Ma ckenzie Brady Watson

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Farah Nayeri TAKEDOWN Art in the Age of Cancel Culture

Inspired by the author’s cultural commentary and art history reportage covering modern art, Takedown will be an investigation of the uneasy reckoning under way in the art world, unpacking contemporary scandals and addressing the behavior of old masters.

Combining art criticism, history, politics and social justice, Nayeri unpacks the controversies around works like Chris Oﬁli's "The Holy Virgin Mary," Dana Schutz's "Open Coﬃn," and more, to explore the forces at play and identify the potential repercussions for artists and their art as regular citizens increasingly wield the power NA: A stra House to censor. Publication: 2 021

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2020) Agent: R oss Harris Farah Nayeri i s a journalist and author based in London. She writes on culture for The New York Times. Previously, she has been a reporter for

Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal Europe, and Bloomberg. Audio: A stra House Farah has lived in London, making regular jaunts to France, Italy and Spain. Over the years, her roster of interviewees has come to include artists David Hockney, Ai Weiwei, Jeﬀ Koons, Joan Jonas and Richard Serra; architects Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry; songwriter and poet Patti Smith; and actor Morgan Freeman.

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Bradford Pearson THE EAGLES OF HEART MOUNTAIN A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America

In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Behind barbed wire fences, many tried to recreate comforts from home — yet there was little hope.

That is, until the fall of 1943, when the camp’s high school football team, the Eagles, started its first season and finished it undefeated, crushing the competition from nearby, predominantly North America: A tria white, high schools. Amid all this excitement, the federal government drafted men from the camps Publication: J anuary 2021 for the front lines—including some of the Eagles. Available Material: Full MS As the team’s second season kicked off, the young men faced a choice to either join the Agent: D avid Patterson Army or resist the draft. Teammates were divided, and some were jailed.

For fans of T he Boys in the Boat and T he Storm on Our Shores, The Eagles of Heart Mountain Audio: S imon & Schuster honors the resilience of heroes and the power of sports in a sweeping and inspirational portrait

of one of the darkest moments in history.

Bradford Pearson i s the features editor for Southwest: The Magazine. Prior to that he was front-of-book editor for D Magazine, and a reporter in Texas, Maryland, and New York. He has written for E squire, T ime, S alon, Philadelphia magazine, and others.

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Shelley Puhak THE DARK QUEENS The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World

A thousand years before the Renaissance queens captured the world’s attention, there lived two of the ﬁercest, most inﬂuential female rulers in history: Brunhild and Fredegund.

Their names are unbeknownst to us today, but not because they achieved less than their future counterparts. On the contrary, these queens commanded vast armies, negotiated with emperors and popes, developed taxation policies and established infrastructure, all while conducting a 40-year civil war with each other. And this all occurred at a time when it was illegal for women to own property or inherit the throne North America: B loomsbury directly. Publication: Ma rch 2022 Given both the rising interest in lost female heroes and the ever present love for anything Available Material: Full MS royal, now is the ideal time to shine a light on Agent: Ma ckenzie Brady Watson the queens of the Dark Ages. We could learn so much from them, especially as women in our own society vie for political power like never before.

Audio: A udible Shelley Puhak is a poet and essayist. Her essays have been published in T he Atlantic, Teen Vogue, LitHub, and selected as Notables in Best American Essays for the past 3 years. Likewise, her poetry has been published in well regarded publications like the K enyon Review and her last collection won the Anthony Hecht Prize.

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Abraham Riesman TRUE BELIEVER The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee

The deﬁnitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee, an artist and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture— a t a steep personal cost.

Stan Lee—born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922—is one of the most beloved and influential entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as editor in chief of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, launched more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property than anyone other than Walt Disney: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, the World: C rown Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor . . . the list seems Publication: F ebruary 2021 to never end. On top of that, his carnival-barker marketing prowess more or less single-handedly Available Material: Full MS saved the comic-book industry and superhero Agent: R oss Harris fiction. Without him, the global entertainment industry would be wildly different—and a great Audio: P enguin Random House deal poorer. Brazil: Globo Italy: Lizard/Rizzoli Abraham Riesman is a veteran culture reporter Russia: Eksmo who has conducted extensive new interviews Ukraine: KM Books Publishing Group and research, turning up never-before-published revelations about Lee's life and work. Lee's most

famous motto was: "With great power comes great responsibility." True Believer chronicles every triumph and every misstep of an extraordinary life, and leaves it to readers to decide whether Lee lived up to the responsibilities of his own talent.

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John F. Ross MURDER IN THE ARCTIC

A story of murder, power, and a furious ﬁght for survival — a nd at last, the truth about a notorious, centuries-old unsolved murder.

Charles Francis Hall was an unconventional Arctic explorer: a Cincinnati newspaper publisher who fell hard under the thrall of the north. Drawn northward by the disappearance of the 1845 Franklin Expedition into the ice, Hall spent a decade searching for the lost explorers and learning from the Inuit crucial strategies for surviving the brutal Arctic winter.

Hall’s Polaris expedition — the first U.S. sponsored attempt at the North Pole — was an ill-fated one. Hall was inexperienced at sea; his North America: C ustom House captain and navigator, both seasoned whaling captains, clashed from the start; the lead Delivery: D ecember 2022 scientist on board was disdainful of Hall’s Available Material: Proposal education and jealous of the romantic conquest Agent: S tuart Krichevsky he’d made before the voyage: a beautiful young sculptor named Vinnie Ream. By the end of the first winter, Hall was dead under mysterious Audio: H arperCollins circumstances, and his crew was split into two groups, one fighting for survival on ship, the other abandoned on the open ice.

John F. Ross i s the author of three previous books of history and adventure, most recently The Promise of the Grand Canyon. H e has dogsledded with the Polar Inuit in northwestern Greenland, and organized the northernmost canoe trip ever taken, which earned him membership in The Explorers Club.

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Soﬁ Thanhauser UNRAVELED A History of our Garments and Where They Come From

A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuﬀ it's made of — and an unparalleled examination of how our garments have transformed our societies, our planet, and our lives.

In this ambitious, panoramic social history, Soﬁ Thanhauser brilliantly tells ﬁve stories—Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool—about the clothes we wear and where they come from, taking us from the opulent court of Louis Quatorze to the labor camps in modern-day Chinese-occupied Xinjiang. Thanhauser makes clear how the North America: P antheon clothing industry has become one of the planet's Publication: Ma y 25, 2021 worst polluters, composed of chronically underpaid and exploited laborers. But she also Available Material: Full Manuscript shows us how micro-communities of textile and Agent: L aura Usselman clothing makers in every corner of the world are rediscovering ancestral and ethical methods for making what we wear. Drawn from years of intensive research and Audio: P enguin Random House reporting from around the world, U nraveled UK: Penguin Press reveals to us that our clothing comes not just from the countries listed on the tags—it comes, as well, from deep in our histories.

Soﬁ Thanhauser w as born in Hanover, New Hampshire. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches in the Writing Department at The Pratt Institute. A MacDowell Fellow, she is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Wyoming.

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Richard Thompson BEESWING Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975

Like Patti Smith’s J ust Kids or Marianne Faithfull’s F aithfull, B eeswing i s an intimate and revealing look at a period of cultural tumult, chronicling the early years of one of the world's most inﬂuential guitarists and songwriters.

Beeswing is Richard Thompson’s memoir of co-founding the era-deﬁning folk-rock band Fairport Convention, and covers the era up to his self-imposed exile from music as he and then-wife Linda disappeared into the East Anglian countryside to devote themselves to their Suﬁ Muslim faith. A huge range of North America: A lgonquin changes—the death and injury of members of Publication: A pril 2021 the band, triumphant international tours, the loss of musical colleagues to overdoses, Thompson’s Available Material: Full MS departure from the band at the height of its Agent: D avid Patterson popularity, the recording of several classic albums, and a major religious conversion—all took place before his twenty-sixth birthday. In this intimate memoir, Thompson takes us inside a wildly full creative life as he found, and then Audio: A lgonquin lost, and then found his way again. UK: F aber & Faber

Richard Thompson h olds a coveted spot on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” He counts a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the BBC Awards among his many accolades, including an OBE bestowed upon him by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.

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Ashlee Vance THE RAINBOW MANSION

From the author of the global bestseller ELON MUSK, which has sold nearly three million copies in 46 territories

The Rainbow Mansion contains all of the elements that came together so spectacularly to make Vance’s first book, E lon Musk, a global phenomenon. We have, again, here, Vance’s well-informed storytelling abilities; his unparalleled access to key influential and innovative tech figures; and his incomparable instinct for finding such tech figures with the grandest and most transformative ambitions.

Vance writes about the most colorful ﬁgures in this world, whose know-how, energy, and North America: E cco eﬀectiveness we can admire, while still retaining, and discovering, serious reservations Delivery: A pril 2021 about the implications of their work, before that Available Material: Proposal work is even public knowledge. Ashlee gathers Agent: D avid Patterson readers in huge numbers just as the people who he has written about experience a massive

surge in public awareness and interest in them. That’s what he does, very deliberately and with Audio: H arperCollins a lot of skill, and here he will do it again, about UK: E bury the newest, boldest, and least well-understood players in the space race now. Germany: MVG Korea: S am & Parkers Co. Netherlands: A W Bruna Ashlee Vance i s an author, TV producer and an Portugal: E ditora 2020 award winning feature writer for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. His television show Romania: P ublica.com "Hello World" is watched by millions of people Russia: O lympus Business around the globe. Vance has covered business, Taiwan: C ommonwealth sports and technology for 20 years, writing for Bloomberg Businessweek, T he New York Times and T he Economist.

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Michael Wejchert IN THE HIDDEN MOUNTAINS

A deeply compassionate examination of the thrill of adventure, and how we cope with its sometimes tragic consequences.

In 2018, two young couples, successful professionals with a shared passion for climbing, set out on the adventure of a lifetime — to explore a remote, Alaskan range known as the Hidden Mountains — a trip that would alter their lives in ways none could have imagined.

Their goal was an unnamed peak that no climber had ever attempted, and the two couples were nearing the summit, when disaster struck: a rockfall knocked one climber off the mountain. The events that followed were terrifying: the injured climber’s partner held him on belay for nine excruciating hours, as the North America: E cco other couple struggled to reach them. The fallen climber survived — but suffered life altering Delivery: S eptember 2021 injuries. The tragedy would affect each of the Available Material: Proposal four in different ways, yet they remain forever Agent: S tuart Krichevsky bonded together by the events of that day.

Michael Wejchert i s a writer with ﬁrst hand experience as a climber and mountain rescue Audio: H arperCollins worker. He collaborated with Roman Dial on his 2019 bestseller T he Adventurer’s Son.

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Christina Wilcox TAKE CARE OF YOUR TYPE An Enneagram Guide to Self-Care

Discover self-care tips speciﬁcally designed for your Enneagram type with this simple yet illuminating guide from popular Enneagram expert Christina S. Wilcox.

Many of us have used the Enneagram of Personality to understand ourselves on a profoundly intimate level. But despite what our Enneagram type reveals, it’s not always easy to know the best ways to take care of ourselves according to our personalities.

In T ake Care of Your Type, Enneagram expert and social media sensation Christina S. Wilcox World English: T iller Press uses her knowledge of the Enneagram to illuminate how each of the nine Enneagram Publication: D ecember 15, 2020 types can practice better self-care. Answering Available Material: Full MS questions ranging from “What is the best Agent: A emilia Phillips and Mackenzie morning routine for my type?” to “What boundaries are important to set?” this handy Brady Watson guide ﬁlled with beautiful color illustrations will help you recenter and reconnect amidst the stress of daily life, leaving you feeling happier and healthier in mind, body, and spirit. Audio: S imon & Schuster

Christina S. Wilcox i s a digital creator. She believes everyone has the power to harness their goals, and she wants to show people that they can achieve whatever they’re dreaming of—whether that’s through the Enneagram, humor, or faith. Christina’s main goal with her platform is to see lives changed through love. She is currently based in Denver, Colorado.

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Mary Kay Andrews THE NEWCOMER

Letty Carnahan is in trouble. She’s on the run from New York City; she has her four-year-old niece, Maya in tow, and her sister was found dead in the entry hall of her glamorous townhome. Letty can't forget her sister’s haunting words before her murder: "If anything bad ever happens to me, promise me you'll take Maya and run."

But run where? The only clue Tara left behind is a faded magazine story about a sleepy mom-and-pop motel on Florida's Gulf Coast. And so Letty ﬁnds herself at T he Murmuring Surf, the winter home of a close-knit but quarrelsome group of retirees and snowbirds. There's a No Vacancy sign swinging from the neon marquee, World: St. Martin’s but the motel's longtime owner Ava takes Letty Publication: Ma y 2021 in, much to the disapproval of Ava's cynical son Joe, a local police detective. Is Joe a would-be Available Material: Full Manuscript suitor? Or a cop determined to betray her Agent: S tuart Krichevsky conﬁdence and put her behind bars?

“There is no better way to chase away winter blues than to think summer with MKA.” —Bookreporter Audio: Macmillan “The queen of the beach.” —Kirkus

Mary Kay Andrews i s the New York Times bestselling author of 25 novels including T he Weekenders, Beach Town, Ladies’ Night, Summer Rental, Deep Dish and H issy Fit. To date, her novels have been published in German, Italian, Polish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech and Japanese.

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Addison Armstrong THE LIGHT OF LUNA PARK

A nurse’s choice. A daughter’s search for answers.

Althea loves her job working as a nurse in Bellevue’s obstetrics department, but few options exist for premature babies in the 1920s, so she’s intrigued by an article detailing the amazing survival rates of babies treated in incubators—even if the part about it being a Coney Island exhibit raises questions.

The doctors at Bellevue are quick to dismiss these methods as quack science, but when Althea is forced to make a choice between a baby's life and the doctor’s wishes, she commits a crime that plunges her into the sideshows of World: P utnam Coney Island. The lies she tells to keep the baby safe will become lifelong secrets that Althea Publication: J uly 2021 must keep hidden, most of all from those she loves. Available Material: Full MS Years later, Stella Wright is mourning the loss of Agent: Me lissa Danaczko her mother, her job, and possibly her marriage. When she returns to her childhood home to clear out the belongings, Stella discovers a letter inquiring about a baby that throws everything she thought she knew into question. Through Audio: P utnam the interwoven stories of Althea and Stella, T he Light of Luna Park explores the meaning of family, identity, guilt and sacriﬁce, and should appeal to readers of B efore We Were Yours a nd The Orphan Train.

Addison Armstrong g raduated from Vanderbilt University in May 2020.

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John Fram THE BRIGHT LANDS A Novel

The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football and its secrets. But when star quarterback Dylan Whitley goes missing, an unremitting fear grips this remote corner of Texas.

Joel Whitley was shamed out of conservative Bentley ten years ago, and while he’s ﬁnally made a life for himself as a gay man in New York, his younger brother’s disappearance soon brings him back to a place he thought he’d escaped for good. Meanwhile, Sheriﬀ’s Deputy

Starsha Clark stayed in Bentley; Joel’s return brings back painful memories—not to mention North America: Hanover Square Press questions—about her own missing brother. And Publication: J uly 2020 in the high school hallways, Dylan’s friends Available Material: Full MS begin to suspect that their classmates know far Agent: R oss Harris more than they’re telling the police. Together, these unlikely allies will stir up secrets their town has long tried to ignore, drawing the attention of dangerous men who will stop at nothing to see that their crimes stay buried. Audio: H arperCollins Shocking, twisty and relentlessly suspenseful, John Fram’s debut is a heart-pounding story about old secrets, modern anxieties and the price young men pay for glory.

"The Bright Lands is Gothic and Faulknerian: smooth, original, haunting. And very sexy." –Edmund White

John Fram was raised in Texas, and lives in New York. This is his ﬁrst novel.

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Amanda Jayatissa MY SWEET GIRL

When Paloma decides to sublet the second bedroom of her San Francisco apartment to a man who has recently moved from India, it feels good to help someone trying to ﬁnd his way in America. That is until Paloma’s new roommate discovers her darkest secret, one that could jeopardize her own fragile place in this country.

Before Paloma can pay her roommate off, she finds him face down in a pool of blood. Paloma flees the apartment and by the time the police arrive, there's no body to be found or signs of struggle—and no evidence that Paloma’s roommate ever even existed in the first place.

The police are quick to dismiss everything, but Paloma knows what she saw and fears that it is World: B erkeley all somehow tangled up in her childhood in Sri Lanka—and the desperate actions she took to leave so many years ago. Did Paloma’s secret Publication: S eptember 2021 die with her roommate or is she now in greater Available Material: Full MS danger than ever before? Agent: Me lissa Danaczko For fans of Ruth Ware, Jessica Knoll and Mary Kubica, My Sweet Girl is a ﬁendishly clever psychological thriller that asks: C an you ever really escape your past? Audio: B erkeley

Amanda Jayatissa g rew up in Sri Lanka, attended college in Northern California, and lived in the UK before moving back to Sri Lanka, where she now works as a corporate trainer and co-owns a chain of cookie stores with her husband.

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Soraya Palmer THE HUMAN ORIGINS OF BEATRICE & OTHER ESSENTIAL GHOSTS

Zora and Sasha Porter live in Flatbush, Brooklyn, the children of a Jamaican father and a Trinidadian mother. The forces that brought their parents to leave their homes are unknown to the teenage sisters; they know only the mythic stories that their father Nigel tells of his magical ﬂight to America on the string of a purple balloon, and the sometimes-violent histories in the pages of their mother Beatrice’s book of Anansi Stories.

They also know that Zora has impure thoughts about a boy who sags his pants low, that Sasha is drinking cheap beer in Prospect Park with a girl who binds her chest, and that their parents’ North America: C atapult marriage is falling apart. Available Material: Manuscript The Human Origins of Beatrice is an Anansi Agent: L aura Usselman Story, and a celebration of the power of stories themselves – to help us make sense of personal histories too painful to contemplate; to empower those whose voices have been excluded from the pages of our textbooks; to bring the ones UK: S erpent’s Tail we love back from the dead.

Soraya Palmer i s the child of Caribbean immigrants and a native of Flatbush, Brooklyn. Her short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Callaloo, Ninth Letter, and B lack Warrior Review; her essays have appeared in Hazlitt and the anthology W hatever Gets You Through. Soraya has a BA in Africana Studies from Connecticut College and an MFA in Fiction from Virginia Tech. She lives in Flatbush.

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Sara Raasch & Kristen Simmons SET FIRE TO THE GODS + RISE UP FROM THE EMBERS

Avatar: The Last Airbender meets G ladiator in this exciting and fast-paced fantasy duology in which two elemental gladiators must decide where their loyalties lie as an ancient war between immortals and humans’ looms on the horizon—from Sara Raasch, the N ew York Times bestselling author of the Snow Like Ashes series, and Kristen Simmons, acclaimed author of P aciﬁca a nd T he Deceivers.

"Sara Raash and Kristen Simmons' action-packed epic of noble gladiators and

warring gods is a must for mythology lovers. With twists and schemes aplenty, this new world North America: B alzer + Bray of gods and elemental powers keeps the pages Publication: A ugust 4th, 2020 turning. Completely enthralling. I can't wait for Available Material: Full MS more of this world." Agent: Ma ckenzie Brady Watson —K endare Blake, #1 NYT Bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series

“Set Fire to the Gods is every bit as action-packed, imaginative, heroic, and deeply magical as its title suggests, with an ending that Audio: H arperCollins will leave you reeling!” —K atharine McGee, New York Times bestselling author of American Royals

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