RightsList

Harold Ober Associates | Folio Literary Management 630 9th Avenue, Suite 1101 New York, NY 10036

FolioLit.com

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FICTION 4

MALCOLM BRALY 5 ON THE YARD 5 WILLIAM RILEY BURNETT 6 LITTLE CAESAR 6 JAMES M. CAIN 7 MILDRED PIERCE 7 STEPHEN DOBYNS 8 THE BURN PALACE 8 JOHN DUNNING 9 BOOKED TO DIE 9 LEE HARRIS 10 THE GOOD FRIDAY MURDER 10 JOSEPH HEYWOOD 11 THE BERKUT 11 LANGSTON HUGHES 12 SELECTED POEMS 12 DEWEY LAMBDIN 13 MUCH ADO ABOUT LEWRIE 13 ROSS MACDONALD 14 THE GALTON CASE 14 WILLIAM MARCH 15 THE BAD SEED 15 LAURIE MCBAIN 16 MOONSTRUCK MADNESS 16 MARGARET MILLAR 17 BEAST IN VIEW 17 DONN PEARCE 18 COOL HAND LUKE 18 JAMES ROSS 19 THEY DON’T DANCE MUCH 19 WILLIAM SLOANE 20 THE RIM OF MORNING*** 20 EDWARD LEWIS WALLANT 21 THE PAWNBROKER 21

1

GLENWAY WESCOTT 22 THE PILGRIM HAWK 22

NON-FICTION 23

JOHN BROOKS 24 BUSINESS ADVENTURES 24 AGNES DE MILLE 25 DANCE TO THE PIPER 25 DAVID FROMKIN 26 A PEACE TO END ALL PEACE 26 LILLIAN LIEBER 27 THE EDUCATION OF T.C. MITS 27 ROBERT MASON 28 CHICKENHAWK 28 SIDNEY JOSEPH PERELMAN 29 THE MOST OF S.J. PERELMAN 29 KIP THORNE 30 BLACK HOLES AND TIME WARPS 30 ALAN WALKER 31 FRYDERYK CHOPIN: A LIFE AND TIMES 31

CHILDREN’S & YA 32

MARJORIE FLACK 33 ANGUS LOST 33 TAKAYUKI ISHII 34 ONE THOUSAND PAPER CRANES 34 LOIS LOWRY 35 ON THE HORIZON 35 THE GIVER 36 THE WILLOUGHBYS 37 TAMORA PIERCE 38 TEMPESTS AND SLAUGHTER 38 MARJORIE SHARMAT 39 NATE THE GREAT 39 ROBERT KIMMEL SMITH 40 THE WAR WITH GRANDPA 40

THE HOA SERIES 41

2

STEPHEN DOBYNS 42 CHARLIE BRADSHAW SERIES 42 JOHN DUNNING 42 CLIFF JANEWAY SERIES 42 MARJORIE FLACK 42 ANGUS SERIES 42 LEE HARRIS 42 CHRISTINE BENNETT SERIES 42 JOSEPH HEYWOOD 42 WOODS COP MYSTERIES SERIES 42 BEAU VALENTINE SERIES 42 LUTE BAPCAT SERIES 42 DEWEY LAMBDIN 43 ALAN LEWRIE SERIES 43 LOIS LOWRY 43 THE GIVER QUARTET 43 ANASTASIA KRUPNIK SERIES 43 ROSS MACDONALD 43 LEW ARCHER SERIES 43 LAURIE MCBAIN 43 DOMINICK TRILOGY 43 MARGARET MILLAR 43 PAUL PYRE MYSTERIES 43 INSPECTOR SANDS MYSTERIES 43 TOM ARAGON MYSTERIES 43 TAMORA PIERCE 44 SONG OF THE LIONESS SERIES 44 IMMORTALS SERIES 44 CIRCLE OF MAGIC SERIES 44 CIRCLE OPENS SERIES 44 CIRCLE REFORGED SERIES 44 PROTECTOR OF THE SMALL SERIES 44 DAUGHTER OF THE LIONESS SERIES 44 BEKA COOPER SERIES 44 NUMAIR CHRONICLES SERIES 44 MARJORIE SHARMAT 45 NATE THE GREAT SERIES 45 OLIVIA SHARP SERIES 45

CONTACT US 1

3

FICTION

4

MALCOLM BRALY

ON THE YARD Literary Fiction

NYRB Classics World English January 2002 (1st Ed. 1967)

Spanish: Sajalín Editores

A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison.

ON THE YARD is a book of penetrating psychological realism in which Malcolm Braly paints an unforgettable picture of the complex and frightening world of the penitentiary. At its center are the violently intertwined stories of Chilly Willy, in trouble with the law from his earliest years and now the head of the prison’s flourishing black market in drugs and sex, and of Paul, wracked with guilt for the murder of his wife and desperate for some kind of redemption. At once brutal and tender, clear-eyed and rueful, ON THE YARD presents the penitentiary not as an exotic location, an exception to everyday reality, but as an ordinary place, one every reader will recognize, American to the core.

“Surely the great American prison novel.”—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“Braly, who wrote the book while doing time in San Quentin, has an uncommon ear for the rhythms of big house speech. The expertly drawn ensemble cast and institutional insight may remind readers of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST. Braly does for prisons what Kesey did for the insane asylum.” —Publishers Weekly

“ON THE YARD is the novel prison needs. It’s also a book any lover of novels ought to know, for its compression, surprise, and wry humor, for its deceptively casual architecture, and for characters and scenes which are unforgettable.” —Jonathan Lethem

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  FALSE STARTS: A MEMOIR OF SAN  SHAKE HIM TILL HE RATTLES QUENTIN AND OTHER PRISONS  IT’S COLD OUT THERE

MALCOLM BRALY (1925–1980) was born in Portland, Oregon. Abandoned by his parents, Braly lived between foster homes and institutions for delinquent children, and by the time he was forty had spent nearly seventeen years in prison for burglary. He wrote three novels behind bars, FELONY TANK (1961), SHAKE HIM TILL HE RATTLES (1963), and IT’S COLD OUT THERE (1966), and upon his release in 1965 began to work on ON THE YARD. When prison authorities learned of the book, they threatened to revoke his parole, and he was forced to complete it in secret. Published in 1967, after Braly’s parole had expired, ON THE YARD received wide acclaim. It was followed by his autobiography, FALSE STARTS: A MEMOIR OF SAN QUENTIN AND OTHER PRISONS (1976), and a final work of fiction, THE PROTECTOR (1979). Malcolm Braly enjoyed fifteen years of freedom before his death in a car accident at age fifty-four.

5

WILLIAM RILEY BURNETT

LITTLE CAESAR Crime

RosettaBooks Exclusive North American January 2014 (1st Ed. 1929) Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

Danish: Lindhardt Og Ringhof French: Gallimard

* The film adaptation (1931) was an instant hit, and made Edward G. Robinson a star * Burnett is considered the pioneer of modern gangster novels and movies

A story of gangland life in Chicago that sets an unprecedented tone of tough-guy realism in American fiction.

LITTLE CAESAR begins in a back room at Chicago’s Club Palermo. The owner, Sam Vettori, outlines a plan for his gang to rob the Casa Alvorado nightclub on New Year’s Eve. Cesare “Rico” Bandello, leader of the robbery crew, is a small, slim young man with dreams of wealth and power. When Rico shoots an off-duty police officer during the holdup, his reputation as a tough guy is established. He returns to Club Palermo and challenges Vettori in front of the others, and the gang smoothly changes hands with no further bloodshed. From that moment, the gangster’s power steadily increases, but Rico’s arrogance will eventually prove fatal.

“W. R. Burnett’s LITTLE CAESAR muscled into films with a quality of arrogance and toughness such as the screen had not previously known.” —The New York Times

“The prose tight and action bumpy, the scenery wide-as-all-out-doors, the characters brawling and bawdy by turns."—Kirkus Reviews on W. R. Burnett

“The underworld icons of sleek cars, flashy clothes, bootleg liquor, and tommy guns find their origins in Burnett’s first novel, LITTLE CAESAR.”— The Ohio Center for the Book

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  THE ASPHALT JUNGLE  THE IRON MAN  HIGH SIERRA  GOODBYE, CHICAGO

WILLIAM RILEY BURNETT was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1899. Moving to Chicago in 1927, he developed an interest in gangsters that prompted him to write his first novel, LITTLE CAESAR. Soon after that overnight success, Burnett moved to Hollywood, eventually writing 36 novels and 60 screenplays (some of them based on his own novels) that would bring him even more fame over the years, including THE IRON MAN, SCARFACE, DARK HAZARD, HIGH SIERRA, THIS GUN FOR HIRE, and many more. His works created several instant film stars, such as Edward G. Robinson, who vaulted to success as the violent gang leader Rico in LITTLE CAESAR. Nominated twice for an Academy Award, Burnett received both the Grand Master Award and an O. Henry Memorial Award.

6

JAMES M. CAIN

MILDRED PIERCE Mystery | Noir

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (PRH) *Only selected territories are available May 1989 (1st Ed. 1941) [Please contact us for details]

Chinese (Simplified): Shanghai Translation Publishing House UK: Orion Publishing Group

* HBO mini-series adaptation starring Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, and Evan Rachel Wood (2011) * Movie adaptation (1945) starring Joan Crawford, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress

A novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.

Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter.

“Nobody has quite pulled if off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, not even Raymond Chandler.” —Tom Wolfe

“The poet of the hard-boiled school of the American novel.”—The Washington Post

“Cain can get down to the primary impulses of greed and sex in fewer words than any writer we know of.” —The New York Times

“A novel that, once begun, will almost surely be read to the end… It reflects no codes, no restrictions, and none but the primordial necessities. It is a bath in sensation.” —New York Times Book Review

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE  THREE BY CAIN  DOUBLE INDEMNITY  THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS

JAMES M. CAIN was a first-rate writer of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Born in Baltimore in 1892, Cain began his career as a reporter, serving in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and writing for the newspaper of the 79th Division. He returned from the war to embark on a literary career that included a professorship at St. John’s College in Annapolis and a stint at The New Yorker as managing editor before he went to Hollywood as a script writer. Cain’s first novel, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, became an instant sensation in 1934. In 1974, James M. Cain was awarded the Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Cain published 18 books in all and was working on his autobiography at the time of his death in 1977.

7

STEPHEN DOBYNS

THE BURN PALACE Thriller | Horror

Blue Rider Press (PRH) World English February 2013

German: C. Bertelsmann Verlag

A sardonic yet chillingly suspenseful novel: the literary equivalent of a Richard Russo small-town tableau crossed with a Stephen King thriller.

The sleepy community of Brewster, Rhode Island, is just like any other small American town. It’s a place where most of the population will likely die blocks from where they were born; where gossip spreads like wildfire, and the big entertainment on weekends is the inevitable fight at the local bar. But recently, something out of the ordinary—perhaps even supernatural—has been stirring in Brewster. While packs of coyotes gather on back roads and the news spreads that a baby has been stolen from Memorial Hospital (and replaced in its bassinet by a snake), a series of inexplicably violent acts begins to confound Detective Woody Potter and the local police—and inspire terror in the hearts and minds of the locals.

“Dobyns has always been good, but this book is authentically great. The characters are vivid originals, not a stereotype among them, and the story pulled this reader in so completely that I didn’t want the book to end. All the disparate plot-threads draw together in a smashing, full-volume climax. I’ve written some ‘secrets of a small New England town’ books, and in THE BURN PALACE, it’s as if Stephen Dobyns is saying—very gently—‘Hey Steve…this is how you really do it.’ Great story, great prose. Musical prose. You can’t ask for more than this book gives. I loved it.”—Stephen King

“The latest from the prolific Dobyns is by turns an affectionate portrait of small town life, a terrifying supernatural thriller, and a sly horror comedy…despite the novel’s complexity, Dobyns gives his many characters space to come alive and allows each of the spooky subplots time to build maximum suspense…Dobyns’ tone, shifting from amused to sinister and back again, elevates the material by buttressing the horror with pitch black humor. A tour de force genre buster that could be a breakout.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Nicely done—and you may never look at doctors the same way again.”—Kirkus Reviews

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  THE CHURCH OF DEAD GIRLS  CHARLIE BRADSHAW series  IS FAT BOB DEAD YET?  CEMETERY NIGHTS

STEPHEN DOBYNS is the author of more than thirty-five novels and poetry collections. Among his many honors are a Melville Cane Award, Pushcart Prizes, a 1983 National Poetry Series selection for BLACK DOG, RED DOG: POEMS, and three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. His novels have been translated into twenty languages, and his poetry has appeared in the Best American Poetry anthology.

8

JOHN DUNNING

BOOKED TO DIE Mystery

Scribner (S&S) World English February 2017 (1st Ed. 1992)

Italian: Rusconi

* First book in John Dunning’s bestselling, award-winning CLIFF JANEWAY series * Nero Wolfe Award winner in 1993

Denver cop and rare book collector Cliff Janeway is introduced in this engrossing whodunit from two-time Edgar Award nominee John Dunning.

Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway is an avid collector of rare and first editions. Bobby Westfall is a local bookscout, a gentle and quiet man who has sold enough valuable books to keep himself and his cats fed and housed. When Bobby is murdered, Janeway would like nothing better than to rearrange the suspect’s spine. But the suspect, local lowlife Jackie Newton, is a master at eluding the law, and Janeway’s wrathful brand of off-duty justice costs him his badge. Turning to his lifelong passion, Janeway opens a small bookshop—all the while searching for evidence to put Newton away. When prized volumes in a highly sought-after collection begin to appear, so do dead bodies. Now Janeway’s life is about to change in profound and shocking ways as he attempts to find out who’s dealing death along with vintage Chandlers and Twains.

“A joy to read for its wealth of inside knowledge about the antiquarian book business and its eccentric traders.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Crisp, direct prose and nearly pitch-perfect dialogue enhance this meticulously detailed page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Dunning is an amazingly assured writer, willing to head off down narrative side streets, secure that his readers will follow. He’s never wrong. BOOKED TO DIE joins the select ranks of specialist crime fiction that works on all levels.” —Booklist

“Lively, seductive… John Dunning deserves to win an Edgar for this Denver cop-turned-bookman tale.” —Kirkus Reviews

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  CLIFF JANEWAY series  DEADLINE

JOHN DUNNING has revealed some of book collecting’s most shocking secrets in his bestselling series of crime novels featuring Cliff Janeway. An expert on rare and collectible books, he owned the Old Algonquin Bookstore in Denver for many years. He lives in Denver, Colorado. In 2019, John Dunning has been inducted into the Colorado Authors’ Hall of Fame, along with Stephen King and other notable writers.

9

LEE HARRIS

THE GOOD FRIDAY MURDER Mystery

Fawcett (PRH) (eBook only) Exclusive North American September 2015 (1st Ed. 1992) Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

[All territories currently available]

* First book of the CHRISTINE BENNETT series * Edgar Award nominee

Holy day… Unholy murder.

Christine Bennett has just left the cloistered world of nuns, and soon finds herself volunteering to investigate a forty-year-old murder. Pursuing this mission with her old religious zeal, she’ll move heaven and earth in noble effort to exonerate a par of twin brothers, now senior citizens, of their mother’s murder on Good Friday in 1950. Fit for duty on the front pews of crime solving, nothing will deter Christine from uncovering who really committed the most unholy act on the holiest of days.

“What keeps readers turning the pages is Chris’s persistent questioning.” —Publishers Weekly

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  MANHATTAN SERIES

LEE HARRIS (the pen name of Syrell Rogovin Leahy) is the author of the mystery novels featuring ex- nun Christine Bennett, who first appeared in THE GOOD FRIDAY MURDER. In 2001, Lee Harris received the Romantic Times magazine Career Achievement Award for her distinguished contribution to crime writing.

10

JOSEPH HEYWOOD

THE BERKUT Historical | Military

Lyons Press (Rowman & Littlefield) Exclusive North American March 2015 (1st Ed. 1987) Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

Serbian: Knizara Obradovic

* Book #1 of the BEAU VALENTINE series

A dark and brutal tale of Adolph Hitler on the run from a band of crack Russian operatives.

THE BERKUT begins at dusk as SS Colonel Gunter Brumm parachutes silently through the sulfuric haze in the smoldering ruins of Berlin, past the Soviet troops that encircle the skeleton that the city has become in April 1945. With the precision and skill that has marked his brilliant military career, Brumm has completed the first stage of a simple yet seemingly impossible mission: to evade the Allied forces swarming over Europe and to smuggle “Herr Wolf,” the greatest war criminal of the twentieth century, to safety. Less than twenty-four hours later a special Russian team snakes its way into Berlin’s city limits, headed for the Reich Chancellery. It is led by Vasily Petrov, “the Berkut”—named after the Russian eagles trained to hunt wolves, a man handpicked by Stalin himself for his ability to track down his quarry and driven by the knowledge that failure means certain death. THE BERKUT is a classic story of pursuit, of hunters and the hunted, that pits two elite teams against each other—both of them brave, resourceful, of great physical prowess and so fully motivated that only the winners will survive. Scores of other characters populate this engrossing thriller: priests, deserters, partisans, Nazis on the run, Swiss guides, Austrian refugees—as well as a larger-than-life OSS operative who is the only person among the hundreds of thousands of Allied troops in Europe who realizes that Herr Wolf is not only alive but on the verge of escaping justice.

“Not for weak hearts, this graphic thriller revels in displays of humanity at its most base. Still, those who enjoy the intricacies of the hunt will find this one of the more engrossing Nazi novels in some time.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Mr. Heywood has done a lot of research, stitching fact and fiction together with few traces of thread. And though the book is a bit long, he manages to keep up the pace.”—The New York Times

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  WOODS COP mysteries  LUTE BAPCAT series

JOSEPH HEYWOOD is the author of the eleven WOODS COP mysteries and the LUTE BAPCAT series. Featuring Grady Service, a contemporary detective in the Upper Peninsula for Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources, and Lute Bapcat, a Rough Rider turned Michigan game warden in the 1910s, Heywood’s mystery series have earned the author cult status among lovers of the outdoors, law enforcement officials, and mystery devotees. Heywood lives in Portage, Michigan.

11

LANGSTON HUGHES

SELECTED POEMS Poetry OF LANGSTON HUGHES

Vintage Classics (PRH) Exclusive North American September 1990 (1st Ed. 1959) Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

Korean: Moonji Publishing Co.

* The poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death in 1967

A classic collection of poems by a master of American verse.

With the publication of his first book of poems, THE WEARY BLUES, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who “rushed the boots of Washington”; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in “the raffle of night.” They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out “wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life.” This collection features Hughes’s work from his entire career, including The Negro Speaks of Rivers, The Weary Blues, Still Here, Song for a Dark Girl, Montage of a Dream Deferred, and Refugee in America. It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.

“Langston Hughes found poetry in ordinary places and ordinary people. He made finding poetry everywhere seem deceptively simple. He wrote like this—So I pick up my life and a one-way ticket... Gone up north. Gone out west. Gone. "—Vertamae Grosvenor, NPR

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  THE BEST OF SIMPLE  I WONDER AS I WANDER  THE BIG SEA  LANGSTON HUGHES: SHORT STORIES

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902–1967), a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, was born in Joplin, Missouri, and spent much of his childhood in Kansas before moving to Harlem. His first book of poetry, THE WEARY BLUES, was published in 1926. Among his other awards and honors were a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rosenwald Fellowship, and a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Hughes published more than thirty-five books, including works of poetry, two collections of short stories, a novel, two volumes of autobiography, fifteen plays, several librettos, scripts, essays, songs, translations, anthologies, children’s stories, biographies and histories for the young, and two decades’ worth of a weekly newspaper column.

12

DEWEY LAMBDIN

MUCH ADO ABOUT LEWRIE Historical Fiction

St. Martin’s Press Exclusive North American May 2019 Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

[All territories currently available]

* The twenty-fifth book of the ALAN LEWRIE series

A new novel in Dewey Lambdin’s beloved series of historical naval adventure.

Lewrie loses his ship and his command when he receives news that the Vigilance must return to England to be decommissioned and turned over to the dockyards for a complete refit. Lewrie is grounded, put on half-pay, and his crew disperses to look for new positions. It’s late autumn, and being ashore is heavenly, after a time. Lewrie spends time with his wife Jessica, helps his son Hugh find a new ship, and happily marries off Charlotte, his daughter. Life onshore is quiet until Lewrie finds himself once again in the headlines of the city papers after discovering a dognapping gang and uncovering stolen Bisquits and Rembrants. The headlines should be positive, but soon the tides turn against Lewrie once again. There’s never a dull moment for Lewrie. Dewey Lambdin is the reigning master of maritime fiction. For over twenty years, his devoted fans have followed the adventures of Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, from his days as a midshipman to captain of his own ship and, though on somewhat dubious grounds, a baronetcy.

“Lambdin succeeds with high-seas action, bravado, and Lewrie’s characteristic antics, putting himself in good company with Julian Stockwin and Seth Hunter as worthy successors to the popular 18th- and 19th- century naval adventures of Forester, Kent, and Pope. Lewrie is a delightfully randy and irreverent character, the perfect man to walk the quarterdeck of a Royal Navy frigate.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A hugely entertaining naval adventure.”—Booklist

“The brilliantly stylish American master of salty-tongued British naval tales.”—Kirkus Reviews

“The best naval adventure series since C. S. Forester.”—Library Journal

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  ALAN LEWRIE series

DEWEY LAMBDIN is the author of twenty-four previous ALAN LEWRIE novels. A member of the U.S. Naval Institute and a Friend of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, he spends his free time working and sailing. He makes his home in Nashville, Tennessee.

13

ROSS MACDONALD

THE GALTON CASE Mystery | Hardboiled

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (PRH) Exclusive North American Nov 1996 (1st Ed. 1959) Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

Chinese (Simplified): Shanghai 99 Readers' Culture Co., Ltd. Danish: Lindhardt Og Ringhof French: Éditions Gallmeister German: Diogenes Verlag Japanese: Hayakawa Shobo UK: Penguin Classics

* Macdonald is considered the hardboiled successor to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler * THE GALTON CASE is the eighth book of the LEW ARCHER series (18 books in total)

One of acclaimed mystery writer Ross Macdonald’s very best, about the search for the long-lost heir of the wealthy Galton family.

Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family’s fortune. Now Anthony’s mother wants him back and has hired detective Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton’s son, and a con with stakes so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Devious and poetic, THE GALTON CASE displays Macdonald at the pinnacle of his form.

“…the Archer books, the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American.” —William Goldman, The New York Times Book Review

“Macdonald strove to compose carefully plotted narratives, rich with social realism and savvy to generation-gap disappointments, in which criminal acts serve to open doors into the troubled psyches of his characters.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Books like THE GALTON CASE remain unsurpassed for the deepening intricacy of their narratives, the awesomely engineered dovetailing of hidden relationships and long-buried crimes.” —Library of America

“Ross Macdonald[s’] tightly written novels about the hard-boiled private eye Lew Archer lifted the modern detective novel to the level of literature.” —The New York Times

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  LEW ARCHER series

ROSS MACDONALD’s real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Millar returned to the US as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded their Grand Master Award as well as the Mystery Writers of Great Britain’s Gold Dagger Award. He died in 1983.

14

WILLIAM MARCH

THE BAD SEED Horror | Thriller

Vintage Books (PRH) World English May 2015 (1st Ed. 1954)

Brazil: DarkSide Entretenimento Georgian: Books in Batumi Italian: Castelvecchi Editore Spanish: Alianza Editorial

* Finalist, National Book Awards 1955 for Fiction * Adapted into a wildly successful Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson and into an Academy Award- nominated film directed by Mervyn LeRoy (1956)

An indelible portrait of an evil that wears an innocent face, one which still resonates in popular culture today.

There’s something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she’s the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother begins to wonder: Why do bad things seem to happen when little Rhoda is around? After its initial publication in 1954, the book went on to become a million–copy bestseller: the spine– tingling tale of little Rhoda Penmark had a tremendous impact on the thriller genre and generated a whole perdurable crop of creepy kids. Today, THE BAD SEED remains a masterpiece of suspense that’s as chilling, intelligent, and timely as ever.

“William March knows where human fears and secrets are buried… Nowhere is this gift better displayed than in THE BAD SEED.” —The New York Times

“An impeccable tale of pure evil.” —The Atlantic

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  COMPANY K

WILLIAM MARCH (1893–1954), born William Edward March Campbell in Mobile, Alabama, was an American novelist and short-story writer. He served in the Marines during World War I, and was recognized with the Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Cross, and the Croix de Guerre. His first novel, COMPANY K, was based largely on his wartime experiences. A prolific writer of short stories, he was a four-time winner of the O. Henry Prize. THE BAD SEED was an immediate critical and commercial success, the source for a Tony Award-winning Broadway play, and a finalist for the National Book Award. Sadly, March died of a heart attack just weeks after its publication.

15

LAURIE MCBAIN

MOONSTRUCK MADNESS Historical Romance

Sourcebooks World English February 2011 (1st Ed. 1977)

Japanese: Oakla Publishing

* First book of the DOMINICK TRILOGY

In the blazing age of Scottish highwaymen, beautiful Lady Sabrina Verrick falls in among rogues and assassins to defend her home and quell her passion for Lord Lucien Dominick.

She’s one thing by day, something else altogether by night…

After escaping the slaughter of her clan at a young age, Scottish noblewoman Sabrina Verrick provides for her siblings by living a double life, until the night she encounters the Duke, and her secret and all she holds dear is threatened…

He’s so disillusioned, he’s completely vulnerable…

With his inheritance at stake, Lucien, Duke of Camareigh, sets a trap for the Scottish beauty with the piercing violet eyes, never imagining what will happen when the trap is sprung…

As their lives become irreversibly entangled, Lucien and Sabrina become each other’s biggest threat, as well as their only salvation.

“The plot has imaginative twists and turns, and the backgrounds are lush and evocative. It’s good, satisfying fun.” —Publishers Weekly

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  DOMINICK trilogy  TEARS OF GOLD  DEVIL’S DESIRE  WHEN THE SPLENDOR FALLS

LAURIE MCBAIN was born on October 15, 1949. She was always passionate about art and history, and her father encouraged her and helped her write her first historical romance. At twenty-six, Laurie became a publishing phenomenon: her novels DEVIL’S DESIRE and MOONSTRUCK MADNESS each sold over a million copies. She was one of the pioneers of the new romance style. After the death of her father, she decided to retire from the publishing world in 1985, after only seven romances written.

16

MARGARET MILLAR

BEAST IN VIEW Mystery

Syndicate Books Exclusive North American February 2018 (1st Ed. 1955) Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

Danish: Lindhardt Og Ringhof German: Diogenes Verlag Japanese: Tokyo Sogensha UK: Orion Publishing Group

* Winner of the 1956 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel * BookRiot 100 Must-Read Novels of Noir

A psychological thriller by a mistress of suspense at the top of her form.

Thirty-year-old Helen Clarvoe is scared and all alone. The heiress of a small fortune, she is resented by her mother and, to a lesser degree, her brother. The only person who seemingly cares for her is the family’s attorney, Paul Blackshear. But passive-aggressive resentment isn’t the only thing hounding Helen Clarvoe. A string of bizarre and sometimes threatening prank phone calls has upended her spinster’s routine. Increasingly threatened, she turns to a reluctant Mr. Blackshear to get to the bottom of these strange calls. Blackshear is doubtful of their seriousness, but he quickly realizes that he is in the midst of something far more sinister than he thought possible. As he unravels the mystery of the calls, the identity behind them slowly emerges, predatory and treacherous.

“Written with such complete realization of every character that the most bitter antagonist of mystery fiction may be forced to acknowledge it as a work of art.”—Anthony Boucher, The New York Times

“One of the most original and vital voices in all of American crime fiction.”—Laura Lippman

“Very original.”—Agatha Christie

“In the whole of crime fiction’s distinguished sisterhood, there is no one quite like Margaret Millar.” —The Guardian

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  AN AIR THAT KILLS  THE LISTENING WALLS  VANISH IN AN INSTANT  A STRANGER IN MY GRAVE

MARGARET MILLAR was an American-Canadian mystery and suspense writer. Millar’s books are distinguished by sophistication of characterization: she was a pioneer in writing intelligently about the psychology of women. In 1965 she was awarded the Woman of the Year Award by the Los Angeles Times. In 1983 she was awarded the Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition of her lifetime achievements.

17

DONN PEARCE

COOL HAND LUKE Crime

Da Capo Press (Hachette Book Group) North American August 1999 (1st Ed. 1965)

UK: Constable & Robinson

* Adapted into a film (1967) starring Paul Newman. Selected for the National Film Registry in 2005 * Pearce was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The gripping story of a cynical rabble-rouser, whose deep reservoir of cool makes him a magnet to his fellow prisoners, but also a target for the jail guards.

Out of his experiences working on a chain gang, Donn Pearce created COOL HAND LUKE, the larger- than-life war hero turned drunkard, vandal, and convict. A blasphemer and “pretty evil feller” who “could work the hardest, eat the mostest, and tell the biggest lies.” Luke’s outsized feats of gambling and gluttony—he bets Society Red, a college man from Boston, that he can eat fifty eggs—and his harrowing escapes and recaptures are recounted by Dragline, who followed Luke in his last, fatal escape attempt and who basks in Luke’s reflected glory. To the convicts left behind on the chain gang, Luke has become the hope of freedom and defiance that they dare not act upon themselves. Luke’s refusal to “git his mind right” becomes part of their mythology of survival.

“An impressive novel… the most brutal and authentic account of a road gang that we have had.” —The New York Times

“COOL HAND LUKE is [a book] about time, each page marking the creaky, extra-slow passage of the days when a person is behind the fence. What breaks the time, the narrator tells us, is the arrival of someone whose presence is felt before he even sets foot inside the fence, a hero, a poet, a rebel who is constantly testing The System. Luke is a literary cousin of Randle McMurphy, of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and both protagonists have a similar purpose—for Luke, says our narrator, with his disciple name and Christly ways, is ‘coming to save us all.’” —Kirkus Reviews

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  NOBODY COMES BACK  PIER HEAD JUMP

DONN PEARCE was born Donald Mills Pearce in 1928. He joined the Merchant Marine at eighteen, and landed on the other side of the Atlantic. Post-war Europe had a thriving black market, and Pearce became involved in counterfeiting American money. He was arrested and sent to prison, but managed to escape, making his way back to the USA. Here, he began a new career—burglary. Pearce was arrested in 1949 and served two years in the Florida Department of Corrections chain gangs. After the publication of COOL HAND LUKE, Pearce worked as a freelance journalist for magazines such as Playboy and Esquire. In 2005 he published NOBODY COMES BACK. Donn Pearce passed away in 2017.

18

JAMES ROSS

THEY DON’T DANCE MUCH Crime | Noir

MysteriousPress.com (Open Road Media) World English April 2016 (1st Ed. 1940)

French: Gallimard Spanish: Sajalin Editores

In this classic country noir, a small-town farmer takes a job at a roadhouse, where unbridled greed leads to a brutal murder.

Jack McDonald is barely a farmer. Boll weevils have devoured his cotton crop, his chickens have stopped laying eggs, and everything he owns is mortgaged—even his cow. He has no money, no prospects, and nothing to do but hang around filling stations in rural North Carolina, wondering where his next drink is coming from. As far as hooch goes, there is no better place to go than Smut Milligan’s, where Breath of Spring moonshine sells for a dollar a pint. A bootlegger with an entrepreneurial spirit, Milligan has plans to open a roadhouse, and he asks Jack to run the till. The soon-to-open River Bend Roadhouse will “take on all comers,” from hardworking mill hands to corrupt politicos, and from his vantage point, Jack sees the whole town coming to enjoy the dance floor, slot machines, and bootleg liquor. He also witnesses the slow-motion tragedy of Smut’s increasing entanglement with the seductive Lola Fisher, wife of the richest man in town, and is himself drawn into the bloody results of his boss’s greed.

“This crime novel inevitably evokes James M. Cain’s THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE with its story of murder and adultery against the backdrop of a country roadhouse, but Ross’s writing has an affectless, hard-boiled poetry all its own. That Ross never published another novel may seem like a tragedy itself to any noir fan who reads this book, which emphasizes less the mechanics of plotting than the rich, profane flavor of its characters’ voices.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A sleazy, corrupt but completely believable story of a North Carolina town.” —Raymond Chandler

“A very fine book.” —Flannery O’Connor

“In and out of print since it was first published in 1940, this blistering novel about a rural Carolina roadhouse with a dance floor is packed with enough desperate characters to make murder merely inevitable, but no less horrifying.” —Newsweek

JAMES ROSS (1911–1990) was born in North Carolina, where he worked as a reporter for the Daily News (Greensboro) for many years. He wrote his first and only published novel, THEY DON’T DANCE MUCH, in 1940. The book, considered “country noir,” was praised by the likes of Raymond Chandler and Flannery O’Connor. During the decade that followed, Ross published several short stories in literary journals such as Partisan Review, The Sewanee Review, Collier’s, and Argosy while he worked on another novel, IN THE RED, which was never published. In 1970, Ross became a highly regarded literary agent.

19

WILLIAM SLOANE

THE RIM OF MORNING*** Horror | Sci-Fi

NYRB Classics World English October 2015 (1st Ed. 1937 and 1939)

[TO WALK THE NIGHT] Spanish: Minotauro (Grupo Planeta)

*** Omnibus edition including the novels TO WALK THE NIGHT and THE EDGE OF RUNNING WATER

Two remarkable novels, poised between the terrors of the old world and the quantum scientific leaps of the new.

In the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. In TO WALK THE NIGHT, Bark Jones and his college buddy Jerry Lister, a science whiz, head back to their alma mater to visit a cherished professor of astronomy. They discover his body, consumed by fire, in his laboratory, and an uncannily beautiful young widow in his house—but nothing compares to the revelation that Jerry and Bark encounter in the deserts of Arizona at the end of the book. In THE EDGE OF RUNNING WATER, Julian Blair, a brilliant electrophysicist, has retired to a small town in remotest Maine after the death of his wife. His latest experiments threaten to shake up the town, not to mention the universe itself.

“TO WALK THE NIGHT and THE EDGE OF RUNNING WATER are elegant and serenely paced, and they’re light on both the overt shocks of a King story and the overheated proses of a weird tale by Poe or Lovecraft; Sloane’s manner is patient, gentlemanly. What terrifies us, finally, in both these books is the vastness of our ignorance of the universe.”—Terry Rafferty, The New York Times Book Review

“TO WALK THE NIGHT and THE EDGE OF RUNNING WATER blend SF and horror in a manner wholly unheard of when they were originally published in the 1930s… Sloane’s eerie, exquisitely descriptive prose is influenced by Gothic literature as well as contemporary scientific theory…These all-but-forgotten texts make excellent reading for any fan of classic SF or eldritch horror.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“I can think of no other novels exactly like these two, either in style or substance. My only regret is that William Sloane did not continue…Yet we must be grateful for what we have, which is a splendid rediscovery. These two novels are best read after dark, I think, possibly on an autumn night with a strong wind blowing the leaves around outside.”—Stephen King

“It is well told, the interest is sustained, the unreality related skillfully to normal events. A good bet for those who like Poe’s work.”—Kirkus Reviews on TO WALK THE NIGHT

WILLIAM SLOANE (1906–1974) was born in Massachusetts. By the end of the 1930s he had published his only two novels. During the 1950s he edited two science-fiction anthologies. For much of his career Sloane held numerous editorial positions, including a stint at his own publishing house.

20

EDWARD LEWIS WALLANT

THE PAWNBROKER Literary Fiction

Fig Tree Books Exclusive North American November 2015 (1st Ed. 1961) Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

French: Éditions du Seuil (Éditions Points) German: Berlin Verlag Hebrew: Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir

* Finalist, National Book Awards 1962 for Fiction * Adapted into a movie (THE PAWNBROKER, 1964) directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Rod Steiger in an Oscar-nominated performance

A New York pawnbroker reckons with the loss of his family in the Holocaust in one of the first American novels to confront the atrocity.

Sol Nazerman runs his Harlem store with dour aloofness—contempt for negotiation, distrust toward his sole employee, and exasperation with the youth-center fundraiser trying to crack his defenses. “Friendliness rolled off that man like water off porcelain,” as Wallant elegantly puts it. Sol is plagued with harrowing memories of the cattle car that took him to the camps, of murdered fellow detainees, and of his wife’s forced prostitution. His fragile sources of stability are the shop, the family he lives with and whose financial crises he manages, and the woman with whom he has a sexual relationship that’s shot through with “desperation and mutual anguish.” For all that gloom, though, Wallant’s goal isn’t to explore Sol’s inner despair so much as to reveal the complexities of the larger world by having Sol abrade against it. The book gains energy from its plot, which involves a mobster and a planned robbery that puts Sol in an awful position through which Wallant interrogates an overarching question: how do you navigate the world with trust when you’ve experienced the worst that people are capable of?

“A worthy exploration of a subject that remains underrepresented in fiction.”—Kirkus Reviews

“The pawnbroker is flesh and blood, a poignant figure.”—The New York Times

“Wallant writes gorgeously, with prose that never overreaches, even as it leans toward the theatrical.” —Dave Eggers on THE TENANTS OF MOONBLOOM

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  THE TENANTS OF MOONBLOOM  THE HUMAN SEASON

Born in 1926, EDWARD LEWIS WALLANT graduated from the Pratt Institute. He published his first novel, THE HUMAN SEASON, in 1960: it received the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award for the year’s best novel on a Jewish theme. THE PAWNBROKER was published in 1961. In December 1962, shortly after returning from European travels facilitated by a Guggenheim Fellowship, Wallant suffered an aneurysm and fell into a coma from which he never woke up. Two additional novels—THE CHILDREN AT THE GATE and THE TENANTS OF MOONBLOOM—were published posthumously.

21

GLENWAY WESCOTT

THE PILGRIM HAWK Literary Fiction

NYRB Classics World English August 2011 (1st Ed. 1940)

French: Éditions Cambourakis Italian: Adelphi Edizioni Korean: Minumsa

One of the finest American short novels. A beautifully crafted story that is also a poignant evocation of the implacable power of love.

Over the course of a single afternoon in a bucolic country home outside Paris, Glenway Wescott’s THE PILGRIM HAWK captures the awkwardness of social niceties, the subtle ways a married couple can uplift and betray each other, the tenderness of friendship, and the complexity of love. The novel’s narrator, Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate, is visiting his friend Alexandra at her estate when two of her other friends come over: a well-to-do Irish couple, with a sulking trained hawk in tow. As the afternoon goes on, Alwyn finds his conceptions about the couple challenged again and again; though the host and guests try to mind their manners, the truths that emerge about everyone involved are by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. With a sharp eye for detail and an unmistakable sympathy for each of his characters, Glenway Wescott has crafted a beautiful, compact story.

“The ever-astonishing THE PILGRIM HAWK belongs, in my view, among the treasures of twentieth- century American literature, however untypical are its sleek, subtle vocabulary, the density of its attention to character, its fastidious pessimism, and the clipped worldliness of its point of view.”—Susan Sontag

“[In THE PILGRIM HAWK] the reader is constantly being repositioned, constantly being forced to see something he didn’t quite see before. Mr. Wescott’s world is self-contained but precarious, and, like the real one, endlessly full of meaning.”—Howard Moss, The New Yorker

“Truly a work of art, of the kind so rarely achieved or attempted nowadays.”—Christopher Isherwood

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  APARTMENT IN ATHENS  THE GRANDMOTHERS

GLENWAY WESCOTT (1901–1987) grew up in Wisconsin, but moved to France with his partner Monroe Wheeler in 1925. Wescott’s early fiction, notably the stories in GOODBYE, WISCONSIN and the novel THE GRANDMOTHERS, was set in his native Midwest. Later work included essays on political, literary, and spiritual subjects, as well as the novels THE PILGRIM HAWK and APARTMENT IN ATHENS. Wescott’s journals, recording his many literary and artistic friendships and offering an intimate view of his life as a gay man, were published posthumously under the title CONTINUAL LESSONS.

22

NON-FICTION

23

JOHN BROOKS

BUSINESS ADVENTURES Business

Open Road Media World English October 2014 (1st Ed. 1963)

Arabic: Jarir Bookstore Brazil: Editora BestSeller Chinese (Complex): Locus Publishing Dutch: Volt (Singel Publishers) French: Leducs German: Börsenmedien Italian: Giulio Einaudi Editore Polish: Studio Emka Spanish: Deusto (Centro Libros PAPF, S. L. U) Turkish: Pegasus Yayınları Vietnamese: Thai Ha Books

* John Brooks was a longtime contributor to the New Yorker

A wonderful collection that will both entertain and inform readers. Truly financial journalism at its liveliest and best.

What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety; these notable and fascinating accounts are as relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life as they were when the events happened. Stories about Wall Street are infused with drama and adventure, and reveal the machinations and volatile nature of the world of finance. Brooks’s insightful reportage is so full of personality and critical detail that whether he is looking at the astounding market crash of 1962, the collapse of a well-known brokerage firm, or the bold attempt by American bankers to save the British pound, one gets the sense that history repeats itself.

“Rare pro-business portraiture which will stand up among the best financial journalism.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Today, more than two decades after Warren [Buffett] lent it to me, BUSINESS ADVENTURES remains the best business book I’ve ever read. John Brooks is still my favorite business writer.”—Bill Gates

“What John Brooks has done is to examine these matters […] with great care preceded by great curiosity. The result is excellent.”—The New York Times

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  THE GO-GO YEARS  ONCE IN GOLCONDA

JOHN BROOKS was born in New York City in 1920. During World War II, he was a communications and radar officer in the Air Force. After the war, Brooks became a contributing editor at Time magazine. In 1949, he joined the New Yorker as a staff writer, and later he said this was the lucky break that made his career. While contributing articles and Talk of the Town pieces to the magazine, he also wrote book reviews for Harper's magazine and The New York Times Book Review.

24

AGNES DE MILLE

DANCE TO THE PIPER Memoir | Ballet & Musical

NYRB Classics World English November 2015 (1st Ed. 1952)

[All territories currently available]

A portrait of a dance visionary who became one of the most influential choreographers in America.

Born into a family of successful playwrights and producers, Agnes de Mille was determined to be an actress. Then one day she witnessed the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, and her life was altered forever. Hypnotized by Pavlova’s beauty, in that moment de Mille dedicated herself to dance. Her memoir records with lighthearted humor and wisdom not only the difficulties she faced—the resistance of her parents, the sacrifices of her training—but also the frontier atmosphere of early Hollywood, New York and London during the Depression. “This is the story of an American dancer,” writes de Mille, “a spoiled egocentric wealthy girl, who learned with difficulty to become a worker, to set and meet standards, to brace a Victorian sensibility to contemporary roughhousing, and who, with happy good fortune, participated by the side of great colleagues in a renaissance of the most ancient and magical of all the arts.”

“A witty and vivid writer.”—The New York Times

“The best of [her books]—the most spontaneous-seeming, the most poignant, and also the most fun.” —The New Yorker

“[A] finely written memoir. It’s a dry and self-deprecating bildungsroman that was, by her account, scratched out on napkins and envelopes while she was ‘doing a barre’ or tending to an infant.” —Harper’s

“Enhanced with traditional ballet as well as the modern school, [de Mille] was associated with both, but she made her success in her own style of American modern. She writes with verve about the inseparableness of dancer and dancing, the agonies of work and exhaustion, the personality of the true ballerina who must be cut off from the norm of social and sexual life.”—Kirkus Reviews

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  TO A YOUNG DANCER  AND PROMENADE HOME

AGNES DE MILLE was born in 1905. In her long career, she choreographed twenty-one ballets and the dances for fifteen musicals, proving to be equally at home on Broadway as on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. De Mille was especially celebrated for her use of American subject matter and for her ability to combine elements of folk dancing with classical ballet. She changed American dance with her ballet Rodeo in 1942, and musical comedy with her choreography for Oklahoma! a year later.

25

DAVID FROMKIN

A PEACE TO END ALL PEACE History | Foreign Relations | Middle East

Holt Paperbacks (Macmillan Publishers) Exclusive North American July 2009 (1st Ed. 1989) Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

[All territories currently available]

* A New York Times Bestseller * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

The classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created.

The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts―including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq’s competing sects―are rooted in the region’s political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. In A PEACE TO END ALL PEACE, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time, showing how the choices narrowed and the Middle East embarked on a road that led to the conflicts and confusion that continue to this day.

“[It] achieves an ideal of historical writing: its absorbing narrative not only recounts past events but offers a useful way to think about them...The book demands close attention and repays it.” —Naomi Bliven, The New Yorker

“One of the first books to take an effective panoramic view of what was happening, not only in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, and the Arab regions of Asia but also in Afghanistan and central Asia...Readers will come away from A PEACE TO END ALL PEACE not only enlightened but challenged—challenged in a way that is brought home by the irony of the title.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Ambitious and splendid...An epic tale of ruin and disillusion...of great men, their large deeds and even larger follies.” —Fouad Ajami, The Wall Street Journal

“Extraordinarily ambitious, provocative and vividly written...Fromkin unfolds a gripping tale of diplomatic double-dealing, military incompetence and political upheaval.” —Washington Post Book World

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  THE INDEPENDENCE OF NATIONS  THE QUESTION OF GOVERNMENT

DAVID FROMKIN was a historian and professor at Boston University, where he taught international relations, history and law. Fromkin authored several acclaimed books of nonfiction.

26

LILLIAN LIEBER

THE EDUCATION OF T.C. MITS Mathematics

Paul Dry Books North American June 2007 (1st Ed. 1942)

Chinese (Simplified): China Youth Press (China) Korean: Kungree Press

* Also published in an “Armed Services Edition” for the use of American soldiers fighting in World War II

An ingenious, entertaining, and illuminating work. A math book that is truly for everyone.

First published in 1942, this whimsical exploration of how to think with a mathematical mindset continues to delight math-lovers of all ages. Do you know that two times two is not always four; that the sum of the angles in a triangle does not always equal 180°; that it is sometimes possible to draw two parallel lines through the same point? In THE EDUCATION OF T. C. MITS, Lillian Lieber opens the door to the wonder of mathematical thinking and its application to everyday life. Lieber uses simple language and fanciful illustrations drawn by her husband, Hugh Lieber, to present fundamental mathematical concepts with a deft touch.

“All the Liebers’ books have met with unparalleled applause from the higher mathematicians. (…) Einstein thinks that even the mathematicians themselves will derive great profit from reading these popularizations.”—The New York Times

“Lieber thrives at the intersection of science and humanism. Like Edwin Abbott and his classic Flatland, she draws on mathematics to invite a critical shift in perspective in the assumptions that keep our lives small and our world inequitable. Like Dr. Seuss, she wrests from simple verses and excitable punctuation deep, calm, serious wisdom about the most abiding questions of existence.” —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  MITS, WITS, AND LOGIC

LILLIAN LIEBER was born in Nicolaiev, Russia, on July 26, 1886, and moved to the United States in 1891. She became head of the Department of Mathematics at Long Island University, and devoted her professional life to introducing modern mathematics to young people and to making them aware of the political and ethical implications of science. In the 1940s, she wrote a series of lighthearted, well-respected mathematics and physics books. Lieber died in Queens (New York), on July 11, 1986, less than a month from her hundredth birthday.

27

ROBERT MASON

CHICKENHAWK Memoir | Military History

Penguin Books (PRH) Exclusive North American March 2005 (1st Ed. 1983) Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

Polish: Vesper Russian: Piter Publishing House UK: Transworld Publishers

* One of the best-selling books ever written about the Vietnam War (over half a million copies sold)

A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War.

This straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death— the extreme emotions of a “chickenhawk” in constant danger. Fascinated with flying from a young age, Mason earned his private pilot’s license even before graduating high school. He enlisted in the army in 1964 and rose to the top to become one of the soldiers selected to fly helicopters. Sent to Vietnam, he survived more than a thousand air combat missions despite the violence and brutality exploding all around him. CHICKENHAWK provides a perspective of one soldier’s experiences often neglected in print and film—that of the helicopter pilot.

“A hypnotic narrative.”—The New York Times

“Better than any movie about the war.”—Boston Herald

“Maybe Vietnam is best seen through a shattered helicopter windshield. CHICKENHAWK is one bloody, painfully honest, and courageous book.”—Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park

“The sounds and sensations of flying helicopters dominate...When he flies so does his book...” —Lee Lescaze, The Washington Post

“[CHICKENHAWK]’s vertical plunge into the thickets of madness will stun readers.”—Time

“A gripping memoir proving that reality is more interesting and terrifying than fiction.”—Los Angeles Times

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  WEAPON  SOLO

ROBERT MASON is a Vietnam veteran who has authored several military books and two memoirs.

28

SIDNEY JOSEPH PERELMAN

THE MOST OF S.J. PERELMAN Humor

Simon & Schuster [Out of print in the US] 1958

UK: Methuen Publishing Ltd

Thirty years and 650 pages of S.J. Perelman’s finest and funniest writing.

The definitive collection by the devastatingly witty S.J. Perelman, the leading figure of The New Yorker magazine’s golden age of humor and one of the most popular American humorists ever. Influenced not only by noted humorists Ring Lardner and Robert Benchley but also by the novelist James Joyce, Perelman easily surpassed his own definition by matching an erudite wit with allusions to Greek and Roman antiquity, pulp novelists, show-biz esoterica, and other arcana. Contributing nearly three hundred pieces to The New Yorker between 1930 and 1979, he also spent several years in Hollywood writing gags for the Marx Brothers (he co-wrote Monkey Business and Horse Feathers). Perelman often got inspiration for his casuals from news items or magazine pieces. Sophisticated and supremely mischievous, he was an acrobat of language who could turn a phrase and then, before the reader had time to finish admiring his agility, turn it again.

“The funniest writer in America since—himself”. —Gore Vidal

“There is no writer of comic prose to compare with S.J. Perelman. It is really as simple as that.” —Woody Allen

“The supreme lunatic humorist in the language, British or American”. —The Good Book Guide

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  THE MOST OF THE MOST  WESTWARD HA! OF S.J. PERELMAN  EASTWARD HA!

SIDNEY JOSEPH PERELMAN was born in Brooklyn on February 1, 1904, to Russian Jewish immigrants. He was a master of wordplay in books, movies, plays, and essays. Perelman wrote for the early, frenetic Marx Brothers films and helped turn out the screenplays for such classics as Monkey Business (1931) and Horse Feathers (1932). He also regularly contributed essays for The New Yorker magazine and collaborated on theatrical comedies. For his collaboration on the film Around the World in 80 Days Perelman shared an Academy Award for best screenwriter in 1956.

29

KIP THORNE

BLACK HOLES AND TIME WARPS Science | Physics | Relativity

W. W. Norton & Company World English January 1995

Chinese (Simplified): Hunan Science ＆Technology Press Italian: Castelvecchi Korean: Interpark Spanish: Editorial Critica

* Dr. Thorne is the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics * Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science

A fascinating journey through phenomena such as black holes, gravitational waves, and time machines, unraveling the fundamental principles that control the universe.

Ever since Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915, some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory. Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short space warps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time. Kip Thorne, along with other fellow theorists, has been in the thick of the quest to secure answers. In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work of scientific history and explanation, Dr. Thorne leads his readers through an elegant tapestry of interlocking themes, coming finally to a uniquely informed answer to the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know the things they think they know?

“Thorne offers an accessible, deftly illustrated history of curved spacetime. This volume, a model of style, format and illustration, will speak eloquently to the readership—ranging widely in scientific literacy and interest—that such theoretical physics writers as Hawking have established.” —Publishers Weekly

“Thorne’s palpable eagerness to impart the concepts he helped develop as a world-class physicist at Caltech elevates this into a compelling human discovery as well as a revolution in science. Simultaneously demanding and rewarding, this is a landmark book fit to beckon Hawkingphiles.”—Booklist

“Deeply satisfying.... [An] engrossing blend of theory, history, and anecdote.”—Wall Street Journal

“Among the best of [its] genre to appear in recent years.”— New York Times Book Review

KIP THORNE is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech. Thorne was an executive producer for the 2014 film Interstellar. For “bridging the worlds of science and the humanities,” Dr. Thorne received the Rockefeller University’s Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science. He lives in Pasadena, California.

30

ALAN WALKER

FRYDERYK CHOPIN: A LIFE AND TIMES Biography

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (October 2018) World English

Chinese (Simplified): Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) Polish: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute

* New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. One of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2018 * The Sunday Times Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018

A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time.

Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker’s monumental FRYDERYK CHOPIN: A LIFE AND TIMES is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker’s work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin. FRYDERYK CHOPIN is an intimate look into a dramatic life; of particular focus are Chopin’s childhood and youth in Poland, and Chopin’s romantic life with George Sand. Comprehensive and engaging, written in highly readable prose, the biography wears its scholarship lightly: this is a book suited as much for the professional pianist as it is for the casual music lover.

“A magisterial portrait…A polyphonic work that elegantly interweaves multiple strands.” —Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times Book Review

“[An] expansive, authoritative biography…Even non-specialists will be entranced by Walker’s piquant storytelling and graceful prose.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A sensitively discerning examination of a 19th-century superstar...A magnificent, elegantly written biography…An absorbing biography unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon.” —Kirkus (starred review)

“Thorough and authoritative.” —Stephen Walsh, The Guardian

“Absorbing…Even in such a lengthy book, Walker keeps the reader engaged, presenting accessible and illuminating comments backed up with the full weight of scholarly authority.”—BBC Music (five stars)

“Walker’s biography is a towering and beautiful achievement.” —Booklist (starred review)

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  FRANZ LISZT (3 volumes)  HANS VON BÜLOW: A LIFE AND TIMES

ALAN WALKER is Professor Emeritus of Music at McMaster University, Ontario. Before moving to Canada, he worked in the Music Division of the BBC in London. He is the author of several books of musical criticism. His writing has appeared in journals such as The Times Literary Supplement.

31

CHILDREN’S & YA

32

MARJORIE FLACK

ANGUS LOST Picture Book

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Exclusive North American September 1997 (1st Ed. 1932) Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

Japanese: Fukuinkan Shoten Korean: Sigongsa

* First book of the ANGUS series * Marjorie Flack received a Caldecott Honor in 1947 for her book THE BOATS ON THE RIVER

Always curious, Angus runs away from his house to seek new adventures. Find them he does, but will Angus make it back home?

Angus, a mischievous black Scottish terrier, is the star of this adventure that leads from town to country and back. The tale begins one morning, just as the milkman is delivering the milk. Angus chases the family cat, which leads to overturned furniture and exile into the yard. When the mailman leaves the gate open, Angus escapes. His subsequent adventures include encountering a goat, falling into a hole and getting rescued by another dog, and running through downtown alleys to escape a policeman. Angus manages to get out of town by hiding in the back of a delivery truck. From the truck, he escapes into the woods, gets caught in the rain and spends a miserable wet night under a rock ledge. The next morning, he makes his way through a field of cows, reaches a dairy farm and hitches a ride back into town with the milkman. At the end, his worried family welcomes him home.

“Delightful in text and pictures.”―Chicago Daily Tribune

“The drawings are lively and attractive and arranged with a fine feeling for suspense…The brief text has a genuinely childlike quality.”—The New York Times

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  ANGUS series  THE COUNTRY BUNNY AND THE  THE BOATS ON THE RIVER LITTLE GOLD SHOES (illustrations only)

MARJORIE FLACK, beloved author-illustrator of books for young children, was born in Greenport, Long Island in 1897. She began drawing as a child and pursued her formal art education at the Art Students League in New York City. In 1930, the first of the well-known ANGUS stories was published. Marjorie Flack often stated that she drew heavily on personal experience for many of her stories. The ANGUS stories are all based on real events and real animals. ASK MR. BEAR is the written version of a story she told her daughter when she was growing up. WAIT FOR WILLIAM and WHAT TO DO ABOUT MOLLY are based in Rockport, Massachusetts, where Flack had a summer home.

33

TAKAYUKI ISHII

ONE THOUSAND PAPER CRANES Young Adult | Non-Fiction

Laurel Leaf (Penguin Random House) World English January 2001 (1st Ed. 1997)

Spanish: Alfaguara Infantil y Juvenil

* Soon to be a movie starring Shinobu Terajima, Evan Rachel Wood, and Jim Sturgess * The Children’s Peace Monument in the center of Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2018

The inspirational story of the Japanese national campaign to build the Children’s Peace Statue honoring Sadako and hundreds of other children who died as a result of the Hiroshima bombing.

Sadako was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. She was later diagnosed with leukemia caused by exposure to radiation from the blast. She drew strength from a Japanese legend that, if she folded a thousand paper cranes, she would be granted a wish, which in her case was to live. Ten years later, Sadako passed away. Sadako’s determination to fold one thousand paper cranes and her courageous struggle with her illness inspired her classmates. After her death, they started a national campaign to build the Children’s Peace Statue to remember Sadako and the many other children who were victims of the Hiroshima bombing. On top of the statue is a girl holding a large crane in her outstretched arms. Today in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, this statue of Sadako is beautifully decorated with thousands of paper cranes given by people throughout the world.

“Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, often conjures images of paper cranes, or orizuru in Japanese. In Japanese lore, the crane—a type of large, migratory bird—was thought to live for 1,000 years, and the animals are held in the highest regard. The 1797 book Sen Bazuru Orikake, which translates to “how to fold 1,000 paper cranes,” contains instructions for how to make these special objects. (…) The Children’s Peace Monument in Hiroshima receives millions of paper cranes from around the world every year. In 2007, Sadako Legacy began donating Sadako’s paper cranes around the world to places in need of healing. They started with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.” —National Geographic

TAKAYUKI ISHII was born in Tokyo. He was ordained as a Christian minister and received a Master of Divinity degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. He is a graduate of Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo. After thirty-seven years of parish ministry, first in the United Church of Christ and then in the United Methodist Church, Takayuki retired from full time parish ministry in 2011. Currently, Rev. Ishii is actively involved in Peace and Justice works in the United States and abroad. He is a member of the Author’s Guild, Inc.

34

LOIS LOWRY

ON THE HORIZON Poetry | History

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt *Audio Rights Only* April 2020 [For other rights, please contact HMH]

[All territories currently available – AUDIO rights only]

* Lois Lowry is a two-time Newbery Medalist * With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Kenard Pak

A moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII’s most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.

ON THE HORIZON is Lowry’s first book written in verse. Drawn from her memories as a child in Hawaii and Japan, as well as from historical research, ON THE HORIZON tells the story of soldiers and civilians whose lives were lost or forever altered by the twin tragedies of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. “Sometimes bits and pieces whirl and flutter in your mind for a long time before they settle in and form a pattern,” said Lowry. “In this case, it was my early childhood in Hawaii, my early adolescence in Japan, and my connections to both Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima; they were all pieces of a puzzle that wanted to be put together. That it took this form surprised me. But it wanted to be told in this way.”

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  THE GIVER quartet  THE WILLOUGHBYS  NUMBER THE STARS  GOSSAMER

LOIS LOWRY is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults, including the GIVER quartet and the popular ANASTASIA KRUPNIK series. She has received countless honors, among them the Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association’s Children's Book Award. She lives in Maine.

35

LOIS LOWRY

THE GIVER Young Adult | Sci-Fi, Dystopia

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt *Audio Rights Only* October 2018 (1st Ed. 1993) [For other rights, please contact HMH]

German: Horcompany GmbH Korean: Educa Korea Co., Ltd. (English audio in Korea)

* Newbery Medal winner | Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award Winner | Booklist Editors’ Choice * Adapted into a film starring Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Brenton Thwaites, and Taylor Swift (2014)

A fascinating, thoughtful science-fiction novel. One of the most influential books of our time.

Placed on countless reading lists and curricula, translated into more than forty languages, and made into a feature film, THE GIVER is a modern classic. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Lois Lowry has written three companion novels to THE GIVER: GATHERING BLUE, MESSENGER, and SON.

“A powerful and provocative novel”—The New York Times

“Wrought with admirable skill—the emptiness and menace underlying this Utopia emerge step by inexorable step: a richly provocative novel.”—Kirkus (starred review)

“Lowry is once again in top form raising many questions while answering few, and unwinding a tale fit for the most adventurous readers.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“The simplicity and directness of Lowry’s writing force readers to grapple with their own thoughts.” — Booklist (starred review)

“The theme of balancing the values of freedom and security is beautifully presented.” —The Horn Book Magazine (starred review)

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  THE GIVER quartet  THE WILLOUGHBYS  NUMBER THE STARS  GOSSAMER

LOIS LOWRY is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults, including the GIVER quartet and the popular ANASTASIA KRUPNIK series. She has received countless honors, among them the Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association’s Children's Book Award. She lives in Maine.

36

LOIS LOWRY

THE WILLOUGHBYS Middle Grade

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt *Audio Rights Only* March 2008 [For other rights, please contact HMH]

German: Horcompany GmbH

* Netflix original animated movie scheduled for Spring 2020. * Produced and narrated by Ricky Gervais. Starring Ricky Gervais, Maya Rudolph, and Terry Crews.

A hilarious and wonderfully old-fashioned story about a mother and father who are all too eager to be rid of their four children…and four children who are all too happy to be rid of their parents.

Abandoned by their ill-humored parents to the care of an odious nanny, Tim, the twins, Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and their sister, Jane, attempt to fulfill their roles as good old-fashioned children. Following the models set in lauded tales from A Christmas Carol to Mary Poppins, the four Willoughbys hope to attain their proscribed happy ending too, or at least a satisfyingly maudlin one. However, it is an unquestionably ruthless act that sets in motion the transformations that lead to their salvation and to happy endings for not only the four children, but their nanny, an abandoned baby, a candy magnate, and his long-lost son too. Replete with a tongue-in-cheek glossary and bibliography, this hilarious and decidedly old-fashioned parody pays playful homage to classic works of children’s literature.

“Lois Lowry, who casts her noble and enviable shadow wide across the landscape of children’s literature, from fantasy to realism, here turns her quick, sly gaze to parody, a word which in this case means ‘a short novel mocking the conventions of old-fashioned children’s books stuffed with orphans, nannies and long- lost heirs.’ These clichés are ripe if familiar targets, but Ms. Lowry knocks off these barrel-dwelling fish with admirable aplomb in THE WILLOUGHBYS.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review by Lemony Snicket)

“The ever-versatile Lowry offers what she calls an ‘old-fashioned story,’ complete with stock elements such as a baby left on a doorstep and a nanny who transforms her initially ill-behaved charges. Sly humor and a certain deadpan zaniness give literary conventions an ironic twist, with hilarious results. Many are the ways used by children’s novelists to get their protagonists’ parents out of the way, but Lowry’s solution here is particularly inventive and wickedly amusing. Great fun.”—Booklist (starred review)

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  THE GIVER quartet  NUMBER THE STARS

LOIS LOWRY is the author of more than forty books for children and young adults, including the GIVER quartet and the popular ANASTASIA KRUPNIK series. She has received countless honors, among them the Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association’s Children's Book Award.

37

TAMORA PIERCE

TEMPESTS AND SLAUGHTER Young Adult | Fantasy

Random House Books for Young Readers Exclusive North American February 2018 Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

Australia: Hachette Australia Danish: Tellerup UK: HarperVoyager (HarperCollins)

* First book of the NUMAIR CHRONICLES series * #1 New York Times bestseller

A must-read fantasy from an author who is legend herself.

Arram Draper is on the path to becoming one of the realm’s most powerful mages. The youngest student in his class at the Imperial University of Carthak, he has a Gift with unlimited potential for greatness—and for attracting trouble. At his side are his two best friends: Varice, a clever girl with an often-overlooked talent, and Ozorne, the “leftover prince” with secret ambitions. Together, these three friends forge a bond that will one day shape kingdoms. And as Ozorne gets closer to the throne and Varice gets closer to Arram’s heart, Arram realizes that one day—soon—he will have to decide where his loyalties truly lie. In the NUMAIR CHRONICLES, readers will be rewarded with the never-before-told story of how Numair Salmalín came to Tortall. Newcomers will discover a YA fantasy where a kingdom’s future rests on the shoulders of a talented young man with a knack for making vicious enemies.

“Tamora Pierce creates epic worlds populated by girls and women of bravery, heart, and strength. Her work inspired a generation of writers and continues to inspire us.” —Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Few authors can slay so effectively with a single sentence—I mean fist-in-the-air, shouting-at-my-book slay—as Tamora Pierce. All these years later, I still draw strength from her words.” —Marie Lu, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Tamora Pierce is a seminal figure in the fantasy field of writing, turning out one terrific book after another.” —Terry Brooks, New York Times bestselling author

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  THE SONG OF THE LIONESS series  THE CIRCLE OF MAGIC series  THE IMMORTALS series  THE CIRCLE OPENS series

TAMORA PIERCE is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over 18 novels set in the fantasy realm of Tortall. She first captured the imagination of readers with her debut novel, ALANNA: THE FIRST ADVENTURE. Since then, her bestselling and award-winning titles have pushed the boundaries of fantasy and YA novels to introduce readers to a world populated by strong, believable heroines. In 2013, she won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her “significant and lasting contribution to YA literature.”

38

MARJORIE SHARMAT

NATE THE GREAT Chapter Book

Yearling (Penguin Random House) Exclusive North American October 2002 (1st Ed. 1972) Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

Chinese (Complex): Hsinex International Corp. Chinese (Simplified): Beijing Baby Cube Children’s Brand Management Company Japanese: Dainippon Tosho Publishing Korean: Longtail Books Spanish: Editorial Norma (Educactiva S.A.S.)

* First book of the NATE THE GREAT series (29 titles) * Illustrated by acclaimed, award-winning artist Marc Simont

Join the world’s greatest detective, Nate the Great, as he solves the mystery of the lost picture!

Nate the Great has a new case! His friend Annie has lost a picture. She wants Nate to help her find it. Nate the Great must get all the facts, ask the right questions, and narrow the list of suspects so he can solve the mystery. Perfect for beginning readers, this long-running chapter book series will encourage children to problem- solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries.

“Kids will like NATE THE GREAT.”—School Library Journal (starred review)

“A consistently entertaining series.”—Booklist

“Loose, humorous chalk and watercolor spots help turn this beginning reader into a page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly

“Nate, Sludge, and all their friends have been delighting beginning readers for years.”—Kirkus Reviews

“They don’t come any cooler than NATE THE GREAT.”—The Huffington Post

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  OLIVIA SHARP series  GENGIS KHAN series  DUZ SHEDD series  SORORITY SISTERS series

Born in Portland, Maine, MARJORIE WEINMAN SHARMAT (1928–2019) always dreamed of becoming a writer. Little did she know that she would be the author of more than 130 books for children of all ages, which have been translated into seventeen languages. Many of Sharmat’s books have been Literary Guild selections and chosen as Books of the Year by the Library of Congress. Several have been made into films for television, including NATE THE GREAT GOES UNDERCOVER, winner of the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival Award. NATE THE GREAT SAVES THE KING OF SWEDEN has been named one of the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing.

39

ROBERT KIMMEL SMITH

THE WAR WITH GRANDPA Middle Grade

Yearling (Penguin Random House) Exclusive North American September 1984 Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC

Chinese (Complex): Rye Field Publications Chinese (Simplified): Beijing Yutian Hanfeng Japanese: Asunaro Shobo Korean: Prunsoop Publishing Polish: Juka Romanian: Pandora Publishing UK: Pushkin Press

* Winner of eleven US state reading awards * International Reading Association & Children’s Book Council Children’s Choice Award

The hilarious story of a boy who leaps into battle when he’s forced to share a room with his grandfather.

Peter is thrilled that Grandpa is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa moves right into Peter’s room, forcing him upstairs. Peter loves his grandpa but wants his room back. He has no choice but to declare war! With the help of his friends, Peter devises outrageous plans to make Grandpa surrender the room. But Grandpa is tougher than he looks. Rather than give in, Grandpa plans to get even. They used to be such great pals. Has their war gone too far?

“Peter tells this story with honesty and humor…By the story’s end, Peter has learned much about the causes and effects of war—and human dignity.”—School Library Journal

“The humor of the story derives from Peter’s first-person account and from the reader’s recognition of Peter’s valiant effort to maintain two mutually exclusive emotions.”—The Horn Book Magazine

BY THE SAME AUTHOR  CHOCOLATE FEVER  BOBBY BASEBALL  JELLY BELLY  THE SQUEAKY WHEEL

ROBERT KIMMEL SMITH is a writer, mostly known for his award-winning books for children. THE WAR WITH GRANDPA has received eleven state reading awards, including the William Allen White Children’s Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal. His other works include CHOCOLATE FEVER, JELLY BELLY, MOSTLY MICHAEL, and THE SQUEAKY WHEEL. Smith is the recipient of the New York Library Association Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature for his body of work. In addition to writing award-winning books for children, he has written short stories and plays, as well as the script for the television production of CHOCOLATE FEVER for CBS Story Break.

40

THE HOA SERIES

41

10. The Labor Day Murder STEPHEN DOBYNS 11. The Father’s Day Murder 12. The Mother’s Day Murder CHARLIE BRADSHAW SERIES 13. The April Fool’s Day Murder 14. Happy Birthday Murder 1. Saratoga Swimmer 15. The Bar Mitzvah Murder 2. Saratoga Headhunter 16. The Silver Anniversary Murder 3. Saratoga Snapper 17. The Cinco de Mayo Murder 4. Saratoga Longshot 5. Saratoga Bestiary 6. Saratoga Hexameter MANHATTAN SERIES 7. Saratoga Haunting 8. Saratoga Backtalk 18. Murder in Hell’s Kitchen 9. Saratoga Fleshpot 19. Murder in Alphabet City 10. Saratoga Strongbox 20. Murder in Greenwich Village 11. Saratoga Payback

JOSEPH HEYWOOD JOHN DUNNING WOODS COP MYSTERIES SERIES CLIFF JANEWAY SERIES 1. Ice Hunter 1. Booked to Die 2. Blue Wolf in Green Fire 2. The Bookman’s Wake 3. Chasing a Blond Moon 3. The Bookman's Promise 4. Running Dark 4. The Sign of the Book 5. Strike Dog 5. The Bookwoman’s Last Fling 6. Death Roe 7. Shadow of the Wolf Tree 8. Force of Blood MARJORIE FLACK 9. Killing a Cold One 10. Buckular Dystrophy ANGUS SERIES 11. Bad Optics

1. Angus Lost 2. Angus and the Cat BEAU VALENTINE SERIES 3. Angus and the Ducks 4. Angus and Wag-Tail-Bess 1. The Berkut 5. Angus and Topsy 2. The Domino Conspiracy

LUTE BAPCAT SERIES LEE HARRIS 1. Red Jacket CHRISTINE BENNETT SERIES 2. Mountains of the Misbegotten

1. The Good Friday Murder 2. The Yom Kippur Murder 3. The Christening Day Murder 4. The St. Patrick’s Day Murder 5. The Christmas Night Murder 6. The Thanksgiving Day Murder 7. The Passover Murder 8. The Valentine’s Day Murder 9. The New Year’s Eve Murder

42

DEWEY LAMBDIN ROSS MACDONALD

ALAN LEWRIE SERIES LEW ARCHER SERIES

1. The King’s Coat 1. The Moving Target 2. The French Admiral 2. The Drowning Pool 3. The King’s Commission 3. The Way Some People Die 4. The King’s Privateer 4. The Ivory Grin 5. The Gun Ketch 5. Find a Victim 6. H.M.S. Cockerel 6. The Barbarous Coast 7. A King’s Commander 7. The Doomsters 8. Jester’s Fortune 8. The Galton Case 9. King’s Captain 9. The Wycherly Woman 10. Sea of Grey 10. The Zebra-Striped Hearse 11. Havoc’s Sword 11. The Chill 12. The Captain’s Vengeance 12. The Far Side of the Dollar 13. A King’s Trade 13. Black Money 14. Troubled Waters 14. The Instant Enemy 15. The Baltic Gambit 15. The Goodbye Look 16. King, Ship, and Sword 16. The Underground Man 17. The Invasion Year 17. Sleeping Beauty 18. Reefs and Shoals 18. The Blue Hammer 19. Hostile Shores 20. The King’s Marauder 21. Kings and Emperors 22. A Hard, Cruel Shore LAURIE MCBAIN 23. A Fine Retribution 24. An Onshore Storm DOMINICK TRILOGY 25. Much Ado about Lewrie 1. Moonstruck Madness 2. Chance the Winds of Fortune 3. Dark Before the Rising Sun LOIS LOWRY

THE GIVER QUARTET MARGARET MILLAR 1. The Giver 2. Gathering Blue PAUL PYRE MYSTERIES 3. Messenger 4. Son 1. The Invisible Worm 2. The Weak-Eyed Bat 3. The Devil Loves Me ANASTASIA KRUPNIK SERIES INSPECTOR SANDS MYSTERIES 1. Anastasia Krupnik 2. Anastasia Again! 1. Wall of Eyes 3. Anastasia at Your Service 2. Taste of Fears (or The Iron Gates) 4. Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst 5. Anastasia On Her Own TOM ARAGON MYSTERIES 6. Anastasia Has the Answers 7. Anastasia's Chosen Career 1. Ask for Me Tomorrow 8. Anastasia at This Address 2. The Murder of Miranda 9. Anastasia, Absolutely 3. Mermaid

43

TAMORA PIERCE BEKA COOPER SERIES

1. Terrier SONG OF THE LIONESS SERIES 2. Bloodhound 3. Mastiff 1. Alanna: The First Adventure 2. In the Hand of the Goddess 3. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man 4. Lioness Rampant NUMAIR CHRONICLES SERIES

1. Tempests and Slaughter IMMORTALS SERIES

1. Wild Magic 2. Wolf-Speaker 3. Emperor Mage 4. The Realms of the Gods

CIRCLE OF MAGIC SERIES

1. Sandry’s Book 2. Tris’s Book 3. Daja’s Book 4. Briar’s Book

CIRCLE OPENS SERIES

1. Magic Steps 2. Street Magic 3. Cold Fire 4. Shatterglass

CIRCLE REFORGED SERIES

1. The Will of the Empress 2. Melting Stones 3. Battle Magic

PROTECTOR OF THE SMALL SERIES

1. First Test 2. Page 3. Squire 4. Lady Knight

DAUGHTER OF THE LIONESS SERIES

1. Trickster’s Choice 2. Trickster’s Queen

44

18. Nate The Great and The Tardy Tortoise MARJORIE SHARMAT 19. Nate The Great Saves the King of Sweden NATE THE GREAT SERIES 20. Nate The Great and Me 21. Nate The Great, San Francisco 1. Nate The Great Detective 2. Nate The Great Goes Undercover 22. Nate The Great and The Monster Mess 3. Nate The Great and The Lost List 23. Nate The Great and The Big Sniff 4. Nate The Great and The Sticky Case 24. Nate The Great on The Owl Express 5. Nate The Great and The Phony Clue 25. Nate The Great Talks Turkey 6. Nate The Great and The Missing Key 26. Nate The Great and The Hungry Book 7. Nate The Great and The Snowy Trail Club 8. Nate The Great and The Fishy Prize 27. Nate The Great, Where Are You? 9. Nate The Great Stalks Stupidweed 28. Nate Great and The Missing Birthday 10. Nate The Great and The Boring Beach Snake Bag 29. Nate The Great and The Wandering 11. Nate The Great and The Halloween Word Hunt 12. Nate The Great Goes Down in The Dumps OLIVIA SHARP SERIES 13. Nate The Great and The Musical Note 14. Nate The Great and The Stolen Base 1. The Pizza Monster 15. Nate The Great and The Mushy 2. The Princess of The Fillmore Street Valentine School 16. Nate The Great and The Pillowcase 3. The Sly Spy 17. Nate The Great and The Crunchy 4. The Green Toenails Gang Christmas

45

CONTACT US

Harold Ober Associates | Folio Literary Management 630 9th Avenue, Suite 1101 New York, NY 10036 (212) 400 1494 www.foliolit.com

Melissa Sarver White - [email protected] Chiara Panzeri - [email protected]

1