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Contents

Non-Fiction A Very Stable Genius by Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen Manifesto for a Moral Revolution by Jacqueline Novogratz The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova Attention: A Love Story by Casey Schwartz To Be Honest by Michael Leviton Insecurity by Scott Shapiro Here Where We Stand Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple Kingdom of Play by David Toomey Between Two Fires by Joshua Yaffa She Said by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey

Fiction Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu Age of Consent by Amanda Brainerd Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford In the Valley by Ron Rash The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman

Selected Backlist Non-Fiction A Very Stable Genius Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker

Instant #1 New York Times and international bestseller Over 300K copies sold A Washington Post, USA Today, WSJ, and Der Spiegel bestseller A New York Times Editors’ Choice Authors the winners of the Pulitzer Prize

The definitive insider narrative and the most fully characterized account yet of the chaos, scandal and destruction of Trump's first term, from two Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalists.

“I alone can fix it.” So went Donald J. Trump’s march to the presidency on July 21, 2016, when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet over the subsequent years, as he has undertaken the actual work of the commander in chief, it has been hard to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. It would be all too easy Penguin Press (January 2020) to mistake Trump’s first term for one of pure and uninhibited chaos, Territory: North America but there were patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. The Editor: Ann Godoff universal value of the Trump administration is loyalty—not to the Material: Finished copies country, but to the president himself—and Trump’s North Star has been Agent: Elyse Cheney the perpetuation of his own power, even when it meant imperiling our shaky and mistrustful democracy. Rights sold: UK: Bloomsbury Leonnig and Rucker, with deep and unmatched sources throughout Brazil: Objetiva Washington, D.C., tell of rages and frenzies but also moments of courage Finland: Otava and perseverance. Relying on scores of exclusive new interviews with Germany: Fischer some of the most senior members of the Trump administration and other Holland: Atlas Contact firsthand witnesses, the authors reveal the forty-fifth president up close, Italy: Mondadori taking readers inside Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation as well as Ukraine: FORS the president’s own haphazard but ultimately successful legal defense. Here for the first time certain officials who have felt honor-bound not to publicly criticize a sitting president or to divulge what they witnessed in a position of trust tell the truth for the benefit of history.

This peerless and gripping narrative reveals President Trump at his most unvarnished and exposes how decision making in his administration has been driven by a reflexive logic of self-preservation and self- aggrandizement—but a logic nonetheless. This is the story of how an unparalleled president has scrambled to survive and tested the strength of America’s democracy and its common heart as a nation. Carol Leonnig is a national investigative reporter at The Washington Post, where she has worked since 2000 and covers Donald Trump’s presidency and other subjects. She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on security failures and misconduct inside the Secret Service. Leonnig is also an on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.

Philip Rucker is the White House Bureau Chief at The Washington Post, leading its coverage of President Trump and his administration. He and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for their reporting on Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. He serves as an on-air political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

PRAISE FOR A VERY STABLE GENIUS

“[Rucker and Leonnig] are meticulous journalists, and this taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date ... Their newspaper’s ominous, love-it-or-hate-it motto is ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness.’ A Very Stable Genius flicks the lights on from its first pages.” —The New York Times

“Richly sourced and highly readable ... It is not just another Trump tell-all or third-party confessional. It is unsettling, not salacious.” —The Guardian

“A Very Stable Genius is superbly reported and written with clarity.” —The Washington Post

“You could scarcely ask for more capable advocates. [Rucker and Leonnig’s] col- laborative account … walks readers step by step through the first 30 months or so of a presidency like no other.”—NPR

“[A] stunning first draft of the history of the presidency of Donald Trump ... what has been crafted has a much deeper texture of insight driven by journalism execut- ed at its highest level of reporting the truth as best as it can now be known.” —The Sydney Morning Herald

“There are brilliant flashes of insights and voices that have yet to be heard in the presidential cacophony.” —Financial Times Surviving Autocracy Masha Gessen

By the winner of the 2017 National Book Award & finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

“An indispensable voice of and for this moment.” —Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny

A galvanizing analysis of the destruction autocrats wage on cherished institutions, cultural norms, and our very sense of reality

Within forty-eight hours of Donald Trump’s winning of the U.S. presidency in 2016, Masha Gessen’s essay “Autocracy: Rules for Survival” had gone viral. In the run-up to the election, Gessen stood out from other writers for the ability to convey the ominous significance of Trump’s unprecedented speech and behavior, and Gessen’s journalism became essential reading for those struggling to wrap their heads around the unimaginable. Thanks to the special perspective that is the Riverhead (June 2020) legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence Territory: North America of totalitarianism in Russia, Gessen has a sixth sense for the hallmarks Editor: Rebecca Saletan of autocracy—and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate its Material: Galleys emergence in the west. Agent: Elyse Cheney Applying this perspective to the Trump presidency, Surviving Autocracy Rights sold: offers a penetrating understanding of the triangular relationship between UK: Granta the autocrat, a corroded media, and a citizenry living in a world of Holland: De Bezige Bij cognitive dissonance. Drawing on examples of autocratic attempts from Vladimir Putin to Recep Erdogan to Viktor Orbán, and on the work of Option publishers: Hungarian sociologist Bálint Magyar, who devised new language to Estonia: Ajakirjad understand how autocrats come into power, Gessen provides a fine- Finland: Docendo grained dissection of the authoritarian playbook, and tells us the story Germany: Suhrkamp of how a few short years have degraded cherished institutions and our Hungary: Európa sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Italy: Sellerio Sweden: Brombergs Surviving Autorcacy is an indispensable overview of the calamitous Spain: Turner trajectory of the past few years. It is also a beacon to recovery—or to Taiwan: Marco Polo enduring, and resisting, an ongoing assault. Turkey: Epsilon Masha Gessen is the author of the National Book Award- winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia as well as The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, and several other books. Gessin is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship.

PRAISE FOR THE FUTURE IS HISTORY

Winner of the 2017 National Book Award, the Leipzig Book Prize, the Hitchens Prize, and the Diario Madrid Journalism Prize

“Ambitious, timely, insightful, and unsparing ... a sweeping intellectual history of Russia over the past four decades, told through a Tolstoyan gallery of characters.” —The Washington Post

“Harrowing, compassionate, and important.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Fascinating and deeply felt.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Forceful and eloquent.”—The Los Angeles Times

“It’s not just history; it is an urgent awakening.”—Buzzfeed

PRAISE FOR THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE

“Gessen has shown remarkable courage in researching and writing this unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Gessen shines a piercing light into every dark corner ... Fascinating, hard-hitting reading.” —Foreign Affairs

“Gessen has done the impossible in writing a highly readable, compelling life of Russia’s mysterious president-for-life.” —Tina Brown, The Daily Beast Manifesto for a Moral Revolution Practices to Build a Better World Jacqueline Novogratz

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Sweater An original short-list of essential leadership tools for the 21st century, and a manifesto for those who seek to leave this world better off than they found it

In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the world tackles poverty, few had heard of impact investing. Nineteen years later, there’s been a seismic shift in how corporate boards and other stakeholders evaluate businesses: impact investment is not only morally defensible but now also economically advantageous, even necessary.

Still, it isn’t easy to reach a success that includes profits as well as mutually favorable relationships with workers and the communities in which they live. So how can today’s leaders, who often kick off Henry Holt (May 2020) their enterprises with high hopes and short timetables, navigate the Territory: North America challenges of poverty and war, of egos and impatience, which have Editor: Barbara Jones stymied generations of investors who came before? Material: Galleys Agent: Elyse Cheney The culmination of thirty years of work developing sustainable solutions for the problems of the poor, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution draws Rights sold: on inspiring stories from change-makers around the world. Whether Japan: Eiji Press ascending the corporate ladder or bringing solar light to rural villages, Spain: Offer received readers will learn Jacqueline’s invaluable perspectives on the most common leadership mistakes and the mind-sets needed to rise above them. Option publishers: Arabic: Jarir China: Xiron “[Novogratz] offers a way to blend capitalism and social justice that Holland: Artemis will inspire people from across the political spectrum.” India: HarperCollins India —Jonathan Haidt Kenya: Longhorn Kenya “An urgent manifesto about what it means to stand with the poor, to Korea: Early Morning Books see through clear eyes, and most of all, to do work worth doing.” Spain: Profit Editorial —Seth Godin Taiwan: Commonwealth Thailand: Pim-Burabha “[An] instant classic.” —Arianna Huffington

Jacqueline Novogratz has been named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy, one of the 25 Smartest People of the Decade by the Daily Beast, and one of the world’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds by Forbes. The Biggest Bluff How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win Maria Konnikova

How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life- changing run as a professional poker player

Maria Konnikova wasn’t interested in making money when she approached Erik Seidel—a world-famous poker player who’d earned tens of millions of dollars in the game—to be her mentor. She wanted to learn about life. Maria had faced a stretch of personal bad luck and had turned to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can’t.

Soon Maria was entrenched in the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold’em, with her sights on the following year’s World Series of Poker. Penguin Press (June 2020) But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel’s Territory: North America guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that Editor: Scott Moyers derived from her new pursuit, but she also began to win. And Material: Edited manuscript win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money Agent: Elyse Cheney & from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands Adam Eaglin of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like “How one writer's Rights sold: book deal turned her into a professional poker player.” She even UK: Fourth Estate learned to like Las Vegas. China: offer received Holland: Maven But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human Poland: Agora behavior. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Taiwan: offer received Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we Turkey: Indigo play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way. Option publishers: China: Ginkgo Germany: Nagel & Kimche “I love it ... The narrative is deftly crafted, and the journey—the Hungary: HVG self-examination, the oddball characters, the awful misogyny, Korea: Korea Economic Daily the Aggros, the notion of tilt—accumulates in a seamless and Russia: Atticus-Azbooka satisfying way. I read this in what for me was record time.” —Erik Larson

Maria Konnikova is the author of Mastermind and The Confidence Game. She is a regular contributing writer for The New Yorker, and has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She is currently a visiting fellow at NYU's School of Journalism. She graduated from Harvard and received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia. Attention: A Love Story Casey Schwartz

The author of In the Mind Fields now gives us a comprehensive journalistic exploration of our culture’s flagging ability to pay attention, infused with the personal struggles and insights of a woman coming to terms with the demands and distractions of the information age.

Combining expert storytelling with genuine self-scrutiny, Casey Schwartz details the decade she spent taking Adderall to help her pay attention (or so she thought) and then considers the role of attention in defining our lives as it has been understood by thinkers such as William James, David Foster Wallace, and Simone Weil. From our craving for distraction to our craving for a cure, from Silicon Valley consultants and psychedelic researchers to the findings of trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté, Schwartz takes us on an eye-opening tour of the modern landscape of attention.

Blending memoir, biography, and original reporting, Schwartz examines her attempts to preserve her authentic life and decide what Pantheon (April 2020) is most important in it. Attention: A Love Story will resonate with Territory: World English readers who want to determine their own minds, away from the Editor: Dan Frank siren call of their screens Material: Galleys Agent: Elyse Cheney “The author is unfailingly honest ... [and] by personalizing her account, and her journey, she enhances the book’s potency without diluting its authority.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

“An extraordinary and moving treatment of that most ineffable of topics: our own attention and how we spend it. Schwartz has suc- cessfully mixed her own experiences with Tom Wolfe-like journalism to create an utterly engaging read.” —Tim Wu, author of The Attention Merchants

“Attention: A Love Story had me rapt. Schwartz is a formidable reporter, a rigorous researcher and a true artist of prose.” —Megan Daum, author of The Problem with Everything

Casey Schwartz has worked as a staff writer at Newsweek/The Daily Beast, where she covered neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. She is the author of In the Mind Fields, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, and The New York Sun. attention, infused with the personal struggles and insights of a woman coming to terms with the demands and distractions of the information age. Attention:To Be Honest A Love Story Combining expert storytelling with genuine self-scrutiny, Casey Schwartz details the decade she spent taking Adderall to help her pay attention (or so she thought) and then considers the role of attention in defining our lives CaseyA Memoir Schwartz as it has been understood by thinkers such as William James, David Foster Wallace, and Simone Weil. From our Michael Leviton craving for distraction to our craving for a cure, from Silicon Valley consultants and psychedelic researchers to the The author of In the Mind Fields now gives us a comprehensive findings of trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté, Schwartz takes us on an eye-opening tour of the modern landscape of journalistic exploration of our culture’s flagging ability to pay attention. A memoir about one man’s strange upbringing in a family

fanatically devoted to honesty Blending memoir, biography, and original reporting, Schwartz examines her attempts to preserve her authentic life and decide what is most important in it. will resonate with readers who want to determine Raised in what he affectionately calls “our little honesty cult,” Attention: A Love Story their own minds, away from the siren call of their screens Michael Leviton was ingrained with his parents’ core philosophy: You do not tell any lies; you do not withhold the truth; and you speak your mind always, regardless of how offensive or hurtful your opinions may be. For young Michael, this freedom to be yourself—despite being bullied and ostracized at school—felt liberating. By the time Leviton was 29 years old, he had told only three lies in his entire life.

But his parents’ enthusiasm for “just being honest” bordered on extreme. After Michael graduated high school and left home, truth telling—in job interviews, on dates, in social interactions— slowly lost its luster. When the only woman who ever appreciated Pantheon (April 2020) his honesty brought this radical approach to truth into their Territory:Abrams (June World 2020) English relationship, Michael decided it was time to embrace the power of Editor:Territory: Dan World Frank English lying. Material:Editor: Jamison Galleys Stoltz Agent:Material: Elyse Galley Cheney PDF Through Michael’s eyes, we’re challenged in a new way to question Agent: Adam Eaglin the role honesty plays in modern society, and how insincerity has become a surprisingly integral part of social interaction, from friendships and relationships, to our professional careers. To Be Honest is a quirky, tender, and wry story of a man discovering what it means, and how it feels, to lie in one’s daily life. “The author is unfailingly honest ... [and] by personalizing her account, and her journey, she enhances the book’s potency without diluting its authority.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “I couldn’t put this book down ... The truth is that To Be Honest is astonishing,“An extraordinary funny ... and and moving heartbreakingly treatment touching. of that most Michael ineffable Leviton of topics:has written our own such attention an unflinching and how look we spendat what it. it Schwartz means to has tell suc the- cessfullytruth andmixed to love.”her own — Faithexperiences Salie, authorwith Tom of Approval Wolfe-like Junkie journalism to create an utterly engaging read.” —Tim Wu, author of The Attention Merchants Michael Leviton is a writer, musician, photographer, and Caseystoryteller. Schwartz He is hasthe workedhost of the as astorytelling staff writer series at Newsweek/The and podcast Daily The BeastTell, which, where has she featured covered performances neuroscience, from psychology, a wide array and psychiatry. of actors Sheand isjournalists the author including of In the ZoëMind Kravitz, Fields, and Alia her Shawkat, work has and also Griffin appearedDunne. He in has The worked New York as Times,a screenwriter New York and magazine, contributed and musicThe New to Yorktelevision Sun. shows, including HBO’s Bored to Death. Insecurity Why the Internet Is Safer Than You Think in Five Epic Cyber-Attacks Scott Shapiro

Based on the most popular course at Yale Law School

From the critically acclaimed co-author of The Internationalists comes a book that will radically change readers’ understanding of their security online

No one seems to doubt the critical importance of cybersecurity in the 21st century—yet few people seem to understand it either.

Scott Shapiro is a professor of law and philosophy at Yale, a self- proclaimed computer geek, and a self-taught hacker. Realizing that many of his law students were months away from jobs at large tech companies or as government regulators, despite hardly grasping how the internet even works, Scott decided to design a course in which he’d teach them everything they need to know about cybersecurity— by showing them how to breach it. Farrar, Straus (2022) Territory: North America Scott’s course quickly became the most sought after at Yale Law, and Editor: Alex Star in Insecurity, Scott shares the lessons of the class through the stories Material: Proposal of five of the most outrageous hacks in internet history. Scott will Agent: Elyse Cheney introduce the robbers who broke into a casino through a fish tank, college students who shut down the entire World Wide Web while Rights sold: trying to secure a spot in a popular class, and political operatives who UK: Allen Lane opened a message from “Google” and changed the course of history. Taiwan: offer received Each of these stories is a thrilling true-crime adventure, but they also provide simple, invaluable lessons for even the most technophobic readers to become more secure online. By the end of the book, readers will be equipped to answer three fundamental questions: Why is the global computer network we call the “internet” so vulnerable? How are hackers able to exploit it? And what can we do—as individuals, companies, and governments—to become secure?

Scott Shapiro is Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, and the founding director of the Yale CyberSecurity Lab. He is the co-author of The Internationalists (Simon & Schuster, 2017) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (2002) (with Jules Coleman). He earned B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Here Where We Stand Is Our Country The Story of the Jewish Labor Bund Molly Crabapple

From the co-author and illustrator of Brothers of the Gun, longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award

A radical history that will hold up another side of Jewish diasporic identity and philosophy

Here Where We Stand Is Our Country tells the history of the Bund, a Jewish revolutionary movement that played a part in every major conflict in Eastern Europe from 1900 to 1945, and who at one point were the most popular Jewish party in Poland. Yet theirs is an oc- cluded part of twentieth century history. Defiantly opposed to Zion- ism and assimilation, the Bund’s central philosophy was the doctrine of Hereness—the belief that Jews had a right to freedom wherever they were. Home was the ground on which they stood. With drama One World (2021) and detail, Molly uses the lives of the individuals who carried out Territory: North America this doctrine, from the Warsaw Uprising and the Holocaust, through Editor: Chris Jackson to the creation of Israel, as a lens through which to finally illuminate Material: Proposal how the Bund helped change the course of history. Agent: Alice Whitwham Part historical narrative, part memoir, and part intellectual inquiry, Molly brings to bear on the Bund’s story her own experiences as a journalist—covering protests, refugee camps, and conflict zones, in New York, Syria, and Europe—in order to make a powerful case for the Bund’s universal and contemporary relevance. In our era of vio- lent ethno-nationalism, battles between hereness and “homeland” are being played out across the world. In that present-day context, Molly reveals how the Bund offers a model of connection both within and between marginalized groups who refuse to give up their language, culture, and community.

Molly Crabapple, an artist and writer in New York, is a contributing editor for Vice and has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and Vanity Fair. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Kingdom of Play Wbat belly-flopping monkeys, snowboarding crows, and bubble-riding octopuses reveal about the inner lives of animals, and ourselves David Toomey

Explores a mystery of the natural world—why animals play—and what it reveals about our own humanity

Since first emerging as a subfield of animal behavioral research in the late-19th century, the study of animal play has had a problem: scientists have not been able to produce a single, widely accepted theory to explain why natural selection has produced play in animals. Play’s adaptive advantage—its benefit to the animal— remains a mystery.

If play’s purpose isn’t to assist an animal’s survival, then what is it for? And is animal play the same as our own? David Toomey’s Kingdom of Play will explore these questions and more. When did play first appear in animals? Which species play and which don’t? Scribner (2022) Are the rules of play innate or learned? And is play a precursor to Territory: North America advanced culture? Editor: Colin Harrison & Sarah Goldberg A revelatory tour among playing animals, the scientists who study Material: Proposal them, and the philosophical questions that tie them together, Agent: Allison Devereux Kingdom of Play offers an entirely new way of thinking about the animals we share this earth with, and shows that the boundaries between man and beast may not be as rigid as we think.

Praise for Toomey’s Weird Life, longlisted for the 2014 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

“A breakneck tour through natural history, encounters of an impossible kind ... that leads the reader to wonder where science ends and fantasy begins.” —New York Times Book Review

“An ingenious overview of anything that might be alive.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

David Toomey is a science writer and professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Weird Life: The Search for Life that is Very, Very Different from Our Own (Norton, 2013), The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics (Norton, 2007), and Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and their Flight into Hurricane Janet (Norton, 2002). Between Two Fires Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia Joshua Yaffa

A New York Times Editor’s Choice Excerpted in The New Yorker

A groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin’s rule

In Between Two Fires, a rich and engaging tour of contemporary Russia, Joshua Yaffa introduces readers to some of the country’s most remarkable figures—from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and historians—who have built their careers and constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system. Torn between their own ambitions and the omnipresent demands of the state, each walks their own path of compromise. Some muster cunning and cynicism to extract all manner of benefits and privileges from those in power. Others, finding themselves less adept, are left broken or demoralized. What binds them together is the tangled web of dilemmas and contradictions they face. Tim Duggan Books (Jan. 2020) Territory: North America With sensitivity and depth, Yaffa profiles the director of Russia’s Editor: Tim Duggan main state television channel, an Orthodox priest at war with the Material: Finished copies church hierarchy, a Chechen humanitarian who turns a blind eye to Agent: Adam Eaglin persecutions, and many others. The result is an intimate and probing portrait of a nation that is much discussed yet little understood. Rights sold: In showing how citizens shape their lives around the demands of UK: Granta a capricious and oftentimes repressive state—as much by choice Germany: Ullstein as under threat of force—Between Two Fires offers urgent lessons Holland: Het Spectrum about the true nature of modern authoritarianism.

“A deep and revealing portrait.” —New York Times Book Review “A fascinating and nuanced account that illuminates the myriad conflicting and often contradictory forces that have shaped the Russia of today.” —The Wall Street Journal “A deeply reported account of what it’s like to live in Putin’s Russia ... Yaffa gives us insight into Putin by helping us better understand the political culture that produced him.” —NPR

Joshua Yaffa is a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker. He has been a fellow at the New America foundation, a finalist for the Livingston Award, a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, and a grantee of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. She Said Breaking the Sexual Harrasment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey

Instant New York Times bestseller Over 100,000 copies sold A New York Times Notable Book An Atlantic, Amazon, NPR, TIME, & Esquire best book of the year

From the reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and abuse, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement

On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey—and then the world changed. For months Kantor and Twohey had meticulously picked their way through a web of decades-old secret payouts and nondisclosure agreements, pressed some of the most famous women in the world—and some unknown ones—to risk going on the record, and ultimately faced down Weinstein, his team of high-priced defenders, and even his private investigators. Penguin Press (Sept 2019) Territory: North America But nothing could have prepared them for what followed the publication Editor: Ann Godoff of their Weinstein story. Over the next twelve months, hundreds of men Material: Finished copies from every walk of life and industry would be outed for mistreating Agent: Elyse Cheney their colleagues. But did too much change—or not enough? Those questions plunged the two journalists into a new phase of reporting and Rights sold: some of their most startling findings yet. UK: Bloomsbury Brazil: Companhia das Letras With superlative detail, insight, and journalistic expertise, Kantor and China: Guomai Twohey take us for the first time into the very heart of this social shift, Croatia: Profil reliving in real-time what it took to get the story and giving an up-close France: Leduc portrait of the forces that hindered and spurred change. They describe Germany: Tropen the surprising journeys of those who spoke up—for the sake of other Holland: Atlas Contact women, for future generations, and for themselves—and changed us all. Hungary: Atlantic Press Japan: Shincho-SHA Korea: HANALL M&C “An instant classic of investigative journalism ... ‘All the Poland: Poznanskie President’s Men’ for the Me Too era.”—The Washington Post Russia: EKSMO Spain: Libros del K.O. “Seamless and suspenseful.”—New York Times Book Review Sweden: Norstedts Turkey: Bilgi Yayinevi Ukraine: Yakaboo Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey are investigative reporters at the New Vietnam: Hai Ding York Times. Kantor and Twohey shared numerous honors for breaking the Harvey Weinstein story, including the George Polk Award, and, along with colleagues, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Fiction Destination Wedding A Novel Diksha Basu From the author of the international bestseller The Windfall

What could go wrong at a lavish Indian wedding with your best friend and your entire family?

When Tina Das finds herself at a crossroads both professionally and personally, she wonders if a week-long trip to Delhi for her cousin’s lavish wedding might be just the right kind of escape. Maybe a little time away from New York will help get her mind straight about her stalled career, her recent breakup, and her nagging suspicion that she’ll never feel as at home in America as she does in India. Tina hopes this destination wedding, taking place at Delhi’s poshest country club, Colebrookes, will be the perfect way to reflect and unwind.

But with the entire Das family in attendance, a relaxing vacation is decidedly not in the cards. Her amicably divorced parents are each Ballantine (June 2020) using the occasion to explore new love interests—for her mother, Territory: North America a white, American boyfriend, for her father, an Indian widow Editor: Hilary Teeman arranged by an online matchmaker—and Tina’s squarely in the Material: Galleys middle. A former fling is unexpectedly on the guest list, a work Agent: Adam Eaglin opportunity is blurring the lines of propriety on several fronts, and her best friend Marianne’s terrible penchant for international Rights sold: playboys is poised to cause all sorts of chaos back home. The UK: Bloomsbury accommodations are swanky, the alcohol is top-shelf, but this family wedding may be more drama than Tina can bear and could Option publishers: finally force her to make the choices she’s spent much of her life France: Le Mercure de France avoiding. Spain: Alianza de Novelas Infused with warmth, charm, and wicked humor, Destination Wedding grapples with the nuances of family, careers, belonging and how we find the people who make a place feel like home.

Praise for Diksha Basu’s The Windfall

“A delightful comedy of errors.” —NPR “Ultra-charming.” —Vogue

Diksha Basu is the author of The Windfall. Originally from New Delhi, India, she holds a BA in economics from Cornell University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and now divides her time between New York City and Mumbai. CrookedAge of Consent Hallelujah A Novel KelliAmanda Jo Ford Brainerd

A captivating, timeless novel about friendship, sex, and parental damage, Age of Consent intimately evokes the heady freedom of our teenage years

It’s 1983. David Bowie reigns supreme, and downtown Manhattan has never been cooler. But Justine and Eve are stuck at Griswold Academy, a Connecticut boarding school. Griswold is a far cry from Justine’s bohemian life back home, where her parents run a theater and struggle to pay the bills. Eve, the sophisticated daughter of status- obsessed Manhattan parents, also feels like an outsider. Justine longs for Eve’s privilege, and Eve for Justine’s sexual confidence. Despite their differences, they form a deep friendship, together grappling with drugs, alcohol, ill-fated crushes, and predatory male teachers.

After a tumultuous school year, Eve and Justine spend the summer in New York City where they join Eve’s childhood friend India. Justine moves into India’s downtown apartment and is pulled further into her friends’ glamorous lives. Eve, under her parents’ ever-watchful VikingGrove Atlantic (June 2020) (June 2020) eye, interns at an art gallery and navigates the unpredictable whims Territory: North America of her boss. India struggles to resist the advances of a famous artist Editor: AllisonElisabeth Lorentzen Schmidt represented by the gallery. All three are affected by their sexual Material: EditedGalleys manuscript relationships with older men and the power adults hold over them, Agent: AliceAdam Whitwham Eaglin even as the young women begin to assert their independence.

“Ford’s Crooked Hallelujah is more than just a really great title; it’s the book that’s going to be taught in creative writing “A total timeprograms machine—I for decadesloved it.”— to come”Maria —Semple,Buzzfeed New York Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette? “Kelli Jo Ford’s writing is a high priority and will only gain “Brainerdin the world’s eloquently esteem captures ... [her the work] struggles contains of her beauty teenage and charactersunexpected while simultaneously new intelligence.” providing —Richard insight Ford into their screwed up parents. Familiar, funny, and totally unforgettable.” —Molly“A modern Jong masterpiece Fast, author peopled of The Social with complex, Climber’s fully-realized Handbook characters. A huge achievement.” “A powerful,—David Treuer,wildly entertaining author of The story Heartbeat of friendship of Wounded and identity Knee ... Age of Consent is both a juicy page turner and a haunting, person portrait of an era.”—Aline Brock McKenna, screenwriter of The Devil Wears Prada and co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Amanda Brainerd lives on the upper East side of New York City, blocks from where she grew up, and attended Harvard College and Columbia Architecture School. Crooked Hallelujah A Novel Kelli Jo Ford

Winner of the 2019 Paris Review Plimpton Prize

A remarkable debut following four generations of Cherokee women across four decades of life

Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine—a mixed-blood Cherokee woman—and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma’s Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn’t easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her mother and grandmother back in Indian Country. Against the vivid backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a world—of unreliable men and near-Biblical natural forces, like wildfires and tornados—intent on stripping away their connections to one another and their very ideas of home.

In lush and empathic prose, Kelli Jo Ford depicts what four generations of proud, stubborn, Cherokee women sacrifice for those Grove Atlantic (June 2020) they love, amid larger forces of history, religion, class, and culture. Territory: North America This is a big-hearted and ambitious novel of the powerful bonds Editor: Elisabeth Schmidt between mothers and daughters by an exquisite and rare new talent. Material: Galleys Agent: Adam Eaglin

“Ford’s Crooked Hallelujah is more than just a really great title; it’s the book that’s going to be taught in creative writing programs for decades to come.” —Buzzfeed

“Kelli Jo Ford’s writing is a high priority and will only gain in the world’s esteem ... [her work] contains beauty and unexpected new intelligence.” —Richard Ford

“A modern masterpiece peopled with complex, fully realized characters. A huge achievement.” —David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

Kelli Jo Ford is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She is the recipient of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize, the Everett Southwest Literary Award, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Award at Bread Loaf, and a National Artist Fellowship by the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, among other awards. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. In the Valley Stories and a Novella Based on the New York Times Betseller Serena Ron Rash From “One of the great American authors at work today“ (New York Times) comes a collection of ten searing stories and the return of the villainess who propelled Serena to national acclaim

Ron Rash has long been a revered presence in the landscape of American letters. A virtuosic novelist, poet, and story writer, he evokes the beauty and brutality of the land, the relentless tension between past and present, and the unquenchable human desire to be a little bit better than circumstances would seem to allow (to paraphrase Faulkner).

In these ten stories, Rash spins a haunting allegory of the times we live in—rampant capitalism, the severing of ties to the natural world in the relentless hunt for profit, the destruction of body and soul with pills meant to mute our pain—and yet within this world he illuminates acts of extraordinary decency and heroism. In revisiting Serena Pemberton in a long-awaited novella, Rash updates his bestselling parable of greed run amok as his deliciously Doubleday (August 2020) vindictive heroine returns to the North Carolina wilderness she left Territory: North America scarred and desecrated to make one final effort to kill the child that Editor: Lee Boudreaux threatens all she has accomplished. Material: Edited manuscript Agent: Adam Eaglin “A gorgeous, brutal writer” (Richard Price) working at the height of his powers, Ron Rash has created another mesmerizing look at the imperfect world around us.

Praise for Ron Rash “As good as any contemporary American novelist I’ve read.” —The Wall Street Journal “A riveting storyteller.” —The Washington Post

“Rash’s spectacular stories may originate in the peculiar soil of Ap- palachia, but their reach and their rewards are vast.” —NPR’s Fresh Air

Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to six other critically acclaimed novels; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories. The Italian Teacher A Novel Tom Rachman

A masterful novel about the son of a great painter striving to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of The Imperfectionists.

Conceived while his father, Bear, cavorted around Rome in the 1950s, Pinch learns quickly that Bear's genius trumps all. After Bear abandons his family, Pinch strives to make himself worthy of his father's attention--first trying to be a painter himself; then resolving to write his father's biography; eventually settling, disillusioned, into a job as an Italian teacher in London. But when Bear dies, Pinch hatches a scheme to secure his father's legacy-- and make his own mark on the world.

With his signature humanity and humor, Tom Rachman examines a life lived in the shadow of greatness, cementing his place among his generation's most exciting literary voices.

Viking (March 2018) Territory: USA “Rachman is a brilliant choreographer of skewed desires...He Editor: Andrea Schulz has a deft way of describing atrocious behavior without damn- Material: Paperback copies ing his characters, without suggestions that they’re entirely Agent: Elyse Cheney circumscribed by their worst acts. His comedy is tempered by a kind of a gentleness that’s a salve in these mean times...Rach- Rights sold: man brings his own, warmer touch to the crime, transforming UK: riverrun it into a surprising act of defiance that’s both deliciously ironic ANZ: Text and deeply affectionate.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post Canada: Doubleday Canada Denmark: Politikens "Engaging and subtle...Rachman appears in perfect control of Germany: dtv his material...engrossing, by turns gently humorous...The Ital- Italy: La Nave de Teseo ian Teacher is a psychologically nuanced pleasure." Poland: Znak — New York Times Book Review

Tom Rachman is is the author of two novels, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers (2014), and The Imperfectionists (2010), an international bestseller that has been translated into 25 languages. Rachman studied journalism at Columbia University in New York. In 1998, he joined the Associated Press as a foreign-desk editor in New York, then became a correspondent in Rome in 2002. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Slate and The New Statesman, among other publications. He lives in London. Selected Backlist The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. A Novel Adelle Waldman The nationally bestselling debut, named a best book of 2013 by the New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, and more

Rights sold: UK (Heinemann), Brazil (Casa da Palavra), Czech Republic (XYZ), Denmark (C&K), France (Christian Bourgois; Points), Germany (Liebeskind; Piper), Holland (Nieuw Amsterdam), Italy (Einaudi), Latin America (Planeta), Portugal (Teorema), Russia (Eksmo), Taiwan (Unitas), Turkey (Yapi Kredi) Holt (2013)

Moonwalking with Einstein The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Joshua Foer An international bestseller and blockbuster phenomenon chronicling Foer’s unlikely journey from forgetful journalist to Memory Champion

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Indonesia, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam Penguin Press (2011)

Peak Secrets from the New Science of Expertise Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool A “breakthrough” (Seth Godin) and an “empowering, encouraging” (Publishers Weekly) account of how to master almost any skill from the world’s reigning expert on expertise.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Canada, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam HMH (2016) Endurance A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery Scott Kelly The national bestseller, a “captivating, charming” (New York Times Book Review) memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam Knopf (2017)

New Power How Anyone Can Persuade, Mobilize and Succeed in our Chaotic, Connected Age Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms In this bestselling,“clever, witty and creative” (The Guardian) guide to navigating the twenty-first century, two visionary thinkers reveal the unexpected ways power is changing.

Rights sold: UK (Macmillan), Brazil (Intrinseca), China (CITIC), Croatia (V.B.Z.), Czech Republic (Albatros Media), France (Plon), Germany (Siedler), Holland (Business Contact), Italy (Stile Libro), Japan (Diamond), Korea (Business Books Co.), Lithuania (Eugrimas), Russia (Alpina), Taiwan (CommonWealth Magazine), Ukraine (Family Leisure Club) Doubleday (2018)

Imagine It Forward Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change Beth Comstock From one of today's foremost innovation leaders, a personal and practical guide to masterning change in the face of relentness uncertainty.

“Comstock has written a wonderful book.”—Phil Knight, founder of Nike and New York Times bestselling author, Shoe Dog

Rights sold: UK (Ebury), China (Booky), Korea (Mirae), Russia (Alpina), Taiwan (Commonwealth), Ukraine (Yakaboo), Vietnam (TRE) Currency (2018) To Obama With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope Jeanne Marie Laskas President Barack Obama received ten thousand letters a day from his constituents. Based on a New York Times Magazine piece that Obama called “my single favorite story about my presidency,” this is the “empathetic, often poetic” (Vogue) story of the profound relationship with letter writers that shaped his presidency—and the diary of a nation.

Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), Brazil (Intrinseca), China (Beijing Xiron), France (Fayard), Germany (Goldmann), Holland (HarperCollins Random House (2018) Holland), Taiwan (Yeren)

Patriot Number One A Chinese Rebel Comes to America Lauren Hilgers Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, the New York Times critics, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews, and Longreads

Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award, Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and a 2018 Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee, this is the deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City, forging a life between two worlds. Crown (2017)

Playing Changes Jazz for the New Century Nate Chinen One of jazz's leading critics gives us an “essential [and] fascinating” (Slate) portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time.

“Brilliant. Incisive. Jazz lives on and on and on, folks.” —Sonny Rollins

Rights sold: Italy (Il Saggiatore), Spain (Alpha DeCay) Pantheon (2018) The Internationalists How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro

A “fascinating” (Financial Times) and “original” (The New Yorker) history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty treaty transformed the modern world.

Rights sold: UK (Allen Lane), China (Social Sciences Academic Press), Germany (Siedler), Italy (Neri Pozza), Japan (Bungeishunju), Spain (Tres Puntos) Simon & Schuster (2017)

Among the Living and the Dead A Tale of Exile and Homecoming Inara Verzemnieks A “thorough and eloquent...intimate and poetic” (New York Times Book Review) memoir about growing up amongst Latvian expatriates, this “important...[and] exquisitely written book shows how recovery can come generations later through rebuilding connections—to people, the natural world, the past” (Washington Post).

Rights sold: UK (One), France (Hoebeke) Norton (2017)

The Filter Bubble How the Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think Eli Pariser An eye-opening account and “powerful indictment” (Wall Street Journal) of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling and limiting the information we consume.

Rights sold: UK (Viking), Brazil (Zahar), China (Remnin Univarsity Press), Germany (Hanser), Indonesia (MAXincube), Italy (Il Saggiatore), Japan (Hayakawa), Korea (Sigongsa), Russia (Mann-Ivanov-Ferber), Spain (Taurus), Taiwan (Rive Gauche) Penguin Press (2011) The Big Game The NFL in Dangerous Times Mark Leibovich The national bestseller, serving as an “enlightening and entertaining” (Boston Globe) probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro football, at a moment of peak success and high anxiety.

“[A] wickedly entertaining journey through the NFL ... A sparkling narrative.” —The New York Times

Rights sold: UK (HarperCollins) Penguin Press (2018)

Into the Hands of Soldiers Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East David Kirkpatrick From the international correspondant of the New York Times, an “engrossing” (New York Times Book Review) narrative “that fills us with terror and pity” (The Wall Street Journal) of how and why the Arab Spring sparked, and then failed, and the truth about the West's role in that failure.

Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury) Viking (2018)

The Windfall A Novel Diksha Basu Lauded as one of the best books of 2017 by People, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Rolling Stone, and Esquire. In this “delightful” (NPR) and “fun and heartfelt” (Rolling Stone) comedy of manners, Basu's debut novel unfolds the story of a family discovering what it means to “make it” in modern India.

Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), France (Le Mercure de France), Spain (Alianza de Novelas) Crown (2017) Among the Ten Thousand Things A Novel Julia Pierpont A national bestselling debut, winner of the Scott Fitzgerald Prize, about an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and about love and time lost. Hailed as “luscious and smart” (New York Times), “astonishing” (Financial Times) and “a twisty, gripping story that packs an emotional wallop.” (O Magazine)

Rights sold: UK (Oneworld), France (Stock), Italy (Mondadori) Random House (2015)

Better Living Through Criticism How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth A. O. Scott From the chief film critic at the New York Times, an “intelligent, informed and oftenty funny account” (New York Times) of the role of the critic— and a passionate argument for criticism in everyday life.

Rights sold: UK (Jonathan Cape), Germany (Hanser), Italy (Il Saggiatore), Korea (Miraebook), Turkey (Ayrinti)

Penguin Press (2016)

Serena A Novel Ron Rash A story of greed, corruption, and revenge set against 1930s America’s emerging environmental movement. Hailed as a Best Book of the Year by many publications and as a “masterfully written” (SF Chronicle) novel that “recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy” (The New Yorker).

Rights sold: UK, ANZ, Brazil, China, Czech, Croatia, Denmark, France, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland, Portugal, Taiwan, Turkey Ecco (2008) The Captain Class A New Theory of Leadership Sam Walker From the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal's sports section comes a bold new theory of leadership drawn from the elite captains who inspired their teams to achieve extraordinary success.

Rights sold: UK (Ebury), ANZ (Penguin Australia), Czech Republic (Mlada Fronta), Hungary (Prtvonal Konykiado), Japan (Hayawaka), Korea (THE BOM), Spain (Debate), Taiwan (Souler) Random House (2017)

The New Analog Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World Damon Krukowski What John Berger did to ways of seeing, well-known indy musician Damon Krukowski does to ways of listening in this “passionate” (Los Angeles Times) and “accessible” (Pitchfork) guide to the transition from analog to digital culture.

The New Press (2017) Rights sold: UK (MIT Press), Italy (Edizioni Sur), Spain (Alpha DeCay)

Green A Novel Sam Graham-Felsen Written by a former Obama campaign staffer, a “compelling”(The New York Times Book Review) and “uassumingly ambitious” (Slate) coming-of- age story of “uncommon sweetness and feeling” (The New Yorker) about race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in America.

Rights sold: Turkey (Hep Kitap)

Random House (2018) The World As It Is A Memoir of the Obama White House Ben Rhodes A New York Times and Der Spiegel bestseller, from Barack Obama's closest aide comes a “charming and...humane” (New York Times Book Review) behind-the-scenes account of his presidency—and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive.

Rights sold: UK (Bodley Head), Arabic (Haykal), China (Modern Press), France (Editions Saint-Simon), Finland (Minerva), Germany (C.H. Beck), Holland (De Bezige Bij), Spain (Debate) Random House (2018)

Losing Earth A Recent History Nathaniel Rich The most urgent story of our times, brilliantly reframed, beautifully told. “Reading like a Greek myth” (NPR), the first book of non-fiction by acclaimed novelist Nathaniel Rich reveals the startling truth of how global warming could have been stopped three decades ago, assessing what we can do now before it's truly too late.

Rights sold: UK (Picador), France (Editions du Sous-Sol), Germany (Rowohlt), Holland (Arbeiderspers), Italy (Mondadori), Poland (Foksal) MCD (2019) Rights inquiries: [email protected]

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Native America from 1890 to the Present David Treuer

A finalist for the National Book Award, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and the LA Times Book Prize, this instant New York Times bestseller is a “sweeping, essential history” (The Economist) of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.

“Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another.” —NPR

Rights sold: UK (Corsair), France (Albin Michel) Riverhead (2019) Zealot The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth Reza Aslan A momentous work of popular scholarship and runaway bestseller, this provocative biography challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus.

Rights sold: UK, Arab Territories, ANZ/New Zealand, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Brazil, China, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey Random House (2016)

Atlas Obscura An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, & Ella Morton With over 650,000 copies in print, Atlast Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most “awe-inspiring” (Entertainment Weekly) places in the world. Rights sold: Brazil (Darkside Entretenimento), Bulgaria (East-West Publishing), China (Gingko (Beijing) Book Co.), France (Marabout), Germany (Goldmann), Holland (Terra Lannoo), Italy (Mondadori), Korea (Sam & Parker’s Co.), Poland (Sonia Draga), Romania (Editura Workman (2015) Trei, Spain (Temas de Hoy) Rights inquiries: [email protected]

Grace A Memoir Grace Coddington

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year about American Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington’s early career as a model to her rise as a prominent, endearing icon in fashion today.

Rights sold: UK (Chatto & Windus), Brazil (Record), China (Hunan Literature & Art), Finland (Nemo), Holland (Atlas-Contact), Japan (Space Showers Network), Korea (Bookie), Russia (Sindbad), Spain (Turner Libros), Taiwan (Azoth), Turkey (Sho-pigo) Random House (2012) Rights inquiries: [email protected] Excellent Sheep The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life William Deresiewicz A sharp-eyed, bestselling manifesto on what elite education should be— but isn’t—providing, and a clarion call to our brightest young minds. “Anyone who cares about American education should ponder this book,” writes the New York Times Book Review.

Rights sold: China (Sunnbook), Japan (Sanseido), Korea (Darun), Taiwan (Sun Color) HMH (2009) Rights inquiries: [email protected]

A Jane Austen Education How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter William Deresiewicz

A vindication of the women’s novel, an eloquent memoir of a young man’s life transformed by literature, and a novel-by-novel account of the life lessons that Austen has to teach us all.

Rights sold: Brazil (Rocco), China (SDX Joint Publishing), Italy (TEA), Korea (Jaeseung Book Gold Co.), Russia (Gayatri), Taiwan (Linking) Penguin Press (2011)

When in French Love in a Second Language Lauren Collins “A thoughtful, beautifully written meditation on the art of language and intimacy.” (New York Times) A “terrific” Vogue( ) memoir from the New Yorker staff writer about learning to live (and love) in French, and to discover, across history and culture, whether the languages we speak make us who we are. A New York Times bestseller and Amazon Best Book of the Month.

Rights sold: UK (4th Estate), France (Flammarion), Korea (KL) Penguin Press (2016) Ashley’s War The Untold Story Gayle Tzemach Lemmon A New York Times bestseller about the first female special forces unit in Afghanistan, and the inspiring, tragic story of its first member killed-in-action. In development as a feature with Fox 2000 and Reese Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard Gone( Girl, Wild).

Rights sold: Brazil (Rocco), Italy (Piemme), Japan (Kadokawa), Poland (Proszynski) Harper (2015)

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The true story of a fearless young woman who not only reinvented herself as an entrepreneur to save her family but, in the face of ferocious opposition, brought hope to dozens of women in war-torn Kabul.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, China (Uyghur), Germany, India (Marathi), Indonesia, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey Harper (2011)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books The Future and History of Reading Leah Price

In encounters with librarians, booksellers and activists who are reinvinting old ways of reading, this “funny and enjoyable” (New York Times) book offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike, thanks “to the daunting curiosity and dazzling acuity of the inimitable Leah Price” (Jill Lepore, author of These Truths).

Basic (2019) Rights sold: Ukraine (Yakaboo) No Easy Day The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL Mark Owen The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greek, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand Dutton (2012)

No Hero The Evolution of a Navy SEAL Mark Owen The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic, No Easy Day, by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen reveals the evolution of a SEAL Team Six operator.

Rights sold: Brazil (Paralela), China (CITIC), France (Editions du Seuil), Germany (Heyne), Holland (De Boekerij), Israel (Keter), Italy (Mondadori), Japan (Kodansha), Poland (Literackie), Sweden (Nona), Turkey (Pegasus) Dutton (2012)

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story A Life of David Foster Wallace D. T. Max The bestselling biography of the most influential American writer of his generation, named a Best Book of 2012 by The New York Times, The Guardian, The Economist, and more.

Rights sold: UK (Portobello), China (Horizon Media), France (Editions de l’Olivier), Germany (Kiepenheuer & Witsch), Italy (Stile Libero), Romania (Vellant), Spain (Debate)

Viking (2012) Indecision A Novel Benjamin Kunkel Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis in this generation-defining novel, hailed by Jay McInerney (New York Times) as “the funniest and smartest coming-of-age novel in years.”

Rights sold: UK (Picador), Brazil (Rocco), Catalan (Ediciones Proa), Croatia (Algoritam), Holland (Lebowski), France (Belfond), Germany (Berlin Verlag), Greece (Ellinika Grammata), Israel (Kinneret), Italy (Rizzoli), Norway (Bazar), Poland (Muza), Russia (AST), Spain (Destino) Random House (2005)

Diane Arbus Portrait of a Photographer Arthur Lubow

The “defining biography” (Publishers Weekly) of one of the most influential and beguiling photographers of the twentieth century. “Enormously satisfying” (Boston Globe) and “superbly crafted” (Washington Post).

Rights sold: UK (Jonathan Cape), China (China Nationality Art Photograph Publishing House) Random House (2015)

Prudence A Novel David Treuer

A “masterful” (Los Angeles Times) novel about love, loss, race and desire in World War II-era America, charting the reverberations of a shocking act of violence at a rustic Minnesota resort. Hailed by Toni Morrison as “wondrous and mesmerizing,” and “tender and devastating” by Anthony Marra in the Washington Post.

Rights sold: France (Albin Michel)

Riverhead (2015) Doing Justice A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law Preet Bharara A New York Times bestseller in the spirit of The Secret Barrister and Michael Sandel’s bestselling Justice, Doing Justice makes a vital and “page-turning” (Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)) case for why the rule of law is essential, and shows the thought process we need to best achieve truth, fairness, and justice in our daily lives and within our society.

Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), China (Booky), India (Bloomsbury India) Knopf (2019) Japan (Hayakawa), Korea (Next Wave), Taiwan (Yuan-Liou)

Self-Portrait in Black and White Unlearning Race Thomas Chatterton Williams An “elegant and sharp-eyed” (The Washington Post) meditation on race and identity from one ouf our most provocative cultural critics.

“[Williams] is so honest and fresh in his observations, so skillful at blending his own story with larger principles, that it is hard not to admire him.”—New York Times Book Review

Rights sold: UK (John Murray), France (Grasset) Norton (2019)

Belonging A German Reckons with Home and History Nora Krug Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Der Spiegel Bestseller, this “ingenious reckoning with the past” (The New York Times) by Victoria & Albert Museum's 2019 Illustrator of the Year Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family's wartime history in Nazi Germany.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Ukraine Scribner (2018) The Future is History How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Masha Gessen Winner of the 2017 National Book Award, the Leipzig Book Prize, the Hitchens Prize, and the Diario Madrid Journalism Prize

Named a Best Book of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, and Pop Sugar

Rights sold: UK, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Riverhead (2017) Poland, Sweden, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey

The Brothers The Road to an American Tragedy Masha Gessen A Time Best Book of the Year, The Brothers is the definitive account of the events that led the Tsarnaev Brothers to perpetrate the Boston marathon bombing. “A gripping narrative and a stunning piece of investigative journalism” (Christian Science Monitor), called “reminiscent of Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower” (Los Angeles Times).

Rights sold: UK (Scribe), Italy (Carbonio) Riverhead (2015)

Words Will Break Cement The Passion of Pussy Riot Masha Gessen

In the “fullest account so far of the Pussy Riot story” (Los Angeles Times), Gessen's “urgent”(The New York Times) and “remarkable” (The New Yorker) book reconstructs how this punk protest group resurrectd the power of truth in a society built on lies.

Rights sold: UK (Granta), Brazil (Martins Fontes), France (Globe), Holland (Ambos Anthos), Hungary (Athenaeum Kiado), Norway Riverhead (2014) (Gyldendal Norsk), Poland (Proszynski), Sweden (Brombergs) The Man Without A Face The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin Masha Gessen The bestselling investigative account of how a low-level KGB operative became the most powerful man in Russia. A Slate and San Francisco Chronicle best book of the year.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey Riverhead (2012)

Perfect Rigor A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century Masha Gessen The “fascinating, moving” (Tom Stoppard) story of mathematics' most reclusive genius.

Rights sold: UK (Icon Books), China (Beijing Canglang), France (Globe), Germany (Suhrkamp), Greece (Travlos), Israel (Books in the Attic), Italy (Carbonio), Japan (Bungeishunju), Russia (Corpus), Serbia (JP Sluzbeni), Taiwan (Faces Publishing Ltd.), Vietnam (Tre Publishing) Harcourt (2009)

Ester and Ruzya How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace Masha Gessen In this “extraordinary family memoir” (The New York Times Book Review), Gessen reveals the story of their two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism during a time when tyranny reigned.

Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), Russia (AST), Sweden (Brombergs)

Dial Press (2001) God A Human History Reza Aslan A national bestselller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, exploring humanity's quest to make sense of the divine.

Rights sold: UK, Azerbaikan, Brazil, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey

Rights inquiries: [email protected] Random House (2017)

No god but God The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam Reza Aslan A “literate, accessible introduction to Islam” (New York Times), from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Zealot.

Rights sold: UK, Holland, Germany, Korea, Denmark, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Greece, France, China, Turkey, Italy, Poland, Spain, Arab Territories, Lithuania

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Beyond Fundamentalism Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization Reza Aslan “A very persuasive argument for the best way to counter jihadism” (Washington Post) and an analysis of the war on terror in a post-9/11 world.

Rights sold: UK (Heinemann), Japan (Fujiwara Shoten), Spain (Urano)

Rights inquiries: [email protected] Random House (2009) Number One Chinese Restaurant A Novel Lillian Li Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, this “crackling debut” (Entertainment Weekly) centers on the family-owned Beinjing Duck House, and the waiters and kitchen staff who have been living within its walls for decades. A “funny and heartbreaking” (The Wall Street Journal) story about youth and aging, parents and children, and all the ways that our families destroy us while also keeping us grounded and alive.

Rights sold: UK (One) Henry Holt (2018)

Only To Sleep A Philip Marlowe Novel Lawrence Osborne

A New York Times Notable Book of 2018, and a finalist for the Edgar and Shamus awards, commissioned by the estate of Raymond Chandler, Only to Sleep “crackles” (New York Times Book Review) and “hangs with you like a scar” (NPR) as it brings Private Investigator Philip Marlowe back for one last adventure.

Rights sold: UK (Hogarth), Japan (Hayakawa), Spain (Navona) Hogarth (2018)