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WE'RE GONNA NEED MORE WINE

By Gabrielle Union

US publisher: Dey Street / HarperCollins (NA rights) To publish: October 2017

Material available: Final PDF available

In the spirit of Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, Lena Dunham’s Not

That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty,

Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman.

One month before the release of the highly anticipated film Birth of a Nation, actress Gabrielle Union shook the world with a vulnerable and impassioned editorial in which she urged our society to have compassion for victims of sexual violence. In the wake of rape allegations made against director and actor Nate Parker, Union—a Gabrielle Union is an actress who has appeared in such films as Bring It forty-four-year-old actress who launched her career with roles in iconic On, Think Like a Man and The Birth of a Nation. ’90s movies—instantly became the insightful, outspoken actress that Hollywood has been desperately awaiting. With honesty and heartbreaking wisdom, she revealed her own trauma as a victim of sexual assault: "It is for you that I am speaking. This is real. We are Praise for WE’RE GONNA NEED MORE WINE: real." “The predilection to go from talking about the latest humiliating sexual In this moving collection of thought-provoking essays infused with her position to a debate on politics or racism, that’s exactly what this book unique wisdom and deep humor, Union uses that same fearlessness to felt like to me, an honest conversation with Gabrielle about her life.” tell astonishingly personal and true stories about power, color, gender, – Chelsea Handler, #1 New York Times bestselling author of feminism, and fame. Union tackles a range of experiences, including Uganda Be Kidding Me bullying, beauty standards, and competition between women in Hollywood, growing up in white California suburbia and then spending “I love this woman and her book.” – Mindy Kaling, #1 New York summers with her black relatives in Nebraska, coping with crushes, Times bestselling author of Why Not Me? puberty, and the divorce of her parents. Genuine and perceptive, Union bravely lays herself bare, uncovering a complex and courageous life of “A hilarious and moving memoir from a natural storyteller… self-doubt and self-discovery with incredible poise and brutal honesty. heartbreakingly honest and laugh-out-loud funny.” — Brit Bennett, New York Times bestselling author of The Mothers

THE FOX HUNT YOU’RE ON AN AIRPLANE Escape from Yemen By Parker Posey By Mohammed al Samawi

US publisher: Blue Rider Press / Penguin (NA rights) US publisher: William Morrow/HarperCollins (NA rights) To publish: June 2018 To publish: April 2018

Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in December 2017 Edited MS available in January 2018

Japanese subagent: The English Agency Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Virago/Little, Brown UK)

Rights sold: Brazil (HarperCollins Brazil) Germany (Edel) From the "Queen of the Indies" Parker Posey comes an irreverent, Holland (HarperCollins Holland) hilarious, and enchanting memoir full of personal stories, Italy (HarperCollins Italy) whimsical how-tos, recipes, and eccentric illustrations. Poland (Czarna Owca) Turkey (Epsilon) Parker Posey is a singularly gifted actress with a wickedly funny UK (Scribe) personality that belies her movie star status, her cross-generational fame stems from starring roles in such unforgettable movies as Dazed THE FOX HUNT is a profound story of personal transformation and Confused, Party Girl, and You've Got Mail. set against a high-stakes, page-turning thriller. With remarkable candor and a refreshing perspective on life in the Four Millennials stare at their iPhones. They’ve been glued to Facebook, spotlight, Posey opens up about the art of acting, life on the set, and Twitter, WhatsApp, and Skype for the past six hours. But they’re not the realities of its accompanying fame. She explores her relationships posting vacation photos, watching cat videos, or typing up 140-character with brilliant directors like Christopher Guest and Woody Allen. A reviews of local brunch spots. They’re orchestrating a daredevil rescue funny and authentic childhood set Posey up for a life of creating and operation that’s taking place halfway across the world. Within thirty entertaining, which not only extends to acting but to the crafts of minutes, they’ll learn if they’ve saved the life of a young Muslim-Yemeni pottery, sewing, collage, yoga, and cooking, all of which readers will peace-activist—the author, Mohammed al Samawi—or if he’s been shot find in this highly entertaining book. by Al Qaeda operatives. For fans of Nora Ephron's spot-on commentary, Jenny Lawson's And so Mohammed puts his one shot at freedom in the hands of a absurdly comical foibles, Amy Sedaris's unexpectedly hilarious quips, ragtag group of Facebook friends he barely knows. Near-strangers to and Carrie Brownstein's cool-girl appeal, YOU’RE ON AN one another, with exactly zero experience in extraction or military AIRPLANE proves Posey has a voice that will enchant fans and strategy, the team of four turns to the only tool or tactic they have: social newcomers alike. media. Parker Posey recently appeared in Woody Allen's latest two films, Café Mohammed al Samawi works for the International Center for Religion Society and Irrational Man. She is currently playing Dr. Smith in Netflix's and Diplomacy as a Regional Project Coordinator. THE FOX HUNT is remake of Lost in Space. his first book.

THE NEUROSCIENTIST WHO LOST HER MIND the doctors discovered what was going on, they removed the tumors and My Tale of Madness and Recovery Dr. Lipska returned to complete normality. With one difference: she remembers everything that happened with absolute clarity, and now, the neuroscientists and expert on mental illness has experienced what it is By Dr. Barbara Lipska & Elaine McArdle actually like to be insane.

US publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (North American rights) THE NEUROSCIENTIST WHO LOST HER MIND will give To publish: April 2018 readers a profoundly new understanding into the physiological basis of mental illness and dementia, affording them a greater sympathy for those Material available: Proposal available battling mental illness. Edited MS available in Fall 2017 Dr. Barbara Lipska is the director of the human brain bank at the Japanese subagent: Tuttle Mori Agency National Institute of Mental Health. Her primary research interests are in mental illness and human brain development. She is an internationally Rights sold: Brazil (Sextante) recognized leader in human postmortem research and animal modeling France (Lattes) of schizophrenia. Germany (Heyne) Korea (Prunsoop) Elaine McArdle is an award-winning journalist, lawyer with a degree Poland (Agora) from Vanderbilt Law School, who for twenty years has been writing for Romania (Trei) newspapers and magazines, including The Boston Globe, Boston magazine, Spain (Planeta) and many others. Her previous co-writing credits include The Migraine Turkey (Paloma) Brain. UK/Commonwealth (Transworld)

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

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

Lipska was diagnosed with melanoma in January of 2015, a devastating piece of news as this disease had killed her first husband, whom she had lived with in their native Poland. In the summer of 2015, the melanoma spread to her brain, causing small tumors to form. As a result, she literally lost her mind—she went through a 60-day period of temporary madness, exhibiting paranoia and schizophrenia-like symptoms. Once

CAN’T HELP MYSELF THE GLASS OF FASHION Lessons and Confessions from a Modern Advice A Lifetime of Lessons in Style Columnist By Hamish Bowles By Meredith Goldstein US publisher: Knopf (North American rights) US publisher: Grand Central / Hachette (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 To publish: April 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2018 Material available: Edited MS available Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Little, Brown UK) A disarmingly honest memoir about giving advice when you’re not sure what you’re doing yourself, by the woman behind The Boston Mixing encyclopedic knowledge and boundless curiosity, Hamish Globe‘s Love Letters column. Bowles brings us into a world where fashion, style, and history collide. Every day, Boston Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein takes on the relationship problems of thousands of dedicated readers. They look to Hamish Bowles began his storied fashion career by creating a makeshift her for wisdom on all matters of the heart- how to cope with dating fontange at age four. He then won a British Vogue talent contest at age fatigue and infidelity, work romances, tired marriages, true love, and true fourteen, and went on to become the youngest fashion director ever at loss. In her column, she has it all figured out, but in her real life she is a Harpers & Queen at age twenty-two. Now International Editor at Large lot less certain. Whether it’s her own reservations about the traditional at Vogue, THE GLASS OF FASHION is Hamish’s collection of the path of marriage and family, her difficulty finding someone she truly equivalent of four PhDs in fashion, interior design, decorative arts, and connects with, or the evolution of her friendships as her friends start to architecture. have their own families, Meredith finds herself looking for insight, just like her readers. As she searches for responses to their concerns, she’s surprised to discover answers to her own. But it’s after her mother is In THE GLASS OF FASHION, Hamish will take the reader on an diagnosed with cancer that she truly realizes how special her Love international journey narrated through a pastiche of people, places, Letters community is, how this column has enriched her life as much, if personal moments, and professional opinion. Wielding his erudite, yet not more than, it has for its readers. playful writing, Hamish keenly explores the spaces between style, fashion, and culture. Not just for fashion insiders, this is a book aimed for the culturally curious, creatively ambitious, and style obsessed—from a man CAN’T HELP MYSELF is the extraordinary (and often hilarious) story who has learned from the most significant tastemakers of the last several of a single woman navigating her mercurial love life, and moving and decades. poignant portrait of an amazing community of big-hearted, love-seeking allies. Hamish Bowles has been the editor-at-large for Vogue since 1995.

Meredith Goldstein is the author of the novel, The Singles. She has been working for The Boston Globe for thirteen years where she now serves as the paper’s beloved entertainment reporter and its widely-read national columnist.

THIS REALLY HAPPENED HOUSE OF STICKS A Memoir A Memoir

By Isaac Mizrahi By Ly Tran

US publisher: Scribner (North American rights) US publisher: Flatiron Books (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 To publish: Fall 2018

Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in April 2018 Edited MS available in April 2018 Ly Tran recounts an extraordinarily powerful story about the A memoir from the multitalented and omnipresent Isaac Mizrahi, immigrant experience that evokes The Glass Castle. a household name in the fashion world for over two decades. Ly Tran and her three brothers were born in the Mekong Delta Famed fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi’s memoir THIS REALLY region of Vietnam. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Ly and her family HAPPENED weaves together recollections, pronouncements, emigrated to New York City. They arrived in February 1993, leaving opinion, and anecdotes that at once entertain and enlighten. rice paddies, mango trees, and a hut for a towering building in Brooklyn. Ly had her first job in America at the age of four, doing From Isaac’s tortuous childhood in an Orthodox community of sweatshop labor at home with her family. In time, she and her mother Brooklyn to his adolescence spent on the dance floor at Studio 54, his eventually opened up their own nail salon. time at Parsons School of Design to the heady 1990s, when his friends and muses, supermodels such as Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, and It was during Ly's time working in the nail salon that she began to Naomi Campbell ruled the runway, Isaac tells the story of coming into understand her own past. On days when it was just Ly and her mother, his own and becoming a fashion celebrity, all with his beloved wit and they would practice on fake nails as she relayed stories about Ly's voice. brothers in Vietnam before she was born, how she swam across the Mekong to avoid a lurking matchmaker, or how Ly's grandmother was Isaac Mizrahi is an American fashion designer, TV presenter, and sold to a Cambodian family in exchange for three pigs. creative director of Xcel Brands. He is best known for his eponymous fashion lines. HOUSE OF STICKS is in part about poverty and getting by, and hope. As Ly takes us through her journey as a young immigrant, the obstacles she faced as a female in her family and in Brooklyn, she reveals the mechanisms by which she shielded herself against her harsh reality, and the faith that carried her through.

Ly Tran graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Creative Writing and Linguistics. She is a recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and an Arts Omi residence.

DID I DO GOOD? LIFE IN THEORY

By Owen Benjamin By Toph Eggers

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

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

Up-and-coming comedian Owen Benjamin’s DID I DO GOOD? Japanese subagent: Tuttle Mori Agency will appeal to readers of Aziz Ansari’s Modern Love and Amy Schumer’s The Girl with the Lower-Back Tattoo! Rights sold: Germany (Piper) Holland (Signatuur / Bruna) Owen Benjamin is your everyman. He’s good at following directions, Italy (Giunti) enjoys putting his body and mind through unnecessary pain, and loves UK / Commonwealth (Oneworld) naps and high fives. He’s aggressive and determined, and if he’d been brought up in a different setting he’d probably be working in a lumber Toph Eggers, the younger brother of Dave Eggers who was yard moving heavy things or playing third string tight end in the prominently featured in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Canadian Football league. Genius, is now thirty-three years old. LIFE IN THEORY is his candid memoir of the surreal trajectory of his life and the toll of In other words, Owen’s not a PhD or a personal relations counselor; being defined by a persona he did not create. he’s a guy like any other guy—just a hell of a lot funnier. In DID I DO GOOD? he’ll use wit and historical evidence to take on the big, age-old The publication of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Toph’s questions: Why do men with caring girlfriends think their single lives older brother Dave had profound consequences Toph could not have would look like AXE Bodyspray commercials? Why do women fantasize foreseen. It was required reading for his freshman class at college, about Ted Bundy types and not the nice guy at H&R Block? And, why students came to interview him “for extra credit.” A girlfriend broke it doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle? off with him on the advice of her therapist. What followed is the trajectory of a vulnerable young man who increasingly steeled himself DID I DO GOOD? will be as practical and constructive as Aziz against any pain. Ansari’s Modern Love; as weird and sincere as Rob Delaney’s Rob Delaney; as sensitive as Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me; as personal as Justin In many ways, LIFE IN THEORY fills a gap in the world of Halpern’s I Suck At Girls; and as manly as Nick Offerman’s Paddle Your memoirs. Toph’s memoir reaches out to the fans of those book with a Own Canoe. candor rarely found in memoirs by men.

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

THE PRIEST, THEY CALLED HIM THE WIDOWER’S NOTEBOOK William S. Burroughs & the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll By Jonathan Santlofer By Casey Rae US publisher: Penguin Books (North American rights) US publisher: University of Texas Press (NA rights) To publish: Fall 2018 To publish: Fall 2018 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in June 2018 Edited MS available in June 2018 An exquisite account of the tragic sudden death of his wife Joy and THE PRIEST, THEY CALLED HIM is poised to be the its wrenching aftermath, THE WIDOWER’S NOTEBOOK offers definitive biography of a Beat-era legend, whose legacy carries a page-turning chronicle of the author’s profound loss and an into present-day rock music. unprecedented portrait of the male psyche.

William S. Burroughs is well known as a pivotal writer of the beat Rendered in evocative novelistic prose, the book opens on a hot humid generation, but his lasting and critical influence on rock music and its summer’s day when author Jonathan Santlofer discovers his wife Joy formative musicians is a story that hasn’t been told. Burroughs altered gasping for breath on their living room couch. He captures his frenzied the destinies of an astounding array of musicians in the latter half of 911 call, the EMT’s heroic efforts to save Joy’s life on the floor of their the 20th century—such as Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Patti apartment and in the ambulance racing across Manhattan, and his Smith, and Kurt Cobain, among many others—and Casey Rae has ominous Kafka-esque hours pacing Bellevue’s ER waiting room before outlined a compelling case for Burroughs’ powerful impression on a laconic internist informs him that Joy would never return home again. rock music, which will be supported by interviews, research, and That night, Jonathan leaves the hospital with a small slip of paper on original reporting. which he had scribbled the name of the doctor who would be performing an autopsy on Joy’s corpse. Casey Rae has written op-eds for Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Billboard, and The Hill, among other publications, and has appeared on THE WIDOWER’S NOTEBOOK is a masterful portrait of a NPR, CNBC, Bloomberg News, and SiriusXM. He teaches courses on marriage, of the untethered freedoms and complexities of finding music at Georgetown University and Berklee College of Music in oneself single again, and of the unique ways in which men grieve, heal, Boston. He’s a sought-after speaker who’s given talks at SXSW, and strive to move past trauma. It stands to emerge as a major work of Consumer Electronics Showcase, CMJ, Aspen Institute, and on the narrative nonfiction, a book that does for the grieving male soul what university circuit at Harvard University and Harvard Law School, Andrew Solomon’s Noonday Demon did for depression, or what Caroline Columbia University, NYU and NYU Law, University of California, Knapp’s Drinking: A Love Story did for alcoholism. Berkeley Law School, McGill University, University of Toronto, and many other institutions. Jonathan Santlofer is the previous author of five novels: The Death Artist, Color Blind, The Killing Art, The Murder Notebook, and Anatomy of Fear. THE WIDOWER’S NOTEBOOK is his first work of nonfiction.

AUGUST WILSON I REGRET I AM ABLE TO ATTEND The Kiln in Which He Was Fired By Jessica Craig-Martin By Patti Hartigan US publisher: Spiegel & Grau (World English rights)

US publisher: 37 Ink / Simon & Schuster (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019

To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available

Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Famed photographer Jessica Craig-Martin chronicled New York The first and fully authorized biography of August Wilson by City’s society gatherings (uptown and downtown) for fifteen years. veteran theater critic, Patti Hartigan, who has covered August Like Marilyn Minter, Lauren Greenfield, and Nan Goldin, Jessica Wilson for three decades. has used her lens to burst the bubbles of fashion, wealth, and social status. Playwright August Wilson’s story begins with his birth in a two- room tenement in Pittsburgh. Wilson’s mother, Daisy, a daughter of A stealth, gimlet-eyed sociologist masquerading as a party photographer sharecroppers, was a spirited and disciplined mother who made whose work appears in the permanent collections of The Guggenheim, time to play dodgeball and baseball with her children. Wilson’s The Whitney, The New Museum, The Saatchi Collection, among others, father, German-born, left the family when he was a young Jessica’s visual talent for observing and documenting human behavior boy. These two themes of abandonment and a loving, but strict and society is matched equally by her talents as a writer. In her memoir, mother play out in Wilson’s life and art. she turns the lens on herself, and recounts a latchkey bohemian childhood in the 1970s as the precocious offspring of two free spirited Jazz saved him and by the time he was 37, Wilson was accepted by artists (her father is the acclaimed painter Sir Michael Craig Martin). Her the National Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater account of growing up between London and New York’s Soho is a vivid Center. Soon, his plays were produced on Broadway and he was social and cultural history of 70s and 80s bohemia. receiving Pulitzers and Tonys. Most important, Wilson changed American theater and culture. He set out to write a series of plays She offers a snapshot of a now almost mythic moment in New York City chronicling the experience of African Americans in the 20th history that she witnessed almost by accident, from selling seafood to Century, and his American Century Cycle is the true attempt at an Jean Michel Basquiat in the early days of Dean & Deluca to working for American epic in the vein of Homer, Virgil, and Dante. It is an Anna Wintour as an assistant at British Vogue. Her social satire follows in unprecedented achievement. But demons bubbled underneath this the footsteps of Nora Ephron and Fran Liebowitz, barbed yet deeply achievement. Hartigan tells a fascinating, complicated, page-turning human; this is the story of a clever yet self-doubting young woman trying biography of extravagant success, internal vulnerability and an to find her place in the world with little adult instruction or supervision. ability to grow. Jessica Craig-Martin is a photographer whose work appears in Patti Hartigan was a fellow at the Pew Charitable Trust National permanent collections. Her photography has appeared in Vogue, New Arts Journalism Program and won the Paul Tobenkin Award from York, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. Columbia University’s School of Journalism.

LAUGH LINES UNTITLED MEMOIR Forty Years of Making Funny People Funnier By Barry Sonnenfeld

By Alan Zweibel US publisher: Hachette Books (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2020 US publisher: Abrams (World English rights) To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in January 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 In the style of David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day comes famed film and television director Barry Sonnenfeld’s hilarious, On the strength of that one joke, Lorne Michaels brought 25-year- wacky memoir, which also broadens out from Barry’s upbringing as old Alan Zweibel on to the inaugural comedy writing staff the smothered only-child of neurotic, oppressive Jewish parents in of Saturday Night Live in 1975, a TV show that not only changed the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, to recount his the course of comedy history, but also launched Alan’s stratospheric singular experiences with many of the most famous people in the comedy writing career that has lasted for more than forty years. world.

In LAUGH LINES: FORTY YEARS OF MAKING FUNNY The basic narrative arc will take Barry from childhood (which is PEOPLE FUNNIER, Zweibel takes the reader on a tour of the cultural reminiscent of something out of a Woody Allen movie) and into early history of the past forty years of comedy and, in particular, comedy adulthood in Manhattan of the ‘60s and ‘70s—up to the afternoon in writing, using his personal experience as someone who had to endlessly 1982 on which he had his first inkling of success: the debut (with Joel and twist, tweak, and contort himself to not only understand what comedy Ethan Coen) of Blood Simple at the New York Film Festival. audiences were looking for, but to always be on the cutting edge. But his stories also take you places you don’t necessarily expect to go, Appealing to fans of Judd Apatow’s Sick in the Head and Billy and that is the key to their entertainment value and their power. It’s Crystal’s Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going and Where the Barry’s (sometime lengthy) asides—apparent tangents from the main Hell Are My Keys?, Zweibel’s hilarious trip down comedy memory lane story line—in which both comic delights and the surprising emotional demystifies the life of a working comedy writer (explaining the day-to- depths of his story are found. day in writer’s rooms, for example) not just through his own experience, Barry’s storytelling ability arises from both the unusual life he’s lived and but also through detailed interviews with such friends and legends as his irrepressible perspective on it. And the breadth of his experience of Carl Reiner, Larry David, Billy Crystal, Judd Apatow, and others. Hollywood is reminiscent of the memoirs of many of the titans of the entertainment industry. Alan Zweibel is a TV writer, playwright, bestselling author, and an original Saturday Night Live writer. He has won multiple Emmy, Writers Barry Sonnenfeld is a film and television director. Among his film Guild of America, and TV Critics awards as well as the Writers Guild credits are the three Men in Black movies; the two Addams Family movies; East Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in television and the and Get Shorty. For television he has directed and produced Pushing Daisies stage, which includes It’s The Garry Shandling Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and A Series of Unfortunate Events, among many others. and 700 Sundays with Billy Crystal.

THIS IS BIG

By Marisa Meltzer

US publisher: Little, Brown (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2020

Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019

Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Chatto & Windus)

THIS IS BIG is a charming and candid reported homage—in the style of Julie and Julia—about fashion and beauty journalist Marisa Meltzer's obsession with the late, legendary Jean Nidetch, the overweight housewife from Queens, NY who in 1963 founded what would become a billion-dollar international wellness empire: Weight Watchers.

Before Oprah, Martha, and Gwyneth there was Jean Nidetch. With the founding of Weight Watchers, Jean became one of the most influential and consequential figures of the 20th century, helping to open a Pandora's Box of possibilities and expectations for women's bodies that still reverberate today.

THIS IS BIG will tell Jean Nidetch's unlikely, thrilling Cinderella story, from her modest childhood in Queens, NY to her dizzying heights of fame in Hollywood and Vegas, to her twilight years in a retirement home in Florida. The biography will also follow Marisa Meltzer, an accomplished and clear-eyed but still hopeful journalist, through one year of Weight Watchers in the heart of New York City. She's the same age as Jean was when her life radically changed—39. Marisa hopes her life and body will change, too. She will be unstintingly honest about it all, in the spirit of Lindy West’s Shrill.

Marisa Meltzer is a columnist for The New York Times Styles section and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, among others. She is the author of Girl Power: Feminism, Music, and Marketing in the Nineties.

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AGELESS SOUL The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning & Joy

By Thomas Moore

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

Material available: Final PDF available

Rights sold: China (Zhengqing) Holland (AnkhHermes) Japan (Kosmos) Korea (SoSo) Latin American Spanish (Oceano) Poland (Czarna Owca) UK/Commonwealth (Simon & Schuster UK)

AGELESS SOUL will teach readers how to embrace the richness of Thomas Moore is the New York Times bestselling author of Care of the experience and how to take life on, accept invitations to new Soul, as well as many other books on deepening soul and cultivating a vitality, and feel fulfilled as they get older. mature spiritual life.

Thomas Moore is the renowned author of Care of the Soul, the classic #1 Praise for AGELESS SOUL New York Times bestseller. In AGELESS SOUL, Moore reveals a fresh, optimistic, and rewarding path toward aging, one that need not be “After reading this beautifully and eloquently written book, getting older feared, but rather embraced and cherished. In Moore’s view, aging is the seems much more like a blessing than a curse!" – Dr. Rudolph E. process by which one becomes a more distinctive, complex, fulfilled, Tanzi, New York Times bestselling author of Super Brain and loving, and connected person. Super Genes Using examples from his practice as a psychotherapist and teacher who lectures widely on the soul of medicine and spirituality, Moore argues for “Destined to become a classic, AGELESS SOUL illuminates one of life's a new vision of aging: as a dramatic series of initiations, rather than a most enduring mysteries: ‘Why―and how―do we grow old?” diminishing experience, one that each of us has the tools—experience, – Pythia Peay, author of American Icarus: A Memoir of Father and maturity, fulfillment—to live out. Family

CLOSE TO OM

By Andrea Marcum

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

Material available: Final PDF available

Not assigned in Japan

CLOSE TO OM is a beautifully illustrated, practical and philosophical, yoga book that promotes and teaches mindfulness in both your yoga practice and your everyday life.

Before Marcum was a sought-after celebrity yoga teacher, she was someone who thought she couldn’t do yoga because she couldn’t be still. Now after sixteen years of teaching yoga, she works with network executives, global brands, Hollywood actresses, and everyone in between.

Yoga is the yoke of body, mind, and spirit, and in Close to Om, Marcum offers a guide to teach all three aspects of yoga showcasing Marcum’s Praise for CLOSE TO OM: signature unique style, this program combines the teaching of poses with the exploration of yoga philosophy and insight into meditation and “The raw humility and positive energy of Marcum’s perspective radiate mindfulness. off each page―what a great addition to the Modern Yoga canon!” – Jessamyn Stanley, author of EveryBody Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get By the end of Close to Om, readers will not only know a lot about yoga on The Mat, Love Your Body and its poses, but they’ll also know more about themselves: who they are, what they want, and how to get there—on and off their mat. The “Andrea’s combination of a challenging class, and a great sense of progression in Close to Om is the architecture of every yoga practice—and humor are unique, intelligent, and always leave me feeling better when I will show readers that how they do their yoga is how they do their life. leave than when I arrived. She is an amazing teacher and I love her class.” – Heather Graham Andrea Marcum has been teaching yoga in LA for sixteen years. She teaches at Yogaworks locally and at major events including Wanderlust “Reading through Close to Om is a light, and airy foray into yoga. Andrea festivals, as well as leading corporate and private retreats all over the Marcum presents yoga as a serious, but fun and doable practice, with lots world. Among her celebrity clients are actresses Heather Graham and of good tips for practice—both on and off the mat.” – Beryl Bender Jennifer Jason Leigh, directors Noah Baumbach and Mark Pellington, Birch, bestselling author of Power Yoga and Director/Founder of and Oprah’s The Life You Want Tour celebrity life coach Angela Davis. The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute

STRENGTH IN STILLNESS The Power of Transcendental Meditation

By Bob Roth

US publisher: Simon & Schuster (North American rights)

To publish: February 2018

Material available: Edited MS available

Rights sold: Brazil (GMT Editions) Czech Republic (Euromedia) Germany (Kamphausen) Holland (Kosmos) Italy (Giunti) Korea (Human Comedy) Poland (Illuminatio) Portugal (Penguin Random House Portugal) Romania (Grup Media Litera) Spain (Aguilar/Penguin Random House Spain) Taiwan (Fine Press) UK/Commonwealth (Simon & Schuster UK) reduce stress, access inner power, and build resilience. Free of gimmicks, mystical verbiage, and over-inflated research studies, Strength in Stillness A simple, practical, and straightforward guide to meditation from is a simple and straightforward guide to calming mind, body, and spirit. Bob Roth, a world authority on Transcendental Meditation who has spent forty-five years helping people access their innate Since learning to teach Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi creativity and power with TM, having personally taught students Mahesh Yogi as a young skeptic, Bob Roth has been dedicated to ranging from Fortune 100 CEOs to Oprah Winfrey, from war- spreading the life-changing technique. He maintains 50 engagements scarred veterans to inner-city youth. yearly, at venues up to 3,000 attendees. He donates all his speaking fees to the David Lynch Foundation’s work with military veterans with PTSD In STRENGTH IN STILLNESS, Roth breaks down the science and their families. behind meditation in a new, accessible way. He highlights the three distinct types of meditation—focused attention, open monitoring, and Bob Roth is one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation self-transcending—and showcases the evidence that the third, teachers in the world. For nearly five decades, he has helped bring Transcendental Meditation, is the most effective and efficient way to Transcendental Meditation to millions of people around the world. Some of his noteworthy clients include Oprah Winfrey, Jerry Seinfeld, Paul McCartney, Katie Couric and Ellen DeGeneres. Bob is Co-Founder of the David Lynch Foundation, a charity whose mission is to bring meditation to those in need.

A LIFE LESS THROWAWAY The Lost Art of Buying for Life

By Tara Button

To publish: February 2018 Material available: Final PDF available

Rights sold: UK / Commonwealth (HarperCollins UK)

Now more than ever, we live in a society where we covet new and shiny things. Not only has consumption risen dramatically over the last 60 years, but we are damaging the environment at the same time. That is why buying quality and why Tara Button's BUY ME ONCE brand has such popular appeal.

Tara Button has become a champion of a lifestyle called 'mindful curation'—a way of living in which we carefully choose each object in our lives, making sure we have the best. most classic, most pleasing and longest lasting—kettles, desks, pots & pans, scissors, coats and dresses instead of surrounding ourselves with throwaway stuff and appliances with built-in obsolescence, Tara advocates a life that celebrates what lasts, what is classic and what really suits a person. There are 10 steps to master mindful curation and each is explained in the book from Praise for A LIFE LESS THROWAWAY: understanding and using techniques to free yourself from external manipulations. “Brilliant idea.” – Caitlin Moran, bestselling author and journalist Finding your purpose and priorities and identifying your core tastes and style. Learning how to let go of the superfluous and how to make wise “High quality gear you only have to buy once in your life.” choices going forwards. – Sarah Wilson, author of I Quit Sugar

Mindful curation is a lifestyle choice that will make you happier, healthier “I love the idea behind Buy Me Once.” and more fulfilled spiritual as well as helping save the planet. – Ashton Kutcher, actor and activist

Tara Button is founder and CEO of BuyMeOnce.com.

BLOOM AGILE AND ADAPTIVE Hitting Your Stride at Any Age or Stage Making Wise Decisions during Stress, Uncertainty, and Change

By Rich Karlgaard By Elizabeth Stanley

US publisher: Crown Business (North American rights) US publisher: Avery/Penguin (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 To publish: Spring 2019

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

Japanese subagent: The English Agency Rights sold: China (CITIC)

Rights sold: China (Beijing Mediatimes) Our biological wiring is the same as it was 200,000 years ago, when we Korea (Korean Economic Daily) were cavemen (and cavewomen) and our daily decisions had to do with, Taiwan (Prophet Press) for example, which animals we could kill vs. which animals could kill us. Back then, we responded to stress with a brief surge of adrenaline, focus, Business leader and publisher of Forbes magazine Rich Karlgaard’s and energy, and then we retreated to our caves to recover. Today, we BLOOM is poised to hit a nerve among the countless people who respond to stressful decision-making with the same biological cocktail, feel that they’re lagging behind their peers, and that they haven’t but we no longer allow our systems to properly recover. We are always yet tapped into their professional or personal potential. on; we never withdraw to our caves to turn off. Mindfulness alone may not ameliorate these effects, and can sometimes even exacerbate symptoms of stress. So what can we do? BLOOM makes a powerful argument: finding yourself and attaining true success is possible at any age. Rather than glorifying young, Mark When Elizabeth Stanley began researching body-based trauma therapies Zuckerburg-like prodigies, BLOOM calls upon us to allow ourselves to she started to understand her nervous system in a way that mindfulness hit our strides our own way and in our own time. As the publisher hadn't provided. She then combined nervous-system regulation of Forbes magazine and host of its most prestigious global business and techniques with mindfulness training and began teaching the thought-leadership conferences (and as a highly successful entrepreneur combination, called Mindfulness-Based Mind Fitness Training, or who “bloomed” much later than many of his peers), Rich Karlgaard has MMFT, to her colleagues in the military and other high-stress the platform and passion to make BLOOM the next paradigm-shifting professions: first responders, law enforcement officials, professional title in the vein of StrengthsFinder or The 4-Hour Work Week. Strikingly, athletes, teachers, intelligence agents, high-level business executives, and there has not yet been a big-idea nonfiction book concerning “late others. And now Liz is ready to bring MMFT to readers with her book bloomers”, making BLOOM the first major work to relay this message. AGILE AND ADAPTIVE.

Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes magazine, is an entrepreneur, Elizabeth Stanley is a military veteran, an associate professor of security business thought leader, and the previous author of Soft Edge, Life 2.0, studies at Georgetown University, and the founder of the nonprofit The and Team Genius. Mind Fitness Training Institute.

THE ENERGY THAT HEALS US GETTING BACK TO HAPPY The Secrets Behind Trustworthy Energy Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Reality Medicine and How to Make It Work for You and Turn Your Trials into Triumphs

By Dr. Jill Blakeway By Marc and Angel Chernoff

US publisher: HarperCollins (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2019 US publisher: Tarcher Perigee / Penguin (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Rights sold: Spain (Urano) UK/Commonwealth (Scribe) In the spirit of books like Daniel Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness, Brene Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection, and Byron In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Jill Blakeway shares her findings Katie’s Loving What Is—which have helped their audience both of the ways energy medicine is being used and harnessed today. understand the requisites of happiness and strategies to achieve lasting joy—popular advice bloggers and life coaches Marc & Angel As the Founder and Director of the YinOva Center, the largest Chernoff turn their attention to helping readers come to terms with acupuncture and Chinese medicine practice in the U.S., Dr. Jill Blakeway life’s most pressing struggles in their new book GETTING BACK is one of the most respected healers in the country. Energy medicine is TO HAPPY. the fastest growing area of alternative healing today, from acupuncturists, reiki masters, “hands-on” healers, craniosacral therapists, to other The book builds on the experiences and expertise of this mediagenic practitioners who claim to promote healing by removing blockage and couple as they’ve interacted with legions of fans struggling with life’s restoring balance to the unseen energy field surrounding the body, most challenging problems; divorce, death, loss of a job, rejection, otherwise known as “Qi.” depression, and loss of purpose in life among many other topics.

Dr. Blakeway is a scientist and skeptic at heart who has made it her life’s Their sound and candid advice and clear steps to recovering from these work to try and understand and replicate the often-inexplicable energy devastating life setbacks have made their blog “Marc & Angel Hack Life” work she does. She has aligned herself with the world’s top healers, immensely popular with their large platform recognized by Forbes as one researchers, and practitioners of energy medicine to understand and of the “most popular personal development blogs”. Marc & Angel have apply this powerful healing force. Dr. Blakeway takes the reader on a crafted steps that anyone can use to recapture happiness and lasting life journey from hard science to the spiritual and back again in a never- balance. Their kindness and humility permeate every page. ending quest to get to the heart of this powerful mode of healing.

Dr. Jill Blakeway is the founder of The YinOva Center and the author Marc and Angel Chernoff are professional coaches, full-time students of the bestselling Making Babies: A Proven 3 Month Program for Maximum of life, and bloggers devoted to bringing strategies for lasting happiness, Fertility and Sex Again: Recharging Your Libido. success, love and peace, to their readers.

THE YEAR OF KNOTS THE PARANOID OPTIMIST Projects, Inspiration and Daily Commitment on the Path How to Stay Vigilant, Keep Things Positive, and Lead to Becoming an Artist Your Organization Through Constant Change

By Wendy Chien By Risto Siilasmaa

US publisher: McGraw-Hill (World English rights) US publisher: Abrams (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Edited MS available in Fall 2018 A page-turning narrative of dynamic leadership and daring Windy Chien is a former Apple exec turned artist whose inspiring reinvention fused with actionable takeaways, THE PARANOID 2016 Year of Knots project on Instagram (@windychien) was a hit OPTIMIST is the next must-read book for every entrepreneur, with her followers and with national media, in which she learned team leader, and C-suite executive. a new knot every day for a year. Her book THE YEAR OF KNOTS will be a gorgeous mash-up of modern knot art meets THE PARANOID OPTIMIST will tell the compelling, high-stakes stylish, how-to, inspirational titles like Julia Cameron’s The Artist's story chronicling how a 45-year-old Risto Siilasmaa found himself at the Way and Elle Luna's The Crossroads of Should and Must. helm of the fabled Nokia in 2012, only to discover that, despite rosy internal projections, the company was headed straight for an iceberg. At the heart of Windy's book is the simple yet powerful idea that a well- thought-out year is all you need to make an enormous creative leap. The tactics and strategies that Risto and his team implemented to right Windy's art looks nothing like macrame from the 1970's or even today's the ship, turn Nokia around, and steer it toward dazzlingly success—the macrame renaissance. value of the company has increased 20 times since 2012—are the ones he will share in this stunning new book. These tactics are the tenets of what Windy is an artist on the rise with a wonderful career in the arts--her Risto aptly calls "entrepreneurial leadership." In an era of disruption and Instagram following has increased tenfold in less than a year and she's rapid change, it's more important than ever to be a paranoid optimist, a been featured in The New York Times, Wired, Martha Stewart Living, leader who visualizes and plans for success but who remains hyper- and Sunset. Knots are not her only medium. The classes Windy teaches in vigilant no matter how high stock value may rise. San Francisco sell out immediately and she's becoming an in-demand speaker on the topic of giving yourself permission to follow the creative Risto Siilasmaa is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nokia path. Corporation and has led the company in one of the most successful corporate transformations ever. Siilasmaa is also the founder of F-Secure Windy Chien makes art that activates space and crafts objects that Corporation, a Finnish internet security service provider, and served as elevate the daily rituals of life. Following long careers at Apple/iTunes the President and CEO of the company between 1988-2006. and in the music industry, she launched her studio in 2015. Her work has been covered by Wired, The New York Times, Martha Stewart and more. See her website at www.windychien.com.

WAITING IN THE WINGS GETTING COMPLEX How to Scale Incredibly Abundant Talent to Solve By Tiffany Haas & Jenna Glatzer Intensely Confounding Problems

US publisher: St. Martin’s Press (North American rights) By David Komlos and David Benjamin To publish: Fall 2019 UK publisher: Nicholas Brealey Books/Hachette (WE rights) Material available: Proposal available To publish: Fall 2019 Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Material available: Proposal available WAITING IN THE WINGS is the new, ultimate how-to guide in Edited MS available in Spring 2018 kickstarting (and maintaining) a career in the theater, by none other than Wicked star Tiffany Haas and writer Jenna Glatzer GETTING COMPLEX will revolutionize how groups of people make decisions.

WAITING IN THE WINGS will focus more on the practical than the The authors, David Komlos and David Benjamin, are CEO and artistic—ways to get an agent, what are your options outside of CTO/Chief Idea Architect of Syntegrity (syntegritygroup.com), a global Broadway, pros and cons of getting Equity membership early in your consulting firm whose clients include some of the largest organizations in career, job responsibilities and pay scales for actors, rehearsing for a the world, from the Canadian national healthcare system to Campbell’s show that’s already opened, and beyond. Soup, FedEx, IBM, Toyota, 3M, and beyond.

Mixed in with the professionsal dos and don’ts, comes Tiffany’s own The genesis behind GETTING COMPLEX was a chance meeting personal story of working on Broadway and touring around the country. between the authors and Stafford Beer, a visiting professor at the Wharton School and an expert in cybernetics who developed a patented Tiffany Haas has been performing professionally for the past ten system that, when administered, guided organizations to make the best years, most notably starring as Glinda in both the Broadway production decisions possible in complex, changing environments. and the national tour of the acclaimed musical Wicked. In addition to Komlos and Benjamin bought Beer’s patents and have spent the past being in demand nationally as an actress and singer, Tiffany is a decade refining his system, and using it – to great success – in the beloved judge and host for the Miss America pageant and leads a Fortune 100. The centerpiece of GETTING COMPLEX is a unique popular master class for aspiring performers of all ages. process called a Syntegration. This process brings together a group of specially selected people and then asks them to play various roles, which Jenna Glatzer, is a respected and prolific author and ghostwriter, shift and change in time according to rules, producing a “mega-brain” having worked on over twenty-eight books including the award- that can see every side of a problem and identify the best solutions for it. winning The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriguez and Celine Dion: For David Komlos is CEO and David Benjamin is CTO/Chief Architect Keeps, the authorized biography of the pop superstar. of Syntegrity, a global leader in Business Orchestration Solutions, which helps companies and organizations solve their most complex challenges and clear the way for execution.

UPCOMING NARRATIVE NONFICTION

THE WORLD OF LORE trilogy #1: MONSTROUS CREATURES #2: WICKED MORTALS #3: DREADFUL PLACES

By Aaron Mahnke

US publisher: Del Rey / Penguin Random House (NA rights) To publish: October 2017; May 2018; October 2018; May 2019

Material available: Final PDF available

Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Wildfire/Headline) Poland (Zysk)

A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, featuring both rare and best-loved stories from the hit podcast Lore. Soon to be an online streaming series on Amazon!

Aaron Mahnke is the writer, host, and producer of the podcast Lore, as In this beautifully illustrated volume, the host of the hit podcast Lore well as the author of a number of supernatural thrillers. He has a deep serves as a guide on a fascinating journey through the history of these love of the mysterious and frightening. terrifying creatures, exploring not only the legends but what they tell us about ourselves. Aaron Mahnke invites us to the desolate Pine Barrens of New Jersey, where the notorious winged, red-eyed Jersey Devil dwells. Praise for the Lore podcast: He delves into harrowing accounts of cannibalism—some officially documented, others the stuff of speculation…perhaps. He visits the “Truth can often be much scarier than fiction—something Mahnke dimly lit rooms where séances take place, the European villages where proves as he dives deep into the world of folklore and the darker side of gremlins make mischief, even Key West, Florida, home of a haunted history in a quest to root out the fragment of truth at the bottom of our doll. fears.” – Entertainment Weekly

In a world of “emotional vampires” and “zombie malls,” the monsters “Unlike so much horror that needs over-the-top viscera to scare you, this of folklore have become both a part of our language and a part of our podcast leans on history—folklore, myth, the stuff people once thought collective psyche. Whether these beasts and bogeymen are real or just a was true—to tell its tales.” – The Atlantic reflection of our primal fears, we kno that not every mystery has been explained and that the unknown still holds the power to strike fear. As “Narrated by Mahnke in a style that evokes spooky campfire stories, Lore Aaron reminds us, sometimes the truth is even scarier than the lore. is a history lesson like no other.” – Esquire

CODE GIRLS The Untold Story of the Women Codebreakers Who Helped Win World War II

By Liza Mundy

US publisher: Hachette Books (North American rights) To publish: October 2017

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

Rights sold: Holland (BBNC) Poland (Bellona)

In the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, CODE GIRLS is the astonishing, untold story of the young American women who cracked key Axis codes, helping to secure Allied victory and revolutionizing the field of cryptanalysis.

Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite Praise for CODE GIRLS: colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during

World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these "Mundy is a fine storyteller... A sleek, compelling narrative.... The book is women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code- a winner. Her descriptions of codes and ciphers, how they worked and breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave how they were broken, are remarkably clear and accessible.” them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy – Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, "[A] superbly researched and stirringly written social history of a pivotal and scientific accomplishment. chapter in the struggle for women's rights…” – Glenn Frankel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of High Noon Liza Mundy is a former reporter for the Washington Post and the author of a bestselling biography of Michelle Obama, Michelle, and the acclaimed "CODE GIRLS reveals a hidden army of female cryptographers, whose nonfiction book, The Richer Sex. work played a crucial role in ending World War II. With clarity and insight, Mundy exposes the intertwined narratives of the women who broke codes and the burgeoning field of military intelligence in the 1940s. I cannot overstate the importance of this book.” – Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls

PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED The Rise of N.W.A. and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap

By Gerrick Kennedy

US publisher: Atria / Simon & Schuster (World English rights) To publish: December 2017

Material available: Final PDF available

A bold and riveting work of music journalism, PARENTAL

DISCRETION IS ADVISED unveils the true and astonishing history of one of the most transcendent and controversial musical groups of the 1980s and 1990s.

In 1986, a rap group was formed that would establish the foundation of gangsta rap and push the genre forward, electrifying fans with their visceral and profane lyrics that sensationalized street life and brazenly challenged the police system. Comprised of Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella, the group’s multi-platinum success was aided, and at times tarnished, by its brash swagger and conflicts with legal and business establishments. During their five years together, N.W.A managed to put West Coast hip-hop on the map and mint groundbreaking superstars out of Eazy, Dre, and Cube, ushering in a Gerrick Kennedy is a music writer for the Los Angeles Times covering new genre of rap that included Tupac, Snoop Dogg, and the Notorious pop, R&B/soul and hip-hop. An Ohio native, he came to the Los B.I.G. Angeles Times as an intern in 2009. In 2012, Kennedy was named

Emerging Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Going beyond the story portrayed in the 2015 blockbuster movie Straight Journalists. Outta Compton, through firsthand interviews, extensive research, and top- notch storytelling, Los Angeles Times music reporter Gerrick Kennedy transports readers back in time to offer a front-row seat to the drama and controversy that followed N.W.A as they rose to become a music sensation. Kennedy leaves nothing off the table in his pursuit of the full story behind the group’s most pivotal moments, such as Ice Cube’s decision to go solo after their debut studio album became a smash hit; their battle with the FBI over inflammatory lyrics; incidents of physical assault; Dr. Dre’s departure from the group to form Death Row Records with Suge Knight; their impact on the 1992 L.A. riots; Eazy-E’s battle with AIDS; plus more.

THE BEAUTY SUIT How My Year of Religious Modesty Made Me a Better

Feminist

By Lauren Shields

US publisher: Beacon Press (North American rights)

To publish: May 2018

Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in November 2017

A young feminist finds herself questioning why "hotness" has become necessary for female empowerment—and looks for alternatives.

In a perfect storm of capitalist consumption, appropriation of feminist ideology, and misogyny, modern Western women are compelled to look a certain way—sexy—in order to be taken seriously. They must wear what Shields calls "The Beauty Suit," and wear it perfectly, just to be acknowledged.

But is hotness a good substitute for equal wages, being heard in the boardroom, and safety from assault? Why is pleasing the male gaze a In a social media space oversaturated with beauty bloggers, lifestyle prerequisite—or even an acceptable stand-in—for empowerment? gurus, carefully curated Instagram feeds, and make-up tutorials, The Beauty Suit shows us that religious modesty has something important to teach us about the next stage of feminism. In THE BEAUTY SUIT, Shields exposes this phenomenon for the bait-and-switch that it is and looks for alternatives. Using stories about her "modesty experiment"--for nine months, she stopped Lauren Shields is a Licensed Minister in the United Church of wearing make-up, donned a headcovering, and covered her arms and Christ, currently serving at Campbell United Church of Christ in legs—and delving into ideas and practices of modesty in Islam, Silicon Valley. A former Chaplaincy Resident at the California Pacific Judaism and Christianity, Shields extracts the empowering aspects of Medical Center, Shields studies the practical applications of faith. each. While fully aware that religious modesty laws are often used to This is her first book. constrain women, so, she demonstrates, does the contemporary Western beauty suit.

FRISSON ALL SHIPS FOLLOW ME Finding Happiness Through “Untranslatable” Words A Family’s Inheritance of War

By Dr. Tim Lomas By Mieke Eerkens

UK publisher: Piatkus/ Hachette UK (UK & Comm rights) US publisher: Picador (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 To publish: Fall 2018

Material available: Full MS available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in December 2017 Not assigned in Japan Rights sold: Holland (De Geus) From Europe’s leading expert on positive psychology and the head Poland (Agora) of the Positive Lexicography Project comes Dr. Tim Lomas’s new book about how other languages can give us an untapped mine to A brilliant and heartrending World War II memoir by Dutch- probe for new ways of appreciating life, new types of pleasure American author Mieke Eerkens, on par with Laura Hillenbrand’s and—most intriguingly—new routes to greater satisfaction, Unbroken and Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes. mindfulness and joy. ALL SHIPS FOLLOW ME is an untold World War II story that From terms like hygge, Schadenfreude and bon vivant, that have entered the challenges our perception of victim and perpetrator, and blurs the lines of English language, to words like the Dutch queesting (to invite a lover into war. In March 1942, a ten-year-old boy living in the Dutch East Indies your bed for pillow talk) or the Brazilian Portuguese cafuné (the pleasure was interned, like a hundred thousand other Dutch civilians, in a of running your fingers through your lover’s hair), the world’s languages Japanese concentration camp doing hard labor for three years, until the provide a rich vocabulary of happiness, joy, desire, mindfulness and atomic bombings caused the Japanese to surrender. Meanwhile, across pleasure that is absent in English. the globe, Dutch police carried a crying five-year-old girl out of her home at the war’s end, abandoned and ostracized as a daughter of Nazi In FRISSON, Tim not only discusses many of the different sympathizers in the Netherlands. It was the post-war period of “untranslatable” words in what will be a feast for language lovers, but he reckoning, the so-called “hatchet day” where Nazi collaborators were also examines what we can learn from them to become happier tortured in the same concentration camps where the Jews had just been ourselves, appealing to fans of Eats, Shoot and Leaves and The Happiness liberated from. Project. Many years later, the boy and girl met as adults, and married and had Dr. Tim Lomas is one of Europe’s leading experts on positive children. The author is one of these children, and ALL SHIPS psychology and the program leader at the University of East London’s FOLLOW ME is her remarkable memoir of the inheritance of war. MSc in Applied Positive Psychology (the preeminent postgraduate course in Europe). His first book, The Positive Power of Negative Emotions, Mieke Eerkens teaches creative writing for UCLA Extension’ Writers has been published in Turkish, Spanish and Korean as well as in the UK Program. Her work has appeared in various places such as The Atlantic, by Tim’s regular publisher, Piatkus. Los Angeles Review of Books, PEN America, Pank, and Guernica.

THE MASTERMIND JUSTIN.TV

By Evan Ratliff By David Goldenberg

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

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

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

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

first book.

TWILIGHT OF THE FOOD GODS THE EQUIVALENTS The Untold Story of the Five Friends Who Started a By Kevin Alexander Personal, Political, and Artistic Revolution

US publisher: Penguin Press (North American rights) By Maggie Doherty To publish: Spring 2019 US publisher: Knopf (North American rights) Material available: Proposal available To publish: Spring 2019 Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Material available: Proposal available After covering food for nine years for Thrillist, journalist Kevin Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Alexander traveled to thirty cities in nine months to understand the state of culinary America in 2016. THE EQUIVALENTS will tell the moving and momentous story of the first all-women’s artist colony, at the Radcliffe Institute in the The result is TWILIGHT OF THE FOOD GODS—the social early 1960s, where the writer Tillie Olsen, poets Maxine Kumin history of what has been, for the last decade, perhaps the greatest and Anne Sexton, painter Barbara Swan, and sculptor Marianna culinary moment our country has ever enjoyed. It was the golden age of Pineda all became friends, collaborators, and conspirators. dining, which is also beginning to come to an end. All the five Equivalents were wives and mothers who refused the TWILIGHT OF THE FOOD GODS is a rollicking, fun, important domestic limitations that those fixed Mad Men-era identities implied. First piece of cultural anthropology as it documents, glories in, and attempts and foremost, these women were artists who, given money and rooms in to make sense of this watershed period in America when we began to which to write and think, articulated in prose, sculpture, poetry, paint— obsess, glorify, and fetishize food, just as we’d done with love in the and above all in their friendships—what so many of their silenced sisters 1960s and money in the 1980s. And as labor costs, cook shortages, could not. And it was the all-too-rare community at Radcliffe that assured immigration restrictions, unrealistic ambitions, and a glut of restaurants their ascendancy and continuing relevance. all attempting to do the same thing bring the zeppelin down, the culture of American dining is about to undergo a profound change. And Kevin THE EQUIVALENTS will introduce readers to these five women as Alexander is the one who can tell you where we’re all going next. they worked and suffered in isolation, narrate vividly how they entered the Radcliffe Institute and why it changed their personal and professional Kevin Alexander is the James Beard Award-winning Writer at Large for lives, and trace their trajectories back into the wider world as their careers Thrillist. He lives north of San Francisco. took off, their friendships frayed, and the women’s liberation movement reached a fever pitch. In its combination of the personal and the political, the story of these five women and the history of the American woman,

Maggie Doherty is a historian, literary scholar, and critic. She received her BA from Yale University and her PhD in English from Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in Dissent, The New Republic, the Boston Review, n+1, and the Times Literary Supplement.

TALKING FUNNY THE WOMEN WITH SILVER WINGS Comedians Tell Me About Their Lives, And My Life Too The Epic Untold Story of The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II By David Steinberg By Katherine Landdeck

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TALKING FUNNY is a tour de force through the greatest minds of In the vein of Hidden Figures, The Girls of Atomic City, The Boys comedy, as David Steinberg blends his personal stories and a in the Boat, and Unbroken comes THE WOMEN WITH SILVER selection of candid interviews with a cast of dozens of the best WINGS, a major new work of narrative nonfiction that tells the forces in comedy—Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Sarah Silverman, untold story of the America’s first female military pilots. Chris Rock, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, and Robin Williams, to name a few. The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, or the WASPs, were the first women ever to fly for the US military. These expert pilots David Steinberg came into stardom in the late ‘60s and ‘70s when stand- flew every type of plane the military had—and flew every mission, some up was still counter-culture, and often adversarial; when David’s Tonight extraordinarily dangerous, except for combat missions. Without the Show impressions of “Tricky Dick” became too popular, Richard Nixon’s WASPs, the United States would not have had enough combat pilots to gang tried to kick the talk show off the air and had the FBI follow David win the war, and yet these pilots faced enormous resistance, around. It was an era when mobsters still prowled the streets of New discrimination, and limitations every step of the way. They were forcibly York; when David’s stagemates Burt Reynolds, George Carlin, and disbanded before the war was won, and then erased from US history by Richard Pryor doused themselves in heroin, cocaine, and liquor to fuel the very military whom they so proudly served. their genius before careening off the rails. But the WASPs took none of this discrimination lying down. Their story Though chaos swirled around his closest friends, David managed to stay is an epic adventure brimming with audacity, inspiration, stunning on his feet, and he went on to become an instrumental force behind the reversals, and tear-jerking triumphs. The WASPs prove that great, success of some of the most culture-shaping television of the next three sweeping social progress is rarely linear and that while battles may be lost, decades. He guest-hosted The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson 130 times that is never cause to give up the war. THE WOMEN WITH SILVER (more than anyone else) and as an in-demand director he directed WINGS is an unputdownable, universal story about determined young countless episodes of Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, and Curb Your women who just wanted to fly. Enthusiasm. Katherine Landdeck is an Associate Professor of History at Texas David Steinberg is a comedian, director, and producer. He guest-hosted Woman's University, where the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) the Johnny Carson show 130 times, more than anyone else, and has archives are housed. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, an Emmy Award directed countless episodes of Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, and Curb Your nominee, and the world's foremost expert on the history of the WASPs. Enthusiasm.

DANGEROUS WOMEN BLACK AND WHITE How Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison By Gail Caldwell Defeated Slavery

US publisher: Random House (North American rights) By Linda Hirshman To publish: Fall 2019 US publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NA rights) Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2018 To publish: Fall 2020

DANGEROUS WOMEN is a series of stories that traces bestselling Material available: Proposal available and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell’s evolution as a Edited MS available in Spring 2020 writer, but also pays tributes to off-the-grid, strong female influences in her life, be they real or imagined: from the literary The story of how two second-generation founding fathers, the (Woolf or Tess or Lily Bart) to the formative (her algebra teacher) unsung heroes of American history, wouldn’t stop fighting until all and the familial. At its heart, DANGEROUS WOMEN is a men were “forever free.” beautiful, literary tapestry to the powerful female heritage that exists behind all of us. BLACK AND WHITE will tell the interwoven stories of the iconic orator and memoirist Frederick Douglass and the foremost white Gail grew up within the shadows and shelters of the early 1970s women abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison by zeroing in on the almost thirty movement—an era just barely beyond the world of Sylvia Plath, or, in years during which the two men worked side by side, and then on her words, “a living doll, everywhere you look/it can sew, it can cook/it different sides, to end slavery. can talk talk talk.” The stories that emerge begin there, with an abortion in Mexico three years before Roe v. Wade and a date rape in cowboy By looking at these formative years—which begin when Douglass is in country that could have happened to any girl, anywhere. his early 20s and Garrison is in his mid-30s—Linda animates the unexplored mentor/protégée dynamic and brings clarity and depth to the Gail and her contemporaries are watching a generation of kids go off to evolving friendship-turned-rivalry. She also introduces a new character, college or have their kids of their own, and some of their inheritance is the aristocratic, self-righteous female abolitionist, Maria Weston liberating, some shortsighted. When she teaches, she’s often involved Chapman, whose commitment to the cause, and hostility toward with young women whose ideas of creativity and freedom are wonderful Douglass, played a hitherto unexamined role in the movement. and vast, but also historically unearned, as youth is by nature. Sometimes all she can give them is stories, and these stories feel important: The Linda Hirshman is an American lawyer, pundit, and the author of “once upon a time” of memory and history, the dust bunnies of Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution, Get to Work: A Manifesto For Women experiences she’s tried to sweep into a life. This is a book “for all the of the World, The Woman's Guide to Law School, and Hard Bargains: The Politics girls.” of Sex.

Gail Caldwell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the Book Editor of the Boston Globe for twenty years. She is the author of Strong West Wind, the NYT bestseller Let's Take the Long Way Home, and New Life: No Instructions.

GRAY DAY THE WEDGE There Are No Hackers, Only Spies By Scott Carney By Eric M. O'Neill US publisher: Rodale (North American rights) US publisher: Crown (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Spring 2019 Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Through a narrative combining in-depth research with personal experimentation and investigating reporting, the goal of THE As GRAY DAY dramatically shows, The Soviet Union collapsed WEDGE is to offer readers all the tools they need to become in 1991 but that didn’t end the Cold War. It simply moved the stronger, healthier, happier, and more centered. battlefield to cyber. In his previous book WHAT DOESN’T KILL US, investigative In 2011, Eric M. O’Neill was working in the FBI when he was tapped journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney proposed that human health for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation of the doesn’t rest on the twin pillars of diet and exercised alone, but also on an FBI’s top target, a man suspected of spying for the Russians for nearly equally important third pillar: the environment. His new book THE two decades—giving up nuclear secrets, compromising intelligence, and WEDGE hones in on this third pillar to explore the concept of “The betraying US assets. With zero training in face-to-face investigation, Eric Wedge”—that is, how someone can consciously alter their environment found himself in a windowless, high-security cyber security department in order to create predictable physiological and psychological outcomes. reporting to the most devastating spy in the FBI’s history, Robert Hanssen. Over the course of two months, Eric’s self-esteem and With Daniel Schmachtenberger of the Neurohacker Collective as his marriage unravel, and Eric questions the very purpose of his mission. medicine man (who aims to create off-the-shelf body hacks that can alter But as Hanssen outmaneuvers the intelligence community, Eric learns people’s neurochemistry and fundamentally redefine how we think about the game of spy craft. He just has to outplay his teacher if he wants to disease in the first place, Scott Carney will undertake a quest to hack his win. body and upgrade his consciousness through the environment.

A real-life drama of power, paranoia, and psychological Along the way, through the concept of “The Wedge” readers will explore manipulation, GRAY DAY is a rare look behind the curtain, as this human sensation and health through the lens of psychedelics, lucid page-turning episode opens up hot-button issues such as the evolution dreaming, tantra, heat, immune illness, light and sound, fear, anxiety, sex, of the FBI, its relationship with Russia, present day cyber-attacks, and hunger, and more. the future of warfare. Scott Carney’s work blends narrative non-fiction with ethnography. Eric M. O'Neill is the founder of The Georgetown Group, a premier Currently, he is a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative investigative and security consultancy, where he specializes in Journalism and a 2016-17 Scripps Fellow at the Center for counterintelligence and counterterrorism operations. Eric was formerly Environmental Journalism in Boulder, Colorado. What Doesn't Kill Us is an FBI undercover operative, and he earned a JD from George his most recent book; other works include The Red Market and A Death on Diamond Mountain. Washington University Law School.

BLOOD RUNS COAL SOLOMON’S CODE The Yablonski Murders and the War for the Soul of the Human Choice, Wisdom and Values in a World of United Mine Workers of America Artificial Intelligence

By Mark A. Bradley By Olaf Groth, Mark Nitzberg & Dan Zehr

US publisher: W. W. Norton (North American rights) US publisher: Pegasus Books (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Spring 2019

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Sitting on the shelves next to the works of Jeffrey Toobin and Bryan In SOLOMON’S CODE, internationally known experts on Burroughs, BLOOD RUNS COAL is a groundbreaking artificial intelligence Olaf Groth, Mark Nitzberg and Dan Zehr, investigation by award-winning historian Mark. A. Bradley into delve into some of the most difficult questions of human morality the notorious but now-overlooked 50-year-old murders of the and discuss how they must now be “solved” as we design AI and Yablonskis, and the subsequent trial. robots. It’s a book that will make you think deeply about what must done to protect us as our technology becomes as or more powerful In May of 1969, fed up with recurrent mine disasters, stagnant wages, than we are. and a corrupt union bosses, Jock Yablonski announced his insurgent run to challenge the ruthless Tony Boyle as the UMWA’s president. Eight Whether it is medicine, money, freedom or very personal decisions about months later, Yablonski, his wife, and his daughter were savagely love, family and life, AI will be guiding, prompting and perhaps even murdered in their home, blood soaking their beds. The book is much- forcing us to do “the right thing”. But, what is the right thing? And, even needed and scrutinizing examination of a pivotal moment in American if we could agree on what it was, would our answer be the same in New history, a region of the country still reeling from the loss of the coal jobs York or in Shanghai? Or are these answers different depending on race, for which Yablonski died. gender or other forms of diversity? SOLOMON’S CODE is a book that raises difficult, hard-to-answer questions, questions that we need to BLOOD RUNS COAL will take readers deep inside those momentous urgently consider given the speed of technological development but that eight months of 1969, and the precipitous twinned decline of the coal no one seems to be asking. industry and Appalachian region, recreating the hardscrabble, dangerous lives of Appalachian coal miners during the deeply divided decade of the Olaf Groth is Program Director for Digital Futures at Hult International 1960s. This will be an emotional rollercoaster taking readers to the Business School, a member of the Global Expert Network at the World heights of courage and to the depths of depravity. Economic Forum, a CEO and a contributor to the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, among others. Mark Nitzberg is the Executive Mark A. Bradley is an award-winning author and national security Director of the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence at expert who served for years at the CIA and Department of Justice and, UC Berkeley. Dan Zehr is a journalist whose work has appeared in the later, was appointed by President Obama to the Director of the New York Times; he is currently covering the economy for the Austin- Information Security Oversight Office at the National Archives. American Statesman.

THE ROAD TO DAWN Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War

By Jared Brock

US publisher: Public Affairs (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019

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THE ROAD TO DAWN is a major new work of narrative nonfiction that tells the now little-known story of Josiah Henson, the man whom Harriet Beecher Stowe used as the model for the character of Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom’s Cabin—and in so doing, unveils a powerful, hidden chapter in American history.

THE ROAD TO DAWN is an extraordinary story that will appeal to fans of narrative nonfiction and history, particularly narratives about the Civil War era. It will be embraced by readers of African-American history and books such as Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball, as well as by fans of stories whose lives inspire as well as illuminate such the portrait of WWII hero Louis Zamperini in Unbroken.

What makes Josiah Henson’s story truly remarkable is the journey he took after he escaped the bonds of slavery and his heroic efforts saving the lives of others. The book chronicles Josiah’s life as a slave who, in spite of unremitting hardships, rose to the rank of overseer and finally escaped slavery with his wife and children.

Jared Brock is the co-founder of Hope for the Sold, an abolitionist charity dedicated to the eradication of human trafficking and exploitation, Jared Brock speaks regularly at universities and churches throughout the United States and Canada. He is the author of A Year of Living Prayerfully and his writing has also appeared in Esquire, Huffington Post, TODAY.com, and Writer’s Digest.

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

By Dr. Jonathan D. Quick

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

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A leading doctor offers answers on the one of the most urgent questions of our time: How do we prevent the next global pandemic?

The 2014 Ebola epidemic in Liberia terrified the world—and revealed how unprepared we are for the next outbreak of an infectious disease. Somewhere in nature, a killer virus is boiling up in the bloodstream of a bird, bat, monkey, or pig, preparing to jump to a human being. This not- Dr. Jonathan D. Quick is President of Management Sciences for yet-detected germ has the potential to wipe out millions of lives over a Health, a nonprofit global health organization that develops sustainable matter of weeks or months. That risk makes the threat posed by ISIS, a health systems in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, and is ground war, a massive climate event, or even the dropping of a nuclear on the faculty of Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health bomb on a major city pale in comparison. and the Boston University School of Public Health.

In THE END OF EPIDEMICS, Harvard Medical School faculty member and Chair of the Global Health Council Dr. Jonathan D. Quick examines the eradication of smallpox and devastating effects of influenza, AIDS, SARS, and Ebola. Analyzing local and global efforts to contain these diseases and citing firsthand accounts of failure and success, Dr. Quick proposes a new set of actions to end epidemics before they can begin.

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

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

THE BURNING SHORES THE POWER OF DREAMS Inside the Battle for the New Libya By Alice Robb By Frederic Wehrey US publisher: Eamon Dolan Books (North American rights) US publisher: Farrar, Straus (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 To publish: March 2018 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Edited MS available Edited MS available in Spring 2018

An action-filled account of Libya after Qadhafi Japanese subagent: The English Agency

The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two Rights sold: China (China Renmin University Press) years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, France (Flammarion) the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way Greece (Aiora) for the Islamic State and a catastrophic migrant crisis. Holland (Karakter) Hungary (Libri) In a fast-paced narrative that blends frontline reporting, analysis, and Israel (Matar) history, Frederic Wehrey tells the story of what went wrong. An Arabic- Italy (Rizzoli) speaking Middle East scholar, Wehrey interviewed the key actors in Japan (Hayakawa) Libya and paints vivid portraits of lives upended by a country in turmoil: Poland (Agora) the once-hopeful activists murdered or exiled, revolutionaries Portugal (Penguin Random House Portugal) transformed into militia bosses or jihadist recruits, an aging general who Romania (Litera) promises salvation from the chaos in exchange for a return to the old Russia (Azbooka/Atticus) authoritarianism. He traveled where few or no Western journalists have Serbia (Vulkan) gone, from the shattered city of Benghazi, birthplace of the revolution, Spain (Blackie Books) to the lawless Sahara, to the coastal stronghold of the Islamic State in Turkey (NTV) Qadhafi’s hometown of Sirte. He chronicles the international missteps UK/Commonwealth (Pan Macmillan) after the dictator’s death that led to the country’s unraveling. In THE POWER OF DREAMS, Alice Robb takes readers on her journey to uncover why we dream, why dreaming matters, and how we Written with bravura, based on daring reportage, and informed by deep can improve our dream life. Through her encounters with scientists who knowledge, THE BURNING SHORES is the definitive account of are at the forefront of dream research, she probes how nightmares and Libya’s fall. disruptive dreams may indicate physical and mental illness (including cancer, depression, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s), along with the Frederic Wehrey is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for fascinating question of whether psychic dreams are real. International Peace. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications. He has consulted Alice Robb is a journalist who has written for The New Republic, New on Libya for the United Nations. York Magazine, Women and the World, The New Statesman, Foreign Policy, Elle,

VICE, Bustle, and Fusion.

THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS WHALEBONE

By Jing Tsu By Nicholas Pyenson

US publisher: Riverhead/Penguin (North American rights) US publisher: Viking (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 To publish: Fall 2018

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Japanese subagent: Tuttle Mori Agency Rights sold: China (United Sky) UK/Commonwealth (Collins) Rights sold: China (CITIC) Holland (Spectrum) Following the lead of Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Italy (Hoepli) Sea, Philip Hoare's The Whale, and Susan Casey's Voices in the Taiwan (Rye Field) Ocean, WHALEBONE is a major new addition to the collection of UK/Commonwealth (Penguin UK) popular whale literature.

THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS follows the bold and In this rare and remarkable new book project, Smithsonian scientist cunning innovators who adapted the ancient Chinese character- Nicholas Pyenson invites readers onto the frontline of based script to a 20th-century world defined by the West and its paleontological whale research, from the cool halls deep inside the alphabet. It will tell the story of how China was able to transform Smithsonian's priceless fossil collection to the frigid fishing decks on itself from a marginalized country into one of the world’s most Antarctic whaling stations to the largest fossil whalebone site on earth, in powerful and ascendant nations the blazing hot desert of Chile. Along the way, Nick explains how whales migrated from land to sea millions of years ago and how they got so big. THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS will chronicle the dramatic He explains why whales strand on the beach, what happens to whales events responsible for China’s unexpected linguistic and geopolitical when they die, and what the origin and fate of whale skeletons tells us triumph. How China went from a crumbling empire to a capitalist about the deepest parts of the ocean and the effects of climate change. juggernaut is as breathtaking as the revolution that the Chinese script has WHALEBONE explores the future of whales in the age of humans, and undergone during that same time period, in large part because the one predicts which whale species will be winners and the losers as our planet literally helped underwrite the other. Ingenious linguists, mathematicians, and oceans grow warmer. and poets risked their careers and reputations, and sometimes their lives, to tackle profoundly complex technological issues that opened the lines Nicholas Pyenson is the curator of fossil marine mammals at the of communication between the East and West and led to a new kind of Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, in mutual dependency. Washington, D.C. A National Geographic Explorer, he has led over a Jing Tsu is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, a literary scholar and cultural dozen scientific expeditions during the last decade. He is the author of historian of modern China at Yale University. She was born in Taipei, over 50 scientific papers, including several in Nature and Science. Taiwan, and raised in New Mexico, USA.

HEART CHANGING GENDER A Cardiologist’s Notes on an Elusive Organ Transgender History from the 19th Century until Now

By Sandeep Jauhar By Susan Stryker

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

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HEART offers a book that is at once personal and universal, Set to be the definitive narrative of the transgender movement, capturing Sandeep’s own inspiring obsession with the mysteries of CHANGING GENDER brings the vast process to life of the the human heart, together with the fascinating, frightening, and movement through character-driven story-telling and will ignite a motivating (stay calm, go for daily runs, don’t eat too much new understanding of gender itself. cholesterol-rich food) history and science of the organ inside of each For many people, the Transgender Movement first came to their us that both initiates and claims our lives. attention earlier this year when 16 million viewers tuned in to watch Caitlyn Jenner’s 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer. Since then it seems In the same way that Siddhartha Mukherjee’s masterful book The Emperor as if there has been an explosion of attention to transgender celebrity of All Maladies helps quell our curiosities and anxieties about cancer by culture—from the New York Times’ “Transgender Today” profiles and sharing the rich science and history of its treatment and potential cure, Amazon’s Emmy-winning series Transparent to the opening of the first Sandeep’s HEART will offer the same profoundly moving and transgender modeling agency in Los Angeles. intellectually satisfying exploration of heart attacks and cardiovascular disease, what causes them, the millennia of scientific exploration into But as Susan writes, this moment didn’t come out of the blue. It is but a their etiology and treatment, and the devastating human experience of thin veneer that rests atop more than a century of history. CHANGING living through and dying from (or losing our loved ones to) them. Then, GENDER will weave incisive biographical portraits of activists, artists, too, as he places his stethoscope to the side and picks up his literary doctors, scientists, politicians, lawyers, media-makers and everyday plume, Sandeep, with HEART, will also offer an unprecedented citizens into the tapestry of a broader narrative of sweeping social exploration into the metaphorical and psychological implications of the transformation. By the time readers finish CHANGING GENDER, heart. their view of the world they already live in will be utterly transformed.

Sandeep Jauhar, MD, PhD, is the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He is the author of the Susan Stryker is an Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker. She critically acclaimed books Intern and Doctor and writes regularly for The earned her Ph.D. in US History from University of California-Berkeley. New York Times.

FINDING NORMAL SOME OF MY FRIENDS ARE Sex, Empathy, and Taboo in the Wireless World The Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships

By Alexa Tsoulis-Reay By Deborah L. Plummer

US publisher: St. Martin’s Press (NA rights) US publisher: Beacon Press (World English rights) To publish: Spring 2019 To publish: Spring 2019

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This smart, original, and provocative book will offer a first-of-its- Following in the bestselling tradition of Cornel West’s Race Matters kind deep dive into our culture's changing perceptions of human and Beverly Tatum’s Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together love, relationships, and sexual behavior. It will immerse readers in in the Cafeteria, SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE will the lives of people whose experiences, attractions, and identities are combine original research, analysis, storytelling, as well as offer now entering the mainstream consciousness. ideas and strategies for creating healing among the races through the power of cross-racial friendships. Building on the wild success of her "What It's Like" series for New York magazine—see: What It's Like to Date a Horse or What It's Like to In SOME OF MY FRIENDS ARE, Plummer argues that cross-racial Date Your Dad, both of which spent an entire week as the number one friendships have a unique power and an important role to play; they allow articles on nymag.com—FINDING NORMAL will highlight the us to create new conversations about social change than can bridge the author’s pioneering work taking readers into rarely studied—and rarely racial divide, heal our society and make it stronger. In doing so, Plummer spoken about—subcultures. offers readers a better understanding of how racial identity influences our behavior and thinking in everyday life. She looks at how these questions Informed by cutting edge findings of psychologists and social scientists, play out among different generations and why it is that we seem to be and grounded in exhaustive reporting, this compulsively readable book more able to see people of other races as colleagues or as spouses/lovers will feature fascinating stories and timeless themes about people who are, than we do as friends. by choice or design, challenging once-immutable definitions of family, relationships, and desire, stories that are likely to push readers to the Plummer is optimistic that we can reach across our divisions us to forge limits of empathy. FINDING NORMAL will run the gamut from the friendships and lessen the obstacles between us, and this book shows us curious to the shocking, revealing that despite the real differences that how. She’ll share stories and examples of people who have worked distinguish one person from another, we are all trying to know and be through the challenges of cross-racial friendships and developed ways of ourselves, to find our place in this world. creating and maintaining common ground.

Alexa Tsoulis-Reay is a senior writer at New York Magazine, where she Deborah Plummer is the vice chancellor and chief diversity officer for started the hugely successful What It’s Like series online. Alexa holds an the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial MA in English from Melbourne University and an MA in Magazine Health Care, with a Ph.D. in psychology. She was the founding director Journalism from New York University. Her writing has also appeared in of Cleveland State University’s Master’s Degree Program in Diversity Glamour, Slate, Vice, Bitch, and Newsweek. Management.

TAKE CARE BRAIN CHILD How Children Teach Us to Read Minds By Mark Bertolini By Dr. Henry Wellman US publisher: Crown Business (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2019 US publisher: Oxford University Press (WE rights) To publish: Winter 2020 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Winter 2019 TAKE CARE is a vital new work of nonfiction by Mark Bertolini, the innovative and courageous CEO of Aetna, one of the world’s BRAIN CHILD will be the first book to posit that in order to truly largest health insurers. TAKE CARE will achieve for human understand ourselves, we must first understand children, childhood, wellness what Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In achieved for women in and the process by which children learn. This thinking is the workplace. collectively known throughout the scientific community as “theory of mind,” and Dr. Wellman is one of the world’s leading authorities Since becoming CEO of Aetna in 2010, Mark Bertolini has emerged as a on the subject. preeminent public intellectual, a coveted media commentator and guest speaker, and a corporate and social visionary. Mark is effecting important Until now, many have theorized that the foundations of human nature lie changes in how we treat and take care of ourselves, our co-workers, our within adult psychology and behavior, but, as Henry writes, “When our friends, family members, and neighbors. His philosophy reflects his own goal is to understand ourselves, then our children and our childhoods extraordinarily trying, painful, and in many ways karmic wellness inform us better than our present selves.” Merging everyday intuitions, journey, which he will lay out in TAKE CARE. life stories, and contemporary science, BRAIN CHILD will show how the science of childhood theory of mind leads to a fundamentally new Mark will share the lessons he learned while also formulating a picture of human lives and human nature. Many (including Dennett, compelling, much-needed, and comprehensive strategy for improving Sacks, and Kahnemann) assume that plumbing the depths of adult the lives of millions of Americans—and people worldwide—by changing thinking shows us human nature, a nature that then reflects back on the way we think about, pursue, and protect health. Mark will argue that children. Dr. Wellman believes that’s backward. Children give the better our most basic assumptions about health care are deeply flawed, and that illumination of human nature, a nature that applies to adults as well. failure has led to our country’s epidemic rates of opiate addiction, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and countless other debilitating physical and Dr. Henry Wellman is the founder of the field of theory of mind, and psychiatric disorders and diseases. In TAKE CARE, Mark’s keen the Harold W. Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the observations and analysis will offer a new way forward, a new way University of Michigan, where he has taught for more than 30 years. He’s toward democratizing and improving the health and wellness of people a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has everywhere. published several critically acclaimed books about theory of mind and

psychology. Mark Bertolini is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aetna, a Fortune 50 diversified international health care benefits company with over $60 billion in 2015 revenue.

PROJECT TOTAL RECALL TOGETHER WE WALK TOWARDS THE FIRE By Steve Ramirez Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, and the Rise of Trump

US publisher: Riverhead Books/Penguin (NA rights) By Rosie Gray To publish: Fall 2020 US publisher: HarperCollins (North American rights) Material available: Proposal available To publish: Fall 2019 Edited MS available in Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Robinson/Little, Brown UK) Edited MS available in Spring 2019 China (CHEERS) In TOGETHER WE WALK TOWARDS THE FIRE, Rosie Gray PROJECT TOTAL RECALL is a gripping exploration of the ways does for Breitbart News what Gabriel Sherman did for Fox in The in which the new science of optogenetics is reframing everything Loudest Voice in the Room and Brad Stone did for Amazon in The we thought we knew about memory and the brain, by award- Everything Store. winning Harvard neuroscientist Steve Ramirez. In 2016, all roads led to Breitbart: Trump, Bannon, the alt-right, nativist

populism, fake news, anti-globalism, and of course Milo Yiannopoulos. Memories are the windows to our lived-in realities; they are what makes What'll happen in 2017? Steve Bannon and Breitbart News were early, us who we are. During Steve Ramirez’s first year of graduate school at key, and consistent amplifiers of Trump's populist message as well as MIT in 2012, he and his colleague Xu Liu had an idea: what if we could ruthlessly effective attackers of Hillary Clinton, and by the time Bannon jumpstart the sights, sounds, and smells of a memory by internally officially joined the campaign team, Breitbart was acting as a Pravda. activating one from within the brain? They called it Project Total Recall. Steve Bannon is now the closest advisor to President Trump, and Together, Steve and Xu turned on a light (and we mean a literal light— Breitbart News is starting to spearhead the same anti-establishment, anti- that’s the “opto” in optogenetics) that would help give birth to a new globalist movements in France and Germany. field of neuroscience, now taking center stage: memory manipulation.

With access to key characters and first-hand experience of many Now, the stuff of sci-fi is becoming science fact every other week: we described events and those to come, journalist Rosie Gray will take can shoot light into the brain to modulate neural activity and alleviate readers deep inside the secretive Breitbart world: its formation under Parkinson’s symptoms; we can turn depression-related symptoms on and provocateur Andrew Breitbart; its maturation under a Goldman Sachs off; and, we can view not only how thoughts are formed in the brain, but banker cum Biosphere 2 financier cum Riefenstahl-style documentarian; how they manifest in pathological conditions. and its ongoing relationship to Trump and Bannon while it positions

itself at the vanguard of journalism, reporting on and swelling the global In the vein of The Emperor of all Maladies and Complications, PROJECT tide of populist-nationalism. TOTAL RECALL is an ultimate insider’s account of cutting-edge neuroscience, which has launched a full-scale revolution in the way we Rosie Gray has been publishing viral, news-breaking stories about the treat and classify broken brains. Right for the past five years, commands a dedicated following of more than 70,000 Twitter followers, and appeared on many liberal and Steve Ramirez is an award-winning neuroscientist. He is a Junior Fellow conservative programs, pod casts, and radio shows. at Harvard University.

BREAK IT UP CHASING THE MOON The Secret History of America's Imperfect Union By Robert Stone and Alan Andres

By Richard Kreitner US publisher: Ballantine (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018

US publisher: Little, Brown (North American rights) Material available: Proposal available To publish: Fall 2019 Edited MS available in April 2018

Material available: Proposal available Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Harper UK) Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Timed for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing The fiery thesis of BREAK IT UP is simple: the United States did missions, CHASING THE MOON will tell a vivid, dramatic, and not and will never live up to its name. inspiring story of mankind’s greatest adventure.

The thirteen highly autonomous and distinct colonies could barely agree We think we know the history of the Space Race: the engineers who to fight Great Britain together, so a detailed plan for uniting them into a invented the machines that got us into space and the astronauts who democratic republic was certainly not in the offing in 1776. And ever went exploring there; the glory of missions like Apollo 13 and the infamy since our country's founding, there have been two inextinguishable of events like the Challenger disaster. Yet as told in the pages of warring forces in the American mind: the impulse to preserve the CHASING THE MOON, we see that the Space Race is not just a story Union, and the desire to dissolve it. The states of the United States of about rockets and astronauts, but also a narrative of how the quest to America have never been effectively united in the first place. land a man on the Moon was intimately linked to and affected by the political, social, and cultural scenes of the day. With a scholar's command, journalist's curiosity, and novelist's prose, Boston Globe contributor and Nation magazine editor Richard Kreitner will Part of what will make CHASING THE MOON unique is that it tells take readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, this multi-faceted history through a combination of new first-hand revealing how powerful and persistent disunion movements are. This eyewitness accounts and invaluable primary source archive materials and disunionist impulse found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as images, combining NASA’s enormous, yet neglected oral histories with BREAK IT UP will show, the seduction of secession has never gone discoveries found in government, television, and international news film away. In the way Nancy Isenberg's White Trash recently struck a national and radio archives that have been forgotten or hidden for decades. vein, or Colin Woodard's American Nations forced readers to think about regionalism, BREAK IT UP will help readers make fresh sense of our Robert Stone is an Academy Award nominated director who fractured age. Entertainment Weekly called “one of our most important documentary film makers”. Richard Kreitner is an editor at The Nation and his essays, reviews, and criticism have appeared in The Nation, The Boston Globe, and The Baffler. Alan Andres is a frequent collaborative writer for works of history, business, and psychology.

DEAR AMERICA

Edited by America Ferrera

US publisher: Gallery / S&S (World English rights) To publish: Fall 2019

Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in May 2018

DEAR AMERICA is a moving, revealing, colorful, personal, and surprising collection of stories from 30-40 prominent Americans from a variety of fields (entertainment, the arts, business, politics) about their personal immigration experience and/or the experience of their family, helmed by actress, producer, director, and activist America Ferrera, and anchored by her own powerful story about her parents’ immigrant roots in Honduras.

Examples of some of the people America would like to include—many of whom she knows already—are: Salma Hayek (Mexico), Gloria Estefan (Cuba), Mila Kunis (Ukraine), Charlize Theron (South Africa), M Night Shyamalan (India), Emily Blunt (England), Arnold Schwarzenegger (Austria), Mikhail Baryshnikov (Soviet Union), Colin Powell (Jamaica), Arianna Huffington (Greece), Natalie Portman (Israel), John Leguizamo (Colombia), Iman (Somalia), Madeleine Albright (Czech Republic), Wyclef Jean (Haiti), Rihanna (Barbados), Andy Garcia (Cuba), Jason Wu (Taiwan), Lupita Nyong'o (Kenya and Mexico), Junot Diaz (Dominican Republic), Kat Von D (Mexico), Nicki Minaj (Trinidad and Tobago), Dayo Okeniyi (Nigeria), Liam Neeson (Northern Ireland), Kumail Nanjiani (Pakistan), Mark Consuelos (born in Spain, raised in America with a Mexican father and Italian mother), Maria Sharapova (Russia). Examples of children of immigrants America would like to include are: Michelle Rodriguez (Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico), Alexis Bledel (Argentina and Mexico), DJ Khaled (Palestine), Julia Louis- Dreyfus (France), Mindy Kaling (India), Chrissy Teigen (Thailand), Louis CK (Mexico), and Raquel Welch (Bolivia).

UPCOMING FICTION

LAST CHRISTMAS IN PARIS

By Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb

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

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An unforgettable romantic novel of the Great War.

August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believe that it will be over by Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate the holiday among the romantic cafes of Paris. But as history tells us, it all happened so differently… Evie and Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged young lady, Evie longs to play a greater part in the conflict, and as Thomas struggles with the Praise for LAST CHRISTMAS IN PARIS: unimaginable realities of war he also faces battles back home where War Office regulations on press reporting cause trouble at his father’s “Last Christmas in Paris is an extraordinary epistolary novel that explores newspaper business. Through their letters, Evie and Thomas share their the history and aftermath of the Great War in a sensitive, memorable and greatest hopes and fears—and grow ever fonder from afar. Can love profoundly moving fashion. A book to savor, to share and discuss with flourish amid the horror of the First World War? friends, and above all to cherish.” – Jennifer Robson, author of Goodnight from London and Somewhere in France Christmas 1968. With failing health, Thomas returns to Paris—a cherished packet of letters in hand—determined to lay to rest the ghosts “For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society comes another of his past. But one final letter is waiting for him… terrific epistolary historical novel that is simply unputdownable…this remarkable novel will undoubtedly go on my keeper shelf.” – Karen Hazel Gaynor is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author White, New York Times bestselling author of The Night the Lights of four novels, including A Memory of Violets and The Who Came Home. Went Out

Heather Webb is the acclaimed historical fiction author of Becoming Josephine, Rodin's Lover, and the fiction anthology Fall of Poppies.

WINTER KEPT US WARM

By Anne Raeff

US publisher: Counterpoint (North American rights) To publish: February 2018

Material available: Final PDF available

A bold and haunting novel that sets love against the brutality of WWII and post-war life

Ulli is a young woman, half-English and half-German, squatting in a dismal, empty Berlin apartment, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between Berlin-based GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night, Ulli meets two American soldiers: Leo, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small town upbringing; and intellectual, asthmatic Isaac, whose refugee parents had fled Russia and then Paris for New York.

WINTER KEPT US WARM follows Ulli, Leo, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives—from Berlin to post-war Manhattan, 1960s Los Angeles, and Morocco. A marriage. Two children. And yet, only one parent. At the core of this novel is the mystery of how this Praise for Anne Raeff’s previous book, THE JUNGEL came to be; not a chronological narrative, we explore the dark corners AROUND US: and lantern slides of these characters' lives, revealing in pieces and fragments what became of their long ago love triangle set against the brutality of post-war living. *Winner of the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction* WINTER KEPT US WARM is an evocative story of family, filled to the brim with unforgettable characters stitching together the deep “Stirring in its subdued depiction of sexual longing and the desire to start threads of love, friendship, loyalty, and, of course, loss. over, Raeff’s collection finds hope amid life’s tangled vines.” – Booklist

Anne Raeff’s short story collection, The Jungle Around Us, won the 2015 “In many of these perfectly controlled tales, a wilderness of emotion lies Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories and essays have beneath the surface… The jungle itself is ever present, sometimes literally appeared in New England Review, ZYZZYVA, and Guernica, among other and always metaphorically, a living force within and without.” places. – San Francisco Chronicle

THE WILD INSIDE (formerly known as THE KILLING DRINK)

By Jamey Bradbury

US publisher: William Morrow (North American rights) To publish: March 2018

Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2017

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A promising talent makes her electrifying debut with this unforgettable novel, set in the Alaskan wilderness, that is a fusion of psychological thriller and coming-of-age tale in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Chris Bohjalian, and Mary Kubica.

A natural born trapper and hunter raised in the Alaska wilderness, Tracy Petrikoff spends her days tracking animals and running with her dogs in the remote forests surrounding her family’s home. Though she feels safe in this untamed land, Tracy still follows her late mother’s rules: Never Lose Sight of the House. Never Come Home with Dirty Hands. And, above all else, Never Make a Person Bleed. It soon becomes clear that something dangerous is going on…the way Jesse has wormed his way into the family…the threatening face of the But these precautions aren’t enough to protect Tracy when a stranger stranger in a crowd…the boot-prints she finds at the forest's edge. attacks her in the woods and knocks her unconscious. The next Her family is in trouble. Will uncovering the truth protect them—or is morning, she glimpses an eerily familiar man emerge from the tree line, the threat closer than Tracy suspects? gravely injured from a vicious knife wound—a wound from a hunting knife similar to the one she carries in her pocket. Was this the man who Jamey Bradbury’s fiction has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Sou’wester, attacked her, and did she almost kill him? With her memories of the and Zone 3. THE WILD INSIDE is her first book. events jumbled, Tracy can’t be sure.

Helping her father cope with her mother’s death and prepare for the approaching Iditarod, she doesn’t have time to think about what she may have done. Then a mysterious wanderer appears, looking for a job. Tracy senses that Jesse Goodwin is hiding something, but she can’t warn her father without explaining about the attack—or why she’s kept it to herself.

A LADY’S GUIDE TO SELLING OUT

By Sally Franson

US publisher: Random House (North American rights) To publish: April 2018

Material available: Edited MS available

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An ambitious young woman navigates the slippery world of advertising—and the equally slippery question of who she wants to be. Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada in this smart and witty debut novel.

“Funny, fast-paced, and seductive, A LADY’S GUIDE TO SELLING OUT is about books and sex and ambition and love and money and the various undeniable attractions of staying true to oneself versus (for the right price) selling out. Sally Franson’s debut novel is hilariously terrific.” – Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members

Casey Pendergast, once a book-loving English major, is now a clothes- Praise for A LADY’S GUIDE TO SELLING OUT: loving brand strategist at a top ad agency. Casey is a superstar, and her career has skyrocketed: she knows what people want, and she knows “Casey is an unforgettable heroine, a feminist Don Draper for our age, how to give it to them. When her hard-to-please boss assigns her to a navigating the bizarre ways in which art and commerce intersect. Sally top-secret marketing campaign that pairs authors with corporations Franson’s debut is exhilarating, terrifying, and totally addictive.” hungry for creative copy and upmarket cache, Casey is initially thrilled- – Lucy Sykes, author of The Knockoff -but as she begins to meet and woo her literary idols, she can't help but question the cost on her conscience. With an unforgettable voice-- “If Jane Austen’s Emma and Dorothy Parker had a three-way with plucky and razor-sharp, equal parts feminist and pop-culture--this is David Copperfield (not the magician), Casey Pendergast would be their the story of a young woman untangling the contradictions of our wisecracking, heartbroken love child. In Sally Franson’s smart, funny, culture, and finding her way out of the rat race by returning to her first and sharp-eyed novel, terrible mistakes are made and, mostly, rectified. love: literature. A happy ending, a true heart, and a very good and clever time. Perfect.” – Amy Bloom, author of Away Sally Franson is an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. A LADY’S GUIDE TO SELLING OUT is her debut novel.

THE WEIGHT OF AN INFINITE SKY

By Carrie La Seur

US publisher: William Morrow / HarperCollins To publish: Spring 2018

Material available: Final PDF available

The critically acclaimed author of The Home Place explores the heart and mystery of Big Sky Country in this evocative and atmospheric novel of family, home, love, and responsibility, inspired by William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

The only son of a cattle rancher, Anthony Fry chafed against the expectation that he would take over the business that had belonged to his family for generations. While his ancestors had planted deep roots in the unforgiving Montana soil, Anthony wanted nothing more than to leave Billings for the excitement, sophistication, and culture of city life. After college he fled to New York, hoping to turn his lifelong love of the theater into a career.

But New York wasn’t the dream Anthony thought it would be. Now, Carrie La Seur is an energy and environmental lawyer in Billings, with the unexpected death of his father, Anthony suddenly finds himself Montana. She earned a doctorate in modern languages from Oxford back in the place he swore he’d left behind. While the years have University as a Rhodes scholar, a law degree from Yale, and a bachelor's transformed the artistic dreamer, they’ve also changed Billings. His uncle degree magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Neal, always the black sheep of the Fry family, has become alarmingly the critically acclaimed debut novel The Home Place, and a licensed private close with Anthony’s mother, and a predatory mining company covets pilot who hikes, skis, and fishes the Montana wilderness with her family the Fry land. in her spare time.

Anthony has always wanted out of Montana, away from his father’s suffocating expectations. Yet now that he may be freed from the burden of family legacy, he’s forced to ask himself what he truly finds Praise for THE HOME PLACE: important…questions that will ultimately decide his fate. “La Seur entices readers with impeccable prose imbued with a blend of In this unforgettable novel, Carrie La Seur once again captures the romance, nostalgia and suspense.” – Kirkus breathtaking beauty of the West and its people as she explores the power of family and the meaning of legacy—the burdens we inherit and those “Powerfully evocative and page-turning.” – Rosamund Lupton, New we place upon ourselves. York Times bestselling author of Sister and Afterwards

THE MAP OF SALT AND STARS her family are forced to flee as refugees across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety—along the very route By Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar Nour’s fabled mapmakers took nine hundred years before in their quest to map the world. As they decide to take the risk, the journey becomes more and more dangerous as they make their way towards Europe, and US publisher: Touchstone / S&S (North American rights) Nour must do everything she can to keep her family together. To publish: May 2018 Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar is the daughter of a Muslim father and a Material available: Edited MS available Syrian Christian mother. THE MAP OF SALT AND STARS is her first book. Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency

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THE MAP OF SALT AND STARS is a brilliant tour de force that turns the Syrian refugee crisis from a news story into a deeply human story.

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

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

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

To publish: Fall 2018 The second voice is that of Althea Foley, the African-American cook in

Hearn’s boarding house in Cincinnati, where he began his rapid rise as a Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2018 newspaper reporter. In defiance of Ohio’s anti-miscegenation laws,

Althea married Hearn, only to have the marriage declared void after his Rights sold: Germany (CH Beck) death. Her telling is a passionate defense of marriage for love.

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

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

THE GARDEN PARTY LOVELOCK (formerly titled ABOUT TIME) By Heather Young By Grace Dane Mazur US publisher: William Morrow (North American rights) US publisher: Random House (World English rights) To publish: Fall 2018 To publish: June 2018 Material available: Partial MS available Material available: Edited MS available in December 2017 Edited MS available in February 2018

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A rehearsal dinner brings together two disparate families in a Set in the Great Basin, the cradle of humanity’s history in the sparkling social satire set over the course of a single day, for readers Americas, LOVELOCK will examine the bonds between mothers of Lily King, Maggie Shipstead, and Rachel Cusk. and sons, sons and fathers, and the debts we owe our dead, both recent and distant.

This enchanting novel takes place in Brookline, Massachusetts, where On Pi Day, the math teacher in the small Nevada town of Lovelock dinner in the garden is bringing together two families on the night before turns up burned to death in the middle of the desert. After the murder the wedding that should unite them. The families are not unfriendly but investigation stalls, the town is quick to forget the quiet, unassuming they are shy and leery of each other. The Barlows are a Wall Street man who moved to Lovelock only seven months before. But history Journal-reading family of lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, teacher Claire, one of the few people who befriended him, starts to corporations and war crimes, golf and tennis. The Cohens are wildly wonder: why would he leave a professorship at the University of impractical intellectuals, including a biologist who has studied why Nevada to teach middle school math in a dead-end place like Lovelock? scorpions glow in the dark; a social activist who always needs rescuing; What was he running from? What was he hiding? And what about her and a historian of the cooking of ancient Babylonian who is trying, while student, the misfit boy who found the body but won’t tell anyone what hosting the dinner party, to figure out whether Time is really shaped like he was doing out in the sagebrush in the middle of the night? baklava. Over the course of the day, it becomes clear that neither family is more eccentric than the other. As Claire probes the mystery of Adam Merkel’s life and horrifying death, she ends up reconsidering her own life, including the tragedy Featuring an ensemble cast of exceptionally vivid characters ranging in that forced her to abandon her dream becoming an anthropologist and age from three to the late nineties, Grace Mazur's wonderfully lyrical her complicated relationships with the men she loves: her 12-year-old novel is an irresistible portrayal of miscommunication, secrets, and the son, her deadbeat ex-husband, and, most of all, the father she adores power of love. but can’t forgive.

Grace Dane Mazur is the previous author of Trespress, her debut novel Heather Young is the previous author of The Lost Girls, which is published in 2002, along with Silk, a collection of short stories. currently nominated for the Edgar Award. She currently works as fiction editor at Tupelo Press.

THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S DAUGHTER LEADING MEN

By Hazel Gaynor By Christopher Castellani

US publisher: William Morrow (World English rights) To publish: Fall 2018 US publisher: Viking / Penguin (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in March 2018 Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2018

A dazzling novel inspired by the extraordinary women who kept LEADING MEN reimagines a missing week in Tennessee the lights in America and England over the past 200 years. Williams’s life, when he and his lover and muse – the charming, carousing New Jersey-born sailor named Frank Merlo – were 1838: Northumberland, England: Twenty-two-year-old Grace Darling spending the summer of 1953 in Italy. lives a quiet life with her parents at Longstone Lighthouse where her father, William, is the lightkeeper. When Grace assists her father with the Based on Williams’ voluminous diaries and correspondence with friends, rescue of survivors of a shipwreck in a furious storm, her notoriety Castellani retraces the events from July 28th – August 7th of 1953, during quickly spreads throughout England. Feted by royalty and admired by which Williams mentioned his encounter with an alluring Swedish artists who flock to the lighthouse to paint her portrait, Grace becomes a mother and daughter in Portofino. reluctant heroine. When artist, Charles Lovelace, becomes stranded at Longstone during a storm, he and Grace develop a close friendship but Like Colm Toibin’s The Master, Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, and despite the longing in her heart, Grace cannot allow herself to fall in Jess Walters’ Beautiful Ruins, LEADING MEN is a tour de force that love. Charles confesses his feelings for Grace in a letter which he navigates the space between the facts of famous lives and what can be conceals behind his portrait, and when Grace tragically dies, Charles is imagined of their private worlds. Its setting amid the sparkling cities of devastated. His letter remains hidden, and his portrait of Grace falls into 1950s Italy will transport readers to a brief, shining moment where obscurity. brilliant minds, beautiful faces, and legendary talent converged.

1938: Newport, Rhode Island. On the night of her wedding, a Christopher Castellani is the author of three novels published by desperately unhappy bride walks into the ocean. But she is saved by the Algonquin Books: All This Talk of Love, a New York Times Editors’ reclusive local lighthouse keeper, and is given a second chance to make Choice; The Saint of Lost Things; and A Kiss From Maddalena, winner of the something of her life. Unaware of a dangerous storm developing Massachusetts Book Award. He is also the author of The Art of Perspective: hundreds of miles away, the new Mrs. Calloway tries to make the best of Who Tells the Story, part of the Graywolf Press series on the craft of things, but she cannot stop thinking about the lighthouse keeper who writing, edited by Charles Baxter. Castellani is the artistic director of the saved her life, nor the captivating portrait of a young Victorian woman creative writing center GrubStreet in Boston and is on the fiction faculty given to her as a wedding gift. of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He is working on a new novel, Leading Hazel Gaynor is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Men, for which he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014. of four novels, including A Memory of Violets and The Who Came Home.

THE CONCRETE THE LAST TIME I LIED

By Daniel Abbott By Riley Sager

US publisher: Ig Books (World English) US publisher: Dutton / Penguin Random House (NA rights) To publish: Summer 2018 To publish: Fall 2018

Material available: Edited MS available in Winter 2018 Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2018

In the spirit of Moonlight, Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Rights sold: Brazil (Autentica) Killings, and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude comes the Germany (dtv) Holland (Ambo Anthos) story of an entangled community epic, set in the southeast side of Sweden (Modernista) Grand Rapids, MI, centering around the lives of two foster brothers UK/Commonwealth (Ebury) with secret intersecting histories, who struggle to break out from the circle of the past, and discover that the past isn't so willing to let Horrible things can happen in the loveliest of places. Emma Davis them go. knows that from experience.

At its heart, THE CONCRETE is about the narratives that build us Camp Nightingale sits on the banks of bucolic Lake Midnight in the and break us; the profound moments imprinted in memory; the Adirondacks. For decades, the camp welcomed generations of young important life events that change us. It’s a book about people, their women who spent their summers swimming, sailing and hiking. That all ugliness, their beauty—and their hope. We understand these changed in 2003, when three girls—Vivian, Allison and Natalie—left characters. We root for them, even when we don’t believe in them, even their cabin in the dead of night and never returned. while we watch the last strands of their lives unravelling, and the new strands just beginning. No one knows what happened to them. Not even Emma, the 13-year-old cabin mate they left behind. Now 28 and a promising painter, Emma is Daniel Abbott is a former United States Marine and JUCO basketball still haunted by her friends’ disappearance. Her work gets the attention of player from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received his BA from Grand Francesca Harris-White, the wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale who Valley State University and his MFA from the Vermont College of Fine intends to re-open the place as an arts camp. She invites Emma to spend Arts. THE CONCRETE marks his debut. the summer there teaching painting. Emma agrees.

Soon after her arrival, it becomes clear to Emma that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. What Emma doesn’t realize until it’s too late is that the past has caught up to the present. To keep that from happening, Emma must face threats from both man and nature until she has uncovered all of Lake Midnight’s secrets—including what really happened to Vivian, Allison and Natalie all those years ago.

Riley Sager is the author of the critically acclaimed thriller FINAL GIRLS, and an editor and graphic designer.

WHEN WE DISAPPEAR PEOPLE OF MEANS

By Lise Haines By Kathy Wang

US publisher: Unbridled Books (North American rights) US publisher: William Morrow (North American rights) To publish: June 2018 To publish: Fall 2018

Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2017 Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2018

A masterful account of how people lie to themselves and to each PEOPLE OF MEANS is a skewering portrait of Silicon Valley and other, and at the way a buried secret can eat away at love and its rich-beyond-belief denizens—an Asian-American version of The purpose, WHEN WE DISAPPEAR bears comparison to the work Nest. A comedy of manners with the biting humor of Where’d You of Jennifer Haigh, Mona Simpson and Elizabeth Strout. Swinging Go Bernadette? and Crazy Rich Asians, Kathy Wang brilliantly family in crisis, yet detached from reality; and, ultimately, a very combines a keen observational wit and sympathy for her deeply human story. flawed characters.

WHEN WE DISAPPEAR is written from two perspectives: that of When Stanley Huang, the patriarch of the Huang family, is diagnosed Mona, a young woman growing up in Chicago, and that of Richard, her with pancreatic cancer, his wife, ex-wife, son and daughter are deeply father. Mona’s parents are unable to cope in the material world. concerned. Mostly for Stanley himself, of course, but also for the fate of Elizabeth, a dedicated but struggling artist, tries to pay the bills through his estate. He’s been dropping hints that he’s worth millions of dollars, dead-end jobs; Richard, an insurance salesman, leaves Chicago to take a and he wants to make sure he leaves his mark on the world. well-paying position but loses his commissions to a fraudulent boss. The result is that 19-year-old Mona, a talented photographer, has to become His son Fred’s career as a venture capitalist is hanging by a thread (as is the rock of the family for her younger sister, Lola, even as she begins her Fred’s love life). His good-girl daughter Kate has gone and kicked out her own, tentative exploration of the world, while the family grows poorer wannabe entrepreneur husband and befriended his former mistress. Their and poorer. mother and Stanley’s ex-wife Linda Liang appears to be addicted to online dating, and may possibly be engaged to a scam artist. Each of At the heart of the family’s struggle lies a terrible event that occurred them could use a little of the Huang family fortune. when Mona was a little girl, a day of betrayal that haunts Richard, propelling him away into a world of fantasy, and that wounds Elizabeth, As Stanley’s condition worsens, Fred, Kate, and Linda are confronted sending her into a cocoon of denial. with a series of romantic and career catastrophes, and the entire family is dragged into a shared chaos. The Huangs will find out if the threat of Tom Perrotta had this to say: “WHEN WE DISAPPEAR tells the money will rip them apart—or bring them closer than they’d ever want to story of a family and a country fallen on hard times, and burdened by the be. weight of the past. Lise Haines is a novelist of great empathy and penetrating insight.” Kathy Wang is a graduate of Harvard Business School and a resident of Silicon Valley, who knows the culture that informs her debut novel all Lise Haines is the author of In My Sister’s Country, Small Acts of Sex and too well. Electricity, and Girl In The Arena.

AERIALISTS Stories

By Mark Mayer

US publisher: Bloomsbury (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2019

Material available: Edited MS available in Winter 2018

In Mark Mayer’s award-winning debut collection (these deft and daring stories have won the Michener-Copernicus Prize), lonely misfits yearn for connection in a world gone slightly askew.

A young boy attempting to navigate his parents’ divorce finds a mentor in his mother’s new best friend, a tough-talking female bodybuilder. A retired circus elephant dies, inspiring his devoted caretaker to arrange a suitable funeral, with inadvertently ghoulish results. A navy recruit grapples with the impending loss of his childhood and girlfriend by building an exact replica of his neighborhood in code. From a telepathic deaf-mute teen at Niagara Falls to a basement-dwelling, revolution- plotting Jewish Communist outside of Denver, Mayer’s stories illuminate the lives of small scale American spectaculars, rendering their attempted acts of daring and feats of strength with humor, generosity, and uncommon grace.

Mark Mayer is a PhD candidate at the University of Denver, with an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Teaching- Writing Fellow and won the Prairie Lights Prize for both fiction and poetry. He has received fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, and Whiting Foundation Writer’s Aid, among many others. His fiction has won honors from Granta, Glimmer Train, and Playboy.

UPCOMING CHILDREN’S & YA

THE WONDERLING series

By Mira Bartók

US publisher: Candlewick (North American rights) To publish: September 2017; Spring 2019

Material available: Final PDF available

Rights sold: Czech Republic (Euromedia) France (Laffont) Germany (Aladin) Latin America (Panamericana) Slovakia (Ikar) UK/Commonwealth (Walker Books)

In this extraordinary debut novel with its deft nod to Dickensian heroes and rogues, Mira Bartók tells the story of Arthur, a shy, foxlike foundling with only one ear and a desperate desire to belong, as he seeks his destiny.

Welcome to the Home for Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures, an institution run by evil Miss Carbunkle, a cunning villainess who believes her terrified young charges exist only to serve and suffer. Part animal and Praise for THE WONDERLING: part human, the groundlings toil in classroom and factory, forbidden to enjoy anything regular children have, most particularly singing and music. “Bartók’s language is full of rich description and effulgent inventories of For the Wonderling, an innocent-hearted, one-eared, foxlike eleven-year- food and places…Bartók’s lovely, detailed illustrations and drawings old with only a number rather than a proper name—a 13 etched on a throughout support the sense of enchantment in this imaginative medallion around his neck—it is the only home he has ever known. adventure. Captivating.” – Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW

But unexpected courage leads him to acquire the loyalty of a young bird “Written with clear and detailed descriptions, this novel drops readers groundling named Trinket, who gives the Home’s loneliest inhabitant into a strange, magical, mythical, and mechanical world… A stellar new two incredible gifts: a real name—Arthur, like the good king in the old contribution to fantasy that should find a place in every middle grade stories—and a best friend. Using Trinket’s ingenious invention, the pair collection.” – School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW escape over the wall and embark on an adventure that will take them out into the wider world and ultimately down the path of sweet Arthur’s true destiny. “Bartók gives readers a richly imagined fantasy landscape to lose themselves in.” – Publishers Weekly

Mira Bartok is the previous author of The Memory Palace.

THE MAGIC MISFITS series

By Neil Patrick Harris

US publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (NA rights) To publish: November 2017; Fall 2018; Fall 2019; Fall 2020

Material available: Final PDF available

Rights sold: Australia/New Zealand (Hardie Grant) Brazil (Vergera & Riba) China (CITIC) Denmark (Carlsen) France (Bayard) Germany (Schneiderbuch) Israel (Yedioth) Italy (Il Castoro) Poland (Znak) Portugal (Zero a Oito) Romania (Editura Art) Russia (AST) Spain (RBA Libros) Turkey (Yabanci) Neil Patrick Harris is an accomplished actor, producer, director, host, UK (Egmont UK) and author. He is also a father of six-year-old twins. Harris served as

President of the Academy of Magical Arts from 2011–2014. "I read this book with excitement, delight, and the increasing suspicion that it was going to make me disappear." – Lemony Snicket, author of the bestselling series A Series of Unfortunate Praise for THE MAGIC MISFITS: Events and All the Wrong Questions "An earnest message about discovering the magic in the world and When street magician Carter runs away, he never expects to find friends finding the family that suits you.” – Kirkus and magic in a sleepy New England town. But like any good trick, things change instantly as greedy B.B. Bosso and his crooked crew arrive to "The approachable length and lively, funny writing will ensure this book, steal anything they can get their sticky fingers on. After a fateful the first in a series, performs its own vanishing act from shelves." encounter with the local illusionist, Carter teams up with five other kids. – Booklist Together, using both teamwork and magic, they'll set out to save their town from Bosso. These six Magic Misfits will soon discover adventure, "A rollicking ride of a magical tale that's wholesomely suspenseful, values friendship, and their own self-worth in this delightful new series. friendship, and applauds courage." – School Library Journal

PROPERTY OF THE ANARCHIST LIBRARIAN ASK EMILY series

By Allison Varnes By Sheryl Berk with Carrie Berk

US publisher: Random House Children’s (WE rights) US publisher: Little B/Bonnier (WE rights) To publish: Fall 2018 To publish: Fall 2018

Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2018 Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2018

In the spirit of The View from Saturday or an aged-up Frindle In this middle school book series “inspired” by Jane Austen’s Emma comes a tremendously topical and fun middle-grade novel by but set in the modern social media world kids know so well, 13- English teacher Allison Varnes. year-old Emily Woods can't help minding other people's business. She’s constantly trying to help her peers, which only creates even When fourteen-year-old June Harper’s parents discover her profanity- more trouble, despite her good intentions. laced library book, Eleanor and Park, they take strict parenting to a whole new level—to administration and ultimately to the school board. Emily can’t stop poking her nose where it doesn’t belong. She simply Everything June loves about Dogwood High unravels: librarian Ms. can't stand to see her two best friends Maizie and Harriet fighting; a Bradshaw is suspended, an author appearance is canceled, the library teacher at Austen Middle School assigning homework over a holiday gutted, and all books on the premises must have administrative approval. weekend; the student government election being hijacked by the resident mean girl. But June can’t give up books, and realizes she doesn't have to when she spies a Little Free Library on a nearby street. As the noose tightens at She starts a blog "Ask Emily" so her peers can write in and ask for her school and at home, she keeps turning the pages of her newest banned help—and Em can make her voice heard. But while she's "fixing" all books found nearby. She then does the unthinkable: she creates a these problems (all common middle school woes) a new boy, Jackson, banned book library of her own in an empty locker. The risks of her new arrives at school. Em thinks he's cute, and immediately wants to help him library grow alongside its rising popularity, and a movement begins at make friends and fit in. But Jax doesn't want her help. She realizes she's Dogwood High. A movement that, if exposed, could destroy her. But if crushing on him and for the first time in her life she can't fix her own it’s powerful enough, it could be just the thing to save Ms. Bradshaw and problem! what she represents—the freedom to read. The book will also have an advice section where kids can write in with Allison Varnes has taught English in special education for eight years, their questions and 14-year-old author Carrie interviews an expert or kid and once had to convince administrators that The Lion, the Witch, and the celeb to answer them. Wardrobe was not an actual endorsement of witchcraft. She is currently a Ph.D. student in English Education at The University of Tennessee. Sheryl Berk is the author of “The Cupcake Club” series, among many others, and her daughter Carrie experiences is a peer mediator and blogger in middle school.

THE WITCH MACHINE

By Michael Poore

US publisher: Random House Children’s (World English rights) To publish: Fall 2019

Material available: Edited MS available in Summer 2018

From the critically acclaimed author of the adult novel REINCARNATION BLUES comes Michael Poore’s debut middle grade, THE WITCH MACHINE, full of the same irrepressible style and humor for young readers.

Everything has a spirit. Your parents. The wind. Cows. Even macaroni and cheese. Most people can’t see the magic in ordinary objects, but after ten-year-old Amy Woods is struck by lightning, she can see everything.

So can her best friend Moo, ever since she smacked her head on a rock and went mute. They decide to call their newfound powers “Deep Science”—because what is science, after all, than magic that has yet to be explained? Best yet, they can see time- and with a little elbow grease, a rocking chair, and an old clock, they are able to fashion themselves a time machine that takes them thirty years into the past before breaking into little bits and stranding them.

But being stuck in time isn’t Amy and Moo’s only problem. There’s a kid-eating witch who is stalking them wherever and whenever they go, and Amy’s parents are in terrible danger back in the present. Together, they have to escape being caught up by “helpful” adults, avoid being eaten, and somehow find a way to get back to the present to save Amy’s parents. Will our heroes make it in time?

Michael Poore is the author of Up Jumps the Devil (Ecco 2012) and the Reincarnation Blues (Del Rey 2017).

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