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CONTENTS

Henry Holt Nonfiction 3 Molly Ball | PELOSI ​ ​ Darrin Bell | THE TALK ​ ​ Peter Ames Carlin | SONIC BOOM ​ ​ Charles J. Chaput | THINGS WORTH DYING FOR ​ ​ Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz | SALMON WARS ​ ​ Chelsea Conaboy | MOTHER BRAIN ​ ​ William Deresiewicz | THE DEATH OF THE ARTIST ​ ​ Jamie Ducharme | BIG VAPE ​ ​ Benjamin Carter Hett | THE NAZI MENACE ​ ​ Austen Ivereigh | WOUNDED SHEPHERD ​ ​ Gary Janetti | WHEN IS THIS OVER? ​ ​ Kimberly Jones | HOW WE CAN WIN ​ ​ Paul Koudounaris | A CAT’S TALE ​ ​ Betsy McKay | DISEASE X ​ ​ Bill McKibben | FALTER ​ ​ Tracie McMillan | THE WHITE BONUS ​ ​ Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner | THE PLUNDER YEARS ​ ​ Bill O’Reilly | KILLING CRAZY HORSE ​ ​ Keith Phipps | AGE OF CAGE ​ ​ Rina Raphael | THE GOSPEL OF WELLNESS ​ ​ Alec Ross | THE FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE ​ Carl Safina | BECOMING WILD ​ ​ Jamie Thompson | STANDOFF ​ ​ Linda Yablonsky | AMERICAN ARTIST ​ ​ Henry Holt Fiction 28 Laurie Frankel | ONE TWO THREE ​ ​ Laurie Gelman | YOGA PANT NATION ​ ​ Josh Riedel | PLEASE REPORT YOUR BUG HERE ​ ​ M.J. Rose and Fiona Davis, editors | STORIES FROM SUFFRAGETTE CITY ​ ​

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Metropolitan Books 33 Andrew Bacevich | THE AGE OF ILLUSIONS | AFTER THE APOCALYPSE ​ ​ ​ ​ Monica Black | A DEMON-HAUNTED LAND ​ ​ Noam Chomsky with James Peck | Untitled Conversations with Noam Chomsky ​ ​ ​ Elliott Currie | A PECULIAR INDIFFERENCE ​ ​ Thomas Frank | THE PEOPLE, NO ​ ​ Greg Grandin | THE END OF THE MYTH ​ ​ Mara Kardas-Nelson | THE POVERTY TRAP ​ ​ Robin D. G. Kelley | BLACK BODIES SWINGING ​ ​ Edward Snowden |PERMANENT RECORD ​ ​ Jeffrey Veidlinger | IN THE MIDST OF CIVILIZED EUROPE ​ ​ Leana Wen | PUBLIC HEALTH SAVED YOUR LIFE TODAY ​ ​ Andy Cohen Books 45 Dave Quinn |NOT ALL DIAMONDS AND ROSÉ ​ ​ Backlist Highlights 47 Henry Beston | THE OUTERMOST HOUSE ​ ​ Erich Fromm | ESCAPE FROM FREEDOM ​ ​ Elizabeth Warren | THIS FIGHT IS OUR FIGHT ​ ​ FOREIGN AGENTS REPRESENTING HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 51

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Molly Ball PELOSI *A New York Times Bestseller* ​ ​ Publication: May 2020 Finished books available ​ ​ Editor: Serena Jones and Madeline Jones ​

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a newly minted icon, celebrated as a hero of the women’s movement and a worthy foil to Donald Trump. The first biography of Speaker Pelosi in a decade, Ball’s nuanced, page-turning portrait shows Pelosi through a thoroughly modern lens, based on exclusive interviews with the Speaker and deep background reporting.

Ball explores why one of the few examples of a woman holding such a high office now for the second time is also one of politics’ most complicated and controversial figures of the last 30 years. What Pelosi has managed to accomplish legislatively, how she is perceived by the public, and what the next couple of years hold for her career offer a unique snapshot of this current political moment.

Molly Ball is a political journalist and appears regularly as an analyst on NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation, PBS’s Washington Week, CNN, MSNBC, Fox ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ News, and NPR. She was formerly TIME magazine's national political correspondent and covered U.S. ​ ​ politics for The Atlantic and Politico. She is the winner of the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize and the Toner ​ ​ ​ Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, among others, and lives in Washington, D.C.

“[An] illuminating new biography of the most powerful woman in American politics.” —Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times Book Review

“[A] smart, solid biography with a lesson: Despite our current fixation on political showmanship, politics works best in a complicated democracy like ours when its practitioners can navigate their way through the byzantine cloakrooms of power.” —Joe Klein, The Washington Post ​

“Molly Ball’s Pelosi is the inspirational political book we’ve all been waiting for. In this dark season, Ball shines ​ ​ a light on the nearly heroic Speaker and her unwavering commitment to truth, justice, and well-tailored jackets. This is the definitive biography of an icon.” —Vanessa Grigoriadis, author of Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus ​

“An engrossing and deeply reported political biography of an astute and powerful woman. Molly Ball’s lively portrait of Nancy Pelosi, twice Speaker of the House, is packed with sage insights and telling anecdotes. —Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

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Darrin Bell THE TALK

Publication: September 2022 Manuscript available October 2021 ​ ​ Editor: Retha Powers ​

Acquired in a two book deal, this graphic memoir by a Pulitzer Prize winner for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the “the talk” parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that—to paraphrase Toni Morrison—does not love them.

Darrin Bell was 6 years old when his mother told him he couldn’t play with a white friend’s realistic water gun. “She told me I’m a lot more likely to be shot by police than my friend was if they saw me with it, because police tend to think little Black boys—even light-skinned ones—are older than they really are, and less innocent than they really are.” Her worry was well-founded: years later in 2014, a policeman shot and killed Tamir Rice as the 12-year-old boy played with a toy gun in a Cleveland, Ohio park. No charges were brought against the officers.

Now with a 6-year-old son of his own, Bell examines how "the talk" has shaped nearly every moment of his life into adulthood and fatherhood. Through evocative original illustrations, THE TALK is a meditation on ​ this coming of age—as Bell becomes painfully aware of being regarded as dangerous by white teachers, neighbors, and strangers, and thus of his mortality. Drawing attention to the brutal murders of African Americans like Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, and showcasing his award-winning cartoons along the way, Bell takes us up to the very moment of reckoning when people took to the streets protesting the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

Darrin Bell is the recipient of various awards including the 2016 Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning, the 2015 RFK Jr. award for Editorial Cartooning, and the 2019 Pulitzer for Editorial Cartooning. The Pulitzer board praised Darrin for taking on "issues affecting disenfranchised communities, calling out lies, hypocrisy and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration." Bell has created two syndicated cartoons: Candorville and Rudy Park. He attended UC Berkeley and currently lives in Los Angeles. ​ ​ ​ ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

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Peter Ames Carlin SONIC BOOM The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros. Records, from Hendrix to Fleetwood Mac to Madonna to Prince

Publication: January 2021 Manuscript available ​ ​ Editor: Kerry Cullen ​

In SONIC BOOM, bestselling music journalist Peter Ames Carlin captures the ​ ​ rollicking story of the most successful record label in the history of rock and roll, Warner Brothers Records, and the remarkable secret to its meteoric rise.

The roster of Warner Bros. Records is legendary. Its stars include everybody from Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead, to Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, to Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles, to Prince and Madonna. But the most astonishing figures in the Warner Bros. story are the sagacious Mo Ostin and his unlikely crew of hippies, eccentrics, and enlightened execs. They were the first to read the counter-cultural writing on the wall in the mid-1960s and 1970s, turning a struggling, out-of-touch company into the central voice it became. In doing so, they revolutionized the way the music industry worked and, within just a few years, created the most successful record label in its history.

Warner Bros. Records’ story is as raucous as it is inspiring, pure entertainment that also doubles as a case study in finding the perfect balance between art and commerce.

Peter Ames Carlin is a writer and the author of several books, including Bruce, a biography of Bruce ​ ​ ​ Springsteen published in October, 2012. Carlin has also been a freelance journalist, a senior writer at People, ​ ​ and a television columnist and feature writer at The Oregonian in Portland. A regular speaker on music, art and ​ ​ ​ ​ popular culture, Carlin lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and three children.

“Music journalist Carlin (Bruce) relays in his characteristic colorful style how music mogul Mo Ostin built ​ ​ Warner Bros. Records into an industry leader . . . Those looking for a gossipy tell-all won’t find one here; Ostin stuck with a formula, trusted and invested in his artists, took the music seriously, and honored the intelligence and taste of his customers. This brisk portrait of the man who made Warner Bros. into a powerhouse offers essential reading on the business and history of popular music.” —Publishers Weekly ​

Praise for Bruce: ​ ​

“Interviews with bandmates, family members, and exes paint an unflinching portrait of the rock icon . . . [Carlin] dives into Springsteen’s personal life in unprecedented depth . . . No previous biographer has uncovered as much about Springsteen’s family.” —Rolling Stone ​

Praise for Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon: ​

“You can almost hear the melodic anthems Simon created through Carlin's exhaustively researched, deeply-felt prose.” —Harper's Bazaar ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Writers House ​ ​ ​

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Charles J. Chaput THINGS WORTH DYING FOR Thoughts on a Life Worth Living

Publication: March 2021 Manuscript available ​ ​ Editor: Serena Jones ​

With a balance of wisdom, candor, and scholarly rigor, the beloved Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia Charles J. Chaput takes on life’s central questions: why are we here, and how can we live and die meaningfully? THINGS ​ WORTH DYING FOR traces human history from ancient times to today in order to uncover the threads of connection in our yearning for God, love, honor, beauty, truth, and immortality. The archbishop looks at our modern age of consumption and individualism and offers a penetrating analysis of how we got here, and how we can look to our roots and our faith to find meaning each day amid the noise of competing desires. His meditations on the meaning of life in the modern world help fellow believers find meaning and ultimately conclude that the things worth dying for are the things worth living for.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap., was named archbishop of ​ Philadelphia in 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI. As a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, he was the second Native American to be ordained a bishop in the United States and is the first Native American archbishop. Chaput is the author of Living the ​ Catholic Faith: Rediscovering the Basics, Render unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political ​ ​ Life, and Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World, as well as numerous articles ​ ​ ​ and public talks.

Praise for Strangers in a Strange Land: ​ ​

“Erudite and eloquent . . his book should be read by serious-minded people of whatever religious, partisan or intellectual inclination.” —The Wall Street Journal ​

“Chaput’s observations on Western culture are keen, and while secular-minded readers will find plenty to argue with, his writing will appeal to a wide Christian audience. An optimistic account of the church's future in the midst of a secular age.” —Kirkus ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold: Polish/Siostr Loretanek ​

Rights sold, Strangers in a Strange Land: Polish/Siostr Loretanek, Slovak/Postoj, Spanish/Ediciones ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Palabra

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Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz SALMON WARS

Publication: July 2022 Proposal available ​ ​ Editor: Conor Mintzer ​

In the last decade, salmon has become the most popular fish in first world nations’ diets. It’s pitched as healthy, full of omega-3s, a smart choice for pregnant women. But as husband and wife team and veteran journalists Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz report, you may not be eating what you think you are.

Major corporations have turned salmon farming into an industrial-sized business, sacrificing nutrition and environmental concerns for profit. SALMON WARS does for salmon what Fast Food Nation did for the Big ​ ​ Mac, following the winding, largely unexplored trail from salmon farms to your kitchen table. Collins and Frantz pit the giant aquaculture companies against the David-sized heroes fighting them, combining investigative deep dives with lively characters from both sides of the issue. They also provide vital information for the concerned consumer and point to a safe and sustainable way forward.

Catherine Collins has been a foreign correspondent and reporter for the Chicago Tribune, and has written for ​ ​ The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. She left reporting a decade ago to become a private ​ ​ ​ investigator, specializing in international financial fraud.

Douglas Frantz is a former Los Angeles Times managing editor. Among other outlets, he has written for The ​ ​ ​ New York Times, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent. ​

Together Frantz and Collins have written six nonfiction books. Their book Fallout: The True Story of the CIA’s ​ Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking was listed by The Guardian as one of the top ten espionage books. The New ​ ​ ​ York Times called their book Death on the Black Sea, about the sinking of a ship carrying Jews escaping from ​ ​ ​ Hitler, “a vital act of reclamation.” ​ ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: The Robbins Office ​

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Chelsea Conaboy MOTHER BRAIN

Publication: January 2022 Proposal available ​ ​ ​ ​ Editor: Serena Jones and Madeline Jones ​

In this groundbreaking exploration of the postpartum brain, Chelsea Conaboy, a veteran journalist, argues that much of the experience of motherhood is driven not by the vaguely defined, reductive idea of "maternal instinct," but by the most rapid and dramatic neurobiological period of change in an adult's life.

In recent years, scientists have discovered that the surge of hormones at childbirth sets off both structural and functional changes in the mother’s brain designed to meet their baby’s basic needs in those tenuous first days, and then set her up for a longer period of learning how to parent. These changes are so dramatic that researchers can easily sort the women who have had a pregnancy from those who haven’t, and the emerging science is providing key insights into the wide-ranging experience of motherhood—from the intensity of emotions to the unexpected upsides to its larger role in species survival. Amazingly enough, some of these neural changes are also traceable in the brains of primary caregivers who are not biological parents.

The story that exists in science today is far more meaningful than the romanticized idea that mothers spring into being by instinct, and more complex than the notion of an impaired “mommy brain.” Yet until recently, neuroscience has remained almost entirely absent from the public conversation about what it means to be a mother.

Chelsea Conaboy will weave together her own and others' personal stories, cutting edge neuroscience and social psychology, and the writings of feminist scholars to produce a new narrative that will empower women to understand and embrace the challenging and transformative experience of motherhood.

Chelsea Conaboy is a freelance writer and editor focused primarily on health care. She lives in Portland, Maine.

British: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold: Croatian/Leo Commerce, Dutch/Ambo/Anthos Uitgevers, German/HarperCollins ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Germany, Hebrew/Matar, Hungarian/HVG Könyvek, Italian/Bompiani, Polish/Marginesy, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Russian/Mann, Ivanov & Ferber, Serbian/Publik Praktikum, Spanish/Ediciones Urano, Turkish/Kronik ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Kitap

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William Deresiewicz THE DEATH OF THE ARTIST How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech

Publication: July 2020 Finished books available ​ ​ Editor: Barbara Jones ​

Over the last twenty years, art has become more accessible than ever before. A painter can post their latest creation on Instagram; a budding filmmaker can shoot a clip on their iPhone and upload it to various sites for thousands to view. The digital landscape has fundamentally altered what it means to be creative artists, as well as how consumers interact with artistic production both economically and curatorially. In THE DEATH OF THE ARTIST, New ​ ​ ​ York Times bestselling author William Deresiewicz zeroes in on how this economic reshuffling impacts written, musical, and visual art, as well as the lives of the people who make it, presenting a vital gaze on a necessary economy.

THE DEATH OF THE ARTIST is the first of its kind to dive into the subject, shining a light on the predicament most artists face today, and speaking urgently to a robust audience of creatives and educators, most of whom are in a vocation-life bind, looking for solutions. Deresiewicz shows what the birth of the “creative entrepreneur” signifies about our evolving society at large and what might be done to keep artists thriving—because we need them.

William Deresiewicz is a highly regarded thinker as well as an award-winning essayist and critic, frequent college speaker, and former professor at Yale University. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New ​ ​ ​ York Times, Harper’s, The Nation, The New Republic, The American Scholar, and more. He is the recipient of a ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ National Book Critics Circle award for excellence in reviewing and the New York Times bestselling author of ​ ​ Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life and A Jane Austen Education: ​ ​ How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter. ​

“Deresiewicz astutely examines the state of the arts in contemporary culture . . . A savvy assessment of how artists can, and should, function in the marketplace.” —Kirkus ​

“A brilliant analysis of the state of art. Buy it if you want to be an artist. Buy it if you want to understand artists. Buy it if you want to understand the world.” —Derek Thompson, author of Hit Makers: The Science of ​ ​ ​ Popularity in an Age of Distraction

“Deresiewicz is one of the great advocates for artists in the new digital economy, and his book is the most refreshing wake-up call for young artists that I have ever read.” —Rosanne Cash, singer-songwriter

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold: Chinese (simplified)/Beijing Tao Zhi Yao Yao Culture Co., Ltd., Russian/LIVEBOOK ​ ​ ​

Forthcoming 2023: THE END OF SOLITUDE, on solitude and leadership in the digital age ​

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Jamie Ducharme BIG VAPE The Incendiary Rise of Juul

Publication: June 2021 Proposal available ​ ​ Editor: James Melia ​

BIG VAPE is a riveting narrative nonfiction account of the current global health crisis caused by the vaping epidemic. In the vein of John Carreyou’s Bad ​ Blood, the book profiles one of the leading e-cigarette companies, Juul, using its ​ dramatic rise and fall to tell a larger story of big business, public health, and youth culture.

Founded on the promise that it would revolutionize people’s health, Juul has in many ways become an arm of Big Tobacco, employing much of the same PR and lobbying tactics, with a huge amount of its funding now coming from tobacco holding companies, most notably Altria, the present-day incarnation of Philip Morris.

Drawing on interviews with current and former employees, investors, tobacco industry executives, lobbyists, politicians, public health officials, marketing gurus, e-cigarette users and their families, and many others, TIME magazine ​ reporter Jamie Ducharme will reveal the full complexity of Juul's story, illuminating how scientists can present opposing facts, and even the soundest studies can be means to questionable ends; how lack of regulation can be deadly, and the wrong regulations can be just as bad; how marketing communications can reverse steady health trends, and how an epidemic can break out in just a puff of smoke.

Jamie Ducharme is a reporter for TIME magazine whose cover story “The New American Addiction” was ​ ​ ​ one of the first deep dives into the corporate culture of Juul. She has since written over 37 articles on vaping.

"Big Vape is more than just brilliantly reported and elegantly written. It is also a richly populated book—filled ​ ​ not just with human characters, but with matters of science, finance, invention, ambition, ethics, hubris and blazing ingenuity. Even the cunning little product at the center of the story—the Juul itself—becomes a sort of character in Jamie Ducharme’s hands. Ducharme brings the best skills of journalist and lyricist to tell an exceedingly important story—and to tell it irresistibly." —Jeffrey Kluger, bestselling co-author of Apollo 13 and author of Apollo 8 ​ ​ ​

British: Hodder Headline ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

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Benjamin Carter Hett THE NAZI MENACE Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War

Publication: August 2020 Finished books available ​ ​ Editor: Madeline Jones ​

Berlin, November 1937. Adolf Hitler meets with his military commanders and foreign policy advisers to impress upon them the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in Eastern Europe. Though some old-guard conservatives are unnerved by Hitler’s grandiose plan, these dissenters are silenced one by one, setting in motion events that would culminate in the most calamitous war in human history.

Benjamin Hett takes us behind the scenes in Berlin, London, Paris, Moscow, and Washington over the following two and a half years, showing how the world's political leaders weighed their options, assessed their national interests, and made their decisions on how to respond to Hitler’s growing provocations. Drawing on original sources in German, English, French, and Russian, including newly released intelligence documents, he paints a sweeping portrait of governments under siege from within and without.

Following the example of The Death of Democracy, named a “Best Book of the Year” by The Daily Telegraph ​ ​ (UK) and The Times (London), Hett presents a new perspective on history showing how long-ago conflicts ​ and political challenges have unexpected resonances in our own time.

Benjamin Carter Hett is the author of The Death of Democracy, Burning the Reichstag, Crossing Hitler, and Death in ​ ​ ​ the Tiergarten. He is a professor of history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of ​ New York, and holds a PhD in history from Harvard University and a law degree from the University of Toronto. Born in Rochester, New York, he grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, and now lives in New York City.

“[Fast-moving, absorbing and aptly titled . . . Thanks to the author’s knack for the capsule biography, we gain fascinating insights into less obvious figures.” —The New York Times Book Review *Editors' Choice/Staff ​​ ​ ​ Picks*

“[An] authoritative story of the 1930s and ’40s and the close parallels that exist with today’s world . . . An excellent read for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the thinking behind World War II.” —Kirkus ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold: German/Reclam, Greek/Dioptra ​ ​ ​

Rights sold, The Death of Democracy: Arabic/Dar Fawasel, British: Heinemann (Random House), ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Canadian/Allen Lane, Chinese (Simplified)/Shanghai Elegance, Dutch/Balans, Finnish/WSOY, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ French/Editions du Toucan, Greek/Dioptra, Italian/Einaudi, Portuguese (in Brazil)/Editora Globo, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Romanian/Polirom, Slovak/N Press, Spanish/Planeta Mexico, Turkish/Profil Yayinlari, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Vietnamese/Phan Books ​

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Austen Ivereigh WOUNDED SHEPHERD Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church

Publication: November 2019 Finished books available ​ ​ Editor: Serena Jones ​

WOUNDED SHEPHERD is the authoritative inside story of the far-reaching changes in the Catholic Church under history’s first New World pope, and the tensions and conflicts it provokes in the world’s oldest institution and largest religious denomination. It is a portrait of the man at the heart of this revolution, an iconic leader who has become a moral touchstone for a world in crisis.

Austen Ivereigh, the Pope’s authoritative biographer, has drawn on hours of interviews with some of Francis’s closest collaborators, as well as a large number of the most influential leaders of the Catholic Church across the world, to paint an unprecedented picture of the papacy’s inner workings. Moving deftly between intimate accounts of the inner workings of Team Francis, the past experiences and writings of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and a long-lens historical view of the tectonic shifts in the Church which the Francis papacy has let loose, WOUNDED SHEPHERD examines and evaluates the ​ different forces and pressures at work, and asks the question on everyone's lips: can he succeed? ​

Austen Ivereigh is a British writer, journalist, and commentator on religious and political affairs who holds a PhD from Oxford University. His previous books include The Great Reformer and Unfinished Journey: The Church ​ ​ 40 Years After Vatican 2. His work appears regularly in the Jesuit magazine America and in many other ​ ​ periodicals. He is well known on British media as a Catholic commentator, especially on the BBC, Sky, ITV, and Al-Jazeera.

“A thoughtful, essential book.” —Booklist *starred review* ​ ​

“Ivereigh’s insider account will be a revelation to readers interested in the inner workings of the Vatican.” —Publishers Weekly ​

“[Ivereigh’s] book provides a much needed, lucidly written, look at the past seven years . . . Once you start, you do not want to put this book down.” —National Catholic Reporter ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold: Czech/Triton Nakladatelstvi, French/Editions de L’Emmanuel, Portuguese (in ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Portugal)/Vogais & Companhia ​

Rights sold, The Great Reformer: ANZ/Allen & Unwin, British/Atlantic Books, Chinese ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (Complex)/CNHK Publications, Czech/Triton, Finnish/Kirjapaja, French/Editions de L’Emmanuel, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Italian/Mondadori, Japanese/Akashi Shoten, Polish/Niecałe, Portuguese (in Portugal)/Vogais & ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Companhia, Spanish/Ediciones B ​ ​

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Gary Janetti WHEN IS THIS OVER?

Publication: October 2021 Manuscript available March 2021 ​ ​ Editor: James Melia ​

In his follow-up to the instant New York Times bestselling Do You Mind If I Cancel?: (Things that Still Annoy Me) ​ (Flatiron Books, 2019), Gary Janetti returns with his trademark wit, and poignantly lashing humor for the everyday quibbles, and frustrations we all face.

Gary Janetti is a writer and producer of such shows as Family Guy, Will & Grace, and Vicious and the author ​ ​ ​ ​ of Do You Mind If I Cancel?: (Things That Still Annoy Me). Since the publication of Do You Mind If I Cancel?, Gary ​ ​ ​ ​ will star in and produce two forthcoming shows for HBO: a reality series Gary & Brad Go To… and an ​ animated television series The Prince, which chronicles the daily lives of the royal family through the eyes of ​ ​ Prince George (voiced by Gary) and co-starring Orlando Bloom, Condola Rashad, and Tom Hollander. He lives in Los Angeles.

Praise for Do You Mind If I Cancel?: ​ ​

“Gary Janetti's book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny, so brilliantly observant, and so full of heart, I'm sure a jealous Prince George will decree that Gary be locked up in the Tower of London.” —Kevin Kwan, New ​ York Times bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy ​ ​ ​

“It’s no surprise that Gary Janetti's book is laugh-out-loud funny. It is just as cutting, wild, and droll as I hoped.” —Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six ​ ​ ​

“The writing of Gary Janetti, whether televised or tweeted, is famously incisive and sharp-tongued. What a revelation it was, therefore, to discover in these revealing personal essays an artist of great tenderness and vulnerability. And he’s still funny as hell.” —Armistead Maupin, New York Times bestselling author of Tales of the City ​ ​ ​

“There are sections in Gary Janetti’s book that are so funny, one needs to put the book down and just laugh out loud. This is particularly embarrassing on the subway, but it is good advertising for the book . . . Do You ​ Mind If I Cancel? is packed with funny lines, wistful memories, and the kinds of coming of age experiences we ​ all have.” —The New York Journal of Books ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold, Do You Mind If I Cancel?: Russian/EKSMO ​ ​ ​

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Kimberly Jones HOW WE CAN WIN Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged

Publication: May 2021 Manuscript available October 2020 ​ ​ Editor: Retha Powers ​

HOW WE CAN WIN is a galvanizing breakdown of the unfairness of economics and issues of our social class structure facing Black people and other marginalized citizens, growing out of political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, “How Can We Win?” Viewed by more than 3 million people worldwide, ​ the impassioned speech has captured the attention of such luminaries as Ava DuVernay, John Oliver, Lebron James, Trevor Noah, Gail King, and more.

“So if I played 400 rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for 50 years, every time that I played, if you didn’t like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win?”

The book will expand upon this statement and others Jones made in the viral video posted in June following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police. Through personal experience and observations, she will illuminate the causes of economic disparities Black Americans have faced for generations and offer possible solutions to combat them in a system that is still rigged.

Kimberly Jones is a former bookseller, and now hosts the Atlanta Chapter of the popular Well-Read Black Girl (WRBG) Book Club founded by Glory Edim. She has worked in film and television with trailblazing figures such as Tyler Perry, Whitney Houston, and 8Ball & MJG. Currently, in addition to writing YA novels, she is a director of feature films and cutting-edge diverse web series. She also regularly lectures on working and succeeding in the Atlanta film market. Her first book, the YA novel I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, ​ ​ co-written with Gilly Segal, published in 2019.

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

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Paul Koudounaris A CAT’S TALE A Journey Through Feline History

Publication: November 2020 Manuscript available ​ ​ Editor: Ruby Rose Lee ​

A CAT’S TALE will be the first true history of feline kind: our origins; our exploits; the evolution of our relationship with our human companions; and the surprising ways in which our history parallels that of humanity. With A CAT’S ​ TALE, I [Baba the Cat] am here to correct the record and expose the reality of ​ feline greatness. From the prehistoric Felis (a large mammal from which all ​ ​ domestic cats have descended) to ancient Egyptian cat goddess, key cats of the Enlightenment, to swashbuckling pirate felines and infamous American tabbies, the story of our kind is told here in its totality.

Full of original documentary research and “narrated” through the inimitable voice of Baba, an Instagram-famous cat herself, this book is I Can Has ​ Cheezburger for NPR and BBC fans, illustrated with dozens of photos of Baba in period costume. It is the perfect gift for cat lovers with a bizarro-historical bent.

Dr. Paul Koudounaris is one of the world’s most popular historians of the eccentric, ephemeral, and macabre, with a PhD in Art History from UCLA, an international speaking career, and 71,000 followers of his and Baba’s joint Instagram account. Vice, LA Weekly, Brooklyn Daily, and The Las Vegas Review Journal have all ​ ​ ​ covered Dr. Koudounaris’s cat-related scholarship and photography. He is annually a speaker at the world’s largest cat convention, CatCon, and his work has been featured in Buzzfeed, the BBC, The Guardian, The ​ ​ ​ Telegraph, Huffington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, Hyperallergic, Bust, The Hairpin, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ The New York Times Magazine. His previous books are Heavenly Bodies, The Empire of Death, and Memento Mori. ​ ​ ​ ​ He is a member of the Order of the Good Death.

“[A] charming, funny, and informative history of cats . . . full of fascinating historical anecdotes [and] hilarious color photos of Baba in various costumes and wings . . . Even cat aficionados will learn something new—and have fun doing it.” —Publishers Weekly ​

“Baba is a true triple threat—model, writer, and incisive cultural historian. Her work deserves its place in the pantheon of feline literary greats.” —Caitlin Doughty, New York Times bestselling author of Will My Cat Eat ​ ​ ​ My Eyeballs?

“A Cat's Tale is an exquisitely crafted love letter to all things feline. And it is precisely the kind of delightful ​ ​ distraction that the world so desperately needs.” —Lindsey Fitzharris, bestselling author of The Butchering Art ​ and PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winner

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Betsy McKay DISEASE X The Full Story of Covid-19 and How We Prepare for the Next Pandemic

Publication: TBD Proposal available ​ ​ Editor: Sarah Crichton ​

DISEASE X will be the definitive and enduring book on the COVID-19 pandemic. A full examination of ​ the span of SARS-CoV-2, it will recount the true, tragic, real-time story of how avoidable this modern plague really was, the unseen international cast who worked to combat it, and the systems in place—and still needed—to prepare for the impending next, and possibly far worse, world contagion. ​ ​ ​ ​

To tell the story, Wall Street Journal veteran, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and global public health expert Betsy ​ McKay will draw on her depth of knowledge, scope of vision, and access to the critical players in the global pandemic, including National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director and folk hero Dr. Anthony Fauci, whom she has on speed dial, and Bill Gates, who is at the forefront of vaccination development for Covid-19. DISEASE X will provide a clear account of how the Covid-19 pandemic began, escalated, and was ​ driven back to the point at which we could go back to a new normal. It will offer an impeccably researched history of our relationship with infectious disease, as well as a dramatic look at the personalities that populate the global health system, a largely anonymous sector: the scientists and doctors and first responders; the researchers and the victims. And it will provide crucial information about the lessons learned from COVID-19—the steps needed from individuals and from the world community to be better prepared for the next killer pandemic.

Betsy McKay is a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal. She writes about U.S. and global public health. ​ ​ Previously, she covered the beverage industry, and public health in Atlanta, Georgia before becoming Atlanta bureau chief, managing a team of reporters covering the Eastern U.S. and several industries for WSJ. McKay ​ ​ first joined The Wall Street Journal in Moscow, where she wrote about Russia's post-Soviet political and ​ economic transformation. She is a member of the team of Journal reporters awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in the international reporting category for in-depth analytical coverage of the Russian financial crisis. She has won awards for stories on public health issues, including drug-resistant tuberculosis and maternity care in the rural U.S.

British: Foundry Literary + Media ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

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Bill McKibben FALTER Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

Publication: April 2019 Finished books available ​ ​ Editor: Paul Golob ​

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change with his groundbreaking book The End of Nature. Now he ​ ​ broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. FALTER tells the story of these ​ converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on McKibben’s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, it offers some possible ways out of the trap. FALTER is a powerful and sobering ​ call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.

Bill McKibben is the founder of the environmental organization 350.org and was among the first to have warned of the dangers of global warming. Foreign ​ Policy named him one of the 100 most important global thinkers. He is the author of fifteen books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Eaarth, and Deep Economy. He is the ​ ​ ​ ​ Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and the winner of the Gandhi Prize, the Thomas Merton Prize, and the Right Livelihood Prize. He lives in Vermont.

“[McKibben] has gathered the most vivid statistics, distilled history to its juiciest turns, and made the case as urgently and clearly as can be: The whole breadth of our existence—the ‘human game’—is in jeopardy.” —The Washington Post ​

“McKibben, a veteran environmental writer, is never hectoring or hyperbolic; here, he turns the possibility of human extinction (from climate change, artificial intelligence, etc.) into an absorbing analysis with a glimmer of hope.” —The New York Times Book Review, *Editors’ Choice* ​ ​ .

British: Wildfire (Headline UK) ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold: ANZ/Black, Inc., Danish/Information, French/Massot, German/Karl Blessing, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Korean/Saenggakieum, Portuguese (in Brazil)/Alta Books, Russian/Portal Books ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

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Tracie McMillan THE WHITE BONUS

Publication: May 2022 Proposal available ​ ​ Editor: Serena Jones ​

When we talk about racism, we usually talk about what’s been denied to people of color. But what if we started measuring what white people get? In THE WHITE BONUS, Tracie McMillan will combine ​ ​ compelling memoir, top-notch original reporting, and rigorous policy research to measure the cash value of being white in America.

THE WHITE BONUS will follow three generations of Tracie’s family over six chapters, tracking the sources of their wealth. That personal narrative tethers a broader investigation into the laws and norms that gave white people more opportunity than minorities. Tracie then measures their cumulative material effect on her own life. Then, to expand beyond her own family, Tracie alternates her story with single-chapter profiles tracking the “white bonus” of five other subjects of various classes and places, which showcase an ecosystem of institutions and practices that are supposed to treat all people the same but usually only benefit whites.

To date, there has not been a book that addresses white working-class experience while engaging directly with race, nor one that takes the amorphous problem of racial privilege and quantifies it. THE WHITE BONUS ​ combines these approaches, and prompts an uncomfortable but compelling question: Is this fair? And if it is not, what can we do about it?

Tracie McMillan’s first book, The American Way of Eating (Scribner, 2012), was widely celebrated for the ​ ​ depth of its reporting and investigative work. In addition, McMillan is an established journalist, publishing in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Mother Jones and Food & ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Wine. ​

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Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner THE PLUNDER YEARS

Publication: October 2022 Proposal available ​ ​ Editor: Serena Jones ​

An in-depth, narrative analysis of how America’s economy and healthcare system came to benefit a small group of private equity firms and predatory lenders, with government assistance every step of the way, as small businesses and hospitals struggle to survive.

Over the last 30 years, American capitalism has morphed from a system that could provide prosperity for many to one that imperils through debt. The plunderers—lords of private equity firms, commercial banks, and others—pile leverage upon companies they acquire, cut costs, and slash pay for workers. These companies often collapse, while the plunderers receive federal bailouts, avoid consequences, and amass great wealth. Character-rich and authoritative in its analysis, THE PLUNDER YEARS will be an unflinching ​ assessment of how America conducts commerce today and how robbing from the many has enriched the few.

Gretchen Morgenson is a business reporter and columnist at The New York Times, where she also serves as ​ ​ assistant business and financial editor. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her "trenchant and incisive" coverage of Wall Street. Prior to joining the Times in 1998, she worked as a broker at Dean Witter in ​ the 1980s, and as a reporter at Forbes, Worth, and Money magazines. She lives with her husband and son in ​ ​ ​ ​ New York City.

Joshua Rosner is a managing director at the independent research consultancy Graham Fisher and Co. and was among the first analysts to identify accounting problems at the government-sponsored-enterprises and to warn of the coming credit crisis. He advises regulators and institutional investors on housing and mortgage-finance-related issues. He lives in New York City.

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Bill O’Reilly KILLING CRAZY HORSE The Merciless Indian Wars in America *A New York Times Bestseller* ​ ​ Publication: September 2020 Finished books available ​ ​ Editor: Serena Jones ​

The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping ​ journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers.

The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It’s 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh’s alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades.

Bestselling authors Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught history of our country’s founding on already occupied lands, from General Andrew Jackson’s brutal battles with the Creek Nation to President James Monroe’s epic “sea to shining sea” policy, to President Martin Van Buren’s cruel enforcement of a “treaty” that forced the Cherokee Nation out of their homelands along what would be called the Trail of Tears. O’Reilly and Dugard take readers behind the legends to reveal never-before-told historical moments in the fascinating creation story of America.

Bill O'Reilly is a trailblazing TV journalist who has experienced unprecedented success on cable news and in writing fifteen national bestselling nonfiction books. (There are currently more than seventeen million books in the Killing series in print.) Mr. O’Reilly does a daily podcast on BillOReilly.com, and his daily radio ​ program, The O'Reilly Update, is heard on hundreds of stations across the country. He lives on Long Island. ​ ​

Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history, among them the Killing ​ series, Into Africa, and The Explorers. He and his wife live in southern California with their three sons. ​ ​ ​ ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold, KILLING THE SS: Bulgarian/Iztok-Zapad, Croatian/Naklada Ljevak, Czech/Albatros, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Greek/Dioptra, Hungarian/Libri Kiado, Italian/Sperling & Kupfer, Romanian/RAO, Spanish/La ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Esfera de los Libros

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Keith Phipps AGE OF CAGE The Singular, and Iconic Life of Nicholas Cage

Publication: October 2021 Manuscript available November 2020 ​ Editor: James Melia ​

A look at the career and films of Nicolas Cage.

Some questions can never be answered, but that doesn’t mean they’re not worth asking anyway. Spend enough time contemplating Cage’s career, and the question of “good or bad?” becomes secondary to other questions: How can an actor continue to stir such passionate, disparate responses decades into his acting career, ​ long after the point when most of his contemporaries have settled into predictable ruts? How can a performer known for making bold choices find his way into seemingly every type of movie—from breezy romances to kinetic action films—made in his nearly 40 years in the business? What do the ways Cage—whose style brings both risks and rewards to a movie—has been used in the ’80s, ’90s, ’00s, and ’10s say about how each era? And, finally, what can be learned by looking at the last few decades of filmmaking through the lens of Cage’s work?

That’s the question at the heart of AGE OF CAGE, which will consider the full sweep of Cage’s career and ​ ​ use one of film’s most unusual talents to reflect on the styles and tastes that have come and gone since his arrival. Cage is a one-of-a-kind talent who’s gone in and out of style since making his debut. Charting his ups and downs, and the strange journey that’s taken him from teen comedies to prestige fare to action blockbusters to low-budget thrillers, doubles as a chance to explore how movies themselves have changed over the course of his career.

It’s also the story of a film industry that’s undergone a profound metamorphosis over the course of Cage’s career, one that’s rendered it almost unrecognizable from what it was. To follow Cage’s career is to observe the rise and fall of trends, the changes happening from the sidelines and from its heart.

Keith Phipps’ expertise in pop culture stretches back to middle school, when he became his school ​ newspaper’s first film critic. He started getting paid for his obsession in 1996, after finishing his MA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joining the The A.V. Club in 1997 and becoming its editor in 2004. Phipps ​ ​ later launched the influential movie site The Dissolve with Pitchfork in 2013 and served as editorial director for ​ film and TV at Uproxx. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Vulture, Slate, The Ringer, The Verge, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ The Daily Beast, TV Guide, Vox, and NPR. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Foundry Media ​

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Rina Raphael THE GOSPEL OF WELLNESS

Publication: May 2022 Proposal available ​ ​ Editor: Madeline Jones ​

The desire to be healthy is nothing new. But over the last decade, the level of focus on our physical, spiritual, and mental self-improvement has grown exponentially. The multi-trillion dollar wellness industry ranges from luxe yoga retreats and self-realization seminars to plant medicine and female-run marijuana conferences. Rina Raphael, a health and wellness reporter who has covered this space extensively, examines exactly how and why women have become hooked on self-care.

THE GOSPEL OF WELLNESS provides a sharp look at the gender inequities and structural sexism that help explain why women are turning towards these outlets, while illuminating both the mainstream (yoga, astrology) and the odder corners of the wellness world (crystal healing! cryotherapy!). Its subjects are not only wealthy white women who have the resources to pay for $45 fitness classes, but also people of color and those on the edge of poverty whose self-care is a political weapon as well as a coping mechanism. Self-care, Raphael argues, offers control that's otherwise lacking in an uncertain and turbulent world. But is that promise fulfilled, or is it ultimately another tool of oppression?

Blending lively reporting, first person narration, and social critique, Rina Raphael writes not only for the countless people who have dipped their toes into any of the infinite iterations of wellness culture and are curious about its siren call, but for anyone who wants to understand a $4.5 trillion economy and one of the defining industries—and cultural movements—of our time. What emerges is a rigorously reported profile and sharp critique, replete with the colorful characters and wild claims that you’d expect, but at heart a deeply probing journey through the psyche of the modern woman at a time of crisis, in the tradition of Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth. ​ ​

Rina Raphael is a features contributor for Fast Company magazine, specializing in health, wellness, and ​ women’s issues. For the last few years, she’s interviewed countless industry leaders, investigated controversies, and personally tested the latest trends and products. Her reporting on the subject has been published by The ​ New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, CBS, NBC News, Medium’s Elemental, among others. She is also the ​ ​ ​ author of the newsletter, Well To Do, that covers the latest wellness trends, news, and market analysis (14,000 ​ ​ subscribers and growing). She has presented at several conferences, including SXSW, The Global Wellness Summit, The Self-Care Summit, and The Fast Company Innovation Festival. She was a senior producer and ​ lifestyle editor at The TODAY show, the No. 1 morning show in America, for nearly a decade.

British: Profile UK/Souvenir ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

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Alec Ross THE FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE A New Global Social Contract

Publication: September 2021 Proposal available; manuscript available November 2020 ​ ​ Editor: Serena Jones ​

The world needs a book that explains the current car crash at the intersection of business, government and everyday people. This is that book.

From the tumult of the industrial revolution, a basic social contract emerged between governments, corporations, and the people. Companies held the power to shape our daily lives in ways both positive and negative, while the state held the power to make them fall in line, and the people held the power to choose their leaders. This compact, through ups and downs, stood firm for 150 years. But in the latest wave of globalization, the balance has shaken loose. On issues ranging from privacy to sustainability to workers’ rights, we are now more governed by companies than we are by governments. Meanwhile, those same companies exist beyond national borders, with their own foreign policy agendas independent of any parent nation.

This is uncharted territory, and it’s poorly understood even by the leaders of major corporations. Yet the stakes could not be higher. In his latest book, Alec Ross, New York Times bestselling author of The Industries of ​ ​ ​ the Future, examines how history has brought us to this collision point. Through dozens of exclusive ​ interviews, he tells the stories of business titans, government officials, and everyday workers who have been at the front lines as the balance of power has come undone between corporations, the governing, and the governed. And he combines their insights to deliver a sweeping, global call for a renewed social contract for st the 21 ​ century. ​

Alec Ross is one of the world’s leading experts on innovation. He is the author of The Industries of the Future, a ​ ​ New York Times bestseller that has been sold for translation into 24 languages. Ross is currently a Visiting ​ Professor at King’s College London and has served as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and as a Senior Fellow at the Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs. He is a Board Partner at Amplo, a global venture capital firm and sits on the board of directors or advisors for companies in the fields of immigration, technology, finance, education, and cybersecurity.

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold: Chinese (Complex)/Commonwealth Publishing, Italian/Feltrinelli, Russian/AST ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

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Carl Safina BECOMING WILD How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace

Publication: April 2020 Finished books available ​ ​ Editor: Barbara Jones ​

In BECOMING WILD, the follow-up to Safina’s bestselling Beyond Words: ​ ​ ​ How Animals Think and Feel, Carl Safina reveals the interconnections and outer ​ directions of non-human cultures—what animals do, why they do it, how life is for them.

From the Peruvian rainforest, where certain macaw populations have names for themselves and form deep pair-bonds that can last decades; to Uganda, where chimpanzees communicate via 66 gestures to deliver meaningful messages, such as “Go away,” and “I’d like a hug”; to Kenya, where clans of spotted hyena have up to ninety members, all of whom recognize one another, and use kin and rank relationships when making decisions, we encounter some of the smartest, most social (yet individualized) and flexible minds in the world.

Culture, says Safina, arises from instincts inherent in humans and non- humans alike. We must face the fact that an ape is not just an ape, a whale not just a whale. They have lives, traditions, lineages, histories.

Carl Safina is the author of seven books, including Beyond Words and Song for the Blue Ocean, which was a New ​ ​ ​ ​ York Times “Notable Book of the Year.” He is founding president of Blue Ocean Institute at Stony Brook University. He has been recognized with MacArthur, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships, and his writing has won Orion, Lannan, and National Academies literary awards. Safina is founding president of the not-for-profit Safina Center. He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina. He lives on ​ ​ Long Island, New York.

“Fascinating . . . [Becoming Wild] gives the reader a sense of being near these creatures and experiencing some ​ ​ of the most seductive environments on Earth.” —The Wall Street Journal ​

“Combining the knowledge of a seasoned scientist with the skills of a good storyteller, Safina invites us to leave our cultural worlds and enter animals’ one . . . Becoming Wild deserves to be remembered.” —NPR ​ ​ ​

“[Safina] shows us something too often overlooked in research and in conservation: who animals are, and how they live. . . . [And] it’s the stories of Safina’s days with these animals that move us.” —The New York Times ​

British: One World ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold: Czech/Vysehrad/Albatros, French/La Librairie Vuibert, German/C.H. Beck, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Italian/Adelphi, Polish/Krytyka Polityczna, Spanish/Galaxia Gutenberg, Russian/Alpina, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Turkish/Libronet ​

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Jamie Thompson STANDOFF Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation

Publication: September 2020 Finished books available ​ ​ Editor: Serena Jones ​

On July 7, 2016, hundreds of protesters gathered in Dallas after the shooting of two black men—Philando Castile and Alton Sterling—by white policemen. One hundred Dallas police officers stood guard. At around 9 pm, as the crowds began to disperse, a gunman opened fire into the line of officers from behind. Five were killed and a dozen more injured.

Four hours of negotiation followed, by Senior Cpl. Larry Gordon, a black 21-year department veteran, with the black gunman who had targeted white police officers. Gordon managed to buy the SWAT officers enough time to come up with a strategy to take out the shooter—one that was extremely controversial and unprecedented on American soil—and to implement it. Thompson’s intimate portrait of these two figures’ lives, as well as several other officers and family members, gets to the heart of the deeply pressing issue of race and policing in the United States.

Jamie Thompson is an Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist who covered the Dallas police shooting for The Washington Post. She’s a contributing editor for D Magazine and an associate professor of ​ ​ ​ journalism at the University of Dallas. Her work has won numerous state and national writing awards. She lives with her husband and two children in Dallas.

“A thrilling read that is as moving as it is riveting and cinematic. Thompson is a writer of rare talent and perception.” —Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of 13 Hours and Lost in Shangri-La ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

“I was immersed in Standoff from beginning to end because of the understanding it gave me about the ​ ​ seemingly inexplicable, and also because it’s an absolute page-turner of a story.” —David Finkel, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Thank You For Your Service ​

“Spellbinding and meticulously researched . . . This standout account is both a riveting page-turner and a nuanced portrait of one of contemporary America’s most divisive social issues.” —Publishers Weekly, *starred ​ ​ review*

“A nail-biting and nuanced true-life police procedural.” —Kirkus, *starred review* ​ ​

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Linda Yablonsky AMERICAN ARTIST The Infamous Art and Indelible Life of Jeff Koons

Publication: February 2022 Manuscript available March 2021 ​ ​ Editor: Caroline Zancan ​

Jeff Koons is known as many things: artist, con artist, visionary, revolutionary, prophet, and trickster. It depends on who you ask. But there is no question that the story of Jeff Koons is the story of celebrity, of market making and manipulation, the rise of the hedge fund class, and the meaning of “high art” in today’s world. In AMERICAN ARTIST, the first full biography of his life, Linda Yablonsky takes an ​ ​ unprecedented look at the life and work of Jeff Koons, the world’s most expensive—and controversial—artist, driven by an insatiable ambition to become the Andy Warhol of his time.

With his two marriages (one to a famous Italian porn star and politician), eight children, bankruptcy, financial salvation, and a posse of jet setting collectors and dealers as friends, the man behind the burnished exterior is anything ordinary. To top it off, his work regularly sells for tens of millions of dollars. Here is an artist who is emblematic of his time and antithetical to it. As reviled as he is admired, Koons never fails to excite conflicted emotions in his legion of viewers. A mix of insider reportage and cultural analysis, as well as an entertaining, sophisticated, deeply researched, and high-stakes drama spanning his entire life and career, this singular biography will beg the question—if this is the art of our time, what does that say about our time?

Linda Yablonsky has been writing about art and artists for nearly thirty years. Her reviews and feature stories have appeared in The New York Times and in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, as well as in ​ ​ ​ Artforum, ArtNews, W, Wallpaper, Elle, Porter, The Art Newspaper and many other publications. From 2004 to ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 2009 she was senior art critic in the U.S. for Bloomberg News. Linda is internationally known for her art world ​ ​ coverage in Artforum’s “Scene and Herd” diary, as well as in her own column, “Artifacts,” for T. In 2004, ​ ​ ​ ​ Linda became a founding producer and host of spoken-word programs for WPS1, a streaming arts radio channel for MoMA PS1. From 2001 to 2010, she was a member of the undergraduate faculty of the School of Visual Art.

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Laurie Frankel ONE TWO THREE A Novel

Publication: April 2021 Manuscript available ​ ​ Editor: Amy Einhorn ​

ONE TWO THREE is a novel about three sixteen-year-old sisters who, when the defunct chemical plant that destroyed their family and their community moves back into town, must right the injustices that are older than they are, not only to find a way out, but to find a way forward.

Nora gave her three daughters “M” names in an effort to save precious time and keep them straight. As if single parenting sixteen-year-old triplets weren’t enough, her two jobs—Bourne’s only therapist and its only bartender—are both in unusually high demand. And then there’s the job she can’t let go—lead plaintiff in Bourne’s class-action lawsuit against Bison Chemical. Seventeen years ago, the Bison plant was pumping toxic chemicals into Bourne’s river. Pets got sick, then their owners did, too, plant workers died, then an emergence of birth defects. Nora assures her daughters they’re perfect just the way they are, but she has still spent their whole lives fighting to make Bison pay.

When Bison announces plans to reopen the plant, the girls take up their mother’s cause in a race to find evidence to stop them. Part small-town mystery, part comic novel, part love story, ONE TWO THREE takes an urgent, ripped-from-the-headlines topic and adds unusual sisters with a profound sense of justice and the wit, wisdom, and strength to fight the longest of odds together.

Laurie Frankel is the bestselling, award-winning author of three previous novels, The Atlas of Love, Goodbye for ​ ​ ​ Now, and This Is How It Always Is, the latter of which sold over a quarter of a million copies. Her writing has ​ ​ ​ also appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, People magazine, Lit Hub, The Sydney ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Morning Herald, and other publications. A former college professor, Frankel now teaches for a variety of ​ non-profit organizations and writes full-time in Seattle, where she lives with her family.

“One Two Three is a compelling and heartwarming story of the power of friendship and sisterly love to both ​ ​ heal us and to change the world. ” —Karen Maeda Allman, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA

“Laurie Frankel’s signature wit, warmth, and fierce compassion shine with the story of three courageous, memorable triplets. I loved this book from the first line to the last.” —Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold, This Is How It Always Is: British/Headline, Chinese (simplified)/Beijing Empyrean, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Danish/Palatium, Dutch/Ambo/Anthos, French/Fleuve Noir, Hungarian/Gabo, Italian/DeA Planeta, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Polish/Poradnia K, Portuguese (in Brazil)/HarperCollins Brasil, Romanian/RAO, Russian/EKSMO, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Swedish/Printz ​

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Laurie Gelman YOGA PANT NATION A Class Mom Novel

Publication: July 2021 Manuscript available ​ ​ Editor: Serena Jones ​

The hilarious, irreverent Jen Dixon is class mom—again—for her son’s fifth grade year, and a class bully, spin-teacher training, and her irresistible granddaughter keep her on her toes and perpetually in yoga pants.

The now beloved hero of Laurie Gelman’s Class Mom and You’ve Been ​ ​ Volunteered has a lot on her plate this year, from childcare duties for her daughter’s two-year-old to her determined mission to become a spin instructor. When her husband’s ex-wife shows up to her first ever class as a full-fledged teacher—and compliments her performance!—she can’t help but wonder what the catch is. As ever, humor is her best stress relief. Her acerbic emails to the class parents and friendly spars with her daughter over how organic is organic-enough for baby food will have you laughing out loud and texting Jen’s best lines to your friends.

Laurie Gelman was born and raised in the Great White North. She spent twenty-five years as a broadcaster in both Canada and the United States before trying her hand at writing novels. The author of Class Mom and You’ve Been Volunteered, Laurie has appeared on Live With Ryan and Kelly, ​ ​ ​ ​ Watch What Happens Live, and The Talk, among others. She lives in New York City with her husband, Michael ​ ​ ​ Gelman, and two teenage daughters.

Praise for Laurie Gelman:

"Much as Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle exposed the seedy underside of the meatpacking industry, Class Mom ​ ​ ​ exposes the underside of room parenting . . . But, unlike The Jungle, Gelman’s novel gives readers a lot to ​ ​ laugh about, including some very, very funny emails . . . In the end, it's impossible not to root for Jen as a fellow foot soldier in the guerrilla war against so-called perfect mothers.” —The New York Times Book Review ​

“Irreverent and hilarious” —The New York Post ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold, CLASS MOM: German/Harper Collins, Hebrew/Keter, Russian/Eksmo ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

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Josh Riedel PLEASE REPORT YOUR BUG HERE

Publication: May 2022 Manuscript available May 2021 ​ Editor: Ruby Rose Lee ​ A debut from the first employee at Instagram and University of Arizona MFA graduate Josh Riedel, this is a speculative workplace novel set in Silicon Valley, in which an employee of a popular dating app discovers a software bug that transports him to other worlds, meditating on technology, art, friendship, memory, and what happens when tech corporations own and control our ways of seeing ourselves and one another.

One day, in 2010, Ethan Block—newly minted Stanford Art History grad and the sole nontechnical employee at DueDate, a hot new dating app startup—travels through a portal to another world, or at least it seems that way. Convinced the dating app has caused the blip, Ethan is further disturbed when a new coworker, Noma, shows him a series of mysterious photos that begin to appear on the app. The photos seem to depict the world Ethan visited, and—troublingly—indicate that a child may be lost there, alone. Ethan and Noma investigate, but their sleuthing and budding friendship are both disrupted when DateDate is acquired by the Corporation, Silicon Valley’s dominant tech conglomerate, whose executives’ motives become increasingly dubious.

A millennial coming-of-age novel with an undercurrent of mystery, PLEASE REPORT YOUR BUG ​ HERE seeks to discover how we can step outside the worlds we inhabit and reinvent ourselves in order to find new, more genuine ways of being.

Before graduating from the University of Arizona MFA program, Josh Riedel worked in Silicon Valley for seven years: first at pre-IPO Facebook, then at a small travel startup acquired by Facebook, and finally as the first employee at Instagram, where he helped see the startup through its acquisition, again by Facebook. The short story that inspired Please Report Your Bug Here was published in Sycamore Review as the Wabash Prize ​ ​ ​ Winner in Fiction, selected by Rachel Khong, a finalist in BOMB Magazine’s Fiction contest, and nominated ​ ​ for a Pushcart Prize. Riedel’s other short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in One Story, Passages North, ​ ​ and Portland Monthly. His Instagram is @josh and his website is joshriedel.com. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

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M.J. Rose and Fiona Davis, editors STORIES FROM SUFFRAGETTE CITY

Publication: October 2020 Finished books available ​ ​ ​ ​ Editor: James Melia ​

SUFFRAGETTE CITY is a collection of short stories from a chorus of bestselling writers and leading voices in historical fiction, all set on the same day, October 23, 1915—the day one million women marched for the right to vote in New York City in 1915. A day filled with a million different stories, and a million different voices longing to be heard. Taken together, these stories stitch a fabric of the American dream, echoing into a resounding force strong enough to break even the most stubborn of glass ceilings. With an introduction by Kristin Hannah and featuring stories from: Paula McLain, Lisa Wingate, Steve Berry, Chris Bohjalian, Jamie Ford, Christina Baker Kline, Katherine Chen and many more.

M.J. Rose is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ than 18 novels including The Book of Lost Fragrances and Tiffany Blues. Among ​ ​ ​ ​ other awards, her last 10 novels have all appeared on the Indie Next List. The Fox TV Series Past Lives was based on M.J.’s novel The Reincarnationist. Her ​ ​ ​ ​ books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Fiona Davis is the USA Today and nationally bestselling author of three novels: The Masterpiece, The Address ​ ​ ​ ​ and The Dollhouse. Her books have appeared on the Indie Next List, been Library Reads Picks, and have been ​ ​ translated into over a dozen languages. As a journalist, her work has appeared in O Magazine, Women's Health, ​ ​ ​ ​ and other national publications.

"A landmark 1915 protest for women’s suffrage is the setting for the dozen short stories in this rousing anthology . . . A diverse range of vivid characters brings human faces to a historical protest march." —Kirkus ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

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Andrew Bacevich AFTER THE APOCALYPSE America’s Role in a World Transformed

Publication: June 2021 Manuscript available November 2020 ​ ​ Editor: Sara Bershtel ​

In a bold reconception of America’s place in the world, informed by thinking from across the political spectrum, Andrew Bacevich lays down a new approach to U.S. foreign policy—one that is based on moral pragmatism, mutual coexistence, and war as a last resort. Confronting the threats of the future—accelerating climate change, a shift in the international balance of power, and the ascendance of information technology over brute weapons of war—his vision calls for nothing less than a profound overhaul of our understanding of national security.

The nation’s foremost critic of American foreign policy, Andrew Bacevich is emeritus professor of ​ International Relations at Boston University, and the author of eight books, including three New York Times ​ bestsellers: The Limits of Power, Washington Rules, and Breach of Trust. In 2004 Bacevich was a recipient of the ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy and in 2005 he won the prestigious Lannan Prize for The ​ Limits of Power, which was also longlisted for the National Book Award. ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

THE AGE OF ILLUSIONS How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory

Publication: January 2020 Finished books available ​ ​ ​ ​ Editor: Sara Bershtel ​

When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. In THE AGE OF ILLUSIONS, bestselling author Andrew Bacevich takes us ​ ​ from that moment of seemingly ultimate victory to the age of Trump, telling an epic tale of folly and delusion. Writing with his usual eloquence and vast knowledge, he explains how, within a quarter of a century, the United States ended up with gaping inequality, permanent war, moral confusion, and an increasingly angry and alienated population, as well, of course, as the strangest president in American history.

Praise for Andrew Bacevich:

“Few people speak with more eloquence or credibility than Andrew Bacevich.” —Frank Rich, The New York Times ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold: Romanian/Grup Media Litera ​

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Monica Black A DEMON-HAUNTED LAND Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post–WWII Germany

Publication: November 2020 Manuscript available ​ ​ Editor: Sara Bershtel ​

A DEMON-HAUNTED LAND offers a completely fresh interpretation of Germany’s immediate postwar period, taking a novel, narrative approach to unearthing Nazism’s enduring emotional and spiritual effects. Unlike most histories of the period, which emphasize Germany’s economic expansion and political normalization, this is a cultural history that looks at how ordinary people tried to understand and to cope with the meaning of evil after Hitler, after the Holocaust, and after history’s most catastrophic war.

At the book’s center is the story of Bruno Gröning, a faith healer who rose to rock-star prominence after his miraculous curing of a crippled boy in 1949, alongside his manager, a former member of Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry. Tens of thousands sought him out, while millions of others, amidst widespread fears of impending apocalypse, searched for holy men, exorcists, witchdoctors, and faith healers to ward off the magic, witchcraft, and demons rumored to be sweeping Germany. Ultimately, Gröning was brought to trial for murder.

Through Gröning’s and others’ interwoven stories, A DEMON-HAUNTED LAND rewrites Germany’s ​ history of defeat and democratic transition, raising absorbing questions about witchcraft and medicine, sickness and health, faith and skepticism, spiritual healing and modern medicine, knowledge and the unknowable in the Cold War West.

Dr. Monica Black is an associate professor of European History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her first book, Death in Berlin: From Weimar to Divided Germany (Cambridge, 2010), won both the Hans ​ Rosenberg Prize and the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. Grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Academy in Berlin (where Professor Black was a John P. Birkelund Fellow in 2014) supported her research for A DEMON-HAUNTED LAND in more than a dozen local ​ and national German archives.

“Black’s fascinating book is full of insight not only about postwar West Germany, but about the strange and complex ways people reinterpret evil and guilt.” —Susan Neiman, author of Evil in Modern Thought ​

“Monica Black has given us a fascinating alternative history of postwar Germany, one that feels more psychologically true than the usual upbeat stories of social capitalism and reconstruction. A fine book that deserves a wide audience.” —Ruth Harris, author of Lourdes ​

“Miraculous healings, heavenly apparitions, ghostly traces . . . Thanks to the magnificent work of Monica Black, post-Nazi Germany presents itself to the reader in a completely new light.” —Sergio Luzzatto, author of The Body of Il Duce ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​ Rights sold: Dutch/Hollands Diep, German/Klett-Cotta, Polish/Proszynski, Russian/Alpina ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

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Noam Chomsky with James Peck Untitled Conversations with Noam Chomsky

Publication: November 2021 Manuscript available March 2021 ​ ​ Editor: Grigory Tovbis ​

In a completely new set of interviews, Noam Chomsky addresses the interwoven crises we face today, and explores the promise of activism for confronting injustice and creating a sustainable and just world.

For over half a century, no one has spoken out more incisively, forcefully, and meticulously about the injustices of American power and the world than Noam Chomsky. But now, he warns, time is running out on our society as we know it.

In this wide-ranging, withering series of interviews, Chomsky details the overlapping threats: a looming cold war with China, a pandemic that could trigger economic upheavals and radically exacerbate inequality, an environmental and climate crisis threatening to destroy the planet, the brutal impact of neoliberal austerity programs, the Trump phenomenon. And in an interview to be conducted after the November 2020 election, he examines its results and what they mean for the shaky future of American democracy.

Amidst the wreckage, though, Chomsky sees positive signs. An unprecedented amount of effort and attention is now devoted to issues such as climate change, economic equality, a Green New Deal, and Medicare for All. Likewise, the Black Lives Matter movement shows how a brutally honest reckoning with American culture can address centuries of racism and injustice. We can see the rise of a new level of social activism. With his usual brilliance and precision, Chomsky assesses the viability of the nation and struggles for creating a sustainable and just world.

Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works, including Hegemony or Survival and ​ ​ ​ Failed States. A professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, and laureate professor of linguistics at ​ the University of Arizona, he is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics. He lives in Arizona.

James Peck is the author of Ideal Illusions and the forthcoming Misunderstanding China, and the editor of The ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Chomsky Reader. A professor of history at NYU, he lives in New York City. ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold, Global Discontents: UK/Hamish Hamilton, Arabic/Arabic Scientific Publishers, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Bulgarian/Bard Publishers, Croatian/Naklada Ljevak, Italian/Salani, Korean/Changbi Media, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Spanish/Editorial Sexto Piso ​

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Elliott Currie A PECULIAR INDIFFERENCE The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America

Publication: September 2020 Manuscript available ​ ​ Editor: Grigory Tovbis ​

An exploration of the stark racial disparities in violent death and injury in America, and a blueprint for ending this social injustice.

In the United States today, a young Black man has a sixteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Violence takes more years of life from Black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined. Even Black women are more affected by violence than white men, despite its usual gender patterns. These disparities translate into starkly divergent experiences of life and death for whites and Blacks in the United States.

The country has been understandably outraged by the recent spate of police shootings of Black Americans. But as acclaimed criminologist Elliott Currie points out, the far more widespread problem of “everyday” violent death and injury in Black communities has received much less sustained attention or concern. Yet both kinds of violence reflect the same underlying condition: the continuing marginality and structural disadvantage of many Black communities in America today. Compelling and accessible, drawing on a rich array of both classic and contemporary research, A PECULIAR ​ INDIFFERENCE describes the dimensions and consequences of this enduring emergency, explores its causes, and offers an urgent plea for long-overdue social action to end it.

Elliott Currie is the author of Confronting Crime, Reckoning, and Crime and Punishment in America. An ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ internationally recognized authority on youth and crime, he is a professor of criminology, law, and society at the University of California, Irvine.

“A damning examination of violence in black America and a call for intervention that is long overdue . . . Meticulously researched and densely packed with stats and studies, Currie’s book paints a heartbreaking picture, but it also makes an urgent case for bold measures to turn the tide in Black communities.” —Kirkus *starred review* ​ ​

“A distinguished scholar long concerned about crime and racial inequality, Currie has written a compelling book that reflects both his brilliant mind and compassionate heart. Simply put, A Peculiar Indifference is a ​ ​ contemporary classic.” —Francis T. Cullen, past president of the American Society of Criminology

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

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Thomas Frank THE PEOPLE, NO A Brief History of Anti-Populism

Publication: July 2020 Finished books available ​ ​ Editor: Sara Bershtel ​

From the prophetic author of the now-classic What’s the Matter with Kansas? and ​ Listen, Liberal, an eye-opening account of populism, the most important—and ​ misunderstood—movement of our time.

Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in THE PEOPLE, NO Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by ​ showing us that everything we think we know about populism is wrong. Today “populism” is seen as a frightening thing, a term pundits use to describe the racist philosophy of Donald Trump and European extremists. But this is a mistake.

Taking us from the tumultuous 1890s, when the radical left-wing Populist Party—the biggest mass movement in American history—fought Gilded Age plutocrats to the reformers’ great triumphs under Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, Frank reminds us how much we owe to the populist ethos. Frank pummels the elites, revisits the movement’s provocative politics, and declares true populism to be the language of promise and optimism. THE PEOPLE, NO is a ringing affirmation of a movement that, Frank ​ shows us, is not the problem of our times, but the solution for what ails us.

Thomas Frank is the author of Listen, Liberal, Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, and What's the Matter with ​ ​ ​ Kansas? A former columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Harper's, Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler ​ ​ ​ ​ and writes regularly for The Guardian. He lives outside Washington, D.C. ​ ​

“Brilliantly written, eye-opening . . . Frank is the ideal public intellectual to grapple with the duality of populism.” —The Washington Post ​

“Frank describes an indigenous radical tradition that descends from Jefferson and Paine and stretches forward to Franklin Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. . . . compelling.” —The New York Times Book Review ​

“Tom Frank does what few writers today are capable of doing—he criticizes his own side.” —Wall Street Journal ​

British: Scribe UK ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Forthcoming in April 2022, CREATIVE DESTRUCTION, about our fascination with creativity ​ and innovation, what it means and who i​ t serves

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Greg Grandin THE END OF THE MYTH From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America *2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner, General Nonfiction* *Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award, Nonfiction*

Publication: March 2019 Finished books available ​ ​ Editor: Sara Bershtel ​

In THE END OF THE MYTH, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier ​ ​ throughout the full sweep of U.S. history. For centuries, he shows, America’s constant expansion—fighting wars and opening markets—served as a “gate of escape,” helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that the country’s problems, from racism to inequality, were never confronted directly. And now, the combined catastrophe of the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut, bringing political passions that had long been directed elsewhere back home.

It is this new reality, Grandin says, that explains the rise of reactionary populism and racist nationalism, the extreme anger and polarization that catapulted Trump to the presidency. America has a new symbol: the border wall. It may or may not be built, but it will survive as a rallying point, an allegorical tombstone marking the end of American exceptionalism.

Greg Grandin is the author of Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the ​ ​ National Book Critics Circle Award. His other widely acclaimed books include Empire’s Workshop, Kissinger’s ​ Shadow, and The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History. He is a professor of ​ ​ ​ history at New York University.

“An essential, sweeping history of the American frontier, its end and what it has meant to our nation’s sense of itself.” —The Los Angeles Times ​

“The End of the Myth aims, in part, to reposition race-based violence to the center of the frontier narrative ​ ​ [and] situate today’s calls to fortify our borders in relation to the centuries of racial animus that preceded them . . . A vital corrective to popular conceptions.” —The New Yorker ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​ ​

Rights sold: Chinese (Simplified)/Beijing Huaxia Winshare, Korean/Rokmedia ​ ​ ​

Forthcoming from Greg Grandin:

February 2021: an updated, expanded reissue of EMPIRE’S WORKSHOP ​ ​ Previous rights sales: Japanese/Akashi Shoten, Spanish/Editorial Debate ​ ​ ​ ​

September 2022: GREATER AMERICA, Grandin’s comprehensive and sweeping story of the ​ ​ st Western Hemisphere, from European conquest to the dawn of the 21 ​ century. ​

2024: COLUMBUS: THE BEGINNING AND THE END, the first biography of Christopher ​ ​ Columbus in 30 years, drawing on its subject's significant body of writing, including personal letters, to consider the profound consequences that his dramatic life enduringly and controversially effected.

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Mara Kardas-Nelson THE POVERTY TRAP The Seductive Promise of Microfinance

Publication: Winter 2023 Proposal available; manuscript expected December 2022 ​ ​ Editor: Sara Bershtel ​

THE POVERTY TRAP is an investigative work that provides a critical look at microfinance, an idea championed by Muhammad Yunus in the 1970s. In the ’70s Bangladesh was hit by severe floods and famine. Yunus created Grameen Bank, known as the "bank of the poor," in order to give small loans to the local population, mostly to women (the men would just drink the loan away.) The idea is that they would use these small loans to start local businesses that would in turn lift them out of poverty.

It became a hugely popular program, one eventually heralded by Obama, Oprah, and Bono. But there was a problem. When journalist Mara Kardas-Nelson decided to research criminalized petty debt in Sierra Leone, she stumbled across women being threatened by the police, and sometimes put in jail, when they couldn’t pay off their microfinance debts. This launched her into an investigation into the industry. She learned that big banks had morphed a pro-poor program into a for-profit business over just a few decades. Millions of women across the developing world are now trapped in layers of debt thanks to high interest, quick turnaround loans; some commit suicide, others put their children to work.

Kardas-Nelson interviewed key players, including Muhammad Yunus himself; she also met insiders with growing doubts. How did the world’s most famous anti-poverty program come to look more like a predatory ​ ​ payday lending scheme? Why does microfinance continue despite mounds of evidence that it doesn’t work? Through a combination of big-picture analysis and close reporting, THE POVERTY TRAP will provide a ​ ​ vivid depiction of microfinancing’s victims and uncover the truth of the practice. ​

Mara Kardas-Nelson is an award winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, ​ ​ ​ ​ The Nation, Al Jazeera, The Mail & Guardian, and many others. She has acted as research assistant for Michael ​ Pollan and Naomi Klein.

Early endorsements:

“I know Mara and her work well and am familiar with the microfinance story. She's a terrific reporter and writer . . . and has a big story by the tail here. Everyone thinks of microfinance as the work of angels—I ​ ​ certainly did—but when I read her piece about it, I was dumbstruck at what a racket she had exposed.” ​ ​ —Michael Pollan ​

“I want to strongly endorse Mara Kardas-Nelson’s proposal for her book on microfinance. I think this will be a dynamite book. It’s all too rare, I find, that a writer has both the ability to bring people and places alive in sparkling prose, and to dig deep into the history and structure of a crucial economic injustice. It’s this unusual combination that gives this book such potential.” —Adam Hochschild

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Robin D. G. Kelley BLACK BODIES SWINGING A Historical Autopsy

Publication: April 2021 Proposal available; manuscript available December 2020 ​ ​ Editor: Riva Hocherman ​

By the “leading Black historian of the age,” BLACK BODIES SWINGING is a fierce, distilled history of ​ ​ the pillage and defiance of Black America.

The police killing of George Floyd in May 2020 triggered a wave of protests like no other in American history. How did we get here? Conducting a historical autopsy, Robin Kelley approaches the lives and deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Eric Garner, Breonna Martin, and so many others as a portal to the racist histories that strangled them and their communities. From the slave patrols and lynch law of the Deep South to segregated housing, the war on drugs, slum clearance, predatory lending, and extraction of wealth, Kelley draws a direct line from the “blood at the root”—the racial terror at the heart of the American social and economic order—to the latest casualties of that terror.

This is also the story of Black resistance, of decades of organizing, political education, and movement building. The protesters who came out swinging, calling to defund the police, are part of a long line of combatants fighting to emancipate, democratize, and lay to rest the America as we know it so that a new world may be born.

Robin D. G. Kelley is the author of the definitive biography Thelonious Monk, which received the PEN Open ​ ​ Book Award; Yo Mama’s Disfunktional: Africa Speaks; Freedom Dreams; and other acclaimed books on ​ ​ ​ ​ African-American history, music, and radical social movements. Kelley’s essays have appeared in The New ​ York Times, The Nation, The Boston Review and many other publications. The recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim ​ ​ ​ ​ Fellowship, Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he resides.

Praise for Robin D. G. Kelley:

"Robin Kelley is the preeminent historian of Black popular culture writing today." —Cornel West

“Robin Kelley produces histories of Black radicalism and visions of the future that defy convention and expectation.” —Angela Davis

“Through this masterful book of black radical history and philosophy, I can look past the dreariness of our unfree world with the binoculars of the imaginary.” —Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of ​ ​ Stamped From the Beginning, on Freedom Dreams ​ ​

British: Penguin Press ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

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Edward Snowden PERMANENT RECORD *A New York Times and International Bestseller* ​ ​ Publication: September 2019 Finished books available ​ ​ Editor: Sara Bershtel ​ Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

In 2013, Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance able to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.

PERMANENT RECORD is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online—a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, PERMANENT ​ RECORD is a crucial memoir of our digital age destined to be a classic. ​

A systems engineer by training, Edward Snowden served as an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, ​ and worked as a contractor for the National Security Agency. He has received numerous awards for his public service, including the Right Livelihood Award, the German Whistleblower Prize, the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, and the Carl von Ossietzky Medal from the International League of Human Rights. Currently, he serves as president of the board of directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

“A riveting account . . . What does it mean to have the data of our lives collected and stored on file, ready to be accessed—not just now . . . but potentially forever? . . . When it comes to privacy and speech and the Constitution, his story clarifies the stakes.” —The New York Times ​ ​ “A robust defense against accusations that he is a traitor . . . [and] a reminder that his disclosures of mass surveillance and bulk collection of personal information are as relevant now as they were in 2013.” —The Guardian ​

British: Pan Macmillan ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​ Rights sold: Albanian/Pema, Arabic/All Prints, ANZ/Pan Macmillan, Bulgarian/Egmont, Chinese ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (Complex)/China Times, Chinese (Simplified)/China South Booky, Croatian/24sata, Czech/Alpress ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Danish/Information, Dutch/Balans, Estonian/Tanapaev, Finnish/WSOY, French/Editions du Seuil, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ German/S. Fischer, Greek/Psichogios, Hebrew/Yedioth, Hungarian/21 Szazad, Italian/Longanesi, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Japanese/Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Korean/Kyungrok, Lithuanian/Kitos Knygos, Montenegrin/Obodsko ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Slovo, Norwegian/H. Aschehoug & Co., Polish/Insignis, Portuguese (in Brazil)/Planeta, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Portuguese/Planeta Manuscrito Unipessoal, Romanian/Nemira, Russian/EKSMO, Serbian/Vulkan, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Slovak/IKAR, Slovenian/UCILA, Spanish/Planeta, Swedish/Leopard, Thai/SE-Education, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Turkish/Epsilon, Ukrainian/KM Books, Uzbek/Azboa.Uz, Vietnamese/Phanbook ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

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Jeffrey Veidlinger IN THE MIDST OF CIVILIZED EUROPE The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

Publication: October 2021 Manuscript available November 2020 ​ ​ Editor: Sara Bershtel ​

IN THE MIDST OF CIVILIZED EUROPE is a fascinating new look at the sources and causes of the Holocaust, particularly the slaughter of over 100,000 Jews in the Ukraine during the Russian Civil War of 1917-1921. The Holocaust is rarely associated with the actual genocidal violence perpetrated against Jews in the wake of the Russian Revolution—a largely forgotten story, even in the many Holocaust museums and textbooks.

Jeffrey Veidlinger’s groundbreaking work illuminates how the Russian Civil War created the preconditions for the genocidal violence that took place in the same towns and against the same people twenty-two years later. It explores the dynamics of genocide and the ideologies of hatred by dissecting the frenzied anti-Jewish violence that predated the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union through the voices of townsfolk. He uses tens of thousands of pages of witness testimony, along with his own oral history interviews with Ukrainian pogrom survivors, to investigate how so many different groups of people came to the same conclusion: that killing Jews was an acceptable response to their disparate predicaments. IN THE MIDST OF CIVILIZED ​ EUROPE asks not only why Germans, Poles and Ukrainians killed Jews, but also why one group—any group—would suddenly seek to physically exterminate another.

Jeffrey Veidlinger is the son of a Holocaust survivor and the Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, where he also serves as the Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies. Veidlinger is the author of three award-winning books: The Moscow State Yiddish ​ Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage, winner of the National Jewish Book Award; Jewish Public Culture in the ​ ​ Late Russian Empire, winner of the J. I. Segal Prize; and In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small Town Jewish Life in Soviet ​ ​ Ukraine, winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award. Widely recognized as the leading scholar of the ​ Holocaust and Jewish Studies, Veidlinger serves as the Vice President of the Association for Jewish Studies and the Associate Chair of the Academic Advisory Committee to the Center for Jewish History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Praise for The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: ​

“A fascinating and little-known piece of history . . . Veidlinger distills a remarkable amount of research into a pithy, well-turned account.” —Publishers Weekly ​

“Richly researched and observed . . . Veidlinger is good both at delineating the suspicious, tactical relationship between artists and ideologues that characterized Soviet culture and in framing the question of what constitutes a people’s culture, which haunted this nation for more than a century.” —Choice ​

British: Macmillan UK ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold: Canadian/HarperCollins Canada, Dutch/Het Spectrum, German/Beck, Italian/Rizzoli ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

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Leana Wen PUBLIC HEALTH SAVED YOUR LIFE TODAY A Doctor’s Journey on the Frontlines of Medicine and Social Justice

Publication: June 2021 Manuscript available November 2020 ​ ​ Editor: Riva Hocherman ​

From the frontlines of public health crises, Leana Wen—emergency doctor, health commissioner for Baltimore and former president of Planned Parenthood—has led the fight against the opioid epidemic, outbreaks of infectious disease, infant mortality, and Covid-19 disinformation. Here in vivid detail, drawing on her deep experience, Wen unveils the invisible hand of public health, showing how it uniquely encompasses science, advocacy, medicine, and politics; how innovative programs can treat gun violence as a contagious disease and racism as a health issue; how public health plays a key role in protecting the vulnerable and keeping streets safe.

Leana Wen’s own story is a uniquely American one, of a child refugee from China whose parents relied on food stamps and were at times homeless. That child went on to attend college at thirteen, graduate from medical school, and turn to public health as the way to make a difference in the country that had offered her such vast possibilities.

Delivered with gripping storytelling and unmatched authority, PUBLIC HEALTH SAVED YOUR LIFE ​ TODAY offers an uplifting memoir, a window on to the inner workings of public health, and a galvanizing call to understand health for all as a fundamental human right.

Dr. Leana Wen is an Attending Physician and Director of Patient-Centered Care Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University. Inspired by her own childhood illness and then her mother's long battle with cancer, Dr. Wen is passionate about guiding patients to advocate for better care. A former Rhodes Scholar and Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School, she has published dozens of articles on patient-doctor communication. She speaks around the world on patient empowerment and healthcare reform.

Praise for Leana Wen:

TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People,” 2019 Modern Healthcare’s “50 Most Influential Physician Executives” A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader Governing’s Public Official of the Year

“Interacting with Wen is a bit like swallowing a lit firecracker. Except instead of killing you, her force makes you feel smarter and healthier.” —The Atlantic ​

“One of the most aggressive and innovative public health officials in the nation.” —USA Today ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

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Dave Quinn NOT ALL DIAMONDS AND ROSÉ The Definitive Oral History of the Real Housewives

Publication: April 2021 Manuscript available October 2020 ​ ​ Editor: James Melia and Madeline Jones ​

For the first time in the ultimate Reunion, the Ladies of The Real Housewives dish on the iconic moments we’ll ​ never forget and the off-camera drama we’ve never seen before. From flipped tables to thrown tiki torches, from Beverly Hills to Dallas, this is the definitive story of the real Real Housewives.

The Real Housewives, for the first time, go on the record with the true story of the juggernaut franchise. With the full support of Bravo and Andy Cohen, Not All Diamonds and Rosé is the definitive tell-all of the hit ​ ​ television saga, from its unlikely start in the gated communities of Orange County, to the pop culture behemoth it has become—spanning seven cities, hundreds of cast members, and millions of fans. This is the real story straight from the lips of the women and men who have made it America’s favorite guilty pleasure. Amassing hours of exclusive interviews with the wives, husbands, friends-of, and crew members behind the scenes, author Dave Quinn gets the unfiltered truth behind fan-favorite moments, legendary rivalries, and off-camera revelations never before shared.

Dave Quinn is a writer for People magazine. He lives in Brooklyn. ​ ​ ​

British: Henry Holt ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

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Henry Beston with an introduction by Robert Finch THE OUTERMOST HOUSE A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

Publication: 75th anniversary edition, July 2003 Finished books available ​ ​

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune). ​ ​

A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach, THE ​ OUTERMOST HOUSE has long been recognized as a classic of American nature writing. Henry Beston had originally planned to spend just two weeks in his seaside home, but was so possessed by the mysterious beauty of his surroundings that he found he “could not go.”

Instead, he sat down to try and capture in words the wonders of the magical landscape he found himself in thrall to: the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars in the changing summer sky. Beston argued that “The world today is sick to its thin blood for the lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.” Seventy-five years after they were first published, Beston’s words are truer than ever.

Henry Beston (1888–1968) is the author of many books, including White Pine and Blue Water, Northern Farm, ​ ​ ​ ​ and The St. Lawrence. ​ ​

“A colorful and ever-changing chronicle of movement that approaches the magnificent.” —Boston Transcript ​

“Clear and full of life.” —The Nation ​

British: Pushkin Press ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold: Chinese (Simplified)/SDX Joint Publishing, German/Mare Buch, Italian/Ponte Alle ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Grazie/Longanesi, Korean/Nulwa, Spanish/Volcano Libros ​ ​ ​ ​

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Erich Fromm ESCAPE FROM FREEDOM

Publication: 1941 Finished books available ​ ​

Masha Gessen wrote in the New York Review of Books, “I’ve been surprised, in ​ ​ the last year, that the resurgence of interest in some of the classic books on totalitarianism has not brought back Erich Fromm’s wonderful ESCAPE ​ FROM FREEDOM . . . In the book, Fromm proposes that there are two kinds of freedom: ‘freedom from,’ which we all want—we all want our parents to stop telling us what to do—and ‘freedom to,’ which can be difficult or even unbearable. This is the freedom to invent one’s future, the freedom to choose. Fromm suggests that at certain times in human history the burden of ‘freedom to’ becomes too painful for a critical mass of people to bear, and they take the opportunity to cede their agency—whether it’s to Martin Luther, Adolf Hitler, or Donald Trump.”

If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of ESCAPE FROM FREEDOM, a landmark work by one of the most ​ distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941. Few books have thrown such light upon the forces that shape modern society or penetrated so deeply into the causes of authoritarian systems. If the rise of democracy set some people free, it simultaneously gave birth to a society in which the individual feels alienated and dehumanized. Using the insights of psychoanalysis as probing agents, Fromm’s work analyzes the illness of contemporary civilization as witnessed by its willingness to submit to totalitarian rule.

Erich Fromm was a German-born U.S. psychoanalyst and social philosopher who explored the interaction between psychology and society. He died in 1980.

“An analysis par excellence of our cultural neurosis.” —The Nation ​

“Fromm’s thought merits the critical attention of all concerned with the human condition and its future.” —The Washington Post ​

“An important and challenging work.” —The New York Herald Tribune ​

Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold: Albanian/Fan Noli, Arabic/Dar al Hiwar, Bulgarian/Ciela, Chinese (Complex)/Ecus ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Publishing, Chinese (Simplified)/Shanghai 99 Readers Culture Co., Czech/Portal, ​ ​ ​ ​ French/Éditions des Belles Lettres, Georgian/Intelekti, German/Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Greek/Dioptra, Italian/Mondadori, Japanese/Tokyo Sogen-sha, Korean/Archive, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Polish/vis-a-vis/Etiuda, Romanian/Editura Trei, Russian/AST, Serbian/Nova Knjiga, Slovenian/UMco, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Swedish/Lindelöws Bokförlag, Ukranian/Family Leisure Club, Vietnamese/Vietnam Omega ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

Rights sold, Anatomy Of Human Destructiveness: British/Random House, Bulgarian/Zahary Stoyanov, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Chinese (Simplified)/Beijing World, Czech/Portal, German/Rowohlt, Japanese/Kinokuniya, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Polish/Dom Wydawniczy Rebis, Serbian/Nova Knjiga, Slovak/Citadealla ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

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Elizabeth Warren THIS FIGHT IS OUR FIGHT The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class *A #1 New York Times Bestseller* ​ ​ Publication: April 2017 Finished books available ​ ​ Editor: John Sterling ​

Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America’s middle class and has become one of the country’s leading progressive voices. At a perilous moment for our nation, she wrote a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it. THIS FIGHT IS OUR FIGHT is at once an illuminating account of how we built the strongest middle class in history and a scathing indictment of those who have spent the past forty years undermining working families.

Elizabeth Warren is the senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. A former Harvard Law School professor, she is the author of several books, including A Fighting Chance, a national bestseller that received widespread critical acclaim. One of the nation’s most influential progressives, she has long been a champion of working families and the middle class. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband, Bruce Mann.

“This Fight Is Our Fight is a smart, tough-minded book . . . What Democrats need right now is a reason to keep ​ ​ fighting. And that’s something Warren’s muscular, unapologetic book definitely offers. It’s an important contribution.” —Paul Krugman, The New York Times Book Review ​

“Inspiring words to empower Warren's marching army.” —Kirkus *starred review* ​ ​

British: HarperCollins UK ​ Translation: Henry Holt ​

Rights sold: German/Rowohlt, Italian/Garzanti, Japanese/Sotensha, Korean/Geulhangari ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

Also available: New York Times Bestseller A FIGHTING CHANCE ​ ​ ​ ​ Rights sold, A Fighting Chance: ANZ/Scribe, Chinese (Complex)/Good Morning Press, Chinese ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (Simplified)/Beijing Huaxia Winshare, Danish/Information, German/Rowohlt, Korean/Geulhangari, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Portuguese (in Brazil)/Intrinseca ​

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