Inkwell Management London 2016

InkWell Management London 2016

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Fiction Nathan Besser ...... Man in the Corner ...... 6 Peter Blauner ...... Proving Ground ...... 7 Matthew Carr ...... The Devils of Cardona ...... 8 Blake Crouch ...... Dark Matter ...... 9 Jesse Donaldson ...... The More They Disappear ...... 10 Katherine Govier ...... The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel ...... 11 Pepper Harding ...... The Heart of Henry Quantum ...... 12 Kaui Hart Hemmings ...... How to Party With an Infant...... 13 Kathryn Heyman ...... Storm and Grace ...... 14 Elin Hilderbrand ...... Here’s to Us ...... 15 Elin Hilderbrand ...... Winter Storms ...... 16 Swan Huntley ...... We Could Be Beautiful ...... 17 Eloisa James ...... Seven Minutes in Heaven ...... 18 Wendy James ...... The Golden Child ...... 19 Jarett Kobek ...... I Hate the Internet...... 20 Taylor Larsen ...... Stranger, Father, Beloved ...... 21 Jim Lynch ...... Before the Wind ...... 22 Donald Ray Pollock ...... The Heavenly Table ...... 23 Karen Rinaldi ...... The End of Men ...... 24 Lionel Shriver ...... The Mandibles ...... 25 Drew Smith ...... Arcade ...... 26 Steve Toutonghi...... Join ...... 27 Hannah Tunnicliffe ...... A French Wedding ...... 28 Dawn Tripp ...... Georgia ...... 29 David Vann ...... Bright Air Black ...... 30

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Non- Fiction Anthony Bourdain ...... Appetites ...... 32 Paul Brinkley-Rogers ...... Please Enjoy Your Happiness ...... 33 Meghan Cox Gurdon ...... The Enchanted Hour ...... 34 Bryan Cranston ...... Memoir ...... 35 Ingrid Fetell Lee ...... The Aesthetics of Joy ...... 36 M.F.K. Fisher ...... The M.F.K. Fisher Estate ...... 37 Janine di Giovanni ...... The Morning They Came for Us ...... 38 James Gleick ...... Time Travel ...... 39 Robin Dreeke ...... The Code of Trust ...... 40 Angela Duckworth ...... Grit...... 41 Tiffany Dufu...... Drop the Ball ...... 42 Marcelo Gleiser ...... The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected ...... 43 Shawn Levy ...... Dolce Vita Confidential ...... 44 John Mauceri ...... The Art of Conducting ...... 45 Paul Thomas Murphy ...... Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane ...... 46 Anu Partanen ...... The Nordic Theory of Everything ...... 47 Roger Pielke, Jr...... The Edge ...... 48 Eric Ripert...... 32 Yolks ...... 49 Sadhguru ...... Inner Engineering ...... 50 Nancy Jo Sales...... American Girls...... 51 Suze Yalof Schwartz ...... Unplug ...... 52 Casey Sherman & Michael J. Tougias ...... Above and Beyond...... 53 Dava Sobel ...... The Glass Universe ...... 54 Sylvia Tara ...... The Secret Life of Fat ...... 55 Michael J. Tougias & Alison O’Leary ...... So Close to Home ...... 56 Lauren Zander ...... Mission I’mpossible ...... 57

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Young Adult Susan Cain ...... Quiet Power ...... 59 Andrea Cremer ...... The Turncoat’s Gambit ...... 60 Cath Crowley ...... Words in Deep Blue ...... 61 Kirsty Eagar ...... Summer Skin ...... 62 Amy Ewing ...... The Black Key ...... 63 Amy Ewing ...... The Cerulean ...... 64 Tara Goedjen ...... Red Red Ribbons ...... 65 Melissa Grey ...... The Shadow Hour ...... 66 Lexa Hillyer ...... Spindle Fire ...... 67 Kerry Kletter ...... The First Time She Drowned ...... 68 Claire LaZebnik ...... The Things I Should Have Known ...... 69 Reshma Saujani...... Girls Who Code ...... 70 Gavriel Savit ...... Anna and the Swallow Man ...... 71 Noelle Stevenson & Todd Casey ...... 4 Wizards ...... 72 Krystal Sutherland ...... Our Chemical Hearts ...... 73 Kerry Winfrey ...... Love and Other Alien Experiences ...... 74 Darcy Woods ...... Summer of Supernovas ...... 75 Jeff Zentner ...... The Serpent King ...... 76

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Matthew Fitzsimmons ...... The Short Drop...... 78 Adam Grant ...... Originals ...... 78 Michael Greger ...... How Not to Die ...... 79 David Ludwig ...... Always Hungry? ...... 79 Sam Munson ...... The November Criminals ...... 80 William Styron ...... My Generation ...... 80 Diane Williams ...... Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine ...... 81

Fiction

Nathan Besser MAN IN THE CORNER

Your wife sharing the fact that she used to work in a brothel might understandably turn your world upside-down.

But when David finds out that his wife, Leah, is in fact a former call girl, he’s understanding, supportive, and loving. Not long after hearing the story of Leah’s stint as a prostitute, David collapses and awakes after brain surgery. He’s a changed man—listless, bored, and ready for a shift.

He quickly sells his reliable business and enters into a questionable but profitable venture with an enigmatic man named Ben. The two men’s lives intertwine as they become dependent on each other to execute a long con worth millions of dollars. David methodically takes over a man’s long-lost identity, but even as he calmly withdraws funds from a bank account that’s not really his, he wonders about Ben. What are his motives? Why doesn’t his life story add up?

Not knowing that his wife’s revelation has saturated every aspect of his life, David begins a downward spiral into the psyche of the man he is, the man he’s pretending to be, and the man who threatens the very essence of his own existence.

Nathan Besser lives in Sydney with his wife and three children. His short stories have thrice appeared in The Best Australian Stories and have been broadcast nationally on the ABC. Man in the Corner is his first novel. Simon Baker has optioned rights to the screenplay and will direct and star in the film.

ANZ: Random House (August 2016) Agent: Kimberly Witherspoon & Monika Woods Editor: Meredith Curnow Format: manuscript

6 Peter Blauner PROVING GROUND

Written with the grit and detail of Richard Price and the propulsion of Lee Child, Proving Ground is a brilliant and morally complex New York crime novel by Peter Blauner, the writer who proves that Stephen King and James Patterson can actually agree on something. (King calls him “amazing” and Patterson says “nobody writing suspense novels does it as well”.)

The novel tells the story of Lourdes Robles, a tough, ambitions, Hispanic, female detective just off departmental probation and Nathanial “Natty Dread” Hellerstein, the troubled young war veteran she initially suspects of killing his own father, a famous defense attorney loathed by every cop and prosecutor in the city’s five boroughs.

What begins as a homicide that could have been committed by any number of potential suspects turns into a young man’s Hamlet-like quest to avenge his father’s death and redeem his own past sins. Proving Ground is both a post-war novel in the format of an urban thriller and a tale of a young woman determined to prove herself in a man’s world.

Peter Blauner is the author of six novels, including the Edgar-award-winning Slow Motion Riot and the New York Times bestseller, The Intruder. His short fiction has been anthologized in the Best American Mystery Stories and on NPR’s “Selected Shorts from Symphony Space.” For the last decade, he worked in television for shows such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: SVU, where one of his teleplays was also nominated for an Edgar in 2014. Currently, he is a co-executive producer for the popular CBS show, Blue Bloods. He lives in Brooklyn.

North America: Minotaur (Spring 2017) Agent: Richard Pine Editor: Kelley Ragland Format: manuscript

7 Matthew Carr THE DEVILS OF CARDONA

“A remarkably well-written and entertaining novel. Matthew Carr fills his work with compelling characters and handles his material—more than a little relevant for our times—with dazzling grace.” —David Liss, author of The Day of Atonement

In this gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim avenger as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship as Christians.

In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near the French border, is murdered in his own church. Most of the town’s inhabitants are Moriscos, former Muslims who converted to Catholicism. Anxious to avert a violent backlash on the eve of a royal visit, an adviser to King Philip II appoints local magistrate Bernardo de Mendoza to investigate. A soldier and humanist, Mendoza doesn't always live up to the moral standards expected of court officials, but he has a reputation for incorruptibility.

From the beginning, Mendoza finds almost universal hatred for the priest. And it isn’t long before he’s drawn into a complex and dangerous world in which greed, fanaticism, and state policy overlap. And as the killings continue, Mendoza’s investigation is overshadowed by the real prospect of an ethnic and religious civil war.

By turns an involving historical thriller and a novel with parallels to our own time, The Devils of Cardona is an unexpected and compelling read.

Matthew Carr is a writer, journalist, blogger, and lifelong Hispanophile. The Devils of Cardona is his first novel; his non-fiction books include: The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism, Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent, and Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain.

North America: Riverhead Books (June 2016) Agent: George Lucas Czech Republic: Pejdlova Rosicka Editor: Jake Morrissey Format: galley

8 Blake Crouch DARK MATTER

“Brilliant. A book to remember. I think Blake Crouch just invented something new.” —Lee Child, author of Make Me

Jason Dessen is a forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago. One night, after a celebration with his old roommate who was just awarded a prestigious prize in astrophysics, Jason heads home. But he never makes it.

A man wearing a Geisha mask suddenly forces Jason at gunpoint into the driver seat of a black SUV. Jason is made to drive to South Chicago, where his abductor marches him into an abandoned power plant on the shore of Lake Michigan. Jason thinks he’s going to be tortured and killed, but instead he’s given a powerful drug.

When Jason next comes to consciousness, he’s surrounded by people in Hazmat suits who carry him on a stretcher through a strange hangar into a quarantine unit. There, a young doctor looks down at him, smiling, and says, “Welcome back.” Jason is on the brink of a stunning revelation: the world he thought was his is completely wrong.

Film rights for Dark Matter have been sold to Sony Pictures and is currently in development.

Blake Crouch is the author of over a dozen bestselling suspense novels, including the international runaway bestselling series Wayward Pines, which has been published in over thirty countries. Pines is now a Major Television Event from Executive Producer M. Night Shyama- lan, starring Matt Dillon, which aired on FOX and has been renewed for two more seasons. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, and his longer fiction has been shortlisted for the International Thriller Award. Blake lives in Colorado.

North America: Crown (August 2016) Agent: David Hale Smith UK: Macmillan Latin America: Oceano Editor: Julian Pavia Brazil: Intrinseca Norway: Gyldendal Format: manuscript China: China CITIC Press Poland: Papierowy Kxiezyc Finland: Tammi Portugal: Objetiva France: J’ai Lu Romania: R.A.O. Germany: Goldmann Russia: Exmo Greece: Dioptra Spain: Noctura Holland: Karakter Sweden: Massolit 9 Hungary: Agave Taiwan: Eurasian Italy: Sperling & Kupfer Thailand: Mono Group Indonesia: Noura Books

Jesse Donaldson THE MORE THEY DISAPPEAR

“A heartbreaking whydunnit set in the ferocious Kentucky hills, The More They Disappear is relentless but masterful in its portrayal of love, addiction, and lonesomeness.” —Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek

When long-time Kentucky sheriff Lew Mattock is shot in the head by a confused, drug- addicted teenager, chief deputy Harlan Dupee is tasked with solving the crime.

Every criminal the sheriff has ever locked up is a suspect, but as Harlan examines the circum- stances surrounding Lew’s death, he finds out his former boss wasn’t an innocent. Harlan’s search takes him headlong into the county’s burgeoning prescription drug trade, from wooded ATV parks and tobacco farms to riverboat casinos, from the slanted steps of trailer parks to the manicured porches of prominent citizens.

As the evidence brings Harlan closer to his unlikely suspect, he comes to doubt the law and its ability to solve the country’s problem.

The More They Disappear explores the violent years following Purdue Pharma’s release of OxyContin. It is an unnerving tale of addiction and loss, the battle to overcome the darkest parts of ourselves in search of redemption.

Jesse Donaldson was a fellow at The Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, and his writing has appeared in The Oxford America, Little Star, and Crazyhorse. He lives in Oregon.

North America: Thomas Dunne Books (August 2016) Agent: David Hale Smith Editor: Will Anderson Format: manuscript

10 Katherine Govier THE THREE SISTERS BAR AND HOTEL

Praise for The Ghost Brush:

“...Govier astonishes throughout in her ability to write epic themes intimately, particularly in the lyri- cal, absorbing, and intense final hundred pages.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

It is 1911, and the coming of the railroad to the Canadian Rockies brings a parade of newcom- ers to the Bow Valley—coal miners, scientists, runaway aristocrats, and remittance men. Among them is poacher Herbie Wishart.

Herbie reinvents himself as a trail guide in the town of Gateway and becomes an outfitter for a fossil-hunting expedition headed by a prominent archaeologist. Rumor has it that the secrecy- shrouded Hodgson expedition could overturn all previous knowledge about early life forms. Along for the trip are Hodgson’s adult children, mopey Humphrey and the captivating Isabel, with whom Herbie strikes up a camp-side alliance. But when an early snowstorm hits and trailside grudges come to a head, the expedition mysteriously vanishes. Despite all efforts to solve—or bury—the mystery, it will haunt Gateway for the next century. Under the spell of the looming Three Sisters peaks, Herbie seems able to bring only a daughter, and she more daughters, into the world.

The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel is at once sweeping and intimate, bursting with heart and wit, and larger-than-life characters whose sheer brio rivals the dazzling and dangerous Rocky Mountains.

Katherine Govier’s most recent novel, The Ghost Brush, was published in the United States as The Printmaker’s Daughter, and in translation in Romania, Spain, Quebec, and Japan. Her novel Creation was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has won the Marian Engel Award and the Toronto Book Award, and has twice been nominated for the Trillium Book Award. The author of twelve previous books, Govier divides her time between Toronto, Ontario, and Canmore, Alberta.

US: on submission Agent: Alexis Hurley Canada: Harper Avenue (March 2016) Editor: Iris Tupholme Format: book 11 Pepper Harding THE HEART OF HENRY QUANTUM

Henry Quantum has several thoughts going through his head at any given time, so it’s no surprise when he forgets something very important—specifically, a Christmas gift for his wife, Margaret, which he realizes on the morning of December 23rd. Henry sets off that day in search of the perfect present for Margaret: a bottle of Chanel No. 5.

But much like Henry’s ever-wandering mind, his quest takes him in different and unexpected directions, including running into the former love of his life, Daisy. Margaret, meanwhile, has begun her own affair, seeking an escape from her unhappy marriage. And Daisy, who has made the unsettling choice of leaving her husband to strike out on her own, finds herself questioning whether she and Henry belong together after all.

In the vein of The Rosie Project comes a sweet, funny, and touching debut from author Pepper Harding which shows how the seemingly insignificant events of one single day can change our lives forever—perhaps, if we’re lucky, for the better.

Pepper Harding is the pseudonym of a prize-winning novelist. Pepper lives and writes in California.

North America: Gallery Books (October 2016) Agent: Michael Carlisle UK/ANZ: Scribe Editor: Karen Kosztolnyik France: Michel Lafon Format: manuscript Germany: Goldmann Italy: Rizzoli

12 Kaui Hart Hemmings HOW TO PARTY WITH AN INFANT

“Kaui Hart Hemmings is the master of heartfelt unsentimentality. Her third novel looks unflinchingly at the rewards and pitfalls of single motherdom in a culture obsessed with sanctimonious parenting.” —Courtney Maum, author of I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

Two years ago, when she told her boyfriend, Bobby, she was pregnant, Mele imagined he’d drop to one knee and propose. Instead, he announced he was engaged to someone else.

Raising Ellie as a single mom in San Francisco is no cake walk. But Mele has navigated the Mommy minefields to the best of her ability. She’s found a group of parents who are willing to laugh at themselves and at the hovering, hand-wringing, organic-obsessed, parent-police in equal parts.

When Bobby invites Ellie to be the flower girl at his wedding, Mele’s fixation with Bobby and his ever-so-perfect fiancé grows intense. As does her anxiety about what to wear and who to bring to the wedding. So Mele distracts herself by entering a cookbook writing contest spon- sored by the San Francisco Mommy Club. Mele decides the best way to fill out the question- naire is to interview members of her parenting group for inspiring recipes—and to be explo- sively, hilariously, honest. Mele doesn’t anticipate that she’ll ignite long-latent appetites—both culinary and romantic.

How to Party With an Infant is a poignant and piercing journey through the helicopter- parenting of the 21st Century, guided by another unforgettable character in Mele Bart. As she did with The Descendants, Kaui Hart Hemmings deftly toes the line between the disastrous and the comical in this vividly imagined novel.

Kaui Hart Hemmings has degrees from Colorado College and Sarah Lawrence, and she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her first novel, a New York Times bestseller, The Descend- ants, has been published in twenty-two other countries and is now an Oscar-winning film directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney. She is also the author of a story collection House of Thieves, the novel The Possibilities, and the YA novel Juniors. She lives in Hawaii. World English: Simon & Schuster (August 2016) Agent: Kim Witherspoon & David Forrer 13 Editor: Marysue Rucci Format: manuscript Kathryn Heyman STORM AND GRACE

When Grace Cain meets free-diver Storm Hisray, she’s prepared to abandon everything, but a chorus of sirens whisper warnings that Grace doesn’t want to hear. When Storm can no longer dive, he begins training Grace to be his new star. But the race to claim the record escalates as another female diver is featured on the cover of Sports Weekly.

As Grace begins to resist his demands, Storm’s temper takes a frightening turn as she knows she’s in deeper—and more dangerous—water than she ever imagined possible. With a secret of her own, Grace’s fears grow to haunt her, even as she prepares for one last, desperate descent.

Storm and Grace is a compelling suspense novel about the fine line between love and control.

Kathryn Heyman is the author of six novels, including The Breaking, The Accomplice, Captain Starlight’s Apprentice, and Floodline, published internationally and in translation. Heyman has won an Arts Council of England Writers Award, the Wingate and the Southern Arts Awards, and been long-listed for the Orange Prize, the Scottish Writer of the Year Award, the Edinburgh Fringe Critic’s Awards, the Kibble Prize, and the West Australian Premier’s Book Awards. Kathryn was born in the UK, but now lives in Australia where she is Director of The Faber Academy.

ANZ: Allen & Unwin (Fall 2016) Agent: Catherine Drayton Editor: Jane Palfreyman Format: manuscript

14 Elin Hilderbrand HERE’S TO US

Praise for The Matchmaker:

“Hilderbrand has crafted another of her delectable beach reads, complete with a fairy-tale romance… Delicious.” —Booklist

An emotional, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it.

Celebrity chef Deacon Rowe is struggling with addition, depression, and not one, but two scandals. As summer nears, he travels to the idyllic Eastern bluff of Nantucket, where he takes his own life.

In the wake of Deacon’s shocking suicide, his first wife and childhood sweetheart, Laurel Rowe, sets out to gather Deacon’s far-flung family—including Deacon and Laurel’s son, and Deacon’s other ex-wives and children—on the island. Here’s to Us brings together three very different, resilient women and their children, who start out not only as strangers, but as bitter rivals, each wanting to claim the primary place in Deacon’s life. Secrets are revealed, confidences are shared, and improbable bonds are formed as this unlikely family says goodbye to the man they loved.

Elin Hilderbrand is the author of several New York Times bestselling novels, including The Rumor, Beautiful Day, Summerland, Silver Girl, The Island, A Summer Affair, and Barefoot. There are over five million copies of Elin Hilderbrand’s novels in print and her sales continue to grow. Her books have been published in twenty foreign countries.

World English: Little, Brown (June 2016) Agent: Michael Carlisle & David Forrer Holland: Meulenhoff Boekerij Editor: Reagan Arthur Format: manuscript

15 Elin Hilderbrand WINTER STORMS

Praise for Winter Street:

“Open this diverting tale of family dysfunction and you’ll find a holiday package filled with humor, romance and realism.” —USA Today

The Quinn family gathers for one last holiday at the Winter Street Inn in the heartwarming conclusion to Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling trilogy.

Preparing for another holiday season in Nantucket, the Quinns are optimistic that despite a health scare for Kelley, this year’s celebration will be their best in ages. After a year apart, and an ill-fated affair with the Inn’s old Santa Claus, Mitzi has returned to rule the roost; there is hopeful news about Bart, who has been MIA in Afghanistan; and love is in the air as Kevin and Isabelle are preparing to get married.

But as the family gathers together, a powerful blizzard bears down on the Eastern seaboard. With a wedding, an emotional reunion, and enough holiday drama to test the closest of family bonds, Winter Storms proves that when the holidays roll around, you can always go home again.

World English: Little, Brown (October 2016) Agent: Michael Carlisle & David Forrer Editor: Reagan Arthur Format: manuscript (July)

16 Swan Huntley WE COULD BE BEAUTIFUL

A spellbinding psychological novel, We Could Be Beautiful is the story of a wealthy woman who has everything—and yet can trust no one.

Catherine West has spent her entire life surrounded by beautiful things. She owns an immacu- late Manhattan apartment, she collects fine art, she buys exquisite handbags and clothing, and she constantly redecorates her home. And yet, despite all this, she still feels empty. She sees her personal trainer, she gets weekly massages, and occasionally she visits her mother and sister on the Upper East Side, but after two broken engagements and boyfriends who only want her money, she is haunted by the fear that she’ll never have a family of her own.

One night, at an art opening, Catherine meets William Stockton, a handsome man who shares her impeccable taste and love of beauty. He is educated, elegant, and even has a personal connection—his parents and Catherine’s parents were friends years ago. But as he and Catherine grow closer, she begins to encounter strange signs, and her mother, Elizabeth, (now suffering from Alzheimer’s) seems to have only bad memories of William as a boy. In Elizabeth’s old diary she finds an unnerving letter from a former nanny that cryptically reads “We cannot trust anyone.”

Is William lying about his past? And if so, is Catherine willing to sacrifice their beautiful life in order to find the truth? Featuring a fascinating heroine who longs for answers but is blinded by her own privilege, We Could Be Beautiful is a glittering, seductive, utterly surprising story of love, money, greed, and family.

Swan Huntley earned her MFA from Columbia University. She’s received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and The Ragdale Foundation. She lives in Oakland.

World English: Doubleday (June 2016) Agent: Allison Hunter Editor: Jennifer Jackson Format: manuscript

Eloisa James SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN

“Eloisa James write with a captivating blend of charm, style, and grace that never fails to leave the reader sighing and falling in love. Her style is exquisite, her prose pure magic. Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than a new novel by Eloisa James.” —Julia Quinn, author of Just Like Heaven

Edward Reeve may be the son of an earl, but he’s always been more interested in the hurly burly world of business than the rules of high society. However, when Ward inherits two young half-siblings whom he never knew existed, he realizes they need a governess.

He hires someone from the very best registry, Snowe’s—but quickly discovers that what he really wants is Mrs. Eugenia Snowe herself, a witty, beautiful widow.

Sparks fly as Ward pursues Eugenia with charm and determination, but she refuses himat every turn. She was married to a man she adored, and in her opinion, nothing could surpass those years of bliss.

But Ward will take any risk to prove Eugenia wrong. He’ll stop at nothing—not even kidnap- ping—to convince her that they’re meant to be together. He promises her heaven, if she’ll just give him a chance…

She gives him seven minutes.

Eloisa James is the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of twenty-four historical romances. After graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. from Oxford University, a Ph.D. from Yale, and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University. Her novels have sold in more than twenty foreign countries.

North America: Avon (January 2017) Agent: Kim Witherspoon & David Forrer UK: Piatkus Editor: Carrie Feron Format: manuscript (Fall)

18 Wendy James THE GOLDEN CHILD

Praise for Lost Girls:

“A wonderful, unputdownable story by a great Australian author.” —Liane Moriarty, author of The Husband’s Secret

“DizzyLizzy” is an Aussie gal, now a mother of two, transported from the sunny shores of Sydney town to the colder climes of Somewhere, USA. She’s mostly enjoying the experience— even if it has left her feeling, well, just a little disoriented. Lizzy’s blog is a kind of miscellany of all the random experiences that add up to a life, with an emphasis on motherhood. Lizzy’s virtual life couldn't be better: she has a handsome husband, two gorgeous children, plenty of money, and a devoted blog audience.

But the very real Beth, the woman behind Lizzy’s persona, is a little more complicated: Her move back to Australia hasn’t gone quite according to plan; her new house is a dump; her mother-in-law hates her, and her own mother lives way too close; her husband isn’t quite the man she thought he was; her two teenage daughters are busy making their own lives.

When a good friend’s teenage daughter is left comatose after a suicide attempt—the victim of a relentless and wicked bullying campaign—Beth’s life really begins to unravel. Because it’s beginning to look as if Beth’s perfect daughter—her golden child—is the bully.

Wendy James’s new novel is a confronting and suspenseful inquiry into our most profoundly held beliefs about nature and nurture. The story also offers a thought-provoking examination of the gulf between the virtual and the real as we construct our online lives.

Wendy James is the author of the best-selling book The Mistake. Her debut novel, Out of Silence, won the 2006 Ned Kelly Award for first crime novel, and was shortlisted for the Nita May Dobbie Award for women’s writing. Her prize-winning short stories and articles have been widely published. She works as an editor at the Australian Institute of Health Implementation, and runs a writing school in Newcastle, NSW.

ANZ: HarperCollins (February 2017) Agent: Alexis Hurley Editor: Mary Rennie Format: manuscript (April) 19 Jarett Kobek I HATE THE INTERNET

“Could we have an American Houellebecq? Jarett Kobek might come close… I just got an early copy of his newest… and devoured it—he’s as riotous as Houllebecq, and you don’t need a translator, only fire- proof gloves for turning the pages.” —Jonathan Lethem, The Scofield

What if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? What if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman in a society that hated women?

Set in the San Francisco of 2013, I Hate the Internet offers a hilarious and obscene portrayal of life amongst the victims of the digital boom. As billions of tweets fuel the city’s gentrification and the human wreckage piles up, a group of friends suffers the consequences of being useless in a new world that despises the pointless and unprofitable.

In this, his first full-length novel, Jarett Kobek tackles the pressing questions of our moment. Why do we applaud the enrichment of CEOs at the expense of the weak and powerless? Why are we giving away our intellectual property? Why is activism in the 21st Century nothing more than a series of morality lectures typed into devices built by slaves?

Here, at last, comes an explanation of the Internet in the crudest possible terms.

Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella, ATTA, has appeared in Spanish translation, been the subject of much academic writing, and was a recent bestseller in parts of Canada. He writes regularly for museums and galleries, with his essays appearing under the auspices of Frieze, the Hammer Museum, and White Cube.

North America: We Heard You Like Books (February 2016) Agent: William Callahan UK: Serpent’s Tail Format: book France: Fayard

20 Taylor Larsen STRANGER, FATHER, BELOVED

“A mesmerizing, unsparing exploration of one man’s descent, told in subtle, precise language that is reminiscent at times of Raymond Carver, Haruki Murakami, and Carson McCullers, but entirely Larsen’s own creation; a wonderful debut.” —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!

Taylor Larsen’s enigmatic debut novel follows the life and downward spiral of wealthy family man Michael James, who has reached a crossroads after a lifetime of repression and denial. His mental breakdown converges with his teenage daughter’s sexual awakening and rebellion, resulting in an atmosphere of tension and uncertainty in the James home.

When Michael sees his wife, Nancy, chatting with a stranger at a party they’re hosting, he’s stunned by the strength of his feeling that he’s watching her with the man she should have married. This feeling up-ends Michael’s life, and he begins a campaign to replace himself within his own family with this other man—this worthier, better, kinder man—all so his faithful wife Nancy, his beautiful teenage daughter Ryan, and his young, asthmatic son Darryl, can live the life they deserve.

As Michael pursues this man’s friendship, inserting him into the family dynamic, and Ryan distances herself from her family, ashamed of her mother and father and enamored of herself, Nancy is increasingly befuddled and frustrated. The family unit devolves into chaos as Michael abandons everyone during a Christian retreat, assured of his conviction that everyone would be better off without him as he sinks into utter delusion.

With the deviancy of Tom Perrotta’s Little Children and the sensitivity of Lorrie Moore, Larsen has written an explosive story about a family on the verge of unraveling.

Taylor Larsen is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in fiction writing. Taylor has taught fiction writing at Columbia University and the Sackett Street Writers Workshop, as well as literature courses for Pace University. Stranger, Father, Beloved was selected for Columbia University’s Faculty Selects program for her novel. Originally from Virginia, Taylor lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

North America: Gallery Books (July 2016) Agent: Monika Woods Editor: Karen Kosztolnyik 21 Format: galley Jim Lynch BEFORE THE WIND

“Jim Lynch’s Before the Wind is such a wonderful novel—so wry, wise and engaging, so sleek and descriptive—I already have a spot picked out for it on my bookshelf, next to those other classic stories of iconoclastic Westerners, Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion and Duncan’s The Brothers K.” —Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins

From the author of Border Songs and Truth Like the Sun, Lynch’s long-awaited breakthrough— a grand saga of a sailing-obsessed family that will stand alongside Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Nation.

Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his twenty-nine years among sailboats. His grandfather designed them, his father built and raced them, his mother knows why and how they work (or not). For Josh and his two siblings, their backyard was the Puget Sound and sailing their DNA. But both his sister and brother fled many years ago: Ruby to Africa and elsewhere to do good works on land, and Bernard to god-knows-where at sea, a fugitive and pirate.

Now pushing thirty, Josh—who repairs boats of all kinds in a Steinbeckian marina south of Seattle—is still pained by whatever it was that went wrong with his damn family. But when the Johannssens unexpectedly reunite for the most important race in these waters—all of them together on a historic vessel they made decades ago—they will be carried to destinies both individual and collective, and to a heart-shattering revelation.

Past and present merge seamlessly and collide surprisingly as Jim Lynch reveals a family unlike any other with the grace and magic of a master storyteller.

Jim Lynch is the author of three novels, including The Highest Tide, which won the 2006 Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award and was an international bestselling novel; and Border Songs, which won the Washington State Book Award for Fiction. Lynch is a recipient of the Livingston Young Journalist Award, and lives with his wife in Olympia, Washington.

US: Knopf (April 2016) Agent: Kim Witherspoon Canada: Knopf Editor: Gary Fisketjon France: Gallmeister Format: book 22

Donald Ray Pollock THE HEAVENLY TABLE

“The Heavenly Table is a ferociously gothic ballad about desperate folks with improbable dreams and scant means. It is potent and chimeric, dank, violent, swamped in tragedy—and funny as hell.” —Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter’s Bone

From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockem- stiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.

It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabana. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled out of his family’s entire fortune, his life is put on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajecto- ry that will directly lead him to cross paths with the Jewetts. No good can come of it. Or can it?

In the gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy with a healthy dose of cinematic violence reminiscent of Sam Peckinpath, Quentin Tarantion, and the Coen Brothers, the Jewetts and the Fiddlers will find their lives colliding in increasingly dark and horrific ways, placing Donald Ray Pollock in the company of the genre’s literary masters.

Donald Ray Pollock grew up in Knockemstiff, Ohio, and quit high school at seventeen to work in a meatpacking plant. He then spent thirty-two years employed as a laborer at the Mead Paper Corporation in Chillicothe, Ohio before enrolling in the MFA program at Ohio State University. His first book, a collection of stories called Knockemstiff, won the 2009 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. His first novel, The Devil All the Time, was published in 2011.

North America: Doubleday (July 2016) Agents: Richard Pine & Nathaniel Jacks UK: Harvill Secker Editor: Gerry Howard Catalan: Empuries Format: galley France: Albin Michel Germany: Piper Holland: De Bezige Bij Spain: PRH Grupo Editorial 23

Karen Rinaldi THE END OF MEN

The End of Men exposes the difficulties modern women face balancing work, marriage, and family in a brutally realistic and poignant way that is yet to be portrayed in contemporary fiction.

Isabelle, Beth, Anna, Maggie, and Georgia have everything: career, children, men, sex, self- esteem, and power. Strong-willed and confident, these women tend to their own needs without fear of consequence, often pushing the boundaries of “acceptable” behavior in their race to have it all.

Far from so called “mommy lit,” The End of Men shines a klieg light on modern day relationships between women and men, depicting the shifting power dynamics in marriages and ex- hibiting the emerging dominance of women in contemporary society. Inspired by Mary McCarthy’s classic novel The Group, this book asks what happens when happily ever after is over.

Karen Rinaldi

TK: Harper Perennial (Spring 2016) Agent: Kim Witherspoon Italy: Rizzoli Editor: Erin Wicks Format: manuscript (May) 24 Lionel Shriver THE MANDIBLES A Family, 2029-2047

“One of the most magnetically compelling writers working today. Witty, caustic, and worldly.” — The Wall Street Journal

The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin centers on three generations of The Mandible family as a fiscal crisis hits a near-future America.

It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizeable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. Yet America’s soaring national debt has grown so enormous that it can never be repaid. Under siege from an upstart international currency, the dollar is in melt- down. A bloodless world war will wipe out the savings of millions of American families.

Their inheritance turned to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment, but also—as the effects of the downturn start to hit—the challenge of sheer survival. Recently affluent Avery is petulant that she can’t buy olive oil, while her sister Florence is forced to absorb strays into her increasingly cramped household. As their father Carter fumes at having to care for his demented stepmother now that a nursing home is too expensive, his sister Nollie, an expat author, returns from abroad at 73 to a country that’s unrecognizable.

Perhaps only Florence’s oddball teenage son Willing, an economics autodidact, can save this formerly august American family from the streets.

This is not science fiction. This is a frightening, fascinating, scabrously funny glimpse into the decline that may await the United States all too soon, from the pen of perhaps the most consistently perceptive and topical author of our times.

Lionel Shriver’s novels include Big Brother, The New Republic, the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World, and the Orange Prize- winner We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She lives in London and Brooklyn, New York.

World English: HarperCollins (May 2016) Agent: Kim Witherspoon 25 France: Belfond Editor: Gail Winston Germany: Piper Format: manuscript Korea: RH Korea Spain: Anagrama Drew Smith ARCADE

“Drew Smith has one of the most honest and original voices of any of our young novelists. He’s willing to tear his guts out for us—like the greats do—and remind us that, terrified and confused though we are, we’re not alone.” —Clancy Martin, author of Bad Sex

Arcade, Drew Smith’s provocative debut novel, is a fearless and darkly funny exploration of sex in the modern era—along with all its attendant complications, confusions, and obsessions.

Though there has arguably never been a better time to be a gay man, try telling that to the thirty-something narrator of Arcade. His anxious, religious upbringing in a small town has led him to the most archaic and outmoded local for connection with potential partners—a XXX peepshow arcade on the outskirts of town where closeted men meet for anonymous sex.

The events he witnesses, the men he encounters, and the bizarre setting itself trigger contemplative digressions into such subjects as the curse of being a short straight man, the frightening overlap between horror movies and his love life, and the false expectations created by multiple childhood viewings of Porky’s and The Big Chill. Naturally, his thoughts also turn to his own romantic history and heartbreak, as well as pornography, sex, and whether the arcade is a frivolous pastime or the most meaningful place in his life—a question he never has to face as long as it’s open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Equal parts anthropological dispatch and fictional memoir, Arcade is filled with details about the sleazy and bizarre rituals of the place, filtered through the evolving narrator’s cultural viewpoint and perspective on himself and the world around him.

Drew Smith’s essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in many places in print and online, including The Believer, Tin House, Paste Magazine, The Millions, Daily Beast, and others. He lives in Austin.

North America: Unnamed Press (June 2016) Agent: Monika Woods Editor: Olivia Taylor Format: manuscript

26 Steve Toutonghi JOIN

“Join is a searing, ballistic plunge into the mysteries of identity and morality. Its ingenious core is revealed and amplified by high voltage suspense and murder. Delicious.” —Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love

What if you could live multiple lives simultaneously, have constant, perfect companionship, and never die? That’s the promise of Join, a revolutionary technology that allows small groups of minds to unite, forming a single consciousness that experiences the world through multiple bodies. But as two best friends discover, the light of that miracle may be blinding the world to its horrors.

Chance and Leap are jolted out of their professional routines by a terrifying stranger—a remorseless killer who freely manipulates the networks that regulate life in the post-Join world. Their quest for answers—and survival—brings them from the networks and spire communities they’ve known to the scarred heart of an environmentally ravaged North Ameri- can continent and an underground community of the “ferals” left behind by the rush of technology.

In the storytelling tradition of classic speculative fiction from writers like David Mitchell and Michael Chabon, Join offers a pulse-pounding story that poses the largest possible questions: How long can human life be sustained on our planet in the face of environmental catastrophe? What does it mean to be human, and what happens when humanity takes the next step in its evolution? If the individual mind becomes obsolete, what have we lost and gained, and what is still worth fighting for?

Steve Toutonghi has spent over twenty years in the technology industry in Silicon Valley and Seattle, and studied poetry and fiction while completing a degree in Anthropology at Stanford. Passionate about the art of storytelling, Stephen has read over 125 books out loud to entertain his wife and their gray cat, Steinbeck.

World English: Soho Press (April 2016) Agent: David Forrer Turkey: Pegasus Books Editor: Mark Doten Format: book 27 Hannah Tunnicliffe A FRENCH WEDDING

Praise for Season of Salt and Honey:

“A lovely, charming read with enough salt to make it interesting and enough honey to make it sweet.” —Frances Whiting, author of Walking on Trampolines

Max is turning forty. All he wants for his birthday is to invite his six oldest friends to stay at his country house in France… and to finally declare his secret, undying love for his best friend, Helen. What could possibly go wrong?

Juliette gave up her dreams of owning an acclaimed Parisian restaurant to return to her tiny coastal village and nurse her aging parents. But she finds her childhood home much changed, even the boulangerie where she first learned the joy of baking has fallen upon hard times. Now, as she tries to forget her past failures, Max’s birthday weekend may just provide the new beginning Juliette is wishing for… but at what cost?

A French Wedding is a charming, transporting story of loves, lies, fights, friendships, and feasts set over a single weekend in the French countryside. The perfect novel for fans of The Big Chill and Chocolat.

Hannah Tunnicliffe was born in New Zealand, and is a self-confessed nomad. The author of Season of Salt and Honey and The Color of Tea, she has previously lived in Canada, Australia, England, and Macau. She currently lives in New Zealand with her husband and their two daughters, having happily ditched a career in Human Resources to become an author. She is the founder and co-author of the blog Fork and Fiction, which, unsurprisingly, explores her twin loves: books and food.

North America: Doubleday (Spring 2017) Agent: Catherine Drayton ANZ: Pan Macmillan (May 2016) Editor: Melissa Danaczko Bulgaria: Enthusiast Format: manuscript Germany: Diana/Verlagsgruppe RH

28 Dawn Tripp GEORGIA

“I devoured this dazzling portrait… Dawn Tripp brings Georgia O’Keeffe so fully to life on every page and, with great wisdom, examines the very nature of love, longing, femininity, and art.” —J. Courtney Sullivan, author of The Engagements

Georgia O’Keeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and her quest to become an independent artist come to life in this sensuous and wonderfully written novel, now a bestseller, a dazzling departure into historical fiction and by the acclaimed novelist Dawn Tripp.

In 1916, Georgia O’Keeffe is a young, unknown art teacher when she travels to New York to meet Stieglitz, the famed photographer and art dealer, who has discovered O’Keeffe’s work and exhibits it in his gallery. Their connection is instantaneous. O’Keeffe is quickly drawn into Stieglitz’s sophisticated world, becoming both his mistress and his muse, as their attraction deepens into an intense and tempestuous relationship and his photographs of her, both clothed and nude, create a sensation.

Yet as her own creative force develops, Georgia begins to push back against what the world is saying about her and her art. And soon as he must make difficult choices to live a life she believes in.

Dawn Tripp is the winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for fiction. She is the author of multiple novels, including The Season of Open Water and Game of Secrets, which was a Boston Globe bestseller. Her essays on writing have appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, Psychology Today, and on NPR.

North America: Random House (March 2016) Agent: Kim Witherspoon Editor: Kate Medina Format: book

29 David Vann BRIGHT AIR BLACK

Praise for Aquarium:

“David Vann knows the dark interior of family tragedies—his own life is fraught with them—and he brings both witness and intense examination to stories of human savagery. His work speaks with an understanding of the unconscionable.” —Washington Post Book World

Set in the Mediterranean and Black Sea 3,250 years ago, Bright Air Black is David Vann’s exhila- rating version of Medea as a slayer of kings who wants a world not ruled by men.

Following the success of Aquarium, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and garnered numerous rave reviews, David Vann transports us to 13th century B.C. to give a nuanced and electric portrait of the life of one of ancient mythology’s most fascinating and notorious women, Medea.

In brilliant poetic prose, this book brings us aboard the ship Argo for its epic return journey across the Black Sea from Persia’s Colchis—where Medea flees her home and father with Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. Vann’s reimagining of this ancient tale offers a thrilling, realist alternative to the long held notions of Medea as monster or sorceress. We witness the dramatic urgency Medea’s humanity, her Bronze Age roots and position in Greek society, her love affair with Jason, and her tragic demise.

Atmospheric and spellbinding, Bright Air Black is an indispensable, fresh, and provocative take on one of our earliest texts and the most intimate and corporal version of Medea’s story ever told.

David Vann’s internationally-bestselling books have won 15 prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain, and have appeared on 70 Best Books of the Year lists in a dozen countries. His novels include Aquarium, Goat Mountain, Dirt, and Legend of a Suicide among others. He holds degrees from Stanford and Cornell and is currently a Professor at the Univer- sity of Warwick in England.

North America: Grove/Atlantic (January 2017) Agent: Kim Witherspoon & David Forrer 30 UK: Heinemann Editor: Elisabeth Schmitz ANZ: Text Publishing Format: manuscript (June) France: Gallmeister Holland: De Bezige Bij

Non-Fiction

Anthony Bourdain With Laurie Woolever

APPETITES

Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world traveling chronicler of food and culture, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others.

These days, however, if he’s cooking, it’s for family and friends. Appetites boils down 40 plus years of professional cooking and world traveling to a tight repertoire of personal favorites. After years of traveling over 200 days a year, Bourdain, now the father of a little girl, has come to enjoy entertaining at home. Lavishly and provocatively photographed by Bobby Fisher, Appetites looks to take the cookbook to the edge of the cliff—and over. An instant collectible, it is intended to hang on every kitchen wall, a rebuke and reminder to those who would attempt anything less than excellence of burgerdom.

Anthony Bourdain is the author of the novels Bone in the Throat, The Bobby Gold Stories, and Gone Bamboo, in addition to the mega-bestseller Kitchen Confidential, A Cook’s Tour,and Medium Raw. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and he is a contributing authority for Food Arts magazine. He is the host of the popular television show “Parts Un- known.”

North America: Ecco/Anthony Bourdain Books (October 2016) Agent: Kim Witherspoon Editor: Dan Halpern Format: proposal

32 Paul Brinkley-Rogers PLEASE ENJOY YOUR HAPPINESS A Memoir

An evocative memoir. A beautiful journey to half a century and half a world away. An ageless love story.

Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley-Rogers has lived an adventurous life all over the world. But there is one story he cannot forget—that of his haunting love affair with a mysterious older Japanese woman in 1959. Paul was a sailor aboard the USS Shangri-la that long ago summer when he met Kaji Yukiko in the seaport of Yokusuka. A fierce intellectual, Yukiko shared her astonishing knowledge of literature, film, and poetry with Pual and encouraged, even demanded, that he use his gifts to become the writer he is today.

But theirs was not a quiet love story. When a member of the yakuza, Japan’s brutal crime syndicate, attempted to kidnap Yukiko, Paul realized that there was much more to her, and to Japan in the devastating wake of World War II, than he saw at first glance. Through dozens of letters that Yukiko wrote to him and Paul’s vivid telling of a history made all the more powerful and poignant by the weight of time, Please Enjoy Your Happiness reaches across decades and continents, inviting us all to revisit those loves of our lives that never do end.

Paul Brinkley-Rogers was a British citizen when he enlisted for four years in the US Navy. Later, he became a reporter for the daily military newspaper published in Tokyo. In 1967, Brinkley-Rogers became a staff member of Newsweek. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for his photos of an assassination attempt on Korean President Park Chung Hee. He covered Cuba and Latin America as a staff member of the Miami Herald from 1997 to 2001 and was a member of the newspaper’s team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001.

North America: Touchstone (October 2016) Agent: Michael Carlisle UK: Bluebird/Macmillan Editor: Tara Parsons Format: manuscript

33 Meghan Cox Gurdon THE ENCHANTED HOUR Why Children Flourish When We Read Aloud to Them

The Enchanted Hour will explore the social, familial, neurological, and psychological benefits of parents reading aloud to their children.

Meghan’s weekly column at The Wall Street Journal reaches 2.4 million readers online, and in print, and her inspiration for this book came after an op-ed she wrote last year called “The Great Gift of Reading Aloud” prompted an avalanche of avid responses. More than 40,000 people shared the story on Facebook, and she received hundreds of letters affirming the deep positivity people feel when they think about reading aloud to their children and to their being read to as children. She has also tested this idea at lectures, receiving equally strong responses.

Like Christopher McCougall bringing the ancient art of running back to public consciousness in Born to Run, The Enchanted Hour will attempt to give a modern look at the centuries-old art of reading aloud, both informing readers and motivating them to spread the message and practice of reading aloud themselves. It can also be seen as a 21st century spin on Jim Trelease’s The Read Aloud Handbook, offering the latest science and research on the benefits of creating an “enchanted hour” before bedtime, in contrast to families locked into their screens, connected to their laptops or iPads but isolated from each other—and from the joys (and benefits) of reading together.

Meghan Cox Gurdon is the children’s book critic for The Wall Street Journal, a longtime journalist and long-ago foreign correspondent, and the mother of five. She and her English husband, Hugo, live with their family just outside Washington, DC.

North America: HarperCollins (2018) Agent: Stephen Barbara Editor: Gail Winston Format: proposal

34 Bryan Cranston MEMOIR

“Your performance as Walter White was the best acting I have seen—ever. I know there is so much smoke blowing and sickening bull— in this business, and I’ve sort of lost belief in anything really. But this work of yours is spectacular—absolutely stunning.” —From a letter from Sir Anthony Hopkins to Bryan Cranston

Bryan Cranston has received tremendous international acclaim for his ground-breaking role as Walter White—the high school chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin—in the hit drama and global phenomenon Breaking Bad.

In this memoir, Cranston will share stories that take the reader through his journey from falling in love with the script to becoming Walter White and pushing the boundaries of what many others—including Bryan—expected he could bring to the character, and on to the humbling, overwhelming success that Breaking Bad has become. The tale of an actor inhabiting a character, and a character inhabiting a man. Cranston will also weave in personal stories, from his troubled childhood and two-year motorcycle quest across America, to his decades a hard-working journeyman actor that eventually led him to the role of a lifetime. Readers of this memoir won’t just include fans of the show, or fans of television or movies or Hollywood, but anyone creative, anyone interested in the creative process. Anyone interested in a good story.

Bryan Cranston won three consecutive Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Walter White on AMC’s Breaking Bad. Cranston is also a director and screenwriter, and TK

North America: Scribner (Fall 2016) Agent: Richard Pine UK: Orion Books Editor: Nan Graham & Shannon Welch Brazil: Companhia Format: manuscript (TK) Germany: S. Fischer Verlag Holland: WPG/Manteau Italy: Mondadori Portugal: Marcador Editora Russia: AST Spain: Ediciones B

35 Ingrid Fetell Lee THE AESTHETICS OF JOY How the Outside World Makes Us Happy Inside

Ingrid Fetell Lee has devoted years to in-depth study of one transformative idea: human beings are capable of designing our own happiness from the outside in. We are often taught that inner joy has little-to-no relationship to our external environment. Increasingly, experts urge us to find balance and calm by searching inside or profoundly altering ourselves— through mindfulness, meditation, and medication—all while muting the outside world.

But it is the natural vibrancy and harmony of our world that provides the most basic, renewa- ble, and easily-accessible sources of joy. We have evolved to gravitate toward certain universal aesthetics—shapes, colors, and other sensorial effects—regardless of our age, gender, geography, or ethnicity. These hardwired characteristics and environmental responses have kept us alive as a species for thousands of years. By understanding the components of blissful moments, we can transform joy from an intangible, fleeing feeling to something that stays with us throughout the day.

The Aesthetics of Joy starts with precisely the things that aren’t supposed to matter—the mundane objects and spaces we interact with every day—and shows the surprising effects they can have on our emotions. Fetell Lee explains why one setting makes us feel anxious or competitive, while another fosters acceptance and sharing. Drawing on new research from neuroscience and psychology, this book reveals the secrets of how design stimulates delight in the brain, showing how small changes to our surroundings can lead to happier, healthier, more fulfilling lives.

Ingrid Fetell Lee is a Design Director at global innovation firm IDEO and founder of the blog Aesthetics of Joy. Lee’s writing is informed by twelve years of experience in design and brand- ing, leading programs for Target, Conde Nast, PepsiCo, and the US government, among others. She holds a Master’s in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor’s in English and Creative Writing from Princeton University, and was a founding faculty member in the Products of Design program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

North America: Little, Brown (2018) Agent: Richard Pine UK: Rider Israel: Matar Editor: Tracy Behar Brazil: Companhia des Letras Korea: The Korea Economic Daily Format: proposal Czech Republic: Euromedia Group Portugal: Objetiva 36 France: Marabout Slovakia: Ikar Holland: Bruna Spain: Planeta

The M.F.K. Fisher Estate

“[M.F.K. Fisher] has the extraordinary ability to make the ordinary seem rich and wonderful. Her dignity comes from her absolute insistence on appreciating life as it comes to her.” —Ruth Reichl, author of Tender at the Bone

Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or worried or cross or in debt or in a moderate amount of pain or in love or in robust health or in any kind of business huggermuggery, is minestrone… It is a thick, unsophisticated soup, heart-warming and soul-satisfying, full of aromatic vegetables and well bound at the last with good cheese.

—excerpt from How to Cook a Wolf

M.F.K. Fisher (1908 – 1992) was a preeminent food writer and the author of twenty-seven books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Her musings and memories on food and life have been published widely around the world and have served as inspiration for generations of food writers (and enthusiasts) that followed. Her first book, Serve it Forth, was published in 1937, and one of her best known is the compilation, The Art of Eating, first published in 1954 and reissued in 2004, was called by Julia Child "the essence of M.F.K. Fisher, whose wit and fulsome opinions on food and those who produce it, comment upon it, and consume it are as apt today as they were several decades ago, when she composed them.” The Art of Eating brought together classic M.F.K. Fisher titles such as: Consider the Oyster, How to Cook a Wolf, and The Gastronomical Me.

Agent: Michael Carlisle

37 Janine di Giovanni THE MORNING THEY CAME FOR US Dispatches from Syria

Praise for Madness Visible:

“Janine di Giovanni has described war in a way that almost makes me think it never needs to be described again… More than a book about war, however, this is a book about the human race, in all its anguishing complexity.” —Sebastian Junger, author of War

Once in a decade comes an account of war that promises to be a classic…

Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and the front pages of the New York Times, award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni gives us a tour de force of war reportage, all told through the perspective of ordinary people—among them a doctor, a nun, a musician, and a student.

What emerges is an extraordinary picture of the devastating human consequences of armed conflict, one that charts an apocalyptic but at times tender story of life in a jihadist war zone. Recalling celebrated works by Ryszard Kapus´cin´ski, Philip Gourevitch, and Anne Applebaum, The Morning They Came for Us, through its unflinching account of a nation on the brink of disintegration, becomes an unforgettable testament to resilience in the face of nihilistic human debasement.

Janine di Giovanni is a writer for The Times of London and Vanity Fair, a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Spectator, National Geographic, and many others. She also writes columns and Op-Ed pieces for the Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune. She frequently lectures on human rights abuse around the world. One of the world’s most respected and experienced reporters, she has vast experience covering war and conflict. Her reporting has been called “established, accomplished brilliance,” and she has been cited as “the finest foreign correspondent of our generation.”

North America: Liveright (May 2016) Agent: Kim Witherspoon & David Forrer UK: Bloomsbury Editor: Phil Marino 38 Germany: S. Fischer Verlag Format: galley Holland: Atlas Contact Poland: Czarna Owca Sweden: Lind & Co. Turkey: Opus

Robin Dreeke

THE CODE OF TRUST

Authentic trust is elusive and rare, but when properly understood, it can open nearly any door in life and can serve as a foundation for the longest-lasting leadership. It’s also a topic strikingly absent from trade book publishing. But Robin Dreeke’s The Code of Trust (with a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Joe Navarro) will now reveal the secrets of achieving trust in any domain of life, drawing from Dreeke’s training and service as a federal law enforcement officer and an officer of the US Marine Corps.

Eschewing manipulation and trickery, Dreeke provides a five-point system of principles by which to achieve authentic trust: (1) ego suspension, (2) non-judgmentalism, (3) application of reason, (4) validation of others, and (5) generosity.

He will also provide case examples and evidence from inside and outside law enforcement to back it all up.

Robin Dreeke entered federal law enforcement in 1997, after graduating from the US Naval Academy and serving in the US Marine Corps. He received advanced training and operational experience in social psychology and in the practical application of the science of relationship development. Eventually he rose to direct the behavioral analysis program in a federal law enforcement agency. Dreeke is currently an agent of the FBI and lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

North America: St. Martin’s Press (March 2017) Agent: Nathaniel Jacks Korea: Just Books Editor: Marc Resnick Format: proposal

Angela Duckworth GRIT The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“Grit is a persuasive and fascinating response to the cult of IQ fundamentalism. Duckworth reminds us that it is character and perseverance that set the successful apart.” —Malcolm Gladwell

Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur “genius” and TED talk star Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial, such as identifying our passions and following through on our commitments.

Drawing on her own story as the daughter of a scientist who frequently bemoaned her lack of smarts, Duckworth describes her winding path through teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience, which led to the hypothesis that what really drives success is not “genius” but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance. As a professor at the University of Penn- sylvania, Duckworth created her own “character lab” and set out to test her theory.

Here, she takes readers into the field to visit teachers working in some of the toughest schools, mines fascinating insights from history, and shows what can be gleaned from modern experi- ments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she’s learned from interviewing dozens of high-achievers. Winningly personal and life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall, and how that makes all the difference.

Angela Duckworth, Ph.D., is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. An expert in non-I.Q. competencies, she has advised the White House, the World Bank, NBA and NFL teams, and Fortune 500 CEOs. Prior to her career in research, she was an award-winning math and science teacher as well as the founder of a summer school for low-income children that won the Better Government Award from the state of Massachusetts. She completed her BA in neurobiology at Harvard, her MSc in neuroscience at Oxford, and her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her TED Talk on grit has over 7 million views. US: Scribner (May 2016) Holland: Bruna Taiwan: Commonwealth Agent: Richard Pine UK: Ebury Israel: Matar Publishing House Thailand: WeLearn Co. Editor: Rick Horgan Arabic: Arab Scientific Japan: Diamond Sha Ltd. Ukraine: Nash Format Format: galley Brazil: Intrinseca Korea: Business Books and Co. 40 Canada: HarperCollins Poland: Galaktyka China: CITIC Portugal: Vogais Denmark: Gyldendal Romania: SC Publica Com France: Lattes Spain: Urano Germany: C. Bertelsmann Sweden: Natur och Kultur

Tiffany Dufu DROP THE BALL Women, Partnership, and Achieving More by Doing Less

“Tiffany is a star in the world of women.” —Sheryl Sandberg

There are two puzzling questions about men that women can’t justify: Whey are they dominat- ing the top leadership positions when women represent over half of college graduates? And why do they want to have sex when the house is a mess? Surprisingly, the answers are linked. For women, it’s not only a glass ceiling blocking their way—it’s also the increasingly heavy obligations at home that weigh them down. Just as women reach middle management, they begin battling full-time responsibilities as wives and mothers with full-time jobs that leave them stressed and often unhappy. Women have become accustomed to delegating and negoti- ating at the office, but when it comes to managing the households, they still bear the brunt of the work.

The simple solution: negotiate with men in their personal lives. Tiffany Dufu explains how women can create domestic partnerships that protect them against professional burn-out.

With humor, inspiration, and solid and personal insight, Tiffany proposes a paradigm in which men and women come together at home so that both can be successful at work. She draws on social psychology, history, and her own story to present the path that all women can take to embrace imperfection, make a new and better deal at home, and truly thrive. With solutions that apply to everyone—not just married, straight couples—Tiffany shows how this mod- el will benefit women in both spheres of their lives, and positively impact their families.

Drop the Ball is part manifesto and part roadmap for women who want to uncover what matters most to them so they can discover how to get it all by doing less.

Tiffany Dufu is Chief Leadership Officer to Levo League and Launch Team member to Lean In. Previously, Tiffany was President of The White House Project, a women’s leadership organization. The Huffington Postnamed her one of nineteen “women who are leading the way” amongst luminaries such as Hillary Clinton and Diane Sawyer. Tiffany is a widely sought-after speaker who has lectured at Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s in English from the University of Washington, and lives in New York City with her husband and two small children. 41

North America: Flatiron Books (February 2017) Agent: Richard Pine UK: Penguin UK Editor: Whitney Frick Germany: BTB Format: manuscript (May) James Gleick TIME TRAVEL

Praise for The Information:

“A grand narrative if every there was one… Gleick provides lucid expositions for readers who are up to following the science and suggestive analogies for those who are just reading for the plot… A prodigious intellectual survey.” —New York Times Book Review

From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of the time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.

Gleick’s story begins at the turn of the previous century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological—the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks.

Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture—from Marcel Proust to Doc- tor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He delves into the inevitable looping para- doxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.

James Gleick is our leading chronicler of science and technology, and the best-selling author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, and The Infor- mation: A History, A Theory, A Flood. His books have been translated into thirty languages.

North America: Pantheon (September 2016) Agent: Michael Carlisle UK: Fourth Estate Editor: Dan Frank Spain: Critica Format: manuscript

42 Marcelo Gleiser THE SIMPLE BEAUTY OF THE UNEXPECTED A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything

Praise for The Island of Knowledge:

“Marcelo Gleiser brings a physicist’s knowledge, a philosopher’s wisdom, and a poet’s language to elucidate our largest questions.” —Rebecca Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex

Marcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Now a world famous theoretical physicist, with hundreds of scientific articles and several books of popular science to his credit, he felt it was time to connect with nature in less theoretical ways.

After seeing a fly-fishing class on the Dartmouth College green one day, he decided to learn to fly-fish, a hobby, he says, “that teaches humility.” In The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected, he travels the world to scientific conferences, fishing wherever he goes. Along the way, he ponders the myriad ways that physics informs the act of fishing and how, in its turn, fishing works as a lens into nature’s inner workings; how science engages with questions of meaning and spirituality, inspiring a sense of mystery and awe of the not-yet-known.

Personal and engaging, The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected is a scientist’s tribute to nature, a manifesto of humanity’s deep connection with and debt to Earth, as it explores the meaning of existence, from atom to trout to cosmos.

Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House and NSF. He is the author of several books of popular science, including A Tear at the Edge of Creation, The Dancing Universe, and The Island of Knowledge.

World English: University Press of New England (June 2016) Agent: Michael Carlisle Brazil: Record Editor: Stephen Hull Format: manuscript

43 Shawn Levy

DOLCE VITA CONFIDENTIAL Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome

Praise for The Last Playboy:

“Fascinating… A compulsive read. Shawn Levy is one of our best popular culture journalist- historians.” —Lewis MacAdams, author of Birth of the Cool

When Fellini and Farrari, the Jet Set and Mastroianni, Pucci, Gucci, and Loren, Liz and Dick and the Paparazzi all made Rome go Boom!

Sometimes it all comes together: style and substance, passion and fashion, giant ambitions and little bits of daily life, reputation and reality. Rome in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the era of La Dolce Vi- ta, was one such time. And the story of what happened there, how it came about, and where all that energy, spectacle, and sparkle eventually went is a narrative of the Eternal City that has never been fully told.

In the decade after the end of World War II, Italy—and, especially, Rome—morphed, in the world’s imagination, from a grim and gritty neorealist tableaux of post-war privation to a glamorous banquet of sex, fashion, creative energy, and shattered taboos. This is a story about how a nation and its capital emerged from a decade of war—both global and civil—and, amidst the loss and rubble and pain, gave rise to the contemporary mélange of glitter, scandal, commerce, style, and sensation that we recognize as “popular culture,” of how the city of the Caesars and the Popes and the Blackshirts managed to galvanize the world’s attention as a showcase of elegance and sophistication that would come to define our current notion of mo- dernity.

Shawn Levy is the author of The Last Playboy; Ready, Steady, Go!; Rat Pack Confidential;and King of Comedy. He was previously the film critic for The Oregonian, and lives in Portland, Oregon.

North America: W.W. Norton (October 2016) Agent: Richard Pine Editor: John Glusman Format: manuscript

44 John Mauceri THE ART OF CONDUCTING The Alchemy of Making Music

“Music is invisible. Perhaps it is logical that when leadership is needed for something invisible, the appointed leader does so without making a sound. We make gestures in the air and music happens.”

The Art of Conducting delves into its history, technique, mysteries, and realities, positing that conductors are translators of universal ideas and spirit that can find meaning only in an individual’s willingness to receive and understand the message. For anyone who has ever been to a concert or watched a broadcast and wondered what that person front of it all was doing, The Art of Conducting will provide a unique and illuminating perspective on an aspect of music everyone sees but few people understand.

John Mauceri is a world-renowned conductor, producer, educator, and writer, having conducted for over fifty years. Since making his professional conducting debut almost half a century ago, Mauceri has appeared with most of the world’s great orchestras, guest conducted at the premiere opera houses, produced and musically supervised Tony and Olivier Award winning Broadway musicals, and taught at the most prestigious halls of academia. Through his varied career, he has taken the lead in the preservation and performance of many genres of music and has supervised/conducted important premieres by composers as diverse as Debus- sy, Stockhausen, Korngold, Hindemith, Bernstein, Sibelius, Ives, Elfman, and Shore. He is also a leading performer of music banned by the Third Reich and especially music of Hollywood émigré composers.

World English: Knopf (2018) Agent: Michael Carlisle Editor: Jon Segal Format: proposal

45 Paul Thomas Murphy PRETTY JANE AND THE VIPER OF KIDBROOKE LANE A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder

Praise for Shooting Victoria:

“Beautifully researched and lucidly written. An entertaining study.” —The Sunday Times

On April 26th, 1871, a police constable stumbled upon a brutalized young woman kneeling on a muddy road, her face and skull horrifically maimed. The woman held out her hand before collapsing into the mud and slipping into a coma. Five days later, she died with her identity still unknown.

Within hours of her discovery on Kidbrooke Lane, scores of officers were involved in the investigation, and Scotland Yard had sent one of its top detectives to lead it. After five days of gathering evidence, the police discovered the girl’s identity: Jane Maria Clouson, a maid in the house of the renowned Pook family… and she was two months’ pregnant with Edmund Pook’s child when she died.

In a three-day trial, the prosecution’s case fell apart, and the police and the government prose- cutors found themselves as much on trial as Pook. Pook won, and walked from the courtroom a free man. And the Clouson murder case remains unsolved to this day.

Murphy carefully reviews the evidence in the light of 21st century forensic science in order to identify Jane Clouson’s killer as Edmund Walter Pook and to vindicate the police and the government prosecuting the case. Using a surprisingly abundant collection of primary sources— personal accounts, trial and hearing transcripts, and countless articles—Murphy aims to recre- ate the drama of the case as it unfolded, with its many twists and turns, from the discovery of the body to the final crack of the gavel—and beyond.

Paul Thomas Murphy is the author of Shooting Victoria, a 2012 New York Times Notable Book. He earned his BA from Boston College, his MA from McGill University, and his PhD from the University of Colorado where he taught interdisciplinary writing on Victorian topics at the University of Colorado and sits on the board of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Associa- tion of the Western United States. He currently resides in Boulder, Colorado. 46 North America: Pegasus Books (April 2016) Agent: Charlie Olsen UK: Head of Zeus Editor: Claiborne Hancock Format: book Anu Partanen THE NORDIC THEORY OF EVERYTHING In Search of a Better Life

Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. She found that navigating the basics of every- day life—from buying a cell phone and filing taxes to education and childcare—was must more complicated and stressful than anything she encountered in her homeland. At first, she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. But as she got to know Americans better, she discovered they shared her deep apprehension. To understand why life is so different in the U.S. and Finland, Partanen began to look closely at both.

In The Nordic Theory of Everything, Partanen compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region, focusing on four key relationships—parents and children, men and women, employees and employers, and government and citizens. She debunks criticism that Nordic countries are socialist “nanny states,” revealing instead that it is we Americans who are far more enmeshed in unhealthy dependencies than we realize. As Partanen explains step by step, the Nordic approach allows citizens to enjoy more individual freedom and inde- pendence than we do.

Partanen wants to open Americans’ eyes to how much better things can be—to show her beloved new country what it can learn from her homeland to reinvigorate and fulfill the promise of the American dream—to provide the opportunity to live a healthy, safe, economically se- cure, upwardly mobile life for everyone. Offering insights, advice, and solutions, this book makes a convincing argument that we can rebuild our society, rekindle our optimism, and re- store true freedom to our relationships and lives.

Anu Partanen is a Finnish-American journalist. In her native Finland she has held many positions ranging from managing editor to columnist, features writer to news reporter, lecturer to on-air commentator. She has been living in the United States since 2008. In 2009 she was a vis- iting staff reporter at Fortune magazine through the Innovation Journalism Fellowship at Stan- ford University, and more recently, her work has been published in the New York Times and The Atlantic. She lives in New York City.

North America: HarperCollins (June 2016) Agent: Kim Witherspoon Finland: Tammi Editor: Gail Winston 47 Format: manuscript Roger Pielke, Jr. THE EDGE The War Against Cheating and Corruption in the Cutthroat World of Elite Sports

Sport is about securing an edge—over history, over an opponent, over what has been done before. Pushing limits and exceeding them is a defining characteristic of sport and a fulfillment of what it means to be human. At the same time, pushing boundaries inevitably results in sometimes going over the edge, beyond what is acceptable, allowable or ethical. Navigating this boundary is no easy feat. But sport depends upon it.

We think we know the difference between cheating and not cheating, “clean” and “dirty,” in sports—but we don’t. Rapid developments in the 21st century and outdated sports governance have left sport in a state of crisis. Increasingly, athletes and teams seek a competitive edge in the world of elite sport and go over the edge in their pursuit of one.

The Edge is about the tension between the performance edge and the ethical edge, and how sport tries to manage the boundary between the two. Drawing on controversies straight out of the headlines, Roger Pielke, Jr. explores that edge and offers the reader a provocative but clear new understanding of 21st-century sport.

Roger Pielke, Jr. is head of the Sports Governance Center at the University of Colorado. He is author, co-author, or co-editor of seven books, including The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Sci- ence in Policy and Politics; The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming; and Disasters and Climate Change. He discusses sports issues on his popular blog The Least Thing (leastthing.blogspot.com) and he’s a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Financial Times, Sporting Intelligence, and the Guardian.

North America: Roaring Forties Press (September 2016) Agent: Stephen Barbara Editor: Deidre Greene Format: manuscript (May)

48 Eric Ripert 32 YOLKS From My Mother’s Table to Working the Line

“Heartbreaking. Horrifying. Poignant. And inspiring. I’ve known Eric for years and I had no idea that this was how it all started. If you want to get a clear picture of where one gets the drive and dedication to be a truly great chef, there is no better or more harrowing an account.” —Anthony Bourdain

In a world where celebrity chefs are known as much for their salty talk and quick tempers as their food, Eric Ripert stands out. But before the restaurant and accolades, before he even know how to make a proper hollandaise sauce, Eric Ripert was a lonely young boy in the South of France whose world was falling apart.

Told that men had no place in the kitchen, Ripert would instead watch from the doorway as his mother rolled couscous by hand or his grandmother pressed out the buttery dough for the treat he loved above all others, tarte tatin. When an eccentric local chef named Jacques took him under his wing and into his kitchen, Ripert realized that food was more than just an escape: it was his calling. That passion would carry him through the drudgery of culinary school and into the high-pressure world of Paris’s most elite restaurants, where Ripert discovered that learning to cook well was the easy part—surviving the line was the battle.

Taking us from the South of France and the mountains of Andorra into the demanding kitch- ens of legendary Parisian chefs like Joel Robuchon and Dominique Bouchet, 32 Yolks is the tender and richly told story of how one of our greatest living chefs found himself—and his home—in the kitchen.

Eric Ripert is the chef and co-owner of the New York restaurant Le Bernadin, which holds three stars from the Michelin Guide and has maintained a four-star rating from the New York Times for over two decades. He is Vice Chairman of the board of City Harvest’s Food Council, a New York-based food rescue organization, as well as a recipient of the Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest honor. He serves as a regular guest judge on Bravo’s Top Chef and is the host of his own TV series, Avec Eric, which has won Emmy and James Beard awards. Ripert is the author of five cookbooks, including Avec Eric, On the Line, A Return to Cooking, Le Bernadin— Four Star Simplicity, and My Best: Eric Ripert.

World English: Random House (May 2016) Agent: Kim Witherspoon 49 Editor: Andy Ward Format: manuscript Sadhguru INNER ENGINEERING A Yogi’s Guide to Joy

“I find that this is a particularly amazing moment to be alive, because there is a new intersection between spirituality and science.” —Arianna Huffington in praise of Sadhguru’s work

Emerging from an ancient tradition, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a spiritual leader for our time—an era when science and technology, more than ever before in human history, have freed us from physical want, sparked intellectual achievement through propagation of information, and vastly enriched our social fabric.

Yet in many who have so much, there remains a core of disquiet. How many times in our lives has it happened that we lived full twenty-four hours blissfully, without a single moment of anxiety, agitation, irritation, or stress? How many days have we lived in utter pleasantness? It is not because we don’t’ know joy or peace or blissfulness. We know these things, but they are not sustainable: We are not able to stay there.

As there is a science and technology for physical wellbeing, there is a whole science and technology for inner wellbeing. The science of activating our inner energies in such a way that our body, mind, and emotions function at their highest peak. Inner Engineering will explain the theory and practice of this “science” of inner wellbeing. For the first time, we have the necessary capability and resources to address almost every fundamental problem on this planet. The only thing missing is human willingness to make it happen.

Sadhguru’s Isha Foundation, with two hundred-plus centers on six continents, has brought his spiritual practice of yoga to more than seven million people. His flagship ashram near Coimba- tore, India attracts a thousand visitors per day. Sadhguru’s popular spiritual tutorials on YouTube extend his outreach. His activities and affiliations with World Economic Forum, MIT, House of Lords, TED India, along with appearances on PBS, ABC News Australia, National Geographic International, BBC, Bloomberg, and CNBC, among others, contribute to his global platform.

World English: Spiegel & Grau (September 2016) Agent: Alexis Hurley Portuguese: Spiegel & Grau Editor: Julie Grau Format: manuscript 50 Nancy Jo Sales AMERICAN GIRLS Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

“This intelligent, history-grounded investigation… finds dismaying evidence that social media has fos- tered a culture ‘very hostile’ to girls in which sexism, harassment, and cyberbullying have become the ‘new normal’… “ —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales’s riveting and explosive American Girls, already a New York Times bestseller.

With extraordinary intimacy and precision, Sales captures what it feels like to be a girl in America today. Sales crisscrossed America, speaking to more than two hundred girls, ages thirteen to nineteen, and documenting a massive change in the way girls are growing up, a phenomenon that transcends race, geography, and household income. American Girls provides a disturbing portrait of the end of childhood as we know it and of the inexorable and ubiqui- tous experience of a new kind of adolescence—one dominated by new social and sexual norms, where a girl’s first crushes and romance occur in an accelerated electronic environment; where issues of identity are magnified by social platforms that provide instantaneous judgment.

Provocative and urgent, American Girls is destined to ignite a much-needed conversation about how we can help our daughters and sons negotiate unprecedented new challenges.

Nancy Jo Sales is an award-winning journalist and author who has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Harper’s Bazaar, and many other publications. She won a 2011 Front Page Award for “Best Magazine Feature” and a 2010 Mirror Award for “Best Profile, Digital Media.” Her 2013 book, The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World, tells the true story behind the Sofia Coppola film of the same name. Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, Sales graduated summa cum laude from Yale. She became a contributing editor at Vanity Fair in 2000. She has a daughter, and lives in New York City.

North America and Spain: Knopf (February 2016) Agent: Kim Witherspoon Editor: Jordan Pavlin Format: book 51 Suze Yalof Schwartz UNPLUG

Whether you’re a Fortune 500 CEO or busy stay-at-home mom, the secret to being more effective and living a happier, healthier life is to hurry up and slow down, or unplug. As Ann Lamott said, “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”

Contrary to what every Type-A person thinks, studies show that you can actually be more effective by doing less, by unplugging from the chaos of your life for just minutes a day. This can be done effortlessly—even while waiting in line at Starbucks—through Meditation. But Unplug is not the book for anyone who loves Buddha and woo-woo talk. It’s a revolutionary book by spiritual entrepreneur and founder and CEO of a popular LA-based meditation studio, Suze Yalof Schwartz. The first book that shows the overwhelmed and over-worked Type- A person how and why to unplug in order to recharge.

Experts ranging from Dr. Oz to Harvard scientists to Vogue magazine claim meditation can make us happier, healthier, more effective, and even smarter. And Unplug offers a no-nonsense approach that will appeal to anyone, even if—no, especially if—you believe you think too much, have no time, can’t sit still, or that it’s just not you. In it, Suze debunks a lot of the mis- perceptions about meditation, including the notion that you need to sit still for long periods for it to work. She also shares the incredible benefits you’ll experience, the proof and science to back up how meditation works, as well as tools and techniques to easily incorporate quick-hit meditations into daily life.

Suze Yalof Schwartz is the founder and CEO of unplug meditation. Before becoming a spiritual entrepreneur, Suze enjoyed decades as a fashion editor, director, and stylist. She has worked at Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, and Glamour, and was a regular on many morning TV shows. Suze had an aha moment in late 2012 when she wanted to learn how to meditate and couldn’t find a place that fit her schedule, budget, or aesthetic. So she decided to build it herself.

North America: Harmony Books (March 2017) Agent: Richard Pine Editor: Diana Baroni Format: manuscript

52 Casey Sherman & Michael J. Tougias ABOVE AND BEYOND Two Elite Pilots, Two Top Secret Missions, and Two Superpowers on the Brink of Nuclear War

Saturday, October 27, 1962. Day 12 of the Cuban Missile Crisis. American intelligence suspects that several Soviet missiles on Cuba are not fully operational and confirm that three Russian submarines have just breached the surface near the US quarantine line. Soviet personnel in Washington, DC and New York have been given orders to destroy all sensitive documents in advance of war with the US. The Joint Chief of Staffs are ready to order massive airstrikes on Cuba, followed by a full-scale land invasion by US troops, the largest concentration of Ameri- can soldiers since the Korean War.

Major Rudolph Anderson, a decorated combat pilot, embarks on a top secret mission from McCoy Air Force Base, Florida, to fly his U-2 spy plane over Cuba to photograph evidence that five Soviet missile sites are up and running. A committed pacifist, Anderson knows that the last pilot to fly over Cuba two days before was fired upon by two Russian missiles.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in Alaska, Anderson’s friend and fellow pilot, Colonel Charles Maultsby, climbs into his U-2 spy plane at Eielson Air Force Base and takes off on what is believed to be a routine mission to the North Pole to gather radioactive air samples from a recent Russian nuclear test. But just after 12 pm, Maultsby suddenly becomes disoriented and steers his plane into Soviet airspace.

In the White House, President John F. Kennedy, young, untested, and burned by criticism over the botched Bay of Pigs invasion the previous year, is briefed of the situation shortly thereaf- ter. Detection of Maultsby’s missing U-2 by Soviet Air Defense could be seen as an act of war. But as the president and his advisors wrestle with this information, more bad news comes in— that another U-2 has gone missing—this time over Cuba…

Casey Sherman worked for two decades as a producer for CBS News where he received the Edward R. Murrow Award for Journalistic Excellence. He is the author of several books and is a contributing writer for Esquire, Yahoo, and FOX News.com. Michael J. Tougias is the author and co-author of 23 previous books and has written for The New York Times and several other prestigious magazines and newspapers.

North America: Public Affairs (Fall 2017) Agent: Richard Pine & George Lucas 53 Editor: Ben Adams Format: proposal Dava Sobel THE GLASS UNIVERSE How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

Praise for Galileo’s Daughter:

“Sobel is a master storyteller… she brings a great scientist to life.” —The NY Times Book Review

The Glass Universe tells the story of a little known but highly important and colorful chapter in the history of astronomy. It centers on the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, when first one, then a few, then a dozen women at a time worked as astronom- ical “computers” (a job description since rendered obsolete by machines of the same name).

From their assigned niche in the traditionally male enclave of the Observatory, these women made original discoveries in astronomy that attracted worldwide acclaim. In a time when women did not yet have the right to vote, they helped discern what stars were made of, they identified and classified new categories of stars, and they found a way to measure distances across space by starlight, so that the true vastness of the universe yawned open for the first time, leaving astronomers agape.

Dava Sobel is the acclaimed author of the international bestsellers A More Perfect Heaven, Lon- gitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and The Planets, and the coauthor of The Illustrated Longitude. Her books have been published in 29 territories abroad. She lives in East Hampton, New York.

North America: Viking (Winter 2017) Agent: Michael Carlisle UK: Fourth Estate Editor: Kathryn Court Germany: Berlin Verlag Format: manuscript (April) Italy: Rizzoli

54 Sylvia Tara THE SECRET LIFE OF FAT The Science Behind the Body’s Least Understood Organ and What It Means For You

This groundbreaking work of practical, popular science reveals that fat is a much smarter organ than we think.

Fat is an obsession, a dirty word, a subject of national handwringing—and, according to bio- chemist Sylvia Tara, our least understood body part. The Secret Life of Fat brings together historical perspectives with cutting-edge research to reveal fat’s true identity: an endocrine organ that is critical to our health.

Fat triggers puberty, enables our reproductive and immune systems, and even affects brain size. It’s so critical, in fact, that our own body endowed it with self-defense measures: fat can grow back despite what we eat using stem cells; it influences our appetites; and it uses bacte- ria, genetics, and even contagious viruses to expand itself.

Although we spend $60 billion annually fighting fat, our efforts are often misinformed and misdirected. Tara shows how we can finally control our elusive adversary by knowing it better. Her insights will spark a revolution in our physical, and mental, health.

Sylvia Tara holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. She was a consultant with McKinsey and has worked at the world’s largest biotechnology companies. She lives in Los Angeles.

North America: W.W. Norton (December 2016) Agent: Richard Pine UK: Blink Editor: Tom Mayer Holland: Unieboek Format: manuscript (April) Korea: Munhakdongne Publishing Taiwan: Business Weekly Publications

55 Michael J. Tougias & Alison O’Leary SO CLOSE TO HOME A True Story of an American Family’s Fight for Survival During World War II

“Meticulously-researched, Tougias and O’Leary take you where few historians dare… This is priceless history, a fresh story in a modern era, two-hundred fast-paced pages of ‘you-are-there.’” —Adam Makos, author of A Higher Call

A true story of men and women pitted against the sea during World War II—and an unforgettable portrait of the determination of the human spirit.

On May 19, 1942, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles from New Orleans. Captained by twenty-nine-year-old Iron Cross and King’s Cross recipient Erich Wurdemann, the submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia with sixty-two souls on board.

Most aboard were merchant seamen, but there were also a handful of civilians, including the Downs family: Ray and Ina, and their two children, eight-year-old Sonny and eleven-year-old Lucille. Fast asleep in their berths, the Downs family had no idea that two torpedoes were headed their way. When the ship exploded, chaos ensued—and each family member had to find their own path to survival.

Including the original, unpublished material from Commander Wurdemann’s war diary, the story provides balance and perspective by chronicling the daring mission of the U-boat—and its commander’s decision-making—in the Gulf of Mexico. An inspiring historical narrative, So Close to Home tells the story of the Downs family as they struggle against sharks, hypothermia, drowning, and dehydration in their effort to survive the aftermath of this deadly attach off the American coast.

Michael J. Tougias is the author and co-author of twenty-three non-fiction books, including several true survival-at-sea adventures, such as Rescue of the Bounty, Fatal Forecast, Overboard!, A Storm Too Soon, and The Finest Hours. Alison O’Leary is a former reporter for the Boston Globe, a magazine editor, and a freelance writer. Her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country.

TK: Pegasus (May 2016) Agent: Richard Pine & George Lucas Editor: Claiborne Hancock 56 Format: manuscript Lauren Zander MISSION: I’MPOSSIBLE Use the Power of Truth to Get Out of Your Own Way and Realize Your Dreams

We’re all taught that lying has disastrous effects—it holds the power to unravel everything, from our reputation to our relationships. We ostracize dishonest public figures and weed out untrustworthy friends. But we lie to ourselves about ourselves all the time, making promises we won’t keep and excuses to diminish their consequences. After all, we’re not hurting anyone but ourselves in the process, right?

Lauren Zander has made it her mission to bridge the gap between these lies and the lives we want to lead. Whether it’s finding jobs we love, fixing our relationship or shedding thirty pounds, all too often our good intentions don’t add up to much. The solution is radical hones- ty. Lauren has developed a unique coaching program, The Handel Method, based on this con- cept and has since helped thousands of people—authors, entrepreneurs, and entertainers, including Mark Hyman, Adam Braun, and Forest Whitaker—achieve their dreams.

With bold and direct advice, Mission: I’mpossible utilizes examples from Lauren’s coaching practice along with step-by-step exercises to help readers identify, articulate, and account for personal issues in all twelve areas of their lives, enabling them to transform previous setbacks into strengths.

Lauren Zander is a life coach, university lecturer, and public speaker. As chairman of the Han- del Group, she has coached countless private clients, including executives from Sony, The New York Times, LinkedIn, Vogue, and Emmy, Peabody, and Academy Award-winning artists. The Handel Method has been taught at MIT, Stanford, NYU, Columbia, and in the New York City Public School System, among other places. She has worked with Dr. Phil McGraw on his TV special, “The Marriage Test.” Lauren has led seminars and conferences all over the world for organizations including: The World Bank, the US Department of Justice for Judges, and the Soho House. She has contributed to many publications, including The New York Times, BBC, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Vogue, Ebony, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and The Huffington Post.

North America: Hachette Books (Fall 2017) Agent: Richard Pine Editor: Stacy Creamer Format: proposal 57

Young Adult

Susan Cain QUIET POWER The Secret Strengths of Introverts

Praise for the original edition of Quiet:

“Once in a blue moon, a book comes along that gives us startling new insights. Quiet is that book: it will change the way you see yourself, other people, and the world.” —Adam Grant, author of Originals

Susan Cain sparked a worldwide conversation when she published Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, which has sold over 3 million copies. With her inspiring book, she permanently changed the way we see introverts and the way introverts see themselves.

The original book focused on the workplace, and Susan realized that a version for and about kids was also badly needed. This book is all about kids’ world—school, extracurriculars, family life, and friendship. You’ll read about actual kids who have tackled the challenges of not being extroverted and who have made their mark in their own quiet way. You’ll hear Susan Cain’s own story, and you’ll be able to make use of the tips at the end of each chapter. There’s even a guide at the end of the book for parents and teachers.

This insightful, accessible, and empowering book, illustrated with amusing comic-style art, will be eye-opening to extroverts and introverts alike.

Susan Cain is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School. She worked as a corporate lawyer and then a negotiations consultant before deciding to write Quiet: The Power of Intro- verts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. That book became a phenomenon, was translated into more than 35 languages, and has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than four years. She lives on the banks of the Hudson River with her husband and two sons.

North America: Dial Books for Young Readers (May 2016) Agent: Richard Pine UK: Penguin Editor: Lauri Hornik Brazil: Sextante Format: galley Greece: Key Books Ltd. Holland: Arbeiderspers Italy: Bompiani Korea: Random House Portugal: Bertrand Sweden: Natur och Kultur 59 Andrea Cremer

THE TURNCOAT’S GAMBIT The Inventor’s Secret Book Three

Praise for The Conjurer’s Riddle:

“This is classic steampunk [with] exotic and picturesque locales, lots of interesting machinery, and the adrenaline rush of following the adventures of an honest and fearless heroine. A suitably swashbuckling sequel.” —Kirkus

What if America had lost the Revolutionary War? And now lived in constant fear and oppres- sion? From the bestselling author of Nightshade, this is the thrilling final chapter of The Inven- tor’s Secret trilogy.

Charlotte has spent her whole life fighting the British Empire, following in the footsteps of her parents and their group of rebels. But when her reunion with her mother laid bare horrible truths about the rebellion, Charlotte knew she had to escape. Now she is on the run, with no idea who the enemy is—or which of her compatriots is truly on her side.

In this action-packed conclusion to The Inventor’s Secret trilogy, full of swashbuckling pirates and young ladies who can hold their own against them, Charlotte will need to fight for her life and for her beliefs—whatever they might be.

Andrea Cremer is the New York Times and international bestselling author of the Nightshade series. She spent her childhood daydreaming while roaming the forests and lakeshores of Northern Wisconsin. She now lives in Southern California.

North America: Philomel (November 2016) Agent: Charlie Olsen France: Lumen Editor: Jill Santopolo Format: galley

60 Cath Crowley WORDS IN DEEP BLUE

Praise for Graffiti Moon:

“A rare gem of a book… like a breath of fresh air; witty, funny, intelligent, and the story told by a light but assured hand. Sensitive and utterly realistic of how young people live…” —The School Librarian

Years ago, Rachel had a crush on Henry Jones. The day before she moved away, she tucked a love letter into his favorite book in his family’s bookshop. She waited. But Henry never came.

Now, Rachel has returned to the city—and to the bookshop—to work alongside the boy she’d rather not see, if at all possible, for the rest of her life. But Rachel needs the distraction, and the escape. Her brother drowned months ago, and she can’t feel anything. She can’t even sense Cal in the ocean anymore. She’s lost her connection to friends and family. She can’t see the future.

Henry’s future isn’t looking too promising either. His girlfriend’s dumped him. The bookstore is slipping away. And his family is breaking apart.

As Henry and Rachel work side by side—surrounded by books, watching love stories unfold, exchanging letters between the pages—they find hope in each other. Because life may be uncontrollable, even unbearable sometimes. But it’s possible that words, and love, and second chances are enough.

Cath Crowley grew up in rural Victoria, Australia. She comes from a family of seven: her parents, three brothers, and a dog called Elvis. All of them encouraged her to give up full-time teaching to write. Cath studied professional writing and editing and works as both a freelance writer in Melbourne and a part-time teacher. Her fifth novel, Graffiti Moon, won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, as well as the NSW Premier’s Literary Award, and was Amazon’s Pick of the Month for February 2013.

US: Knopf Books for Young Readers (February 2017) Agent: Catherine Drayton ANZ: Pan MacMillan (August 2016) Editor: Claire Craig UK: Hodder & Stoughton Format: manuscript Italy: DeAgostini

61 Kirsty Eagar SUMMER SKIN

“Smart, funny and ferociously sexy… A brilliant story, a provoking read—I couldn’t put it down.” —Cath Crowley, author of Graffiti Moon

Jess Gordon and Mitch Crawford are both studying at the University of Queensland, but that’s all they have in common. Jess and her friends are modern day riot grrls. Mitch and his mates are rugby boys, renowned for predatory behavior.

When their paths first cross they’re combative, but just for a moment Jess and Mitch recognize the outsider in each other. She feels old-fashioned in a world of casual hook ups, sexting and internet porn, wary of getting involved again in the wake of a bad break-up. Mitch is finding it hard to live up to expectations after the death of his best friend, but he’s struggling more with keeping his own culpability a secret.

So begins a slow, careful circling, a number of encounters they keep secret from their peers. Summer Skin takes an honest look at lust, trust, love, and double standards. It asks the question: In a world where sex is pushed all the time, has intimacy become the risk?

Kirsty Eagar is the critically acclaimed author of Saltwater Vampires, Night Beach, and Raw Blue. After completing a master’s degree in economics, she worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank of England before changing careers, wanting a life where she could surf every day. She travelled around Australia for a couple of years, living out of a car, worked a variety of jobs and began writing fiction. Her debut novel, Raw Blue, won the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Young Adult fiction. Her second novel, Saltwater Vampires, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Her third novel, Night Beach, was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards, the Western Australia Premier’s Awards, and a Gold Inky. Kirsty lives with her husband and two daughters on Sydney’s northern beaches.

ANZ: Allen & Unwin (February 2016) Agent: Catherine Drayton Editor: Anna McFarlane Format: book

62 Amy Ewing THE BLACK KEY The Lone City Trilogy Book Three

Praise for The White Rose:

“This fast-paced plot and a surprise twist will make readers anxious for the next series entry. A must- read for fans of the previous title; they will not be disappointed.” —School Library Journal

For too long, Violet and the people of the outer circles of the Lone City have lived a life of ser- vitude, controlled and manipulated by the royalty of the Jewel. But now, the secret society known as the Black Key is preparing to seize power and knock down the walls dividing each circle.

And while Violet knows she is at the center of this rebellion, she has a more personal stake in it—for her sister, Hazel, has been taken by the Duchess of the Lake. Now, after fighting so hard to escape the Jewel, Violet must do everything in her power to return to save not only Hazel, but the future of the Lone City.

In this thrilling conclusion to the Lone City trilogy, Amy Ewing pits Violet’s family loyalty against her dedication to overthrowing a destructive and terrifying regime. This is an explo- sively compelling story that readers won’t be able to put down.

Amy Ewing earned an MFA in Writing for Children at The New School and earned her BFA at New York University. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Lone City series, which include The Jewel and The White Rose. Her books have sold in thirteen countries abroad. Amy lives in Harlem.

North America: HarperTeen (October 2016) Agent: Charlie Olsen UK: Walker Editor: Karen Chaplin Brazil: Leya Format: manuscript (April) France: Laffont Holland: Leopold Italy: Rizzoli, RCS Poland: Jaguar Spain: V&R

63 Amy Ewing

THE CERULEAN

Praise for The Jewel:

“With its taut, provocative plot and irresistible characters, The Jewel had me tearing through the pages right up to the final, startling twist.” —Andrea Cremer, author of The Inventor’s Secret

Sera is Cerulean. Her blood is magic. She lives in the sky, in a beautiful floating paradise popu- lated only by women. Every five hundred years, the High Priestess chooses a young girl to be sacrificed—flung over the edge, bleeding—for the protection of the City. And today, the High Priestess chose Sera.

It is an honor, Sera’s orange mother told her after the ceremony. It is a necessity, her green mother said, as they left the High Priestess’s temple. Her purple mother said nothing.

On the day of the ceremony, Sera says goodbye to her mothers and her best friend, Leela. With blood pouring from her wrists, she plummets toward the surface, blazing like a falling star— yet she’s surprised to find that the fall doesn’t kill her. Instead, she’s found by Leo and Agnes, the son and daughter of an industrialist from the surface city of Kaolin who are on safari to find new creatures for their father’s freak show. The arrogant Leo is doing so to win the re- spect of his father; Agnes, out of scientific curiosity. Sera tries to communicate with them—and is shocked to finally see a male!—but her voice only comes out a whisper in the dense atmosphere of the surface. Leo roughly ties her up and they make their way back toward the city.

When they return with their prize, their father is delighted and Sera is horrified to see the way they treat the other magical beings they’ve captured. As the cruel training for the show begins, Agnes finds a way to communicate with Sera and realizes that she is sentient after all—and that she must help her escape her cruel fate...

Amy Ewing is the author of the New York Times bestselling Lone City series, and a graduate of the MFA Children’s Writing program at the New School. Amy lives in Harlem.

North America: HarperTeen (2017) Agent: Charlie Olsen Editor: Karen Chaplin Format: manuscript (June) 64 Tara Goedjen RED RED RIBBONS

Red Red Ribbons is a debut gothic suspense novel by Tara Goedjen set in the American South. The Cole family is haunted by the death of seventeen-year-old Roxanne Cole. It’s almost a year since she died and her younger sisters, Mae and Elle, are trying their best to forget.

But when Ro’s lover, Cage Shaw, returns, their world grows dangerous. Was Cage her killer, is Blue Gate, their family home, haunted, or did the spells recorded in an old green book have the power to raise the dead?

Tara Goedjen grew up in Alabama, but, after receiving a scholarship to play tennis, left for college in Iowa. She spent time living in Alaska, holds a MFA from The University of Ala- bama, was an editor for Pan Macmillan in Sydney and now is a freelance editor. She lives in Monterey, California. Her fiction has appeared in journals such as AGNI, New England Review, Fairy Tale Review, BOMB, Kenyon Review Online, Prism: International, and Overland and her story collection was a finalist for last year’s St. Lawrence Book Award.

North America: Delacorte (2017) Agent: Catherine Drayton Editor: Krista Marino Format: manuscript (April)

65 Melissa Grey THE SHADOW HOUR The Sequel to The Girl at Midnight

Praise for The Girl at Midnight:

“Grey’s energetic debut offers a strong protagonist… [and the] well-built world, vivid characters, and perfect blend of action and amour should have readers eagerly seeking the sequel.” —Kirkus (starred review)

The much-anticipated sequel to the book Danielle Page, author of Dorothy Must Die, says is “inventive, gorgeous, and epic—Grey dazzles.”

Everything in Echo’s life changed in a blinding flash when she learned the startling truth: she is the firebird, the creature of light that is said to bring peace.

The firebird has come into the world, but it has not come along. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and Echo can feel a great and terrible darkness rising in the distance. Cosmic forces threaten to tear the world apart.

Echo has already lost her home, her family, and her boyfriend. Now, as the firebird, her path is filled with even greater dangers than the ones she’s already overcome. She knows the Dragon Prince will not fall without a fight.

Echo must decide: can she wield the power of her true nature—or will it prove too strong for her, and burn what’s left of her world to the ground? Welcome to the shadow hour.

Melissa Grey was born and raised in New York City. She wrote her first short story at the age of twelve and hasn’t stopped writing since. After earning a degree in find arts at Yale Universi- ty, she embarked on an adventure of global proportions and discovered a secret talent for navigating subway systems in just about any language. She works as a freelance journalist in New York City. The Shadow Hour is her second novel, and the sequel to her first, The Girl at Midnight.

North America: Delacorte Press (July 2016) Agent: Catherine Drayton UK: Little, Brown Editor: Krista Marino Brazil: Cia das Letras Format: galley Denmark: Alvilda 66 France: Univers Poche Hungary: Maxim Italy: Mondadori

Lexa Hillyer SPINDLE FIRE

Set in a heightened version of medieval France, Spindle Fire is an enthralling re-imagining of a classic faerie story like readers have never seen it before.

Half-sisters Isabelle and Aurora are polar opposites: Isabelle is the king’s headstrong illegiti- mate daughter, whose sight was tithed by faeries; Aurora, beautiful and sheltered, was tithed her sense of touch and voice on the same day. Despite their differences, the sisters have always been incredibly close. And then everything changes, with a single drop of Aurora’s blood— and a sleep so deep it cannot be broken. As the Faerie Queen and her army of Vultures prepare to march, Isabelle must race to find a prince who can awaken her sister with the kiss of True Love, and seal their two kingdoms in an alliance against the queen.

While Isabelle crosses land and sea, unearthly, thorny vines rise up the palace walls, and whis- pers of revolt travel in ashes on the wind. The kingdom falls to ruin under layers of snow. Meanwhile, Aurora wakes up in a strange and enchanted realm, where a mysterious hunter may hold the secret to her escape… or the reason for her to stay.

Spindle Fire is a tour de force fantasy set in the dwindling, deliciously corrupt world of the fae, and featuring two truly unforgettable heroines.

Lexa Hillyer is the author of Proof of Forever. She is also the author of Acquainted with the Cold, the 2012 gold prize winner of the Foreword Book of the Year Award for Poetry, and the recipient of the Melissa Gregory Poetry Prize. Her work was featured in Best New Poets 2012 and she has received various prizes and honors for poetry. Lexa earned her BA in English from Vassar College and her MFA in Poetry from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. She worked as an editor at both HarperCollins and Penguin, before co-founding boutique literary incubator Paper Lantern Lit.

North America: HarperCollins Children’s Books (April 2017) Agent: Stephen Barbara Editor: Rosemary Brosnan Format: manuscript (April)

67 Kerry Kletter THE FIRST TIME SHE DROWNED

“A keep-you-up-all-night heart-wrencher that is both beautiful and raw, painful and uplifting. An incredible read.” —Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places

Cassie O’Malley has a penchant for drowning.

Considering the crazy family she grew up with, it’s no surprise she prefers the bottom of the pool. Her mother has everyone convinced that Cassie is the one who’s insane and for the last three years she’s had Cassie locked up in a mental hospital for terrible crimes she did not commit.

Now eighteen, the once incurably hopeful Cassie is off to college. As she struggles to navigate a world that has betrayed her, a near-death experience leads to the colorful and carefree Zoey, whose friendship is a lifeline. But it is only when Cassie falls for a local surfer that she must decide if she has the strength to confront the terrifying secrets of her history in order to move forward and have a second chance at happiness.

The First Time She Drowned is a story about breaking out of the roles we are assigned by our families and about the secondary families we create that help to get us there.

Kerry Kletter is a former Hollywood actress with credits in such summer blockbusters as Lethal Weapon 4 and Swordfish, as well as several soap operas. She has a BA in English Literature and an MFA in Acting from The Catholic University of America. She lives in Santa Monica, California where she works part-time with animals and part-time in customer service—which is basically the same thing.

North America: Philomel (March 2016) Agent: Catherine Drayton Italy: Il Castoro Editor: Liza Kaplan Format: book

68 Claire LaZebnik THE THINGS I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN

Praise for If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now:

“Affecting and entertaining… I love this book.” —Mindy Kaling

Chloe Mitchell is soaring through high school. She’s got it all—the cute boyfriend, the fun best friend, the good grades—everything’s set for her to finish up big and blast her way into college. There’s just one problem: her sister Ivy.

Ivy has autism, and Chloe seems to be the sole source of fun and companionship in her life. Their father is dead and their mother is newly remarried, and Chloe knows that if she leaves home, Ivy’s future is going to consist of watching TV alone, and will be left behind while life moves on for everyone else. As the family member who feels most tied and close to Ivy, Chloe decides she has to find Ivy a new companion, someone who’ll keep the loneliness and bore- dom at bay once Chloe’s at college. And since 21-year-old Ivy has been asking a lot of questions lately about guys and sex, Chloe figures what she really needs is a boyfriend.

The sweet guy, Ethan, in Ivy’s class seems like perfect boyfriend material, and he’s enthusiastic about the whole idea. It’s just unfortunate that he turns out to be the brother of Chloe’s least favorite classmate, an arrogant loner named David Fields. Chloe forces herself to get over her issues with David for Ivy’s sake, especially since David turns out to be as devoted to his brother as she is to her sister. The two of them work together to keep Ivy and Ethan dating. To Chloe’s surprise, she starts finding that the afternoons spent with this strange little group are becoming oddly enjoyable… even preferable.

Claire LaZebnik has written five novels for adults including Same As It Never Was, Knitting Un- der the Influence, and Families and Other Non-Returnable Gifts. Her young adult novels include Epic Fail, The Trouble with Flirting, The Last Best Kiss, and the recent novel Wrong About the Guy. She has co-authored two books on autism; Overcoming Autism and Growing Up on the Spectrum. A graduate of Harvard University, she lives with her TV-writer husband and four children, one of whom has autism.

World English: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (June 2017) Agent: Alexis Hurley Editor: Elizabeth Bewley 69 Format: manuscript Reshma Saujani GIRLS WHO CODE

When you imagine a programmer, what comes to mind? Most likely, the image will be an anti-social young man wearing glasses and staring at a screen. Women and girls are constantly bombarded with signals—based on very real statistics—that coding isn’t for them. But that’s a myth. While there have been major strides to educate girls in STEM fields, coding still has the most drastic gender imbalance, one that has grown since the ‘80s.

Reshma Saujani founded Girls Who Code to change all that. She discovered that when girls are exposed to inspiring role models and real-life applications of computer science, they’re motivated to pursue paths that their mothers may never have considered. With this in mind, she has a goal to teach 1 million girls to code by 2020. (And with the support of people like Hillary Clinton, Sheryl Sandberg, and Jeff Bezos, there’s no doubt that she’ll be successful.)

Aimed at girls 12 and older, the Girls Who Code book will seek to demystify computer science and give readers a first-hand look into what it’s like to work as a computer scientists across various fields. It will include engaging stories featuring women and girls who have developed passions for computer science, along with other resources, strategies, project ideas, and tips for learning code.

Reshma’s TED talk on teaching girls bravery, not perfection, hit more than 1,000,000 views in less than one month.

Reshma Saujani is the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code and the former Deputy Public Advocate of New York City. Today, she has galvanized industry leaders to close the gender gap in STEM education and empower girls to pursue careers in technology and engineering through innovative curriculum, national clubs, and immersive summer programs. Reshma and Girls Who Code have been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, along with many other media outlets. Reshma was recently listed as one of Fortune’s 2015 40 Under 40 and one of Fortune Magazine’s World’s Greatest Leaders.

North America: Viking (Spring 2017) Agent: Richard Pine UK: Virgin Editors: Ken Wright & Kendra Levin Format: proposal 70 Gavriel Savit ANNA AND THE SWALLOW MAN

“...Gavriel Savit’s splendid debut novel… is masterly storytelling.” —The New York Times

Krakow, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This is no place to grow up. Anna Lania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father, a linguistics professor, during their purge of intellectuals in Poland. She’s alone.

And then Anna meets the Swallow Man. He is a mystery, strange and tall, a skilled deceiver with more than a little magic up his sleeve. And when the soldiers in the streets look at him, they see what he wants them to see.

The Swallow Man is not Anna’s father—she knows that very well—but she also knows that, like her father, he’s in danger of being taken, and like her father, he has a gift for languages: Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish, even Bird. When he summons a bright, beautiful swallow down to his hand to stop her from crying, Anna is entranced. She follows him into the wilderness.

Over the course of their travels together, Anna and the Swallow Man will dodge bombs, tame soldiers, and even, despite their better judgement, make a friend. But in a world gone mad, everything can prove dangerous. Even the Swallow Man.

A stunning, literary, and wholly original debut novel—and now a New York Times bestseller!

Gavriel Savit is a trained performer with a degree in Musical Theatre. As an actor and singer, Gavriel has performed on three continents, from New York to Brussels to Tokyo. He currently lives in Brooklyn, and is performing on Broadway in “Amazing Grace.”

North America: Knopf Books for Young Readers (January 2016) Agent: Catherine Drayton UK: Random House Editor: Erin Clarke Brazil: Rocco Format: book Catalan: Grup 62 China: Shanghai Dook Czech Republic: Paseka France: Laffont Germany: cbt/Random House Holland: Ambo Anthos 71 Italy: Sperling & Kupfer Spain: Suma Taiwan: Crown

Noelle Stevenson & Todd Casey 4 WIZARDS

Praise for Nimona:

“Noelle Stevenson has a knack for capturing the humor and the heart in a situation in just a few panels.” —Rainbow Rowell, author of Eleanor and Park

An eccentric old wizard Hugo prefers to spends his days alone practicing ancient spells, enchanting his furniture to be alive, and feuding with his next-door neighbor over property lines…until the Wizard Council orders him to take on a new apprentice, Ivy—she’s sarcastic, withdrawn, and seems entirely disinterested in magic.

But Ivy’s got a secret: she’s a medium, and she appears to be channeling a malicious spirit named Nightshade who acts as her alter-ego. Nightshade is unpredictable, uncontrollable, and a real jerk to boot. When Ivy lets Nightshade take control, she’s fast, she’s strong, she’s confident, and she can even fly and spit green fire. Not a bad trade-off, right? Ivy doesn’t think so. She wants Nightshade gone, and she wants Hugo to help her do it. With some help from their neighbor Zan, a fearsome disgraced paladin, and her apprentice Bram- bles, a happy-go-lucky young druid raised by Tree-Monks, what could go wrong?

But when Ivy becomes aware of a plot to destroy their idyllic magical world, she must seek the help of her new friends—including a mysterious traveling healer named Becky and maybe, just maybe, a little help from Nightshade.

Noelle Stevenson is an multi-Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and writer. Her debut graphic novel “Nimona” won the Slate Cartoonist’s Studio Prize, was nominated for a Harvey Award, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was the youngest finalist for the National Book Award. She is also the cowriter of the Eisner-winning comic series “Lumberjanes” and has written for Disney’s “Wander Over Yonder,” Marvel, and DC Comics, among others. Todd Casey is currently the Story Editor for Disney XD’s Future-Worm and his first theatrical feature, Krampus, was released in December from Legendary and Universal Pictures. He has written, developed, and produced animated series and features for Cartoon Network, Disney, 72 Nickelodeon, Warner Brothers, and Marvel Animation. World English: HarperTeen (2017) Agent: Charlie Olsen Editor: Andrew Harwell Format: manuscript (November) Krystal Sutherland OUR CHEMICAL HEARTS

Henry Page is a hopeless romantic and pop culture aficionado, who always thought falling in love would be more like the movies. Grace Town—who’s unwashed, dressed in guy’s clothing, and walks with a cane—is unlike any leading lady he’s ever obsessed over. So this is certainly not a story of love at first sight. But it is a love story. (Well. Depending on who you ask.)

It’s senior year and Henry and Grace are both offered positions as editors of their high school newspaper. The more time they spend together, the more the mystery of Grace begins to captivate him. Why does she visit a graveyard every afternoon? What secret does she keep locked away in her bedroom? Above all, why is Grace Town so deeply sad?

Before long, Henry is smitten, consumed by his almost-but-not-quite-requited infatuation with the strangest girl he’s ever met. Unfortunately for him, Grace isn’t looking for romance. Three months ago, her boyfriend Dominic died in the same car crash that injured her leg. Grace lived. Dom didn’t. Love triangles are always ghastly. They’re even worse when the girl you’ve fallen for is torn between you and her still-decomposing ex.

Undeterred by Grace’s erratic stance on relationships, Henry summons all his courage to convince her that their flickering, bittersweet spark could heal her grief and grow into a grand love story worthy of the silver screen. With disastrous consequences, naturally.

Krystal Sutherland was born and raised in Townsville, Australia, a place that has never experienced winter. Since then she’s lived in Sydney, where she edited her university’s student magazine, and Amsterdam, where she worked as a foreign correspondent. Krystal has also interned at Bloomsbury Publishing and was shortlisted for the Queensland Young Writers Award. Our Chemical Hearts is her debut novel.

North America: Putnam (November 2016) Agent: Catherine Drayton UK: Hot Key Israel: Armchair Editor: Stacy Barney ANZ: Penguin Italy: Rizzoli Format: manuscript Brazil: Globo ALT Norway: Gyldendal Czech Republic: Euromedia Poland: Dolnoslaskie Denmark: Linghardt & Ringhof Portugal: Porto Editora France: Pocket Jeunesse Slovakia: Ikar 73 Germany: cbt/Blanvalet Spain and Catalan: Planeta Holland: Leopold Sweden: Bonnier Carlsen Israel: Armchair

Kerry Winfrey

LOVE AND OTHER ALIEN EXPERIENCES

In this heartwarming debut by HelloGiggles blogger Kerry Winfrey with echoes of Nicola Yoon’s Everything, Everything, a young agoraphobe begins a journey of first love that leads her to the true meaning of home—just by taking one small step outside of her house.

Her name is Mallory Sullivan. Her therapist says she has an anxiety disorder. Her brother says she’s an “optimistic recluse.” Everybody else says she’s a freak.

And they kind of have a point, because Mallory hasn’t left the house in 67 days and only attend class via the webcam on her laptop. The person she talks to the most other than her mom and brother is the completely obnoxious BeamMeUp, and all they do is argue on New Mexico’s premiere alien message board.

But after yesterday, Mallory has something: a chance. If she can win the homecoming crown by convincing resident hot popular guy and Friday Night Lights spawn Brad Kirkpatrick to go as her date, then maybe #stayathome will never appear next to the name @Mallory_Sullivan ever again.

But first, she has to leave her room.

Kerry Winfrey grew up in Bellville, Ohio, where she spent most of her time reading inappro- priate books at the library. Not much has changed. Kerry writes for HelloGiggles and blogs at welcometoladyville.com. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and their dog.

North America: Feiwel & Friends (Spring 2017) Agent: Stephen Barbara Editor: Anna Roberto Format: manuscript (April)

74 Darcy Woods SUMMER OF SUPERNOVAS

“Curling up with Darcy Woods’ romantic, funny Summer of Supernovas feels like the best sort of summer night—dreamy, warm, and full of possible star-crossed lives.” —Kim Culbertson, author of Catch a Falling Star

When zodiac-obsessed teen, Wilamena Carlisle, discovers a planetary alignment that won’t repeat for a decade, she’s forced to tackle her greatest astrological fear: The Fifth House of Relationships and Love.

Armed with a killer collection of 40’s vintage dresses, and a surefire-ish plan to find the Sagittarius of her dreams, Wil embarks on a twenty-two day race for love, before Jupiter’s luck expires. As the daughter of an expert astrologer, Wil knows billions of stars can’t be wrong. So when her heart defies the heavens by falling for a sensitive guitar player hailing from the wrong side of the chart, Wil must decide whether a cosmically doomed love is worth shunning her mother’s legacy and the very system in which she places a lifetime of unfailing belief.

Sometimes the greatest leap in life means never leaving the ground.

Darcy Woods has held a gloriously strange mix of professions. From a three-year stint refueling helicopters in the US Army, to a decade plus as an esthetician in a spa, her most beloved career by far is that of author. A past RWA Golden Heart® Award winner and hoarder of books, Darcy believes that laughter really is the best medicine and practices it daily. She lives in Michigan with her husband.

World English: Crown Books for Young Readers (May 2016) Agent: Catherine Drayton Brazil: Intrinseca Editor: Emily Easton Germany: Fischer Format: manuscript Italy: Mondadori Spain: Urano Turkey: Pegasus

75 Jeff Zentner THE SERPENT KING

“Zentner’s prose wraps you up like a warm, Southern hug and packs the punches of a sweaty country brawl… The Serpent King is a debut you won’t be able to resist or forget.” —John Corey Whaley, author of Where Things Come Back

Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life—at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minister who urges him to handle poisonous rattlesnakes, and at school, where he faces down bullies who target him for his father’s extreme faith and very public fall from grace.

He and his fellow outcast friends must try to make it through their senior year of high school without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self. Gradua- tion will lead to new beginnings for Lydia, whose edgy fashion blog is her ticket out of their rural Tennessee town. And Travis is content where he is thanks to his obsession with an epic book series and the fangirl turning his reality into real-life fantasy.

Their diverging paths could mean the end of their friendship. But not before Dill confronts the dark legacy to attempt to find a way into the light of a future worth living.

Jeff Zentner was a singer-songwriter and guitarist who released five albums and appeared on recordings with Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, and Debbie Harry. He gave a TED talk on creativity and served as managing editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law and Practice. He lives in Nashville with his wife and son. The Serpent King is his first novel.

US: Crown Books (March 2016) Agent: Charlie Olsen UK: Andersen Press Editor: Emily Easton Canada: Tundra Format: book

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THE SHORT DROP

“Matthew FitzSimmons weaves a clever plot and deftly leads the reader on a rapid ride to an explosive end.” —Robert Dugoni, author of My Sister’s Grave

A decade ago, Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Senator Benjamin Lombard, disappeared after meet- ing a stranger online. The only clue is a video of Suzanne wearing an unfamiliar baseball cap just before she walked into oblivion. Her disappearance and the futile manhunt for her alleged abductor becomes an American obsession. If the daughter of a U.S. Senator can be snatched without a trace, what chance does an ordinary family have of keeping its children safe? Gibson Vaughn grew up with Suzanne, and that question has haunted him his entire adult life. On the tenth anniversary of her disappearance, a photograph of Suzanne taken the night she vanished is delivered via a taunting, anonymous email. As they expand their search, Gibson and his team uncover intertwining conspiracies surrounding the Lom- bard family. If he can just stay one step ahead, Gibson will uncover the truth of Suzanne’s enigmatic disappearance, while revealing the tragic story behind his father’s suicide when Gibson was just a boy. The Short Drop was published by Thomas & Mercer in December, and has sold to Obsidian/Bulgaria, Euromedia Group/Czech Republic, Editions du Toucan/France, Konyvmolykepzo Kiado/Hungary, Swiat Ksiaszki/Poland, Ikar/Slovakia, Altin/Turkey, Festa Verlag/Germany, Grup Media Litera/ Romania . Adam Grant ORIGINALS How Non-Conformists Move the World

“An insightful, wonderfully new take on the world from one of my favorite thinkers.” —Malcolm Gladwell

With Give & Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success, but also established himself as one of his generation’s most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Origi- nals, he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original. Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of al- lies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can fight groupthink to build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, and a billionaire who fires employees for failing to criticize him. Originals was published by Viking in February, and has sold to Crown Cul- ture/Taiwan, Hangzhou Blue Lion/China, Noxi/Czech Republic, W.H. Allen/UK, DeBoeck/France, Droe- mer Knaur Verlag/Germany, Key Books/Greece, Kinneret/Israel, HVG Publishing/Hungary, Hoepli edizioni/Italy, Mikasa Shobo/Japan, The Korea Economic Daily/Korea, Muza/Poland, Sextante, Brazil, 78 20/20 Editora/Portugal, SC Publica Com SRL/Romania, AST/Russia, Citadella/Slovakia, WeLearn Co./ Thailand, Polyteco Publishing/Ukraine, Aripaev/Estonia. Michael Greger HOW NOT TO DIE Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

“How Not to Die features the latest science on nutrition and health to show how to treat and prevent disease.” —Joel Fuhrman, author of Eat to Live

In How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger examines the fifteen top causes of premature death—heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson’s, high blood pressure, and more—and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, freeing us to live healthier lives. The simple truth is that most doctors are good at treating acute illnesses but bad at preventing chronic disease. By following Dr. Greger’s advice, all of it backed up by strong scientific evidence, readers will learn which foods to eat and which lifestyle changes to make to live longer. Full of practical, actionable advice and surprising, cutting-edge nutritional science, these doctor’s orders are just what we need to live longer, healthier lives. How Not to Die was published by Flatiron Books in December and has sold to LIVING Publishers/Albania, Jarir Bookstore/ Arabic, Eunicata/Bulgaria, Azoth/Taiwan, Phei/China, Noxi/Czech Republic, Borgens/Denmark, Uitgeverij Passie/Holland, Macmillan/UK, Basam Books/Finland, Belfond/France, Narayana Verlag/ Germany, Baldini & Castoldi/Italy, NHK/Japan, Jin Sung Books/Korea, Up Publishing LLC/Mongolia, Czarna Owca/Poland, Lua de Papel/Portugal, Piter/Russia, Vulkan Izdavastvo/Serbia, Priroda/Slovakia, Paidos Iberica/Spain, Soulfoods Publishing/Sweden, Tre Publishing/Vietnam, Edesviz Kiado/Hungary, FOCUS Publishers/Israel, Intrinseca/Brazil.

David Ludwig ALWAYS HUNGRY? Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, & Lose Weight Permanently

“Prepare to change your health for the better.” —Andrew Weil, M.D., author of 8 Weeks to Optimum Health

Inspired by the New York Times op-ed “Always Hungry,” Always Hungry? will change everything readers ever thought about weight loss, diet, and health. Groundbreaking new research shows that calorie counting does not work for weight loss: one diet causes weight gain whereas another diet with the same calorie count doesn’t. It’s your fat cells that are to blame for causing excessive hunger and increased weight. By eating the wrong foods, our fat cells are triggered to take in too many calories for themselves, setting off a dangerous chain reaction of increased appetite and a slower metabolism. Now, Harvard Medical School’s David Ludwig, M.D., Ph.D., offers an impeccably researched diet that will turn dieting on its head, teaching readers to reprogram their fat cells, tame hunger, boost metabolism, and lose weight—for good. Always Hungry? was published by Grand Central in January and has sold to Colibri Publishing House/Bulgaria, Spektrum/Holland, Orion Books/UK, Marabout/France, Goldmann Verlag/ Germany, Mondadori/Italy, Spoleczny Instytut/Poland, Zahar/Brazil, Nova Knjiga Plus/Serbia, Lektor’ca Natasa Purkat/Slovenia, Oceano/Latin America, Jarir Bookstore/Arabic, Grup Media Litera/ 79 Romania, Mozaik knjiga/Croatia, CommonLife Publishing/Taiwan, Planeta/Spain. Sam Munson

THE NOVEMBER CRIMINALS

“Munson has written one of the funniest, most heartfelt novels in recent memory...” —The Chicago Tribune

For a high school senior, Addison Schacht has a lot of preoccupations. Like getting into college. Selling drugs to his classmates. His complicated relationship with his best friend (not his girlfriend) Digger. And he’s just added another to the list: the murder of his classmate Kevin Broadus, and his own absurd, obsessive plan to investigate the death. When presented with an essay question on his college application—What are your best and worst qualities?—Addison finds himself provoked into giving his final, unapologetic say about all of the above and more. Addison finds good company among American literature’s cadre of unsettled, restless youth, from Huck Finn to Holden Caulfield. The November Criminals takes on the terrain of the classic adolescent truth-telling novel and—with nerve and erudition—carves out its own unique territory. A film, starring Chloe Grace Moretz and The Fault in Our Stars’ Ansel Elgort, is currently in post-production with Sony Pictures Worldwide, with an anticipated release late in 2016. The November Criminals was published by Simon & Schuster in October and has sold to Sharp Point Press/Taiwan, Hachette/ANZ, Little, Brown/UK, Sperling & Supfer/Italy, Hayakawa/Japan, Nasza Ksiegarnia/Poland, Planeta/Brazil, Presenca/Portugal, AST/Russia, Oceano/ Spain. William Styron MY GENERATION Collected Nonfiction

“If Styron is best remembered for his fiction… his extensive output of short nonfiction stands as additional testament to his enormous talent and range of interest.” —Kirkus, starred review

Here are fifty years of Styron’s essays, memoirs, reviews, op-eds, articles, eulogies, and speeches, reflect- ing the same brilliant style and informed thinking that he brought to his towering fiction and to a deeply committed public life. Including many newly collected and never-before-published items, this compen- dium ranges from the original mission statement of The Paris Review, which Styron helped found in 1953, to a 2001 tribute to his friend Philip Roth—creating an essential overview of this post-World War II world of art and letters. In these pages, Styron writes vividly of childhood days in Virginia spent going to the movies, not reading books. And he writes as few others have about midlife battles with clinical depression. The beginnings of his masterpieces The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice are chronicled here, along with the controversy that greeted the former upon its 1967 publication. These fascinating pieces bring readers closer to this writer and the world he observed, interacted with, and changed. My Generation was published by Random House in June. 80 Diane Williams

FINE, FINE, FINE, FINE, FINE

“Diane Williams is one of the true living heroes of the… avant-garde. Her fiction makes very familiar things very, very weird.” —Jonathan Franzen, author of Purity

The very short stories of Diane Williams have been aptly called “folk tales that hammer like a nail gun,” and these 39 new ones are sharper than ever. They are unsettling, yes, frequently revelatory, and more often than not downright funny—even though within these covers a mother dies, an illicit love affair is revealed, a ghost pays a visit, and police are called to the scene. Not a single moment here is what you might expect. While there is immense pleasure to be found in Williams’s spot-on observations about how we behave in our highest and lowest moments, the heart of the drama beats in the language of short fiction’s grand master, whose originality, precision, and power bring the familiar into startling and enchanting relief. Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine was published by McSweeney’s in January.

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Peter Blauner SDX/China SLIPPING INTO DARKNESS Fraktura/Croatia Archipel/France Varrak/Estonia Victoria Kiado/Hungary Blessing/Germany Sifriat Ma’ariv/Israel Narcissus/Greece Pustaka Zahra/Indonesia De Boekerji/Holland Rizzoli/Italy Feltrinelli/Italy Vizga Press/Poland Moon Ye Dang/Korea Presenca/Portugal Schibsted/Norway La Factoria de Ideas/Spain Amber, Poland/Poland E Yayinlari/Turkey Editura Publica Com/Romania THE LAST GOOD DAY Corpus/Russia Seuil/France RBA Libros/Spain Luitingh-Sijthoff/Holland Wealth Press/Taiwan Marco Tropea Editore/Italy Bloomsbury UK/UK MAN OF THE HOUR KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL Bertrand/Brazil Delta Germany/Germany Egmont Wangel/Denmark A COOK’S TOUR Archipel/France 24 Kvadrata/Bulgaria Bertelsmann/Germany Doyo-sha Ltd./Japan Luitingh-Sijthoff/Holland Congress Service Center/Macedonia General Press Kiado/Hungary Commercial Press/Taiwan Saggiatore/Italy Tokuma-Shoten/Japan Susan Cain Amber/Poland QUIET INTRUDER Nahdet Misr/Arabic Gallimard/France Nova Fronteira/Brazil Luitingh-Sijthoff/Holland Iztok-Zapad/Bulgaria Fusosha, Ltd./Japan China CITIC Press/China Amber/Poland Mozaik Knjiga/Croatia Penguin/UK Jan Melvil/Czech Republic SLOW MOTION RIOT Hr Ferdinand/Denmark Editora Best Seller/Brazil Varrak/Estonia Artia Production/Denmark Avain/Finland Warner Books/Germany Lattes/France Luitingh-Sijthoff/Holland Reimann Verlag/Germany Saggiatore/Italy Arbeiderspers/Holland Hjemmets Bokforlag/Norway Matar Publishing House/Israel Amber/Poland ANDI Publishing/Indonesia Mondadori/Spain Bompiani/Italy Kodansha/Japan Anthony Bourdain Random House/Korea MEDIUM RAW Janis Rose/Latvia Cia/Brazil Aukso Pieva/Lithuania

Ars Lamina/Macedonia Pegasus Books/Turkey PAX/Norway Little, Brown/UK MT Biznes/Poland WOLFSBANE Circulo de Leitores/Portugal Record/Brazil Paralela 45/Romania Ibis Edizioni/Bulgaria Exmo/Russia Hunan Science & Technology Publishing House/ Laguna/Serbia China Vydavatelstvo Motyl Branko/Slovakia Euromedia Group/Czech Republic Mladinska Kniga Zalozba/Slovenia Tellerup/Denmark RBA/Spain Gallimard/France Natur och Kultur/Sweden Egmont/Germany Yuan-Liou Publishing/Taiwan Livanis/Greece Matichon/Thailand Boekerij/Holland Nash Format/Ukraine Egmont Hungary Kft/Hungary Penguin Books/UK Keter/Israel TGM/Vietnam Random House Korea/Korea Norma/Latin America Andrea Cremer Alma Littera/Lithuania THE INVENTOR’S SECRET Amber/Poland Lumen/France Litera International/Romania SNAKEROOT AST/Russia Euromedia Group/Czech Republic Ikar/Slovakia RISE Ediciones B/Spain Record/Brazil Springly/Taiwan Tellerup/Denmark Amarin/Thailand Little, Brown/UK Pegasus Yayincilik/Turkey RIFT Little, Brown/UK Record/Brazil NIGHTSHADE Tellerup/Denmark Record/Brazil Livanis/Greece Ibis Edizioni/Bulgaria Little, Brown/UK Hunan Science & Technology Publishing House/ BLOODROSE China Record/Brazil Algoritam/Croatia Ibis Edizioni/Bulgaria Euromedia Group/Czech Republic Euromedia Group/Czech Republic Tellerup/Denmark Tellerup/Denmark Gallimard/France Gallimard/France Egmont/Germany Egmont/Germany Livanis/Greece Livanis/Greece Boekerij/Holland Egmont Hungary Kft/Hungary Egmont Hungary Kft/Hungary Boekerij/Holland Gagas/Indonesia Keter/Israel Keter/Israel DeAgostini/Italy DeAgostini/Italy Alma Littera/Lithuania Random House Korea/Korea Ikar/Slovakia Norma/Latin America Springly/Taiwan Alma Littera/Lithuania Amarin/Thailand Amber/Poland

83 Bertrand/Portugal Exmo/Russia Litera International/Romania Planeta/Spain AST/Russia Faces Publications/Taiwan Alnari Publishers/Serbia Mono Group/Thailand Ikar/Slovakia Krajina Mriy/Ukraine Ediciones B/Spain HT Trading/Vietnam Springly/Taiwan PINES Amarin/Thailand Planeta/Brazil Pegasus Yayincilik/Turkey Bard Publishing/Bulgaria Little, Brown/UK Chongqing Green Culture Co./China Znanje/Croatia Blake Crouch Jota/Czech Republic THE LAST TOWN Helios/Estonia Planeta/Brazil Tammi/Finland Chongqing Green Culture Co./China J’ai Lu/France Helios/Estonia Dioptra/Greece Tammi/Finland Karakter/Holland J’ai Lu/France Agave/Hungary Dioptra/Greece Opus/Israel Karakter/Holland Sperling & Kupfer/Italy Agave/Hungary Hayakawa/Japan Sperling & Kupfer/Italy Opus Press/Korea Hayakawa/Japan Otwarte/Poland Opus/Korea Objetiva/Portugal Otwarte/Poland R.A.O/Romania Objetiva/Portugal Exmo/Russia R.A.O/Romania Laguna/Serbia Exmo/Russia Zeleny kocur/Slovakia Faces Publishing Ltd/Taiwan Planeta/Spain Mono Group/Thailand Faces Publications/Taiwan Krajina Mriy/Ukraine Mono Group/Thailand HT Trading/Vietnam Inkilap/Turkey WAYWARD Krajina Mriy/Ukraine Planeta/Brazil HT Trading/Vietnam Chongqing Green Culture Co./China ABANDON Helios/Estonia Agave/Hungary Tammi/Finland Exmo/Russia J’ai Lu/France SNOWBOUND Dioptra/Greece Exmo/Russia Karakter/Holland RUN Agave/Hungary Exmo/Russia Sperling & Kupfer/Italy Hayakawa/Japan Cath Crowley Opus/Korea GRAFFITI MOON Otwarte/Poland Orange Books/Bulgaria Objetiva/Portugal Valentina/Brazil R.A.O/Romania Albin Michel/France

84 Carlsen Verlag/Germany Relogio D’Agua/Portugal Papadopoulos Publishing/Greece CONSIDER THE OYSTER Moon/Holland Uitgeverij Pels & Kemper/Holland Noura Books/Indonesia Neri Pozza/Italy Mondadori/Italy Rye Field Publications/Taiwan AST/Russia HOW TO COOK A WOLF Zala Zalozba/Slovene Neri Pozza/Italy RBA/Spain Different Voice/Korea Hodder & Stoughton/UK Rye Field Publications/Taiwan A LITTLE WANTING SONG THE GASTRONOMICAL ME Carlsen Verlag/Germany Neri Pozzi/Italy THE ART OF EATING Amy Ewing New Star Publishers/China THE WHITE ROSE Edition Ebersbach/Germany Leya/Brazil Debate/Spain Laffont/France LOVE IN A DISH… AND OTHER S. Fischer Verlag/Germany CULINARY DELIGHTS Leopold/Holland Penguin/UK Maxim/Hungary LONG AGO IN FRANCE Rizzoli, RCS/Italy La Revue Éclair/France Alma Littera/Lithuania Jaguar/Poland James Gleick Ucila/Slovenia THE INFORMATION V&R/Spain Companhia des Letras/Brazil Walker Ltd/UK Posts & Telecom Press/China THE HOUSE OF STONE Algoritam/Croatia Laffont/France Dokoran/Czech Republic S. Fischer Verlag/Germany HarperCollins/UK Leopold/Holland Arthouse/Finland THE JEWEL Editions Cassini/France Leya/Brazil Redline/Germany Laffont/France Travlos/Greece S. Fischer Verlag/Germany Bezige Bij/Holland Leopold/Holland Feltrinelli/Italy Maxim/Hungary Shincho-SHA/Japan Rizzoli, RCS/Italy East-Asia Publishing Co./Korea Alma Littera/Lithuania Spoleczny Instytut/Poland Jaguar/Poland Temas e Debates/Portugal Editura RAO/Romania SC Publica Com SRL/Romania AST/Russia Corpus/Russia Walker Ltd/UK Critica/Spain Acropolis/Taiwan M.F.K. Fisher Optimist/Turkey ALPHABET FOR GOURMETS ECEM Media/Ukraine Geulhangari Publishers/Korea ISAAC NEWTON SERVE IT FORTH Companhia das Letras/Brazil La Revue Éclair/France Higher Education Press/China

85 Dunod/France PT Gramedia Pustaka/Indonesia Patmos Verlagsgruppe/Germany RCS Libri/Italy Aryeh Nir Publishing House/Hebrew Shinco-SHA/Japan Bezige Bij/Holland Commonwealth Publishing/Taiwan Goncol Kiado/Hungary East-Asia Publishing/Korea Mizan Pustaka/Indonesia Zysk I Ska Wydawnictwo/Poland Codice/Italy Gradiva Publicacoes Lta./Portugal Japan Broadcast Publishing Co./Japan Amphora/Russia Seung San Publishers/Korea Critica/Spain Casa das Letras/Portugal Alfa/Turkey SC Publica Com SRL/Romania RBA Libros/Spain Marcelo Gleiser Historiska/Sweden THE ISLAND OF KNOWLEDGE Matichon/Thailand Record/Brazil Bogazici Universitesi/Turkey Alpha Books/China WHAT JUST HAPPENED Hakuyo-Sha/Japan Citic Publishing House/China Bertrand/Portugal Ambo/Anthos/Holland A TEAR AT THE EDGE OF CREATION Rizzoli/Italy Record/Brazil FASTER Shanghai Scientific and Tech/China Huazhong University/China Dokoran/Czech Republic Orisini Books/Czech Republic Flammarion/France Tammi Publishers/Finland Spektrum/Germany DVA/Germany Paradigma/Holland Ellinika Grammata/Greece Rizzoli/Italy Hed Arzi Publishing House/Hebrew Kachi/Korea Goncol Kiado/Hungary Temas e Debates/Portugal RCS Libri/Italy Post Publishing/Thailand Shincho-SHA/Japan THE DANCING UNIVERSE Clio Publishing Co./Korea Record/Brazil Gyldendal Norsk Forlag/Norway SKYBOUND Shanghai Scientific/Taiwan Editora Schwarcz/Brazil GENIUS VANISHINGS Higher Education Press/China Record/Brazil Skolska Knjiga/Croatia Goncol Kiado/Hungary Katherine Govier East-Asiat Publishing/Korea THE PRINTMAKER’S DAUGHTER CHAOS Quebec Amerique/French Canada Saqi Books/Arabic Sairyusha/Japan Editora Campus/Brazil Janis Rose/Latvia Higher Education Press/China Humanitas/Romania Ando Publishers/Czech Republic Alianza/Spain Munksgaard Int’l Publishers/Denmark Arthouse/Finland Adam Grant Editions Albin Michel/France GIVE & TAKE Katoptro Editions/Greece Jarir Bookstore/Arabic Goncol Kiado/Hungary Sextante/Brazil

86 Altera Publishers Ltd./Bulgaria Unieboek/Holland CITIC/China Keter/Israel Profil Knijga/Croatia Piemme/Italy Albatros/Czech Republic Spoleczny Instytut/Poland Aripaev/Estonia Presenca/Portugal Pearson France/France Mondadori/Spain Droemer Knaur Verlag/Germany HOUSE OF THIEVES Key Books Ltd./Greece Skymarket/Estonia Balans/Holland HVG/Hungary Elin Hilderbrand PT Gramedia/Indonesia THE RUMOR Kinneret/Israel Lattes/France Sperling & Kupfer/Italy Verlagsgruppe RH/Germany Mikasa Shobo/Japan Meulenhoff/Holland KPI/Korea Antolog Books/Macedonia Cappelen Damm/Norway Grup Media Litera/Romania MUZA/Poland WINTER STREET 20/20 Editora/Portugal Goldmann/Germany SC Publica Com SRL/Romania THE MATCHMAKER Mann, Ivanov & Ferber/Russia Lattes/France Ucila/Slovenia Verlagsgruppe RH/Germany Oceano/Spain Meulenhoff/Holland Volante/Sweden Leya/Portugal Crown Culture/Taiwan Marti/Turkey WeLearn co./Thailand BEAUTIFUL DAY Moda/Turkey Bertrand/Brazil Kyiv School of Economics/Ukraine Era/Bulgaria Weidenfeld & Nicolson/UK Gads Forlag/Denmark First News Publishing/Vietnam Lattes/France Goldmann Verlag/Germany Melissa Grey Meulenhoff/Holland THE GIRL AT MIDNIGHT Znak/Poland Cia/Brazil Marti/Turkey Alvilda/Denmark SUMMERLAND Univers Poche/France Baronet/Czech Republic Cbj/Germany Lattes/France Maxim/Hungary Bloomsbury Verlag/Germany Mondadori/Italy Mondadori/Italy Hans Media/Korea Znak/Poland AST/Russia SILVER GIRL Ediciones Urano/Spain Bertrand/Brazil Little, Brown/UK Lattes/France Bloomsbury Verlag/Germany Kaui Hart Hemmings Mondadori/Italy THE POSSIBILITIES Allers/Norway Obsidian/Bulgaria Weltbild Polska/Poland Diana/Germany Marti/Turkey

87 THE ISLAND J’ai Lu/France Bertrand/Brazil Egmont/Germany Baronet/Czech Republic GeneralPress Kiado/Hungary Lattes/France Pustaka Zahra/Indonesia Berlin Verlag/Germany Mondadori/Italy Pioneer Books/Hungary Amber, Poland/Poland Mondadori/Italy Quinta Essencia/Portugal Cappelen Damm/Norway Litera International/Romania Swiat Ksiazki/Poland AST/Russia Contraponto/Portugal Piatkus/UK Litera International/Romania WHEN BEAUTY TAMED THE BEAST Martinez Roca/Spain Sextante/Brazil Marti/Turkey Kalpazanov/Bulgaria Mozaik Knjiga/Croatia Eloisa James J’ai Lu/France THREE WEEKS WITH LADY X Egmont/Germany Kalpazanov/Bulgaria General Press/Hungary J’ai Lu/France Pustaka Zahra/Indonesia Mondadori/Italy Mondadori/Italy AST/Russia Ohzora ShuppanJapan Vulkan Izdavastvo/Serbia Amber/Poland Schibsted/Sweden Quinta Essencia/Portugal Piatkus Books/UK Litera/Romania ONCE UPON A TOWER AST/Russia Sextante/Brazil Kaekwarn/Thailand Kalpaznov/Bulgaria Piatkus Books/UK Mozaik Knjiga/Croatia A KISS AT MIDNIGHT J’ai Lu/France Sextante/Brazil Mondadori/Italy Mozaik Knjiga/Croatia Hara Shobo/Japan J’ai Lu/France Amber/Poland Egmont/Germany AST/Russia GeneralPress Kiado/Hungary Piatkus/UK Pustaka Zahra/Indonesia THE UGLY DUCHESS Mondadori/Italy Sextante/Brazil Ohzora Shuppan/Japan Mozaik Knjiga/Croatia Kultura/Macedonia J’ai Lu/France Amber, Poland/Poland Pustaka Zahra/Indonesia Quinta Essencia/Portugal Mondadori/Italy Litera/Romania Hara Shobo/Japan AST/Russia Amber, Poland/Poland Kaekwarn/Thailand AST/Russia Piatkus Books/UK Piatkus/UK Bachviet Books/Vietnam Wendy James THE DUKE IS MINE THE MISTAKE Sextante/Brazil Penguin/ANZ Mozaik Knjiga/Croatia Juritzen/Norway

88 Claire LaZebnik Aquarius/Taiwan EPIC FAIL RBA/Spain Donald Ray Pollock Pegasus/Turkey THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME THE LAST BEST KISS Empuries/Catalan Cbj/Germany Oceanmore/Croatia Pegasus/Turkey Moba/Czech Republic THE TROUBLE WITH FLIRTING KLIM/Denmark Cbj/Germany Albin Michel/France Karaat/Holland Shawn Levy Elliot Edizioni/Italy RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL Liebeskind/Germany Rivages/France Metaihmio Publishing/Greece READY, STEADY, GO! Libri Konvykiado/Hungary Koukkida Editions/Greece EunHaeng NaMu Publishing/Korea DE NIRO: A LIFE Papierowy Ksiezyc/Poland S. Fisher Verlag/Germany Quetzal/Portugal PAUL NEWMAN: A LIFE Libros del Silencio/Spain BB art s.r.o/Czech Republic Tristero/Sweden General Press/Hungary Azoth/Taiwan Baldini Castoldi/Italy Harvill Secker/UK Kinema-Junpo Co./Japan KNOCKEMSTIFF Publicat S.A./Poland Buchet-Chastel/France Editora Nova Fronteira/Portugal Karaat/Holland PRH Grupo/Spain Elliot Edizioni/Italy Aurum Press/UK Libros del Silencio/Spain Gleerups Utbildning/Sweden Jim Lynch Harvill Secker/UK TRUTH LIKE THE SUN Bloomsbury/UK Lionel Shriver BORDER SONGS BIG BROTHER Random House Canada/Canada Intrinseca/Brazil Bejing Xinhua Pioneer Culture/China L’Altra Editorial/Catalan Contact/Holland Varrak/Estonia Deux Terres/France Belfond/France Font Forlag/Norway Piper Velag/Germany Sun Color/Taiwan Contact/Holland Duomo Ediciones/Spain Gabo/Hungary THE HIGHEST TIDE Random House Korea/Korea Beijing Xinhua Pioneer Culture/China Anagrama/Spain Editions des Deux Terres/France Ordfronts Forlag/Sweden Contact/Holland THE NEW REPUBLIC Gramedia/Indonesia Intrinseca/Brazil Rizzoli/Italy Contact/Holland Font/Norway Bertrand/Portugal Portalibris/Servia SO MUCH FOR THAT Edicions Muestras Y Motivos/Spain Intrinseca/Brazil

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