FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE 2017
NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES
2 MEMOIR
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Nan Graham Scribner (tk)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: N/A
UNTITLED NOVEL
By Lucy Alibar
Lucy Alibar is a playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter for her 2012 film, BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD. Her debut novel is a funny and heartfelt story of childhood in the American south. A young Pentecostal girl works with her hell-raising, atheist father on pro bono legal cases: the Civil War re-enactor who gives schoolchildren a lesson in Georgia history, a goat that saves Christmas when a murder case goes awry, and a young man with a heart so full of love he sets his ex-wife’s trailer on fire. Through it all, her father tries to save souls and raise his daughter right.
3 LITERARY FICTION
Agent: Allison Cohen
Editor: Brian Lam Arsenal (May 10, 2016)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
THE MERCY JOURNALS
By Claudia Casper
Most of us track the various headlines of the day, pondering their impact on our personal lives, but behind those thoughts looms a much darker cloud: we know we are unalterably changing our planet. The sheer scope of this pending drama makes its reality hard to comprehend or personalize. Claudia Casper’s new novel, THE MERCY JOURNALS, is set in that very world we fear is coming. It is March 2014. Allen Quincy is an ex-soldier living in Seattle, who has managed to survive years of serious PTSD by shrinking his life down to the smallest, most banal existence possible. The story opens with Quincy beginning to write a journal in a desperate bid to regain his sanity. His estranged wife has died, and he hasn’t seen his children or brother in years. Into his world strides a woman wearing red heels who rips the lid off his careful and controlled strategy, putting his very life at risk. From the beginning, Casper deftly seeds the possibility of redemption for a man on the edge of his own destruction.
**Nominated for 2017 Philip K. Dick Award**
4 YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Agent: Allison Cohen
Editor: Georgia McBride Month9Books (October 2017)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Manuscript
TUDOR ROSE
By William H. Doyle
Writing as W.H. Doyle, children’s author Bill Doyle has developed a proposed historical romance series for young adults. Two teenage best friends in 16th-century England, Sybille and Rose, find themselves on an exciting journey to the Queen’s court in the hope of being named ladies-in-waiting. They aren’t the only girls, however, who have their sights set on attending Her Majesty. Upon arriving to court, the girls realize they are up against more “worldly,” chic girls, among them mean-girl Avis. Soon, the grand hall is more like the hallway of a high school, with girls fighting for the attention of a dashing, young earl, amid parties fueled by drinking and sex. As the tension between Sybille and Avis heats up, the focus on Rose wanes, allowing her to turn her attention to more important matters – like getting close enough to the Queen to learn her secrets. Is she a spy? If so, for whom? Part mystery, part romance, TUDOR ROSE is an exciting new series.
5 FICTION
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Karen Kosztolnyik Scout Press (May 2017)
Territories Sold: World English France (Sonatine) Poland (Prószyński)
Format: Book
THE PARTY By Robyn Harding
The Party takes us behind the façade of the perfect family, exploring the secrets, betrayals and moral lapses the neighbors don’t see.
Sweet sixteen. It’s a coming of age, a milestone, a rite of passage… Of course Jeff and Kim Sanders would throw a party for their daughter, Hannah. She was a good kid with good grades and nice friends. And it wasn’t a big, indulgent affair. It was just four girls coming over for pizza and cake, movies and a sleepover. What could possibly go wrong?
But things did go wrong, horrifically wrong. When a tragic accident leaves one of the young guests disfigured, Jeff and Kim’s picture-book life in a wealthy San Francisco suburb begins to unravel. The injured girl’s mother, Lisa, files a lawsuit that turns friends into enemies, reveals dark secrets in the Sanders’ marriage, and exposes the truth about their perfect daughter, Hannah. Lisa’s determination to make the Sanders pay stems from a fierce love for her only child and Lisa’s own dark and damaged past.
At school, Hannah must deal with the ugly aftermath as her peers turn on the victim, and she struggles to maintain her social standing while heeding her moral compass. Her popular best friend, Lauren, is losing herself to drugs, alcohol, and a relationship with an inappropriate older man. Then a shocking, horrifying act of desperation rocks their upscale world and brings the legal battle to a halt. And no one’s life will ever be the same…
6 MYSTERY/CRIME
Agent: Allison Cohen
Editor: Colleen Dunn Bate Prospect Park Books (March 2018)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: MS due 4/15/17
**Edgar Award-winning Author**
HIROSHIMA BOY Book 7 in the Mas Arai Series By Naomi Hirahara
The final book in the Edgar Award-winning Mas Arai mystery series, which finds an A-bomb survivor returning to Hiroshima in his old age only to find himself embroiled in in the mysterious death of a teenage boy.
7 NON-FICTION / SCIENCE
Agent: Allison Cohen
Editor: Tricia Boczkowski Crown Three Rivers (March 2017)
Territories Sold: World English Spain (Urano) Germany (Kopp-Verlag)
Previous Book Sold: Vietnam (Vietnam Intellectual Cooperati) Romania (Lifestyle Publishing SRL) Serbia (Albion Books) Taiwan (Eco Publishing) SURVIVING DEATH: A Journalist Germany (Kopp Verlang) Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife Bulgaria (Hermes) France (Le Maisnie) By Leslie Kean Brazil (Idea Editora) China (Mediatime Book, Beijing) Leslie Kean’s impeccably researched, page-turning investigation reveals Croatia (Planetopija) stunning and wide-ranging evidence suggesting that consciousness Spain (Urano) survives death. Here she continues her examination of unexplained phenomena that began with her provocative and controversial New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Format: Book Go on the Record. Kean explores the most compelling case studies involving young children reporting verifiable details from past lives, **NY Times Bestselling Author** contemporary mediums who seem to defy the boundaries of the brain and the material world, apparitions providing information about their lives on earth, and ordinary people who recount some of the most extraordinary near-death experiences ever recorded. Kean's first book, and her credibility as a seasoned and well-respected journalist, made people take notice of a topic that many considered implausible. This book will do the same—this time enriched by Kean’s reactions to her own perplexing experiences encountered while she probed the universal question concerning all of us: Is there life after death?
8 NON-FICTION
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Nancy Miller Bloomsbury (TK)
Territories Sold: North America
WONDERLAND Format: Proposal By Alexandra Lange
Parents obsess over their children’s food, kindergarten curriculum, sports prowess, texting habits, drilling down on daily rituals as if one worksheet, one piano lesson might make all the difference. But the kitchens, classrooms, playing fields and bus stops in which kids eat, learn, run and chat are as important as the activities themselves. For too long, we have been paying attention to the picture and not the frame. From the first moment in children’s lives, environment shapes them. When you pick a wooden toy over a plastic one, enter the school through a primary-colored door, sink into the sandbox, you are making a choice for your children that will affect their behavior, values and health. Since the nineteenth century, designers, educators, sociologists and philosophers have made radical proposals for the materials, colors, dimensions and locations of children’s lives. Those ideas are still circulating today, along with contemporary schemes for wired classrooms, digital blocks and cities made for families.
“Wonderland” will be a smart tour through this landscape, from the building block to the metropolis. It will appraise the physical elements of the modern child’s life through the work of teachers, gamers, psychologists and planners, with a historical eye to effects of products, materials, rooms, and paths on the development of the young, as well as how adult forces – war, crime, toxins and employment – create the need for those paths.
9 MEMOIR
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Julie Grau Spiegel & Grau (September 20, 2016)
HarperCollins Canada
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
BASED ON A TRUE STORY
Norm MacDonald is perhaps best known for his five seasons as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” (SNL). For three years, MacDonald anchored “Weekend Update,” SNL’s longest running recurring sketch. MacDonald also wrote for the popular ABC sitcom “Roseanne” and starred in “The Norm Show” from 1999 to 2001. Comedy Central named him #83 on the five part miniseries “100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.” He is also noted as one of Conan O’Brien’s favorite and most frequent guests on his various talk shows.
This is the story of his life in show business from his early days travelling the country doing stand-up, to moving to Hollywood to write on “Roseanne,” to his 3 ½ years at SNL and ignominious departure, to writing and starring in the cult classic “Dirty Work,” to having his own sitcom, to his many talk show appearances, to “Roasting Bob Saget.” It’s an outsider’s inside account of show business.
10 YOUNG ADULT
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Sara Sargent Simon Pulse (July 4, 2017)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
BOMBSHELL By Rowan Maness
Joss is a sixteen-year-old girl Catholic school girl who finds escape from her stifled and traumatic reality by creating multiple online personas, each of whom enchant unsuspecting men. Her carefully separated worlds of reality and illusion collide when an individual discovers her hobby, promising to make Joss pay.
11 FICTION
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Alexandra Cooper HarperCollins (March 6, 2018)
Territories Sold: North America Italy (HarperCollins) Brazil (Pensamento) Russia (AST)
THE FINAL SIX Format: Manuscript By Alexandra Monir
THE FINAL SIX imagines a present-day world under a first-of-its-kind coalition between the United Nations and the international space agencies, with a plot to send a team of six intrepid teenagers to create the first human settlement on Jupiter’s moon Europa. The high-concept hook touches on aspirational and relevant themes of environmentalism, global unity, and leadership.
** Film: Under option to Sony **
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Agent: Allison Cohen
Editor: Jennifer Gunnels Tor (February 21, 2017)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Manuscript
COLD COUNSEL
By Chris Sharp
SLUD of the Blood Claw Clan, Bringer of Troubles, has arrived. The wise troll-hags knew that he was different, but none could foretell that he was the harbinger of the end. For the first time since the age of the giants, he rallied the remaining trolls under one banner and marched to war.
They took back the mountain from the lowland goblin clans, and proclaimed their ascendency for all to hear. The message traveled all the way to the golden halls of the noble elves. Twenty thousand elves marched on the mountain and eradicated the entire troll species—save two.
AUNT AGNES, an old witch from the Iron Wood, carried Slud away before the elves could find them. Their existence remained hidden for decades, and in that time, Agnes molded and trained Slud to become her instrument of revenge.
Trolls, elves, goblins, and more…!
13 THRILLER
Agent: Allison Cohen
Editor: Colleen Dunn Bates Prospect Park Books (Nov. 2016)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
**Co-author of NY Times Bestsellers
CURIOUS MINDS and WICKED HEART ATTACK & VINE CHARMS with Janet Evanovich**
By Phoef Sutton *Starred Kirkus Review*
Los Angeles bodyguard/bouncer Caleb Rush (Crush) is back in this second Crush novel. When Rachel Fury, a con-artist friend who'd vanished for a couple of years after a big scam, reappears in Hollywood under a new name as a glitzy movie star, she hires Crush as a bodyguard, and he quickly gets drawn into a criminal mess that requires all his brawn, skill, and savvy to negotiate. It's rich with Hollywood lore, New Orleans charm, snappy dialogue, fast-paced action, and noir atmosphere.
Phoef Sutton is a New York Times–bestselling novelist, television writer, and playwright whose work has won two Emmys, a Peabody, a Writers Guild Award, a GLAAD Award, and a Television Academy Honors Award. The first novel in the Crush series, titled Crush, was a Kirkus Best Mystery of 2015 and a Los Angeles Times “Summer Reading Page-Turner.”
14 MEMOIR
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Tricia Boczkowski Crown Archetype (Spring 2017)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Proposal
ARE YOU ANYBODY
By Jeffrey Tambor
A funny and inspiring collection of autobiographical essays from the award-winning actor whose career has ranged from “The Larry Sanders Show” to “Transparent.” Tambor will share how he survived his childhood and his father’s motto, “Don’t celebrate; they’ll take it away from you.”
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BACKLIST TITLES
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LITERARY FICTION
17 THRILLER
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Lucas Wittman Reagan Arts (May 2015)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
IMMUNITY
By Taylor Antrim
In the very near future, a devastating Ebola-like pandemic has struck the world, but for the 1% in New York City, it’s an excuse for even more twisted behavior.
IMMUNITY is a thrilling novel that combines the best of dystopian fiction with a sharp-eyed exploration of class and wealth in the world’s capital. In this fast-paced paranoid, near-future New York City, we meet Catherine, a broke socialite who is getting sick. Desperate, she takes a job with a luxury concierge service that fulfills the most outlandish desires for the ultra-rich—even if that means hunting down the 99%. As the hidden agendas of her employer and his shadowy clients emerge, Catherine realizes things are not remotely as they appear, and she finds herself a pawn of mega- corporations and government agents all eager to profit from the cure embedded inside of her.
18 LITERARY FICTION
Agent: Joseph Veltre
UK Representation: Antony Topping at Greene & Heaton
Editor: Deborah Garrison Pantheon (March 2009)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book NOTHING BUT A SMILE By Steve Amick
It’s 1944, and illustrator Wink Dutton arrives in Chicago after an injury to his drawing hand gets him discharged. Renting a room above the camera shop run by Sal Chesterton, Wink is surprised to learn how Sal is making ends meet: producing pinup photos for the soldiers' girlie magazines, using herself as a model. When Wink becomes a partner in her covert enterprise, their collaboration — amid the painful adjustments of the postwar world—blossoms into a subtle and unexpected romance.
19 LITERARY FICTION
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Deborah Garrison Pantheon (May 2006)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book THE LAKE, THE RIVER & THE OTHER LAKE By Steve Amick
The resort town of Weneshkeen is a complex melting pot. As the summer blooms, lives mingle in surprising ways– a Vietnam Vet pursues the take-no-guff deputy sheriff and plots revenge against the polluting jet-skiers; a summer kid from downstate falls for the sexiest rich girl in town; and the town’s retired reverend discovers the Internet and a new friend. The novel is resonant social comedy with richly-drawn characters and quirky charm.
20 LITERARY FICTION
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Webster Younce Houghton Mifflin (June 2007)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
THE HEADMASTER RITUAL By Taylor Antrim
Dyer Martin, a new history teacher at the prestigious Britton School, arrives in the fall ready to close the door on the failures of his past. James, a lonely senior, just wants to make it through his last year unscathed and avoid the stern eye of his father, the school's politically radical headmaster, Ed Wolfe. But both Dyer and James are drawn into Wolfe's hidden agenda for Britton when the headmaster orders Dyer to set up and run a Model UN for students. As the United States moves steadily toward a conflict with an increasingly hostile North Korea, Wolfe's political fervor begins to consume him, and he sets in motion a plan that will jeopardize his job, his school, and even the life of his own son. A dramatic comedy with elements of ELECTION and PREP.
21 LITERARY FICTION
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Nichole Argyres St. Martin's Press (December 2015)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
IT’S NICE OUTSIDE
By Jim Kokoris
Meet John Nichols. He's 50-something years old, an ex-basketball player, ex-author, ex-philanderer, ex-husband, ex-high school English teacher. And he's father to three: two overachieving adult daughters, and 19 year-old Ethan, who will never be an adult. John's oldest daughter is getting married, and as the whole family travels from their homes in New York and the Chicago area, John is secretly preparing for a life-change that will alter his family's hearts forever.
In this laugh-out-loud, heartbreaking, generous family novel, Jim Kokoris returns to the heartfelt writing of The Rich Part of Life. IT’S NICE OUTSIDE explores that universal tension between being a parent and keeping true to yourself.
22 LITERARY FICTION
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Lisa Graziano Leapfrog Press (November 2010)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
IN THE LAP OF THE GODS By Li Miao Lovett
Lovett’s evocative novel portrays widower Liu Renfu, a day laborer turned scrounger, caught in the Yangtze dam breach, part of the Chinese government’s relocation plan. Liu braves the terrifying waters, alone, after losing his family, searching for items to sell. In his search, Liu discovers an abandoned infant and saves the child from drowning. The baby becomes his charge, despite Liu’s meager circumstances. Lovett’s complex tale of displacement and hardship, contrasting modern China with its past, highlights the human spirit’s capacity for renewal.
23 LITERARY FICTION
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Fiona McCrae
Graywolf (August 2006)
Territories Sold: World English; UK (Graywolf)
Format: Book
** Guggenheim Winner**
THE TRANSLATION OF DR. APELLES By David Treuer
This is a drama/love story about Dr. Apelles, a translator of ancient texts who makes an unsettling discovery: a manuscript that has languished for years, written in a dying language, that only he speaks. The story moves back and forth between the scholar and the text he’s translating, from a lone man in a labyrinthine archive to a pair of beautiful young lovers (whose story is revealed in the ancient text) living in an unspoiled and snowy woodland. The love story that Apelles discovers in the manuscript, mirrors his own love story in the present – as he develops a relationship with a female translator with whom he works, and begins to finally emerge from of his lonely existence.
24 LITERARY FICTION
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Fiona McCrae Graywolf (June 2000)
Territories Sold: North America (Graywolf) UK (Granta) France (Editions Albin Michel)
Format: Book
THE HIAWATHA: A NOVEL By David Treuer
A heart-breaking story about a Native American family suffering from the loss of a father and a brother. After his father’s death, Simon’s mother Betty uproots the family and moves to Minneapolis in search of a better life. Simon assumes a paternal role, until he inexplicably murders his brother. The Hiawatha is a story of how a mother and son navigate a relationship fraught with emotional trauma that they have experienced or caused, and how a family struggles to maintain intact in the face of devastating circumstances.
25 LITERARY FICTION
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Fiona McCrae Graywolf (November 1996)
Territories Sold: North America (Graywolf) UK (Granta) France (Editions Albin Michel)
Format: Book
LITTLE: A NOVEL By David Treuer
Eight-year-old Little is buried behind a housing project called Poverty, on an Indian reservation. Through a mosaic of narratives by the town’s inhabitants, we discover the biography of the child, and the rich but jarring history of the impoverished town. This is a novel about the effects of overworked land, alcoholism, and the Vietnam War on a poor, rural, Native American community.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Susan Allison
Territories Sold: U.S. (Berkley, September 2010) Canada (Penguin Canada)
Format: Book
THE CHRONICLES OF A MIDLIFE CRISIS By Robyn Harding
Harding (Unravelled) takes a hilarious warts-and-all look at the breakup of Lucy and Trent, and its effect on their sullen 15-year-old daughter, Sam. In alternating chapters written by the combatants, Trent whines about the need to figure out "grown-up, man stuff" rather than stay mired in a "hamster-wheel existence" while Lucy rails at Trent's "curly- haired cow" of a girlfriend and considers her own risky revenge- romance with a TV heartthrob who's 13 years her junior--and Sam's ultimate crush. The trio, their lovers, friends, and colleagues are all lovable screw-ups, and the lessons learned by Lucy, Trent, and Sam lend a pleasant note of poignancy to the madcap antics.
**Film: Under option to ABC **
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Agent: Joe Veltre
Editor: Susan Allison Berkley (December 2008)
Territories Sold: U.S., Canada (Penguin Canada) Germany (Ullstein)
Format: Book
UNRAVELLED By Robyn Harding
When Beth Carruthers is invited to join a knitting circle, her first impulse is to hide under her bed. It’s true her social life has shriveled lately— but could she really be in danger of turning into her chick flick- watching drone of a roommate, or forming an unhealthy attachment with a pet, like her friend Mel? OK, fine. Yarn: bring it on. Turns out learning to knit is fun, and Beth feels an instant connection to her new companions. Over red wine and flashing needles, she can be herself. She even starts dating again. But she soon learns that her new man has a secret so shocking it could end their relationship -- and worse, destroy the best group of friends she’s ever had.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Linda Marrow Ballantine (November 2005)
Territories Sold: North America (Ballantine) Korea (Goldenbough) Russia (AST) Netherlands (De Kern) Italy (Mondadori) UK, Australia, New Zealand & South Africa (Piatkus Books) THE JOURNAL OF MORTIFYING MOMENTS By Robyn Harding Format: Book
Kerry Spence is unfulfilled by her soulless career in advertising, disappointed by her dysfunctional relationship, and horrified by the ever- increasing size of her ass. Of course, everybody in her life is full of advice. Her free-spirited divorcee mother–when not necking furiously with her much younger boyfriend– sagely counsels her daughter to do whatever it takes to snag Sam back, since, quite frankly, he is the best she can do. And then there is Kerry’s shrink, the calm, unflappable therapist who suggests she start a diary of past encounters. Or, as Kerry sees it, a journal of mortifying moments. Beginning with a kissing game gone bad in grade school, she plumbs the depths of her most embarrassing experiences on a quest for personal awareness that will give her the strength to turn her life around–and just maybe find love again.
30 WOMEN’S FICTION
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Susan Allison Berkley (November 2011)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
PUG HILL By Alison Pace
PUG HILL tracks Hope McNeil’s search for confidence and comfort. Her obstacles include a toast for her parent’s wedding anniversary (though she hates public speaking), a crush on a co-worker and a boyfriend she increasingly dislikes. Her solace is Pug Hill in Central Park, where she can rest in the joyful and careless personalities of the friendly dogs. As she gains confidence through public speaking classes, and comfort from her four-legged friends, Hope becomes happier and stronger, and learns to enjoy life and take it by the horns.
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Agent; Joseph Veltre
Editor: Susan Allison Berkley (June 2011)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
A PUG’S TALE By Alison Pace
Alison Pace delivers another heart-warming tale about Hope McNeil, art, and her love of pugs. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts a special “Pug Night” event, Hope brings her pug Max, who is a little over-energetic for the event. However, Hope and Max become very valuable when they are enlisted to help solve the mystery of a missing painting. Hope and Max have the adventure of a life-time.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Susan Allison Berkley (September 2008)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
CITY DOG By Alison Pace
A book about a book, City Dog has three protagonists: New York City writer and divorcee Amy Dodge, and the two characters in her novel— a West Highland White Terrier, and a dashing Scotsman. As Amy works on her book, her characters become more life-like and her life becomes more surreal. While Amy’s book gains renown, she begins to appreciate her home in the city and find purpose.
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WOMEN’S FICTION
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Susan Allison Berkley (August 2007)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
THROUGH THICK AND THIN By Alison Pace
Two sisters, one a restaurant critic, and one a stay at home mom with a “perfect” family, try to bridge the gap between them by starting a diet together. Though they each seem to lead ideal lives they soon realize that they both have their struggles, and learn through their challenge to themselves that they have more in common than they think.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Allison McCabe Berkley (February 2005)
Territories Sold: North America Italy (Polillo) Germany (Heyne) Norway (Damnn) Russia (AST)
Format: Book
IF ANDY WARHOL HAD A GIRLFRIEND By Alison Pace
Jane Laine works in an art gallery. When assigned to follow highly- renowned, but unpretentious artist Ian Rhys-Fitzsimmons, Jane agrees in order to get away from her awful boss. Over the course of a few countries and adventures Jane not only recognizes the value of Ian’s art, but begins to feel something else towards Ian as well. A Bridget Jones’s Diary element strings through the book, especially when Ian comes into contact with Jane’s zany family and their schnauzers. Light-hearted and endearing, Pace nails the well-appreciated chic-lit humor and romance.
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THRILLER
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Agent: Allison Cohen
Editor: Shannon Jamison Vazquez Berkley (April 2015)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
**Edgar Award-winning Author**
A GRAVE ON GRAND AVENUE Book II in the Ellie Rush Series By Naomi Hirahara
LAPD bicycle cop—and aspiring homicide detective—Ellie Rush is back on patrol in the newest mystery from award-winning author Hirahara.
Ellie stops for a friendly chat with gardener Eduardo Fuentes while patrolling one of Los Angeles’s premier concert halls. A few minutes later, she’s shocked to discover him lying at the bottom of a staircase, clinging to life and whispering something indecipherable. Nearby, the father of Xu, a Chinese superstar classical musician, claims Fuentes was knocked down while attempting to steal his son’s multimillion-dollar cello—a story Ellie has trouble believing.
Meanwhile, Ellie has issues of her own to deal with—like the curious theft of her car, a 1969 Pontiac Skylark. But after the gardener takes his last breath and Xu mysteriously disappears, it’s clear to Ellie she must act quickly before someone else falls silent…
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Agent: Allison Cohen
Editor: Shannon Jamison Vazquez Berkley (April 2014)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Paperback
**T. Jefferson Parker Award Winner**
MURDER ON BAMBOO LANE Book I in the Ellie Rush Series By Naomi Hirahara
Twenty-one-year-old Ellie Rush has dreams of being a homicide detective, but for now, she patrols the mean streets of Los Angeles on a bicycle. Trouble can be waiting for her around any corner or down any dark alley…It’s the day of the Chinese New Year Parade, and Ellie is part of the increased police presence on the streets of Chinatown to ensure order and safety. When she hears a report on her radio that a dead body has been found in an alley nearby, she has a sick feeling that it’s Jenny Nguyen, a former college classmate, who’s gone missing. The murder is personal to Ellie, but what’s odd is the interest other officials are taking in the case, including her Aunt Cheryl, the highest-ranking Asian-American officer in the LAPD. Ellie decides to investigate on her own to penetrate the blue wall of silence around the murder. Unfortunately, Jenny’s killer will go to any lengths to ensure this rookie doesn’t live to see her next promotion.
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Agent: Allison Cohen
Editor: Colleen Dunn Bate Prospect Park Books (May 10, 2016)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
**Edgar Award-winning Author**
SAYONARA SLAM Book 6 in the Mas Arai Series By Naomi Hirahara
At Dodger Stadium, it’s Japan vs. Korea in the World Baseball Classic, but before the first pitch is thrown, Mas Arai finds himself in the middle of a murder. Mysteries layer atop mysteries in this sixth in the award- winning series featuring the most unlikely of sleuths, an aging, widowed, not-exactly-communicative gardener from Altadena, California.
Who is that unusual woman throwing knuckleball pitches to warm up the Japanese team? Who sent thugs to threaten Mas and accuse him of treason? And what were in the deleted files on the murdered sportswriter’s computer—and did they hold secrets that led to his death?
The more mysteries Mas uncovers, the deeper he gets drawn into a situation that soon grows dangerous—including the danger of losing the affection of the woman he might someday admit he loves.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Marc Resnick (St. Martin’s Press)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
Additional Titles:
BAJA FLORIDA (Minotaur, 2010) A DEADLY SILVER SEA (Minotaur, THE ZACK CHASTEEN SERIES 2008) BERMUDA SCHWARTZ (Minotaur, By Bob Morris 2007) JAMAICA ME DEAD (Minotaur, 2005) Wise-cracking Zack Chasteen is a former pro-football player and ex- BAHAMARAMA (Minotaur, 2004) con turned palm tree nursery owner who always finds himself in the middle of a tropical mystery. Bob Morris’s five part series chronicles Chasteen’s escapades – everything from a terrorist attack on a cruise liner to a search for a friend’s missing daughter. Light-hearted and exciting, Morris never ceases to deliver the wit and intrigue that make the Zack Chasteen series a set of delightful vacation reads.
40 THRILLER
Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Jessica Wade NAL (October 2011)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
DEAD MANN WALKING By Stefan Petrucha
This series features Hessius Mann, a zombie detective living in a future in which science has made it possible to re-animate dead human tissue. In his former “liveblood” life, Hessius was a police detective, executed for the murder of his wife. After new evidence proves his innocence, he is brought back to life. Now, he tries to pass as a liveblood, investigating crimes that take place within the “Zombie” community – all while trying to find his wife’s true killer.
41 THRILLER
Agent: Allison Cohen
Editor: Joel Goldman Brash Books (May 2015)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
**Co-author of NY Times Bestseller FIFTEEN MINUTES TO LIVE WICKED CHARMS with Janet Evanovich** By Phoef Sutton
Carl moved into his childhood home after his parents died. It’s a house filled with fond memories…like when he was a teenager and his girlfriend Jesse would throw pebbles at his window at night to lure him outside for frantic sex. So he thinks he’s dreaming when late one night, he hears those pebbles hitting his window again…and there she is outside, aching for his touch. It’s only as they are ravaging each other again that he realizes it’s too good to be a dream.
It’s her. She’s back as if nothing has changed. But it has. For one thing, it’s been twenty years since high school. And she died three weeks. Ago.
Is she an imposter? A ghost? Or is the answer even more chilling? It’s just the beginning of a dangerous, unpredictable, and bizarre odyssey for them both…where nothing is what it seems…and every minute counts.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Alex Logan Grand Central (November 2010)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
BLOOD PROPHECY By Stefan Petrucha
Jeremiah Fall, a puritan in the Massachusetts Bay Colony encounters an “un-dead” creature while plowing his field, which subsequently turns him and his family into vampire-like monsters. In an effort to reverse the curse, and curb his illicit desires he travels over 150 years, to the shores of Egypt, the coast of Brittany, all the way back to the Garden of Eden.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Danielle Perez (Dutton)
Territories Sold: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE PINK CARNATION Territories sold: UK (Allison & Busby), Australia (RH), Germany (RH), Netherlands (De Kern), Spain (Suma), Portugal (Civilizaçao), Russia (AST), French Canada (Ada), France (Editions Leduc) THE MASQUE OF THE BLACK TULIP: UK (Allison & Busby), Germany (RH), Spain (Suma), Portugal (Civilizaçao), Russia (AST), French Canada (Ada) THE DECEPTION OF THE EMERALD RING: UK (Allison & Busby), Germany (RH), Spain (Suma), Portugal THE PINK CARNATION SERIES (Civilizaçao), Russia (AST), French Canada (Ada) By Lauren Willig THE MISCHIEF OF THE MISTLETOE: North America (Dutton)
Ph.D. student Eloise Kelly ventures to London to solve a series of Format: Book historic mysteries. Her specialty is the Napoleonic era, and through her research about uncovered spy stories during the period, she Series Titles: discovers a series of romances tied to the mysteries, some of which THE MARK OF THE MIDNIGHT even trickle into her own life. What is the real identity of the “pink MANZANILLA (Dutton, 2014); carnation”, a British spy in Napoleonic France? Will Miles and THE GARDEN INTRIGUE (Dutton, Henrietta navigate their love affair and uncover the secret of the Black 2012); THE ORCHID AFFAIR (Dutton, Tulip? Why does Letty Alsworthy’s new husband flee to Ireland right 2011); THE MISCHIEF OF THE after he marries her? What will Mary Alsworthy have to sacrifice to MISTLETOE (Dutton, 2011); find a husband and lure the Black Tulip into a trap? Will the duke of THE BETRAYARL OF THE BLOOD LILY Dovedale’s own secret mission impede his romance with the lovely (Dutton, 2010); lady Charlotte? What will heroine Lady Fredrick Staines do when she THE TEMPTATION OF THE NIGHT discovers the plot to overthrow the British rule? What is the secret JASMINE (Dutton, 2009); behind the strange message that Turnip Fitzhugh and Arabella THE SEDUCTION OF THE CRIMSON Dempsey find in the Christmas pudding? ROSE (Dutton, 2008); THE DECEPTION OF THE EMERALD RING (Dutton, 2007); THE MASQUE OF THE BLACK TULIP (Dutton, 2006); THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE PINK CARNATION (Dutton, 2005)
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Daneille Perez NAL (August 2014)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Paperback
THE MARK OF THE MIDNIGHT MANZANILLA The Pink Carnation Series By Lauren Willig
The latest Pink Carnation novel from New York Times bestselling series.
In October of 1806, the Little Season is in full swing, and Sally Fitzhugh has had enough of the endless parties and balls. With a rampant vampire craze sparked by the novel The Convent of Orisino, it seems no one can speak of anything else. But when Sally hears a rumor that the reclusive Duke of Belliston is an actual vampire, she cannot resist the challenge of proving such nonsense false. At a ball in Belliston Square, she ventures across the gardens and encounters the mysterious duke.
Lucien, Duke of Belliston, is well versed in the trouble gossip can bring. He has returned home to dispel the rumors of scandal surrounding his parents’ deaths, which hint at everything from treason to dark sorcery. While he searches for the truth, he welcomes his fearsome reputation— until a woman is found dead in Richmond, her blood drained from her throat.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Jonathan Karp
Simon & Schuster (Nov. 5, 2013)
Territories Sold:
World English
Format: Book SONG OF SPIDER- MAN By Glen Berger
SONG OF SPIDER-MAN is playwright Glen Berger’s true story or a theatrical dream—or nightmare—come true. Renowned director Julie Taymor picked Berger to co-write the book for a $25 million Spider- man musical. Together—along with U2’s Bono and Edge—they would shape a work that was technically daring and emotionally profound. Or at least, that’s what they’d hoped for.
But when charismatic producer Tony Adams died suddenly, the show began to lose its footing. Soon the budget ballooneded, financing evaporated, and producers jumped ship or were demoted. Then came the injuries. And then came word-of-mouth about the show itself. What followed was a pageant of foul-ups, falling-outs, and harrowing mishaps. This “circus-rock-and-roll-drama,” with its $65 million price tag, had become more of a spectacle than its creators ever wished for. During the show’s unprecedented seven months of previews, the company’s struggles to reach opening night inspired breathless tabloid coverage and garnered international notoriety.
Through it all, Berger observed the chaos with his signature mix of big ambition and self-deprecating humor. This book records the journey of the cast and crew as a hilarious memoir about friendship, collaboration, the foibles of hubris, and the power of art.
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Agent: Phyllis Wender
Editor: Trish Todd Simon & Schuster (April 2013)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
CARRIE AND ME **NY Times Bestseller** By Carol Burnett
Despite her busy work schedule, award-winning actress Carol Burnett always made time for her three daughters. Yet her oldest daughter, Carrie, faltered in adolescence, losing the self-esteem that had fueled her success in school and hiding her pain in a downward spiral of addiction. As Carrie became lost to drugs, Carol found herself with a daughter in grave danger and a marriage that was bending under the pressure.
Carrie eventually broke free from her addiction and became a successful actress, singer, and writer. But tragedy struck again when Carrie was diagnosed with cancer and died at the young age of thirty-eight. She left a legacy of kindness, creativity, joy and wisdom that touched the lives of everyone who knew her—along with a short story that mirrors her own journey, published for the first time in this book.
Featuring her personal diary entries, photographs, and correspondence, Carrie and Me is Carol Burnett’s poignant tribute to her late daughter and a funny and moving memoir about mothering an extraordinary young woman through the struggles and triumphs of her life.
**Film/TV Rights sold to CBS Studios**
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Denise Oswald Dey Street (March 2015)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
SMOKE By Meili Cady
Aspiring actress Meili Cady left small-town Washington State for the glamorous lure of Los Angeles. Young and alone, she was struggling to make her big break. Then she met Lisette Lee. Calling herself the “Korean Paris Hilton,” Lisette claimed she was a model and a Korean pop star, lived in a $1.2 million apartment in West Hollywood, owned a fleet of luxury cars, and flitted from one red-carpet event to the next.
The connection was instant. Meili was enchanted by her friend’s extravagant lifestyle, while Lee claimed Meili was the real thing in a town full of phonies. Soon, the financially strapped Meili became her friend’s personal assistant—and found herself sucked into an audacious criminal enterprise. But when Meili finally realized what she was a part of, it was too late—she was in too deep, caught in a terrifying relationship with a manipulative and abrasive con-artist smuggling millions of dollars of pot into the Midwest.
Trapped in a precarious criminal world of money, drugs, and dangerous secrets, Meili struggled to understand the line between truth and lie. A once naïve girl who fell down the rabbit hole, she could only watch helplessly as it all came crashing down around her.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Pamela Cannon Ballantine (August 2013)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
THE IMPERFECT ENVIRONMENTALIST By Sara Gilbert
Between keeping up with work, friends, and kids, who has the time or money to maintain a compost pile, become an activist, or knit a sweater out of recycled grocery bags? Fortunately, we now know that small changes here and there in our everyday lives can make a big impact on the environment. We just need to know where to begin. Sharing the basics on health and beauty, work and money, home and gardening, family and fitness. The Imperfect Environmentalist cuts through the clutter—both in our homes and in our heads—and offers simple approaches to help us clear out the pollutants, put down the poisons, and begin to breathe easy again— one 100% recycled page at a time.
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Agent: Joe Veltre
Editor: Cassie Morgan William Morrow (May 2008)
Territories Sold: North America Czech
Format: Book
MOOSE: A MEMOIR OF FAT CAMP By Stephanie Klein
Klein was an eighth grader with a weight problem. The boys called her "Moose," and her father reminded her, "No one likes fat girls.” Klein's parents enrolled her for a summer at fat camp. Determined to return to school without her "lard arms," Stephanie embarked on a journey that would shape more than just her body. In the terrain between fat and thin, adulthood and childhood, cellulite and starvation, Klein shares the details of what it feels like to be an overweight child, from the taunts of classmates, to the off-color remarks of her own father. Calling upon her childhood diary entries, Klein reveals her deepest feelings from that turbulent, hopeful time, baring her soul and making her heartache palpable.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Casie Morgan William Morrow (June 2007)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
STRAIGHT UP AND DIRTY By Stephanie Klein
One month after discovering her husband was having an affair, 20- something Klein made him her "Wasbund" and started trying to find a man to date again-or better, a "pair and a spare," as her telephone therapist advised. She "rodated" desperately, searching for someone to repair her wounded ego. She even found a reasonably suitable boyfriend-only she broke it off when he suggested living together. At one point, she faced the truth she'd avoided from the beginning -- she had to learn to appreciate herself for her own accomplishments before she could have a healthy relationship with a man.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Yaniv Soha Doubleday (June 2016)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
**NY Times Bestseller**
LIVE FAST DIE HOT By Jenny Mollen
In the vein of popular books by Chelsea Handler, Jen Lancaster, Sara Colonna, I LIKE YOU JUST THE WAY I AM is a collection of hilarious and outrageous essays about the young actress’s life and adventures with husband Jason Biggs. Jenny was recently voted one of the funniest women on Twitter by Huffington Post. Her book is about not doing the right thing. It’s a book about acting on impulses, plotting elaborate hoaxes, and refusing to acknowledge boundaries in any form.
*** Film rights sold to Warner Bros.***
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Yaniv Soha St. Martin’s Press (June 2014)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
**NY Times Bestseller**
I LIKE YOU JUST THE WAY I AM By Jenny Mollen
In the vein of popular books by Chelsea Handler, Jen Lancaster, Sara Colonna, I LIKE YOU JUST THE WAY I AM is a collection of hilarious and outrageous essays about the young actress’s life and adventures with husband Jason Biggs. Jenny was recently voted one of the funniest women on Twitter by Huffington Post. Her book is about not doing the right thing. It’s a book about acting on impulses, plotting elaborate hoaxes, and refusing to acknowledge boundaries in any form.
*** Television rights sold to ABC TV***
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Agent: Phyllis Wender
Editor: Mitzi Angel Farrar, Straus & Giroux (June 2013)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
JACK BE NIMBLE By Jack O’Brien
For Jack O’Brien, there’s nothing like a first encounter with a great performer, nothing like the sound of an audience bursting into applause. In short, there’s nothing like theater. Following a fairly normal Midwestern childhood, O’Brien hoped to make his mark by writing lyrics for Broadway but was instead pulled into the growing American regional theater movement by the likes of John Houseman, Helen Hayes, Ellis Raab, and Eva Le Gallienne. He didn’t intend to become a director, or to direct some of the most brilliant—and sometimes maddening—personalities of the age, but in a charming, hilarious, and unexpected way, that’s what happened.
In the middle of the last century, some extraordinary people forged a link in the chain connecting European influences such as the Moscow Art Theatre and Great Britain’s National Theatre with the flourishing American theater of today. O’Brien was there to see and record it all, in beautifully vivid detail.
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Agent: Phyllis Wender
Editor: Kate Harrison Dial (October 2014)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
*Kirkus starred review* *CCB Best-of-the-Year 2014 Pick*
STORIES OF MY LIFE By Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson—twice winner of both the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award, as well as winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for lasting contribution to literature for children— writes out of a deep faith for her characters and the worlds they inhabit, and a profound respect for her readers. A passionate promoter of literacy and reading, she recently served as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. STORIES OF MY LIFE offers a glimpse into the formative years of one of the world’s most beloved children’s book authors.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Patrick Mulligan Gotham (November 2011)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
TAPPED OUT: Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon, and the Last Emperor: An Odyssey in Mixed Martial Arts By Matthew Polly
At the age of thirty-six, Polly was out of shape and totally unprepared for what was ahead: a grueling journey through leading MMA training facilities in Bangkok, St. Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Las Vegas. After being utterly beaten down and built back up, he fought his first match against a fighter nearly fifteen years younger – and not only won, but sent his opponent to the hospital. Polly intersperses his own narrative with the history of fighting and interviews with top UFC stars such as GSP, Fedor Emelianenko, Randy Coutre, and Gina Carano.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Brendan Cahill Gotham (December 2007)
Territories Sold: North America (Gotham) Spain, Latin America, and Spanish U.S. (Kailas Editorial) Simplified Chinese (Shanghai
Translation Publishing House)
Format: Book
AMERICAN SHAOLIN By Matthew Polly
Matthew was a 98-pound weakling who, after being picked on and bullied, embarked on a quest for manhood, leading him from Topeka, Kansas to the Shaolin Temple, ancient home of the fighting monks. His mission: turn his nerdy self into a fighting machine. As much a student of Chinese culture as he is a martial artist, Polly derives a great deal of humor from the misunderstandings that follow a six- foot-three laowai (white foreigner) in China. Polly introduces us to a wacky bunch, including a practitioner of “iron crotch” Kung Fu. Polly transforms from a stumbling geek into a kickboxing stud who can stand toe-to-toe with the highest-ranked fighter in the world.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Pamela Cannon Ballantine (March 2012)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE POM POMS By Laura Vikmanis, Amy Sohn
The true story of how Laura Vikmanis became the NFL’s oldest cheerleader and overcame the trauma and low self-esteem from an abusive marriage in the process. At thirty-eight-years-old, Laura was separated, the mother of two young girls, and living alone for the first time in twenty years. While other women in such a crisis might sign up for yoga or go to a meditation retreat, Laura chose an activity that was popular with a younger generation, something that her ex-husband would certainly not have approved of: hip hop dance classes. Armed with her new dance skills, Laura decided to try out for the local Cincinnati Bengals cheerleading squad. After acing rejection, Laura recommitted to her goal and made the squad the following season, at age 40. This is Laura’s true, inspirational story of escaping a bad marriage and pursuing her childhood dream of becoming a dancer and NFL cheerleader, competing against girls half her age, and ultimately making the team.
*** Film Rights: Under option to New Line, with Katy Greenberg and Emily Cook adapting ***
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Elisabeth Dyssegaard Hyperion (April 2013)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
FABIO’S ITALIAN KITCHEN By Fabio Viviani and Melanie Rahek
Fabio Viviani is a renowned Italian chef, restaurant-owner, and TV personality. He grew up in a cramped apartment in a Florentine housing project where food was scarce, and he often went hungry. While his parents were out working multiple jobs, Fabio learned to cook from his grandmother, piecing together what little ingredients they had to put meals on the table. Fabio’s ambition and love for food eventually drove him into the restaurant business, where he opened his own trattoria. When he made the move to America, the funny, charismatic chef became a TV sensation, and then a successful entrepreneur. By next year, Fabio will own four restaurants in Hollywood, Newport, and Chicago. Fabio’s education as a chef is charming, hilarious, inspirational, and truly unique. His book includes recipes from all stages of his life – from childhood meals of eggs with marinara sauce, to the grander dishes we see on his menus today.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Brent Howard NAL (May 2015)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
Among Heroes: A U.S. Navy SEAL's True Story of Friendship, Heroism, and the Ultimate Sacrifice
By Brandon Webb & John Mann
Former Navy SEAL, Brandon Webb and his company SOFREP (Special Operations Forces / Situation Report) produce articles, books, and video content for the military/Spec Ops/CIA community. Brandon wrote the bestseller, The Red Circle, about his work as Navy SEAL Sniper Head Instructor. He trained the subjects of both “Lone Survivor” (Marcus Luttrell) and “American Sniper” (Chris Kyle).
AMONG HEROES follows Brandon as he leads recruits through the rigorous Navy SEALS Sniper School.
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Agent: Phyllis Wender
Editor: Jennifer Barth Harper Collins (February 2012)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
* *NY Times Bestseller**
ALI IN WONDERLAND: And Other Tall Tales By Ali Wentworth
Growing up in a family of political journalists, Ali Wentworth rebelled against her blue-blood upbringing, embracing Hollywood, motorcycles, even an engagement with a disreputable French film director. Today she is an acclaimed comedic actress and writer, former Oprah regular, wife of George Stephanopoulos, and a mother who lets her two girls eat cotton candy before bed. Though she’s settled down, her rebellious nature thrives in her comedy and her view of her crazy world.
** *Rights sold to NBC ***
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Agent: Allison Cohen
Editor: Suzanne Staszak Silva- Rowman & Littlefield (May 16, 2016)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
LIGHTNESS OF BODY AND MIND: A Radical Approach to Wellness and Weight Loss
By Sarah Hays Coomer
A book about weight loss for “normal” people. It’s not a how-to focused solely on calorie-counting and exercise reps (although it offers important tools for addressing eating/exercising), but rather it’s a book that attempts to redefine the “big promise” as one focused on mental, emotional, and physical health and happiness.
The book has already received advance blurbs from Rolling Stone, actress Nikki Reed, and Dr. Tracy Jackson (Director of Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine Fellowship and Director of Resident Education in Chronic Pain, Vanderbilt University).
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Agent: Allison Cohen
Editor: Jack Shoemaker Counterpoint Press (August 2015)
Territories Sold: North America
Previous Books Sold: JOURNEY TO THE END OF ISLAM: Italy (Castlevecchi) TAQWACORES: Turkey (Ozgur Yayinlari), Germany (Rogner/Bernhard), Spain (GingerApe), Turkey (OkuyanUS) IMPOSSIBLE MAN: Italy (Sagoma) WHY I AM A SALAFI WILILAM S. BURROUGHS: Turkey (OkuyanUS)
By Michael Muhammad Knight
Format: Book The fundamental argument of Salafi Muslims—that new cultural contexts and the flow of history have left Islam diluted and corrupted— is subjected to a radical rereading. In WHY I AM A SALAFI, Knight examines the first three generations of Muslims, the “pious ancestors” whom Salafis regard as authorities on proper Islamic belief and practice. Incorporating his personal experience with the Salafiyya, the author provides an accessible overview of the modern phenomenon of “Islamic fundamentalism.” The book explores the construction of religious authenticity and the challenge of history to religions that are defined by historical events, personalities, and scriptures, and will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in Islam, the contemporary Middle East, or religion at large.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Nan Graham Berkley (August 2014)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Paperback
THE DEMON OF BROWNSVILLE ROAD
By Bob Cranmer and Erica Manfred
The Cranmer family seemed fated to own the house on Brownsville Road. As a young boy, Bob had always been drawn to the property, and when he returned to his hometown and took a political position as County Commissioner, the house was up for sale. Without a second thought, they bought it.
But after moving in, his dream home quickly became his worst nightmare…the family began experiencing strange phenomena— objects moving on their own, ghostly footsteps, a dark presence moving through the house, unsettling cries/sounds—that gradually increased in violence, escalating to physical assaults and bleeding walls. Bob, his wife, and children were under attack from a malicious demon conjuring up terrifying manifestations to destroy them. Though not Catholic, Bob turned to exorcists to help his family save their home, and themselves….
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Elisabeth Dyssegaard Hyperion (July 2011)
Territories Sold: North America Italy (Spring)
Format: Book
THE BAREFOOT BANDIT By Bob Friel
Colt is the riveting story of the Barefoot Bandit, Colton Harris- Moore—Colt for short. At the age of 8, young Colt was accused of stealing a bicycle, but he didn't stop there. Colt graduated to bigger trophies—cars, speedboats, and even airplanes, though he’d never had a flight lesson or even flown as a passenger. After escaping from juvenile prison, he was hunted for two years by everyone from local police and the FBI to Homeland Security and the Canadian Mounties. Time called him “America’s Most Wanted Teen. Set against the backdrop of the Northwest Pacific Islands, this is a compelling tale of a neglected child who outfoxed the authorities.
*** Film Rights: Under option to FOX, Rough House (David Gordon Green), w/ Dustin Lance Black writing screenplay ***
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Agent: Julian Guthrie
Editor: Morgan Entrekin Grove/Atlantic (June 2013)
Territories Sold: World English German (Delius Klasing Vlg Gmbh)
Format: Book
THE BILLIONAIRE & THE MECHANIC By Julian Guthrie
The America’s Cup, first awarded in 1851, is the oldest trophy in international sports, and one of the most hotly contested. In 2000, Larry Ellison, co-founder and billionaire CEO of Oracle Corporation, decided to run for the coveted prize and found an unlikely partner in Norbert Bajurin, a car radiator mechanic who had recently been named Commodore of the blue collar Golden Gate Yacht Club.
Julian Guthrie’s THE BILLIONAIRE AND THE MECHANIC tells the incredible story of the partnership between Larry and Norbert, and their unsuccessful runs for the Cup in 2003 and 2007, and their victory in 2010. With unparalleled access to Ellison and his team, Guthrie takes readers inside the design and building process of these astonishing boats, and the management of the passionate athletes who race them. She traces the bitter rivalries between Oracle and their competitors, including Swiss billionaire Ernest Bertarelli’s Team Alinghi, and throws readers into exhilarating races from Australia and New Zealand to Valencia, Spain.
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Agent: Joe Veltre
Editor: Susan Canavan Houghton Mifflin (August 2011)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
THE GRACE OF EVERYDAY SAINTS By Julian Guthrie
A dramatic true story about the fight to save one of San Francisco’s great landmarks, St. Brigid’s Church. In 1993, when the Catholic Church decides to close the diocese and the church in mysterious fashion, the dedicated parishioners, led by a renegade lawyer, a reformed Catholic, and an antiestablishment priest, lead a decade long effort to save their church and dozens of other churches around the country from being closed. A tale of a loyal congregation fighting through anything, THE GRACE OF EVERYDAY SAINTS is about injustice and betrayal, redemption and grace.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Jeremie Ruby-Strauss Gallery (March 2014)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
EPIC MEAL TIME By Harley Morenstein with Josh Elkin
Jackass meets Man vs. Food in this awe-inspiring and hilarious guide to extreme, artery-hostile cooking—based on the wildly popular YouTube cooking show (5.5 million subscribers).
Based on the Internet show of the same name, EPIC MEAL TIME entertains fans by blowing their minds and clogging their arteries as only the creators of the show truly can. Learn from the masters, Harley Morenstein and his team, as they showcase their 5,800-calorie corn dog or explain how to prepare a Turbacon-epic—which involves a pig stuffed with six different meats—or a thirty-five gallon ice-cream sundae. Shocking, fascinating, and inspiring, EPIC MEAL TIME celebrates the creation of high-calorie dishes of questionable taste.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Lauren Marino Gotham Books (May 2014)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
THE GLITTER PLAN By Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor
Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela-Nash Taylor, self-described “nice girls who like stuff,” partnered together to turn a love of shopping, a shared dream, and endless entrepreneurial drive into Juicy Couture, a $1 billion global fashion empire. With the help of Los Angeles Times’s fashion critic Booth Moore, Pam and Gela share the full, complete story of how they did it. From the honest-to-goodness fairytale beginning in the farthest reaches of the San Fernando Valley, to the early days of dumpster-diving for used denim, from the sale of their company to Liz Claiborne, to sitting front row at Paris couture shows with Anna Wintour, they’re ready to share every juicy detail.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Thomas Lebien Simon & Schuster (June 2014)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
*Kirkus starred review* * Publishers Weekly starred review* GOTHAM UNBOUND By Ted Steinberg
Ted Steinberg has worked as a U.S. historian for more than 20 years. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and spent three years at the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996. He has also received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2006, he was the B. Benjamin Zucker Fellow at Yale University.
GOTHAM UNBOUND focuses on the ecological history of New York City. His books include American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn (W. W. Norton, 2006); Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History (Oxford University Press, 2002; 2nd ed., 2009; 3rd ed., 2013; National Outdoor Book Award; Pulitzer Prize Nominee in History); Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America (Oxford University Press, 2000; 2nd ed., 2006; Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Publication Award; Pulitzer Prize Nominee in General Non-Fiction); Slide Mountain or the Folly of Owning Nature(University of California Press, 1995); and Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England (Cambridge University Press, 1991; Willard Hurst Prize in American Legal History; Old Sturbridge Village E. Harold Hugo Memorial Book Prize).
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Marc Resnick St. Martin’s (March 2010)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
THE EIGHT: A Season in the Tradition of Harvard Crew
By Susan Saint Sing
A thrilling, behind-the-scenes look at a group of young men who have given up nearly everything to transform themselves into the best team possible at the world’s most venerable rowing institution, Harvard Crew. Through a blend of journalistic writing and historical narrative, THE EIGHT chronicles the drama of a full season of elite college racing, including the bitter personal struggles and the team’s pursuit of excellence. This exclusive, competitive world is illuminated as never before as the athletes race for the collegiate national championship and one former member achieves a historic first for Harvard: a gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Morgan Entrekin Grove/Atlantic (February 2012)
Territories Sold: North America; UK (Grove) France (Editions Albin Michel)
Format: Book
REZ LIFE By David Treuer
David Treuer is called back to his hometown, a small outpost called Bena on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, when his father commits suicide. Emboldened by the injustices and poor living conditions David sees in his hometown, he sets out on a thoroughly investigative journey through the history of American Indian Reservations. He finds startling results—widespread drug use, rampant racism from both civilians and governmental officials, worse than poor living conditions, and a state of poverty that rivals some third-world countries. Treuer seeks to enlighten an audience as to why these crimes against the American Indian have and continue to happen, as well as offering up startling narratives about some of the strongest cases of Indian abuse, neglect, or mistreatment. Treuer presents a balanced, Gladwell-esque account of “Rez Life,” all the while imbuing the facts with powerful narrative in a search to finds answers to the myriad socio-political problems facing the dwindling American Indian population.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Margaret Cardillo Hyperion Children’s (July 2009)
Territories Sold: North America Italy (Fanucci)
Format: Book
ALMOST HOME By Jessica Blank
To escape her abusive home life, twelve-year-old Eleanor/Elly/Eeyore runs away, only to get caught up in drugs and prostitution. Eeyore’s only hope is Tracy, a drug-addicted porn star who shelters a number of other runaways: Rusty, a sensitive gay teen; Squid, who has fled countless foster homes; Scabius, a delusional punk from Utah; and Critter, a handsome heroin dealer with a vulnerable heart. This unlikely band of characters forms their own dysfunctional family, complete with love and belonging, abuse and betrayal. Each will make their way home, wherever it may be.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Jennifer Besser Hyperion Children’s (August 2009)
Territories Sold: U.S.; Canada; Phillipines; European Union; and British Commonwealth
KARMA FOR BEGINNERS Format: Book By Jessica Blank
A mother-daughter coming of age story set in an ashram. Fourteen- year-old Tessa has never had a normal life thanks to her lapsed hippie mother. But when her mom pulls her out of school to live at an ashram in the Catskills, Tessa goes from being a freak among normal people to being an outcast among freaks. And while her mom is buzzing with spiritual energy, all Tessa feels are weird vibes – until she meets Colin, the gorgeous boy who fixes trucks for the ashram. The connection they share is the most spiritual thing Tessa has ever felt. But he’s older—like, illegally older—and Tessa’s taking dangerous risks to spend time with him. Soon her life is blooming into a psychedelic web of secrets and lies and it’s clear that something’s about to give
*** Film Rights: Under option to Fox TV Studios ***
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Stacy Cantor Walker Children’s (March 2010)
Territories Sold: World English
Format: Book
SPLIT By Stefan Petrucha
After his mother dies, Wade Jackson, both a science geek and a musician, experiences a split of himself into two worlds. In one he is a science nerd; in the other he is a rebellious musician. When both of them get stuck—geek Wade makes a dangerous discovery about a company’s particle accelerator, and rebellious Wade gets entangled with loan sharks, the two switch places. Can the new personalities solve the problems caused by the other?
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Mary Gruetze Walker Children’s (September 2007)
Territories Sold: World English and German
Format: Book
TEEN INC. By Stefan Petrucha
Fourteen-year-old Jaiden's family is a corporation and his home is an office building. When his parents are killed in an accident caused by a faulty piece of equipment manufactured by NECorp, the company adopts him and raises him in its headquarters. Now as a teenager, Jaiden, is longing for a normal life and is starting to rebel in search of it. With the help of his new friend, Jenny, he uncovers some disturbing and scandalous information about NECorp and must make the tough decision to stay loyal to his "family" or to follow his instincts.
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MIDDLE GRADE
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Catherine Onder Hyperion (October 2014)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
THE SPELL BIND (BOOK 3: OH MY GODMOTHER SERIES)
By Barbara Brauner, James Mattson
For the first time ever, the Godmothers’ League is allowing a student to be home-schooled—and that student just happens to be Lacey Unger-Ware.
Fairy godmother training is tougher than it seems, though. Rhyming spells, magic dresses, and all those fairy-godmothering books are just the start of Lacey’s troubles. When jetpack-obsessed Martin Shembly goes from unpopular to the biggest outcast in Lincoln Middle School history. Lacey tries to help…with a little magic.
Oops!
Now she’s caught in a serious spell bind! Martin is her new fairy godmother client! And if she fails to fix Martin’s problems, Lacey and Katarina will be whooshed away to the South Pole. Worse: Martin’s life will permanently stink. Forever.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Catherine Onder Hyperion (February 2014)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
THE MAGIC MISTAKE
(BOOK 2: OH MY GODMOTHER SERIES)
By Barbara Brauner, James Mattson
After being the most awkward fairy godmother ever, Lacey Unger- Ware thought that her magical duties were done for good. In fact, she’s just getting started.
When Lacey is invited to attend the Godmother Academy, it should be a dream come true. But to Lacey, it means the total opposite: she’ll have to leave her friends and family for a hundred years. Um, no thank you!
But Lacey will be cursed forever if she doesn’t complete the magical test. Now Lacey must find the true love for one special lady and arrange the perfect wedding, before time runs out. With her best friends, Sunny and Paige, along to help, there’s a glimmer of hope that Lacey will succeed. But where’s a fairy godmother to save the day when you need one? Oh, wait….
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Catherine Onder Hyperion (May 2013)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
THE GLITTER TRAP (BOOK 1: OH MY GODMOTHER SERIES)
By Barbara Brauner, James Mattson
Middle school is far from a fairytale for adorkable misfit Lacey Unger- Ware. When Lacey ends up with popular girl Paige Harrington’s smart- mouthed fairy godmother, Katarina, trapped in her hair, life gets more magical – just not in a prince charming kind of way.
Katarina’s wings are too damaged to continue her fairy duties, and Lacey must take over as Paige’s fairy godmother. Distracted by her new responsibilities, Lacey is in danger of losing her best friend Sunny. Can Lacey get the hang of magic, make Paige’s dreams come true, and survive middle school?
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Agent: Phyllis Wender
Editor: Becky Hemperly Candlewick Press (September 2011)
Territories Sold: North America (Candlewick) UK (Walker Books) Simplified Chinese (Daylight) Russia (AST) Lithuania (Baltos Lankos) Brazil (Editoria Moderna Ltda) Kyrgyz Republic (Salam) THE FLINT HEART Format: Book Adapted by Katherine & John Paterson
Long ago, in the land of Dartmoor, a magic man created an enchanted charm that granted its possessor incredible power—at the cost of the wearer’s own tenderness and compassion. After the merciless Flint Heart causes much destruction, it is lost among the reeds and rocks of the moor, where a kindly farmer discovers it thousands of years later. With the Flint Heart in his possession, the once adoring father Billy Jago is transformed into a cruel and merciless brute. Young Charles is determined to win back his father’s true nature, and with his sister Unity and dog, Ship, he sets off into an enchanted world where animals talk, fairies hold elaborate banquets, and magical mischief must be resolved to bring Dartmoor and Merripit Farm back to rights again.
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Agent: Joseph Veltre
Editor: Daniel Ehrenhaft Sourcebooks (November 2011)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
ZEKE BARTHOLOMEW: SUPER SPY SERIES By Jason Pinter
Zeke Bartholomew has always dreamed of being a spy. But when a case of mistaken identity goes horribly wrong, he’s thrust into a world of real-life espionage beyond his wildest dreams. Soon this 7th grade nobody finds himself hunted by the lava-powered behemoth Ragnarok, aided by a mysterious butt-kicking girl who goes only by the codename “Sparrow”, while trying to stop the evil mastermind Le Carré from unleashing a device that will turn millions of kids around the world into brainwashed zombie minions. Zeke has always been a zero, and unless he can fumble his way towards becoming a hero, the world is doomed...Full of action, humor, suspense, and more impractical spy gadgets than you can imagine, Zeke Bartholomew is a hero for a new generation. The fate of the world is in his hands! (Uh oh...).
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CHILDREN’S/ PICTURE BOOKS
87 PICTURE BOOK
Agent: Phyllis Wender
Editor: Alyson Day HarperCollins (September 2012)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
Additional Titles: MY MOMMY HUNG THE MOON (HarperCollins, 2010) BIG WORDS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE MY BRAVE YEAR OF FIRSTS (HarperCollins, 2008) Complex Chinese (Grimm Press) By Jamie Lee Curtis IT’S HARD TO BE FIVE (HarperCollins, Illustrations by Laura Cornell 2004) WHERE DO BALLOONS GO?
(HarperCollins, 2000) The tenth children’s book by the #1 New York Times bestselling team of Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell celebrates the extraordinary, Japan (Babel Company) everyday bravery of trying new things for the very first time. WHEN I WAS LITTLE (HarperCollins, Whether Frankie’s learning to ride a bike, love her first dog, make 1995) new friends (her very first twins), or help out her dad, she discovers that trying new things is how she grows—and that being brave enough to do so is what growing up is all about. ** ALL NY Times Bestsellers**
** NY Times Bestseller**
88 PICTURE BOOK
Agent: Phyllis Wender
Editor: Alyson Day HarperCollins (2002)
Territories Sold: North America (HarperCollins) Japan (Babel Company)
Format: Book
I’M GONNA LIKE ME By Jamie Lee Curtis Illustrations by Laura Cornell
Celebrate liking yourself! Through alternating points of view, a girl’s and a boy’s, Jamie Lee Curtis’s triumphant text and Laura Cornell’s lively artwork show kids that the key to feeling good is liking yourself because you are you. Like the duo’s first New York Times bestseller, this is an inspired book to rejoice in and share.
** NY Times Bestseller**
89 PICTURE BOOK
Agent: Phyllis Wender
Editor: Alyson Day HarperCollins (2002)
Territories Sold: North America (HarperCollins) Japan (Babel Company) Simplified Chinese (ThinKingdom) Spain (Serres)
Format: Book
IS THERE REALLY A HUMAN RACE? By Jamie Lee Curtis Illustrations by Laura Cornell
Celebrate liking yourself! Through alternating points of view, a girl’s and a boy’s, Jamie Lee Curtis’s triumphant text and Laura Cornell’s lively artwork show kids that the key to feeling good is liking yourself because you are you. Like the duo’s first New York Times bestseller, this is an inspired book to rejoice in and share.
** NY Times Bestseller**
90 PICTURE BOOK
Agent: Phyllis Wender
Editor: Alyson Day HarperCollins (1998)
Territories Sold: North America (HarperCollins) Canada (HarperCollins) China / Simplified (ThinKingdom) Korea (Glbburi)
Format: Book
TODAY I FEEL SILLY By Jamie Lee Curtis Illustrations by Laura Cornell
Silly, cranky, excited, or sad – everyone has moods that can change each day. Jamie Lee Curtis’s zany and touching verse, paired with Laura Cornell’s whimsical and original illustrations, helps kids explore, identify, and even have fun with their ever-changing moods.
** NY Times Bestseller**
91 PICTURE BOOK
Agent: Phyllis Wender
Editor: Alyson Day HarperCollins (1996)
Territories Sold: North America (HarperCollins) Japan (Kaisei-Sha Publishing) Korea (Bir Publishing)
Format: Book
TELL ME AGAIN ABOUT THE NIGHT I WAS BORN By Jamie Lee Curtis Illustrations by Laura Cornell
In asking her parents to tell her again about the night of her birth, a young girl shows that it is a cherished tale she knows by heart. TELL ME AGAIN ABOUT THE NIGHT I WAS BORN is a unique, exuberant story about adoption and about the importance of a loving family.
** NY Times Bestseller**
92 PICTURE BOOK
Agent: Phyllis Wender
Editor: Justin Chanda Simon & Schuster (October 2002)
Territories Sold: North America (Simon & Schuster)
Format: Book
HOW SANTA GOT HIS JOB By Stephen Krensky
When Santa was young and needed a job, no one was looking for a man in a red suit to deliver gifts on Christmas. So Santa tried just about everything – from a chimney Sweep to a postman to a circus performer. But none of these worked out. It wasn’t until he met a group of elves who helped him use all his special talents, that Santa was able to find his dream job.
93 PICTURE BOOK
Agent: Phyllis Wender
Editor: Steve Meltzer Dial (October 2014)
Territories Sold: North America
Format: Book
THE LAST CHRISTMAS TREE
By Stephen Krensky Illustrations by Pascual Campion
Among the grand balsam firs and pines at the Christmas tree lot is a little hunched tree that is missing several branches. Still, no tree is more filled with the spirit of Christmas. As the weeks go by, many others are selected but still the little tree keeps up its hope of finding the perfect family. On Christmas Eve, now the last tree in the lot, a special visitor (Ho, Ho, Ho!) might just give the little tree what it wants most of all.
A home.
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