FRANKFURT 2014 8-12th OCTOBER

GRÀCIA our neighbourhood

FRANKFURT BOOKFAIR October 2014

Featuring New Titles from Sandra Bruna’s agency represented lists

● ADULT pg. 2

● CHILDREN / YA pg. 61

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ADULT TITLES

FICTION pg. 8

NON FICTION pg. 32

SHORT STORIES pg. 46

POETRY pg. 48

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A - Z Foreign agencies and publishers represented

►ALLIED AUTHORS AGENCY Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.alliedauthorsagency.be

A DAY WITH MR. JULES, Diane Broeckhoven 8 ELVIS A. PRESLEY. MUSIC, MAN, MYTH, Marc Hendrickx 35 HARMATTAN, Gavin Weston 13 THE JUGGLER, Sebastian Beaumont 26 THE PECULIAR LIFE OF A LONELY POSTMAN (aka THE POSTMAN ROUND), Denis Thériault 27 THIRTEEN, Sebastian Beaumont 30

►AMAZON Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.amazon.com

See page 49

►COACH HOUSE BOOKS Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.chbooks.com

ALL MY FRIENDS ARE SUPERHEROES, Andrew Kaufman 8 AMPHIBIAN, Carla Gunn 9 IN LOVE WITH ART, Jeet Heer 37 CURATIONISM, David Balzer 34 PASTORAL, André Alexis 20

►COFFEE HOUSE PRESS Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.coffeehousepress.org

BRIGHTFELLOW, Rikki Durcornet 9 GENOA. A TELLING OF WONDERS, Paul Metcalf 36 HOW A MOTHER WEANED HER GIRL FROM FAIRY TALES, Kate Bernheimer 47 IT WILL END WITH US, Sam Savage 15 LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION, Ben Lerner 16 MR. AND MRS. DOCTOR, Julie Iromuanya 18 THE ARTIST’S LIBRARY, E. Batykefer and L. Damon-Moore 41 THE BALTIMORE ATROCITIES, John Dermot Woods 23 THE BLUE GIRL Laurie Foos 24

►ÉDITIONS HURTUBISE Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.editionshurtubise.com

IL PLEUVAIT DES OISEAUX, Jocelyne Saucier 15 THE LITTLE GIRL AND THE OLD MAN, Marie-Renée Lavoie 26

►FINCH PUBLISHING Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.finch.com.au

20 TIPS FOR PARENTS, K. Oates 32 BOYFRIENDS WE’VE ALL HAD (AND SHOULDN'T HAVE!), Mandy Nolan 33 BUSINESS & BABY AT HOME, Sarah, O'Bryan 34 CHASING IDEAS, Christine Durham 34 FIRST-TIME FATHER, Graeme Russell and Tony White 36 MODERN GRANDPARENTING, June Loves 38 RAISING BOYS, Steve Biddulph 40 THE HAPPINESS HANDBOOK, Dr. Tim Sharp 42 THE NEW MANHOOD, Steve Biddulph 43 TRICKY TEENS, Andrew Fuller 44 UNSINGLE, Louise Ashby 44

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►GABRIELLA AMBROSIONI LITERARY AGENCY Spain, Latin America & Brazil / www.gabriellaambrosioni.com

ARCHITECT’S ALMANAC. FROM AN IDEA BY RENZO PIANO, Renzo Piano et al. 33 BLACK WINGS, Diletta Hints 9 THE BLACK BOOK OF COUNTERFEIT, Antonio Selvatici 41

►GRAYWOLF PRESS Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.graywolfpress.org

DIRECTING HERBERT WHITE, James Franco 48 FOUR NEW MESSAGES, Joshua Cohen 46 LIFE ON MARS, Tracy K. Smith 48 MOSTLY EVERYTHING ALL VERY FAST, Christopher Kloeble 18 ON OR ABOUT, Sven Birkerts 39 THE HEYDAY OF THE INSENSITIVE BASTARDS, Robert Boswell 47 THE PINCH, Steve Stern 27

►INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.intltrans.com

EVIL OF THE AGE, Allan Levine 11 INTERROGATION TANGO, Donald Schwarz & Victoria King-Voreadi 15 LONDON UNDERGROUND, Christopher Angus 16 SPIES IN THE VATICAN, John O. Koehler 41 THE BLACK HILLS, Rod Thompson 23 THE LAST TITANIC STORY, Christopher Angus 26

►JILL GRINBERG LITERARY MANAGEMENT Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.grinbergliterary.com

BECOMING A MOUNTAIN, Stephen Alter 33 FALLING THROUGH CLOUDS, Damian Fowler 36 MAKE ME A MOTHER, Susanne Antonetta 37 TAKING MORGAN, David Rose 22 THE IRON DRUID CHRONICLES, Kevin Hearne 25 THE REPUBLIC OF PIRATES, Colin Woodard 43 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE METRIC SYSTEM, John B. Marciano 45

►NABU INTERNATIONAL LITERARY & FILM AGENCY Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.nabu.it

AMORE DISPARI, Divier Nelli 9 COSA VUOI FARE DA GRANDE, Ivan Baio 10 COVECULEC. FAIRY TALES OF THE LEFT POCKET, Aleksandar Prokopiev 46 I SIMPSON E IL CINEMA, Michele Galardini 36 IL GRAN DIAVOLO, Sacha Naspini 15 MIRADAR, Ilaria Mavilla 18 PIZZERIA INFERNO, Michele Serio 20 RADIOMORTE, Gianluca Morozzi 20 RODRIGUEZ. RITORNO DALL’IGNOTO, Michele Primi 40 THE BARCELONA CONNECTION, Timn Parfitt 23 TI LASCIO PER ULTIMO, Andrea Fiorenza 30 TROTULA, Paola Presciuttini 30

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►RED HEN PRESS Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / http://redhen.org

ON HURRICANE ISLAND, Ellen Meeropol 19 PARNUCKLIAN FOR CHOCOLATE, B. H. James 20 SEX WORLD, Ron Koertge 47 SPHERES OF DISTURBANCE, Amy Schutzer 21 STUDIES IN THE HEREAFTER, Sean Bernard 21 THE MEANING OF NAMES, Karen Shoemaker 26

►SANDRA DIJKSTRA LITERARY AGENCY Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.dijkstraagency.com

BALD IS BETTER WITH EARRINGS, Andrea Hutton 33 BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, Neil Griffin 9 BIG SCIENCE, Michael Hiltzik Spring 33 CHINA DOLLS, Lisa See 10 DESELECTED, Robert Pobi 11 I DID NOT KILL MY HUSBAND, Liu Zhenyun 14 MEMORY OF DESIRE, Amy Tan 17 MOVING DAY, Jon Stone 18 OLEANDER GIRL, Chitra Divakaruni 19 OUTLAWS OF THE ATLANTIC, Marcus Rediker 39 THE AMAZONS, Adrienne Mayor 41 THE COOK, THE CROOK, AND THE REAL ESTATE TYCOON, Liu Zhenyun 24 THE MIND OF A WRITER. ESSAY COLLECTION, Amy Tan 42 THE MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT, Indu Sundaresan 27 THE RED PRINCESS series, Lisa See 28 THE SIMPLICITY CYCLE, Dan Ward 44 THE SOCIAL SEX. A HISTORY OF WOMEN AS FRIENDS, Marilyn Yalom 44 THE TENZING NORBU MYSTERIES, Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsey 30 TWO WEEKS TO A YOUNGER BRAIN, Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan 44 VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT, Amy Tan 31 YOUR ATOMIC SELF, Curt Stager 45

►SEREN BOOKS Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.serenbooks.com

A PLACE OF MEADOWS AND TALL TREES, Clare Dudman 8 LE TEMPS DES CERISES, Zillah Bethell 15 SECOND CHANCE, Sian James 20 THE KEYS OF BABYLON, Robert Minhinnick 26

►SHELTER PUBLICATIONS Spain, Portugal & Latin America / www.shelterpub.com

TINY HOMES. SIMPLE SHELTER, Lloyd Kahn 44

►SIYAHI Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.siyahi.in

BUSINESS SUTRA, Devdutt Pattanaik 34 FADE TO RED, Reshma Krishnan 11 GONE WITH THE VINDALOO, Vikram Nair 13 HOW TO FIGHT (…) MISSIONARY POSITION, Tabish Khair 14 JAYA. AN ILLUSTRATED RETELLING OF THE MAHABHARATA, Devdutt Pattanaik 37 MEMORIES WITH MAYA, Clyde DeSouza 17 SITA, Devdutt Pattanaik 40 SVAHA, Pratik Kamat 22 THE EMPEROR’S WRITINGS, Dirk Collier 24

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►TARYN FAGERNESS AGENCY Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.tarynfagernessagency.com

10CHASE ME, Tessa Bailey 10 BECOMING THE BOSS, 33 DARK LAVA: A Lei Crime Novel (#7), Toby Neal 10 DRAGON’S BREATH AND OTHER TRUE STORIES, MariNaomi 35 GET IN TROUBLE, Kelly Link 46 HOLLOW WORLD, Michael J. Sullivan 13 MAYBE IN ANOTHER LIFEby Taylor Jenkins Reid 17 MURDER AT THE BRIGHTWELL, Ashley Weaver 18 NOTES FOR A YOUNG PRINCE, His Serene Highness Prince Alexi Lubomirski 38 THE CALLING, Barry Blanchard 42 THE RETURN. A TITAN NOVEL, Jennifer Armentrout 29 THE SECRETS OF LAKE ROAD Karen Katchur 29 THE WITCH OF BELLADONNA BAY, Suzanne Palmieri 30 WHEN JOSS MET MATT, Ellie Cahill 31

►THE RIGHTS COMPANY Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / http://www.therightscompany.nl

INTROS AND EXTROS, Leise Menschen 37 MIND FUCK, Petra Bock 38 QUIET PERSON - HIGH IMPACT, Leise Menschen 40

►UNBRIDLED BOOKS Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / http://unbridledbooks.com

LOVE SLAVE, Jennifer Spiegel 16 MERCY 6, David Bajo 17 SEAL WOMAN Solveig Eggerz 19 THE BOOK OF COLORS, Raymond Barfiel 24

►WESTWOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS Spain, Portugal & Latin America / www.wcaltd.com

CIRCLING THE MIDNIGHT SUN, James Raffan 34 ELLEN IN PIECES, Caroline Adderson 11 FIRE IN THE UNNAMEABLE COUNTRY, Ghalib Islam 12 FOR TODAY I AM A BOY, Kim Fu 12 HUMAN SOLUTIONS, Avi Silberstein 14 HUMANS 3.0. THE UPGRADING OF A SPECIES, Peter Nowak 36 NORTH OF NORMAL, Cea Sunrise Person 38 OWL AND THE JAPANESE CIRCUS, Kristi Charish 20 PROJECTION, Priscila Uppal 39 REPUBLIC OF DIRT, Susan Juby 21 TELL, Frances Itani 22 THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING, Elyse Friedman 23 THE END OF MEMORY, Jay Ingram 42 THE EVER AFTER OF ASHWIN RAO, Padma Viswanathan 25 THE GLASS HOUSE David Rotenberg 25 THE MODERN SAVAGE., James McWilliams 43 THE SHADOW QUEEN, Sandra Gulland 29 WHEN THE SAINTS, Sarah Mian 31

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►ZACHARY SHUSTER HARMSWORTH Spain, Portugal & Latin America / www.zshliterary.com

A RELIGION OF ONE’S OWN, Thomas Moore 32 DEEP WINTER, Samuel W. Gailey 10 ENCHANTED OBJECTS, David Rose 35 HOUSEBREAKING, Dan Pope 14 MAKING GRATEFUL KIDS, Jeffrey Froh and Giacomo Bono 38 NORTH OF BOSTON, Elisabeth Elo 19 RE JANE, Patricia Park 20 THE EMOTIONAL CALENDAR, John Sharp, MD & John Butman 42 THE REST OF US, Jessica Lott 28 WHAT BURNS AWAY, Melissa Falcon Field 31 WHITEY BULGER, Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy 45

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● FICTION ●

A DAY WITH MR. JULES, Diane Broeckhoven (House of Books/Allied Authors Agency)

When aging Alice smells the coffee her husband Jules has just made, she gets up. Such rituals determine her every day, always, until that day when she finds him in their sofa in the living room, lifeless. While Alice is coming to terms with her grief and the loss she is facing by delving deep into her memories and saying things to her late husband that she dared not utter while he was still alive, her autistic neighbour David enters the story in an unexpected way.

Rights sold to: Netherlands (House of Books), Germany (Beck Verlag), Poland (Galaktyka), Japan (Akachan to Mama Sha), Korea (Moonhakdongne), Spain (Maeva), Catalan (Pagès), Canada English (Dundurn), France (Laffont), China (Shanghai Joint Pub), Taiwan (Business Weekly Pub), Slovakia (Universidad Bratislava), Czech Republic (Eroika )

Theatre & Film rights sold to: Flanders and Germany

A PLACE OF MEADOWS AND TALL TREES, Clare Dudman (Seren Books)

This is a moving evocation of the trials of the colonists in Patagonia as they battle to survive. It is 1865 and a desperate and opressed group of Welsh emigrants sets sail for a land, they have been promised, of meadows and tall trees, where they can build a new Wales. What they find after a devastating sea journey is a cold South American desert occupied by tribes of Indians, possibly intent on massacring them.

BOOKMUNCH – “Full of finelly drawn characters… Dudman pulls the reader into their lives until the hardship and misery is practically palpable. Her extensive research gives the novel an air of urgency and realism that makes it a gripping read.”

ALL MY FRIENDS ARE SUPERHEROES, Andrew Kaufman (Coach House Books)

A bestseller in Germany and in the UK, and in its 10th print in Canada, All My Friends Are Superheroes is a funny, sweet story that will remind you that the greatest superpower of all is love.

Rights sold to: UK, Italy, France, South Korea, Netherlands, Turkey, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Tailand, Spain, Catalonia, Denmark, Brazil

THE BOOKSELLER – “One of the saddest, funniest, strangest and most romantic books… Brilliant!” SHEILA HETI - “I expect this story will replace boxes of chocolates and flowers in courting rituals to come.”

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AMORE DISPARI / UNEQUAL LOVE, Divier Nelli (Spider&Fish/Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)

Lolita... the other way around. Lorenzo is seventeen, Daniela is a good twenty years older, married and has a young daughter. For nearly a year they have a secret affair, but one day she decides to break-off their relationship. Lorenzo is restless is obsessed with her. He spies on her, knows her schedule for every day of the month by heart. He knows her habits. Her secrets. Her flaws. The following morning he follows her again, but this time it’s different: puts on a dark and heavy overcoat, stuffs a sharp knife in its large pocket and heads out to meet her.

IL MESSAGGERO - “As you read, Georges Simenon’s works come to mind”

AMPHIBIAN, Carla Gunn (Coach House Books)

In a voice that has been compared to Salinger’s Holden Caulfield, Phin reflects the anatomy of childhood with wisdom, wit and wonder. A must-read charismatic novel in its third printing balancing light and dark. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Rights sold to: Germany (btb), Spain (Destino), Italy (Miraviglia), French in Canada (Prise de parole)

GLOBE AND MAIL - “Phin’s voice is irresistible…enraged yet brimming with love. Gunn’s story, cutting despair with healing mirth, is his perfect vehicle.” QUILL & QUIRE starred review – “Amphibian is a polished, engaging book.” SHEREE FITCH, author of Kiss the Joy As It Flies – “A hilarious, brilliant, loveable, exasperating child, Phin and his mesmerizing voice need listening to. The powerful, authentic narrator brings to mind The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time in a compassionate tale balancing light and dark. This is a must-read book.” ANDREW PECK, Singing Pebble Books, Ottawa – “It really has all the elements of a classic in the making.”

BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, Neil Griffin (Thomas & Mercer/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

A complicated killer seeking revenge is hunted by a complicated lawman in this unique and suspenseful debut novel by a cop-turned-author who knows the turf. Benefit of the Doubt is the story of these two men and the bloody road leading to their inevitable confrontation.

** Winner of Best Unpublished Novel 2014 in San Diego Book Awards

DON WINSLOW, bestseller author - "There is no doubt that this fine debut novel is the sure-handed work of an exciting new author." JOSEPH WAMBAUGH, bestseller author - "The story moves at warp speed across the heartland."

BLACK WINGS, Diletta Hints (Gabriella Ambrosioni Literary Agency)

An amazing mix of realistic and fantasy YA Crossover astonishingly written by a 15 year-old girl. Melissa is a very normal girl living her very normal life in the little town of Hardin. She runs her days with no illusions at all until the day when, tragically, something awful happens and changes her life irreparably. Since then, Adam, her best friend, seems to be a stranger to be hiding some mysterious secrets.

BRIGHTFELLOW, Rikki Durcornet (Coffee House Press)

A tale told in years through the lens of an aging boy, inflused with equal parts childlike wonder and wisdom.

** Only world Spanish available

Praises for Rikki Ducornet: THE NEW YORK TIMES – “A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat.” THE NATION – “Linguistically explosive. Ducornet is one of the most interesting American writers around.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review - “Sex and psychosis are indistinguishable in this killer new novel from Ducornet. [A]s fascinating as it is dirty and dark, the plot is impossible to resist.” THE NEW YORK TIMES - “Ducornet is a novelist of ambition and scope. One is grateful for what she’s accomplished here.” 9

CHASE ME, Tessa Bailey (Avon Impulse/Taryn Fagerness Agency)

A smarmy, raunchy, clever story of one broke actress trying to “make it” in Brooklyn, NY, and the hunky lawyer who falls head over heels for her. Good stuff!

** First book in a new series

CHINA DOLLS, Lisa See (Random House/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

Lisa See brings three very different women who become unlikely best friends as they audition for their place as “China Doll” café dancers in the glittering world of Chinese American nightclubs in San Francisco, Hollywood and New York in then 1930’s and 1940’s.

** Author translated in over 38 languages

Rights sold to: UK (Bloomsbury), France (Flammarion), Israel (Modan), Poland (Swiat), Spain (Ediciones B), Italy (Longanesi), Korea (Swiat)

COSA VUOI FARE DA GRANDE / WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WHEN YOU GROW UP, Ivan Baio (Del Vecchio/Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)

A tragicomic novel about the future of schooling/education. At Attilio Regolo elementary school there is great excitement. The students have been chosen to test the first futuremeter ever, an invention that will change the world by giving each child the future he or she deserves. The time of dreams and the false roads they lead to, of ambitions followed by terrible disappointment is finally coming to an end.

L’UNITÀ - "A surprising social satire on our present times, on the defects and failures of public school." LA REPUBBLICA - "The authors have managed to tell of life and its miseries using a very complex tool: sense of humor." LA STAMPA - "Comical, visionary, outrageous, utterly enjoyable novel."

DARK LAVA: A LEI CRIME NOVEL (#7), Toby Neal (Independently published/Taryn Fagerness Agency)

Over 450,000 copies of this fantastic crime series have sold, and it’s obvious why: detective Lei Texeira is smart and unique; she’s a great female lead in a genre dominated by men. Nothing ever goes easy for detectives Lei Texeira and Michael Stevens. Lei and Stevens face challenges of the body, mind, and heart in this seventh in the best-selling Lei Crime series.

** Over 450,000 copies of series sold!! ** Toby Neal hit #1 on Amazon for police procedural authors!

KIRKUS - “Neal is a powerful writer, and her prose is often effortless and elegant.” HOLLY ROBINSON, author - “Toby Neal’s plots have a relentless, charged en- ergy that heats up every page.”

DEEP WINTER, Samuel W. Gailey (Blue Rider Press, Penguin US/Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)

This sinister and riveting page-turner conveys the hopelessness of a dead-end town where life is bleak and no one escapes to the brighter world outside. In this compelling mystery set in a rural Pennsylvanian town, we meet Danny, a gentle, hulking man whose mental capacities were severely limited as a result of a catastrophic accident that claimed the lives of his parents.

Rights sold to: France (Gallmeister)

BOOKLIST - "This is a harsh, brutal novel, as bleak as its wintertime setting. It’s also brilliantly done, artfully underwritten with not a word wasted." KIRKUS REVIEWS - “Gailey writes visually, rendering the characters and action both vivid and alive.” ESQUIRE - “Enthralling and suspenseful...” THE NEW YORK TIMES - “Beautifully written...” URBAN WAITE, author of The Terror of Living - “A beautiful and brutal debut. Put Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men in a blender with Scott Smith’s classic crime novel, A Simple Plan, then watch as Gailey hits the switch and everything in this world spins dangerously out of hand. A wonderful fast paced read.”

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DESELECTED, Robert Pobi (On Sale/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

Intelligent. Frightening. Plausible. Roughly 7,000,000 years ago, the first bipedal human ancestor made its appearance on Earth. This initial roll of the evolutionary dice, combined with the subsequent happenstance of Darwinian mechanics, has made us the most successful species in the history of the planet. Until now. DESELECTED examines our place at the top of the evolutionary ladder and asks: What if that changed?

** From the author of BLOODMAN: 10 languages, "A remarkable debut.” (Booklist, starred review)

Rights sold: Canada (S&S), France (Sonatine)

ELLEN IN PIECES, Caroline Adderson (HarperCollins CA/Westwood Creative Artists)

Ellen McGinty is funny, impulsive, sexy, and chock full of regrets. In her forties, with her two daughters single- handedly raised, she sells the house she settled for in her long ago divorce and sets out to rediscover the artistic life abandoned in her youth. In the exquisitely written and affecting Ellen in Pieces, we meet the people Ellen loves and watch as she manages to help shape their fates into something beautiful.

QUILL & QUIRE, starred - “Teeming with emotion to the last word.” TORONTO STAR - “I think I fell in love with Ellen McGinty on page one.” PICKLEMETHIS.COM - “The novel we’ve all been waiting for.” ANNABEL LYON - “Sexy, searing, and very, very funny.”

EVIL OF THE AGE, Allan Levine (Heartland Canada/International Transactions)

Murder and corruption in nineteenth century New York. A well-researched mystery-crime novel encompassing an evocative depiction of 19th century NY by the very successful (Canadian) author of non-fiction and fiction books based on historical fact.

** The Charles St. Clair Chronicles, # 1

TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL - “…wonderful history of sin in the city in the late 19th century…. Great research and great fun make this a winner...” MYSTERY BOOK REVIEW - “Levine has done it again. He has seamlessly crafted an amazing mix of historical lore, credible views of the seamiest settings of old New York, an intertwined plot of murderous suspense and political corruption, and with a population of unique characters, good, bad, ugly and everything in between. For history/mystery fans it’s a book that leaves its readers begging for the next of the St. Clair chronicles.”

FADE TO RED, Reshma Krishnan (Random House IN/ Siyahi Literary Consulting)

Ayra always wanted to be an Art Historian but at twenty–nine, life has decided to make her an underpaid investment banker juggling an eccentric family, a fading career and a long–distance relationship that is becoming a light-year one. On a monsoon day in June, she is suddenly sent packing from Mumbai to Tuscany to buy a vineyard for a star client. What should have been a four-day trip turns into a two-week treasure hunt that finds her in the middle of midnight wine deals, dodgy vintners, rolling Tuscan hills, a soap opera family and one playboy millionaire who is looking to taste more than just the wine.

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FIRE IN THE UNNAMEABLE COUNTRY, Ghalib Islam (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin CA/Westwood Creative Artists)

Recall the magic of 1001 Nights, the horror of A Clockwork Orange, the exotic puzzle of The Savage Detectives — and prepare to meet the future. An utterly remarkable debut, filled with original characters caught up in wonderfully imaginative circumstances and rendered in uniquely inventive language, Fire in the Unnameable Country is a book like no other.

Rights sold to: India (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins)

MARGARET ATWOOD - "The 1001 Nights of its time. Rooms opening into rooms, stories opening into stories in the same literary mansion as Calvino, Burroughs, David Foster Wallace, and the meta-fabulist satirists. Often very funny in a dark, horrifying way… A funhouse mirror of the actual state of certain parts of the world, in our age." THE GLOBE AND MAIL - "Islam’s defiance of almost every rule of realistic storytelling is breathtaking and marked by beauty. You must report it, as you would a natural event." TORONTO LIFE - "Ghalib Islam has written one of the buzziest novels of the season." THE WALRUS - "Dizzyingly good. Parsing the exploded, fragmentary story of Hedayat’s ancestors is a vertiginous thrill." NATIONAL POST - "Fire in the Unnameable Country is unlike anything else I’ve read this year... brash and brilliant." JONATHAN GARFINKEL, author of Ambivalence - "While reading Fire in the Unnameable Country, the big ones come to mind. I'm talking Joyce, Marquez, Rushdie -but Ghalib Islam is a world onto his own. A post-apocalyptic mind-fuck, a wild ride through the nether worlds of the war on terror and the pitiful self, Fire In the Unnameable Country is a tour de force. A stunning achievement, and a first novel at that." ROSEMARY SULLIVAN, author of Villa Air-Bel - "Inventing a dazzling and vertiginous syntax Ghalib Islam connects everything until we understand that we are all thought experiments, doomed and/or redeemed by our collective nightmare/dream. A dazzling mirror of our 21st-century world."

FOR TODAY I AM A BOY, Kim Fu (HarperCollins CA/Westwood Creative Artists)

In this powerful debut novel, Fu introduces memorable Chinese immigrant parents and the expectations they impose on their Western-born children who don't fit quite so neatly into the boxes they would place them in. This is a more accessible novel than Middlesex, but in giving voice to a child of ambiguous gender growing up in an immigrant family, the comparison stands.

** Lorissa Sengara, editor who bought the book for Harper Canada – “I just might die if I don’t get to publish Kim.”

Rights sold to: US (Houghton Mifflin), Australia (Random House)

THE NEW YORK TIMES - "In her sensatively wrought debut novel... Fu is intimately attuned to the anxieties of first- generation go-getters." KIRKUS REVIEWS - “[A] quietly forceful debut…[with] a redemptive trajectory that feels fully earned…. Shot through with melancholy while capturing the bliss of discovering one’s sexual self.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “Fu’s sharp eye and the book’s specificity of place (the Huangs live in small-town Canada, where Peter’s father does whatever it takes to fit in and the rest of his family lies to him) provide freshness…. Although the focus is always Peter, Fu is adept at depicting the shifting alliances between him and his sisters, and at revealing how being an outsider shapes Peter’s expectations and options.” WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - "Expertly written and hauntingly candid… a stunning achievement." NATIONAL POST - "Fu deftly unfurls a complex narrative about race and gender, about belonging and becoming… I’d wager a lot more people will know her name before long." THE GLOBE AND MAIL- “It has become cliché to hail an exciting ‘new voice’ in fiction, and many are drowned out by their own hype. [...] Kim Fu should be an exception.” SEATTLE TIMES - “An assured, spiky debut. [...] You close the book believing you’ve met a real person, and that you wish her well.” SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - “A talented debut novel that probes the contours of transgender experience with elegance and sensitivity.” LIBRARY JOURNAL - “In this impressive debut, Fu sensitively and poetically portrays Peter’s predicament so that readers feel his discomfort with his own body as well as his painful sense of yearning and the plight of his three sisters, who scatter in all directions to escape their unhappy home.” STEVEN GALLOWAY, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo - “A unique and mesmerizing story populated with characters who are fragile and strong all at once. An important and rewarding read.”

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GONE WITH THE VINDALOO, Vikram Nair (Hachette IN/Siyahi Literary Consulting)

Funny foodie fiction [...] that begins as a colonial adventure and ends with the conquest of the West by Indian fast food. A rollicking ride through a century’s worth of history, Gone with the Vindaloo follows the lives, times and exploits of three generations in a family of cooks. Delightfully subversive and consistently irreverent, this many- layered debut serves up imperialism, consumerism, packaged food – and the very art of storytelling – in a flavour all its own.

THE HINDU – “Throughout his narrative, Nair celebrates food and relates cooking to an art form. Subversive and often irreverent, Nair’s Gone with the Vindaloo is unabashedly making a point that life is best left simple. With a generous dose of colonial history, humour and food taking centre stage.” TIME OUT DELHI – “Vikram Nair’s Gone with the Vindaloo is a humorous tale about the goodness of food that swivels back in forth in time as well as continents. A successful restaurateur by profession, Nair’s palpable love for food combined with a no-holds-barred flair for storytelling, ensures the committed attention of his readers through and through.” CNN/IBN LIVE – "A mouth-watering read. Nair has brought his flair for food to his literary venture, thereby fusing the two with incredible easy and fluidity. With humor, satire, delicious descriptiveness and a light-heartedness which hides within its folds, matters of great importance. Overwhelmed at the scope of this wonderful novel.” HELTERSKELTER – "Gone With The Vindaloo unfolds like a Matryoshka doll; there are stories within stories within stories that come back to a single point. The book entertains you while being cheekily subversive. An easy, worthwhile read. It is humorous and unpretentious; a book that celebrates life in all its natural flavours." BOOK GEEKS – "Beyond the food, the plot will also keep you interested and you will surely have an entertaining time reading the book." THE BOOK REVIEW IN INDIA – "A charming book." MUKUL KESAVAN, Indian writer and historian – "If you want to read funny foodie fiction that takes the pleasures of the flesh seriously, this is your novel. The novel is a lunatic romp that begins as a colonial adventure and ends with the conquest of the West by Indian fast food." NAMITA GOKHALE, festival director of the Jaipur Literature Festival - “A boisterous, highly spiced and aromatic celebration of food and life.” KALPANA blogspot – "The book skips and prances it’s way through Indian history and later through American history (around the 60’s and the war with Vietnam) providing ample background to the characters meanderings through their meals, lives and countries. The writing is primarily visual with smells, tastes, sounds and textures hinted at."

HARMATTAN, Gavin Weston (UK Myrmidon/Allied Authors Agency)

Haoua is a young girl growing up in a remote village in the Republic of Niger. Spirited, independent and intelligent, she has benefited from a stable home life and a loving, attentive mother. She enjoys working and playing with her siblings and friends. But approaching her twelfth birthday, Haoua feels alone and vulnerable for the very first time in her life due to her mother illness and her father plans.

Rights sold to: Turkey (Ayrinti Yayinlari)

KELLIE CHAMBERS - "Harmattan is a captivating and beautifully written debut novel. Gavin Weston’s unique, distinctive style hails a new era in Northern Irish literature."

HOLLOW WORLD, Michael J. Sullivan (St. Martin’s Press/Taryn Fagerness Agency)

Brilliant, richly drawn, full of the great questions one comes to require of strong science fiction, and often humorous, Hollow World is the exciting new title by Michael J. Sullivan. A world 2,000 years into the future where war, disease, poverty, work, money, and even death and sex have been eradicated. But so has, to some extent, individuality.

** Michael J. Sullivan is the bestselling author of The Riyria Revelations series, which he originally self-published, and which sold over 70,000 copies and was sold to 12 foreign territories

Rights sold to: Brazil (Record), Germany (Heyne)

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HOUSEBREAKING, Dan Pope (Simon & Schuster/Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)

A smart, surehanded novel about sex, love and the confusions of desire. Set in the suburbs of Connecticut, Housebreaking is a dark, enticing psychological drama about two families, each at a critical turning point, whose lives become dangerously entangled. Over the course of the novel, these characters begin risky relationships, testing the limits of their family lives and exploring dangerous new territory.

** Comparisons to Richard Russo, Richard Yates and John Cheever

STEWART O’NAN, author - “Like Richard Russo, Dan Pope has a solid grasp of small-town sorrow and middle-aged crazy.” ANN HOOD, author - “I could marvel at the contemporary spin Dan Pope gives the suburban novel that Richard Yates and John Cheever made familiar. But instead I will simply say that Housebreaking is exciting and wonderful from start to finish, and that you must must read it and discover its pleasures for yourself.” SABINA MURRAY, author - “Unflinching and sometimes brutal, Dan Pope's novel Housebreaking hooks the reader. Pope is a sophisticated, sensitive, and astonishing writer.”

HOW TO FIGHT ISLAMIST TERROR FROM THE MISSIONARY POSITION, Tabish Khair (HarperCollins IN/Siyahi Literary Consulting)

Funny and sad, satirical and humane, Tabish Khair’s How to Fight Islamist Terrorfrom the Missionary Position tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men. In his first novel set in contemporary times and Europe, Khair combines generic elements from the crime thriller, the immigrant novel, the campus novel, and the young adult romance to comment deeply and movingly on our lives today.

Rights sold to: France (Editions du Sonneur), UK (Constable & Robinson), US & Canada (Interlink)

MOHSIN HAMID, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist – “Smart, funny, and wonderfully irreverent.” DAILY NEWS AND ANALYSIS – “Deftly-written, wry and dramatic.” BUSINESS STANDARD – “Khair’s weapon against the tyranny of our times is humour.” DECCAN CHRONICLE – “The message may be serious but the skill and subtlety with which it is delivered, wrapped with so much fun and irreverence, is outstanding.” TEHELKA – “A quick read with some incisive, fun commentary on self-perception and projection.” HINDUSTAN TIMES – “Serious issues are addressed with a beguilingly light touch.”

HUMAN SOLUTIONS, Avi Silberstein (Skyhorse/Westwood Creative Artists)

A riveting story of personal and professional manipulation, set in Pinochet’s Chile in the 1970s. Based on the true story of Paul Schaefer, an ex-Nazi who founded the Colonia Dignidad colony in Chile in the 1970s, Human Solutions explores the idea of community, the freedom that comes from a lack of freedom, and the ways in which humans manipulate and destroy, but also the ways in which they enrich each other.

GLOBE AND MAIL – “Her adventurous and inventive new novel could fit comfortably alongside Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid in a course about Canadians reimagining the gun-slinging Old West.”

I DID NOT KILL MY HUSBAND, Liu Zhenyun (On Sale/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

With over 1.2 million copies sold in China, Liu Zhenyun’s I Did Not Kill My Husband is a devastating, yet hilarious satire of contemporary China, opening with the dastardly and curiously likeable heroine Li Xuelian, a wronged woman seeking justice from the State since she can’t get her husband murdered, who discovers and illuminates the rot at the heart at the core of new China.

Rights sold to: Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands (Arbeiderspers), Korea (Opus Press), Vietnam (Alpha)

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IL GRAN DIAVOLO / THE GREAT DEVIL, Sacha Naspini (Rizzoli/Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)

A vivid and upsetting portrait of the last caption of fortune, set in Renaissance Florence. The author tells us the story of a friendship and gives us a glimpse of the Sixteenth century, one of the most turbulent moments in Italian history, when everything was changing and everyone betrayed everyone.

FUTURO EUROPA - "Sacha Naspini’s novels are marked by a dry, hard, writing, operating like a contaminator of genres." AGORA VOX - "Naspini has the talent of a scriptwriter." LA FOLLIA.IT - "Sacha Naspini produces literature, he describes dispositions and emotions, human anxieties and atrocious doubts – telling stories." LEGGERE TUTTI - "Hard, sharp. Written in the style of the best American storytellers."

IL PLEUVAIT DES OISEAUX, Jocelyne Saucier (Éditions Hurtubise)

July 29, 1916. In the woods of Northern Ontario, the flames are rising. Soon, this will be known as the Great Fire of Matheson. Many decades later, a photographer takes interest in the survivors of those Great Fires. She will come to know some of them, venerable old hermits living deep in the woods, still prizing their freedom.

** Prix littéraire des collégiens 2012 ** Prix des lecteurs Radio-Canada 2012, Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie 2011, Prix littéraire France-Québec 2012 ** More than 28.000 copies in Québec only

Rights sold to: Canada English (Coach House Press), France (Denoël), Sweden (Tranan)

VOIR - “Truly marvellous.” ELLE QUÉBEC - “A highly inspired novel, incredibly humane.”

INTERROGATION TANGO, Donald Schwarz (Iguana/International Transactions)

This is an anti-detective story, based on real events and people, about an assassin who drove the Gestapo crazy because they could not explain him away. The war backdrop serves to give it some bounce. The story is true, almost lost in the mists of those hectic times but it is not only a WWII story, at least, not exactly. It analyzes a very particular brand of hell and terror – the German civil service.

** Based on historical facts

IT WILL END WITH US, Sam Savage (Coffee House Press)

A beautiful meditation on disappointment, and the power of art in the face of an ailing world. Eve, an aging daughter of the American South, attempts to do a lyrical ode to her mother Iris, a failed poet.

** Sam Savage’s books have sold over 1 million copies worldwide

Rights of his previous works sold to: - GLASS: Spain (Seix Barral), Catalonia (Columna), Italy (Einaudi), Portugal (Planeta), Russia (Atticus) - THE WAY OF THE DOG: Spain (Seix Barral), Catalonia (Columna)

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY - “Sam Savage manages to be both artful and literal-minded in this faux autobiographical tale of childhood. A wonderful, absorbing novel.”

LE TEMPS DES CERISES, Zillah Bethell (Seren Books)

If you've seen Les Mierables and were left wanting more, Le Temps des Cerises is just what you need. Set at the barricades of under sieged Paris in the 1870, just a few years after Victor Hugo penned his epic novel. 17-year-old Eveline finds a revolution on the streets that is reflected in the hearts of the soldiers, nuns, artisans, lovers and renegades who people this chaotic city. Told with wit, vigour and an eye for the bizarre.

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LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION, Ben Lerner (Coffee House Press)

In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.

** One of the best books of 2011 in: The New Yorker, Newsweek, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal

Rights sold to: UK (Granta), France (L’Olivier), Germany (Rowohlt), Spain (Mondadori), Italy (Neri Pozza), Netherlands (Atlas), Turkey (Jaguar), Macedonia (Ars Lamina), Brazil (Absurdaventura), English language audio rights

PAUL AUSTER - “Utterly charming. Lerner’s self-hating, lying, overmedicated, brilliant fool of a hero is a memorable character, and his voice speaks with a music distinctly and hilariously all his own.” JONATHAN FRANZEN - “Hilarious and cracklingly intelligent, fully alive and original in every sentence, and abuzz with the feel of our late –late- modern moment.” NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS - “One of the funniest (and truest) novels I know of by a writer of his generation. [A] dazzlingly good novel.” THE NEW YORKER, James Wood – “[A] subtle, sinuous, and very funny first novel, [Leaving the Atocha Station] has a beguiling mixture of lightness and weight. There are wonderful sentences and jokes on almost every page. This is exactly how Leaving Atocha Station proceeds [with a] self-description [that] sounds as much like Virginia Woolf as like John Ashbery. But it is one of the paradoxes of this cunning book that what might seem a skeptically postmodern comedy is also an earnestly old-fashioned seeker of the real —that other thing.” WALL STREET JOURNAL REVIEW – “Leaving the Atocha Station is a marvelous novel, not least because of the magical way that it reverses the postmodernist spell, transmuting a fraudulent figure into a fully dimensional and compelling character.”

LOVE SLAVE, Jennifer Spiegel (Unbridled Books)

An awesome job of capturing the essence of Manhattan in the 1990s. From the clothes to the music to the general attitude of the time period… Richly funny and wincingly specific, this cunning debut novel is a bittersweet and ironic look at what it means to be enthralled by an idea, by even the most ragged possibility of love.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – “Spiegel's novel evokes the psychic angst of Manhattanites presumptuous. The writing is fresh and witty, and Sybil is a sympathetic character.” BOOKS ARE THE NEW BLACK - “Love Slave is wildly clever… an unusual love story.” CHAMBER FOUR - “You’ll enjoy Spiegel’s style, which is witty, intelligent and introspective, contemporary and timeless: a story with which you can identify.” — CARIBOUSMOM.COM - “A novel that will appeal to a wide range of literary fiction lovers. It has just the right amount of lightness and humor mixed with wisdom to make it memorable.” RON CARLSON - “Jennifer Spiegel’s New York moment, her sweet tilt on Miss Lonelyhearts, is loose among us like a confession, a letter, gossip, an advice column without boundaries. Love Slave is a lot of fun.”

LONDON UNDERGROUND, Christopher Angus (Iguana/International Transactions)

Beneath the streets of London lie many secrets. Subterranean rivers carve channels through darkened caverns. Hidden laboratories and government offices from WW II offer a maze of corridors and abandoned medical experiments. It all comes to a climax beneath London with the discovery of a horrifying species of genetically altered “super rats” that threaten to invade London and the British Isles in a manner more horrifying than anything ever envisioned by the Germans.

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MAYBE IN ANOTHER LIFE, Taylor Jenkins Reid (Atria, Simon & Schuster/Taryn Fagerness Agency)

Taylor Jenkins Reid just keeps getting better and better, and this fantastic novel about the two lives a woman lives after making one small decision is brilliantly done. Hannah Martin is a hot mess. At the age of 28, she still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She is leaving New York City, with her tail between her legs, and decides to move back to her hometown of Los Angeles to regroup and come up with a life plan.

Rights of her previous two novels sold to: - FOREVER, INTERRUPTED: Brazil (Record), Germany (Diana/Heyne), Italy (Sperling), The Netherlands (Artemis), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Spanish & Catalan (Urano), Portugal (Presença) - AFTER I DO: Germany (Diana/Heyne), Brazil (Record), Spanish & Catalan (Urano)

MEMORIES WITH MAYA, Clyde DeSouza (Penguin IN/Siyahi Literary Consulting)

How augmentation technology will affect emotions, intimate human relationships, or our very evolution as a species? The novel will delight lovers of hard sci-fi, as it integrates artificial intelligence and transhumanism with all too human hopes and a fast-paced story. With products like Google Glass making waves in the market, this novel serves as a peek into our possible near future.

EXAMINER.COM - “Just as I was, you will find yourself totally absorbed in the adrenaline rush of developing cutting edge technology, the secret romance that is fed by the closeness that this augmented reality technology provides and the tragedy when human greed becomes involved." HUFFINGTON POST - I got my own personal shot of awe when author Clyde DeSouza asked me to review his "sci-fi" novel, Memories With Maya... Memories With Maya is a magic carpet ride." THE SL ENQUIRER - "There are just enough peaks and valleys to make Memories With Maya a good read for anyone with a good interest in what is possible just a few years from now. And the love interest is a bonus!"

MEMORY OF DESIRE, Amy Tan (Harper/Ecco/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

The Memory of Desire is about the battle for ownership of a house in San Francisco among three families over the last seventy-five years. The narrator is an octogenarian who has had a stroke and finds she can speak only Chinese, the once-forgotten language of her childhood. She can now recall what she heard long ago, the source of the feud, and the reason her memory of it was removed.

** Delivery 2016

Rights sold to: UK (Harper), Spanish (Planeta), Catalan (Edicions 62), Germany (RH), UK (Harper)

MERCY 6, David Bajo (Unbridled Books)

In Mercy 6, David Bajo’s courageous new medical thriller, four people collapse dead in the same instant. Dr. Mendenhall, the woman who is head of the Emergency Room, isn't convinced the cause of death is a contagion though it's in the interests of the hospital to think that it is. Mendenhall has to fight her way to the truth as she develops her understanding that what has taken these lives has global implications … and whatever it is, it’s not a virus.

THE STATE - "Not only is Mercy 6 a compelling read but it also is a story whose plot fits right in with today's headlines." THE GLOBE AND MAIL - “Bajo rarely resorts to pyrotechnic prose, and he never writes a sentence that disappoints the reader.”

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MIRADAR, Ilaria Mavilla (Feltrinelli/Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)

The Miradar’s neon sign shines between the contours of abandoned factories and gas stations. Once quite popular, now it is a dismal restaurant during the day, an hourly hotel if need to be, a club at night. A hiding place for some is an opportunity for others. As in a ballad, characters mix fury, impatience, bitterness and passion. Everyone needs to tell their story. And everyone fights, in his or her own way, to get away from the system that seems to envelop them. Some manage, other succumb.

** Alberto Rollo, Feltrinelli - "What convinced us in Ilaria Mavilla’s novel was the creative surge that unites in the time span of a single day characters characters and events of a world through which a very Pasolinian “desperate vitality” flows."

PANORAMA – “A story of redemption and desperation that never turns into an assertive parable.” La Repubblica – “A bitter story that tastes of blood and sweat, but not without hope or redemption. Well built and well told. With the necessary passion.”

MOSTLY EVERYTHING ALL VERY FAST, Christopher Kloeble (Graywolf)

Kloeble’s first work to be published in English, this is a fresh and exciting novel about an unconventional father- son relationship and a family history full of incest, betrayal, and murder, combined with an oblique take on twentieth-century German history, all told with a mix of great warmth, humor, nostalgia, and horror.

Rights sold to: German (DTV), Hebrew (Keter)

MOVING DAY, Jon Stone (Thomas & Mercer/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

When a con man steals Stanley Peke’s houseful of possessions in a sophisticated moving-day scam, Peke is inevitably reminded of another helpless time: decades ago, he eked out a desperate existence in the war-torn Polish countryside, dodging Nazi soldiers. Now, the seventy-two-year-old Peke must summon his original grit and determination, to track down the thieves, retrieve his things, and restore the life he made for himself.

** Jack Nicholson is reading the book to consider playing Peke role ** Film option: Chockstone

Rights sold to: Italy (Newton), Korea (Opus)

KIRKUS - “As tightly plotted as Stone’s first four novels but with a much stronger rooting interest in a geezer hero who ends up reaching into himself more deeply and disturbingly than he could have imagined.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED – “Crisp, elegant prose distinguishes this exceptional crime thriller from Stone. Readers will cheer this unlikely hero every step of the way.” LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred – “A spellbinding tale . . . A compelling mystery with a moral foundation.” SUSPENSE MAGAZINE – “This is a very frightening tale that’s written so well, the reader will be able to see everything that’s happening in their mind’s eye. The writing is A-one, and the subject is very close to the heart, creating a story that easily affects anyone who reads it. A definite keeper!”

MR. AND MRS. DOCTOR, Julie Iromuanya (Coffee House Press)

At its heart, Mr. and Mrs. Doctor is a debut novel not only about immigration, ambition, and the perils of the American Dream but also about the many compromises and harsh realities that can be encountered on the road to becoming an American.

MURDER AT THE BRIGHTWELL, Ashley Weaver (Minotaur Books/Taryn Fagerness Agency)

A delicious novel in which murder invades polite society and romance springs in unexpected places. This is the first book in a new series.

Rights sold to: British (Allison & Busby)

DEBORAH CROMBIE, New York Times bestselling author - “An elegant Christiesque 1930s romp that will delight fans of Rhys Bowen’s Lady Georgie series with its wit, charm, and strong independent heroine.” 18

NORTH OF BOSTON, Elisabeth Elo (Viking/Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)

Set in New England and the Canadian Arctic, this dark, gorgeously wrought debut thriller bears literary echoes of Peter Hoeg’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow, and features a singular, gripping mystery-thriller plot that smoothly incorporates such far-flung subjects as environmental issues, the fishing industry and the perfume business.

Rights sold to: Germany (Ullstein), France (Belfond), Serbia (Alnari), UK & Commonwealth (Headline), Israel (HaKursa Books), world Spanish (Siruela)

BOOKLIST, starred review - “The character's baldly honest, slightly melancholic reflections and Elo’s use of extreme natural settings will have strong appeal for Scandinavian crime fans. An impressive debut with surprising literary depth” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review - “Elo’s outstanding debut stars an intelligent, confident woman of Russian descent.” THE DAILY MAIL - "This intense, slow-burning literary thriller, Elo’s debut, paints a subtle portrait of a strong and believable heroine... It effortlessly evokes a complex story of suspense and threat that builds to a riveting climax.”

OLEANDER GIRL, Chitra Divakaruni (Simon and Schuster/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

A veritable Indian Jane Austen novel, a Dickens novel moved forward 150 years. On the eve of her wedding, Oleander, having just graduated from an exclusive boarding school in the Darjeeling mountains, and the only heir to a rich and privileged family, learns her grandmother's longheld secret, that both her parents did not perish in an accident as she was told, but that her mother died giving birth to her, and her father is still alive, somewhere in America. She decides she must solve the mystery of their lives.

Rights sold to: US (Free Press/S&S), India (Penguin), Italy (Einaudi), Turkey (Aspendos), Israel (Kinneret)

THE HUFFINGTON POST - "Oleander Girl is a coming of age novel in the best tradition." BOOKREPORTER.COM - "Oleander Girl is a masterpiece, a Dickens novel moved forward 150 years." BOOKLIST, starred review - "Divakaruni has created a superbly well-plotted, charming, yet hard-hitting novel of family, marriage, and class, a veritable Indian Jane Austen novel spiked with racial prejudice and religious violence. Divakaruni has forged another tender, wise, and resonant page-turner." KIRKUS - “The heart of Divakaruni’s cross-cultural novel lies in contemporary Kolkata, India. Like an Indian Maeve Binchy, Divakaruni offers an entertaining [read].” THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE - "For those of us who read to escape the banalities of daily life, Chitra Divakaruni's books are oxygen. She wirtes about India in a way that makes the rest of the world disappear around you." URBANASIAN.COM - “Oleander Girl will keep you captivated from the very first chapter. The twists and turns to the story will make you want to read it in one sitting. Beautifully written." SEATTLE TIMES - "A many-faceted story of discovery... part mystery, part search, but mostly the story of a young girl finding herself and deciding where she belongs." OPRAH.COM - "An orphan teen raised by her grandparents in India finds the love she always searched for, but a newly unearthed family secret may interfere."

ON HURRICANE ISLAND, Ellen Meeropol (Red HenPress)

Told by multiple narrators on both sides of the political divide over five days approaching the anniversary of 9/11, On Hurricane Island is both a fast-faced political thriller and a literary examination of critical issues facing our society. How far should government go in the name of protecting our national security? How free are citizens when governmental powers of surveillance and extra-legal interrogation are expanded?

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OWL AND THE JAPANESE CIRCUS, Kristi Charish (Simon & Schuster CA/Westwood Creative Artists)

Most people go through grad school and get a degree. Alix Hiboux got thrown out for stumbling into the supernatural. Owl is a modern day ‘Indiana Jane’ who reluctantly navigates the hidden supernatural world.

PASTORAL, André Alexis (Coach House Books)

Father Christopher Pennant is sent to the sleepy town of Barrow. With more sheep than people, it is sleepily bucolic. But things aren’t so idyllic for Father Pennant, whose faith is profoundly shaken by the miracles he witnesses: a mayor walking on water, intelligent gypsy moths and a talking sheep.

PARNUCKLIAN FOR CHOCOLATE, B.H. James (Red HenPress)

A fantastically stylish, quirky dark hilarious comedy with hypnotic prose style about growing up as an alien in your own family. It takes pleasure in the absurdities of contemporary life as it’s a story about the secret, solitary lives of kids held hostage by the caprices of their caretakers with a familiar contemporary setting: a culturally desiccated suburbia worshipping at the altar of pop culture.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – “The gradual awakening of a teenager whose mom protects him with a fanciful story as Josiah grows up believing, as his mother tells him, that he is the product of an alien abduction from the planet Parnuckle, whose inhabitants eat chocolate, never sleep, and don’t need to bathe.” BOOKLIST - "A classic naïf, Josiah is reminiscent of Chauncey Gardner in Jerzy Kozinski’s satirical novella, Being There (1970). First novelist James seems to have similar satirical intent in his treatment of family and the condition, in Josiah’s case, of being an outsider."

PIZZERIA INFERNO, Michele Serio (Homo Scrivens/Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)

If you don’t want to question anything in your life, and you’re in search of a bit of harmless reassurance, change book. Otherwise, leave aside every human certainty and embark yourselves on this challenge. Naples, 1980s. Carla is an advertising agent, separated from her deadbeat husband and in love with her far away father. Her life is totally upset when one night she feels an unsettling presence touching her.

Rights sold to: France (Métailié), Greece (Perugia)

NICCOLÒ AMMANITI - “Don’t miss this book, it’s the work of a mad man but definitely worth the read.”

RADIOMORTE/DEATHRADIO, Gianluca Morozzi (Guanda/Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)

A family of four arrives at the radio headquarters in the industrial area of a unspecified city. The father of the family, Fabbio Colla, has reached success with a manual on a happy family in times of crisis. Once inside the radio headquarters they are met by Kristel, a very pleasant punk girl. The interview begins but soon it starts to take a strange turn. Kristel becomes a bit aggressive and insolent so Fabio gets up infuriated, intent upon leaving. He is not able to: the door of the room is locked. At this point the young punk throws off her mask: before dawn, for reasons she doesn’t intend to reveal, one of the four they themselves will have to chose will die. In the hours that follow, dark family secrets will be revealed and tough decisions made that will tear the family apart.

** Bestselling author: over 100.000 copies sold in Italy with each of his books!

LA STAMPA - “The Italian Irvine Welsh.”

RE JANE, Patricia Park (Viking/Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)

A brilliantly written, tragicomic retelling of Jane Eyre, Re Jane is the story of Jane Re, a young Korean-American who unravels the tangled truth of her family origins, falls in love, and—in a journey that whisks her from Brooklyn to the Gangnam district of Seoul and back to Astoria, discovers herself. Re Jane deftly weaves in details of Charlotte Bronte’s masterpiece and yet departs from it in fascinating, masterful ways.

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REPUBLIC OF DIRT, Susan Juby (HarperCollinsCA/Westwood Creative Artists)

Prudence Burns is an overly idealistic Brooklyn girl who has inherited a derelict plot of land named Woefield Farm. Her motley crew of farm hands consists of Earl, an elderly, reclusive bluegrass legend; Seth, an agoraphobic, heavy metal blogger in early recovery; and Sara, an 11-year-old girl with a flock of elite show poultry. Told in four highly distinct, unforgettably hilarious, and sometimes heartbreaking voices, Republic of Dirt is about what happens when passions collide with pride and what it takes to save each other, our small part of the planet, and ourselves.

** By the author of HOME TO WOEFIELD, a hilarious, wildly original, and wonderfully insightful tale of no-so-ordinary life down on the farm.

SEAL WOMAN Solveig Eggerz (Unbridled Books)

An extraordinarily beautiful saga that links sure-footed portraits of wartime Berlin and the severity of life in the Icelandic countryside. When World War II began, Charlotte was attached to a supremely talented but politically furious painter in Berlin. But she would lose him twice: first to the resistance and then to the camps. More wounding for Charlotte, however, is the unforgiving trace of their daughter, Lena, who at 5 years old tragically disappeared into the chaos of the War.

Rights sold to: Iceland (Margmiðlun Jóhannesar og Sigurjóns), Israel (Schocken)

ROBERT BAUSCH - “Impossible to put down. Charlotte’s secrets will haunt you for a long time.” MARGOT LIVESEY - “In this fierce and poignant novel, Solveig Eggerz deftly transports her readers between Germany and Iceland as her heroine struggles to come to terms with her past and her present. A beautiful and suspenseful debut.”

SECOND CHANCE, Sian James (Seren Books)

This passionate story, told with skill and symphathy, tells of Kate Rivers, who has it all: London life, successful acting career and caring lover Paul. So why, when she is called back to her Welsh home, are her past and her present so hard to deal with? Where is Paul when she needs him? And is an affair with her handsome cousin Rhydian a second chance at happiness or just a dangerous infatuation?

SUNDAY TIMES – “ A superb ear for dialogue and a marksman’s eye for revealing detail.”

SPHERES OF DISTURBANCE, Amy Schutzer (Red Hen Press)

A haunting, sensual, and brilliantly cunning novel about America’s impossible need to deny death. By turns haunting, sensual, and brilliantly cunning, Spheres of Disturbance explores how we can bear to approach, or even choose, our inevitable end.

CAROL GUESS, author of Doll Studies - “Spheres of Disturbance is a book the way books were when people got lost in them, lost hours and days in pages. It’s beautiful and musical and wise and curious, like your first trip to a library: go.” JOANNA ROSE, author of Little Miss Strange - “Amy Schutzer’s characters are ordinary people trying to find their way to each other through the complexities of love, birth, and death.”

STUDIES IN THE HEREAFTER, Sean Bernard (Red Hen Press)

A warm and witty debut about a bored bureaucrat in heaven's afterlife who compiles reports on the living. Heaven isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and disillusioned he finds his one saving grace in his Field Studies: detailed reports he compiles on the living to determine their best fit in his world. When people start going missing from heaven for no apparent reason, the narrator learns that Field Study 62 may hold the key to explaining the disappearances.

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SVAHA, Pratik Kamat (Westland IN/Siyahi Literary Consulting)

Svaha is a gripping thriller featuring characters from India’s mythological past, its political present and the uncertain future.

TAKING MORGAN, David Rose (Quartet Books UK/Jill Grinberg Literary Management)

David Rose, an acclaimed investigative journalist using all his hard-won experience in the Middle East, has written a thriller that is arresting and believable, its grit and brutality and machinations grounded in reality. The Gaza Strip is the perfect setting for a labyrinthine political thriller.

** Fans of Homeland and Zero Dark Thirty, will enjoy the novel

Rights sold to: Bulgaria (Era Media)

MAIL ON SUNDAY - "A compelling thriller and an invaluable guide to the most intractable conflict on Earth." THE TIMES UK - "David Rose has fashioned a tense, fast-moving work of fiction. [The plot] takes many interesting twists and turns, made the more convincing by Rose’s obvious mastery of his subject." DAILY MAIL - "Written by an acclaimed investigative journalist, using all his hard-won experience in the Middle East, this debut is based on a string of real events that bring it a refreshing authenticity. You can almost taste the dust of the streets, smell the explosions, and feel the fear that grips his female protagonist Morgan Cooper." SUNDAY TIMES - "Among the novel's strengths are the author's in-depth knowledge of the region and its political complexities." THE GUARDIAN - "Rose shuttles frantically but effectively between different worlds, ratcheting up the tension." THE OBSERVER - "A smartly paced political thriller."

TELL, Frances Itani (HarperCollinsCA/Westwood Creative Artists)

A tour de force about the aftermath of the Great War: a novel of secrets withheld and secrets revealed, from the author of the Commonwealth Prize-winning international sensation Deafening. Tell is a deeply moving, emotionally rich story about the burdens of the past. Told with narrative power and grace, it is a beautifully rendered reminder that the secrets we bury to protect ourselves can also be the cause of our undoing, and that each of us must decide what to share and what to hide.

** Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize

Rights sold to: US (Grove/Atlantic)

TORONTO STAR - “Masterful… To read Tell is to drop seamlessly into the lives of [characters] so vivid and well drawn readers will celebrate their victories and cry alongside their anguish… A triumph of the human spirit that resonates almost physically in the reader… Evocative and indelible.” WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - “[Itani] once again illustrates that good storytelling is not dead.”

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THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING, Elyse Friedman (HarperCollins CA/Westwood Creative Artists)

John Aarons is a perpetually broke artist who knows how to seize an opportunity when he spies one. He meets Amy, who has a surprisingly affordable penthouse with a rooftop patio and a full fridge, and also has a pot smoking neighbour, Eldrich, who is philosophically inclined to share. As John avails himself of Eldrich’s weed along with his food and wine, he notices that these staples are provided gratis by a steady stream of visitors who rely on Eldrich for spiritual guidance. That’s when John, artist and misanthrope, decides to start a new-age cult with Eldrich as guru. And so The Answer Institute is born. This is a literary tragicomedy about an atheist, an agnostic, a believer, and the magazine writer who tries to understand how a new-age cult went obscenely wrong.

ELLE CANADA - "Manages to explore the meaning of life while being ridiculously funny." FASHION - "Hilarious and thought-provoking…will leave you satisfied with the knowledge that even if there’s no real answer, the fun is always in the questions." THE TORONTO STAR - "Tragicomedy at its best. Friedman’s new novel accomplishes something extraordinary. The innovative narrative combines multiple, sometimes contrary perspectives that feel like oral testimonies, philosophical musings posted on flyers, email and Twitter exchanges and even a five-thousand-word magazine expose with reader comments to boot." LYNN CROSBIE - “Friedman is one of a very small group of addictively readable, lyrical, fiercely intelligent and funny writers.” GIL ADAMSON - “A compelling, modern tragicomic novel that betrays a deep empathy while it delights in human foibles.” MELANIE LITTLE - “A compelling proof that Elyse Friedman is one of Canada’s best and most crucial writers. Both cynical and searching, it’s a hilarious yet deeply moving portrait of an upstart cult gone wrong.” MELANIE LITTLE, author - "One of Canada’s best and most crucial writers. Both cynical and searching, hilarious yet deeply moving, it drew me in from page one." LYNN CROSBIE - "Friedman is one of a very small group of addictively readable, lyrical, fiercely intelligent and funny writers."

THE BALTIMORE ATROCITIES, John Dermot Woods (Coffee House Press)

An illustrated collection of deaths, dramas, and disasters, wrapped around an investigation into two mysterious disappearances. The Baltimore Atrocities is an extended joke without a punchline, a story that compels and then refuses the pleasures of a tidy ending, and an old-fashioned fable about the dangerous compulsions that can result from a barely remembered loss.

MATT BELL - “John Dermot Woods’s stunningly illustrated novel is one of the most intelligent and moving books you’re likely to read this year.”

THE BARCELONA CONNECTION. THE ADVENTURES OF AN ART DETECTIVE, Timn Parfitt (Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)

On the eve of world leaders arriving in Barcelona for a G20 summit, art detective Benjamin Burke is also dispatched to the city to authenticate a long lost Salvador Dalí painting. Animal rights extremists, however, have kidnapped a famous bullfighter in nearby South of France, and embark on a deadly rampage in their quest for world media attention during the G20.

** $6m English-language feature film being shot in late Autumn 2014, in Barcelona, Florida and the UK, with major Hollywood attachments.

Film rights sold to: Maravilla Pictures

THE BLACK HILLS, Rod Thompson (Berkley Penguin US/International Transactions)

This is a page-turning Western tale, replete with the expected feel and texture of the old West intermixed with unexpected plot twists, dotted with moments of true history, and supporting a love. Cormac Lynch was just a young boy when tragedy struck. Now, to avenge his family's murder, he must become a gunslinger.

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THE BOOK OF COLORS, Raymond Barfiel (Unbridled Books)

The Book of Colors is the powerful story of an abandoned young woman named Yslea, who grows quickly from wishing she were dead to being a young matriarch within the strange little family she creates in three bare shacks by the railroad spine leading out of Memphis, Tennessee.

** This debut novel is the arrival of a remarkable literary voice whose already earning amazing praises

CATHY LANGER, bookseller - "A gem of a novel. I cried at the end, which I almost never do, not because it was sad but because it was so sweet and clear and beautifully written...different in a really wonderful way. I can also see it as a play,with the simplicity of the setting allowing all human experiences to unfold without interference. " WAYNE CALDWELL, bestselling author - “A remarkable debut told by a young woman whose nearly-perfect voice evokes Flannery O'Connor's characters when they are simultaneously in a state of chaos and grace.”

THE BLUE GIRL, Laurie Foos (Coffee House Press)

A novel about mothers and daughters. In a small lakeside town, there are rumors of a silent girl with blue skin. By night, she haunts the woods; by day, she repeatedly tries to drown herself in the lake. Upon witnessing one such attempt, three mothers are paralyzed with fear, leaving the mysterious girl’s life in the hands of their three daughters. The Blue Girl once again showcases Foos’s skill in making fantastical elements ring true.

Praise for Laurie Foos: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY - “Foos is a writer who’s going places.” NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - “Laurie Foos can shape a novel out of just about anything. Her voice is a bold and tuneful guide in a world where nothing seems to fit.” MS. MAGAZINE - “Foos goes for the baroque, surreal and witty.”

THE COOK, THE CROOK, AND THE REAL ESTATE TYCOON, Liu Zhenyun (Arcadia Skyhorse/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

Liu Zhenyun paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super-rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption. A critique of the dark side of China’s predatory capitalism, corruption, and the plight of the underclasses.

** 1.2 million copies sold in China and 7 foreign sales of his previous novel, I DIDN'T KILL MY HUSBAND

THE EMPEROR’S WRITINGS, Dirk Collier (Amaryllis IN/Siyahi Literary Consulting)

An admirably researched historical novel and written in a magnificently evocative, compelling prose,The Emperor’s Writings’ narrates the true story of Akbar‘s life and times: his swift and spectacular rise to absolute power, amidst strife and intrigues, and often against overwhelming odds; his remarkably modern vision of a prosperous, diverse and tolerant India; and his eventful personal life.

Rights sold to: Southeast Asia (Amaryllis), Belgium and Netherlands (Lannoo)

THE SUNDAY INDIAN – “It is seldom that one comes across such all encompassing writing on Indian historical figures. This one is a sure shot winner.” TIMES OF INDIA – “Stepping into the soul of India.” THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – “Mr. Collier thinks the example of Akbar is particularly important today—a Muslim ruler who was interested in other religions and sought to learn from different faiths at a time when religious wars were the norm…” THE HINDU – “The Emperor's Writing provides insight into the art of war during the 16th century.” MUMBAI MIRROR – “The Emperor's Letters, a fictional autobiography of Akbar the Great is Belgian bibliophile Dirk Collier's attempt at recreating the universe of the greatest Muslim ruler of all times.” ASIAN AGE – “Enchanting” DR. A P J ABDUL KALAM, Former President of India – “A well documented book, painstakingly prepared…” EPIC INDIA MAGAZINE – “Collier has managed to capture in this fictionalised autobiography the spirit of those tumultuous days when the Afghan rulers of Hindustan were being replaced by Turkomen and other Central Asian raiders…”

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THE EVER AFTER OF ASHWIN RAO, Padma Viswanathan (RandomHouse CA/Westwood Creative Artists)

From the internationally acclaimed Padma Viswanathan, comes a stunning new work set among the families of those who lost loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing, registering the unexpected reverberations of this tragedy in the lives of its survivors. The Ever After of Ashwin Rao imagines the lasting emotional and political consequences of a real-life act of terror, confronting what we might learn to live with and what we can live without.

** Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize

Rights sold to: India (Westland)

THE GLASS HOUSE David Rotenberg (Simon & Schuster CA/Westwood Creative Artists)

The cinematic conclusion to the Junction Chronicles series that fans have been waiting for. Decker Roberts was born with a gift: he always knows when you’re telling the truth. Over time, however, that gift has become a burden. Struggling to find his way, Decker has retreated into isolation in Namibia. But a man like Decker can only live off the grid for so long before someone comes looking.

** David Rotenberg is the artistic director of the internationally renowned Professional Actors Lab.

On the series: THE GLOBE AND MAIL “… A slick and readable thriller with great characters… And lots of action.” QUILL & QUIRE - “… A thoughtful, challenging novel masquerading as a thriller.”

THE IRON DRUID CHRONICLES, Kevin Hearne (Del Rey US/Jill Grinberg Literary Management)

** The final 3 books in the series**

For nearly two thousand years, only one Druid has walked the Earth—Atticus O’Sullivan, the Iron Druid, whose sharp wit and sharp sword have kept him alive as he’s been pursued by a pantheon of hostile deities in HOUNDED, HEXED, HAMMERED, TRICKED, TRAPPED and HUNTED. The final three books of the wildly popular New York Times bestselling series, published in hardcover, one year apart, will take readers on a breathless ride to Atticus’s final showdown with his enemies, a showdown that just may bring about the end of the world.

** A brilliant new voice in urban fantasy that has won comparisons to Patrick Rothfuss (The Name Of The Wind) and Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files), with great crossover potential for fans of genre or just lovers of great stories ** Series: - #7 SHATTERED, #8 STAKED and #9 SCOURGED - #1 HOUNDED, #2 HEXED, #3 HAMMERED, #4 TRICKED, #5 TRAPPED, #6 HUNTED

Rights sold to: Fanucci (Italy, 1-3), Rebis (Polish, 1-6), Tatthata (Thai, 1-9), Klett- Cotta (German, 1-3), Laser (Czech, 1-6), Artemis (Turkish, 1-9), Minotauro (Spanish, 1-3), Gaea (Simplified Chinese, 1-6), Hayakawa Shobo (Japanese, 1-3), Konyvmolykepzo (Hungarian, 1-3)

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred review - “A superb urban fantasy debut.” LIBRARY JOURNAL - “A snappy narrative voice makes this series opener a savvy urban fantasy adventure that should appeal to fans of Celtic and other mythologies.” SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER - “It’s the humor and sarcasm that really stole the show for me. It’s that kind of juxtaposition of practicality and amusement that made me literally laugh out loud while reading portions of the book.” FANTASY BOOK CRITIC - “The Iron Druid Chronicles has been receiving praise all over the blogosphere. Praise that is richly deserved considering the series’s memorable characters, entertaining humor, and surprising, action-packed story.”

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THE JUGGLER, Sebastian Beaumont (UK Myrmidon/Allied Authors Agency)

The eagerly awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed début Thirteen shows that it can live up to the promise raised. The author weaves another compulsive and bizarre tale of fractured reality: of a world both seductive and menacing, where nothing is quite as it seems.

THE KEYS OF BABYLON, Robert Minhinnick (Seren Books)

All over the world people are on the move, searching for a better life. In this collection of interlinked short stories the author draws the individual narratives together, at the same hour on one same momentous day, so we encounter the same characters one final time.

JIM PERRIN – “The finest writer working in any genre in Wales today.” SEAN O’BRIEN – “The leading Welsh poet of his generation.”

THE LAST TITANIC STORY, Christopher Angus (Iguana/International Transactions)

What could possibly connect the famous sinking of the Titanic in 1912 with a WW II German U-boat loaded with a mysterious cargo? Chris Angus crafts a compelling tale that brings together a past of lost treasure, shipwrecked survivors and survival in the harsh climate of Greenland with a present of high-stakes international thievery, murder, and neo-Nazi machinations.

THE LITTLE GIRL AND THE OLD MAN, Marie-Renée Lavoie (Éditions Hurtubise)

Helen, alias Joe, would rather be a boy and get into all kinds of adventures, like Lady Oscar, her favourite comic- strip heroine. In the working-class neighbourhood where she and her family live, she makes friends with a new neighbour, Mister Roger, an old man who drinks like a fish, swears like a sailor and dreams of dying.

** Grand Prix de la relève littéraire Archambault 2011 (best first novel published in Quebec) ** 20.000 copies sold only in Quebec

LE DEVOIR – “A moving novel, human and funny, with extraordinary poetry and tenderness.’’ ENTRE LES LIGNES – “A rare success for a first novel: masterful writing and colourful language… inexhaustible tenderness which touches us profoundly. A pleasure from start to finish.’’

Rights sold to: Canada English (Anansi), France (Denoël), Germany (Hanser)

THE MEANING OF NAMES, Karen Shoemaker (Red Hen Press)

Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning of Names is the story of an ordinary woman trying to raise a family during extraordinary times. A consuming tale of one family’s confrontation with the violence and hatred that swept across America during the First Great War for Peace.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “Shoemaker crafts eminently realistic characters; her descriptions of unreasonable fear and hatred are particularly effective.” AMY HASSINGER, author of The Priest’s Madonna - “Shoemaker’s novel is an essential read for anyone who cares about the Midwest, about its demanding landscape, its rich and tragic history, and its remarkable, breathtaking beauty.” LEE MARTIN, author of The Bright Forever - “The Meaning of Names is a hauntingly tender story set in Nebraska during World War I. Against this grim backdrop, Karen Gettert Shoemaker weaves an enduring story of faith, family, and love.” LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR - "Shoemaker writes with even, rhythmic, beautifully colored prose... a book of big themes, true history and serious art."

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THE MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT, Indu Sundaresan (Atria S&S/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

Indu Sundaresan has brought history to life in this well-researched novel tracing the story of the 186-carat Kohinoor diamond, called the Mountain of Light, people would kill to possess. The book tells the fascinating story of how the diamond travels from the hands of the king of Afghanistan to the arm of Queen Victoria during the early years of India’s colonization by the British.

** Film: Taj Trilogy is in production for television series in India with Epic Films

Rights sold to: India (Harper)

SEATTLE TIMES - “Touching and vividly descriptive” BOOKLIST - “With a strong eye for detail and a great talent for dramatization, Sundaresan has composed an epic tale of a coveted jewel and its place in India’s rich history.”

THE PECULIAR LIFE OF A LONELY POSTMAN (aka THE POSTMAN ROUND, Denis Thériault (Hesperus/Allied Authors Agency)

A passionate and elegant tale, comic and tragic with a love story at its heart. Philosophical, rich in description and detail, this short, astonishing, tragicomic love, full of twists and turns cannot fail to move. The novel conjures up the solitary daily life of Bilodo, a postman who shares a Montreal apartment with his goldfish, Bill. As a result of his indiscretion (steaming open personal correspondence), Bilodo becomes involved in an exchange of letters between a Guadeloupean beauty, and Gaston Grandpre, a rather eccentric intellectual whose mail Bilodo delivers. Funny, subtle, and original.

** The publisher of THE 100 YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED acquired world English rights even having been already published in Canada

Rights sold to: UK (Hesperus), Spanish & Catalan (Urano), Portugal (Clube do Autor), French Canada (XYZ editeur), English Canada (Dundurn), Germany (DTV Verlag), China (Shanghai Joint Pub. Co), Taiwan (Business Weekly Pub)

Film rights sold to: Solofilms, Canada

LE DEVOIR – “The Postman’s Round is a captivating philosophical tale, full of powerful imagination. Denis Theriault proves to be a fabulous storyteller.” QUILL & QUIRE - "A short, easily digested, and often funny novel which humour does not detract from its thematic concerns: fate, obsession, the power of language, and love. The Postman’s Round is a delightful and engrossing book."

THE PINCH, Steve Stern (Graywolf)

A wildly inventive novel set in Memphis’s once thriving Jewish community in the 1960s. Lenny Sklarew, who works in a second-hand bookstore, discovers by chance that he is a character in a book set in the Pinch by Muni Pinsker, who arrived in the neighborhood at its height. Stern interweaves their tales with an ingenious structure that merges past with present.

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THE RED PRINCESS series, Lisa See (HarperCollins/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

The bestselling Red Princess thrillers aren't just riveting crime stories; they're novels of emotional depth and savvy insight into modern China. At the heart of Lisa See's dynamic, suspenseful trilogy is the relationship between detective Liu Hulan and American attorney David Stark, two characters caught in the crush of international affairs. When ancient myths clash with modern technology, the results can be murder.

 #1 FLOWER NET PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review - "This debut thriller is a standout…Complex and exciting. Cleverly confounds reader's expectations." WASHINGTON POST - "Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the public façade." PEOPLE - "High voltage sexual sparks…Murder and intrigue splash across the canvas of modern Chinese life…A vivid portrait of a vast Communist nation in the painful throes of a sea change…" BOOKLIST - "Proclaims See's considerable talents as a novelist, skillfully blending suspenseful storytelling, romantic intrigue, and stirring plot twists." LOS ANGELES TIMES - "A graceful rendering of two different and complex cultures, within a highly intricate plot." NEW YORK TIMES - "Colorful… She has done her homework… Hulan is a provocative mix of vulnerability, bitterness and hardheaded practicality."

 #2 THE INTERIOR THE NEW YORK TIMES - "Lisa See is one of the classier practitioners of that ready-for-Hollywood genre, the international thriller. She draws her characters with convincing depth, and offers up documentary social detail." BOOKLIST - "[An] unflinching portrait [of] modern-day China." THE GUARDIAN - "A unique read. A thriller with a heart." THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE - "[See's] true ambition is not simply to entertain (which she does) but to illuminate the exotic society that is contemporary China, and to explore the consequences ‚ present and future ‚ of its growing partnership with the United States." THE LOS ANGELES TIMES - "Sophisticated." WASHINGTON POST - "An insightful guide to both Chinese corruption and those who resist it."

 # 3 DRAGONS BONES WASHINGTON POST - "Most memorable for its exploration of Chinese history at the distant point where it fades into myth." HA JIN, author of Waiting - "Not only a page turner but timely. Mixing history, myths, and current events, it is an extraordinarily rich novel." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - "[A] complex, atmospheric thriller."

THE REST OF US, Jessica Lott (Simon and Schuster/Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)

A gorgeous literary debut about second chances, The Rest of Us is an indelible love story that explores the legacy of an affair between a young student and her older professor. Set in New York’s vibrant art world, The Rest of Us is a captivating read and is as much a love letter to the city and the struggles of its artists as it is a sharp and stirring novel of the heart.

Rights sold to: France (Flammarion)

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – “This is a finely wrought story, insightfully detailing the anguish of intense love and the struggles of an aspiring artist, but for some readers it may be almost too painful to enjoy.” BOOKLIST - “The Rest of Us is a deeply moving May-December love story as well as a fascinating look into the mind and soul of a struggling artist. A well-written, deeply satisfying read, Lott’s story is a thoughtful exploration of what it means to bring our dreams to life and an important reminder of the courage it takes to do so.”

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THE RETURN. A TITAN NOVEL, Jennifer Armentrout (Spencer Hill Press /Taryn Fagerness Agency)

Number 1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer's YA paranormal is huge, and now she brings her paranormal talents to New Adult in this sexy and gripping spin-off to her Covenant series. One minute, Seth and Josie are fighting their own sexual tension, the next, they’re fighting blood-sucking demons in this heart- pounding read.

** #1 New York Times bestselling author! ** Spin-off from The Covenant series

Rights sold to: British (Hodder) Rights for the Covenant series: British (Hodder), France (J’ai Lu), Germany (cbt/Random House), Spain (Ediciones Kiwi), Turkey (Dogan Egmont)

THE SECRETS OF LAKE ROAD, Karen Katchur (Thomas Dunne, St. Martin's/Taryn Fagerness Agency)

A novel about the destructive power of secrets—about those who keep secrets from their family...and those who keep secrets from themselves. In this multiple-POV literary suspense a mother and daughter’s summer in the mountains ends in tragedy, while at the same time unearths a decades old mystery, devastating the lives of two separate families.

SARA FOSTER, author - “Drenched in atmosphere, mysterious and haunting, The Secrets of Lake Road dives deep into a community’s secrets and shows how love and heartache can be equally binding KELLY SIMMONS, author - “The rhythms of a summer community, the tensions of an unsolved crime, and the thrumming undertow of adolescence come together in this sparkling debut. Beautifully paced from captivating beginning to satisfying end.” KATHRYN CRAFT, author -“Nostalgia wrestles tragedy in this haunting tale.”

THE SHADOW QUEEN, Sandra Gulland (HarperCollins CA/Westwood Creative Artists)

The Shadow Queen is the story of Claudette des Oellets, the impoverished and socially scorned daughter of itinerant actors who nevertheless rises to become the confidential attendant to the most powerful woman in the 17th century court: Madame de Montespan, mistress of the charismatic king, also known as the Shadow Queen.

** SANDRA GULLAND’s bestselling Josephine B. trilogy has sold over a million copies worldwide, been published in seventeen languages, and been optioned for a television miniseries written by Michael Hirst (The Tudors, Elizabeth).

Rights sold to: US (Doubleday), Bulgaria (Colibri), Romania (Litera)

TASHA ALEXANDER - "Sandra Gulland's latest will remind readers why they fall in love with the past. Gulland uses her meticulous research with consummate skill, rendering vivid the luxury and squalor of Louis XIV's France and breathing life into fully formed characters that tug at the heart. Masterful." MELANIE BENJAMIN, author of The Aviator’s Wife - "The Shadow Queen is an epic feast for the senses with a cast of characters that includes Moliere, Racine, and the Sun King himself, Louis XIV. With this exhilarating exploration of the years of Louis’s reign, full of exquisite details and memorable characters, Sandra Gulland proves herself a master of not only storytelling but stagecraft and illusion, as well." M.J. ROSE, author of The Book Of Lost Fragrances - "From the first page you know you are in the hands of a master storyteller. I just don't think anyone does it better than Gulland -this book is lyrical, fascinating and seeped in history, drama and emotion. Truly magnificent and an absolute joy to read." CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN, author of The Painted Girls - "Fascinating and rich in historical detail, The Shadow Queen brings a captivating glimpse into the theatre, court life and black arts of 17th C Paris." ANIA SZADO, author of Studio Saint-Ex - "The Shadow Queen is a quick-paced, captivating tale of 17th Century France— from the dramas and destitutions of life in the theatre, to the intrigues and ruthlessness of the royal court—and of the wrenching conflict between familial bonds and the sacrifices a young woman must make to survive and thrive." ADRIENNE MCDONNELL, author of The Doctor And The Diva - "The Shadow Queen is told through a fascinating perspective -that of the personal attendant and closest confidante of Louis XIV's all-powerful mistress. The story straddles two worlds, the competitive arena of 17th century French theater and the opulent yet treacherous court of the Sun King. The characters are magnetic and the pace will dazzle you."

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ANNE EASTER SMITH, author of Royal Mistress and A Rose for the Crown - "A must-read for anyone passionate about the theater and hungry for more of Sandra Gulland's masterful depictions of life at the court of the Sun King." C.W. GORTNER, author of The Queen's Vow - "Sandra Gulland is one of our most gifted historical novelists and once again, she does not disappoint."

THE TENZING NORBU MYSTERIES, Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsey (Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

Growing up in a Tibetan Monastery, Ten dreamed of becoming a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. So when he was sent to Los Angeles to teach meditation, he joined the LAPD instead. But as the Buddha says, change is inevitable; and ten years later, everything is about to change-big-time—for Ten.

THE WITCH OF BELLADONNA BAY, Suzanne Palmieri (St. Martin’s Press/Taryn Fagerness Agency)

Suzanne Palmieri skillfully blends fantasy and realism in this touching, suspenseful novel that proves you can’t escape the past. With its richness and complexity, it will be difficult for even the most skeptical reader not to believe in the magic of the world that Palmieri has created.

** By the acclaimed author of THE WITCH OF LITTLE ITALY, sold to Italy (Garzanti, preempt), Brazil (Lafonte), Spain (Duomo)

THIRTEEN, Sebastian Beaumont (UK Myrmidon/Allied Authors Agency)

Stephen Bardot is a taxi driver working on the night shift in Brighton. He works such long shifts that he is often driving while exhausted, and it is then that he starts to experience major alterations to his perception of reality.

** An acclaimed cult novel almost overnight, resulting in a solid 5 star Amazon ranking

Rights sold to: Italy (Fanucci), France (Timee Editions), Spain (Laocoonte Editorial), Korea (Polabooks)

THE TIMES, Kate Saunders - "Thirteen, combines a vast experienceof human nature with intelligence and imagination."

TI LASCIO PER ULTIMO / I WILL LEAVE YOU FOR THE LAST, Andrea Fiorenza (Gallucci/Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)

A complex psychological novel about Musolino, the infamous brigand, based on accurate research.

TROTULA, Paola Presciuttini (Meridiano Zero/Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)

A fascinating literary portrait of a fundamental figure in the history of medicine, obstetrics and gynecology. One of the many great female figures forgotten by History. Trotula grows up a curious child. When her mother dies of childbirth, she shows her true vocation: she wants to know how the woman died. This curiosity soon develops into a real passion for medicine, to which she dedicates her life.

** Third printing ** Every female doctor or any gynecologist should read being it Trotula the (historical) predecessor of them all.

Rights sold to: Germany (btb/Random House)

IL MATTINO DI SALERNO - "Paola Presciuttini, Florentine, encountered this figure (Trotula) and fell in love with her story, behind which there is a fundamental revolution in the history of medicine." LA REPUBBLICA - "To homage Trotula, Paola Presciuttini concentrated on creating credible backdrops, actions and thoughts, on plausibility. Without being pedantic, she filters everything through the underlying passion that is her powerful trademark. As always the presence of the body is very strong. Not only in a physical form, but above all as a threshold between being and reality, an often impassable boundary that Trotula determinedly stretches or breaks down, in the name of equality and respect. LA REPUBBLICA (NAPOLI) - "Paola Presciuttini gives the reader a vivid and documented portrait of a medieval, but extremely modern, woman who contributed to give luster to the Salerno medical school."

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VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT, Amy Tan (Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

Set against the backdrop of Shanghai and San Francisco from 1890 to 1939, Amy Tan takesus into the lives of an elite Chinese-American courtesan in Shanghai.

Rights sold to: Canada (HarperCollins), Catalan (Edicions 62), Germany (Goldmann), Poland (Proszynski), Spain (Planeta), UK (HarperCollins), US (Ecco), UK (Harper), Croatia (Polirom), Brazil (Planeta)

LIBRARY JOURNAL – “Tan introduces us to an extensive cast of well-drawn, authentic-seeming characters. (...) If the sex in this tale is not graphic, it is certainly frank—and abundant. And well done. This utterly engrossing novel is highly recommended to all readers who appreciate an author’s ability to transport them to a new world they will not forget.

WHAT BURNS AWAY, Melissa Falcon Field (Sourcebooks /Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)

A dark, slow-burning novel. Claire Spruce's husband Miles has recently accepted a position far from the beloved New England shore town Claire had always called home. Having abandoned her own promising career, she and her husband grow increasingly estranged amid the pressures and tedium of everyday life. When her high-school love Dean D’Alessio contacts her on Facebook, Claire is drawn by unresolved emotions back into a deeply complex past she’d assumed was far behind her.

** A rich, beautifully rendered novel of domestic suspense that will appeal to fans of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl

SARAH BRAUNSTEIN, author - "This novel is captivating... it moves fast, doesn't let you catch your breath, and leaves you shaken." BILL ROORBACH, author - "A new mom's fiery first love is back, and he challenges all she's built for herself, revealing the fragility of suburban dreams."

WHEN JOSS MET MATT, Ellie Cahill (Ballentine/Taryn Fagerness Agency)

Reminiscent of a New Adult When Harry Met Sally, this one has such a fantastic built up; Joss and Matt pledge to be friends and just use each other for sex between break ups, but of course they fall in love. Friends with Benefits with a twist

Rights sold to: Germany (VGS)

WHEN THE SAINTS, Sarah Mian (HarperCollinsCA/Westwood Creative Artists)

A decade after being cast off to live with strangers, Tabby Saint returns to Solace River, Nova Scotia, to find her childhood home is dilapidated and deserted. Told through characters whose hard edges hide hungry hearts, When the Saints is the story of a family of outsiders whose redemption might be found in what they longed to escape: each other. When the Saints is a wise, funny, sad, flinty, thoughtful, and self-assured debut about the hardscrabble world of a family of misfits.

PADMA VISWANATHAN, author - “When the Saints is a page-turner full of frankly enviable lines, but Sarah Mian is musing on deep matters: the nature of historical damage in families… A Winter’s Bone for Nova Scotia.”

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● NON FICTION ●

20 TIPS FOR PARENTS. THE REALISTIC GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING AND SHAPING YOUR CHILD'S BEHAVIOUR, K. Oates (Finch Publishing)

This practical and down-to-earth book examines many of the common concerns that parents have in managing their children’s behaviour. Catering from toddlers to early adolescence, Kim Oates’s main message is for parents to focus on being a ‘good enough’ parent.

A RELIGION OF ONE’S OWN, Thomas Moore (Gotham US/Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)

Moore teaches us to arrange the elements of our daily lives into an individual spiritual journey. For agnostics, atheists, seekers, and religious devotees alike, Moore offers an alternative: a religion inspired by the practices of formal traditions but built around ordinary yet soulful activities like arranging flowers or baking bread. A unique guide to rediscovering deep, personal meaning in the modern world by embracing secular life as a religion in its own right.

** The riveting sequel to Moore’s classic New York Times bestseller CARE OF THE SOUL, sold to 25 countries

Rights sold to: world Spanish (Urano)

Rights of his last book sold to: UK (HarperCollins UK; Piatkus), the Netherlands (Servire), Brazil (Editora Siciliano), Argentina (Ediciones Urano), Canada (Flammarion Itee), Poland (Jacek Santorski), Sweden (Robert Larsons), Israel (Opus), Italy (Frassinnelli; Sperling & Kupfer), Germany (Droemer; Claudius Verlag), Chinese complex (Trends), Chinese simple (Jilin People’s Publishing), Spain (Grupo Zeta), Bulgaria (Aratron), Indonesia (Binorupa Aksara), Denmark (Borgens), the Czech Republic (Cesky Rohlas Praha; Nakladatelstvi Portal), Portugal (Circulo de Leitores; Planeta Editorial), Slovakia (Gardenia), Norway (J.W. Cappelens), Japan (Keizaikai), Serbia (Mali Vrt), Greece (Patakis), Korea (Sohaksa; Achim)

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BECOMING THE BOSS. NEW RULES FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS, Lindsey Pollak (Harper/Taryn Fagerness Agency)

Generation Y—the largest and most highly educated generation in history—is ready to lead! There are plenty of books on the market that teach business readers how to manage Generation Y (a.k.a. Millennials), the youngest members of the workforce today. But, as a Gen Y would say, that topic is so over. Generation Y is growing up and moving into leadership. The largest and most highly educated generation in world history, their leadership will have a profound impact on the next several decades. The time has come to stop telling people how to manage Generation Y and start teaching Generation Y how to become great leaders themselves.

Foreign sales: Russia (Exmo), Brazil (Pensamento)

ARCHITECT’S ALMANAC. FROM AN IDEA BY RENZO PIANO, Renzo Piano et al. (Gabriella Ambrosioni Literary Agency)

A journey into architecture designed by Renzo Piano, in between art and technique of building. The book is "built" as a trip he makes with his son Carlo, a journalist, flying on a balloon, "to see things from above".One really reads it like a tale for everybody. The book is a compendium of contemporary architecture history and practice, which arises from the worldwide experience of Piano, one of the best known and most active architects in the five continents. His adventure gained momentum in Paris in 1971, when he won the competition – with Richard Rogers – to design the Centre Georges Pompidou.

Rights sold to: Italy (Proctor Edizioni)

BALD IS BETTER WITH EARRINGS. A SURVIVOR’S GUIDE TO GETTING THROUGH BREAST CANCER, Andrea Hutton (HarperCollins/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

Written with warmth and humor, as well as eyes-wide-open practicality, Hutton's book is a guiding light to women diagnosed with breast cancer. This is the book you want to give to your friend or your sister. Filled with useful information coming from someone who has been through it, the book talks about radiation, chemo and surgery without sounding scared or scary. Hutton even manages to keep a good sense of humor throughout the book.

BECOMING A MOUNTAIN. HIMALAYAN JOURNEYS IN SEARCH OF THE SACRED AND THE SUBLIME, Stephen Alter (Arcade/Jill Grinberg Literary Management)

A unique perspective on the Himalayas from the author who is both an insider and an outsider, having devoted his life to these mountains and to interpreting Himalayan stories, myths, ecology and heritage for a diverse readership A moving meditation on the solace of high places and on the hidden meanings and enduring mystery of mountains in this journey of recovery and pilgrimage that leads beyond faith.

** Pre-empted by David Davidar’s imprint Aleph Books, New Delhi

Rights sold to: India (Aleph Books)

BIG SCIENCE, Michael Hiltzik (Free Press/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

The story of the transformation of science around the world, from a private to public and now a corporate enterprise. Times business columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning, Michael Hiltzik is a journalist and author who has covered business, technology, and public policy.

BOYFRIENDS WE’VE ALL HAD (AND SHOULDN'T HAVE!), Mandy Nolan (Finch Publishing)

Mandy Nolan trains the spotlight of her outrageous humour on the bad relationships women endure in the search for Mr Right. Wicked, touching and very funny.

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BUSINESS & BABY AT HOME, Sarah, O'Bryan (Finch Publishing)

Sarah O’Bryan has written the ultimate work-from-home set-up and survival guide for mums.

AMY LOVAT, my child magazine - "In this practical and insightful how-to guide [Sarah] shares her story of balancing family life and a home-based business with honesty and priceless revelations." ROXANNE ELLIOTT, Founder www.careforkids - "This book is packed with useful tips for women seeking to balance motherhood with a successful home-based business."

BUSINESS SUTRA. A VERY INDIAN APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT, Devdutt Pattanaik (Aleph Book/Siyahi Literary Consulting)

Brilliantly argued, original and thoroughly accessible, Business Sutra presents a radical and nuanced new approach to management, business and leadership in a diverse, fast changing, and increasingly polarized world by using stories, symbols and rituals drawn from Hindu, Jain and Buddhist mythology to understand a wide variety of business situations.

CHASING IDEAS. ENHANCING YOUR CHILD’S CONFIDENCE AND CURIOSITY, Christine Durham (Finch Publishing)

How to help children aged 3 to 15 be brighter, more imaginative thinkers. She encourages parents and teachers to discover the joys of discussing ideas with children and provides ways they can show them how to explore ideas, think, judge, make decisions and communicate more effectively – all important life skills to take into adulthood.

** 2nd edition

CIRCLING THE MIDNIGHT SUN. CULTURE AND CHANGE IN THE INVISIBLE ARCTIC, James Raffan (HarperCollins CA/Westwood Creative Artists)

For James Raffan, thirty-five years of expeditions in the North led to the journey of a lifetime: circumnavigating the globe at 66.6ºN, the Arctic Circle. Travelling by canoe, kayak, reindeer sled, dog team, snowmobile, icebreaker, and on foot, over the course of three years and 24 time zones, Raffan moved toward the rising sun. Armed with a keen mind, an anthropologist’s eye, and an unquenchable sense of adventure, Raffan set out to put a human face on the North and give inaccessible regions a voice. Through the framework of the journey, Raffan shares compelling and surprising stories and an inspiring way of thinking about people and place. He meets kids, adults, elders, and engaged northern teens of more than a dozen different Arctic ethnicities and he attends two weddings and a funeral. In the tradition of Bruce Chatwin, Circling the Midnight Sun is a deeply affecting book that transforms the way we think about northerners and the North.

JOSEPH BOYDEN, author - “Travel writing at its best. Epic in scope and geography, it certainly does circle the most brutal and yet fragile landscape on earth. A fantastic writer. A must read for anyone concerned about the future of our planet.”

CURATIONISM, David Balzer (Coach House Books)

What happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? Curate is now a buzzword, applied to everything. Everyone, it seems, is a curator. But what is a curator, exactly? And what does the explosive popularity of curating say about our culture’s relationship with taste, labour and the avant-garde? In this vibrant, revelatory and original study, David Balzer travels through art history and around the globe to explore the cult of curation.

DAVE HICKEY - "This is an unusual art book. A good read, if you don’t mind reading things that you don’t want to know.’

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DRAGON’S BREATH AND OTHER TRUE STORIES, MariNaomi (2D Cloud & Uncivilized Books/Taryn Fagerness Agency)

Poignant, heartbreaking, and lovely, these comic vignettes reveal an amazing—visual—voice. In this collection of thought-provoking, emotionally honest graphic vignettes, MariNaomi explores a wide spectrum of topics including youthful rebellion, mortality, disillusionment, and compassion. These poignant stories, are sure to appeal to the most discerning readers along with MariNaomi’s well-established fan base.

ELVIS A. PRESLEY. MUSIC, MAN, MYTH, Marc Hendrickx (Vanhalewyck/Allied Authors Agency)

The full story, plenty of unique details, all sales/hit lists, masses of rare photos… Printed, updated & reprinted throughout the past 15 years, scoring # 1 top sales in four countries next to rave reviews from fans and critics alike, fanclub support is guaranteed.

- Free use of photos - Free re-use of lay-out and films - The original text has been written in Dutch. Translations in French, German and English are available free of charge - There are several ways to present a thinner version of the book

Rights sold to: Flanders (Vanhalewyck), France (Editions Atlas), Germany (Koch, Hannibal Verlag), Netherlands (House of Knowledge)

LA LIBRE BELGIQUE – “Proven here beyond a doubt, Marc Hendrickx must rank as one of the most sincere Presley admirers. One must be, to offer a real ‘standard’. In this study – documented to great effect, the result of years of research – Hendrickx succeeds, by all accounts, to present an honest biography, ‘responsible journalism’ in other words.” GAZET VAN ANTWERPEN – “A book that will not only appeal to the Elvis fan, but also to anybody with an intrest in popular music.” LA DERNIERE HEURE – “This admiror, who is not blinded by the passion for his subject, delivers the most complete and the most factually correct biography ever done on the creator of ‘Love Me Tender’.” HET LAATSTE NIEUWS – “Unique. Loads of never before read stories and unseen illustrations and pictures. Objective.” ELVIS. MY HAPPINESS – “An immeasurable passion is needed to develop a project of this dimension. Absolutely fabulous, a 600 page monster, an inextinguishable mine of information.” IT’S ELVIS TIME – “I have been dealing with Elvis Presley literature for quite some time now, but seldom did I see a more beautiful book than this impressive work of Marc Hendrickx. Without a doubt one of the very best biographies ever made. The book is complete, honest and factual, including cute anecdotes and remarks.”

ENCHANTED OBJECTS. DESIGNING THE NEW AGE OF HUMANISTIC COMPUTING, David Rose (Scribner/Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)

Our car maintains itself, your workout clothes monitor your vital signs, your walls reconfigure themselves into different rooms. In the future, you will no longer have to adapt to your surroundings. They will adapt to you. David Rose offers a mesmerizing glimpse into a near future of human-centered technology. The world on the horizon is one filled with unobtrusive and beautiful even magical every-day objects.

Rights sold to: Chinese Simple (China Citic Press), Russia (Alpina)

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FALLING THROUGH CLOUDS, Damian Fowler (St. Martin's Press/Jill Grinberg Literary Management)

A gripping, emotional and wonderfully written narrative of tragedy and triumph, social justice, and the bonds of love. Most of all, it is a tale of one father's determined struggle to care for two little girls who survived an unthinkable catastrophe. If you like David v. Goliath narratives where the little guy overcomes all odds, you will devour this book. Told from multiple perspectives, journalist Fowler delves deeply into the more arcane aspects of aviation insurance in a poignant review of an aircraft crash that devastated two midwestern families. Lawyers and lawmakers become involved as the girls’ father fights to save his children and battles for what they deserve.

** Erin Brockovich meets A Civil Action

BOOKLIST - "Thrilling." KIRKUS - "The author’s maintenance of this balance between the more delicate intimacies of post-crash family life and the more reportorial and investigative side of the book works well… A sensitive portrayal of a family tragedy needlessly escalated by the insensitive bureaucracy of insurance companies." JAMES B. STEWART, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist - “In Falling Through Clouds Damian Fowler has captured the drama, narrative sweep and broad implications of one family's remarkable encounter with tragedy and injustice. It strikes me as another A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr, but with even more drama and pathos." PATRICK SMITH, author of Cockpit Confidential - “Falling Through Clouds is a story of unthinkable pain and loss. Yet ultimately it's the story of survival, a harrowing testament to human love, strength and resilience."

FIRST-TIME FATHER, Graeme Russell and Tony White (Finch Publishing)

From their 40 years of research and practical work with new fathers, the authors explore the five most common questions contemporary dads are asking: How important am I as the father? What does my child need exactly? How can I connect with my new baby … and stay connected through their lives? How can my partner and I work as a team? How can I include my child in all aspects of my life?

** 2nd edition

GENOA. A TELLING OF WONDERS, Paul Metcalf (Coffee House Press)

First published in 1965, Genoa is Metcalf's purging of the burden of his relationship to his great-grandfather Herman Melville. In his signature polyphonic style, the life of Melville, Melville's use and conversion of the Columbus myth, and the story of the Mills brothers vibrate and sing a quintessentially American song.

** 50th Anniversary Edition

HUMANS 3.0. THE UPGRADING OF A SPECIES, Peter Nowak (Goose Lane/Westwood Creative Artists)

Our species is entering a new era. Millions of years ago, we created tools to change our environment. Now we’re applying the latest advancements to our own biology, and technology is becoming part of the process.. Veteran tech-writer Peter Nowak shows not only how advancements in robotics, nanotechnology, neurology, and genetics are propelling us into a new epoch, but how they’re improving us as a species. Welcome to Humans 3.0.

Rights sold to: US (Lyons Press/Globe Pequot Pres), UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada (The Friday Project/HarperCollins)

I SIMPSON E IL CINEMA / THE SIMPSONS AND CINEMA, Michele Galardini (Felici Editore/Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)

A fun read for all ages. Homer Simpson is a multifaceted character: he eats potato-chips in outer space with Strauss’s music in the background, he goes mad in a hotel lost in the woods and straddles an atomic bomb as if it were a crazy horse. All the most famous and greatest scenes in the history of cinema have been used by the most followed and idolized cartoon of all times. Kubrick, Hitchcock, Orson Welles just to mention a few, seem to be quite comfortable with their yellow four-fingered alter-egos.

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IN LOVE WITH ART, Jeet Heer (Coach House Books)

Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman have become the pre-eminent power couple of cutting-edge graphic art. Learn about the woman behind the graphic novel revolution and her long relationship with Art ‘Maus’ Spiegelman. In Love with Art is both an intimate portrait of Mouly and a rare, behind-the-scenes look at some of today's most iconic images.

** As art editor of the New Yorker since 1993, Mouly has remade the face of that venerable magazine with covers that capture the political and social upheavals of the last two decades, such as the black-on-black cover after 9/11 and the infamous Barack Obama fist-bump cartoon.

CHRIS WARE – "Jeet Heer more thoroughly and widely understands comics history and the perplexing binomial life of the cartoonist better than anyone who’s not one. Our humble discipline is singularly lucky to have him telling its story." LIBRARY JOURNAL – "This lively portrait of an editor and publisher par excellence will enlighten researchers, cartooning cognoscenti, and casual fans. Essential for serious art, graphic novels, and women's studies collections."

INTROS AND EXTROS. TWO WORLDS IN ONE, Leise Menschen (Gabal/The Rights Company)

Menchen's sequel to Quiet Person High Impact, to consider intros, extros and centros next to each other in their strengths, interests, and obstacles in dealing with one another. You will know about the differences, strengths, priorities, and needs of intro and extroverted people and you will know what it means to be a centro. The second part of the book shows what the differences mean in daily life and how Intros and Extros can deal with themselves and others.

** By the author of Quiet Person-High Impact, #1 in Amazon Advice Books

JAYA. AN ILLUSTRATED RETELLING OF THE MAHABHARATA, Devdutt Pattanaik (Penguin/Siyahi Literary Consulting)

With clarity and simplicity, the tales in this elegant volume reveal the eternal relevance of the Mahabharata, the complex and disturbing meditation on the human condition that has shaped Indian thought for over 3000 years.

MAKE ME A MOTHER, Susanne Antonetta (Norton/Jill Grinberg Literary Management)

A powerful, transformative, and deeply heartfelt exploration of adoption as well as a celebration of a mother’s love. Inspiring lessons that extend beyond, reframing cultural and global perspectives on what it truly means to adopt. Susanne comes to realize how, time and time again, all families have to learn to adopt one another.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred - “Antonetta’s generous, humbling take on adoption adds another layer to today’s vastly “changing landscape of family,” where couples seeking adoption don’t necessarily have infertility issues and ethnic make‐up tends more toward the richly diverse.” BOOKLIST - “Antonetta (A Mind Apart, 2005) writes so eloquently about love that her feelings resonate deep within the reader’s heart.” KIRKUS - “In the end, Jin’s otherness became the unlooked‐for gift that taught Antonetta how love was as much about risk as it was acceptance.” LITERARY MAMA “Antonetta beautifully demonstrates through her book that motherhood is a process of becoming, that mothers are shaped by our children just as children are shaped by their mothers, and that it is a process that never ends… Antonetta’s willingness to share details of her difficult past and her own self‐doubts as a mother make her a trustworthy narrator, and her inclusive understanding of adoption makes her particular story of formal adoption across continents into a universal story that any reader who has brought others—children, parents, friends—into her heart with intention can relate to.”

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MAKING GRATEFUL KIDS. THE SCIENCE OF BUILDING CHARACTER, Jeffrey Froh and Giacomo Bono (Templeton Press US/Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)

Jeffrey Froh and Giacomo Bono are the leading experts on gratitude in children and teens. They have conducted acclaimed research demonstrating that gratitude improves their overall happiness and well-being. Even better, gratitude can be taught both at home and in school. The authors have recently completing two groundbreaking studies and the results are incorporated in the book. The perfect book for parents and teachers.

Rights sold to: Korea (The Readers Press)

MIND FUCK, Petra Bock (Knaur HC/TheARights Company)

Why we are sabotaging ourselve and what we can do to prevent it. Every day we become victims of mindfuck. We do this by trying to please others and at the same time forgetting our own needs. Petra Bock, a leading coach in Germany, has analyzed the phenomenon of mental self-sabotage, she explains how to finally achieve our true potential and improve our lives.

DIE WELT - “In her book Petra Bock does not give instructions – but with help of her questions every reader will be able to understand his thoughts and goals much better.” MANAGER MAGAZINE - “The author has done profound research of the phenomenon and describes seven types of mental self- sabotage.” ARGUS - “This book inspires to reflect on the meaningful things in life. It is a very illuminating, stimulating and exciting time-out for the everyday life.”

MODERN GRANDPARENTING, June Loves (Finch Publishing)

This is a book that responds to the current trend for grandparents as alternatives to paid child-care centres. It provides advice on using new technologies, understanding child development and dealing with the stress of school holidays.

** An extensive and imaginative resource of over 180 games and activities to enjoy with your grandchildren.

Rights sold to: Chinese Complex

NORTH OF NORMAL. A MEMOIR OF MY WILDERNESS CHILDHOOD, MY UNUSUAL FAMILY, AND HOW I SURVIVED BOTH, Cea Sunrise Person (HarperCollins CA/Westwood Creative Artists)

A coming of age story like no other. Brought into the Canadian wilderness as a baby and raised in a canvas tipi by her pot-smoking, free-loving, clothing-optional family, North of Normal is an utterly compelling tale of survival - of nature, family and genetics. From nature child to international model by the age of thirteen, Cea’s astonishing saga is one of long-held family secrets and extreme family dysfunction, all in an incredibly unusual setting.

Rights sold to: US (Harper), Australia (Black Inc Publishing)

NOTES FOR A YOUNG PRINCE, His Serene Highness Prince Alexi Lubomirski (Independently published/Taryn Fagerness Agency)

How does one behave like a prince in today’s world? Notes for a Young Prince is a heartfelt one-note-per page letter from HSH Prince Alexi Lubomirski to his sons, touching on different subjects ranging from romance to spirituality, manners to chivalry, love, balance, and leadership, mixing a touch of old world charm with modern day spirituality.

** HSH Prince Alexi Lubomirski. He grew up between Botswana, Oxford, and London. At the age of 11, he was informed of his true ancestral heritage and aristocratic bloodline. Having not grown up in royal surroundings with all the trappings, he was the first of his family in 500 years to have the title but with none of the material evidence. Thanks to his displaced upbringing and after much trial and error, he gradually succeeded in marrying his history with his present, managing to fulfill his role as the bearer of this title and at the same time adapt the meaning in his modern day world.

Rights sold to: Italy (Corbaccio), Poland (Wydawnictwo Wam), Germany (offer), world Spanish (offer) 38

ON OR ABOUT, Sven Birkerts (Graywolf)

A collection of trenchant, provocative essays on the dramatic changes to daily life, literary reading and writing, and the culture at large that have been and continue to be wrought by ongoing technological innovation, by the author of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.

OUTLAWS OF THE ATLANTIC. SAILORS, PIRATES, AND MOTLEY CREWS IN THE AGE OF SAIL, Marcus Rediker (Beacon Press/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

Marcus Rediker turns maritime history upside down, exploring the dramatic world of maritime adventure, from the perspective of sailors, slaves, indentured servants, pirates, and other outlaws. Rediker shows that oceanic history is crucial to understanding historical processes like the rise of capitalism and the formation of race and class.

Rights sold to: UK (Verso), Korea (Geulhangari)

PROJECTION. ENCOUNTERS WITH MY RUNAWAY MOTHER, Priscila Uppal (HarperCollins CA/Westwood Creative Artists)

Projection is a visceral, precisely written, brutally honest memoir that takes a probing look at a very unusual mother-daughter relationship, yet offers genuine comfort to all facing their own turbulent and unresolved familial relationships.

THE NATIONAL POST - "The rigorousness of the structure and the sentence-to-sentence quality of the writing here is borderline-heroic… Projection is a book that’s simultaneously cerebral and visceral, and its ardent refusal of any sort of mind- body split... " GLOBE AND MAIL - "Uppal's carefully crafted memoir illustrates the way art and life mesh in our mental fabric." QUILL & QUIRE - "Uppal brings her unique lyrical approach to one of literature’s trickiest forms—the family memoir. Projection mines the intimate depths of the author’s most private experiences, as she bravely tackles being reunited with the woman who deserted her… Above all, Uppal is an impeccable writer, deftly infusing complex scenes and emotions with power and weight… a worthy read." THE SUN TIMES - "This beautifully written memoir goes far to explode many of the myths of family, often made of fantasy." TORONTO LIFE - "[A] heartbreaking memoir." WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - "Projection is no weepy Hallmark flick of the week. It doesn't lend itself to a Peaches & Herb sound bite. It's a gritty, insightful, honest and sometimes infuriating read that probes the often messy reality of family ties and mother-daughter relationships." HILARY WESTON PRIZE JURY CITATION - "When scholar and writer Priscila Uppal travels to Brazil to reunite with her mother, the result is a narrative that is bizarre, hilarious, and poignantly painful." CAMILLA GIBB, Giller Prize nominated - "In her most fearless work yet, Priscila Uppal pursues the unanswered questions of her own past with raw and indefatigable courage. Uppal's work speaks to the urgent necessity of art for all of us who struggle to make sense of the world and our place within it." SIMON SEBAG - "Passionate, poetical, poignant and beautifully written with wit and lucidity, Priscila Uppal has produced a compelling, unique and unforgettable story of love, family, childhood and discovery." KATHERINE FRANK - "This is haunting quest for a lost mother that explodes our myths of parenthood. It's a tale of family tragedy, celluloid fantasy, and the power of words to heal and to save - a beautifully written, even redemptive book." PICKLEMETHIS.COM - "Projection is fascinating, compelling, as beautifully written as it is honest. Honest too that there is artifice at work here, that this book is so consciously art instead of a factual record. And yet there is documentation, notes and paragraphs. A fantastic blurring of art and reality, which is the book's very point, how we all do this to suit our own purposes."

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QUIET PERSON - HIGH IMPACT, Leise Menschen (Gabal/The Rights Company)

30-50 percent of any population is introvert. This book fills some open space among communication books as usually advice is focused on extroverted personalities. Löhken helps quiet people find their strong points as well as typical obstacles in communication, and she shows ways for both introverts and extroverts to achieve the best in their joint efforts and collaborations.

** #1 in Amazon Advice Books ** There is no workbook to help introverted people discover their strengths and to communicate successfully

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG - “Sylvia Löhken frames crucial questions along the way to the perfect habitat of Introverts.” FINANCIAL TIMES - “Löhken’s book is as quiet as her target group. It goes without a pressure to change. The inhabitants of Introville can well do without it. Her approach is much more conclusive: know and emphasize your own strengths, and learn how to use them. And, simultaneously, learn how to become aware of your self-imposed obstacles.” BUSINESS BESTSELLER SUMMARIES - “This book is a plea for the power that lies in silence.“ BRIGITTE - “Being loud and extroverted stands for success. But especially the quiet people have strengths we desperately need. The career adviser Syliva Löhken is an expert for introverts – and even one of them.”

RAISING BOYS, Steve Biddulph (Finch Publishing)

With 28 editions and more than 1 million copies in print, Raising Boys has been a phenomenal bestseller throughout the world. Why boys are diferent, and how to help them become happy and well-balanced men.

Rights sold to: Australia & NZ, Arabic, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chinese (Complex and Simple), Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Nth America, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, UK

RODRIGUEZ. RITORNO DALL’IGNOTO / RODRIGUEZ BACK FROM OBLIVION, Michele Primi (Spider&Fish/Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)

Sixto Rodriguez, the rock star known for Sugar Man, who disappaered from the public eye for 40 years and has now returned on to the stages of the world after the the documentary Searching for Sugar Man who won the Oscar as best documentary in 2013 and was shortlisted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013 and won also the Grand Jury Prize, and the Audience Award at Sundance Festival.

Sixto Rodriguez’s story isn’t only the story of a “second life”, nor the story of a man left in a corner by the show-business of the greatest years of Rock Music – when his opponents were called Dylan, Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd – forcing him to work with his naked hands in the construction sites of chilly Detroit. And neither is it the story of a moving rebirth, of the sold-out theaters in New York, Barcelona, London, Paris and Milan, with twenty-year-olds singing his songs as if they were indisputable classics. Of course Rodriguez is all of these stories at once, but above all he is the Big Bang in the middle of a black hole.

** The first comprehensive book about about Sixto Rodriguez ** Would the history of music have been the same if those two albums had had the recognition they deserved? It’s a single, fundamental, question and this volume promises to answer it ** With a foreword by Roberto Brunelli, La Reppublica journalist

SITA, Devdutt Pattanaik (Penguin IN/Siyahi Literary Consulting)

This retelling of the Ramayan approaches Ram by speculating on Sita: her childhood with her father, Janak, who hosted sages mentioned in the Upanishads; her stay in the forest with her husband who had to be a celibate ascetic while she was in the prime of her youth; her interactions with the women of Lanka, recipes she exchanged, emotions they shared; her connection with the earth, her mother; her role as the Goddess, the untamed Kali as well as the demure Gauri, in transforming the stoic prince of Ayodhya into God.

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SPIES IN THE VATICAN, John O. Koehler (Perseus Books/International Transactions)

This book traces and often exposes for the 1st time the truth and the consequences of communist espionage against the Vatican.

Rights sold to: Poland (Znak), Italy (Newton Compton)

THE ARTIST’S LIBRARY. A FIELD GUIDE, Erinn Batykefer and Laura Damon-Moore (Coffee House Press)

A guide to libraries as creative spaces, The Artist’s Library is a handbook meant for artists and makers of all levels and countries to help them envision, enable, and execute art projects with the help of library collections, and in collaboration with libraries to present their art.

LIBRARY JOURNAL - "[The authors] have succeeded in producing a guide that benefits artists, librarians, and all creative learners. Libraries and the people who work in and visit them can be an immense resource for building and inspiring creativity, no matter the media in which one works."

THE AMAZONS, Adrienne Mayor (Princeton University Press/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

By National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor takes on another big subject: The Amazon women of antiquity. Bringing together classical traditions, anthropology, linguistics, art history, and archaeological discoveries, each chapter holds intimate, surprising details and original insights about the lives and legends of Amazons.

** National Book Award Finalist 2009 author ** Winner of the Gold Medal for Biography ** Independent Publishers’ Awards 2010

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “An ambitious, epoch-spanning study of violence writ large across time and place. A fascinating and stimulating work sure to compel readers of anthropology, archaeology, history, and futurity.” EDITH HALL, author of Introducing the Ancient Greeks - “A breathtaking quest for the real ancient warrior women reflected in myths. Rich erudition, communicated in sparkling prose and beautiful illustrations, makes it a riveting read.” JOHN BOARDMAN, University of Oxford - “Adrienne Mayor excels at demonstrating the truth that lies behind what seems simply storytelling."

THE BLACK BOOK OF COUNTERFEIT/IL LIBRO NERO DELLA CONTRAFFAZIONE, Antonio Selvatici (PendragonGabriella Ambrosioni Literary Agency)

The first investigative journalistic book of economic intelligence on counterfeit. The astonishing figures of counterfeit’s business, the strong connections with organized crime and the international interlacements. Not only the well-known griffes of clothes, but also counterfeit weapons, tomato’ sauce Made in China and sold as Made in Italy, counterfeit cigarettes sold under famous brands. Toys, spare parts for cars, agricultural products, visas: all fake. Counterfeit withdraws economic resources from the West and supplies the economy of the East: an unfair and illegal transfer.

** The book has sold 3.000 copies in Italy, huge sales for investigative journalism ** Selvatici has been appointed as a consultant in the Italian Commission Against Counterfeit (the first one in the World), rsearching counterfeit and piracy in the economic field

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THE CALLING. A LIFE ROCKED BY MOUNTAINS, Barry Blanchard (Patagonia Books/Taryn Fagerness Agency)

A heart-pounding story of the culture of climbing in the days of punk rock. Barry Blanchard chronicles his transformation from a poor Native American white kid from the wrong side of the tracks to one of the most respected alpinists in the world. This is the story of the culture of climbing in the days of punk rock, spurred on by the rhythm of adrenaline and the arrogance of youth. It is also a portrait of the power of the mountains to lift us— physically, emotionally, and intellectually.

** Gripped Magazine calls The Calling the most anticipated book of 2014!

STEVE HOUSE, alpinist, author - “Blanchard writes as the young alpinist climbed: passionately, full of heart. These stories are raw and superbly entertaining. Blanchard chronicles the ‘I hurt, therefore I am’ era of Mountain climbing.”

THE EMOTIONAL CALENDAR, John Sharp, MD & John Butman (Times Books, Henry Holt/Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)

The Emotional Calendar takes us through the year, discussing the different, complex ways the months impact us and contains compelling advice for all.

Rights sold to: Turkey (Inkılap Kitabevi), world Spanish (Luciérnaga), China simple (Beijing Land of Wisdom Books Co.), French (Marabout/Hachette)

KIRKUS REVIEWS - “In simple, concise language, [Sharp] offers an interesting and original way to think about the underpinnings of psychological health. Perceptive and useful.”

THE END OF MEMORY. A NATURAL HISTORY OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, Jay Ingram (HarperCollins/Westwood Creative Artists)

A bestselling science writer’s illuminating biography of ‘the Plague of the 21st Century.’ The End of Memory, he explains the fascinating science of plaques and tangles, recounts the imperfect history of our efforts to understand and combat the disease and introduces us to the passionate researchers who are now working to find a cure. This is a book for those who want to find out the true story behind an affliction that courses through families and wreaks havoc with the lives of millions.

** In the spirit of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies

Rights sold to: China complex (Commonwealth Publishing)

THE HAPPINESS HANDBOOK, Dr. Tim Sharp (Finch Publishing)

Dr Sharp, world-renowned psychologist and founder of the Happiness Institute in Australia, has developed a range of simple but effective plans designed to increase happiness levels. The book shows his latest findings on how to become happy right now, lowering stress levels, developing better sleep patterns, weight management through The Happiness Diet, and developing meaningful and nourishing relationships.

** 3rd edition

Rights sold to: Australia & New Zeland, Italy, Indonesia, Korea, India

LISA MESSENGER - "The Happiness Handbook is fresh, inspiring and a must-read for young and old from all walks of life." DR CRAIG HASSAD, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University - "A book full of practical wisdom, insights, tips and strategies."

THE MIND OF A WRITER. ESSAY COLLECTION, Amy Tan (Harper/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

Amy Tan inspires readers and writers with stories about the writing process.

** Delivery Feb 2015, pub Fall 2015

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THE MODERN SAVAGE. OUR UNTHINKING DECISION TO EAT ANIMALS, James McWilliams (St. Martins Press/Westwood Creative Artists)

An exploration of the ‘compassionate carnivore’ movement and the paradox of humanity’s relationship with animals. In The Modern Savage, renowned writer, historian, and animal advocate James McWilliams pushes back against the questionable moral standards of a largely omnivorous world and explores the ‘alternative to the alternative’ – not eating domesticated animals at all. The Modern Savage is a riveting exposé of an industry that has typically hidden behind a veil of morality, and a compelling account of how to live a more economical, environmental, and ethical life.

THE NEW MANHOOD, Steve Biddulph (Finch Publishing)

For 20 years Steve Biddulph’s groundbreaking Manhood and the revised edition, The New Manhood, have had a remarkable impact around the world. Steve explores the elements of a man’s life that often cause unhappiness, emptiness or frustration. Love, sex, marriage, raising children, friendship, spirituality and finding your true work are amongst many subjects dealt with in an honest and uplifting way. This is a handbook for men of all ages, and for the women who love them.

** The most influential book written for generations on the lives of men

Rights sold to: ANZ, Korea, China, Poland, North America, Japan, Bulgaria, Spain, Czech Republic, Serbia, Russia

MAGGIE HAMILTON, writer, social researcher, publisher and author - "This landmark work is for those who truly want to understand and nurture the men and boys in their lives, and for men who want to better comprehend the nuances of their own and each other’s lives." RICHARD GLOVER - "Read this book and you’ll make the world a better place, by making yourself a better man.”

THE REPUBLIC OF PIRATES, Colin Woodard (Hartcourt/Jill Grinberg Literary Management)

Colin Woodard tells the dramatic untold true story and surprising story of the Caribbean pirates and the man who brought them down. In the early XVIIIth century a number of the great pirate captains joined forces, including Blackbeard, Black Sam Bellamy, and Charles Vane. This infamous "Flying Gang" established a crude but distinctive democracy in the Bahamas. For a brief, glorious period the pirate republic was enormously successful: they cut off trade routes, sacked slave ships, and severed Britain, France, and Spain from their New World empires. Finally one man volunteered to pacify the pirate’s Bahaman lair and destroy any who resisted.

** The riveting, action-packed true history of the real Pirates of the Caribbean ** The NBC-TV show based on the book, CROSSBONES, starring Academy-Award nominee John Malkovich, is in distribution worldwide

Rights sold to: Spanish (Crítica), Brazil (Novo Seculo), Hungary (Konyvmolykepzo), Poland (SQN), Denmark (Borgen), Complex Chinese (Business Weekly)

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW – “Fascinating, beyond rip-roaring adventure stories from the distant past, [the book offers] an opportunity to understand pirates as they truly were.” KIRKUS, starred review – “Here are the real pirates of the Caribbean, and the facts are as colorful and exciting as fiction.” PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY – “A fast paced narrative that will be especially attractive to lovers of pirate lore and to vacationers who are Bahama-bound.” BOOKLIST - “This breezy, fast-moving book is filled with exciting action and colorful characters. It will provide general readers and those with a special interest in the period much enjoyment.” LIBRARY JOURNAL - “Woodard makes a worthwhile contribution by off ering an accessible, well-researched analysis with appeal to both casual and scholarly readers.” THE TIMES-PICAYUNE (New Orleans) – “It's a rollicking tale, filled with rich details of the lives of men who, for their own personal gain, challenged the spread of empires.”

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THE SIMPLICITY CYCLE. A FIELD GUIDE TO MAKING THINGS BETTER WITHOUT MAKING THEM WORSE, Dan Ward (Harper Business/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

The Simplicity Cycle shines a light on the design process and offers readers a roadmap to help guide their creative efforts. Simultaneously practical and philosophical, entertaining and informative, this highly accessible book works on several layers and offers something for novices and experts alike.

THE SOCIAL SEX. A HISTORY OF WOMEN AS FRIENDS, Marilyn Yalom (HarperCollins/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

A cultural- historical approach to female friendship that traces an evolution from near invisibility to gender- specific prominence. Numerous examples of women as friends, from medieval nuns to political "sisters," highlight the qualities of female friendship that have endured through the centuries.

** Delivery Dec 2014, pub Fall 2015

TINY HOMES. SIMPLE SHELTER, Lloyd Kahn (Shelter Publications)

With more than 1.300 photos showing a rich variety of small homemade shelters, in this book are some 150 builders who have taken things into their own hands, creating tiny homes (under 500 sq. ft.): homes on land, homes on wheels, homes on the road, homes on water, even homes in the trees.

TRICKY TEENS. HOW TO CREATE A GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR TEEN... WITHOUT GOING CRAZY!, Andrew Fuller (Finch Publishing)

The psychologist much anticipated sequel, following his international bestsellers Tricky Kids and Tricky People. Fuller covers the joys and challenges of raising teenage girls and boys. He focuses on: what is actually happening in the teenage brain; common issues that most teens face including anxiety, arguments, computer addiction, peer pressure, perfectionism and self harm; ways to parent teenage boys and teenage girls – and why these methods differ.

** Includes: . 6-week detailed plan to help breaking negative behaviour patterns within a family and create positive new ones . 30 issues parents need to know more about – including teen anxiety, dieting, pessimism, lack of motivation and resilience . 12 conversations you should have with your teen

TWO WEEKS TO A YOUNGER BRAIN, Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan (Humanix/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

A simple program to quickly sharpen our minds, new habits that help stave off, or even reverse, brain aging. Cognitive lapses don’t just plague middle-agers and seniors. Scientific findings show that people as young as 20 already have memory complaints. Thankfully, the latest research confirms that there is a lot we can do to keep our brains young throughout life.

UNSINGLE. THE ART AND SCIENCE OF FINDING TRUE LOVE, Louise Ashby (Finch Publishing)

Based on neuroscience that tells us that by changing what we focus on we can change our life and our experiences, Unsingle is a breakthrough concept for anyone searching for love. Simple, positive step-by-step approaches to understanding others and ourselves as we search for a compatible partner.

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE METRIC SYSTEM, John B. Marciano (Bloomsbury/Jill Grinberg Literary Management)

The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the world around us, it seems like a confusing tool to use. So how did we end up with it? John Marciano chronicles the origins of measurement systems, the kaleidoscopic array of standards and as much as it is a tale of quarters and tenths, it is a human drama, replete with great inventors, visionary presidents, obsessive activists, and science-loving technocrats.

WALL STREET JOURNAL - “It is about much more than just the metric system. It's an indispensable guide for understanding our world's centuries-long process of inching toward standardization.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “Marciano uncovers the relationship between metric system advocates and social reform movements. He writes with humor and a keen eye, and his fascinating tales reveal how extensively measurement has affected history.” KIRKUS REVIEWS - “A lively perspective on globalism as it relates to currency and systems of measurement.” THE NEW YORK TIMES - “With a keen ear for anecdotes and a sharp eye for human motivations, Marciano brings to life the fight over the meter, its champions and its enemies.” BROOKLYN PAPER - "This book sounds like kilograms of fun!”

WHITEY BULGER. AMERICA’S MOST WANTED GANGSTER AND THE MANHUNT THAT BROUGHT HIM TO JUSTICE, Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy (Norton/Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)

A dramatic, page-turning true crime exposé. James “Whitey” Bulger, an infamous Boston Irish gangster whose twisted life in organized crime gained worldwide notoriety, held the mob in his grasp for decades and remained a fugitive for 16 years.

** Director Scott Cooper is in post-production with Warnes Bros on the major feature film BLACK MASS about the life of Whitey Bulger, starring Johnny Depp, Dakota Johnson, Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce and Kevin Bacon. The film is scheduled for worldwide release in September/October 2015.

Rights sold to: Germany (Riva Verlag)

MICHAEL CONNELLY, best-selling author “This is the definitive story of Whitey Bulger. As much social documentary as riveting crime story, the book is a masterwork of reporting. I couldn’t put it down.” THE BOSTON GLOBE - “As much a social history as a biography or manhunt thriller.... It is an authoritative treatise on the city’s late-20th-century underworld.” KIRKUS REVIEWS - “Solid writing, remarkable details and the addition of Bulger’s fairly recent capture make this a worthy addition to the literature of the mob.”

YOUR ATOMIC SELF, Curt Stager (St. Martin's Press/Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)

How the atoms of your body connect you. Your Atomic Self presents a new way to look at our bodies, and shows how each molecule of which we are made is mirrored in the world around us.

** FUN FACT: If one of your skin cells were inflated to the size of a 300- foot hill, the atoms within it would be about the size of sand grains. Your body would then be so large that you could lie down with your head in New York and your feet in Australia.

Rights sold to: Korea (Interpark)

BILL MCKIBBEN, author Wandering Home - “Curt Stager is the finest and most entertaining explainer I've ever come across. Read this book and I guarantee you that the world--and your own darned self--will look very different to you in the future.”

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● SHORT STORIES ●

COVECULEC. FAIRY TALES OF THE LEFT POCKET, Aleksandar Prokopiev (Homo Scrivens/Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)

A postmodern novel made up of fairy tales for grownups. Rather than focusing on "the moral" each piece beggins with a sometimes quirky recommendation. Wry humour is a hallmark of all these stories.

** 2012 Winner of the prestigious Balkanika Prize

Rights sold to: Serbia (Coveculjak, Geopoetika), Poland (Maly czlowiek, Toczka), UK (Istros Books), Croacia (Fraktura)

FIONA SAMPSON - “Peeper is subtle, resonant study of sexuality which will draw the reader into a labyrinth of intelligence, wit and high-octane erotica. It is a game with high stakes, both artistic and human: and it is of this dangerous game that Aleksandar Prokopiev has emerged as the indisputable master.”

FOUR NEW MESSAGES, Joshua Cohen (Graywolf Press)

A quartet of audacious fictions that capture the pathos and absurdity of life in the age of the internet, and explain what happens when the virtual begins to colonize the real. Cohen is one of America’s most brilliant younger writers.

** 2013 New York Public Library Young Literary Lion ** Winner of the Matanel Prize for Young Jewish Writers

Rights sold to: Germany (Schöffling)

THE NEW YORK TIMES - “Cohen’s stories are about a lot of things: sex, family, disappointment, literary frustration. In his new collection, Four New Messages, he nestles these subjects inside a more expansive obsession.”

GET IN TROUBLE, Kelly Link (Dial/Taryn Fagerness Agency)

Multi-award winning short fiction sensation Kelly Link returns with a stunning and wonderfully strange new collection. Featuring complex characters with deliciously devious motives, the stories in Get in Trouble are magical and beautifully uncanny. With this new collection, she takes the short story in surprising directions—we meet superheroes, vampires, gamers, movie stars, astronauts, the rich and beautiful, and even a few ordinary mortals.

** Kelly Link’s previous collections have been sold to 16 languages

Rights sold to: Australia (Text), British (Canongate), Israel (Babel), Russia (AST), Spain (Seix Barral)

ERIN MORGENSTERN - “Kelly Link is inimitable. Her tales are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. Wonderfully strange but still familiar and real. The most marvelous kind of trouble to get in.”

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HOW A MOTHER WEANED HER GIRL FROM FAIRY TALES AND OTHER STORIES, Kate Bernheimer (Coffee House Press)

Stylishly simple fairy tales where nonsense is as commonplace as violence. Elegant and brutal, these stories occupy a heightened landscape, where the familiar cedes to the grotesque and nonsense just as often devolves into terror. These are fairy tales out of time, renewing classic stories we think we know, like one of Bernheimer’s girls, whose hands of steel turn to flowers, leaving her beautiful but alone.

THE HEYDAY OF THE INSENSITIVE BASTARDS, Robert Boswell (Graywolf Press)

Robert Boswell’s extraordinary range is on full display in this crackling new collection. Set mainly in small, gritty American cities, each of these stories is a world unto itself.

RICHARD RUSSO - “Like Richard Yates, Robert Boswell seems always to wish he had better news for us. In the wide- ranging stories of The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, he wishes we weren’t so lost, so conflicted, so stubborn in our misapprehensions. But he's been watching us too closely, with too clear an eye, too keen an intelligence, and besides, Boswell’s real talent, like Yates’s, is for telling us the truth.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “In this imaginative story collection, author Boswell examines the limits and losses of ordinary souls with technical mastery and profound sympathy.” THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - “[Boswell] shows a sensitive and comprehensive understanding of the quirks that can shake a person off course: from fear, passivity and pride to external knocks and dings that are easier to spot, harder to fix.” KIRKUS - “Heartbreakers from a writer who knows how to do it right.”

SEX WORLD, Ron Koertge (Red Hen Press)

Funny the way the truly serious often are. A writer whom Billy Collins calls “sly, inventive, and deeply good- hearted” brings those qualities, as well as wit and sass, to the shortest of short stories.

CHARLES HARPER - “In the wildly imaginative flash fictions of Sex World, poet and young adult author extraordinaire, Ron Koertge, moves from humor to poignance, irreverence to tenderness, with a grace and deceptive ease. If you want bang for your literary buck, let it stop here.” AMY GERSTLER - “Sex World’s brief, potent stories reveal a master who chronicles secret hungers and vulnerabilities, acerbic tenderness, and the soul’s wrestling match with what it wants versus what it needs and deserves.”

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● POETRY ●

DIRECTING HERBERT WHITE, James Franco (Graywolf Press)

The actor and artist’s debut collection of poetry, which explores personae, masks, roles, and celebrity and which aims to remind the reader that fame can be a kind of doom, one that implicates the viewer.

FRANK BIDART - “Bold yet subtle, fearless yet disarming, Franco has made a book you will never forget.”

LIFE ON MARS, Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press)

2012 Pulitzer Prize in poetry

Rights sold to: World Spanish (Vaso Roto), German (Wunderhorn), Japanese (Heibonsha)

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW – “As all the best poetry does, Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled.”

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● AMAZON ●

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Winners 51 A PLEDGE OF SILENCE, Flora J. Solomon THE BLUESTOCKING AND THE RAKE, Norma Darcy THE DEAD KEY, D. M. Pulley THE MENGELE EFFECT, Chuck Grossart

47North 51 Science fiction, fantasy, and horror ROGUES OF THE REPUBLIC SERIES, Patrick Weekes THE CIRQUE DES IMMORTELS SERIES, A. R. Kahler THE CURSE KEEPERS SERIES, Denise Grover Swank THE INCIDENT SERIES, Neve Maslakovic THE PAPER MAGICIAN SERIES, Charlie N. Holmberg THE Z 2134 SERIES, Sean Platt and David W. Wright

AmazonEncore 53 Extraordinary, previously published, overlooked books from emerging authors FOOL, Frederick G. Dillen THE LAST NIGHT AT THE RITZ, Elizabeth Savage THE LION IN THE LEI SHOP, Kaye Starbird THE MAN IN THE WINDOW, Jon Cohen

Amazon Publishing 54 Eclectic range of reading experiences, from Westerns to women’s fiction, literary fiction to nonfiction LOCATION IS (STILL) EVERYTHING, David R. Bell I ONLY READ IT FOR THE CARTOONS, Richard Gehr MAKER DAD, Mark Frauenfelder REAL HAPPY FAMILY. A NOVEL, Caeli Wolfson Widger THE LEAP, Ulrich Boser THE RISE OF SUPERMAN, Steven Kotler THE ICONS SERIES: BIOGRAPHIES FOR THE DIGITAL AGE

Grand Harbor Press 55 Practical and thought-provoking nonfiction that will help readers discover personal fulfillment and growth FINDING SERENITY IN SEASONS OF STRESS, Candy Paul LIVE IT! ACHIEVE SUCCESS BY LIVING WITH PURPOSE, Jairek Robbins UNWIND!, Dr. Michael Olpin and Sam Bracken UNLOCKING POTENTIAL, Michael K. Simpson

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Lake Union Publishing 56 Intriguing and distinctive works of contemporary and historical fiction, as well as memoirs and popular nonfiction CASSIDY LANE, Maria Murnane I AM LIVIA, Phyllis T. Smith THE AMBER KEEPER, Freda Lightfoot THE LEAVING OF THINGS, Jay Antani THE TOWERS OF TUSCANY, Carol M. Cram THE UNIMAGINABLE, Dina Silver WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, Matt Dunn

Little A 57 Finest in literary fiction ACTORS ANONYMOUS, James Franco ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?. A NOVEL, Richard Babcock BAD TEETH. A NOVEL, Dustin Long CHASE US, Sean Ennis YO-YO BOING!, Giannina Braschi

Montlake Romance 58 Happily-ever-afters for all romantic reading tastes from steamy to sweet, from sweeping historicals to provocative paranormals ONE LAVENDER RIBBON, Heather Burch THE BELL HARBOR NOVELS. ROMANTIC COMEDIES, Tracy Brogan THE UNWANTED SERIES, Natasha Anders

StoryFront 59 Quality short fiction across all genres, and is the home of Day One ONE NIGHT IN PARIS, Juliette Sobanet THE MARKET FOR VIRGINS, Paul Jaskunas

Thomas & Mercer 59 First-rate fiction, from cozy mysteries to heart- stopping thrillers ALIX LONDON MYSTERIES, Aaron and Charlotte Elkins LOOK BEHIND YOU, Sibel Hodge MY SISTER’S GRAVE, Robert Dugoni THE ALEX NOVALIS NOVELS, Christopher Finch

Waterfall 60 Fresh, encouraging faith-based nonfiction and offers inspirational and spiritual insights through engaging fiction DISCOVERING GOD, Dan Meyer HIS LOVE NEVER QUITS, Cherie Hill THE FOUR BEST PLACES TO LIVE, Mark Buchanan WHEN YOU NEED A MIRACLE, Cherie Hill

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Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Winners

A PLEDGE OF SILENCE, Flora J. Solomon

In this sweeping historical novel, a young American nurse, stationed in Manila at the start of WWII, must survive the horrors of a Japanese prison camp.

** 2014 Winner — General Fiction

THE BLUESTOCKING AND THE RAKE, Norma Darcy

The Earl of Marcham has decided to put the excesses of his colorful youth—or the most egregious of them, at least— firmly behind him in order to procure an heir.

** 2014 Winner — Romance

THE DEAD KEY, D. M. Pulley

It’s 1998, and for years the old First Bank of Cleveland has sat abandoned, perfectly preserved, its secrets only speculated on by the outside world.

** 2014 Grand Prize Winner — Mystery & Thriller

THE MENGELE EFFECT, Chuck Grossart

A single raindrop opens a Pandora’s box of horrors when the spawn of perverse genetic research performed during World War II—refined by Cold War enemies and perfected by nature—are unleashed on an unsuspecting world.

** 2014 Winner — Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

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ROGUES OF THE REPUBLIC SERIES, Patrick Weekes

A group of misfits come together to pull off heists in a fantastical world. Think Ocean’s Eleven with swords and witches.

#1 THE PALACE JOB The Palace Job is a funny, action-packed, high-fantasy heist caper in the tradition of Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastards series, from debut author Patrick Weekes. Loch is seeking revenge. It would help if she wasn’t in jail. #2 THE PROPHECY CON Book Two in the Rogues of the Republic series. Who would have thought a book of naughty poems by elves could mean the difference between war and peace?

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THE CIRQUE DES IMMORTELS SERIES, A. R. Kahler

Step right up to the show that never ends... unless you’re murdered, that is. Dark and sexy, with a strong female protagonist and a cast of very strange characters, these intriguing books are perfect for readers of Karen Marie Moning and Kim Harrison.

#1 THE IMMORTAL CIRCUS Murdered contortionists aren’t exactly what Vivienne signed up for when she ran away to join the circus. But like most things under the big top, nothing is what it seems. Right sold to: German #2 THE IMMORTAL CIRCUS: ACT TWO Act Two draws readers further into a world that’s at once wonderful, seductive . . . and deadly. #3 THE IMMORTAL CIRCUS: FINAL ACT Despite Vivienne’s broken heart and deadly truths, the show must go on at the Cirque des Immortels. But it takes more than glamour and sex appeal to keep the Big Top running; without the magic and support Viv came to rely on, the circus is in danger. New possibilities and old passions collide in this ravishing grand finale to the trilogy

THE CURSE KEEPERS SERIES, Denise Grover Swank

The newest series from bestselling author Denise Grover Swank, these urban fantasy novels are the perfect books for readers of both Kevin Hearne and Karen Marie Moning.

#1 THE CURSE KEEPERS Ellie Lancaster has lived her whole life by the site of the mysterious Lost Colony of Roanoke, the North Carolina settlement that vanished without a trace around 1590. Only the descendants of the two men who banished the spirits of an enemy tribe from the material realm know what really happened to the colony. The Curse Keepers are all that stand between the world and its destruction. #2 THE CURSE BREAKERS For more than four hundred years, the Curse Keepers guarded the barrier between the human and spirit realms. All that changed the day Ellie Lancaster met Collin Dailey. Prophecy demanded they defend the world from evil... even as it ignited a passion that threatened to consume them both. #3 THE CURSE DEFIERS For centuries the gods have waited—for the betrayal that will release them, for the traitors who will defend them, for the warrior who will challenge them. Now at long last the gate between the human and spirit worlds is open, and with it, an army of vengeful demons poised to swarm the earth. Only the Curse Keepers, Ellie Lancaster and Collin Dailey, can stop it.

THE INCIDENT SERIES, Neve Maslakovic

The adventures of the time-travel lab at St. Sunniva University

#1 THE FAR TIME INCIDENT The Far Time Incident is a smart, richly inventive novel that skillfully weaves together mystery, history, and science to create a mesmerizing and addictive read. #2 THE RUNESTONE INCIDENT A skillful blend of mystery, science, and history, The Runestone Incident is a smart and satisfying follow-up to The Far Time Incident. We found ten men, red from blood and dead... At the center of an expanding mystery: a fabled Viking runestone left behind in the Minnesota woodland of ages past.

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THE PAPER MAGICIAN SERIES, Charlie N. Holmberg

From the imaginative mind of debut author Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician series is an extraordinary adventure that is both dark and whimsical and will delight readers of all ages.

#1 THE PAPER MAGICIAN Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic . . . forever. #2 THE GLASS MAGICIAN Now well into her apprenticeship with magician Emery Thane, twenty- year-old Ceony Twill is continuing to discover the joy of paper magic. She adores bringing her spells to life in surprising ways, from learning the power of distortion to creating a beloved paper dog. And she secretly hopes that the romance she foresaw blossoming between her and the peculiar yet strikingly handsome Emery finally becomes real.

THE Z 2134 SERIES, Sean Platt and David W. Wright

The Hunger Games meets The Walking Dead in this amazing dystopian series by the masters of serialized storytelling. It is the year 2134 in a dystopian America, following a series of zombie plagues that infected and decimated much of the world’s population starting one hundred years ago. Those left, formed six walled Cities throughout the continent, all under the rule of a totalitarian government that enforces strict control over its populace.

#1 Z 2134 Jonah Lovecraft, a former Watcher, was arrested for the murder of his wife. And like most criminals, he has one chance at freedom—to participate in The Darwin Games, a televised survival show which pits two players from each city against one another in The Barrens, the uninhabited areas outside the City Walls. He’ll also have to face another enemy—the zombies which still roam The Barrens. #2 Z 2135 The Darwin Games are over. The battle for survival has just begun. The Lovecraft family is in ruins. Their convict father, Jonah, roams The Barrens, near starvation, in search of his daughter Ana. Only the hope of seeing her again keeps him alive. Z 2135 is both a frightening vision of a dystopian future and a heartening tale of family, hope, and humanity. #3 Z 2136 Questions will be answered and fates will be determined in the thrilling final installment of Sean Platt and David Wright’s series that began with Z 2134.

AmazonEncore

BOOK LUST REDISCOVERIES is a series devoted to reprinting some of the best (and now out of print) novels originally published between 1960-2000

FOOL, Frederick G. Dillen

Out of print for more than a decade, Frederick G. Dillen’s comic (and now timely) novel about an unlikely hero is being reissued . Self-absorbed Barnaby Griswold has to lose it all—money, homes, and family— before he gets a shot at becoming the unlikely hero of his own life. Griswold is indisputably a fool. At forty-six, disgraced and broke and lonely, Barnaby must repair his life to find redemption.

THE LAST NIGHT AT THE RITZ, Elizabeth Savage

A masterfully written novel of friendship and love and the ways we deceive each other and ourselves. Brazen, candid, and always willing to take chances, the unnamed and not entirely trustworthy narrator of The Last Night at the Ritz celebrates her birthday with three old and dear friends. Before the night is through, truths and secrets slip out that will change their relationships forever.

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THE LION IN THE LEI SHOP, Kaye Starbird

Originally published in 1970 and reissued for a new generation of readers as part of the Rediscoveries series, this lyrical novel gives a rarely heard voice to the women and children of Pearl Harbor. The Lion in the Lei Shop deftly recaptures a dramatic chapter of American history.

THE MAN IN THE WINDOW, Jon Cohen

Since he was disfigured in a fire sixteen years ago, recluse Louis Malone has remained hidden from the prying eyes of his neighbors in the small town of Waverly. Across town, Iris Shula, a lonely and unlovely nurse, knows at thirty-seven it is unlikely that her Prince Charming will ever appear. But Iris is about to learn how wrong she is. What unfolds is a most unlikely love story. One that will make you laugh and that will break—and remake—your heart.

BOSTON GLOBE - “Jon Cohen conjures magic, weaving a gentle romantic fantasy of piercing and eccentric beauty.” KIRKUS REVIEWS - “A fascination and a delight . . . a whimsical novel with flashes of bright fantasy and high hilarity . . . An attractive flight into romance’s more fabulous dimension.”

THE SOUL OF VIKTOR TRONKO, David Quammen

Filled with fascinating characters and darkly delicious humor, this is a rich, suspenseful espionage saga inspired by a true story.

Amazon Publishing

LOCATION IS (STILL) EVERYTHING. THE SURPRISING INFLUENCE OF THE REAL WORLD ON HOW WE SEARCH, SHOP, AND SELL IN THE VIRTUAL ONE, David R. Bell

Bell combines academic research with thorough case studies to better understand how our physical world shapes our online activity. Entrepreneurs looking to break into the e-commerce world will find Bell’s insights into consumer practices and buying habits surprising and instructive.

I ONLY READ IT FOR THE CARTOONS. THE NEW YORKER’S MOST BRILLIANTLY TWISTED ARTISTS, Richard Gehr

Available for the first time to The New Yorker’s one million-plus readers: a volume dedicated to the individual careers of the magazine’s cartooning superstars, illustrated with their rare sketches and rejected cartoons. Along with a dozen such profiles, Gehr provides a brief history of The New Yorker cartoon itself.

MAKER DAD. COOL FATHER-DAUGHTER DIY PROJECTS, Mark Frauenfelder

As the editor in chief of MAKE magazine, Mark Frauenfelder has spent years combing through DIY books, but he’s never been able to find one with geeky projects he can share with his two daughters. This is the first DIY book to use cutting-edge (and affordable) technology in appealing projects for fathers and daughters to do together. Innovative and groundbreaking, Maker Dad will inspire fathers to geek out with their daughters and help girls cultivate an early affinity for math, science, and technology.

REAL HAPPY FAMILY. A NOVEL, Caeli Wolfson Widger

An edgy yet moving novel about a dysfunctional family joining forces to bring a missing daughter back into their fold. Part-time actress, full-time party girl Lorelei Branch isn’t famous yet, but she’s perfected a Hollywood lifestyle. When Robin, her sister-in-law and agent, throws a plum job her way, Lorelei jumps at the chance and auditions to be the new girl on television’s hottest reality show, Flo’s Studio.

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THE LEAP. THE SCIENCE OF TRUST AND WHY IT MATTERS, Ulrich Boser

High-profile corporations and governments are continuously in the news for scandals involving damaged trust. In The Leap, Ulrich Boser offers a framework to understand why trust is of paramount importance for institutions and how they can repair their damaged relationships with customers and constituents.

THE RISE OF SUPERMAN. DECODING THE SCIENCE OF ULTIMATE HUMAN PERFORMANCE, Steven Kotler

An exploration of how extreme athletes are able to break the limits of ultimate human performance and what we can learn from their mastery of the state of consciousness known as “flow.” The Rise of Superman is a national bestseller.

Rights sold to: UK, Brazil, Japan, Russia, Czech, Poland

KIRKUS - “A thrill ride of a book, empowering in its implications of what any individual can achieve.”

THE ICONS SERIES: BIOGRAPHIES FOR THE DIGITAL AGE

We are living in what has been called “a golden age of biography,” yet reading habits have changed dramatically in the digital age. ICONS, a short thought-provoking biographies series, is designed to take advantage of these transformations. The editor is the biographer James Atlas, founding editor of Penguin Lives and of two other highly acclaimed series, Great Discoveries (W.W. Norton) and Eminent Lives (HarperCollins). Stylish and stimulating.

** Tentative publishing dates ** Amazon will offer partner publishers the opportunity to publish their own titles in the ICONS SERIES, so long as half of the books come from Amazon

JESUS. THE HUMAN FACE OF GOD, Jay Parini STALIN. THE KREMLIN MOUNTAINEER, Paul Johnson LUCIAN FREUD. EYES WIDE OPEN, Phoebe Hoban J. D. SALINGER. THE ESCAPE ARTIST, Thomas Beller EDGAR ALLAN POE. THE FEVER CALLED LIVING, Paul Collins VAN GOGH. A POWER SEETHING, Julian Bell ALFRED HITCHCOCK. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, Michael Wood DAVID LYNCH, Dennis Lim HANNAH ARENDT, Anne Heller ST. PAUL, Karen Armstrong

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FINDING SERENITY IN SEASONS OF STRESS. SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR DIFFICULT TIMES, Candy Paul

A practical guide to bridging the gap between the way things are and the way you wish they could be. You look in the mirror, and instead of a serene, smiling face, you see your own worried countenance. How do you achieve serenity in this ever-accelerating modern age? This is the guidance you need to tap into a deeper understanding of the beauty surrounding you in order to create the life of your dreams.

LIVE IT! ACHIEVE SUCCESS BY LIVING WITH PURPOSE, Jairek Robbins

A step-by-step process for filling the gap between where you are today and where you want to be. Each chapter is strategically designed to engage you with personal reflections and challenges that will encourage you to make immediate improvements to your everyday behavior. Robbins leads you toward a life of growth and contribution that will enable you to become the happiest, healthiest, and most fulfilled version of yourself. 55

UNLOCKING POTENTIAL. 7 COACHING SKILLS THAT TRANSFORM INDIVIDUALS, TEAMS, & ORGANIZATIONS, Michael K. Simpson

To get the best from your employees, you need to be more than a manager. You need to be a coach. You’re a leader because you possess expertise in your field. You have the training and experience. You understand your business... but can you fully motivate and engage your team? Transform your business relationships (and your business) with this comprehensive tool for optimizing productivity, profitability, loyalty, and customer focus. Don’t just manage. Energize. Galvanize. Inspire. Be a coach.

UNWIND! 7 PRINCIPLES FOR A STRESS-FREE LIFE, Dr. Michael Olpin and Sam Bracken

This book stands out from other books on stress management in one significant way: its “whole- person” approach. Unwind! is about optimizing your body, heart, mind, and soul and recognizing that any and all of these dimensions of your life affect your anxiety level.

** Rights available excluding Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Spanish, Dutch, and Czech

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CASSIDY LANE, Maria Murnane

Filled with Murnane’s trademark wit and optimism, a charming cast of secondary characters, and loads of heart, Cassidy Lane will have you cheering for its heroine down to the very last delightful word.

I AM LIVIA, Phyllis T. Smith

Her life would be marked by scandal and suspicion, worship and adoration. At the tender age of fourteen, Livia Drusilla overhears her father and fellow aristocrats plotting the assassination of Julius Caesar. Proving herself an astute confidante, she becomes her father’s chief political asset—and reluctantly enters into an advantageous marriage to a prominent military officer.

THE AMBER KEEPER, Freda Lightfoot

Set against the backdrops of the English Lake District in the 1960s and the upheavals of revolutionary Russia, The Amber Keeper is a sweeping tale of jealousy, revenge, reconciliation, and forgiveness.

THE LEAVING OF THINGS, Jay Antani

Rebellious and adrift in late 1980s Wisconsin, Vikram is resentful of his Indian roots. After a drunken weekend turns disastrous, Vikram’s outraged parents decide to pack up the family and return to India— permanently. So begins a profound journey of self-discovery as Vikram, struggling with loneliness, culture shock, and the chaos of daily Indian life, finds his creativity awakened by a new romance and an old camera. At the end, he will have to make the fateful choice between India, the land of his soul, and America, the land of his heart.

THE TOWERS OF TUSCANY, Carol M. Cram

Meticulously researched settings and compelling characters are united with a strong heroine in this rich portrait of medieval Italy. Sofia is trained in secret as a painter in her father’s workshop during a time when women did not paint openly. She loves her work, but her restless spirit leads her to betray her extraordinary gifts to marry a man who comes to despise her for not producing a son.

THE UNIMAGINABLE, Dina Silver

From the author of One Pink Line comes a story about letting go of the past and finding bravery in the depths of fear. Set on the sun- soaked beaches of Thailand and the rough waters of the Indian Ocean, The Unimaginable paints a vivid portrait of a young woman on a journey to find herself—and her harrowing fight for survival.

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WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, Matt Dunn

Dunn’s new romantic comedy about two people in love. Though one of them needs a little convincing. A year ago, Evan and Sarah shared one incredible night. Then suddenly something tore them apart. Since then, Evan’s not been able to forget about her. And try as she might, Sarah can’t seem to get over him either.

HANDWRITTENGIRL - “An addictive page-turner of a story, with laugh-out-loud moments and genuine heart-warming characters.”

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ACTORS ANONYMOUS, James Franco

Actors Anonymous is unsettling, funny, personal, and dark, a story told in many forms, from testimonials (in the style of Alcoholics Anonymous) and scripts to letters, diaries, and more. Franco turns his “James Franco” persona inside out—sometimes humorously, often mercilessly. Modeled loosely on Alcoholics Anonymous’s 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, Actors Anonymous is an intense, wild ride that’s pure FrancoA dark, genre-bending work that mixes memoir and pure invention—an audacious, obsessive examination of the addictions of celebrity, acting, and the making of Fictions.

Rights sold to: UK (Faber & Faber), Italy (Bompiani), Germany (Eichborn)

GARY SHTEYNGART, author of Super Sad True Love Story – “Subversively funny and provocatively honest, is ostensibly about acting but it's really about a society where everyone's reduced to the roles they play. Truly original, often hilarious, and deeply affecting ways.” AMY HEMPEL – “Electrifying to see a writer hold nothing back! Franco's novel lures you in with indelible images, provocative mind games, and characters laid bare, then successfully strands you in a frightening place.” DAVID SHIELDS, author of Reality Hunger – “Franco uses his own body as the staging area for an ambitious and seriously self-deconstructive fiction. Real art, as here, is always a performative seduction.” ROBERT BOSWELL, author of The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards – “The novel does not merely explore acting, it enacts it. This is a lively, strange, engaging, often funny, sometimes brilliant, and utterly fearless novel.”

ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? A NOVEL, Richard Babcock

Reminiscent of Richard Russo, Are You Happy Now? is a comic novel about the hard work of understanding what it is you want. John Lincoln is a book editor miserably ensconced at Pistakee, a dinky Chicago publisher. What he needs is a hot bestseller, and he finds his vehicle in Amy O’Malley, a recent University of Chicago grad who’s worked on the school’s famous sex survey. With Lincoln’s prodding and guidance, Amy writes a sex-filled novel that draws on her experience. Her book indeed opens doors for Lincoln—but not in the way he imagined.

BAD TEETH. A NOVEL, Dustin Long

This delightful and complex literary novel is a comic gem. Four interlocking narratives unfurl in four American cities, creating a richly comic feast about love, academia, an elusive Tibetan novelist who might be a plagiarist, and SOFA, a protest group so mysterious its very initials are open to interpretation.

BOOKLIST - “Long’s novel, with its savvy humor, intelligent satire, and rewarding prose, is wildly successful.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “A literary mash-up that is both a send-up of modern academic life and a heartfelt novel of loves lost and purposes vainly sought . . . a wondrous, funny, and philosophical novel.”

CHASE US, Sean Ennis

For fans of Kevin Brockmeier or Justin Taylor, a poignant and inventive collection of coming-of-age stories by Best New American Voices contributor Sean Ennis. Using cinematic imagery and deft characterization, Ennis explores how we often feel confined—and yet find ourselves in places we least expect.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “Ennis has crafted a beautiful, hard-hitting collection.”

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YO-YO BOING!, Giannina Braschi

This groundbreaking novel, set in New York City during the 1990s, is guaranteed to be unlike any literary experience you have ever had. Acclaimed Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi has crafted this creative and insightful examination of the Hispanic American experience, taking on the voices of a variety of characters. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as “a literary liberation,” this energetic and comical novel celebrates the contradiction that makes contemporary American culture so wonderfully diverse.

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ONE LAVENDER RIBBON, Heather Burch

Can a stack of long-hidden love letters from a WWII war hero inspire a heartbroken woman to love again?

Rights sold to: Audio, German, Serbian

THE BELL HARBOR NOVELS. ROMANTIC COMEDIES, Tracy Brogan

#1 CRAZY LITTLE THING If Sadie Turner is good at anything, it’s putting stuff in order. So when she finds her “perfect” life in disarray, she hopes a summer vacation at her aunt’s lake house will help her piece it back together. Rights sold to: Audio, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Turkish RT BOOK REVIEWS, 4 stars - “Witty one-liners and hilarious characters elevate this familiar story... Readers will love the heat between the leads and by the end they'll be clamoring for more.”

#2 THE BEST MEDICINE A novel about a doctor who has it all: a good job, a few friends, a brand new house . . . Only she just realized she forgot to get married! #3 LOVE ME SWEET Delaney Masterson isn’t looking for fame. Until . . . the Scandal. When an old boyfriend releases a private video, Delaney’s name becomes every comedian’s favorite punch line. To escape the media, she sneaks away to Bell Harbor, Michigan.

THE UNWANTED SERIES, Natasha Anders

Natasha Anders is a new voice in romance heating up the heart-wrenching Unwanted series

#1 THE UNWANTED WIFE No one had ever looked at her and seen perfection—until now. #2 A HUSBAND’S REGRET Tall and thin, twenty-eight-year-old Bronwyn Palmer has become positively gaunt, a ghost of her former self. #3 HIS UNLIKELY LOVER Bobbi Richmond has always been in love with her best friend, Gabe Braddock. When Gabe suggests adding “benefits” to their friendship—while keeping their new arrangement secret from their families, of course—should Bobbi feel flattered, or insulted by his insistence on casual sex?

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ONE NIGHT IN PARIS, Juliette Sobanet

From bestselling author Juliette Sobanet, One Night in Paris is a heartwarming and enchanting journey back to Jazz Age Paris.

THE MARKET FOR VIRGINS, Paul Jaskunas

From award-winning author Paul Jaskunas comes a glimpse into the decadent, amoral world of the expats who make Hong Kong their playground.

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ALIX LONDON MYSTERIES, Aaron and Charlotte Elkins

A thrilling series featuring FBI Special Operative and art expert Alix London.

Rights sold to: German

#1 A DANGEROUS TALENT Sharp, witty, and devilishly fun, A Dangerous Talent offers an insider’s look into the surprisingly treacherous contemporary art world. Alix London has a promising career as an art consultant, a sumptuous condo in Seattle’s toniest neighborhood, a gorgeous figure, and a presence that exudes Ivy League breeding and old money. She has it all... or does she? #2 A CRUISE TO DIE FOR Set on the Aegean with stops at enchanted islands where ancient legends still live, this a witty blend of suspense and mystery, as well as an insider’s take on the contemporary art world and its eccentric characters. It’s all served up with the style and sophistication with which Charlotte and Aaron Elkins have rewarded mystery readers for the past thirty years. #3 THE ART WHISPERER In her third mystery, Alix London must see through mirages in the desert to uncover the knotted history of the painting— and save herself in the process.

LOOK BEHIND YOU, Sibel Hodge

From internationally bestselling and award-winning author Sibel Hodge, Look Behind You is a chilling, edge-of- your- seat psychological thriller.

** A must read for fans of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl

MY SISTER’S GRAVE, Robert Dugoni

Tracy Crosswhite has spent twenty years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah’s disappearance and the murder trial that followed.

** Rights not available in Portuguese

THE ALEX NOVALIS NOVELS, Christopher Finch

#1 GOOD GIRL, BAD GIRL Smart and sophisticated, Good Girl, Bad Girl provides a rare, fascinating snapshot of late 1960s New York City—a glimpse into the forbidden sex, politics, art, drugs, and counterculture violence that ran rampant in its once gloriously gritty streets. #2 THE GIRL FROM NOWHERE Christopher Finch’s sophisticated sequel to Good Girl, Bad Girl unfolds against the background of a volatile era of social upheaval.

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DISCOVERING GOD. FRESH VISION FOR LONGING HEARTS, Dan Meyer

A life-changing journey of knowing God, through exploration of seven of his most essential attributes found throughout the Bible: his self-sufficiency, goodness, trustworthiness, holiness, self-sacrificial nature, power and presence, and worthiness.

HIS LOVE NEVER QUITS. FINDING PURPOSE THROUGH YOUR PAIN, Cherie Hill

Cherie Hill reveals the good news that life may not go according to your plan, but it does go according to His. Like many people, you’ve done your best to gain control of your life—to force reality to fit into the confines of your high expectations. It’s in times of desperation and uncertainty that your faith has the opportunity to grow, leading to what you desperately need the most: the peace of God which surpasses all understanding.

THE FOUR BEST PLACES TO LIVE. DISCOVERING WORSHIP, PRAYER, EXPECTANCY, AND LOVE, Mark Buchanan

In The Four Best Places to Live, Mark Buchanan evaluates the four best places to live—not according to the United Nations, Money, or Forbes,but according to God and Scripture.

WHEN YOU NEED A MIRACLE. THE SEVEN SECRETS OF FAITH, Cherie Hill

Through a decade of pain and suffering, bestselling author Cherie Hill discovered how God meets her exactly where she needs Him. Now it’s your turn to learn how life’s trials are just an overture to His miracles. Life often feels full of impossible tasks—needs you can’t meet, wrongs you can’t forgive, obstacles you can’t overcome. And in the midst of these crushing challenges, you’re supposed to have faith in a God you cannot see? Yet, if you walk in faith, you’ll find God paving a path full of miracles and blessings through all of your trials, if you trust Him, no matter what.

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YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN TITLES

ADAMS LITERARY 62 ALBERT WHITMAN & CO. 63 AMAZON PUBLISHING 65 DIAL DUTTON (PENGUIN GROUP US) 67 FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX (MACMILLAN US) 70 HARPER COLLINS USA 71 HENRY HOLT (MACMILLAN US) 75 JILL GRINBERG LITERARY MANAGEMENT 77 KT LITERARY 79 LERNER BOOKS 82 NANCY GALLT LITERARY AGENCY 83 PHILOMEL BOOKS (PENGUIN GROUP US) 84 ROARING BROOK PRESS (MACMILLAN US) 86 SCHOLASTIC AUSTRALIA 89 SCHOLASTIC CANADA 91 SEAN MCCARTHY LITERARY AGENCY 93 SHELDON FOGELMAN 94 SIMON & SCHUSTER 95 TARYN FAGERNESS LITERARY AGENCY 98 UPSTART CROW LITERARY 102 VIKING PUFFIN PENGUIN USA 104 WERNICK & PRATT 107 WESTWOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS 109

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• Young Adult fiction •

• Middle-Grade fiction •

UPSIDE DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, JulieT.Lamana (Chronicle Books, April 2014). Ages: 8 – 12.

A powerful story of courage and survival, Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere celebrates the miraculous

power of hope and love in the face of the unthinkable.

Armani Curtis can think about only one thing: her tenth birthday. All her friends are coming to her party, her mama is making a big cake, and she has a good feeling about a certain wrapped box. Turning ten is a big deal to Armani. It means she’s older, wiser, more responsible. But when Hurricane Katrina hits the Lower Nines of New Orleans, Armani realizes that being ten means being brave, watching loved ones die, and mustering all her strength to help her family weather the storm.

HALF A CHANCE, Cynthia Lord (Scholastic Press, February 2014). Ages 8–12.

“This affecting book affirms the power of art as it tackles profound issues.” —Kirkus, starred review

When Lucy’s family moves to an old house on a lake, Lucy tries to see her new home through her camera’s lens, as her father has taught her— he’s a famous photographer, away on a shoot. Will her photos ever meet his high standards? When she discovers that he’s judging a photo contest, Lucy decides to enter anonymously. She wants to find out if her eye for photography is really special— or only good enough. As she seeks out subjects for her photos, Lucy gets to know Nate, the boy next door. But slowly the camera reveals what Nate doesn’t want to see: his grandmother’s memory is slipping away, and with it much of what he cherishes about his summers on the lake. This summer, Nate will learn about the power of art to show truth. And Lucy will learn how beauty can change lives...including her own.

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• Young Adult fiction •

STRONGER THAN YOU KNOW, Jolene Perry (Albert Whitman, 2014). Ages: 13 and up.

"Perry deftly avoids the probelm-novel label thanks to complex characters and a well-structured plot. Joy's story is very affecting, and her voice is suitably self-effacing without being ostentatious; most readers will be

engrossed." - Kirkus Reviews

After police intervention, fifteen-year-old Joy has finally escaped the trailer where she once lived with her mother and survived years of confinement and abuse. Now living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in a comfortable house, she’s sure she’ll never belong. Wracked by panic attacks, afraid to talk to anyone at her new school, Joy’s got a whole list of reasons why she’s crazy. With immense courage, Joy finds friends and grows closer to her new family. But just when hope is taking hold, she learns she must testify in her mother’s trial. Can she face her old life without losing her way in the new one? Will she ever truly belong in a world that seems too normal to be real?

• Children’s books •

MADAME MARTINE, Sarah S. Brannen (Albert Whitman, 2014). Ages: 4 – 7.

"The exquisitely rendered watercolor illustrations are full of charm and expression, becoming more colorful and

saturated as Martine's heart gets fuller. Enchanting."- Kirkus Reviews

Madame Martine lives in Paris and follows the same routine every day. She takes for granted the beautiful things that exist all around her. She refuses to go to the Eiffel Tower because it's "just for tourists." One day Madame Martine finds a stray dog and decides to take him home. When she tries keeping her dog on the same schedule, he breaks free, leading Madame Martine on a wild chase up the Eiffel Tower! Upon reaching the top, she discovers how much beauty she has been missing all these years. From then on, the two friends try something different every week.

SUGAR WHITE SNOW AND EVERGREENS, Felicia Sanzari Chernesky (Albert Whitman, 2014). Ages: 4 – 7.

Maple-sugaring season is the perfect time to visit a local farm!

As a family takes a sleigh ride, they see a bright red cardinal, a snowman with an orange carrot nose, and they learn how tasty amber maple syrup is made. After a morning full of color, they share pancakes and maple syrup in the farmhouse! Felicia Sanzari Chernesky's cheerful, vibrant verses are accompanied by Susan Swan's gorgeous collage art.

• Middle-grade •

WELCOME TO BERMOODA! LOST IN BERMOODA (BOOK 1), Mike Litwin (Albert Whitman, 2014). Ages: 7 –

10.

"Litwin's light tale of friendship is full of Hawaii-inspired cow puns and reads like the intro to a series. . . New- to-chapters readers will gladly join the herd and say 'Lo'hai' (hello) to Bermooda and its denizens." - Kirkus

Reviews

Bermooda is a tropical island that is undiscovered by the outside world and is primarily populated by walking, talking cows of human intelligence. The cows came to the island hundreds of years agao by a ship carrying livestock that wrecked upon the shoals around the southern tip of the island. They have since formed their own quaint, mootpian tropical island society. Life is good on Bermooda, and the residents are mostly content to be unknowing of and unknown to the world beyond their horizons. Bermooda has no “outsiders,” and most prefer to keep it that way. That is, until Chuck ventures into the boneyard alone and discovers a young human boy who has been washed up unconscious on the sandbar! The young boy’s name is Dakota and doesn’t seem as scary as Chuck thought humans should be. Chuck decides to “cow- mouflage” Dakota to pass as a bovine in town. Dakota and Chuck become fast friends, but trouble is brewing and Dakota’s true identity is at risk of being discovered. In the end, Chuck's family adopts Dakota as their own calf.

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"The writing, stylistically, has enough action and danger to keep it on the right side of parody, as well as a sense of humor that deftly mixes the absurd with gross-out jokes and clever wordplay. Super Schnoz smells like a winner, especially for reluctant readers."- STARRED REVIEW, Kirkus Reviews

Andy Whiffler is your average eleven-year-old boy. . . except that his nose is so big he can use it to fly and his sense of smell is a hundred thousand times stronger than any human. In the first book of this hilarious new series, Andy moves to a new school and is instantly picked on because of the size of his nose. But when his classmates discover how powerful his nose is, they decide he is more of a comic book hero than a nerd. One day Andy's school is shut down due to toxic gasses. Andy discovers that it's all a secret plot for an evil corporation called the ECU (Environmental Clean Up) to take over the world. Andy and his friends decide that this is a job for Super Schnoz, Andy's alter-ego. The rag-tag group of kids team up to take on the ECU and ensure school gets back in session (otherwise summer vacation will be ruined!).

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• Picture Books •

THE OLD HAUNTED HOUSE by Helen Ketteman, illustrated by Nate Wragg. (Two Lions, August 2014).

This rhyming picture book features a host of Halloween creatures who live in and around the “old haunted

house.” In the end, the creatures all come together at a Halloween party.

There are all kinds of creatures in the house: a big Ma monster and her wee monsters two, a scrawny black cat and her wee kittens three, a green Pa goblin and his wee goblins four, and more! Count along as the creatures prepare for the Halloween Fright. The text, written in the pattern of the popular poem “Over in the Meadow,” makes reading aloud fun, while the cinematic illustrations set the scene for an unforgettable romp through the old haunted house. Trick or treat!

THE MISSING PIECES OF ME, Jean Van Leeuwen (Two Lions, September 2014).

Jean Van Leeuwen’s poignant, powerful novel introduces a feisty heroine who proves that even a life that’s

missing important pieces can be chock-full of things that matter.

More than anything, ten-year-old Weezie wants to please her momma. She babysits her spoiled half-sister, Ruth Ann, and little Jackson. She makes tea for Momma in Gramma Emmeline’s beautiful teapot. She even tries to cook dinner. But nothing turns out quite right. And Momma is never pleased. Hard times and a daddy who ran off before she was born seem to have stolen all of Momma’s love. If only Weezie could find her daddy, she’s sure her life would be happier. Tired of making up stories about a parent she knows nothing about, Weezie teams up with her bike-riding buddy, Calvin, and new friend, Louella, to find her mysterious father. Does he drive a truck? Sing country and western songs? Why, her real daddy might even be better than the made-up father she’s been telling lies about at school! Now, all she has to do is find him.

• Young Adult fiction •

ATLANTA BURNS, Chuck Wendig. (Skyscape, February 2015).

Atlanta Burns is a teenager with a dark past, one who lingers at the fringes of high school existence.

Until the day she’s drawn into a battle against two groups of bullies and saves a pair of new, unexpected friends. But actions have consequences, and when her new friend Chris ends up dead—by an apparent suicide—Atlanta and her pal Shane know foul play is involved. Afraid of stirring up the hornets further by investigating Chris’s death, Atlanta turns her fo-cus to the death of a neighborhood dog. Strangely, there seems to be a connection between the two deaths. And when Atlanta uncovers a rural dog-fighting ring, she once more finds herself face-to-face with bullies of the worst sort. Atlanta cannot abide letting bad men do awful things to those who don’t deserve it. So she sets out to unleash her own brand of teenage justice. Will Atlanta triumph? Or is fighting back just asking for a face full of bad news?

BETTING BLIND, S.F. Guerra (Skyscape, November 2014).

The cards are stacking up against Gabriel James: first there’s Phil, the guy who pays the bills for Gabe’s mom

(but won’t leave his wife).

Then there’s Gabe’s new school, filled with rich kids competing for the Ivies, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street—while Gabe’s just trying to swing enough Cs to graduate. Gabe’s luck seems ready to change when he meets Irina Petrova: a hot violinist who is homeschooled by her strict Russian parents. When Gabe gets her number, he impresses the top guys at his school. When he becomes the drug connection for parties, his reputa-tion is solidified. How else is he going to afford hanging with his new crew and impressing Irina? Anyway, it’s not really dealing if you’re just hooking up friends . . . right? Gabe’s never been loyal to a girl before, but he finds himself falling for Irina hard. As the stakes are raised, Gabe will have to decide how high he’s willing to bet on school, on friends, on Irina—but most of all, on himself.

GILDED SERIES, Christina Farley (Skyscape, March 2014).

Sixteen-year-old Jae Hwa Lee is a Korean American girl with a black belt, a deadly proclivity for steel-tipped

arrows, and a chip on her shoulder the size of Korea itself.

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When her widowed dad uproots her to Seoul from her home in LA, Jae thinks her biggest challenges will be fitting in at a new school and dealing with her dismissive Korean grandfather. Then she discovers that a Korean demigod, Haemosu, has been stealing the soul of the oldest daughter of each generation in her family for centuries. And she’s next. But that’s not Jae’s only problem. There’s also Marc. Irresistible and charming, Marc threatens to break the barriers around Jae’s heart. As the two grow closer, Jae must decide if she can trust him. But Marc has a secret of his own—one that could help Jae overturn the curse on her family for good. It turns out that Jae’s been wrong about a lot of things: her grand-father is her greatest ally, even the tough girl can fall in love, and Korea might just be the home she’s always been looking for.

• Non-fiction •

MAKER DAD, Mark Frauenfelder (Amazon, May 2014).

Maker Dad is the first DIY book to use cutting-edge (and affordable) technology in appealing projects for

fathers and daughters to do together.

These crafts and gadgets are both rewarding to make and delightful to play with. What’s more, Maker Dad teaches girls lifelong skills—like computer programming, musicality, and how to use basic hand tools—as well as how to be creative problem solvers. The book’s twenty-four unique projects include: Drawbot, a lively contraption that draws abstract patterns all by itself; Ice Cream Sandwich Necklace; Friendstrument, an electronic musical instrument girls can play with friends; Longboard; Antigravity Jar; Silkscreened T-Shirt; Retro Arcade Video Game; Host a Podcast; Lunch Box Guitar; and Kite Video Camera. Innovative and groundbreaking, Maker Dad will inspire fathers to geek out with their daughters and help girls cultivate an early affinity for math, science, and technology.

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• Young Adult fiction •

SACRED LIES OF MINNOW BLY, Stephanie Oakes (Viking, June 2015). Ages 14 up

With a harrowing poetic voice, this page-turner is perfect for readers who like their novels dark and smart.

The cult known as the Community has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too. Now their Prophet has been murdered and their camp set aflame, and it's clear that Minnow knows something—but she's not talking. As she languishes in juvenile detention, she struggles to un-learn everything she has been taught to believe, adjusting to a life behind bars and recounting the events that led up to her incarceration. But when an FBI detective approaches her about making a deal, Minnow sees she can have the freedom she always dreamed of—if she’s willing to part with the terrible secrets of her past.

THE SACRED LIES OF MINNOW BLY, Stephanie Oakes (Dial, June 2015). Ages: 12 and up

The cult known as the Community has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her

life, her family, her ability to trust.

When she rebelled, they took away her hands, too. Now their Prophet has been murdered and their camp set aflame, and it's clear that Minnow knows something—but she's not talking. As she languishes in juvenile detention, she struggles to unlearn everything she has been taught to believe. When an FBI detective approaches her about making a deal, Minnow sees she can have the freedom she always dreamed of—if she’s willing to part with the terrible secrets of her past.

CURIOSITY, Gary Blackwood. (Dial, April 2014). Ages: 9 – 12.

By the author of THE SHAKESPEARE STEALER this novel includes intrigue, danger, chess, and a real life

hoax.

This is the story of Rufus, a 12-year-old chess prodigy who is recruited by a shady showman named Maelzel, since his chess prowess and small size make him the ideal candidate to operate a mechanical chess player called the Turk. The Turk is used to dupe competitors and fix games, and audiences crowd in to watch and play, believing they are playing an automaton, not Rufus, who is hidden within the contraption. Operating the machine is a difficult and painful task, made worse by the abuse Rufus suffers at the hands of Maelzel. Gradually Rufus learns that some of the previous operators have disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and, when a strange woman in black begins following him, he wonders exactly what Maelzel is hiding from him. Where have all of the Turk’s previous operators gone? Who is this strange woman in black? Who can be trusted? As Rufus tries to piece together the clues, readers will be shocked—and delighted—by each new revelation.

• Middle-Grade fiction •

ROLLER GIRL, Victoria Jamieson (Dial, March 2015). Ages: 9 and up.

As the end of summer nears and her first roller derby bout (and middle school!) draws closer, Astrid realizes that maybe she is strong enough to handle the bout, a lost friendship, and middle school… in

short, strong enough to be a roller girl.

For most of her twelve years, Astrid has done everything with her best friend Nicole. But after Astrid falls in love with roller derby and signs up for derby camp, Nicole decides to go to dance camp instead. And so begins the most difficult summer of Astrid's life as she struggles to keep up with the older girls at camp, hang on to the friend she feels slipping away, and cautiously embark on a new friendship.

CHEATING FOR THE CHICKEN MAN, Priscilla Cummings (Dial, July 2015). Ages: 10 and up.

How far do you go to protect your brother?

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Thirteen-year-old Kate Tyler must ask herself this when her older brother, J.T., returns home after nearly a year in a juvenile detention facility only to find himself ostracized and bullied as he attempts to make a fresh start. When adults can’t stop the cruel teasing, Kate comprises her own values and risks getting herself into serious trouble as she launches a secret campaign to protect her brother long enough for him to find his place in the family—and in the world—again.

A LITTLE BIT OF SPECTACULAR, Gin Phillips (Dial, April 2015). Ages: 10 and up.

Sometimes the journey really is more important than the destination—especially when it leads you

back home.

Olivia and her mom have just moved in with her grandmother, and Olivia has exactly zero friends at her new school. But after a strange message on the bathroom wall of a café catches her eye, Olivia decides that Birmingham, Alabama, may be a little more interesting than it seems and she begins a search for answers that takes her all over the city. Luckily, her mission isn’t solitary for long, thanks to her newfound friendship with Amelia, a girl just odd enough to be intriguing. What the girls discover isn’t the earth-shattering revelation they were hoping for, but it may be just as important.

DORY FANTASMAGORY, Abby Hanlon (Dial, October 204). Ages 6-8.

With plenty of pictures bursting with charm and character, this hilarious book about an irresistible rascal is the

new must-read for the chapter book set.

As the youngest in her family, Dory really wants attention, and more than anything she wants her brother and sister to play with her. But she’s too much of a baby for them, so she’s left to her own devices—and her wild imagination and indefatigable energy. Her siblings may roll their eyes at her childish games, but Dory has lots of things to do—outsmarting the monsters all over the house, escaping from prison (aka time-out) and exacting revenge on her sister’s favorite doll. And when they really need her, daring Dory will prove her bravery, and finally get what she wants.

CASTLE HANGNAIL, Ursula Vernon (Dial, April 2015). Ages 8-12

A Decidedly Likable Wicked Witch, a witch who uses her wickedness for good.

When Molly shows up on Castle Hangnail's doorstep to fill the vacancy for a wicked witch, the castle's minions are understandably dubious. After all, she is twelve years old, barely five feet tall, and quite polite. (The minions are used to tall, demanding evil sorceresses with razor-sharp cheekbones.) But the castle desperately needs a master or else the Board of Magic will decommission it, leaving all the minions without the home they love. So when Molly assures them she is quite wicked indeed (So wicked! REALLY wicked!) and begins completing the tasks required by the Board of Magic for approval, everyone feels hopeful. Unfortunately, it turns out that Molly has quite a few secrets, including the biggest one of all: that she isn't who she says she is.

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CATERINA AND THE PERFECT PARTY, erin eitter kono (Dial Books for Young Readers, July 2013). Ages: 3 -5.

The colorful debut of a lively new picture book character in a playful story about partying and friendship.

Caterina is planning the best party ever for all of her friends. She is so careful and organized that she prepares everything down to the finest detail, from creating beautiful invitations to making tasty food and setting up amazing decorations. But suddenly, a terrible storm throws a hitch into all of Caterina’s perfect party plans. Will Caterina’s fun sink in all of the rain and mud, or will she learn that the unexpected can sometimes be a good thing?

A MOM FOR UMANDE, Maria Faulconer and Susan Kathleen Hartung (illus.). (Dial, April 2014). Ages: 4 and up.

This touching true story about finding a family will resonate with animal lovers and adoptive families alike.

When Umande was born, his mother didn’t know how to take care of him. So, he was hand-reared by keepers at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. For eight months, the keepers crawled on the ground with him to show him how to walk; coughed in his face to teach him discipline; and gave him happy gorilla grumbles to encourage him. But for Umande, something was still missing. Luckily, a thousand miles away at the Columbus Zoo, a mom was waiting just for him. 68

UNDERPANTS DANCE, Marlena Zapf, illus. by Avril Lynne. (Dial, April 2014). Ages: 3 and up.

For fans of Bear In Underwear and Ella Sarah Gets Dressed, this story celebrates the hilarity of kids' obsessions.

Underpants can be fancy or functional, but for pre-schoolers, it is always funny. Take Lily McBloom - she has the fancy kind and loves to show them off with a special dance to make everyone laugh. This horrifies her big sister who comes up with a plan to stop Lily's underpants dance forever. But Lily is one creative girl, and with a little outside-the-box thinking, she can keep right on dancing.

• Non-fiction•

TURNING 15 ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM, Lynda Blackmon Lowery (Dial, January 2015). Ages: 12 and up.

In her own words, Lynda Blackmon Lowery shows today's young readers what it means to fight nonviolently and how it felt to overcome terror and win a battle that affected the entire country.

Jailed eleven times before her fifteenth birthday, Lynda Blackmon Lowery refused to give up the fight for equal rights. She was the youngest marcher on the historic 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Lynda vowed that she would make a difference—and she did.

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• Young Adult fiction •

STARRY NIGHT, Isabel Gillies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, September 2014). Ages: 12 and up.

A romantic and soulful YA novel about the incomparable highs and lows of first love and first heartbreak, and

everything in-between.

Sometimes one night can change everything. On this particular night, Wren and her three best friends are attending a black-tie party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate the opening of a major exhibit curated by her father. An enormous wind blasts through the city, making everyone feel that something unexpected and perhaps wonderful will happen. And for Wren, that something wonderful is Nolan. With his root-beer brown Michelangelo eyes, Nolan changes the way Wren’s heart beats. Suddenly everything is different. Nothing makes sense except for this boy. What happens to your life when everything changes, even your heart? How much do you give up? How much do you keep?

THE SECRETS WE KEEP, Trisha Leaver (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, April 2015). Ages: 12 and up.

An emotionally-charged page turner about jealousy, love, and the complicated bonds between sisters.

Seventeen-year-old Ella Lawton spent her entire life living in the shadows of her identical twin sister's popularity, but she never dreamed of having or wanting Maddy's life. In fact, in the last three years, she's chosen the quiet, safe confines of her sketchbook and the company of her best friend, Josh, over the constant battle for attention and popularity that has defined her sister's life. When a heated argument and a tragic accident leaves her sister dead, Ella wakes up in the hospital surrounded by friends and loved ones who believe she is Maddy. Soon, Ella realizes that Maddy's life is full of secrets that kept her popularity intact, but slowly destroyed her from the inside out. Caught in a web of lies, Ella is faced with two options—confess her deception and risk devastating those who loved Maddy, or give up all of her own dreams and live her sister's life.

CUT ME FREE, J.R. Johansson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, January 2015). Ages 12 and up

Seventeen-year-old Piper barely escaped from her abusive parents. Her little brother, Sam, wasn’t as lucky. Now

she’s trying to begin the new life she always dreamed of for them, but never thought she’d have to do alone.

She hires Cam, a techie-genius with a knack for forgery, to remove the last ties to her old life. Now, she goes by the name Charlotte, and starts working at a nearby Italian restaurant. But while she can erase her past identity, she can’t rid herself of the memories. And her troubled history won’t let her ignore the little girl she sees one day in the park. The girl with the bruises and burn marks. That’s when Piper begins to receive the messages. Letters left without a trace of entry in her apartment. And they’re addressed to Piper, her old name. As the letters grow in frequency, she doesn’t just need to uncover who is doing this; she needs to stop them.

EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN, Lindsey Lane (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers

The Evidence of Things Not Seen explores themes of loneliness, connectedness, and the role we play in creating

our own realities.

When high school junior Tommy Smythe goes missing, everyone has a theory about what happened to him. Tommy was adopted, so maybe he ran away to find his birth parents. He was an odd kid, often deeply involved in his own thoughts about particle physics, so maybe he just got distracted and wandered off. He was last seen at a pull-out off the highway, so maybe someone drove up and snatched him. Or maybe he slipped into a parallel universe. Tommy believes that everything is possible, and that until something can be proven false, it is possibly true. So as long as Tommy’s whereabouts are undetermined, he could literally be anywhere.

ONE MAN GUY, Michael Barakiva (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, May 2014). Ages: 12 and up.

What happens when one person helps you see everything—and, most of all, yourself—like you never have

before?

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Alek Khederian should have guessed something was wrong when his parents took him to a restaurant. Everyone knows that Armenians never eat out. Between bouts of interrogating the waitress and criticizing the menu, Alek’s parents announce that he’ll be attending summer school in order to bring up his grades. Alek is sure this experience will be the perfect hellish end to his hellish freshman year of high school. He never could’ve predicted that he’d meet someone like Ethan. Ethan is everything Alek wishes he were: confident, free-spirited, and irreverent. He can’t believe a guy this cool wants to be his friend. And before long, it seems like Ethan wants to be more than friends. Alek has never thought about having a boyfriend—he’s barely ever had a girlfriend—but maybe it’s time to think again.

LOVE LETTERS TO THE DEAD, Ava Dellaira (FSG, April 2014). Ages 12 and up.

“Love Letters to the Dead is more than a stunning debut. It is the announcement of a bold new literary voice.”—

Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because she thought he’d understand since he died young just like her sister, May, did. Soon Laurel is writing letters to lots of dead people—Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, and more—although she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about what it’s like going to a new school, meeting new friends, falling in love for the first time, how her family splinters apart after May dies. She even writes about the abuse she suffered—while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May, and to see her as the person she was: lovely and amazing and deeply flawed.

• Middle-Grade fiction •

SORRY YOU’RE LOST by Matt Blackstone. (FSG, January 2014). Ages 10 and up.

Rife with memorable characters, Sorry You’re Lost is a funny and uplifting tale about friendship and healing.

Denny “Donuts” Murphy has always been known as the world’s biggest class clown. When his mother dies, he becomes an even bigger clown—answering questions with jokes, breaking into dance when the awkward silences become even more awkward. Donuts just wants a normal life—one where his mom is still alive and where his dad doesn’t sit in front of a TV all day. And so he tries to get back into the groove by helping his best friend Manny with their plan to get dates for the end-of-the-year school dance. Of course, their plan doesn’t go over too well when Donuts starts to see his friend, Sabrina, in a different way. He soon learns that laughter is not the best medicine for all of his problems. Sometimes it’s just as important to be true to yourself.

WOLF, Valerie Hobbs. (Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, October 2013).

Ages 8 – 12.

A working dog story from the dog’s point of view, and sequel to the popular novel SHEEP.

Jack the dog has found a home and purpose on a farm, where he keeps a flock of sheep safe from marauding coyotes and helps train young pups to do the same. When a new threat comes along in the form of a rabid wolf, Jack worries that he may not be up to the task: is he just too old to face it? But he's determined not to disappoint his owners, especially his boy, Luke, who still thinks that, despite Jack's age, he is still the best, smartest, and fastest dog around. When Jack's favorite young pup and Luke's lives are both threatened by the wolf, Jack gathers the courage and strength to fight for all that he is responsible for and the ones he loves most.

IN THE DAYS OF DEATH AND CHOCOLATE, Gabrielle Zevin (Janine O’Malley Books / Farrar, Straus and

Giroux Books for Young Readers, September 2013). Ages: 12 and up.

New love. New life. Old scores.

Anya Balanchine is turning eighteen, and she’s putting everything on the line to open her new cacao nightclub. The Family has made no secret of the fact that they are against her plan. Even worse, her new business alliance with Charles Delacroix may permanently destroy her relationship with Win. When the nightclub begins to take off, Anya finds herself in the spotlight more than ever. Her new prominence brings out friends, foes, and ghosts from the past. Certain scores must be settled; certain debts must be paid. For Anya Balanchine, the only thing more dangerous than a crime-ridden, 2080s New York City is the adult world.

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• Picture Books •

BIG SNOW, Jonathan Bean (Wes Adams Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, September 2013).

Ages: 3 – 6.

An excited and frustrated boy watches hopefully as wintry weather develops slowly into a “big snow”.

While “helping” his mother with holiday housecleaning, a little boy keeps a watchful eye on the progress of a winter storm. Inside, he’s underfoot, turning sheet-changing and tub-scrubbing into imaginary whiteouts. Outside, flakes are flying. Over the course of a long morning (for Mom) the clouds seem slow on delivering a really big snow. Then comes a dreamy naptime adventure, marking just the beginning of the boy’s high hopes coming true in this irresistible seasonal story.

CITY CAT, Kate Banks and Lauren Castillo (illustr.). (Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for

Young Readers, November 2013). Ages: 3 – 8.

A picture book about a city cat on the move and a vacationing family whose paths meet and cross as they visit all

the great cities of Europe.

A family packs up for a European vacation, but they don't notice that among their luggage, a little cat has hopped into their car, too. As the family travels from one city to the next, the cat finds its own ways—by bus, boat, train, truck, and bike—to tag along on the trip, visiting historic landmarks like Buckingham Palace and the Cathedral of Notre Dame in every city along the way.

DUSK by Uri Shulevitz, (Margaret FergusonBooks / Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, September

2013). Ages: 3 – 8.

Boy with dog and grandfather with beard watch holiday lights turn on in the city.

One December afternoon, a boy with dog and grandfather with beard take a walk to watch the sun begin to set over the river. When the sun drops low in the sky, they start home. Buildings grow dimmer. People are rushing. As nature's lights go out, one by one, city's lights turn on, revealing brilliant Hanukkah, Kwanza, and Christmas displays in streets, homes, and stores.

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• Young Adult fiction •

ANATOMY OF A MISFIT, Andrea Portes (HarperCollins, September 2014). Ages: 14 and up.

An absolutely original new voice in YA in a story that will start important conversations—and tear at your heart.

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In this Mean Girls meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower tale, narrator Anika Dragomir is the third most popular girl at Pound High School. But inside, she knows she's a freak; she can't stop thinking about former loner Logan McDonough, who showed up on the first day of tenth grade hotter, bolder, and more mysterious than ever. Logan is fascinating, troubled and off-limits. The Pound High queen bee will make Anika's life hell if she's seen with him. So Anika must choose—ignore her feelings and keep her social status? Or follow her heart and risk becoming a pariah. Which will she pick? And what will she think of her choice when an unimaginable tragedy strikes, changing her forever?

FALLING INTO PLACE, Amy Zhang (HarperCollins, September 2014). Ages: 14 and up.

A haunting and heartbreaking debut that will appeal to fans of Before I Fall and 13 Reasons Why.

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One cold fall day, high school sophomore Liz Emerson drives her Mercedes into a tree. On purpose. Narrated (somewhat unreliably) by Liz’s imaginary friend from childhood—a friend she no longer sees or hears but who sees and hears everything, we learn not only Liz’s story, but also the stories of friends and classmates who have been impacted by Liz, and how these interactions have led Liz to believe the world would be better off without her.

MESSENGER OF FEAR TRILOGY, Michael Grant (HarperCollins, October 2014). Ages: 14 and up.

Told through compelling stories that are masterfully interwined, Messenger of Fear is about the terrible choices

that people make in life.

The Messenger knows your secret weakness, the fears that can drive you to madness and uses them to bring justice to those who do wrong, creating frightening games where the players earn their redemption -- or lose their sanity. Mara wakes in a field of dead grass, a heavy mist pressing down on her. She is terrified, afraid that she is dead. There is a boy in that mist, a beautiful young man dressed in black, and abe to move effortlessly through space and time. He is the Messenger of Fear

PLAYLIST FOR THE DEAD, Michelle Falkoff (HarperCollins, February 2015). Ages: 13 and up.

A boy tries to understand his best friend’s suicide by listening to the playlist he left behind in this smart, voice-

driven YA novel for fans of John Green, Jay Asher, Mathew Quick and Stephen Chbosky.

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Sam and Hayden have always been outcasts and best friends. But then there was a party. There was a fight. The next morning, Hayden was dead. All he left Sam was a playlist – and a note: “For Sam. Listen, and you’ll understand.” But Sam doesn’t understand. The more he listens to the playlist, the more he realizes that his memory is not as reliable as he thought. As Sam loses himself in grief and rage, he knows he has to face up to what happened the night Hayden killed himself. But it is not as simple as he thinks. Each song on the playlist offers a clue, but it is only by taking out his earbuds and opening his eyes to the people around him – including Astrid, a quirky, artistic girl with secrets of her own – that Sam will finally be able to piece together his best friend’s story. Each chapter header features a quote from one song on the playlist Hayden leaves behind.

A THOUSAND PIECES OF YOU TRILOGY, Claudia Gray (HarperCollins, December 2014). Ages: 14 and up.

A thousand lives. A thousand possibilities. One destiny.

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Marguerite Caine’s father is murdered and the main suspect uses her mother’s invention a device called the Firebird to escape to another dimension. Marguerite goes after him meets different versions of herself in other dimensions. With betrayal, passion and an epic love affair that feels both deeply fated and terribly dangerous this is a page turner that will have readers asking for more.

ILLUSIONS OF FATE, Kiersten White (HarperCollins, September 2014).

Downton Abbey meets Cassandra Claire in this lush fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten

White.

Replete with Kiersten White’s trademark wit and charm, this is a story about Jessamin, a very normal girl attending school in Albion where all the lords and ladies are born with magic—but some people are more powerful than others. She needs to rise to the occasion to save herself and her friends when a vicious lord shows he will do anything to obtain the secrets her friend Finn possesses while Finn is equally determined to keep Jessamin, a girl he is falling in love with, as far away from the danger surrounding him as possible.

• Middle-grade fiction •

SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL #1, Soman Chainani. (HarperCollins, July 2013). Ages 8 – 12.

This tongue-in-cheek fairy tale extravaganza is part SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, part Roald Dahl.

Just right for fans of Shannon Hale, Michael Buckley, and WILDWOOD, from debut novelist Soman Chainani.

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The School for Good and Evil series unleashes a dazzling new fantasy world, in which ordinary boys and girls are trained to be extraordinary good or bad. Book One subverts the assumed roles of our indelible heroines, when Agatha is “mistakenly” sent to the School for Good, and Sophie to the School for Evil. As rivalries bloom and jealousy sets in, Agatha and Sophie discover that these fates may not be a mistake, after all…

THE YEAR OF BILLY MILLER, Kevin Henkes (HarperCollins, September 2013). Ages: 8 and up.

Award-winning, nationally bestselling author Kevin Henkes introduces second-grader Billy Miller in this fast-

paced and funny story about friendship, sibling rivalry, and elementary school.

When Billy Miller has a mishap at the statue of the Jolly Green Giant at the end of summer vacation, he ends up with a big lump on his head. What a way to start second grade, with a lump on your head As the year goes by, though, Billy figures out how to navigate elementary school, how to appreciate his little sister, and how to be a more grown up and responsible member of the family and a help to his busy working mom and stay-at-home dad. Newbery Honor author and Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes delivers a short, satisfying, laugh-out-loud-funny school and family story that features a diorama homework assignment, a school poetry slam, cancelled sleepovers, and epic sibling temper tantrums. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white art by the author, this is a perfect short novel for the early elementary grades.

THE THICKETY TRILOGY #1: A PATH BEGINS, J.A.White. (HarperCollins, July 2014).

A stunning debut and the start to a new tween series.

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Magic, in the world of The Thickety, is dangerous. And forbidden. When Kara Westfall was six years old, her mother was convicted of witchcraft, the worst of all crimes. Years later, Kara and her little brother Taff are still shunned by the people of their village, who believe that nothing is more evil than magic…except, perhaps, the mysterious forest that covers nearly the entire island. It has many names, this place. Sometimes it is called the Dark Wood, or Sordyr's Realm. But mostly it’s called the Thickety.The villagers live in fear of the Thickety and the terrible creatures that live there. Kara lives in greater fear of what those in her village will think of her should she show any sign of interest in its magic. But when an unusual bird lures Kara into the forbidden forest, she discovers a strange book with unspeakable powers. A book that might have belonged to her mother.

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• Young Adult fiction •

HOW IT WENT DOWN, Kekla Magoon (Henry Holt, October 2014). Ages: 14 and up.

“Through this resonant chorus of voices, Magoon masterfully captures the cycle of urban violence and the raw emotions of the young people who can’t escape its impact.” — Publishers

Weekly, starred review

When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white.In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth. Tariq's friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy, and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is cut short. In their own words, they grapple for a way to say with certainty: This is how it went down.

NIL, Lynne Matson (Henry Holt, March 2014). Ages 14 and up.

High school volleyball star and math whiz Charley Crowder has just stepped out of her car in a Target parking lot when she is swept away by a shimmering gateway, and ends up stark naked on the mysterious tropical island of Nil. She soon finds that the only other humans on the island are also teenagers who have established their own society with a strict hierarchy and rules. Each teen has exactly one year to catch an exit gate back home - or die. The first person Charley meets is Thad, a seasoned veteran of Nil who appoints himself her “island guide.” As romance blossoms between them, Charley can’t forget that Thad has already been on the island for 278 days, and his time is fast running out. No one knows how to predict where the exit gates will appear, but Charley knows she has to figure it out fast, or risk losing Thad forever.

• Middle-Grade fiction •

THE BOOK SCAVENGER, Jennifer Chambliss-Bertman (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, June 2015). Ages 9 –

14.

In this debut middle-grade mystery, Emily and James rush from clue to clue in a literary scavenger hunt, pitched

as Chasing Vermeer meets The Goonies at a slumber party thrown by Edgar Allan Poe!

For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco is that it’s the home city of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, book publisher and creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger (a game where books are hidden in cities all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles). Upon arriving, however, Emily learns that Griswold has been attacked, and no one knows anything about the epic new game he had been poised to launch. Then Emily and her new friend James discover an odd book, which they come to believe is from Griswold himself. Racing against time, Emily and James try to uncover the secret at the heart of Griswold’s new game—before Griswold's attackers find them.

DOGS ARE PEOPLE, TOO, Dave Coverly (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, February 2015). Ages: 7 – 12.

A collection of dog cartoons by Reuben Award winner and internationally syndicated cartoonist Dave Coverly

Over the years, award–winning cartoonist Dave Coverly has created many cartoons exploring a wide range of themes: love, work, children, aliens, philosophical pasta, you name it. His most popular subject, however, is dogs. With categories such as working dogs, techie dogs, dogs behaving badly, and profiles of dogs both famous and not-so-famous, this very funny, very charming cartoon collection is perfect for animal lovers and cartoon fans of all ages. The collection is divided into chapters and filled with hilarious cartoons and also includes fun facts about dogs! It is perfect for fans of The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes and has great crossover appeal.

EINSTEIN THE CLASS HAMSTER , Janet Tashjian and Jake Tashjian (illus.). (Henry Holt, August 2013). Ages:

7 – 10.

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“A kinder, gentler Wimpy Kid with all the fun and more plot.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review.

Einstein the class hamster is from a long line of class hamsters. He knows lots of cool facts about science, art, and history—maybe even more than their sleepy teacher, Ms. Moreno. The class has a chance to compete in a trivia game show contest. But how can they get ready for the contest if Ms. Moreno keeps taking naps instead of teaching? More important, how can Einstein help the class prepare for the contest when the only kid who can hear him is Ned? Janet and Jake Tashjian team up again in this hilarious new series starring the lovable walking encyclopedia, game show–obsessed Einstein.

• Picture Books •

GOOD NIGHT, FIREFLY, Gabriel Alborozo (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, June 2015). Ages 3 – 7.

This irresistible bedtime story has stunning black-and-white illustrations accented with glowing spots

of color—as magical as fireflies themselves!

Nina is afraid of the dark. Luckily she has a nightlight, but one night the power goes out. So Nina traps a firefly to keep her company. She has a jolly time with her new friend, until she soon realizes that the firefly doesn’t feel the same way, and she must let it go.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE ANIMAL?, by Eric Carle, illus. by Eric Carle and Others. (Henry Holt Books for

Young Readers, January 2014). Ages 4 – 8

From giraffes to horses to snails, an astonishingly colorful parade of animals dance across this book's vibrant

pages as Eric Carle and his friends show us which is their favorite.

Capturing the limitless imaginations of some of the most celebrated children's book illustrators of our time, My Favorite Animal is destined to become a well-loved classic. Includes collaborations of: Eric Carle, Rosemary Wells, Mo Willems, Peter Sís, Chris Raschka, Jon Klassen, Nick Bruel, Lane Smith, Mike Curato, Tom Litchenheld, Steven Kellogg, Susan Jeffers, Peter McCarty, Erin Stead and Lucy Cousins

DINNER WITH THE HIGHBROWS, Kimberly Willis Holt and Kyrsten Brooker (illus.).(Henry Holt, Aril 2014).

Ages: 4 – 7

This funny picture book about manners and etiquette turns the idea of good manners upside-down. The fresh

point of view will be appreciated by both kids and their parents.

Bernard has never been to dinner at a friend's house before. His mother gives him quite the list of rules to follow—no elbows on the table, put your napkin on your lap, don't talk with food in your mouth, and so on. But Bernard isn't prepared to discover that the Highbrows think the table is the best place for elbows and feet, never put their napkins on their laps, and talk with food in their mouths How will Bernard survive dinner with such an obnoxious crew?

FLORENCE NIGHTENGALE, Demi. (Henry Holt, February 2014). Ages 4 – 8.

This new picture book biography of Florence Nightingale, from celebrated author and artist Demi, beautifully

portrays the story of Florence's life and explores the long-lasting effects of her career.

Florence Nightingale revolutionized the world of medicine by emphasizing cleanliness, food that was hot and nutritious, and organization in hospitals. What began as an attempt to make army hospitals safer and more effective became a lifelong mission, and remains relevant today.

PINK CUPCAKE MAGIC, Katherine Tegen, illus. by Kristin Varner (Henry Holt, January 2014). Ages 4 – 8.

Katherine Tegen’s humorous text and Kristin Varner’s magical artwork will satisfy every sister who has ever been

plagued by a brother, and every child who believes in the power of magic

Zoe loves cupcakes, especially pink ones, and princesses, especially magic ones. Unfortunately her greedy brother Ralph loves cupcakes too—he spoils everything One day Zoe bakes a wish into her cupcakes. Suddenly she is a real princess But Ralph is still up to his old tricks. Will Princess Zoe finally find a way to give Ralph what he deserves?

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BLIND, Racherl DeWoskin (Viking, August 2014).

DeWoskin’s BIG GIRL SMALL won a 2012 YALSA Alex Award given to books written for adults that have

special appeal to YA and was chosen as one of Newsday’s Top 11 Books of 2011.

When Emma Sasha Silver loses her eyesight in a nightmare accident, she must relearn everything from walking across the street to recognizing her own sisters to imagining colors. One of seven children, Emma used to be the invisible kid, but now it seems everyone is watching her. Unflinching in its portrayal of Emma’s darkest days, yet full of hope and humor, Rachel DeWoskin’s brilliant BLIND is one of those rare books that utterly absorbs the reader into the life and experience of another.

LADY HELEN AND THE DARK DAYS CLUB, Alison Goodman (Viking Children’s Press, 2015). Ages: 12 and up.

Downton Abbey meets demons in this new series from the New York Times best-selling author Alison

Goodman.

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Good help is hard to find in London 1812, especially when housemaids are disappearing into the night. Fallen women, it is presumed, but the disturbing trend has caught the notice of Lady Helen Wrexhall, who is about to be presented at the royal court of George III. She is the daughter of Lady Catherine—rumored to have collaborated with Napoleon— and, as such, Lady Helen and her brother Andrew are tainted with a traitor’s blood. Helen is closely watched for any trace of her mother’s corrupt nature. But no one is aware that Lady Catherine was, in fact, a member of the Dark Days Club: a group of people sworn to protect humanity from demons that have infiltrated all levels of society. Although Helen can feel the strange heat of her mother’s heritage thrumming through her veins, she ignores it. Instead, she tries hard to focus on gowns and dancing, and securing a suitable marriage. Yet when one of her own maids goes missing, she cannot help being drawn into the mystery, and the dangerous shadows of Regency London. Will Helen choose to hide in a safe life of privilege and propriety, or will she step into a terrifying world where demons dance in ballrooms and allies are even more dangerous than enemies?

GIRL DEFECTIVE, Simmone Howell (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014).

“With investigations, new friendships and experiencing the world with all its quirks and problems, Girl Defective is brilliant. Once again, Simmone Howell captures her audience with unique characters, captivating situations

and creativity.” —Readings Bookstore .

It's summer in St Kilda. Fifteen-year-old Sky is looking forward to great records and nefarious activities with Nancy, her older, wilder friend. Her brother—Super Agent Gully—is on a mission to unmask the degenerate who threw a brick through the shop window. Bill the Patriarch seems content to drink while the shop slides into bankruptcy. A poster of a mysterious girl and her connection to Luke, the tragi-hot new employee sends Sky on an exploration into the dark heart of the suburb. What begins as a toe-dip into wilder waters will end up changing the frames of Sky's existence. Love is strange. Family Rules. In between there are teenage messes, rock star spawn, violent fangirls, creepy old guys and accidents waiting to happen. If the world truly is going to hell in a hand-basket then at least the soundtrack is kicking. Sky Martin is Girl Defective: funny, real and dark at the edges.

LOVE IS THE DRUG, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, Fall 2014).

Two students from an elite DC private school battle pandemic, political intrigue, and their own star-crossed love

in this big, romantic thriller.

Emily Bird (or Bird, as she calls herself) is an overachieving, academically driven student, attending a prestigious private school in DC. Bird is entrenched in the concept of personas: the differences between her true self and her public self. Bird wants to be a perfect student to please her mother and her judgmental classmates, not to mention the omnipresent college admissions committees. Desperate for approval, Bird shuts away her true self. But when a terrorist attack unleashes a deadly global flu pandemic, Bird’s carefully cultivated world falls apart. She wakes up in a hospital room, desperate to piece

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together the truth of her last fractured memory—an exclusive party where everything went wrong. Alaya Dawn Johnson fashions a harrowing tale of conspiracy and betrayal, wherein Bird must not only discover truths about herself, but about those she thought she trusted.

RAZORHURST, Justinne Larbastier (SOHO Teen, March 2015).

Brilliantly unfolding through Kelpie's and Dymphna's alternating points of view over the course of one single, extraordinary day, RAZORHURST draws readers into its dark, deadly world and shocks, surprises, and stirs us

in the most unexpected ways.

The setting: 1932 Razorhurst—a world where guns have been banned and “razor men” rule the streets with their blades, their scars a badge of brute and bravery. The fragile peace between two competing mob bosses—Gloriana Nelson and Mr Davidson—is crumbling. Loyalties are shifting. Betrayals threaten. Kelpie knows the dangers of the Sydney streets. Ghosts have kept her alive, steering her to food and safety, but they are also her torment. Dymphna is Gloriana Nelson’s ‘best girl’, experienced in surviving the criminal world, but she doesn’t know what this day has in store for her. When Dymphna meets Kelpie over the corpse of Jimmy Palmer, Dymphna’s latest boyfriend, she pronounces herself Kelpie’s new protector. But Dymphna’s life is in danger too, and she needs an ally. And while Jimmy’s ghost wants to help, the dead cannot protect the living . ..

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A LIST OF THINGS THAT DIDN'T KILL ME, Jason Schmidt. (FSG, Winter 2015).

A stunning and harrowing non-fiction read for teens, detailing the author’s life living with an abusive father.

“There are a lot of books written about what it’s like to be poor; what it’s like to be desperate. But very few of those books talk about the omnipresence of fear in the lives of the poor, or the marginalized. Fear makes you desperate for friends, at the same time it makes people reluctant to interact with you. It makes you desperate for money, and makes employers nervous about hiring you. It makes a patently bad idea seem not only worthy of consideration, but sometimes like a necessity, or an inevitability. Ironically, the same mechanisms that allow many poor and marginalized people to survive their own fear— mechanisms like denial, suppression, and anger—make it almost impossible for the few of us who rise out of all that to discuss how terrifying it was to live in that world.

• Middle-Grade fiction •

THE (ALMOST) PERFECT GUIDE TO IMPEREFCT BOYS, Barbara Dee (Simon & Schuster, September 2014).

Ages: 9 – 13.

Barbara Dee is a star at capturing the 8th grade experience—the highs and the lows of "girl meets boy" and the

spot-on transition from cooties to crushes.

All middle school boys can be easily classified into three clear stages of male evolution: Tadpoles, Croakers or Frogs. At least, according to Finley Davis and her best friend, Maya Lopez. They’ve written a “guide” to the boys of Fulton Middle School that they call the “Amphibian Life Cycle.” It’s hilarious and (if they say so) brilliant—full of detailed observations about the silly, immature Tadpoles, the awkward Croakers with their changing voices, and, of course, the Frogs, those rare, more evolved boys who’ll look you in the eye and have an actual conversation. Finley thinks she has boys figured out perfectly, until Zachary Mattison, a Tadpole who made an abrupt exit from seventh grade last year, re- enters the picture—as a Frog. Zachary's surprising re-appearance causes Finley to question everything: the “Life Cycle,” her friendship with Maya, even herself. And when the “Life Cycle” falls into the wrong hands, it causes a battle between the boys and the girls that no one, not even Finley, could have predicted.

THE FOURTEENTH GOLDFISH, Jennifer Holm (Random House Books for Young Readers, August 2014). Ages: 8

– 12.

Holm, author of three Newbery Honor Books, asks important questions about the bounds of science and

immortality in this warm, humorous, poignant, and thought-provoking read.

Galileo. Newton. Salk. Oppenheimer. Science can change the world . . . but can it go too far? Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows up. He’s bossy. He’s cranky. And weirdly enough . . . he looks a lot like Ellie’s grandfather, a scientist who’s always been slightly obsessed with immortality. Could this pimply boy really be Grandpa

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Melvin? Has he finally found the secret to eternal youth? With a lighthearted touch and plenty of humor, Jennifer Holm celebrates the wonder of science and explores fascinating questions about life and death, family and friendship, immortality . . . and possibility.

STARRING JULES (AS HERSELF), Beth Ain - book #1 in a series. (Scholastic, January 2013). Ages: 7 -10

Lights Camera Action A funny and charming chapter book debut from a fabulous new talent

Up until now, Jules has led a relatively normal life. She lives with her creative and charming artist mom and chef dad and her little brother, "Big Henry," and stresses about avoiding her annoying former best friends while impressing her hopefully future best friend, a new classmate from London. But quirky, bold, and hilarious Jules has always had a knack for standing out in a crowd, so it’s not a complete surprise to anyone when her standard antics gets the attention of a casting director sitting at a nearby table. The director just happens to be holding auditions for a kid's mouthwash commercial, and she’s convinced that Jules would be perfectly suited for the starring role. Jules is ecstatic… until she realizes that she has to actually swig the mouthwash. But she isn’t quite ready to give up, and so she turns to her family and even her old best friends for advice. The audition is about more than just this one commercial. It’s about facing her fears and being true to herself, even if that means not getting this particular part—especially when an even brighter opportunity could be waiting just around the corner.

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MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME, Edited by Stephanie Perkins (St. Martin’s Press, October 2014).

Rich language and careful, efficient character development make the collection an absorbing and sophisticated read, each story surprisingly fresh despite the constraints of a shared theme. It’s that

rarest of short story collections: There’s not a single lump of coal. - Kirkus reviews.

If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you’re going to fall in love with MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelvebestselling young adult writers, edited by international bestselling author Stephanie Perkins. Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa, there’s something here for everyone. So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy. You have twelve reasons to stay indoors and fall in love. Beautiful, romantic, and festive holiday stories from bestselling authors Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de la Pena, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Stephanie Perkins, Rainbow Rowell, Laini Taylor, and Kiersten White

MORE THAN MUSIC, Elizabeth Briggs (Createspace, June 2014).

"Sexy, fun, and heartfelt, More Than Music will bring out the rockstar in anyone. A truly passionate love story-- both in music and romance. Jared and Maddie's story is a great example of how important it is to be true to

yourself and step out onto your own stage." – Julie Cross, author of THE TEMPEST SERIES.

Music major Maddie Taylor just finished her junior year of college and has a summer internship lined up with the LA Philharmonic, yet every night she practices guitar and secretly dreams of a louder life. But geeky girls like her don't get to be rock stars. That is, until tattooed singer Jared Cross catches her playing guitar and invites her to join his band on The Sound, a reality TV show competition. Once on the show, Maddie discovers there’s more to Jared than his flirty smile and bad boy reputation – and that he’s just as big a geek as she is. With each performance their attraction becomes impossible to ignore, but when the show pressures them to stay single they’re forced to keep their relationship secret. As the competition heats up, Jared will do whatever it takes for his band to win, and Maddie must decide if following her dream is worth losing her heart.

RED BUTTERFLY, A.L.Sonnischen (Simon & Schuster, Februar 2015).

Kara never met her birth mother. Abandoned as an infant, she was taken in by an elderly American woman living

in China.

Now eleven, Kara spends most of her time in their apartment, wondering why she and Mama cannot leave the city of Tianjin and go live with Daddy in Montana. Mama tells Kara to be content with what she has ... but what if Kara secretly wants more? Told in lyrical, moving verse, Kara’s story is one of a girl learning to trust her own voice, discovering that love and family are limitless, and finding the wings she needs to reach new heights.

TUNNEL VISION, Susan Adrian (St. Martin’s Press, Winter 2015)

When Jake holds a personal object, like a pet rock or a ring, he has the ability to "tunnel" into the owner. He can sense where they are, like a human GPS, and can see, hear, and feel what they do. It's an ability the government

would do anything to possess.

Jake Lukin just turned 18. He's decent at tennis and Halo, and waiting to hear on his app to Stanford. But he's also being followed by a creep with a gun, and there's a DARPA agent waiting in his bedroom. His secret is blown. If he doesn't agree to help the government, his mother and sister may be in danger. Suddenly he's juggling high school, tennis tryouts, flirting with Rachel Watkins, and work as a government asset, complete with 24- hour bodyguards. Forced to lie to his friends and family, and then to choose whether to give up everything for their safety, Jake hopes the good he's doing—finding kidnap victims and hostages, and tracking down terrorists—is worth it. But he starts to suspect the good guys may not be so good after all. With Rachel's help, Jake has to try to escape both good guys and bad guys and find a way to live his own life instead of tunneling through others.

KISSING TED CALLAHAN (AND OTHER GUYS), Amy Spalding (Poppy – Little Brown, April 2015).

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“I laughed so hard and cried. I have a major crush on Ted Callahan.” – Stephanie Perkins, bestselling author of

Anna and the French Kiss.

17-year-old Los Angelinos Riley and Reid find out that their fellow bandmates, Lucy and Nathan, are secretly hooking up. Worried that they’re going to miss out on high school romance, Riley and Reid make a pact: they’ll both try to make something happen with their respective crushes and document the experiences in a shared notebook they call “The Passenger Manifest.” Riley has been obsessed with Ted Callahan forever–his floppy hair! his undeniable intelligence!–but she also finds herself distracted by Garrick, a science nerd who’s a secret casanova, and Milo, a music fiend from another town. Meanwhile, Reid has to figure out if adopting a dog is a viable way to win over someone’s heart and if he can handle unexpected attention from a girl who’s way cooler than he’ll ever be…

THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, Trish Doller (Bloomsbury, June 2015)

A road trip fling turns frightful in this powerful new psychological thriller from Trish Doller.

After high school, eighteen-year-old Arcadia Wells wants more than her small-town Florida life. She wants adventure. Since her mom died three years ago, Cadie's spent most of her time working in her dad's grocery store, playing soccer, taking care of the household, and raising her little brother. Then, one night, feeling rebellious, Cadie goes to a campfire party at the state park where she meets a couple of cute guys – cousins -- who are on a road trip. After an almost instantaneous connection with one, despite an attraction for both, Cadie ditches her responsibilities to join them and a girlfriend from school on a trip through the Florida Everglades -- just the adventure she's been craving. But what starts out as a fun, sexy trip turns frightening when she discovers a deep tension between the two cousins. Neither is the wholesome boy he first seemed. When her friend leaves unexpectedly and never makes it home, Cadie must decide if she can trust the boy she’s fallen hard for, or if the secrets he’s keeping are deadly.

THE SOUND OF LIFE AND EVERYTHING, Krista Van Dolzer (Putnam, Spring 2015).

Twelve-year-old Ella Mae is a sensible girl. She believes in Good Lord Jesus Christ. So when her auntie Mildred starts spouting nonsense about deoxy-something-or-other and how some egghead scientist can regenerate her

dead son from the blood on his old dog tags, Ella Mae doesn’t believe her.

Or at least she doesn’t until a man steps out of the bio-pod and drips yellow-green slime on the floor. Problem is, the man who steps out of that bio-pod isn’t her cousin. He’s a Japanese man. The scientist assures them he’ll investigate, but the damage is already done. The man is there to stay. Ella Mae knows she should hate him, but she can’t bring herself to hate a man who can’t remember his own name. She and her mama take him in and soon find themselves in the position of the man’s only defenders. Ella Mae spits at the reverend for calling him an abomination and even tells off her loose-lipped cousin for trying to kiss him. But as the man’s memories resurface, memories about the war and what really happened on the day his blood splashed on her cousin’s dog tags, Ella Mae learns the hard way that she can’t protect him from some things.

DEMON DERBY, Carrie Harris (Delacorte, July 2015).

From Carrie Harris, author of Bad Taste in Boys and Bad Hair Day, comes a knockout new read for anyone

facing their own demons—inside and out.

Casey hates being known as the girl who survived cancer. She wants people to treat her like her old self, fearless and strong. And after a creepy encounter with a crazy guy in an alley, Casey is all about reclaiming her power. So when she has a chance to try out for the Apocalypsies roller derby team, she jumps on it. Being a derby girl would prove that she doesn’t need anybody’s pity. It doesn’t hurt that Michael, the team manager, is almost unnaturally hot. Which makes sense when Casey finds out that he’s not even human.Michael’s got a secret: he trains demon hunters. That crazy guy in the alley? Demon. And the fact that Casey went head to head with evil and lived makes her a threat to demonkind. Casey thought she’d already fought and won the battle of her lifetime. But it’s only beginning. . .

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WAITING FOR THE QUEEN, Joanna Higgins. (Milkeweed, August 2013).

A story of friendship against all odds, Waiting for the Queen is a loving portrait of the values of a young America.

Fifteen-year-old Eugenie de La Roque and her family barely escape the French Revolution with their lives and the clothes on their backs. Along with several other noble families, they sail to America, where New France is being carved out of the rugged wilderness of Pennsylvania. They don’t know that the village awaiting them is nothing like the home they’ve left behind. Hannah Kimbrell is a young Shaker who’s been chosen to help prepare New France for the arrival of the aristocrats, but wants nothing more than to be home with her mother and new baby brother. In this wild place away from home and the memories they hold dear, Eugenie and Hannah find more in common than they first realize.

THE OTHER WAY AROUND, Sashi Kaufman (Carolrhoda, Spring 2014). Ages: 13 and up.

Andrew West just wanted to escape Thanksgiving with his mother--headmistress of the all-girls school he’s forced to attend, his bed-wetting cousin Barry, and his delusional uncle. But his escape plan to Grandma’s house is thwarted when his mother admits she neglected to tell him his grandmother had died earlier in the week. Furious with his mother, Andrew accepts a ride from a group of teenage street performers he meets in the bus station. The chance to spend more time getting to know Emily—the dreadlocked street performer who can do tricks with a hula hoop that make any hot-blooded male stare—certainly sweetens the deal. As Andrew gets to know Emily, Jesse, and the rest of the Freegans, he learns that not everyone is on the road just for the lifestyle, and that not everything in the past can be outrun.

SEX & VIOLENCE, Carrie Mesrobian (Carolrhoda, October 2013). Ages: 14 and up.

"This is an important contribution to YA lit, on par with coming-of-age classics like Rats Saw God."—Patrick

Jones, author of Things Change

Sex has always come without consequences for seventeen-year-old Evan. Until he hooks up with the wrong girl and finds himself in the wrong place at very much the wrong time. Sex & Violence offers a provocative and poignant link between sex and violence in young adult culture.

A WOUNDED NAME, Dot Hutchinson. (September 2013). Ages: 12 and up

"Madness, passion, gorgeous word-play, and the inexorable spiral into tragedy: A Wounded Name embodies

everything I love from Hamlet." – Tessa Gratton

Sixteen-year-old Ophelia will never be just another girl at Elsinore Academy. Seeing ghosts is not a skill prized in future society. Now, in the wake of the Headmaster's sudden death, the whole academy is in turmoil, and Ophelia can no longer ignore the fae. At the center of her crumbling world is Dane, the Headmaster's grieving son. To him, Ophelia is the only person not tainted by deceit and hypocrisy. And to Ophelia, Dane quickly becomes everything. Yet even as she gives more of herself to him, Dane slips away. Yet even in the face of certain death, Ophelia has a choice to make—and a promise to keep. She is not the girl others want her to be.

• Middle-Grade fiction •

THE BERENSON SCHEMES SERIES BOOK 1: JACK THE CASTAWAY by Lisa Doan, (Lerner, Spring 2014).

Ages 9 - 12 .

A charming and hilarious adventure-driven series starring Jack Berenson, a phobia-plagued, checklist-making

kid who just wants a normal childhood.

Jack is unfortunately reunited with his parents after the death of his guardian. Unable to locate any other relatives to take Jack in, his parents decide to bring him along on their next venture: running a snorkeling business down in the Caribbean. Things go from horrible to unimaginable when Jack is ship-wrecked on a deserted island with only a smart-mouthed parrot to keep him company…

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• Young Adult fiction •

THE VINE BASKET, Josanne La Valley. (Clarion/HMH, April 2013).

An absorbing read and an excellent choice for expanding global understanding. – School Library Journal starred

review.

Things aren’t looking good for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul. She yearns to be in school, but she’s needed on the family farm. The longer she’s out of school, the more likely it is that she’ll be sent off to a Chinese factory . . . perhaps never to return. Her only hope is an American woman who buys one of her decorative vine baskets for a staggering sum and says she will return in three weeks for more. Mehrigul must brave terrible storms, torn-up hands from working the fields, and her father’s scorn to get the baskets done. The stakes are high, and time is passing. A powerful intergenerational story of a strong, creative young artist in a cruelly oppressive society.

THE MEANING OF MAGGIE, Megan Jean Sovern (Chronicle, Spring 2014)

Twelve-year-old Maggie lives in a house too small for all the big problems plaguing a shy girl just trying to survive adolescence armed with Little Debbies and deep thoughts. When her father’s legs permanently fall asleep, she’s forced out of her shell and into a relationship with her family that she never expected. And just like that, wearing a training bra doesn’t seem like such a huge deal.

SURFACING, Nora Raleigh Baskin (Candlewick, March 2013) Ages: 14 and up.

The honest and realistic characters of SURFACING grab the readers form the beginning to the end.

Though only a sophomore, Maggie Paris is a star on the varsity swim team, but she also has an uncanny, almost magical ability to draw out people’s deepest truths, even when they don’t intend to share them. A lyrical and deeply moving portrait of grief, blame, and forgiveness, and of finding the courage to confront your ghosts — one truth at a time.

• Middle-Grade fiction •

CINDERELLA SMITH, Stephanie Barden. Book 1 in a series (HarperCollins, April 2011). Ages: 6 – 10.

Chapter book readers will love this light-hearted story of a missing dance shoe, escaped pets and possible

wicked step-sisters – Huffington Post Blog.

Cinderella Smith has a problem with a capital P. She loses shoes almost as quickly as she puts them on her feet. But now she’s lost the most important shoe of all: her shiny, ruby red tap shoe. The school year is starting out with big problems too. Her new teacher laughs at her name, she’s sitting at the smart-boys table, and her old best friend is ignoring her. Now the new girl, Erin, has asked for her advice on wicked stepsisters. And Cinderella doesn’t have stepsisters—wicked or otherwise

QUEEN SOPHIE HARTLEY, Stephanie Greene. Book 1 in a series. (April 2005, Clarion/HMH). Ages: 6 – 9.

The family dynamics are nicely developed and believable as the siblings have their squabbles and the parents are supportive but not overbearing. Sophie is likable and resilient, and readers will identify with her as she works

through her school and family situations. – School Library Journal.

It’s not easy being a nine-year-old kid in the middle of a busy, gifted family. Especially when the list of things you’re good at includes only two items—“crying” and “stopping crying”—and the list of things you’re not good at seems to be getting longer every day. Sophie’s mom suggests that she’s good at being kind and just needs a little more practice. If only Sophie were a queen, she could practice being kind to commoners. And she would finally get to wear her very own diamond tiara.

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WRITTEN IN THE STARS, Aisha Saeed (Nancy Paulsen Books, March 2015)

A heart-wrenching novel that explores what it is like to be thrust into an unwanted

Naila’s conservative immigrant parents have always planned an arranged marriage for her, following their cultural tradition. Until then, dating, even friendship with a boy, is forbidden. So when Naila falls in love with Saif, they’re livid. Convinced she has forgotten who she truly is, they travel to Pakistan to visit relatives and explore their roots. But Naila’s vacation turns into a nightmare when she learns that plans have changed—her parents have found her a suitor, and they’re going to make her marry him. Naila is aghast to find herself cut off from everything and everyone she once knew. Her only hope of escape is Saif . . . if he can even find her.

THE YOUNG ELITES TRILOGY, Marie Lu (PG. P. Putnam’s Sons, October 2014).

Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood plague: marked by a jagged scar, snow-white hair and lashes. Cast

out by her family, Adelina has finally found a place to belong within the secret society of Young Elites.

To some, the Elites are heroes, here to save innocents in desperate situations. But to the Inquisition Axis, the white-robed soldiers of Kenettra, they are monsters with demonic powers who must be brought to justice. As Adelina learns more about this perilous world where politics and magic clash, she soon realizes that her own powers may be in danger of bringing on an era of panic such as the world has never seen.

SCRIPTED, Maya Rock (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, February 2015). Ages: 12 and up.

Welcome to Bliss, the idyllic island where Nettie and her friends have grown up. To outsiders it seems like an

ordinary place, but Bliss is actually the set for Media1’s hit reality show.

To stay in Media1’s good graces, the “characters” must get good ratings from the audience. Nettie’s never had great ratings, and if she doesn’t bring them up, she’s in danger of being cut. But things get scary when Nettie starts to learn the truth about what being cut from the show really means. How far will she go to preserve her ratings, and what will happen to her if she doesn’t?

A TIME TO DANCE, Padma Venkatraman (Nancy Paulsen Books, May 2014).

The inspiring story of a young Indian teen’s determination to keep dancing after one of her legs is amputated.

Veda lives and breathes dance—so when she loses a foot in an accident, her dreams are shattered. For a girl who’s used to receiving applause for her dance prowess and flexibility, adjusting to a prosthetic leg is humbling. But Veda refuses to give up her dreams, and she starts over with the youngest dancers. Then she meets Govinda, a young man who approaches dance as a spiritual pursuit. As their relationship deepens, Veda rediscovers the world around her, allowing herself time for friendship and romance. She begins to discover who she is, what dance truly means to her, and to see herself and the world with compassion.

THE SECRET SKY, Atia Abawi (Philomel, Summer 2014).

“A riveting tale written from the heart. Atia Abawi writes with her own deep understanding of a place shattered by war, but strengthened by its own traditions. This powerful love story will leave you angry at injustice, and

awed by courage. It shocks and inspires.” –Lyse Doucet, Chief International Correspondent, BBC

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THE SECRET SKY is the story of two teenagers, one Pashtun and one Hazara, who must fight against their culture, their tradition, their families, and the Taliban to stay together. Told in three rotating perspectives—the two teens and another boy in the village who turns them in to the local Taliban—this novel depicts both the violent realities of living in Afghanistan, as well as the beauty of the land and the cultures there.

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JACK & LOUISA: ACT 1, Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Kate Wetherhead. (Grosset & Dunlap, Winter 2017).

A showstopping new middle grade series about life in the spotlight by Broadway theater veterans and internet

sensations Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Kate Wetherhead.

Twelve-year old Jack Goodrich was a Broadway star, with two shows under his belt and a third in rehearsals. When his voice changes suddenly, Jack and his parents leave the spotlight and move from New York City to a small town. While Jack hopes to leave his Broadway past behind, his new neighbor refuses to let him off the hook. Louisa is a self proclaimed "musical theater nerd" and can hardly believe when an actor moves to town. What’s more, the local theater has announced auditions for her favorite show, “Into the Woods.” As the audition date looms nearer, the two are faced with difficult choices. Should Jack risk humiliation and return to the stage? Will Louisa have confidence to go it alone? And can friendship survive all those complicated octave leaps?

FISH IN A TREE, Lynda Mullaly Hunt (Nancy Paulsen, February 2015).

Great minds don’t always think alike!

Ally has a secret: She can't read. She's a pro hiding it though, using bad behavior to divert attention. But now she’s in a new school, with a new teacher who really wants to figure her out. For the first time, Ally tries to work with her teacher, but it’s not easy when she has come to believe she's as dumb as most of the kids say she is. With Mr. Daniels' guidance, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself, that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed about, and that we need to be careful how we judge people. After all, a fish would be considered pretty useless if we judged it on its ability to climb a tree. As her confidence grows, Ally feels free to be herself and the world starts opening up with possibilities. She discovers that there's a lot more to her—and to everyone—than a label, and that many great minds learn differently.

THE NETHERGRIM TRILOGY, Matthew Jobin (Philomel, Winter 2014).

Ranger's Apprentice meets The Chronicles of Narnia. The Nethergrim is a very human fantasy in which magic

and spiritual mythology play a vital coming-of-age role.

Decades have passed since the heroic knight Tristan and the famed wizard Vithric defeated the evil Nethergrim and his minions. Everyone in Moorvale knows the legend; songs are sung and festivals held in their heroes' honor. Yet now something dark has crept over the village. First animals disappear. Then something worse: children disappear. The whispers start quietly yet soon build to a shout: The Nethergrim has returned Edmund knows little of the Nethergrim. He just wants to study magic—-for which his father berates him. They have a tavern to run and little time for nonsense. When Edmund's little brother disappears, though, Edmund and his best friends run away to battle an evil whose strength and power none of them can imagine.

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THE BABY TREE, Sophie Blackall (Nancy Paulsen Books, May 2014). Ages: 5 – 8.

An afterword offers helpful narratives for grownups facing a similar line of inquiry. – Booklist starred review.

Cleverly revealing the basics of reproduction in an age-appropriate way, award-winning Sophie Blackall has created a beautiful picture book full of playful details to amuse and engage readers.Sooner or later, every child will ask, Where do babies come from? Answering this question has never been this easy or entertaining! Join a curious little boy who asks everyone from his babysitter to the mailman, getting all sorts of funny answers along the way, before his parents gently set him straight.

DREAM FRIENDS, You Byun. (Phiolomel, February 2013).

“[Reminiscent] of the classic 'Goodnight Moon' with its haunting, twilight-inflected color scheme.” – The New

York Times Book Review.

Melody has the most wonderful friend in her dreams. They do all sorts of magical things together. But when Melody wakes up, she’s back in the real world, where she hasn’t yet made a friend. Then her dream friend inspires her to make some moves that help Melody’s dream of friendship come true.

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SPECIAL DELIVERY, Philip C. Stead, illustrated by Matthew Cordell (Roaring Brook Press, March 2015). Ages: 3 –

7.

Phil Stead and Matthew Cordell team up on this total charmer!

Headstrong Sadie is set on getting an elephant to her lonely Great Aunt Josephine, who lives very far away. A wheelbarrow full of stamps, a propeller plane, a bubblegum-loving alligator, bean-eating bandits, and ice cream sandwiches all help get Sadie (with overjoyed elephant in tow) to Great Aunt Josephine – who is thrilled to see Sadie, but isn’t quite as alone as we were led to believe. Sadie remains completely nonchalant throughout all these adventures, while the elephant vividly experiences the whole spectrum of emotions, only adding to the chaotic hilarity!

STAR STUFF: CARL SAGAN AND THE MYSTERIES OF THE COSMOS, Stephanie Roth Sisson (Roaring

Brook Press, November 2014). Ages: 4 – 8.

This poetically beautiful picture book on the life of Carl Sagan is sure to inspire curious science lovers young and

old.

When Carl Sagan was a young boy he went to the 1939 World’s Fair and his life was changed forever. From that day forward, he never stopped marveling at the universe and seeking to understand it better. Star Stuff follows Carl from his days star gazing from the bedroom window of his Brooklyn apartment, through his love of speculative science fiction novels, to his work as an internationally renowned scientist who worked on the Voyager missions exploring the farthest reaches of space. This book introduces the beloved man who brought the mystery of the cosmos into homes across America to a new generation of dreamers and star gazers.

THE BOY WHO LOVED MATH, Deborah Heiligman. (Deirdre Langeland Books / Roaring Brook Press, June

2013). Ages 3 – 8.

Biography of genius mathematician Paul Erdos. He never learned to tie his shoes or do his own laundry, but

he became a brilliant and beloved mathematician.

Most people think of mathematicians as solitary, working away in isolation. And, it's true, many of them do. But Paul Erdos never followed the usual path. He never did learn to tie his shoes or do his own laundry. He didn't even butter his own bread until he turned 20. Instead he traveled around the world, from one mathematician to the next, collaborating on an astonishing number of publications. With a simple, lyrical text and richly layered illustrations, this is a beautiful introduction to the world of math and a fascinating look at the unique character traits that made "Uncle Paul" a great man.

GRAVITY, Jason Chin (Neal Porter Books, April 2014). Ages: 5 – 9.

Maybe the most exciting and beautiful book about physics for kids, ever.

What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity. Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.

SOPHIE SLEEPS OVER by Marisabina Russo. (Neal Porter Books, March 2014). Ages: 3 – 7.

Almost everyone has felt anxiety and uncertainty over a friendship.

Sophie is looking forward to her first sleepover. She is excited from the tops of her ears to the tips of her toes, and has even made a list of all the things she wants to bring over to her best friend Olive's house. But, when she arrives, a bunny she's never seen before opens the door. In this heartwarming tale of first sleepovers, furry animals, and friendship, Marisabina Russo asks the age-old question: can one bunny have two best friends?

TEA WITH GRANDPA by Barney Saltzberg. (Neal Porter, April 2014). Ages: 3 – 8.

It's always the perfect time (and place) to have tea with Grandpa, no matter how far apart you are

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In this sweetly simple, rhyming picture book, a little girl tells us about her daily tea ritual with her grandfather where they sing, and laugh and clink their glasses with the help of their computers and a video chat written and illustrated by acclaimed author/artist Barney Saltzberg.

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RETURN TO AUGIE HOBBLE, Lane Smith (Roaring Brook Press May 2015). Ages: 8 – 12.

From one of the most admired, successful and funniest children's book creators of his generation, RETURN TO

AUGIE HOBBLE is Lane Smith’s first middle grade novel.

Augie Hobble lives in a fairy tale – or at least, in Fairy Tale Land, the decaying amusement park owned by his father. Yet his own life is turning into a nightmare: he fails Creative Arts (who fails Creative Arts?) and has to go to summer school, his crush won't acknowledge him, and, worst of all, he thinks he might be turning into a werewolf. Really – just check out the fur sprouting all over his hands. At least he's got his best friend and a notebook to confide in. But when the unthinkable happens, Augie must use his newfound, possibly paranormal powers to find his fairy tale ending. Both poignant and hilarious, bestselling, award-winning author and illustrator Lane Smith's debut middle-grade novel will have you howling with laughter.

KATIE FRIEDMAN GIVES UP TEXTING! (AND LIVES TO TELL ABOUT IT), Tommy Greenwald, illustrated by J.P. Coovert (Roaring Brook Press, February 2015). Ages 9 – 12.

Breaking up is hard to do. It’s even harder to do when your boyfriend surprises you with front row concert tickets

plus backstage passes the moment you’re about to do the dirty deed.

And not just any concert—Plain Jane—Katie’s all-time favorite band. Which is why Katie decides maybe she doesn’t need to break up with Nareem after all—or at least not today. But when Katie’s best friend Charlie Joe Jackson starts texting her about the breakup—life suddenly turns upside down. Because Katie just made the ultimate mistake. She sent the wrong text to the wrong person! Life can’t get any worse. And when Katie’s idol, Plain Jane, gets wind of her problem she makes her a deal: get ten of her friends to give up their phones for one week and everyone gets backstage passes to her show and brought on stage. Katie’s one tough cookie, but she can hardly convince her fellow middle schoolers to give up their phones for one hour, let alone a whole week!

JACK STRONG TAKES A STAND, Tommy Greenwald (Roaring brook Press, September 2013). Ages 8 – 12

A hilarious middle grade novel about a boy who stages a sit-in on his couch to protest the excess of

extracurricular activities for which his parents have signed him up.

Jack Strong just wants to be a regular kid. But his parents have overscheduled his week with every extracurricular activity under the sun: tennis, baseball, cello, karate, tutoring, and Chinese language lessons—all on top of regular homework. His parents want him to be “well-rounded” and prepared for those crucial college applications. Jack’s just about had enough. And so he stages a sit-in on his couch and refuses to get up until his parents let him quit some of the extracurriculars. As Jack’s protest gains momentum, he attracts a local television host who is interested in doing a segment about him. Tensions rise as counter-protesters camp out across the street from Jack and his couch. Jack’s enjoying this newfound attention, but he’s worried that this sit-in may have gone too far.

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THE SUMMER INVITATION, Charlotte Silver (Roaring Brook Press, May 2014). Ages 12 and up

A novel that captures all those pivotal moments every girl has growing up, perfect for Jane Austen fans.

When Franny and her older sister Valentine are summoned by their Aunt Theodora from foggy San Francisco to sunny New York City for one summer, they are expecting iconic trips to Central Park, Rockefeller Center, and the Met. Instead the two girls are instead taken to old-glamor locales like Bemelmans, the Plaza, and the Sherry Netherland by their chaperone, Clover, Aunt Theodora’s protégé. As they traipse around New York City going lingerie shopping and learning about the simple elegance of cucumber sandwiches, they also begin to unearth secrets and answers about Aunt Theo's glamorous and romantic past, and they have a few romantic adventures of their own.

TIN STAR, Cecil Castellucci (Nancy Mercado Books / Roaring Brook Press, August 2013). Ages: 12 and up.

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On their way to start a new life, Tula and her family travel on the Prairie Rose, a colony ship headed to a planet in the outer reaches of the solar system.

All is going well until the ship makes a stop at a remote space station, the Yertina Feray, and the colonist's leader, Brother Blue, beats Tula within an inch of her life. An alien, Heckleck, saves her and teaches her the ways of life on the space station. When three humans crash land onto the station, desire for escape becomes irresistible, and her desire for companionship becomes unavoidable. Tula begins to concoct a plan to get off of the space station and kill Brother Blue. But when the man himself makes a surprise appearance, everything goes awry.

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THE IMPOSSIBLE QUEST SERIES, Kate Forsyth (Scholastic Australia, Book #1: September 2014).

Four unlikely heroes. Four myserious gifts. Four impossible elements. Five thrilling books.

Four unlikely heroes are forced on a perilous quest to save their people. But first, Tom, Elanor, Sebastian and Quinn must escape the overrun castle. Only they can find the four impossible elements needed to wake the sleeping warriors of legend. Only they can drive back the darkness that reigns over the land.

THE LAST THIRTEEN SERIES, James Phelan (Scholastic Australia, Book #1: September 2013)

Thrilling, fast paced action series, incorporating important figures from history in a global setting.

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In recent weeks, a group has emerged with what can perhaps be described as a special ‘gift’ or ‘ability’: their dreams come true. Although unaware of it now, these individuals will not only save the world, but change it forever. They are our last hope in a battle of good versus evil. This transformation from ordinary to extraordinary, this journey, will not occur overnight. Every story has a beginning

CROSSING, Catherine Norton (Scholastic Australia, May 2014).

Cara lives in the shadow of the Wall.Soon her family will work for the Department, but she and her friends will

have made a difficult choice…

Cara has grown up in the shadow of the Wall, in a closed world of food shortages and high security. Her parents are dedicated to their secret work for the government, and it’s only a matter of time before her gifted younger sister follows in their footsteps. It’s all Cara has ever known, until the summer she meets Ava and Leon. Ava doesn’t care about rules. Nothing will ever be the same.

FIGGY IN THE WORLD, Tasmin Janu (Scholastic Australia, June 2014).

All you need is a plan… and courage.

A young girl, her goat and a friend they make on the way. Will they reach the United States of America and find the medicine to make Grandma Ama well again?

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HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME: DISASTER DIARY, Megan de Kantzow (Scholastic Australia, August 2013).

Holiday of a Lifetime: Anna knew her family's holiday was going to be a disaster before it even started, so it's just as well she'd thought about what to do in case of emergency. If your family is going on a holiday, read this

book... and good luck. You'll need it.

When her parents announce the family is going on the Holiday of a Lifetime instead of renovating the kitchen, Anna is convinced it will be one Potential Disaster after another. She wants to believe the lucky seahorse charm her gran gave her will be protection enough but when her gran falls ill and her dad must fly home, Anna begins to question her belief in luck. It's in Finland when the thing Anna has feared most actually happens-A Real Life and Death Situation-and it's up to Anna to save her brother and sister.

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PIG THE PUG, Aaron Blabey (Scholastic Australia, July 2014).

A hilarious picture book about learning to share.

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Pig is the greediest Pug in the world. He is bad-tempered, rude and he never, ever shares. Friendly sausage dog Trevor is always trying to persuade Pig to play with him, but without success. When Pig is asked to share his toys, his greed finally backfires and something unexpected happens to him? POPPY CAT, Sara Acton Poppy cat is a copy cat. She likes to do everything I do...

MY MERRY CHRISTMAS, Bruce Whatley and Rosie Smith (Scholastic Australia, October 2013). Ages: 3 and up.

A playful celebration of coming together at Christmas, featuring furry and feathered animals!

Beautifully illustrated with delightful animals, My Merry Christmas captures the fun of coming together at Christmas time.

OCTOPUPPY, Martin McKenna. (Scholastic Australia, September 2013). Ages: 4 and up.

A tale of acceptance and friendship between a boy and his…octopus

Meet Edgar. He’s determined to train his new puppy. Sit. Stay. Fetch.What could go wrong? It’s just that Edgar’s dog happens to be an octopus. A particularly brilliant octopus at that. Meet Jarvis. Edgar’s life is about to change forever.

THE VERY CRANKY BEAR SERIES, Book #3: THE VERY BRAVE BEAR, Nick Bland (Scholastic Australia,

July 2013)

Vibrant illustrations and a fun, engaging story make this book perfect for reading aloud.

Bear is back, and this time he’s facing Boris Buffalo in a battle of bravery. But something surprising will send them both fleeing through the forest

GRUMPY GRANDPA, Kate Forsyth & Annie White. (Scholastic Australia, April 2013).

From award-winning author Kate Forsyth.

A delightful story about visiting Grandpa and discovering that people are never quite what they seem.

GREAT GALLOPING GALOOT, Stephanie Thatcher. (Scholastic Australia, September 2013).

Galoot’s a clumsy giraffe, but his parents keep telling him,“Galoot, always be your best.” And when the other animals need help, the ‘great’ galoot lives up to his name

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FOX AND SQUIRREL MAKE A FRIEND, Ruth Ohi. Ages: 3 – 7

“The slightly deadpan tone, simple sentence structure, and choice of vocabulary all add to the book’s

read-aloud appeal . . . [a] lovely, gentle story of an unlikely friendship.”—Quill & Quire

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A companion title to last year’s adorable FOX AND SQUIRREL. Now the two friends need to work out how to include a new friend into their relationship!

PYJAMA DAY!, Robert Munsch, illustrations by Michael Martchenko. Ages: 3 – 8

The family in this story is Robert Munsch's family — the same family that is in Makeup Mess, Finding

Christmas and Andrew's Loose Tooth.

Munsch was inspired to write this story because of his son Andrew who liked to chew his pyjamas when was a little boy. Illustrator Michael Martchenko always finds ways to incorporate previous images/characters. The pattern on Andrew’s pyjamas is Munsch-themed; there are pies as in More Pies!; Tina’s socks from Smelly Socks; chili peppers from Class Clown; and a moose from what else:Moose! Even the drapes in Andrew’s room match his perfect pyjamas!

WE’RE ALL FRIENDS HERE, Nancy Wilcox Richards, illustrations by Tom Goldsmith. Ages: 3 – 7.

Perfect to introduce children to the dynamics of school and friendship.

Sonny and Arthur find themselves at odds in the classroom, and they are not sure that they like each other very much. But with a little encouragement, they soon see that there are two sides to every story!

WELCOME, BABY, Barbara Reid. Ages: 0 – 3.

A love letter to babies and their families

In this essential gift for new parents, author and illustrator Barbara Reid provides a wonderful celebration of the happiness babies bring to their families. In gentle rhymes, she lists all of the promises and cherished moments parents, grandparents and siblings plan to share with their new bundles of love, and using her trademark Plasticine artwork, Barbara decorates each spread with bright images of babies interacting with their families and the world around them, depicting scenes of simple joy and discovery. An absolute must-have for the nursery shelf

SWEETEST OF ALL, Jean Little. Ages: 0 – 3.

Celebrate the love between mother and child in this new board book edition of the sweetest story of all!

One by one, baby animals are born on the farm. Frolicking barnyard babies put smiles of love on their mothers’ faces, and each time a new animal is born, another mother yearns for one of her very own. When a new human mom shows off her own baby, it’s the sweetest one of all . . . because it’s her very own. A warm-hearted story with gently humorous rhymes, this is the perfect gift for a new baby’s bookshelf.

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CURSE OF THE DREAM WITCH, Allan Stratton (Scholastic Canada, May 2013). Ages: 9-13

An exhilarating fairytale adventure.

The Dream Witch haunts the forest beyond the kingdom of Bellumen, waiting to collect on a horrible debt owed by the king and queen — the heart of their only daughter, Princess Olivia. Until she has it, none of the kingdom's children are safe. As Olivia's thirteenth birthday approaches and the witch's deadline draws near, her desperate mother seeks help from 91

Prince Leo of neighbouring Pretonia. But the treacherous prince seizes their castle instead, determined to marry Olivia and take over the kingdom. So Olivia makes a daring escape from the castle, two friends by her side: the peasant boy Milo and a curious talking mouse with a surprising past. Together, the friends face certain danger and fantastical adversaries to save their families and rescue a kingdom.

A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A TOTAL AND COMPLETE GENIUS, Stacey Matson (Scholastic Canada, Fall 2014).

Ages 9 – 12.

Arthur Bean believes he is a writing genius - but is it all in his own mind?

Get swept along in the antics of this crazy year: Arthur desperately needs to come up with a story idea to win the writing contest and in the process, hopefully also steal the heart of Kennedy, whom he admires from a distance. Will Robbie – the boy who used to torment him but that he now has to tutor — help him clinch the contest? Arthur’s weekly writing assignments and his teachers’ astute feedback also subtly disclose why Arthur is so stuck — his mother died last year and he still has no clue how to cope.

THE BEST WORST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER, Budge Wilson. Ages: 7 – 10.

“Budge Eilson has written a Christmas story for all seasons” – Kids Toronto

Lorinda and her brother want to give their mother the best Christmas present ever. Lorinda has her eye on one very special item, but they'll need some good money-making ideas if they want to get it in time for Christmas Of course, nothing goes according to plan . . .

THE PUPPY COLLECTION, Susan Hughes, illustrations by Leanne Franson. Ages: 6 – 9

“A well-written, easy to read chapter book for the young reader, Bailey’s Visit will charm its intended young

female audience.”—Resource Links

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“Who would not love the adorable chocolate lab puppy with blue eyes that is found on the cover of Bailey’s Visit? Most little girls would, and they will enjoy a sweet, safe little story of how two young girls find a way to love puppies even though they are not allowed to have puppies of their own…” —Canadian Materials

• Non-fiction / Activity •

DIRTY SCIENCE: 25 EXPERIMENTS WITH SOIL SHAR LEVINE, Leslie Johnstone and Lorenzo Del Bianco

(illustr.). Ages: 7 – 11.

Fun, hands-on experiments for kids: “[A] perfect example of how a love of reading can be fostered with non-

fiction materials.” — Resource Links

Think that the dirt beneath your feet is boring? Wrong There's more to dirt than, well, dirt. Soil can tell you a lot about where you live and” what's going on behind, or beneath, the scenes. Try making a Berlese funnel to expose tiny bugs in soil, or change a blue hydrangea to a pink one Is it magic? Nope… it's science Fun, easy experiments and lively illustrations give readers more of what they have come to expect from the dynamic team behind Scary Science: 25 Creepy Experiments and Snowy Science: 25 Cool Experiments.

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NO FITS, NILSON! Zacharia O'Hora (Dial, June 2013). Ages: 3 – 5.

"Foot-stomping fit pitchers will take multiple timeouts for this amusing modern fable." - Kirkus Reviews,

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Nilson and Amelia do everything together. But if one little thing goes wrong, Nilson throws the biggest, most house shaking-est fit ever! Amelia helps Nilson control his gorilla-sized temper by promising him banana ice cream and letting him play with her froggy coin purse. But, sometimes, Amelia needs to be calmed down, too. Inspired by Ohora's own "negotiations" with his two sons, No Fits, Nilson! is a hilarious preschool pick for kids and parents navigating the treacherous tantrum phase.

THIS IS OUR HOUSE, Hyewon Yum (FSG, July 2013).

Hyewon Yum's This is Our House is a warm story with spare text that follows a family through seasons and

generations, from the early days of immigration to the times that made their house into a home.

A tree has bloomed on a city block outside a house for many years. Inside that house, several generations of a family have grown up. Grandma and Grandpa arrived at the house from a country far away, and Mom and her brothers played on the steps on warm summer days. This little girl learned how to walk on that street, too.

THE TWINS’ LITTLE SISTER, Hyewon Yum (FGS, August 2014). Ages: 3 – 6.

"A sensitive, true-to-life story of a family’s growth that never turns saccharine." - Publisher's Weekly

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In The Twins' Little Sister by award-winning picture book author Hyewon Yum, being twins means having two of almost everything: two twin beds, two polka-dot dresses, two dolls. But these two little girls have only one mom. This is a big problem. Soon there will be an even bigger problem: Mom is having a baby, and the twins will have a little sister. But Mom has only two arms. Who’s going to hold the baby’s hand? Luckily, once the baby arrives, the twins discover the pleasures of being big sisters. They also learn that there is more than enough love to go around.

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NO FITS, NILSON , Zachariah OHora. (Dial, June 2013). Ages: 3 – 5.

A kid-friendly approach to tantrums for fans of Jon Klassen and Peter Brown.

Nilson and Amelia do everything together. But if one little thing goes wrong, Nilson throws the biggest, most house- shaking-est fit ever Amelia helps Nilson calm down by promising him banana ice cream and letting him play with her froggy coin purse. But sometimes, Amelia needs to be calmed down, too. Relatable humor, lovable characters, and bold, expressive illustrations make this story, inspired by Ohora’s own “negotiations” with one of his sons, a perfect preschool pick for kids and parents navigating the treacherous tantrum phase.

MOM, IT’S MY FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN , Hyewon Yum (FSG - Frances Foster Books, July 2012). Ages:

4 – 7.

Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2012.

It's a child's first day of kindergarten, but who is worried about all the new people and the different things he'll meet--the child? No The mother. In a refreshing reversal of roles, the child takes it upon himself to comfort and reassure his mother that everything will be fine, she'll get used to him going to big-kid school, and yes, he is ready for the first day of kindergarten. Utterly charming in its simplicity, Yum playfully uses size and color to reveal emotions of this milestone beginning.

THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE, Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown, October 2013). Ages: 3 – 6.

"[There is] a note of homespun vibrancy to Pinkney's elegant watercolor paintings....The tortoise may have won

the race, but the real winner here in the listening and viewing audience." – (Booklist, starred review).

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This companion to the Caldecott Medal-winning The Lion & the Mouse is Jerry Pinkney's most stunning masterpiece yet. Even the slowest tortoise can defeat the quickest hare, and even the proudest hare can learn a timeless lesson from the most humble tortoise: Slow and steady wins the race Here is a superbly rendered journey from starting line to finish that embodies the bravery, perseverance, and humility we can all find inside ourselves.

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KILLING TIME IN CRYSTAL CITY, Chris Lynch (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, January 2015). Ages:

12 and up.

A teen runs away from his broken life and invents a new one in this dazzling adventure from Printz Honor

winner and National Book Award finalist Chris Lynch.

Crystal City called for him, and Kevin answered. And why wouldn’t he? His relationship with his father is broken—as is his arm. With barely anyone to miss him or care if he’s gone, it seemed like the perfect time for Kevin to run away to his estranged uncle and create an entirely new identity. New name. New attitude. New friends. Maybe even a new girl. From the first moment of adventure, Kevin’s life takes a turn for the exciting. Making friends seems easy with his new persona, especially when a group of homeless beach bums instantly includes him in their crew. But do they like the real Kevin, or the guy he’s pretending to be? And will this new lifestyle help Kevin escape from the misery of his former life, or will it drag him right back into the reasons he left home?

CHILDREN OF PEACE #1: THE ROYAL HOSTAGES, Erin Bow (Margaret McElderry Books, Fall 2015).

A vivid projection of a potential future where highly advanced societies scrap over resources and access to water

becomes something rulers are willing to kill millions for—millions including their own children.

Greta, Duchess of Halifax and Crown Princess of the PanPolar Confederacy (which has formed across modern Canada), is one of hundreds of hostaged royals worldwide. The year is 2562, and Greta’s world has been devastated by climate shift and wracked by the storms of war. To enforce global peace the overlord of the UN—a half-mad, endlessly captivating artificial intelligence named Talis—resurrected an ancient method of keeping the peace: hostage taking. For 400 years, the children of ruling monarchs and generals have been removed from their families and reared on neutral – but unsafe – ground. Carefully taught and constantly scrutinized by AIs, their role is to peacefully coexist—but die the instant their parents declare war. Greta has accepted her fate with the dignity befitting a princess, but when a power shake-up in the Americas introduces a defiant new hostage, Greta begins to question the world she’s known. Freshly awakened to love and ensnared in deadly power struggles, Greta will soon be called upon to make a terrible sacrifice. But can one person remake a world? Book two follows Greta as she is converted to AI and ventures out into the world.

WE ALL LOOKED UP, Tommy Wallach (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, March 2015) Ages: 14 up.

Four teens put everything on the line—their hopes, their hearts, and their humanity—as an asteroid hurtles

toward Earth in this high concept, character-driven contemporary novel.

They always say that high school is the best time of your life. Peter, the star basketball player at his school, is worried “they" might actually be right. Eliza wholeheartedly disagrees; she can’t wait to graduate and get far away from Seattle, if only to escape her reputation. Anita has done everything perfectly in high school, and she has the grades and admission to Princeton to prove it. But then, she can't help wondering what it is all worth since she's never done what she truly loves. Andy, for his part, doesn't understand all the fuss about college and career—the future can wait. But what if the future was hurtling through space with the potential to wipe out life on Earth? As these four seniors— along with the rest of the planet—wait to see what damage an asteroid will cause, they must abandon all thoughts of the future and decide how they're going to spend what remains of the present.

HEIRS OF WATSON ISLAND: COMPULSION, Martina Boone (Simon Pulse, October 2014). Ages: 14 and up

Beautiful Creatures meets The Body Finder in this debut, the first novel in the Heirs of Watson Island trilogy.

When Barrie’s mother dies suddenly, the terms of her will send Barrie across the country to live on a sultry, moss-draped plantation with an aunt she never even knew existed. Although Pru, her mother’s twin, welcomes Barrie, something isn’t right at the plantation, something that calls out to Barrie’s “gift.” Like all Watsons, Barrie has an ability to find lost things. It’s a gift granted by the ancient spirit who gave the Watsons and the island’s two other founding families—the wealthy Beauforts and the perpetually down-on-their-luck Colesworths—wishes that became compulsions. Thanks to the family gift, nothing can be lost at Watson’s Landing, yet Barrie finds her ancestral home filled with a mysterious past—hidden passages, dangerous secrets, and an unsolved murder. As she digs deeper, Barrie is drawn to Eight Beaufort, the boy across 95

the river who always knows what people want. While she struggles to trust a guy who can read her every desire, her gorgeous, manipulative cousin Cassie Colesworth has her own selfish plans for Barrie’s gift . . .

HALF A WORLD AWAY, Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, September 2014). Ages: 10 – 14.

Eleven-year-old Jaden’s adoptive parents are adopting a new baby from Kazakhstan, and he’s sure it’s because

he has failed them.

With his aggressive running, lighting fires, and obsession with electricity, he’s never bonded with his family and doesn’t know how to control the anger he feels for being put up for adoption by his birth mother in the first place. He simply doesn’t understand love. But when they make it to Kazakhstan, they find the baby they had set their hearts on has been adopted, and Jaden’s parents are forced to choose a new one, right then and there. As they go through the life-changing decision of what child to take home, Jaden meets Dimash—a special needs toddler—whom he suddenly feels connected to—who will soon age out of the orphanage and have a life as hopeless as Jaden feels. For the first time Jaden feels something that isn’t blinding fury, and there’s no way to control it, or its power.

PERSONA, Genevieve Valentine (Saga Press, March 2015).

In a world where diplomacy has become celebrity, a young ambassador survives an assassination attempt and must join with an undercover paparazzo in a race to save her life, spin the story, and secure the future of her young country in this near-future political thriller from the acclaimed author of Mechanique and The Girls at

Kingfisher Club.

When Suyana, Face of the United Amazonia Rainforest Confederation, secretly meets Ethan of the United States for a date that can solidify a relationship for the struggling UARC, the last thing she expects is an assassination attempt. Daniel, a teen-runaway-turned-paparazzo out for his big break, witnesses the first shot hit Suyana, and before he can think about it, he jumps into the fray, telling himself it’s not altruism, it’s the scoop. Just like that, Suyana and Daniel are now in the game of Faces. And if they lose, they’ll die.

THE ICARUS CORPS#1: THE DARKSIDE WAR, Zachary Brown (Saga Press, March 2015).

Aliens have conquered Earth, but they haven’t conquered humanity—yet. A young army conscript battles for

survival in this action-packed futuristic thriller that will appeal to fans of Halo and Inglourious Basterds.

People used to wonder if we were alone in the universe. Well, we’re not. Not by a long shot. Aliens come in all shapes and sizes, and even the good guys are likely to haunt your nightmares. And oh, you’ll have nightmares, even after you leave the service. If you leave the service.Devin is a reluctant conscript to an alien-run army: when the Accordance conquered Earth, they said it was to prepare against the incoming alien Conglomeration forces. But as Devin travels to the dark side of the moon for boot camp and better acquaints himself with his so-called allies, his loyalties are increasingly tested. Because the enemy of the enemy is not always a friend. Sometimes they’re a far, far worse threat.

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RUBY ON THE OUTSIDE, Nora Raleigh Baskin,(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, June 2015). Ages: 8 –

12.

Nobody knows Ruby’s secret—her mom is in prison. But can she keep the truth from her first real best friend?

Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes is about to start middle school, yet no one in her life other than her aunt knows her deepest, darkest secret—her mother is in prison. Then Margalit Tipps moves into Ruby’s condo complex, and the two immediately hit it off. Ruby thinks she’s found her first true-blue friend. Is she ready to tell Margalit the truth? But when Margalit’s family history seems to tie in too closely with the very event that put her mother in prison, Ruby fears she may lose everything—but she may learn the true meaning of friendship, honesty, and love along the way.

THE SATURDAY COOKING CLUB #1: KITCHEN CHAOS, Deborah A. Levine and Jill Ellyn Riley (Aladdin,

February 2015). Ages: 9 – 13.

Can friendships take the heat? A trio of mothers and daughters will find out when they sign up for a cooking class from a famous chef in the first book of the Saturday Cooking Club series—it’s mother-daughter bonding

and so much more!

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Liza and Frankie have always been best friends. But when new girl Lillian arrives from San Francisco, suddenly three’s a crowd. Especially after the trio is grouped together for a big sixth-grade social studies project. Can they put aside their animosity long enough to succeed? When Liza suggests they all take a cooking class with the chef from her favorite cooking show for the project, the girls are on board, but they need an adult to take the class with them. It seems like the perfect opportunity to snag some quality time with their overscheduled, stressed mothers... if they can convince them to sign up! Several headaches and close calls later, the girls at last find themselves in Chef Antonio’s kitchen with their mothers in tow—but the drama is only just beginning!

LOST IN PARIS, Cindy Callaghan (Aladdin, March 2015): Ages: 9–13.

Ooh la la! Gwen ends up on a Parisian scavenger hunt—with a cute French ami—in this M!X

novel from the author of Lost in London.

Gwen Russell is thrilled to hear she will be heading to Paris with her family. Even though the main reason for the trip is to see her three older brothers play lacrosse, Gwen and her mom have plans to tour the city when they can. As soon as they land, Gwen is swept up in the city she has always wanted to see, and even meets a très cute boy named Henri. If that wasn’t enough excitement, Gwen finds out that her all-time favorite band is playing a one-night-only concert in Paris—and there are tickets available to the sold-out show for three lucky people. The catch? Fans who want a golden ticket have to work for it via a scavenger hunt around the City of Light. Through cryptic clues blasted out every day through a special website, Gwen and her new friends find themselves in a race against time—and against other die-hard fans—as they scramble to landmarks throughout Paris. And it turns out the concert tickets might not even be the biggest prize.

KEN JENNING’S JUNIOUR GENIUS GUIDES, Ken Jennings (Little Simon, May 2014). Ages: 8 – 10.

Now your child can become a junior genius with Ken Jennings’ first children’s series! With these nonfiction books about geography, Greek mythology, outer space, and more, children can become experts and wow their

friends and teachers with clever facts.

This series covers popular subjects for eight-to ten-year-olds and is perfect for the reluctant reader who might otherwise find such topics off-putting. Packed with great illustrations, cool trivia, charts, graphs, and fun quizzes to test their knowledge, these guides will have children on their way to whiz-kid status in no time!

STELLA BY STARLIGHT, Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, January 2015). Ages: 9–13.

When the Ku Klux Klan’s unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella’s segregated southern town, bravery battles prejudice in this Depression-era tour de force from Sharon Draper, the New York Times bestselling author of

Out of My Mind.

Stella lives in the segregated South—in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can’t. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn’t bothered them for years. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something they’re never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination. As Stella’s community—her world—is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire. And she learns that ashes don’t necessarily signify an end.

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THE SHADOW BOYS ARE BREAKING, Mackenzi Lee (Katherine Tegan Books/HarperCollins, Fall 2015).

Winner of the 2014 PEN New England Children's Book Discovery Award!

Geneva, Switzerland, 1818: In the corners and shadows of the city, there are men, women and children with bodies made of clockwork. Casualties of war and poverty and industry, their missing limbs and deformities have been replaced with functioning metal parts by unlawful mechanics called Shadow Boys. Seventeen-year- old Shadow Boy Alasdair Finch longs to escape Geneva, but is imprisoned by circumstance and by his own guilt. Two years ago, he used clockwork to bring his older brother back from the dead. When the resurrection went wrong, Oliver Finch returned more monster than man. Horrified, Alasdair keeps Oliver in an abandoned castle in the hills. Then Alasdair's tenuous normalcy is threatened by the publication of Frankenstein, a story about the resurrection of a clockwork monster. No one knows who wrote the book, but the people of Europe believe it to be true and a hunt for the resurrected man and his creator ensues. With the help of a clockwork girl and a childhood friend—the only soul who witnessed Oliver's rebirth—Alasdair must save his brother. To prevail, Alasdair must confess the painful truth about the night his brother died, and unlike the doomed Dr. Frankenstein, find a way to take responsibility for his own creation. This wildly imaginative book explores the line between man and monster—sometimes so thin it's almost invisible.

A SENSE OF THE INFINITE, Hilary T. Smith (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, May 2015).

Annabeth and Noe are best friends...until a secret tears them apart

It’s senior year of high school, and Annabeth is ready—ready for everything she and her best friend Noe have been planning and dreaming. But there are some things Annabeth isn’t prepared for, like the constant presence of Noe’s new boyfriend. Like how her relationship with her mom is wearing and fraying. And like the way the secret she’s been keeping hidden deep inside her for years has started clawing at her insides, making it harder to eat or even breathe. But most especially, she isn’t prepared to lose Noe. For years, Noe has anchored Annabeth and set their joint path. Now Noe is driving in another direction, making new plans and dreams that don’t involve Annabeth. Without Noe’s constant companionship, Annabeth’s world begins to crumble. But as a chain of events pulls Annabeth further and further away from Noe, she finds herself closer and closer to discovering who she’s really meant to be—with her best friend or without.

NOT AFTER EVERYTHING, Michelle Levy (Dial, Summer 2015).

Tyler’s voice, which is angry, funny, and achingly, utterly real allows readers to get inside an honest teen guy’s

brain.

When 17-year-old Tyler Blackwell came home from summer football training to get a change of socks and some Advil, the last thing he expected to find was his mom floating in a bathtub full of bloody water. She didn’t even bother to leave a note. And she left him alone to deal with his abusive, asshole father who is doing everything he can to keep his son unbalanced, angry, and afraid. Tyler copes with his mother’s suicide by hiding behind an increasingly antagonistic persona intended to keep everyone at arm’s length. He slowly spirals deeper and deeper into himself, allowing his grades, his social life, and even his football scholarship to Stanford to fall by the wayside—that was his mom’s dream and she didn’t have the guts to see it through so why the hell should he? And then he falls for Jordyn—an estranged friend who sees through his shit and refuses to allow him to continue down his path of self-destruction. Where everyone else tiptoes around him like he’s tragedy boy, she dares to call him on all his bad behavior and he can’t get enough of her brand of filter-less truth- telling. Love was the last thing he expected to find in this mess of a Senior year. Even as his father takes his grief-worsened reign of terror to new malicious heights, there is a chance Tyler just might survive.

FINDING PARIS, Joy Preble (Balzer+Bray, HarperCollins, April 2015).

A new contemporary YA for fans of books like Love Letters to the Dead, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 13

Little Blue Envelopes, and John Green.

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Sisters Leo and Paris Hollings have only ever had each other to rely on. They can’t trust their mother, who hops from city to city and guy to guy, or their gambler stepfather, who’s moved them all to Las Vegas. It’s just the two of them: Paris, who’s always been the dreamer, and Leo, who has a real future in mind—going to Stanford, becoming a doctor, falling love. But Leo isn’t going anywhere right now, except driving around Vegas all night with her sister. Until Paris ditches Leo at the Heartbreak Hotel Diner, where moments before, they had been talking with physics student, Max Sullivan. Outside, Leo finds a cryptic note from Paris—a clue: “Stay calm, Leo. This is the only way. He’s making me. You have to find me. xParis 0 00 136” Is it some kind of game? Where is Paris and why has she disappeared? Reluctantly Leo teams up with Max (who is a total stranger at this point), and the two find themselves following a string of clues through Vegas and beyond. But the search for the truth is not a straight line. And neither is the path to secrets Leo and Max hold inside. Joy Preble’s stirring and evocative new novel explores the lengths to which sisters go to protect each other, and the winding road that brings two strangers into each other’s lives.

THE CONQUERS TRILOGY #1: DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON, Kiersten White

An epic, assessable, un-put-down-able tale of betrayal, power, and violence.

Politics. Intrigue. War. Betrayal. Death. From New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White comes a sweeping reimagining of some of the greatest and most terrible leaders in European history. Three novels, covering the same tumultuous time period, each told from a different point of view. Epic in scope and intimate in execution, the trilogy will examine the atrocities we commit in the name of country, passion, and religion.

STORY SPINNER, Becky Wallace (S&S, March 2015)

An excellent traditional-type fantasy should have: magic, plot twists, torture, chivalry, Dukes and Lords and

Mage Counsels, a not-so-easy love story, a cast of great characters, and adventure!

Johanna comes from a long line of performers. While she's been trained to do everything from fly on the trapeze to toss flaming daggers, her particular skill is story-spinning—weaving tales with song and spectacle that leave her audiences breathless. But now her father is dead and she and the rest of her luck-cursed family have been kicked out of Performer's Camp; they are barely able to eke out a living in exile. A case of mistaken identity gets her in trouble with the local aristocracy, and she reluctantly agrees to work for the soon-to-be Duke Rafael. While accepting the job will feed her starving brothers, working for the prickly Lordling is hardly her idea of happiness. It may also expose her to a danger she could have never imagined, and a secret that her father died to protect: The hidden truth of her heritage. When girls matching her description begin vanishing or turning up dead all over the kingdom, it becomes clear that Johanna is a target. She must confront her past, or leave her future in the hands of an enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy her.

VICARIOUS, Paula Stokes (Tor, fall 2015-early 2016).

A gritty, unique, un-put-down-able YA thriller with a twist.

Winter Kim can’t live without her older sister, Rose, who protected her through the harrowing circumstances that began in their youth in Korea, and helped keep her sane as they adjusted to their new lives in the USA. Now Winter and Rose work as recorders—digital stunt women—for Rose’s ex-boyfriend, Gideon. Gideon deals in experiences—sight, sound, touch, etc.—by capturing his recorders’ sensory neural impulses and selling them as downloads to armchair adrenaline junkies. The more dangerous or sexy the recordings, the higher the price, and Winter, Rose and their colleagues are fearless in pursuit of great footage. When a neural recording of what appears to be Rose’s murder is delivered to Gideon, Winter won’t rest until she finds her sister, dead or alive. But when the digital evidence conflicts with the real-world clues, she isn’t sure what to believe. If Winter wants to find out what happened to Rose, she’ll have to untangle what’s real from what only seems real, risking her own life and mind in the process.

THE QUEEN OF BRIGHT AND SHINY THINGS, Ann Aguirre (Feiwel and Friends, April 2015).

Love doesn't mend all broken things, and sometimes life has to fall apart before it can be put back together

again...

Sage Czinski is trying really hard to be perfect. If she manages it, people won't peer beyond the surface, or ask hard questions about her past. She's learned to substitute causes for relationships, and it's working just fine...until Shane Cavendish strolls into her math class. He's a little antisocial, a lot beautiful, and everything she never knew she always wanted. Shane Cavendish just wants to be left alone to play guitar and work on his music. He's got heartbreak and loneliness in his rearview mirror, and this new school represents his last chance. He doesn't expect to be happy; he only wants to graduate and move on. He never counted on a girl like Sage.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT ALICE, Jennifer Mathieu. (Roaring Brook, March 2014).

Intricate, emotional, and suspenseful, and all too real. In THE TRUTH ABOUT ALICE we get to see how one

little rumor balloons into a whole web of lies and how it affects one very relatable teenager girl.

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Everyone has a lot to say about Alice Franklin, and it’s stopped mattering whether it’s true. The rumors started at a party when Alice supposedly had sex with two guys in one night. When school starts everyone almost forgets about Alice until one of those guys, super-popular Brandon, dies in a car wreck that was allegedly all Alice’s fault. Now the only friend she has is a boy who may be the only other person who knows the truth, but is too afraid to admit it. Told from the perspectives of popular girl Elaine, football star Josh, former outcast Kelsie, and shy genius Kurt, we see how everyone has a motive to bring–and keep–Alice down.

MORTAL DANGER, Ann Aguirre (Feiwel and Friends, August 2014).

Revenge is a dish best served cold...in this first of a planned trilogy.

Edie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four months ago she couldn’t imagine being strong enough to face her senior year. But thanks to a Faustian compact with the enigmatic Kian, she has the power to make the bulliespay. She’s not supposed to think about Kian once the deal is done, but devastating pain burns behind his unearthly beauty, and he’s impossible to forget. In one short summer, Edie’s entire life changes, and she sweeps through Blackbriar, prepped to take the beautuful people down from the inside. A whisper here, a look there, and suddenly…bad things are happening. It’s a heady rush, seeing her tormentors get what they deserve, but things that seem too good to be true usually are, and soon, the pranks and payback turns from delicious to deadly. In this murky morass of devil’s bargains, she isn’t sure who—or what—she can trust. Not even her own mind….

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ALL THE ANSWERS, Kate Messner (Bloomsbury/Walker, January 2015).

If a magic pencil provided all the answers, what would you ask?

When Ava Anderson finds an old blue pencil in her family's junk drawer, it doesn't seem like anything special. But all that changes when she writes a question in the margin of her math quiz and something very strange happens. She hears a voice that nobody else can hear—and it tells herthe solution! With the help of her best friend, Sophie, Ava figures out that this is no ordinary pencil. This pencil provides answers…but only to fact-based questions. As Ava's reliance on the pencil grows (and the pencil itself shrinks from sharpening), the truths it reveals about herself and her family lead Ava on an adventure she never expected to take.

WITHERING-BY-SEA: A Stella Montgomery Intrigue, written and illustrated by Judith Rossell (Atheneum,

Spring 2016).

An unusual adventure awaits at the Hotel Majestic...

In Victorian England, 11-year-old Stella Montgomery lives in the Hotel Majestic with her three dreadful Aunts. Hiding in the conservatory, she sees a mysterious guest, Mr. Filbert, hide a small package. When Mr. Filbert is killed, Stella finds herself on the run from The Professor, a stage magician, and his gang of thugs. Stella’s adventure includes dancing girls, performing cats, a hand of glory, a steam-powered Vertical Omnibus, mution- in-aspic, an enormous ghostly seaserpent, a clockwork beetle, a drowned village and a military pudding. Will Stella manage to escape from The Professor’s clutches, protect Mr. Filbert’s secret, uncover the mystery, and find her way home?

HOW TO OUTRUN A CROCODILE WHEN YOUR SHOES ARE UNTIED, Jess Keating (Sourcebooks, June

2014). Ages: 9 – 12.

“An amusing, highly readable book about the perils of being 12 in a snake-eat-snake world.” – Kirkus starred

review.

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Junior High is tough for any 12-year-old, but when you have crickets in your pocket and smell like a skunk, things get a whole lot worse. Ana Wright didn't ask to be named after an anaconda. She didn't ask for zoologist parents who look like safari guides, and she certainly didn't ask for a twin brother whose life goal seems to be hiding reptiles in her bed. Not only have her parents decided to move the whole family into the zoo, but her best friend Liv is moving to the other side of the world. Ana does her best to cope with the Sneerers (the clan of carnivorous popular girls in her class), while she secretly lusts after the class tennis pro, Zack. Ana’s stomach is always in knots, and she goes the extra mile in her efforts to be anonymous, like always doodling in her notebook to avoid making eye-contact with anyone. When her famous animal handler grandfather comes to town for his book tour—complete with entourage to film his darling granddaughter in a national TV interview (which goes hilariously horrible), Ana’s hopes of remaining anonymous are dashed. When she agrees to give an impromptu educational talk at the zoo, she doesn’t realize her whole class will turn up to watch. Can she survive the madness without Liv at her side? Could Kevin be more than her nerdy physics tutor? Can she face her biggest fear on her own?

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ESCAPE FROM EDEN, Elisa Nader (Adams/Merit, August 2013). Ages: 14 and up.

In a harrowing and often disturbing adventure, two teen members of an exploitative cult try fleeing to safety. –

Kirkus starred review.

SixteenByearBold Mia spent her life in a religious commune called Edenton, but has always questioned the teachings of the Reverend Elias Eden. Gabriel is a new arrival—a big city boy with an even bigger attitude. When he persuades Mia to sneak out, they discover the commune is based on a secret more sinister than she could have imagined. As Edenton’s scandalous secrets unravel, Mia must race against the clock to save her family and friends and battle against the only world she’s ever known.

INTO THE DARK, Bree Despain. (Egmont US, Spring 2014). Ages: 12 and up.

An exciting new trilogy from the author of The Dark Divine.

A re-imagining of the Persephone myth told from alternating perspectives: Haden, who must leave purgatory and bring back a mortal girl in order to claim his right to rule, and Daphne, a teenager with troubles of her own who wants—above all—to make music. A dark, romantic new series that explores destiny vs. choice, love vs. duty, and what it truly means to have honor.

THE AFTER GIRLS, Leah Konen. (Adams/Merit, April 2013). Ages:12 and up.

Two girls search for the haunting secrets their best friend left behind

Ella, Astrid and Sydney were planning the perfect summer after high school graduation. But when Astrid commits suicide, the girls’ world is shattered. How could their best friend have done this? Shouldn’t they have seen it coming? As Ella hunts for answers and Sydney tries to dull the pain, a chilling Facebook message from Astrid leaves them both wondering whether their beloved friend is communicating from the afterworld. The girls embark on a journey to uncover Astrid’s dark secrets, and the answers to the questions they never dreamed of asking will change their lives—forever.

THE SWEETEST THING, Christina Mandelski (Egmont USA, May 2011). Ages: 10 and up.

A funny, sweet, smart debut a la Sarah Dessen...

A genius at the art of decorating cakes, teen Sheridan Wells is less than brilliant at the art of life—she keeps choosing the wrong boy, the wrong friends, and the wrong ways to track down the absentee mother she is certain will fix everything in her life that’s gone wrong. As her father’s restaurant becomes the focus of a reality TV show, Sheridan finds herself in trouble with everyone she loves.

#SCANDAL, Sarah Ockler. (Simon Pulse, June 2014). Ages: 12 and up.

Love in the time of social media …

Lucy isn’t one for frilly dresses or anything too “girly.” But when her best friend Ellie catches the superflu and begs Lucy to take her boyfriend Cole to prom, she agrees. The only problem? Lucy has a secret crush on Cole. When a Facebook scandal explodes, it’s up to Lucy to deal with Ellie and Cole, her newfound reputation at school, and her Hollywood sister’s return home—all while staying true to herself.

THE BLOOD GUARD TRILOGY, Carter Roy. (Amazon Children’s Publishing, Spring 2014). Ages: 12 and up.

A new trilogy for fans of Rick Riordan and Peter Lerangis

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When Ronan’s father is abducted, his mother finally tells him the truth: that she is a member of an ancient order of knights who protect thirty-six noble souls in the world. And then she disappears. It’s up to Evelyn to find his father and save him, along with the help of a feisty girl named Greta and a pick-pocketing thief named Dawkins. Magic, sword fighting, subterfuge, and an abundance of humor fill the pages of the first installment of thrilling new trilogy.

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POISON, Bridget Zinn (Hyperion Books, May 2013). Ages: 12 and up.

Frothy and light, this is a romantic fantasy that is as much romantic comedy as fantasy.

Kyra is a former-potioner-turned-would-be-assassin. She intends to kill the princess—her best friend since childhood, who is marked by evil. Kyra’s only help is an enchanted wee tiny piglet that magically tracks people. Which is bad enough for someone who thinks of herself as a deadly (though clumsy) assassin. And then on the road she and her pig are joined by a fellow traveler named Fred, who, like Kyra, is much more than he appears.

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A WHOLE LOT OF LUCKY, Danette Haworth. (Walker, Fall 2012): Ages: 10 and up.

“Realistic, modern and still familiar, this is a middle school story both children and their parents should read”—

Kirkus

Hailee Richardson is used to the Salvation Army and Goodwill. But when her family wins the lottery, she’s enrolled in a new private school that changes the way she thinks about her best friend and about life. Could so good—like winning the lottery—actually turn out to be bad?

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THE LAW OF LOVING OTHERS, Kate Axelrod (Razorbill, January 2015).

A beautiful, heart rending coming-of-age story that is also the perfect read for these cold winter days.

The novel opens with Emma driving home from boarding school for winter break with her boyfriend. When she gets home, she realizes that her mother is in the middle of a schizophrenic breakdown and her father can no longer hide her mother’s condition from Emma. Soon, Emma’s too-sophisticated boyfriend pulls away when she needs him most. The novel takes place in Manhattan and Westchester, as Emma mingles newfound freedoms with the devastating implications of her mother’s illness. Emma soon encounters the hard truth in a line from Anna Karenina: “The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.” This is a gorgeous, heart rending story that takes an honest look at friendship, love and family. Emma feels an incredible sense of loss when she realizes she might never be able to rely on her mother again. She flounders through the responsibilities of her new adulthood, desperately searching for answers in her complicated relationships.

PRETENDING TO BE ERICA, Michelle Painchaud (Viking, July 2015). Ages: 12 and up.

Seventeen-year-old Violet’s entire life has revolved around one thing: becoming Erica

Silverman, an heiress kidnapped at age five.

Violet’s father, the best con man in Las Vegas, has a plan. Thanks to surgery and blackmail, Violet has the same face, body, and DNA as the missing girl. When the time is right, she “reappears” as Erica Silverman, miraculously brought home. But she is also Violet, and she has a job: Stay long enough to steal the Silverman Painting, an Old Master that is legendary in the Vegas crime world. Walking a razor’s edge and calculating every decision, Violet is an unforgettable heroine, and PRETENDING TO BE ERICA is a killer debut.

THE TRUTH COMISSION, Susan Juby (Razorbill, March 2015).

A coming-of-age story with elements of romance and mystery, written as a narrative nonfiction project, complete

with footnotes and illustrations.

Normandy Pale and her two best friends are the Truth Commission, confirming the school rumors that no one is bold enough to ask about (“Did you have plastic surgery?” “Are you straight or gay?”). All the while, Normandy is avoiding the truth closest to home: What has happened to her older sister, Keira? An artistic wunderkind with a major publishing deal for her graphic novels based, in part, upon their family, Keira dropped out of art college suddenly, and moved back home. Now she’s holed up in her studio, every so often telling Normandy bits and pieces of what happened, and they are adding up to a very disturbing story. The Truth Commission is written in the form of Normandy’s junior year narrative nonfiction project -- a blend of meta-text, footnotes, drawings, and straightforward narrative -- that is a coming-of-age story, a mystery, a romance, and, above all, hilarious.

EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME, Andrea Seigel and Brent Bradshaw (Viking, March 2015). Ages: 12 and up.

But how genuine can that love be when cameras are watching their every move, and when their pasts

will stop at nothing to hold them back?

Magnolia comes from a McMansion where her leopard print-clad mother’s primary goal is snagging a spot on The Real Housewives of Orange County. Ford comes from a trailer park in middle-of-nowhere Arkansas, where his family is best known for their record number of DUIs. When Magnolia and Ford are thrown together on Spotlight, a reality TV show singing competition, the two teens who have nothing in common, except a dream of escaping their backgrounds and making names for themselves, begin to fall in love.

THE WAY WE BARED OUR SOULS, Willa Strayhorn (Razorbill, January 2015). Ages: 12 and up.

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When a mysterious young shaman tells Lo he knows an ancient ritual that will free her from the pain of

her newly discovered illness, she’s just desperate enough to believe him.

But for the ritual to work, Lo must persuade four of her most troubled friends to make the biggest sacrifice of their lives. There’s Thomas, a former child soldier; Kaya, a Native American girl who can’t feel pain; Ellen, a cheerleader with a meth addiction; and Zeke, the skateboarding star whose girlfriend’s sudden death has made him afraid to live. On the night of the ceremony, this unlikely group gathers around a fire deep in the New Mexico desert to share sorrows and swap totems, embarking on a week of terrifying, beautiful experiences that no one, not even Lo, could have imagined.

• Middle-Grade fiction •

WISH GIRL, Nikki Loftin (Razorbill, February 2015). Ages: 8 – 12.

Sometimes wishes come true in ways that you wouldn’t expect.

Peter Stone’s parents and siblings are extroverts, musicians, and yellers – and the louder they get, the less frequently Peter talks, even moves, until he practically fits his last name. When his family moves to a tranquil, natural valley in the Texas Hill Country, Peter meets Annie Blythe, who tells Peter she’s a “wish girl” –a Make-A- Wish Girl, that is. As Annie prepares to undergo the lifesaving surgery that will remove her tumor, she begins to fear she may lose herself in the process. Together Annie and Peter hatch a plan to escape into the valley, but as the pair soon discover, the valley—and life—may have other plans for them.

UNFRIENDED, Rachel Vail (Viking, September 2014). Ages: 11 and up.

In middle school, nothing is more important than friendship.

When Truly is invited to sit at the Popular Table with the group she has dreamed of joining, she can hardly believe her luck. Everyone seems so nice, so kind to one another. But all is not as it seems with her new friends, and soon she's caught in a maelstrom of lies, misunderstandings, accusations and counter-accusations, all happening very publicly in the relentless, hyperconnected social media world from which there is no escape. Six eighth-graders, four girls and two boys, struggle to understand and process their fractured glimples into one another's lives as they find new ways to disconnect, but also to connect, in Rachel Vail's richest and most searching book.

SPARKERS, Eleanor Glewwe (Viking, September 2014). Ages 10-14

Set in a deeply flawed society of a magical past rather than a sci-fi future, this is a safe dystopian for readers who

want in on The Hunger Games hype but are too young for the violence.

Marah Levi is a talented violinist and a book lover, yet she has little hope for a bright future: she is a "sparker," a member of the underclass in a society ruled over by magicians. Then a mysterious illness hits both the magicians and the sparkers, turning its victims’ eyes dark before ultimately killing them. As Marah watches those whom she loves most fall ill, she finds an unlikely friend in a wealthy magician boy, and together they pursue the cure while fleeing powerful magicians inexplicably bent on stopping them. Their quest plunges them into a world of government secrets, lies, and mis-used magic, where the truth about the “dark eyes” may cost them their lives.

TELL ME, Joan Bauer (Viking, September 2014).

Full of Joan Bauer’s trademark humor and wisdom, with an added dollop of suspense, Tell Me will enthrall her

many fans.

A new friend. An empathetic horse. A flower festival. And all of this in a town where "Nothing Bad Ever Happens." No wonder Anna is enjoying her visit to her grandmother, Mim. But then Anna sees something that she can't ignore: a girl who seems to be being held against her will. Anna can't forget the girl's frightened eyes. She wants to do something about it, tell someone, but can she get anyone to take her concerns seriously? What good will it do to say something if no one is listening?

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TRICKY VIC: THE IMPOSSIBLY TRUE STORY OF THE MAN WHO SOLD THE EIFFEL TOWER, Greg

Pizzoli. (Viking March of 2015).

"It's hard enough to make a well-told story out of real-life things—it’s almost unfair that he could also make it

this pretty."—Jon Klassen, author and illustrator of the Caldecott Medal winner This Is Not My Hat.

In the early 1900s, Robert Miller, a.k.a. “Count Victor Lustig,” moved to Paris hoping to be an artist. A con artist, that is. He used his ingenious scams on unsuspecting marks all over the world, from the Czech Republic, to Atlantic ocean liners, and across America. Tricky Vic pulled off his most daring con in 1925, when he managed to "sell" the Eiffel Tower to one of the city’s most successful scrap metal dealers! Six weeks later, he tried to sell the Eiffel Tower all over again. Vic was never caught. For that particular scam, anyway. . . . Dramatic and thrilling, Vic’s remarkable story is one that kids will love to read, and Greg Pizzoli’s humorous and vibrant graphic style of illustration mark a bold new approach to nonfiction biography in picture books.

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• Young Adult fiction •

PINNED, Sharon G.Flake (Scholastic US, October 2012). Ages: 10 and up

Award-winning author, Sharon G. Flake, presents a powerful novel about a teen boy and girl, each tackling disabilities.

Rights sold: Brazil (Editora Cuore).

Autumn and Adonis have nothing in common and everything in common. Autumn is outgoing and has lots of friends. Adonis is shy and not so eager to connect with people. But even with their differences, the two have one thing in common--they're each dealing with a handicap. For Autumn, who has a learning disability, reading is a painful struggle that makes it hard to focus in class. But as her school’s most aggressive team wrestler, Autumn can take down any problem. Adonis is confined to a wheelchair. He has no legs. He can't walk or dance. But he’s a strong reader who loves books. Even so, Adonis has a secret he knows someone like Autumn can heal. In time, Autumn and Adonis are forced to see that our greatest weaknesses can turn into the assets that forever change us and those we love. Told in alternating voices, Takedown explores issues of self-discovery, friendship, and what it means to be different.

SEEING RED, Kathryn Erskine. (Scholastic, Fall 2013). Ages: 10 and up.

A new novel by National Book Award Winner Kathryn Erskine

Life will never be the same for Red Porter. He’s a kid growing up around black car grease, white fence paint, and the backward attitudes of the folks who live in his hometown, Rocky Gap, Virginia. Red’s daddy, his idol, has just died, leaving Red and Mama with some hard decisions and a whole lot of doubt. Should they sell the Porter family business, a gas station, repair shop and convenience store, rolled into one, where the slogan — “Porter’s: We Fix it Right ” — has been shouting the family’s pride for as long as anyone can remember? With Daddy gone, everything’s different. Through his friendship with Thomas, Beau and Miss Georgia, Red starts to see there’s a lot more than car motors and rusty fenders that need fixing in his world. When Red discovers the injustices that have been happening in Rocky Gap since before he was born, he’s faced with unsettling questions about his family’s legacy. Set in 1972, award-winning author Kathryn Erskine, weaves a work of historical fiction filled with insight, humor, and moral inquiry.

• Picture Books •

JOURNEY, Aaron Becker (Candlewick Press, August 2013).

Named a 2013 Best Book by The New York Times, NPR, The Horn Book, School Library Journal, Kirkus, and

Amazon

Rights sold: British, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Complex and Simplified

Chinese, and Korean

A lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world where wonder, adventure, and danger abound. Red marker in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon, and a flying carpet that carry her on a spectacular journey toward an uncertain destiny. When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Can it also lead her home and to her heart’s desire? With supple line, luminous color, and nimble flights of fancy, author-illustrator Aaron Becker launches an ordinary child on an extraordinary journey toward her greatest and most exciting adventure of all.

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS LITTLE, LeUyen Pham (Knopf, Spring 2015).

Too little? Says who?! This heartwarming die-cut picture book is an ode to children everywhere who are ready to

show the world that “little” is just a state of mind.

With each turn of the page, a very BIG idea emerges: never underestimate the power of a child's imagination. Each spread features something “little.” But when the page is turned, cleverly placed die-cuts in each “little” image is revealed to be something entirely different: a candle flame becomes a welcoming lighthouse beacon; a sapling is actually a full-grown

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apple tree perfect for climbing on; and a little goldfish is the only one brave enough to swim against the tide. Page by page, LITTLE is shown to be anything but.

KNIT TOGETHER, Angela Dominguez (Dial, Spring 2015).

Forthcoming from the recipient of a 2014 Pura Belpre Illustrator Honor

This is me. I love to draw. Mom doesn’t draw. Mom knits. I think knitting is much better. But knitting is not as easy as it looks. So what’s a girl to do? With Mom’s assurance that she inspires in her own special way, the next step is . . . collaboration! With time for inspiration, squiggles and knots, gathering of supplies—and of course, work—mother and daughter create something that could have only been done together in this delightful story that celebrates the ties that bind.

THAT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA, Mo Willems. (Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins, Spring 2013 ).

That Is Not a Good Idea is a hilarious, interactive picture book from bestselling author and illustrator Mo

Willems.

Inspired by the evil villains and innocent damsels of silent movies, Willems tells the tale of a hungry fox who invites a plump goose to dinner. As with the beloved Pigeon books, kids will be calling out the signature refrain and begging for repeated readings. The funny details in the full-color illustrations by three-time Caldecott Honoree Mo Willems will bring nonstop laughter to story time.

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BLUES FOR ZOEY, Robert Paul Weston. (Razorbill Canada, January 2014).

Contemporary YA coming of age novel with a puzzle at its centre and a twist at the end.

Kaz Barrett isn’t saving for college. Every penny he earns working at the sketchy Sit‘N’Spin Laundromat is for his mother. He plans to send her to a top-notch (and very expensive) sleep clinic in New York. His mother suffers from an extremely rare neurological disorder that causes her to fall asleep for days at a time. Both he and his kid sister, Nomi, worry that one day, maybe tomorrow, their mother will fall asleep and never wake up… At the start of summer, everything seems on track. Come September, Kaz will have earned all he needs and more. However, when anarchic, pink-haired Zoey walks past the laundromat’s window, Kaz’s ordered life begins spinning out of control. Smart, mysterious, and full of music, Zoey is unlike anyone Kaz has met… but there’s another side to her that he can’t quite figure out. When he goes looking for answers, he finds a whirlwind of lies, half-truths, and violence. And in the eye of the storm, he’ll discover that you really can’t con an honest man…

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