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WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE At cancer. This was not, however, the end of her journey, but the beginning. Brittany’s struggle to By Deborah Ziegler accept the diagnosis, and choose a path toward death, led eventually to the decision to take her own life before it could be taken from her. US publisher: Emily Bestler Books / S&S (NA rights) The video she posted on YouTube weeks before her To publish: October 2016 death introduced twenty million viewers to her story, which is now told in full by her mother.

Material available: Final PDF available Ziegler makes good on the promise she made to her only child: that she would honor her daughter Not assigned in Japan and carry forward her legacy by sharing their story and o to the growing tens of millions of people who are struggling with end-of-life issues. Rights sold: Germany (Goldmann)

UK & Commonwealth (Ebury UK) death emerges in this compassionate and lyrical text is an unforgettable story of how, while we can’t control the hand fate delivers, we can decide how we play The mother of Brittany Maynard, the young woman who made that hand. It is also a thoughtful exploration of America’s ongoing debate about the right to die worldwide headlines by choosing death with dignity after a and, most importantly, a touching tribute to the diagnosis of terminal brain cancer, tells the story of her daughter’s enduring power of a mother and daughter’s love. life, her experience coming to terms with Brittany’s decision, and the last year they spent together celebrating life.

In this poignant, powerful book, Deborah Ziegler makes good on the promise she made to her only child: that she would honor her daughter Deborah Ziegler is exceptionally well-positioned to promote WILD and carry forward her legacy by sharing their story and offering hope. AND PRECIOUS LIFE. She has amassed a wealth of media But WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE is not a book about death— relationships worldwide and she is eager to leverage this intense, instead, it is a book about a life well-lived and offers a call to live every ongoing media platform to launch WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE day to its fullest. As evidenced in blockbuster titles such as The Last to major bestselling success. Lecture by Randy Pausch and Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, facing the end of life can yield invaluable lessons for the living. Praise for WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE:

WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE traces the last year of Brittany’s " this painfully honest memoir, Deborah, Brittany’s mother, records life from her devastating diagnosis to her final day in November the surgeries, treatments, and soul-searching that went into honoring 2014. During this time, Brittany made a bucket list of all of the sights Brittany’s path…Brittany’s story…will have a ready audience, and and places she hadn’t yet seen, and set out to check them off one by Deborah’s frank account of their struggles will be comforting to others one. WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE is an unforgettable story of facing this difficult decision.” – Booklist, STARRED REVIEW the enduring power of a mother and daughter’s love, and a lesson in how every life is precious, to be lived in fullness until the last minute. "A graceful and touching gift of love and posthumous devotion from mother to daughter." – Kirkus

! ! THE POSITIVE POWER OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS How Harnessing Your Darker Feelings Can Help You See A Brighter Dawn

By Dr. Tim Lomas

Publisher: Piatkus (UK/Commonwealth rights) To publish: October 2016

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Hailed as “a truly inspirational new book” by the Daily Mail, THE POSITIVE POWER OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS shows how the darker states of emotion are vital to a better understanding of ourselves and a more fulfilled life.

The pursuit of happiness is universal. Most of us would like to experience more joy and elation. But when we feel like we are falling short of this ideal, we can often feel downcast. We may even see “darker” emotional states, from sadness and anger to envy and anxiety, as character defects or serious illnesses. In fact, there is Praise for THE POSITIVE POWER OF unexpected value in the emotions most of us see as 'negative'. In NEGATIVE EMOTIONS: subtle ways, the more negative emotions can bring us to a richer state of wellbeing. For example, sadness can open our hearts to the “This book is far more than an argument for tolerating bad feelings. fragile beauty of life, enabling us to appreciate what we would usually Drawing on philosophy, the arts, psychology and personal experience, take for granted. While anger may seem unpleasant, if channeled Tim Lomas shows how sadness, anxiety, anger and the rest can be a well, it can be a great catalyst for change and improvement in path to growth. His surprisingly uplifting message is that learning to society. harness our negative emotions will expand our capacity for joy.” – Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote Dr. Tim Lomas is one of Europe’s leading experts on positive psychology and the program leader at the University of East “A truly inspirational new book.” – Daily Mail London’s MSc in Applied Positive Psychology (the preeminent postgraduate course in Europe). He has published numerous “In this useful and enjoyable book, Tim Lomas shows how our feelings scientific papers, has written for The Guardian, and lives in Oxford. give us the clues for how to make a better life. Learn to listen to your inner voice of wisdom.” – Professor Stephen Joseph, author of Authentic

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HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE By David France

US publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (North American rights) To publish: November 2016

Material available: Final PDF available Japanese subagent: The English Agency

Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Picador UK)

From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name—an Oscar nominee—the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refused to die without a fight.

Intimately reported, this is the story of the men and women who, watching their friends and lovers fall, ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted with shame and hatred, chose to fight for their right to live. We witness the founding of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), the rise of an underground drug market in opposition to the prohibitively expensive (and sometimes toxic) AZT, and the gradual movement toward a lifesaving medical breakthrough. ! ! With his unparalleled access to this community, David France Praise for HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE: illuminates the lives of extraordinary characters, including the closeted Wall Street trader-turned-activist; the high school dropout who found “Prepare to have your heart buoyed and broken in this riveting purpose battling pharmaceutical giants in New York; the South account…This highly engaging account is a must-read for anyone African physician who helped establish the first officially recognized interested in epidemiology, civil rights, gay rights, public health, and buyers' club at the height of the epidemic; and the public relations American history.” – Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW executive fighting to save his own life for the sake of his young daughter. Expansive yet richly detailed, this is an insider's account of a “David France brilliantly chronicles AIDS in America during the 1980s pivotal moment in the history of American civil rights.! and 1990s… Powerful… American history, memoir, public health, and a call-to-action are perfectly and passionately blended here. Spectacular David France is the author of Our Fathers, a book about the Catholic and soulful.” – Booklist, STARRED REVIEW sexual abuse scandal, which Showtime adapted into a film. He coauthored The Confession with former New Jersey governor Jim “A lucid, urgent updating of Randy Shilts’ And the Band Played On and a McGreevey. ! fine work of social history.” – Kirkus ! ! ! ! BRAIN-POWERED WEIGHT LOSS · Design a personal healthy eating program built on Kingsford’s 10

Principles of Healthy Eating. By Eliza Kingsford

US publisher: Rodale (North American rights) To publish: January 2017

Material available: Final PDF available

Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency

Finally, the secret to successful weight loss has been found. It has nothing to do with the stomach. As BRAIN-POWERED WEIGHT LOSS affirms, it’s all about the brain.

In BRAIN-POWERED WEIGHT LOSS, psychotherapist and weight management expert Eliza Kingsford shows that more than 90 percent of people who go on diet programs (even healthy ones) fail or eventually regain because they have a dysfunctional relationship with food. Changing this relationship by changing the way you think about and behave around food is what it takes to permanently achieve weight- loss success. Kingsford’s 11-step first-of-its-kind program enlists dozens of mind-altering and behavior-changing exercises and techniques that shows you how to:

· Identify and reverse the conscious and unconscious thinking errors and food triggers that lead to the behaviors that drive our food Eliza Kingsford, MA, LPC, is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in decisions. weight management, food addiction, body image, and eating disorders. She joined the Wellspring Weight Loss Camp in 2007 as a behavioral · Let go of the mindset of going on or off a diet in favor of a coach and was promoted to its executive director in 2014. A certified conscious quest to pursue a lifestyle of healthy eating and everyday personal trainer, group fitness instructor, and lifelong athlete, Kingsford activity—one that can last forever. has been passionate about combining psychological intervention, nutrition, and exercise since she began her graduate studies at the · Successfully use what Kingsford calls “dealing skills” to outsmart University of Colorado more than a decade ago. high-risk situations, tame stressful times, and prevent an eating “slip” from leading to a setback or all-out binge.

· Find out if you have what emerging research shows is an addiction to certain high-fat and sugar-added, processed foods that can be as powerful as addiction to cigarettes and narcotics. ! ! ! ! THE EDUCATION OF WILL A Mutual Memoir of a Woman and Her Dog

By Patricia McConnell

US publisher: Simon & Schuster (North American rights) To publish: February 2017! ! Material available: Final PDF available! Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency

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In this powerful, soul-searching memoir, beautifully written in the vein of A Pack of Two and Wild, animal behaviorist Dr. Patricia McConnell recounts for the first time the compelling story of her dark past, memories of which are triggered by a troubled dog named Will.

Patricia McConnell combines brilliant insights into canine behavior— gained from her work with aggressive and fearful dogs—with heartwarming stories of her own dogs and their life on the farm. Now, she reveals that it wasn’t just the dogs that had serious problems. For decades, Patricia secretly grappled with her own guilt and fear, which Praise for THE EDUCATION OF WILL were rooted in the harrowing traumas of her youth. "This powerful memoir twines the lives of an extraordinary dog and an Patricia is forced to face her past by her love for a young Border Collie extraordinary woman. Their courageous, compelling story will named Will, whose frequent, unpredictable outbreaks of fear and fury profoundly deepen your understanding of people and animals, fear and shake Patricia to her core. In order to save Will from this dangerous shame, love and listening." behavior, she must find her own will to heal, and along the way learn – Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus that will power by itself is not enough. "Replete with McConnell’s fascinating and often humorous insights Interweaving enlightening stories of her clients’ dogs with tales of her about working with wonderful and sometimes wounded dogs, this is deepening bond with Will, Patricia recounts her fight to reclaim her life. much more than a book about training dogs…[it] engages in an intimate and challenging conversation with the reader: about saving yourself, saving others, and allowing others to save you.” Patricia McConnell, Ph.D. is one of the country’s most respected – Cat Warren, author of What the Dog Knows animal behaviorists, specializing in treating serious aggression in dogs for over 25 years. Her first book, The Other End of the Leash, has sold over 250,000 copies and is published in 13 languages. ! ! ! ! THE GIFT OF ANGER And Other Lessons From My Grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi

By Arun Gandhi

US publisher: Jeter Publishing / Simon & Schuster (NA)! To publish: May 2017! ! Material available: Proposal available! Full MS available in January 2017 !

Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency

Rights sold: Brazil (Sextante) France (Marabout/Hachette) Germany (DuMont) Greece (Dioptra) THE GIFT OF ANGER offers a rare, three-dimensional portrait of Holland (HarperCollins Holland) Gandhi the man, told by perhaps the last living individual able to share Israel (Armchair) intimate, firsthand tales of this much-beloved icon. Arun’s portrayal of Italy (Giunti) his grandfather will humanize for new generations a man most now know Korea (Sejong) only as either a remote legend or even history-book caricature—and Latin American (Spanish) bring to pulsing life the legacy of arguably the most influential and Portugal (Planeta Manuscrito) powerful leader in modern human history. Arun reveals how Mahatma Turkey (Altim) Gandhi, an imperfect man, strived to achieve a better life for himself and UK/Commonwealth (Penguin UK) others, and how Arun learned to apply those lessons to grow into a better human being. Arun Gandhi, the internationally renowned activist, speaker, and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, shares with readers ten vital life Arun Gandhi founded the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, lessons conveyed by his grandfather. Arun catapults these teachings following a 30-year journalism career at The Times of India. He participated into a modern contest, shedding new light on how these principles in the Renaissance Weekend deliberations with President Clinton and has can—and must—be applied to today’s concerns. spoken at the United Nations, Chicago Children’s Museum, the Women’s Justice Center in Ann Arbor and the Trade Union Leaders’ Meeting in Spurred by current events and heartbreaking outbreaks of violence, Arun Milan, Italy. Currently, he travels and speaks regularly at approximately 50 Gandhi recognizes that the teachings brought to the world by his iconic to 60 venues annually and is a very popular speaker on college campuses. grandfather have never been more urgently needed—or less understood. Through highly engaging, often surprising stories, THE GIFT OF ANGER provides readers with clear guidance about how each of us can lead more meaningful, enriched lives and in doing so, produce hope for larger, lasting peace. ! ! ! !

DARWIN’S FIRST THEORY Exploring Darwin’s Quest to Find a Theory of the

Earth

By Rob Wesson

US publisher: Pegasus (North American rights) To publish: April 2017

Material available: Full MS available in October 2016 Japanese subagent: The English Agency

In the tradition of Blue Latitude, an immersion into the landscape that absorbed Charles Darwin and led him to conceive his original theory of plate tectonics, which segued in to the Theory of Evolution.

Everybody knows—or thinks they know—Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people do not know is that Darwin was on board the HMS Beagle as a geologist on a mission to examine the land, not flora and fauna.

Tracing Darwin’s footsteps in South America and beyond, geologist Rob Wesson received a BS in earth science from MIT, and an MS and Rob Wesson sets out on a trek across the Andes, repeating the nautical PhD in geophysics from Stanford University. His career in earthquake surveys made by the Beagle’s crew, hunting for fossils in Uruguay and research with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) spans four Argentina, and exploring traces of long vanished glaciers in Scotland decades. He is currently a Scientist Emeritus at the USGS and his work and Wales. By following Darwin’s path literally and intellectually, Rob has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. experiences the landscape that absorbed Darwin, follows his reasoning He has appeared on numerous national television and radio programs about what he saw, and immerses himself in the same questions about including Good Morning America, Today, ABC Nightly News, The PBS News the earth. Hour, CNN and NPR.

Upon Darwin’s return from the five-year journey, he conceived his theory of tectonics―his first theory. These concepts and

attitudes―the vastness of time; the enormous cumulative impact of almost imperceptibly slow change; change as a constant feature of the environment―underlie his subsequent discoveries in evolution. And this peculiar way of thinking remains vitally important today as we enter the human dominated Anthropocene age.

! ! ! ! YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED ME AN UBER THE TOTAL ME-TOX How To Ditch Your Diet, Move Your Body, & Love By Meredith Goldstein Your Life (On Your Own Terms) US publisher: Grand Central / Hachette (North American rights) By Beth Behrs with Wendy Shanker To publish: Fall 2017

US publisher: Weinstein Books (North American rights) Material available: Proposal available To publish: May 2017 Full MS available in Spring 2017

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Actress Beth Behrs’s new book is a lighthearted, down-to-earth, YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED ME AN UBER is an edgy, and holistic guide to giving up the junk-food lifestyle and heartfelt book project by renowned Boston Globe columnist achieving complete physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Meredith Goldstein!

As the actress currently starring in CBS's smash-hit comedy 2 Broke Destined to enchant readers of Cheryl Strayed, Aziz Ansari, and Jenny Girls, Beth Behrs seems like she has it all figured out. But it wasn't Lawson, YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED ME AN UBER until recently that Beth learned how to eat well, stay in shape, and be offers Meredith’s spirited, honest account of her own dating life while mindful of the way she was living. After reaching a nutritional low she dishes out savvy advice through her “Love Letters” column, which point in college, Beth was faced with medical issues related to over- addresses everything from infidelity, stale marriages, family grief, work snacking, excess stress, and not enough exercise. Like many women, romances, and what makes true, lasting love so unmistakable. Beth didn't have the time, money, or inclination to attend weekly fitness classes or to change her diet to only leafy greens and super YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED ME AN UBER is divided fruits. It was too overwhelming to change everything at once—but into 12 chapters, each focusing on a struggle many readers share. she knew she had to start somewhere. So that's what she did. Besides Meredith’s own sympathetic but to-the-point advice, what makes the “Love Letters” column—and by extension, this book—so Beth's new approach to life is joyful and positive, and she is unique are the commentators who regularly chime in with their own committed to teaching others how to feel good by treating advice, and so we come to know them as intimately as we do Meredith. themselves better. Her book offers fun and practical advice for 21st- century girls and women hoping to lead more grounded and Meredith Goldstein began at the Boston Globe as an entertainment fulfilling lives. It includes motivational stories from Beth's journey journalist. On a lark, she started an advice column that rapidly drew toward wellness, recipe suggestions and shopping lists, and photos wave after wave of readers—and is now over 1 million readers’ of meal prep and dinner parties. strong and growing exponentially by the day. The questions and answers fielded in her “Love Letters” column have touched a nerve Beth Behrs is a young and in-demand actress well-known for her with people united by the human quest for love, empathy, and starring role in CBS’s 2 Broke Girls. She is also an active connection. Meredith is the previous author of the novel The Singles, philanthropist and supporter of youth, environmental, and arts which was published in April 2012. education foundations. She resides in Los Angeles. ! ! ! !

LOVE, AFRICA AN OASIS IN TIME (previously titled WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE How a Day of Rest Can Save Your Life NIGHT) By Marilyn Paul By Jeffrey Gettleman US publisher: Rodale (North American rights) US publisher: HarperCollins (World English rights) To publish: August 2017 To publish: May 2017 Material available: Full MS available in Spring 2017 Material available: Edited MS available Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency Not assigned in Japan

In his incandescent memoir, award-winning journalist Jeffrey AN OASIS IN TIME shows that regularly taking a full day for Gettleman, East Africa Bureau Chief for The New York renewal is the most important gift we can give to our health and our Times, crafts a suspenseful and uplifting narrative that sanity—and provides the tools to actually implement it. illuminates an alternate world—the battlefields of Africa. Today’s epidemic of busyness is nothing new, but the question of what to LOVE, AFRICA follows Jeffrey’s love affair with one of the bleakest, do about it has become more urgent than ever. Scientific research shows most desperate places on earth—the poorest countries of South and East that we must pause regularly to recover. In this beautifully written, Africa, always at the bottom of the development charts, consistently meticulously researched book, organizational development expert Marilyn wracked by war and poverty yet lit by the indefatigable warmth and spirit Paul points to a solution that is as radical as it is ancient: We need weekly of their people. This extraordinary narrative also tracks the author’s own rest, renewal, and connection. moral progression, an internal journey culminating in the discovery of a AN OASIS IN TIME shows you how to design your weekly time off, calling: to write about suffering and war in Africa as humanly as possible, carve out the time from your busy schedule, say no—even when it’s in order to act as a conduit between the privileged world from which the hard—and most importantly, change your mindset so you too can have author hails and the netherworlds he has witnessed. the pleasure of regularly slowing down every week. Dr. Paul has mined the current trends of radical renewal and reveals real strategies for creating As the New York Times Bureau Chief, Jeffrey Gettleman covers twelve a rhythm of serenity that may begin as a few moments a day but can grow African countries and has written extensively on internal conflicts in to fill a full day every week. Full of fascinating stories, compelling Kenya, Congo, Somalia, Sudan, and Ethiopia. In April 2012, Jeffrey was research, and concrete instructions on how to step off the treadmill, AN awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Jeffrey also OASIS IN TIME proves the health imperatives of taking time off and holds two Overseas Press Club awards. He studied philosophy at provides the strategies for becoming comfortable with the practices of Cornell University and earned a Master’s of Philosophy degree from renewal and refreshment. Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has also appeared as a news commentator on CNN, BBC, PBS, NPR, ABC, and The Charlie Marilyn Paul, PhD, is the author of the bestselling It's Hard to Make a Rose Show. Difference When You Can't Find Your Keys. Dr. Paul has been featured in USA Today, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, and Spirituality & Health Magazine.

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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS extinctions and extreme environmental changes. Dinosaurs were some of New Discoveries Revealing a Lost World the most remarkable creatures to ever live on our planet, and their evolutionary story is a spellbinding tale that directly affects the By Stephen L. Brusatte development of the modern world—even the evolution of humans. ! The first person, character-driven narrative will also give the reader a US publisher: William Morrow (North American rights) front-row seat to Steve’s own journey studying dinosaurs. He has made To publish: Fall 2017 discoveries that have contributed to every chapter of their history—from their start as small cat-sized creatures to the development of enormous size Material available: Proposal available and even feathers by some species during their heyday, to the unexpected Full MS available in June 2017 asteroid impact that ended the Age of Dinosaurs and ushered in the Age of Mammals. Every chapter of the book will include stories of fieldwork or Japanese subagent: The English Agency discovery from clay quarries in Poland where some of the oldest dinosaurs were found, the windy coasts of Scotland where some of the earliest huge Rights sold: China (United Sky) dinosaurs were discovered, to the mountains of Transylvania and the Germany (Piper) deserts of North America where some of the last-surviving dinosaurs have Holland (Ambo Anthos) been studied. Italy (UTET) Poland (Znak) THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS is an amazing UK / Commonwealth (Pan Macmillan) story of evolution and will tell readers what we really know about dinosaurs and how we know it. And in doing so, the book explores the *Sold in a 6-publisher auction!* question of why dinosaurs are even relevant today. Dinosaurs tell us that evolution is unpredictable, that organisms constantly change in response to THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS is a major their environments, and that extinctions happen. And by dying out they and soon-to-be landmark work of narrative science and transform paved the way the way for us—without their extinction, humankind would everything we know about dinosaurs! not be here.

Most people think of dinosaurs as evolutionary failures—big, stupid, Stephen L. Brusatte is a 32-year-old paleontologist on the faculty of the lumbering, primitive monsters. Over the past two decades, however, School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburg in Scotland. After much of what we thought we knew about these creatures has been receiving his PhD from Columbia University. He has published widely in completely transformed. New species are being found almost weekly academic journals, discovered and named 10 new species of dinosaurs, and revealing new types of dinosaurs of different sizes and ages. Scientists led groundbreaking studies on how dinosaurs went extinct. are also using new technologies including CAT scanners, particle accelerators and animation software, and what Steve calls the Freakonomics approach to paleontology. These finds and methods are helping paleontologists fill in the evolutionary gaps and better understand how dinosaurs changed over time.

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

AGING WITH SOUL AGING WITH SOUL radically distinguishes aging from merely By Thomas Moore “growing old”, and it will appeal to readers of bestselling books that challenge our hardened views of a topic we thought we knew, from

Susan Cain’s Quiet to Adam Grant’s Give and Take: A Revolutionary US publisher: St. Martin’s Press Approach to Success, but also to readers hungry for universal stories and To publish: October 2017 inspiring lessons about how to live meaningfully at every stage of life, in

the vein of Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture and Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays Material available: Proposal available with Morrie. AGING WITH SOUL offers suggestions for living the Full MS available in Fall 2017 richest, most soulful life – which is the best way to age – nudging along

readers of all ages and states in their journey towards maturity, personal Rights sold: Latin American Spanish (Oceano) development, and lifelong happiness. Simplified Chinese auction (pending)

UK/Commonwealth (Simon & Schuster UK) Thomas Moore is the author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul

(which was on The New York Times bestseller list for 44 weeks), and AGING WITH SOUL is a revolutionary and inspiring new book nineteen other books on spirituality. He holds a Ph.D. in religion from that reframes the way we imagine aging, by renowned Syracuse University and is a former monk, musician, and university psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Thomas professor. At seventy-five years strong, he currently lectures all over the Moore. world on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts.

With the international Baby Boomer population growing at unprecedented rates, AGING WITH SOUL will give readers everywhere vital new perspective and guidance on the rich experiences and opportunities that lie ahead for all of us. We’re living, working, and engaging with the world longer than ever before in our entire human history. And yet, as Moore points out in his new book, our society still tends to give young people all the glory, failing to recognize and nurture the tremendous resources and dazzling possibilities presented by men and women moving beyond middle age and into their older years.

Moore encourages readers that it’s time to embrace a Zen-like, pure acceptance of growing older, kindling ongoing youth and vitality in both spirit and soul. While acknowledging the physical and emotional challenges of aging, Moore embraces the joy, intellectual edge, and profound self-fulfillment that can accompany our every passing year. Aging, Moore says, is a lifelong process―a series of initiations. Through these initiations (which actually begin quite early in adulthood), each of us, over time, can become a deeper, more enlightened, perceptive, and spiritually attuned person. Aging, he teaches, is something for us to honor, to own, and to celebrate. ! ! !

CODE GIRLS these women from their arrival at Arlington Hall, through their The Untold Story of the Women Codebreakers Who productive days spent breaking codes (and nights drinking with on-leave Helped Win World War II GIs), to the Allied victory and what happened to their lives after the war. For the book’s protagonists, and for many of the war’s code girls, breaking codes at Arlington Hall was one of the most thrilling times of By Liza Mundy their lives: they were engaged in stimulating, truly essential work, enjoying challenges and opportunities that had never been open to them A powerful narrative history of the women who worked in secret before. As reflected in the attached proposal, CODE GIRLS will during World War II to crack German and Japanese codes. capture these women’s painstaking work—and their indomitable spirit— Working and living at a makeshift center outside Washington, with zeal, grace, and compassion. DC, and these women made a hitherto unknown contribution to the Allied war effort and some remained in intelligence after. For Then, too, CODE GIRLS will show just how vital these exceptional all of them, this was the most exciting time in their lives. women were to winning the war: the code girls helped America win the

Battle of Midway, shoot down the Japanese high commander’s plane, US publisher: Hachette Books (North American rights) track food-and-water convoys in the Pacific, and innovate new To publish: Fall 2017 cryptographic practices. They became an integral part of the nation’s

emergent security force and paved the way for many women to enter the Material available: Proposal available workforce. One of them, Gene Grabeel, became the first female director Full MS available in November 2016 of the NSA. Ordered by officials never to reveal the scope of their war

work, these women and their incredible stories and accomplishments Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency have previously been all but written out of history.

Rights sold: Holland (BBNC) CODE GIRLS will offer a page-turning narrative of broad popular Poland (Bellona) appeal while establishing a vital new historical record. Dramatic, character-driven, and profoundly moving, CODE GIRLS ! will reveal for the first time the courageous efforts of the remarkable Liza Mundy is a former reporter for the Washington Post and the author young women recruited by the U.S. government during World War II to of a bestselling biography of Michelle Obama, Michelle, and the crack German and Japanese military codes, showing how they helped our acclaimed nonfiction book, The Richer Sex. nation not only secure an Allied victory but shorten the war’s duration, saving countless American and British lives. While their brothers and husbands took up arms, these ultra-talented but unassuming women went to Washington with sharpened pencils—and even sharper minds— assuming highly-demanding top secret work without preparation or cavil. Running early IBM computers and poring over reams of encrypted enemy messages, they worked tirelessly in an overheated makeshift code- breaking center outside of Washington, DC, ten hours each day, from 1942 to 1945.

Through extensive archival research and numerous interviews ! conducted with the surviving code girls, CODE GIRLS will follow ! !

ALL SHIPS FOLLOW ME ALL SHIPS FOLLOW ME will be presented in three distinct parts A Family’s Inheritance of War organized by geography: Indonesia, the Netherlands, and the United States, as the author revisits these places, alongside her parents seventy By Mieke Eerkens years later, in an emotional journey that shifts back and forth through time, as they come to terms with the past. This book will use the deeply personal stories of two people with extraordinary lives, on two different US publisher: Picador (North American rights) “sides” of the war, allied and axis, and the inheritance of war trauma, to To publish: Fall 2017 bring to light untold events wholly overlooked by our World War II narrative. Material available: Proposal available Full MS available in Spring 2017 As new generations suffer the wounds of war and persecution that they will pass on to their children, it is even more vital we lay bare the Not assigned in Japan conflicted snarl of the past, examine our preconceptions, and try to do better. Through Mieke Eerkens's own family journey, and her research, Rights sold: Holland (De Geus) she opens this very dialogue. Poland (Agora) Mieke Eerkens teaches creative writing for UCLA Extension’ Writers ALL SHIPS FOLLOW ME is a brilliant and heartrending Program. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa, and her work World War II memoir by Dutch-American author Mieke Eerkens, has appeared in various places such as The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of in the spirit of Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken and Edmund de Books, PEN America, Pank, Guernica, Creative Nonfiction, along with the Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes. anthology Best Travel Writing. She has received fellowships and grants from various residencies and foundations to date that support ALL SHIPS ALL SHIPS FOLLOW ME is an untold World War II story FOLLOW ME, and have enabled Mieke to conduct initial research at seeking to challenge our perception of victim and perpetrator, and blur the Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam and final research in the lines of war. In March 1942, a ten-year-old boy living in the Dutch Indonesia. East Indies was interned, like a hundred thousand other Dutch civilians, in a Japanese concentration camp doing hard labor for three years, until the terrible events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused the Japanese to surrender, saving the boy’s life. Meanwhile, across the globe, Dutch police carried a crying five-year-old girl out of her home at the war’s end, abandoned and ostracized as a daughter of Nazi sympathizers in the Netherlands. It was the post-war period of reckoning, the so-called “hatchet day” where Nazi collaborators were tortured in the same concentration camps where the Jews had just been liberated from.

Many years later, the boy and girl met as grown adults. They moved to California, far from their families, and they married and had children.

The author is one of these children.

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PROOF OF GOD scientific editor of the Astrophysical Journal for ten years, and was Principal Investigator on several NASA research projects. Bernie is also a By Ptolemy Tompkins & Bernard Haisch firm believer in God and his faith is not challenged by his scientific work but instead, has grown and deepened from his singular understanding of physics. He has accumulated a lifetime of cutting-edge research into the US publisher: Howard Books / S&S (North American rights) very boundaries of matter itself. As Bernie says, “I propose that we regard To publish: Fall 2017 the laws of physics as the manifestation of God's ideas, not the limits of God's creative potential.” Bernie could have no better partner in Material available: Proposal available translating his often complex and challenging scientific findings, ones that Full MS available in Spring 2017 express God’s creative power and purpose, than New York Times bestselling collaborator Ptolemy Tompkins. Not assigned in Japan PROOF OF GOD will be structured in seven compelling chapters, each This irresistible, thought-provoking book will break important new of which addresses one key aspect of the physical universe—such as energy, ground for the huge audience of readers that flocked to PROOF OF time and matter—and reveals how science supports the notion of the HEAVEN, the #1 New York Times bestseller by Eben universe, not as a cold, impartial system, but as “a warm, human, and Alexander on which Ptolemy Tompkins collaborated. profoundly empowering place.” PROOF OF GOD is ideally positioned to become not only a major bestselling inspirational title in the tradition of Do our lives have purpose? Is there a higher being—a guiding force— Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent and the shaping our universe and intricately involved in our everyday existence? aforementioned Proof of Heaven but also an enduring modern classic in the If so, does God care about us? Or is human life a mere accident of libraries of readers hungry for answers to life’s most essential questions. physics? Are love and higher emotions a result of brain chemistry, “passing curiosities in a universe devoid of all consciousness,” or are love and the spiritual world “instead profoundly real things – more real, by far, than the physical world we see around us every day?” For centuries these questions have haunted human existence and been integral to every culture and religion the world has known. These fundamental questions have long been considered unanswerable, save by faith—and to complicate matters, in searching for answers, a seemingly unbridgeable chasm has opened between science and religion. But what if these mysteries can be solved?—and what if the explanations arrive not from the world of faith but from science? What if science is able to provide concrete evidence that supports and underscores our faith? What if science can prove that God does, in fact, exist?

Ptolemy Tompkins, New York Times bestselling collaborator and internationally acclaimed astrophysicist Bernard Haisch have joined forces in a powerful book that aims to do just that. Bernie Haisch, Ph.D. is the author of over 130 scientific publications, has served as a ! ! !

THE NEUROSCIENTIST WHO LOST HER MIND mental illness and dementia, affording them a greater sympathy for those battling mental illness. By Dr. Barbara Lipska & Elaine McArdle Dr. Barbara Lipska is the director of the human brain bank at the National Institute of Mental Health. Her primary research interests are in US publisher: Pending (North American rights) mental illness and human brain development. She is an internationally To publish: Fall 2017 recognized leader in human postmortem research and animal modeling of schizophrenia. Material available: Proposal available Full MS available in Spring 2017 Elaine McArdle is an award-winning journalist, lawyer with a degree from Vanderbilt Law School, who for twenty years has been writing for Japanese subagent: Tuttle Mori Agency newspapers and magazines, including The Boston Globe, Boston magazine, and many others. Her previous co-writing credits include The Migraine Rights sold Brazil (pending) Brain. Romania (pending) Spain (pending)

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

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

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

Once the doctors discovered what was going on, they removed the tumors and Dr. Lipska returned to complete normality. With one difference: she remembers everything that happened with absolute clarity, and now, the neuroscientists and expert on mental illness has experienced what it is actually like to be insane. THE NEUROSCIENTIST WHO LOST HER MIND will give readers a profoundly new understanding into the physiological basis of ! ! !

THE POWER OF DREAMS and disruptive dreams may indicate physical and mental illness(including cancer, depression, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s), along with the By Alice Robb fascinating question of whether psychic dreams are real. Structurally, she will focus her reporting around four major dream-related events: the 33rd annual conference of the International Association for the Study of US publisher: Eamon Dolan Books (North American rights) Dreams; lucid dream expert Stephen LaBerge’s 2016 lucid dreaming To publish: Spring 2018 workshop; an “active dreaming” workshop run by dream scientist Robert Moss; and a Tibetan “dream yoga” retreat in India. Material available: Proposal available Full MS available in August 2017 We are at a watershed moment in our understanding of dreams. and Alice Robb’s THE POWER OF DREAMS promises to be our most Japanese subagent: The English Agency vital resource. Besides presenting the latest science of dreaming (thanks to cutting-edge brain imaging technology), THE POWER OF Rights sold: China (China Renmin University Press) DREAMS reveals the exponential growth of communities of people France (Flammarion) sharing their dreams (including institutions such as dream apps, dream Greece (Aiora) workshops, and casual meet-ups), and a curious resurgence of ancient Holland (Karakter) dream rituals dating back to indigenous cultures, from vision quests to Hungary (Libri) drum circles. In short you’ll never think about your dreams the same way Israel (Matar) again. Italy (Rizzoli) Japan (Hayakawa) THE POWER OF DREAMS will model the tone and style of Susan Poland (Agora) Cain’s Quiet, Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test, Jonah Lehrer’s How We Portugal (Penguin Random House Portugal) Decide, Maria Konnikova’s Mastermind, and Mary Roach’s Spook: Science Russia (Azbooka/Atticus) Tackles the Afterlife. Serbia (Vulkan) Spain (Blackie Books) Turkey (NTV) Alice Robb is a journalist who has extensive experience writing about UK/Commonwealth (Pan Macmillan) science and psychology for an impressive array of publications such as The New Republic, New York Magazine, Women and the World, The New Statesman, Foreign Policy, Elle, VICE, Bustle, and Fusion. She has a degree in *Sold in a 4-publisher auction in the US and in 13 foreign anthropology from Oxford University. markets!*

THE POWER OF DREAMS is a major work of narrative

nonfiction, poised to be today’s most vital guide to all things dream- related.

In THE POWER OF DREAMS, Alice Robb takes readers on her journey to uncover why we dream, why dreaming matters, and how we can improve our dream life. Through her encounters with scientists

who are at the forefront of dream research, she probes how nightmares ! ! !

BLOOM Across the book’s chapters, Karlgaard shares his own moving story of Hitting Your Stride at Any Age or Stage later-than-expected fulfillment, as well as the stories of many other wonderfully talented people who blossomed according to their own clock. By Rich Karlgaard He also backs up his recommendations with recent neurological, psychological, and other scientific studies showing that the brain continues to develop well into adulthood, and that adults in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and US publisher: Crown Business (North American rights) 60s—and even much older people—are often capable of realizing To publish: Spring 2018 impressive achievements and making valuable intellectual, artistic, and other contributions to society—contributions that are very much worth Material available: Proposal available the wait. Full MS available in Fall 2017 Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes magazine, is an entrepreneur, business Japanese subagent: The English Agency thought leader, and the previous author of Soft Edge, Life 2.0, and Team Genisus. Rights sold: China (Beijing Mediatimes) Korea (Korean Economic Daily) Taiwan (Eurasian)

*Sold to Crown Business after an 8-publisher auction!*

Business leader and publisher of Forbes magazine Rich Karlgaard’s BLOOM is poised to hit a nerve among the countless people who feel that they’re lagging behind their peers, and that they haven’t yet tapped into their professional or personal potential.

BLOOM makes a powerful argument: finding yourself and attaining true success is possible at any age. Rather than glorifying young, Mark Zuckerburg-like prodigies, rather than rushing young people to succeed, and rather than counting on most adults to peak (and then flounder) at some particular phase of life, BLOOM calls upon us to allow ourselves to hit our strides our own way and in our own time.

As the publisher of Forbes magazine and host of its most prestigious global business and thought-leadership conferences (and as a highly successful entrepreneur who found himself and “bloomed” much later than many of his peers), Rich Karlgaard has the platform, and the experience and passion, to make BLOOM the next paradigm-shifting business title in the vein of StrengthsFinder or The 4-Hour Work Week. Strikingly, there has not yet been a big-idea nonfiction book concerning “late bloomers”, making BLOOM the first major work to relay this message. ! ! !

STRONGER and sleep habits; and how companionship and competition help people to find their own distinct level of excellence. STRONGER offers an array of By Michael Joseph Gross practical insights and “who knew that?” facts, from the effectiveness of heavy weight-lifting for 80 year-olds, to the importance of cold as opposed US publisher: Dutton (North American rights) to hot showers following exercise. To publish: Spring 2018 Such lessons will be conveyed through STRONGER’s rich, memorable Material available: Proposal available stories. Main characters include a mountain climber who founded a Utah Full MS available in Summer 2017 gym that trains Hollywood action-movie stars, U.S. military special forces units, and housewives preparing to compete in their first triathlons; a Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency classical scholar and archaeologist who discovered an ancient Greek stadium, where he hosts a revival of games that were first played there six Rights sold: Romania (Publica) centuries before the birth of Christ; scientists in Illinois who study how exercise and athletics fortify important qualities of the mind, such as From Vanity Fair reporter Michael Joseph Gross, an exploration of executive function—the skills that help people set goals and get things human strength, combining the narrative power of John McPhee and done; and researchers in Denmark who, in the laboratory, answer age-old the practical wisdom of Atul Gawande. questions about how skeletal muscles work—and then apply their lab research on the playing field, by designing innovative new training In STRONGER, Michael Joseph Gross makes a wide-ranging programs. For untrained women over the age of sixty, for instance, one of journey—through ancient mythology and modern history; muscle the best ways to build strength, flexibility, balance and coordination is… physiology and the science of mind; psychology and sociology; military playing soccer. physical fitness and movie superhero training — to understand how people of all ages, at all levels of athletic ability, define and experience STRONGER will reach a huge audience of eager readers – readers who strength. With vivid narratives and deep insight, STRONGER enjoy science and nature, sports and exercise, travel and adventure, health promises to spark a global conversation about the significance of and self-improvement. It will take its place on the bookshelves of those exercise and athletics, based on a central premise of the book: who loved John McPhee’s classic The Level of the Game, Christopher strengthening the body is as vital as eating and sleeping, not only to McDougall’s Born to Run, Susan Cain's Quiet, and Atul Gawande’s Being health and longevity, but to the moment-by-moment quality of daily life. Mortal. Most of all, STRONGER will be embraced by those who simply want to feel more comfortable and confident in their bodies — by STRONGER delves into the mystery of how the human mind engages showing how everyone, at any time, can make the choice to experience the muscles to make a person stronger—and the relationship between the satisfaction, and the joy, of being stronger. physical strength and the qualities commonly referred to as ‘inner strength.' Through history, all over the world, people have sought to Michael Joseph Gross is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, where he solve these mysteries in many ways. Synthesizing the results of their covers topics including politics, technology, and national security. He has investigations, STRONGER will give ample guidance to readers on also written extensively for publications such as The New York Times, The topics such as the following: how people muster the resolve to Boston Globe, and GQ. Gross is the author of the book Starstruck: When a commence and persist in living a fulfilling, active life; how individual Fan Gets Close to Fame, published in 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing. body types shape people’s most potentially rewarding kinds of exercise and athletic endeavors; how active people need to adjust their daily diets ! ! !

THE TOWN OUTSIDE OF TIME TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI How Nostalgia Shapes Our Memories, Our Culture, and Ourselves By Fred Wehrey

By Amanda R. Martinez US publisher: Farrar, Straus (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2017 US publisher: Crown (World English rights) To publish: Fall 2017 Material available: Proposal available Full MS available in December 2016 Material available: Proposal available Full MS available in October 2016 Not assigned in Japan

Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI is part reportage, thrilling travelogue, and in-depth analysis about Libya from Fred Wehrey, a THE TOWN OUTSIDE OF TIME examines the universal leading Middle East scholar. phenomenon of nostalgia, arguing that it has reached a cultural tipping point throughout the world. The facts of this crisis are in the papers every day—but what we don’t yet have is an account of what it is really like to live and to fight in We’ve all experienced the bittersweet pangs of nostalgia: moments in Libya, one of the world's most dangerous countries. In the style which we indulge a sentimental yearning for the sights, smells, and of Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandresekaran, this is a book sounds of the past. In this accessible, beautifully written narrative, that plunges readers deep into Libya, puts the history, from the Barbary Amanda R. Martinez presents cutting-edge research conducted by pirates to Qaddafi, into perspective, and then plants us on the ground psychologists, neuroscientists, and sociologists across the world, among wild Libyan militia characters that you haven't read about in the uncovering a scientific basis for nostalgia as an inherently positive papers. TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI is a well-researched, narrative, emotion, a coping mechanism that fortifies the mind, shapes identity, character-driven book about the real Libya, a Lawrence Wright-style and imbues our lives with a sense of meaning. Martinez also delves account of war, terror and a country, like so many others in this part of into the emotion’s darker side, exploring the ways in which technology the world, teetering on the brink of ISIS control. has given us overly ready access to the sweetness of fond memories, turning nostalgia into an emotional “fast-food.” Fred Wehrey is one of the few Westerners to have visited Libya continuously since 2011. He routinely briefs senior U.S., European, and From a London studio in which technology is used to “resurrect” dead Middle Eastern government officials on the ongoing conflict there and entertainers, to Beijing restaurants styled after 1980s-era elementary testified before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on the school classrooms, THE TOWN OUTSIDE OF TIME sweeps us Benghazi attack. He is a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, with on a whirlwind tour of nostalgia. tours across the Middle East, including Iraq, where he served as a field intelligence officer and earned the Bronze Star in 2003. A fluent Arabic Amanda Rose Martinez’s journalism has appeared in The Atlantic, speaker, he holds a PhD in international relations from Oxford Scientific American, and Seed magazines. She holds degrees in science University and a master’s in Near Eastern studies from Princeton writing from MIT and playwriting from Yale. University.

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HOUSE OF STICKS CLOSE TO OM A Memoir By Andrea Marcum By Ly Tran US publisher: St. Martins Press (NA rights) US publisher: Scribner (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2018 To publish: Summer 2018 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Full MS available in May 2017 Full MS available in Fall 2017 ! Not assigned in Japan Not assigned in Japan

By the end of CLOSE TO OM, you will not only know a lot about Ly Tran recounts an extraordinarily powerful story about the yoga and its poses, but you’ll also know more about you: who you are, immigrant experience that evokes The Glass Castle. what you want, and how to get there—on and off your mat. Ly Tran and her three brothers were born in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Ly and her family Many people think that yoga, is simply about twisting your body into emigrated to New York City. They arrived in February 1993, leaving pretzel-like shapes to gain strength and flexibility. And while the poses rice paddies, mango trees, and a hut for a towering building in are important, they are, as Andrea Marcum likes to say, the frosting on Brooklyn. Ly had her first job in America at the age of four, doing the cake. Yoga is the yoke of body, mind and spirit, and CLOSE TO sweatshop labor at home with her family. In time, she and her OM offers a program that teaches us all three aspects of yoga. mother eventually opened up their own nail salon. The progression in CLOSE TO OM is the architecture of every yoga It was during Ly's time working in the nail salon that she began to practice – and will show you that how you do your yoga is how you do understand her own past. On days when it was just Ly and her mother, your life. Today yoga is everywhere—and in our fast paced 24/7 world, they would practice on fake nails as she relayed stories about Ly's we need what it offers more than ever, body, mind and spirit. brothers in Vietnam before she was born, how she swam across the Mekong to avoid a lurking matchmaker, or how Ly's grandmother was Andrea Marcum is the perfect guide for this journey. She’s been sold to a Cambodian family in exchange for three pigs. teaching yoga in LA for about 16 years, currently at Yogaworks and # numerous major events around the country, including Wanderlust HOUSE OF STICKS is in part about poverty and getting by, and festivals, as well as leading corporate and private retreats all over the hope. As Ly takes us through her journey as a young immigrant, the world. obstacles she faced as a female in her family and in Brooklyn, she reveals the mechanisms by which she shielded herself against her harsh reality, and the faith that carried her through.

Ly Tran graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Creative Writing and Linguistics. She is a 2016 recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellow. ! !

THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS! perfected and a subtle if potent power to be exercised and expanded.

By Jing Tsu The Chinese government currently has at least 450 Confucius Institutes in 127 countries teaching Mandarin to millions of foreigners, and by 2050

more people on this earth will be speaking Mandarin than English. US publisher: Riverhead Books (NA rights)

To publish: June 2018 THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS will chronicle for the first

time the dramatic events responsible for China’s unexpected linguistic and Material available: Proposal available geopolitical triumph. How China went from a crumbling empire to a Full MS available in July 2017 capitalist juggernaut is as breathtaking as the revolution that the Chinese

script has undergone during that same time period, in large part because Japanese subagent: Tuttle Mori Agency the one literally helped underwrite the other. Ingenious linguists,

mathematicians, and poets risked their careers and reputations, and Rights sold: China (CITIC) sometimes their lives, to tackle profoundly complex technological issues— Holland (Spectrum) how to send a telegram in Chinese, how to use a keyboard to produce Italy (Hoepli) Chinese characters—that opened the lines of communication between the Taiwan (Rye Field) East and West and led to a new kind of mutual dependency. UK/Commonwealth (Penguin UK)

Jing Tsu is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, a literary scholar and cultural THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS follows the bold and historian of modern China at Yale University, and the author of Sound and cunning innovators who forced the ancient Chinese character-based script Script in Chinese Diaspora (Harvard University Press, 2010) and Failure, to adapt to a 20th-century world defined by the West and its alphabet. As Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 such, it will tell the story of how China was able to transform itself from a (Stanford University Press, 2005). She was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and marginalized country humiliated by Western hegemony into one of the raised in New Mexico, USA. world’s most powerful and ascendant nations. With its tight focus on language and larger-than-life personalities—and its compelling narrative through-line featuring some of history’s most dramatic upheavals—THE

KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS is where Simon Winchester’s The

Professor and the Madman meets Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve.

THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS will isolate seven key moments in Chinese history when Easterners and Westerners, librarians and laymen, government officials and enemies of the state, worked with and against each other to adapt, simplify, and streamline the Chinese language to catch the country up with the West and allow it to participate fully in global affairs. From the exiled reformer who, in 1900, snuck back into China to unify his country around one national language, Mandarin, to the Chinese-Muslim poet who, in 1958, laid the groundwork for

Chairman Mao Zedong’s official Romanization system known as pinyin,

Jing will reveal an untold story of how language is both a technology to be ! !

LIFE IN THEORY Before begins with the few flashes of memory Toph retains from the first decade of his life. His father’s death. Standing by his dying mother’s By Toph Eggers bedside. The cards from his third-grade classmates wishing him goodbye: It comes into clear focus when he and Dave move to California. This is

the period of his life still so fondly remembered. The antic, manic world US publisher: Crown / Penguin Random House (NA rights) his brother devised was irresistible to a nine-year-old, “a glittering arcade To publish: Fall 2018 of movement and doings,” sweet nectar of validation” that only a parent could provide. Toph also became the battleground for the war between Material available: Proposal available Dave and their sister, Beth, over his care. Full MS available in Spring 2018 The publication of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, had Japanese subagent: Tuttle Mori Agency profound consequences Toph could not have foreseen. It was required reading for his freshman class at college, students came to interview him Rights sold: Germany (Piper) “for extra credit.” A girlfriend broke it off with him on the advice of her Holland (Signatuur / Bruna) therapist. What followed is the trajectory of a vulnerable young man who Italy (Giunti) increasingly steeled himself against any pain. UK / Commonwealth (pending) In many ways, LIFE IN THEORY fills a gap in the world of In LIFE IN THEORY, Toph, now thirty-three years old, memoirs. Think of the memoirs of the past few years that have struck a candidly recounts the surreal trajectory of his life of his life and the major chord with readers: Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club, Cheryl Strayed’s exacting toll of being defined by a persona he did not create and Wild, Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle—all women. But Toph’s memoir could not control. This is a story of the relationships between reaches out to the fans of those book with a candor rarely found in siblings, the tensions between children and their parents, recovery memoirs by men. from trauma, a willingness to make oneself vulnerable to other. Toph Eggers is a writer, director, and screenwriter. LIFE IN “Think of yourself as a character,” Toph Eggers begins, “a fictional THEORY is his first book. character walking through the land of the living, the fiction that became my reality. ‘Oh wow,’ said a director I once met. ‘I had no idea you were an actual real person.’ To a large degree, I wasn’t. I was the plucky, precocious boy who’d had such a poignant, unconventional childhood. I was ‘poor Toph, the sweet little brother, who turned out so well, considering.’”

LIFE IN THEORY answers the question that has followed Toph into adulthood. His memoir is honest, sweet, dark, funny, and extremely moving. Here is a man who spent years trying to live up to the image of a child defined for him as a teenager and into adulthood. Like so many of us, it took time, often painful, to find his own voice, and speak candidly in that the voice to others. ! !

UPCOMING FICTION reform it, along with the dynamic scientific progress of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Valiant Gentlemen is a uniquely human account of some of early 20th century’s larger historical figures from a “ravishing” (O Magazine) and “brilliant” (The Boston Globe) voice in fiction today. VALIANT GENTLEMEN By Sabina Murray Sabina Murray is the previous author of two short story collections and two novels, the most recent of which was the roundly praised A US publisher: Grove Press (World English rights) Carnivore’s Inquiry. To publish: November 2016 Sabina Murray’s previous Material available: Final PDF available foreign publishers: Not assigned in Japan Holland – De Bezige Bij Based on true events, VALIANT GENTLEMEN is Italy – Guanda PEN/Faulkner winner Sabina Murray’s new and epic novel Portugal – Europa-America spanning forty years that begins at the pinnacle of the Colonial era Russia – Astrel / SPB and chronicles its dramatic fall with the onset of World War I. Publishers Serbia – Sezam Books VALIANT GENTLEMEN is a vivid imagining of the lives of UK/Commonwealth – Hamish famed two African explorers, who begin as dear friends but then Hamilton diverge on radically different paths: the Irish Roger Casement and the British Herbert Ward. Roger and Herbert meet in Africa in the 1880s, working for the British Colonial Service. As Roger becomes increasingly “Brimming with exquisite detail drawn to protesting the violence and terror of the colonies, Herbert and clever humor…[Murray] becomes obsessed with a quest for fame and recognition. maintains an impressive balance of historical accuracy and Roger becomes an internationally recognized hero for his role in dramatic momentum, crafting a exposing the horrific exploitation and violence of the Congo, while stellar fiction that shows how the grand course of history can be shaped Herbert moves to France resting on the laurels of his career. Roger’s by the smallest disagreements between friends.” – Publishers Weekly, disdain for colonialism intensifies into outright hatred of the British STARRED REVIEW Empire. He begins to meet with Irish nationalists and activists, and in encouraging Irish nationalists to fight against England (especially with “Valiant Gentlemen is an adventure set amid the secret history of the the onset of World War I), he puts his life on the line for his beliefs. modern world—the personal revolutions inside the revolutionary Roger Casement, a man who took part in or bore witness to so much of the Reminiscent of Euphoria by Lily King and Heart of Darkness by Joseph history we live with now, brought to vivid, thrilling life here. This novel is Conrad, VALIANT GENTLEMEN is a sweeping story that made out of history but is every bit a modern marvel.” – Alexander explores friendship, patriotism, and betrayal. Taking place in Africa, Chee, author of The Queen of the Night England, France, Ireland, the United States, South Africa, and South America, it exposes the horrific legacy of colonialism and the fight to ! !

JOURNEYMAN

By Marc Bojanowski

Publisher: Soft Skull/Counterpoint (North American rights) Granta; May 2016 (UK/Commonwealth rights)

To publish: February 2017 Material available: Final PDF available

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Visceral, muscular, and exquisitely crafted, JOURNEYMAN is a state-of-the-nation novel about dwelling, building, belonging, love and the value of a place to call home.

Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and an itinerant by nature. While fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, he builds tract homes across California, travelling between jobs.

Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas, Nolan uproots himself from the tentative relationships he Praise for JOURNEYMAN: has made and heads west towards the ocean. On his way he passes

through his brother's town where events force him to stay put. Bereft BuzzFeed UK names Journeyman one of “31 brilliant books that you of his trailer and his tools, with only the little-used and much- really must read this Spring” along with new work from Alexander neglected mechanisms of his heart to rely on, Nolan turns to the task Chee, Curtis Sittenfeld, Toni Morrison, Garth Greenwell, and Maggie of building the foundations of a meaningful life. Nelson

Evocative of Steinbeck’s Cannery Row and McCarthy’s All the Pretty “Rich with internal allusions [...] Journeyman succeeds in giving substance to a Horses in its tender, thoughtful, and humorous exploration of the tempered, folksy wisdom – that sometimes the greatest consolation we can struggles and tensions of family, class, race, and manual labor. offer, or hope for, in a fleeting world ‘ain’t knowing what to say’ but ‘just being Journeyman is an important, timely novel about men and brothers there not knowing how to say it’.” –!The Times Literary Supplement (UK) finding their way in the 21st century. “There is so much to appreciate in this gripping and richly-textured story Marc Bojanowski graduated from the University of California at about searching for meaning…Every sentence is a pleasure, each scene is memorable, every conversation a gem. The landscape through which Nolan Berkeley and received his MFA in creative writing from the New journeys is depicted with a keen precision, the characters and their School. He is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel The predicaments are rendered with an unsentimental tenderness, and the themes Dog Fighter (Morrow/HarperCollins, 2004), which was a finalist for the this story explores are both timeless and very timely. JOURNEYMAN is a New York Public Library Young Lions Award. masterful novel.” – Jean Hegland, author of Into the Forest ! !

THE SWEETEST FRUITS The first voice is that of Rosa, Hearn’s Greek mother, who was forced to abandon her cherished son in Ireland when he was only four years By Monique Truong old. Rosa relates her heartbreaking tale to the wet nurse who accompanies her on her unwilling voyage back to Greece. US publisher: (North American rights) The second voice is that of Althea Foley, the African-American cook in To publish: Summer 2017 Hearn’s boarding house in Cincinnati, where he began his rapid rise as a

newspaper reporter. In defiance of Ohio’s anti-miscegenation laws, Material available: Proposal available Althea married Hearn, only to have the marriage declared void after his Edited MS available in Winter 2017 death. Her telling is a passionate defense of marriage for love.

Rights sold: Germany (CH Beck) Hearn’s career took him next to New Orleans, where he became the

confidante of Elizabeth Bisland, one of the most famous journalists of THE SWEETEST FRUITS is an ambitious and ingeniously her time. The final say belongs to Koizumi Setsu, the extraordinary imagined story of identity, revelation, and the power of words. woman Hearn married in Japan. Daughter of a samurai, Setsu was the

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

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

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REINCARNATION BLUES ABOUT TIME

By Michael Poore By Grace Dane Mazur

US publisher: Del Rey / Penguin Random House (NA rights) US publisher: Random House (World English rights) To publish: Fall 2017 To publish: Fall 2017 ! ! Material available: Full MS available Material available: Full MS available Not assigned in Japan Not assigned in Japan

Rights sold: Croatia (Lumen) *Sold to Random House in a 6-figure pre-empt!* France (Bragelonne) Italy (Edizioni E/O) ABOUT TIME by Grace Dane Mazur is a contemporary comedy of Korea (Random House Korea) manners about two polar-opposite families: the Cohens and the Poland (Proszinski) Barlows. Extremely funny, yet also trenchant, ABOUT TIME Romania (RAO) will strongly appeal to readers of Curtis Sittenfeld, Helen Simonsson, Russia (Eksmo) and Cynthia d'Aprix Sweeney. Spain (Malpaso)

Turkey (Domingo) We meet the Cohen and Barlow families during an eventful rehearsal *Sold to Del Rey in a 6-figure pre-empt!* dinner on the night before a wedding. The Barlows are a Wall Street Journal-reading family of lawyers stepped in golf, trust funds, and With elements of Cloud Atlas and A Visit from the Goon Squad, corporate transactions. The Cohens are an intellectual and wildly REINCARNATION BLUES is the type of genre-bending story impractical family of historians, scientists, and social activists. The novel that will absorb you long after you’ve turned the last page. takes place over the course of a single day, where it becomes clear that neither of the families is more eccentric than the other. Milo is a truly old soul who has been reincarnated 9,995 times, and that’s just fine with him. He has been a cricket, a soldier, a Japanese Filled with biting social observation and beautiful descriptive prose, widow, a tree, and countless other things. He has five more lives to get ABOUT TIME is a haunting portrayal of miscommunication, secrets, it right. Achieving perfection seems perfectly boring, and constantly and the power of love. It features an ensemble cast of exceptionally vivid being reincarnated means he can continue his love affair with Death (or and real characters who range from the age of three to the late nineties. “Suzie”, as she prefers to be called). But what Milo is just learning is that souls aren’t infinite, and he’s fast approaching the point where his Grace Dane Mazur is the previous author of Trespress, her debut novel soul will blip out of existence forever if he doesn’t achieve perfection. published in 2002, along with Silk, a collection of short stories. He only has five more lives to get things right, and he’s going to need She currently works as fiction editor at Tupelo Press. every single one of them to save himself and, he comes to learn, possibly all of humanity.

Michael Poore is the previous author of Up Jumps the Devil.

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TROPHY SON THE MAP OF HOPEFUL BROKEN THINGS

By Douglas Brunt By Jennifer Zeynab Maccani

US publisher: St. Martin’s / Macmillan (North American rights) US publisher: Touchstone / S&S (North American rights) To publish: Summer 2017 To publish: Spring 2018

Not assigned in Japan Material available: Full MS available Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency TROPHY SON offers an unprecedented window into the high- stakes world of competitive tennis in a coming-of-age story, told Rights sold: China (CITIC) through the eyes of a young tennis prodigy. Germany (Heyne) Italy (pending auction) For Anton Stratis, tennis is all hate and suffering—a relentless path chosen for him by his overbearing father. Unfortunately for Anton, he *Sold in a 6-figure pre-empt to Touchstone!* was born a tennis prodigy. He’s plucked out of an ordinary high-school life to train in isolation around the clock—and, later, around the world. THE MAP OF HOPEFUL BROKEN THINGS is a brilliant tour For years, the phenom only has books, and his loving older brother, to de force that turns the Syrian refugee crisis from a news story into a truly human story. keep him company, and in time the beautiful Ana, an actress with an intense path of her own, It is the summer of 2011, and Nour has just lost her father to cancer. And as if that was not enough upheaval, her mother moves Nour and her When Anton finds himself facing a stalemate on the court, struggling to sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family and nudge up his rank, his coach offers him a new, unconsidered challenge: their homeland. In order to keep her father’s spirit alive as she adjusts to give us one good year and then commit or walk away.! Under intense her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story---the tale of Rawiya, pressure, Anton caves and begins using steroids, which help him rise to a young girl from the 11th century who apprentices herself to a famous become the number one tennis player in the world.! But when Anton’s mapmaker. drug-taking is discovered, he realizes the physical and psychological toll But the Syria Nour's parents knew is changing, and it isn’t long before tennis has taken and decides to change his life in profound ways. protests and shelling rumble through their quiet Homs neighborhood.

In part a meditation on ambition, family, and what it means to create a When a shell destroys Nour’s house and almost takes her life, she and her meaningful life, TROPHY SON is also a page-turning novel about a family are forced to flee as refugees across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety—along the very route Nour’s young man’s riveting experience on the courts and transports the reader fabled mapmakers took nine hundred years before in their quest to map to a rarefied world only a fraction of people get to encounter. the world. As they decide to take the risk, the journey becomes more and

more dangerous as they make their way towards Europe, and Nour must Douglas Brunt’s first novel, Ghosts of Manhattan, was a New York Times do everything she can to keep her family together. bestseller. Until 2011, Douglas Brunt was CEO of Authentium, Inc., a security company. Jennifer Zeynab Maccani is the daughter of a Muslim father and a Syrian Christian mother. THE MAP OF HOPEFUL BROKEN THINGS is her first book. ! !

UPCOMING CHILDREN’S / YA TITLES fellow orphan and his first friend, a tiny bird named Trinket. With Trinket’s help, Number Thirteen escapes THE WONDERLING the only life he's known and By Mira Bartók journeys to the Great White City of Lumentown, a shining citadel US publisher: Candlewick (North American rights) where he is certain he'll meet his To publish: Fall 2017; Fall 2018 destiny. But Lumentown is not as idyllic as he’d imagined. Here Material available: Full MS available in November 2016 too, groundlings are bullied and Rights sold: UK (Walker UK) oppressed and as Number Thirteen learns to survive in this Not assigned in Japan strange land, he discovers that Miss Carbunkle has a devious Sold in a major auction, THE WONDERLING is the first book plan to destroy all the music in in a brilliant middle-grade duology by New York Times bestselling the world. As his gift grows, and and award-winning writer and artist, Mira Bartók. he begins to find his voice, he realizes that it is up to him to THE WONDERLING has been optioned as a major motion stop her. picture by 20th Century Fox, with Stephen Daldry attached to direct! THE WONDERLING, which includes gorgeous spot THE WONDERLING is the remarkable story of a shy, small, one- illustrations by the author, eared creature—part human/part fox—known only as Number launches an epic journey that will Thirteen. He is trapped in an orphanage run by cruel headmistress Miss play out over the course of two books. Carbunkle and her sniveling sidekick Mr. Sneezeweed, doing his best to stay out of trouble and follow the strict rules of the Home for Deeply inspiring, richly imagined and written in exquisite prose, THE Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures. The Home, as it’s known to its WONDERLING is poised to hit international bestseller lists and to unfortunate occupants, is situated in the country, far from any captivate and enthrall readers, young and old, for many years to come. neighboring town or city and is mysteriously plagued by terribly cold and rainy weather. Mira Bartók is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir The Memory Palace, which won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle In Number Thirteen’s world, groundlings—animal-human hybrids like Award for Autobiography. The Memory Palace was also a New York himself—are second class citizens who’ve long been exploited to Times and ALA Notable, an Indie Pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover support the welfare and prosperity of humans. But as stark and lonely New Writers Pick, and voted a Best of 2011 Book by a range of national as Number Thirteen’s daily existence is, he has a wondrous secret: he media outlets including NPR, the Chicago Tribune, Library Journal, can hear sounds no one else can hear—mice talking behind walls, bees Washington Post, and Kirkus. sipping, birds singing a mile away. However, he has no hope of ever discovering the purpose of his gift or his true identity until he meets a ! !

RECENTLY PUBLISHED NONFICTION

LOOK AT YOU NOW . (formerly THE SMALLEST STAR IN THE SKY)

By Liz Pryor

US publisher: Random House (World English rights) Published: June 2016

Material available: Final PDF available Not assigned in Japan

The gorgeously written memoir LOOK AT YOU NOW will be

embraced by fans of Girl, Interrupted and Orange Is the New

Black.

Liz Pryor grew up as one of seven children in the Chicago suburbs, in a

privileged, conservative family where all was happy on the surface yet

where appearance e was everything. In 1979, Liz became pregnant at

the age of sixteen, and she was sent away to what was understood to be

a Catholic home for unwed mothers. Her mother, who swore her to

silence, told everyone that she was in hospital being treated for an

undisclosed illness. The plan was set: once the baby was born and given

away for adoption, Liz would return in time to attend her high school Liz Pryor is the previous author of What Did I Do Wrong?. She regularly graduation. appears on shows such as The Today Show, Good Day LA, The Steve Harvey

Show. But instead of a Catholic home, the author found herself in a cement- walled, locked unit in a state-run facility for pregnant, underprivileged, often delinquent, teens. Cut off from everyone and everything she Praise for LOOK AT YOU NOW: knew, terrified by her fellow residents and unable to acknowledge the baby she would deliver in five short months, the author was forced to “Readers will swiftly be drawn into the author’s compassionate retelling of rely on an inner fortitude, resilience and resolve she didn’t know she her teen pregnancy—her fear, shame, regret, joy, and even her forgiveness had. The author and the other girls—linked only by the common bond of her parents for sending her away. This coming-of-age memoir is of their pregnancies—slowly began to see past their marked differences, authentic and unforgettable.” – Publishers Weekly opened up to one another and in turn, formed unexpectedly deep, transformative relationships.

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CHOICE OR CHANCE Understanding Your Locus of Control and Why It Matters

By Stephen Nowicki

US publisher: Prometheus (World English rights) Published: May 2016

Material available: Final PDF available

Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency

How much do you believe that what happens to you is the result of your own actions—or do circumstances beyond your control largely determine your fate?

Locus of Control (LOC) is a phrase used by psychologists to describe a widely effective way of assessing an individual’s potential for success— personal, social, and financial. LOC measures how much you believe what happens to you is the result of your own actions or, conversely, of forces and circumstances beyond your control. People who accept that they are largely in control of their lives tend to do better than those who Praise for CHOICE OR CHANCE: feel that fate or external factors rule what they do, especially in novel and difficult situations. “In this masterpiece, Nowicki gets it right and delivers what he promises. In an incredibly engaging way, he convincingly conveys why locus of This book explains LOC research, until now mainly confined to control is vital to people’s physical and mental well-being, relationships, academic circles, in terms easily understandable to the average person. and achievement in all aspects of life.” – Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD The author, a clinical psychologist who has spent nearly five decades investigating and writing about LOC, helps the reader to explore his or “This is a treat to read. It will be of benefit to all of us, young and old, as it her own locus of control and what those orientations might mean for provides insights into how we can improve our lives, and especially how to how life is lived. He discusses the extensively documented relationship enable our children and grandchildren, our pupils and workmates to between LOC and academic achievement, personal and social overcome problems.” – Jean Golding, PhD adjustment, health, and financial success. “In this clear and engaging narrative, full of wonderful stories, locus of control emerges as a lens through which we can better understand and influence academic, business, and personal achievement.” – Andrea S. Hershatter, senior associate dean, Goizueta Business School, Emory University ! !

PROOF OF ANGELS The Definitive Book on the Reality of Angels and the

Surprising Role They Play in Each of Our Lives

By Ptolemy Tompkins and Tyler Beddoes

US publisher: Howard Books / S&S (North American rights) Published: February 2016

Japanese co-agent: The English Agency

Rights sold: Brazil (Fontanar /Companhia das Letras) Czech Republic (Noxi) France (Trédaniel) Holland (Ankh-Hermes)

Italy (Rizzoli) Portugal (Planeta Manuscrito) Romania (Lifestyle Publishing) Slovakia (Fortuna Libri) UK/Commonwealth (Simon & Schuster UK)

From the collaborator of the blockbuster bestseller Proof of Heaven comes the definitive book proving angels are real, all around us, and interacting in our lives every day. PROOF OF ANGELS weaves real-life stories into a rich narrative, exploring the history, nature, and significance of angels in our lives. It In March 2015, millions worldwide were captivated by news reports of proves that the barrier between the spiritual and the scientific is less the dramatic rescue of an eighteen-month old girl, Lily Groesbeck, certain than we often think. Not only does Tompkins offer a highly who’d somehow survived fourteen hours in an overturned car partially entertaining look into a universally fascinating topic, but he also delivers a submerged in an icy-cold Utah river after her mother apparently lost fresh and deeply reassuring message: we are not alone. control of the vehicle. A voice the four responding officers assumed was the child’s mother still trapped inside spurred them on: “Help me, Ptolemy Tompkins has been an editor at Guideposts and Angels on Earth magazines and is the author of four books. His writing has been help me.” Yet, once the two victims were recovered, it was clear that the featured in Beliefnet.com, Harper’s, The New York Times, and the Los voice could not have come from Lily’s mother: she’d been killed on Angeles Times. impact.

Tyler Beddoes studied Criminal Justice and Journalism at Utah Valley New York Times bestselling author Ptolemy Tompkins, with the help of University. He joined the Police Department in Spanish Fork, Utah in Tyler Beddoes, one of the responding officers who helped rescue Lily, 2006. Proof of Angels is his first book. share details of this modern-day miracle and explore the evidence for the existence of angels in our world. ! !

HOW TO HAVE A GOOD DAY HOW TO HAVE A GOOD DAY offers a rigorous, accessible A Revolutionary Handbook for Work and Life survey of the most important discoveries from behavioral economics, psychology, and neurobiology, and then offers readers a set of daily easy- to-implement strategies to transcend self-sabotaging feelings, develop a By Caroline Webb winning mindset, and reconfigure our perspective and actions to make every living day more joyful, efficient, and fulfilling. From esteemed management consultant and executive coach The book begins by explaining the science of human behavior and brain Caroline Webb comes a unique self- function to underscore the cognitive, emotional, and social brick walls that help guide to reclaiming productivity can swiftly derail us. It then provides a treasure trove of tactics, exercises, and happiness on a daily basis— and self- assessment tools to empower readers to head off and move past HOW TO HAVE A GOOD such negative experiences—allowing them to begin the day with a DAY: A Revolutionary Handbook positive outlook, optimize their daily schedule, make progress on what for Work and Life. matters in the face of countless urgent demands, reduce tension with others, and bounce back when something isn’t going right. The book will US publisher: Crown Business also include insight on how to better handle meetings, conquer one’s “to (North American rights) do list,” and write and respond to a deluge of emails without losing your Published: January 2016 mind.

Material available: Final PDF From Ariely and Kahneman to Pink and Gladwell, there are now an available abundance of well-executed “reading” books featuring thoughtful and Japanese subagent: The English Agency intriguing observations from cognitive science. But HOW TO HAVE A GOOD DAY will be the first book ever to shows readers how they Rights sold: Brazil (Companhia das Letras) can actually translate these insights into action—and profound positive China (China Citic Press) change that is lasting in effect. As Stephen Covey achieved with 7 Habits France (Belfond) of Highly Effective People, and as Tim Ferris has done with his ubiquitous The Holland (Business Contact) Four Day Work Week, Caroline Webb intends to position HOW TO Hungary (Libri) HAVE A GOOD DAY as a powerful new brand for improving the Italy (De Agostini) daily happiness, effectiveness, and sanity of people everywhere. Japan (Soshisha) Korea (Tornado) A regular contributor to HBR and Huffington Post, Caroline Webb Portugal (Presenca) spent twelve years at McKinsey and was a partner before becoming a Romania (Publica) senior adviser. She and her work at Sevenshift, her executive coaching Russia (Alpina) advisory, have been featured in The New York Times, the Washington Post, Spain (Paidos) Forbes, The Economist, and The London Times. The BBC described her work Taiwan (Locus) as: “helping people keep their heads in a complex world.” Caroline is Thailand (WeLearn) also an exceptional public speaker, boasting numerous commitments into UK/Commonwealth (Macmillan UK) 2016 for presentations at major conferences on the subject.

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RECENTLY PUBLISHED FICTION

GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT

By Lily Brooks-Dalton

US publisher: Random House (North American rights) Published: August 2016

Material available: Final PDF available

Rights sold: China (United Sky) France (Presse de la Cité) Italy (Nord) Japan (Sogensha) Poland (Czarna Owca) Turkey (Yabanci) UK/Commonwealth (Weidenfeld and Nicholson)

A literary novel with science fiction elements, GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT has been compared to bestsellers like The Snow Child, Station 11, and The Age of Miracles. Lily Brooks-Dalton is the previous author of Motorcycles I Have Loved, Augustine, a brilliant, aging scientist, is fascinated by the stars. For years and Good Morning, Midnight is her debut fiction title. he has scanned the universe, trying to quantify infinity. When news of a catastrophic event arrives at the remote research center in the Arctic where he works, he elects to stay behind. But shortly after the last airlift Praise for GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT departs, Augustine discovers a child—Iris. She rarely speaks but hums an eerie tune. In spite of the observatory's state of the art equipment, “Brooks-Dalton’s prose lights up the page in great swathes, her dialogue Augustine is unable to establish contact with the outside world; all sharp and insightful, and the high-concept plot drives a story of place, communication has gone dark. Time means very little in deep space. elusive love, and the inexorable yearning for human contact.” – Publishers Weekly Mission Specialist Sullivan, a divorced astronaut and mother, is aboard the Aether, on its return flight from Jupiter. They are the first human “GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT is a remarkable and gifted debut beings to delve this deep into space and it has changed the crew. novel. Lily Brooks-Dalton is an uncanny chronicler of desolate spaces, Suddenly, in a vacuum of information, the crew must determine the whether it’s the cold expanse of the universe or the deepest recesses of the best course of action. Faced with the cold, barren sweep of the Arctic human heart.” – Colson Whitehead and the vast silence of space, what will they do next and how will they survive? ! !

BOTTOMLAND

By Michelle Hoover

US publisher: Grove/Atlantic (North American rights) Published: March 2016

Material available: Final PDF available

Not assigned in Japan

An epic literary novel that spans the early 20th century, BOTTOMLAND tells the story of the Hess family, immigrants from Germany, who settle in the rich farmland of Iowa in the 1890’s. At its center is the disappearance, in 1919, in the middle of the night, of two of the family’s daughters.

At once intimate and sweeping, BOTTOMLAND—the anticipated second novel from Michelle Hoover—follows the Hess family in the years after World War I as they attempt to rid themselves of the Anti- German sentiment that left a stain on their name. But when the youngest two daughters vanish in the middle of the night, the family must piece together what happened while struggling to maintain their life on the

unforgiving Iowa plains.

In the weeks after Esther and Myrle's disappearance, their siblings desperately search for the sisters, combing the stark farmlands, their neighbors' houses, and the unfamiliar world of far-off Chicago. Have the Praise for BOTTOMLAND: girls run away to another farm? Have they gone to the city to seek a new life? Or were they abducted? Ostracized, misunderstood, and increasingly "Hoover skillfully interweaves many of the Hess family members' isolated in their tightly-knit small town in the wake of the war, the Hesses narratives. Her descriptions of the bleak rural landscape is chilling.” fear the worst. Told in the voices of the family patriarch and his children, – Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW this is a haunting literary mystery that pans decades before its resolution. Hoover deftly examines the intrepid ways a person can forge a life of "Deftly imagined and written, Hoover's second novel offers an intriguing, their own despite the dangerous obstacles of prejudice and oppression. modern take on a classic American landscape.” – Kirkus

"A novel as poignant as it is clear-eyed.” – Booklist Michelle Hoover teaches creative writing at Brandeis University. She

has been a Bread Loaf Writers Conference scholar, the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, and MacDowell fellow.

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HONEY FROM THE LION

By Matthew Neill Null

US publisher: Lookout Books (North American rights) Published: September 2015

Rights sold: France (pending) Italy (Bompiani)

In this lyrical and suspenseful debut novel, a turn-of-the-century logging company decimates 10,000 acres of virgin forest in the West Virginia Alleghenies and transforms a brotherhood of timber wolves into revolutionaries.

After fleeing his childhood farm in the wake of scandal, Cur Greathouse arrives at the Cheat River Paper & Pulp Company s Blackpine camp, where an unlikely family of sawyers offers him new hope. But the work there is exacting and dangerous with men’s worth measured in ledger columns. Whispers of a union strike pass from bunk to bunk. Against the rasp of the misery whip and the crash of felled hemlock and red spruce, Cur encounters a cast of characters who will challenge his loyalties: a minister grasping after his dwindling congregation, a Syrian peddler who longs to put down his pack and open a store, a slighted Slovenian wife turned activist, and a trio of Praise for HONEY FROM THE LION: reckless land barons. Cur must accept or betray the call to lead a

rebellion and finally reconcile a forbidden love. “HONEY FROM THE LION is a magisterial achievement, suffused

with the Faulknerian values of love, honor, pity, pride, compassion, and A startling elegy that establishes its author as a tremendous new literary sacrifice, concerning nothing less than the cohesion of an American voice, HONEY FROM THE LION evokes the ecological civilization. Matthew Null is a brilliant writer and his first novel is a gift.” devastation and human tragedy behind the Gilded Age, and sings both – Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena the land and ordinary lives in all their extraordinary resilience. “HONEY FROM THE LION is provocative in its exploration of Matthew Neill Null is a recipient of the Mary McCarthy Prize and the transgression and redemption and exhilarating in its lyric evocations of Michener Copernicus Society of America Award, and his fiction this rugged American landscape. Matthew Neill Null establishes himself appears in American Short Fiction, Ecotone, the Oxford American, as a perceptive seer of haunted souls and as an astonishing stylist. Ploughshares, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American HONEY FROM THE LION is a debut to celebrate.” Mystery Stories. – Laura van den Berg, author of The Isle of Youth and Find Me ! !

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