Spring 2021 Rights Guide

For further information, please contact:

Allison Devereux [email protected]

The Cheney Agency 39 West 14th Street, Suite 403 New York, NY 10011 t: (212) 277-8007 www.cheneyagency.com Twitter: @CheneyAgency

Contents

NON-FICTION Latest Deals: The Face Race by Kashmir Hill The Storm by Luke Mogelson We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat Out Now: The Daughters of Kobani by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Hot Seat by Jeff Immelt The Spymaster of Baghdad by Margaret Coker What Becomes a Legend Most by Philip Gefter To Be Honest by Michael Leviton Oak Flat by Lauren Redniss The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova A Very Stable Genius by Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker Publishing Soon: An Ugly Truth by Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia Kang After the Fall by Ben Rhodes America on Fire by Elizabeth Hinton Power, for All by Julie Battilana & Tiziana Casciaro The Reason for the Darkness of the Night by John Tresch Original Sisters by Anita Kunz Sensational by Kim Todd

FICTION Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford In the Valley by Ron Rash Destination Wedding by Diksha Basu Age of Consent by Amanda Brainerd

SELECTED BACKLIST Non-Fiction Latest Deals The Face Race The Rise of Facial Recognition Technology—and the End of Privacy as We Know It Kashmir Hill

Sold at auction, in a major deal

From award-winning New York Times technology reporter Kashmir Hill comes a powerful warning about the ways in which technology can erode and ultimately destroy notions of privacy, one that we ignore at our own peril.

Last January, Kashmir Hill published a bombshell front-page story about a mysterious start-up named Clearview AI, which had quietly been selling an app that could identify any individual using just a photo of his or her face. The app was startlingly effective and hugely popular with its customers (primarily police departments), but it was also wide- Random House (2023) reaching in its implications—suddenly anyone with a phone could snap Territory: North America a photo and potentially find out a person’s name or address in seconds. Editor: Hilary Redmon Material: Proposal Through the course of her investigation, Hill was shocked to find that Agent: Adam Eaglin facial recognition technology is far more advanced than most of us realize, and already in the hands of major companies and countries Rights sold: across the globe. The story of Clearview revealed that blurry snaps on a UK: Simon & Schuster stranger’s iPhone or security footage on a public street could, today, be used by anyone to track our identities and whereabouts in public. The tech we’ve long been reading about in the likes of Philip K. Dick science- fiction, the kind that foretells the end of anonymity as we know it—it’s already here.

Told, in part, through the riveting exposé of Clearview, The Face Race will be the definitive investigation into the rise of facial recognition technology and its implications on society and the future of privacy. Using the engaging, incisive writing she’s become known for in her popular pieces at the NY Times and Gizmodo, Hill has crafted a fast- paced and character-driven narrative that looks into how this tech was developed and where it could be going. Hill will reveal how widely these capabilities are already available, and examine the ways that tech companies, such as Google and Facebook, and governments around the globe are already using and abusing this technology on their customers and citizens.

Kashmir Hill is a technology reporter at The New York Times. She has been writing about privacy since 2009, when there was not yet a “privacy beat” in journalism—she helped invent it. Hill has a massive social following (270k+ Twitter followers), and has worked and written for a number of publications including The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Gizmodo, Popular Science, Forbes, and many others. The Storm Luke Mogelson

Sold in a pre-empt, in a major deal

The definitive, eye-witness account of the insurrection on the US Capitol, from war correspondent and New Yorker contributor Luke Mogelson

Luke was on the ground at the riot on the US Capitol on January 6th. His account of events in The New Yorker, along with footage he shot from the capitol, was immediately lauded as an astonishing first draft of history. But the coup attempt was not an isolated incident of violence and rebellion. Rather, it was the result of a pivotal season of anxiety, unrest, and sickness in this country’s recent past, beginning on Memorial Day, 2020, with an historic popular uprising for racial justice.

In The Storm, Luke plots out how the destruction of police precincts Penguin Press (2022) in Minneapolis after officers killed George Floyd became a catalyst Territory: North America for a series of events that culminated in open rebellion at the Capitol. Editor: Scott Mayers It will track the dynamic between the bottom-up—the far right Material: Proposal militias and their ilk—and the top-down—Trump and the media’s Agent: Alice Whitwham incitements— in the context of a pandemic, an election, and a social justice movement from the left that became the ideal bogeyman— Rights sold: weaving the crises of the past year into the definitive account of our UK: Riverrun time. China: CITIC Luke is among the preeminent war correspondents of his generation. There is no one who gets closer to the front line. He is a lyrical writer, whose unparalleled attention to detail keeps you turning the page, as he writes about the most complex subjects with balance and compassion. Through his intimate, electric reporting, Luke’s book makes clear that the white nationalists and radical conservatives for whom democratic institutions are the enemy are still out there, not daunted but galvanized. The Storm is a key to understanding how we got here, and what comes next.

Luke Mogelson is the author of the acclaimed story collection These Heroic, Happy Dead (2016) and a contributing writer to The New Yorker. He has been nominated for three National Magazine Awards, and won once. He has also won a Livingston Award and a George K. Polk Award. We Survived the Night Julian Brave NoiseCat

Pre-empted in a major deal The author named a “TIME100 Next” emerging leader, alongside Dua Lipa, Amanda Gorman, Chloé Zhao, Luka Doncic, and others

An ambitious work of literary journalism, and a poignant memoir about contemporary indigenous life

Through generations of deprivation and genocide, Julian Brave NoiseCat’s people greeted each other and the day with a simple but profound acknowledgement: you survived the night. These solemn words reflect the plight and suffering of indigenous communities over many centuries. Because the facts of this history are unsettling, narratives about Natives tend to be confined to the past or neatly packaged for the present. But today, indigenous peoples are rewriting their own narratives, and reclaiming their languages, cultures, and Knopf (2023) lands. Territory: North America Editor: Jonathan Segal The result of years of reporting and thinking, We Survived the Night Material: Proposal adds a major new voice to this indigenous literature, examining the Agent: Alice Whitwham history, culture, and present of Native people, but also race, climate change, the legacy of colonialism, and the complex realities Indians Rights sold: face in the 21st century. These realities shine through the story of UK: Profile Julian’s relationship with his troubled but brilliant father, an artist France: Albin Michel and alcoholic who grew up impoverished on the Canim Lake Indian reserve in British Columbia, the kind of story that, in its passionate specificity, becomes universal.

Inspired by the belief that indigenous peoples can contribute to understanding and addressing the world's most pressing challenges, We Survived the Night combines autobiographical precision, wide- ranging reporting, and deep erudition into an unforgettable new voice.

Julian Brave NoiseCat is the Vice President of Policy & Strategy with the think tank Data for Progress, the Narrative Change Director at The Natural History Museum, a fellow at the Type Media Center, an artist, and an activist. He has consulted for the UN and shaped progressive platforms like the Green New Deal. Julian’s journalism has been a finalist for the Livingston Award and the Canadian National Magazine award, and appeared in print or online in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Guardian, and many more. He studied History at Columbia and Oxford University. Out Now The Daughters of Kobani A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

An instant New York Times bestseller Optioned for TV by Hillary Clinton An Amazon Best Book of February 2021

The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won

In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. The Islamic State by then had swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From an unlikely showdown in the town of Kobani emerged an all female fighting force that would wage war against ISIS across northern Syria. In the process, these women spread their own political vision, determined to make women's equality a reality by fighting—house by house, street by street, town by town—the men who bought and sold them and their Penguin Press (February 2021) sisters. Territory: North America Editor: Emily Cunningham Based on years of on-the-ground reporting, The Daughters of Kobani Material: Finished copies is the unforgettable story of the women of the Kurdish militia that Agent: Elyse Cheney improbably became the world's best hope for stopping ISIS in Syria and across the globe. Over hundreds of hours of interviews, Lemmon Rights sold: chronicles women and leadership on the warfront. Rigorously reported UK: Swift Press and powerfully told, The Daughters of Kobani shines a light on a group Arabic: Naqesh Publishing of women intent on not only defeating the Islamic State on the battlefield Kurdish: Naqesh Publishing but also demonstrating life in the Middle East and beyond. Taiwan: New Century

“An unforgettable and nearly mythic tale of women's power and courage.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

“This deeply reported account enthralls and informs.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“This is a story that needed to be told and needs to be heard. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in current events and women’s history.” —Library Journal, starred review

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is the author of two previous bestselling books and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She regularly appears on CNN, PBS, MSBNC, and NPR, and she has spoken on national security topics at the Aspen Security Forum, Clinton Global Initiate, and TED. Hot Seat Hard-won Lessons in Challenging Times Jeff Immelt

From the former CEO of GE

A memoir of leadership in times of crisis, sharing hard-won lessons learned leading a Fortune 500 company into an uncertain, turbulant world

In September 2001, Jeff Immelt took the helm of General Electric. The next day, the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the world, and the company, to its core. Immelt knew his response would set the tone for businesses everywhere that looked to GE—whose variety of businesses touched every corner of the catastrophe from insurance to aviation—for direction. Over the next sixteen years, Immelt would lead GE through many more dire moments, from the 2008 Global Financial Crisis to the 2011 meltdown of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors. Through all this, Immelt was determined to make GE more global, more rooted in technology, and more diverse. No pressure. Avid Reader (February 2021) Territory: North America In Hot Seat, Immelt offers a rigorous, candid interrogation of Editor: Ben Loehnen himself and his tenure, detailing for the first time his proudest Material: Finished copies moments and his biggest mistakes. As the business world Agent: Elyse Cheney continues to be rocked by stunning economic upheaval, Hot Seat is an urgently needed, and unusually raw, source of authoritative Rights sold: guidance for decisive leadership in troubled times. UK: Hodder & Stoughton China: Beijing Huazhang Graphics & Information Japan: Kobun-sha “Hot Seat is a valuable addition ... [Immelt] offers much that is Taiwan: Heliopolis useful to other executives: about succession; about coping with Russia: Alpina crises; and about how to leave." —Financial Times

“A must read for anyone wanting to learn about what it takes to lead through turbulent times ... Jeff's book is full of insights on what it takes to show up and lead and move the organization and world around you forward.”—Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft

“This book shows how leadership is a full contact sport and Jeff leaves everything on the field.”—John Donahoe, CEO, Nike

Jeff Immelt was the ninth Chairman of GE and served as CEO for sixteen years. Immelt has received numerous awards for business leadership and chaired the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness under the Obama administration. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a lecturer at Stanford. The Spymaster of Baghdad A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle against ISIS Margaret Coker

A New & Notable Title from the NY Times Book Review and USA Today

From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS.

The Spymaster of Baghdad tells the dramatic yet intimate account of how a covert Iraqi intelligence unit called “the Falcons” came together against all odds to defeat ISIS. The Falcons, comprised of ordinary men with little conventional espionage background, infiltrated the world’s most powerful terrorist organization, ultimately turning the tide of war and bringing safety to millions of Iraqis and the broader world. Centered around the relationship between Harith al-Sudani, a rudderless college dropout, his all-star younger brother Munaf, and their eponymous unit commander Abu Ali, The Spymaster of Baghdad follows their emotional journey as Harith volunteers for the most dangerous mission imaginable. Dey Street (February 2021) With piercing lyricism and thrilling prose, Coker’s deeply-reported Territory: North America account interweaves heartfelt portraits of these and other unforgettable Editor: Matthew Daddona characters as they navigate the streets of war-torn Baghdad and perform Material: Finished copies heroic feats of cunning and courage.. Agent: Adam Eaglin Ultimately, The Spymaster of Baghdad is a page-turning account of Rights sold: wartime espionage in which ordinary people make extraordinary UK: Viking sacrifices for the greater good.

“Gripping ... cinematic ... The Spymaster of Baghdad achieves through an excellent yarn what Fire in the Lake achieved through the epic synthesis of history, politics, and culture." —George Packer, The Atlantic

“A dramatic and edifying must-read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“An informative and invaluable perspective for Western readers within an intensely suspenseful, superbly well-reported, and significant tale of brave and essential covert operations.” Booklist—

Margaret Coker has lived and worked in Iraq and the wider Middle East since 2003. An ex-Baghdad Bureau Chief for the New York Times, she honed her reporting skills at The Wall Street Journal where she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize as part of a team chronicling Turkey's failed coup, political purges and teetering democracy. What Becomes a Legend Most A Biography of Richard Avedon Philip Gefter

The first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century

Richard Avedon photographed the most iconic figures of the twentieth century in a starkly bold, intimately minimal, and rigorously forensic visual style. His work for Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, and The New Yorker transformed ideals of women’s fashion, culture, and femininity and became the defining look of an era. His portraits were exhibited in museums throughout the world.

What Becomes a Legend Most is the first definitive biography of this legend—an intensely driven man who endured personal and professional prejudice, struggled with intense insecurities, and mounted an existential lifelong battle to be recognized as an artist. Gefter reveals how the period of the 1950s and 1960s informed Avedon’s life and work as much as he informed it. He became the center of a profoundly influential group of artists—Leonard Harper (October 2020) Bernstein, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Harold Territory: North America Brodkey, Sidney Lumet, and Mike Nichols—who shaped the Editor: Gail Winston cultural life of the 20th century. Material: Finished copies Agent: Adam Eaglin Balancing glamour with the gravitas of an artist's genuine reach for worldy achievement—and not a little gossip—What Becomes a Legend Most is an intimate window into Avedon's fascinating world. Dramatic, visionary, and remarkable, it pays tribute to Avedon's role in the history of photography and fashion—and his legacy as one of the most consequential artists of his time.

“Wise and ebullient.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times

“Revealing, fluent, and very well written—an exemplary biography of an underappreciated artist." —Kirkus Reviews

“A dense, convincing portrait of a man with huge talent and a gift for life.” —The Wall Street Journal

Philip Gefter is the author of two previous books: Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, and a collection of essays, Photography After Frank. He was an editor at the New York Times for over fifteen years and wrote regularly about photography for the paper. To Be Honest A Memoir Michael Leviton

A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2021 and an Amazon Editors' Pick

A memoir about an unusual upbringing in a family fanatically devoted to honesty, and what came next

If you’re like most people, you probably lied today. But imagine if your parents had raised you to never lie, if they’d ingrained in you a compulsion to never, under any circumstances, withhold the truth or fail to speak your mind. It might be wonderfully freeing. Everyone else might not appreciate it so much.

To Be Honest is Michael Leviton’s extraordinary account of being raised in a family he calls a “little honesty cult.” For young Michael, his parents’ core philosophy felt liberating. He loved “just being honest.” By the time he was twenty-nine years old, Michael had told Abrams (January 2021) only three “lies” (by most people’s understanding of the word) in Territory: World English his entire life. But this honesty had consequences—in friendships, on Editor: Jamison Stoltz dates, and at job interviews. And when honesty slowly poisoned a Material: Finished copies great romance, Michael decided there had to be something to lying Agent: Adam Eaglin after all. He set himself the task of learning to be as casually dishonest as the rest of us. Rights sold: Russia: Livebook To Be Honest is a tender and darkly comic memoir about what it Korea: Moonhak Soochup means and how it feels to tell more than the truth.

“Leviton brings great wit and irony to his debut memoir about the pros and cons of being honest, at all costs, all of the time ... Honestly, this thoroughly enjoyable, wry narrative is a winner.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Oddly absorbing ... A memoir that shows that while truth doesn’t always mean beauty, there’s something to be said for beautiful liars, too.” —Kirkus Reviews

Michael Leviton is is a writer, musician, photographer, and storyteller. His life story was featured on NPR’s This American Life and he’s written a Modern Love column for the New York Times. He is the host of the storytelling series and podcast The Tell, and has worked as a screenwriter and contributed music to television shows, including HBO’s Bored to Death. Oak Flat A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West Lauren Redniss

A National Bestseller A NY Times Editors' Choice and a Kirkus Best Book of 2020

A powerful work of nonfiction anchored by deep reporting and haunting artwork by MacArthur "Genius" and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning

For the San Carlos Apache Indian tribe, Oak Flat is a holy place, an ancient burial ground and religious site where Apache girls celebrate the coming-of-age ritual known as the Sunrise Ceremony. In 1995, a massive untapped copper reserve was discovered nearby. A decade later, a law was passed transferring the area to a private company, whose planned copper mine will wipe Oak Flat off the map.

Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of land.

Random House (Nov 2020) Territory: North America Editor: Susan Kamil “Masterly ... virtuosic ... Redniss [is] a master storyteller of a new Material: Finished copies order.”—The New York Times Book Review Agent: Elyse Cheney “Lauren Redniss has produced a supernova ... A vivid, searing, indelible act of witness.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing

“Redniss creates books like no one else’s.”—NPR

“Gorgeous, devastating, and hopeful.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“As a work of advocacy, the book is compelling and convincing; as a work of art, it is masterful.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Lauren Redniss is the author of several works of visual nonfiction. Her book Thunder & Lightning won the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Her previous book, Radioactive, was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a fellow at the New America Foundation, and artist in residence at the American Museum of Natural History. She teaches at Parsons School of Design. The Biggest Bluff How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win Maria Konnikova

“A flat out classic.” —Daniel H. Pink

A New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of 2020 Over 100,000 copies sold A Best Book of the Year from Washington Post, Financial Times, Kirkus Reviews, Wired, and others

How a bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the game

Maria Konnikova wasn’t interested in making money when she approached Erik Seidel—a world-famous poker player who’d earned tens of millions of dollars in the game—to be her mentor. She wanted to learn about how to make decisions with incomplete information, which are the kinds of decisions we have Penguin Press (June 2020) to make everyday. Maria had faced a stretch of personal bad luck Territory: North America and had turned to poker as the ultimate master class in learning Editor: Scott Moyers to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can’t. Material: Finished copies Agent: Elyse Cheney & Under Seidel’s guidance, Konnikova discovered much about Adam Eaglin human nature, but she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making serious money from tournaments, Rights sold: ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. UK: Fourth Estate China: CITIC But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human Hungary: HVG behavior. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on Italy: Ponte alle Grazie how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving Japan: Pan Rolling through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our Korea: Korea Economic Daily way. Poland: Agora Romania: Editura Publica Russia: Corpus “[The Biggest Bluff] will inspire readers as much as it Spain: Libros de Asteroide entertains them.” —The Washington Post Taiwan: Athena Press Turkey: Indigo “Fascinating ... Konnikova is like your smart friend who instantly contextualizes everything by sharing the latest data and sharpest insight.” —New York Times Book Review

Maria Konnikova is the author of Mastermind and The Confidence Game. She is a regular contributing writer for The New Yorker, and has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia. A Very Stable Genius Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker

Instant #1 New York Times and international bestseller Nearly 400,000 copies sold Now out in paperback, with new reporting

Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump's presidency

"I alone can fix it." So proclaimed Donald J. Trump on July 21, 2016, accepting the Republican presidential nomination and promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet as he undertook the actual work of the commander in chief, it became nearly impossible to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. Despite that, Leonnig and Rucker found patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. The universal value of the Trump administration was loyalty—not to the country, but to the president himself—and Trump’s Penguin Press (January 2020) North Star was always the perpetuation of his own power. Territory: North America Editor: Ann Godoff With deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington, D.C., Carol Material: Paperback Leonnig and Philip Rucker reveal the forty-fifth president up close. Here, Agent: Elyse Cheney officials who felt honor-bound not to divulge what they witnessed in positions of trust tell the truth for the benefit of history. Rights sold: UK: Bloomsbury A peerless and gripping narrative, A Very Stable Genius not only reveals Brazil: Objetiva President Trump at his most unvarnished but shows how he tested the Finland: Otava strength of America’s democracy and its common heart as a nation. Germany: Fischer Greece: Pedio Holland: Atlas Contact “This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely Italy: Mondadori observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in Ukraine: FORS office to date.” —The New York Times

“Richly sourced and highly readable ... It is not just another Trump tell-all or third-party confessional. It is unsettling, not salacious.”—The Guardian

Carol Leonnig is a national investigative reporter at The Washington Post She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on security failures and misconduct inside the Secret Service. Philip Rucker is the White House Bureau Chief at The Washington Post. He was on a team that won the Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for their reporting on Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. Publishing Soon InsecurityAn Ugly Truth WhyInside the Facebook's Internet IsBattle Safer for Than Domination You Think in Five Epic Cyber-Attacks ScottSheera Shapiro Frenkel and Cecilia Kang The book Facebook doesn't want you to read

500K-copy announced initial print run

Award-winning NY Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in an explosive, news-making exposé, revealing in vivid detail how under the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook has become a conduit for disinformation, hate speech, and political propaganda—while continuing to relentlessly pursue growth.

For the past four years, Facebook has been under constant fire, roiled by cascading controversies and crises. While the tech giant was con- necting the world, they were also mishandling users’ data, spread- ing fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech. Leadership decisions at the company enabled, and then attempted to Harper (July 2021) deflect attention from, massive privacy breaches and Russian med- Farrar,Territory: Straus North (2022) America dling in a presidential election. Facebook’s engineers were instructed Territory:Editor: Jennifer North BarthAmerica to create tools that encouraged people to spend as much time on the Editor:Material: Alex Embargoed Star platform as possible, even as those same tools boosted inflammatory Material:Agent: Elyse Proposal Cheney & rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and partisan filter bubbles. Agent:Adam ElyseEaglin Cheney Drawing on their unrivaled sources, Frenkel and Kang take the read- RightsRights sold: sold: er inside the complex court politics, alliances and rivalries within the UK:UK: Allen Little, Lane Brown company, its growing political influence as well as its skirmishes with Taiwan:Brazil: Companhia offer received das privacy groups, to reveal that the missteps of the last four years were Letras not an anomaly but an inevitability: this is how Facebook was built to France: Albin Michel perform. Sealed off in tight circles of advisors, increasingly paranoid Germany: Fischer of outsiders, and hobbled by their own ambition and hubris, Zuker- Holland: Atlas Contact berg and Sandberg have stood by as their technology is coopted by Italy: Stile Libro hate-mongers, criminals and corrupt political regimes across the Japan: Hayakawa globe, with devastating consequences. Korea: Bookie Russia: Piter Spain: Debate Sweden: Bonniers ScottSheera Shapiro Frenkel is covers Professor cybersecurity of Law and from Professor San Francisco of Philosophy for the atTimes. Yale LawPreviously, School, she and spent the founding over a decade director in theof the Middle Yale CyberSecurityEast as a foreign Lab. Hecorrespondent, is the co-author reporting of The forInternationalists BuzzFeed, NPR (Simon, The Times & Schuster, of London 2017) and co-editorMcClatchy of Newspapers The Oxford. BasedHandbook in Washington, of Jurisprudence DC, and Cecilia Philosophy Kang of Lawcovers (2002) technology (with Jules and Coleman). regulatory He policy earned for B.A.the Times. and Ph.D. Before degrees joining inthe philosophy paper in 2015, from she Columbia reported University on technology and aand J.D. business from Yale for Law the School.Washington Post for ten years. Frenkel and Kang were part of the team of investigative journalists recognized as 2019 Finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. After The Fall Being American in the World We've Made Ben Rhodes

The highly anticipated follow up to Rhodes's instant NYT and international bestseller The World As It Is

Why is the world turning away from liberal democracy? And what can we do about it? The former deputy national security advisor to President Obama travels the globe in a deeply personal, beautifully observed quest for answers.

In 2017, Ben Rhodes watched as the legacy he and President Obama worked to build for eight years exploded. To understand what was happening in his own country, Rhodes decided to look outward. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, dissidents, and activists confronting the same forces that produced the Trump presidency: spreading nationalism, authoritarianism, and disinformation. Along the way, he was spied on by former Mossad operatives and the Chinese government, Random House (June 2021) met with Hong Kong protesters and Russian oppositionists, and Territory: North America found people from Europe to Asia to the United States struggling Editor: Andy Ward to reconcile their own identities with the crude nationalism of their Material: Galley PDF leaders—all while pursuing new strategies to fight back. Agent: Elyse Cheney Equal parts memoir and reporting, After the Fall is an ambitious and Rights sold: essential work of discovery. Throughout, Rhodes reflects on how UK: Bloomsbury 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis, and the internet opened a door to the Holland: De Bezige Bij wave of strongman leaders who have transformed our world—men like Viktor Orban in Hungary, Vladimir Putin in Russia, Xi Jinping in China, and Donald J. Trump in America. He wrestles with how peoples' yearning for identity and belonging has been weaponized by nationalists. And he learns from a diverse set of characters—from Obama to rebels to rising politicians—how we can choose a more hopeful story going forward.

Ben Rhodes is an MSNBC contributor and a co-host of Pod Save the World and the former deputy national security advisor to President Obama, overseeing the administration’s national security communications, speechwriting, public diplomacy, and global engagement programming. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Rhodes was a senior speechwriter and foreign policy advisor to the Obama campaign. America on Fire The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s Elizabeth Hinton

A Library Jouranl 2021 Title to Watch

From the author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, a 2016 Best Book of the Year from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly

A groundbreaking story of policing and "riots" that shatters our understanding of the post–civl rights era

It’s often understood that the period of widespread rebellions across America in the 60s largely ended after the wave of protests following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. But from 1968 to 1972, there were thousands of urban rebellions across the United States, almost all of which were the responses of Black communities’ to police brutality and racism. In America on Fire, acclaimed scholar Elizabeth Hinton will tell the story of these rebellions for the first Liveright (May 2021) time, bringing to light never-before-seen archival research, in Territory: North America order to reframe the way we understand the politically motivated Editor: Dan Gerstle uprisings of Black communities in the decades since. Material: Galley PDF Agent: Adam Eaglin “The brilliant political historian Elizabeth Hinton offers an Rights sold: indispensable account of the devastating cycle of police violence UK: William Collins and community violence in the United States from the 1960s to the Germany: Blessing 2020s.”—Jill Lepore, bestselling author of These Truths

“If you want to understand the massive antiracist protests of 2020, put down the navel-gazing books about racial healing and read America on Fire.” —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams

“[A] long overdue, desperately needed, and deeply careful look at the urban violence that erupted across this country during the 1960s and 1970s.” —Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water

“In this powerful, eye-opening book, Hinton reframes our understanding of the origins of the current struggle for racial justice...No book could be more timely.” —Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Fiery Trial

Elizabeth Hinton is a historian of American inequality and one of the nation’s leading experts on policing and mass incarceration. She's an Associate Professor of History and African American Studies and Professor of Law at Yale University and Yale Law School. Power, for All How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business Julie Battilana, PhD, and Tiziana Casciaro, PhD

Written by two leading professors at Harvard Business School and the University of Toronto

Power, for All is the contemporary guide to understanding and navigating power in our relationships, organizations, and society. It reworks who is powerful and helps all of us to navigate the power we have.

Power is one of the most misunderstood—and therefore vilified—drivers of in our society. Most people assume power is predetermined by personality or wealth, or that it’s gained by strong-arming others. But as pioneering researchers Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro deftly show in Power, for All, power is the ability to influence someone else’s behavior by having access to valued resources, which anyone can have, regardless of their income or status in life. Simon & Schuster (August 2021) Territory: North America Battilana and Casciaro offer a timely, democratized vision of power. Editor: Stephanie Frerich While hierarchies tend to stay in place because power is often sticky, Material: Edited ms by agitating, innovating, and orchestrating change, they show Agent: Elyse Cheney how those with less power can challenge established structures to make them more balanced. They teach readers how to power-map Rights sold: their workplace, plan for and cause sustaining power shifts, and UK: Piatkus understand the five motivations for seeking power—money and China: Xiron status, but also autonomy, achievement, affiliation, and morality. Holland: Ten Have Italy: Rizzoli Ultimately, Power, for All demystifies the essential mechanisms for Korea: ROK Media acquiring and wisely offering power for all people.

Julie Battilana, a native of France, is Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School. Her work has been featured in Business Week, Forbes, Huffington Post, and Stanford Social Innovation Review, and she was previously a contributor to Le Monde.

Tiziana Casciaro, an Italian native, formerly on the faculty of the Harvard Business School, is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Professor in Leadership Development at the University of Toronto. She regularly publishes in the Harvard Business Review, and her work has been featured in The Economist, Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, Times of London, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, Fortune, and Time magazine. The Reason for the Darkness of the Night Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of Modern Science John Tresch

An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe―highlighting his fascination and feuds with science

We all think we know Poe―the most popular American writer around the world, pioneer of detective fiction, and author of haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”?

In The Reason for the Darkness of the Night, John Tresch offers a bold new life of one of the nineteenth century’s most iconic writers. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines between speculation, entertainment, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe as much more than a science fiction writer―in fact, he was an avid commentator on scientific and technical developments, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted lectures and demonstrations by the era’s most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo- intellectual rogues. FSG (June 2021) Territory: North America The Reason for the Darkness of the Night is an essential new Editor: Alex Star portrait of a writer whose life is synonymous with mystery, and Material: Galley PDF an entertaining, erudite tour of the world of science just as it was Agent: Adam Eaglin beginning to come into its own.

Rights sold: "This biography is a masterwork on a master, and one of my Serbia: Laguna favorite reads in years. Tresch lets the reader see how Poe's imagination was not only wild but also procedural, not only unbounded but also formal. In these pages, we meet the engineer of horror, the trickster of reason, and the mutinous captain of mystery." —Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch and American Innovations

"This marvelous time machine transports us deep into the 19th century and the company of one of its most fascinating citizens. Poetry, mesmerism, the rise of American science – it’s all here, as vivid as can be.” —Fred Turner, Stanford University, author of The Democratic Surround

John Tresch is is Professor of History of Art, Science, and Folk Practice at the Warburg Institute, London. He taught history of science at the University of Pennsylvania for over a decade. He has held fellowships at the New York Public Library, the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Tresch is the author of The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon. Original Sisters Portraits of Tenacity and Courage Anita Kunz

Foreword by Roxane Gay

A stunning collection of 150 portraits of groundbreaking women throughout history—many of whom are unsung or forgotten—by one of the best illustrators working today.

In early March 2020, Covid19-locked down in her Toronto home- studio and longing for inspiration, artist Anita Kunz began researching women on the Internet. She wasn't sure what she was looking for, but soon found an array of astonishing people who had done amazing things—some of whom she had heard of, but most of whom she had not. And then she began to paint them and write down their stories—an astonishingly eclectic group, from ancient history to 2020—from Joan of Arc to Josephine Baker to Rachel Pantheon (November 2021) Carson to Misty Copland. The result is a stunning feat of historical Territory: North America research and artistic achievement. Editor: Dan Frank Material: Page proofs Agent: Allison Devereux Anita Kunz is an artist and illustrator living in Toronto. Her work has been published widely and shown in galleries and museums all over the world. Her illustrations have been featured regularly in TIME, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times, Sony Music, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and The New York Times Magazine. Sensational The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters” Kim Todd

A vivid social history that brings to light the “girl stunt reporters” of the late 19th century who went undercover to expose corruption and abuse, and redefined what it meant to be a woman and a journalist— pioneers whose influence continues to be felt today.

In the waning years of the nineteenth century, women journalists across the United States risked reputation and their own safety to expose the hazardous conditions under which many people lived and worked. In various disguises, they stole into sewing factories to report on child labor, fainted in the streets to test public hospital treatment, posed as lobbyists to reveal corrupt politicians. Inventive writers whose in- depth narratives made headlines for weeks at a stretch, these “girl stunt reporters” changed laws, helped launch a labor movement, championed women’s rights, and redefined journalism for the modern age.

After only a decade of headlines and fame, though, these trailblazers faced a vicious public backlash, and their popularity waned until Harper (April 2021) “stunt reporter” became a badge of shame. But their influence on Territory: North America the field of journalism would arc across a century, all the way to the Editor: Sarah Haugen “immersion journalism” and “creative nonfiction” of today. Bold and Material: Finished copies unconventional, these writers changed how people would tell stories Agent: Alice Whitwham forever. “This well-researched history makes clear the crucial role female reporters played in pioneering investigate journalism and boosting progressive reform movements.” —Publishers Weekly

“Sensational is an illuminating look at female pioneers working at a key moment in American journalism.” —Liza Mundy, author of the New York Times bestseller Code Girls

“In Todd’s able hands, we learn about these daring young women, about their lives and times, their work, their editors and mentors, their torments and loves, their interconnections, and, best of all, their real legacy.” —Brooke Kroeger, author of Nellie Bly: Daredevil. Reporter. Feminist

“Sensational brings the stories and battles of Gilded Age newspa- perwomen to gritty, effervescent life.” —Stephanie Gorton, author of Citizen Reporters

Kim Todd is an award-winning science writer. Her first book, Tinkering with Eden: a Natural History of Exotics in America (W.W. Norton 2001) received the PEN/Jerard Award. Her second book Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis (Harcourt, 2007) was selected as one of 25 “Books to Remember” for 2008 by the New York Public Library. Fiction Crooked Hallelujah A Novel Kelli Jo Ford

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and the Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction

Optioned for TV by Amazon Studios

A NYT Editors' Choice, and A Best Book of the Year from Time, NPR, The Washington Post, and many more

A remarkable debut by the winner of the 2019 Paris Review Plimpton Prize, following four generations of Cherokee women across four decades of life

Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine—a mixed-blood Cherokee woman—and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma’s Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn’t easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her mother Grove Atlantic (July 2020) and grandmother back in Indian Country. Against the vivid Territory: North America backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a Editor: Elisabeth Schmidt world—of unreliable men and near-Biblical natural forces, like Material: Finished copies wildfires and tornados—intent on stripping away their connections Agent: Adam Eaglin to one another and their very ideas of home.

In lush and empathic prose, Kelli Jo Ford depicts what four generations of proud, stubborn, Cherokee women sacrifice for those they love, amid larger forces of history, religion, class, and culture. This is a big-hearted and ambitious novel of the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters by an exquisite and rare new talent.

“[Ford’s] book reads like a series of acoustic songs recorded on a single microphone in a bare room with a carpet ... This is a writer who carefully husbands her resources. Small scenes begin to glitter ... Ford's novel finds its center of gravity at the intimate human level.” —Dwight Garner, The New Times

Kelli Jo Ford is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She is the recipient of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize, the Everett Southwest Literary Award, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Award at Bread Loaf, and a National Artist Fellowship by the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, among other awards. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. In the Valley Stories and a Novella Based on the New York Times Bestseller Serena Ron Rash From “One of the great American authors at work today“ (New York Times) and 2020 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature comes a collection of ten searing stories and the return of the villainess who propelled Serena to national acclaim

Ron Rash has long been a revered presence in the landscape of American letters. A virtuosic novelist, poet, and story writer, he evokes the beauty and brutality of the land, the relentless tension between past and present, and the unquenchable human desire to be a little bit better than circumstances would seem to allow (to paraphrase Faulkner).

In these ten stories, Rash spins a haunting allegory of the times we live in—rampant capitalism, the severing of ties to the natural world in the relentless hunt for profit, the destruction of body and soul with pills meant to mute our pain—and yet within this world he illuminates acts of extraordinary decency and heroism. In revisiting Serena Pemberton in a long-awaited novella, Rash Doubleday (August 2020) updates his bestselling parable of greed run amok as his deliciously Territory: North America vindictive heroine returns to the North Carolina wilderness she left Editor: Lee Boudreaux scarred and desecrated to make one final effort to kill the child that Material: Finished copies threatens all she has accomplished. Agent: Adam Eaglin “A gorgeous, brutal writer” (Richard Price) working at the height Rights sold: of his powers, Ron Rash has created another mesmerizing look at France: Gallimard the imperfect world around us.

Praise for Ron Rash “Mesmerizing ... He's one of the best living American writers.” —Janet Maslin, New York Times Book Review

“The power of Rash's stories lies in [the] small moments of con- nection amid all the noise of rupture and heartbreak ... Rash writes with a direct precision that puts the reader at ease.” —Rion Amilcar Scott, New York Times Book Review

Ron Rash is the author of the PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to six other critically acclaimed novels; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize and winner of the 2019 Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature, he is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University and lives in Clemson, SC. Destination Wedding A Novel Diksha Basu From the author of the international bestseller The Windfall

“Extremely obsessed with this book.” —Chrissy Teigen

What could go wrong at a lavish Indian wedding with your best friend and your entire family?

When Tina Das finds herself at a crossroads both professionally and personally, she wonders if a week-long trip to Delhi for her cousin’s lavish wedding might be just the right kind of escape. Maybe a little time away from New York will help get her mind straight about her stalled career, her recent breakup, and her nagging suspicion that she’ll never feel as at home in America as she does in India. Tina hopes this destination wedding, taking place at Delhi’s poshest country club, Colebrookes, will be the perfect way to reflect and unwind. (June 2020) Ballantine But with the entire Das family in attendance, a relaxing vacation is Territory: North America decidedly not in the cards. Her amicably divorced parents are each Editor: Hilary Teeman using the occasion to explore new love interests—for her mother, Material: Finished copies a white, American boyfriend, for her father, an Indian widow Agent: Adam Eaglin arranged by an online matchmaker—and Tina’s squarely in the middle. A former fling is unexpectedly on the guest list, a work Rights sold: opportunity is blurring the lines of propriety on several fronts, UK: Bloomsbury and her best friend Marianne’s terrible penchant for international playboys is poised to cause all sorts of chaos back home. The Option publishers: accommodations are swanky, the alcohol is top-shelf, but this France: Le Mercure de France family wedding may be more drama than Tina can bear and could Spain: Alianza de Novelas finally force her to make the choices she’s spent much of her life avoiding.

Infused with warmth, charm, and wicked humor, Destination Wedding grapples with the nuances of family, careers, belonging and how we find the people who make a place feel like home.

“Destination Wedding is a witty and romantic novel perfect for all readers.” —Terry McMillan “A riveting summer read.” —Entertainment Weekly

Diksha Basu is the author of The Windfall. Originally from New Delhi, India, she holds a BA in economics from Cornell University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and now divides her time between New York City and Mumbai. CrookedAge of Consent Hallelujah A Novel KelliAmanda Jo Ford Brainerd Named one of the Best Books of the Summer by Good Morning America, Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, LitHub, and PopSugar

A captivating, timeless novel about friendship, sex, and parental damage, Age of Consent intimately evokes the heady freedom of our teenage years

It’s 1983. David Bowie reigns supreme, and downtown Manhattan has never been cooler. But Justine and Eve are stuck at Griswold Academy, a Connecticut boarding school. Griswold is a far cry from Justine’s bohemian life back home, where her parents run a theater and struggle to pay the bills. Eve, the sophisticated daughter of status-obsessed Manhattan parents, also feels like an outsider. Justine longs for Eve’s privilege, and Eve for Justine’s sexual confidence. Despite their differences, they form a deep friendship, together grappling with drugs, alcohol, ill-fated crushes, and predatory male teachers. VikingGrove Atlantic (June 2020) (June 2020) Territory: North America After a tumultuous school year, Eve and Justine spend the summer Editor: AllisonElisabeth Lorentzen Schmidt in New York City where they join Eve’s childhood friend India. Material: FinishedGalleys copies Justine moves into India’s downtown apartment and is pulled Agent: AliceAdam Whitwham Eaglin further into her friends’ glamorous lives. Eve, under her parents’ ever-watchful eye, interns at an art gallery and navigates the unpredictable whims of her boss. India struggles to resist the advances of a famous artist represented by the gallery. All three are affected by their sexual relationships with older men and the power adults hold over them, even as the young women begin to assert their independence.

“A breathless time capsule of a book, Age of Consent is a coming- of-age period piece that feels very much of the now.” —Harper's Bazaar

“[A] stunning debut.” —Bustle

“A total time machine—I loved it.”—Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

Amanda Brainerd lives on the upper East side of New York City, blocks from where she grew up, and attended Harvard College and Columbia Architecture School. Selected Backlist Aslan, Reza

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Random House (2016)

+ A momentous work of popular scholarship and runaway bestseller, this provocative biography challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus.

Rights sold: UK, Arab Territories, ANZ/New Zealand, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Brazil, China, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway,

Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey

+++

God: A Human History Random House (2017)

+ A national bestseller, exploring humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine.

Rights sold: UK, Azerbaikan, Brazil, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey

+++

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

Random House (2005/2011)

+ A literate, accessible introduction to Islam from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

Rights sold: UK, Holland, Germany, Korea, Denmark, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Greece, France, China, Turkey, Italy, Poland, Spain, Arab Territories, Lithuania

+++

Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization Random House (2009)

+ A persuasive analysis of the war on terror in a post-9/11 world.

Rights sold: UK, Japan, Spain

Rights inquiries for Reza Aslan: [email protected]

Basu, Diksha

The Windfall: A Novel

Crown (2017)

+ A delightful comedy of manners, this debut novel was lauded as one of the best books of 2017 by People, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Rolling Stone, and Esquire.

Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), France (Le Mercure de France), Spain (Alianza de Novelas)

Bharara, Preet

Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law Knopf (2019)

+ A New York Times bestseller, in the spirit of The Secret Barrister, making the case for why the rule of law is essential.

Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), China (Booky), India (Bloomsbury India) Japan (Hayakawa), Korea (Next Wave), Taiwan (Yuan-Liou)

Chinen, Nate

Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century

Pantheon (2018)

+ One of jazz’s leading critics gives us an essential portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time.

Rights sold: Italy (Il Saggiatore), Spain (Alpha DeCay)

Coddington, Grace

Grace: A Memoir Random House (2012)

+ A Financial Times Best Book of the Year about the former, iconic American Vogue Creative Director.

Rights sold: UK (Chatto & Windus), Brazil (Record), China (Hunan Literature & Art), Finland (Nemo), Holland (Atlas-Contact), Japan (Space Showers Network), Korea (Bookie), Russia (Sindbad), Spain (Turner Libros), Taiwan (Azoth), Turkey (Sho-pigo)

Rights inquiries: [email protected]

Collins, Lauren

When in French: Love in a Second Language

Penguin Press (2016)

+ A New York Times bestselling memoir, and Amazon Best Book of the Month, from New Yorker staff writer learning to live and love in French.

Rights sold: UK (4th Estate), France (Flammarion), Korea (KL)

Comstock, Beth

Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change Currency (2018)

+ From one of today’s foremost innovation leaders, a personal and practical guide to mastering change in the face of relentless uncertainty.

Rights sold: UK (Ebury), China (Booky), Korea (Mirae), Russia (Alpina), Taiwan (Commonwealth), Ukraine (Yakaboo), Vietnam (TRE)

Deresiewicz, William

A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter Penguin Press (2011)

+ A vindication of the women’s novel, and an eloquent memoir of a young man’s life transformed by literature.

Rights sold: Brazil (Rocco), China (SDX Joint Publishing), Italy (TEA), Korea (Jaeseung Book Gold Co.), Russia (Gayatri), Taiwan (Linking)

+++

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the

Way to a Meaningful Life

HMH (2009)

+ A bestselling manifesto on what elite education should be— but isn’t—providing a clarion call to our brightest young minds.

Rights sold: China (Sunnbook), Japan (Sanseido), Korea (Darun),

Taiwan (Sun Color)

Rights inquiries: [email protected] Ericsson, Anders and Robert Pool

Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

HMH (2016)

+ An empowering account of how to master almost any skill from the world’s reigning expert on expertise.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Canada, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam

Foer, Joshua

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Penguin Press (2011)

+ An international bestseller and blockbuster phenomenon chronicling Foer’s unlikely journey to Memory Champion.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Indonesia, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam

Foer, Joshua, Dylan Thuras, & Ella Morton

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders Workman (2015)

+ With almost 1 million copies and two editions in print, AO celebrates over 700 of the world’s most awe-inspiring places

Rights sold: Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Korea, Poland, Romania, Spain

Rights inquiries: [email protected]

Gessen, Masha

Surviving Autocracy Riverhead (2020)

+ A galvanizing analysis of the destruction autocrats wage on cherished institutions, and our very sense of reality.

Rights sold: UK (Granta), Czech (Host), Germany (Aufbau), Holland (De Bezige Bij), Spain (Turner), Sweden (Brombergs)

The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Riverhead (2017)

+ Winner of the 2017 National Book Award, the Leipzig Book

Prize, the Hitchens Prize, and the Diario Madrid Journalism

Prize. Named a Best Book of the year by The New York Times

Book Review, The Washington Post, and many others.

Rights sold: UK, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey

+++

The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy Riverhead (2015)

+ A Time Best Book of the Year, providing the definitive account of the events that led the Tsarnaev Brothers to perpetrate the Boston marathon bombing.

Rights sold: UK (Scribe), Italy (Carbonio)

+++

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot The Passion of Pussy Riot

+ The fullest account so far of the Pussy Riot story, reconstructing how this punk protest group resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, France, Holland, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Sweden

+++

The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Riverhead (2012)

+ The bestselling investigative account of how a low-level KGB operative became the most powerful man in Russia.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark,

Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Israel, Italy,

Japan, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey

+++

Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century Harcourt (2009)

+ The fascinating, moving story of mathematics’ most reclusive genius.

Rights sold: UK (Icon Books), China (Beijing Canglang), France (Globe), Germany (Suhrkamp), Greece (Travlos), Israel (Books in the Attic), Italy (Carbonio), Japan (Bungeishunju), Russia (Corpus), Serbia (JP Sluzbeni), Taiwan (Faces Publishing Ltd.), Vietnam (Tre

Publishing)

+++

Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler’s War and Stalin’s Peace Dial Press (2001)

+ An extraordinary family memoir, revealing the story of

Gessen’s two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and

Communism.

Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), Russia (AST), Sweden (Brombergs)

Graham-Felsen, Sam

Green: A Novel Random House (2019)

+ Written by a former Obama campaign staffer, a compelling coming-of-age story about race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in America.

Rights sold: Turkey (Hep Kitap)

Hathaway, Oona and Scott Shapiro

The Internationalists: How A Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World Simon & Schuster (2017)

A fascinating and original history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty transformed the modern world.

Rights sold: UK (Allen Lane), China (Social Sciences Academic Press), Germany (Siedler), Italy (Neri Pozza), Japan (Bungeishunju), Spain (Tres Puntos) Heimans, Jeremy and Henry Timms

New Power: How Anyone Can Persuade, Mobilize and Succeed in our Chaotic, Connected Age Doubleday (2018)

+ In this bestselling guide to navigating the twenty-first century, two visionary thinkers reveal the unexpected ways power is changing.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine

Hilgers, Lauren

Patriot Number One: A Chinese Rebel Comes to America Crown (2017)

+ Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award and for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and named a best book of 2018 by The New York Times, the WSJ, and many others, this book follows one family transplanted from rural China to New York.

Kantor, Jodi and Megan Twohey

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement Penguin Press (2019)

+ A critically acclaimed instant bestseller, from the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters whose work helped launch the #MeToo movement.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Holland,

Hungary, Japan, Korea, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam

Kelly, Scott

Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery Knopf (2017)

+ The bestselling memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Norway, Poland,

Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam

Kirkpatrick, David

Into the Hands of Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East

Viking (2018)

+ From the international correspondent of the New York Times, an engrossing narrative of how and why the Arab Spring sparked, and then failed.

Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury)

Krug, Nora

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

Scribner (2018)

+ Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Der Spiegel Bestseller, this ingenious, illustrated reckoning with the past investigates the author’s family’s wartime history in Nazi Germany.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Ukraine

Kunkel, Benjamin

Indecision: A Novel Random House (2005)

+ Lauded as a generation-defining novel, this coming-of-age novel follows a 28-year-old with a midlife crisis.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Catalan, Croatia, Holland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain

Laskas, Jeanne Marie

To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope Random House (2018)

+ Based on a New York Times Magazine piece, this is the empathetic story of the profound relationship with letter writers that shaped Obama’s presidency.

Rights sold: UK (Bloomsbury), Brazil (Intrinseca), China (Beijing Xiron), France (Fayard), Germany (Goldmann), Holland (HarperCollins Holland), Taiwan (Yeren)

Leibovich, Mark

Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times

Penguin Press (2018)

+ The national bestseller, serving as an enlightening prove of America’s biggest cultural force, pro football, at a moment of peak success and high anxiety.

Rights sold: UK (HarperCollins)

Li, Lillian

Number One Chinese Restaurant: A Novel

Holt (2018)

+ Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, this crackling debut centers on the family-owned Beijing Duck House.

Rights sold: UK (One)

Lubow, Arthur

Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer

Random House (2015)

+ The superbly crafted defining biography of one of the most influential and beguiling photographers of the twentieth century.

Rights sold: UK (Jonathan Cape), China (China Nationality Art Photograph Publishing House)

Max, D. T.

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace Viking (2012)

+ The bestselling biography of the most influential American writer of his generation, named a Best Book of 2012 by The New York Times, The Guardian, and more.

Rights sold: UK, China, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania,

Spain

Novogratz, Jacqueline

Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World Holt (2020)

+ From the New York Times bestselling author, an original

st short-list of essential leadership tools for the 21 century, and a manifesto for those who seek to leave this world better than they found it.

Rights sold: India (Pan Macmillan India), Japan (Eiji Press), Spain (Planeta)

Owen, Mark

No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL

Dutton (2012)

+ The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid, with over 2 million copies sold

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greek, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand

+++

No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy SEAL

Dutton (2012)

+ The companion volume to the multi-million copy classic, No Easy Day, by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen.

Rights sold: Brazil, China, France, Germany, Holland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Sweden, Turkey

Osborne, Lawrence

Only To Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel Hogarth (2018)

+ A New York Times Notable Book of 2018, and a finalist for the Edgar and Shamus awards, commissioned by the estate of Raymond Chandler.

Rights sold: UK (Hogarth), Japan (Hayakawa), Spain (Navona)

Pariser, Eli

The Filter Bubble: How the Personalized Web Is Changing What

We Read and How We Think

Penguin Press (2011)

+ An eye-opening account and powerful indictment of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling and limiting the information we consume. Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Taiwan

Pierpont, Julia

Among the Ten Thousand Things: A Novel Random House (2015)

+ A nationally bestselling and critically acclaimed debut, winner of the Scott Fitzgerald Prize, about a family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and about love and time lost.

Rights sold: UK (Oneworld), France (Stock), Italy (Mondadori)

Price, Leah

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The Future and History of Reading Basic (2019)

In encounters with librarians, booksellers, and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, this funny and enjoyable book offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike, thanks to the daunting curiosity of Leah Price.

Rights sold: Ukraine (Yakaboo)

Rachman, Tom

The Italian Teacher: A Novel Viking (2018)

A masterful novel about the son of a great painter striving to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of The

Imperfectionists.

Rights sold: UK (riverrun), ANZ (Text), Canada (Doubleday Canada), Denmark (Politikens), Germany (dtv), Italy, (La Nave de Teseo), Poland (Znak) Rash, Ron

Serena: A Novel

Ecco (2008)

+ Hailed as a Best Book of the Year by many publications, a story of greed, corruption, and revenge set against 1930s America’s emerging environmental movement.

Rights sold: UK, ANZ, Brazil, China, Czech, Croatia, Denmark, France, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland, Portugal, Taiwan, Turkey

Rhodes, Ben

The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House

Random House (2019)

+ A New York Times and Der Spiegel bestseller, from Barack Obama’s closest aide comes a charming and humane behind- the-scenes account of his presidency—and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive. Rights sold: UK, Arabic, China, France, Finland, Germany, Holland, Spain

Rich, Nathaniel

Losing Earth: A Recent History MCD/FSG (2019)

+ The first book of non-fiction by acclaimed novelist Nathaniel Rich reveals the startling truth of how global warming could have been stopped three decade ago.

Rights sold: UK (Picador), France (Editions du Sous-Sol), Germany (Rowohlt), Holland (Arbeiderspers), Italy (Mondadori), Poland

(Foksal)

Rights inquiries: [email protected]

Schwartz, Casey

Attention: A Love Story Pantheon (2020)

+ The author of In the Mind Fields now gives us a comprehensive journalistic exploration of our culture’s flagging ability to pay attention, infused with the personal struggles and insights of a woman coming to terms with the demands of the information age.

Scott, A.O.

Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth

Penguin Press (2016)

+ From the chief film critic at the New York Times, an intelligent and often funny account of the role of the critic— and a passionate argument for criticism in everyday life.

Rights sold: UK (Jonathan Cape), Germany (Hanser), Italy (Il Saggiatore), Korea (Miraebook), Turkey (Ayrinti)

Treuer, David

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

Riverhead (2019)

+ A finalist for the National Book Award, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and the LA Times Book Prize, this New York Times bestseller is a sweeping history of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.

Rights sold: UK (Corsair), France (Albin Michel)

+++

Prudence: A Novel Riverhead (2015)

+ A masterful novel about love, loss, race and desire in World War II-era America, charting the reverberations of a shocking act of violence at a rustic Minnesota resort.

Rights sold: France (Albin Michel)

Tzemach Lemmon, Gayle

Ashley’s War: The Untold Story

Harper (2015)

+ A New York Times bestseller about the first female special forces unit in Afghanistan. In development as a feature with Fox 2000 and Reese Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard.

Rights sold: Brazil (Rocco), Italy (Piemme), Japan (Kadokawa), Poland (Proszynski)

+++

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe Harper (2011)

+ The true story of a fearless young woman who not only reinvented herself as an entrepreneur to save her family but brought hope to dozens of women in war-torn Kabul.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, China, China (Uyghur), Germany, India (Marathi), Indonesia, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey

Verzemnieks, Inara

Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming Norton (2017)

+ A poetic and eloquent memoir about growing up amongst

Latvian expatriates, this exquisitely written book shows how recovery can come generations later through rebuilding connections.

Rights sold: UK (One), France (Hoebeke)

Waldman, Adelle

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.: A Novel Holt (2013)

+ The nationally bestselling debut, named a best book of 2013 by the New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, and more.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Latin America, Portugal, Russia, Taiwan, Turkey

Walker, Sam

The Captain Class: A New Theory of Leadership Random House (2017)

+ From the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal’s sports section comes a bold new theory of leadership.

Rights sold: UK, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Latin America, Portugal, Russia, Taiwan, Turkey Weinstein, Alexander

Children of the New World: Stories Picador (2016)

+ Selected by Electric Literature as one of the best short story collections of 2016, an extraordinarily resonant and prophetic collection of speculative short fiction for our tech-savvy era.

Rights sold: UK (Text), Czech (Prostor), China (Guomai), Hungary (Agave)

Weinstein, Alexander

Universal Love: Stories Picador (2021)

+ A hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the technological hyper-age.

Rights sold: UK (Text), China (Guomai)

Yaffa, Joshua

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia Crown (2020)

+ A New York Times Editor’s Choice from the New Yorker Moscow correspondent, comes a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin’s rule.

Rights sold: UK (Granta), Germany (Ullstein), Holland (Het Spectrum)