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FEATURED NONFICTION FEATURED FICTION THE TOWN OUTSIDE OF TIME .......................................................... 3 LESSONS IN FIRE .................................................................................. 17 DRAGNET NATION ............................................................................... 3 HOUSEBREAKING ................................................................................ 17 YOUR CULTURE IS YOUR FUTURE .................................................... 4 DEEP WINTER ....................................................................................... 18 WILD CHILD ............................................................................................ 4 THE FIFTY-FIRST STATE .................................................................... 19 WHITEY BULGER ................................................................................... 5 THE REST OF US .................................................................................. 20 A RELIGION OF ONE’S OWN ............................................................... 6 THE EXILES ........................................................................................... 21 ENCHANTED OBJECTS ........................................................................ 7 NORTH OF BOSTON ........................................................................... 22 MAKING GRATEFUL KIDS .................................................................... 7 BODY AND BREAD ............................................................................... 23 TIGER WOMAN ON WALL STREET .................................................... 8 THE HOPE FACTORY .......................................................................... 24 NATIONAL INSECURITY ...................................................................... 9 THE RED CARPET: BANGALORE STORIES .................................... 25 NEW LIFE, NO INSTRUCTIONS .......................................................... 9 THE SHOTS ON THE BRIDGE ........................................................... 10 FEATURED YA TITLES THE SECOND CRUCIBLE ................................................................... 10 THE EXPEDITIONERS: THE SECRET OF DROWNED MAN’S CANYON ................................................................................................. 26 THE VANISHING NEIGHBOR ............................................................ 11 HYBRID TIGER ...................................................................................... 11 OLDER TITLES ..................................................................................... 27 DIRT WORK ............................................................................................ 12 WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE NIGHT ............................................. 13 SUBSIDIARY AGENTS .......................................................................... 47 WALK IN THEIR SHOES ...................................................................... 14 GREAT IS THE TRUTH ........................................................................ 14 THE BOOK OF TIMES .......................................................................... 15 MORNING IN AMERICA ..................................................................... 16 2 FEATURED NONFICTION DRAGNET NATION (formerly titled TRACKED) THE TOWN OUTSIDE OF TIME How Nostalgia Shapes Our Memories, Our Culture, and A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Ourselves Relentless Surveillance By Amanda R. Martinez By Julia Angwin US Publisher: Times Books/Henry Holt US Publisher/World English: Crown Will be published February, 2014 Will be published Fall, 2015 Rights Sold: World Arabic: Arab Scientific Proposal available. Mss available April 2015. Proposal available. Mss. available October 2013. Japanese subagent: Tuttle-Mori Agency Japanese subagent: The English Agency We’ve all experienced the bittersweet pangs of nostalgia: moments in which we Your wireless carrier. Your bank. Your employer. All are watching you. In indulge a sentimental yearning for the sights, smells, and sounds of the past. As DRAGNET NATION, a chilling exposé on the rapidly expanding web of award-winning science journalist Amanda R. Martinez demonstrates in THE government and commercial surveillance, award-winning investigative journalist TOWN OUTSIDE OF TIME, the first book to examine this universal Julia Angwin embarks on a personal quest to escape the watchful eye. As she phenomenon in all its facets, nostalgia seems to have reached a cultural tipping attempts to lock down her computer, phone, car, and all other aspects of her point, holding more sway over us than ever. life, Angwin sheds light on everything from the rise of personal information databases like the behemoth Axciom to the stringent doctrine of privacy In this accessible, beautifully written narrative, Martinez presents cutting-edge activists who live entirely “off the grid,” and the myriad ways in which the research conducted by psychologists, neuroscientists, and sociologists across the government attends to our every movement and communication. world, uncovering a scientific basis for nostalgia as an inherently positive emotion, a coping mechanism that fortifies the mind, shapes identity, and Emphasizing the dangers of allowing our information to fall into the wrong imbues our lives with a sense of meaning. Martinez also delves into the hands, DRAGNET NATION paints the alarming portrait of a post-Edward- emotion’s darker side, exploring the ways in which technology has given us Snowden world in which our personal data is the highest currency, trafficked by overly ready access to the sweetness of fond memories, turning nostalgia into an colossal power players and entirely out of our hands—unless we drastically emotional “fast-food.” change the way we live and the value we place on privacy. From a London studio in which technology is used to “resurrect” dead Part impassioned manifesto and part guide to safeguarding privacy, DRAGNET entertainers, to Beijing restaurants styled after 1980’s era elementary school NATION evokes such “darker side of the digital age” titles as Viktor Mayer- classrooms, THE TOWN OUTSIDE OF TIME sweeps us on a whirlwind tour Schönberger’s Delete, Evgeny Morozov’s The Net Delusion, Joseph Turow’s The of the geography of nostalgia. It evokes the scientific spirit of bestsellers like Daily You, and Lori Andrew’s I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did. Daniel J. Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of Human Obsession , Simon M. Laham’s The Science of Sin, and Daniel Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness. Julia Angwin is the author of Stealing MySpace, and was one of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize winners for Explanatory Reporting. Her Wall Street Journal “What They Amanda Rose Martinez’s prize-winning journalism has appeared in The Atlantic, Know” series won the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for enterprise, was a 2011 Scientific American, and Seed magazines. She holds degrees in science writing from finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism, and garnered the Sigma MIT, where she won the Ilona Karmel Writing Prize, and playwriting from Delta Chi Award for Public Service from the Society of Professional Journalists. Yale. 3 YOUR CULTURE IS YOUR FUTURE WILD CHILD Leading the 21st Century Organization From the Inside The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature Out by Scott Sampson by Malachi O’Connor, Ph.D. US Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt US Publisher/World English: PublicAffairs Will be published in 2015 Will be published in November, 2014 Proposal available. Mss available in July 2014. Proposal and sample chapters available. Japanese subagent: Japan UNI Not assigned in Japan Since the release of Richard Louv’s influential bestseller Last Child in the Woods, Recent years have seen corporate and professional settings of all kinds mired in parents and teachers have recognized that schools today do an abysmal job decreased productivity, confusion regarding leadership and chain of command, nurturing children’s interest in and experience of nature. Rather, schools and and ambiguity surrounding fundamental goals—largely due to companies’ families act as barriers to nature, allowing kids to explore the modern world disregard for their own internal “cultures.” Losing sight of identity impacts how through electronic devices yet failing to introduce them to the natural world. a company works, and how its employees achieve the company mission. The result is a generation of kids who are digitally savvy, but who have failed to forge an appreciation of nature or connection to the wild. Organizational development expert Malachi O’Connor targets this root problem in YOUR CULTURE IS YOUR FUTURE, an innovative guide to In WILD CHILD, anthropologist, paleontologist, and PBS television host Scott establishing a breakthrough management style more attuned with twenty-first Sampson reveals exactly how children form a meaningful, lifelong connection century life. He offers a set of identity-related questions designed to help leaders with nature, and explores how the process changes as children grow—showing determine the nature of their organization’s culture, then applies this us how we can teach kids, with their ever-shrinking attention spans, to engage in methodology to four distinct and vivid case studies from across industrial nature’s glory using the tools and media of today. He also sets out innovative sectors, ranging from a hospital and a university to insurance