RightsList Harold Ober Associates | Folio Literary Management 630 9th Avenue, Suite 1101 New York, NY 10036 FolioLit.com TABLE OF CONTENTS FICTION 4 MALCOLM BRALY 5 ON THE YARD 5 WILLIAM RILEY BURNETT 6 LITTLE CAESAR 6 JAMES M. CAIN 7 MILDRED PIERCE 7 STEPHEN DOBYNS 8 THE BURN PALACE 8 JOHN DUNNING 9 BOOKED TO DIE 9 LEE HARRIS 10 THE GOOD FRIDAY MURDER 10 JOSEPH HEYWOOD 11 THE BERKUT 11 LANGSTON HUGHES 12 SELECTED POEMS 12 DEWEY LAMBDIN 13 MUCH ADO ABOUT LEWRIE 13 ROSS MACDONALD 14 THE GALTON CASE 14 WILLIAM MARCH 15 THE BAD SEED 15 LAURIE MCBAIN 16 MOONSTRUCK MADNESS 16 MARGARET MILLAR 17 BEAST IN VIEW 17 DONN PEARCE 18 COOL HAND LUKE 18 JAMES ROSS 19 THEY DON’T DANCE MUCH 19 WILLIAM SLOANE 20 THE RIM OF MORNING*** 20 EDWARD LEWIS WALLANT 21 THE PAWNBROKER 21 1 GLENWAY WESCOTT 22 THE PILGRIM HAWK 22 NON-FICTION 23 JOHN BROOKS 24 BUSINESS ADVENTURES 24 AGNES DE MILLE 25 DANCE TO THE PIPER 25 DAVID FROMKIN 26 A PEACE TO END ALL PEACE 26 LILLIAN LIEBER 27 THE EDUCATION OF T.C. MITS 27 ROBERT MASON 28 CHICKENHAWK 28 SIDNEY JOSEPH PERELMAN 29 THE MOST OF S.J. PERELMAN 29 KIP THORNE 30 BLACK HOLES AND TIME WARPS 30 ALAN WALKER 31 FRYDERYK CHOPIN: A LIFE AND TIMES 31 CHILDREN’S & YA 32 MARJORIE FLACK 33 ANGUS LOST 33 TAKAYUKI ISHII 34 ONE THOUSAND PAPER CRANES 34 LOIS LOWRY 35 ON THE HORIZON 35 THE GIVER 36 THE WILLOUGHBYS 37 TAMORA PIERCE 38 TEMPESTS AND SLAUGHTER 38 MARJORIE SHARMAT 39 NATE THE GREAT 39 ROBERT KIMMEL SMITH 40 THE WAR WITH GRANDPA 40 THE HOA SERIES 41 2 STEPHEN DOBYNS 42 CHARLIE BRADSHAW SERIES 42 JOHN DUNNING 42 CLIFF JANEWAY SERIES 42 MARJORIE FLACK 42 ANGUS SERIES 42 LEE HARRIS 42 CHRISTINE BENNETT SERIES 42 JOSEPH HEYWOOD 42 WOODS COP MYSTERIES SERIES 42 BEAU VALENTINE SERIES 42 LUTE BAPCAT SERIES 42 DEWEY LAMBDIN 43 ALAN LEWRIE SERIES 43 LOIS LOWRY 43 THE GIVER QUARTET 43 ANASTASIA KRUPNIK SERIES 43 ROSS MACDONALD 43 LEW ARCHER SERIES 43 LAURIE MCBAIN 43 DOMINICK TRILOGY 43 MARGARET MILLAR 43 PAUL PYRE MYSTERIES 43 INSPECTOR SANDS MYSTERIES 43 TOM ARAGON MYSTERIES 43 TAMORA PIERCE 44 SONG OF THE LIONESS SERIES 44 IMMORTALS SERIES 44 CIRCLE OF MAGIC SERIES 44 CIRCLE OPENS SERIES 44 CIRCLE REFORGED SERIES 44 PROTECTOR OF THE SMALL SERIES 44 DAUGHTER OF THE LIONESS SERIES 44 BEKA COOPER SERIES 44 NUMAIR CHRONICLES SERIES 44 MARJORIE SHARMAT 45 NATE THE GREAT SERIES 45 OLIVIA SHARP SERIES 45 CONTACT US 1 3 FICTION 4 MALCOLM BRALY ON THE YARD Literary Fiction NYRB Classics World English January 2002 (1st Ed. 1967) Spanish: Sajalín Editores A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison. ON THE YARD is a book of penetrating psychological realism in which Malcolm Braly paints an unforgettable picture of the complex and frightening world of the penitentiary. At its center are the violently intertwined stories of Chilly Willy, in trouble with the law from his earliest years and now the head of the prison’s flourishing black market in drugs and sex, and of Paul, wracked with guilt for the murder of his wife and desperate for some kind of redemption. At once brutal and tender, clear-eyed and rueful, ON THE YARD presents the penitentiary not as an exotic location, an exception to everyday reality, but as an ordinary place, one every reader will recognize, American to the core. “Surely the great American prison novel.”—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. “Braly, who wrote the book while doing time in San Quentin, has an uncommon ear for the rhythms of big house speech. The expertly drawn ensemble cast and institutional insight may remind readers of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST. Braly does for prisons what Kesey did for the insane asylum.” —Publishers Weekly “ON THE YARD is the novel prison needs. It’s also a book any lover of novels ought to know, for its compression, surprise, and wry humor, for its deceptively casual architecture, and for characters and scenes which are unforgettable.” —Jonathan Lethem BY THE SAME AUTHOR FALSE STARTS: A MEMOIR OF SAN SHAKE HIM TILL HE RATTLES QUENTIN AND OTHER PRISONS IT’S COLD OUT THERE MALCOLM BRALY (1925–1980) was born in Portland, Oregon. Abandoned by his parents, Braly lived between foster homes and institutions for delinquent children, and by the time he was forty had spent nearly seventeen years in prison for burglary. He wrote three novels behind bars, FELONY TANK (1961), SHAKE HIM TILL HE RATTLES (1963), and IT’S COLD OUT THERE (1966), and upon his release in 1965 began to work on ON THE YARD. When prison authorities learned of the book, they threatened to revoke his parole, and he was forced to complete it in secret. Published in 1967, after Braly’s parole had expired, ON THE YARD received wide acclaim. It was followed by his autobiography, FALSE STARTS: A MEMOIR OF SAN QUENTIN AND OTHER PRISONS (1976), and a final work of fiction, THE PROTECTOR (1979). Malcolm Braly enjoyed fifteen years of freedom before his death in a car accident at age fifty-four. 5 WILLIAM RILEY BURNETT LITTLE CAESAR Crime RosettaBooks Exclusive North American January 2014 (1st Ed. 1929) Non-exc English Open Market except UK&BC Danish: Lindhardt Og Ringhof French: Gallimard * The film adaptation (1931) was an instant hit, and made Edward G. Robinson a star * Burnett is considered the pioneer of modern gangster novels and movies A story of gangland life in Chicago that sets an unprecedented tone of tough-guy realism in American fiction. LITTLE CAESAR begins in a back room at Chicago’s Club Palermo. The owner, Sam Vettori, outlines a plan for his gang to rob the Casa Alvorado nightclub on New Year’s Eve. Cesare “Rico” Bandello, leader of the robbery crew, is a small, slim young man with dreams of wealth and power. When Rico shoots an off-duty police officer during the holdup, his reputation as a tough guy is established. He returns to Club Palermo and challenges Vettori in front of the others, and the gang smoothly changes hands with no further bloodshed. From that moment, the gangster’s power steadily increases, but Rico’s arrogance will eventually prove fatal. “W. R. Burnett’s LITTLE CAESAR muscled into films with a quality of arrogance and toughness such as the screen had not previously known.” —The New York Times “The prose tight and action bumpy, the scenery wide-as-all-out-doors, the characters brawling and bawdy by turns."—Kirkus Reviews on W. R. Burnett “The underworld icons of sleek cars, flashy clothes, bootleg liquor, and tommy guns find their origins in Burnett’s first novel, LITTLE CAESAR.”— The Ohio Center for the Book BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE ASPHALT JUNGLE THE IRON MAN HIGH SIERRA GOODBYE, CHICAGO WILLIAM RILEY BURNETT was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1899. Moving to Chicago in 1927, he developed an interest in gangsters that prompted him to write his first novel, LITTLE CAESAR. Soon after that overnight success, Burnett moved to Hollywood, eventually writing 36 novels and 60 screenplays (some of them based on his own novels) that would bring him even more fame over the years, including THE IRON MAN, SCARFACE, DARK HAZARD, HIGH SIERRA, THIS GUN FOR HIRE, and many more. His works created several instant film stars, such as Edward G. Robinson, who vaulted to success as the violent gang leader Rico in LITTLE CAESAR. Nominated twice for an Academy Award, Burnett received both the Grand Master Award and an O. Henry Memorial Award. 6 JAMES M. CAIN MILDRED PIERCE Mystery | Noir Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (PRH) *Only selected territories are available May 1989 (1st Ed. 1941) [Please contact us for details] Chinese (Simplified): Shanghai Translation Publishing House UK: Orion Publishing Group * HBO mini-series adaptation starring Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, and Evan Rachel Wood (2011) * Movie adaptation (1945) starring Joan Crawford, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress A novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable. Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. “Nobody has quite pulled if off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, not even Raymond Chandler.” —Tom Wolfe “The poet of the hard-boiled school of the American novel.”—The Washington Post “Cain can get down to the primary impulses of greed and sex in fewer words than any writer we know of.” —The New York Times “A novel that, once begun, will almost surely be read to the end… It reflects no codes, no restrictions, and none but the primordial necessities. It is a bath in sensation.” —New York Times Book Review BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE THREE BY CAIN DOUBLE INDEMNITY THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS JAMES M. CAIN was a first-rate writer of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Born in Baltimore in 1892, Cain began his career as a reporter, serving in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and writing for the newspaper of the 79th Division. He returned from the war to embark on a literary career that included a professorship at St.