Fall 2012 September - December Domestic Rights Guide Harper ♦ William Morrow ♦ HarperOne Ecco ♦ It Books ♦ Amistad ♦ Broadside Books Morrow Cookbooks ♦ Harper Voyager Perennial ♦ Harper Paperbacks William Morrow Paperbacks ♦ Avon/Harper Mass Market **FOR FILM RIGHTS INFORMATION PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO: [email protected] Permissions information is available at www.harpercollins.com/permissions For rights to Harper, Ecco, Harper Perennial, For rights to William Morrow, Morrow Cookbooks, Harper Paperbacks, It Books, HarperOne, Amistad, Harper Voyager, William Morrow Paperbacks, Broadside Books, HarperBusiness, Collins Avon/Harper mass market, Ecco, HarperBusiness Reference titles, please contact: titles please contact: Robert Spizer Michele Corallo Group Director, Domestic Rights Director, Domestic Rights Phone: 212-207-7510 Phone: 212-207-7001 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Book club (above-listed imprints excluding Book Club: the above listed imprints excluding Ecco HarperOne and It Books) and HarperBusiness Paperback reprint for all imprints, including William First serial: William Morrow, Ecco, HarperBusiness, Morrow Morrow Cookbooks, Harper Voyager, William First serial: Harper, Harper Perennial, Harper Morrow Paperbacks, Avon/Harper mass market Paperbacks, Amistad, Broadside Books Mary Brower Mary Brower Manager, Domestic Rights Manager, Domestic Rights Phone: 212-207-7818 Phone: 212-207-7818 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Book club: HarperOne, Harper Design, It Books Second serial: the above listed imprints excluding First serial: HarperOne, It Books Ecco and HarperBusiness Second serial: HarperOne, It Books Charles Devilbiss Charles Devilbiss Rights Associate Rights Associate Phone: 212-207-7253 Phone: 212-207-7253 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Audio, Second serial (above-listed imprints Audio, summary, electronic excluding HarperOne and It Books), summary, electronic 2 HarperCollins Publishers Fall 2012 Domestic Rights Guide Table of Contents Harper Page 4 Broadside Books Page 10 Ecco Page 11 Harper Perennial Page 13 Harper Paperbacks Page 16 It Books Page 17 HarperBusiness Page 21 HarperOne Page 22 William Morrow Page 26 Harper Voyager Page 29 William Morrow Cookbooks Page 31 William Morrow Paperbacks Page 32 Avon/Harper mass market Page 35 3 Harper Fiction Chabon, Michael TELEGRAPH AVENUE September - $27.99 As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are longtime friends and co-owners of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl. Their wives, Gwen and Aviva, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary nurse midwives. Archy and Gwen are expecting their first baby; Nat and Aviva have a teenaged son. Cranky, flawed, and loving each other, they have worked to construct lives that reach across barriers of race and class. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fourth-richest black man in America, announces plans to go forward with the construction of his latest megastore, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. What they don’t know is that Goode’s announcement marks the climax of a decades-old secret history, encompassing a forgotten crime of the Black Panther era and the failure of American optimism about race. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, Telegraph Avenue is Michael Chabon’s most dazzling book yet. Audio: Harper; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Mary Evans Agency (212-979-0880) Coplin, Amanda THE ORCHARDIST September - $25.99 At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he’s found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the land he cultivates. One day, two teenage girls appear and steal his fruit, but later return to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and very pregnant, the girls take up on Talmadge’s land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion. As the girls begin to trust him, men arrive with guns, and the shattering tragedy that follows sets Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect the girls but to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past. The Orchardist is an astonishing debut novel about a man who disrupts the lonely harmony of an ordered life when he opens his heart and lets the world in. Audio: Harper; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (212-586-5100) Dean, Debra THE MIRRORED WORLD September - $25.99 Set against the unparalleled extravagance and artifice of 18th century St. Petersburg, a world of ice palaces and opera and masquerade balls, The Mirrored World is the reimagined life of St. Xenia, one of Russia’s most beloved holy women. Told by her younger cousin Dasha, a devoted friend and companion, The Mirrored World follows the friends from their younger years in the lower nobility through the tragedy and madness that transforms Xenia into a revered angel of mercy to the poor, a change perceived by many as a sharp rebuke to the lavish excesses of the court of the new empress, Catherine the Great. By the acclaimed author of The Madonnas of Leningrad. UK, Translation, Audio: Harper; First serial, Dramatic: Marly Rusoff & Associates (914-961-7939) Erdrich, Louise THE ROUND HOUSE October - $25.99 On a summer Sunday in 1988, an Ojibwe woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is raped. Traumatized, Geraldine refuses to share the details of what happened, either to the police or to her husband Bazil or her 13-year old son Joe, whose home life has been suddenly, irrevocably transformed. His mother slips deeper into depression while his father struggles with his own anger and grief. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill-prepared. Enlisting Joe’s help, Bazil, the tribal judge, pores through previous legal decisions searching for clues to the attacker’s identity. Confused, impatient, and frustrated, Joe sets out with three trusted friends to find the truth, a quest that begins at the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. Revered author Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her acclaimed, bestselling The Plague of Doves with this riveting novel. Audio: Harper; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: The Wylie Agency (212-246-0069) 4 Kingsolver, Barbara FLIGHT BEHAVIOR November - $27.99 The New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna and The Poisonwood Bible returns with a book set in rural Appalachia. Dellarobia Turnbow is a twenty-nine-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming a mother and wife at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending small children on a failing farm, she mitigates her boredom in a flirtation with a younger man. Headed to his secluded mountain cabin, she finds a forested valley filled with silent red fire that appears to be a miracle. Her discovery elicits divergent reactions from all sides: fundamentalists claim it as a sign from God; climate scientists see it as an element of forthcoming disaster; politicians declaim its lessons; charlatans mine its opportunity; international media fan the story; and townspeople cope with the intrusion. After years lived entirely within the confines of one small community, Dellarobia finds her path suddenly opening and ultimately leading into confrontation with her family, her church, her town, and finally the world at large. Over the course of a single winter, her life will become the property of the planet and, perhaps for the first time, securely her own. Audio: Harper; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Frances Goldin Literary Agency (212-777-0047) Kuhn, William MRS. QUEEN TAKES THE TRAIN October - $21.99 Day-to-day life for Queen Elizabeth has grown increasingly wearisome after decades of public service and years of family scandal, so one day she decides to take things into her own hands, walking out of the palace unannounced one rainy day while wearing a skull-emblazoned hoodie. The Queen decides to visit the scene of so many happy memories, Her Majesty’s former royal yacht, Britannia, now moored in Leith, Scotland. All she has to do is get to Kings Cross Station and hop on a train from there. Meanwhile, an unlikely group of six courtiers are the only ones who know of the Queen’s disappearance, and they vow to find her and bring her back to the palace before MI6 turn her desertion into a major national scandal. A lively, witty debut novel that makes light of the rigidity and pomp and circumstance of the British monarchy, but that also breathes humanity into it, and into its central figure, Queen Elizabeth. First serial, Audio: Harper; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Kuhn Projects, LLC (212-929-2227) Locke, Attica THE CUTTING SEASON October - $25.99 Belle Vie is a plantation of genteel beauty that sits between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. For some it represents the values of the pre-Civil War South, for others it’s a reminder of slavery’s dark legacy. But when Caren Gray, the estate’s manager learns that the body of a young woman has just been found lying face down in a shallow grave, her throat cut, it’s suddenly the site of a murder investigation. There’s no telling who wanted the victim dead. A local? Someone with a grudge against the managing corporation? Gray is compelled to discover what, if anything, the woman’s violent death has to do with a mystery that originated in the slave quarters nearly two hundred years ago - a mystery that forces her to delve into the murky waters of the plantation’s past - all while creeping frighteningly closer to the realization that the killer may be a lot closer than she ever could have imagined.