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In the spring of 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. Having overseen an empire spanning half the European continent and governed the lives of some eighty million people, he suddenly found himself exiled to Elba, less than a hundred square miles of territory. This would have been the end of him, and Napoleon for a time seemed resigned to a quiet retirement in this idyllic setting. But soon enough Napoleon imposed his preternatural What emerges is a surprising new perspective on one of history’s most charisma and historic ambition on both his captors and the very island consequential figures, which both subverts and celebrates his legendary itself, plotting his return to France and to power. After ten months of persona. THE INVISIBLE EMPEROR is both a riveting story and an exile, he escaped Elba with just of over a thousand supporters in tow, original examination of how preposterous, quixotic, and grandiose ideas landed near Antibes, marched to Paris, and retook the Tuileries Palace—all can suddenly leap from the imagination and into reality. without firing a shot. Not long after, tens of thousands of people would die fighting for and against him at Waterloo. Mark Braude is the author of Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle. His work has appeared in the New Republic, Los Angeles Times, Braude dramatizes this strange exile and escape in novelistic detail, Globe and Mail, and other publications. offering sharp new insights into a largely overlooked moment. He details a terrific cast of secondary characters, including Napoleon’s tragically noble Praise for THE INVISIBLE EMPEROR: British minder on Elba, Neil Campbell, forever disgraced for having let “Boney” slip away; and his young second wife, Marie Louise, who was “A history of Napoleon’s short first exile, rendered in short, punchy twenty-two to Napoleon’s forty-four at the time of his abdication. chapters… It’s great fun reading…and those anecdotes reinforce our knowledge of the emperor’s great talents.” – Kirkus GOLDEN HANDCUFFS The Secret History of Trump’s Women By Nina Burleigh US publisher: Gallery / S&S (North American rights) To publish: October 2018 Material available: Final PDF available Rights sold: Poland (Kobiece) New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist, Nina Burleigh, explores Donald Trump’s attitudes toward women by providing in-depth analysis and background on the women who have had the most profound influence on his life—the mother and grandmother who raised him, the wives who lived with him, and the daughter who is poised to inherit it all. Has any president in the history of the United States had a more fraught relationship with women than Donald Trump? He flagrantly cheated on all three of his wives, brushed off multiple accusations of sexual assault, publicly ogled his eldest daughter, bought the silence of a porn star and a Playmate, and proclaimed his now-infamous seduction technique: “grab ’em by the pussy.” Golden Handcuffs is a comprehensive and provocative account of the Nina Burleigh is the National Politics Correspondent at Newsweek women closest to Trump—his German-immigrant grandmother, Magazine, an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling Elizabeth, the uncredited founder of the Trump Organization; his author. She has written for numerous publications including Rolling Stone, Scottish-immigrant mother, Mary, who acquired a taste for wealth as a Businessweek, The New Yorker, Time, and The New York Times. She has maid in the Andrew Carnegie mansion; his wives—Ivana, Marla, and appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, The Today Show, 48 Melania (the first and third of whom are immigrants); and his eldest Hours, MSNBC and CNN, on NPR and numerous radio programs. daughter, Ivanka. Also examined are Trump’s two older sisters; his often- overlooked younger daughter, Tiffany; his female employees; and those he Nina has been based in Washington, D.C., New York, and Paris, traveled calls “liars”—the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. and reported extensively in the Middle East and lived in Italy and France. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Of these women, Burleigh writes, “Where they come from and what they do now and in the future matters because they have or have had the ear of the most powerful man on earth.” THE UNWINDING OF THE MIRACLE A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After By Julie Yip-Williams US publisher: Random House (North American rights) To publish: January 2019 Material available: Edited MS available Rights sold: Brazil (Intrinseca) Holland (HarperCollins Holland) Korea (Tornado) Poland (Muza) UK/Commonwealth (Transworld / PRH UK) As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a powerful exhortation to the living. That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Born blind in Vietnam, she narrowly escaped euthanasia at the hands of her grandmother, only to flee with her family the political upheaval of her Motherhood, marriage, the immigrant experience, ambition, love, country in the late 1970s. Loaded into a rickety boat with 300 other wanderlust, tennis, fortune-tellers, grief, reincarnation, jealousy, comfort, refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and then America, where a surgeon pain, the marvel of the body in full rebellion—this book is as sprawling at UCLA gave her partial sight. She would go on to become a Harvard- and majestic as the life it records. It is inspiring and instructive, delightful educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, and a life she had once assumed and shattering. It is a book of indelible moments, seared deep—an would be impossible. Then, at age 37, with two little girls at home, Julie incomparable guide to living vividly by facing hard truths consciously. was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began. With humor, bracing honesty, and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie Yip-Williams set the stage for her lasting legacy and one final THE UNWINDING OF THE MIRACLE is the story of a vigorous miracle: the story of her life. life refracted through the prism of imminent death. When she was first diagnosed, Julie Yip-Williams sought clarity through the experience and, Julie Yip-Williams died in March 2018 of colon cancer. She was born in finding none, began to write her way through it—a chronicle that grew Tam-Ky, Vietnam, grew up in California, and graduated from Williams beyond her imagining. College and Harvard Law School. At her death she was 42, and lived in Brooklyn with her husband, Josh, and their daughters, Mia and Isabelle. PIETY & POWER Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House By Tom LoBianco US publisher: Dey Street / HarperCollins (World English rights) To publish: March 2019 Material available: Edited MS available in December 2018 A revealing, in-depth biography of Mike Pence, the most secretive and ingratiating vice president in modern history, from a reporter with remarkable access.