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TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS

GENERAL FICTION & MYSTERYBijan, Donia - THE LAST DAYS OF CAFE LEILA....................................1

Block, Lawrence - ALIVE IN SHAPE AND COLOR............................2

Gable, Michelle - THE BOOK OF SUMMER..........................................3

Harmel, Kristin - WHERE THE POPPIES GROW..................................4

Nozawa, Hisashi - DEEP RED.................................................................5

Olson, Ella Jay - WHERE THE SWEET BIRD SINGS...................................6

Skilton, Sarah - CLUB DECEPTION........................................................7

Stabenow, Dana - LESS THAN A TREASON..........................................8

HISTORICAL FICTION & ROMANCEClare, Jessica - DIRTY MONEY............................................................9

Gabaldon, Diana - SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALL..................10

Halle, Karina & Scott Mackenzie - ROCKED UP.................................11

Johnson, Jane - COURT OF LIONS...................................................12

Reichert, Amy - THE SIMPLICITY OF CIDER........................................13

Zabo, Anna - DAILY GRIND................................................................14

THRILLERSAlten, Steve - MEG...............................................................................15

Block, Sandra - THE SECRET ROOM..................................................16

Drake, Rebecca - JUST BETWEEN US.................................................17

Laurin, Nina - GIRL LAST SEEN..........................................................18

Ludlum, Robert - THE BOURNE INITIATIVE...........................................19

Petrie, Nicholas - BURNING BRIGHT................................................20

Riddle, A.G. - PANDEMIC.................................................................21

Simmons, Dan - OMEGA CANYON....................................................22

SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASYBarger, Shaun - MAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE............................23

Beaulieu, Bradley P. - WITH BLOOD UPON THE SAND..................24

Britain, Kristen - FIREBRAND.................................................................25

Clare, Cassandra & Wesley Chu - THE LOST BOOK OF THE WHITE..26

Corey, James S.A. - BABYLON’S ASHES...............................................27

Doctorow, Cory - WALKAWAY............................................................28

Jackson, Vivien - WANTED & WIRED...............................................29

Mignola, Mike & Tom Sniegoski - GRIM DEATH AND BILL..........30

Ruocchio, Christopher - THE MURDERED SUN.................................31

Schwab, V.E. - A CONJURING OF LIGHT...........................................32

Travis Call, Justin - SON OF SEVEN..................................................33

Wells, Alex - HUNGER MAKES THE WOLF...................................34

NON-FICTIONGreenblatt, Stephen - THE RISE AND FALL OF ADAM AND EVE..35

Kennedy Smith, Stephen - POETRY AND POWER.......................36

King, Barbara J. - PERSONALITIES ON THE PLATE......................37

Lvitsky, Steve & Daniel Ziblatt - HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE..............38

Lucey, Donna M. - SARGENT’S WOMEN.............................................39

Martin, Manjula - SCRATCH................................................................40

McKay, Brett - THE ILLUSTRATED ART OF MANILNESS.............41

McTaggart, Lynne - THE POWER OF EIGHT....................................42

Merchant, Nilofer - THE POWER OF ONLYNESS..............................43

O’Hagan, Sarah Robb - EXTREME YOU.............................................44

Puchner, Martin - THE WRITTEN WORLD........................................45

Sancton, Tom - THE BETTENCOURT AFFAIR.....................................46

ALIVE IN SHAPE AND COLOR18 Paintings by Great Artists and 18 Stories they InspiredEdited by Lawrence Block

Original Stories From:Joyce Carol OatesMichael ConnellyJeffrey Deaver

Lee Childand many more

Pegasus, Fall 2017 (World English)

The previous anthology, IN SUNLIGHT OR IN SHADOW: 17 Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper has been so well received that a second anthology was immediately begun.

Each remarkable author was invited to select a painting from the whole panoply of visual art—From the cave drawings at Lascaux to a contemporary abstract canvas on which the paint has barely dried upon which their original story will be inspired.

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THE LAST DAYS OF CAFE LEILADonia Bijan

Algonquin Books April 2017 (World English Rights)

A neighborhood café in Tehran is at the center of this powerful and transporting story of love, family, friendship, and homecoming told against the backdrop of Iran’s rich, yet tragic, history.

When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, so much about her homeland is different. But Café Leila--the restaurant Noor’s family has run for three generations--hasn’t changed. Zod, Noor’s father, is still at the café’s helm, a much-loved patriarch offering laughter, solace, and nourishment to the makeshift family of regulars and waiters who call Café Leila home. With her discontented, very American teenage daughter, Lily, reluctantly at her side, Noor struggles to maintain a semblance of family life. But Tehran is a place of contradictions, where grace and brutal violence both have a foothold, and it’s not long before rebellious Lily is caught up in both.

As the novel folds back in time, stories emerge of Noor’s ancestors, particularly of her mother. As past and present converge, Noor begins to understand her place in--and her responsibility to--this world and to the many souls who have sought refuge at the café. The Last Days of Café Leila is a powerful debut about the delicate, sometimes dangerous balance between history and progress, and the resilience of a family in the face of upheaval.

“The Last Days of Café Leila will engage all of your senses. This is the

poignantly told story of a family and of the brilliant and beautiful culture of Persia, diminished but

not destroyed. It is also a triumphant portrait of a woman making

her way from apology to full-throated song.” —Elizabeth J. Church, author of The Atomic

Weight of Love

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Joyce Carol Oates picked ‘Le Beaux Jours,’ by Balthus. Warren Moore chose Salvador Dali’s ‘The Pharmacist of Ampurdam Seeking Absolutely Nothing.’ Michael Connelly, who sent Harry Bosch to Chicago for a close look at ‘Nighthawks,’ has a go at ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Harry’s namesake Hieronymous Bosch. S. J. Rozan finds a story in Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave,’ while Jeffery Deaver’s ‘A Signifcant Find’ draws its inspiration from—yes—those prehistoric cave drawings at Lascaux. And Kristine Kathryn Rusch moves from painting to sculpture and selects Rodin.

The line-up goes on to include Thomas Pluck, Sarah Weinman, David Morrell, Craig Ferguson, JoeR. Lansdale, Jill D. Block, Justin Scott, Jonathan Santlofer, Gail Levin, Nicholas Christopher, and Lee Child. Painters range from Art Frahm and Norman Rockwell to René Magritte and Clyfford Still.

THE BOOK OF SUMMERMichelle Gable

St. Martin’s Press, May 2017(World English Rights) The ocean, the wild roses on the dunes and the stunning Cliff House, perched atop a bluff in Sconset, Nantucket. Inside the faded pages of the Cliff House guest book live the spellbinding stories of its female inhabitants: from Ruby, a bright-eyed newlywed on the eve of World War II to her granddaughter Bess, who returns to the beautiful summer estate.

For the first time in four years, physician Bess Codman visits the compound her great-grandparents built almost a century before, but due to erosion, the once-grand home will soon fall into the sea. Bess must now put aside her complicated memories in order to pack up the house and deal with her mother, a notorious town rabble-rouser, who refuses to leave. It’s not just memories of her family home Bess must face though, but also an old love that might hold new possibilities.

In the midst of packing Bess rediscovers the forgotten family guest book. Bess’s grandmother and primary keeper of the book, Ruby, always said Cliff House was a house of women, and by the very last day of the very last summer at Cliff House, Bess will understand the truth of her grandmother’s words in ways she never imagined.

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Previous New York Times Bestselling

Titles:

WHERE THE POPPIES GROWKRISTIN HARMEL

Previously translated into 16 languages

Hundreds of thousands of copies in readers’ hands

Topped bestseller charts in Italy, Germany and the US

Gallery/Simon & Schuster, Spring 2018 (North American Rights)

It’s 1939, and twenty-two-year-old college student Ruby Henderson has fallen in love with a handsome Frenchman. She accepts his marriage proposal and moves to Paris where she soon finds herself living under Nazi occupation. Marcel grows more and more distant, and Ruby, alone and adrift in the midst of a war, fears he’s having an affair—or worse. Charlotte Dacher is eleven years old when the Nazis take over her city, making it more and more difficult to be a Jew in Paris. Some of her classmates mock her, and people spit at her in the streets. Thomas Clarke is twenty-three when war breaks out in Europe and the Nazis begin dropping bombs on his beloved London. He feels duty-bound to fight for Britain, so he joins the Royal Air Force. When his mother, his last living relative, dies in the Germans’ worst air raid, he has no one left to live for… When the lives of Ruby, Charlotte and Thomas collide in Paris, they are all forever changed. Anchored by five chapters in the present-day, WHERE THE POPPIES GROW shows us the price of courage, and discovering the things that really matter. From the secret Allied escape networks of France to the heartbreaking reality of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, it’s a story of survival, hope, love, and redemption.

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Territories Sold:Garzanti, ItalyBlanvalet/Random House, Germany

DEEP REDHisashi Nozawa

Vertical, October 2016 (North American Rights)

The teenage daughter of a convicted murderer befriends the only surviving teenage daughter of the murdered family in this coming-of-age story. The persecution inflicted upon the child of a criminal is coupled with the psychological suffering associated with having ones parents and siblings brutally killed. Consequently, there’s an odd attraction and friction between the leads that forms the entire foundation of the storyline.

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Hisashi Nozawa’s English language debut is a murder mystery that transpires over more than a decade, where revenge is the motivation of a unique and very passionate relationship featuring orphans brought together by a brutal car accident.

WHERE THE SWEET BIRD SINGSEl la Jay Olson

Kensington, August 2017 (World English Rights)

People respond to tragedy in different ways. Some try to move on. Some don’t move at all. A year after her young son’s death due to a rare genetic disease, Emma Hazelton is still frozen by grief, unable and unwilling to consider her husband Noah’s suggestion that they try to have another child.

As the future Emma once imagined crumbles, her family’s past comes into sharp relief. Searching for the roots of her son’s disease, Emma tries to fit together the pieces in her genealogical puzzle. Hidden within an old wedding photograph of her great-grandparents is an unusual truth Emma never guessed at--a window into all the ways that love can be surprising, generous, and fiercely brave . . . and a discovery that may help her find her own way forward at last.

In this provocative new novel, the author of

Root, Petal, Thorn offers a powerful story of

resilience, hope, and the secrets that, no matter how deeply hidden, can

shape and ultimately unite a family. What connects us to one another? Is it shared history? Is it

ancestry? Is it blood? Or is it love?

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CLUB DECEPTIONSarah Skilton

Grand Central Publishing, July 2017 (World English Rights)

Claire Fredericksson is the beating heart of Club Deception, LA’s most exclusive magician’s society. She’s the Queen Bee of Magician WAGs (Wives and Girlfriends), and the genius behind her philandering husband Jonathan’s award-winning magic show. Claire’s life is upended by the arrival of two new women to the closed group of wives-Jessica, a young trophy wife with a secret, and Kaimi, an art expert looking for the long-lost Erdnase papers by posing as a girlfriend.

When a magician rivalry erupts into murder, the women must uncover the truth and set things right for the men they love.

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With a cast of endurance experts, Vegas stage stars, and close-up card handlers, this novel weaves a tale of murder, fame, and many, many illusions.

LESS THAN A TREASONDana Stabenow

Gere Donovan Press, May 2017 (North American Rights)Head of Zeus, May 2017 (UK & Commonwealth Rights)

Two thousand people go missing in Alaska every year.

They vanish in the middle of mountain footraces, on fishing boats in the Bering Sea, on small planes in the Bush. Now a geologist known for going walkabout with his rock hammer has disappeared from the Suulutaq Mine in the Park. Was it deliberate? An accident? Foul play? Kate Shugak may be the only person who can find out.

But for the fact that Kate, too, is among the missing…

Kate Shugak is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She’s 5’1” tall, carrires a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat, and owns a half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate is tougher than your average heroine--and she needs to be, to survive the worst the Alaskan wilds can throw at her.

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Less Than A Treason is the twenty-first book in the Kate Shugak series.

DIRTY MONEYRoughneck Bi l l ionaires, Book 1

Jessica Clare

Intermix/Penguin, January 2017 (North American Rights)Headline Eternal, January 2017 (UK & Commonwealth Rights)

Boone Price and his brothers know oil; at least, the dirty, backbreaking side of working an oil rig. But when their scrubby, worthless hunting land turns out to be sitting on top of one of the biggest oil wells in North America, they go from the rig to the boardroom and end up billionaires practically overnight.

Now with enough money to do whatever he wants, Boone is developing a taste for fine things. And the finest thing he’s ever seen is Ivy Smithfield, local realtor. Boone’s determined to buy her affection and show the world that he’s more than just a dirty fool with a bit of money. Ivy’s classy and beautiful - she’ll make the perfect trophy wife. The fact that she’s sexy and funny is just a bonus.

There’s one tiny problem - Ivy’s as dirt poor as Boone is. Her carefully crafted veneer of luxury? All an act to promote her business. What’s Boone going to do when he finds out the woman he’s falling for is, well, in his league?

“Great storytelling…delightful reading…It’s fun and oh so hot.”—

Kirkus Reviews

“[Clare is] a romance writing prodigy.”—Heroes

and Heartbreakers

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SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALLDiana Gabaldon

Delacorte Press/Random House, June 2017 (North American Rights)

Featuring all the characters you’ve come to love from the Outlander series, this brilliant collection of short stories throws you into the magical world of Outlander. Includes previously published Virgins, The Space Between, Plague of Zombies, A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows and The Custom of the Army, plus two never seen before works – Besieged and A Fugitive Green.

Filling in mesmerizing chapters in the lives of characters readers have followed over the course of thousands of pages, Gabaldon’s genius is on full display throughout this must-have collection.

A collection of Outlander Stories Including Two Brand New Stories

Translated Into 25 Languages

Over 27 Million Copies Sold

Worldwide Outlander TV Show in its 2nd Season

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New York Times Bestselling Author

Translated Into German, French, Japanese, Italian

and Dutch

Rights Sold:Doubleday, CanadaSalamandra, Spanish

Droemer Knaur, GermanyCentury/Random House, UK & Commonwealth

ROCKED UPKarina Halle & Scott Mackenzie

Metal Blonde Books, April 2017 (North American Rights)

I have been watching him since I was a child. He didn’t notice me back then and it didn’t matter. Brad Snyder, guitarist and singer for one of the world’s greatest bands, was my entire life.

My father, the CEO of Ramsey Records, takes credit for all of Brad’s success, trying to control him in the same way he’s controlled me.But I finally get an opportunity to prove myself. To be wild. To be free. Today I’m auditioning to be the replacement bass player for Brad’s band. If I get the job, I’ll go on tour and work with Brad every day, in very close proximity. There’s only one rule: he’s not allowed to touch the boss’s daughter.

Remember when I said that Brad never used to notice little ol’ me? Well, Brad’s noticing me now. In a way that’s going to get us both in trouble. My name is Lael Ramsey and we all know how this will turn out.11

A standalone rockstar romantic comedy

COURT OF LIONSJane Johnson

Doubleday Canada, May 2017 (Canada and USA)Head of Zeus, July 2017 (UK & Commonwealth Rights)

Kate Fordham, escaping terrible trauma, has fled to the beautiful sunlit city of Granada, the ancient capital of the Moors in Spain, where she is scraping by with an unfulfilling job in a busy bar. One day in the glorious gardens of the Alhambra, once home to Sultan Abu Abdullah Mohammed, also known as Boabdil, Kate finds a scrap of paper hidden in one of the ancient walls. Upon it, in strange symbols, has been inscribed a message from another age. It has lain undiscovered since before the Fall of Granada in 1492, when the city was surrendered to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. Born of love, in a time of danger and desperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate’s life forever.

An epic saga of romance and redemption, Court of Lions brings one of the great turning-points in history to life, telling the stories of a modern woman and the last Moorish sultan of Granada, as they both move towards their cataclysmic destinies. 12

Ken Follett meets Jodi Picoult in a stunning new novel from Jane Johnson.

THE SIMPLICITY OF CIDERAmy E. Reichert

Gallery/Simon & Schuster, May 2017 (World English Rights)

Focused and unassuming fifth generation cider-maker Sanna Lund has one desire: to live a simple, quiet life on her family’s apple orchard in Door County, Wisconsin. Although her business is struggling, Sanna remains fiercely devoted to the orchard, despite her brother’s attempts to convince their aging father to sell the land.

Single dad Isaac Banks has spent years trying to shield his son Sebastian from his troubled mother. Fleeing heartbreak at home, Isaac packed up their lives and the two headed out on an adventure, driving across the country. Chance—or fate—led them straight to Sanna’s orchard.

Isaac’s helping hands are much appreciated at the apple farm, even more when Sanna’s father is injured in an accident. As Sanna’s formerly simple life becomes increasingly complicated, she finds solace in unexpected places—friendship with young Sebastian and something more deliciously complex with Isaac—until an outside threat infiltrates the farm.

A charming love story

with a touch of magic,

perfect for fans of Sarah

Addison Allen and

Gayle Forman.

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DAILY GRINDTakeover Book #4

Anna Zabo

InterMix/Penguin February 2017 (World English Rights)

Brian Keppler, owner of Ground N’At, the coffee shop beneath SR Anderson Consulting, doesn’t have time for a relationship. His most recent girlfriend broke up with him because he’d become married to his shop, which is falling apart without his favorite barista, Justin.

As he struggles to stay afloat, the arrival of handsome British high-tech whiz Robert Ancroft becomes another complication. Rob quickly becomes a fixture at the shop with his sharp wit and easy charm, and Brian soon finds himself looking forward more and more to Rob’s visits—to the point where his heart skips a beat when he walks in.

But will Brian be able to come to terms with his previously unexplored sexual identity and find happiness now that he has a chance?

A man discovers that love can show up

when you least expect it—and in a much

different form—in this piping-hot romance from the author of

Due Diligence and Just Business.

14Rights Sold:

Cursed Verlag, Germany

MEGSTEVE ALTEN

Viper Press, March 2017 (North American Rights) (Revised and Expanded Edition)

When a submersible lies disabled at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, an expert deep sea diver is forced to confront his fears and risk everything. Could the Megalodon still be alive?

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A MAJOR MOVIE:• Jon Turtletaub Directing• Jason Statham Starring

• Release Date: March 2, 2018• Distributed by: Warner Brothers• Budget: 150 Million (Estimated)

Rights Sold:Atticus, RussiaMondadori, ItalyHeyne, GermanyCartaphilus, HungaryPreviously sold in 19 Languages

Jason StathamAnd Bingbing LiOnsetfilmingthe

2018film

THE SECRET ROOMSandra Block

Grand Central Publishing, April 2017 (North American Rights)

Her patients are dying. Some are apparent suicides and others possible accidents, but rumors are flying that Dr. Zoe Goldman is an angel of death-intentionally helping hopeless cases go to a “better place”-or, worse yet, a dangerously incompetent doctor.

As a new psychiatry fellow at the local correctional facility, Zoe is still learning the ropes while watching her back to avoid some dangerous prisoners. As the deaths mount up, Zoe is wracked with horror and guilt, feverishly trying to figure out what is going wrong and even questioning her own sanity.

What Zoe doesn’t realize is that someone is targeting her patients to get to her. Someone who has access to her deepest secrets and fears. Someone who will stop at nothing to take everything Zoe has, even her life.

“I am a forever-fan of the Zoe Goldman series and will read

anything Block writes. You should

too.”-Lisa Scottoline, New York Times

bestselling author

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JUST BETWEEN USRebecca Drake

St. Martin’s Press, August 2017 (North American Rights)

Alison, Julie, Sarah, Heather. Four

friends living the suburban ideal.

Their jobs are steady, their kids are

healthy. They’re as beautiful as their

houses. But each of them has a dirty

little secret, and hidden behind the

veneer of their perfect lives is a crime

and a mystery that will consume

them all.

Everything starts to unravel when

Alison spots a nasty bruise on

Heather’s wrist. She shares her

suspicions with Julie and Sarah,

Four suburban mothers and friends conspire to cover up a deadly crime in this heart-

stopping novel of suspense in the tradition of Lisa Scottoline and Lisa Unger.

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compelling all three to investigate what looks like an increasingly

violent marriage. As mysterious injuries and erratic behavior mount,

Heather can no longer deny the abuse, but she refuses to leave her

husband. Desperate to save her, Alison and the others dread the phone

call telling them that she’s been killed. But when that call finally comes,

it’s not Heather who’s dead. In a moment they’ll come to regret, the

women must decide what lengths they’ll go to in order to help a friend.

Just Between Us is a thrilling glimpse into the underbelly of suburbia,

where not all neighbors can be trusted, and even the closest friends

keep dangerous secrets. You never really know what goes on in another

person’s mind, or in their marriage.

GIRL LAST SEENNina Laurin

Grand Central Publishing, June 2017 (North American Rights)

Two missing girls. Thirteen years apart.Olivia Shaw has been missing since last Tuesday. She was last seen

outside the entrance of her elementary school in Hunts Point wearing a

white spring jacket, blue jeans, and pink boots.

I force myself to look at the face in the photo, into her slightly smudged

features, and I can’t bring myself to move. Olivia Shaw could be my mirror

image, rewound to thirteen years ago. If you have any knowledge of

Olivia Shaw’s whereabouts or any relevant information, please contact...

I’ve spent a long time peering into the faces of girls on missing posters,

wondering which one replaced me in that basement. But they were

never quite the right age, the right look, the right circumstances. Until

Olivia Shaw, missing for one week tomorrow.

Whoever stole me was never found. But since I was taken, there hasn’t

been another girl. And now there is. 18

Rights Sold:Piemme, Italy

Tericum Kiado, Hungary

Droemer Knaur, Germany

Presses de la Cite, France

Robert Ludlum’sTHE BOURNE INITIATIVE

Eric Van Lustbader

Grand Central Publishing, June 2017 (North American Rights)

General Boris Karpov, head of the feared Russian FSB, is dead. But Karpov has reached out from the grave with an unstoppable cyber operation he conceived before his murder, aimed at the heart of the United States--a way to steal the president’s nuclear launch codes. Who has taken over the operation? Karpov trusted only one man: Jason Bourne.

But can Bourne be working against his own country? The U.S. Government is convinced of his treason, and is doing everything in its power to kill him. Flushed from cover and gravely wounded, Bourne’s only hope is to join forces with his bitterest enemy: a powerful Somali terrorist named Keyre, and his protégée, the Angelmaker. If he hopes to survive, Bourne has no choice but unravel the mystery of Karpov’s last legacy--a weaponized code that may bring about the unthinkable: a violent end to America.

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THE LUDLUM BRAND:• 27 NOVELS, EACH ONE A BESTSELLER• OVER 225 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT• TRANSLATED INTO 32 LANGUAGES

• 10 MOVIES & MINISERIES• OVER 1.6 BILLION IN REVENUE

Rights Sold:Heyne, Germany

Head of Zeus, UK & Commonwealth

BURNING BRIGHTNicholas Petrie

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, January 2017 (World English Rights)

War veteran Peter Ash sought peace and quiet among the towering redwoods of northern California, but the trip isn’t quite the balm he’d hoped for. The dense forest and close fog cause his claustrophobia to buzz and spark, and then he stumbles upon a grizzly, long thought to have vanished from this part of the country. In a fight of man against bear, Peter doesn’t favor his odds, so he makes a strategic retreat up a nearby sapling.

There, he finds something strange: a climbing rope, affixed to a distant branch above. It leads to another, and another, up through the giant tree canopy, and ending at a hanging platform. On the platform is a woman on the run. From below them come the sounds of men and gunshots.

Just days ago, investigative journalist June Cassidy escaped a kidnapping by the men who are still on her trail. She suspects they’re after something belonging to her mother, a prominent software designer who recently died in an accident. June needs time to figure out what’s going on, and help from someone with Peter’s particular set of skills.

Only one step ahead of their pursuers, Peter and June must race to unravel this peculiar mystery. What they find leads them to an eccentric recluse, a shadowy pseudo-military organization, and an extraordinary tool that may change the modern world forever.

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2017 Edgar Nominee - Best

First Novel

An Entertainment Weekly Must

List Pick

PANDEMICA.G. Riddle

Three hundred miles off the coast of Alaska, a US Coast Guard research

vessel discovers a sunken ship. It has no national identification. No

corporate identity. It has been down there for decades, and it harbors a

series of experiments that may answer the deepest mysteries of human

existence.

Two weeks later, in a remote village in Kenya, several local residents

contract a mysterious disease. The next day, two American aid workers

fall ill. One lies at death’s door. The WHO and CDC send teams, led by

Dr. Peyton Shaw. Peyton is an epidemiologist who has stopped some

of the world’s most deadly outbreaks. She’s good at her job, but she is

driven by her own dark secret--and haunted by mysteries in her past,

events she still doesn’t understand.

What Peyton finds in Kenya is an outbreak very different from any she

has ever seen. She believes that for the first time in history, humanity

is facing a man-made pandemic. A new enemy. A conspiracy group

composed of scientists conducting experiments on a global scale. But

to what end?

As the pandemic sweeps the globe, Peyton is drawn deeper into a

conspiracy of unimaginable scope, a plot that appears to be linked

to her past. The answers, and the key to stopping the pandemic, are

revelations that carry a price--for all of us.

Experience one of the world’s most widely read independent

authors with more than two million copies of his bestselling Origin

Mystery trilogy sold in 19 languages.

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OMEGA CANYONDan Simmons

Little Brown Book Group 2017 (North American Rights)

Paul and Eric Haber are Vienna-born brothers who fled Nazi-controlled

Europe rather than acquiesce to Hitler’s tyranny. Paul, a physicist who

thinks he has lost his Jewish wife and child, is designing the atomic

bomb at Los Alamos. Erik, the athlete, is a commando in England’s

legendary Special Operations Executive and the top-secret ALSOS

program seeking out Nazi atomic scientists across Europe. When a Nazi

agent attempts to blackmail Paul into betraying America, the physicist

buys time with false information to give Eric a chance of saving Paul’s

wife and son from a Nazi concentration camp.

With action ranging from Los Alamos labs to the battlefields of Europe

and ruined cities of Germany, with accurate science and cameos by

historic figures, OMEGA CANYON is an exciting tale of two brothers’

love for family and freedom.22

Rights Sold:Eksmo, Russia

Hemiro, Ukraine

Heyne, Germany

Sphere, UK & Commonwealth

From master storyteller and number one bestseller Dan

Simmons comes a thrilling tale of

espionage, science and sacrifice in the Second

World War.

MAGE AGAINST THE MACHINEShaun Barger

Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, June 2018

Nikolai is a mage. Not just any mage, but a cadet of the Edge Guard, a

secret order within mage society dedicated to guarding the veils -- the

magical barriers that conceal mage-kind from the wasteland created by

humanity’s self-immolation a hundred years ago.

Jem is a runner. An enhanced human with cybernetic mods that make

her faster, stronger, smarter and are the only thing that gives her a

fighting chance against the synthetic intelligences bent on humanity’s

eradication. She is one of the few remaining agents of a failing human

resistance.

Now...

A chance encounter with a man he once considered a mentor sends

Nikolai down a twisting path to uncover the greatest secret in mage

history. The humans aren’t dead. The mages have sealed themselves

off from the world, content to let humans die their slow, violent deaths

at the hands of the machines.

Jem’s been entrusted with precious cargo, a cure for the plague the

synths are using to eradicate the last of humanity. But this mission will

put her at the heart of the resistance and she will have to question

whether the Resistance leadership has the same goals as she does.

When Nik escapes the veil his greatest wish is fulfilled -- the humans

are alive but their world is a nightmare. Faced against terrifying foes,

Nik and Jem must learn to trust each other to survive. More than that,

he faces an impossible decision: Side with the mages and let humanity

die out? Or take a stand as just one MAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE.

A Mashup of Harry Potter and The Terminator

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WITH BLOOD UPON THE SANDBradley P. Beaulieu

DAW, February 2017 (North American Rights)

Çeda, an elite warrior in service to the kings of Sharakhai, is learning

their secrets even as they send her on covert missions to further their

rule. She has already uncovered the dark history of the asirim, but it’s

only when she bonds with them, chaining them to her will, that she feels

their pain as her own. They hunger for release, they demand it, but their

chains were forged by the gods themselves and are proving unbreakable.

Çeda could become the champion the enslaved asirim have been

waiting for, but the need to tread carefully has never been greater.

The kings are hungry for blood, scouring the city in a ruthless quest for

revenge, while Çeda’s friend Emre and his new allies in the Moonless

Host are laying plans to take advantage of the unrest in Sharakhai,

and strike a major blow against the kings and their god-given powers.

The shifting tides of power are fickle and dangerous, though. The

Kings and the Moonless Host have their own agendas, as does

the dangerous blood mage Hamzakiir, whose plotting uncovers

a devastating secret that could shatter the power of the hated

kings. But it may all be undone if Çeda cannot learn to control

the growing anger of the asirim that threatens to overwhelm her...

Book 2 in the Song of the

Shattered Sands Trilogy,

recipient of more than ten

honors from top publications

such as Best Book from Amazon,

BuzzFeed and Barnes & Noble

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Rights Sold:Bragelonn, France

Classic, Czech Republic

Droemer Knaur, Germany

Luitingh Sijthoff, The Netherlands

Gollancz, UK & Commonwealth

THE LOST BOOK OF THE WHITE

The Eldest Curses

CASSANDRA CLARE

And Wesley Chu

Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, November 2017 (North American Rights)

A new trilogy based in the Shadowhunters world from best-selling, award-winning authors Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu - featuring fan favourite Magnus Bane!

This is the first adult novel for the mega bestselling author.

Cassandra Clare is the author of the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Her books have more than 36 million copies in print worldwide and have beentranslatedintomorethanthirty-fivelanguages.

This is the first adult novel for the mega bestselling author.

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Rights Sold:AST, Russia

Record, BrazilPlaneta, Spain

Mondadori, ItalyGoldmann Verlag, Germany

Simon & Schuster, UK & Commonwealth

FIREBRANDKristen Britain

DAW, February 2017 (North American Rights)Gollancz, March 2017 (UK & Commonwealth)

Green Rider Karigan G’ladheon, not yet recovered in heart

or mind from her unexpected trip through time, is assigned a

new mission. She must seek out the legendary creatures called

p’ehdrosian to renew an alliance of old in the face of dire threats

from enemies who seek to destroy Sacoridia using dark magic.

Each step on her journey northward grows more perilous as she faces

attacks from groundmites, encounters with ghosts, and, ultimately, the

threat of the necromancer and leader of Second Empire, Grandmother,

as they approach the enemy encampment in the Lone Forest.

Meanwhile, King Zachary of Sacoridia has been kidnapped by

an ice elemental who is allied with Second Empire. Can Karigan

free her king from captivity with just two allies by her side?

Magic, danger, and adventure abound for

messenger Karigan G’ladheon in the sixth

book in Kristen Britain’s New York Times-

bestselling Green Rider epic fantasy series

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“...thepagesflybyinthisdramatictale.”-Publisher’s Weekly

BABYLON’S ASHESThe Expanse, #6

James S.A. Corey

Orbit, December 2016 (World English)

Series Premise: Two hundred years after migrating into space, mankind is in turmoil. When a reluctant ship’s captain and washed-up detective find themselves involved in the case of a missing girl, what they discover brings our solar system to the brink of civil war, and exposes the greatest conspiracy in human history.

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A major television series broadcastingworldwideonNetflix

Series Sold:Goukr, ChinaIthaki, TurkeyFanucci, Italy

Laguna, SerbiaHayakawa, JapanActes-Sud, FranceEdiciones B., Spain

Editora Aleph, BrazilFumax Kft., HungaryFabryka Slow, PolandTriton, Czech RepublicDesign Comma, KoreaHeyne Verlag, Germany

Grupul Editorial Art, RomaniaLuitingh Sijthoff, The Netherlands

Science Fiction Book Club, UkraineSC Voyager Premium Books, Russia

WALKAWAYCory Doctorow

Tor Books, April 2017 (North American Rights)

In a world wrecked by climate change, in a society owned by the ultra-rich, in a city hollowed out by industrial flight, Hubert, etc, Seth and Natalie have nowhere else to be and nothing better to do.

But there is another way. After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life – food, clothing, shelter – from a computer, there is little reason to toil within the system. So, like thousands of others in the mid-21st century, the three of them turn their back on the world of rules, jobs, the morning commute and... walkaway.

It’s a dangerous world out there, the empty lands are lawless, hiding predators – animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, the thousands become hundreds of thousands, building what threatens to beome a post-scarcity utopia. But then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. And now it’s war – a war that will turn the world upside down.

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Cory Doctorow’s firstadultnovelin

eight years: an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity,

and the end of death.

Rights Sold:Heyne Verlag, Germany

Head of Zeus, UK & Commonwealth

WANTED & WIREDVivien Jackson

Sourcebooks Casablanca, April 2017 (World English Rights)

A rip-roarin’ new snarky, sexy sci-fi paranormal romance series with the perfect balance of humor, heat, and heart. Now that Texas has seceded and the world is spiraling into chaos, good guys come in unlikely packages and love sprouts in the most inconvenient places...

Rogue scientist - technologically enhanced - deliciously attractiveHeron Farad should be dead. But technology has made him the man he is today. Now he heads a crew of uniquely skilled outsiders who fight to salvage what’s left of humanity: art, artifacts, books, ideas-sometimes even people. People like Mari Vallejo.

Gun for hire - Texan rebel - always hits her markMari has been lusting after her mysterious handler for months. But when a by-the-book hit goes horribly sideways, she and Heron land on the universal most wanted list. Someone set them up. Desperate and on the run, they must trust each other to survive, while hiding devastating secrets. As their explosive chemistry heats up, it’s the perfect storm...29

“Raw. Smart. Quick-witted.

Mouthwatering.” -Darynda Jones, New York Times

bestselling author

GRIM DEATH AND BILL THE ELECTROCUTED CRIMINALMike Mignola & Tom Sniegoski

St. Martin’s Press, February 2017

An uneasiness festers upon the city streets, threatening the peace and safety of law-abiding citizens. A war is escalating, and it seems as though the good and righteous are being crushed beneath the unholy weight of evil s onslaught. Organized crime is spreading in an unchecked reign of terror.

Until a mysterious agent of retribution rises up from the shadows to challenge the villains. A lone figure, clad in a slouch hat and clothes seemingly stitched from the blackest shadows, masked in the guise of a skull-faced death a Grim Death emerges with guns blazing. With him, a wronged ex-con clad in the striped costume of his misfortune Bill the Electrocuted Criminal.

In this beautifully illustrated 1930s-pulp-style novel, two dark new characters by Thomas E. Sniegoski and Mike Mignola take to the street to fight the growing infection of organized crime. Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal are not your average heroes, but they want justice.

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THE MURDERED SUNChristopher Ruocchio

DAW Books, March 2018 (North American)

As an oppressive human empire struggles with the first alien threat in its six thousand year history, the disgraced son of a provincial nobleman must rise to become either the greatest hero humanity has ever known—or its greatest monster.

Born the son of a uranium magnate, Hadrian Marlowe’s attempt to flee his role in the Byzantine structure of the Empire finds him thrust into the maw of interstellar conflict...and a mystery old as the galaxy itself. Betrayed and stripped of wealth and privilege, Hadrian is forced to survive by relying on a curious skill: not violence, but on his ability to speak with the aliens and to understand them.

Written in the tradition of Dune and The Book of the New Sun.

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Rights Sold:Bragelonne, France

Heyne Verlag, GermanyGollancz, UK & Commonwealth

A space opera in the classic tradition, The Murdered Sun is the first in a four-book series coming fromDAW, one which is sure to delight fans of Herbert, Rothfuss, and Cherryh.

A CONJURING OF LIGHTV.E. Schwab

Tor Books, February 2017 (North American)

Londons fall and kingdoms rise while darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, and the fraught balance of magic blossoms into dangerous territory while heroes struggle.

The direct sequel to A Gathering of Shadows, and the final book in the Shades of Magic epic fantasy series, A Conjuring of Light sees the newly minted New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab reach a thrilling conclusion concerning the fate of beloved protagonists--and old foes.

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The conclusion to the #1 bestselling series

Series Sold:Zysk, PolandRecord, BrazilLumen, FranceRosman, RussiaJeu Media, KoreaKossuth, HungaryNemira, Romania

Tor-Fischer, GermanyArgo, Czech RepublicPaikese Kirjastus, EstoniaGrupo Almedina, PortugalPlaneta Argentina, SpanishChongqing Tianjian, ChinaTitan Books, UK & Commonwealth

SON OF SEVENJustin Travis Call

Harper Voyager, September 2017 (UK & Commonwealth)

You have heard the story before—a young boy, orphaned through tragic circumstances, raised by a wise old man, comes to a knowledge of his magic and uses it to fight the great evil that threatens his world—but what if the boy hero and the malevolent taint were one and the same? What if the adolescent slowly came to realize he was the reincarnation of an evil god? Would he save the world or destroy it?

Among the Academy’s warrior-thieves, Annev de Breth is an outlier. Unlike his classmates who were stolen as infants from the capital city, Annev was born in the small village of Chaenbalu, thought to be executed, then unknowingly raised by his parents’ killers.

Seventeen years later, Annev struggles with the burdens of a forbidden magic, a forgotten heritage, and a secret deformity. When he is subsequently caught between the warring ideologies of his priestly mentor and the Academy’s masters, Annev must choose between forfeiting his promising future at the Academy or betraying his closest friends. Each decision he makes leads to a deeper dilemma, until Annev finds himself stripped of title and pressed into a quest he does not wish to fulfill. Will he finally embrace the doctrine of his tutors, murder a stranger, and abandon his mentor? Or will Annev instead accept the more difficult truth of who he is...and the darker truth of what he may become?

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Rights Sold:Bragelonne, France

Luitingh, Sijthoff, The NetherlandsBlanvalet/Random House, Germany

From an exciting new voice in epic fantasy, reminiscent of Robert Jordan, comes this

majestic tale of courage and survival.

HUNGER MAKES THE WOLFAlex Wells

Angry Robot, March 2017 (World English Rights)

The strange planet known as Tanegawa’s World is owned by TransRifts Inc, the company with the absolute monopoly on interstellar travel. Hob landed there ten years ago, a penniless orphan left behind by a rift ship. She was taken in by Nick Ravani and quickly became a member of his mercenary biker troop, the Ghost Wolves. Ten years later, she discovers that the body of Nick’s brother out in the dunes. Worse, his daughter is missing, taken by shady beings called the Weathermen. But there are greater mysteries to be discovered – both about Hob and the strange planet she calls home.

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THE RISE AND FALL OF ADAM & EVE Stephen Greenblatt

W.W. Norton & Company, September 2017 (North American)

A life history of one of the most extraordinary stories ever told.

Occupying only about a page and a half in the modern edition of the King James Bible, the story of Adam and Eve has over centuries decisively shaped conceptions of human origins and human destiny. These few verses in an ancient book have served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires. It has been both liberating and destructive, a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness, a celebration of daring and an incitement to violent misogyny.

Born of the Hebrew exile in Babylon, the story carries unmistakable traces of other ancient religions. It was told and retold in innumerable variations. Only with Augustine did a literal belief in the Genesis version become Christian orthodoxy, and only in the Renaissance -- the age of Dürer, Michelangelo, and Milton – did the first humans come fully to life as people like ourselves. This stupendous achievement, one of the great triumphs of art and literature, turned out to have unanticipated consequences.

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From the Pulitzer Prize and

National Book Award Winning

AuthorRights Sold:Rizoli, Italy

Critica, SpainFlammarion, France

Companhia das Letras, BrazilSiedler/Random House, Germany

Bodley Head, UK & Commonwealth

POETRY AND POWEREdited by Stephen Kennedy SmithDouglas Brinkley and Ted Widmer

HarperCollins, May 2017(North American)

TheSpeechesofJohnF.KennedywithReflectionsby:

Jonathan Alter Kofi Annan Michael Bechlos Douglas Brinkley Governor Jerry Brown President Jimmy Carter Dick Cavett Robert Dallek Don DeLillo EJ Dionne Jr. Jorge I. Dominguez Maureen Dowd Dave Eggers Joe Ellis dDew Faust Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Vaclav Havel Walter Isaacson Kathleen Hall Jamieson David M. Kennedy Secretary John Kerry Henry Kissinger Paul Krugman Representative John Lewis Norman Mailer Chris Matthews Senator John McCain Colum McCann David McCullough President Barack Obama Conan O’Brien George Packer Samantha Power Tariq Ramadan Robert Redford Gloria Steinem Joe Stiglitz Ron Suskind Paul Theroux Senator Elizabeth Warren Richard Warren Ted Widmer.

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JFK’S VISION FOR AMERICA

Publication to coincide with JFK’s 100th

Birthday

Stephen Kennedy Smith received his B.A from Harvard University, J.D. from Columbia University, and M.Ed from

Harvard University School of Education. For the past twenty years, Mr. Smith has been on the Kennedy board of Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises, the Kennedy family

investmentoffice.

PERSONALITIES ON THE PLATEBarbara J. King

University of Chicago Press, March 2017 (World English Rights)

In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes, elephants, and dolphins have not just brains, but complicated inner and social lives, and that we need to act accordingly. Yet that realization hasn’t yet made its presence felt to any great degree

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in our most intimate relationship with animals: at the dinner table. Sure, there are vegetarians and vegans all over, but at the same time, meat consumption is up, and meat remains a central part of the culinary and dining experience for the majority of people in the developed world. With Personalities on the Plate, Barbara King asks us to think hard about our meat eating--and how we might reduce it. But this isn’t a polemic intended to convert readers to veganism. What she is interested in is why we’ve not drawn food animals into our concern and just what we do know about the minds and lives of chickens, cows, octopuses, fish, and more. Rooted in the latest science, and built on a mix of firsthand experience (including entomophagy, which, yes, is what you think it is) and close engagement with the work of scientists, farmers, vets, and chefs, Personalities on the Plate is an unforgettable journey through the world of animals we eat. Knowing what we know--and what we may yet learn--what is the proper ethical stance toward eating meat? What are the consequences for the planet? How can we life an ethically and ecologically sound life through our food choices?

We could have no better guide to these fascinatingly thorny questions than King, whose deep empathy embraces human and animal alike. Readers will be moved, provoked, and changed by this powerful book.

HOW DEMOCRACIES DIESteve Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

Crown, January 2018 (North American)Viking, UK & CommonwealthChina Times, Taiwan

Are we losing our most precious resource? Is this nightmare we’ve entered really serious? HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE speaks to what’s haunting you—and millions of others around the world. In December, hundreds of thousands of these troubled citizens emailed each other copies of a Times op-ed piece called “Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?” It was terrifically alarming, but it somehow gave the reader a clear way to think about what is happening to America and subsequently, the world. Now the authors of that level-headed essay, who have been tossing and turning just like the rest of us but with far more knowledge to prompt their fears, have decided to turn their article into a book.

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This is the book to have on the downfall of democracy in today’s world

Steve Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are mid-career stars in the government department at Harvard. Ziblatt studies the life cycle of democracies in Europe; Levitsky studies what happens to democracy in Latin America. Together, they have developed a broad understanding of how democracy is subverted or destroyed, and how it is sometimes rescued. These two dynamic thinkers are highly regarded in their field, and they have experience talking to the rest of us, too (NYTimes, Vox, NPR).

Sold in a major deal to Crown within days of submission

SARGENT'S WOMEN Donna M. Lucey

W.W. Norton & Company, August 2017

With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent’s portraits hint at the mysteries, passions, and tragedies that unfolded in his subjects’ lives.

Sequestered in a fantasy-land castle in the remote Rocky Mountains, Elsie Palmer carried on a labyrinthine love life; Elizabeth Chanler stepped into a maze of infidelity with her best friend’s husband; as the veiled image of Sally Fairchild―beautiful, commanding, and poison-tongued― emerged on Sargent’s canvas, the power of his artistry lured her sister Lucia into an ill-fated life in art; shrewd, iron-willed Isabella Stewart Gardner collected both art and young men. Born to unimaginable wealth, these women lived on an operatic scale, and their letters and diaries create a rich depiction of the Gilded Age and the acclaimed but secretive painter whose canvases defined the era. 8 pages of color illustrations39

DONNA M.

LUCEY

SARGENT’S WOMEN

Four Lives

Behind the

Canvas

The fascinating backstories of four

women painted by John Singer

Sargent come alive in this seductive,

multilayered biography.

SCRATCH Edited by Manjula Martin

Simon & Schuster, January 2017

In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. It’s an endless, confusing, and often controversial conversation that, despite our bare-it-all culture, still remains taboo. In Scratch, Manjula Martin has gathered interviews and essays from established and rising authors to confront the age-old question: how do creative people make money?

As contributors including Jonathan Franzen, Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, Nick Hornby, Susan Orlean, Alexander Chee, Daniel Jose Older, Jennifer Weiner, and Yiyun Li candidly and emotionally discuss money, MFA programs, teaching fellowships, finally getting published, and what success really means to them, Scratch honestly addresses the tensions between writing and money, work and life, literature and commerce.

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A collection of essays from today’s most

acclaimed authors on the realities of making a living in the writing world.

THE ILLUSTRATED ART OF MANLINESS BRETT MCKAY

Little Brown & Company, May 2017 (North American)

An indispensable, hands-on guide dedicated to the lost art of being a man, The Illustrated Art of Manliness distills more than 100 practical skills every modern man needs to know into an entertaining, easy-to-follow visual format.

Founder of The Art of Manliness Brett McKay and bestselling illustrator Ted Slampyak write brilliantly illustrated articles to help men be the best fathers, brothers, sons, and men they can be. Including:

How to disarm an attackerHowtofellatreeandstartafireanywhereHowacarengineworks,andhowtofixit

How to use every tool in your toolboxWhattowearonafirstdateandtoajobinterview

How to lead a meeting and command the attention of a room

Howtodance,fight,shave,shakeahand,pickalock,andfireagun

And other advice for when you’re lost, in danger, or merely confronting a shirt that needs to be ironed.

The Illustrated Art of Manliness features a classic, timeless package, including full-color illustrations.41

Atria Books, September 2017 (North American Rights)

Discover how to tap into your extraordinary human capacity for connection and healing, using astonishing new findings about the miraculous power of group intention and its boomerang effect, in this new book by the author of the international bestsellers The Intention Experiment and The Field.

What we send out into the universe comes back to us, magnified. positive thoughts—is widely accepted as an influential force in transforming lives, the exponential power of group intention has never been explored, until now. In The Power of Eight, Lynne McTaggart, an expert on the science of spirituality, reveals her remarkable findings from ten years of experiments about how group intention can heal our lives—and change the world for the better. When individuals in a group focus their intention together on a single target, a powerful collective dynamic emerges that can heal longstanding conditions, mend fractured relationships, lower violence, and even rekindle life purpose. But the greatest untold truth of all is that group intention has a mirror effect, not only affecting the recipient but also reflecting back on the senders.

Drawing on hundreds of case studies, the latest brain research, and dozens of McTaggart’s own university studies, The Power of Eight provides solid evidence showing that there is such a thing as a collective consciousness.

Although the power of intention—the energy of Now you can learn to use it and unleash the power you hold inside of you to heal your own life, with help from this riveting, highly accessible new book. And you can join a series of worldwide Intention Experiments that will run on a major web television channel in 120 countries during the book’s initial publication and afterward.

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Rights Sold:Sirio, Spain

Acorn, TaiwanAriane Editions, France

China Youth, China (Simplified)Ankh-Hermes, The Netherlands

Hay House, UK & Commonwealth

THE POWER OF EIGHT:The Miraculous Healing Effects of Small GroupsLynne McTaggart

THE POWER OF ONLYNESSNilofer Merchant

Viking/Penguin, August 2017 (World English Rights)

Most of us long to make a dent in the universe, to leave a world that’s better than the one into which we’re born. Until recently, the only way to pursue this goal was by joining a big company or some other institution and rise in the ranks to have enough power to do so. Meanwhile, the rest of us with new and fresh takes kept getting told our ideas were “too weird” or “too wild.”

In The Power of Onlyness, Nilofer Merchant offers a new pathway to make those wild ideas reality, and a model of a world in which everyone’s ideas can count. Our onlyness is a spot that only we occupy—a function of our history and experience, visions and hopes. It’s through our onlyness, and the new power of social media, that we connect to others who share our sense of purpose and together bring about remarkable change.

Filled with accounts of ordinary people who have exploited the possibilities of this new era, The Power of Onlyness demonstrates how the power of one can be tapped into to enlist the power of many.

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Nilofer Merchant won the Thinkers 50 Award

and was named by Fast Company one of the 25 Smartest Women on Twitter.

She has been featured on numerous media platforms. Her 2013

TED Talk is one of the top 10 percent of the most viewed on that

platform.

Rights Sold:Citic, China (Simplified Characters)

EXTREME YOUStep Up. Stand out. Kick ass. Repeat.

Sarah Robb O’Hagan

HarperBusiness, April 2017 (North American Rights) As a child, Sarah Robb O’Hagan dreamed she could be a champion. Her early efforts failed to reveal a natural superstar, but she refused to settle for average. Through dramatic successes and epic fails, she studied how extraordinary people in sports, entertainment and business set and achieve extremely personal goals. Sarah became an executive at Virgin Atlantic and Nike, and despite being fired twice in her twenties, she went on to become the global president of Gatorade and of Equinox—as well as a wife, mother, and endurance athlete.

In every challenging situation, personal or professional, individuals face the pressure to play it safe and conform to the accepted norms. But doing so comes with heavy costs: passions stifled, talents ignored, and opportunities squelched. The bolder choice is to embrace what Sarah calls Extreme You: to confidently bring all that is distinctive and relevant about yourself to everything you do.

Inspiring, surprising, and practical, Extreme You is her training program for becoming the best version of yourself.

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Rights Sold:Citic, ChinaEksmo, RussiaPiatkus, UK & Commonwealth

“Every once in a while, you need someone

standing by your shoulder, inspiring you,

cheering you on, pushing you to

go further. Sarah might be just

the coach you’re looking for.”

—Seth Godin, author of Linchpin

THE WRITTEN WORLDTHE STORY OF LITERATURE

AND HOW IT SHAPED HISTORYMartin Puchner

Random House, November 2017 (North American Rights)

The story of literature in seventeen acts, from Alexander the Great and The Iliad to J. K. Rowling and Harry Potter, this wonderful book combines biography, history, and stories from literature to show how the written word has had the power to shape civilizations throughout time.

Martin Puchner is a prize-winning author, teacher, public speaker, and institution builder in the arts and humanities. He is the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and the general editor of The Norton Anthology of World Literature and The Norton Anthology of Western Literature. He has brought four thousand years of literature into the classroom through his HarvardX MOOC (massive open online course), Masterpieces of World Literature.

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Rights Sold:Citic, China

Hayakawa, JapanMondadori, Italy

Kachi Books, KoreaEditions Fayard, France

Circulo Leitores, PortugalCompanhia das Letras, BrazilGranta, UK & Commonwealth

Blessing Verlag/Random House, Germany

THE BETTENCOURT AFFAIRThe World’s Richest Woman and the

Scandal That Rocked ParisTom Sancton

Dutton, August 2017 (World English Rights) Liliane Bettencourt is the world’s richest woman and the eleventh wealthiest person on the planet, as of 2016. But at ninety-four, she’s embroiled in an incredible controversy that has dominated the headlines and ensnared a former president of France in the controversy. Why? Thanks to an artist and photographer named François-Marie Banier, who was given hundreds of millions of dollars by Liliane. Liliane’s daughter, Françoise, considers Banier a con man and filed a lawsuit against him, but Banier has a far different story to tell. It’s all become Europe’s biggest scandal in years, uncovering a shadowy corporate history, buried World War II secrets, illicit political payoffs, and much more. Written by Tom Sancton, a Vanity Fair contributor and former Time correspondent currently living in France, The Bettencourt Affair is part courtroom drama; part upstairs-downstairs tale; part business narrative of a glamorous global company with past Nazi connections; and part character-driven story of a complex, fascinating family and the intruder who nearly tore it apart.

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Was the world’s wealthiest woman

—Liliane Bettencourt—heir to an estimated thirty-

six-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, the victim of a con

man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting

narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the

cause célèbre that has captivated both France and

the world.

DONNA M.

LUCEY

SARGENT’S WOMEN

Four Lives

Behind the

Canvas