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FICTION

Nathan Hill, THE NIX, Knopf, August 30, 2016www.nathanhill.netAn incandescent, explosively funny, big-hearted fiction debut that announces a writer of astonishing talent. A Nix can be many things. In the world of Norwegian mythology, it is a white horse that steals children. In the world of Nathan Hill’s remarkable first novel, a Nix can be anything you fall in love with—anything that can one day disappear, taking with it a piece of your heart. Samuel Andresen-Andersen—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix all his own: his mother. She walked out on him and his father when he was just a small boy and he hasn’t seen her in decades. Now,

in a surprising twist of fate, Samuel is asked to tell his mother’s life story for a biography-cum-exposé. Crippled under a mountain of debt from his long-overdue book contract, he promises his publisher he’ll write it. The only problem is, he doesn’t yet know what to tell—or if he’ll be able to talk to his mother without bursting into tears. Taking us on a journey from the rural Midwest of the 1960s to New York City during the Great Recession, and culminating in the notorious 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention, here is novel of great emotional force: a family epic that explores, with both humor and tenderness, the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.

Meryl Streep and JJ Abrams team with Warner Bros. TV on a limited tv series based on THE NIX Debuts at #5 on The New York Times Bestseller List and #6 on IndieBound Bestseller List 100,000-copy first printing BEA 2016 Buzz Panel Title Barnes & Noble Discover pick Named a Book of the Season by Entertainment Weekly, Amazon, The Millions, The Strand, Publishers

Weekly, The Huffington Post, Bookish, Brightly, Gear Patrol Named a Book of the Month by Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, Indie Next, Goodreads, GQ, Vogue,

People, Vulture, Audible, iBooks “THE NIX is a mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about

anger and sanctimony in America.  Even the minor characters go to extremes--among them, a Home Ec teacher from Hell and an unrepentant plagiarist with presidential aspirations.  ‘A maestro of being awful,’ the son calls his mom.  ‘Every memory is really a scar,’ she tells him.  For this mother and son, disappointment is ‘the price of hope’--a cost they will both bear.  Nathan Hill is a maestro of being terrific.” – John Irving

“Like [John] Irving, Hill skillfully blends humor and darkness, imagery and observation. He also excels at describing technology, addiction, cultural milestones, and childhood ordeals. Cameos by Allen Ginsberg, Walter Cronkite, and Hubert Humphrey add heart and perspective to this rich, lively take on American social conflict, real and invented, over the last half-century.” – Publishers Weekly (boxed review)

“Hill takes aim at hypocrisy, greed, misogyny, addiction, and vengeance with edgy humor and deep empathy in a whiplashing mix of literary artistry and compulsive readability. Place Hill’s engrossing, skewering, and preternaturally timely tale beside the novels of Tom Wolfe, John Irving, Donna Tartt, and Michael Chabon.” – Donna Seaman, Booklist    

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“Sparkling, sweeping debut novel that takes in a large swath of recent American history and pop culture and turns them on their sides… A grand entertainment, smart and well-paced, and a book that promises good work to come.” – Kirkus   

“Ambitiously panoramic and humane...hugely entertaining and unfailingly smart, and the author seems incapable of writing a pedestrian sentence or spinning a boring story. . . . [A] supersize and audacious novel of American misadventure.” –Teddy Wayne, The New York Times Book Review

“[A] great sprawling feast of a first novel… [Hill] packs THE NIX with cultural commentary that manages to be both darkly satirical and uproariously funny. While wildly original, Hill is clearly the spawn of Thomas Pynchon and Stanley Elkin. He’s Jonathan Franzen wearing a smile for a change.” – Newsday

“Not since the 1996 and 1997 double-header of John Updike’s IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES and Philip Roth’s AMERICAN PASTORAL has a novel emerged that presents a more comprehensive and perceptive portrait of the personal and political American psyche than Nathan Hill’s wise, rueful, and scathingly funny début, THE NIX… An organically unfolding saga that, in its unpretentious, empathetic narration, recalls the voice of John Irving—as in THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP or THE CIDER HOUSE RULES.” – Barnes & Noble Review  

“Irresistible…sharply funny…brilliant, endearing…both nostalgic and prescient.” – Washington Post “It broke my heart, this book. Time after time. It made me laugh just as often. I loved it on the first page as

powerfully as I did on the last, and I think I was right, right from the start. Because Nathan Hill? He’s gonna be famous. This is just the start.” – NPR  

“A fantastic novel about love, betrayal, politics and pop culture—as good as the best Michael Chabon or Jonathan Franzen.” – People Magazine

“Hill is an uncommonly profound observer, illuminating much about the relationships between parents and children. Yet amid all its searching and yearning, THE NIX remains impressively light on its feet, finding humor in its characters’ plights. . . . This looks to be the debut of an important new writer, able to variously make readers laugh out loud while providing a melancholy, resonant tale.” —Eliot Schrefer, USA Today (4/4 Stars)

Foreign rights licensed to Picador (UK), De Bezige Bij (Holland), Brombergs (Sweden), Piper (Germany), Lindhardt & Ringhof (Denmark), Editions Gallimard (France), Rizzoli (Italy), Kinneret (Israel), Salamandra (world Spanish), Salamandra (Catalan), youngdotcom (Korea), Libri (Hungary), Gummerus (Finland), Gyldendal Norsk (Norway), Znak (Poland), Beijing Imaginist Time Culture Co. (Mainland China), Intrinseca (Brazil), Alexandria (Greece), Corpus (Russia)

Craig Johnson, Walt Longmire series, Viking PenguinLONGMIRE #12: AN OBVIOUS FACT, September 13, 2016www.craigallenjohnson.comSheriff Walt Longmire had already rounded up a sizeable posse of devoted readers when the A&E television series Longmire sent the Wyoming lawman’s popularity skyrocketing. Now, with five consecutive New York Times bestsellers to his name and Longmire reaching an average of 5.4 million viewers per episode, Craig Johnson has officially joined the ranks of bestseller-list regulars like C.J. Box and Tony Hillerman. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO

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#12: AN OBVIOUS FACT debuted at #6 on The New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list, #5 on the ebook list; and #5 on the combined list

“Thrilling… Whether he’s squaring off against biker gangs or teasing out long-simmering feuds involving his closest friends, Walt Longmire is always the man for the job.” – Publishers Weekly

“Plenty of action, humor, and literary allusions drive the story to a bang-up conclusion. Johnson ...never disappoints.” – Kirkus

New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times bestsellers Over 1.3 million Walt Longmire books sold in the US A bestselling, award-winning series in France with over 200,000 copies in the series sold Longmire, the television series adapted from Craig Johnson’s novels starring Robert Taylor, Lou

Diamond Phillips, and Katee Sackhoff, premiered on A&E in June 2012 and airs its fifth season on Netflix in September 2016

Reviews for the Walt Longmire series: “Top-notch…Johnson’s hero only gets better—both at solving cases and at hooking readers—with age.”

– Publishers Weekly “Johnson's pacing is tight and his dialogue snaps.” – Entertainment Weekly “It's the scenery—and the big guy standing in front of the scenery—that keeps us coming back to Craig

Johnson's lean and leathery mysteries.” – The New York Times Book Review “Johnson's trademarks [are] great characters, witty banter, serious sleuthing, and a love of Wyoming bigger

than a stack of derelict cars.” – The Boston Globe “Since its inception, the best-selling series has continued to grow globally in popularity and is now a hit on

cable TV…. The story moves at a brisk pace, with room for some good-natured humor and plenty of gorgeous Wyoming scenery. But the real stars of the series are Walt and his supporting cast…[they] are like old friends whom you look forward to spending time with. Inevitably, once the story is finished, readers will find themselves already looking forward to Walt's next visit.” – CNN

Foreign rights in the series licensed to Editions Gallmeister (France), Yilan Culture (China), Siruela (world Spanish), Orion/Murder Room (UK), Edizioni EO (Italy), Harf (Turkey), Festa (Germany)

Jane Alison, NINE ISLAND, Catapult, September 13, 2016www.janealison.comAn intimate autobiographical novel, told by J, a woman who lives in a glass tower on one of Miami Beach’s lush Venetian Islands puzzling out the problems of loneliness and erotic love as she translates Ovid’s stories of sex. After decades of disaster with men, she is trying to decide whether to withdraw forever from romantic love. Having just returned to Miami from a monthlong reunion with an old flame, “Sir Gold,” and a visit to her fragile

mother, J begins translating Ovid’s magical stories about the transformations caused by Eros. “A woman who wants, a man who wants nothing. These two have stalked the world for thousands of years,” she thinks. When not ruminating over her sexual past and current fantasies, in the company of only her aging cat, J observes the comic, sometimes steamy goings-on among her faded-glamour condo neighbors. One of them, a caring nurse, befriends her, eventually offering the opinion that “if you retire from love . . . then you retire from life.” A central narrative about her sexual past and present, as well as the comic goings-on in her faded-glamour condo, is broken by brief ruminations on the origins of erotic love and modern re-imaginings of Ovid. The tone is wry, and Miami Beach—especially the Venetian Islands—with all of its steamy silliness and impossibly beautiful flora and fauna, plays a big role. It is in this lush backdrop that our heroine ponders her retirement from love, even as she is befriended by a woman in the building who is making far more grave decisions. AGENT: UK, TRANSL. PUB: AUDIO.

“A wonderful novel… With echoes of Molly Bloom’s soliloquy and Iris Murdoch’s THE SEA, THE SEA, Alison has forged a haunting and emotionally precise portrait, a beautiful reminder that solitude does not equal loneliness.” – Publishers Weekly    

“Evocative, sad, at times funny, and never completely without hope, a story that studies what it means to be alone later in life.” – Kirkus 

“A crackling incantation, brittle and brilliant and hot and sad and full of sideways humor that devastates and illuminates all at once.” – Lauren Groff, author of FATES AND FURIES

“A nerve-jangling book full of the giddy wit of the emotionally starving, the unfulfillable desire of being in love with being in love, and the weirdly sexy conversation of souls in free fall.” – David Shields, author of REALITY HUNGER and HOW LITERATURE SAVED MY LIFE

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“This deceptively slim narrative, as witty and mercurial as any tale from Ovid, circles deftly around love and desire, pain and death, joy and solitude and the relentless nature of change. I fell into it as into water, transformed by the magic of Alison's prose.” – Andrea Barrett, author of ARCHANGEL

ACHILLES or THE WARRIOR AND THE MURDERER (Aquiles o el guerrillero y el asesino), Alfaguara, September 2016 The short and extraordinary story of Carlos Pizarro is that of a tragic hero. Robust, unbeatable, and full of virtue, Pizarro went from militant communism to becoming a guerrilla soldier, from there to amnesty, and later went on to become a candidate for president of Colombia. This novel is a chronicle of his life, both historical and personal, and through the tale of reliable facts the reader delves into the fiction. Beyond the well-known facts, between the inevitable drug trafficking, a guerrilla who must keep shooting in order to negotiate peace, the absence of a national plan, and the indomitable will to

fight, in this posthumous work by Carlos Fuentes, pieced together and edited by his friend and colleague Julio Ortega, readers will get to know a character who is as epic as he is complex, vulnerable, and full of love and hope. AGENT:  UK, TRANSLATION (EXCEPT SPANISH, PORTUGUESE, AND GERMAN), AUDIO.

“Mexico’s greatest novelist.” – The Guardian “For many, many writers of my young generation, Carlos Fuentes was a master. We studied, pored over, all

but traced his novels. Now, thirty years on, he is still master, undiminished.” – Richard Ford    

Martin Hyatt, BEAUTIFUL GRAVITY, Antibookclub, October 4, 2016www.martinhyatt.comBEAUTIFUL GRAVITY is a story about working class lives and broken dreams in the American South, written with noteworthy compassion and the kind of extraordinary sensitivity that saves forgotten lives from vanishing. Set in a small town of peaceful nothingness deep in the Louisiana bayou, BEAUTIFUL GRAVITY is about four characters. The loner 36 year-old narrator Boz feels “the more of a man I become the more of a boy I actually am.” Boz is stuck: “Those who’ve ever been trapped somewhere understand what

it’s like to stay stuck.” There’s nothing holding him in Noxington but bad memories, exclusion, and death. Boz’s only extant friend from his 20’s is the anorexic daughter of a Pentecostal preacher. Meg has been in and out of mental institutions. Into their broken lives via a red sports car comes a beautiful city-burnished couple: Kyle, a former athlete, and Catty, a one-shot faded Nashville star. All four proceed to fall in and out of love with one another. Out of this delicately conveyed emotional turbulence Boz’s beautiful gravity emerges. And his future, for once, becomes clear. Hyatt’s first novel A SCARECROW’S BIBLE (Suspect Thoughts Press) was the winner of the 2007 Edmund White Debut Fiction Award; a finalist for the 2006 Violet Quill Award, the 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction, and the 2007 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Men's Fiction; an alternate featured selection of the Doubleday/Insight Out Book Club; and an Honor Book in Literature for the 2007 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.

“There are hard-earned moments of emotional triumph to be found here, but there are also gut-wrenchingly sad ones. Hyatt’s novel brings together the grittily realistic with the transcendent, and the result is a beguiling character study.” – Kirkus 

“This is a narrator I would follow anywhere. Very much alive with moments of true idiosyncratic beauty.” – Michael Cunningham

“Martin Hyatt knows about love and fear, despair and redemption, joy and guilt, and he tells the truth. He writes like an angel, albeit a sad one.” – Abigail Thomas, author of A THREE DOG LIFE

Rita Mae Brown, CAKEWALK, a new novel in the SIX OF ONE series, Ballantine/Bantam, October 18, 2016www.ritamaebrownbooks.com Continuing in the exuberant tradition of SIX OF ONE, BINGO, and LOOSE LIPS, New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown returns to her much-loved fictional hamlet of Runnymede, whose memorable citizens are welcoming both the end of the Great War and the beginning of a new era.  The night a riot breaks out at the Capitol Theater movie house, you can bet that the Hunsenmeir sisters, Louise and Julia, are nearby. Known locally as Wheezie

and Juts, the inimitable, irrepressible, distinctly freethinking sisters and their delightful circle of friends are coming

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of age in a shifting world—and are determined to understand their place in it. Across town, the well-to-do Chalfonte siblings are preparing for the upcoming wedding of brother Curtis. But for youngest sister Celeste, the celebration brings about a change she never expected and a lesson about love she’ll not soon forget.  Set against the backdrop of America emerging from World War I, Cakewalk is an outrageous and affecting novel about a small town where ideas of sin and virtue, love and sex, men and women, politics and religion, can be as divided as the Mason-Dixon Line that runs right through it—and where there’s no problem that can’t be cured by a good yarn and an even better scotch. With her signature Southern voice, Rita Mae Brown deftly weaves generations of family stories into a spirited patchwork quilt of not-so-simple but joyously rich life. Sparkling with a perfect combination of sisterhood and sass, the SIX OF ONE books show a richly textured Southern canvas—Rita Mae Brown “at her winning, fondest best” (Kirkus). Rita Mae hasn’t traveled back to Runnymede in many years, and this new one will be sure to win over the hearts of readers old and new. Titles in this series include SIX OF ONE (1978), BINGO (1988), and LOOSE LIPS (1999). AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO. Praise for the SIX OF ONE Series:

“Brown has some of the same effervescent yet secure trust in her local characters that Eudora Welty feels for hers… When history nicks them, they slap right back.” – Kirkus

“Beams with Brown’s fondness for her characters and her delight in the oddness of the world of Runnymede.” – Boston Herald

“No matter how quirky or devilish, Brown’s people cavort in an atmosphere of tenderness. . . . It is refreshing to encounter this celebration of human energy.” – Chicago-Sun Times

Sonya Chung, THE LOVED ONES, Relegation Books, October 18, 2016www.sonyachung.comIn this novel of inheritance and loss, The Millions writer and founding editor of Bloom Sonya Chung (LONG FOR THIS WORLD, Scribner 2010) proves herself a worthy heir to Marguerite Duras, Hwang Sun-won, and James Salter. Spanning generations and divergent cultures, THE LOVED ONES maps the intimate politics of unlikely attractions, illicit love, and costly reconciliations. Charles Lee, the young African American patriarch of a biracial family, seeks to remedy his fatherless childhood in Washington, DC, by making an

honorable choice when his chance arrives. Years later in the mid-1980s, uneasy and stymied in his marriage to Alice, he finds a connection with Hannah Lee, the teenage Korean American caregiver whose parents' transgressive flight from tradition and war has left them shrouded in a cloud of secrets and muted passion. A shocking and senseless death will test every familial bond and force all who are touched by the tragedy to reexamine who their loved ones truly are--the very meaning of the words. Haunting, elliptical, and powerful, THE LOVED ONES deconstructs the world we think we know and shows us the one we inhabit. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.

November 2016 Indie Next Pick “Chung takes us from 1951 to 2005 and from Washington D.C. to Korea and Paris, drastically reframing

our world by exploring difficult ideas and raising awareness of our capacity for empathy. Part immigrant narrative, part coming-of-age fiction, with interwoven themes of interracial marriage, the role of absentee fathers, and the continued hold of the past, this tale charts a nuanced journey that follows no convenient tropes… A book full of complex characters and plot twists… Chung’s adeptness in capturing the soaring drama of subdued interactions makes this worth a read. But it is her ability to be at once subversive and optimistic, radical and reassuring that makes this a must-read.” – Booklist

“A gorgeous multigenerational saga of love and race, loss and belonging… Every last one of Chung's characters is wholly alive and breathtakingly human, but it's her portrait of teenage Hannah—always complicated, never romanticized—that makes the novel such a heart-wrenching pleasure. Elegant and empathetic, a book impossible to put down.” – Kirkus 

“Sonya Chung's prose is elegant, sparse, and heartbreaking in a way that reminds one of Elena Ferrante or Clarice Lispector. In this novel of two very different but interconnected families both named Lee, she tells the story of love against the twin inheritances of shame and grief. This book is a complication of the immigrant narrative in a way that is long overdue and necessary. A gorgeous and important second novel.'' – Nayomi Munaweera, author of WHAT LIES BETWEEN US

“I love the intricate way Sonya Chung weaves silence, watchfulness, stillness and patience into the life fabric of her disparate characters in THE LOVED ONES. The world around them is often harsh and mystifying, but Chung explores the big questions (life, death, love, family, race and more) through an intimate lens, as we gradually discover who lives behind these silences. We feel what they feel, and are changed by reading our way into their lives. That is the rare and precious gift Chung offers us in her novel.

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As a former longtime independent bookseller, I can say without hesitation that this is the kind of book I was always seeking, one that I could place in the hands of a customer and say, ‘You must read this!’” – Robert Gray, editor at Shelf Awareness

Laura Pritchett, THE BLUE HOUR, Counterpoint, February 14, 2017www.laurapritchett.comThe tight-knit residents of Blue Moon Mountain, nestled high in the Colorado Mountains, form an interconnected community of those living off the land, stunned by the beauty and isolation all around them. So when, at the onset of winter, the town veterinarian commits a violent act, the repercussions of that tragedy will be felt all across the mountainside, upending their lives and causing their paths to twist and collide in unexpected ways. They will all rise and converge upon the blue hour —the l’heure bleu—the hour of twilight, a time of desire, lust, honesty. The strong, spirited people of Blue Moon Mountain must learn to navigate the line between

violence and sex, tenderness and the hard edge of yearning, and the often confusing paths of mourning and lust. Writing with passion for rural lives and the natural world, Laura Pritchett has been called “one of the most accomplished writers of the American West.” By the author of the critically acclaimed novel STARS GO BLUE (Counterpoint, 2014), finalist for the MPIBA Reading the West Book Award, Colorado Book Award, and WILLA Award and Winner of the 2015 High Plains Book Award. AGENT: UK, TRANSL.  PUB: AUDIO.

Rita Mae Brown, #26 A HISS BEFORE DYING: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery, Bantam, May 2017www.ritamaebrownbooks.com Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with an all-new mystery featuring Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen, crime-solving cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and ever-faithful corgi Tee Tucker. AGENT:  UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.

The 26th title in the bestselling series “coauthored” with Sneaky Pie Brown, the author’s cat

Nearly 5 million copies in the series in print “As feline collaborators go, you couldn’t ask for better than Sneaky Pie Brown.” – NYTBR Foreign rights in the series licensed to Ullstein (Germany), Hayakawa (Japan), Motto (Czech and

Slovak), Muvelt Nep (Hungary)

Scott Turow, TESTIMONY, Grand Central, May 23, 2017www.scottturow.comIn the bestselling tradition of PRESUMED INNOCENT—the 1987 debut novel that made him “one of the major writers in America” (NPR)—comes what may be Scott Turow’s best thriller yet. Bill ‘Ten’ Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped to examine the disappearance of an entire Kosovo refugee camp—unsolved for ten years—he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. In order to uncover what happened during the apocalyptic chaos after the Bosnian War, Boom must navigate a host of suspects ranging from Serb paramilitaries to organized crime gangs to the U.S. government, while also navigating the alliances and treacheries of those connected to the case: Morgan Merriwell, a disgraced U.S. Brigadier General; Ferka Drnic, the massacre’s sole survivor; and Esma Czarni, a seductive barrister. Scott Turow is the author of 10 bestselling works of fiction and two nonfiction titles. His books have been translated into more than 25 languages, sold more than 25 million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into film and television projects. He is a master of the legal thriller. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.

Foreign rights licensed to Macmillan UK

Heather Gudenkauf, NOT A SOUND, Park Row Books/Mira, May 30, 2017www.heathergudenkauf.comWhat one woman believes is her greatest weakness becomes her greatest asset in this latest crime chiller from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf. When a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf, she spirals into a depression that ultimately causes her to lose everything that matters—her job, her husband, David, her

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stepdaughter, Nora. Now, two years later and with the help of her hearing dog, Stitch, she is finally getting back on her feet. But when she discovers the body of a fellow nurse in the dense bush by the river, deep in the woods near her cabin, she is plunged into a disturbing mystery that could shatter the carefully reconstructed pieces of her life all over again. As clues begin to surface, Amelia finds herself swept into an investigation that hits all too close to home. But how much is she willing to risk in order to uncover the truth and bring a killer to justice? Heather Gudenkauf has been described as “masterful” and “intelligent” and compared to Lisa Scottoline and Jodi Picoult. Introducing her most compelling heroine yet, she delivers a taut and emotional thriller that proves she’s at the top of her class. By the author of New York Times and USA Today bestselling novels THE WEIGHT OF SILENCE, THESE THINGS HIDDEN, ONE BREATH AWAY, LITTLE MERCIES and MISSING PIECES. AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.

Julia Glass, A HOUSE AMONG THE TREES, Pantheon, June 13, 2017From the beloved author of the National Book Award-winning THREE JUNES. The unusual bond between a world-famous children's author and his assistant sets the stage for a richly plotted novel of friendship, art, and the power of a legacy. When the celebrated children's author Mort Lear dies suddenly at the Connecticut home he shares with Tomasina, his trusted assistant, she is stunned to be left the house and all its contents, as well as the role of literary executor. Not quite his daughter, not quite his wife, but nearly everything to the reclusive Lear, the young Tommy met him in a Greenwich Village playground where she was babysitting her brother, and he was making sketches that would become his great classic, COLORQUAKE. Now in her fifties, Tommy is overwhelmed by the complex legacy of Mort's art, which includes people to manage: the driven, lonely museum curator who mistakenly expected to receive all of Mort's drawings, and the British actor who will play Lear in a biopic, on his way to the house to research the role. As Tommy discovers more about Mort than she ever knew, these characters circle the mystery of his life and work, finding not just each other, but important pieces of themselves, in the capacious world of his stories and drawings. By the author of THREE JUNES, THE WHOLE WORLD OVER, I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE, THE WIDOWER’S TALE, and AND THE DARK SACRED NIGHT. AGENT: UK (ON BEHALF OF PUB.), TRANSL. PUB: AUDIO.

Kristen Iskandrian, MOTHEREST, Twelve, June/July 2017Reminiscent of Jenny Offill and Maria Semple, O. Henry Prize winner Kristen Iskandrian’s debut novel, MOTHEREST, is an inventive and moving coming-of-age story that captures the pain of fractured family life, the heat of new love, and that particular magic of female friendship—all while interrogating the complexities that exist between a daughter and a mother.  It follows Agnes, a college student in the mid-1990s, who is running out of people she can count on. Agnes is caught between the broken home she leaves behind and the (be)wilderness of life on campus—full of booze and boys and rife with loneliness. What she needs most of all is her mother, who disappears seemingly once and for all after leaving Agnes at school. She also misses her brother,

who left the family permanently and tragically a few years prior. As Agnes sinks into a new romance, mines female friendships for intimacy, and tries desperately to find her footing, she writes letters to her mother, both in an effort to conjure a closeness they never had and an attempt to translate her experiences to herself. When she finds out she is pregnant, Agnes begins to contend with what it means to be a mother and, in some ways, what it means to be your own mother. The end of the world as she knows it is also, she learns, the beginning of a new one. AGENT: TRANSLATION.  PUB: UK, AUDIO.

“A moving story of loss and loneliness and parenthood and love, in all their vast human multitudes. It’s an intensely perceptive and honest novel about the sometimes unbridgeable gap between parents and children…. You will be transfixed until the very last page.”  – Nathan Hill, author of THE NIX

“Agnes is one of the most unforgettable protagonists I’ve read in recent years—as if a Dickens heroine was reimagined by a literary girl gang made up of Deb Olin Unferth, Katherine Dunn and Lydia Davis.” – Porochista Khakpour, author of THE LAST ILLUSION

“An utterly thrilling voice, and MOTHER, MOTHERER, MOTHEREST will slay you with its inventive, spiky, and heartrending investigation into the dark mysteries of family life—and the quest for a private identity within it. A smart, gorgeous, and singular debut.” – Laura van den Berg, author of FIND ME

James Morrow, THE ASYLUM OF DR. CALIGARI, Tachyon Books, August 2017New science fiction novella by the masterful author of the much acclaimed SHAMBLING TOWARD HIROSHIMA and THE MADONNA AND THE STARSHIP.

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Brendan Mathews, THE WORLD OF TOMORROW, Little Brown, September 2017Fulbright scholar and two-time contributor to BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES (2010 and 2014) THE WORLD OF TOMORROW, a transatlantic story transpiring over the course of one week in June 1939, features an ensemble cast of conmen, politicians, jazz musicians, mobsters, henchmen, housewives, an artist, a deaf-mute seminarian, and the ghost of W. B. Yeats, and culminates in an assassination plot against the king and queen of England during their visit to the New York World's Fair. PUB: UK, TRANSLATION , AUDIO

“What a book! THE WORLD OF TOMORROW is a panoramic tour-de-force, a huge undertaking peopled with convincing characters and animated by a persuasive historical accuracy. But beyond all that, my fascination was with the way Mathews assembled the novel, sifting and endlessly resifting his characters like sand, as life itself piled up right in front of me. The grim realities of America on the cusp of a second World War will be recognizable, but in this capable writer’s hands, the individual characters—passionate, secretive, naïve, lucky, unlucky, and sometimes hapless—remain full of surprises to the last. They exist not against the backdrop of history, but tangled up in its complex, cruel, or absurd demands, desperate to find whatever space is allowed them for intimacy.” – Ann Beattie

“What a beguiling debut: clever, smart, ambitious, richly textured, and moving.” – Richard Russo

Ian Bassingthwaighte, LIVE FROM CAIRO, Scribner, Fall 2017www.igbass.comA timely debut novel with an up-close focus on the refugee crisis, LIVE FROM CAIRO is set during the immediate aftermath of the ouster of President Mubarak. It tells the story of an Iraqi refugee who finds herself trapped in Egypt after her petition to resettle in America is denied. When her American attorney, long-weary of the legal bureaucracy, coerces her caseworker and an Egyptian translator to treat her plight not as one more piece of paperwork, but instead with the urgency of a human life caught in a precarious balance, things quickly unravel. Laws are broken, friendships are tested, and lives are risked—all in an attempt to protect a refugee of one conflict zone from the paralysis of life in another.  AGENT:  UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.

Mark Helprin, PARIS IN THE PRESENT TENSE, Overlook, Fall 2017www.markhelprin.comThe dazzling new novel from the New York Times #1 bestselling author of WINTER’S TALE and IN SUNLIGHT AND IN SHADOW. The story of Jules Lacour, a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, unfurls in contemporary Paris, wracked with social unrest but replete with inescapable daily glories, and in flashbacks set in Rheims, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Algeria, Greece, Los Angeles, and New York. A cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria and child of the Holocaust, Jules struggles to find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions of life in the present. During a single 12-month period in the twilight of his years, Jules experiences the compression of all the themes of his long life, as he plots to save his ailing grandson, orchestrates what might be his most immortalizing opus (to be used as telephone hold music by France’s largest insurance conglomerate), is thrust into action as he witnesses an urban hate crime, and falls passionately in love with a radiant, young cello prodigy. PARIS IN THE PRESENT TENSE depicts the fluid interweaving of youth and age; of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in France; of crime and accident; of pursuit and evasion; and of the memory of past love and the vitality of those in the present.  AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.

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Elizabeth McKenzie, THE PORTABLE VEBLEN, Penguin Press, January 19, 2016www.stopthatgirl.comAn exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor. THE PORTABLE

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VEBLEN is a dazzlingly original novel that’s as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.

Longlisted for 2016 National Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction An IndieBound Hardcover Fiction Bestseller Publishers Weekly Book of the Week Pick February 2016 Indie Next Pick Amazon.com January 2016 Best Book of the Month in Literature & Fiction One of the 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2016 by Flavorwire A Publishers Marketplace Buzz Book Top Ten Bestseller on seven Independent Bookseller Bestseller lists “A refreshing, life-affirming and funny novel that’s climbing the bestseller lists…. With so light a touch

and yet more serious and beautiful and relevant than many a weightier novel, THE PORTABLE VEBLEN has the feel of an instant, unlikely classic.” – LA Times

“A literary novel with a squirrel subplot may sound improbable, yet McKenzie adroitly skirts the line between the plausible and the absurd. Veblen, the book’s heart and spirit, wins us over with her sense of wonder about the natural versus the man-made world—a wonder that suffuses the entirety of this quirky, engaging novel.” – NYTBR

“One of the great pleasures of reading Elizabeth McKenzie is that she hears the musical potential in language that others do not… Her dialogue has real fizz and snappity-pop. It leaves a bubbled contrail. Ms. McKenzie’s ear is not her only asset. There is also her angled way of seeing things. The hats on all of her characters sit slightly askew… THE PORTABLE VEBLEN is a novel of such festive originality that it would be a shame to miss.” – New York Times

“A wise and thoroughly engaging story in a satirical style comparable to the works of Christopher Moore and Carl Hiaasen.” – Library Journal

“McKenzie's idiosyncratic love story scampers along on a wonderfully zig-zaggy path, dashing and darting in delightfully unexpected directions as it progresses toward its satisfying end and scattering tasty literary passages like nuts along the way.” – Kirkus

(and boxed) “McKenzie writes with sure-handed perception, and her skillful characterization means that despite all of Veblen’s quirks—she’s an amateur Norwegian translator with an affinity for squirrels—she’s one of the best characters of the year. McKenzie’s funny, lively, addictive novel is sure to be a standout.” –Publishers Weekly

“The squirreliest novel I ever read. I enjoyed it completely.” – Ursula K. Le Guin “Man oh man, do I love this book! I have never read anything like it. I can't believe how funny it is given

that we're dealing at times with pharmaceutical fraud, irreparable brain injury, and comatose veterans. (Family dysfunction, on the other hand, is always funny.) The prose is beautiful and surprising and filled with an electric energy. Audacious, imaginative, and totally wonderful: The whole books zips and zings.”– Karen Joy Fowler, PEN/Faulkner-winning author of WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES

“A clever morality tale set against the verdant paradise of Palo Alto. McKenzie’s story of an ambitious young neurologist and the seductions of the darker side of the medical economy is both incisive and hilarious.” – Abraham Verghese, author of CUTTING FOR STONE

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Andromeda Romano-Lax, BEHAVE, Soho Press, Feb. 23, 2016; pb Feb. 14, 2017www.aromanolax.com Passion, Ambition and Bad Science in the Roaring '20s. A novel of passion and ambition based on the life of one of the most controversial scientists—and mothers—of the 20th century. AGENT: TRANSLATION.  PUB: UK, AUDIO.

Amazon Best Book of 2016 So Far April 2016 Indie Next Pick

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“By detailing how the study of human behavior differs from understanding people, and how smart women can miss the obvious and make mistakes, Romano-Lax sheds a harsh yet deeply moving light on feminism and psychology, in theory and in practice.” – Publishers Weekly

“Fascinating... Romano-Lax writes compellingly about science and the Jazz Age.” – Library Journal “The story was fascinating and well-paced; the writing was incredible. Like a cross between Mad Men and

THE BLIND ASSASSIN.” – Rosie Lee, Reader’s Books, Sonoma, CA “Like STONER, it is a beautiful tale of quietly violent emotions straining against tempered times.”

– Thomas Wickersham, Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA

Monica Wood, THE ONE-IN-A-MILLION BOY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 5, 2016 www.monicawood.comwww.oneinamillionboy.comThe feel-good story of a sweet, strange 11-year-old boy and Ona Vitkus, the 104 (yes, 104)-year-old widow, who form a friendship when he shows up at her house to earn a Boy Scout badge by doing her yard work. Their short time together has far-reaching and even record-breaking effects on Ona’s life and that of the boy’s parents giving some very unlikely people a redemptive second chance at life. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION.

PUB: AUDIO. #1 on Maine Sunday Telegram bestseller list April 2016 Indie Next Pick “Monica Wood’s most ambitious book yet. It is, like all her stories, about love – love not given, love given

generously, love not understood and love as simple and uncomplicated as a songbird’s call..” – Portland Press Herald

“A touch of magic in the air. An amusing, uplifting book. This is a one-in-million book.” – escapadesofabookworm.wordpress.com

“A lovely, quirky novel about misfits across the generations.” – The Daily Mail “This is a novel about many things: isolation, community, music, language and friendship. Wood's prose

sparkles with lyrical descriptions and sharp observations about people and their motivations. But the over-arching theme running through it all concerns second chances. Even when you're older than a century, life still has the capacity to surprise you.” – Herald Scotland

“A simultaneously sad and joyous story… Wood’s portrait of a fractured, grieving family is peopled by endearing characters and should appeal to readers who enjoy the family-centered novels of Jodi Picoult and Kristin Hannah.” – Booklist  

“Monica Wood tells a magical, beautifully written story about the healing  power of friendship, music, and unexpected, generation-spanning connections. As emotionally resonant as THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME, this novel hums with energy, warmth, wisdom, humor, and soul.”  – Christina Baker Kline, author of ORPHAN TRAIN

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Simone Zelitch, JUDENSTAAT, Tor/St. Martin’s Press, June 21, 2016www.simonezelitch.comOn April 4th, 1948 the sovereign state of Judenstaat was created in the territory of Saxony, bordering Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union. Forty years later, Jewish historian Judit Klemmer is making a documentary portraying Judenstaat’s history from the time of its founding to the present. She is haunted by the ghost of her dead husband, Hans, a Saxon, shot by a sniper as he conducted the National Symphony. With the grief always fresh, Judit

lives a half-life, until confronted by a mysterious, flesh and blood ghost from her past who leaves her controversial

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footage on one of Judenstaat's founding fathers—and a note. “They lied about the murder.” Judit's research into the footage and what really happened to Hans embroil her in controversy and conspiracy, collective memory and national amnesia, and answers far more horrific than she imagined. AGENT: TRANSLATION, AUDIO. PUB: UK.

A Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten SF/F Book of the first half of 2016 “The glory of Simone Zelitch’s page-turning alternate history is the uncanny precision with which she has

deftly transformed the threads of actual events into the stunning new fabric of her novel.” – BookPage “Beautifully told, thoughtful and disturbing alternate history… Like Chabon's YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S

UNION and Jo Walton's FARTHING, Zelitch's story asks more questions than it answers, but asks them from a safe fictional remove that throws a light onto issues that are otherwise obscured by the heat of the day's politics.” – Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

“Vividly realized…a daring alternate history noir.” – Shelf-Awareness “A thought experiment grounded hard in the bloody history of post-War Europe and the Cold War. It is

both completely legible and purposely opaque, like history often is.” – B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog “Imagine that a Jewish state was established in 1948, not in Israel but rather in Saxony, both as reparation

for Jews after the Holocaust and to hold Germany in check. Award-winning novelist Zelitch takes this daring idea and runs with it, presenting a meticulous portrait of the fictional country of Judenstaat over four decades… Zelitch’s tale invites discussion of the politics of national identity, and it’s also fascinating to see how the historical divergence of the premise illuminates people’s cultural and religious values.” – Booklist

Jessica Anya Blau, THE TROUBLE WITH LEXIE, Harper Perennial, June 28, 2016www.jessicaanyablau.com From the author of THE SUMMER OF NAKED SWIM PARTIES (2008), DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME (2011) and THE WONDER BREAD SUMMER (2013) comes the jaw-dropping story of Lexie James, a counselor at an exclusive New England prep school, whose search for happiness lands her in unexpectedly wild trouble. AGENT: TRANSLATION PUB: UK, AUDIO.

Baltimore Sun “Top 10 Beach Reads” pick: “The newest installation in the Baltimore author’s collection of hilariously deadpan novels chronicles a prep school counselor’s search for love — which soon spirals wildly out of control.”

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Lauren Levine, Valerie Brandy directing “A crazy and twisted ending…readers will be gasping by the last page… Blau’s latest will be a hit.”

– Library Journal “Blau has a steady nerve, as well as a wicked imagination . . . It takes you a little while to realize that what

you're reading is top-notch comic writing because you're getting all the stuff you normally get in literary fiction as well: rites of passage, the complications of fractured families, the works.” – Nick Hornby

“Jessica Anya Blau is one of the funniest writers--EVER. No one captures the oddities, joys--and yes--the pain of modern life with such frankness, humor and sly-witted style.” – ZZ Packer, author of DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE

“There isn’t a human alive who can resist the charm of Jessica Anya Blau’s novels! A coming-of-age tale for the new millennium, THE TROUBLE WITH LEXIE is one of the most deeply enjoyable-and deeply satisfying-novels I’ve read in ages.” – Joanna Rakoff, author of MY SALINGER YEAR

“Only Jessica Anya Blau could make such an exasperating woman so funny. And only Blau could combine such guilty pleasures with real world pain.” – Helen Simonson, author of THE SUMMER BEFORE THE WAR

Ann Hood, THE BOOK THAT MATTERS MOST, W.W. Norton, August 9, 2016www.annhood.us An enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship and the healing power of literature by the bestselling author of THE KNITTING CIRCLE. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.

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August 2016 Library Reads List “A novel that deserves a spot on your summer reading list… Hood’s novel is rich with pleasures, and will

no doubt launch a thousand book club discussions about the transformative power of reading.” – USA Today

“If you love to wrap yourself in a happily-ever-after-story, this book is for you. You will sigh with delight at the book’s most satisfying conclusion… In one scene, Ava looks at her book club friends and marvels as their ‘voices rise in their love of books. The sight of them all filled Ava with a warmth and comfort she had not felt in a long time.’ THE BOOK THAT MATTERS MOST will make you feel the same way.” – Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“THE BOOK THAT MATTERS MOST is in itself a book that matters very much. It is a novel that stands as a testament to the power of reading in our lives, in every moment, both big and small, and as an activity that connects us not only to the world we live in, but to each other.” – Shelf Awareness

“[Ann Hood is] able to limn fundamental character truths via well-placed details. She has a knack for dramatic revelation that feels natural, possibly because she is so skilled at knowing what to leave out. Whether or not they think of themselves as bookish, readers of all stripes will enjoy cycling through these characters' lives and discovering their shared, mysterious past.” – Kirkus

“An exhilarating celebration of all that books awaken within us: joy, love, wisdom, loss, solace. Ann Hood is a captivating storyteller—I devoured this novel.” – Lily King

“A love of words, of reading, propels the characters from heartbreak to discovery. Book groups—indeed, book lovers of all kinds—will delight in this compulsively and effortlessly readable novel.” – Christina Baker KlineForeign rights licensed to 2020 Editora (Portugal)

CLASSICS

William Peter Blatty, THE EXORCIST: 40th Anniversary Edition, HarperCollins, 1971, 2011 Four decades after its initial publication, William Peter Blatty's purposefully raw, profane, and utterly gripping novel remains a shocking and eerily believable literary experience. It is a powerful and frightening classic that continues to transfix and inspire fans worldwide. The author has expanded and revised the text for this special anniversary edition of the classic novel. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION.  PUB: AUDIO.

Television series based on the novel premieres on Fox Broadcast TV Network in Sept. 2016 William Peter Blatty won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Exorcist “Read the book! It’s an experience you will never forget.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch “THE EXORCIST is as superior to most books of its kind as an Einstein equation is to an accountant’s

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Also by William Peter Blatty:ELSEWHERE, 1999, Cemetery Dance reprint 2009 This haunted house novel from William Peter Blatty, the legendary author of THE EXORCIST, is disturbing, unsettling, chilling, and laced with a nasty streak of dark humor. ELSEWHERE is a must-have for all fans of dark fiction and sure to become a time-honored classic in the genre.

“A witty ghost story of Jamesian complexity.” – Boston Herald

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“May be the first truly original haunted house story in decades.” – Denver Rocky Mountain News “Innovatively constructed and skillfully written, the short novel is witty, scary, touching and thought-

provoking.” – Chicago Tribune Foreign rights licensed to Fazi Editore (Italy)

THE NINTH CONFIGURATION, 1978, Tor reprint, 2014Hidden away in a brooding Gothic manor in the deep woods is Center Eighteen, a secret military “rest camp” currently housing twenty-seven inmates, all officers who have succumbed to a sudden outbreak of mental illness. Have the men truly lost their minds, are they only pretending to be insane to avoid combat, or is some more sinister conspiracy at work? Desperate for answers, the Pentagon has placed a brilliant Marine psychiatrist in charge of the base and its deranged occupants. A man of deep faith and compassion, Colonel Kane hopes to uncover the root of the men's bizarre obsessions. But as Center Eighteen descends into chaos, Kane finds the greatest challenge may be his own buried demons. The basis of an acclaimed 1980 film (also known as TWINKLE, TWINKLE, "KILLER" KANE), THE NINTH CONFIGURATION is a thought-provoking, blackly comic journey into the heart of madness—and the outer limits of belief.

“Riotous… Nobody can write funnier lines than William Peter Blatty.” – New York Times “Spectacular!” – San Antonio Express “Chilling.” – Kansas City Star “A work of extraordinary imagination.” – Springfield News and Leader Foreign rights licensed to Tokyo Sogensha (Japan), Planeta Mexicana (world Spanish), Beijing Time-

Chinese (China)

Gwen Bristow, JUBILEE TRAIL (1950)One of the New York Times’s Ten Bestselling Books of 1950, briskly paced and filled with authentic historical detail and vivid characters, JUBILEE TRAIL brings the history of the American West to life in this enthralling tale of a New York debutante who marries a frontiersman and sets out on the trail of adventure.

“By its exuberance and occasional rowdiness, as well as by its knowledgeable use of new country and its history, it hits the time and place.” – Christian Science Monitor

“Bristow has that true gift of storytelling without which no novel is really great and with which even a melodramatic thriller is compelling.” – Chicago Tribune

Also by Gwen Bristow:TOMORROW IS FOREVER (1943) Set in World War II–era Hollywood, New York Times–bestselling author Gwen Bristow’s emotional tour de force about a woman haunted by the ghost of her husband who died in World War I.CELIA GARTH (1959) Gwen Bristow’s New York Times–bestselling historical novel about a dressmaker who spies for the rebel cause in Revolutionary-era Charleston. CALICO PALACE (1970) The captivating New York Times bestseller that brings to life the passionate, adventurous men and women who transformed San Francisco during the California gold rush.The Plantation Trilogy: DEEP SUMMER, THE HANDSOME ROAD, & THIS SIDE OF GLORY, Open Road, 2014The spellbinding Plantation Trilogy compiled in a single volume.An epic series of historical novels that bring to life the history of Louisiana, from its settlement in the late eighteenth century to the post–World War I era, via the intertwined lives of the members of three families: the Sheramys, the Larnes, and the Upjohns. Bestselling historical family sagas now successful again for a new generation in ebook format. AGENT: TRANSLATION, AUDIO.  PUB: UK.   

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Betty MacDonald, THE EGG AND I, 1945, Harper Perennial; Reissue edition, 2008With a brand-new biography of Betty MacDonald and ebook editions of her classics being published this year, it’s time to take a fresh look at Betty’s bestselling humorous memoirs. Betty MacDonald is also the author of the bestselling MRS. PIGGLE-WIGGLE children’s book series.When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfall through chaos and catastrophe this indomitable family somehow, mercifully, never lost its sense of humor. A beloved literary treasure for more than half a century, Betty MacDonald's THE EGG AND I is a heartwarming and uproarious account of adventure and survival.

“Anyone who has ever struggled with a farm or even with a small garden will especially enjoy this breezy autobiography, But everyone will find its hilarious reminiscences of an unconventional childhood and of unique experiences in the Northwest Pacific sprightly, diverting, and excellent entertainment. The whole book crackles with the innocent deviltry of acorns hitting the roof-tops.” – Saturday Review of Literature

“For all the allegedly gloomy moments, THE EGG AND I is an astoundingly light-hearted book. The MacDonalds, one gathers, had both youth and gumption on their side, to say nothing of an abounding humor that bounced them over the direst crises.” –The New York Times

THE PLAGUE AND I, 1948, University of Washington Press; reprint edition, 2016 "Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can't even remember where you were going."  Thus begins Betty MacDonald's memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling tuberculosis. MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium―making all of us laugh in the process.ANYBODY CAN DO ANYTHING, 1950, University of Washington Press; reprint edition, 2016"The best thing about the Depression was the way it reunited our family and gave my sister Mary a real opportunity to prove that anybody can do anything, especially Betty." After surviving both the failed chicken farm - and marriage - immortalized in THE EGG AND I, Betty MacDonald returns to live with her mother and desperately searches to find a job to support her two young daughters. With the help of her older sister Mary, ANYBODY CAN DO ANYTHING recounts her failed, and often hilarious, attempts to find work during the Great Depression. ONIONS IN THE STEW, 1955, University of Washington Press; reprint edition, 2016"For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used to it, can even grow to like it. 'C'est la guerre,' we used to say looking wistfully toward the lights of the big comfortable warm city just across the way. Now, as November (or July) settles around the house like a wet sponge, we say placidly to each other, 'I love it here. I wouldn't live anywhere else.'" Betty MacDonald's final memoir, ONIONS IN THE STEW recounts her second attempt at farm-living, this time on Washington's then-remote Vashon Island along with her second husband, Don MacDonald, and her two teenage daughters. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO. 

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Robert D. Kaplan, EARNING THE ROCKIES: How Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World, Random House, January 24, 2017

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www.robertdkaplan.comThe extensive American coda to the bestselling THE REVENGE OF GEOGRAPHY. A cross-country travel memoir cum foreign policy treatise explaining how and why America’s geography determines its role in the world. As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father’s evocative stories about traveling across America as a young man, travels in which he learned to understand the country from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. The history of westward expansion is examined here in a new light—not just a story of genocide and individualism, but also of communalism and a respect for the limits of a water-starved terrain—to understand how settling the west shaped our national character, and how it should shape our foreign policy. In his clear-eyed and moving meditations on the American landscape, Kaplan lays bare the roots of American greatness—the fact that we are a nation, empire and continent all at once—and how we must re-examine those roots, and understand our geography, in order to confront the challenging, anarchic world that Kaplan describes. EARNING THE ROCKIES is a short epic, a story both personal and global in scope. AGENT: TRANSLATION.  PUB: UK, AUDIO.

“Robert Kaplan uses America’s unique geography and frontier experience to provide a lens-changing vision of America’s role in the world,  one that will capture your imagination. Unflinchingly honest, this refreshing approach shows how ideas from outside Washington, DC will balance America’s idealism and pragmatism in dealing with a changed world. A jewel of a book that lights the path ahead.” – General (Ret.) James Mattis

“What a fine, stimulating, energizing and thoroughly original book. All diplomats, soldiers, indeed, all Americans with power or the hope of power should read Robert D. Kaplan generally, and this slim volume particularly.” – Simon Winchester

“Robert D. Kaplan has given us a great gift in this intelligent, engaging, and memorable book about America at home and abroad. Jefferson believed our national fate inextricably linked to the West; Kaplan shows us how true that remains all these years distant.” – Jon Meacham, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for AMERICAN LION: Andrew Jackson in the White House

“Any Robert D. Kaplan road trip is bound to be compelling, but EARNING THE ROCKIES is all the more so for crossing America. Like Kerouac and Tocqueville, Kaplan makes us see the country in a wholly new way. A concise classic, highly recommended.” – John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for GEORGE F. KENNAN: An American Life

Foreign rights licensed to Het Spectrum (Holland), Humanitas (Romania)Also by Robert D. KaplanIN EUROPE’S SHADOW: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey through Romania and Beyond, Random House, February 9, 2016; pb November 1, 2016

From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s pivotal frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern age. AGENT:  TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.

One of the Top Ten History Book for Spring 2016 by Publishers Weekly “A kind of historical anthropology plus geopolitics, a deep study of a particular country and people…

Kaplan's work exemplifies rare intellectual, moral and political engagement with the political order—and disorder—of our world.” – Huffington Post

“In this insightful fusion of history, travelogue, memoir, and contemporary analysis…Kaplan shares travel anecdotes and ruminations on architecture, religion, literature, historical works, and geography… This is a well-written, intriguing, and informative book.” – Publishers Weekly

“A masterly work of important history, analysis and prophecy about the ancient and modern rise of Romania as a roundabout between Russia and Europe. I learned something new on every page. Kaplan is a master.” – Tom Brokaw

“Kaplan has been a great favorite of mine for years. He is a very thoughtful and insight-driven historian who writes clear and compelling prose, but what I like most about him is his political sophistication, very much in evidence in IN EUROPE’S SHADOW. This book makes you look up and think about what’s on the page—a true pleasure for the reader.” – Alan Furst, New York Times bestselling author

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Alexandra Zapruder, TWENTY SIX SECONDS, Twelve/Grand Central, November 15, 2016www.alexandrazapruder.comThe moving, untold family story behind Abraham Zapruder’s film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact on our world.   Abraham Zapruder didn’t know when he began filming President Kennedy’s motorcade on November 22, 1963 that his home movie would change not only his family’s life but American culture and history, as well.  Now his granddaughter tells the whole story of the Zapruder film for the first time. With the help of personal family records, previously sealed archival sources, and

interviews, she traces the film’s complex journey through history, considering its impact on her family and the public realms of the media, courts, Federal government, and the arts community. Part biography, part family history, and part historical narrative, Zapruder shows how twenty-six seconds of film changed a family and raised some of the most important social, cultural, and moral questions of our time.  Alexandra Zapruder began her career on the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is the author of SALVAGED PAGES: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust and wrote and co-produced the documentary film I'm Still Here, which was nominated for two Emmys. AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.

“This well-written exploration of conspiracy, propriety, copyright, and public good versus private gain is seen through the prism of the world’s most famous home movie.” – Publishers Weekly

“A meticulous history of an iconic home movie and its contentious afterlife… An intriguing history of one of the most significant home movies ever recorded.” – Kirkus 

Randall Fuller, THE BOOK THAT CHANGED AMERICA: How Darwin’s Theory Ignited a Nation, Viking, January 24, 2017 Drawing upon a diverse range of unpublished letters and journals, THE BOOKS THAT CHANGED AMERICA tells how a single copy of Darwin’s THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES was read and discussed by some of the most prominent authors, scientists, and reformers in America—and how it helped dismantle the very world those thinkers had helped create. In the winter of 1859-60, a single copy of Charles Darwin’s THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (1859) was read and discussed by five extraordinary American intellectuals: Asa Gray, the Harvard botanist who would lead the fight for Darwin’s theory in America; Charles Loring Brace, the child welfare

reformer who used Darwin’s book in his crusade against slavery; Franklin Sanborn, a key supporter of John Brown; Bronson Alcott, the philosopher who resisted Darwin’s insights as a threat to transcendental idealism; and Henry David Thoreau, who used Darwin’s theory to redirect the work he would pursue until the end of his life. Today we think of Darwin’s seminal book as the spark that ignited an ongoing battle between science and religion. But in the early months of 1860, the work was seen in the United States in a very different light. By asserting a common ancestry for all creatures, including humans, the book was understood by many to advance the cause of abolition and was powerful ammunition in the debate over slavery. AGENT:  UK, TRANSLATION. PUB:  AUDIO.

“Fuller shows how ideas come to life, shaped by chance meetings, life-changing enthusiasms, perverse misunderstandings, cataclysmic events, and sudden betrayals. If you ever doubted that ideas can change the world—or if you ever wondered how—read this book!” – Laura Dassow Walls, author, HENRY DAVID THOREAU: A Life

“A vibrant and ingenious intellectual history of Civil War-era America by tracing the coterie circulation of a single copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origins of Species…. Fuller’s beautifully written book promises to reignite a number of debates about evolution, the history of science, and the role of books and reading in the nineteenth century.” – Coleman Hutchison, author of A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR LITERATURE

“Randall Fuller makes Concord glow with this beautifully-written account of what happened in 1860 when somebody brought a new book along to a dinner party.  It was the very first copy of Darwin’s ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES to reach these shores, and in tracing its influence on Thoreau among others Fuller shows both the web of friendship through which scientific knowledge spread, and its inseparability from the politics of its day.” – Michael Gorra, author of PORTRAIT OF A NOVEL: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

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“With its cast of vivid characters and the fate of the nation in the balance, Fuller’s utterly convincing narrative gives science a starring role in the run up to the Civil War.” – Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of MARGARET FULLER: A New American Life

Bill Hayes, INSOMNIAC CITY: New York, Oliver, and Me, Bloomsbury, Feb. 14, 2017www.billhayes.com“If you are lonely or bone-tired or blue, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York--which is to say, New Yorkers--will take care of you.” Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 and, grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, and New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his

camera. And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend and neighbor, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance—“I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life,” he tells Hayes early on—is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Filled with Hayes's distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers. Bill Hayes is the author of THE ANATOMIST, FIVE QUARTS, and SLEEP DEMONS. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and other publications. PUB: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.

“A beautifully written once-in-a-lifetime book, about love, about life, soul, and the wonderful loving genius Oliver Sacks, and New York, and laughter and all of creation.” – Anne Lamott

“Bill Hayes has an unusual set of skills… He is part science writer, part memoirist, part culture explainer.” – New York Times

Brooke Williams, OPEN MIDNIGHT: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet, Trinity University Press, March 14, 2017OPEN MIDNIGHT weaves two parallel stories about the great wilderness: Brooke Williams’s year alone with his dog, ground-truthing backcountry maps of southern Utah; and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, William Williams, who in 1863 made his way with a group of Mormons from England across the ocean and the American wild almost to Utah, dying a week short. The story follows two levels of history:  personal, as represented by his forbear; and collective, as represented by Charles Darwin, who lived in Shrewsbury, England, at about the same time as William Williams. As the author begins researching the story of his oldest known ancestor, he

realizes he's armed with few facts. He wonders if a handful of dates can tell the story of a life. “If those points were stars in the sky, we would connect them to make a constellation, which is what I’ve made with his life by creating the parts missing from his story.” Thus William Williams becomes a kind of spiritual guide that accompanies the author on his wilderness and life journeys, appearing at pivotal points when the author is required to choose a certain course. The mysterious presence of his ancestor inspires the author to create imagined scenes in which William Williams meets Darwin in Shrewsbury, sowing something central in the DNA that eventually passes to the author himself, whose life has been devoted to nature and wilderness. Grounded in the present by his descriptions of the Utah lands he explores, Brooke Williams's vivid prose pushes boundaries and investigates new ways toward knowledge and experience, inviting readers to think unconventionally about how we experience reality, spirituality, and the wild. AGENT:  UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.

Michael Lesy, LOOKING BACKWARD: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, W.W. Norton, April 2017A transporting work of photographic history that shows how Americans viewed the world at the dawn of the twentieth century. At the turn of the twentieth century the stereograph was king. Its binocular images revealed the world in vivid, three-dimensional detail. Generations of Americans, especially school children, absorbed ideas about race, class, and gender from such 3D images. Drawing on an enormous, rarely seen collection of stereographic views, Michael Lesy presents nearly 250 images displaying a riot of peoples and cultures, stark class divisions, and unsettling glimpses of daily life a century ago.

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pictures of the last remnants of the premodern natural world. Lesy’s evocative essays reassert the primacy of the stereograph in American visual history. He profiles the photographers who saw the world through their prejudices and the companies which sold their images everywhere. In underscoring the unnerving parallels between that period and our own, LOOKING BACKWARD reveals a history that shadows us today. Michael Lesy is one of America’s leading photographic scholars. His books include WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP, MURDER CITY, ANGEL’S WORLD, and LONG TIME COMING. 233 duotone photographs AGENT: TRANSL.. PUB:  UK, AUDIO.

Meryl Gordon, BUNNY MELLON, Grand Central, September 2017www.merylgordon.comRachel Lambert Mellon, often known as Bunny Mellon, was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. When Bunny died at age 103 on March 17, 2014, she was the last embodiment of a Gilded Age lifestyle. Born into money (her grandfather invented Listerine), she married into even more money (the Mellon banking and oil fortune) and went on to build, decorate and preside over seven luxurious homes in Upperville,VA, Washington, New York, Paris, Antigua, Cape Cod and Nantucket. An influential art collector, an imaginative gardener as well as a fashion and style icon, Bunny was a trendsetter in the society columns for more than half-a-century. Meryl Gordon is one of the few journalists to have interviewed Bunny Mellon in recent years and attended her funeral. In this new biography, Gordon will write of Mellon’s extraordinary life, from her creative endeavors to her intimate friendships with the giants of her generation including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to her star-crossed support of Presidential candidate John Edwards, whom she bankrolled during the scandal that destroyed his career. Gordon is an award-winning journalist and author of acclaimed biographies of Huguette Clark (THE PHANTOM OF FIFTH AVENUE) and Brooke Astor (MRS. ASTOR REGRETS). PUB: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.

Robert Cowley, THE KILLING SEASON: The First Battle of Ypres, Random House, 2018A narrative account of four of the most important months in human history, the late summer and fall of 1914 on the Western Front of France and Belgium. It was an interval as dramatic as it was deadly and wild. The book details, in a way that has rarely been attempted before, the so-called “Race to the Sea,” and how, inevitably, all roads converged in Flanders at the once-thriving cloth trade center, Ypres, a quaint backwater yearning to attract tourists. Tourists Ypres did attract, and by the hundreds of thousands, but they were hardly the sort Flanders sought. Instead they represented the four armies of Germany, France, England, and Belgium, engaged in a month-long melee that would extend from French Flanders to the North Sea, fifty-odd miles of fire. The First Battle of Ypres denied Germany a realistic hope of victory in the war, and that is its ultimate importance. But many of the events detailed in these pages have been so overlooked as to be almost unknown. THE KILLING SEASON is the product of more than thirty years of travel, research, and writing. AGENT:  UK, TRANSLATION. PUB:  AUDIO.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED NON-FICTION

Terry Tempest Williams, THE HOUR OF LAND: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, Sarah Crichton Books/FSG, June 7, 2016www.coyoteclan.comA love song to America’s national parks, by the acclaimed author of WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS. Through twelve carefully chosen parks, from Yellowstone in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas, Tempest Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique. AGENT: 

TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO. Longlisted for 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence A New York Times and Indie Bestseller Named a Best Summer Read by Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Indie Next, O, The Oprah Magazine

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“Instead of telling simple stories of innocent preservationists saving pristine places, Williams relates histories of conflict, struggle, money, and power… A sincerely disobedient book.” – Science

“A provocative, heartfelt collection… The sheer tonal variety suggests a book of essays meant to be read at random, but to do so would be to miss the larger themes and issues that Tempest Williams explores at length.” – Pacific Standard

“In this gorgeous collection of 12 essays, published to mark the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams provides a poetic and searing portrait of the land and, by extension, of America itself… There’s the pleasure of journalism, the unexpected detail that never disappoints, the feeling of seeing something from an inside angle. But there’s poetry, too.” – BookPage

“THE HOUR OF LAND is one of the best nature books I’ve read in years, filled with seductive prose… It’s impossible to do Williams’s thought-provoking insights and evocative images justice in a short review. My only advice is to read the book. And then read it again, with pen in hand. And then visit a national park, because as Williams reminds us, they are ‘portals and thresholds of wonder,’ the ‘breathing spaces for a society that increasingly holds its breath.’” – Andrea Wulf, New York Times Book Review

“A uniquely evocative, illuminating, profound, poignant, beautiful, courageous, and clarion book about the true significance of our national parks. These sanctuaries, Williams muses, are not only about preservation and recreation, but also about education and remembrance. She envisions them as ‘places of recognition,’ vital centers of awe and unity, inspiration and transformation. Williams writes, ‘If we can learn to listen to the land, we can learn to listen to each other.’ And the time is now: ‘We have arrived at the Hour of Land.’” – Booklist

“A manifesto that everyone must read and then act upon.” – Betsy Burton, The King’s English Bookshop, Salt Lake City

YA CROSSOVER

Marc Aronson & Marina Budhos, EYES OF THE WORLD: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism, Holt, February 21, 2017

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Robert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers, they set off to capture their generation's most important struggle; the fight against Fascism. Among the first to depict modern

warfare, Capa and Taro took powerful photographs of the Spanish Civil War that went straight from the devastation to news magazines. In so doing, they helped give birth to the idea of "bearing witness" through technology to bring home tragedies from across the world. Packed with dramatic photos, posters, and maps, this compelling book captures the fascinating story of how photojournalism began.This is their story. Written as page-turning narrative nonfiction, this book is based on deep research in primary and secondary sources and features rich backmatter including notes and sources, a full Cast of Characters, and a triple timeline. Here is nonfiction that reads like a filmscript and makes use of the most current scholarship. Here is a book that brings to life the dreams and yearnings of a generation and inspires all to use photography to bear witness to the world. Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos are award-winning authors in their own rights and together wrote SUGAR CHANGED THE WORLD. AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO. / YA “EYES OF THE WORLD captures an extraordinary—and tragic—moment in time. Robert Capa and

Gerda Taro were young, idealistic, in love, and two of the best photographers who ever lived. This book does a great service for readers of all ages by evoking that moment telling the story of this couple so well.” – Adam Hochschild, author of SPAIN IN OUR HEARTS: Americans in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

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Carrie Fountain, I’M NOT MISSING, Flatiron Books, Winter 2018www.carriefountain.comThis stunning debut contemporary YA novel follows what happens when half-Latina Miranda's best friend, Frankie, runs away in the middle of senior year, and how Miranda is forced out from behind Frankie's shadow, stumbles into first love, and learns what it means to be finally not missing in her own life.Carrie Fountain is an American poet.

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She is from Las Cruces, New Mexico. She was a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, and received Swink Magazine's Award for Emerging Writers and the Marlboro Poetry Prize.  Set in the desert city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, I’M NOT MISSING is a story about the complications of best friendship. When Miranda Black’s mother abandoned her at a young age, she took everything—the sun, moon and stars—and Miranda found shelter in her friendship with brilliant and acerbic Frankie, founder of the MC (Momless Club, membership: 2), who wore her own motherlessness like a badge of honor. When Frankie runs away suddenly and inexplicably in the middle of their senior year, Miranda is abandoned once again, left to untangle the questions of why Frankie left, where she is—and if she’s even a friend worth saving. Her only clue along the way is Frankie’s discarded pink leopard print cellphone and a single text contained there from the mysterious HIM. Along the way, forced to step out from Frankie’s enormous shadow, Miranda finds herself stumbling into first love with Nick Richardson of all people and learning what it means to be truly seen, to be finally not missing in her own life.  AGENT: UK, TRANSL. PUB: AUDIO. / YA

“Carrie Fountain writes [with] such transporting movement and time-depth, we could all be everywhere we’ve ever loved, teenagers again, or a hundred years from now, sky-shimmering, containing it all.” – Naomi Shihab Nye

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