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2014 RIGHTS GUIDE
FICTION
Ann Hood, AN ITALIAN WIFE, W.W. Norton, September 2, 2014
www.annhood.us
From the best-selling author of THE OBITUARY WRITER, the stirring
multigenerational story of an Italian family. AN ITALIAN WIFE opens in turn-of-thecentury Italy, when young Josephine Rimaldi is forced to follow her new husband to
America in an arranged marriage, finding herself in a strange country with a man she
doesn’t know or love. Bound by tradition, she gives birth to seven children; the last,
conceived in a passionate affair, Josephine must give up for adoption. Josephine spends the
rest of her life searching for this child, keeping her secret even as her other children, whose stories unfold in
surprising ways, go off to war, get married, and make their own mistakes. Her son suffers in World War I; her
daughter struggles to assimilate in the new world of the 1950s American suburbs; and her granddaughters
experiment with the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the 1970s. Poignant, sensual, and deeply felt, AN ITALIAN
WIFE is a sweeping and evocative portrait of a family bound by love and heartbreak. AGENT: UK,
TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
 “Is there anyone who can write about the connections between ordinary people as well as Ann Hood does?”
– Jody Picoult
 “Hood crafts a stark tale of loss and longing.” – Publishers Weekly
 “Glorious…Reading this novel was like taking a luscious train ride through the last century…Full of
surprise and wonder, the writing is at turns poetic and sensitive, then dynamic and wise. Ann Hood is a
master craftsman. This resplendent novel is a grand crescendo in a pitch-perfect career.” – Adriana
Trigiani, author of THE SHOEMAKER’S WIFE
 “Hood reinvents the family saga into something spellbindingly new and authentically alive…From turn-ofthe-century Italy to 1950s American suburbia to the psychedelic 1970s, Hood shows how love and history
transform a family, fuel—and sometimes kill—their dreams, and connect them in ways they never might
imagine. Sweeping, sensual, and downright astonishing.” – Caroline Leavitt, author of PICTURES OF
YOU
 “I loved Ann Hood's AN ITALIAN WIFE in the same way I loved Elizabeth Strout's OLIVE
KITTERIDGE—and for the same reason. The interconnected stories that fan out from a central character—
in this case, matriarch Josephine Rimaldi—illuminate important truths about the ways in which our
families, our ancestry, and the era into which we're born shape who we become. AN ITALIAN WIFE is a
multi-generational masterpiece.” – Wally Lamb, author of WE ARE WATER
 “A big, full-hearted grazie to Ann Hood…She has given us a feast of a story: impressive in its range,
sumptuous in its evocations of love and loss, and deeply satisfying.” – Christopher Castellani, author of
ALL THIS TALK OF LOVE
 “A soulful and multilayered book from this accomplished author.” – Kirkus
Rita Mae Brown, LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE (A Sister Jane foxhunting mystery),
Ballantine/Bantam, November 4, 2014
The chase is on in New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown’s gripping
new foxhunting mystery, featuring the irrepressible “Sister” Jane Arnold and the
wily antics of her four-legged friends. In LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE, a centuryold crime reawakens bad will—and stirs up a scandal that chills Sister to the bone.
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Sister Jane and the Jefferson Hunt Club have traveled from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to the Bluegrass State
of Kentucky to ride with the members of the Woodford Hounds—in the teeth of foul weather. Sister knows better
than anyone that an ill wind blows no good. After the hunt, Sister Jane and her boyfriend, Gray Lorillard, head to a
sumptuous party on a nearby estate, also home to a historic equine graveyard. The revelry is interrupted by jarring
news: The discovery of grisly remains in the cemetery that are decidedly not equine. Now Sister and her hounds are
on the case, digging up clues to an old murder that links three well-connected Southern families. When mayhem
follows the Jefferson Hunt back to Virginia, the deadly doings become all too real: A dear friend of Sister’s is found
murdered. Sister and her animal friends must work fast to find a clever killer determined to keep deep-rooted secrets
buried. A rollicking, riveting mystery, LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE is a masterly novel full of colorful characters,
gorgeous country landscapes, and the breathtaking thrill of the hunt. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.
Praise for Rita Mae Brown’s Sister Jane foxhunting mystery series:
LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE: “[Brown’s] foxhunting titles are great for readers who like gentility with a wicked
little twist.” – Library Journal
FOX TRACKS: “[Brown] enlivens a timely tale with . . . amusing accounts of her four-legged creations and
delightful descriptions of the central Virginia countryside.” – Richmond Times-Dispatch
THE TELL-TALE HORSE: “Grabs readers from the opening scene and gallops through to the very surprising
end.” – Horse Illustrated
THE HOUNDS AND THE FURY: “An intriguing story.” – Associated Press
 Audio rights in series licensed to Recorded Books
James Morrow, GALAPAGOS REGAINED, St. Martin’s Press, January 6, 2015
www.jamesmorrow.info
Like a modern reimagining of Voltaire’s CANDIDE with echoes of Jules
Verne’s AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, GALAPAGOS REGAINED offers a
swashbuckling historical adventure as well as a fresh perspective on the clash
between God’s adherents and Darwin’s partisans.
In 1848, Chloe Bathurst loses her job as the principal ingénue with London’s Adelphi
Theatre Company. Soon afterward, she is hired as Charles Darwin’s zookeeper, nurturing
the aquatic iguanas and other exotica he brought back from the Galápagos
archipelago. Eavesdropping on a conversation between Darwin and his colleagues, Chloe learns of her employer’s
theory of evolution by natural selection, a concept so radical it bids fair to win the “Great God Contest”: £10,000 to
the first person who can prove, or disprove, the existence of a Supreme Being. Chloe decides she will present
Darwin’s theory as her own, not only to settle her prodigal father’s debts, but also for the satisfaction of “mocking
the cosmos. “ Without any tangible illustrations, the judges are skeptical. Chloe convinces them to send her on an
expedition to Galápagos to collect living, breathing examples of natural “transmutation.” Very quickly, Chloe is in
over her head: not only because her quest entails physical hazards—storms at sea, voracious piranhas, tropical
diseases, ruthless robber barons, mad utopian visionaries—but also because some players in the Great God Contest
are more devious than she imagines. Chloe’s competitors have violent designs on Galapagos, and only this protean
actress can prevent the destruction of the archipelago’s birds, lizards, and giant tortoises. AGENT: UK,
TRANSLATION (EXCEPT FOR GERMANY). PUB: AUDIO.
 "A witty and wisecracking Victorian adventure, an Indiana Jones caper with Charles Darwin lurking in the
wings, as if Jules Verne was retold by Tom Stoppard. Rollicking, preposterously enchanting, and—as with
all of Morrow's work—cagily profound." – Wilton Barnhardt, author of LOOKAWAY, LOOKAWAY
 “James Morrow's uncanny genius for creating imagined worlds within historical ones finds its full
flowering in GALAPAGOS REGAINED… Erudite, hilarious, prodigiously inventive on every page,
Galapagos Regained is simply intoxicating in its originality and wisdom." – Bradford Morrow, author of
THE FORGERS
 Foreign rights licensed to Au Diable Vauvert (France)
Nicholas Delbanco, THE YEARS, LittleA/Amazon Books, January 13, 2015
THE YEARS is about the passage of time: from youth to middle age to the winter of life.
Forty years after their intense but doomed college romance, Lawrence and Hermia meet
again on a Mediterranean cruise. They fall in love even more deeply, but being in their
sixties, with plenty of baggage, they wonder if marriage is the right move. When
Lawrence visits Hermia’s home on Cape Cod, she has one request: “Please stay.” What
happens when he does fills the rest of this wise and unforgettable novel. With enormous
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sympathy and keen insight, Nicholas Delbanco follows Hermia and Lawrence through their years together and apart,
in Los Angeles and New York, Michigan and Massachusetts, in frailness and in health. Old scores are settled; old
wounds healed. A stunning, wise book about first and final love, THE YEARS addresses the irrevocable end of
life…and what ultimately endures. AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
Lashonda Katrice Barnett, JAM! ON THE VINE, Grove/Atlantic, February 3, 2015
www.lashondabarnett.com
A new American classic: a dynamic tale of triumph against the odds and the
compelling story of one woman’s struggle for equality that belongs alongside JAZZ
by Toni Morrison and THE COLOR PURPLE by Alice Walker. Ivoe Williams, the
precocious daughter of a Muslim cook and a metalsmith from central-east Texas, first
ignites her lifelong obsession with journalism when she steals a newspaper from her
mother’s white employer. Living in the poor, segregated quarter of Little Tunis, Ivoe
immerses herself in printed matter as an escape from her dour surroundings. She earns a scholarship to the
prestigious Willetson College in Austin, only to return over-qualified to the menial labor offered by her hometown’s
racially-biased employers. Ivoe eventually flees the Jim Crow South with her family and settles in Kansas City,
where she and her former teacher and lover, Ona, found the first female-run African American newspaper, JAM!
ON THE VINE. In the throes of the Red Summer—the 1919 outbreak of lynchings and race riots across the
Midwest—Ivoe risks her freedom, and her life, to call attention to the atrocities of segregation in the American
prison system. Skillfully interweaving Ivoe’s story with those of her family members, LaShonda Katrice
Barnett’s JAM! ON THE VINE is both an epic vision of the hardships and injustices that defined an era and a
moving and compelling story of a complicated history we only thought we knew. PUB: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.
Michael Kardos, BEFORE HE FINDS HER, Mysterious Press, February 3, 2015
www.michaelkardos.wordpress.com
Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: On a Sunday
evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered
his wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away.
Now she is nearly eighteen and tired of living in secrecy under the name Melanie
Denison. Defying her guardians and taking matters into her own hands, Melanie returns
to Silver Bay in hopes of doing what the authorities have failed to do: find her father
before he finds her. Weaving in Ramsey’s story in the three days leading up to the brutal
crime, BEFORE HE FINDS HER is an electrifying novel about love and faith and fear—and how the most
important things can become terribly distorted when we cling to them too fiercely. By the author of the critically
acclaimed THE THREE DAY AFFAIR, a gripping debut novel about three longtime friends who make one mistake,
forcing a chain of decisions that will haunt them forever, that was named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire
and PW and a Best Crime Fiction Book of the Year by the Miami Herald. PUB: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.
 Library Journal’s 10 Big Break Out Authors, Fiction Previews, February 2015
 “Brilliant. One of the most innovative and compelling thrillers to come along in recent years. Read the
first page and kiss the next twenty-four hours goodbye. Bravo!” – Jeffrey Deaver, internationally
bestselling author of THE SKIN COLLECTOR
 “That rare thing, a novel as human as it is suspenseful, as patient as it is thrilling, as genuine as it is
surprising. With strong, compelling prose, Michael Kardos paints a tale of fear and redemption, of anguish
and hopefulness, of subtle corruption and good intentions gone awry. In doing so, he maps the human heart
in all its complex glory.” – Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of DON’T LOOK BACK
Jill Ciment, ACT OF GOD, Pantheon, March 3, 2015
www.jillciment.com
From the author of HEROIC MEASURES ("Smart and funny and completely surprising...I
loved every page," – Ann Patchett), a contemporary noir-novel that starts out as a comedy of
errors and turns darker at every hairpin turn, about a lethal form of mold spreading
throughout New York City, about the townhouse in which it is first discovered, and about
the people living in it whose lives are suddenly upended. New York City is sweltering from yet
another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently
retired legal librarian and her identical twin sister, Kat, a feckless romantic who has always
mistaken eccentricity for originality, discover something ominous in their hall closet: a phosphorescent mushroom is
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sprouting from the wall. Upstairs, their landlady, Vida Cebu, a Shakespearean actress far more famous for her
commercials for Ziberax (the first female sexual enhancement pill) than for her stage work, discovers that a petite
Russian girl, a runaway au pair, has been secretly living in her guest room closet. When the police arrest the
intruder, a second glowing mushroom is found under her bedding, and the four women must evacuate the
contaminated row house with only the clothes on their backs. As the mold infestation spreads from row house to
high-rise, and frightened New Yorkers wait out this plague on their city and property, the four women become
caught up in a centrifugal nightmare. Before the last mushroom dies, one woman will be dead, and the others left to
wonder: Was it an act of God? Part horror story, part screwball comedy, Jill Ciment's brilliant suspense novel looks
at what happens when our lives--so seemingly set and ordered, yet so precariously balanced--break down in the
wake of calamity. A novel, as well, about love (familial and profound) and how it can appear in the most unlikely
circumstances. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
Also by Jill Ciment:
Jill Ciment & Amy Hempel, THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU, Scribner’s, Summer 2015
A novel set in hipster Brooklyn in which a victimologist becomes the victim. PUB: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.
Also by Jill Ciment:
HEROIC MEASURES, Pantheon, June 2009; Vintage pb June 1, 2010
A gasoline tanker truck is rumored to be “stuck” in NYC’s Midtown Tunnel. Dubious but
panicked New Yorkers wonder if this is the next big attack or another false alarm. With the
streets of Manhattan welded solid with traffic, Alex and Ruth must get their dachshund, whose
back legs have suddenly become paralyzed, to the animal hospital sixty blocks north. Using a
cutting board as a stretcher, they ferry their beloved Dorothy uptown. Twelve-years-old, grayfaced, with only a few teeth remaining, she is the emotional center of Ruth and Alex’s fortyfive-year-long, childless marriage. But this is also the weekend that Alex, an artist, and Ruth, a
retired school teacher with an FBI file as thick as a dictionary, must sell their apartment, a five-flight walkup in the
East Village. While house hunters traipse through during their Open House, they wait by the phone to hear from
Dorothy’s doctor. During the next forty-eight hours, as the missing truck driver terrorizes the city, the price of their
home becomes a barometer for collective hope and despair as the real estate market spikes and troughs with every
breaking news story. In shifting points of view – Alex’s, Ruth’s and the little dog’s – men and beast try to make
sense of the cacophony of rumors, opinions, and innuendos. And in the center of the noisy maelstrom, fighting for
her life, is Dorothy, asking herself only one question: How do I get home? AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.
  “Gripping. . . Ciment plays the veterinary, real estate and domestic details like elements of a thriller plot,
while the couple’s love for their dog provides heartrending texture—literature with a commercial
crossover.” – Publishers Weekly
 “What is surprising—like much in this brave, generous, nearly perfect novel—is that this particular
character, Dorothy, is a dachshund. And yet, Ciment manages to pull off this risky, sentiment-baiting
maneuver, an accomplishment previously attained only by the likes of Tolstoy.” –LA Times
 “Read Jill Ciment's HEROIC MEASURES for its painterly depictions of a rattled city, its deliciously biting
satire of media and real estate madness, its tender knowledge of the creaturely ties that bind.” – O
Magazine
 “Every once in a while, someone writes a book that, on the surface, is simple and quiet, yet underneath is
stirringly beautiful and full of life and love. Jill Ciment's new novel, HEROIC MEASURES, is this kind of
book. At only 192 pages, this slim, tender novel packs a melancholic punch… Only three days pass in this
story, but when you put HEROIC MEASURES down, you feel as if you've spent a lifetime immersed in Jill
Ciment's remarkably touching and hopeful world.” – The Globe and Mail
 Audio rights licensed to Audible
 Foreign rights licensed to Kinneret (Israel), Proszynski (Poland), Newton Compton (Italy), AST
(Russia)
 Feature film Ruth & Alex based on HEROIC MEASURES debuts at the Toronto Film Festival,
September 2104: A long-married couple (Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton) have an eventful
weekend after they are forced to contemplate selling their beloved Brooklyn apartment. A wise
comedy about life, love, and real estate, Ruth & Alex stars Academy Award winners Diane Keaton and
Morgan Freeman as a couple whose attempts at relocation send them on an urban odyssey — and help
them redefine the meaning of home. When Ruth (Diane Keaton) and Alex (Morgan Freeman) first moved
to Brooklyn, it was the 1970s —years before gentrification, and years before they would realize that they
won't always be physically able to climb several flights of stairs just to get home. Still highly active, yet
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feeling the undeniable effects of age, the couple opts to put their apartment on the market. But the decision
coincides with a flurry of problematic events. A trailer jackknifes on the Williamsburg Bridge and the
driver inexplicably flees the scene, putting all of New York on an overblown terrorist alert. The couple's
dog becomes ill and the vet bill comes to $10,000. An overwhelming sequence of encounters with realtors,
agents, and snotty bargain hunters only adds to their troubles. Based on Jill Ciment's novel HEROIC
MEASURES, Ruth & Alex is that rarest of films: a lively cinematic portrait of people in their so-called
golden years. Director Richard Loncraine (Richard III), shifts us elegantly between the present-tense
narrative and seventies flashbacks, which show Ruth and Alex falling in love during a period when doing
so as a mixed-race couple prompted open hostility. But the main reason to see Ruth & Alex is the sheer
pleasure of watching its ingeniously cast leads. Keaton and Freeman are so brilliant with behavioral
comedy, so at ease with the script's urbane wit, that their performances seem effortless. Ruth and Alex are a
charming duo whose every word and gesture demonstrates a lifetime's worth of experience and love. You'll
find it a joy to spend an hour and a half in their company.
– www.tiff.net/festivals/thefestival/programmes/galapresentations/ruth-alex
Hallie Ephron, NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT, William Morrow, March 24, 2015
www.hallieephron.com
From the award-winning author of THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN comes a riveting tale of domestic noir,
infused with old Hollywood folklore and glamour, set in a town rife with egotism and backstabbing and
where fame and infamy are often interchangeable.
Los Angeles 1986: When Deirdre Unger arrives in Beverly Hills to help her bitter, disappointed father sell his
dilapidated house, she discovers his lifeless body floating face down in the swimming pool. At first, Deirdre
assumes her father’s death was a tragic accident. But the longer she stays in town, the more she suspects that it is
merely the third act in a story that has long been in the making. The sudden re-surfacing of Deirdre’s childhood best
friend Joelen Nichol—daughter of the legendary starlet Elenor “Bunny” Nichol—seems like more than a
coincidence. Back in 1965, Joelen confessed to killing her movie star mother’s boyfriend. Deidre happened to be at
the Nichols’ house the night of the murder—which was also the night she suffered a personal tragedy of her own.
Could all of these events be connected? Her search to find answers forces Deirde to confront a truth she has long
refused to believe: Beneath the slick veneer of Beverly Hills lies a terrifying darkness that can take hold of a life…
and end it. Best-selling novelist Hallie Ephron's new suspense novel, NIGHT, NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT, is inspired
by an infamous Hollywood scandal that fascinated Hallie when she was growing up in Beverly Hills, the daughter of
Hollywood screenwriters. She was ten years old in 1958 when the news broke that the fourteen-year-old daughter of
movie star Lana Turner had confessed to stabbing her mother's gangster boyfriend to death. NIGHT, NIGHT,
SLEEP TIGHT reimagines that murder, creating an entirely fictional cast of characters in a tale of love and betrayal,
of celebrity and its consequences. AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
 “Set in Hollywood in the ‘60s and ‘80s, Hallie Ephron’s NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT shines with her
intimate knowledge of time, place and character as well as glamour and suspense. Once you start reading,
you won’t be able to stop.” – B.A. Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of THE ART FORGER
Sorayya Khan, CITY OF SPIES, Aleph Book Company, 2015
www.sorayyakhan.com
Islamabad, Pakistan in the late 1970’s during a period of intensifying anti-American sentiment, a period that
foreshadows what is happening today. Aliya Shah, an eleven year old Pakistani-Dutch girl is best friends with Lizzy,
a classmate at the American School of Islamabad and the daughter of a U.S. diplomat. After a hit and run accident
takes the life of a young boy related to Aliya’s family, Aliya secretly discovers that Lizzie’s mother is the driver.
The novel is a coming-of-age story that explores Aliya’s conflicting loyalties and her on-going struggle to make
sense of her world. This is an intimate drama that reflects the core of today’s geopolitics, the ongoing violent
repercussions of the Great Game still convulsing Pakistan more than a century later. CITY OF SPIES unfolds over
thirty tumultuous months in Pakistan’s history that include a military coup d’état, the trial and hanging of former
Prime Minister Bhutto, and finally a deadly attack on the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. Sorayya Khan was born to a
Dutch mother and Pakistani father and grew up in Islamabad. She studied from college through graduate school in
the United States. Penguin India has published her two previous novels, NOOR (2003) and FIVE QUEEN’S ROAD
(2009). AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION , AUDIO.
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Lachlan Smith, FOX IS FRAMED: A Leo Maxwell Mystery, Mysterious Press/GroveAtlantic, April 7, 2015
www.leomaxwellmysteries.com
Lachlan Smith won great critical acclaim for his first novel in the Leo Maxwell series, BEAR IS BROKEN, a
Shamus Award finalist and a Kirkus Reviews best book of the year that William Bernhardt called “one of the best
debuts I’ve read in years.” The second Leo Maxwell mystery, LION PLAYS ROUGH, continued the story, and
now, in the utterly suspenseful FOX IS FRAMED, Smith confronts anew the drama that has haunted Leo—and his
recently brain-damaged elder brother, Teddy—since childhood. Faced with evidence of stunning prosecutorial
misconduct, a San Francisco judge has ordered a new trial for the Maxwell brothers’ father, Lawrence, who was
convicted of killing their mother twenty-one years before. A prison snitch soon turns up dead, with Lawrence the
only suspect, and Leo teams up with hotshot attorney Nina Schuyler to defend Lawrence against murder charges
both old and new. Working the streets while Nina handles the action in the courtroom, Leo is forced to confront the
darkness at the center of his life as he follows a trail of corruption and danger that leads to the very steps of City
Hall. A tense, twist-filled courtroom procedural, FOX IS FRAMED barrels toward an unexpected conclusion, as
Leo struggles to do right both by the law and his blood. PUB: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.
Praise for the Leo Maxwell Mystery Series
 Kirkus Best Mysteries & Thrillers of 2013 pick
 Shamus Award Finalist
 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalist
  “A terrific debut. A perfect match with David Carnoy’s novels and Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller
series.” – Booklist
  “Powerful…Grabs the reader by the throat and doesn’t let go…Assured prose and taut plotting add up to
a winner.” – Publishers Weekly
 “Lachlan Smith has done the impossible—written a riveting debut novel that stands with the best legal
thrillers on my bookshelf.” Linda Fairstein, author of NIGHT WATCH
 “[Smith] deftly combines the thriller with the whodunit in this dark and disturbing debut…BEAR IS
BROKEN marks what promises to be the start of a riveting series.” – Richmond Times-Dispatch
Michael Downing, GOING TO THE CHAPEL, Counterpoint, April 2015
www.michaeldowningbooks.com
A contemporary novel taking place in Padova, Italy wherein a widow goes on a trip to get through her grief, meets a
mysterious man, and gets involved in questions of Italian art and cultural history—did Dante ever meet Giotto?
AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
Jodi Daynard, THE MIDWIFE’S REVOLT, Lake Union/Amazon Publishing, April 2015
www.jodidaynard.com
This debut novel tells the story of the American Revolution through the eyes of Lizzie Boylston, a fearless young
midwife from Cambridge. Widowed at Bunker Hill, Lizzie finds strength in her close friendship with Abigail
Adams and her circle of trusted confidants. When Lizzie washes the bodies of two patriots who have died in the
home of Abigail Adams’s sister Mary Cranch, she discovers that they have been poisoned. Leaping into the dark,
scheming world of men at war, Lizzie sneaks off to Boston dressed as a messenger boy. There, she will search for
the Tory ring she suspects is behind the murders, only to discover her own true motives, her undeniable love for an
unattainable Tory, and a killer she would never have suspected. THE MIDWIFE’S REVOLT is not only about the
incredible strength of women in times of hardship, but also about their longing for peacetime, friendship, and
love. PUB: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.
 “A charming, unexpected, and decidedly different take on the Revolutionary War.” – Publishers Weekly
 “This humorous, exciting and touching story retells the familiar saga of the Revolutionary War in a
stunning new way that feels fresh and alive, and Lizzie emerges as a dynamic heroine who pushes against
the boundaries of her time. A clever story of sacrifice and glory during America’s fight for independence.”
– Kirkus
Jennifer Tseng, MAYUMI AND THE SEA OF HAPPINESS, Europa, April/May 2015
www.jennifertseng.weebly.com
Forty-one-year-old British librarian Mayumi Saito’s most erotic pastime is reading, until the day she issues a
library card to a shy seventeen-year-old and swiftly succumbs to a sexual obsession that subverts the way she
sees the library, her family, the American island she lives on, and ultimately herself. The novel is a tightly-
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focused chronicle of Mayumi’s affair and its consequences. Part darkly funny confession, part bittersweet
meditation. At its most anxious, it’s a book about time; at its most ecstatic, it’s a book about pleasure.
Jennifer Tseng’s poetry has won the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s National Poetry Manuscript
Competition, a PEN American Center Open Book Award, and the Marick Press Poetry Prize. Her fiction has won
the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers. The author is a librarian at the West Tisbury Library on
Martha’s Vineyard. AGENT: TRANSLATION, AUDIO. PUB: UK AND ITALIAN.
 Foreign rights licensed to Edizioni E/O (Italy-via Publisher)
Nancy Reisman, TROMPE L’OEIL, Tin House, May 12, 2015
TROMPE L’OEIL follows the Murphy family as it deals with the aftermath of the sudden death of four-year-old
Molly while the family is vacationing in Rome. Upon their return to the States, the Murphys take refuge in their
summer home on the Massachusetts coast, isolating themselves from their friends and family and living there fulltime despite the long winters and damaging storms. The ripple effects of Molly’s death and the grief that ensues
force the parents, Nora and James, to examine the contradictions both in their marriage and in the ways they and
their children perceive their worlds. While the older children struggle with how to express their grief, the two
daughters born after Molly’s death struggle with her unacknowledged yet hovering presence and how to relate to a
sister they never knew. As Nora and James grow apart and the Murphy children move into adulthood, the novel
explores various family legacies, the ways those legacies persist, and the ways they might be transcended.
Alongside and in conversation with the characters’ unfolding narratives, the novel offers images of Rome, of
Renaissance and other artworks—such as paintings of Mary Magdalene—as well as descriptions of the family house
and shifting perceptions of the house, which has come to mean something different for each family member. Nancy
Reisman's hauntingly beautiful second novel brings together visual, psychological, historical, and geographical
perspectives on family, loss, and grief. By the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel THE FIRST DESIRE.
AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
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Rita Mae Brown, TAIL GAIT: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery, Bantam, May 19, 2015
www.ritamaebrown.com
Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with an all-new mystery about
the 1959 University of Virginia football team. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.
 The 24th title in the bestselling series “coauthored” with Sneaky Pie Brown, the
author’s cat
 Over 4.8 million copies in the series in print
 Audio rights in the series licensed to Recorded Books
Foreign rights in the series licensed to Ullstein (Germany), Hayakawa (Japan), Motto (Czech and
Slovak)
Craig Johnson, Walt Longmire Series, Viking
LONGMIRE #11: DRY BONES, May 2015
www.craigallenjohnson.com
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Sheriff 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 three consecutive New York Times
bestsellers to his name and the second season of 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
 Over 1.3 million Walt Longmire books sold in the US
 Over 180,000 Walt Longmire books sold in France
 Longmire, a television series adapted from Craig Johnson’s novels, produced in a joint venture
between A&E and Warner Horizon, starring Robert Taylor, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Katee
Sackhoff premiered on A&E in June 2012 and aired its third season in Summer 2014.
 The pilot episode of Longmire named a finalist for 2013 Edgar Award for TV Episode Teleplay.
Teleplay by Hunt Baldwin & John Coveny (A&E/Warner Horizon Television)
 New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times bestsellers
 A bestselling, award-winning series in France with over 100,000 copies in the series sold
Reviews for the LONGMIRE series:
 “Top-notch…Johnson’s hero only gets better—both at solving cases and at hooking readers—with age.”
– Publishers Weekly
 “Once more, you can count on Longmire for action both physical and cerebral, a bit of humor and romance,
and a mighty good mystery.” – Kirkus
 “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
 “Johnson employs his trademark humor, many literary allusions, a cast readers can't help but love and
Johnson's obvious love of the land he's writing about. Readers will experience the West in all its grandeur
while Walt battles the evils trying to encroach upon his beloved county. Blending the literary novel with
the western and the mystery, Craig Johnson continues to deliver exceptional reads. He's not just staying on
the bull for eight seconds, Johnson's winning the whole rodeo.” – Jen’s Book Thoughts
 “Craig Johnson can explore our world without using stereotypes or clichés. His intricately layered plots,
note-perfect dialogue, and entrancing characters shine spotlights deep into our minds…. These books make
me laugh, they remind me of what I love about the West, and I enjoy trying to figure out whodunit, but
Craig Johnson's talent brings a lump to my throat.…Bet you anything once you’ve finished reading this
book that you’ll be looking for all the others. Since 2004 whenever anyone’s asked me for a
recommendation, Craig Johnson always springs to mind first. Always.” – Kittling: Books
 Audio rights in the series licensed to Recorded Books (via Publisher)
 Foreign rights in the series licensed to Editions Gallmeister (France), Yilan Culture (China), Siruela
(world Spanish), Orion/Murder Room (UK), Edizioni EO (Italy)
Emily Mitchell, VIRAL, W.W. Norton, June, 2015
A dazzling collection about how the familiar can suddenly turn strange, for readers of Lydia Davis, George
Saunders, and Karen Russell. A strange guidebook tells foreign visitors how to travel in a recognizable but
dreamlike United States where mirrors are haunted and the Statue of Liberty wears a bowler hat; a supervisor in a
department store must discipline his employees for failing to smile enough at their customers and finds himself
unexpectedly drawn to the saddest of them all; a woman agrees to buy her daughter a robot pet to help her cope after
a divorce, then is horrified when her little girl chooses an enormous spider for a companion. The characters in these
mesmerizing stories find that the world they thought they knew has shifted and changed, become bizarre,
disorienting, and, occasionally, miraculous, Told with absurdist humor and sweet sadness, Viral is about being lost
in places that are supposed to feel like home. PUB: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.
 “An astounding collection.” – Laura van den Berg
 “Remarkable, innovative stories.” – Dan Chaon
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Laura Pritchett, RED COUNTRY, Counterpoint, June 2015
www.laurapritchett.com
Ten years ago, Tess Cross left her newborn daughter with her sister and hightailed it out of what she called
NoWhere, Colorado. Now she returns to the eastern plains of Colorado, full of raw rage at herself and at the
universe. As a levantona who has been running drugs and illegal immigrants once they’re beyond the US-Mexico
border, she’s knowingly and even defiantly entered into a harsh and dangerous world. But now her world has
become darker than she can bear: The largest wildfire in Colorado history is blazing. Immigrants are dead. She’s
haunted by the memory of a Mexican woman she couldn’t save and a lost Mexican girl she did. Traffickers—of both
immigrants and drugs—are now hunting her down. But most of all, Tess is at the mercy of her own traumatized
soul, and the weight of it is cracking her apart. Before completing the only courageous action she can think of, Tess
must now face her ill mother, her sister, and her daughter, and most importantly, herself. This book broaches timely
and essential topics—immigration, rural poverty, wildfires—with suspense and gritty wisdom, following Tess’s
coming-of-age, in a gratifying story of hard-earned transformation and redemption. AGENT: UK,
TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
Also by Laura Pritchett, BENEATH BLUE MOON, Counterpoint, 2016
Thirteen people hunkered down in an isolated community high in the Colorado Rocky Mountains find their paths
twisting and colliding during the course of one blizzard and its aftermath. We enter the world of Blue Moon
Mountain, where the residents charge into the landscape of red-hot lust, passion, obligation, and loss, and are forced
to direct an honest look at themselves and the lengths they’ll go to protect one another. Violence and sex, the hard
edge of yearning, and the long road of desire, and the unexpected paths of mourning and lust collide in this
collection of stories. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
Also by Laura Pritchett, STARS GO BLUE, Counterpoint, June 10, 2014
Winner of PEN USA Award for Fiction and the Milkweed National Fiction Prize for HELL’S
BOTTOM, COLORADO, Laura Pritchett’s new novel follows a Colorado ranch family sent into a
spiral of revenge when their daughter’s murderer is released from prison just as the patriarch,
suffering from Alzheimer’s, pledges to take action before his mind abandons him. AGENT: UK,
TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
  “There is more than just the bleak and unforgiving setting of the Rocky Mountain
foothills to recommend Pritchett to fans of Kent Haruf's similarly placed novels. Strength of
character and simplicity of language comparably complement a rich underpinning of savagery and
sadness as Pritchett sensitively navigates the end of a life and sublimely realizes its enduring legacy.”
–Booklist
  “Pritchett delivers a brilliant novel, filled with heartache and humor, that will strike a chord with many readers.
A heart-wrenching exploration of a family in crisis.” –Library Journal
 Film rights optioned by writer/director Ric Waugh
Mary Helen Specht, MIGRATORY ANIMALS, HarperPerennial, June 20, 2015
www.maryhelenspecht.com
A powerful debut novel about a group of 30-somethings struggling for connection and
belonging, MIGRATORY ANIMALS centers on a protagonist who finds herself torn
between love and duty.
When Flannery, a young scientist, is forced to return to Austin from five years of research in
Nigeria, she becomes torn between her two homes. Having left behind her loving fiancé
without knowing when she can return, Flan learns that her sister, Molly, has begun to show
signs of the crippling genetic disease that slowly killed their mother. As their close-knit
circle of friends struggles with Molly’s diagnosis, Flannery must grapple with what her future will hold: an
ambitious life of love and the pursuit of scientific discovery in West Africa, or the pull of a life surrounded by old
friends, the comfort of an old flame, family obligations, and the home she’s always known. But she is not the only
one wrestling with uncertainty. Since their college days, each of her friends has faced unexpected challenges that
make them reevaluate the lives they’d always planned for themselves. A mesmerizing debut from an exciting young
writer, MIGRATORY ANIMALS is a moving, thought-provoking novel, told from shifting viewpoints, about the
meaning of home and what we owe each other—and ourselves.. The seed of the novel was published as non-fiction
in The New York Times’ “Modern Love” column in 2010. The author was a Fulbright Scholar to Nigeria, has an
MFA from Emerson College, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at St. Edward’s University
in Austin, Texas. Her story collection, HOUSE OF GUNS, was a finalist in the Flannery O’Connor competition.
AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
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"Mary Helen Specht's lyrical novel reminds me of the work of both Claire Messud and Courtney Sullivan.
MIGRATORY ANIMALS is a luminous debut about a group of young friends finding their place in the
world. Rich with love and heartbreak, it's the book I'll be wanting to share with all my friends." – Amanda
Eyre Ward
"This is the best kind of novel, one that's filled with knowledge—about America, Africa, climate change,
weaving, and snow, just to name a few of this fine book’s core concerns. But most important, and
impressive, is Specht's sure handling of the interior life, and the ways in which we help to make or break
those around us." – Ben Fountain, author of BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK
“A novel of tremendous scope and insight that succeeds both as an exploration of larger global concerns
and an acute examination of the most intimate parts of our lives. Mary Helen Specht is a terrific writer—
passionate and generous, wry and insightful. A very moving debut.” – Molly Antopol, author of THE
UNAMERICANS
“An emotionally nuanced debut…The men and women of Mary Helen Specht’s imagination inhabit a
world of breathtaking vividness, where life’s pains and pleasures ripple through to marvelous effect. A
heartbreaking, edifying, and resonant work of art.” – Keija Parssinen, author of THE RUINS OF US
“In prose as quirky and elegant as its characters, Specht proves that—after confusion, missteps, even
denial—a village can embrace you…This big, dreamy novel flies by as swift as time.” – Debra Monroe,
author of ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF NORMAL
“A beautifully precise group portrait in which Mary Helen Specht manages to capture not just a particular
set of characters but a generational mood and moment…Without forcing any answers, it asks a powerful,
probing question: how should you behave when life suddenly gets real?” – Stephen Harrigan, author of
REMEMBER BEN CLAY
Charlotte Silver, BENNINGTON GIRLS ARE EASY, Doubleday, July 14, 2015
Charlotte Silver dazzles with a ruefully funny coming-of-age novel following two recent Bennington grads
who are determined to make it in the Big Apple. A sly, stylish social comedy about two young and tender
Bennington College graduates in New York City whose friendship is tested by the grown-up challenges of sex
and money. Bennington College, founded in 1932 as a suitable refuge for the wayward daughters of good families,
maintains its saucy reputation for attracting free-spirits. There, acres outnumber students, the faculty is composed of
fading hippies, and clothing is largely optional. Or as J.D. Salinger put it in FRANNY & ZOOEY: a Bennington
type "looked like she'd spent the whole train ride in the john, sculpting or painting or something, or as though she
had a leotard on under her dress." Cassandra Puffin and Sylvie Furst met in high school, but cement what they
ardently believe will be everlasting friendship on Bennington’s idyllic Vermont campus. Graduation sees Sylvie
moving to New York City while Cassandra toils away in Cambridge. Frequent trips to the Big Apple and a failed
engagement eventually compel Cassandra to room with Sylvie. These early, delirious years are spent decorating
their Fort Greene apartment with flea market gems, dating 'artists' and trying to figure out what they're doing with
their lives. The girls are acutely and caustically observant to the unique rhythms of the city, but tone deaf to their
own imperfections, which eventually drives a wedge between them. Equal parts heartfelt and hilarious,
BENNINGTON GIRLS ARE EASY is a novel about female friendships—how with one word those closest to us
can lift us up or tear us down—and how difficult it is to balance someone else's devastatingly funny lapses in
judgment with our own professional and personal missteps. Debut adult fiction by the author of the charming
memoir, CHARLOTTE AU CHOCOLAT. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
Adrienne Celt, THE DAUGHTERS, Liveright/W.W. Norton, Summer 2015
www.loveamongthelampreys.com
In this virtuosic debut, a world-class soprano seeks to reclaim her voice from the curse that winds through
her family tree. Since the difficult birth of her daughter, which collided tragically with the death of her beloved
grandmother, renowned opera sensation Lulu can’t bring herself to sing a note. Haunted by a curse that traces back
through the women in her family, she fears that the loss of her remarkable talent and the birth of her daughter are
somehow inexplicably connected. As Lulu tentatively embraces motherhood she sifts through the stories she’s
inherited, about her elusive, jazz-singer mother and the nearly-mythic matriarch, her great-grandmother Greta. Each
tale is steeped in the family’s folkloric Polish tradition and haunted by the rusalka – a spirit that inspired Dvorak’s
classic opera. Merging elements from BEL CANTO and AMY AND ISABELLE, THE DAUGHTERS reveals
through four generations the sensuous but precise physicality of both music and motherhood, and – most mysterious
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and seductive of all – the resonant ancestral lore that binds each mother to the one that came before. AGENT:
TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
Leah Stewart, THE MYSTERY READER, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, August 2015
www.leahstewart.com
Ninety-year-old Margaret Riley is in hiding from the world. She lives alone in a house in the woods on a Tennessee
mountaintop and leaves it only to buy groceries and pick up a stack of mysteries from the local library. But when
she looks across the pond behind her house and spots a woman on the deck of the long-empty house on the other
side, she can’t ignore the curiosity this new neighbor makes her feel, or her own loneliness. Jennifer Young, too, has
sought seclusion, bringing her four-year-old son Milo to this little mountain town, where she’s certain no one from
her old life will find her. A massage therapist in need of an income, she puts flyers up around town, and when
Margaret calls she assumes she’s found nothing more than a regular client. But Margaret wants more from Jennifer
than professional attention. She senses a mystery in the younger woman, a reluctance to talk about her past, and her
curiosity about Jennifer intensifies into obsession. Where did she come from? Why is she here? Why does she have
no husband, and why does she flinch when Margaret says she looks familiar? In an effort to push past Jennifer’s
boundaries, Margaret brings up her own past, telling Jennifer about the woman she reminds her of, her old friend
Kay, and their time together as army nurses on the frontlines of Europe during World War II. When Jennifer
suggests Margaret hire her to record her history, Margaret agrees, believing she’ll get Jennifer to tell her story under
the pretext of telling her own. But as the tale moves toward Margaret’s own dark secrets, Jennifer grows
increasingly reluctant to listen, and when she pulls away, what Margaret does in an effort to maintain their
connection will threaten the fragile new life Jennifer has begun to build. AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
Michael Golding, A POET OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, Picador, Fall 2015
Author of SIMPLE PRAYERS Michael Golding’s A POET OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD is a spiritual fable about
a four-eared boy in 13th-century Persia, Spain, and North Africa, who, after a childhood spent in a Sufi order,
embarks on a journey through violence, addiction, and loss before returning to Sufism and achieving transcendence.
Inspirational and eternal, this is a story of finding one’s true self. AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
Michael Cunningham, WILD SWANS AND OTHER FAIRY TALES, FSG, November 1, 2015
www.michaelcunninghamwriter.com
After his contemporary-Brooklyn interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale in THE SNOW QUEEN, the
masterful Michael Cunningham offers 8 more ingeniously rewoven and deliciously provocative fairy tales for
modern times: “Most of us are safe. If you’re not a delirious dream the gods are having, if your beauty doesn’t
trouble the constellations, nobody’s going to cast a spell on you. No one wants to transform you into a beast, or put
you to sleep for a hundred years. The wraith disguised as a pixie isn’t thinking of offering you three wishes, with
doom hidden in them like a razor in a cake…. Please ask yourself. If you could cast a spell on the ludicrously
handsome athlete and the lingerie model he loves, or on the wedded movie stars whose combined DNA is likely to
produce children of another species entirely… would you? Does their aura of happiness and prosperity, their
infinite promise, irritate you, even a little? Does it occasionally make you angry? If not, blessings on you. If so,
however, there are incantations and ancient songs, there are words to be spoken at midnight, during certain phases of
the moon, beside bottomless lakes hidden deep in the woods, or in secret underground chambers, or at any point
where three roads meet. These curses are surprisingly easy to learn.” Includes 10 illustrations and additional
illustrated chapter dropcaps by the artist Yuko Shimizu: www.yukoart.com. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB:
AUDIO.
Also by Michael Cunningham: THE SNOW QUEEN, FSG, May 2014, Picador pb May
2015
The latest novel from the brilliant mind of Michael Cunningham, author of the
Pulitzer-Prize winning novel THE HOURS, A HOME AT THE END OF THE
WORLD, BY NIGHTFALL and other bestselling works of fiction. Barrett and Tyler
are two brothers, each engaged in his own search for transcendence. Barrett does not
believe in God but has nevertheless seen a vision in the night sky over New York City. He
finds himself questioning his rejection of belief, and increasingly turning to religion. Tyler,
Barrett's older brother, who's about to marry his mortally-ill girlfriend, is trying to write a wedding song for her, a
song that will be more than a mere sentimental ballad, that will be a significant musical expression of eternal love.
He grows increasingly dependent on chemical inspiration as he struggles to write the great song that seems always
to elude his grasp. THE SNOW QUEEN follows Barrett and Tyler - and the people who surround them - in their
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quest for understanding, for connection, for a more profound and meaningful life. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION.
PUB: AUDIO.
 “Arguably Mr. Cunningham’s most original and emotionally piercing book to date. It’s a novel that does
not rely heavily on literary allusions and echoes for its power — a story that showcases the author’s
strengths as a writer and few of his liabilities, while creating a potent portrait of two brothers and their
urgent midlife yearning to find some sense of purpose and belonging.” – Michiko Kakutani, New York
Times
 Foreign rights licensed to Fourth Estate (UK), Prometheus (Holland), Editions Belfond (France),
Gradiva (Portugal), Corpus (Russia), Bompiani (Italy), Luchterhand (Germany), Lumen/RHM
(world Spanish), Euromedia (Czech Republic), Polirom (Romania), Gummerus (Finland), Keter
(Israel), Lind (Sweden), Rebis (Poland), Gyldendal (Denmark), Bertrand Brasil (Brazil),
Intense/Focus (Bulgaria), Van Lang (Vietnam), Arhipelag (Serbia)
David James Poissant, CLASS, ORDER, FAMILY, S&S, 2015
www.davidjamespoissant.com
Debut novel by the author of the acclaimed story collection, THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS. An ornithologist, a
physicist, a pharmaceuticals rep, a painter, an elementary school teacher, and a man who can't hold down a job:
these are the Starlings. Brought together for a last week at the family lake house now for sale, three couples witness
a tragedy and soon question that which they've long called happiness. CLASS, ORDER, FAMILY is an unflinching
look at marriages both open and closed, work in the 21st century, and the not-so-nuclear American family. AGENT:
TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
Also by David James Poissant:
THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, S&S, March 4, 2014
In each of the stories in this remarkable collection, David James Poissant delivers a moving
portrayal of a relationship in turmoil. His gritty, all-too-real characters stand on the precipice
of their lives, chased there by trouble of their own making, and face a singular choice: do they
jump, or turn away? Poissant's invented worlds shine with honesty and dark complexity, but
also a profound compassion. Fresh, smart, lively—and often wickedly funny—the stories in
THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS are breathtakingly original and compulsively readable.
AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
  "Unsparing yet warmly empathetic stories...akin to both Anton Chekhov and Raymond Carver in
humane spirit and technical mastery." – Kirkus
 “[A] wise debut collection…Poissant’s characters are often a mess—belligerent, impulsive, smart in all the
wrong ways—but he manages their lives with precision, intelligence, and clarity…Beautiful [stories], with
a rogue touch.” – New York Times Book Review
 “An extraordinary debut from Florida author David James Poissant--a Venn diagram of the miraculous and
the absurd. Like Flannery O'Connor, Poissant's stories are marked by violence, humor, and grace; like
Carver and Diaz, Poissant writes scenes soaked in kerosene and seconds from combustion. In these pages
you'll find charming reprobates and self-deluded hustlers, young lovers, alligators and dead dogs, fathers
and sons, nudists who know that "cold is a state of mind," star-nosed moles that exhume the glow of a
buried baby, all the warped love of family, the batshit hilarity of the South, and the ‘geometry’ of loss.” –
Karen Russell, author of SWAMPLANDIA!
  “We care about and sympathize with Poissant’s characters, even the most conflicted and difficult ones.
The pieces vary greatly in length, style, and subject matter…Poissant is an excellent writer, and though
much of the material is depressing, the brief and beautiful moments of human connection shine through in
every story.” – Library Journal
 “Poissant’s work has been compared to Anton Chekhov, Raymond Carver and George Saunders, so it goes
without saying that his debut short-stories collection is something special. For fans of difficult men,
Poissant delivers a wide range of Walter Whites…Yet all of his stories share a sense of hope, even for the
most hopeless.” – New York Post
 Foreign rights licensed to Albin Michel (France), Edhasa Argentina (Spanish/LA), Enne &Enne
(Italy)
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Carlos Fuentes, FEDERICO EN SU BALCON, Alfaguara (Spanish language publication),
November 2012, Dalkey Archive Press, Fall 2015
www.carlos-fuentes.net
In his latest (and last—Fuentes died in 2012) magnum opus, the acclaimed Mexican writer takes
on the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Fuentes gives the author of THUS SPOKE
ZARATHUSTRA a second chance in the setting of a contemporary Berlin. In the novel God
says, “You can live a second time,” and brings Nietzsche back to life, sits him on the balcony,
and they start a dialogue. This dialogue is the novel itself. Nietzsche appears on a balcony, as in
the famed Edvard Munch portrait, in twenty-first century Berlin—perhaps punished by God for
the line about Him being dead or perhaps in evidence of Nietzche’s idea of Eternal Return. Meanwhile, events
unfold during the heady days before, and in the frightening aftermath of, a modern-day revolution in an unnamed
country. The revolution harkens back to historical revolutions, including the French, Mexican, Cuban, English
Revolutions, and those of 1848. Its three central characters are revolutionaries: Saul, the soul of the revolution, Dan,
its practical conciliator, and Aaron, the moral purist. The narrative recounts the political upheaval by concentrating
on these characters and on the important people in their lives. In inter-chapters, Nietzsche, on the balcony, partakes
in thoughtful, and occasionally funny, metafictional dialogues with the Author on the book's action and on its
significance. Fuentes has previously written some formally daring books and some profound books: this one is
both. AGENT: TRANSLATION (EXCEPT SPANISH, PORTUGUESE, AND GERMAN), AUDIO. PUB: UK.
 Foreign rights licensed to Editora Rocco (Brazil), Il Saggiatore (Italy), Editions Gallimard (France),
Can Yayinlari (Turkey), Swiat Ksiazki (Poland)
Monica Wood, THE MORNING CHORUS, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
When his sweet, strange 11-year-old son suddenly dies, absentee father Quinn agrees to the request of his twice-ex
wife and truest friend Belle that he complete the requirements for their son's one unfinished Boy Scout badge. For
seven Saturdays, Quinn is obliged to do yard work for Ona Vitkus, a 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant, who
reveals to Quinn that his son had persuaded her to try for the Guinness record of Oldest Licensed Driver. Quinn soon
learns that this is the least of Ona's secrets. A reluctant confidante, but aching with remorse over his failure as a
family man, Quinn finds himself in a complex relationship that opens an unexpected road toward his own personal
redemption. THE MORNING CHORUS is the story of a friendship, guided by an ever-present child, that grants
two unlikely people a second chance at life. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
Morgan Callan Rogers, EISBLAUE SEE, ENDLOSER HIMMEL (Ice Blue Sea, Endless Sky), mareverlag,
July 8, 2014; Plume US edition, March 2016
www.morgancallanrogers.com
The sequel to Morgan Callan Roger’s bestselling debut novel RED RUBY HEART IN A COLD BLUE SEA, in
which feisty protagonist Florine tries to settle into both a new marriage and motherhood in her tiny Maine seacoast
village while dealing with clues that may provide her with the solution to her mother's disappearance years before.
A year after Bud Warner moves in with Florine Gilham, they marry. Two weeks later, their daughter Arlee is born
and life changes forever for Florine, as she tries to move forward with her child and husband. But even as she settles
into marriage and motherhood, the past begins to make its presence known in the form of mysterious letters, the
behavior of her father’s ex-girlfriend and her strange sister, the transitions her own husband and their friends are
going through, and the ongoing mystery of the disappearance of her mother. Wanting desperately to get on with her
own life, Florine juggles the past, the present, and the future surrounded by people and circumstances that both
aggravate and nurture her. Published initially in Germany, where Rogers’ first novel, RED RUBY HEART IN A
DEEP BLUE SEA, was a bestseller. AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
Praise for RED RUBY HEART IN A DEEP BLUE SEA:
 “There are heart-breaking moments in the book, but there is always the thread of strength, resilience, and
humor that makes this novel a joy to read. This book will ring true for anyone who has grown up in a small
town, where truth is always stranger than fiction.” – Debbie Taylor, Sherman’s Book Stores, Maine
 “RED RUBY HEART IN A COLD BLUE SEA spun me deep inside its feisty, honest heroine, Florine. A
classic story of paradise lost, this is a beautiful and wise coming-of-age story set on the Maine coast, where
grief—harsh as the granite shoreline—is suffered, solaced and survived. I love this book, with its freshbaked bread, stars and waves, wind-worn houses, mysteries and truths. A wonderful first novel.” – Beth
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“A charming, all-embracing empathy, grounded by a witty, positive sense of humor. The reader is left
with the touristy desire to explore all the places so colorfully depicted and to meet the likeable villagers in
person.” – Jüdische Zeitung
“Wittily and with her own kind of humor Florine tells about what it means to be true to yourself and to find
happiness.” – sat1 Frühstücksfernsehen
“This book is like cinema: walk inside, sit down and be right in the middle of others' lives. Funny,
exciting, sad, tragic, it has everything and everything happens. It's a perfect summer book. If there's only
one going in your suitcase this year, please let it be this one. But don't say I didn't warn you. You'll be
through with it in two days, even though it has over 400 pages. Because you won't be able to stop.”
– WDR2
Audio rights licensed to Highbridge Audio (via Pub)
Foreign rights licensed to Mare Verlag (Germany), Ediciones B (world Spanish), Edizioni Elliot
(Italy)
CLASSIC FICTION
Rita Mae Brown, RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE, Ballantine/Bantam, 1973
RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE is the first milestone novel in the extraordinary career of one of this
country's most distinctive writers. Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller,
RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE is about growing up a lesbian in America – and living happily ever
after. Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor Southern couple who want
something better for their daughter. Molly plays doctor with the boys, beats up Leroy the tub
and loses her virginity to her girlfriend in sixth grade. As she grows to realize she's different,
Molly decides not to apologize for that. In no time she mesmerizes the head cheerleader of Ft.
Lauderdale High and captivates a gorgeous bourbon-guzzling heiress. But the world is not
tolerant. Booted out of college for moral turpitude, an unrepentant, penniless Molly takes New York by storm,
sending not a few female hearts aflutter with her startling beauty, crackling wit and fierce determination to become
the greatest filmmaker that ever lived. Critically acclaimed when first published, RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE has only
grown in reputation as it has reached new generations of readers who respond to its feisty and inspiring heroine.
AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.
 "I found myself laughing hysterically, then sobbing uncontrollably just moments later. A powerful story ...
A truly incredible book." – The Boston Globe
 "Molly Bolt is a genuine descendant -- genuine female descendant -- of Huckleberry Finn. And Rita Mae
Brown is, like Mark Twain, a serious writer who gets her messages across through laughter." – Donna E.
Shalala, former Secretary of Health and Human Services
 Foreign rights licensed to Vintage Classics (UK)
Charlotte Armstrong, NIGHT CALL AND OTHER STORIES OF SUSPENSE, Crippen & Landru, 2014
www.charlottearmstrong.org
Classic mystery stories from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine collected here for the first time, with an afterword
by the author’s son. By the author of the noir mystery novels MISCHIEF, THE CHOCOLATE COBWEB, THE
UNSUSPECTED and A DRAM OF POISON. The Queen of Suspense, Charlotte Armstrong (1905-1969)
introduced suspense into the commonplace, the everyday, by writing short stories and novels in which one simple
action sets a series of events spiraling into motion, pulling readers along, breathless with anxiety. By creating
characters that could be one's next-door-neighbors and by relocating suspense, in many cases, from its Gothic
ancestral settings, to locales she knew best, Armstrong created what the mystery writer Jan Burke aptly named
suburban noir. Armstrong's small town Midwestern upbringing and adult life on both East and West coasts finetuned her. Anthony Boucher observed of her work: “The method by which she achieves her magical effects defies
critical analysis.” AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.
Praise for Charlotte Armstrong:
 “One of the few authentic spell-casting witches of modern times.” – Anthony Boucher
 “Charlotte Armstrong is the American queen of suspense novelists.” – New York Telegraph
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RECENTLY PUBLISHED FICTION
Kim Church, BYRD, Dzanc Books, March 18, 2014
www.kimchurch.com
In this debut novel, 33-year-old Addie Lockwood gives birth to a son and surrenders him for
adoption without telling his father, little imagining how the secret will shape their lives. Through
letters and spare, precisely observed vignettes, BYRD explores a birth mother's coming to make
and live with the most difficult, intimate, and far-reaching of choices. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION,
AUDIO.
 Audio rights licensed to Audible
Gwen Edelman, THE TRAIN TO WARSAW, Grove Atlantic, April 1, 2014
A riveting story of the nature of desire and the cost of survival, THE TRAIN TO WARSAW
is a haunting and unforgettable portrait of a man and a woman who cannot escape their
past. Jascha and Lilka flee separately from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. Years later they are
reunited in London, where Jascha has become a celebrated writer, feted for his dark tales
about his wartime adventures. One day, forty years after the war, Jascha receives a letter
inviting him to give a reading in Warsaw. He tells Lilka that nothing remains of the city they
knew but Lilka, nostalgic for the city of her childhood, prevails. Together, traveling by train
through a frozen December landscape, they return to an unrecognizable Warsaw. When they unwittingly find
themselves back in what was once the ghetto, they will discover that there are still secrets between them. Gwen
Edelman's first novel, WAR STORY, was translated into eight languages, won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger
in France, and was a Koret Jewish Book Award finalist. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
 Named to vogue.com list of “Summer Books to Bring Along to Any Destination”
  “A fine rendering of tormented souls.” – Kirkus
 Foreign rights in THE TRAIN TO WARSAW licensed to Newton Compton (Italy), Editions Belfond
(France)
Julia Glass, AND THE DARK SACRED NIGHT, Pantheon, April 1, 2014
The award-winning author on her best subject—family secrets—in the story of a middleaged man who searches for his father, upending relationships beyond his own and changing
forever the way he fits into the world he thought he knew so well. Kit Noonan's life is stalled.
An unemployed art historian with twins to support and a mortgage to pay, he is sent away by his
frustrated wife, who is certain that, to go forward, Kit must first go back; he must solve the
mystery of his father's identity—which his mother has persistently withheld. An unforgettable
novel about the youthful choices that steer our destinies, the necessity of forgiveness, and the
surprisingly mutable meaning of family. By the bestselling and National Book Award winning
author of THREE JUNES, THE WHOLE WORLD OVER, I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE and THE WIDOWER’S
TALE. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
 A Good Housekeeping Good Reads Pick
 Bookish #1 Best Book Club Pick for April 2014
  A W Magazine Spring Reading Pick
 A Boston Globe Bestseller
 A New England Indie Bestseller
 O Magazine “10 Titles to Pick Up Now”
 (out of four) “Deftly weaving together narrative flashbacks from rural Vermont in the 1920s and
‘60s with contemporary threads set in New Jersey, Cape Cod and New York City, Glass’s fifth novel warns
us that “promises to keep secrets, those are the trickiest ones—especially when they’re secrets you don’t
even know you’ve been keeping.” AND THE DARK SACRED NIGHT is a tender, insightful and winning
exploration of the modern family and the infinite number of shapes it can take.” – People Magazine
 Foreign rights licensed to Editions des Deux Terres (France), Nutrimenti (Italy)
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Jacob Bacharach, THE BEND OF THE WORLD, Liveright/W.W. Norton, April 14,
2014
www.jacobbacharach.wordpress.com
A genre-crossing hybrid of office comedy, society satire, and The X-files, Ned Beauman
meets Joshua Ferris, Rachel Kushner by way of Philip K. Dick, THE MYSTERIES OF
PITTSBURGH mugged in a dark alley by a cocaine-addicted sasquatch, this novel is
the reason the world did not end in 2012. A coming of age novel in which no one quite
comes of age, a Bildungsroman with the real reality’s hostility to too much Bildung, THE
BEND OF THE WORLD is a novel that asks not if we are all prisoners of our past, but prisoners of our own future.
This is Jacob Bacharach’s debut novel. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
 "[A] funny, acerbic, and absurd début…Bacharach has a keenly satiric eye, and…his book is a delightful
study of extended adolescence.” – The New Yorker
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Elizabeth Crook, MONDAY, MONDAY, FSG/Sarah Crichton Books, May 13, 2014
www.elizabethcrookbooks.com
In this gripping, emotionally charged novel, a tragedy in Texas changes the course of three
lives. With pathos and electrifying storytelling, MONDAY, MONDAY follows three students
whose lives are forever altered by the 1966 massacre by a gunman in the University of Texas
tower. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
 2014 Mayor’s Book Club Pick for Austin, Texas
  “An almost-forgotten massacre at the University of Texas propels an
intergenerational tale marked by vivid moments of connection and disconnection, fear and
courage. Crook’s account of that mayhem is both gruesome and perfectly pitched, emotionally
speaking…Wisely, Crook allows her characters to change in believable ways over the course of four
decades, but the novel—with its moments of love, loss and conflict—is always pointing back to that
terrible past. …[MONDAY, MONDAY] is just right: confident and lyrical as it smartly engages terror and
its aftermath.” – Kirkus
Foreign rights licensed to Lannoo (Holland)
Kimberly Elkins, WHAT IS VISIBLE, Twelve/Grand Central, June 3, 2014
www.kimberlyelkins.com
WHAT IS VISIBLE is a fictional exploration of the real-life nineteenth-century figure,
Laura Bridgman, who was the first deaf and blind person to learn language, fifty years
before Helen Keller. Laura also couldn't taste or smell; she lost all senses but touch from a
bout with scarlet fever at age two. Not since THE DIVING BELL AND THE
BUTTERFLY has a book so illuminated the challenges of living a in completely unique
inner world. This novel is driven by both character and history in its examination of ability and
disability; ideas about female beauty and sexuality; and slavery and the abolitionist
movement. At the center of it all is the breathtaking experiment that Laura Bridgman embodied
and its links to the great philosophical, theological, educational and social changes taking place between 1840 and
1890. Since Laura was considered the second most famous woman in the world in the nineteenth century (second
only to Queen Victoria), it is astonishing that she has been virtually erased from history, and WHAT IS VISIBLE
will set the record straight. AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
 Los Angeles Times Summer Books pick
 BookPage Fiction Top 10 Pick
 Ms. Magazine Book Pick
 San Diego Magazine Book Pick
 “Kimberly Elkins’s wonderful novel salvages [Laura Bridgman’s] story from the sunken wreckage of
history and tells it anew in riveting, poignant detail…WHAT IS VISIBLE illuminates the historical
blindness of men—and women’s struggles to be seen and heard. The novel is infused with longing and rich
with detail about the social reforms of the Victorian era, the quest for rights and freedom for women and
slaves, for the disabled and the poor…This important story has been hiding in plain sight for more than 100
years, and Elkins makes this great American woman visible again, in all her remarkable, fully human
complexity.” – Washington Post
  “A wonderfully imaginative and scrupulously researched debut novel” – Publishers Weekly
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“The best historical fiction offers readers a new look at a well-known subject, or illuminates an episode or
individual that has been lost to history. Playwright Kimberly Elkins achieves the latter in WHAT IS
VISIBLE, a strikingly original debut novel.” – BookPage
James Morrow, THE MADONNA AND THE STARSHIP, Tachyon, June 10, 2014
www.jamesmorrow.info
New science fiction novella by the masterful author of the much acclaimed
SHAMBLING TOWARD HIROSHIMA. In the golden era of sci-fi TV, why were
alien crustaceans so darned literal? Beloved 1950's star Uncle Wonder must create
the ultimately irreverent television show — or crayfish from outer space will inflict
their death-ray on an unsuspecting viewership. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.
  “Jonathan Swift meets Buck Rogers in this hilarious send-up of the golden ages
of television and pulp sci-fi…[A] delightful romp.” – Publishers Weekly
Heather Gudenkauf, LITTLE MERCIES, Mira, June 24, 2014
www.heathergudenkauf.com
In her latest ripped-from-the-headlines tour de force, New York Times bestselling
author Heather Gudenkauf shows how one small mistake can have life-altering
consequences... Veteran social worker, Ellen Moore, has seen the worst side of humanity -the vilest acts one person can commit against another. She is a fiercely dedicated children’s
advocate and a devoted mother and wife. But one blistering summer day, a simple moment
of distraction will have repercussions that Ellen could never have imagined, threatening to
shatter everything she holds dear and trapping her between the gears of the system she works for. A powerful and
emotionally-charged tale about motherhood and justice, LITTLE MERCIES is a searing portrait of the tenuous
grasp we have on the things we love the most, and of the ties that unexpectedly bring us together. By the author of
the bestselling novels, THE WEIGHT OF SILENCE, THESE THINGS HIDDEN, and ONE BREATH AWAY.
Also: In LITTLE LIES, the riveting prequel story to her novel LITTLE MERCIES, Heather Gudenkauf
explores how even the smallest lies can have far-reaching consequences. AGENT: TRANSLATION (EXCEPT
FRENCH AND PORTUGUESE IN BRAZIL), AUDIO. PUB: UK.
 “A story of motherhood, guilt, and redemption, LITTLE MERCIES examines our deepest fears and
highest hopes. Gudenkauf’s prose is searingly raw, as Ellen’s confusion, guilt, and pain are laid bare.
Thrilling and emotionally tender, this novel, with its driving pace, will appeal to fans of Lisa Scottoline and
Jodi Picoult.” – Booklist
 “Gudenkauf is back with a riveting, fast-paced story…Combines page-turning intensity with deep
questions about priorities and the sacrifices women make in their lives…This novel is full of hope, despite
a sometimes harrowing focus on abused children. Recommend to those looking for a quick read with lots to
discuss; ideal for book groups.” – Library Journal
 Foreign rights licensed to Termedia (Poland)
NON-FICTION
Dan O’Brien, WILD IDEA: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land, University of Nebraska
Press, Sept. 1, 2014
WILD IDEA is a book about how good food choices can influence federal policies and the integrity
of our food system, and about the dignity and strength of a legendary American animal. It is also a
book about people: the daughter coming to womanhood in a hard landscape, the friend and ranch
hand who suffers great tragedy, the venture capitalist who sees hope and opportunity in a struggling
buffalo business, and the husband and wife behind the ranch who struggle daily, wondering if what
they are doing will ever be enough to make a difference. At its center, WILD IDEA is about a
family and the people and animals that surround them—all trying to build a healthy life in a big, beautiful, and
sometimes dangerous land. AGENT: TRANSLATION, AUDIO. PUBLISHER: UK.
 Builds upon the ideas addressed in the author’s earlier non-fiction book BUFFALO FOR THE
BROKEN HEART (Random House, 2001)
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“A deeply humane book that looks at ranching as a sustainable enterprise, a way of life more than an
economic engine…There may be plenty of disappointments out on the Plains, but this book is not one of
them.” – Kirkus
“WILD IDEA is a lyrical tribute to the idea of buffalo back on the plains, the rewards and challenges of
putting them there. But it is so much more. It’s about all the life on the prairie, on the hardscrabble ranches
and in the small towns. With this book, Dan secures his place as our modern prairie muse.” – Tom Brokaw,
NBC journalist and author
“Dan O’Brien’s book strikes me as a gentle but badly needed confrontation…Figuring out how to realign
the way we live with the health of the ecological systems that support us is the single most important
challenge of the twenty-first century, and that makes O’Brien’s book an essential meditation.” – Edward
Norton, actor and UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity
“Making strong, lasting connections between the rugged land and the strong people is a staple of life on the
Great Plains. Dan O’Brien’s gift is helping people understand this connection and the basic and difficult
truth that sustainable living is not simple; it is as matted and dense as the thick fur that defines the buffalo’s
very nature.” – Tom Daschle, former U.S. Senate majority leader
Foreign rights licensed to Au Diable Vauvert (France)
Greil Marcus, THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IN TEN SONGS, Yale
University Press, September 2, 2014
Unlike all previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic
performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in
a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, then
proceeds to dramatize how each embodies rock ’n’ roll as a thing in itself, in the story it
tells, inhabits, and acts out—a new language, something new under the sun. “Transmission”
by Joy Division. “All I Could Do Was Cry” by Etta James and then Beyoncé. “To Know
Him Is to Love Him,” first by the Teddy Bears and almost half a century later by Amy Winehouse. In Marcus’s
hands these and other songs tell the story of the music, which is, at bottom, the story of the desire for freedom in all
its unruly and liberating glory. Slipping the constraints of chronology, Marcus braids together past and present,
holding up to the light the ways that these striking songs fall through time and circumstance, gaining momentum and
meaning, astonishing us by upending our presumptions and prejudices. This book, by a founder of contemporary
rock criticism—and its most gifted and incisive practitioner—is destined to become an enduring classic. By the
author of the seminal pop culture texts LIPSTICK TRACES and MYSTERY TRAIN The songs include: Shake
Some Action/Transmission/In the Still of the Nite/All I Could Do Was Cry/Crying, Waiting, Hoping/Money (That’s
What I Want), Money Changes Everything/This Magic Moment/Guitar Drag/To Know Him Is to Love Him.
AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
 Serialized in Radio Silence, The Oxford American, LA Times, and The Guardian
 Publishers Weekly Top Ten Music Books for Fall 2014
 Amazon Book Editors Pick for Fall 2014
  “In his typically provocative and far-reaching style, music critic Marcus ingeniously retells the tale of
rock and roll as the undulating movement of one song through the decades, speaking anew in different
settings; it’s a ‘continuum of associations, a drama of direct and spectral connections between songs and
performers.’ Selecting ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, he ranges gracefully over various
performances of the same song, probing deeply into the nuances of each singer’s style as well as the ways
that the recorded version of the song reflects its time…Marcus brilliantly illustrates what many rock music
fans suspected all along but what many rock critics have failed to say: rock ’n’ roll is a universal language
that transcends time and space and reveals all mysteries and truths.” – Publishers Weekly
  “Another allusive, entertaining inquiry by veteran musicologist Marcus…[He] does what he does best:
make us feel smarter about what we’re putting into our ears.” – Kirkus
 “Greil Marcus writes about music as if his life depended on it. Maybe it does, and as you read THE
HISTORY OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL IN TEN SONGS, it may feel like yours does, too…Marcus’ historical
moments have the intensities of a great song, coming together in ways that are both satisfying and
appetizing…[A] potent, inspiring book.” – San Francisco Chronicle
 “Greil Marcus remains one of America’s greatest poets…Like Philip Roth before him, our Marcus
approaches 70 with some of his sharpest, most focused writing. Vocabulary and syntax that encompass the
worlds and volumes of worlds like Walt Whitman and William Faulkner; he can bite like Dorothy Parker,
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punch like Nelson Algren, and sing like those good ol’ psalms…THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IN
TEN SONGS is without a doubt the best reading you’ll do this year and some of the best music-related
reading you’ll do in this lifetime. When you want to introduce your children to the classics, make sure you
include at least one work by Greil Marcus on that list.” – PopMatters
"Greil Marcus knows everything and tells an electrifying story." – Stephen Frears
“You could go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and take in the artifacts and roll call or you can read
Greil Marcus’ kinetic, pulsing, brilliant history of this deeply American art form, THE HISTORY OF
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IN TEN SONGS. From his choice of which ten songs to explore to his invention of a
kind of a listener’s lexicon—a new way of bending sound to language—Marcus captures why rock ‘n’ roll
resonates down to our bones.” – Walter Mosley
“When I was 18 and leaving home for college, my brother put one thing in my hand: a copy of Greil
Marcus's MYSTERY TRAIN. It changed my life. More than 20 years have passed, and he's still the Don,
still connecting caves. He's as good on Beyoncé in this new book as he was on Harmonica Frank back then,
but the range of associations is wider, the mind making them deeper, and the deceptively jazzy precision of
his prose sharper. He's a treasure.” – John Jeremiah Sullivan
“A great essay begins with a theme and then makes it fly. Greil Marcus can make it soar. In THE
HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ROLL IN TEN SONGS he does just that. He says of Amy Winehouse that she
could unlock a song. Marcus unlocks rock ‘n’ roll history to find more than you ever thought might be
there.” – Jenny Diski
“Like Leslie Fiedler, Greil Marcus is a critic for the ages. There aren’t many writers I’ve learned more
from, nor many whose word for word and sentence for sentence writing I enjoy more. THE HISTORY OF
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IN TEN SONGS is among his richest work, perhaps his most heartfelt. Like MYSTERY
TRAIN, it’s something we will be learning from, that will give us new ways to think about the sounds that
have filled the worlds around us and the worlds inside us, for years to come.” – Mikal Gilmore
Foreign rights licensed to Henan University Press (China), Contra Ediciones (world Spanish), Il
Saggiatore (Italy)
Linda Gray Sexton, BESPOTTED: My Family’s Love Affair with Thirty-Eight
Dalmatians, Counterpoint, September 9, 2014
www.lindagraysexton.com
BESPOTTED is a page-turning and compelling look at the unique presence dogs serve
in our lives. It captures another piece of this literary family’s history, taps into the
curious and fascinating world of dog showing/dog fancy, and is a life-affirming love
story by one of the most critically acclaimed memoirists of our time. For Linda, the
boundless joy of both breed and breeding triggered in her a lifelong love of Dalmatians. All
told, 38 Dalmatians will move through her life: the ones that cheer and support her through difficulty, divorce, and
depression; the ones that stay with her as she enters the world of professional breeding and showing of Dals; and of
course the one true dog of her heart, Gulliver, her most stalwart of canine champions. AGENT: UK,
TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
 “Linda Gray Sexton has added a moving and beautiful account to the shelf of books about Dogs & Their
Writers…Her memoir-with-dogs is a chronicle of her deep connection to this specific breed over time…It
must have been extremely painful to write some of these passages; to experience and re-experience the
shock and the grief of the untimely and unfair endings, the vicissitudes of biology, the love that's given and
received in equal measure—here exquisitely re-imagined—between a keeper and each of her dogs.” – Los
Angeles Review of Books
 “This is not only a dog book but also a very well-written dog book…The inside look at the rarefied
environment of dog shows is a fascinating subplot; and the decisions that must be made as well as the
mechanics of breeding for show dogs will be eye-opening for many dog lovers. Sexton's paean to
Dalmatians, the dogs she feels have genuinely saved her life, will resonate.” – Booklist
 “Animal lovers will adore this emotional and touching story” – Real Simple
 "A brave and wonderful book. The first chapter about the origin of the famous poem by Anne Sexton,
"Live," is precious both for the history it recounts with an authenticity nobody else could claim, as well as
for its insight into one of the great poems of the language (hint: it is a poem made possible by dogs). Even
more importantly it recognizes something that is only now becoming clear: dogs and humans are a single
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species, a manifestation of a single love, and this book makes that clear in a rare way." – Jeffrey Moussaieff
Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie About Love.
“The bond between an animal and a human can be extremely strong, and Sexton proves this without a
doubt. A heartfelt testimony about the importance of dogs, especially Dalmatians, in one woman's life.” –
Kirkus
Foreign rights licensed to Mondadori (Italy)
Will Boast, EPILOGUE, Liveright/W. W. Norton, September 15, 2014
www.willboast.com
In the tradition of Andre Dubus III’s TOWNIE, an astonishing family story heralding the
arrival of a raw, elegiac new voice. It is rare enough to find a prize-winning young writer of Will
Boast’s spellbinding talent, but to find one with such an intensely dramatic personal story is a
once-in-a-generation discovery. After having already lost his mother and only brother, twentyfour-year old Boast finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly
settling the matters of his father’s estate, Boast is shaken from his grief when he stumbles upon
documents revealing a secret his father had thought to take to his grave: he ’d had another family
entirely, a wife and two sons. What Boast discovers about his father as he tracks down these strangers forces him to
reimagine the fundamental truths of his childhood and to wonder whether, after everything, he has a chance to
rewrite his family story. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION. PUB: AUDIO.
 Chosen as a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick for Fall 2014
  “Excellent…Boast writes with unsparing clarity, in precisely observed domestic scenes that reveal
mountains of unspoken feeling…A finely wrought, wrenching yet lyrical study of a family that lives on
past its seeming end.” – Publishers Weekly
 “Spellbinding…[Boast’s] affecting journey, related without sentimentality or self-pity, is not so much
about his need for family as it is a candid reflection on loneliness and personal identity.” – Booklist
 “Few 24-year-olds have endured the unimaginable losses Will Boast suffered by that age; fewer still have
the artistic poise and sheer visceral honesty to redeem that suffering by transforming it into art. As he
grapples with a father-son relationship as complex and tortured as that in Knausgaard's MY STRUGGLE,
Boast faces his raw emotional material ruthlessly, translating his extraordinary experiences to the page with
a restrained lyricism and a musician’s ear for rhythm. Boast's story will break your heart; his prose will
make it sing.” – Jamie Quatro, author of I WANT TO SHOW YOU MORE
 "A brave, brilliant, masterfully crafted story about an ordinary family's extraordinary collision of tragedies
and secrets. Will Boast's efforts to write his family's epilogue—to forge a space for his own life through
understanding theirs—make for one of the most moving and transformative reading experiences I've had. I
won't ever forget it." – Eleanor Henderson, author of TEN THOUSAND SAINTS
 “Riveting, soulful, and courageously told, Will Boast's memoir is a gorgeous meditation on grief and
family and also a deeply personal account of his coming-of-age under a relentless bombardment of
tragedies and revelations. Never has a story of loss been so full of life.” – Maggie Shipstead, author of the
national bestseller SEATING ARRANGEMENTS
 “EPILOGUE is a profoundly moving portrait of family and loss, of mystery and grief. The story unfolds
and builds and doubles back on itself like the notes and riffs in a jazz performance. Will Boast is a virtuoso,
a masterful writer and storyteller.” – Chad Simpson, author of TELL EVERYONE I SAID HI
 “Don’t let the title of Will Boast’s magnificent memoir fool you—EPILOGUE is about beginnings as
much as endings, discovering as much as losing family. It's honest, heartbreaking, gorgeously written, and
hands down the most moving book I've read so far this year.” – Anthony Marra, author of A
CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA
 Foreign rights licensed to Granta (UK)
Timothy W. Ryback, HITLER’S FIRST VICTIMS: The Quest for Justice, October 21,
2014
How the nightmare of the Holocaust began and how it could have been stopped.
This is the story of the first four victims of the Holocaust— Rudolf Benario, Ernst
Goldmann, Arthur Kahn and Edwin Kahn—and the Munich prosecutor who sought to bring
their SS killers to justice. Shortly after nine o’clock on the morning of April 13 th, 1933,
Munich prosecutor Joseph Hartinger received a call that four men had been shot in a failed
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escape from the recently erected Dachau Concentration Camp in the isolated moorlands north of the city. At the
scene, Hartinger immediately suspected murder. FIRST VICTIMS traces the deadly cat-and-mouse game between
the prosecutor and the camp’s commandant, as Hartinger seeks to bring Commander Wäckerle to justice. It is an
uneven struggle by every measure. Adolf Hitler is chancellor. Heinrich Himmler is chief of police. Wäckerle
commands the Dachau camp and its 120 SS guards. Hartinger has little more than his wits, his courage, and a
seventy-year old legal process known as the Strafprozessordnung, or Penal Process Code, that dates from the
Bismarck era, but he uses all three to remarkable effect. FIRST VICTIMS shows in precise and dramatic detail—
specific times, specific places, specific individuals—how the Holocaust began, and more important, how it could
have been prevented and almost was in those tenuous first months of Nazi rule. Like Oskar Schindler and Raul
Wallenberg, Hartinger demonstrated the potential of individual determination in a time of collective human failure,
and this story concludes with a surprising and uplifting dramatic twist that underscores the enduring and
transcendent power of justice.
 If anyone ever asks, how something like the Holocaust could have happened, this book tells exactly how it
happened, the exact time, place and circumstances, and most important, how it could have been prevented
and almost was.
 The New York Times visited Dachau in 1933 a week after the murders. The reporter interviewed the SS
commandant and described him as a "quiet-mannered, blond, blue-eyed" young man. The New York Times
literally missed the story of the century.
 These murders in Dachau in Spring 1933 became crucial evidence twelve years later at the Nürnberg
Trials.
American-born German scholar Timothy Ryback is the author of the acclaimed HITLER’S PRIVATE LIBRARY:
The Books That Shaped the Man (Knopf, 2010); THE LAST SURVIVOR: Legacies of Dachau (Pantheon, 1999);
and essays published in The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. [Approx. 40 illustrations]. AGENT:
TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
 “A chilling, lawyerly study with laserlike focus.” – Kirkus
 “Ryback…here examines an early but enormously significant episode in the evolution of the Nazi program
of genocide….An important addition to Holocaust collections.” – Booklist
 “Timothy W. Ryback’s gripping account of one man’s fight against Nazi atrocities holds important lessons
for us. Experience demonstrates that the authors of genocide and crimes against humanity frequently test
the waters before fully implementing their murderous plans. The Holocaust was no exception. Ryback
shows how this genocidal act may have been averted had more people acted with vigilance and
determination. Our challenge today is to act on Ryback’s historical insights before new rounds of mass
atrocities unfold.” – Kenneth Roth, executive director, Human Rights Watch
 “A significant addition to the Holocaust canon. The story of the first four Jews murdered at Dachau (we
get to know these young men by name and discover their dreams and dreads) as well as the astonishing
account of the near-sighted German prosecutor (surely a precursor of Claus von Stauffenberg) who, in
1933, attempted to charge the vicious Nazi concentration camp commandant with murder form the heart
and soul of Ryback's amazing book. The author's research is prodigious and his accumulation of new
details make the reader feel as if he is observing the first spreading of the Nazi plague through a
microscope. Ryback brings to life a story so painful that you want to put it down—but you can't! It's brutal
history come alive in your hands.” – Robert Littell, author of THE AMATEUR
 “Horrifying and heartbreaking…allows us at least to ponder whether, had more such good Germans come
forward, it all might just have been stopped.” David Margolick, author of BEYOND GLORY
 “Finely researched and deeply disturbing.” – Alan Riding, author of AND THE SHOW WENT ON
 “An extraordinary, gripping, and edifying story told extraordinarily well.” – Richard Bernstein, author of
DICTATORSHIP OF VIRTUE
 “Startling and important.” – Raymond Bonner, author of ANATOMY OF INJUSTICE
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Praise for HITLER’S PRIVATE LIBRARY by Timothy W. Ryback:
 Best of 2008 Pick by The Washington Post
 A Best Book of 2009 by The Financial Times
 Featured selection by The History Book Club, The Military Book Club, and The Quality Paperback
Book Club
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“Ryback has provided a tantalizing glimpse into Hitler’s creepy little self-improvement program.” - New
York Times Sunday Book Review
“Elegantly written, meticulously researched, fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . Ryback has produced a
valuable short addition to attempts to understand this strange man whose impact on the world was so
baleful.” - Ian Kershaw, author of HITLER, 1899-1936: HUBRIS, and HITLER, 1936-1945: NEMESIS,
reviewing for The New York Sun
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Gregg Herken, THE GEORGETOWN SET: Friends and Rivals in Cold War
Washington, Knopf, October 28, 2014
www.brotherhoodofthebomb.com
A fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington-a rich and colorful
portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government officials who waged
the Cold War over cocktails and dinner. In the years after World War II, Georgetown's
leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors: a coterie of affluent, welleducated, and well-connected civilians who helped steer American strategy from the Marshall
Plan through McCarthyism, Vietnam, and the endgame of Watergate. This Georgetown set
included Phil and Kay Graham, husband-and-wife publishers of The Washington Post; Joe
and Stewart Alsop, odd-couple brothers who were among the country's premier political
pundits; Frank Wisner, a driven, manic-depressive lawyer in charge of CIA covert operations; and a host of
diplomats, spies, and scholars. It was a time when presidents made foreign policy in consultation with reporters and
professors-often over martinis and hors d'oeuvres-and columnists like the Alsops promoted those policies in the next
day's newspapers. Gregg Herken illuminates the drama of these years and brings this remarkable roster of men and
women and their world not only out into the open, but vividly to life. AGENT: UK, TRANSLATION, AUDIO.
 First serial excerpt on Politico.com
 “[Herken] takes a rather clever idea promising titillating gossip among neighbors Joseph Alsop, Phil
Graham and John F. Kennedy during the 1950s and '60s and amplifies it into a spiraling delineation of the
official American response to the perceived Soviet threat… [a]n intricate study of the personalities that
shaped U.S. Cold War. policy”– Kirkus
 “Gregg Herken has written a compelling history of one of the big American stories of the last sixty years –
how a WASP band of brothers led the United States to triumph in the Cold War and tragedy in
Vietnam. They deserve, and in THE GEORGETOWN SET, they get full credit for both.” – Tom Powers,
author of THE MAN WHO KEPT THE SECRETS
Robert D. Kaplan, EUROPE’S GOTHIC EAST: A Journey through Two Cold Wars in Greater Romania,
Random House, Fall 2015/Spring 2016
www.robertdkaplan.com
For millennia, eruptions from Asia have determined the fate of Europe: invasions and migrations by Russians,
Turkic tribes, and Byzantine Greeks. Central and Eastern Europe, with their geographical proximity to the Asian
steppe and the Anatolian land-bridge, have borne the brunt of these cataclysms. Both a prequel and sequel to the
author’s most famous book, BALKAN GHOSTS, which has sold over 300,000 copies in print editions worldwide,
this work of narrative non-fiction begins as a memoir of the Cold War and breathes out into a literary travelogue of
greater Romania, an area that, quite literally, offers a specific landscape upon which to explore in an original way
the whole European Continent and the various empires that have overlapped and determined the fate of Europe.
AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
Also by Robert D. Kaplan:
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Robert D. Kaplan, ASIA’S CAULDRON: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific, Random
House, March 2014
From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine,
comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict. Kaplan
offers up a vivid snapshot of the nations surrounding the South China Sea, the conflicts brewing in the region at the
dawn of the twenty-first century, and their implications for global peace and stability. At a time when every day’s
news seems to contain some new story—large or small—that directly relates to conflicts over the South China
Sea, ASIA’S CAULDRON is an indispensable guide to a corner of the globe that will affect all of our lives for years
to come. AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK, AUDIO.
 Debuts at #6 on Washington Post hardcover non-fiction bestseller list
 “The latest in a series of insightful books, like THE REVENGE OF GEOGRAPHY and THE COMING
ANARCHY, in which Robert D. Kaplan, the chief geopolitical analyst at the global intelligence firm
Stratfor, tries to explain how geography determines destiny—and what we should be doing about it.
ASIA’S CAULDRON is a short book with a powerful thesis, and it stands out for its clarity and good sense
from the great mass of Western writing on what Chinese politicians have taken to calling their “peaceful
development.” If you are doing business in China, traveling in Southeast Asia or just obsessing about
geopolitics, you will want to read it.” – Ian Morris, New York Times Book Review
 “Part travelogue, part history, and part geostrategic analysis, ASIA’S CAULDRON sets some lofty goals
for itself and largely succeeds in presenting a holistic look at the competing diplomatic and economic
interests of the nations along the South China Sea…This volume is an excellent primer to the conflicting
ambitions, fears, and futures of the nations bordering this vital sea-lane, which will remain one of the most
dangerous flashpoints of the coming decade.” – New York Journal of Books
 “Kaplan has established himself as one of our most consequential geopolitical thinkers…[ASIA’S
CAULDRON] is part treatise on geopolitics, part travel narrative. Indeed, he writes in the tradition of the
great travel writers.” – Weekly Standard
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Robert D. Kaplan, THE REVENGE OF GEOGRAPHY: What the Map Tells us about Coming Conflicts and
the Battle Against Fate, Random House, September 11, 2012
The author mixes his expert on-the-ground reporting with an examination of the works of the classical geographers
in order to give us a serious and often surprising reappraisal of the various movements of people and nations that so
dominate the current news. We see that physical facts of the ground have great effect on the tides of international
relations—more so than is generally accepted. It is a book to open the mind. AGENT: TRANSLATION. PUB: UK,
AUDIO.
 #10 on New York Times hardcover non-fiction bestseller list
 “Kaplan plunges into a planetary review that is often thrilling in its sheer scale, its encyclopedic breeziness.
With a confidence born of many years of travelling as a journalist—a confidence that recalls the British
imperial travellers of the nineteenth century—Kaplan whisks us from the Hindu Kush to the Congo.”
– Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
 “No recent thinker has explored [geography’s] role with the kind of depth, range, acuity and vibrancy that
Kaplan brings to this consequential topic. This is one of those rare books that can change forever how one
reads, probes and seeks to understand history.” – The National Interest
 “Outstanding…If you want to know what’s really going on in the world, THE REVENGE OF
GEOGRAPHY is the place to start…Kaplan’s realism and willingness to face hard facts makes THE
REVENGE OF GEOGRAPHY a valuable antidote to the feel-good manifestos that often masquerade as
strategic thought.” – The Daily Beast
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