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ContentsNon-Fiction

Doing Justice by Preet Bharara

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer

The Uprising by Kate Zernike

The Falcons by Margaret Coker

Belonging by Nora Krug

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books by Leah Price

Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams

Imagine It Forward by Beth Comstock

The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes

Patriot Number One by Lauren Hilgers

The Future Is History by Masha Gessen

To Obama by Jeanne Marie Laskas

Playing Changes by Nate Chinen

New Power by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms

Endurance by Scott Kelly

My Time Among the Whites by Jennine Capó Crucet

Fiction

Northern Lights by Raymond Strom

Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne

Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li

The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman

Rights Held by the Publisher

Atlas Obscura by Josh Foer, Dylan Thuras, and Ella Morton

Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich

God by Reza Aslan

Ways of Hearing by Damon Krukowski

Selected Backlist

Non-Fiction

Rights Sold:

UK: Bloomsbury | China: Booky

By the one-time federal prosecutor and popular commentator, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and how to best achieve truth and justice in our daily lives and within our society.

Preet Bharara has spent much of his life examining our legal system, pushing to make it better, and prosecuting those looking to subvert it. Bharara believes in our system and knows it must be protected, but to do so, we must also acknowledge and allow for flaws in the system and in human nature.

The book is divided into four sections: Inquiry, Accusation, Judgment and Punishment. He shows why each step of this process is crucial to the legal system, but he also shows how we all need to think about each stage of the process to achieve truth and justice in our daily lives.

Bharara uses anecdotes and case histories from his legal career—the successes as well as the failures—to illustrate the realities of the legal system, and the consequences of taking action (and in some cases, not taking action, which can be just as essential when trying to achieve a just result).

Much of what Bharara discusses is inspiring—it gives us hope that rational and objective fact-based thinking, combined with compassion, can truly lead us on a path toward truth and justice. Some of what he writes about will be controversial and cause much discussion. Ultimately, it is a thought-provoking, entertaining book about the need to find the humanity in our legal system—and in our society.

A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law

Doing Justice

Knopf (March 19, 2019)Editors: Peter Gethers &

Sonny MehtaMaterial: Finished Book

2.2 million downloads per month

1 millionFollowers

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DOING JUSTICE

“[Preet] has somehow managed to be incredibly smart, principled, independent and hilarious all at the same time.” —James Comey, former FBI director and New York Times bestselling author, A Higher Loyalty

“Like the best lawyers (and writers), Preet Bharara tells a good war story. But Doing Justice is a great deal more—a vivid memoir of a critical job, a primer on the toughest questions of prosecutorial ethics, and a reminder of the drama inherent in life in the courtroom arena.”—Jeffrey Toobin, author of American Heiress: The Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

“In this fascinating combination of memoir and ethical-legal manifesto, former U.S. attorney Bharara['s]...prose has the quality of a well-written speech, with philosophical pronouncements, followed by supporting tales from both his legal career and his personal life, recounted in a superbly accessible and conversational, even humorous tone...With its approachable human moments, tragic and triumphant cases, heroic investigators, and depictions of hardworking everyday people, this book is a rare thing: a page-turning work of practical moral philosophy.” —Publisher’s Weekly (Starred Review)

“The former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York skillfully explains how he approached his job, offering a mixture of guiding principles and compelling anecdotes... An engaging tour from beginning to end.”—Kirkus (Starred Review)

“Bright with anecdotes from his lengthy and illustrious career, Bharara’s razor-edge judgments about punishment, procedure, outcome, and outlook address issues of governance and moral grounding that form the crux of the nature of justice. Bharara speaks with a clear, firm, and engaging voice in this essential primer about the importance of a fair and open justice system.”—Booklist

Preet Bharara served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. Bharara oversaw the investigation and litigation of all criminal and civil cases. In 2017, Bharara joined the NYU School of Law faculty as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence. He is the Executive Vice President of Some Spider Studios and the host of CAFE’s Stay Tuned with Preet, which is a podcast focused on issues of justice and fairness.

Preet Bharara

The Heartbeat of Wounded KneeNative America from 1890 to the Present

Riverhead (Jan. 22, 2019)Editor: Becky Saletan

Material: Finished BookAgent: Adam Eaglin

A New York Times Bestseller

A sweeping history–and counter-narrative–of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.

The received idea of Native American history—as promulgated by books like Dee Brown’s mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee—has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. The sense was that not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, but Native civilization did as well.

David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative. Because they did not disappear, the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention.

In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes’ distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don’t know or care about property. The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying Native identity. Conscription in the US military and the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and modern times, even as it steered the emerging shape of self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is the essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era.

Rights sold:

UK: Corsair | France: Albin Michel

PRAISE FOR THE HEARTBEAT OF WOUNDED KNEE“An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait of ‘Indian survival, resilience, adaptability, pride and place in modern life.’ Rarely has a single volume in Native American history attempted such comprehensiveness...Ultimately, Treuer’s powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of...history and the stories we tell ourselves about this nation’s past.”—New York Times Book Review

“In a marvel of research and storytelling, an Ojibwe writer traces the dawning of a new resistance movement born of deep pride and a reverence for tradition. Treuer’s chronicle of rebellion and resilience is a manifesto and rallying cry.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another.” —NPR

“Treuer is an easy companion: thoughtful, provocative and challenging. He tells a disturbing yet heroic story.” —Washington Post “Sweeping, essential history...Treuer’s storytelling skills shine...[an] elegant handling of [a] complex narrative.” —The Economist

“[An] urgent story.” —Newsday

“Vivid…Treuer evokes, with simmering rage, the annihilation of Indian lives and worlds, but he also unearths a secret history of Indians flourishing in art, government, literature, science and technology…Beautifully written.” —The Minneapolis Star Tribune.

“The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is written with conviction and illuminates the past in a deeply compelling way.” —Nancy Isenberg, author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. The author of four previous novels, most recently Prudence, and three books of nonfiction, he has also written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Slate, and The Washington Post, among others. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology and teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.

David Treuer

Kate Zernike is a national correspondant for The New York Times, where she has been reporting since April 2000. She was previously a reporter at The Boston Globe, where she first broke the story of the MIT16. Zernike is the author of Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America (Henry Holt, 2010).

Scribner (2021)Editor: Kathy Belden

Material: Proposal

How 16 Brilliant Women Sparked a Revolution for Equality in Science

The Uprising

The untold story of how a group of determined, brilliant women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire radical change.

The Uprising tells the story of biologist Nancy Hopkins, a pioneer of early cancer research and protégé of James Watson, and the MIT16, a group of tenured female professors at MIT, all at the

top of their fields. In 1999, Hopkins and the MIT16 crafted an explosive letter calling attention to gender bias in science and academia—a letter that spurned a reckoning across the Ivy League and

scientific labs across the world. Those women's efforts helped rectify the gross imbalances between genders in everything from salaries, to lab space, to grants, to tenure, to hiring practices, and drew

attention to appalling discrimination by some of the biggest names in science. The Uprising will serve as a sweeping portrait of women at the upper echelons of science, from the 1950s to today,

delving into what has changed, what discrimination persists, and why.

The Untold Story of the Elite Iraqi Spy Unit that Helped Bring Down the Islamic State

The Falcons

Dey Street (2020)Editor: Alessandra Bastagli

Material: ProposalAgent: Adam Eaglin

Rights Sold: UK: Viking

From former New York Times Baghdad bureau chief and Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Coker comes a page-turning, deeply moving story about a top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit and the unlikely group of men

that helped end the terror of ISIS.

The Falcons is the complete story, first revealed by Coker in the pages of the New York Times, of an elite Iraqi spy unit that successfully infiltrated the Islamic State, turning the tide against the terrorist group and helping secure the safety of Iraq—and the broader western world. After the American invasion of 2003, two dissidents came together to form the Falcons, developing the

unit under guidance from the CIA and recruiting all across Iraq. Coker’s account hinges on the relationship between two remarkable brothers: star police recruit Munaf and Harith Suddani. Munaf recruits his brother out of life as a rudderless college dropout, only to be shocked when

Harith volunteers for the most dangerous mission imaginable. His bravery comes to save countless Iraqi lives, and put his home country on the path to peace.

Margaret Coker has been reporting in the Middle East for 15 years, primarily at the Wall Street Journal, where she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and more recently as The New York Times Baghdad bureau chief. Before her bombshell report for the Times in August, the existence of the Falcons was little known, even in Iraq.

Rights sold:

UK: Particular Books | Brazil: Companhia das Letras | Denmark: Gads ForlagFrance: Gallimard | Germany: Penguin | Holland: Balans | Italy: Stile Libero Norway: Spartacus | Sweden: Nortstedts | Spain: Salamandra | Ukraine: Dobra Listyvka

Scribner (October 2, 2018)Editor: Kathy Belden


A Der Spiegel Bestseller2018 National Books Critics Circle Award Finalist

A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family’s wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history.

Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow throughout her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. For Nora, the simple fact of her German citizenship bound her to the Holocaust and its unspeakable atrocities and left her without a sense of cultural belonging. Yet Nora knew little about her own family’s involvement in the war: though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. In her late thirties, after twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Returning home, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members. Her extraordinary quest, spanning continents and generations, pieces together her family’s troubling story and reflects on what it means to be a German of her generation. Belonging wrestles with the idea of Heimat, the German word for the place that first forms us, where the sensibilities and identity of one generation pass on to the next. In this highly inventive visual memoir—equal parts graphic novel, family scrapbook, and investigative narrative—Nora Krug draws on letters, archival material, flea market finds, and photographs to attempt to understand what it means to belong to one’s country and one’s family.

A German Reckons with Home and HistoryBelonging

Nora Krug’s drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and Le Monde. Her animations were shown at Sundance, and she is the recipient of fellowships from the Maurice Sendak Foundation, Fulbright, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and of medals from the Society of Illustrators and the New York Art Directors Club. She is an associate professor in the Illustration Program at Parsons School of Design in New York.

Nora Krug

PRAISE FOR BELONGING

Named a Best Book of 2018 by The New York Times critics, The Boston Globe, NPR, The Guardian, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and

TIME (Honorable Mention)

“Belonging...is a mazy and ingenious reckoning with the past...honor seems to lie, this book suggests: in the restless work of remembering, in the looking again, the recalibration and the revision. In getting the whole picture, and getting it right.” —The New York Times

“Extraordinary.” —The Guardian

“To belong to a place is not to be able to choose what is taken from you. But we can choose what we take from it. Nora Krug takes from her German homeland, and then gives to us, a sense of what it is like to be German today, and a guide to how a reckoning with the past can begin.” —Tim Snyder, author of On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom

“Pick up Nora Krug’s reverberant graphic memoir, Belonging, and be prepared to lose yourself for hours …Belonging is both emotionally and graphically complex…it’s endlessly absorbing.” —NPR

“An intelligent, visually wonderfully opulent picture book for adults...Heimat by Nora Krug represents a form of self-ascertainment, of finding one’s position, and a moral compass. Nora Krug’s autobiograph-ical search for traces is differentiated, intelligent and sublime...[and] thus creates the possibility of the book itself becoming a Heimat.” —Denis Scheck, ARD Druckfrisch

“One of the greatest books of the year.”—Anne-Dore Krohn, literary critic at RBB Kulturradio (Germany)

“Belonging is an astoundingly honest book...By going so deeply into her family's history, Krug has in some ways written about us all.” —Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and Tribe

The History and Future of Reading

Basic Books (August 20, 2019)Editor: Lara Heimert

Material: Finished Manuscript

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

An historian of the book argues—provocatively and with great wit —that reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated.

Do you worry that you’ve lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you’re not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed. From the dawn of mass literacy to the invention of the paperback, most readers already skimmed and multitasked. Print-era doctors even forbade the very same silent absorption now recommended as a cure for electronic addictions. The evidence that books are dying proves even scarcer. In encounters with librarians, booksellers and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike.

Leah Price has taught English at Cambridge University, Harvard University, and Rutgers University, where from fall 2019 onward she will be founding director of the Rutgers Book Initiative. She is the author How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (2012) and the editor of Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (2011).

Unlearning RaceSelf Portrait in Black and White

A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics.

A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a “black” father from the segregated South and a “white” mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he’d never rigorously reflected on its foundations—but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions.

“It is not that I have come to believe that I am no longer black or that my daughter is white,” Williams writes. “It is that these categories cannot adequately capture either of us.” Beautifully written and bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black and White is an urgent work for our time.

W.W. Norton (October 15, 2019)Editor: John Glusman

Material: Finished ManuscriptAgent: Adam Eaglin

Thomas Chatterton Williams is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor to The American Scholar. He is also a National Fellow at New America. Williams's first book, Losing My Cool, was published in 2010 by Penguin Press.

“Williams has the essential things a writer needs—command of language, complexity and depth of thought, and, maybe above all, courage...This book brings a blast of fresh air that

will change your thinking about race in America.”—George Packer, author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

Rights sold:

UK: Ebury Press | China: Booky | Korea: Mirae | Russia: Alpina | Taiwan: Commonwealth | Ukraine: Yakaboo | Vietnam: TRE

Currency (Sept. 18, 2018)Editor: Roger Scholl

Material: Finished Book

From one of today’s foremost innovation leaders, a personal and practical guide to mastering change in the face of relentless uncertainty.

The world will never be slower than it is right now, says Beth Comstock, global thought leader and the former Vice Chair and head of marketing and innovation at General Electric. But confronting the relentless pace of change is hard. Employees get downsized; companies find themselves disrupted as challengers steal away customers. To thrive in today’s world, every one of us has to become a change-maker. In Imagine It Forward, Comstock shares lessons from a thirty-year career as the change-maker-in-chief at GE. In a candid and personal narrative, Beth describes her successes and failures from the front lines of business, across industries ranging from media to health, finance to the Industrial Internet. She demonstrates how she helped to turn a process-heavy, risk-averse culture into one that increasingly embraced transparency, adaptability, iteration, and discovery. And she shows how each one of us can become a “change maker”—an instigator of change—by giving ourselves permission to imagine a better way. For Comstock, confronting today’s accelerating change requires an extraordinary degree of problem-solving, collaboration, and forward-thinking leadership. Imagine It Forward masterfully points the way for leaders large and small.

Over 35,000 copies sold

Courage, Creativity, and the Power of ChangeImagine it Forward

PRAISE FOR IMAGINE IT FORWARD“Beth Comstock has written a wonderful book, full of excellent insights and lessons from her hugely successful career. She has recently been elected to the advertising all of fame, and after reading this you will know why. This book is of great value to almost virtually any leader and her stories and examples are told in a breezy way that makes it a joy to read.” —Phil Knight, founder of Nike and New York Times Bestselling Author, Shoe Dog

“Beth Comstock’s account of her unconventional career at a very conventional corporation, General Electric, is frank, funny and spot on about the need to abandon the top-down methods of the past in favor of greater collaboration, disruption and prioritizing the needs and wants of customers and consumers over profit.”—Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab & Author, Whiplash “Beth Comstock is just as creative and bold in her approach to writing a business book as she is in running a business. Unafraid to get candid and personal, unusually generous in sharing her insights, this is a book for anyone who wants to see around corners—and to vanquish the fear that holds them back from acting on what they see.”—Susan Cain, Author, Quiet “Beth is a true force of smart, practical, and most of all, inspiring executions in the new business world. There are few people who I think “get it”, and she’s at the top of that list.” —Gary Vaynerchuck, Entrepreneur & Author, Crushing It

Beth Comstock is the former Vice Chair of GE, where for twenty-five years she led GE's efforts to accelerate new growth. She was named GE’s Chief Marketing Officer in 2003, and served as President of Integrated Media at NBC Universal, from 2006-08, overseeing the company's digital efforts, including the early formation of Hulu. She is a corporate director of Nike. Written about and profiled extensively in the media, she has been named to the Fortune and Forbes lists of the World's Most Powerful Women.

Beth Comstock

Random House (June 12, 2018)Editor: Andy Ward


Rights sold:

UK: Bodley Head | Arabic: Haykal | China: Modern Press | France: Editions Saint-Simon | Finland: Minerva | Germany: C.H. Beck | Holland: De Bezige Bij Spain: Debate

Likely Story (Collatoral Beauty, Sing Street, Foxcatcher) has optioned the film rights, planning for a 2020 release—making The World As It Is likely to be the

first feature about Obama's two terms in the White House.

A New York Times BestsellerA Der Spiegel Bestseller

From Barack Obama’s closest aide comes a revelatory behind-the-scenes account of his presidency—and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive.

For nearly ten years, Ben Rhodes saw almost everything that happened at the center of the Obama administration—first as a speechwriter, then as deputy national security advisor, and finally as one of Obama's closest friends. He started every morning in the Oval Office, traveled the world with Obama, and was at the center of some of the most consequential and controversial moments of the presidency. Now he tells the full story of his partnership—and, ultimately, friendship—with a man who also happened to be a historic president of the United States.

In The World As It Is, Rhodes shows what it was like to be there—from the early days of the Obama campaign to the final hours of the presidency. This is a rare look inside the most poignant and consequential moments of the Obama presidency—waiting out the bin Laden raid in the Situation Room, responding to the Arab Spring, reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran, leading secret negotiations with the Cuban government, and confronting the resurgence of nationalism that culminated in the election of Donald Trump.

This is the most vivid portrayal yet of Obama’s worldview and presidency, that takes you inside the room for conversations with foreign leaders, and an essential record of the forces that shaped the last decade. The World As It Is promises to offer sensational news about Obama and the world.

The World As It IsA Memoir of the Obama White House

PRAISE FOR THE WORLD AS IT IS “Few others so closely see the world through my eyes like he can. Ben's one of the few who've been with me since that first presidential campaign. His memoir is one of the smart-est reflections I've seen as to how we approached foreign policy, and one of the most compel-ling stories I've seen about what it's actually like to serve the American people for eight years in the White House.” —President Barack Obama

“Ben Rhodes is a charming and humble guide through an unprecedented presidency. . . . He never quite loses his idealism; in a crass political era, he impressively avoids becoming a cynic. . . . His achievement is rare for a political memoir: He has written a humane and honorable book.”—Joe Klein, The New York Times Book Review

“More than any other White House memoirist, Rhodes is a creature of the man he served. . . . This is the closest view of Obama we’re likely to get until he publishes his own memoir.”—George Packer, The New Yorker

“The World As It Is is a page-turning, unfiltered, altogher human look at Barack Obama's presidency...Insightful, funny, and moving, this is a beautifully observed, essential record of what it was like to be there.”—Samantha Power, Ambassador to the United Nations, 2013-2017, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of A Problem from Hell

“Ben Rhodes is one of the most brilliant minds and powerful storytellers I’ve ever known.”—Jon Favreau, Speechwriter to President Obama, 2009-2013, founder of Pod Save America

Ben RhodesFrom 2009 to 2017, Ben Rhodes served as deputy national security advisor to President Barack Obama, overseeing the administration’s national security communications, speechwriting, public diplomacy, and global engagement programming. Prior to joining the Obama administration, from 2007 to 2008 Rhodes was a senior speechwriter and foreign policy advisor to the Obama campaign. A native New Yorker, Rhodes has a BA from Rice University and an MFA from New York University.

Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award, Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book

Prize, and a 2018 Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee

The deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City, forging a life between two worlds. In 2014, in a snow-covered house in Flushing, Queens, a village revolutionary from Southern China considered his options. Zhuang Liehong was the son of a fisherman, the former owner of a small tea shop, and the spark that had sent his village into an uproar—pitting residents against a corrupt local government. Under the alias Patriot Number One, he had stoked a series of pro-democracy protests, hoping to change his home for the better. Instead, sensing an impending crackdown, Zhuang and his wife, Little Yan, left their infant son with relatives and traveled to America. With few contacts and only a shaky grasp of English, they had to start from scratch.

In Patriot Number One, Hilgers follows this dauntless family through a world hidden in plain sight: a byzantine network of employment agencies and language schools, of underground asylum brokers and illegal dormitories that Flushing’s Chinese community relies on for survival. As the irrepressibly opinionated Zhuang and the more pragmatic Little Yan pursue legal status and struggle to reunite with their son, we also meet others piecing tmopogether a new life in Flushing. Tang, a democracy activist who was caught up in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, is still dedicated to his cause after more than a decade in exile. Karen, a college graduate whose mother imagined a bold American life for her, works part-time in a nail salon as she attends vocational school, and refuses to look backward.

With a novelist’s eye for character and detail, Hilgers captures the joys and indignities of building a life in a new country—and the stubborn allure of the American dream.

Crown (2017)Editor: Rachel Klayman

Material: Paperback

A Chinese Rebel Comes to AmericaPatriot Number One

Lauren Hilgers lived in Shanghai, China for six years. Her articles have appeared in Harper's, Wired, Businessweek, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in New York with her husband and daughter.

Lauren Hilgers

PRAISE FOR PATRIOT NUMBER ONE

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, the New York Times critics, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor,

Kirkus Reviews, and Longreads

“Rich and absorbing…A penetrating profile of a man and much more besides: an indelible portrait of his wife and their marriage; a canny depiction of Flushing, Queens; a lucid anatomy of Chinese politics and America’s immigration system…Hilgers observes all this with a sharp eye and an open heart…As evocative and engrossing as a novel.”—New York Times

“A superb account of Chinese immigrants in America… Stealing the show is Zhuang, irrepressible, quixotic, an endlessly scheming operator who finds his calling in activism…[Patriot Number One] tells a powerful human story about America and the world in 2018.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Excellent…a well-researched, informative look at the realities of Chinese immigration. It also depicts one man’s battle to figure out who he is.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Hilgers is a gifted writer and reporter whose talent for observation shines through the book’s opening chapters...[Her] deep reporting and relationships grant her access to a world that is almost completely unknown to others.” —New York Times Book Review

“[A] clear-eyed, humane look at modern immigration… Hilgers’ narrative intercuts between the dramatic rebellion in Wukan and a vibrant portrait of Flushing’s Chinese diaspora built around fine-grained character studies drawn with equal parts empathy and humor. The result is a quintessentially American story of exile and renewal.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Rights sold:

UK: Granta | Estonia: Ajakirjad | Finland: Docendo | Germany: Suhrkamp Holland: De Bezige Bij | Hungary: Európa | Italy: Sellerio | Poland: Proszynski Sweden: Brombergs | Spain: Turner | Taiwan: Marco Polo | Turkey: Epsilon

Riverhead (Oct. 3, 2017)Editor: Rebecca Saletan

Material: Paperback

Winner of the 2017 National Book Award, the Leipzig Book Prize, the Hitchens Prize, and the

Diario Madrid Journalism Prize

Putin’s bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a new strain of autocracy.

Award-winning New Yorker columnist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her world in recent times. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own—as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings.

Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the Putin regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today’s terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time.

How Totalitarianism Reclaimed RussiaThe Future Is History

PRAISE FOR THE FUTURE IS HISTORY

Finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle AwardsNamed a Best Book of 2017 by The New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Newsweek

“[Gessen’s] scathing essays in the New York Review of Books warning of President Trump’s flirtation with Putin and his creeping authoritarianism have made her a public intellectual with a viral following...This is by far Gessen’s best book, a sweeping intellectual history of Russia over the past four decades, told through a Tolstoyan gallery of characters...Ambitious, timely, insightful and unsparing.”—Susan B. Glasser, Washington Post

“Fascinating and deeply felt … Gessen successfully shows how Putin’s Russia has gradually acquired [the characteristics of a totalitarian state], though in muted and less extreme forms.”—Francis Fukuyama, New York Times Book Review

“Masha Gessen is humbly erudite, deftly unconventional, and courageously honest. At this particular historical moment, when we must understand Russia to understand ourselves, we are all very lucky to have her.”—Tim Snyder, author of On Tyranny

“Brilliant and sobering…writing in fluent English, with formidable powers of synthesis and a mordant wit, Gessen follows the misfortunes of four Russians who have lived most of their lives under Putin…Gessen vividly chronicles the story of a mortal struggle.”—Newsday

Masha Gessen is a staff writer for the The New Yorker and the author of nine books. In her 2012 bestselling book The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, she gave the chilling account of Putin’s rise to the Russian presidency. Gessen has written about Russia, autocracy, L.G.B.T. rights, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump, among others, for The New York Review of Books and the New York Times.

Masha Gessen

To ObamaWith Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope

President Barack Obama received ten thousand letters a day from his constituents. This is the story of the private and profound relationship with letter writers that shaped his presidency—and the diary of a nation.

Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters written by ordinary American citizens from his Office of Presidential Correspondence. Many of these letters profoundly affected President Obama and his policies. And on many occasions, he replied.

In To Obama, Jeanne Marie Laskas interviews President Obama (in one of his only interviews since stepping down as president), the letter writers themselves, and the dedicated, idealistic White House staff who sifted through the powerful, moving, and incredibly intimate narrative of America during the Obama years: There is Kelli, who saw her grandfathers finally marry—legally—after thirty-five years together; Bill, a lifelong Republican whose attitude toward immigration reform was transformed when he met a boy escaping gang leaders in El Salvador; Heba, a Syrian refugee trying to forget the day the tanks rolled into her village; and Vicki, whose family was torn apart by those who voted for Trump and those who did not.

They wrote to Obama out of gratitude and desperation, in their darkest times of need, in search of connection. They wrote with anger, fear, and respect. And together, this chorus of voices achieves a kind of beautiful harmony. To Obama is an intimate look at one man’s relationship to the American people, and at a time when empathy intersected with politics in the White House.

Random House (Sept. 18, 2018)Editor: Andy Ward


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Jeanne Marie Laskas is the author of seven books, including Concussion, Hidden America, and The Exact Same Moon. Her writing has appeared in GQ; Esquire; The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; and many other publications. Laskas serves as director of the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches creative writing.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

To Obama is being developed by Anonymous Content (Spotlight, The Revenant) both for film and for their first original podcast production. The podcast—using over 200 hours of audio interviews with the letter writers—will be released in 2020.

PRAISE FOR TO OBAMA

“My single favorite story about my presidency.” —President Barack Obama, on Laskas's article, "To Obama," written for the New York Times Magazine

“A moving and inevitably nostalgic or even elegiac read, redolent of the human grace and statesmanship of the Obama presidency, qualities so brutally absent in the current administration. The tone and courtesy of that stands as a beacon of humble leadership, as does the dedication that Obama inspired in the mail-room team that made the correspondence possible.” —Observer

“To Obama gives us a glimpse of a secret and incredibly sweet world within his White House, and paints a portrait of a man deeply concerned with his citizens' problems, struggling to do the right thing. [A] startling, delicate and immensely readable story...Another poignant reminder of what once was.”—Telegraph

“Alternatively heart-breaking and hopeful, angry and questioning - the empathetic, often poetic, polar opposite of the Trump twitter feed.” —Vogue

“[A] beautifully researched and written book.” —The Guardian

“A good book for those seeking encouragment that someone in Washington might care.” —Kirkus Reviews

One of jazz’s leading critics gives us an invigorating, richly detailed portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, Playing Changes is the first book to take the measure of this exhilarating moment: it is a compelling argument for the resiliency of the art form and a rejoinder to any claims about its calcification or demise.

In jazz parlance, “playing changes” refers to an improviser’s resourceful path through a chord progression. In this definitive guide to the jazz of our time, leading critic Nate Chinen boldly expands on that idea, taking us through the key changes, concepts, events, and people that have shaped jazz since the turn of the century—from Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill to Kamasi Washington and Esperanza Spalding; from the phrase “America’s classical music” to the Jazz Wars that clashed the uptown old guard against the downtown new; from claims of jazz’s demise to the living, breathing scene that exerts influence on mass culture, hip-hop, and R&B.

Grounded in authority and brimming with style, packed with essential album lists and listening recommendations, Playing Changes takes the measure of this exhilarating moment—and the shimmering network of possibilities to come.

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Pantheon (August 14, 2018)Editor: Erroll McDonaldMaterial: Finished Book

Jazz for the New CenturyPlaying Changes

Nate Chinen has been writing about jazz for more than twenty years. He spent a dozen of them working as a critic for The New York Times and helmed a long-running column for Jazz Times. As the director of editorial content at WBGO, he works with the multiplatform program Jazz Night in America and contributes a range of coverage to NPR Music. An eleven-time winner of the Jazz Journalist Association's Helen Dance –Robert Palmer Award for Excellence in writing, Chinen is also coauthor of Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, the autobiography of impresario George Wein.

Nate Chinen

PRAISE FOR PLAYING CHANGES

Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, GQ and Billboard

“Essential...Fascinating and vital...perfectly timed, well-tuned chronicle of the past, present, and future of jazz.” —Slate

“Brilliant. Incisive. Jazz lives on and on and on, folks.” —Sonny Rollins

“Sharp in style and warm in feeling, Nate Chinen's virtuoso survey dispenses with the familiar agen-das and polemics that have too often boxed in writing on contemporary jazz. He follows the music where it goes and exults in its plurality of voices.” —Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

“Chinen has excellent taste in unruly new sounds and big, bent ears, and you’ll want to make a playlist.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times

“A terrific book about the shape of contemporary jazz, and right now is a terrific time to read it.” —The Washington Post

“Mr. Chinen appears bent on a kind of enlightenment. His narrative traces a sturdy, finely crafted and open-ended framework for consideration of where jazz is headed.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Daring and illuminating. . . . No writer has confronted the of-this-moment character of contempo-rary jazz with the clarity and authority that Nate Chinen has brought to it...He is a listener of true brilliance.” —David Hajdu, The Nation

How Anyone Can Persuade, Mobilize andNew Power

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Shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year

In this indispensable guide to navigating the twenty-first century, two visionary thinkers reveal the unexpected ways power is changing—and how "new power" is reshaping politics, business, and life.

Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in our chaotic, connected age? In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms confront the biggest stories of our time—the rise of mega-platforms like Facebook and Uber; the out-of-nowhere victories of Obama and Trump; the unexpected emergence of movements like #MeToo—and reveal what's really behind them: the rise of "new power."

For most of human history, the rules of power were clear: power was something to be seized and then jealously guarded. This "old power" was out of reach for the vast majority of people. But our ubiquitous connectivity makes possible a different kind of power. "New power" is made by many. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It works like a current, not a currency--and it is most forceful when it surges. The battle between old and new power is determining who governs us, how we work, and even how we think and feel.

New Power shines fresh light on the cultural phenomena of our day and uncovering the new power forces that made them huge. Drawing on examples from business, activism, and pop culture, Heimans and Timms explain how to build new power and channel it successfully.

In an era increasingly shaped by new power, this groundbreaking book offers us a new way to understand the world—and our role in it.

Doubleday (2018)Editor: Kris PuopoloMaterial: Paperback

Succeed in Our Chaotic, Connected Age

Jeremy Heimans is the co-founder and CEO of Purpose, a company specializing in building social movements. He was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2012.

Henry Timms is the incoming president at Lincoln Center, after serving as executive director of the 92nd Street Y for five years. In 2014 he was named the NonProfit Times Influencer of the Year and in 2015, one of Crain’s New York Business 40 Under 40.

Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms

PRAISE FOR NEW POWERA Financial Times Business Book of the Month

On Sir Richard Branson's "Must Reads" List

“Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms’ book on new power could not be coming at a better time. With hyperconnectivity enabling new forms of leadership and mobilization, this book challenges all of us to think about the values we hold and how we can all be part of building a more open, equitable, and participatory world.” —Sir Richard Branson

“This book will inform and inspire all those wanting to make change . . . and achieve a goal against all odds.” —Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a UN Messenger of Peace

“Power structures are in serious flux. The best window I've seen into this new world is New Power.” —David Brooks, The New York Times

“An indispensable guide for brands and entrepreneurs looking to expand their network, grow their business and do good in the world.” —Forbes

“You couldn't wish for two better people to write this explanation and exploration of new power than Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans.” —The Observer (UK)

“Clever, witty and creative, Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans are baby-faced wunderkinds of digital activism; the type whose optimistic energy ought to make one feel hopeful for the future.” —The Guardian

A Year in Space, a Lifetime of DiscoveryEndurance

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Knopf (2017)Editor: Jonathan Segal

Material: Paperback

A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station—an account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years.

The veteran of four spaceflights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. Kelly's humanity, compassion, humor, and determination resonate throughout, as he recalls his rough-and-tumble childhood and the youthful inspiration that sparked his astounding career, and as he makes clear his belief that Mars will be the next step in spaceflight. A natural storyteller and modern-day hero, Kelly has a message of hope that will inspire for generations to come.

A New York Times BestsellerOver 200,000 copies sold

Optioned for feature by SonyAs featured in the two-part PBS documentary “A Year in Space”

Scott KellyScott Kelly is a former military fighter pilot and test pilot, an engineer, a retired astronaut, and a retired U.S. Navy captain. A veteran of four space flights, Kelly commanded the International Space Station (ISS) on three expeditions and was a member of the yearlong mission to the ISS. During the Year in Space mission, he set records for the total accumulated number of days spent in space and for the single longest space mission by an American astronaut.

PRAISE FOR ENDURANCE

“Captivating, charming . . . . [Kelly] pulls back the curtain separating the myth of the astronaut from its human realities. . . . It is easy to imagine future generations of explorers and daredevils harnessing the lessons and truths within the pages of Endurance as the blueprints for their own trips into the unknown.” —The New York Times Book Review

“[Endurance] is a memoir of the right stuff that will hypnotize any space geek.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Kelly brings life in space alive—the wonder and awe of it, and also the jagged edges, the rough parts of living in confined quarters in an alien element, far from everything familiar and beloved. . . . Endurance, with its honest, gritty descriptions of an unimaginable life, a year off Earth, is as close as most readers will come to making that voyage themselves.” —The Financial Times

“Kelly’s account is insightful, at times humorous, heart-tugging at others. And it’s inspiring enough to change the life of some lost kid, just like The Right Stuff did for him.” —USA Today

Scott Kelly

Jennine Capó Crucet is the Miami-born author of the novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, a New York Times Editors' Choice book, and winner of the 2016 International Latino Book Award; and the story collection How to Leave Hialeah, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Prize and the John Gardner Book Award. She is a Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times and an associate professor at the University of Nebraska in the Department of English and the Institute for Ethnic Studies.

Picador (September 3, 2019)Editor: Anna DeVries


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Lessons from My Unfinished EducationMy Time Among the Whites

From the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers, essays on being an “accidental” American—an incisive look at the edges of identity for a woman of color in a society centered on whiteness.

In this sharp and candid collection of essays, critically acclaimed writer and first-generation American Jennine Capó Crucet explores the condition of finding herself a stranger in the country

where she was born. Raised in Miami and the daughter of Cuban refugees, Crucet examines the political and personal contours of American identity and the physical places where those contours find themselves smashed: be it a rodeo town in Nebraska, a university campus in upstate New York,

or Disney World in Florida. Crucet illuminates how she came to see her exclusion from aspects of the theoretical American Dream, despite her family’s attempts to fit in with white American culture—beginning with their ill-fated plan to name her after the winner of the Miss America

pageant. In prose that is both fearless and slyly humorous, My Time Among the Whites examines the sometimes hopeful, sometimes deeply flawed ways in which many Americans have learned to adapt, exist, and—in the face of all signals saying otherwise—perhaps even thrive in a country that

never imagined them here.

Fiction

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A stunning debut novel set in the late 1990s as an androgynous youth arrives in small-town Minnesota, searching for the mother who abandoned him as a child.

On a clear morning in the summer of 1997, Shane Stephenson arrives in Holm, Minnesota, with only a few changes of clothes, an old Nintendo, and a few dollars to his name. Reeling from the death of his father, Shane wants to find the mother who abandoned him as an adolescent—hoping to reconnect, but also to better understand himself. Against the backdrop of Minnesota’s rugged wilderness, and a town littered with shuttered shops, graffiti, and crumbling infrastructure, Holm feels wild and dangerous.

Holm’s residents, too, are wary of outsiders, and Shane’s long blonde hair and androgynous looks draw attention from a violent and bigoted contingent in town, including the unhinged Sven Svenson. He is drawn in by a group of sympathetic friends in their teens and early twenties, all similarly lost and frequent drug users: the reckless, charming J and his girlfriend Mary; Jenny, a brilliant and beautiful artist who dreams of escaping Holm; and the mysterious loner Russell, with whom Shane, against his better judgment, feels a strange attraction. As Sven’s threats of violence escalate, Shane is forced to choose between his search for his mother, the first true friendships he’s ever had, and a desire to leave both his past and present behind entirely.

At its core, Northern Lights is the story of a son searching for his mother, and for a connection with her, dealing with issues of abandonment and forgiveness. But it also addresses the complications, tensions, and dysfunction that can exist in those relationships, presenting an unforgettable world and experience often overlooked, with a new kind of hero to admire.

Simon & Schuster (February 12, 2019)

Editor: Ira SilverbergMaterial: Finished Book

Agent: Adam Eaglin

A NovelNorthern Lights

Raymond Strom was born in Hibbing, Minnesota, and moved from small town to small town in the Midwest as a child. He received his MFA from the City College of New York, where he now works as an academic advisor and studies romance languages. His writing has appeared in Fiction, Tweed’s, and The New York Times. Northern Lights is his first novel.

PRAISE FOR NORTHERN LIGHTS“Good news for readers...Northern Lights, a debut novel by Hibbing, Minn., native Raymond Strom, might be described as a cross between two of the greats...The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, and Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune

“A powerful depiction of the currency of intolerance and addiction in one small town...[protagonist] Shane is heartbreaking, and readers will have a hard time parting with him after the book is over.”—Kirkus Reviews

“[An] incredibly well-crafted debut novel...You come away from this novel feeling as though as though you’ve met real people and engaged with them in their lives.”—Southern Minneapolis Book Review

“The search for identity, both familial and sexual, is at the core of this outstanding debut...we come to care deeply for Shane and his friends as the novel moves toward its powerful conclusion.”—Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena and Above the Waterfall

“Written with a mesmerizing voice as crystalline and startling as the title suggests, Northern Lights is a beautiful, drug-fueled coming-of-age...Strom's cool, sharp-eyed clarity and tender pathos calls Denis Johnson to mind—the ghost of Jesus' Son shimmers in these pages.”—Brendan Kiely, New York Times bestselling author of All American Boys and Tradition

“[In] Raymond Strom's lovely and unflinching coming-of-age novel...the powerful bonds of at-risk youth are vividly portrayed and movingly rendered...A stirring debut.” —Emily Raboteau, author of The Professor's Daughter and Searching for Zion, winner of the American Book Award

“Sweet and sneaky, Northern Lights is a novel to savor, a sad and heartfelt exploration of the families that fail us and the ones we construct after. This is a book to read, and Raymond Strom is a writer to remember.” —Greg Downs, author of Spit Baths, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Raymond Strom

Hogarth (July 24, 2018)Editor: Parisa EbrahimiMaterial: Finished Book

Agent: Adam Eaglin

2019 Edgar Prize for Best Novel Nominee

Commissioned by the estate of Raymond Chandler, Only To Sleep brings one of literature's most enduring detectives back to life—as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure.

The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe—now in his seventy-second year—is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers, with a case that has his name written all over it.

For Marlowe, this is his last roll of the dice, his swan song. His mission is to investigate the death of Donald Zinn—supposedly drowned off his yacht, and leaving behind a much younger and now very rich wife. But is Zinn actually alive? Are the pair living off the spoils?

Set between the border and badlands of Mexico and California, Lawrence Osborne’s resurrection of the iconic Marlowe is an unforgettable addition to the Raymond Chandler canon.

A Philip Marlowe NovelOnly to Sleep

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Lawrence Osborne was born in England but has traveled and lived all over the world. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven, Hunters in the Dark, and Beautiful Animals. His non-fiction includes Bangkok Days and the drinking odyssey The Wet and the Dry. His short story "Volcano" was selected for Best American Short Stories 2012, and he has written for the New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, The New Yorker, Forbes, Harper’s, and other publications. He currently lives in Bangkok.

Lawrence Osborne

PRAISE FOR ONLY TO SLEEP

A New York Times Notable Book of 2018A NPR Best Book of 2018

“Osborne, an accomplished writer of fiction and nonfiction, has been asked to imagine a new case for Philip Marlowe and—have a smell from the barrel, all you gunsels and able grables—it crackles.” —New York Times Book Review

“Lawrence Osborne has done some amazing things with words. He's made a hard, sharp name for himself...telling morally gray and exisentially terrifying tales about men and women loose in the world's far places... It leaves you with the taste of rum and blood in your mouth. It hangs with you like a scar.” —NPR

“Osborne succeeds brilliantly… [he] captures the dreamlike quality of the original Marlowe novels.” —The Washington Post

“Absorbing...semi-exotic, lushly described... a fine way to leave an old fictional friend, taking at last a well-earned rest in the sun after having given readers decades of pleasure.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Only to Sleep admirably sidesteps the pitfalls of Chandler-esque pastiche... in its place, a Mar-lowe we at once know, but have never met before. As much a meditation on aging and memory as it is a crime thriller.” —LA Times

“Osborne is the third writer to have resurrected Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, and his effort may be the best of the lot.” —Booklist

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After a seven-party auction, Number One Chinese Restaurant has been optioned for a television series by ABC, with Kerry Washington (from ABC's Scandal) and her production company Simpson Street attached to executive produce.

Holt (2018)Editor: Barbara Jones


Longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction & The Center for Fiction's 2018 First Novel Prize

A stunning debut and “a wonderfully honest portrait of what it takes to make it in America” (Village Voice), set against the unforgettable ups and downs of restaurant life.

The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family’s controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay.

Owner Jimmy Han hopes to leave his late father’s homespun establishment for a fancier one. Jimmy’s brother, Johnny, and Johnny’s daughter, Annie, ache to return to a time before a father’s absence and a teenager’s silence pushed them apart. Nan and Ah-Jack, longtime Duck House employees, are tempted to turn their thirty-year friendship into something else, even as Nan’s son, Pat, struggles to stay out of trouble. And when Pat and Annie, caught in a mix of youthful lust and boredom, find themselves in a dangerous game that implicates them in tragedy, their families must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to help their children.

Generous in spirit, unaffected in its intelligence, poignant, and darkly funny, Number One Chinese Restaurant shares an unforgettable story about youth and aging, parents and children, and all the ways that our families destroy us while also keeping us grounded and alive.

Number One Chinese RestaurantA Novel

PRAISE FOR NUMER ONE CHINESE RESTAURANT

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by The Millions and CosmopolitanNamed a Summer Must-Read by TIME, Buzzfeed,

The Wall Street Journal, Star Tribune, Fast Company, The Village Voice, Toronto Star, Fortune Magazine, InStyle, and O, The Oprah Magazine

An Indie Next Pick for July

“So expertly does first-time novelist Lillian Li conjure the Beijing Duck House, a gaudy, tatterdemalion restaurant in Rockville, Md., that readers of Number One Chinese Restaurant can almost taste its signature dish and feel the heat of its woks. . . . By turns darkly funny and heartbreaking.” —The Wall Street Journal

“A deliciously comic debut novel about secrets, scandal, and the patriotism at the heart of the hustle.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

“Evocative. . . [Li's writing] engrosses.” —New York Times Book Review

“Li shines in portraying lives shaped by work in this service industry . . . [rewarding] readers with a compelling family story about love, work, and what it means to serve.” —USA Today

“[A] crackling debut. . . . Li's talent for human tragicomedy grows more evident by the page.”—Entertainment Weekly

“[Number One Chinese Restaurant] is a lot of things . . . a multigenerational immigration story, an insider look at the often grueling life of the career server or line cook, a romance, a coming-of-age (at any age). Most significantly, it is a joy to read—I couldn't get enough.” —Buzzfeed

Lillian Li received her BA from Princeton and her MFA from the University of Michigan. She is the recipient of a Hopwood Award in Short Fiction, as well as Glimmer Train’s New Writer Award. Her work has been featured in Guernica, Granta, and Jezebel. She is from the D.C. metro area and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2013, she was a Granta New Voice.

Lillian Li

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Viking (March 20, 2018)Editor: Andrea Schulz

Material: Paperback

Shortlisted for The Costa Novel Award

A masterful novel about the son of a great painter striving to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of The Imperfectionists.

Conceived while his father, Bear, cavorted around Rome in the 1950s, Pinch learns quickly that Bear’s genius trumps all. After Bear abandons his family, Pinch strives to make himself worthy of his father’s attention—first trying to be a painter himself; then resolving to write his father’s biography; eventually settling, disillusioned, into a job as an Italian teacher in London. But when Bear dies, Pinch hatches an improbable scheme to secure his father’s legacy—and make his own mark on the world.

Taking us from Roman apartments to SoHo galleries to the South of France, The Italian Teacher explores the power of great art and what it costs those closest to its creators. With his signature humanity and humor, Tom Rachman examines a life lived in the shadow of greatness, cementing his place among his generation’s most exciting literary voices.

The Italian TeacherA Novel

PRAISE FOR THE ITALIAN TEACHER

Named a Best Book of 2018 by USA Today

“Deliciously ironic and deeply affectionate… this is a novel about art and the mercurial currents of fate that determine how it’s celebrated, valued and commodified. But more than anything else, The Italian Teacher is about fathers and sons, the anxiety of influence, and the sly ways we go about carving a little space for ourselves in the shadow of great masters.” —The Washington Post

“Rachman wrestles with age-old questions: What is the purpose of art? How do we judge excellence? Does fame matter? . . . [The Italian Teacher] moves with the energy and gusto of Bear. With Pinch/Charles, it broods and hopes and plumbs the depths. That’s a lot to expect of any novel, yet The Italian Teacher delivers in spades.”—Dan Cryer, San Francisco Chronicle

“A poignant, touching tale about living in the shadow of a brazen artistic genius...Unforgettable.” –USA Today

“Rachman's new novel may well be his most impressive yet.” —Financial Times

“Often wickedly funny...but it is also deeply touching in its tender portrayals of life's victims...I confess this was the first of Rachman's novels I'd read but I was so swept away by it that I raced out to buy the other three.” —Daily Telegraph

“[An] artful page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) “The Italian Teacher is a marvel—an entertaining, heartbreaking novel about art, family, loyalty, and authenticity. Tom Rachman is an enormously talented writer--this book is alive, from the first page to the last.” —Tom Perotta, bestselling author of The Leftovers

Tom Rachman is the author of The Rise & Fall of Great Powers (2014) and The Imperfectionists (2010), an international bestseller that has been translated into 25 languages. Rachman, who was born in London in 1974 and raised in Vancouver, worked for the Associated Press as a foreign-desk editor in New York, and then became a correspondent in Rome in 2002. His writing appears in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian, among others.

Tom Rachman

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Over 650,000 copies in print!

Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid now available in the US!

Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world.

Here are natural wonders—the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, and much, much more. Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, Atlas Obscura revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, and the mysterious. With compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveler as the die-hard adventurer.

Workman (2017)Editor: Suzie Bolotin


An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden WondersAtlas Obscura

“In this gorgeous collection, the celebrated Atlas Obscura website is condensed into 480 pages of awe-inspiring destinations.”—Entertainment Weekly

MCD (April 9. 2019)Editor: Sean McDonald


For foreign rights, please contact Flora Esterly

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Losing Earth

An instant classic: The most urgent story of our times, brilliantly reframed, beautifully told.

By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change—what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed.

Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking account of that failure—and how tantalizingly close we came to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil fuels industry and the Republican Party fully committed to anti-scientific denialism—is already a journalistic blockbuster, a full issue of The New York Times Magazine that has earned favorable comparisons to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and John Hersey’s Hiroshima. Rich has become an instant, in-demand expert and speaker. A major movie deal is already in place. Publishers around the world are clamoring for the rights. It is the story, perhaps, that can shift the conversation.

In the book Losing Earth, Rich is able to provide more of the context for what did—and didn’t—happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures mean for us in 2019. It is not just an agonizing revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and what we can and must do before it's truly too late.

Nathaniel Rich is the author of three novels: King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor’s Tongue. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and his essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, and The Daily Beast. He lives in New Orleans.

A Recent History

Rights sold:

UK: Transworld | Azerbaijan: TEAS Press | Brazil: Zahar | China: Beijing Qingyan Jinghe International | Croatia: Profil | Czech Republic: Host | France: Les Arenes | Germany: Gutersloher | Holland: Balans | Italy: Rizzoli | Japan: Bungeishunju | Korea: Sejong Norway: Bazar | Portugal: Quetzal | Romania: Humanitas | Russia: Atticus-Azbooka Serbia: Laguna | Spain: Taurus | Taiwan: Acropolis | Turkey: Zeplin

For foreign rights, please contact Rachel Kind ([email protected]) or Joelle Dieu ([email protected])

A New York Times Bestseller

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine, and sounds a call to embrace a deeper, more expansive understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, Aslan takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large. In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as one long and remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. More than just a history of our understanding of God, this book is an attempt to get to the root of this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality. Whether you believe in one God, many gods, or no god at all, God: A Human History will challenge the way you think about the divine and its role in our everyday lives.

Random House (2017)Editor: Hilary Redmon

Material: Paperback

A Human HistoryGod

Reza Aslan is a religious scholar and professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. He is also the president and CEO of Aslan Media Inc., which runs BoomGen Studios, a media company focused entirely on entertainment about the Greater Middle East and its Diaspora communities. He has degrees in religion from Santa Clara University, Harvard, and UC Santa Barbara, as well as an MFA from the University of Iowa, where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction.

Reza Aslan

Random House (2016)

Random House (2005/11)

Random House (2009)

Beyond Fundamentalism“A very persuasive argument for the best way to counter jihadism” (Washington Post) and an analysis of the war on terror in a post-9/11

world.

UK: William Heinemann | Japan: Fujiwara Shoten | Spain: Ediciones Urano

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

A “literate, accessible introduction to Islam” (New York Times), from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Zealot.

Rights sold in: UK, Holland, Germany, Korea, Denmark, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Greece, France, China, Turkey, Italy, Poland, Spain, Arab Territories, Lithuania

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

A momentous work of popular scholarship and runaway bestseller, this provocative biography challenges long-held assumptions about

Jesus.

Rights sold in: UK, Arab Territories, ANZ/New Zealand, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Brazil, China, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia,

Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey

Damon Krukowski is a writer and musician. Author of The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World, he has taught writing and sound (and writing about sound) at Harvard University. He was in the indie rock band Galaxie 500 and is currently one half of the folk-rock duo Damon & Naomi. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A writer-musician examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power.

Our voices carry farther than ever before, thanks to digital media. But how are they being heard? In this book, Damon Krukowski examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power. In Ways of Hearing—modeled on Ways of Seeing, John Berger's influential 1972 book on visual culture—Krukowski offers readers a set of tools for critical listening in the digital age. Just as Ways of Seeing began as a BBC television series, Ways of Hearing is based on a six-part podcast produced for the groundbreaking public radio podcast network Radiotopia. Inventive uses of text and design help bring the message beyond the range of earbuds.

Each chapter of Ways of Hearing explores a different aspect of listening in the digital age: time, space, love, money, and power. Digital time, for example, is designed for machines. When we trade broadcast for podcast, or analog for digital in the recording studio, we give up the opportunity to perceive time together through our media. Music has been dematerialized, no longer an object to be bought and sold. With recommendation algorithms and playlists, digital corporations have created a media universe that adapts to us, eliminating the pleasures of brick-and-mortar browsing. Krukowski lays out a choice: do we want a world enriched by the messiness of noise, or one that strives toward the purity of signal only?

The MIT Press (April 9, 2019)Editor: Matthew BrowneMaterial: Finished Book

For foreign rights, please contact Matthew Browne

([email protected])

Ways of Hearing

“Damon Krukowski is an incisive, passionate, and, above all, rational critic of this new realm.” —Alex Ross, author of The Rest is Noise and Listen to This

Selected Backlist

The nationally bestselling debut, named a best book of 2013 by the New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, and more.

UK: Heinemann | Brazil: Casa da Palavra | Czech Republic: XYZ Denmark: C&K | France: Christian Bourgois | Points (PB)

Germany: Liebeskind | Piper (PB) | Holland: Nieuw Amsterdam Italy: Einaudi Mexico | Latin America: Planeta | Portugal: Teorema

Russia: Eksmo Taiwan: Unitas | Turkey: Yapi Kredi

An international bestseller and blockbuster phenomenon chronicling Foer’s unlikely journey from forgetful journalist to

Memory Champion.

Rights sold in:UK, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Indonesia, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden,

Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam

Joshua Foer

Penguin Press (2011)

The Art and Science of Remembering EverythingMoonwalking with Einstein

Adelle WaldmanA Novel

Holt (2013)

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

Harcourt (2016)

A “breakthrough” (Seth Godin) and an “empowering, encouraging” (Publisher’s Weekly) account of how to master almost any skill from

the world’s reigning expert on expertise.

Rights sold in:UK, Brazil, Canada, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Spain,

Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam

Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

Peak

A “thorough and eloquent...intimate and poetic” (New York Times Book Review) memoir about growing up amongst

Latvian expatriates, this “important...[and] exquisitely written book shows how recovery can come generations later through

rebuilding connections—to people, the natural world, the past” (Washington Post).

UK: One | France: Hoebeke

A “fascinating” (Financial Times) and “original” (The New Yorker) history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often

overlooked treaty treaty transformed the modern world.

UK: Allen Lane | China: Social Sciences Academic Press Germany: Siedler | Italy: Neri Pozza | Japan: Bungeishunju

Spain: Tres Puntos

A Tale of Exile and HomecomingInara Verzemnieks

Among the Living and the Dead

The InternationalistsHow a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro

W.W. Norton (2017)

Simon & Schuster (2017)


An eye-opening account and “powerful indictment” (Wall Street Journal) of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet

is controlling and limiting the information we consume.

UK: Viking | Brazil: Zahar | China: Remnin Univarsity Press | Germany: Hanser | Indonesia: MAXincube | Italy: Il Saggiatore | Japan: Hayakawa | Korea: Sigongsa | Russia: Mann-Ivanov-Ferber |

Spain: Taurus | Taiwan: Rive Gauche

Eli Pariser

How the Personalized Web Is Changing What The Filter Bubble

We Read and How We Think

Big GameThe NFL in Dangerous Times

A Novel

Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle EastInto the Hands of the Soldiers

The Windfall

Mark Leibovich

David Kirkpatrick

Diksha Basu

The national bestseller, serving as an “enlightening and entertaining” (Boston Globe) probing of America's biggest cultural force, pro

football, at a moment of peak success and high anxiety.

“[A] wickedly entertaining journey through the N.F.L...A sparkling narrative.”

—The New York Times

UK: HarperCollins

From the international correspondant of the New York Times, an “engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review) narrative “that fills us with terror and pity” (The Wall Street Journal) of how and why the Arab Spring sparked, then failed, and the truth about the West's role

in that failure.

UK: Bloomsbury

Lauded as one of the best books of 2017 by People, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Rolling Stone, and Esquire. In this “delightful” (NPR) and “fun and heartfelt” (Rolling Stone) comedy of manners, Basu's debut novel unfolds the story of a family discovering what

it means to "make it" in modern India.

UK: Bloomsbury | France: Le Mercure de France | Spain: Alianza de Novelas


Viking(2018)

Crown (2017)

Secrets from the New Science of Expertise



Peak

Peak

Peak

Adelle Waldman

Adelle Waldman

Adelle Waldman

Random House (2015)

A national bestselling debut, winner of the Scott Fitzgerald Prize, about an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and about love and time lost. Hailed as “luscious and smart” (New York Times), “astonishing” (Financial Times) and “a twisty, gripping story

that packs an emotional wallop.” (O Magazine)

UK: Oneworld | France: Stock | Italy: Mondadori

Julia PierpontA Novel

Among the Ten Thousand Things


A. O. ScottFrom the chief film critic at the New York Times, an “intelligent, informed and oftenty funny account” (New York Times) of the role of the critic—and a passionate argument for criticism in everyday

life.

UK: Jonathan Cape | Germany: Hanser | Italy: Il Saggiatore Korea: Miraebook | Turkey: Ayrinti

Ron RashA NovelSerena

How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and TruthBetter Living Through Criticism

Ecco (2008)

A story of greed, corruption, and revenge set against 1930s America’s emerging environmental movement. Hailed as a Best Book of the Year by many publications and as a “masterfully written” (SF Chronicle) novel that “recalls both John Steinbeck

and Cormac McCarthy” (The New Yorker).

Rights sold in:UK, ANZ., Brazil, China, Czech, Croatia, Denmark, France, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland, Portugal, Taiwan,

Turkey

The Captain ClassA New Theory of Leadership

The New AnalogListening and Reconnecting in a Digital World

GreenA Novel

Sam Walker

Damon Krukowski

Sam Graham-Felsen

Random House (2018)

Random House (2017)

The New Press (2017)

From the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal's sports section comes a bold new theory of leadership drawn from the elite captains who inspired their teams to achieve extraordinary

success.

UK: Ebury | Australia: Penguin Australia | Hungary: Prtvonal Konykiado | Japan: Hayawaka | Korea: THE BOM | Spain: Debate

Taiwan: Souler

What John Berger did to ways of seeing, well-known indy musician Damon Krukowski does to ways of listening in this “passionate” (Los Angeles Times) and “accessible” (Pitchfork) guide to the transition

from analog to digital culture.

UK: MIT Press | Italy: Edizioni Sur | Spain: Alpha DeCay

Written by a former Obama campaign staffer, a “compelling”(The New York Times Book Review) and “uassumingly ambitious” (Slate) coming-of-age story of “uncommon sweetness and feeling” (The New Yorker) about race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in

America.

Turkey: Hep Kitap

Free Press (2014)

A Jane Austen Education

William Deresiewicz

How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship,


Random House (2012)

Grace CoddingtonA MemoirGrace

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year about American Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington’s early career as a model to her

rise as a prominent, endearing icon in fashion today.

UK: Chatto & Windus | Brazil: Record | China: Hunan Literature & Art | Finland: Nemo | Holland: Atlas-Contact | Japan: Space Showers Networks| Korea: Bookie | Russia: Sindbad | Spain: Turner Libros

Taiwan: Azoth | Turkey: Sho-pigo

Rights inquiries: [email protected]

A vindication of the women’s novel, an eloquent memoir of a young man’s life transformed by literature, and a novel-by-novel account of

the life lessons that Austen has to teach us all.

Brazil: Rocco | China: SDX Joint Publishing | Italy: TEA | Korea: Jaeseung Book Gold Co. | Russia: Gayatri | Taiwan: Linking

Publisher

A sharp-eyed, bestselling manifesto on what elite education should be—but isn’t—providing, and a clarion call to our brightest young minds. “Anyone who cares about American education should ponder

this book,” writes the New York Times Book Review.

China: Sunnbook | Japan: Sanseido | Korea: Darun | Taiwan: Sun Color

Rights inquiries: [email protected]

William Deresiewicz

The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to Excellent Sheep

a Meaningful Life

and the Things That Really Matter

Riverhead (2012)

Riverhead (2015)

Riverhead (2014)

In the “fullest account so far” (Los Angeles Times), Gessen reconstructs how this punk protest group resurrected the power

of truth in a society built on lies.

UK: Granta | Brazil: Martins Fontes | France: Globe | Holland: Ambo | Hungary: Noran Libro | Norway: Gyldendal Norsk |

Poland: Proszynski | Sweden: Brombergs

Masha GessenThe Passion of Pussy Riot

Words Will Break Cement

“A gripping narrative and a stunning piece of investigative journalism” (Christian Science Monitor), called “reminiscent of Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower” (Los Angeles Times), the definitive account of the events that led the Tsarnaev Brothers to perpetrate the Boston marathon bombing. A Time Best Book of the

Year.

UK: Scribe | Italy: Carbonio

Masha GessenThe Road to an American Tragedy

The Brothers

The bestselling investigative account of how a low-level KGB operative became the most powerful man in Russia. A Slate and San

Francisco Chronicle best book of the year.

Rights sold in:UK, Brazil, Croatia, Czech, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Norway,

Poland, Romania, Sweden, Taiwan, and Turkey.

Masha GessenThe Unlikely Rise of Vladimir PutinThe Man Without a Face

Harcourt (2009)


“A thoughtful, beautifully written meditation on the art of language and intimacy.” (New York Times) A “terrific” (Vogue) memoir from the New Yorker staff writer about learning to live (and love) in French, and to discover, across history and culture, whether the languages we speak make us who we are. A New York

Times bestseller and Amazon Best Book of the Month.

UK: 4th Estate | France: Flammarion | Korea: KL

Lauren CollinsLove in a Second Language

When in French

The “fascinating, moving” (Tom Stoppard) story of mathematics’ most reclusive genius.

UK: Icon Books | China: Beijing Canglang | France: Globe | Germany: Suhrkamp | Greece: Travlos | Israel: Books in the Attic | Italy: Carbonio Japan: Bungeishunju | Korea: Sejong (exp.) | Russia: Corpus | Serbia: JP Sluzbeni | Taiwan: Faces Publishing Ltd. | Vietnam: Tre Publishing

Masha Gessen

A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century

Perfect Rigor

Dial Press (2001)

In this “extraordinary family memoir” (New York Times Book Review) and “eloquent portrait of two totalitarian powers” (Kirkus Reviews), Masha Gessen reveals the story of her two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism during a time when tyranny

reigned.

UK: Bloomsbury | Hungary: Europa | Russia: AST | Sweden: Brombergs

Masha Gessen

How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War Ester and Ruzya

and Stalin's Peace

Harper (2015)

Harper (2011)

St. Martin’s (2015)

Jennine Capo CrucetA Novel

Make Your Home Among Strangers

A “smart, scathing and hilarious” debut (Curtis Sittenfeld) about a daughter of immigrants to Miami caught between the worlds of an elite university and her mother’s defense of a young Cuban refugee, named an NYTBR Editor’s Choice and

Winner of the 2016 International Latino Book Award.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

The true story of a fearless young woman who not only reinvented herself as an entrepreneur to save her family but, in the face of ferocious opposition, brought hope to dozens of women in war-torn

Kabul.

Rights sold in: UK, Brazil, China, China (Uyghur), Germany, India (Marathi), Indonesia, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey

A New York Times bestseller about the first female special forces unit in Afghanistan, and the inspiring, tragic story of its first member killed-in-action. In development as a feature with Fox 2000 and Reese Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard

(Gone Girl, Wild).

Brazil: Rocco | Italy: Piemme | Japan: Kadokawa Poland: Proszynski

Gayle Tzemach LemmonThe Untold StoryAshley’s War

Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

Dutton (2012)

Dutton (2012)

Viking (2012)

The Evolution of a Navy SEALMark Owen

Every Love Story is a Ghost StoryA Life of David Foster Wallace

D. T. MaxThe bestselling biography of the most influential American writer of his generation, named a Best Book of 2012 by The New York Times,

The Guardian, The Economist and more.

UK: Portobello | China: Horizon Media | France: Editions de l’Olivier Germany: Kiepenheuer & Witsch | Italy: Stile Libero | Romania:

Vellant Spain: Debate

The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic, No Easy Day, by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen reveals the evolution of a

SEAL Team Six operator.

Brazil: Paralela | China: CITIC | France: Editions du Seuil | Germany: Heyne | Holland: De Boekerij | Israel: Keter | Italy: Mondadori | Japan: Kodansha | Poland: Literackie | Sweden:

Nona | Turkey: Pegasus

The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final

moments.

Rights sold in:UK, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greek, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain,

Sweden, Thailand

The Autobiography of a Navy SEALNo Easy Day

Mark Owen

Random House (2015)

Random House (2005)

Riverhead (2015)

A “masterful” (Los Angeles Times) novel about love, loss, race and desire in World War II-era America, charting the reverberations of a shocking act of violence at a rustic Minnesota resort. Hailed by Toni Morrison as “wondrous and mesmerizing,” and “tender and

devastating” by Anthony Marra in the Washington Post.

France: Albin Michel

David Treuer

PrudenceA Novel

Arthur LubowPortrait of a Photographer

Diane Arbus

Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis in this generation-defining novel, hailed by Jay McInerney (New York Times) as “the funniest and smartest

coming-of-age novel in years.”

UK: Picador | Brazil: Rocco | Catalan: Ediciones Proa | Croatia: Algoritam | Holland: Lebowski | France: Belfond | Germany: Berlin Verlag | Greece: Ellinika Grammata | Israel: Kinneret | Italy: Rizzoli

Norway: Bazar| Poland: Muza | Russia: AST | Spain: Destino

Benjamin KunkelA Novel

Indecision

The “defining biography” (Publishers Weekly) of one of the most influential and beguiling photographers of the twentieth century. “Enormously satisfying” (Boston Globe) and “superbly

crafted” (Washington Post).

UK: Jonathan Cape | China: China Nationality Art Photograph Publishing House

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