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Braffet, Kelly

SAVE YOURSELF “Kelly Braffet is the real deal. Save Yourself is an electrifying, tomahawk missile of a thriller.”

—Dennis Lehane, author of Live By Night “Save Yourself is that rare and beautiful thing—a novel that takes us to dark places not just through vivid storytelling but also through keen emotional force. As the action rushes towards its chilling conclusion, you’ll find yourselves breathless, shaken, moved.”

—Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me “Astonishing. Save Yourself goes deep into the hidden and shameful parts of grief, love, and anger, and the reader emerges shaken and grateful on the far end. It’s a lacerating read, and proves that Braffet is a writer in full command of her many, many talents.”

—Emma Straub, author of Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures Patrick Cusimano is in a bad way. His father is in jail, he works the night shift at a grubby convenience store, and his brother’s girlfriend, Caro, has taken their friendship to an uncomfortable new level. On top of all that, he can’t quite shake the attentions of Layla Elshere, a goth teenager who befriends Patrick for reasons he doesn’t understand and doesn’t fully trust. The temptations these two women offer are pushing Patrick to his breaking point. Meanwhile, Layla’s little sister, Verna, is suffering through her first year of high school. She’s become a prime target of her cruel classmates, not just because of her strange name and her fundamentalist parents: Layla’s bad-girl rep proves to be too huge a shadow for Verna, so she falls in with her sister’s circle of outcasts and misfits whose world is far darker than she ever imagined. Kelly Braffet’s characters, indelibly portrayed and richly varied, are all on their own twisted paths to finding peace. The result is a novel of unnerving power—darkly compelling, addictively written, and shockingly honest. Kelly Braffet is the author of Josie and Jack and Last Seen Leaving. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence and Columbia University, where she received her MFA. Kelly lives in upstate New York with her husband, the writer Owen King.

Crown, August 2013 Editor: Zachary Wagman Galleys available; 310 pp

UK: Corvus/Atlantic Books


Brill, Amy

THE MOVEMENT OF STARS “Amy Brill shines in her sparkling debut.”

—Vanity Fair “Probing yet accessible, beautifully written and richly character-ized: fine work from a writer to watch.”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred) “Nineteenth-century Nantucket feels wholly vivid in this novel, and the love story at its heart blazes with real feeling and intensity. A terrifically poised and captivating debut.” —Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price has lived all 24 years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised, where simplicity and restraint are valued above all, and a woman’s path is expected to lead to marriage and motherhood. But up on the rooftop each night, Hannah pursues a very different goal: discovering a comet and thereby winning a gold medal awarded by the King of Denmark, something unheard of for a woman. And then she meets Isaac Martin, a young, dark-skinned whaler from the Azores who, like herself, has ambitions beyond his expected station in life. Drawn to his intellectual curiosity and honest manner, Hannah agrees to take Isaac on as a student, meeting with him for private tutorials. But when their shared passion for astronomy develops into something deeper, Hannah’s standing in the community begins to unravel, challenging her most fundamental beliefs about work and love, and ultimately changing the course of her life forever. Amy Brill is a writer and producer who has worked for PBS and MTV, and has been awarded fellowships by the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Millay Colony, and the American Antiquarian Society, among others. This is her first novel.

Riverhead, April 2013 Editor: Sarah McGrath

Finished books available; 388 pp

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Davenport, Randi

THE END OF ALWAYS It is 1907 and 17-year-old Marie Reehs is determined not to follow in the footsteps of her mother—that is, she will not marry a violent man, and will not die at the hands of a violent man. But fate may have other plans for her. Marie’s father, a disappointed immigrant from an island off the northern coast of Germany, has become bitter about his prospects in America. Her mother is dead, fatally injured in a mysterious accident to which Marie’s father was the only witness, and her older sister wants nothing more than to maintain the family as it was—a rigid life of rules and brutal punishments. Day after day, in a job her father has arranged for her and under the watchful gaze of a man who wants her for his own, Marie toils in a commercial laundry. Haunted by the ghost of her mother and the fairy tales she was raised on, Marie chafes under the prescriptions and conventions that constrain the young women of her time. At first, it looks like Marie’s passionate love affair with a charismatic young man will be her path towards freedom—but it soon leads her to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Set in the lush woods and small towns of turn-of-the-century Wisconsin, against a backdrop of political unrest and economic collapse, this is a powerful and ultimately uplifting story of a young woman’s triumphant battle to forge her own future, to rise above a vicious family legacy, and to take control of her own life. Randi Davenport is the author of the memoir The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes: A Mother’s Story (Algonquin, 2010), a winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association Prize for Creative Non-fiction and a finalist for a Books for a Better Life award. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in publications including The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, The Ontario Review and the Alaska Quarterly Review, among others. She is currently the Executive Director of the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This is her debut novel.

Grand Central, April 2014 Editor: Deb Futter

Edited manuscript available


Duffy, Penelope

THE CARTOGRAPHER OF NO MAN’S LAND From a hardscrabble fishing village in Nova Scotia to the collapsing trenches of France, The Cartographer of No Man’s Land is a richly atmospheric debut novel about a family divided by World War I. In the tradition of writers like Robert Goolrick and Karl Marlantes before her, P. S. Duffy showcases a rare and instinctive talent emerging in midlife. Her debut novel leaps across the Atlantic, between a father at war and a son coming of age at home without him. When adventurous Ebbin goes missing at the front in 1916, Angus defies his pacifist upbringing to join the war and search for his beloved brother-in-law. With his navigation experience, Angus is assured a position as a cartographer in London. But upon arriving overseas he is instead sent directly into the trenches, where he experiences the visceral shock of battle. Meanwhile, at home, his perceptive son Simon Peter must navigate escalating hostility in a fishing village torn by grief and a rising suspicion of anyone expressing less than patriotic enthusiasm for the war. With the epic scope of The Invisible Bridge, The Cartographer of No Man’s Land offers a lyrical and lasting portrayal of World War I and the lives that were forever changed by it, both on the battlefield and at home.

P.S. Duffy traces her Nova Scotian roots back over 250 years. She herself sailed in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia for thirty summers. She now lives with her husband in Rochester, Minnesota. This is her first novel.

Liveright/Norton October 2013

Editor: Katie Adams Galleys available; 372 pp

Canada: Penguin Canada


Freeman, Ru

ON SAL MAL LANE “Piercingly intelligent and shatter-your-heart profound, Ru Freeman’s On Sal Mal Lane is as luminous as it is wrenching, as fierce as it is generous. This is a riveting, important, beauty of a book.”

—Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild “Heartbreaking . . . A masterpiece.”

—Publishers Weekly

On the day the Herath family moves in, Sal Mal Lane is still a quiet street, disturbed only by the cries of the children whose triumphs and tragedies sustain the families that live there. As the neighbors adapt to the newcomers in different ways, the children fill their days with cricket matches, romantic crushes, and small rivalries. But the tremors of civil war are mounting, and the conflict threatens to engulf them all. In a heart-rending novel poised on the cusp of the past and the future, the innocence of the children—a beloved sister and her over-protective siblings, a rejected son and his twin sisters, two very different brothers—contrasts sharply with the petty prejudices of the adults charged with their care. In Ru Freeman’s masterful hands, On Sal Mal Lane, a story of what was lost to a country and its people, becomes a resounding cry for reconciliation. Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan-American writer and activist. Her debut novel, A Disobedient Girl, was long-listed for the DSC South Asian Literary Prize and translated into six languages.

Graywolf Press, May 2013 Editor: Fiona McCrae

Galleys available; 388 pp

Canada: House of Anansi Italy: Piemme Poland: Prószyński Turkey: Pegasus

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Grodstein, Lauren

THE EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING “[Grodstein] is a terrific storyteller and an even better ventriloquist.”

—The New York Times Biologist professor Andy Waite is finally beginning to pick up the pieces after his wife’s tragic death at the hands of a drunk driver. He has never grown used to her absence, but he has learned to endure it. Between his research and his young daughters he has reason to get through the day, and mostly he can do so without falling apart. That is, until a young female student enters his life and turns it upside down, in the most unexpected way. Melissa Potter is a passionate and dedicated evangelist hoping to write the definitive paper about Creationism, and she takes Andy’s lack of faith and struggle with grief as a personal challenge. As Melissa chips away at Andy’s fervent atheism, he begins to fully realize the emptiness that he’s been living with for too long. But when Andy’s relationship with Melissa becomes romantic, the boundaries he’s worked so hard to create—personally and professionally—blur. And soon it’s unclear what kind of deliverance he is in need of. The Explanation for Everything explores the search for meaning that all humans crave, the risks and rewards of faith, and the salvation that love can offer us all. Lauren Grodstein is the author of the bestselling A Friend of the Family, which was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, a New York Times Editor’s Pick, and an Indie Next selection; the collection The Best of Animals and a novel Reproduction is the Flaw of Love. She teaches Creative Writing at Rutgers University.

Algonquin, September 2013 Editor: Kathy Pories


Canada: Harper UK: Random House/ Century Germany: Klett-Cota

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Henríquez, Cristina

THE BOOK OF UNKNOWN AMERICANS “Truly unforgettable. Cristina Henríquez’s young female protagonists are as haunting as the setting.”

—Isabel Allende, author of The House of the Spirits “Heartfelt, original and true. A striking new voice, full of empathy, detail and imagination.”

—Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin “Her prose reads as if it grew up drinking water that had been fluoridated with traces of John Updike and Ann Beattie.… Always she appears to be probing for rare moments of grace.”

—The New York Times Book Review Arturo and Alma Rivera have left their beloved home in Mexico in the hope of getting help for their daughter Maribel, who has been in a terrible accident. They settle in the small town of Newark, Delaware, so she can attend a special school, but are soon frustrated by the difficulties of living in such an unfamiliar place, unable to speak or understand the language, and cut off from the friends and family they have left so far behind. Soon they learn that their apartment complex is filled with other immigrants like themselves: people from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Peru. They have come here for different reasons: love, money, political freedom, but they have all faced the challenges —both practical and spiritual— of immigrating to a country where opportunity, as well as discrimination, is part of their daily lives. Ultimately, their different stories come together in a devastating tragedy that befalls the Riveras, but affects the entire building. Cristina Henríquez was featured in Virginia Quarterly Review as one of “Fiction’s New Luminaries” and has had stories published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Glimmer Train, and Ploughshares. She is the author of the novel The World In Half (Riverhead, 2009) and Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Stories (Riverhead, 2006). She’s a recipient of the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award, a grant started by Sandra Cisneros, and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Chicago.

UK: Canongate Canada: Doubleday Israel: Matar

Knopf, Spring 2014 Editor: Robin Desser

Edited manuscript available


Kent, Kathleen

THE OUTCASTS “Kent seamlessly blends true events with fiction to bring a fraught, endlessly fascinating period of American history to life.”

—People A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt, and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old west. It’s the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she’d been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover, who has a plan to make them both rich, chasing rumors of a pirate’s buried treasure. Meanwhile Nate Cannon, a young Texas Ranger with a pure heart and a strong sense of justice, is on the hunt for a ruthless killer named McGill who has claimed the lives of men, women, and even children across the frontier. Who—if anyone—will survive when their paths finally cross? As Lucinda and Nate’s stories converge, guns are drawn, debts are paid, and Kathleen Kent delivers an unforgettable portrait of a woman who will stop at nothing to make a new life for herself. Kathleen Kent is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Heretic’s Daughter (Reagan Arthur Books 2008), which was awarded the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction and The Traitor’s Wife (first published as The Wolves of Andover, Reagan Arthur Books, 2010). She lives in Dallas.

Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown & Co., October 2013

Editor: Reagan Arthur Galleys available; 320 pp

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Mirvis, Tova

VISIBLE CITY "Mirvis's chatty style and eye for cultural contradiction are always engaging."

—The New Yorker “Mirvis is a wide-eyed and big-hearted writer. She has a pastry chef's control of her material, a sureness about not overhandling the dough. She leavens utterly serious explorations...with chuckle-out-loud humor.” —The Seattle Times

Visible City is the story of three couples at various stages of life (twenties, thirties, and fifties) whose lives become entangled as their paths intersect in their Manhattan neighborhood—where a new glass apartment tower is slowly being built among the brownstones and pre-wars—forcing them all to weigh the costs of stability against the costs of change Nina, a former lawyer, is unable to fully embrace stay-at-home motherhood. Struggling with feelings of isolation, she takes to watching a couple in the building across the street: Claudia and Leon, whose grown daughter Emma has just moved in, suffering from a broken ankle and, her parents suspect, a broken heart. Emma becomes Nina’s babysitter, and Nina begins a flirtation with Leon that leads her to question everything she’d previously believed about herself. Tova Mirvis’s first novel The Ladies Auxiliary was published by W.W. Norton in 1999 and was a national bestseller, a Book Sense selection, and a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writer’s Program. Her second novel, The Outside World, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2003 and hailed as “a brilliant evocation of Orthodox life in all its variety, complexity and internal flux” by the Washington Post. Tova has an MFA from the Columbia School of the Arts and is currently a visiting scholar at Brandeis University and lives in Newton, MA with her three children.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Spring 2014

Editor: Lauren Wein Edited manuscript available; 269 pp


Nesbit, TaraShea

THE WIVES OF LOS ALAMOS Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago—and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with a P.O. Box for an address in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for the benefit of a project that didn’t exist as far as the public knew. Though they were strangers, they joined together- adapting to a landscape as fierce as it was absorbing, full of the banalities of everyday life and the drama of scientific discovery. And while the bomb was being invented, babies were born, friendships were forged, children grew up, and Los Alamos gradually transformed from an abandoned school on a hill into a real community. One that was strained by the words they couldn’t say out loud, the letters they couldn’t send home, the freedom they didn’t have. But the end of the war would bring even bigger challenges to the people of Los Alamos, as the scientists and their families struggled with the burden of their contribution to the most destructive force in the history of mankind. The Wives of Los Alamos is a window into one of the strangest and most monumental research projects in modern history, and a testament to a remarkable group of women who carved out a life for themselves, in spite of the chaos of the war and the shroud of intense secrecy. TaraShea Nesbit's prose, poetry, and criticism have been featured in The Iowa Review, Quarterly West, Hayden's Ferry Review and other literary journals. A graduate of the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis, TaraShea is currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Denver, where she is a Presidential Fellow.

Bloomsbury, Winter 2014 Editor: Nancy Miller

Unedited manuscript available

UK: Bloomsbury Germany: Dumont Italy: Ponte alle Grazie


Ng, Celeste

EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU

Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. When the body of sixteen year old Lydia Lee is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart. James Lee, a father consumed by guilt, sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage; Marilyn, the devastated and vengeful mother, is determined to find a responsible party, no matter what the cost. Lydia's older brother Nathan is certain that the neighborhood bad-boy Jack is somehow involved. But it's the youngest of the family—Hannah— who observes far more than anyone realizes, and who may be the only one who knows the truth about what happened. Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, exploring the divisions between cultures and also within a family; the distances between parents and their children, and the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand each other. Celeste Ng's writing has appeared in such publications as One Story, TriQuarterly, Subtropics, The Kenyon Review Online, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the Bellevue Literary Review, among others. She has been awarded the Pushcart Prize, the Hopwood Award, and a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She earned her A.B. in English from Harvard University and her MFA from the University of Michigan. Celeste has taught writing at the University of Michigan and Grub Street in Boston; she is also editor-at-large for the writing website Fiction Writers Review and a blogger for the Huffington Post. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Penguin Press, 2014

Editor: Andrea Walker Unedited manuscript available


Renner, James

THE MAN FROM PRIMROSE LANE

“Fascinating and unpredictable, with shades of Stephen King and HP Lovecraft as well as Douglas Adams, this debut novel never loses touch with the human story of loss, guilt and fate that is at its core.”

—The Guardian “A superbly crazy and imaginative story… It's a thriller and a detective story, plus science fiction and romance with a little near-future dystopia thrown in... An ambitious novel that attempts many things and succeeds so well.”

—Associated Press “Ambitious and innovative… you won’t be bored.”

—Washington Post In West Akron, Ohio, there lived an elderly recluse who always wore mittens, even in July. He had no friends and no family, and was known only as the Man from Primrose Lane. And on a summer day, someone murdered him. Fast-forward four years. David Neff, the bestselling author of a true-crime book about an Ohio serial killer, is broken by his wife’s inexplicable suicide. When an unexpected visit from an old friend introduces him to the strange mystery of “the man with a thousand mittens,” David decides to investigate. But the closer he gets to uncovering the man’s true identity, the more he begins to understand the reality-altering power of his own obsessions—and how they may be connected to the deaths of the old hermit and David’s beloved wife. Deviously plotted and full of dark wit, James Renner’s The Man from Primrose Lane is an audacious page-turner unlike anything you’ve ever read . James Renner is the author of two nonfiction books that detail his adventures as an investigative journalist. His work has been featured in Best American Crime Reporting and Best Creative Nonfiction. He lives in Ohio.

Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux,

February 2012 Editor: Sarah Crichton

Paperback available; 368pp

UK: Corsair/Constable & Robinson Australia/NZ: Text Italy: Stile Libro/Einaudi France: (to be announced) Norway: Pantagruel Russia: Sindbad Taiwan: Azoth China: Citic Japan: Hayakawa Film: Warner Brothers


St. Germain, Justin

SON OF A GUN “There is a sort of gracefulness in the cadences, and a lovely control of rhythm in the sentences, which do justice to the themes of loss and love that are at the center of this memoir. There is also a level of coiled and accurately conveyed emotion, a careful way of telling truth, and an unsparing release of heartbreak. All of these make Son of a Gun compelling and vivid.”

—Colm Tóibín, author of The Master "From an incident of heartbreaking violence, Justin St. Germain has created a clear-eyed and deeply moving meditation on family, geography and memory, and how difficult it is to find our place in any of them. Son of a Gun is an extraordinary memoir."

—Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds "Intelligent and compassionate at every step, Son of a Gun is a savage memoir of a young man squaring off against his violent legacy. A searing story bravely told."

—Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn Justin and his brother were raised by a hard-bitten former military woman who didn’t take nonsense from anyone—except the abusive men she had the bad fortune to fall in love with. They spent their childhood moving with her from house to house across Southern Arizona, never staying in one place for long. But when it was time for Justin to leave for college, his mother finally seemed ready to stop wandering. She married her fifth husband, Ray, a dead-eyed cop. Although Justin never entirely warmed to his stepfather, he was ready to hand over the responsibility of being the man in his mother’s life to someone else. One year later, she was found dead, shot in the head in the trailer that she and Ray had been living in. Ray was nowhere to be found. Brutally honest and beautifully written, Son of a Gun follows Justin as he attempts to make sense of his mother’s life and death, and struggles to be the kind of man she always wanted him to be. Justin St. Germain was born in 1981 and spent most of his youth in Tombstone, Arizona. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and currently teaches at the University of New Mexico. This is his debut.

Random House, August 2013 Editor: Noah Eaker


UK: Tuskar Rock/Atlantic Books France: Presses de la Cité


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THEN WE CAME TO THE END by Joshua Ferris

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Instant NY Times Bestseller Over 1.2 million copies in the US Richard and Judy Book Club

selection Licensed in 35 territories

THE SONG OF ACHILLES by Madeline Miller

Ecco, 2012

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Winner of the 2012 Orange Prize Instant New York Times bestseller Amazon Best Book of the Month Licensed in 23 territories


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MAJOR PETTIGREW’S LAST STAND by Helen Simonson

Random House, 2010

New York Times Bestseller #1 Indie Bestseller An Amazon Best Book of the

Month Richard and Judy Book Club

selection Over 500,000 copies in the US Licensed in 22 territories

THE FAMILY FANG by Kevin Wilson

Ecco, 2011

New York Times bestseller Indie Next Pick Barnes & Noble Discover Pick TV Book Club selection in the UK Best Book of 2011 selection for

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