LITTLE, BROWN and Co.
Selected Forthcoming Titles
All publication and delivery dates are tentative
Bakos, Nada
UNTITLED MEMOIR
Performance Rights: CAA (Cait Hoyt)
February 2017
Tentative delivery date: February 2016
Nada Bakos, the analyst who ultimately drove the Agency's hunt that yielded intelligence integral
to locating bin Laden—brings readers deep inside the inner workings of the Central Intelligence
Agency. In the entrenched man's world of the CIA, Nada, who became the basis for the character
of Maya in Zero Dark Thirty, belonged to a small yet ambitious sisterhood. Together, these
brilliant and determined women led the U.S. Special Operations Forces to bin Laden's door. From
her early days in HR to her rise up through the ranks to the highest echelon of the Agency, Nada
recounts her experiences over the years—both on domestic turf and abroad in Baghdad, the
challenges she encountered in a field dominated by men, and the numerous personal sacrifices
she made along the way. Filled with on-the-ground insights and poignant personal anecdotes, and
offering an intimate, insider's view of life behind the government's secret walls, Bakos' book
promises to be an enlightening, riveting read.
Nada Bakos, is a former CIA analyst. During the Iraq war, Bakos served as a Targeting Officer
in the Counterterrorism Center. After 20 years in the intelligence field and corporate world,
Bakos is currently focused on national security issues, and regional stability around the world.
Korean rights handled by: Yang Agency
Bass, Rick
EATING MY HEROES
Performance Rights: David Evans Law (David Evans)
January 2017
Tentative delivery date: March 2016
EATING MY HEROES will be the non-fiction account of a journey Rick Bass takes with a
writing student, a mentee, traveling to commune with and make a meal for the many American
masters who have influenced and mentored him. He’s come to a point in his life where he wants
to voyage to pay tribute to his cherished writing icons and to listen to their sage advice before it’s
too late. Has it all been worth it, this life of the artist sacrificing? It’s a grail quest to discover how
to live well—to understand why we love reading and writing, and how through these pursuits we
figure out the story of our lives. It’s also a book about gratitude—about saying thank you to those
who carried the torch out before us and lit the way.
Rick Bass is a writer and environmental activist. Author of more than twenty books, he has had
more stories included in Best American Short Stories than Amy Hempel, Barry Hannah, Lydia
Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, Steven Millhauser, Sherman Alexie, and George Saunders.
Korean rights handled by: Yang Agency
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Casteel, Seth
POUNCE
Performance Rights: Tessler Agency (Michelle Tessler)
September 2016
Tentative delivery date: October 2015
Photographer Seth Casteel's underwater photographs of dogs and babies have captivated an
international audience. Now, Seth has found the perfect way to capture our other best friends:
cats! A beautiful, funny gift book with more than 70 previously unpublished photographs, Pounce
reveals adorable cats and kittens as they pounce and jump through the air, arms outstretched--all
in Casteel's signature up-close, mid-action style.
Seth Casteel is an award-winning photographer and the author of the national bestseller
Underwater Dogs, Underwater Puppies, and Underwater Babies.
Casteel’s Underwater Dogs was licensed in: Taiwan/Delight Press, China/Ginkgo (Beijing) Book
Co., Holland/Just Publishers, France/Editions Ulmer, Germany/Munchner Verlagsgruppe,
Japan/Sunmark, Brazil/Editora Intrinseca, Russia/Azbooka-Atticus, Spain/Grupo Anaya,
Sweden/Bokförlaget Max Ström.
Korean rights handled by: Yang Agency
Donovan, James
SHOOT FOR THE MOON: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 11
Performance Rights: B.J. Robbins Literary Agency (B.J. Robbins)
July 2019
Tentative delivery date: September 2018
This is the story of Apollo 11—the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the moon. A feat
that was watched live around the word by an estimated 600 million people. SHOOT FOR THE
MOON will examine in detail this mammoth undertaking that showed off America at its greatest
and most ingenious, in a time of great global political and social change. Even though we know
the outcome of the mission, reading about the technical details, the large personalities involved
and the personal drama that went into what can be said it the great technological feat of mankind
to this day, SHOOT FOR THE MOON will have you gripping the edge of your seat as you read.
James Donovan is the author of the bestselling A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighornthe Last Great Battle of the American West and The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for
the Alamo—and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation.
Rights licensed: Germany/DVA
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Dunn, Rob
THE BANANA PROBLEM
Performance Rights: Arcadia Literary Agency (Victoria Pryor)
July 2017
Tentative delivery date: July 2016
Our food supply is heavily (and increasingly) corporate, streamlined for efficiencies from seed to
store. Those efficiencies make bananas and coffee cheap, make wheat, rice, and beef prevalent,
and make it almost certain the foods we eat taste the same every time we have them—and they
also mean that the foods we depend on most are one bug or virus away from collapse. Did you
know that 10 plants that we grow or raise make up 80% of our plant-based food supply? That the
bananas we eat today were standardized in the 1960s, into one consistent strain, and that they are
succumbing to a pathogen that might wipe them out? The lesson is to diversify—and told
through rich history and science, via characters and scenes, Rob Dunn’s THE BANANA
PROBLEM will be a horrifying, hooky work of narrative nonfiction that will be rigorously
researched and that will provoke and be discussed widely.
Rob Dunn is an associate professor in Ecology and Evolution in the Department of Biological
Sciences at North Carolina State University. The author of The Wild Life of Our Bodies and Every
Living Thing, his magazine work has been published in National Geographic, Natural History,
New Scientist, Scientific American, and Smithsonian.
Rights to Rob Dunn’s The Man Who Touched His Own Heart (which will publish in February)
were licensed in Holland to Contact, in China to Posts and Telecom Press and in Russia to Exmo.
Korean rights handled by: Duran Kim Agency
French, Thomas and Kelly
THE ZERO ZONE
Performance Rights: Dystel and Goderich (Jane Dystel)
April 2016
Tentative delivery date: June 2015
Juniper French was born four months early and weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces. Her head was smaller
than a tennis ball, her skin was nearly translucent, and through her chest you could see her
flickering heart. Babies like Juniper, born at the edge of viability, trigger the question: Which is
the greater act of love—to save her, or to let her go? Although micro preemies can sometimes
be kept alive by new technologies, many end up disabled, some catastrophically so. But Thomas
French and Kelley Benham French chose to fight for Juniper's life. She endured a blood clot to
her heart, three surgeries, and 196 days in the hospital. Today she is a healthy two-year-old. A
combination of medical reporting and memoir, THE ZERO ZONE is a compelling story about
Juniper's survival, the latest advances in science and neonatology that push the limits of
possibility, and, above all, the power of parental love.
Thomas French is a Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling author. Kelley Benham French
was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer in feature writing, for this very story.
Rights licensed: Germany/Leubbe
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Goodell, Jeff
WHEN THE WATER COMES
Performance Rights: Compass Talent (Heather Schroeder)
August 2017
Tentative delivery date: October 2016
WHEN THE WATER COMES is a book we’ve been waiting for. One, which takes on with rigor
and curiosity something that, is on the backs—and increasingly on the fronts—of all our minds:
how the water will come. The book will discuss, in a colorful, narrative and rigorous way the
issues—geographic, engineering, climate forecasting—preceding and following our cities’
immersion in water. The story is arresting because of the ticking clock, and because ultimately
they’re about people and our grand infrastructure and achievements, and what will happen - from
Miami to London, The Netherlands, the Maldives, Jakarta, Bangladesh and Greenland - to them
when the sea level inevitably rises.
Jeff Goodell is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine and the author of Big Coal: The
Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future and How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and
the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate.
Korean rights handled by: Duran Kim Agency
Jacobsen, Annie
March 2017
PHENOMENA
Performance Rights: Hornfischer Literary Management (Jim Hornfischer)
Tentative delivery date: April 2016
For more than forty years, the U.S. government, through various military and intelligence
agencies, has invested millions in classified programs that study the role of mental telepathy,
clairvoyance, precognition and other forms of extrasensory perception (ESP) as a means of
intelligence collection for military and defense purposes. Now, for the first time, New York Times
bestselling author Annie Jacobsen will tell the story of these programs, using interviews with the
core group of individuals—including former Defense Department scientists, military officers,
CIA analysts and researchers, an Apollo 14 astronaut, government psychics, and members of the
Aviary—who ran these phenomena programs at the highest level of government. PHENOMENA
will offer those millions of people who are curious about the actual documentation showing
which of those improbable and mysterious things might actually exist.
Annie Jacobsen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Area 51 and Operation
Paperclip and was a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine.
Jacobsen’s Area 51 was licensed in the following territories: China/Grand China, Czech
Republic/Prah, Italy/Edizioni Piemme, Japan/Ota Shuppan, Poland/ Spoleczny Instytut
Wydawniczy Znak, Romania/Editura Litera International.
Korean rights handled by: Yang Agency
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Jones, Brian Jay
GEORGE LUCAS
UK: Headline
Performance Rights: Curtis Brown (Jonathan Lyons)
May 2016
Tentative delivery date: December 2015
GEORGE LUCAS will be the definitive biography of one of the world’s most influential
filmmakers of all time. On May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, independent science film opened in
a mere thirty-two American movie theatres. Conceived, written and directed by a little-known
filmmaker named George Lucas, Star Wars reinvented the cinematic landscape, ushering in a
new way for movies to be made, marketed, and merchandised. And if that wasn’t game-changing
enough, Lucas went on to create another blockbuster series (Indiana Jones), completely
revolutionized the world of special effects, not to mention sound systems (THX). His team also
founded the company that would later become Pixar, and spearheaded the drive to digitization on
film, which has led to a rash of innovation and democratization in film and television. Simply put,
George Lucas is one of the most influential filmmakers of the past fifty years. He is an icon, and
it’s time he gets a biography deserving of his achievements.
Brian Jay Jones is the author of the New York Times bestselling biography of Jim Henson.
Rights licensed: Hungary/Libri Kiado, Brazil/Verus, China/Hachette Phoenix, Czech Republic/
Nakladatelstvi Paseka, Croatia/Profil, Poland/Wielka Litera
Korean rights handled by: Duran Kim
Kean, Sam
THE WORLD IN ONE BREATH
Performance Rights: Rick Broadhead and Associates (Rick Broadhead)
June 2016
Tentative delivery date: August 2015
New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean is back with the stories of the gases in every breath
we take. Air is the single most important thing in your environment right now. You can survive
without food, without solids, for weeks. You can survive without water, without liquids, for days.
Without air, without gases, you'll last a few minutes at most. And yet, we spend so little time
thinking about it. Fortunately, we have Sam Kean to take us on a journey through the periodic
table once again and to help us understand the air we breathe, this time telling stories ranging
from Cleopatra's perfumes and Nazi mustard gas to medical anesthesia and neon lights.
Sam Kean is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Disappearing Spoon and The
Violinist's Thumb and The Tale of The Dueling Neurosurgeons. His work has appeared in The
New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, and New Scientist.
Sam’s earlier books sold in the following territories: UK/Transworld, Taiwan/Locus,
Russia/Exmo, Korea/Bookhouse, China/Hunan Science, Spain/Editorial Ariel, Israel/Kinnert,
Brazil/Zahar, Holland/Kosmos, Italy/Adelphi, Japan/Hayakawa and Ashai Shinbun,
Germany/Hoffman & Campe, Sweden/Fri Tanke, Finland/INTO, Norway/Versal, Arabic/Arab
Scientific, France/Lattes, Turkey/NTV and Kotektif Kitap, Estonia/AS Aripaev, Finland/INTO
Kustannus.
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Korkeakivi, Anne
AN AMERICAN FAMILY
Performance Rights: Brandt & Hochman (Gail Hochman)
August 2016
Tentative delivery date: December 2015
Epic, tender and beautifully rendered, AN AMERICAN FAMILY is a family story, spanning
several generations, that draws us into the complicated life of a family in Southern California
after the sudden death of one parent leaves them charting paths they would never have
expected. Full of wonderful, totally recognizable and relatable characters, and absorbing action,
AN AMERICAN FAMILY is a heartbreakingly wonderful novel.
Anne Korkeakivi is the author of An Unexpected Guest, published by Little, Brown in 2012.
Rights to that novel were licensed in Italy to Garzanti, in Australia to HarperCollins, in Russia to
Atticus and in Serbia to Mono I Manjana.
Korean rights handled by: Yang Agency
Lazenby, Roland
December 2016
SHOWBOAT: The Ambitious Life and Turbulent Times of Kobe Bean Bryant
Performance Rights: Carnicelli Literary Management (Matt Carnicelli)
Tentative delivery date: November 2015
Kobe Bryant is one of the game's absolute greatest players, a fascinating and complicated
character who knew when he was a mere boy that he would be better than Jordan on the court.
The debate about whether he achieved that is a furious one-but just last night, Kobe surpassed
Jordan on the all-time scoring list and has only one less championship than Jordan (5 to Jordan's
6). He retires next year, and Roland Lazenby will be primed to have in bookstores the definitive
biography on the player and the man. The Lakers are the flashiest team in all of sports, and the
context in which Bryant played is salacious and exciting. Provocative stories mixed with good
old-fashioned basketball reporting make for a riveting and essential read for next holidays.
Roland Lazenby is the author of the definitive and bestselling biographies Michael Jordan: The
Life and Jerry West: The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon, among other books.
Lazenby’s previous book Michael Jordan: The Life was licensed in: Bulgaria/Zhanua,
Taiwan/Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., China/Beijing Wisdom & Culture Co., Czech Republic/Timy
Partners, France/Talent Sport, Italy/66thand2nd, Poland/Wydawnictwo Sine Qua Non,
Slovakia/Timy Partners.
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Lenzer, Jeanne
October 2016
DEAD MAN WALKING
Performance Rights: Author c/o Mark Creative Management, LLC (Eileen Cope)
Tentative delivery date: October 2015
Here’s a scary thing: medical interventions (prescription drugs, medical devices, and surgeries
gone bad) have become the third leading cause of death in the U.S., killing more Americans each
year than strokes, diabetes, kidney disease, suicides, murders, car accidents, and AIDS combined.
In DEAD MAN WALKING, award-winning journalist Jeanne Lenzer exposes the dark side of
medical technology through the story of one man who, after his “cure” nearly kills him, does
battle with a powerful medical device company, the FDA, and the state, uncovering shocking
levels of corruption, deception, and negligence in the very system we entrust with our health, our
bodies, and our lives. There have been a number of successful books on the failures of the health
care system–The Healing of America, The Truth About the Drug Companies–but this one is more
narrative-driven, giving us an up-close and personal look at how those failures affect individual
lives.
A former Knight Science Journalism fellow, Jeanne Lenzer has written for The New York Times
Magazine, Atlantic, New Republic, and Slate. She also works as a physician assistant.
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Matthews, Brendan
THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
Performance Rights: Brandt & Hochman (Gail Hochman)
September 2016
Tentative delivery date: November 2015
THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (a phrase that was the theme of the 1939 World’s Fair in New
York) takes place across one week in June 1939, culminating in an assassination plot against the
king and queen of England during their visit to the Fair. Reminiscent of writers like Michael
Chabon and Colum McCann, Matthews provides an absorbing story and a rollicking good time—
the pleasure of so many dots connected—while also weaving in serious literary themes. There is
no character whose consciousness he cannot enter and make credible. That is saying something
when the array here includes, among others, the three Dempsey brothers (one a musician, one a
ne’er-do-well conman; and one a deaf-mute priest), a powerful Bronx politician and his two
daughters (one of them married to the eldest Dempsey), a Czech artist whose visa is expiring, an
Irish mob boss, a retired henchman called back into service, and the ghost of W. B. Yeats. The
setting and time period are nailed equally well. The jazz, the smart suits and hats and dresses and
The Plaza Hotel! What a pleasure it was to feel the heat and concrete of a bygone era.
Brendan Matthews is a Fulbright Scholar and Creative Writing professor at Bard College.
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Mitnick, Kevin
THE ART OF INVISIBILITY
Performance Rights: Launch Books (David Fugate)
April 2016
Tentative delivery date: June 2015
In 2011 we published hacker Kevin Mitnick's memoir Ghost In The Wires. It was a bestseller in
print and eBook and ended on a note that fascinated his fans: he still does exactly what he always
has, breaking into companies—but now, it's because they're paying him to do it. Kevin is one of
the world's foremost "pen testers" (penetration testers): corporations and governments pay him to
test their security, and he claims a 100% success rate at "getting in." Kevin has decided on a very
commercial idea for his next book called THE ART OF INVISIBILITY. This is a book readers
need now; it describes how to be on the grid but how to do it safely and securely in this paranoiainspiring NSA/Facebook/Google era. As the public continues to learn about this subject (like the
dangers of blindly accepting those ubiquitous terms and conditions agreements, for example), the
need for a book like this will only continue to grow.
Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous (former) hacker, is now a security consultant. Mitnick is
the author, with William L. Simon, of the bestselling books The Art of Deception and The Art of
Intrusion and his New York Times bestselling memoir, Ghost in the Wires.
Ghost In The Wires was licensed in the following territories: Thai/Earnest Publishing,
Korea/Acorn, Poland/Wydawnicktwo Pascal, Hungary/HVG Kiado, Brazil/Starlin,
Italy/Feltrinelli, Spain/Algaida Editores, Taiwan/Delight Press, China/Publishing House of
Electronics Industry, Romania/Pandora, Germany/Riva, Turkey/Pegasus.
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Monks of New Skete, The
THE ART OF LIVING WITH YOUR DOG
Performance Rights: Authors c/o Hachette Book Group
May 2017
Tentative delivery date: June 2016
If most of us spend a significant hour each day with our dogs—training, grooming, exercising,
feeding, playing—what’s the nature of our relationship the other 23 hours, and what should it be?
The monks of New Skete, leading authorities in canine care and behavior in the United States,
team up with a gifted dog trainer Marc Goldberg to answer these questions, and help dog owners
build rewarding, compassionate, and spiritually connected relationships with their dogs. The book
will explore the history of the human relationship with their canine companions, debunk common
training myths, share time management techniques, and offer a fresh new perspective on dog
training.
The Monks of New Skete’s two previous books, The Art of Raising a Puppy and How to Be Your
Dog's Best Friend, have sold almost three-quarters of a million copies.
The Monks’ previous books were licensed in the following territories: Germany/Autorenhaus
Verlag and Ullstein Buchverlage, Italy/Mondadori, Japan/Magazineland, Korea/Inbooks, B&B
Publishing and Bada Publishing, Poland/Galaktyka, Spain/Editorial Paidotribo.
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Moskowitz, Isa Chandra
SAVE ME A SEAT: A Vegan Guide to Entertaining
Performance Rights: The Agency Group (Marc Gerald)
April 2016
Tentative delivery date: November 2015
Save Me a Seat is for those who are fed up with the predictable finger sandwiches, dips and
punches that accompany most gatherings but are not interested in consulting frilly entertaining
books that recommend elaborate table settings and multiple days of preparation. With menus for
any situation (like meeting your new squeeze's parents for the first time or what to do with your
bounty after berry-picking) and advice on casual get-togethers like BBQs and brunch that many
entertaining books overlook, Save Me a Seat will be an accessible and fun breath of fresh air that
can improve any and every get-together. This is what Martha Stewart's Entertaining would be if
Martha were a tattooed, vegan, Brooklyn Jew.
Isa Moskowitz is the best-selling author of Isa Does It.
Rights to Isa Does It were licensed in: France/Editions L'Age d'Homme in France, Korea/Dahli
Books, Italy/Edizioni Sonda, and Spain/Alfaomega.
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Osterholm, Michael T., Olshaker, Mark
September 2016
THE MICROBE WARS: Dispatches and Battle Plans from the World Conflict We
Cannot Afford to Lose
Performance Rights: Folio Literary Management (Frank Weinmann)
Tentative delivery date: September 2015
THE MICROBE WARS will take a chilling look at the way tiny microorganisms can penetrate
the defenses of our immune systems, confound the brightest scientific minds, and, if left
unchecked, wreak havoc in their wake. Outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola have
exposed just how vulnerable modern societies are to pandemics of unprecedented proportions.
With time, rapid urban population growth will make us even more susceptible to such outbreaks.
What can we do to strengthen our defenses against the onslaught of emerging viruses? This
timely volume will cover the epidemics of the past, as well as the more recent threats: Ebola,
SARS, MERS, Marburg, Chikungunya, smallpox, polio, and “the king of beasts,” avian flu.
Michael T. Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at
the University of Minnesota. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Living
Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe.
Mark Olshaker co-authored with John Douglas a celebrated series of nonfiction works,
including the number one New York Times bestseller Mindhunters.
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Pitzer, Andrea
THE WILDERNESS AND THE GRAVE
Performance Rights: Veritas Literary Agency (Katherine Boyle)
May 2017
Tentative delivery date: April 2016
Andrea Pitzer’s THE WILDERNESS AND THE GRAVE will be the first attempt to construct a
cohesive narrative of the origins and history of concentration camps in English. Before the
atrocities of Auschwitz and Birkenau, before the harsh realities of the Soviet Gulags,
concentration camps found their first home in Cuba in 1895. Devised by the Spanish as a way to
subdue Cuban guerrillas, the Cuban experiment laid the groundwork for the modern
concentration camp. Then Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt and President McKinley
were among some of the most vocal critics of the use of the camps on Cuban soil. Yet only two
years later, the US army erected its own concentration camps in the Philippines, leading to the
deaths of as many as 11,000 Filipinos. Pitzer’s book will take the reader on a journey across the
world and explore the enduring devastation and profound scars that concentration camps left in
their wake.
Andrea Pitzer's writing has appeared many places in print and online, from USA Today and Slate
to Poet Lore. She founded Nieman Storyboard, the narrative nonfiction site for the Nieman
Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Korean rights handled by: Yang Agency
Powell, John
WHY YOU LOVE MUSIC
UK: John Murrays, Ltd.
Performance Rights: Author c/o Little, Brown
May 2016
Tentative delivery date: August 2015
Little, Brown published John Powell’s previous book, How Music Works in 2010. How Music
Works covered the physics of music; Why You Love Music will cover the psychology of listening
to a tune. The book is intended to engage and entertain the reader at the same time as answering
questions like these, which are close to every music lover’s heart: How do film score composers
manipulate and amplify our response to films? Can music improve your IQ? Does the ‘Mozart
effect’ really work? Why do you suddenly get fed up with the pop song you loved last week?
Does background music help you concentrate? Does music actually create genuine emotions? Is
there such a thing as ‘good musical taste’?
John Powell holds a PhD in physics from Imperial College at London University. He has taught
physics at the University of Nottingham and the University of Lulea in Sweden. In 2003, he
earned a master's degree in music composition from the University of Sheffield in Great Britain.
The rights for Powell’s previous book How Music Works sold in the following territories:
Japan/Hayakawa, Spain/Antoni Bosch, Czech/Doloran, Italy/Salani, Germany/Rogner &
Bernhard.
Rights licensed: Korea/Mujin Tree
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Psilakis, Michael
April 2016
LIVE TO EAT: The Mediterranean Way
Performance Rights: The Culinary Entertainment Agency (Michael Psaltis)
Tentative delivery date: November 2015
Pre-eminent Greek-American chef and author of How to Roast a Lamb returns with a cookbook
that highlights the deliciousness and proven health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. The New
York Times has called Michael Psilakis' cooking "Greek food at its best: simple, fresh,
unpretentious." There has yet to be a chef to take on the task of bringing the Mediterranean Diet
to the public eye. Nutritionists and doctors have tried, but it will take a real chef to elevate the
recipes to a level that home cooks will want to make over and over again. It is Psilakis' mission to
destroy the cliché that healthy food cannot be comfort food. This cookbook sets out to prove the
opposite: food can be healthy AND taste good.
Michael Psilakis is a chef and restaurateur. He has appeared on television shows including
“Ultimate Recipe Showdown”, “Iron Chef America”, “The Best Thing I Ever Ate” and “No
Kitchen Required”. He is the author of How To Roast A Lamb.
Korean Rights handled by: Yang Agency
Ramo, Joshua
THE SEVENTH SENSE
Performance Rights: Ed Victor Ltd. (Ed Victor)
June 2016
Tentative delivery date: August 2015
Joshua Cooper Ramo believes that planning for the future is a false goal, implying that the
world's biggest changes (in technology, economics, and politics, to name just a few) are ahead of
us. Instead, he wants to show us how far into the future we already are. We're living at the start of
a shift as large, as disruptive, as terrifying as the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution. The
result is the collapse of institutions all around us, of ideas, of legitimacy, the emergence of new
champions and barely visible new rules. The Seventh Sense is the story of a way of seeing and
living in this new world using that sense—our ability to think and feel in terms of relations. Those
who have it will survive and succeedçand those who don't will soon find themselves in the
company of Betamax and Kodak. Understanding, weighing, and using relationships now defines
success. Ramo invites the reader on a journey to discover that, just as he has.
Joshua Cooper Ramo is Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates.
Rights to his book, The Age Of The Unthinkable, were licensed in Germany to Riemann, in Israel
to Modan, in Korea to Alma, in France to Lattes, in Brazil to Companhia Das Letras, in China to
Hunan Science, in Taiwan to Editions Flanuer, in Japan to Kodansha, in Bulgria to Iztok Zapad,
in Italy to Eliott Edizioni, in Croatia to Lider and in Holland to Contact.
Korean rights handled by: Duran Kim Agency
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Range, Peter Ross
1924: The Year That Made Hitler
Performance Rights: The Ross Yoon Agency (Gail Ross)
August 2016
Tentative delivery date: August 2015
In 1924: THE YEAR THAT MADE HITLER, Peter Ross Range seeks to fill in the details of the
period chronically overlooked by historians and biographers alike. The book focuses on the year
Hitler spent in jail following the unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch, as he bounces from suicidal
depression into personal triumph. Surrounded by his co-conspirators, many of whom would
become vital to his leadership in the ‘30s and ‘40s, Hitler immersed himself in deep reading and
oratory rehearsal, interspersed with feverish work on Mein Kampf, the incendiary tome that
would come to define him. Hitler’s forced abstention from political infighting and his months of
writing in Landsberg Prison were critical to his comeback. His revival after a year in prison,
politically and mentally better equipped for the fight, marked the true beginning of his long rise to
power. Range plants his narrative firmly within the historical context—the ravages of World War
I and its aftermath, as well as the re-launching of the Nazi Party in early 1925.
Peter Ross Range is a longtime Washington, DC magazine journalist and writer. He has written
extensively for major publications such as the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic,
the London Sunday Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Der Spiegel, and U.S. News & World Report,
where he was a national and White House correspondent.
Rights licensed: Brazil/Ediouro
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Rosenfeld, Lucinda
CLASS
Performance Rights: Lippincott Massie McQuilkin (Maria Massie)
January 2017
Tentative delivery date: January 2016
We published Lucinda Rosenfeld’s fun, snarky novel I’M SO HAPPY FOR YOU—about female
friendship—in 2009, and then went on to publish THE PRETTY ONE —which was about female
friendship— in 2013. Her new novel, CLASS is about an idealistic white non profit executive and
mother in a gentrifying area of Brooklyn (Karen) who finds herself torn between her idealistic
values and politics and the reality of sending her daughter (Ruby) to a minority white public
school. Meanwhile, Karen begins to feel that her husband (Doug) doesn’t take her concern about
the school or her own work seriously. As tensions flare in Karen’s marriage, a flirtation arises
between her and an old college acquaintance, Clay, who is now a successful hedge fund manager
and new donor to Karen’s hunger relief charity. This will be a delicious satire about gentrification
and liberal hypocrisy, and will also attempt to provide honest answers to thorny questions, usually
avoided in polite society, about how well-meaning people think about race, and class.
Lucinda Rosenfeld is the author of the novels What She Saw..., Why She Went Home, and I'm So
Happy For You and The Pretty One. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times
Magazine, The New Yorker, Creative Non-Fiction, Slate.com, Glamour
Korean rights handled by: Yang Agency
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Shields, Jody
January 2017
THE PLAGUE STATION
Performance Rights: The Anne Edelstein Literary Agency LLC c/o Zachary Shuster
Harmsworth LLC (Anne Edelstein)
Tentative delivery date: February 2016
THE PLAGUE STATION is a beautifully rendered story of love, fear, hope, and death and
brings history to life with stunning energy. At the crossroads of civilizations in Manchuria is the
city of Kharbin—a frigid outpost just barely settled. The city is ravaged by the plague, its
inhabitants perishing in droves. The novel’s protagonist, the Baron, a Russian doctor with
Western sensibilities is on a hopeless crusade to save the city. Faced with bureaucratic hurdles,
mounting panic, open mistrust, and a rival doctor with opposing ideas, the doctor is determined to
rid the city of the disease.
Jody Shields is the former design editor of the New York Times Magazine. She is the author of
The Fig Eater and The Crimson Portrait, and two fashion books, All That Glitters and A Stylish
History.
Shields’s The Fig Eater was licensed in the following territories: Holland/Ambo/Anthos,
Germany/Ullstein, Greece/ Enalios, Israel/Hed Arzi, Italy/Sperling & Kupfer, Japan/Hayakawa,
Poland/Bertelsmann, Portugal/Temas E Debate, Spain/Emece Editores, Turkey/Can Yayinlari,
Sweden/Norstedts, Brazil/Nova Cultural, France/Presses De La Cite.
Korean rights handled by: Yang Agency
Simses, Mary
THE RULES OF LOVE AND GRAMMAR
Performance Rights: Inkwell Management (Kim Witherspoon)
June 2016
Tentative delivery date: September 2015
Grace Hammond is at loose ends. Although she’s a brilliant technical writer, she hasn’t
discovered the right set of rules to guide her own life. When Grace returns to her hometown, the
past collides with the present. Grace discovers that her high school sweetheart, Peter, now a
Hollywood director, is also back in town, filming his latest movie. Certain that Peter can turn a
screenplay she wrote about her beloved late sister Renny into a movie, Grace sets to work. Along
the way, she catches the eye of the movie star, Sean Leeds, and the very down-to-earth Mitch,
who works in the local bike shop. Will Grace rekindle her romance with Peter, end up on the arm
of Sean Leeds, or shun Hollywood altogether for the affections of Mitch? Grace sets out to
correct everyone else’s mistakes. —but will she be able to fix her own?
Mary Simses is an attorney and the author of the international bestseller The Irresistible
Blueberry Bakeshop & Café.
Rights to her first book were licensed to: Italy/Mondadori, Germany/Blanvalet,
Norway/Pantagruel, Brazil/Cia Das Letras, Bulgaria/Kragozor, Spain/Penguin Random House,
Turkey/Netus Kitap, Slovenia/Zalozba, Poland/Proszynski, Latvia/Apgads
Rights licensed: Germany/Blanvalet
Korean rights handled by: Duran Kim Agency
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Smiley, Tavis
DEATH OF THE KING OF POP
Performance Rights: Vigliano Associates Ltd. (David Vigliano)
April 2016
Tentative delivery date: July 2015
THE DEATH OF THE KING OF POP is a taut novelistic rendering of the final months in the life
of a major cultural figure—Michael Jackson. Jackson’s last year encapsulated the life—deep lows
contrasted with soaring highs; his constant hunt for privacy in a life that was more public than
almost any other; and the pressures he endured as someone whose fame and life made him
socially fragile and almost unable to live—from balancing a checkbook to, ultimately, caring for
his own health. Tavis has valuable connections to the Jackson family and the people who
surround them. This will be a deeply emotional, musical, frank but celebratory book.
Tavis Smiley is the host of PBS's Tavis Smiley and Public Radio International's The Tavis Smiley
Show. He is also the bestselling author of 16 books including DEATH OF A KING: The Real
Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year.
Korean rights handled by: Yang Agency
Somerville, Patrick
TAORMINA: A Novel
Performance Rights: Kneerim and Williams (Brettne Bloom)
September 2016
Tentative delivery date: June 2015
A wedding in Italy: What could go wrong? Aside from everything? Still somewhat attached to the
idea of her first love, Nate, Anna plans a destination wedding in Sicily to charming Brit, Daniel;
she fails to tell her fiancé,that the most passionate weekend of her life occurred with Nate in the
nearby town of Taormina. She believes she's motivated by having the British and American
families meet on neutral ground, and the romance of a quiet ceremony in the Italian countryside.
But the whole thing is of course a disaster, on every possible level. (Problems include, but are not
limited to: the bride's first love may be in Sicily during the wedding; the British and American
grandfathers might attempt to kill one another at the top of Mt. Etna; the groom will certainly be
locked in an attic room for several days; and the young siblings of the couple might actually be in
love. Still, the wedding might actually happen. Or a wedding might actually happen.
Patrick Somerville is the author of The Cradle and This Bright River.
Rights to The Cradle were licensed in Holland to Bezige Bij and in Poland to Proszynski.
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Streever, Bill
July 2016
WIND: A Journey Through the Science, History, and Future of Moving Air
Performance Rights: Wales Literary Agency (Elizabeth Wales)
Tentative delivery date: June 2015
A fantastic book about wind and its science and history, narrated by Bill Streever from the ground and
sky as he sails and flies his way around the planet. Bill is making himself into a John McPhee for today;
his effortless (seeming), open-eyed, warm prose is such a pleasure to read. WIND will fascinate on a line
to line level, moving as it will through areas including natural science and history (weather, storms,
hurricanes, tornadoes), business (trade winds, the jet stream and airflight), travel (sailing and flying being
key), and throughout the keen observations, scientific rigor, and even whimsy.
Bill Streever, a biologist, is the author of the national bestseller, Cold and Heat. He chairs the
North Slope Science Initiative's Science Technical Advisory Panel in Alaska.
Rights licensed: Korea/Kachi Publishing
Swinson, David
THE SECOND GIRL
Performance Rights: Gelfman Schneider/ICM Partners (Jane Gelfman)
June 2016
Tentative delivery date: May 2015
THE SECOND GIRL will be the first novel in a gripping crime trilogy by David Swinson. The
novel centers on Frank Marr—a former homicide and vice detective with the Washington DC
police turned private investigator. Kicked off the force for his continuing drug habit, Frank is a
gruff and lovable anti-hero. He’s ruthless, dangerously smart, and, when he wishes to be so,
frighteningly charming. The novel opens as Frank breaks into a home known as a gangland
staging house to get his latest fix. After locating the house’s drug stash, and preparing to leave,
Marr makes the mistake of investigating a sound from the bathroom. Inside, he finds a teenage
girl chained to the floor. He rescues the girl, against his more selfish instincts, and is drawn into a
widening web of abducted girls, seduced and hooked on crack, and forced into prostitution by
local drug kingpins. In addition to the wonderful mystery and sharp sleuthing, there is the unique
page-by-page drama of Marr attempting to hide and manage his drug addiction—a feat
accomplished with incredibly visceral and compelling results.
David Swinson spent the 1980s as a punk rock music promoter and film producer, booking acts
like Nick Cave, John Cale, Chris Isaac and the Red Hot Chili Peppers into clubs and producing
spoken word events with Hunter S. Thompson, John Waters and Jim Carroll. David is a highly
decorated member of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Korean rights handled by: Yang Agency
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Targett, Simon and John Butman
January 2018
NEW WORLD, INC.: How America Was Founded as a Business Enterprise, 1551-1620
Performance Rights: Kneerim Williams and Bloom (Katherine Flynn)
Tentative delivery date: March 2017
In New World, Inc.: How America Was Founded as a Business Enterprise, 1551-1620,
John Butman and Simon Targett chronicle the extraordinary process of innovation that
led to the founding of America. We meet characters absent from traditional founding
narratives: the risk-taking merchants, aristocratic courtiers, university scientists, clever
lawyers and daring soldiers and adventurers from England and across Europe, as well as
the ordinary people who helped outfit, victual, and sail the ships, and those who risked
their lives to settle the New World. This is a thrilling, unexpected, dramatic history that
reveals an incredible amount of information about both our past and our present.
Dr. Simon Targett holds a PhD in history from Cambridge and is a long-time, awardwinning British journalist with a focus on business and finance, serving as an editor of
The Financial Times for twelve years and global editor-in-chief of The Boston
Consulting Group for six years. John Butman is an author, editor, and collaborative
writer of many books, including Trading Up: The New American Luxury a BusinessWeek
bestseller.
Korean rights handled by: Yang Agency
Wood, David
WHAT HAVE WE DONE: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
Performance Rights: The Ross Yoon Agency (Gail Ross)
January 2017
Tentative delivery date: February 2016
A Quaker and conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, David Wood has always had a
profound unease about war. But this has only animated his long and illustrious career as a
journalist. WHAT HAVE WE DONE will be the first book on “moral injury,” a newly
recognized disorder far more common than PTSD that touches almost all who go to war. Where
PTSD delineates physical reactions in the aftermath of trauma, moral injury describes an
overwhelming violation of our sense of right and wrong. Featuring interviews with veterans,
military families, VA officials, and leaders in mental health research along with Wood’s personal
experiences embedded in Iraq and Afghanistan with U.S. Marines, it will be an unflinching look
at what war does to all of us—those of us who fight on the front lines and those of us at home.
Deeply researched and personal, WHAT HAVE WE DONE will be an anti-war book suffused
with respect and compassion for soldiers and military families.
David Wood is the senior military correspondent for The Huffington Post. His series on severely
wounded veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.
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