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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FICTION………………………………………………4
AVON………..……………………………….….…..24
BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR………………………….......32
ENTERTAINMENT / POP CULTURE……….…………41
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ILLUSTRATED……………….…………….………...81
COOKBOOKS……………………………….……….85
*INDICATES A NEW ADDITION TO THE LIST SINCE FRANKFURT 2011
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FICTION
Arsenault, Emily
MISS ME WHEN I’M GONE
“This debut novel has a delightful premise, crisply drawn characters, and a subtle sense of humor….the very
definition of a promising debut.” —Booklist on BROKEN TEAGLASS
“Arsenault’s quirky, arresting debut….[is] an absorbing, offbeat mystery-meets-coming-of-age novel that’s as
sweet as it is suspenseful.” —Publishers Weekly on BROKEN TEAGLASS
From the critically acclaimed author of BROKEN TEAGLASS and IN SEARCH OF THE ROSE NOTES comes a
brand new literary mystery for fans of Laura Lippman. Eliza Waters is most famous for her book Tammyland, a
“honky-tonk Eat, Pray, Love” that is all about Tammy Wynett. When Eliza dies in a drug store shooting, everyone
thinks it is a tragically botched mugging. Jen, Eliza’s best friend from college, had no reason to suspect foul play
until she becomes Eliza’s literary executor. The manuscript Eliza was working on most recently is about an old
child abuse case. The more Jen reads, the more sinister things become. From beyond the grave, Eliza’s writing
opens up a different world to Jen. Eliza’s death seems suspicious and Jen soon finds herself in danger as well.
William Morrow Paperbacks
UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: Laura Langlie Literary
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available
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Ballantine, Pip and Morris, Tee
*THE JANUS AFFAIR
The second in an exciting and fun Edwardian steampunk adventure series, featuring two secret agents from the
“Ministry of Peculiar Occurences,” who investigate a startling conspiracy. In the vein of Gail Carriger’s bestselling
SOULLESS and CHANGELESS, this is lush and intricate—a bit proper, and a bit naughty—with lots of adventure
and period setting. The women in London are disappearing—young and old, rich and poor, and from all walks of
society. The only thing they have in common is their belief that women deserve the vote. It’s up to the Ministry to
find out why these women are vanishing, but agents Brooks and Braun have their own challenges. There’s a
turncoat with nefarious plans within the Ministry itself, and the reappearance of an old flame means their growing
friendship is threatened. Harper Voyager
Rights sold: Australia/HC-Australia; Germany/VGS-Egmont
PHOENIX RISING sold in Australia/HC-Australia; Germany/VGS-Egmont; Russia/Family Leisure
Category: Edwardian Steampunk
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 432 pages
Manuscript available
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Boccacino, Michael
CHARLOTTE MARKHAM AND THE HOUSE OF DARKLING
Neil Gaiman meets Tim Burton in this Victorian gothic tale of the world beyond the living and the price you pay to
save those you love. In this imaginative and haunting debut, feisty young governess Charlotte Markham is
employed at a dilapidated manor where she falls in love with her widower employer, Henry Darrow. While walking
near a forest with the boys in her care she discovers a dark alternate world called The Ending, the place for things
that cannot die. They encounter the deceased mother of the two boys, who has been waiting to pick up where
she left off in the ominous House of Darkling—a wondrous, dangerous placed filled with enchantment, mystery
and strange creatures that appear to be, but are not quite, human. They secretly visit the House of Darkling
repeatedly until the two boys are trapped inside with their mother. Charlotte confides everything to Henry, and
together they must decide whether to risk their lives in order to reclaim what has been ripped from them. A
fantastic journey that is splendidly strange, frightening, and exhilarating. William Morrow Paperbacks
Rights sold in Brazil/Leya; Germany/Lubbe; Russia/AST; UK/Titan
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available
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Brom
*KRAMPUS: The Yule Lord
Brom, author of the acclaimed illustrated novel THE CHILD THIEF, returns with a spectacular retelling of the story
of Krampus, a.k.a. Black Peter, the dark enemy of Santa Claus. When failed songwriter Jesse witnesses a
strange encounter on Christmas Eve—seven men cloaked in black beating up a man in a red suit and a sleigh, he
steps in, but all of the strange denizens disappear, leaving only a large sack. He discovers that Santa (the
interloper) has stolen the magical bag of Krampus, the ancient trickster demon who punishes evildoers. By
picking it up, Jesse becomes one of Krampus’s followers. The former Yule Lord will stop at nothing to reclaim his
holiday, and return wild magic to the desperately poor denizens of Boone County. But in every fairytale, a strange
gift always has a price—and soon Jesse is pulled into a dark, wild adventure that will span the globe, from the
beginnings of Krampus himself to his own search to save his daughter and his own broken dreams. Harper
Voyager
THE CHILD THIEF sold in Brazil/Saraiva; Germany/Droemer; Holland/de Wereldbibliothek; Indonesia/PT
Gramedia Pustaka Utama; Italy/Mondadori;
Publication: November 2012
Estimated length: 368 pages; 35 b&w illustrations; 8-page color insert
Manuscript available
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Cabot, Meg
SIZE 12 AND READY TO ROCK
#1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot delivers the next installment in her incredibly funny and exciting
Heather Wells mystery series. It’s summer break in New York College, and dorm director Heather Wells is
watching over a bunch of 13-year-old girls attending “Tania Trace Rock Star” camp, hosted by pop sensation
Tania Trace who happens to be married to Heather’s ex-boyfriend. A reality TV show is filming Tania’s every
move, but when Tania’s producer ends up dead, followed by a cameraman, Heather soon finds herself involved in
a mystery that is rocking one of New York City’s best universities. William Morrow Paperbacks
SIZE 12 IS NOT FAT sold in Brazil/Record; China (complex)/Taiten Electric; Czech/BBart; France/Albin Michel;
Germany/Blanvalet; Holland/Arena; Hungary/Cicero; Indonesia/PT Gramedia; Japan/Tokyo Sogensha;
Lithuania/Alma; Poland/Amber; Portugal/Aletheia; Russia/AST; Romania/Humanitas; Serbia/Alnari; Spain/Planeta;
Sweden/Damm; Thailand/Amarin; Turkey/Artemis; UK/Macmillan; Vietnam/Phuong Nam
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 304 pages
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Caldwell, Megan
*VANITY FARE
“Vanity Fare made me laugh out loud…. It’s a fabulous book.” New York Times bestselling author Sabrina
Jeffries
For fans of Jennifer Crusie and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes this clever, hilarious,
heartbreaking and charming debut novel about a 40-year-old Brooklyn mother, recently divorced with a son, who
starts writing copy for a bakery, discovers a knack for food-related literary puns, and becomes entangled in a love
triangle. Molly Hagan is overwhelmed and forty. Her husband left her for a younger, blonder woman six months
ago, her six-year-old son is questioning her authority, she has to get a job, and then her broke and bitter mother
moves in. So what does Molly do? She doesn’t just roll over, as she has for the first 40 years of her life. Instead,
Molly makes lists. Lots of them. Lists of ways she can push herself, things she would never do, things she is proud
of, things she is not so proud of— all to get her confidence up So she's not thinking of romance when an old
friend offers her a job writing copy for a new bakery. But the sexy British pastry chef has other thoughts--and so
does Molly when she meets the chef's intimidating business partner -- who also happens to have a secret that
might prevent Molly from getting her own Happily Ever After. Megan Cladwell is a contributor to Marie Claire
magazine and a Daily Writer for Clear Channel's Premiere Radio rep service. She is also the Community
Manager for Heroes and Heartbreakers, a romance novel website. William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication: January 2013
Estimated Length: 400 pages
Manuscript Available: May 2012
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Chopra, Deepak
*GOD: A Story of Revelation
Beloved author and teacher Deepak Chopra takes us on an enlightening journey through history as we come to
understand God through the lives of our most celebrated saints and sages. From Socrates to Joan of Arc, Rumi to
Baal Shem Tov, Thomas the Apostle to Einstein, God emerges in times of conflict and sheds divine light. While
God’s wisdom was often ignored and very often betrayed, we witness first-hand how His presence and influence
evolved over time and in so doing experience the great inrush of spirit that arrives and turns confusion and conflict
into clarity and inspiration. In the end, GOD: A Story of Revelation is about our very human journey to know and
understand the divine. Deepak Chopra is the founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California,
and is acknowledged as one of the master teachers of Eastern philosophy in the Western World. He has written
more than fifty-five books and has been a bestselling author for decades with over a dozen titles on the New York
Times bestseller lists, including BUDDHA, JESUS, MUHAMMAD and many others. HarperOne
MUHAMMAD sold to: Dutch/Ten Have; French/ADA; Indonesian/Pustaka Utama; Latvian/Zvaigzne ABC:
Polish/Barbelo; Portuguese (Brazil)/Ediouro; Russian/Exmo; Spanish/SUMA
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 288 pages
Manuscript available: June 2012
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Daniel, Susanna
*SEA CREATURES
“A deeply engrossing tale of love, family, friendship, and motherhood, Stiltsville is both an elegantly crafted work
of art and a great read. Susanna Daniel is an extraordinary writer and Stiltsville is a beautiful book.” —Curtis
Sittenfeld, author of Prep and American Wife on STILTSVILLE
“When you build a house beyond the edge of a continent, you’re not looking to make friends.” SEA CREATURES,
the mesmerizing next novel by STILTSVILLE author and Pen/Bingham Award recipient Susanna Daniel, follows a
young woman who, in the wake of a family crisis, uproots her husband and toddler from the Midwest and returns
to her hometown of Miami, where her marriage starts to come apart at the seams when she takes a job as an
assistant to an eccentric reclusive artist. A breathtaking exploration of the risks and rewards of attachment, set
against the lush and tempestuous backdrop of Miami, Daniels brings to life the story of a woman who ultimately
must face the unthinkable choice between her husband and young son. Susanna Daniel is a graduate of
Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was a fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative
Writing. Harper
UK rights: HC-USA; Translation: The Weil Agency
Publication: August 2013
Estimated length: 352 pages
Manuscript available: August 2012
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de Jonge, Peter
BURIED ON AVENUE B
Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as an “utterly irresistible heroine,” hard-living homicide detective Darlene O’Hara
returns from Peter de Jonge’s first novel, SHADOWS STILL REMAIN, in this edgy noir thriller set on New York
City’s Lower East Side. A nurse stops by the offices of Homicide South in Manhattan to report the confession of
Gus Henderson, her elderly Alzheimer’s patient, a former junkie and petty criminal, who claims he murdered and
buried a man in a park off Avenue B seventeen years ago. All signs point toward the man’s partner in crime as the
victim—he’s been off the grid for exactly seventeen years. After threats from the presumed victim’s mother, the
city reluctantly agrees to excavate the community garden where Henderson claimed to have buried the body. But
it’s not her son they find buried beneath the willow tree. What they find is the skeleton of a ten-year-old boy, neatly
dressed and buried ceremoniously with a comic book, a cd, some pot, and booze. O’Hara dives headlong into the
city’s dark underbelly and is about to uncover a hidden, dangerous world of lost boys and girls. Peter de Jonge is
the author of SHADOWS STILL REMAIN (2009), a Washington Post Book of the Year, and co-author, with James
Patterson, of three books: Miracle on the 17th Green (Little, Brown, 1996), and the #1 New York Times bestsellers
Beach Road (Little, Brown, 2003) and The Beach House (Little, Brown, 2006). He worked as a reporter at the
Associated Press, and has been a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine since 1986. His writing has
appeared in Best American Sports Writing, National Geographic, New York magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Details,
and Manhattan, Inc. Harper
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Rights sold: French/Editions First; German/Heyne; UK/Avon UK;
SHADOWS STILL REMAIN sold: Bulgarian/Hermes; Czech/Euromedia; French/Editions First; German/Heyne;
Slovak/Ikar; UK/Avon UK
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 336 pages
Galley available
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Dean, Debra
*THE MIRRORED WORLD
“An unforgettable story of love, survival and the power of imagination in the most tragic circumstances. Elegant
and poetic, the rare kind of book that you want to keep but you have to share.” - Isabel Allende on THE
MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD
“[A] heartfelt debut…[that] switches deftly between the siege and the present…[it is] admirably humane in its
determination to restore the dignity Alzheimer’s strips away. What’s more, it largely avoids the sentimentality that
mars so much writing about the old and infirm.” - New York Times Book Review on THE MADONNAS OF
LENINGRAD
From the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed THE MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD comes the story of
Xenia of St. Petersburg, a breathtaking novel of love and madness. Set against the unparalleled extravagance
and artifice of 18th century Russia, a world of ice palaces and opera and masquerade balls, THE MIRRORED
WORLD is the reimagined life of St. Xenia, one of Russia’s most beloved holy women. Narrated from the point of
view of her younger cousin Dasha, THE MIRRORED WORLD follows the friends from their younger years in the
lower nobility through the tragedy and madness that transforms Xenia into a revered angel of mercy to the poor
and a controversial figure to the upper classes. At the age of 26, Xenia loses her first child, followed shortly
thereafter by the death of her beloved husband, sending her into an excruciating, deep depression. After weeks in
a trance-like state and still inconsolable, Xenia, in defiance of her family, begins giving away her money and
possessions to the poor and homeless. As a soothsayer and healer, Xenia becomes famous throughout the city,
perceived by many as a sharp rebuke to the lavish excesses of the court of the new empress, Catherine the
Great. Richly told, THE MIRRORED WORLD is a moving historical epic that reimagines the transformation of a
regular girl into one of history’s most treasured and mysterious saints. THE MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD was a
huge success for us. It was #1 BookSense Pick, a National Bestseller, an ALA Notable Book of the Year and it
was nominated for the Quill Awards book of the year. Harper
All rights excluding German: HarperCollins Publishers; German rights: Marly Rusoff Literary Agency
Rights sold: Polish/Weltbild
THE MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD sold: Chinese (simplified characters)/Beijing New Star Publisher; French/
Grasset; German/Droemer; Dutch/Bruna; Greek/Modern Times; Hebrew/Modan; Korean/Novel House;
Italian/Piemme; Norwegian/Pantagruel; Polish/Bertelsmann; Portuguese in Brazil/Record; Portuguese in Portugal/
Civilizacao Editora; Serbian/Alnari; Spanish/Ediciones B; Turkish/Ithaki Yayinlari; UK/Fourth Estate
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 256 pages
Manuscript available
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Dietrich, William
EMERALD STORM: An Ethan Gage Adventure
“Entertaining….Dietrich seamlessly blends historical figures such as Napoleon and Toussaint L’Ouverture, the
liberator of Haiti, with fictional characters like Gage’s nemesis, renegade secret policeman Leon Martel, in this
amusing swashbuckler.” -- Publishers Weekly
“The book is a breathlessly exciting adventure, as fast paced as an Indiana Jones movie and just about as
entertaining." Starred review Booklist
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author William Dietrich delivers his fifth installment in the popular and
bestselling Ethan Gage adventure series. The action races from the slopes of the Swiss Alps to the sultry tropics
of the Caribbean, with a mysterious and magical Spanish treasure, the fate of England, and the first successful
slave revolt in history hanging in the balance. Allied with his new wife, Astiza, Ethan Gage embarks in a
desperate hunt in the isles of the Caribbean for the Lost Treasure of Montezuma, a legendary hoard that tradition
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says was saved and hidden from the Spanish conquistadors of Cortez. In pursuit are British agents who hope the
gold will finance the black slave revolt in St. Dominique, or Haiti, robbing France of its richest colony. French
agents are seeking the treasure for an even bigger prize: certain Aztec ornaments look like flying machines, and
ruthless secret policeman Leon Martel dreams they could hold the key to a new weapon that could defeat Britain.
THE TREASURE OF MONTEZUMA has William Dietrich’s trademark combination of humor, exotic geography,
fascinating historical figures, and details of life at the dawn of the 19 th century. Harper
Rights sold: French/Le Cherche Midi
DAKOTA CIPHER sold: China (simplified)/Shanghai 99; France/Le Cherche Midi; Germany/Weltbild;
Hungary/General Press; Norway/Damm; Poland/Rebis; Russia/Eksmo; Serbia/Alnari; UK/Allison & Busby
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 368 pages
Galley available
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Drake, Jocelynn
*ANGEL’S INK: The Asylum Tales
“A lot of fun, with a whole new take on the dark urban fantasy. Bright and breezy, with fascinating characters, and
a background with hidden depths. Drake puts the ink in incredible.” -- New York Times bestselling author
Simon R. Green
New York Times bestselling author Jocelynn Drake launches her breakout new series about a magical tattoo
artist. Gage is a smartass tattoo artist endowed with magical powers at the mercy of an enchanted world full of
warlock, witches, faeries, trolls, and werewolves. Whether you are looking for a little luck, love or revenge, the
right ingredients mixed in the ink along with the right symbol etched into the skin can get you what you want, but of
course, everything has a price. Gage is a refugee from the magical ivory towers that train the dreaded, cruel
warlocks and witches, who act as gatekeepers, judges, and ultimately, executioners. No one has ever left alive.
Despite his best efforts, Gage cannot hide any longer from the warlocks or from his own past, but with the help of
his friends, he might make it through this enchanted world alive. Harper Voyager
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 368 pages
Manuscript available
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NIGHTWALKER sold in Germany/VGS; Poland/Amber; Turkey/Pegasus
Ephron, Hallie
*THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN
They say you can't go home again, but sometimes you have to. Evie Ferrante, recently promoted curator for a
New York City historical society, is about to launch her first exhibit, “Seared in Memory,” which commemorates
several of New York's historic fires and includes, to Evie’s great pride, the engine from the B-25 bomber that
struck the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on a fog-shrouded morning in 1945. But Evie’s triumph is cut
short by a phone call: Her mother has been rushed to the hospital. Again. Now Evie must return to the house in
which she grew up, in a quirky waterfront neighborhood in the Bronx. As she begins to sort through the mess her
mother has left behind, Evie becomes increasingly close to her mother's neighbor, Mina Yetner, who is Evie’s
grandmother's age. Mina is still sharp -- or at least she has been, though she confesses to Evie that she’s been
the victim of a string of "accidents" that she can neither explain nor keep track of. And though Mina’s not afraid of
dying, she is afraid of losing her memory – or her mind. Before too long, Evie finds herself “curating” Mina –
piecing together her past and present, using Mina’s stories and the objects in her house – and, in so doing, begins
to think there’s a larger story at work . . . one that could have deadly consequences for both women. Hallie Ephron
is the mystery reviewer for the Boston Globe. She is the author of the novels NEVER TELL A LIE and COME
AND FIND ME, both of which were nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. Hallie Ephron is a member of the
supremely talented Ephron clan, sister to fellow writers Nora, Delia, and Amy. William Morrow
UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation rights: Brandt & Brandt Literary Agency
Publication: April 2013
Estimated length: 288 pages
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Fishman, Zoe
SAVING RUTH
An exciting new novel from the author of BALANCING ACTS about a young woman who returns home for summer
after her first year away at college, where a tragedy pushes her to uncover family truths and take a good look at
the woman she wants to become. Ruth Wasserman has always felt like an outsider in her Alabama town. Being
a curly-haired Jewish girl amongst blonde Southern Baptists was never easy and, within her own family, she has
always played second fiddle to her older brother—a star athlete and student who her parents adore. After one
year away at college she returns home looking like a new, wiser woman on the outside, but struggling with low
self-esteem and a possible eating disorder. While working as a lifeguard, a child almost drowns on her watch.
The repercussions will push her to confront truths about her parents, her brother, and herself that she’s been
trying to ignore. This is an engaging story beautifully shows how tragedy can make us stronger and that knowing
who we are on the inside is our greatest strength. William Morrow Paperbacks
BALANCING ACTS sold in Germany/Ullstein; Holland/Arena; Italy/Sperling & Kupfer; Poland/Proszynski-ska
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 304 pages
Galley available
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Freveletti, Jamie
*DEAD ASLEEP
In this pulse-pounding sequel to THE NINTH DAY, brilliant biochemist Emma Caldridge must stop the spread of a
mysterious sleeping sickness on an island where voodoo and possibly worse are practiced. When chemist Emma
Caldridge travels to an exclusive island to collect rare minerals, she expects to dive the nearby underwater caves,
collect her specimens, and fly home. What she doesn’t expect is that the mineral she’s been hired to collect has
unique properties that make it attractive to terrorist organizations and the island is the location of a secret auction
to sell it. Emma is confronted with an island culture that practices voodoo and tells tales of sea monsters and
curses. She dismisses the stories as legend, until her own ship is nearly sunk and a strange illness sweeps across
the island, causing people to behave in an erratic and violent manner, before falling into a deep sleep. As the
islanders fall asleep one by one, the world community imposes a quarantine. No one exposed to the strange
illness can leave until the authorities can determine its cause. It’s left to Emma to disrupt the auction, steal back
the mineral, and try to leave the island alive. Jamie Freveletti is a trial lawyer who practices in Chicago. After
attending law school, she lived in Geneva, Switzerland while obtaining a diploma in International Studies. She’s
also a runner who both practices and teaches Akido, a Japanese martial art. She is the author of RUNNING
FROM THE DEVIL, RUNNING DARK and THE NINTH DAY. RUNNING WITH THE DEVIL was the winner of the
Thriller Award, the Berry Award, and the Crimespree Award. Freveletti is writing the next Ludlum, The Janis
Reprisal that will go on-sale 2 months before our book. Morrow Avon Mass Market Original
Rights sold: German/Ullstein
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Gore, Steven
*POWER BLIND
A timely high-stakes political thriller from the author of FINAL TARGET, ABSOLUTE RISK and ACT OF DECEIT.
Graham Gage is shocked to receive a call from Charlie Palmer, a man who has made his career by helping San
Francisco’s wealthy elite cover-up their mishaps with the law and create get-out-of-jail-free cards for the right
price. But moments after a surprisingly remorseful conversation, Palmer ends up dead. Setting out to find justice
for Palmer’s victim, Gage follows a trail of deceit and money laundering that will reveal corruption at every level of
government including the Supreme Court and the office of the President. But the closer that Gage gets to
revealing injustice, the higher the body count rises, putting family and friends directly in harms way. Harper Mass
Market
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 528 pages
Manuscript available
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Graham, Jorie
*PLACE: New Poems
The New York Times has said that “Graham’s poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative
writing we have,” and this marvelous new collection is a perfect example of how startling, original, and deeply
relevant her poetry can be. In PLACE, Graham explores the dualities and polarities of life, of the creative and
destructive tensions that exist between spirit and flesh, the real and the mythical, stillness and motion, the interior
and exterior existence. Jorie Graham is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including THE DREAM OF THE
UNIFIED FIELD, which won the Pulitzer Prize. She divides her time between western France and Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where she teaches at Harvard University. Graham is the first woman to hold the Boylston
professorship in the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard, a chair with an
illustrious lineage dating back to John Quincy Adams. She was the unanimous choice of a special
interdepartmental search committee formed to replace Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who held the position
previously. Ecco paperback original
Rights sold: UK/Carcanet Press
SEA CHANGE sold to: French/Galaade Editions; Spanish/Bartelby; UK/Carcanet Press
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 96 pages
Book available
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Gray, Shelley Shepard
MISSING: The Secrets of Crittenden County, Book One (March 2012)
SEARCH: The Secrets of Crittenden County, Book Two (June 2012)
FOUND: The Secrets of Crittenden County, Book Three (October 2012)
Beloved author Shelley Shepard Gray delivers her final book in the Secret of Crittenden County trilogy, in which
Detective Luke Reynolds discovers the identity of Perry Borntrager’s killer and the Amish community must come to
terms with it being one of their own members. As the search for the killer continues, Jacob Schrock is a prime
suspect. Deborah Borntrager, Perry’s sister, knows Jacob doesn’t want her working at the Schrock’s Variety
store, but she is desperate to escape the isolation of her home. As they work together their attraction to each
other increases. When Jacob is arrested for the murder of Perry, the community is outraged. Jacob’s father steps
forward and confesses the crime, but does he do so to protect his son or is he really the killer? Avon Inspire
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 272 pages
Manuscript available
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Greenburg, Mike
*EVERYTHING WE COULD EVER ASK FOR
This first novel by a popular radio host tells the story of three women – Brooke, Samantha and Katherine - whose
lives are very different but are about to intersect in a profound way. BROOKE is happily married to her college
sweetheart. Even after the twins and the c-section and all the dog poop and cat litter and stomach viruses and
coffee breath and eye gunk and accidental farts, Scott still always manages to wink at her at just the right
moments. And that is why, for her beloved, romantic, successful husband’s fortieth birthday, she is giving him
naked pictures of his wife. SAMANTHA has just found shocking evidence of infidelity on her husband’s computer.
She’s been married for only two days. She won’t be for long. KATHERINE works eighteen hours a day for the man
she was once in love with but now hates more than she loves. She has a duplex on Park Avenue, a driver, a chef,
an assistant, and a killer house in Southampton, and she bought it all herself. If she still has to see Phillip every
day, so what? Brooke, Samantha, and Katherine don’t know each other, but their stories are about to intertwine in
a way none of them could anticipate. All three are about to discover the power of friendship over adversity, the
delights that come when least expected, and the incredible difference three women can make in each others’
lives. A novel of friendship, love, heartbreak and renewal, EVERYTHING YOU COULD EVER ASK FOR will stay
with you long after you have turned the final page. ESPN Radio host and author Mike Greenberg’s first book, Why
My Wife Thinks I’m an Idiot (Villard), came out in 2006 and is currently under option as a TV show. William
Morrow
Publication: April 2013
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Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available: May 2012
Greenfeld, Karl Taro
TRIBURBIA
“I loved Triburbia, loved dropping in on these wonderful characters with their outsized appetites
and ambitions, the lithe and lively prose, the way the book swirls in and out of these lives and
maps perfectly a place and a moment in time. Most of all, though, I loved Karl Taro Greenfeld's deft satirical touch,
the searing empathy with which he offers up his privileged, damaged people to the world.” –Jess Walter, author
of Beautiful Ruins and The Financial Lives of the Poets
This novel-in-stories is both haunting and heartbreaking, darkly funny and surprisingly poignant. Much like
Jennifer Egan’s A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD and Tom Rachman’s THE IMPERFECTIONISTS, the
chapters in Greenfeld’s book are arranged as puzzle pieces—snippets of individual lives that fit perfectly together,
working to create an image that’s striking in its clarity, and comprehensive in its collective weight. The book is set
in TriBeCa— a neighborhood whose name has become synonymous with downtown New York wealth, soaring
lofts, massive yachts, and precious restaurants. At the core of TRIBURBIA is a group of fathers thrown together by
circumstance; each morning, they meet one another for breakfast after dropping their children off at the same
exorbitantly priced private school. They are musicians, producers, photographers, and gangsters, confronting the
terrible truths about ambition, wealth, and sex. Over the course of a year, the book uncovers the sacrifices and
betrayals that haunt each man. In a world where consequences are so easily glossed over, Greenfeld shows how
the repercussions of our choices not only rattle our own lives, but also have the power to devastate the lives of the
people we love. The stories are narrated by both men and women, giving the reader an equal experience of both
men’s and women’s points-of-view, and together coalesce into a single narrative that’s as compelling and as
captivating as any novel. Greenfeld is the author of four previous books, all nonfiction, including the muchacclaimed memoir BOY ALONE (Harper 2009), which Peter Matthiessen called “A candid, brave, painful and well
written memoir.” His other three books include THE CHINA SYNDROME (Harper 2007), about which Amy Tan
said, “If you take this book to bed, don’t expect any sleep”; STANDARD DEVIATIONS (Villard 2002), which
William Gibson called “Lucid. Merciless. Unforgettable” and SPEED TRIBES (Harper 1995), about Japan’s
troubled youth. Karl’s fiction has appeared in such renowned publications as The Paris Review, Best American
Short Stories, American Short Fiction, The Missouri Review, One Story, Commentary, The Southern Review, and
The Sun. His writing has also been anthologized in Best American Sports Writing, Best American Nonrequired
Reading, Best American Travel Writing, and Best Creative Nonfiction, and has been translated into nine
languages. Born in Kobe, Japan, Karl has lived in Paris, Hong Kong, New York, and Tokyo. Karl was recently
awarded a PEN/O Henry Prize for a short story of his published last year in the Santa Monica Review. Harper
Rights sold: Danish/Moller Forlag; French/Editions Philippe Rey; Polish/Weltbild; UK/Atlantic Books
BOY ALONE sold: Dutch/House Of Books; Korean/Hong-ik Publishing; Italian/Piemme; Portuguese rights in
Brazil/Planeta do Brasil
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 288 pages
Galley available
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Grose, Jessica
*SAD DESK SALAD
From senior editor of Slate magazine, a smart, sharp, and funny debut novel about a savvy blogger who stumbles
upon the biggest scoop of the year, and must reconcile her true values with the growing, ruthless demands of a
gossip and reality-obsessed culture. Alex Lyons gets paid to be a bitch. As writer for Chick Habit, a popular blog,
she is fulfilling her dream of being a professional writer. Always looking for the next big celebrity scandal, she
churns out several posts a day under pressure from her parent company that is cracking down on page views.
When she receives the juiciest scoop of the year – a politico’s squeaky-clean Ivy League daughter caught in the
act of some very scandalous activities – Alex immediately prepares to ignite the next Internet feeding frenzy. But
she hesitates when she realizes it will ruin the girl’s life. What Alex doesn’t anticipate is how the big scoop will
send her own life spiraling out of control. Prior to joining Slate, Jessica Grose was an editor at Jezebel. William
Morrow Paperbacks
Publication: September 2012
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Estimated length: 320 pages
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Gross, Andrew
15 SECONDS
“A white knuckle, stay-up-all-night thrill ride. Enjoyed the heck out of it!” - Harlan Coben
From the bestselling author of The Blue Zone and Eyes Wide Open,15 SECONDS is a thrilling, fast-paced story of
a man, on the run, desperate to prove his innocence and to save his family’s lives. Henry Steadman didn’t have a
care in the world as he sped through Jacksonville, Florida, but suddenly his life was turned upside down in 15
seconds... He was there to deliver a talk at a medical convention and was stopped by a local policeman for a
minor traffic violation. While the ticket is being written, a blue sedan appears and the driver shoots the policeman
dead, speeding away quickly enough that Henry is instantly seen as a cop killer. An all-points bulletin is put out for
his arrest, and Henry must figure out whom he can trust. He calls his friend Mike who urges him to come over right
away, but he finds Mike dead and more evidence links Henry to this death as well. The stakes get even higher as
Henry’s family is drawn into this web of increasing suspense and terror, and he must untangle the clues and figure
out who is out to get him. Andrew Gross is the author of the New York Times and international bestsellers
Reckless, The Blue Zone, Don’t Look Twice, and The Dark Tide, which was nominated for the Best Thriller of the
Year award by the International Thriller Writers. He is also coauthor of five number one bestsellers with James
Patterson, including Judge & Jury and Lifeguard. William Morrow
EYES WIDE OPEN sold in Hungarian/Geopen; Turkish/Beyaz Balina; UK/HarperCollins UK
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 336 pages
ARE available
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Harman, Patricia
*THE MIDWIFE OF HOPE RIVER
On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the day wall street crashed, Patience Murphy, a 39-year-old, union
sympathizer from Pittsburgh, suffargette and widow twice over is attending a birth of a still born child in Liberty,
West Virginia. She's new at this and has recently lost her more experienced midwife partner, Mrs. Kelly. On the
run and wanted in two states, she's in way over head. Without a friend or mentor, isolated in the mountains of
Appalchia, she must establish her right to practice amid the poverty of the Great Depression. She must cope with
troubles between the mining companies and their unions and the racism of the still-active Ku Klux Klan. Over the
course a year, we follow her, through her journals, to home births in mining camps as well as mine owner's
mansions. We see her learn to survive on the land with the help of her black midwife assistant, Bitsy. We learn
why she's hiding out, and the horrible secret she hasn't told anyone. THE MIDWIFE OF HOPE RIVER is a story
of a courageous woman's fight for love and community, a saga of passion, loss and hope. Patricia Harman is a
practicing midwife and an active member in many midwifery programs and conferences. She has written two
acclaimed memoirs about her experiences as a midwife. THE MIDWIFE OF HOPE RIVER is her first novel.
William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available
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Harrison, Kim
*INTO THE WOODS: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond
New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison’s first short story collection, including an original Hollows novella,
original stories, plus all her previous published short stories. No fan will be able to pass up this collection. The
novella is a spin-off from PALE DEMON called “Million Dollar Baby,” which is about what happens when elven
tycoon Trent Kalamack and Jenks the pixy team up to rescue Trent’s daughter. Also included are “Spider Web”
and “Grace’s Fall,” original novelettes set in brand-new fantasy worlds. Harper Voyager
DEAD WITCH WALKING sold: China (simplified)/Shanghai 99; China(complex)/King-In; Czech/Fantom Press;
Denmark/Tellerup; France/Bragelonne; Germany/Heyne; Holland/Luitingh; Hungary/Beholder; Italy/Fanucci;
Japan/Hayakawa; Poland/Mag Josek Rodek; Norway/Schibsted; Portugal/Saida de Emergencia; Russia/AST;
Spain/Factoria de Ideas; Serbia/Laguna; Turkey/Artemis
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Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Hickman, Tracy
WAYNE OF GOTHAM
From New York Times bestselling fantasy writer Tracy Hickman comes an original story featuring Batman as he
investigates the events surrounding his parent’s murder and the darkest secrets of his family’s past. Written in
noir-style, WAYNE OF GOTHAM is set both in the present and in the turbulent decades of the 1950s and 1960s.
It is the story of two men separated by a generation of tragedy: Thomas, the rebellious heir to the vast Wayne
Empire fortune and Bruce, his son, whose life is forever altered by witnessing Thomas’s death. The murder of his
parents is the tortuous point on which Bruce turns to become Batman. The murder case has long been closed,
but when disturbing information shows up, Batman re-opens the case file, and discovers a father and mother he
never knew and the burden of a dark legacy he must now bear. This is the first time this story has been told, and
we have the full promotional support from DC Comics. !t Books
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 304 pages
Manuscript available
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Hill, Joe
*NOS4A2
New York Times bestselling Joe Hill, author of HEART-SHAPED BOX and HORNS, returns with a spine-chilling
new novel of psychological, supernatural suspense that will keep readers up at night. Victoria McQueen, or as her
father calls her “The Brat,” has a gift for finding things—a lost bracelet, a forgotten ribbon, answers to unasked
questions—all she has to do is jump on her bike and ride through the Shorter Way bridge to travel anywhere she
needs, even an entirely different state, in a matter of moments. But Victoria knows that her special ability is not
something that other people would understand because she doesn’t understand it herself. Until she learns that
she’s not the only one with a special gift. There are others... like Charlie Manx. Charlie Manx burned a man to
death in his silver Wraith, but that was not the worst of it. Rumor had it he liked children; he had kidnapped,
tortured and killed dozens of them, and then hung Christmas ornaments in the pine trees around his house in their
memory. The papers called it the Sleigh-house. Ho. Ho. Ho. Little did they know that the truth was much more
terrible than anyone could imagine, and when Victoria McQueen and Charlie Manx finally meet face to face,
neither of them are ever the same again. Joe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of HORNS and
HEART-SHAPED BOX, and the prize-winning story collection 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS. HORNS was an
Amazon.com Best Book of the Month pick in March 2010 that Daphne Durham called “a dark, funny exploration of
love, grief, and the nature of good and evil.” HORNS was also #89 on Amazon’s “Editors’ Top 100 Best Books of
the Year” list, and #10 on Amazon’s “Mystery Editors’ Best of the Year” list for 2010. The San Francisco Chronicle,
the Seattle Times and the Kansas City Star also named HORNS as one of the best books of 2010. HEARTSHAPED BOX was named a “Best Book of the Year” by Publishers Weekly, Amazon.com, Book Sense, Rocky
Mountain News, Atlanta magazine, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Village Voice, Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tampa
Tribune, and The Book Standard. HEART-SHAPED BOX won the Bram Stoker Award and the International
Thriller Writers Award. 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS received the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Award,
and the International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection. In addition, various individual stories from the
collection have won awards. Hill is the winner of the 2006 William Crawford Prize for Best New Fantasy Writer (for
20TH CENTURY GHOSTS), and the recipient of the Ray Bradbury Fellowship (in 2002) and the A.E. Coppard
Long Fiction Prize (1999). William Morrow
HORNS sold: Chinese (simplified characters)/Beijing Xinhua Pioneer; Czech/Beta-Dobrovsky & Seveik;
Danish/People's Press; Dutch/Luitingh-Sijthoff; Finnish/Tammi; French/Editions Jean Claude Lattes;
German/Wilhelm Heyne; Greek/Harlenic Hellas; Hungarian/Europa; Italian/Sperling & Kupfer; Japanese/
Shogakukan; Korean/Viche; Norwegian/Cappelen Damm; Polish/Proszynski; Portuguese in Brazil/ Sextante;
Portuguese in Portugal/Gailivro (an imprint of Leya); Russian/Eksmo; Slovak/Ikar Bratislava; Spanish/Suma de
Letras; Swedish/Norstedts; Turkish/Altin Kitaplar; UK/Orion
Publication: April 2013
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available: June 2012
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Jance, J.A.
JUDGMENT CALL: A Joanna Brady Mystery
From New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance comes the next exciting mystery featuring Sheriff Joanna
Brady. Last seen with J.P. Beaumont in FIRE AND ICE (2009) and solo in DAMAGE CONTROL (2008), Cochise
County Sheriff Joanna Brady returns to solve a crime set against the rugged backdrop of the American Southwest.
When her daughter, Jenny, stumbles across the body of her murdered high school principal, Joanna is caught in
the difficult middle ground of being both a sheriff and a mother. In the process she’s forced to face the possibility
that her perfect daughter, Jennifer Ann Brady, may not be so perfect anymore. William Morrow
DAMAGE CONTROL sold in the UK/HarperCollins UK
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Kaplan, Andrew
*SCORPION WINTER
“One of the smartest, swiftest and most compelling spy novels I’ve read in years. – Harlan Coben on SCORPION
BETRAYAL
“In this exciting follow-up to SCORPION, Kaplan pits the deadly CIA agent known as Scorption against the
terrorist known as the Palestinian…The nonstop action will keep readers racing through the pages and hoping that
Kaplan will put Scorpion back into action as soon as possible.” – Publishers Weekly on SCORPION BETRAYAL
On the heels of the publication of SCORPION BETRAYAL (April 2012) comes the next novel featuring the brilliant
and electrifying action hero, Scorpion. He’s lethal, highly intelligent, and a man with his own moral code. While
Scorpion is hiding away in an idyllic farmhouse on the island of Sardinia, a stranger steps off a Russian yacht and
leaves a message for him at the local harbor. The stranger is a Russian billionaire who is seeking Scorpion’s help
in preventing the assassination of the president in the Ukraine, Cherkesov. Before he can get too far, Cherkesov
dies in a bomb attack and Scorpion is seen nearby and presumed to be one of the assassins. On the run with a
woman who has promised to help him – a political operative who also knows her way around firearms – Scorpion
must find the real killers before authorities find him, and before the situation and political misunderstandings
escalate among the NATO allies and adversaries and the world erupts on an all-out war. Andrew Kaplan has
worked as a war correspondent for the International Herald Tribune. He is the author of four previous thrillers, and
his film writing career includes the James Bond film GoldenEye. This is the second book in a series that promises
to develop into a major publishing franchise. Harper Mass Market
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 352 pages
Manuscript available
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Kaplan, Hester
*THE TELL
Flannery O’Connor award-winning writer Hester Kaplan delivers an elegant, subtle, and haunting novel about love
and marriage, which demands that we consider how we choose to stay with or leave those we love. When Wilton
Deere, a once-famous and still wealthy TV actor, moves in next door, Mira and Owen’s young and fragile marriage
begins a slow and deliberate unraveling. Hungry for attention and connection, Wilton quickly becomes part of the
younger couple’s life. Unsettled by their new neighbor, disturbed by a friend’s violent death, doubting his worth as
public school teacher, Owen turns to his wife in his need, only to learn that Mira has disappeared into a secret life
of casinos and slot machines—always accompanied by Wilton. As surprising discoveries push husband and wife
further apart, the two must confront the new reality of their marriage and discover whether they can weather a
storm of their own making. Told with painterly detail and psychological complexity, THE TELL shows us what we
assume yet don’t know about the people we love, and the intimate ways we reveal ourselves before we act.
Hester Kaplan is the author of THE EDGE OF MARRIAGE, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short
Fiction, and a novel, KINSHIP THEORY. She teaches creative writing at Lesley University. Harper Perennial
Publication: January 2013
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available
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Kargman, Jill
THE ROCK STAR IN SEAT 3A
Jill Kargman, New York Times bestselling author of THE EX-MRS. HEDGEFUND and MOMZILLAS, returns with
this lively novel about a down-to-earth New York City girl who suddenly finds herself in a rock ‘n’ roll Cinderella
fantasy. It’s Hazel’s 30th birthday and she has everything she’s ever wanted: a kickass job at a video-game
company, a dream New York City apartment, and the perfect boyfriend—who also happens to be a personal chef,
and has just proposed in the most romantic way. With good food, video games and love, Hazel thinks she’s
happy—but not ready to get married. The morning after her birthday, Hazel leaves for a business trip and receives
a surprise upgrade to first class, boards the plane, and sees the person in seat 7B: it’s her celebrity crush, rock
star Finn Schiller. Just the night before, she had confessed her infatuation with Finn at her birthday party, and her
boyfriend joked that she had a free pass if she ever met him. Hazel can’t believe fate has actually thrown them
together. Even more unbelievable is the flight that follows, as they genuinely connect—even after he sees her
vomit due to plane turbulence. Finn likes her uncensored cursing, wicked sense of humor, and that she’s not like
all his groupies; Hazel likes his killer looks, ripped physique and soulful music. What started as a fantasy quickly
becomes a real attraction, and after a dream date and taste of the rock-star life with Finn in Los Angeles, Hazel is
forced to examine the track her life is on. Could she ever forgive herself if she walked away from her wildest
dreams coming true? Seasoned with her signature wit and hilarious dialogue, Jill Kargman presents a fairytale
romance with a twist. Jill Kargman is the author of the book of essays, SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A NUT and
novels including WOLVES IN CHIC CLOTHING and THE EX-MRS. HEDGEFUND. In addition to her bestselling
books, the author’s work has appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country, Elle, and more. William
Morrow
Rights sold: Dutch/Sijthoff
MOMZILLAS sold: Croatian/Algoritam; Dutch/Sijthoff; German/Ullstein; French/Fleuve Noir; Italian/Sonzogno;
Polish/Nasza Ksiegarnia; Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora Planeta do Brasil; Russian/AST; UK/HarperCollins UK
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 208 pages
Galley available
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Kline, Christina Baker
*THE TRAIN RIDER
Molly Ayer has one last chance, and she knows it. Close to being kicked out of her foster home -- just months
from turning 18 and "aging out" of the system -- Molly should be grateful that her boyfriend found her a community
service project: helping an old lady clean out her home. Molly can't help but think that the 50 hours will be tedious,
but at least they'll keep her out of juvie, and right now that's all she cares about. Ninety-one-year-old Vivian Daly
has lived a quiet life on the coast of Maine for decades. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are keys to a turbulent
past. Molly is about to discover -- as she and Vivian unpack her possessions, and memories -- that Vivian's story
is a piece of America's tumultuous history now largely forgotten: the tale of a young Irish immigrant, orphaned in
New York City and put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other orphaned children whose destiny would be
determined by luck and chance. As Molly digs deeper, she finds surprising parallels between Vivian’s story and
her own experience as a Native American -- and realizes that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to
mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life. THE TRAIN RIDER is a powerful novel of upheaval and
resilience, of second chances, of unexpected friendships, and of the secrets that keep us from finding out who we
really are. Christina Baker Kline was born in Cambridge, England and grew up in England, Tennessee, and
Maine. She holds a B.A. in English from Yale and earned an M.A. in Literature from Cambridge while working for
the journal Granta. Her previous novels include BIRD IN HAND and THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE. William
Morrow
UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation rights: Beth Vesel Literary Agency (bvesel@bvlit.com)
Publication: February 2013
Estimated length: 288 pages
Manuscript available
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Klise, Kate
IN THE BAG
“Lively! …. Klise’s portrait of modern romance is infused with the trappings of a digitized world…the brisk pace will
keep readers happily engaged.” - Publishers Weekly
“Klise’s debut is light and romantic and will go down as sweetly as a glass of champagne.” - Booklist
Parent Trap meets You’ve Got Mail in this 21st century romantic tale. Told from the perspectives of two single
parents and their two teenage children, IN THE BAG explores the old-fashioned art of flirtation in a modern world,
where falling in love can be as risky as checking a bag on an international flight. A successful chef and single
mother, Daisy Sprinkle is on vacation with her teenage daughter, Coco, who picks up the wrong duffle bag at the
airport. That situation is not improved by the note Daisy finds tucked into her own carry-on, apparently from the
man in 13-C. Daisy is in no mood for secret admirer notes or dinner dates. Or even men, for that matter. Andrew
doesn’t know what possessed him to do something like that. Hitting on strange women on airplanes is definitely
not his typical style. But there was something about the woman in 6-B that could not be ignored. Of course, now
he has no time to think about her, since his son Webb seems to have made off with a budding fashionista’s
luggage. Determined to make the best of a bad situation, Daisy cooks up a plan to calm her daughter’s panic over
the lost bag with a week of fabulous food, shopping, and museum hopping. Andrew is busy working on his latest
project and hoping Webb finds enough to entertain himself. Little do they know the teens are making their own
plan. . . one that will ultimately reunite Ms. 6-B and Mr. 13-C. Kate Klise is the author of such bestselling children’s
books as Regarding the Fountain, Dying to Meet You, and Grounded. IN THE BAG is her first novel for adults.
William Morrow Paperbacks
Rights sold: French/Albin Michel; German/Piper; Italian/Sperling
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 320 pages
Galley available
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Koethe, John
*ROTC Kills
In the tradition of Wordsworth, Wallace Stevens, and John Ashbery, a lyrical and meditative new collection of
poems from the renowned John Koethe, the most recent winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize for the year’s
outstanding work of poetry. “I’ve always thought of poetry as a kind of inner soliloquy, reflecting the capacity for
self-consciousness that makes us human,” says John Koethe. In this new book, Koethe’s poems move easily
between autobiographical anecdote and philosophical reflection. Koethe received an Arts and Letters Award from
the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has won the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Award. His NORTH
POINT NORTH: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Harper
Perennial
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 96 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Kultgen, Chad
*AVERAGE AMERICAN MARRIAGE
“An appalling book we couldn’t put down.” -- Penthouse on THE AVERAGE AMERICAN MALE
At last, the long awaited sequel to Chad Kultgen’s controversial phenomenon THE AVERAGE AMERICAN MALE
-- a new novel marking the return of Kultgen’s blithely, unforgettably raunchy narrator … now married with
children. Five years later, he still revels in objectifying women, killing time with video games, and stealing any
remaining idle moments to pleasure himself. Now, however, he must face life as a married man and father – from
birthday sex to interns to parenting – and he does so with the same deadpan smirk he has always brought to his
sex-addled, disaffected life. THE AVERAGE AMERICAN MARRIAGE takes satire to new depths of cockeyed
depravity – while adding a new chapter to Kultgen’s unique take on the never-ending battle of the sexes. Harper
Perennial
AVERAGE AMERICAN MALE sold: Croatian/Algoritam; Danish/ArtPeople; Italian/Newton Compton; UK/HC-UK
Publication: February 2013
Estimated length: 288 pages
Manuscript available: June 2012
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Lowell, Elizabeth
BEAUTIFUL SACRIFICE
New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell delivers a thrilling new novel that is heavy on romance. The
study of Mayan artifacts is the life work for Dr. Lina Taylor. This normally quiet life for a professor and archeologist
quickly shifts gear when Hunter Johnson crosses her path. He is as fascinating as he is exasperating. A former
immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, Hunter has more secrets than he wants Lina to know. They are
the only people who can solve the mystery of what happened to some very important Mayan artifacts, but it’s
more dangerous than either of them realizes. William Morrow
Rights sold: Bulgarian/Hermes
BLUE SMOKE AND MURDER sold in Bulgaria/Hermes; China (simplified)/Shanghai 99; Estonia/Eram;
Greece/George Dragounis; Israel/Schalgi; Poland/Amber
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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McBride, Susan
*THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE AND LIGHTNING
Susan McBride has crafted another spectacular novel about what happens when the stories we tell come home to
roost. Gretchen Bank has always gotten away with telling little white lies, even one she’s been telling for nearly
forty years. She was sure she’d gotten away with it until a tornado rips through her land and a man with no
memory surfaces. The same day her grown daughter returns with news that she’s pregnant. Abby Brink is sure
that the mysterious man is her long-lost father Sam, finally coming home when she needs him. As Abby,
Gretchen, and Sam get closer, the lie she told all those years ago begin to haunt Gretchen. The fragile life they’ve
built is in danger when the secret comes out, and Sam’s past is revealed. William Morrow Paperbacks
UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: Jane Rotrosen Agency
Publication: February 2013
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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McCleary, Kathleen
A SIMPLE THING
From the critically acclaimed author of HOUSE AND HOME comes a beautiful and heart-warming novel about
family, friendship and one woman’s drastic measure to keep her family safe. When Susannah Delaney decides
her over-scheduled East Coast kids have had enough and takes them to the rustic San Juan Islands to live for a
year, she has no idea whether the experience will help them or drive them further apart. They are trapped on a
tiny island with no internet, no friends, and a ramshackle house. It’s the perfect, simple life. But, as Susannah
Delaney soon discovers, a simpler life doesn’t mean that love and family are any simpler. William Morrow
Paperbacks
UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation rights: Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 304 pages
Manuscript available
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McElhatton, Heather
*JENNIFER JOHNSON IS SICK OF BEING MARRIED
From the author of the highly successful PRETTY LITTLE MISTAKES and the raucous and edgy JENNIFER
JOHNSON IS SICK OF BEING SINGLE, comes the next page in the story of Jennifer Johnson, an everywoman
whose every thought, flaw and neurosis is on display. No longer stuck in a cubicle and love-lorn, but still addicted
to Cinnabons, Jennifer quickly learns that the grass is not always greener on the other side. After a honeymoon
from hell at a gated Christian resort in the Virgin Islands – bought and paid for by her in-laws and complete with
alcohol-free drinks, Jennifer finds herself in a bizarre new life. Soon she is organizing Valentine’s Day Abstinence
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dances with her mother-in-law’s church committee, sewing “size 4” into her clothes because she can’t reveal the
truth to her husband, and dining with “trophy wives” who have their own theories about how to hold on to their
men. This is a laugh-out-loud, no-holds barred lesson about the “good life” and how getting what you want most
might be the worst thing for you. William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 304 pages
Manuscript available
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Noble, Shelley
BEACH COLORS
While Margaux Sullivan was presenting her highly praised M Atelier collection at New York City’s Fashion Week,
her husband of thirteen years cleaned out their bank account and disappeared. A week later the bank foreclosed
on her apartment and business. Suddenly broke, betrayed, and humiliated, Margaux returns to her hometown,
the small, coastal town of Crescent Cove, CT. Margaux just wants to be left alone, but friends and family have
different plans. Encouraged by her widowed mother and challenged by her childhood friends, Margaux begins to
design a new line of clothes, gradually regaining her place in the world of fashion. Meanwhile, Nick Prescott left
his job as a college professor to return home to care for his nephew Connor, taking the role of interim police chief
in Crescent Cove while he tries to sort out Connor’s troubles after the loss of Nick’s brother in Iraq. Just when he
is finally settling in to his new role in the town he never thought he would come back to, he stops Margaux for
speeding. Nick recognizes her immediately; she was the beautiful girl who summered at the beach and never
noticed the “townie” boy. But he’s no longer a boy, and he’s no longer content to love her from afar. A chance to
return to New York as a top designer threatens Margaux’s new-found happiness, and Margaux must make the
most important decision of her life. Similar to Jane Green’s The Beach House or Kristin Hannah’s The Things We
Do for Love, Shelley Noble’s debut novel is a story about broken dreams, new beginnings, and the power of love
to transform what we might have been into what we can become. William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 368 pages
Galley available
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O’Donnell, Lisa
*THE DEATH OF BEES
"The most compelling and incredible piece of writing I’ve come across in years.” – Helen Fitzgerald, author of
Dead Lovely
A stunning debut novel from award-winning screenwriter Lisa O’Donnell. Fifteen-year-old Marnie and her younger
sister Nelly have just finished burying their parents in the back garden. Only they know what happened, although
Lennie, the old guy living next-door, has taken a sudden interest in his two young neighbors. He realizes they are
alone, and need his help. Soon, their friends, and neighbors, and the authorities—not to mention the local drug
dealer, who’s been sniffing around for their father—start asking questions. As one lie leads to another, darker
secrets about Marnie’s family come to light, making things even more complicated. Written with fierce sympathy
and beautiful precision, and told in three strong narrative voices, THE DEATH OF BEES is an enchanting and
grimly comic tale of three lost souls who, unable to answer for themselves, can answer only for each other. Lisa
O’Donnell won the Orange Prize for Screenwriting for her screenplay, The Wedding Gift, and has been shortlisted
for numerous others. Harper
Rights sold: Italy/Newton Compton; UK/Vintage
Publication: March 2013
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available
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O’Reilly, Sean
PIXIES
Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tony Bancroft, the mastermind behind The Lion King, PIXIES is a
luscious graphic novel—the story of lonely Joe Beck, a walking accident looking for love, and the meddling pixies
controlling his life. Joe Beck is plagued with bad luck. His alarms never go off in the morning. His bathroom drain
is always clogged, his toothbrush always breaks, and he frequently slips in the shower. On a regular day, Joe
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trips, walks into walls, and breaks things he touches. He’s a buffoon at the family business and his social life is
non-existent. So what did Joe do to deserve this bad luck? The answer lies with a tribe of pixies, sprightly,
mischievous creatures, responsible for the unfortunate events that define his every day. This beautifully illustrated
graphic novel chronicles Joe’s attempt to live a normal life, to win the heart of the woman he loves, to find out the
source of the pixies’ aggression and compose himself to overtake it. Sean O’Reilly is the founder and C.E.O. of
Arcana Studio, Canada’s largest comic book company. He is the author of THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, and the
creator of a number of highly successful comics including KADE and EZRA, whose characters have been used in
more than 250,000 comics and books, and published in eleven countries. Sean lead Arcana to win the Joe
Shuster Award for Outstanding Publisher, and to be nominated for a Harvey Award in its first year, a feat unheard
of in the quarter century tenure of the award. Harper Design
Publication: January 2013
Estimated length: 136 pages; four-color throughout
Sample material available
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Phillips, Susan Elizabeth
*THE GREAT ESCAPE
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Susan Elizabeth Phillips delivers a brand new, hilarious
romance and sequel to CALL ME IRRESISTIBLE. Lucy Jorik is the daughter of the former President of the United
States. She’s been on the run ever since the day of her wedding—the wedding she didn’t go through with to the
fiancé who eventually married her best friend. Lucy accepts a ride from an incredibly handsome, mysterious
stranger on a motorcycle, and begins a new phase of life that she never expected. William Morrow
UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: The Axelrod Agency
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Saul, Jamie
THE FIRST WARM EVENING OF THE YEAR: A Novel
Critical acclaim for LIGHT OF DAY:
“An intellectual thriller laced with subtle clues throughout its gracious prose.” —Chicago Tribune Books
“An exhilarating emotional roller-coaster ride. There’s some powerful writing at work here, the rare kind able to pull
you smack-dab into somebody else’s damaged psyche. . . . Light of Day is one of those debut novels that delivers
the goods with style and compassion.” —Washington Post Book World
“An emotional novel about a man whose future has been altered by an unthinkable tragedy.” —Denver Post
From the author of the critically acclaimed LIGHT OF DAY, comes a compelling new novel that explores the
complex, intricate relationships between siblings; the loss for the passions of life, and how those passions can be
rekindled; and that true love can be discovered in the most unexpected places. When Geoffrey Tremont is asked
to be the executor to the estate of Laura Wells, a college friend with whom he has not spoken for more than
twenty years, he obliges even though Laura leaves no explanation for her request. But as he begins to sort
through the remaining lose ends of his friend’s life in Shady Grove, NY, and encounters the people who were most
influential in her life—particularly her best friend, Marian—he finds that he is learning more about himself than
anyone else. William Morrow
LIGHT OF DAY sold: French/Calmann Levy; Polish/Muza; Portuguese in Brazil/Bertrand; Turkish/Salyangoz
Publishers
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 304 pages
Book available
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Sheehan, Jacqueline
PICTURE THIS
“Dog lovers will adore Sheehan.” —Publishers Weekly
The wonderfully evocative and poignant sequel to the runaway bestseller LOST & FOUND is perfect for fans of
smart women’s fiction with lots of heart. We return to the secluded Peek’s Island off the cost of Maine and follow
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the lives of Rocky, Tess, Melissa, Hill, and Lloyd the (not so little) dog, of course! In the wake of her husband’s
unexpected death, a grieving Rocky Pelligrino retreats to Maine, where she finds new hope, a new job, and a new
circle of friends. She also finds love, thanks to a large and very special black Lab. But just when it seems as if life
is settling down, Rocky’s world is shaken when a young girle raised in foster care claimes to be her late husband’s
daughter. LOST & FOUND sold over 350,000 copies, and this long-awaited sequel will delight fans and win new
readers. William Morrow Paperbacks
UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: The Jenny Bent Agency
LOST & FOUND sold in the UK/Ebury
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 400 pages
ARE available
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Sibley, Priscille
*THE PROMISE OF STARDUST
A nurse by training, Priscille Sibley is an exciting new talent. Her knowledge of medical issues and hospital
settings lends an authority to her writing, and like Jodi Picoult’s novels her fiction debut takes on real-life
controversial subjects. But what makes this debut stand out from the crowd is the author’s storytelling skills and
her ability to stir up her readers’ emotions. At its heart, THE PROMISE OF STARDUST is a heartbreaking love
story that will leave you in tears. When Elle McClure falls from a ladder and hits her head against a rock wall, even
her husband, Matt, who is a neurosurgeon, cannot alter the fact that Elle is brain dead.Knowing that Elle had very
strong feelings against living on life support, Matt has already agreed to let her go when he learns that she’s
pregnant. Although the odds are against him, Matt wants to try to keep Elle alive for 6+ months, hoping the
machines can keep her body functioning long enough to nourish the fetus and give it a chance at life. Matt’s
mother, however, insists that Elle would never want to be kept alive like that, and is prepared to fight her own son
in court…with Elle’s signed, living will, in hand. THE PROMISE OF STARDUST is emotionally gripping, poignant
and often heart-wrenching, but it’s also extremely sensitive, as it explores what happens when everyone – except
the victim – has a voice. It is a journey of two people that will stay with you long after you have turned the last
page. William Morrow
Rights sold: Chinese (complex characters)/Sun Color; Dutch/Sijthoff; German/Lubbe; Polish/Weltbild; Portuguese
in Brazil/Saraiva;
Publication: February 2013
Estimated length: 336 pages
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Silva, Daniel
*THE FALLEN ANGEL
“A world class practitioner of spy fiction” --Washington Post
“Elegantly paced, suble and well-informed, it’s more textured than Bond, more mojito than dry martini. If you
haven’t read Silva before, try this and then go back and read the series.” -- Daily Mail (London) on PORTRAIT
OF A SPY
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, comes another thriller of “hypnotic prose, well-drawn
characters and nonstop action” (People magazine) in an adventure that takes his enigmatic hero Gabriel Allon to
Rome. While restoring a Caravaggio masterpiece for the Vatican, Gabriel is summoned to Saint Peter’s Basilica
by Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private secretary to his Holiness Pope Paul VII, where he sees the
body of a beautiful woman, smashed and broken, beneath Michelangelo’s magnificent dome. The Vatican police
rule the death a suicidal fall, though Gabriel suspects otherwise and soon discovers that the woman had
uncovered a dangerous secret that threatens powers beyond the Vatican. An intoxicating blend of art and
intrigue, THE FALLEN ANGEL moves swiftly from the private chambers of the Vatican, to a glamorous art gallery
in St. Moritz, to the hidden alleyways of Istanbul—and finally, to a pulse-pounding climax in the ancient city of
Jerusalem, the world’s most sacred and contested parcel of land. With this new novel Silva again explores
topical, timely issues through the entertaining medium of a heart-stopping thriller, with a plot marked by twists and
turns, carefully researched, authentic logistics, and expertly-drawn, unforgettable characters. Universal Studios
has acquired screen rights to the series of bestselling books featuring Gabriel Allon. Harper
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PORTRAIT OF A SPY sold in Brazil/Sextante; Bulgaria/Hermes; China/Shanghai Dook; Croatia/Znanje;
Czech/Domino; Denmark/Cicero; Germany/Piper; Holland/Vliegende Hollander; Hungary/Ulpius Haz; Italy/Neri
Pozza; Poland/Muza; Portugal/Bertrand; Slovakia/Slovensky Spisovatel; Thailand/Nanmee; UK/HC-UK
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 432 pages
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Steinberg, Hank
*OUT OF RANGE
An action-packed debut thriller by the creator of the hit television series ‘Without a Trace’ about a wife who is
kidnapped from her car on the side of a Los Angeles freeway, with her horrified children the only witnesses. Her
husband tracks her to Eastern Europe where he discovers evidence of a background that she has kept secret
from him for years. Scintillating suspense of international intrigue and the devastating secrets in a marriage,
reminiscent of the domestic terrain of Coben and Baldacci and the espionage of Ludlum and Berenson. Film
rights were pre-empted by Paramount the day after book rights were sold. This is the first of a two-book deal.
William Morrow
Publication: June 2013
Estimated length: 352 pages
Manuscript available: June 2012
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Todd, Charles
*AN UNMARKED GRAVE: A Bess Crawford Mystery
"Todd's excellent second mystery featuring British nurse Bess Crawford smoothly blends realistic characters with
an intricate plot....Todd does a superb job of capturing the feel of the battlefield and the emotional toll taken on
those waiting back home for a loved one's return." - starred review, Publishers Weekly on AN IMPARTIAL
WITNESS
World War I nurse and amateur sleuth Bess Crawford returns in another exciting and suspenseful adventure, as
she tries to catch a devious killer. It’s the spring of 1918, and the Spanish Flu epidemic is killing soldiers and
civilians alike. Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford is in France, caring for hundreds of influenza patients, as well as
the wounded. There, she accidentally discovers concealed among the bodies waiting for the burial detail an officer
who has been murdered. What’s more, he was in her father’s former regiment and a family friend. Before she can
report the body, she falls victim to the deadly flu herself. By the time she has recovered, the murdered officer has
been buried, and the only other person who had seen the body has hanged himself. Or did he? With only her
father’s connections in the military to help her, Bess must piece together what little evidence they have to find an
elusive killer. And he already has Bess in his sights, determined to stop her before she uncovers his identity.
Charles Todd is the author of the Bess Crawford mysteries, the Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries, and one standalone novel. A mother and son writing team, they live in Delaware and North Carolina. William Morrow
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 320 pages
Galley available
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Walter, Jess
BEAUTIFUL RUINS: A Novel
“Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.”- Richard Russo, author of That Old Cape
Magic and Empire Falls
“Well constructed….quirky and entertaining tale of greed, treachery, and love.” – Publishers Weekly
“This is a blockbuster, with romance, majesty, comedy, smarts, and a cast of thousands. There’s lights, there’s
camera, there’s action. If you want anything more from a novel than Jess Walter gives you in Beautiful Ruins,
you’re getting thrown out of the theater.” —Daniel Handler, author of Why We Broke Up and creator of
Lemony Snicket
“Walter’s newest book will have readers marveling at his imagination and spot-on characters…The pop-culture
references and wistful tone will please Nick Hornby fans…Not to be missed.” - Library Journal
Jess Walter, bestselling author of THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF THE POETS, delivers his funniest, most romantic,
and most purely enjoyable novel yet. This is the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in
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1962…and resurfaces fifty years later in contemporary Hollywood. As rumors begin to trickle out about chaos on
the set of the multimillion-dollar epic Cleopatra, a blonde American starlet—beautiful, mysterious, said to be
dying—appears at the Hotel Adequate View, a failing hotel on the Italian coast. A short time later, a fast-talking
young publicist shows up—and, with him, the roguish Richard Burton, rapacious with drink. Pasquale Tursi, the
young proprietor of the hotel, has no idea what to make of the publicist or of Burton. He only knows that he has
fallen—hopelessly, haplessly—in love with the starlet. Fifty years later, the story begins again on a studio lot in
Hollywood—when an elderly man shows up at the office of the publicist, now a legendary producer, asking after
the mysterious starlet who came to his hotel fifty years earlier. What unfolds is a dazzling rollercoaster of a novel,
full of Walter’s trademark unforgettable characters. Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, THE BEAUTFIUL
RUINS is pure Jess Walter—a novel full of flawed yet utterly relatable people, all of them reaching toward some
impossible goal. Harper
Rights sold: UK/Viking Penguin; France/10/18;
THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF THE POETS sold in France/10/18; Germany/Heyne; Italy/Ugo Guanda; Korea/Bada;
Poland/Sonja Draga; Spain/Urano; UK/Viking
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 338 pages
ARE available
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Weller, Sam and Mort, Castle
*SHADOW SHOW: All New Tales in Stories of Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America’s most
beloved authors. Editors Sam Weller and Mort Castle have collected twenty-seven original short stories written by
the most celebrated authors today to honor Ray Bradbury and his contribution to the literary canon. Each
contributor was inspired by the legendary work of Ray Bradbury, including Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Joe
Hill, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Alice Hoffman, Kelly Link, Dean Koontz, Robert McCammon, Audrey
Niffenegger, and many others. Sam Weller is Ray Bradbury’s authorized biographer, and author of THE
BRADBURY CHRONICLES. Mort Castle teaches writing and is a published short story author. William Morrow
Paperbacks
UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: Judith Ehrlich Literary Management
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 368 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Wicker, Marcus
*MAYBE THE SADDEST THING
A winner of the 2010 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by award-winning poet D.A. Powell, Wicker’s work
perpetuates NPS’s tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from new and emerging poets. “Maybe the Saddest
Thing” refers to a speaker’s obsessive impulse and willingness to interrogate everything. “Everything,” in this
case, constitutes poems which ask, “In observing the world have I forgotten how to live in it?” Wicker tackles the
topical stuff of masculinity, identity and desire. Particularly important to this collection is a speaker’s ever-shifting
voice – one foot wandering the academy, the other planted firmly on the blacktop of contemporary culture.
Harper Perennial
Publication: November 2012
Estimated length: 80 pages
Manuscript available: May 2011
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Wolf, Dick
UNTITLED JEREMY FISK THRILLER #1
This is an adrenaline-fueled thriller in the tradition of Three Days of the Condor and Vince Flynn’s Memorial Day
from the famed creator and producer of Law & Order—the longest running scripted show in television history. In
the novel NYPD Special Agent Jeremy Fisk hunts terrorists planning a first-of-its-kind attack on New York City in
advance of the 9/11 ten year anniversary service. But each time he thinks he’s found his man—the central player
in the conspiracy—he realizes his opponents are smarter and more agile than any we have faced before; that they
have discovered yet another weakness in our defense and are anticipating his every move. With its ingenious
plotting surprises and high-wire drama, this is the novel Dick Wolf was born to write and a debut of the highest
caliber. William Morrow
UK rights: HarperCollins; Translation: Richard Abate at 3 Arts Entertainment
Publication: January 2013
Estimated length: 350 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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AVON
Bernard, Jennifer
*THE FIREMAN WHO LOVED ME (May 2012)
*HOT FOR FIREMEN (August 2012)
Firemen are hot! These are the first two installments in the brand new steamy Bachelor Fireman of San Gabriel
series. Everyone knows firemen are heroes, but the firemen of legendary San Gabriel Station 52 have something
extra special. It’s not just their striking good looks or daring feats of courage, but all them are single making them
the only all-bachelor fire station. Captain Brody, who has been badly burned by his ex-wife, orders his star
firemen to participate in a bachelor auction, but little does he know he’ll be the one to lose his heart. Melissa
McGuire, a brainy local news producer, can’t believe she’s being set up by her grandmother, who bid on a date
with a fireman at the auction. She prefers the artsy type, not a tough and commanding man, but sparks fly and
leave readers wondering if the Chief is the first bachelor to succumb to love. In HOT FOR FIREMEN, a young
woman is intent on burning down her family’s failing tavern, not knowing the new bartender she hired is a
professional firefighter. Can a fireman and a wannabe firebug ever manage to get along? Author Jenny Bernard
is a graduate of Harvard and a former news producer. This is her first series for Avon Books. Avon
Category: Contemporary Romance
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Boyle, Elizabeth
*ALONG CAME A DUKE
The first in a new, clever, highly witty series by New York Times bestselling and Rita Award-winning author
Elizabeth Boyle. In order to avoid the Curse of Kempton, the young ladies of this town never marry. But Tabitha
Timmons learns she is to inherit a fortune if she marries her deceased uncle’s god-nephew. This reluctant bride
(and test case) is soon off to London to meet her unknown intended. The rakish Duke of Preston has taken
refuge on a stormy night in the same inn as Tabitha, and the two share an impetuous kiss. When they reunite in
London he is shocked to learn she is engaged, and she is just as furious to learn he is actually a duke. They
cannot deny their attraction for each other, and it is up to Preston to convince Tabitha that he is the perfect
bridegroom to end the Kempton curse. Avon
The Bachelor Chronicle series sold: Holland/DeVrijbuiter; Japan/Ohzora; Russia/AST; Turkey/Epsilon
Category: Historical Romance
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Carlyle, Liz
ONE TOUCH OF SCANDAL (October 2010)
THE BRIDE WORE SCARLET (August 2011)
*THE BRIDE WORE PEARLS (July 2012)
Passion and secrets simmer behind the elegant façade of Victorian London in New York Times bestselling author
Liz Carlyle’s deliciously intriguing novel featuring the dangerous men of the mysterious St. James Club. Anais de
Rohan poses as the new bride to one of the St. James Society’s most magnetic and ruthless leaders, Lord
Bessett, to prove herself worthy of joining this secret all-male society. She daringly agrees to travel with the
nobleman on a dangerous mission, and she quickly realizes that the intimacy of sharing Lord Bessett’s bedroom is
proving a temptation impossible to resist. Bessett himself might be a soldier sworn to the Society, but he isn’t
anyone’s saint. Avon
ONE TOUCH OF SCANDAL sold: Japanese/Hayakawa; Poland/BIS; Russia/AST; UK (large print)/AudioGo
Category: Victorian Romance
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Callen, Gayle
*RETURN OF THE VISCOUNT
From USA Today bestselling author Gayle Callen, the exciting first chapter in an intriguing new series about a
soldier with a debt to pay and a lady on a quest to unravel her family’s secrets. Consumed by guilt over his
commanding officer’s death, Viscount Michael Blackthorne promises to care for the man’s family. When he sends
a letter to the officer’s daughter, Lady Cecilia Malory, offering help, she asks for a proxy marriage, so she can
access her own fortune to help the estate. Believing Michael to be as old as her father, Cecelia is surprised when
her “husband,” a young, vibrant man, appears at her door. Both harbor secrets that neither wants to reveal, and
when accidents begin to happen, Cecilia suspects Michael is the culprit. As they try to unravel a mystery, they
face danger lurking in every corner. When they get closer to the truth, the two succumb to the most mysterious
danger of all -- love. Avon
NEVER DARE A DUKE sold in Brazil/Nova Cultural; Holland/DeVrijbuiter; Norway/Schibsted; Spain/Via Magna;
Russia/AST
Category: Victorian Romance
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Cooper, Karina
BLOOD OF THE WICKED (June 2011)
LURE OF THE WICKED (July 2011)
ALL THINGS WICKED (February 2012)
*SACRIFICE THE WICKED (October 2012)
In this richly drawn and atmospheric debut paranormal romance series sworn enemies must join forces as they
race toward a goal that may mean death for one of them, set in an alternate Earth forever changed by mass
catastrophes. In SACRIFICE THE WICKED, a woman at the top of the power heap finds herself fighting to the
death against those she used to call allies. Director Parker of Sector Three is in a new position – the hunter has
become the hunted. After stealing a classified file from her Mission, a warrant is out for her arrest The only one
who can help her is Agent Simon, a man of questionable loyalties and a serious hidden agenda. Simon is doing
his best to keep Parker alive, not knowing who is hunting them. Their instant attraction binds them, and they
should be an unstoppable force. But there are enemies at play that are threatening to crack the whole world wide
open…and no sacrifice is too great in order to bring this nightmare to an end . Avon
BLOOD OF THE WICKED sold in Germany/Ullstein
Category: Paranormal Romance
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Cooper, Karina
*TARNISHED: The St. Croix Chronicles
Karina Cooper delivers the first in a brand new sexy series featuring fearless heroine Cherry St. Croix, debutante
by day, bounty hunter by night, set in an alternate London where the morals of the Victorian era mix with a seedy
underbelly teeming with dubious loyalties, advanced technology, and magic. Orphaned by the death of her
parents, raised in a circus until she was found by her guardian, and kept contained in the rigorously defined
structure of Society, Cherry rebels by living two lives. In one, she attends Society functions and soirees. In the
other, she is Miss Black, a bounty collector that stalks the fog-choked streets below London proper in search of
extra coin to feed a dangerous habit. A rash of killings put her at odds with powerful entities who run things below.
She must decide where to turn her attentions: to the daylight world, where her curious mind sets her apart from
respectable Society, or to the compelling domain of the Midnight Menagerie. Each has a man who has claimed
her time—for good or for ill. As the corpses pile up, and the treacherous waters of Society gossip churn, Cherry
soon learns that each also has its dangers. One choice will see her cast from polite company, and the other might
just see her dead. Avon
BLOOD OF THE WICKED sold in Germany/Ullstein
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Category: Paranormal Romance
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 352 pages
Manuscript available
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Frost, Jeaniene
*ONCE BURNED: A Night Prince Novel (April 2012)
Untitled #2 (February 2013)
New York Times bestselling author Jeaniene Frost launches a brand new series featuring a beloved character
from her Cat & Bones books, in which the Night Prince, Vlad Tespesh, takes on evil with the help of a beautiful
mortal with terrifying powers of her own. Unmatched in his pyrokinetic and mindreading abilities, Vlad has
protected his line and his realm since long before he was turned into a vampire. Ever since the only woman he
loved perished, he focuses his energy on crushing those who threaten his people….until he encounters a beautiful
mortal with power to match his own. Leila was struck by lightning, and emerged with a power she doesn’t
understand. With a single touch she can channel electricity and learn a person’s darkest secrets. She refuses to
use her abilities until she discovers a plan for murder. Captured by rogue vampires who want to use her against
Vlad, Leila knows he is the only one who can save her. Avon
Rights sold: German/Blanvalet
HALFWAY TO THE GRAVE sold: Brazil/Nova Seculo; Bulgarian/IBIS; Chinese (complex)/King-In; Czech/Fantom
Press; French/Bragelonne; German/Blanvalet; Hungarian/Ulpius-Haz; Indonesian/Pustaka Zahra; Italian/Fanucci;
Norwegian/Schibsted; Polish/Mag Josek Rodek; Russian/Azbooka; Spanish/Ed. B; Thai/Nokhook;
Turkish/Artemis; UK/Orion
Category: Paranormal Romance
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Grace, Sable
ASCENSION: A Dark Breed Novel (May 2011)
BEDEVILED: A Dark Breed Novel (January 2012)
CHOSEN: A Dark Breed Novel (September 2012)
Fans of Jeaniene Frost will love this exciting new dark paranormal series in which the Dark Breeds (Vampyre,
demons, shape-shifters) war with mortals, and one woman stands between them in a fight for survival. The Order
has failed, the dark god has risen, and this is the final battle. The war between earth and hell is coming to a head
as Kyana, Ryker and the Order of Ancients face the resurrected dark god, Cronos. He’s planning to reclaim his
throne as the God of Gods, raising an army of the dead, and declaring war on Olympus and the people Kyana
cares about most. Among Cronos’s army are monsters from Kyana’s past, and she is at the top of their hit list.
She needs to summon her newly acquired powers faster than she’d ever imagined because for the first time
Kyana has fallen in love, and she’ll let nothing get in her way . War has never been more personal. Avon
Category: Paranormal Romance
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Heath, Lorraine
SHE TEMPTS THE DUKE (February 2012)
*LORD OF TEMPTATION (October 2012)
From New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath, a passionate new series about three dark and
dangerous men determined to reclaim their birthright. One is raised on the streets, one is hardened by a life at
sea, and one is toughened by regimental service…but each will discover that nothing they endured prepared them
to be brought to their knees by love. They are the Lost Lords of Pembrook. In LORD OF TEMPTATION, Lord
Tristan Easton can navigate the world, but even after his brother reclaims the family title and estate, Tristan
remains lost and unable to connect with his brothers, until an exquisite woman hires him to provide passage to
see her fiance. Lady Anne Hayworth has mourned for two years since she received word that her fiance was
killed. To move on with her life, she must say goodbye to him, and hires the infamous Captain Jack Crimson to
take her to him. The irritating captain flirts with her, tempts her, and offers her pleasure she’s never known
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existed. But Crimson is the sort of man she’ll never have, and she’ll never see again. During the first ball of the
Season, Anne is introduced to the dashing and very familiar Lord Tristan Easton, and he is determined to make
her his wife – even if he must destroy her reputation to do it. Avon
IN BED WITH THE DEVIL sold in Holland/DeVrijbuiter;
Norway/Schibsted; Spain/Planeta; Turkey/Pegasus Yayincilik
Category: Victorian Romance
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
Indonesia/Pustaka
Zahra;
Japan/Ohzora;
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Heath, Lorraine
PASSIONS OF A WICKED EARL (November 2011)
PLEASURES OF A NOTORIOUS GENTLEMAN (December 2011)
WAKING UP WITH THE DUKE (November 2012)
New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath wraps up her series about London’s Greatest Lovers, the titled
and rakish sons of a scandalous Dowager Duchess and their tales of passion, pleasure and love with WAKING
UP WITH THE DUKE. The Duke of Ainsley, known for his talents in the bedchamber, is stunned when his longtime friend, the Marquess of Walfort, asks him to get his wife with child. During a night of debauchery with
Ainsley, Wolfort was paralyzed in an accident and his wife, Jane, has never forgiven him for his role in the
accident. Very much wanting a child, she reluctantly agrees to spend one month with Ainsley under her own
terms. As the days and nights follow, she discovers a man with the ability to make her feel alive again and comes
to realize a love far greater than any she has ever known. Avon
Rights sold: Norwegian/Schibsted
PASSIONS OF A WICKED EARL sold in Holland/DeVrijbuiter; Indonesia/Pustaka Zahara; Norway/Schibsted
Category: Victorian Romance
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Laurens, Stephanie
*THE LADY RISKS ALL
A stand-alone romance from #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Stephanie Laurens. She
is Miranda Clifford, a spinster of good family who has been brought up to believe that respectability is all. He is
Neville Roscoe (not his real name) who is, as far as all of society knows, the king of London’s gambling world. In
short, he’s not the sort of man she should even be seen with, much less get involved with. Avon
Rights sold: Australia/HC Australia; UK/Piatkus
Category: Regency Romance
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 400 pages
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Laurens, Stephanie
VISCOUNT BRECKENRIDGE TO THE RESCUE (September 2011)
IN PURSUIT OF MISS ELIZA CYNSTER (October 2011)
THE CAPTURE OF THE EARL OF GLENCRAE (February 2012 - #1 NYTimes Bestseller)
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Stephanie Laurens delivers a new stand-alone series
about three Cynster sisters who have been holding out for their heroes, but those heroes have yet to present
themselves. The eldest sister decides to actively search in places she hasn’t yet ventured. Her first excursion
precipitates the action that runs through all three books, culminating in a huge triple wedding. Set in the wilds of
Scotland, these promise to be three irresistible stories of romance played out against the dramatic and
emotionally-rich background of the Regency. Avon
VISCOUNT BRECKENRIDGE sold in Australian/HC-Australia; Russia/AST; UK/Piatkus
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THE UNTAMED BRIDE sold in ANZ/HC-ANZ; Czech/Baronet; Germany/Blanvalet; Indonesia/PT Gramedia;
Italy/Mondadori; Japan/Gentosha; Poland/BIS; Norway/Schibsted; Russia/AST; Thailand/Crystal Pub; UK/Piatkus
Category: Regency Romance
Estimated length: 384 pages
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Linden, Caroline
ONE NIGHT IN LONDON (September 2011)
BLAME IT ON BATH (March 2012)
*THE WAY TO THE DUKE’S HEART (September 2012)
A breathtaking historical romance series about three brothers on a quest to restore their family name, seek their
fortunes—and find love. Charles de Lacey, Lord Gresham, is in the middle of a messy scandal that could strip
him of his title and his fortune. After years of pleasure-seeking, he suddenly finds himself required to track down a
blackmailer, discover the truth about his father’s first marriage, and defend his right to a dukedom from a grasping
relation. Not knowing where to start, a tart-tongued beauty inadvertently leads him to the possible blackmailer.
Tessa Neville is a businesswoman, and she gets off on the wrong foot with Lord Gresham, who follows her across
England. He befriends her companion, makes her laugh, and sees the darkest secrets in her heart. Tessa knows
he is the wrong sort of man for her, but the thought of losing him makes her heart break. Avon
ONE NIGHT IN LONDON sold in Holland/DeVrijbuiter; Indonesia/PT Elex Media; Russia/AST
Category: Regency Romance
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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MacLean, Sarah
A ROGUE BY ANY OTHER NAME (February 2012)
*ONE GOOD EARL DESERVES A LOVER (December 2012)
“Sinfully delicious! A ROGUE BY ANY OTHER NAME swept me away into the gaming hells of London and
captured my imagination from page one.” – Fresh Fiction
“A ROGUE BY ANY OTHER NAME has everything readers have quickly come to expect from MacLean: Flawless
writing, charming characters, sizzling passion and a delightful story that ensnares a reader's interest from the first
moment and refuses to let go until the final page - if then.” — McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The second book in New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean’s Rule of Scoundrels/Fallen Angels series
featuring four dark heroes that will steal the hearts of their heroines and readers alike! Lady Philippa Marbury is
the bespectacled, brilliant, bluestockinged fifth daughter of the Marquess of Needham and Dolby, and she cares
more for books than for balls. Pippa is nearly engaged to Lord Castleton, a man with a large estate and little
sense, but she doesn’t mind the idea of living in the country with her books and never see another London season
again. But before she heads off for the country, she wants to experience a tryst in London’s darker corners and
approaches Cross, the tall, charming, quick-witted bookkeeper of The Fallen Angel, a notorious gaming hall.
Legendary with the ladies, Cross seems perfect for Pippa’s scheme. Little does she know, he hasn’t been with a
woman in nine years. When this unexpected female propositions him, it’s more than tempting, and it will take
everything he has to resist following his instincts. Avon
A ROGUE BY ANY OTHER NAME sold in Poland/Amber; Spain/Versatil; UK/Piatkus
Category: Regency Romance
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Maxwell, Cathy
*LYON’S BRIDE: The Chattan Curse (May 2012)
*SCOTTISH WITCH: The Chattan Curse (November 2012)
“Delightful….Perfect for new romance readers.” -- Publishers Weekly
New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell delivers the first two books in the brand new The Chattan
Family Curse series. If a member of the Chattan family falls in love, they are cursed to die, but that doesn’t stop
the Chattans from tempting fate. In LYON’S BRIDE, the proud, determined—and cursed—Lord Lyon is in need of
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a bride. But falling in love can be fatal, so he wants a woman he cannot love. He hopes by producing a son
without love, he can break the curse’s chain. The beautiful Thea Martin is a duke’s headstrong, errant daughter
and society’s most brilliant matchmaker. Years ago, she and Lyon were inseparable until he disappeared from
her life. Now, she is charged with finding Lyon’s bride—a woman he cannot love for a man that she could love too
well. In SCOTTISH WITCH, Colonel Lawrence Chatan’s brother seeks the help of a witch in a village in Scotland,
hoping she’ll break the curse. Portia Maclean knows nothing about being a witch, but if posing as one will enable
her to save her manor house, she will do it. Portia wasn’t expecting Lars to be so handsome and charming, and
when love takes hold they are both powerless against it. Avon
Category: Regency Romance
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Pettersson, Vicki
THE TAKEN: Celestial Blues
New York Times bestselling author Vicki Pettersson begins a new supernatural noir mystery series featuring a
fallen angel and a reporter. Fallen angel Griffin Shaw is a Centurion, and he assists other murdered souls into the
afterlife. Haunted by the mysterious events surrounding his own death, he seizes a chance to seek out his own
vengeance when he is sent to witness the murder of Katherine Craig. Together, the pair investigate a series of
murders in Las Vegas and uncover a conspiracy, but Griffin is finding Katherine’s mortal charms hard to resist.
Mixing mystery, urban fantasy, and sizzling romance between a tough reporter and a fallen angel, this is sure to
appeal to fans of Jeaniene Frost and Danielle Trussoni. Harper Voyager
THE TASTE OF NIGHT sold: French/Interdite; German/Blanvalet; Turkish;Pegasus; UK/HarperCollins
Category: Paranormal Romance
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 400 pages
Galley available
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Ranney, Karen
A SCOTTISH LOVE (December 2011)
*A SCANDALOUS SCOT (July 2012)
In the second book in a new series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Ranney, we
meet Morgan, returning home after four years. In that time, his father died, he married, and then shockingly
divorced his wife. Jean MacDonald is a maid at Ballindair Castle, Morgan’s home. Morgan and Jean clash
immediately, but Morgan soon discovers how easy it is to talk to Jean. Surprisingly, Morgan decides to marry
Jean, even though she is against it. Her sister Catriona is not happy about Jean becoming a countess, and
creates havoc at Ballindair. Catriona runs away with Morgan’s friend, necessitating that Morgan and Jean go after
her. Upon the death of a beloved member of Ballindair’s staff, Jean reveals all about her past to Morgan, knowing
that she will have brought greater scandal to his name than any divorce. But Morgan has other ideas, and
decides there really will be a scandal unless she marries him. Avon
SOLD TO A LAIRD sold in Holland/DeVrijbuiter; Italy/Mondadori; Norway/Schibsted; Russia/AST; Thailand/Crystal
Category: Historical Romance
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Rice, Lisa Marie
*HEART OF DANGER
The first in a sizzling, erotic, and heart-stopping new series about three members of the Ghost Ops, a super secret
military team who disappeared without a trace, only to reemerge for the ultimate battle and find strength equal to
their own in the women they love. Tom McEnroe, a super elite soldier, is betrayed by his commanding officer, and
trapped in a high tech lair. When a beautiful woman finds him he doesn’t know whether to kiss her, or kill her. Dr.
Catherine Young is on a mission, propelled by forces beyond her control to find a man who has disappeared,
bearing a deadly message for him. Catherine has a gift that allows her to see into the heart of others. But looking
into McEnroe’s heart is like looking into the heart of danger itself. Avon Red
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UK, Spanish and Japanese rights: HC-USA; All other rights: Ethan Ellenberg Agency
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available
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Sparks, Kerrelyn
WANTED: UNDEAD OR ALIVE (May 2012)
*WILD ABOUT YOU (December 2012)
New York Times bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks delivers the next two installments in her witty Love at Stake
series about a band of good vampires who find true love while fighting the Malcontents. In WANTED: UNDEAD
OR ALIVE, a vamp and a werewolf go undercover at a dude ranch with sizzling results. Phineas McKinney may
be young in vamp years, but he’s seen enough of the Malcontents’ handiwork to know he’ll risk anything to stop
them. He infiltrates their inner circle by going undercover at a Wyoming dude ranch with the one woman he can’t
help but want, but knows she’ll never have him. Brynley Jones, a werewolf and daughter of a powerful rancher,
knows she’s perfect for this mission, but she’s furious to have to team up with a vampire. But when they uncover
danger from her past, they discover a passion that can’t be ignored. In the next book, a warrior finds passion and
a second chance at love with the woman who just may be the key to his survival. Avon
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE VAMPIRE sold in Brazil (audio)/ Book Records; Bulgaria/Tiara; Canada
(French)/Editions ADA; China (complex)/Treetype; Germany/Cora; Italy/Delos; Indonesia/Pustaka Zahra;
Japan/Hara Shobo; Poland/Amber; Russia/AST; Thailand/Crystal; Turkey/Artemis
Category: Paranormal Fiction
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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Staub, Wendy Corsi
*NIGHTWATCHER (September 2012)
*SLEEPWALKER (October 2012)
*SHADOWKILLER (July 2013)
With back-to-back publications, Wendy Corsi Staub begins a heart-stopping, timely new trilogy about what
happens when terror strikes close to home. In NIGHTWATCHER, the horror of 9/11 is all too real. Allison Taylor
returns to her NYC apartment after a fruitless search with her neighbor Mack, desperate for word of his wife.
Allison thinks nothing of the man she glimpses leaving the building, until she learns her upstairs neighbor has
been murdered. A serial killer is on the loose in the newly terrorized city and Allison is the only one who can
identify the murderer, as long as she doesn’t become his next victim. In SLEEPWALKER it is ten years after 9/11,
and Allison and Mack are married. As they approach the ten-year anniversary of the terror attacks, the
Nightcrawler killer weighs on them both. Mack’s insomnia has driven him to sleepwalk, with no memory of where
he’s been and what he’s done. When women start dying, a connection to the victims emerges and that
connection is Mack. Desperate to prove Mack’s innocence, and terrified she might be next, Allison must decide if
she can trust her heart or if this time she trusted the wrong man. Avon
UK rights: HC-USA; Translation: Curtis Brown
Category: Suspense
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Stone, Juliana
*WICKED ROAD TO HELL (April 2012)
*KING OF THE DAMNED (December 2012)
The first two books in a spin-off series from Juliana Stone, which comprises of supernatural beings of all shapes
and species. In WICKED ROAD TO HELL, vampire Ana comes back from the dead with vengeance on her
mind—and magician Declan in her heart. For millennia the struggle between light and dark has been policed by a
secret group of warriors culled from every fabric of existence. If they fail to keep one realm from overpowering
another, the world will fall apart. Rescued from a certain death, Ana is now beholden to a group with very murky
motives. When Declan makes a reappearance in her life, she doesn’t know if she should kiss him or kill him. The
magician has secrets, and she’s drawn deeper into his world, the fate of which is uncertain. Avon
HIS DARKEST HUNGER sold in Thailand/Kaewkarn
Category: Paranormal Romances
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available
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BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR
Albright, Madeleine
PRAGUE WINTER: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
“[A]bsorbing… Showing villainy, heroism, and agonizing moral dilemmas, Albright’s vivid storytelling and
measured analysis bring this tragic era to life.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review
“No reader will close [Albright’s] memoir unmoved.” – Booklist, starred review
“[T]he unconventional—the personal—animates and brightens [PRAGUE WINTER].” - Kirkus Reviews
From one of the international community’s most respected and fascinating figures comes a deeply personal
memoir and incisive work of historical analysis of twelve turbulent years in world history. Before she turned twelve,
Madeleine Albright’s life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Battle of Britain, the attempted
destruction of European Jewry, the allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold
War. The experiences of a young Albright and her family provide a lens through which to view the most
tumultuous dozen years in modern history. Drawing on her memory, her parents’ written reflections, interviews
with contemporaries, and newly-available documents, she reveals a historical narrative that is by turns harrowing
and inspiring. The years 1937-1948 witnessed the destruction of one world and its replacement by another.
Albright reflects on the contemporary relevance of the moral choices confronted by statesmen and average
citizens in this era, including those affecting members of her own family. PRAGUE WINTER takes readers from
the Bohemian capital’s thousand-year-old castle to the bomb shelters of London, from the Terezin ghetto to the
highest councils of European and American government. Often relying on eyewitness descriptions, Albright tells
the stories of millions of ordinary citizens ripped from familiar surroundings and forced into new roles as exiles and
soldiers, collaborators and resistance leaders, victims and killers. These events of enormous complexity are
nevertheless shaped by concepts familiar to any growing child: fear, trust, adaptation, the search for identity, and
the difference between right and wrong. Madeleine Albright is the author of the New York Times bestsellers
MADAM SECRETARY, THE MIGHTY AND THE ALMIGHTY, MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT, and READ MY PINS.
She was U.S. Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001. Her distinguished career of public service includes positions
in the National Security Council and as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Harper
Rights sold: Czech/Argo; Danish/Gads Forlag; Dutch/Ambo/Anthos; German/Siedler
MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT sold: Arabic/Arab Scientific Publishers; Czech/Prah; Dutch/Ambo/Anthos;
German/Droemer; Romanian/Institutul European
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 480 pages, with b&w photos throughout
Galley available
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Allmann, Gregg
MY CROSS TO BEAR
"Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Famer Allman confronts the ghosts of his past and emerges with new insight into the familial
and artistic bonds that bound—and continue to bind—the Allman Brothers Band. . . .The author’s ability to share
his enduring guilt in the aftermath of Duane’s tragic passing is nothing less than profound. . . . As his manyfaceted memoir so effectively demonstrates, the road does, indeed, go on forever for the Allman Brothers Band. . .
. Life, love and music from one of the most influential American recording artists of the last 40 years." - Kirkus
One of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band, Gregg Allman will discuss for the first time the
unflinching story of his life in music—from the Allman Brothers, to his solo career, to his string of failed marriages,
the most publicized one to the entertainer Cher, to his struggles with drugs and alcohol, detailing his rocky path to
becoming a member of classic rock royalty. From Gregg’s rough n’ tumble youth with his older brother Duane, to
the formation of the band that would go on to change the sound of rock and roll, this music legend’s stories will be
shared in the authentic and unforgettable voice of the man who lived them. From the beginning the Allman
Brothers received nearly universal praise from fans and critics alike, and yet at almost every turn, the band’s
success was met by tragedy. What began with Duane Allman’s tragic death in a motorcycle accident continued
when, a year later, bassist Berry Oakley was also killed on a motorcycle. Allman will open up about his decades
plagued by substance abuse, his illness with Hepatitis C, and his life-saving liver transplant in 2010. Allman has
been making music for almost fifty years and during that time he has recorded some of the most iconic songs in
American rock. Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, Gregg Allman continues to make music as a
solo artist and tour with the Allman Brothers Band. This year, Allman released his first solo effort in 14 years, Low
Country Blues, which debuted on the Billboard Top 200 at number 5. William Morrow
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Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 400 pages, with 70-80 color & b&w illustrations
Galley available
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Bacharach, Burt
*ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART
One of the greatest songwriters of all time, Burt Bacharach finally shares his story. From his tumultuous
marriages and the tragic loss of a child to his collaborations with Dionne Warwick and all the stories behind the
songs that generation have come to love, Bacharach offers a frank, moving account of an unparalleled life. Over
the course of his long and astonishing career, Bacharach has had seventy Top Forty hits, won three Academy
Awards, eight Grammys (including the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award), an Emmy, and been nominated for a
Tony Award. He recently received the prestigious Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, an award
previously won by Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, and Paul McCartney. Bacharach's songs have been recorded by
countless artists, Elvis Presley and The Beatles among them, but Dionne Warwick stands out with songs like Walk
on By, Don’t Make Me Over, Say a Little Prayer, Reach Out for Me, and many more. At the beginning of his
career, Bacharach toured the world for three years as the musical arranger and conductor for the legendary
Marlene Dietrich. Bacharach has composed some of the most memorable film scores of all time; written music for
the Broadway stage; produced a variety of artists of every generation in the studio, and continues to appear as a
solo performer in concerts all over the world. Having written countless songs about the never ending search for
love and the heartbreak that comes when it is lost, Bacharach's first three marriages to singer Paula Stewart,
actress Angie Dickinson, and songwriter Carole Bayer Sager ended in divorce. His long running partnership with
Hal David fell apart after they wrote the sound track for a movie that was such an artistic and commercial disaster
that the two men wound up suing one another and did not speak for seventeen years. Bacharach's daughter Nikki
committed suicide at the age of forty. Throughout it all, Bacharach has steadfastly continued to pursue his muse.
As powerful and moving as Burt Bacharach's most unforgettable songs, ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART will
provide readers with a backstage pass to a world of show business that no longer exists. It will also give them an
up close and personal look at the life of an artist whose incredible body of work has earned him a unique position
in the American cultural landscape while also providing the sound track for the lives of millions of devoted fans all
over the world. Harper
Rights sold: UK/Atlantic Books; Italian/Mondadori
Publication: March 2013
Estimated length: 320 pages; 16 page color insert
Manuscript available: July 2012
Proposal available
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Berman, Larry
*ZUMWALT: The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr.
A compelling portrait of the controversial Admiral who shaped the modern-day United States Navy. In a naval
career spanning 40 years, Zumwalt rose to the top echelon of the US Navy during a period marked by the Soviet
challenge to US supremacy on the high seas, a duplicitious end-game in Vietnam, the Watergate scandal and an
Admirals’ spy ring. What set Zumwal apart from senior officers in the Navy was his ability to enact radical change.
Zumwalt’s tenure as CNO (1970-1974) came at a time of great military crisis in the Cold War. Zumwalt’s fight to
modernize a technologically obsolescent fleet pitted him against such formidable adversaries as Henry Kissinger
and Hyman Rickover. By the time the dust settled, Zumwalt had created a more egalitarian Navy as well as a
smaller and modernized fleet better prepared to cope with the burgeoning Soviet naval threat. Despite his
achievements, Zumwalt was anguished by the unwitting role he played in his own son’s death from exposure to
Agent Orange. After he retired in 1974, Zumwalt’s final battle was spearheading a successful class action suit
against the manufactures of Agent Orange, earning him our nation’s highest civilan honor, the Presidential Medal
of Freedom. When laid to rest in January 2000 at the U.S. Naval Academy, Admiral Zumwalt’s black granite
tombstone contained one word: Reformer. Larry Berman is Founding Dean of the Honors College at Georgia
State University and the author of Planning a Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam (Norton,
1982), Lyndon Johnson’s War: The Road To Stalemate in Vietnam (Norton, 1989), No Peace, No Honor: Nixon,
Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam (Free Press, 2001) and Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan
An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent ( Smithsonian Books/Harper Collins 2007).
Harper
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Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 448 pages, 16-page b/w insert
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Brinkley, Douglas
CRONKITE
The definitive, revealing biography of an American legend—renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite—by a
bestselling American historian. Walter Cronkite, the most revered and beloved journalist of the twentieth century,
spent decades reporting from the frontlines, but until now relatively little has been known about the life of the man
who brought America its news. Based on unprecedented access to Cronkite’s private papers as well as interviews
with him before his death, Douglas Brinkley brings to life the American icon who, as anchor of CBS Evening
News, became known as the “most trusted man in America.” Born in Missouri and raised mostly in Texas,
Cronkite dropped out of college during the Great Depression and began working as a journalist and radio
broadcaster. At the height of World War II Cronkite gained recognition as a war correspondent, reporting with
Allied troops from North Africa and the invasion of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. In 1950, Edward R.
Murrow recruited him to work for CBS, where he would stay for decades, hosting numerous programs and
covering presidential elections, the space program, the war in Vietnam, and the first television broadcasts of the
Olympics. From his anchor chair, Cronkite reported on the events of each day, always closing with his signature
line “And that’s the way it was.” He was also witness—and the nation’s voice—through the most profound
moments in American history, from the Kennedy Assassination and Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 to Watergate and the
Iran Hostage Crisis. Epic, intimate, and masterfully written, CRONKITE is the much-anticipated biography of an
extraordinary American life. Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a contributing editor
at Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune has dubbed him “America’s new past master.” His most recent books are
THE QUIET WORLD, THE WILDERNESS WARRIOR, and THE GREAT DELUGE. Six of his books have been
selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Harper
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 816 pages, with two 16-page b/w photo inserts
Manuscript available
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Eldon, Kathy
IN THE HEART OF LIFE: A Restless Soul, a Search for Meaning, and a Bond that Death Couldn't Break
After graduating from university, Kathy Eldon married a Brit and moved to London in 1969. In 1978, her husband
came to her with an opportunity that might provide the adventure and life experience she craved: they were to
move with their two young children to Kenya. There, Kathy and her husband set about raising Dan and Amy in a
life of safaris and social engagement, in a society that shaped them to be spiritual and artistic. Eldon dove into this
tumultuous new world as a journalist and writer. But this is not a romanticized paean to Africa, and TAKING
FLIGHT describes the darker aspects Eldon began to discover in her adopted homeland. Her darkest moment of
all came in 1993 when her son Dan, a twenty-two-year-old photojournalist for Reuters, was stoned to death by an
angry mob in Somalia. Eldon knew that there was no way through her grief unless she could transform it into
something positive. Her journey through grief has been deeply spiritual, and she describes how she began to
understand that Dan was ever-present in her life. An African adventure, a family saga, a spiritual journey, and
even a psychic mystery, TAKING FLIGHT is, most of all, a story of love and destiny. Kathy Eldon has worked as a
teacher, editor, journalist, and film and television producer and is the author of several previous books. She and
her daughter Amy launched Creative Visions Foundation to support “creative activists” like Dan, who use media to
inform, inspire and empower positive change. Movie rights to Dan Eldon’s story have been optioned by Julia
Roberts’ production company, and Kathy is closely involved with the project. HarperOne
Publication: March 2013
Estimated length: 304 pages; illustrations throughout
Manuscript available: June 2012
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Fitzpatrick, David
SHARP
“In Sharp, David Fitzpatrick is our tour guide for a harrowing journey from self-destructive psychosis to a cautious
re-emergence into the flickering sunshine of the sane world. Fitzpatrick writes about mental illness with the
unsparing intensity of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton but also with the hard-won self-knowledge of William
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Styron, Kay Jamison, and other chroniclers of disease, recovery, and management. While reading Sharp, I was at
turns frightened, appalled, enlightened, and overcome with sadness. Throughout I was fully engaged and, by
book’s end, reassured about the triumph of the human spirit and the healing power of a family’s patient and
abiding love. For those of us who seek a better understanding of mental illness, David Fitzpatrick’s Sharp is a
must read, remarkably told.”—Wally Lamb
A beautifully written and deeply personal memoir that takes readers into the mind of a man who was in his early
twenties when he began exhibiting symptoms of severe mental illness, including self-mutilation and deep
depression. David Fitzpatrick’s two-decade struggle began when he started to cut himself after college. In a
disturbing but inspiring account, David recounts how he overcame his dangerous and bloody addiction to slashing
himself with a razor blade. SHARP is a compelling narrative of self-examination and determination to understand
the mental forces at work preventing David from leading a normal life. It is also a tale of hope, a soul-baring quest
of a lost man who returns to himself and reclaims his life. David was born in Dearborn, Michigan, grew up in
Connecticut, graduated from Skidmore College, and earned his MFA degree from Fairfield University in 2011. He
works part-time at an auto dealership and is married to a graphic designer and fellow writer, Amy Holmes. The
New Haven Review, Barely South Review, and the now-defunct Fiction Weekly have published his works. He is
currently at work on a novel. William Morrow
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 368 pages
Galley available
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Fontaine, Claire
Fontaine, Mia
HAVE MOTHER, WILL TRAVEL: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other and the World
The bestselling authors of COME BACK return in this charming, funny memoir about the changing relationship
between a mother and her adult daughter, set against the backdrop of an unforgettable round-the-world
adventure. COME BACK chronicled Mia Fontaine’s harrowing drug addiction at the age of 15 and her mother
Claire’s desperate and ultimately successful attempts to save her. Now, a decade later, Claire and Mia are
determined to transform their lives and their relationship once again. With each of them facing a defining moment
(at fifty-one Claire is ready to shed her identity as Mia’s savior, while twenty-five-year-old Mia is ready to grow
beyond her role as recovery’s poster child), the two embark on a six-month-long round-the-world adventure.
Mission: to consciously bond as friends while also evolving as women. In an amazing journey that takes them
through twelve countries amid monkey attacks, camel rides around the pyramids, and terrifying cab trips (a feature
found across the globe); Mia comes to know her mother in the same way that Claire has always known her, as all
mothers know their daughters: better than anyone else, often better than themselves. Readers will close this book
with a deeper understanding of the mother/daughter relationship—and of themselves—seeing new possibilities for
their own lives. An author and screenwriter, Claire Fontaine has devoted time to coaching families in crisis. Mia
Fontaine, a popular motivational speaker, has written for The New York Times and works in publishing. William
Morrow
Rights sold: Polish/PWN
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available
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Jordan, Pete
IN THE CITY OF BIKES: An American Discovers Amsterdam
From Pete Jordan, author of DISHWASHER, comes a memoir of one man’s quest to find the stability to settle
down with the woman he loves and to start a family in Amsterdam, the city of bikes, all told through the insatiable
love of cycling. Jordan arrives in Amsterdam for a semester abroad to study urban planning, hoping to eventually
work towards making U.S. cities more bicycle friendly. But once Pete sets foot in Amsterdam, he is seduced by a
city on two wheels. Pete’s wife (of just two weeks), Amy Joy, joins him, and they set about making a life for
themselves in their new adopted homeland. They struggle the first year trying to find a home and jobs. With a
baby on the way, Amy Joy eventually finds an apartment above an aging bicycle mechanic’s shop, and he
eventually turns the shop over to her. But Pete’s years of irresponsibility threaten to jeopardize their ideal homelife when he falls short on a promise to help Amy Joy run the business. Part memoir, part history, part tour of
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Amsterdam, IN THE CITY OF BIKES recounts Jordan’s initial hardships in his adopted homeland, and his passion
for cycling, with style, wit, and humor that makes for a thoroughly entertaining tale. Harper Perennial
UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation:McCormack & Williams
Publication: April 2013
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available: July 2012
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King, Rodney
*THE RIOT WITHIN: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption
Rodney King has a prominent place in American history, having become an iconic symbol of the problems of race
relations in the U.S., but has mostly stayed out of the limelight since his reluctant thrust into fame after an LAPD
beating and the subsequent explosive trial of the officers who beat him. Their acquittal caused public outrage that
raised tensions between the black community and the LAPD, increased anger over police brutality and social
inequity, and sparked a violent riot that nearly destroyed the city of Los Angeles. But it also had a positive effect-it
forced the often taboo and unspoken subject of racial conflict into the public consciousness, where it could be
discussed openly by all. But while Rodney King may be an icon, he is by no means an angel. In the years before
and since the police beating, King was involved in a robbery, struggled with drug addiction, and has had problems
with alcohol. However, he has also refused to be bitter about the crippling emotional and physical damage that
was inflicted upon him that night in 1991, and instead has resolved to lift himself out of the legacy of his
impoverished and abusive childhood to create a better life. May 2012 will mark the 20th anniversary of the L.A.
riots, the longest, most destructive urban conflict in modern U.S. history. HarperOne
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 256 pages; 16 page 4-color photo insert
Book available
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Knox, Amanda
*UNTITLED MEMOIR
Many accounts have been written of the Amanda Knox case, and countless writers and reporters have speculated
on what role, if any, was played by Knox in that tragic and terrifying sequence of events. No one has yet heard
Amanda Knox's own account of what happened, and this book will give Knox an opportunity to tell the story in full
detail, for the first time. It will be the story of a crime and a trial, but also a moving account of a young woman's
struggle to cope with a nightmarish ordeal that placed her at the center of a media storm, and led to her
imprisonment. For the very first time since her trial for murder, her four-year incarceration in Perugia, Italy, and her
appeal and acquittal of all charges, Amanda Knox will share the truth about her terrifying ordeal. Knox will give a
full and unflinching account of the events that led to her arrest in Perugia and her struggles with the complexities
of the Italian judicial system. Aided by journals she kept during her imprisonment, Knox will talk about her
harrowing experience at the hands of the Italian police and later prison guards and inmates. She will reveal never
before-told details surrounding her case, and describe how she used her inner strength and strong family ties to
cope with the most challenging time of her young life. Harper
Rights sold: French/Michel Lafon; German/Droemer; UK/HarperCollins
Publication: March 2013
Estimated length: 338 pages
Manuscript available: November 2012 (manuscript will be embargoed)
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Love, Courtney
*UNTITLED MEMOIR
For the first time, the provocative and controversial rock icon Courtney Love offers a no-holds-barred look at the
shocking and chaotic story of her life. Written with New York Times bestselling writer Anthony Bozza and featuring
exclusive photos from throughout her life, this book goes behind the scenes with one of this generation’s most
polarizing pop culture figures, sparing no one and holding nothing back. A lot has been said about Courtney Love
since she first kicked, screamed, and stormed her way onto the alternative music scene over twenty years ago. In
that time, she’s been criticized and vilified about as often as she’s been embraced and idolized, with her talent as
a musician matched only by her talent for pissing people off. Yet through it all, her story has been told by rock
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journalists and tabloids. Now she’s ready to tell it all, herself, from her rocky relationship with her hippy parents to
her time stripping to make ends meet to the truth behind her much-publicized drug abuse and recovery. Whether
it’s grunge, punk, or the red carpet, her story follows the ever-evolving world of rock music in the ‘80s and ‘90s, as
time after time she ends up on the cusp of alternative just as it’s about to go mainstream. Nothing is off limits,
including her relationships with celebrities like Billy Corgan, Trent Reznor, and Ed Norton as well as her heavilyscrutinized marriage to Kurt Cobain. But more than just a tale of rock excess and tumultuous relationships, this
book provides a window into modern rock music unlike any other, capturing how year after year Courtney has
traveled from the fringe of pop culture to the flaming center and back again. Along the way, she has reinvented
herself countless times, always managing to stay relevant without losing her edge and becoming a permanent pop
culture fascination in a world of 15-minute celebrities. In the end, her tale is the stuff of music legend--as
exaggerated as it is true--making this one of the most highly-anticipated rock memoirs of all time. Courtney Love is
a multi-platinum selling rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress. The founding member of the
alternative rock band Hole, Love has been called “the most controversial woman in the history of rock” by Rolling
Stone for her wild, rebellious persona and her music’s unapologetic attitude. A staple in the alternative music
scene for over twenty years, she now lives in New York City. William Morrow
Rights sold: Danish/Forlaget Klim/Klim Publishers; Dutch/Bruna; Finnish/Otava; German/Heyne; Italian/Mondadori
Polish/Wydawnictwo Pascal; Portuguese in Brazi/Intrinseca; Spanish/Global Rhythm; Swedish/Norstedts
Publication: November 2012
Estimated length: 464 pages, with 16-page color insert
Manuscript available: August 2012
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Miller, Carol
UP ALL NIGHT: My Life and Times in Rock Radio
Carol Miller grew up under the watchful eyes of her parents in a very traditional Jewish household in Queens. One
night, as a kid, she heard a barbershop quartet practicing in the alley under her window and fell in love with the
music. When she went to find it on the radio, her parents scolded her for having such poor taste. But it was too
late—she was hooked on popular music. At the University of Pennsylvania, the university radio station was
looking for students to help out. Carol thought she might make a good station secretary—until she got in the DJ
booth. Pursuing radio with dogged intensity and ambition, she landed increasingly high profile spots in
Philadelphia and then New York radio. Her life in radio is as star-studded as her upbringing was traditional—she’s
the first DJ to play Bruce Springsteen on the radio in New York, is asked for by name by Paul McCartney,
becomes close with Steven Tyler (until Bebe Buell attacks her in a club), Lily Tomlin shared her drugs with her
and she dated Paul Stanley, who turned out to be a nice Jewish boy from the same kind of neighborhood she
grew up in. In her inimitable voice, this story of a life in rock, will make you laugh, break your heart, and make you
wish you had spent the last 30 years like Carol Miller, spinning the best of rock for fans and friends. Carol Miller is
one of the longest-running New York radio personalities. She’s been on the air at WPLJ and WNEW, is a member
of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and hosted dozens of national and international radio shows. She has also
appeared on VH-1, ET and elsewhere. Ecco
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 272 pages; 16 page color photo insert
Manuscript available
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Nelson, Willie
*THE TROUBLEMAKER: A Story of Faith, Redemption, and Staying True to Your Deepest Beliefs
A autobiographical tale of hitting rock bottom, an outlaw’s redemption, and the true meaning of the holiday season
- told in irreverent Willie Nelson fashion and written with fellow Texas troublemaker and bestselling author Kinky
Friedman. THE TROUBLEMAKER is a wild and colorful account of Willie’s transition from struggling artist to
country folk hero. As 1971 drew to a close, it was beginning to feel a lot like Christmas in Nashville - but Willie
Nelson was not feeling jolly. With his career stalled and his second marriage on the rocks, it seemed like the only
ones who understood him were the pigs he was raising, who shared some marijuana-laced Christmas brownies
with him on the night he wrote “Crazy.” Things kept getting worse, so when Willie’s house burned down he took it
as a sign and moved to Texas. Maybe it was just a Christmas miracle, but that holiday season when Willie
confronted failure after failure, he only became more determined to stay on his own path, with his music and his
life. After the sad but life-changing Christmas of 1971, Willie set about making music his own way. Once in Texas,
he got back on the road and in the spirit of peace and togetherness, brought together hippies and rednecks as
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one audience for the first time. Willie would go on to create the “outlaw movement” with other trailblazing artists
like Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson, becoming the American folk hero he is today. As they say, the rest is
history - or as Willie says, “If you fail at something long enough, you become a legend.” Like other Christmas
books, THE TROUBLEMAKER has an inspiring, faith-based message, based on the story of how Willie Nelson
found the right path by staying true to himself, overcoming failures in his career and marriage. But unlike any other
holiday story, it features wild, colorful tales of Willie’s hijinks. Willie Nelson is one of the most popular, prolific, and
influential songwriters and singers in the history of American music. Still going strong at 78, Nelson has recorded
more than one hundred albums over six decades, appeared in several films, and written two New York Times
bestsellers: Willie: An Autobiography and The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes. William Morrow
Publication: November 2012
Estimated length: 192 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Powell, Colin with Tony Koltz
*IT WORKED FOR ME: In Life and Leadership
One of America’s most admired public figures reveals the unique lessons that shaped his life and career. Colin
Powell’s IT WORKED FOR ME is a collection of lessons and personal anecdotes that have driven the four stargeneral and former Secretary of State’s legendary career in public service. Leading off with Powell’s “13 Rules,”
culled together from scraps of paper that he accumulated at his desk and are now used in leadership
presentations throughout the world, the book sheds light on the making and success of one of our most revered
statesmen. Powell’s short-but-sweet rules, such as “Get mad, then get over it” and “Share credit,” set the tone for
the book, where he tells revealing personal stories to expand on his principles for effective leadership: conviction,
hard work, and above all, respect for others. In work and life, Powell writes, “It is the human gesture that counts.”
Powell’s writing - straightforward, accessible, and often very funny - will inspire, move, and surprise readers.
Thoughtful and revealing, his book is a brilliant and original blueprint for leadership. Colin Powell is a retired fourstar general in the United States Army and has earned numerous military honors. He has served four presidential
administrations in a variety of roles, most recently as Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. Harper
Rights sold: Korean/Samtoh Publishing
MY AMERICAN JOURNEY sold: Albanian/Besa publishing; Danish/Holkenseldt; French/Odile Jacob;
German/Piper: Italian/Mondadori; Japanese/Kadahasi Shoten; Chinese (complex)/Triumph;
Chinese(simplified)/Peoples Liberation Army Press; Korean/Samtoh; Polish/Wiedza i Zycie; Russian/MIR
Publishing; Serbian/BMG Publishing; UK/Random House UK
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 304 pages
Galley available
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Reynolds, Debbie
*UNSINKABLE
In her second memoir (the first, Debbie, My Life, was published by Morrow in 1988), Debbie reveals all the things
she couldn’t disclose in her first book, including amazing anecdotes about Elizabeth Taylor. This is a story of
heartbreak, hope, courage, and above all, survival. In 1988, Debbie’s third marriage seemed like a great success - until she discovered that her husband had his mistress stashed at the Stardust just down the street from
Debbie’s own newly opened Las Vegas hotel. She then learned that he’d embezzled all the proceeds from her
business. When she confronted him, she barely escaped with her life. For the third time, Debbie would suffer a
divorce that left her emotionally and financially bankrupt. Reynolds’s first marriage had ended disastrously in 1959
when Eddie Fisher left her for her best friend, Elizabeth Taylor. In 1973, her second marriage ended when Harry
Karl lost his vast fortune, plus all the money Debbie had earned during her long career at MGM. That one would
cost her $10 million in Harry’s gambling debts. In UNSINKABLE, Reynolds revisits the most important parts of her
life as an actress during Hollywood’s Golden Age. Since 1970, Debbie’s passion has been saving movie
costumes, including Marilyn Monroe’s white dress from The Seven Year Itch—one of the most famous costumes
in the world. After a series of unsuccessful attempts to set up a museum to house her collection, Debbie was
forced to auction off part of it. The June 2011 exhibition at the Paley Media Center in Beverly Hills was a
spectacular success that made headlines everywhere. The catalog sold out, bringing in nearly half a million
dollars. The auction grossed $22 million, with the Monroe dress breaking all records, selling for $5.6 million, and a
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second auction in December 2011 brought in millions more. At 79, Debbie continues not only to work but to thrive,
performing her one-woman show around the world as well as making regular TV appearances and writing a
weekly syndicated advice column. Her new memoir is a story of hope and survival in the face of staggering odds;
as her character in The Unsinkable Molly Brown proclaims,“I ain’t down yet.” William Morrow
Publication: April 2013
Estimated length: 320 pages; 8-page photo insert
Manuscript available: December 2012
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Rogers, Kenny
LUCK OR SOMETHING LIKE IT
For the first time, country music legend Kenny Rogers tells the story behind his legendary career, detailing his rise
through the ranks of country music to become one of the top-selling country artists of all time. For over fifty years,
Kenny Rogers has been a fixture on the American country music scene. From his career-launching string of hits
with First Edition to selling millions of records with Dolly Parton to becoming one of Nashville’s most accomplished
and beloved artists, his life in music has stretched across decades and influenced musicians around the world.
Now for the first time, this living legend is ready to share the story of his incredible rise to fame, detailing his highs,
his lows, and how he’s kept it all going throughout his most tumultuous times. With this book Rogers tells the full
story of his life, detailing the important role that his faith and his upbringing played in giving him the perseverance
he needed to get his career off the ground and how he built his reputation on hard work above all else. Featuring a
cast of characters ranging from Elvis to Dolly to Ray Charles, Rogers’ story offers a candid and eye-opening look
at the world of country music, showing how mainstream success led to crossover artistic partnerships that pushed
his musical boundaries, but forced him to go against the trends of the Nashville establishment as he combined
country music with other sounds from pop music.With behind the scenes tales from the road, the secrets behind
his biggest hits, and never before told personal stories from his life, Rogers’s life defines an era in music history
that is rapidly slipping away, a time when country music was more than just a part of pop culture-it was a way of
life. Kenny Rogers is one of country music’s most accomplished artists. One of the highest selling country music
artists of all time, his career has lasted for more than fifty years and in that time he has recorded more than 60
albums and sold tens of millions of records around the world. William Morrow
UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: Mel Berger at William Morris Endeavor
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 336 pages, 35-40 color photos
Manuscript available: April 2012
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St. Pierre, Georges
*UNTITLED
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight champion, mixed martial arts superstar, and athletic
specimen Georges St-Pierre is the near-perfect combination of three energy systems – the mind, the heart and
the feet. The mind represents the rational Georges and expresses his strategic approach in all things. The heart
shows the human side of the man and guides his actions. The feet are the physical demonstration of Georges as
one of the best hand-to-hand weapons ever made. Together they express, tangibly, the perfection of his overall
approach to martial arts and life. Divided into three sections accordingly, Georges' memoir-cum-martial arts
manifesto takes us from his childhood as a bullied outcast in French Canada to the journey into adulthood and
becoming the UFC champion of the world, to illustrate the constantly evolving, Far Eastern-inspired philosophy
that guides him in his quest to set an example for all aspiring martial artists. William Morrow
Publication: April 2013
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Solo, Hope
*SOLO: A Memoir of Hope
A candid and moving memoir about familial loss and reconciliation by the incomparable goalkeeper for the
women’s US national soccer team. Hope Solo is the best women’s goalkeeper in the world, and one of the most
charismatic athletes in America. An Olympic gold medalist, she has been a member of the U.S. national team
since the year 2000, gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated twice and ESPN: The Magazine once. At the 2011
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World Cup, she was awarded the Adidas Golden Glove by FIFA as the tournament’s top goalkeeper. Hope Solo’s
story is a cross between “The Glass Castle” and “A League of Their Own.” Her father was a philanderer and a
conman throughout her childhood. He was imprisoned on charges of embezzlement, and drifted into
homelessness before re-uniting with Hope in college. Hope brings the same non-judgmental eye to her upbringing
that Jeanette Wells brought to her acclaimed memoir. Much has been written about Hope’s close-knit relationship
with her father, who was outwardly an unconventional parental presence. Behind many successful female athletes
there’s a devoted dad and Hope was no different, only her story bends the familiar arc of that theme. He not only
taught her the game but also instilled in her the athlete’s mentality that defines her. Hope’s repeated triumphs over
adversity – from her benching during the 2007 World Cup, after the sudden death of her Dad, to her return to the
pitch after shoulder surgery -- will resonate with readers of all ages. Hope has never played it safe, which is what
makes her a fitting archetype – as an athlete and a woman – for this moment in time. Harper
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 240 pages, 16-page color insert
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Sullivan, Rosemary
*STALIN’S DAUGHTER
STALIN'S DAUGHTER will be a work of narrative nonfiction on a grand scale, one that promises to combine
popular history and biography to tell the incredible story of a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of
history's most monstrous dictators. Svetlana Stalina, who died on November 29, 2011 at the age of 85, was the
only daughter and last surviving child of Josef Stalin. Beyond her controversial defection from the Soviet Union,
Svetlana Stalina’s journey from the beloved daughter of a fierce autocrat to her death in small-town Wisconsin
could fill countless volumes. Once the young darling of her people, she was a woman controlled by a tyrannical
father who dictated her every move, once sentencing a man she loved to ten years hard labor in Siberia. After
Stalin’s death, Svetlana was shunned by the new regime. She famously defected to the United States in a cloak
and dagger journey from India. Publicly burning her passport upon her arrival in New York city, she renounced
both her father and the Soviet Union. She eventually married William Wesley Peters, Frank Lloyd Wright’s chief
apprentice, and moved to Taliesin West, Wright’s desert compound in Arizona. In the 1980s, she returned to the
Soviet Union, this time renouncing the US. She would return two years later, claiming to have been manipulated
by her homeland. A woman shaped and torn apart by her father’s legacy, she married three times and bore three
children. Svetlana Stalina died as Lana Peters in Wisconsin, where she lived out a much quieter third act.
Rosemary Sullivan is an acclaimed biographer, poet and editor. She is the author of 9 books of non-fiction,
including the award-winning VILLA AIR-BEL, which was awarded a Canadian Jewish Book Award; LABYRINTH
OF DESIRE: Women, Passion and Romantic Obsession; BY HEART: Elizabeth Smart/A Life; and the #1
bestseller THE RED SHOES: Margaret Atwood, Starting Out. Her biography of Gwendolyn MacEwen, SHADOW
MAKER, won the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award,
the City of Toronto Book Award and the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography. Sullivan’s
journalistic pieces have won her a National Magazine Awards silver medal and a Western Journalism first prize for
travelogue; her academic honors include Killam, Trudeau, and Guggenheim Fellowships. A professor of English
at the University of Toronto, Sullivan lives in Toronto. Harper
Rights sold: Czech/Albatros; Danish/Informations Forlag; Dutch/De Geus; Finnish/Otava; Polish/Znak; Portuguese
in Brazil/Globo; Russian/Astrel; Slovak/Ikar; Swedish/ Norstedts; UK/Fourth Estate
VILLA AIR-BEL sold: Czech/Mlada Fronta; Dutch/De Geus; Italian/Edizioni dell'Altana; Portuguese in
Brazil/Rocco; Spanish/Debate (imprint of Random House Mondadori); UK/John Murray Publishers
Publication: Fall 2014
Estimated length: 320 pages, 16-page color insert
Manuscript available: April 2014
Proposal Available
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ENTERTAINMENT / POP CULTURE
Aerosmith with Stephen Davis
*WALK THIS WAY: The Autobiography of Aerosmith
The New York Times bestselling autobiography of Aerosmith (originally published in 1997), the legendary rock
group that lived by the motto, “Anything worth doing was worth overdoing,” reissued in time for the band’s 40 th
Anniversary. The most candid rock ‘n’ roll autobiography ever written, WALK THIS WAY is the complete story of
Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer, five incomparable and uncompromising
musicians who pulled themselves up from nowhere to become true rock icons; who crashed and burned
spectacularly, and who rose up gloriously from the ashes to reclaim their rightful title as World Champion Rockers.
With a new afterword from the band, this gorgeous fresh package will appeal to all Aerosmith fans. !t Books
Rights sold in Finland/Like; UK/Virgin
Publication: December 2012
Estimated length: 528 pages; 6 x 9; b&w photos throughout
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Colvin, Shawn
DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH
From prolific, talented American songwriter and musician Shawn Colvin comes DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH, her
candid, colorful coming-of-age story recounting over 30 years touring, writing, and living to make music, with
plenty of behind-the-music stories along the way. During much of 1997, the song that captured the public
imagination was not your typical pop song. It was a song about a woman undone, a would-be arsonist, and
ultimately, a survivor, named “Sunny.” That song, “Sunny Came Home,” launched singer-songwriter Shawn
Colvin to stardom, after 20 years working in the music business. Like Sunny, Colvin knows a thing or two about
surviving heartache—and setting fires—and now for the first time, she tells her story. It is the coming-of-age of a
passionate young musician in the late ‘70s and ‘80s, making every mistake on the road out of small-town, prairie
South Dakota; and it is also the maturation of a woman finding her voice, and learning to care for a child as well as
herself. With perspective and humor she describes driving cross-country on tour in vans full of boys, and falling in
and out of love; making music of all genres with lifelong friends, and meeting heroes like Joni Mitchell; facing
addiction and staying sober, weathering divorce and raising a daughter on her own—and learning to channel it all
into the culmination of her talent and experience, in songwriting. Shawn Colvin’s breakthrough success was the
album A Few Small Repairs in 1996, featuring the song “Sunny Came Home,” a top 10 hit which won Grammys
for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Colvin has released ten albums, won three Grammy Awards and
been nominated for seven others. The book will coincide with the release of her new album. William Morrow
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 240 pages: b&w photos throughout
Galley available
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Folsom, Tom
*HOPPER! A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
The first definitive biography of Dennis Hopper, the multi-talented actor, filmmaker, photographer, painter, and
sculptor, and regarded by many as one of the true “enfant terribles” of Hollywood, who died at the age of 74 in
May 2010. Culled from first hand accounts, original interviews with Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, David Lynch
and others, and excerpts from Hopper’s own writings, HOPPER! follows Hopper’s ever-shifting saga of
reinvention, from his breakout role as a juvenile delinquent in Rebel Without a Cause, five decades of filmmaking,
including Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Hoosiers, Speed, and more. Hopper was a movie star,
madman, dreamer, survivor, and a pioneer on the Pop Art scene. This is an unconventional biography for an
unconventional life, a uniquely American epic of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and what lies on the other side. Tom
Folsom is a former editor at Rugged Land Books, a writer, director and producer of TV documentaries for A&E
and Showtime. He is the author of THE MAD ONES: Crazy Joe and the Revolution of the Edge of the
Underworld, and the co-author of MR. UNTOUCHABLE: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Heroin’s Teflon Don.
!t Books
Publication: February 2013
Estimated length: 352 pages; 12-20 photos
Manuscript available: May 2012
Proposal available
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Gordon-Levitt, Joseph
THE TINY BOOK OF TINY STORIES: Volume II
“With more than 40,000 participants working together….Gordon-Levitt’s hitRECord offers a creative opportunity for
fresh talent to team together and expose their art.” —Time magazine
From hitRECord and Golden Globe-nominee Joseph Gordon-Levitt comes the follow-up to the immediately
popular TINY BOOK OF TINY STORIES: Volume I, a uniquely crafted and creative collection of tiny stories, from
voices around the world. The universe isn’t made of atoms; it’s made of stories. To create THE TINY BOOK OF
TINY STORIES, Gordon-Levitt directs thousands of collaborators to tell tiny stories through words and art. With
the help of the entire creative collective, Joe culls, edits, and curates the massive numbers of contributions into
this finely tuned collection. Reminiscent of the 6-Word Memoir series and the PostSecret books, THE TINY
BOOK OF TINY STORIES brings together art and voices from around the world to unite and tell stories that defy
size. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is an actor who recently starred in (500) Days of Summer and the Academy Awardnominated Inception. He is just beginning production on The Dark Knight Rises, the third installment of
Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. He regularly hosts hitRECord events throughout the country. !t Books
All rights except Chinese: HC-USA; Chinese rights: CAA
Publication: December 2012
Estimated length: 96 pages; 4 ½ x 6 ½; b&w illustrations throughout
Manuscript available: June 2012
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Green Day
GREEN DAY
From the Grammy Award-winning punk rock band Green Day, and published in conjunction with their soon-to-beannounced 2012 album, this will be a visually stunning chronicle of the life and times of Green Day – as told by
the band itself. Green Day has sold over 65 million records worldwide. Even as Green Day’s albums continue to
be critically acclaimed and commercially viable, the inner workings of the band – their sources of creative
inspiration, their day-to-day lives, motivations, and influences – have remained relatively unknown. Lavishly
produced, GREEN DAY will contain hundreds of images that detail the band in its various incarnations on stage
and off as captured by photographer Gavin Bond, the band’s “fourth” member. The book features an intimate
introduction by the band that details the genesis of Green Day, and each chapter contains first-person accounts
by each member. Interviews with legends and contemporaries are scattered throughout, giving fans an in-depth
look at the band that made punk rock cool again. GREEN DAY isn’t just the first book to be written by the band, it
is also the biggest and boldest document ever produced on the band, by the band. Harper Design
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 192 pages; 300 color photos throughout
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Hefner, Hugh with Bill Zehme
*HEF’S LITTLE BLACK BOOK
For the first time in paperback, and with a new updated Afterword from the author, Playboy’s legendary founder
Hugh Hefner invites you into his world with this illustrated treasury of advice and maxims, and it is the only book
ever written by the iconic Hef himself! Hef reveals observations for men of all ages, teeming with the often wry
and also heartfelt wisdom of the quintessential self-made multi-millionaire cultural icon. This heavily illustrated
book has a simple and clean design, and it spans all corners of a man’s life: love, ladies, sex, work, family,
dreams, play, parties, ambition, friendship, games, competition, failure and hurt, and success and endurance.
And more, it is a sexy and stylish survival guide for men wondering how to play the role of Hugh Hefner in their
spare time. !t Books
Publication: December 2012
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Estimated length: 192 pages; 5 x 7 1/8; 2-color illustrations and full-color photos throughout
Manuscript available
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Houghtaling, Adam
THIS WILL END IN TEARS: The Miserablist Guide to Music
The first and definitive guide to melancholy music—across genres and through time—that will lead fans through
the albums and artists integral to the miserablist landscape. In A-Z format, this concise guide features the masters
of meloncholy such as Robert Johnson, Leonard Cohen, Edith Piaf, Scott Walker, Nina Simone, Miles Davis,
Morrisey, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash. This is not only a compendium of the greatest sad songs and artists of
the modern era, but will also include a collection of essays explaining the power of particular songs and artists and
a top 100 list of the saddest songs of all time. It explains what draws us to sad music, and how sad music actually
makes us happy. The author, a musician himself, plans to release an album to coincide with the publication of the
book. !t Books
UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: McCormick & Williams Literary Agency
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 368 pages
Manuscript available
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Lewis, Jerry Lee with Rick Bragg
BURN & RAVE: A Life
From rock ‘n’ roll great Jerry Lee Lewis, and co-authored with bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Rick
Bragg, this memoir promises to be as explosive as his legendary stage performances. Known for piano-driven
smash hits such as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” Jerry Lee Lewis is equally known for
a private life as wild as his stage act, from getting thrown out of Bible school (for playing his kind of music) to a
marriage to his 13-year-old cousin that nearly destroyed his career. Born into a poor family, Lewis’s parents
mortgaged their farm to buy him a piano. After being whacked by his teacher for playing his own style of music,
he quit and taught himself to play. Lewis created his style by mixing rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, gospel,
and country music. He quickly became part of the burgeoning new rock and roll sound, and began recording hits
that brought him international fame. When he went on his now legendary, then catastrophic, tour of England, the
press discovered that he had married his 13-year-old cousin Myra Brown and hounded him out of the country.
Upon returning home, he found his career in ruins and most radio stations would not play his music. In the
following years he battled financial setbacks, alcohol abuse, the early deaths of two of his children, and a rocky
sixth marriage that ended in 2005. Now a free man and a proven trend-setter who pioneered a style of music he
alone designed, Jerry Lee Lewis still tours the world and plays the piano like nobody else. !t Books
World rights excluding France, Holland, and UK (Dunow, Carlson & Lerner)
Publication: April 2013
Estimated length: 320 pages with photo insert
Manuscript: June 2012
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Meola, Eric (photographs) and Springsteen, Bruce (lyrics)
*STREETS OF FIRE: Bruce Springsteen in Photographs and Lyrics 1977-1979
“On a day like this, I remember – I’m the President, but he’s The Boss.” -- President Obama, commenting on
Bruce Springsteen, Kennedy Center Awards ceremony, 2009
From accomplished photographer Eric Meola, comes in intimate photographic look at Bruce Springsteen from
1977-1979, a period that marked a transitional time in Springsteen’s personal life and career while he created his
fourth album, Darkness on the Edge of Town. While driving up and down Jersey’s legendary Highway 9, Meola
“got” Springsteen so well that one of his shots—the image of Springsteen leaning on Clarence Clemons’ shoulderwould become the cover of the Born to Run album. This carefully curated collection of Meola’s photographs—
some of which have never been published before—offers intimate portraits that provide a window into the early
days and life of one of the world’s most legendary performers. With lyrics running through it, and a foreword by
Springsteen, STREETS OF FIRE promises to be a work of art just as memorable and moving as the album
Darkness on the Edge of Town. !t Books
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 128 pages; 12 x 12; b&w photos throughout
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Pope, Rosie
*MOMMY IQ: The Complete Guide to Pregnancy
The ultimate girlfriend’s guide to pregnancy from maternity fashion designer, pregnancy guru, and star of Bravo’s
Pregnant in Heels, Rosie Pope. Every mother-to-be wants a perfect pregnancy, but can be overwhelmed by the
mountain of advice. Enter Rosie Pope—pregnancy guru, mother of two, and maternity fashion designer. Rosie
cuts through the noise with MOMMY IQ, a reliable and relatable roadmap of the unique nine months ahead. Her
blend of charm, wit, style, and razor-sharp expertise will give women the confidence and vital information they
need to prepare and plan while enjoying pregnancy to the fullest. Rosie Pope Maternity is a high-end, renowned
maternity fashion brand. !t Books
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 288 pages; 50-60 color photos; b&w spot art
Manuscript available
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Suchard, Lior
MIND READER: Unlocking the Power of Your Mind to Get What You Want
The internationally renowned supernatural entertainer Lior Suchard is known for combining his amazing magic
skills with lots of humor. Lior Suchard is unique in his field and in his show, Supternatural Entertainment, he
demonstrates breathtaking telepathic and extra-sensory abilities. His charm, creativity, and jaw-dropping magic
turn his show into a rare and unforgettable experience. He shows his audience that reading someone’s mind can
be as easy as reading a newspaper. In his mesmerizing book, he will show readers how to actualize their own
abilities as mentalists. !t Books
Rights sold: Croatian/Planetopia; Italian/Edizioni My Life; Russian/AST
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 240 pages with 8-page color insert
Galley available
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Von Teese, Dita
*YOUR BEAUTY MARK: All You Need to Get the Hair, Makeup, Glow and Glam
“Queen of the New Burlesque” Dita von Teese shares her secrets to vintage glamour in this long-awaited and
comprehensive beauty guide. Whether she is swirling inside a towering martini glass or turning heads on the red
carpet, one thing is certain for this self-styled fashion icon, beauty is an art. Now, for the first time, Dita divulges
the beauty secrets that have earned her a frequent spot on international best dressed lists and high-profile fashion
show rosters. In YOUR BEAUTY MARK, Dita takes readers through every step of her many signature looks–from
her perfectly coiffed hair to her flawless skin and makeup–and turns to experts and friends in the field for
authoritative advice. With diet and exercise tips, information on skincare, and tricks for brow shaping, lipstick
application, eye shadow and more, Dita empowers readers with the skills, confidence, and inspiration they need to
discover their individual beauty expressions. Lavish color photographs and gorgeous step-by-step images will
make this book appealing to her devoted fan base around the world and anyone interested in classic style. !t
Books
BURLESQUE AND THE ART OF THE TEESE sold: French/Hugo & Cie; German/Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf;
Swedish/BTM Media
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 256 pages; full-color photos throughout
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Wills, David
*AUDREY: THE 60s
A stunning photographic chronicle of Audrey Hepburn’s iconic film and fashion career in the 1960s, a decade she
defined with her elegant style, from renowned curator and photographic preservationist David Wills. Like the
author’s previous book, MARILYN MONROE: Metamorphosis, this collection of dramatic and glamorous
photographs portrays a screen icon beyond compare. AUDREY: The 60s showcases Audrey at the pinnacle of
her career, both on the film set and in fashion photo shoots from the films that made her famous to the
photographers who worshipped and immortalized her. From Breakfast at Tiffany’s to Vogue, Audrey’s landmark
style was everywhere—and still is. Taken by various photographers, the pictures come from one collector and
they capture Audrey’s beauty and personality flawlessly. With over two hundred full-bleed photos, reproduced to
the highest standards, AUDREY: The 60s brings her legacy into perfect focus. !t Books
MARILYN MONROE: Metamorphosis sold: French/Flammarion; German/Schirmer Mosel; Italian/Rizzoli;
Polish/Znak; Swedish/ICA Bokforlag
Publication: November 2012
Estimated length: 256 pages; color and b&w throughout; 9 x 11; $40.00
Manuscript available: May 2012; Sample spreads available
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Wilson, Ann, and Nancy with Charles Cross
*UNTITLED HEART MEMOIR
Heart is one of our most enduring rock acts of all time, a legacy spanning four decades, and groundbreakers as
two women who wrote and performed their own music. Now, for the first time, they tell their rock and roll story.
Starting in the 1970s, when their debut Dreamboat Annie delivered mega hits like “Crazy for You” and “Magic
Man” to the 1990s when they reinvented themselves as power balladeers and conquered MTV with “These
Dreams” and “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You” to their 2010 release, Red Velvet Car, which received critical
praise and reached the Billboard Top 10, Heart has always been, first and foremost, a showcase for two
awesomely talented women: Ann and Nancy Wilson. But as women, they faced a different kind of scrutiny--their
relationships, their looks, Ann’s battle with weight, Nancy’s divorce from Cameron Crowe—fodder for journalists
that has taken precedence over the power of their music. With the help of critically acclaimed and bestselling
music biography Charles Cross, Ann and Nancy tell their story. With inter-band relationships causing enough
turmoil to rival Fleetwood Mac, a rollercoaster relationship with fame, constant reinvention, and tales of sex and
drugs, here is the story of two women who have shown the world that women can truly rock for over thirty-five
years. !t Books
UK rights: HC-USA; Translation: Sarah Lazin (slazin@lazinbooks.com)
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 320 pages; 16 pp 4-color insert
Manuscript available: June 2012
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Aczel, Amir
*WHY SCIENCE DOES NOT DISPROVE GOD
The book educated believers have been waiting for. From the author of FERMAT’S LAST THEOREM, an incisive
argument about one of the greatest debates of all time – the existence of God. Has our knowledge of current
science indeed disproved the existence of God? Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Lawrence Krauss,
Stephen Hawking, and other highly esteemed scientists and writers have all written bestsellers positing that we
have no choice but to accept that the creation of the universe came out of nothing. Amir Aczel, himself a
mathematician, physicist and much published author, disagrees and clearly demonstrates in multiple ways that
science has as yet to provide definitive proof that the assumption of a Creator must be false. Aczel offers brilliant
and incisive analyses of the theories and findings of such titans as Albert Einstein, Roger Penrose, Alan Guth, and
Charles Darwin, all of whose major breakthroughs leave open the possibility and even the strong likelihood of a
Creator. Aczel also lucidly discourses on arcane aspects of physics and shows that quantum theory, the
anthropic principle, the fine-tuned dance of protons and quarks, the existence of anti-matter, and the theory of
parallel universes also all fail to disprove a Creator. Amir Aczel is perhaps best known for FERMAT’S LAST
THEOREM, published in 14 languages and still selling well after almost 20 years. For his last work, PRESENT AT
THE CREATION: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider, he interviewed thirteen Nobel Prize winners
in physics, and he has an understanding of modern physics ahead of almost anyone who writes for the lay person
about that science. He also writes for Discover Magazine online, Scientific American, New York Times and Wall
Street Journal. He is often interviewed about science on radio and television including four recent appearances on
NPR's “Talk of the Nation’s Science Friday." William Morrow
Publication: October 2013
Estimated length: 300 pages
Manuscript available: January 2013
Proposal available
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Asimov, Eric
*HOW TO LOVE WINE: A Memoir and Manifesto
A beautifully written, thought-provoking combination of memoir and manifesto by Eric Asimov, the acclaimed,
highly respected chief wine critic for the New York Times. “The primary purpose of wine is to provide pleasure and
refreshment. It can do so much more than that, but should never do less.” For most, choosing the right wine
comes with strong feelings of anxiety—there’s the sense of inadequacy when you find yourself, clueless, scanning
the shelves of your local wine store, or even embarrassment when a restaurant sommelier approaches you to
taste the bottle for your table. In HOW TO LOVE WINE, Eric weaves in stories of his love affair with wine that
began as a graduate student on a budget, and also incorporates in-depth discussions of beautiful and rare wines
in order to help readers overcome their feelings of dread and instead instill in them a sense of discovery. Thoughtprovoking and vicariously enjoyable, HOW TO LOVE WINE will inspire readers not by offering tricks and methods
for memorizing arcane data, but by isolating and diminishing the sense of anxiety that so burdens would-be wine
lovers. Eric Asimov is the chief wine critic of The New York Times and is also the interim chief restaurant critic for
the Times. William Morrow
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 256 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Baxter, John
*HUNTING THE LOST TASTES OF FRANCE
In 2010 UNESCO declared traditional French gastronomy to be an “intangible cultural heritage of humanity.” But
could traditional French cuisine be disappearing? HUNTING THE LOST TASTES OF FRANCE takes us on a
journey to the heart of the world’s most revered and complex cuisine, where the old ways of agriculture,
butchering, and cooking are dwindling – leaving us with only a small fraction of the astonishing delights French
cuisine has to offer. In this charming culinary travel memoir, the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in
the World goes in search of the most delicious and bizarre endangered foods of France, including ORTOLANS
(tiny birds, drowned in Armagnac, sautéed in butter and eaten whole), BOUILLABAISSE (the secret ingredient is
an ugly fish called the rascasse that lurks around wrecks), 100 YEAR OLD COGNAC (the old stuff never gets to
the shops), CONFITURE VIEUX GARCON (literally, “Old Boys’ Preserves”) and OX (cooked whole on a spit over
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coals…the recipe begins with “First, catch your ox…”). John Baxter is an acclaimed writer, memoirist, film critic
and biographer, co-director of the Paris Writers Workshop, and former BBC commentator. A native of Australia,
he now lives in Paris.
UK rights: HCUK Translation: Curtis Brown UK
Publication: March 2013
Estimated length: 336 pages
Manuscript available
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Beauregard, Mario
BRAIN WARS: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the
Way We Live Our Lives
From the author of THE SPIRITUAL BRAIN comes a challenge to materialist science, which assumes that human
beings are essentially collections of material particles, and all our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, intentions, sense of
self and spiritual experiences are nothing more than electrochemical impulses in our brains. In MIND SCIENCE,
Dr. Beauregard presents a series of empirical evidence demonstrating that the materialist model of reality is just
plain false and that humans are much more than material machines. He introduces scientific findings that indicate
that thoughts, beliefs, emotions, volition, and mental images can greatly influence the activity of the brain and the
physiological systems (e.g., immune system, endocrine system). He shows that meditation training can change
the physical structure of the brain and presents research data on near-death experiences indicating that mind and
consciousness can continue when the brain is no longer functional. Mind and consciousness can survive physical
death, can significantly influence cerebral activity and the physiological systems connected to this organ; the
human mind can also interact at a distance with physical systems (e.g., electronic devices) and biological
organisms (e.g., microorganisms, plants, animals, humans), and operate beyond brain. This emerging worldview
has deep social, moral, and spiritual implications and may contribute to the appearance of a planetary form of
consciousness. Mario Beauregard is currently Associate Research Professor at the Departments of Psychology
and Radiology, and the Neuroscience Research Center, Université de Montréal. He is the author of THE
SPIRITUAL BRAIN, and more than 100 publications in neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry. His
groundbreaking work on the neurobiology of mind, emotion and spiritual experiences has received international
media coverage. His work has been covered by major newspapers and magazines such as The Daily Telegraph,
The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Scientific American Mind, Science Magazine, The New
Scientist, and The Economist.
In 2010, Dr. Beauregard received the Spectrum Award from the World
Organization for Human Potential (WOHP, USA) for his work in neuroscience. HarperOne
Rights sold: English in Canada/HarperCollins Canada
THE SPIRITUAL BRAIN sold: Dutch/Ten Have; English in Canada/HarperCanada; French/La Maisnie;
Indonesian/LangitBiru; Korean/Book 21; Polish/WAM; Portuguese (Brazil)/Record
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 256 pages
Galley available
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Bergstein, Rachelle
WOMEN FROM THE ANKLE DOWN: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us
“The evolution of women’s shoes since WWII becomes the story of women’s self-empowerment in this engaging,
toe-to-heel study by editorial consultant Bergstein. . .[she] provides minibios and fascinating informational tidbits.”
- Publishers Weekly
“An illuminating study of the history of women's shoes in the 20th century… Wickedly provocative.” – Kirkus
The story of shoes in the past hundred-plus years is the story of women, told from the ankle down. From Marilyn
Monroe’s Ferragamo stilettos to Jane Fonda’s Reeboks, WOMEN FROM THE ANKLE DOWN is a delightful romp
through the history of shoes and the women who wore them. Women love shoes. But how did we get here? What
is it about footwear that leaves women so breathless? Part social history, part fashion history and part pop-culture
celebration, this book opens in the rural village of Bonito, Italy where a young Salvatore Ferragamo set out to
change the landscape for footwear, and ends in New York City, where a fictional socialite named Carrie Bradshaw
refused to settle for Mr. Wrong and felt entitled to treat herself to expensive shoes. It makes pit-stops in
Hollywood, where Judy Garland first slipped on her ruby slippers; in New Jersey, where Nancy Sinatra heard
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something special in a song about boots; and in the streets of Manhattan, where the 1980 transit strike caused
women to kick off their heels and step into new cutting-edge athletic shoes for their commutes. The book explores
the stories behind these historical moments, and draws in the design innovations and social changes that gave
each one its lasting significance and appeal. Harper
Rights sold: Italian/Mondadori; Korean/Dasan Books
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 256 pages
Galley available
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Bertoldi, Concetta
INSIDE THE OTHER SIDE: Soul Contracts, Life Lessons, and How Dead People Help Us, Between Here
and Heaven
New York Times bestselling author of DO DEAD PEOPLE WATCH YOU SHOWER and celebrity medium,
Concetta Bertoldi shares, with humor and gravitas, her own experiences with loss, and offers anecdotes of those
she’s read for over the years. It is Life on Earth where we need to meet challenges, learn lessons, and grow
spiritually even as we cope with a sense of “aloneness” and “not enough-ness” or the loss of a loved one.
Through all of this our guardian angels, those who have crossed to the Other Side, offer us loving, behind the
scenes assistance. In this latest book, Concetta explains the importance of the agreements we make with God
before being born into a new physical life. She gives advice on coping with life’s difficult issues, from relationships
to lack of abundance, to illness and aging, and coping with loss. Harper Paperbacks
DO DEAD PEOPLE WATCH YOU SHOWER sold in Albania/Hemma 999; Brazil/Pensamento Cultrix;
France/ADA; Germany/Droemer; Holland/Kosmos; Japan/Tokuma Shoten; Latvia/Diena; Portugal/Estrela Polar;
Spain/Martinez Roca
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 256 pages
Galley available
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Browne, Sylvia
*PAST LIVES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS
Unlike any other book Browne has written, PAST LIVES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS addresses the past lives of
celebrities we love. Previously Sylvia has written about what transpires after death, but now she explains what
happens before birth. Following an explanation of how Sylvia communicates with her spirit guide, Francine, PAST
LIVES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS explains exactly what (often very surprising) lives some of our beloved
celebrities lived in the past before the lives they’re living now. Readers will come to see their favorite celebrities in
a whole new way in light of this never-before-divulged information. Browne does not just reveal what celebrities
were doing in their past lives, but also makes a spiritual connection between what they did then and what they are
doing now. She also tells us whether this is a celebrity’s final life, or whether he or she will continue the journey
into other lives in the future. Sylvia Browne is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author and world-famous psychic
who has appeared regularly on the Montel Williams Show and on Larry King Live, as well as making countless
other media and public appearances. She is also founder of her church, the Society of Novus Spirit, which
celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011. HarperOne
AFTERLIVES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS sold to: French/ADA; Italian/Armenia Editore; Portuguese
(Brazil)/Prumo; UK/Piatkus
Publication: November 2012
Estimated length: 256 pages
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Casti, John L
X-EVENTS: How Advanced Societies Will Collapse
Nassim Taleb’s The Black Swan meets Jared Diamond’s Collapse in this provocative and highly readable account
about how today’s advanced societies are highly vulnerable to extreme events that could topple civilization like a
house of cards. A complex system has formed on a scale never before imagined. All it may take to send
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civilization crashing backward by a millennium is a nudge from what complexity theorists like John Casti call an “XEvent,” an unpredictable scenario that yields extreme consequences. When the X-Event hits, finance,
communication, and travel will halt. The flow of food, electricity, medicine, and clean water will cease. What will
you do? A renowned complexity scientist, Dr. Casti shows how our world has become impossibly complex.
Technology is advancing at an exponential rate and so too is our reliance on technology for every aspect of our
lives. Yet it is a rule of mathematics that higher and higher levels of complexity make a system correspondingly
more fragile and vulnerable to sudden, spectacular collapse. Fascinating and chilling, X-EVENTS (shorthand for
“extreme events”) provides a provocative tour of the catastrophic outlier scenarios that would send us back to the
horse-and-buggy era in a flash: global financial “black swans”; the world-wide crash of the internet that would halt
all communication; the end of oil, nuclear winter, “nano-plagues”; robot uprisings; electromagnetic-pulse bombs;
pandemic viruses; and more. John L. Casti, Ph.D., is Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis, where he heads an initiative for the study on Extreme Events in Human Society. He
worked for many years at the Sante Fe Institute and the RAND Corporation, as well as serving on the faculties of
Princeton, the University of Arizona, and NYU. A former editor of the journal Complexity, Casti received his Ph.D.
in mathematics from the University of Southern California. He lives in Vienna, Austria. William Morrow
Rights sold: Chinese (simplified characters)/Hunan Science and Technology Publishing; Czech/Management
Press; Dutch/Contact; Estonian/ Nebadon; German/Piper; Italian/Il Saggiatore; Japanese/Asahi Shimbun
Publications; Korean/ Science Books; Portuguese rights in Brazil/Intrinseca; Portuguese rights in Portugal/Lua de
Papel; Russian/AST; Turkish/Optimist Yayinlari;
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 336 pages, with 25 b&w illustrations
Galley available
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Cha, Victor
*THE IMPOSSIBLE STATE: North Korea, Past and Future
".. a must-read combination for anybody interested in Korea, east Asia, or global security more generally." —
Gideon Rose, Editor, Foreign Affairs
“An eye-opening view of the closed, repressive dictatorship of North Korea…Cha aims to get at some of the
pressing questions since Kim Jong-il’s death and the succession of the utterly unknown younger son, Kim Jonhum…A useful, pertinent work for understanding the human story behind the headlines.” - Kirkus
Though much discussed and often maligned, precious little is known or understood about the world’s most
menacing and mysterious nation. Now, in THE IMPOSSIBLE STATE, seasoned diplomat and lauded scholar
Victor Cha pulls back the curtain on this controversial and isolationist country. Since its founding, North Korea has
perpetrated countless human rights violations against its own people, waged a seemingly endless war with its
southern neighbor and her allies, and doggedly pursued aggressive nuclear ambitions in the face of continued
international sanctions. Now, with the passing of Kim Jong-il, it faces a pivitol—and troubling—dynastic transition
of power, from mercurial father to inexperienced son. THE IMPOSSIBLE STATE will give the definitive account of
North Korea’s past and provide insightful analysis of its uncertain future, while offering rare personal anecdotes
from the author, both of his time on the ground in Pyongyang and at home as an advisor in the White House.
Engagingly written, authoritative but accessible, THE IMPOSSIBLE STATE offers much-needed answers to the
world’s most pressing questions about North Korea, and ultimately warns of its government’s potential collapse—a
fall for which we as Americans may be woefully unprepared. Victor Cha is the former Director for Asian Affairs at
the National Security Council, where he served as an advisor to the President from 2004-2007. The recipient of
two Outstanding Service commendations during his tenure at the White House, Cha is also the award-winning
author of ALIGNMENT DESPITE ANTAGONISM and BEYOND THE FINAL SCORE: The Politics of Sport in Asia.
His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, International Security, and Political Science Quarterly, among other
journals. Cha currently holds the D.S. Song Chair in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and
is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Ecco
Rights sold: UK/The Bodley Head
Publication: April 2012
Estimated length: 544 pages; 16 charts and graphs; color photo insert
Book available
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Di Vincenzo, Mark
*BUY SHOES ON WEDNESDAY AND TWEET AT 4:00: More of the Best Times to Buy This, Do That, and
Get There
Following the bestselling compendium BUY KETCHUP IN MAY AND FLY AT NOON, another essential guide
packed with expert tips on timing for just about everything, from money and health to travel and food. BUY
MUSTARD IN MAY covers an even wider range of topics and subjects, such as whole sections on beauty tips,
pets, cars and children. Learn the best time to visit New York City if you’re on a budget (January), best time to
post on Facebook (7am, 5pm & 10pm), and best time to read to your child (8pm). Throughout are money-saving
tips and solid advice to save you money and time, and make you the savvy consumer you’ve always wanted to
be. William Morrow Paperbacks
BUY KETCHUP IN MAY AND FLY AT NOON sold in Italy/Sperling & Kupfer; Japan/Magazine House;
Russia/Popuri; Turkey/Alfa Basim Yayin
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 192 pages
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Eisner, Peter
*UNTITLED ON POPE PIUS XI AND THE NAZIS
In the spring of 1938, when the Nazis were consolidating their power across the European continent, Pope Pius XI
decided to embark on a dangerous plan to challenge Hitler and Mussolini. He had few allies in this enterprise.
But he met with John LaFarge, a progressive Jesuit journalist and author who the pope had chosen to write an
historic papal declaration that would condemn Nazism and anti-Semitism on a major national stage. The
declaration would be in the form of a papal encyclical, one of the highest public statements employed by the Holy
See. This book is a narrative that begins with this meeting on June 22, 1938, and concludes after Pius XI’s
campaign to battle Nazism collapses with his death. It is a carefully documented account, filled with infighting and
intrigue of the plots and machinations within the Vatican’s highest levels as it blocked efforts that might have
changed history. It describes where the church was at this critical juncture and how politics overrode morality.
Peter Eisner also explores the encyclical itself, how it was put together and what significance the popes’
encyclicals have had throughout history. The encyclical in Eisner’s book will play the same role the dictionary did
in Simon Winchester’s Professor and the Madman. Peter Eisner is the author of several books, including most
recently THE FREEDOM LINE, about the resistance movements during World War II and THE ITALIAN LETTER,
about the Bush Administration and the Iraq War. He was a politics editor and deputy foreign editor at The
Washington Post. William Morrow
THE FREEDOM LINE sold: Chinese (simplified characters): Qun-Zhong Publishing House; Portuguese in
Brazil/Zahar; Spanish/Taurus
Publication: April 2013
Estimated length: 352
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Faber, Urijah
Keown, Tim
LAWS OF THE RING
Mixed Martial Arts pioneer Urijah “The California Kid” Faber combines The 48 Laws of Power, the humor of Got
Fight?, and the classic Eastern philosophy of The Art of War in this unconventional and enlightening guide to
mental dominance and personal success. Thanks to a combination of physical prowess, indomitable will, and
sharp and unconventional powers of observation, Urijah Faber has risen to the top of the mixed martial arts food
chain. In LAWS OF THE RING, he draws from these strengths, providing a unique and deeply personal look at life
in and outside the cage—lessons fans can use to shape their own worlds. Part self-help book, personal journey,
and meditation on a well-lived life, LAWS OF THE RING is filled with funny, provocative, and inspirational stories
that provide a colorful glimpse into the rise of a young superstar and the philosophy behind his success. LAWS
OF THE RING offers his reflections on success and failure through his “10 Laws of Power” and his “Five Laws of
Weakness.” He speaks frankly about personal role models like Randy Couture, as well as human barnacles such
as “Internet Steve,” one of the many hangers-on who have given Faber a unique look at the dark side of fame.
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“My way isn’t for everyone,” Faber says, “but everyone can take something away from my experience.” William
Morrow
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 240 pages, with 8-page color photo insert
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Fawcett, Bill
DOOMED TO REPEAT
The saying goes…“Those Who Forget History are Doomed to Repeat It.” This engrossing and fact-filled collection
sheds light on the historical lessons we’ve failed to learn and the failures this has doomed us to repeat over and
over again. Time and again mankind has faced down problems, but has failed to take the hard earned knowledge
into the next battle of the same nature. In this unique compilation, Fawcett illuminates those problems and the
common threads that have stumped us for centuries, including: Financial disasters like the Tulip Bubble and the
South Pacific Bubble; Terrorists, Anarchists, Wobblies, Luddites; military insurencies; inflation and devaluation of
currency; the rise of radical political minorities; pandemics and epidemics; ecological collapse and more. With
over 35 chapters, DOOMED TO REPEAT is full of trivia, history, and fascinating looks at the world’s repeated
mistakes. William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication: March 2013
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available: June 2012
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Fox, John
THE BALL: Discovering the Object of the Game
An engaging, popular history of the ball and the evolution of human play, THE BALL takes us to the far reaches of
the globe and the deep recesses of our ancient past to answer a child’s question: “Why do we play ball, anyway?”
Inspired by the curiosity of his sport-obsessed 8-year-old son, anthropologist John Fox sets off on a global
adventure to explore the untold history of our favorite ball games, their origins and evolution, and how a simple
invention like the ball has come through time to stake an unrivaled claim on our passions, our money, and our
lives. Part history, part travelogue, and part sportscast, THE BALL takes us from the jungles of Mexico to the farm
country of Ohio and from the courts of the ancient Pharaohs to the virtual playing fields of “Second Life,” to
explore the gritty, ritualistic, violent, bizarre, primal drama of ball games as we’ve played them across the
centuries. John Fox, a Harvard Ph.D. in anthropology, has excavated ancient ball courts in Central America,
traced Marco Polo’s route across China, and biked Africa’s Rift Valley in search of human origins. He has worked
as an academic, and, more recently, as a co-leader of the Quest Channel Expeditions, a pioneering adventure
learning program that took him and an online audience of a million young people on expeditions across six
continents to explore the world’s greatest scientific and historic mysteries. His writing has appeared in
Smithsonian, Outside, Salon, CNN.com, and other publications. Harper Perennial
UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: Sterling Lord Literistic
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 400 pages, with 8-pg b&w insert
Galley available
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*Froymovich, Riva
THE END OF THE GOOD LIFE
From Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires reporter Riva Froymovich comes the definitive account of the
effects of the financial crisis on Generation Y, or those born between 1976 and 2000. Members of Generation Y
are coming of age in the bleakest economic landscape in modern history. In alarming numbers they are
unemployed, mired in student debt, moving back into their parents’ homes, and postponing marriage and child
bearing. THE END OF THE GOOD LIFE will give voice to those struggling in the new economy, but it will go
beyond reportage to offer a fresh analysis of why Generation Y finds itself in such dire straits. Drawing on
interviews with high-level policy makers, political leaders, and prominent thinkers on both sides of the ideological
divide, the book will take a clear-eyed look at government policies that could wreak havoc for our nation's youth,
including cuts to education and social programs, short-sighted initiatives to save failing industries, and a federal
budget that prioritizes retirement over investing in our nation's future. As a Brussels-based reporter with a global
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perspective, Froymovich also offers unique insight into how the ongoing recession in Europe—particularly in Italy,
Spain, Greece, and the United Kingdom—should serve as a cautionary tale for our own country. Looking abroad,
she deftly analyzes the problem of mass youth unemployment and the danger of brain drain, asking if the same
thing could happen in America. Based in Brussels, Belgium, Riva Froymovich writes about European economics
for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. She has appeared on Fox Business News, BBC, Sky
Television, and The Wall Street Journal’s online video network. Riva is a member of Generation Y. Harper
Perennial
Publication: May 2013
Estimated length: 256 pages
Manuscript available: August 2012
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Greene, Melissa Fay
*WONDER DOG
In WONDER DOG, National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene introduces us to Karen Shirk, the
unshakable founder of 4 Paws for Ability, whose determination made healing possible for countless disabled
children who'd been told there was nothing else that could be done. No stranger to affliction, Shirk received the
grim diagnosis, at age 24, of myasthenia gravis, a rare neuromuscular disease. She left the hospital only to
become a respirator-dependent patient in need of constant care. After years of depression and loneliness, Shirk
took a nurse's advice and began to look for a service dog, but time and again she was denied - no agency had
ever placed a service animal with people on ventilators. Undeterred, Shirk adopted her own dog, a German
shepherd named Ben, and with his companionship, she roared back to life. In 1998, after wondering how many
other people were told they were "too disabled" to get a dog, Shirk founded 4 Paws for Ability with a simple
philosophy: if your life can be improved by a dog, and if you and your family can take good care of a dog, we're
going to give you a dog. With Shirk's story at the forefront, Greene introduces us to a number of families
navigating the emotional labyrinth of having a child with physical or mental disabilities, and the dogs that have
changed and saved their lives. Whether it's an attentive German shepherd, a funny beagle-mix, or an obedient
Papillon – dogs have provided newfound stability and profound friendship for not only the kids, but for their
families as well. WONDER DOG is a book that will reveal the emotional complexity that exists between humans
and animals and just how deeply-wired for companionship we all are. Melissa Fay Greene is the author of five
books of nonfiction including PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK, LAST MAN OUT, and THERE IS NO ME WITHOUT
YOU: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue her Country’s Children. Her honors include two National Book Award
nominations, a National Book Critics Circle Award nomination, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Chicago
Tribune Heartland Prize, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, and the ACLU National Civil Liberties Award.
PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK was named one of the top 100 works of American journalism of the 20th century
and appears on Entertainment Weekly's list of "The New Classics- The 100 Best Books of the Last 25 Years."
Melissa has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post,
Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, Life, Newsweek, Parade, Redbook, Parenting, the HuffingtonPost, Salon,
TheDailyBeast, and CNN.com, and her books have been translated into 15 languages. Ecco
Rights sold: Portuguese (Brazil)/Novo Conceito
Publication: March 2015
Estimated length: 256 pages; black and white illustrations throughout
Manuscript available: January 2014
Proposal available
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Hampton, Dan
*VIPER PILOT: The Autobiography of One of America's Most Decorated F-16 Pilots
From the most decorated F-16 pilot ever comes the high-octane memoir VIPOR PILOT. The F-16 “Fighting
Falcon” (known to pilots as “The Viper”) is the world’s most iconic fighter plane. And author Dan Hampton is its
most decorated pilot. The recipient of a remarkable three Distinguished Flying Crosses for bravery and a host of
other medals that make him “the best of the best,” Hampton saw extensive action in the Iraq War. He was
scrambled into the skies on 9/11 and secured American airspace in the weeks that followed, and he flew combat
missions during the first Gulf War and the Kosovo conflict. His memoir is a first-person thriller offering a rare look
into the cockpit and mind of a real-life ace. Hampton recounts gripping stories of his saving US ground soldiers
from certain death, of evading heat-seeking missiles that have locked on his tail, and of being wounded in an
enemy’s air strike on his base. He also reveals what it takes psychologically to become “the best of the best.” U.S.
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Air Force Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Dam Hampton flew 151 combat missions during his twenty years in the USAF
(1986-2006). For his service in the Iraq War, Kosovo conflict, and first Gulf War, Col. Hampton received three
Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor, a Purple Heart, seven Air Force Medals with Valor, four Meritorious
Service Medals, and numerous other citations. He has published articles in the Journal of Electronic Defense, Air
Force Magazine, Airpower Magazine, and several classified tactical works for the USAF Fighter Weapons Review.
William Morrow
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 336 pages, 12-25 photos
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Heimbuch, Craig
*AND NOW WE SHALL DO MANLY THINGS: Discovering My Manhood Through the Great (and Not-SoGreat) American Hunt
From an award-winning journalist and urban dad, a humorous exploration of the hunting culture. Craig Heimbuch
aspires to tap into the ideal of traditional masculinity and better understand the men in his family by immersing
himself for one year in the manly art of hunting. When Craig receives a shotgun from his father he commits to try
hunting for the first time in his life. Coming from a family of hunters, he set out to learn what putting food on the
table entails, and better understand his family legacy. In the tradition of Bill Bryson’s A WALK IN THE WOODS
and A. J. Jacob’s THE KNOW-IT-ALL, Craig takes a wry look at some of our most deeply-cherished cultural
beliefs and encourages men to reassess their definitions of manhood. During his journey he discovers it is
possible to be an active father, loving spouse, and hunter, without being mistaken for a gun-toting lunatic. Craig
Heimbruch is the editor-in-chief of www.ManoftheHouse.com, an online magazine for dads with 1 million monthly
readers. William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication: November 2012
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Hirshman, Linda
VICTORY: The Triumphant Gay Revolution
In the vein of Taylor Branch’s classic on the civil rights movement (Parting of the Waters), VICTORY is a popular
history of the gay rights movement—the stunning success story of how a dedicated minority transformed the
notion of American equality and forged a classic campaign for cultural change. Through rich archival material and
over 100 interviews, VICTORY tells the story of how, in less than forty years, a band of despised, quarrelsome,
marginal, closeted people grew to the army that made a revolution in the most fundamental area of human
identity: how we find love and how we reproduce ourselves. Much has been written about the gay struggle and
gay rights—the Plague Years, the men and women who made Stonewall, the short career of Harvey Milk, the
marriage arguments pro and con—but no one has written the full story from start to finish and certainly not as a
political classic. A retired labor lawyer, Linda Hirshman is the author of Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the
World, Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex, and A Woman’s Guide to Law School (1999, Viking/Penguin). She
received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at
Chicago and taught Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Brandeis University. Harper
UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: Kuhn Projects
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 464 pages, with 8-pg b&w insert
Manuscript available
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Howe, Sean
*TRUE BELIEVERS: The Secret Origins of Marvel Comics
The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and beleaguered pop cultural
entities in America’s history -- Marvel Comics. Operating out of a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early
1960s, a struggling company called Marvel Comics introduced a series of superhero characters with eye-catching
bright costumes, smart banter, and compellingly human flaws that thrilled not just children but also pop artists,
public intellectuals, and campus radicals: The Fantastic Four. Spider-Man. The Hulk. The X-Men. Iron Man. Thor.
Daredevil. All of them interacted in the same epic universe, weaving a tapestry of stories that, taken together,
would become the most elaborate fictional narrative in history and serve as a modern mythology for millions of
readers. Throughout the decades-long journey to a multi-billion-dollar enterprise -- as Marvel weathered Wall
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Street machinations, Hollywood failures, and the collapse of the comic book market -- the Marvel Universe
characters have been passed along among generations of editors, artists, and writers. Marvel’s identity has
continually shifted, careening between scrappy underdog and corporate behemoth. Entrusted to carry on tradition,
its contributors -- impoverished child prodigies, hallucinating peaceniks, and mercenary careerists among them -struggled with commercial mandates, a fickle audience, and, over matters of credit and control, one another. For
the first time, TRUE BELIEVERS tells the stories of these men, including Martin Goodman, the self-made
publisher who forayed into comics after a get-rich-quick tip in 1939; Stan Lee, the energetic editor who would
shepherd the company through thick and thin for decades; Jack Kirby, the WWII veteran who’d co-created
Captain America in 1940 and, twenty years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the company’s marquee
characters in a three-year frenzy of creativity that would be the grounds for future legal battles and endless
debate. Incorporating more than one hundred original interviews with those who worked behind the scenes at
Marvel over a seventy-year-span, TRUE BELIEVERS packs anecdotes and analysis into a gripping narrative of
how a small group of people on the cusp of failure created one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in
contemporary America. A former comic book reviewer and editor at Entertainment Weekly, Sean Howe has
written for The Los Angeles Times, The New York Observer, Spin, and The Village Voice. Harper
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 320 pages, illustrations throughout
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Huntington, Foster
THE BURNING HOUSE: What Would You Take?
Imagine if THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS were boiled down to just one: If your house were on fire, what would
you take?
The answers are evocative, compelling, and completely addictive. From the creator of
TheBurningHouse.com, this confessional book sets in motion a philosophical conflict between the practical, the
valuable, and the sentimental. You are forced to prioritize and boil down a life of accrued possessions into what
you can carry with you, offering a meditation on materialism and what’s truly important. With a broad array of
contributions from around the world, plus photographs throughout, THE BURNING HOUSE opens an incisive
window into the heart of a person. !t Books
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 224 pages; 8 x 9; 200 color photos
PDF available
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Joseph, Lawrence E.
*THE SUN FACTOR: How the Sun Shaped Our Past and Threatens Our Future
The connection between solar activity and human history has been largely untold. Connecting current research in
solar physics to biology, politics and culture, this book will force us to rethink our understanding of human history
in ways reminiscent of Jared Diamond’s Collapse and Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us. With an engaging
voice and never before seen research, bestselling author Lawrence Joseph offers evidence that the changes in
the sun’s behavior not only provoke shifts in the climate, but also disrupt our personal lives, determine the course
of history, and shape our destiny. More importantly, the sun continues to communicate with us and change our
daily lives, and in 2012 scientists predict one of the greatest solar activity years in history, which could have a
huge impact on our world. According to Joseph, spikes in solar output have been correlated with drops in the
stock market, and the Vikings would not have discovered North America if fluctuations in solar activity hadn’t
melted the formerly ice-choked North Atlantic. The sun does more than influence our climate and help plants
grow. Solar activity is at the root of all that we know and it soon could be the cause of major disasters if we don’t
start taking heed of its lessons. Lawrence E. Joseph has authored a number of bestselling books, on a wide
variety of topics including most recently, AFTERMATH and APOCALYPSE 2012: An Investigation into
Civilization’s End, which has sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide. Joseph has written on international
science, nature, politics and business for publications including The New York Times, Discover, and Salon.com.
Currently he blogs for the Huffington Post. He has given more than 500 film, television, radio and print interviews
on the subject of solar EMP and other Sun-Earth phenomena. HarperOne
AFTERMATH sold: Indonesian/Pustaka Utama; Italian/Corbaccio; Portuguese (Brazil)/Pensamento Cultrix;
Romanian/Nemira; Spanish/Patria; Thai/Siam Inter Multimedia
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APOCALYPSE 2012 sold: Chinese (Complex)/Fine Press; Croatian/VBZ; Dutch/Kosmos; French/Michel Lafon;
German/Verlagsgruppe Random House; Greek/Kedros; Hungarian/Gold Book; Indonesian/Pustaka Utama;
Italian/Corbaccio; Korean/Golden Compass; Macedonian/Toper; Polish/Bertelsmann Media; Portuguese
(Brazil)/Pensamento Cultrix; Portuguese/Bizancio; Romanian/Nemira; Russian/Exmo; Spanish/Planeta; Thai/Siam
Inter Multimedia; Turkish/Pegasus; UK/HarperCollins; Vietnamese/Alpha Books;
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 288 pages
Manuscript due: April 2012
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Kenny, Deborah
BORN TO RISE: A Story of Children and Teachers Reaching Their Highest Potential
A paradigm-shifting model for revolutionizing schools and leading organizations by changing culture, from the
founder of one of education’s greatest success stories. Deborah Kenny was a young single mother of three who
turned personal tragedy into triumph when she founded the Harlem Village Academies. Under her leadership,
students have achieved dramatic gains. Despite entering among the lowest 20th percentile in the country in 2008,
Harlem Village Academies made history when 100% of eighth graders passed the New York State math test,
ranking them #1 of all public schools in New York State. In 2010, 100% scored proficient in science and 100% in
social studies. Their teachers are smart, driven, and caring. How do they do it? The answer is culture. How people
feel at work—how they are treated, and the values exhibited by their colleagues-determines the caliber of people
who are attracted to an organization. But BORN TO RISE is not just an education book. It’s also a model for
leading organizations of all kinds. Through a culture of accountability, Kenny shows teachers, parents, and
business leaders how to create a passion for learning and change in their own organizations. Dr. Deborah Kenny
is widely regarded as one of the most influential education entrepreneurs in the country, and a highly respected
authority on public education. Oprah named Kenny one of the most powerful women of 2010, and Esquire named
her one of the country’s “Best and Brightest.” Kenny is the founder and CEO of Harlem Village Academies, and
she is founder of a new, national multimedia venture, “Education Community,” which launched in Spring 2011, and
shares insights and inspiration with parents, educators, college students, and the general public. Harper
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 256 pages
Manuscript available
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LaCava, Stephanie
*AN EXTRAORDINARY THEORY OF OBJECTS: The Story of Seeking Solace in the Unusual
Girl, Interrupted meets Miranda July--with a touch of Joan Didion--in this quirky collection of personal essays on
the author’s adolescence in Paris told in the most unconventional way – through the strange and beautiful objects
that provide tangible comfort to LaCava as she navigates growing up in a foreign country. As a young teen,
Stephanie LaCava found herself unexpectedly whisked away from her suburban New York home to live in Paris
with her mother and brother as part of her father’s mysterious line of work. The narrative follows LaCava as she
optimistically begins her new life in Paris, becoming acquainted with her peers at a wildly unconventional
international school, and dealing with the threat of terrorism on an international political landscape (during the
French/Algerian bombings of the nineties). LaCava’s journey to finding happiness, security, and comfort in her
own skin is told in a cinematic fashion, with flashes of scenes followed by informative entries on the objects or
characters that inhabit them. It is a story told in snapshots, ending with the present-day when LaCava revisits
France to seek peace and understanding with her childhood. At once intensely personal and widely universal,
LaCava’s story shows the power of objects to distract us from our lives, but also to understand the discovery of
different sorts of beauty in an unpredictable world. Stephanie LaCava is a writer based in New York and Paris,
having worked at Vogue magazine, before becoming an independent journalist. Her work has appeared in T: The
New York Times Style Magazine and the British and American editions of Vogue, as well as other print and online
publications, such as The Paris Review. On her website (www.stephanielacava.com) and tumblr
(stephanielacava.tumblr.com), she posts striking photographs and words daily, which she refers to as phantom
cabinet of curiosities. Harper
Publication: December 2012
Estimated length: 224 pages with 30 b/w line illustrations
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Largo, Michael
THE BIG BOOK OF BEASTS: The World’s Most Curious Creatures
From the award-winning author of FINAL EXITS and GOD’S LUNATICS, a one-of-a-kind treasury of the strange
and fascinating knowledge and lore about animals. Largo explores the captivating wonder of animals, telling us
their most fascinating secrets and reveals fact after astonishing – and often hilarious – fact about their oddest
behavior. He looks at the beasts we created with our imaginations, as well as ones long gone. Organized in A-Z
format, THE BIG BOOK OF BEASTS covers everything from lions and tigers and bears…and dinosaurs and
mermaids…to dragons and sea monsters. With more than 250 photographs, this beautifully designed volume
promises to be fun for readers of all ages. William Morrow Paperbacks
FINAL EXITS sold in Czech/Beta
Korea/Bookroad; Thailand/Matichon
Dobrovsky;
Greece/Oxy;
Italy/Vallardi;
Japan/Kinokuniya
Shoten;
PORTABLE OBITUARY sold in Brazil/Larousse; Denmark/Bazar; Thailand/Matichon; Vietnam/VNAP
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 416 pages; b&w photos throughout
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Morris, Dick
McGann, Eileen
*SCREWED! How Foreign Countries Are Ripping America Off and Plundering Our Economy and How Our
Leaders Help Them Do It
The New York Times bestselling authors of 2010:TAKE BACK AMERICA and CATASTROPHE expose a massive
scandal: how foreign countries are ripping America off and plundering our economy, with the help of our own
political and business leaders. In SCREWED! Morris and McGann argue against the dogma of globalism, while
other nations focus on their own self-interests. The authors examine the ways that nations and international
organizations take advantage of us, detail the staggering scale of the great American ripoff, and reveal how our
own leaders are complicit in the process. Dick Morris served as Bill Clinton’s political consultant for twenty years.
A regular political commentor on Fox News, he is the author of nine New York Times bestsellers (all with Eileen
McGann). Eileen McGann is an attorney who, with her husband, Dick, writes columns for the New York Post and
for their website, dickmorris.com. Broadside Books
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 368 pages
Manuscript available
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Nader, Ralph
*THE SEVENTEEN SOLUTIONS: New Ideas for Our American Future
From one of the most important and provocative voices in American history, and a New York Times bestselling
author, comes a new fiscal rescue program. In a hard-hitting introduction and seventeen tightly focused chapters,
Ralph Nader offers a set of provocative, paradigm-shifting solutions for these difficult economic times. Nader has
always focused on the disparities between corporate wealth and the plight of the average citizen. His core
message fits exactly with the “We are the 99 percent” message that began with Occupy Wall Street and spread
around the world this year. His radical yet practical Seventeen Solutions include “Cracking Down on Corporate
Crime,” “Getting Corporations off Welfare,” “Returning Control of Science and Academia to the People,”
“Innovative New Programs to Create Job Growth,” and “Replacing Spectator Sports with Participatory Sports.”
Nader’s solutions offer fodder for debate, and important ideas designed to save us before it’s too late. Harper
Paperbacks
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 304 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Parnia, Sam, M.D.
*ERASING DEATH: The Science that is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death
From the author of the groundbreaking WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE? (Hay House), comes an exciting and
revelatory look at the remarkable new stages of death research, filled with compelling stories, and covering the
incredible advances at the frontiers of resuscitative science. ERASING DEATH sheds light on the ultimate
mystery—what happens to human consciousness, what we might call mind or “soul”, during and after death. Dr.
Parnia, who has spent years researching this question, leads readers from the emergency room, to the research
lab and the philosophy department—in hot pursuit of the true identity of man’s ultimate challenge: death. Through
this journey, readers will discover an extraordinary truth: that medical science is finally gaining real leverage in this
battle. Dr. Sam Parnia is one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death, the human mind-brain
relationship, and near-death experiences. He currently divides his time between hospitals in the United Kingdom
and the USA, where he is an assistant professor of critical care medicine at the State University of New York, as
well as a recent fellow in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. He
is an honorary research fellow and critical care physician at the University of Southampton in the UK, where he is
the founder and director of the Human Consciousness ProjectSM, an international consortium of scientists and
physicians who have joined forces to research the nature of consciousness and its relationship with the brain, as
well as the neuronal processes that mediate and correspond to different facets of consciousness. HarperOne
Translation rights: HarperCollins US; UK rights: Andrew Stuart Agency
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE? Sold to: Dutch/Kosmos; French/ADA; Japanese/Sankosha;
Indonesian/Serambi; Portuguese (Brazil)/Larousse; Portuguese/Estrela Polar; Romanian/Humanitas;
Slovene/Zalozba Karantanija
Publication: February 2013
Estimated length: 256 pages
Manuscript available: October 2012
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Phipps, Carter
EVOLUTIONARIES: Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science’s Greatest Idea
“Carter Phipps brilliantly expands our understanding of evolution by showing us that a new science is emerging—
one that will holistically integrate theories of consciousness, cosmology, and evolution. Evolutionaries is going to
help create a worldview that will influence our vision of the future direction of evolution and also our role in
consciously participating in it” —Deepak Chopra
“A significant contribution to the increasingly important conversation between the natural sciences and our spiritual
traditions.” – John F. Haught, Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Woodstock Theological Center
“Carter Phipps’s new book is a profound and profoundly important new work, covering the many ways that
evolution has become an all-pervading and all-embracing worldview.” – Ken Wilber, author A Brief History of
Everything
This first popular presentation of an emerging school of thought called “evolutionary spirituality” will do for
evolution what Gary Zukav and Lynne McTaggart have done for physics. Evolution is the most creative, aweinspiring force in the universe—it propelled the world from the Big Bang to the wonders of human achievement.
Sadly we’ve reduced all discussion of evolution to a debate between two opposing sides, the Godless Darwinists
vs. anti-science Creationists. But in fact, there is a growing spectrum of bold, visionary ideas that are causing us
to understand evolution in spiritual terms. Perfectly positioned as the influential Executive Editor of EnlightenNext
magazine, Carter Phipps has made it his life’s work to chart the emerging evolutionary theories in both science
and spirituality. This book will be the first popular guide to these exciting progressive minds who are rethinking our
conclusions about where we come from, who we are, and where we might be going. Is evolution spiritually
directed? If the universe tends toward higher and higher forms of consciousness, will humans evolve toward the
divine? Is human civilization now nearing a point where we have the power to take the reigns of evolution from
nature and consciously evolve ourselves in any direction we choose? If so, what future should we choose?
Identifying twelve distinct streams or schools of evolutionary thought, EVOLUTIONARIES reveals a fascinating,
challenging, and accurate picture of how evolution is being perceived in the spiritual, philosophical, and scientific
circles that are helping define the leading edge of contemporary culture. Carter Phipps is Executive Editor of
EnlightenNext magazine (formerly What Is Enlightenment?). He is a key player in a growing network of thinkers,
activists, spiritual leaders, scientists, scholars, and cultural pioneers who are reshaping the face of spirituality and
progressive culture today. HarperPerennial
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Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 416 pages
Galley available
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Ruderman, Wendy
Laker, Barbara
*MIDNIGHT IN THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE
The true story behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the biggest police corruption scandal in
Philadelphia’s history, told by the two reporters whose work not only instigated but drove the full-scale FBI
investigation. It all began when Benny Martinez walked into the offices of the Philadelphia Daily News and asked
for Wendy Ruderman. In 2003, Benny had lost his job and started selling drugs. It was then that he was
approached by Jeff, a member of the city’s narcotics squad, and became Confidential Informant #103. He would
become the most prolific drug informant the city had ever seen, and over the next seven years, Jeff used Benny to
help bust nearly 200 drug dealers and take 127 guns off the street. While Benny’s undercover work went well at
first, it soon was tainted by lies and corruption. Jeff and his crew were systematically looting mom-and-pop stores.
They stormed into bodegas under the guise of busting them and after smashing surveillance cameras, they would
do whatever they wanted. Hardworking immigrant store owners, who barely spoke English, were terrorized by
gun-toting cops. They stole thousands of dollars in cash and merchandise, forced them to the ground in handcuffs
and then browbeat and sometimes pummeled them, demanding to know how their surveillance systems worked
and where they kept their money. And one of the cops was molesting and sexually assaulting women wherever
they were making these busts. The work of Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker resulted in five cops taken off
the street, and hundreds of bogus criminal cases were dismissed. In the end, their investigative reporting brought
justice to the victimized women and immigrant store owners. And Benny got what he wanted—witness protection.
MIDNIGHT IN THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE will show how two veteran reporters formed an unlikely bond
with a convicted drug dealer who knew the secrets of both ruthless kingpins and dirty cops. In this provocative,
true-life thriller, Ruderman and Laker plunge into a gritty urban world to expose those secrets—some darker than
they ever imagined—while balancing motherhood and life at home the best they could. They single-handedly took
on the city’s most powerful narcotics unit. And not only did they win, they won a Pulitzer Prize.
A graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Wendy Ruderman joined the Philadelphia
Daily News in 2007.Barbara Laker, a native of Kent, England, joined the Philadelphia Daily News in 1993. Harper
Publication: February 2013
Estimated length: 224 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Schonwald, Josh
THE TASTE OF TOMORROW: Dispatches from the Future of Food
“The author effectively pairs his personal experiences with significant research, interviews and lively anecdotes.
An articulate food book that has an opinion without being preachy and that exudes a joy about food without being
oversimplified.” – Kirkus
For fans of Michael Pollan, a fascinating investigation that takes the conversation a step further into the trends and
technologies that are transforming the world of food, from Alice Water’s micro farm to nanotechnology and food
pills. Are food pills possible? Can we invent a new species of fish? Journalist Josh Schonwald vividly captures
this world and its characters—mad scientists, plucky entrepreneurs, renegade farmers, maverick food engineers,
brilliant idealists—racing to revolutionize what we eat. We meet a Harvard pediatrician who gave up a medical
career to change the way humans raise fish; a New York chef who believes he’s found the next great ethnic food;
a lawyer-turned-nanotechnologist who believes he can completely eliminate the need for food. Schonwald gives
us a rare glimpse at the ways new foods are invented. He has come to believe that his one-time hero Michael
Pollan has fostered a dangerous strain of anti-scientism, a foodie neo-Luddism. This culinary journey concludes
with an impassioned call to action, arguing that food production technologies such as genetic engineering,
nanotechnology, and food processing, must be embraced if we are to feed the world and protect the planet. Josh
Schonwald has written for the New York Times, Washington Post and Salon, and he edits
TheGreenFoodTechie.org. He and his wife and children live with an indoor aquaponic system. Harper
Rights sold: Japanese/Kodansha
Publication: April 2012
Estimated length: 288 pages
Book available
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Sites, Kevin
*THINGS THEY CANNOT SAY
From an award-winning journalist, a deeply personal and moving look at the impact of war, told through the stories
of soldiers on what they’ve seen, done and failed to do at war. Kevin Sites seeks to portray the human side of
war’s inhumanity. By telling the stories of the people on every side and those caught in the crossfire, he provides
a greater understanding of the true casualties of war. Site tells the stories of twelve soldiers he met while covering
the War in Afghanistan and the War in Iraq, plus other wars in different countries. As an embedded war
correspondent he had the opportunity to befriend and earn the trust of soldiers on the front lines. By sharing their
stories and his own experiences with post traumatic stress disorder, Site lends an honest and sympathetic voice
to a difficult subject. Harper Perennial
Publication: January 2013
Estimated length: 384 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Skinner, David
*THE STORY OF AIN’T: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published
The captivating, delightful, and surprising story of Merriam Webster’s Third Edition (1961), the dictionary that
provoked America’s greatest language controversy, what David Foster Wallace called, “the Fort Sumter of the
Usage Wars.” In 1934, Webster’s Second was the great gray eminence of American dictionaries. It served as the
all-knowing guide to the world of grammar and information. But in 1961, when Webster’s Third came along, it
ignited an unprecedented controversy in America’s newspapers, universities, and living rooms. The new
dictionary’s editor, Philip Gove, had created a reference work that had “no traffic with…artificial notions of
correctness or authority.” Correct use was determined by how the language was actually spoken, and not by
“notions of correctness” set by the learned few. Gove’s editorial approach had editors and scholars longing for
Webster’s Second. Reporters across the country sounded off on Gove and his dictionary. The New York Times
even called on Merriam to preserve the printing plates for Webster’s Second. And soon Dwight MacDonald, a
formidable American critic and writer, emerged as Webster’s Third’s chief nemesis when in the pages of the New
Yorker he likened the new dictionary to the end of civilization. Critical parties took particular umbrage at Webster’s
Third’s treatment of “aint,” a word that represented everything that was wrong with the dictionary; the definition of
which was, in fact, inaccurately described in Gove’s press release. Altogether, THE STORY OF AIN’T describes a
great cultural shift in America, when the voice of the masses resounded in the highest halls of culture, and the
division between highbrow and lowbrow was inalterably blurred. A dictionary will never again seem as important
as it did in 1961. David Skinner is the editor of Humanities magazine. Previously, he was an editor at The Weekly
Standard and before that managing editor of The Public Interest. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Salon,
the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, the Weekly Standard, American Spectator, Slate, and other
publications. Harper
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 352 pages
Manuscript available
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Stewart, Christopher
LOST IN THE WHITE CITY
For fans of The Lost City of Z—a real-life Indiana Jones story set in the jungle of Honduras from journalist
Christopher Stewart. LOST IN THE WHITE CITY chronicles the epic search for a lost city buried somewhere deep
in the jungles of the Mosquito Coast in Honduras. The city is called Ciudad Blanca, or the White City, and
explorers as far back as the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes have all tried to find it—with no luck. Some of
the men never came out of the jungle; they died or disappeared. Others got lost. La Mosquitia is one of the
biggest, wildest, and most impenetrable jungles in the world—known as the little Amazon. But in 1939, one man
claimed he located the El Dorado-like city. This is where our story begins. Theodore Morde was an American
explorer and World War II spy. He was part of a group who attempted to assasinate Hitler. His story is as layered
and enigmatic as the White City. But there’s a twist: he died under strange circumstances before disclosing the
city’s location. To this day, the mystery remains: What’s out there? What was it that drew in these explorers, and
at such terrific risk? With Morde’s secret journals in tow, award-winning journalist Christopher Stewart sets out to
find the answers. Christopher S. Stewart’s work has appeared in GQ, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine,
The Paris Review, Salon, Wired, and other publications. He is the author of HUNTING THE TIGER, a book about
Zeljko “Arkan” Raznatovic, the Serbian mobster and warlord. Harper
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Publication: January 2013
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Sullenberger, Chesley B.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
In this follow up to his New York Times bestselling autobiography HIGHEST DUTY, Captain ‘Sully’ Sullenberger,
one of the most captivating American heroes of the last decade, asks people of achievement what it takes to lead
and inspire. Sullenberger’s subjects come from fields as diverse as technology, medicine, education, sports,
philanthropy, finance, law and the military. Among those featured are Eugene Kranz, the NASA Flight Director
during the historic Gemini and Apollo programs; Michelle Rhea, founder of the New Teacher Project; and former
Labor Secretary Robert Reich. They are a vast assortment of individuals, yet all embody the truest sense of “moral
courage” and “leadership by personal example.” Sully takes readers on an inspirational journey that asks us to
consider the fundamental question: What is the nature of leadership? And, perhaps more importantly, how can
each of us learn something that we can apply to our own lives? Captain Chesley B. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger III became
a source of inspiration and hope for millions after his successful emergency water landing of a damaged
commercial aircraft on the Hudson River. His autobiography Highest Duty was a New York Times bestseller. Coauthor Douglas Century has co-authored several national bestsellers including UNDER AND ALONE with William
Queen, TAKEDOWN with Rick Cowan, STREET KINGDOM: Five Years Inside the Franklin Avenue Posse, and IF
NOT NOW, WHEN? with Colonel Jack Jacobs. William Morrow
HIGHEST DUTY sold Chinese Simplified Characters/China Renmin University Press; German/C. Bertelsmann
Germany; Japanese/Say-Zan-Sha Publications
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 336 pages
Galley available
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Swarns, Rachel
*AMERICAN TAPESTRY: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
“A grand, important book that shows how American bloodlines are rarely wholly black or purely white, neither one
race nor another. Nowhere is that more true than in American Tapestry, an eloquent history of the First Lady’s
family.”—James McBride, author of the New York Times bestseller The Color of Water
“Swarns provides numerous tales of heartbreak and achievement…Elegantly woven…tremendously moving.” –
Kirkus
“A work of impressive historical imagination and deep cultural significance.” – Steve Hahn, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to
the Great Migration.
In the tradition THE HEMMINGWAYS OF MONTICELLO and SLAVES IN THE FAMILY, New York Times reporter
Rachel Swarns uncovers the remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry that turns out to
be an expansive portrait of America itself. This sweeping saga traces the black, white and multiracial forebears of
America’s first African-American first lady back to the 19th century and reveals the identity of Mrs. Obama’s white
great-great-great grandfather, a man who remained hidden for more than a century in her family tree. This
fascinating book further illuminates the lives of the ordinary people who fought for freedom in the Revolutionary
and Civil Wars; who founded the Jewish Reform movement; who endured the agonies of slavery, the
displacement of the Great Migration, and the horrors of Jim Crow as they journeyed from slavery to the White
House in five generations. It is an intimate family history, but it is also the collective story of a changing nation.
Expertly researched and epic in sweep, AMERICAN TAPESTRY is a singularly inspiring story. Prior to joining the
New York Times, reporting from Russia, Cuba and Southern Africa where she served as the Johannesburg
bureau chief, Swarns worked for the Miami Herald. Amistad
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 304 pages; 8-page color insert; 3 interior photos; family tree
ARE available
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Tobin, Greg
*THE GOOD POPE: The Making of a Saint and the Remaking of the Church – The Story of John XXIII and
Vatican II
On the fiftieth anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s opening of the Vatican Council II in October 1962 and of his death
in June 1963, as well as for his likely canonization in 2013, Greg Tobin celebrates the “Good Pope” as a profile of
a greatly beloved religious figure who ushered in an era of hope and openness; and it is this “openness” that
powerful internal forces have been battling ever since, causing many of the Catholic crises we see today. The
Second Vatican Council is one of the most historic church councils and its legacy still reverberates through the
Catholic Church today. Many now take for granted the changes it ushered into the church: Mass being presented
in English with the priest facing the congregation, the study of the Bible by both clergy and laity, and the wide use
of laity in leadership positions in the church. In THE GOOD POPE, Tobin follows the Good Pope, Saint John
XXIII’s, footprints throughout the twentieth century, from his upbringing and church career to his surprise election
as pope in 1958 and the event that stunned the entire world: convoking the epochal meeting of all the world’s
bishops at the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican. Through Vatican II, Pope John advocated that the
Catholic Church play a positive, humanizing and spiritual role in transforming this new world and saving it from
looming self-destruction. Now, for the first time, Tobin presents a major and authoritative biography of John XXIII
and argues that the rejection of Pope John’s reforms directly resulted in the many criseses within the Church
today. Greg Tobin is vice president for university advancement at Seton Hall University. He is the author of THE
WISDOM OF ST. PATRICK, SAINTS AND SINNERS, HOLY FATHER (a biography of Pope Benedict XVI), and
WAS JESUS REALLY BORN ON CHRISTMAS? THE CATHOLIC ORIGINS OF HOLY DAYS, HOLIDAYS AND
EVERY DAY and co-general editor of Religion in America. He has been featured widely in national and
international media, including The New York Times, CBS, MSNBC, Fox News, and countless radio stations.
HarperOne
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 288 pages; black and white photo insert
Manuscript available: June 2012
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BUSINESS
Chipchase, Jan
Steinhardt, Simon
*HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: Observe the Ordinary Today to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow's
Customers
Who are your next customers? How do you figure out what goods and services will attract them in the future?
According to Jan Chipchase, corporate anthropologist and the Executive Creative Director of Global Insights for
Frog, most of the clues are right in front of us. The key is learning to see the ordinary in a totally new way, beyond
what people are doing to why they are doing them. He travels the world to watch how people work and play, and
how they adopt and often adapt technologies to meet their particular needs. Roughly 80% of the world lives on
less than $10 a day, yet over half the global populace owns a mobile phone. Chipchase’s examination of
developing nations speaks to the purchasing power of the developing world and how technology -- something like
a mobile phone -- can reshape the world market. Each chapter will offer a different lens on everyday life, offering
a glimpse of the future and gaining a new set of tools to prepare your business for your next customer. Why do
some restaurants in China serve fried chicken with the head still attached? Why do some taxis there have dates
prominently displayed on their seat covers? Why don’t Starbucks customers in the U.S. sniff the milk before
pouring it into their coffee? It all comes down to trust – trust in everyday transactions, which is crucial to success
in business. Chipchase takes the reader on a global journey to show how untapped markets can be discovered
by learning to look in a new way at people’s most ordinary daily activities and transactions. Jan Chipchase is the
Executive Creative Director of Global Insights for Frog, the pre-eminent design and innovation consultancy, whose
clients include Disney, GE, HP, Intel, Microsoft, MTV, and Siemens. He was previously a Senior Design Strategist
for Nokia, and has been named by Fortune magazine as on of the “50 smartest people in tech.” He writes for the
Economic Observer in China and for m-style magazine. He has been published in the New York Times, Business
Week, The Economist, Wired, Welt, Stern and Nikkei. Simon Steinhardt is the former managing editor of Swindle
magazine, and has written for such magazines as GOOD, Anthem, Intersection and Soma. HarperBusiness
Publication: March 2013
Estimated length:288 pages
Manuscript available: August 2012
Proposal available
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Christensen, Clayton
HOW WILL YOU MEASURE YOUR LIFE?
Clayton Christensen has just been awarded the Harvard Business Review's McKinsey Award for the fourth time!
Based on renowned Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen’s unmatched understanding of good
management theory, and his article from Harvard Business Review which has just been awarded the 2010
McKinsey Prize for best article, HOW WILL YOU MEASURE YOUR LIFE? will reveal how to find happiness in our
careers, our relationships, and through the moral decisions we make. Professor Christensen uses examples from
his own life to make his point, giving the book a Randy Pausch sensibility as well. At the beginning of each
semester, Christensen poses three questions to his students: How can I find happiness in my career? How can
my relationships with my spouse, my family, and my close friends become an enduring source of happiness? And
how can I stay out of jail? This book will use proven management theory to help answer these questions: how the
theories behind successful business strategies can impact creating a successful strategy for life; how allocating
resources in business can impact how we allocate our personal time and energy; how tools of cooperation in
business also impact how our families can become enduring sources of happiness. And finally, how avoiding the
marginal costs mistake can help us lead lives of integrity. By introducing a scientific framework to guide life
decisions, this book will help readers find happiness, success and integrity in their professional and personal lives,
and motivate others around these goals. Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of
Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations
Management and General Management faculty groups. He is the author of several books including THE
INNOVATOR'S DILEMMA, THE INNOVATOR’S PRESCRIPTION, DISRUPTING CLASS, and SEEING WHAT’S
NEXT. Before joining the faculty of Harvard Business School, Christensen worked for the Boston Consulting
Group and then served as chairman and president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation. He is the founder
of Innosight LLC (a consulting and training firm), of Innosight Ventures ( a venture firm focused on investing in
India), and co-founder of Rose Park Advisors LLC, an investment company which applies his research as an
investment strategy. Christensen also served as a White House Fellow, as assistant to U.S. Transportation
Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. HarperBusiness
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Rights sold: Chinese (Complex)/Commonwealth Publishing; Chinese (Simplified)/HarperCollins China; Dutch/Het
Spectrum; Italian/Mondadori; Japanese/Shoeisha; Korean/Random House Korea: Portuguese (Brazil)/Alta Books;
Russian/Alpina; Turkish/Optimist Yayim Dagitim; UK/HarperCollins UK
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 240 pages
Galley available
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Fox, Erica Ariel
*BEYOND YES: Lead Wisely and Live Fully by Getting Out of Your Own Way
Based on Fox’s paradigm-shifting work at the renowned Harvard Program on Negotiation, BEYOND YES offers a
method for achieving results by negotiating from the inside out. Inspired by her mentors Roger Fisher and William
Ury’s landmark book, GETTING TO YES, and embraced by such international organizations as the World Bank,
and DuPont, BEYOND YES offers a seven-point map of self discovery and a five step method for overcoming the
biggest challenge in every negotiation: closing the gap between what people know they should say and what they
actually do in practice. Fox calls this the “Performance Gap,” and she shows us how to close it. We may have
studied the most advanced negotiation practices and read all the leadership books, and still we find ourselves
falling into familiar traps when conversations become challenging. Why? Because we need to learn to negotiate
with ourselves before sitting down at the table with others. Then we can get what we want and feel good about
the result. BEYOND YES addresses how to recognize and develop ourselves when we are the problem. Erica
Ariel Fox has taught negotiation at Harvard Law School since 1996. She is also president of Mobius Executive
Leadership, a global consulting firm. In 2002, she founded the Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative at the Harvard
Program on Negotiation, which developed into the Global Network for Negotiation Insight and Exchange, which
she chairs. She also chairs (along with Dr. Jamil Mahuad, former president of Ecuador) a project called Beyond
Yes for the Common Good, the goal of which is to teach public leaders a new way of thinking about intractable
conflict so that we can foster international security, economic development, environmental stewardship, and social
progress. Fox is also the founder of the international network Mediators Beyond Borders, is part of the Core
Faculty for the American Institute of Mediation and is on the Board of the Harvard Mediation Program. She leads
Beyond Yes workshops at the Omega Institute and Esalen, and speaks at seminars around the world.
HarperBusiness
Rights sold: Dutch/Bruna; Japanese/Kodansha; Korean/Chungrim; Polish/MT Biznes; Portuguese (Brazil)/Saraiva;
Spanish/Conecta
Publication: October 2014
Estimated length: 324 pages
Manuscript available: January 2013
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Gasparino, Charles
*INSIDE JOB: The Massive Federal Crackdown on Stock Trading Crimes---and Why the Markets Always
Work Against the Little Guy
In INSIDE JOB, bestselling and award-winning journalist Charlie Gasparino follows the FBI and SEC as they
investigate and prosecute what may soon emerge as the most aggressive and broad reaching insider trading case
in our nation’s history. As he chronicles this massive federal crackdown which has already led to five arrests and
threatens to put some of the biggest names on Wall Street behind bars, Gasparino explores the gross inequality
that has grown between individual and professional investors over the last 20 years, highlighting the vast
information gap that favors professionals over amateurs, and the super wealthy over the rest of us. As with his
previous books, Gasparino, one of Wall Street’s most knowledgeable observers, names names but also brings a
rich historical perspective to this subject. INSIDE JOB reads like a novel, even though its troubling conclusions are
based solely in reality and on recent events. Charles Gasparino is a senior correspondent for the Fox Business
Network, where he reports on major developments in the world of finance and politics. He is also a blogger,
occasional radio host, New York Times bestselling author, and print journalist. He writes a regular column for The
New York Post and blogs for The Daily Beast. HarperBusiness
SELLOUT sold to: Chinese (simplified)/CITIC
THE KING OF THE CLUB sold to: Chinese (simplified)/CITIC
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Publication: January 2013
Estimated length: 336 pages
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Knoedelseder, William
BITTER BREW: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s Kings of Beer
Stretching through three centuries, from the start of the Civil War to today, BITTER BREW tells the astonishing
story of how five generations of men—fathers, sons, and brothers—took a small, bankrupt brewery that made
bad-tasting bock beer on the banks of the Mississippi and turned it into an international colossus, on the strength
of the world’s most popular brand of beer, Budweiser. In the process, the men of the Busch family tasted all that
America ever promised to the immigrant class from which they sprang—wealth, political power, public acclaim,
and a lifestyle that rivaled those of history’s most extravagant royalty. Along with this came a king-sized portion of
heartbreak, scandal, tragedy, and death. In chronicling the Busch way of life and business, veteran journalist
William Knoedelseder also tells a broader story of American progress and decline over the last 150 years. At its
core, BITTER BREW is a cautionary tale about prosperity, hubris, and loss. William Knoedelseder spent 12 years
as an investigative reporter at The Los Angeles Times, where his ground-breaking coverage of the recording
industry for the newspaper’s financial section resulted in the critically acclaimed book, STIFFED: The True Story of
MCA, the Music Business, and the Mafia. Knoedelseder has also been a television news executive, creating,
managing, and producing news programs for Knight Ridder, Disney, FOX, and USA. At the USA network, he was
vice president of news. His most recent book, I’M DYING UP HERE, is about the golden age of stand-up comedy
in the 1970’s. HarperBusiness
Publication: November 2012
Estimated length: 400 pages; 8 page black & white photo insert
Manuscript available: June 2012
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Montgomery, Cynthia
THE STRATEGIST: Be the Leader Your Business Needs
Cynthia Montgomery teaches the legendary OPM (Owner, President, Manager) course at Harvard Business
School, one of Harvard’s most popular executive courses. Participants are all seasoned executives, owners,
CEO’s, or COO’s of privately held companies who pay tens of thousands of dollars to attend, with the goal of
learning how to be more effective leaders and how to make their companies more successful. Montgomery’s
course teaches them a totally new way to understand leadership, a way that fuses leadership with strategy. Her
approach calls for a reset of current thinking about both. She shows that strategy is not just a tool for outwitting the
competition—it is the most powerful means a leader has for shaping a firm itself. Montgomery takes the readers
through the paces of her world-renowned course, teaching them how to develop the skills and sensibilities that
living strategy and real leadership demand. No other book marries strategy and leadership in the same way—a
way readers will find challenging, intriguing, and ultimately, inspiring. Cynthia A. Montgomery is the Timken
Professor of Business Administration and immediate past head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School,
where she has taught for over 20 years. For the past six years she has lead the strategy track in the School’s
highly regarded Owner, President, Manager Program (OPM), attended by top managers from around the globe.
Prior to Harvard, Montgomery taught at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Michigan and at
Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. At Harvard, she received the Greenhill Award for her outstanding
contributions to the school’s core MBA strategy course. She is a top Harvard Business Review author, and has
written for numerous other publications including Financial Times, American Economic Review, and Management
Science. She has served on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 500 companies—NewellRubbermaid Inc. and
UnumProvident—and a number of mutual funds managed by BlackRock. HarperBusiness
Rights sold: Complex Chinese/Yuan-Liou; Dutch/Balans; Finnish/Helsinki Region Chamber of Commerce;
German/Campus; Hebrew/Kinneret; Italian/RCS Universita; Japanese/Bungei Shunju; Korean/Woongjin Think
Big; Polish/MT Biznes; Portuguese (Brazil)/Sextante; Portuguese (Portugal)/Lua de Papel; Spanish/Santillana;
Turkish/Optimist; UK/Collins
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 208 pages
Galley available
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Pernick, Ron
Wilder, Clint
*CLEAN TECH NATION: How the U.S. Can Lead fin the New Global Economy
The 21st century will be dominated by the nations that lead the race in clean-tech development, deployment, and
wealth creation. As we move solidly into the clean-tech era, the countries that most effectively master low-carbon
technologies, build out new infrastructure, and invest in their technological and human capital, will lead the world
in creating jobs and growing their economies. China is currently spending hundreds of billions to dominate in
these emerging sectors, and now leads the world in both solar and wind turbine manufacturing. South Korea is
dedicating huge resources to a grand Clean Energy New Deal, and nations such as Japan, Germany, Denmark,
Spain, and others are also aggressively pursuing the burgeoning clean-tech economic opportunity. If the United
States is to lead, as it has in the earlier high tech and Internet revolutions, it needs to supercharge its efforts not
only at the federal level, but within the states, cities, and companies. In CLEAN TECH NATION, Ron Pernick and
Clint Wilder combine lively storytelling with expert analysis, providing a compelling call to action and outlining the
latest technology, policy, and financial tools the U.S. can wield to compete and win on this fast-changing,
competitive global battlefield. Ron Pernick is cofounder and principal of Clean Edge, a leading clean-tech research
and publishing firm. He has coauthored more than a dozen reports on clean technologies, coproduces the annual
Clean-Tech Investor Summit, manages Clean Edge’s stock index products, and consults to governments,
corporations, and entrepreneurs. Clint Wilder, contributing editor at Clean Edge, has covered the high-tech and
clean-tech industries as a business journalist for more than two decades. As editor-at-large and columnist for
Information Week, he won the 2002 American Society of Business Publication Editors gold award for best feature
series. HarperBusiness
CLEAN TECH REVOLUTION sold to: Chinese (simplified)/Economic Science Publishing House;
German/Boersenmedien; Hebrew/Matar; Japanese/First Press; Korean/Joongang M & B; Serbian/Kompjuter
Bibliot; Spanish/Planeta
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 320 pages; 22 charts throughout
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Pozen, Robert
*EXTREME PRODUCTIVITY: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours
Most people feel overwhelmed by their workloads and the never-ending demands on their time. Everyone in
business - senior executives, upcoming executives, professionals at governmental and non-profit entities, as well
as individual entrepreneurs – want and need to maximize their productivity. Robert Pozen, senior lecturer at the
Harvard Business School, has developed a set of principles and practices that have helped him maintain an
overwhelming level of productivity without becoming overwhelmed. His CV reads like that of three or four people:
top executive at two mutual fund giants, Fidelity and MFS Investment Management, attorney, government official,
law school professor, business school professor, and prolific author. And he has often been several of these
things at once. Last year the Harvard Business Review published seven interviews with Pozen on productivity.
The interviews received such a strong response that the Review asked him for a summary article called Extreme
Productivity, which was published in May 2011. This book will be a comprehensive expansion of that article. In
EXTREME PRODUCTIVITY, Pozen outlines the principles for getting a lot done. He explains how to focus on
results, not time spent, and lays out an analytic framework for setting time priorities. Pozen will show readers how
to develop their productivity over the course of their careers, based on his theory of maximizing options.
EXTREME PRODUCTIVITY includes practical exercises that help you learn how to become a more effective
reader, writer and public speaker. Robert C. Pozen is a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School and a
senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is Chairman Emeritus of MFS Investment Management, which
manages over $200 billion for over 5 million investors worldwide He is the author of a number of books including
THE FUND INDUSTRY: How Your Money is Managed. Pozen is a columnist for the Financial Times and the
Washington Post, and is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, and the
Wall Street Journal. HarperBusiness
Rights sold: Dutch/Het Spectrum; Japanese/Hayakawa; Korean/Gimm Young; Portuguese (Brazil)/Campus;
Spanish/Gestion 2000
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 224 pages
Manuscript available: July 2012
Proposal available
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Tate, Ryan
THE 20% DOCTRINE: How Tinkering, Goofing Off, and Breaking the Rules at Work Drives Success in
Business
“Tate's enthusiastic but objective study gathers momentum as the book progresses; each chapter builds on the
previous one, and he's quick to point out the practicality of the process. Whether readers are in the corner office or
the boiler room, they'll likely find Tate's opus to be inspiring and informative.” Publishers Weekly
In THE 20% DOCTRINE, journalist Ryan Tate investigates the triumphs and failures of successful mainstay
corporations. He offers new inspiration for businesses and workers alike: future innovation will be fueled by
passionate workers and the companies that give them the time to explore what they care about most. Creative
solutions and unorthodox policies for driving and inspiring productivity abound in THE 20% DOCTRINE. Each
chapter focuses in on a case study; for example, Yahoo’s Hack Day, Manhattan’s Shake Shack, or Sternlicht’s W
Hotel redesign. And 20% Innovation Time Off: at companies like Google, employees are encouraged to spend
20% of their work time on projects they’re personally interested in. Almost half of Google’s new product launches
have originated from this policy, including Gmail, Google News, Orkut, and AdSense. Ryan Tate is a business
journalist and tech writer at Gawker Media. HarperBusiness
Rights sold: Japanese/Hankyu Communications; Portuguese (Brazil)/Campus
Publication: April 2012
Estimated length: 208 pages
Book available
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PSYCHOLOGY / SELF-HELP
Alborzian, Yogi Cameron
*THE DAVID PLAN: Your Complete Mind and Body Transformation for Lasting Health and Happiness
Michelangelo didn’t build the statue David in a day. It took years to develop that masterpiece. Based on the
traditions of Yoga and Ayurveda, the oldest medical and spiritual systems in use today, THE DAVID PLAN
provides an ambitious but authentic 52 week program to lead you to greater health and happiness. It is based on
The Yoga Sutras 8 fold path – eight distinct, non-religious steps that we can pursue for the sake of eventually
attaining a state of contentment and bliss. THE DAVID PLAN is a representation of an ancient system that has
been outlined and delivered in a way that’s accessible and relevant to our modern lives. Yogi Cameron Alborzian
left the world of high fashion to seek the higher path available to all of us. In 2003, he began his ongoing studies in
Ayurveda at Arsha Yoga in India after completing the training at the Integral Yoga Institute in New York City. Yogi
Cameron has appeared on NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, The Ellen Degeneres Show, E! Entertainment
and Extra, as well as in such publications as Elle magazine. He is the author of THE GURU IN YOU. HarperOne
THE GURU IN YOU sold to: German/Arkana; Russian/Sophia Publishers; Thai/PD Creation; Turkish/Kuraldisi
Yayinevi
Publication: January 2013
Estimated length: 256 pages; illustrations throughout
Material available: August 2012
(CBR)
Bardacke, Nancy
MINDFUL BIRTHING: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond
MINDFUL BIRTHING is the first book to apply the power of mindfulness—the universal capacity of the human
mind to pay attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to whatever thoughts, emotions or body sensations arise
in the present moment—to what can be one of the most challenging times in a woman’s life. Using the same
methodology pioneered by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, MINDFUL BIRTHING introduces parents-to-be to mindfulness
practice, a tool to access their inner resources of well-being during this life transforming and often stressful time
and beyond. It offers these benefits and tools: increased confidence and decreased fear of childbirth during
pregnancy; increased ability to handle the common complaints of pregnancy; pain coping skills for childbirth; deep
parent-infant attachment; improved couple communication and cooperation both before and after the baby is born;
and lasting skills for stress reduction in parenting—and in life. In her 37 years of working as a nurse-midwife,
Nancy Bardacke, R.N., C.N.M., M.A., has attended deliveries in homes, birth centers and hospitals and has taught
the art of midwifery to others. She trained with Mindful-Based Stress Reduction pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.,
who encouraged her to apply MBSR to pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting. In 2006 she became an Assistant
Clinical Professor in the University of California - San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing, Dept of Family Health
Care Nursing and in 2007 joined the staff at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF, where she began
teaching the Mindful-Based Childbirth Preparation course. HarperOne paperback
Rights sold: German/Arbor Verlag; Turkish/Dogan Kitapcilik
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 368 pages; diagrams and drawings throughout
Galley available
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Barnes, Carolyn
*UNTITLED CAROLYN BARNES
Carolyn Barnes, of CLEANMOMMA fame, teaches us how to lose weight, get fit and stay healthy while you clean
your house! She has developed a unique workout which combines ballet, pilates and cardio with common
household chores like scrubbing the floors, emptying the dishwasher or doing laundry. By partnering her
strengthening, body-toning exercises with these tasks, she maximizes not only time but also the effectiveness of
the workout. Filled with step-by-step photos to take readers through the workout along with tips on creating a
healthy lifestyle and diet, this book is a multi-tasker’s dream. Carolyn Barnes is a mother of 2, certified pilates
instructor, health and wellness coach, motivational speaker, and TV personality. Willam Morrow Paperbacks
Publication: January 2013
Estimated length: 256 pages; black and white photos throughout
Manuscript available: May 2012
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Brinkley, Dannion
TEN THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO: How the Secrets of the Afterlife Can Transform Your Life Now
Dannion Brinkley had a near death experience that he chronicled in his bestselling book, SAVED BY THE LIGHT,
and since then, he has experienced a dramatic change in personality and purpose for his life. Before, he was an
uncaring war veteran, but now is a compassionate man trying to make real here on earth what he saw during his
brief visit to heaven. One of the greatest things to come out of Brinkley’s NDE was the realization that we don’t
have to live lives of fear, anxiety, or worry, and he now offers this insight to all in TEN THINGS TO KNOW
BEFORE YOU GO. Here, he provides the ten secrets everyone needs to know in order to feel the peace,
happiness, and joy of heaven today, in this life. This will be an insightful guide to how best live our lives today in
view of the afterlife to come. DANNION BRINKLEY is the author of the New York Times bestseller SAVED BY
THE LIGHT and SECRETS OF THE LIGHT. Dannion has survived insurmountable odds including two lightning
strikes, open-heart surgery, brain surgery, a massive grand mal seizure, and three near death experiences,
giving him unparalleled expertise in the area of life after death. In 2001, Dannion was nominated for the National
Hospice and Palliative Care Association’s prestigious Heart of Hospice Award. Dannion has appeared on major
television and radio shows, including Larry King, Oprah, Dateline, Unsolved Mysteries, The Pax Network, and
many others. A made for television movie based on Dannion’s best seller, SAVED BY THE LIGHT, debuted as
one of the highest rated television movies in FOX Television Network history. HarperOne
SAVED BY THE LIGHT sold to: German/Droemer; Italian/Edizioni My Life; Polish/Studio Astropsychologii;
Portuguese (Brazil)/Larousse; Romanian/Adevar Divin; Spanish/Obelisco
SECRETS OF THE LIGHT sold to: Chinese (Complex)/Fine Press; Chinese (Simplified)/Beijing Xinon Media;
German/Droemer; Italian/Macro Gruppo; Japanese/Natural Spirit; Korean/Heaven’s Walk Publishers;
Marathi/Mehta Publishing; Polish/Studio Astropsychologii; Portuguese (Brazil)/Larousse; Spanish/Ediciones B;
UK/Piatkus
Publication: March 2013
Estimated length: 224 pages
Manuscript available: December 2012
(CBR)
Colquhoun, James
ten Bosch, Laurentine
*HUNGRY FOR CHANGE
In HUNGRY FOR CHANGE, the world’s leading experts in nutrition and natural medicine team up with the
creators of the groundbreaking documentary Foodmatters, on a practical and prescriptive companion to
discovering true health. The book exposes the shocking secrets the diet, weight loss and food industry don’t want
you to know about - deceptive strategies designed to keep you craving more and more so that the foods we are
eating actually keep us stuck in the diet trap. Features include: How to navigate the supermarket - what to buy and
what to avoid; the real truth behind “DIET,” “SUGAR-FREE” and “FAT-FREE” products; how to overcome food
addictions and cravings; why fad diets don’t work; what food additives to avoid and how to read labels; what fat
and cellulite are and how do we get rid of them for good; the most effective detox and cleansing strategies; and
how to eat for clear eyes, glowing skin and healthy hair. The experts (including contributors such as Jamie Oliver,
Alejandro Junger and Christiane Northrup) share their secrets, offering the reader a complete and practical
guide to creating lasting weight loss, abundant energy and vibrant health. With real life transformational stories,
detoxes, recipes, and more, this book will be chock-full of solutions that could save your life. James Colquhoun
and Laurentine ten Bosch are nutritional consultants turned filmmakers. Motivated by an illness in their own family,
the duo set off to make the documentary FoodMatters in 2008. Their second documentary, Hungry for Change,
will be released in October 2012. HarperOne
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 256 pages; photos throughout
Manuscript available: July 2012
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Dotz, Tom
Hoobyar, Tom
NLP: A Power-User’s Manual
By the team behind the bestselling NLP: The New Technology of Achievement comes an essential new guide to
NLP techniques—for self-development and influencing others—in a focused, step-by-step handbook. NLP
(Neuro-Linguistic Programming) has helped millions of people overcome fears, increase confidence, enrich
relationships, and achieve greater success since its creation in the mid 1970’s. Written by an NLP Master
Practitioner and Training Coach, with an introduction from the President of NLP Comprehensive, NLP: The Power
User’s Manual guides users to peak performance in business and life. In twelve illuminating sections, it leads you
through dozens of “discoveries”—revelations of NLP practice that enable you to explore your own personal
thinking patterns, to manage them—and to transform them. Divided into two categories, “All About You” and “All
About the Other Guy,” these strategies offer a personal and interpersonal program that frees you to become better
at managing your feelings instead of being dominated by them, managing your motivations, being less
judgemental, more productive, more confident, more flexible, more persuasive, liked, and respected. Through
“mind reading” techniques—non-verbal communication, and “hearing what’s missing”—learn the secrets of
relating with others, understanding how they are thinking—and influencing them. A streamlined all-purpose guide
for both newcomers and NLP veterans, NLP: A Power User’s Manual is the new all-in-one, eye-opening blueprint
for your own ultimate success. Tom Hoobyar has been conducting advanced programs in NLP for almost 15
years, and has served on the board of NLP Comprehensive, a world-leader in NLP training. William Morrow
Paperbacks
NLP: The New Technology of Achievement sold: Chinese/complex characters/Shy Mau Publishing (license
expired); Chinese (simplified characters)/Higher Education Press (license expired); French/Le Meridienne (license
expired); Hebrew/Sekel (license expired); German/Junfermann; Hungarian/Nyitott Konyv; Indonesian/Pustaka
Baca; Korean/Gimm-Young; Polish/Helion (license expired); Portuguese in Brazil/Campus (license
expired);Romanian/Curtea Veche (licensed expired); Russian/EXMO; Spanish/Urano (license expired);
Turkish/Beyaz Yayinlari (license expired); UK/Nicholas Brealey
Publication: February 2013
Estimated length: 224 pages
Manuscript available: July 2012
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Driver, Janine
YOU CAN’T LIE TO ME: The Revolutionary Program to Supercharge Your Inner Lie Detector and Get to the
Truth
Consider this: 80 percent of lies go undetected; 9 out of 10 people who apply for jobs overemphasize, or
downright fabricate, positive traits about themselves; since 1991, infidelity among men over 60 has doubled; in
women, it has tripled; adult men and women lie in 1 out of every 5 social interactions. But what if you had a test
that tipped you off the instant a lie was being told? Janine Driver (aka the ‘Lyin’ Tamer) has spent almost two
decades teaching hundreds of thousands of people—chiefs of police, titans of industry, suspicious housewives,
jaded lovers—how to protect themselves from liars. In YOU CAN’T LIE TO ME, Driver reveals all her tricks,
distilling years of behind-the-scenes knowledge, cutting-edge science, and dramatic case studies into a simple,
shockingly effective program that teaches you how to get the truth. You’ll learn lie-spotting techniques that will
help you to surround yourself with honest people, protect your aging loved ones from unscrupulous con artists,
outsmart backstabbing colleagues; attract true love and spot losers from a mile away; start relationships on the
right foot; and most importantly, stop lying to yourself-and a live happier, more productive, more passionate life.
World-renowned body language expert, Janine Driver, is the New York Times bestselling author of YOU SAY
MORE THAN YOU THINK, which has been translated into 11 languages. She spent 16 years at the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, training thousands of law enforcement agents how to decipher fact from fiction.
Driver is the founder and president of The Body Language Institute (BLI) and an in-demand motivational speaker
for many of the world’s most elite companies. She has appeared on a number of television programs, including
The Today Show, The Dr. Oz Show, and Rachel Ray. HarperOne
Rights sold: Korean/Book21; Russian/AST
YOU SAY MORE THAN YOU THINK sold to: Chinese (Complex)/Business Weekly; Chinese (Simplified)/CITIC;
Croatian/Skorpion; German/Random House; Indonesian/Mizan Pustaka; Japanese/Media Factory;
Korean/Business Books Publishing; Portuguese/Editorial Bizancio; Russian/AST; Vietnamese/Tri Viet
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Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 288 pages; illustrations throughout
Manuscript available
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Finkelstein, Michael B., MD, F.A.C.P., A.B.I.H.M.
*BEYOND CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE: The 77 Skillful Questions that Will Finally Heal You
“Michael Finkelstein is an astute clinician who understands how to treat the illness AND the patient.” – Mehmet C.
Oz MD
“Beyond Conventional Medicine represents a superbly insightful advancement in the literature of Integrative
Health. It is important, fun to read, and potentially life changing.” – Andrew Weil, MD
Healthcare is changing. It is no longer a fringe concept to rely on prescriptions and specialists alongside
naturopathic remedies and integrative professionals. Dr. Michael Finkelstein is uniquely positioned at the nexus of
Eastern and Western medicine. Finkelstein, a pioneer in the growing field of Integrative Medicine, gives frustrated
patients the tools to adopt an integrative approach to manage their own healing. Drawing on decades of
experience in both Internal and Integrative Medicine, Dr. Finkelstein offers the 77 Skillful Questions that will allow
readers to understand their symptoms, their causes, and the entire realm of solutions open to them, in order to
tackle even the most persistent and chronic illnesses. We will learn how to expand our understanding of how
physical, psychological, environmental and spiritual factors connect to our wellness, making use of ultramodern
science without losing touch with traditional wisdom. Michael Finkelstein combines a doctor’s precision with the
insight of a gifted healer. He earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated from
the Program in Integrative Medicine under preeminent holistic doctor and bestselling author, Andrew Weil, MD.
Tens of thousands of patients have embraced Finkelstein’s unique blend of integrative and internal medicine
expertise and traditional and progressive philosophies, and 750,000 listeners regularly tune into his online radio
show The Skillful Living Room. Now he can help the hundreds of thousands of other patients who are frustrated
with the limitations of conventional medicine. William Morrow
Publication: Summer 2013
Estimated length: 320 pages
Manuscript available: September 2012
Proposal available
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Ford, Debbie
COURAGE: Overcoming Fear and Igniting Self-Confidence
Every day we are confronted with hundreds of choices that either make us feel confident and strong or rob us of
the things we desire the most. When we lack confidence, we feel unworthy of having what we want, of speaking
our truth, of making decisions that have the ability to change and improve our lives. When we feel weak, helpless,
or powerless, we lack the strength to ward off the thoughts of defeat, negativity and fear that fill our minds and
prevent us from living the lives we want. For decades, Debbie Ford has been helping people break free from the
emotional baggage that has held them hostage and discover profound tools for finding confident and authentic self
expression. In THE COURAGE WITHIN, Debbie Ford provides a life-altering journey based on decades of work.
By learning to accept all of who we are, including our histories, our flaws, our misgivings, our weaknesses, and
our fears, we discover that what keeps us stuck and feeling weak is nothing more than an illusion of the past. By
showing us how to be confident, stand in all our strength, and feel great about ourselves, a new self emerges with
the power to accomplish anything. By introducing seven guiding principles, Debbie Ford expertly guides readers
out of the common pitfalls of fear and insecurity and into the strength, power and freedom of a courage that has
been present all along. Debbie Ford is the national bestselling author of SPIRITUAL DIVORCE, THE BEST YEAR
OF YOUR LIFE, WHY GOOD PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS, THE 21 DAY CONSCIOUSNESS CLEANSE and the
co-author of THE SHADOW EFFECT. She conducts workshops across the country. HarperOne
Rights sold: Finnish/Basam Books; German/Ansata; Spanish/Santillana Mexico; Turkish/Butik Yayincilik
THE 21 DAY CONSCIOUSNESS CLEANSE sold to: Chinese (Simplified)/CITIC; French/Dauphin Blanc;
Japanese/Sunmark; Polish/Studio Astropsychologii; Turkish/Butik Yayincilik
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 240 pages
Book available
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Greene, Tiger
*SACKING OBESITY
Tiger Greene had always been a “big kid,” but by age 12 he weighed 250 pounds-twice the normal weight for a
child of his age. He had sleep apnea, was pre-diabetic, and had signs of fatty liver disease and heart damage-all
due to his obesity. He realized that he needed to make a change. But there were no TV shows he could turn to for
inspiration, or any other “big kids” who were winning the battle with weight loss whose behavior he could emulate.
So he decided to become that very kid. In addition, he decided to change not only his own life, but also the lives of
other overweight kids, and started, along with his father, a non-profit foundation called Team Tiger to help kids
fight childhood obesity. Within just six months of making simple but important changes in his diet and committing
himself to a regular twice a day workout regimen, Tiger lost 50 pounds and 11 inches from his waistline, cut his
percentage of body fat in half, and got off all his medications. Tiger’s goal went far beyond reaching any target
weight. He set a mission for himself-to help families all over the world get healthy, and to be a role model other
kids can look to for inspiration. From devising healthier menu options for local Little League park concessions, to
partnering with NFL players for a series of sports and wellness camps to help obese kids around the country, to
speaking to children’s healthcare providers, Tiger has worked to spread the message that kids really can change
their lives. HarperOne
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 256 pages; 75 images for instruction and illustration
Manuscript available: April 2012
(CBR)
Joyner, Donna Richardson
WITNESS TO FITNESS: 30 Days of Powerful Exercises, Delicious Food, and Joyful Praise
For the first time, Donna Richardson Joyner has created a fitness program that harnesses the strength, support,
and joy to be found in faith. Based on her popular Body Gospel fitness DVDs, this program combines Joyner’s
proven nutritional program and exercise plan to help readers achieve the same dramatic results her DVD fans
have enjoyed for years. There is no better way to glorify God than to take care of the one body we’ll ever get. For
nearly 30 years, Donna Richardson Joyner has been inspiring and empowering men, women, and children to lead
healthier lives. Certified by AFAA and ACE as an International Fitness Expert, she has appeared on national
television, hosted her own fitness program, “Sweating in the Spirit,” and created the popular “Body Gospel” fitness
DVDs. Currently serving her second term on the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition, Joyner is a
member of the Fitness Hall of Fame and has been named one of the “25 most inspiring women in America” by
Essence magazine. HarperOne
Publication: January 2013
Estimated length: 304 pages; black and white photos throughout
Manuscript available: September 2012
(CBR)
Junger, Alejandro
CLEAN FOR LIFE: A Doctor's Guide to Taking Back Your Health and Vitality in a Toxic World
New York Times bestselling author Dr. Junger has shown that the majority of common ailments we all face—from
colds to depression, allergies to indigestion, sleeplessness to extra weight—is the direct result of toxic buildup in
our bodies. The combination of our standard diet and the chemical filled environments surrounding us has left our
bodies compromised and unable to perform their natural healing functions. Typical medical treatments for these
health issues address the symptoms for temporary relief but fail to get at the root cause of the problems. CLEAN
FOR LIFE attacks the root of the problems and restores our body’s amazing healing powers. The annoying health
issues will go away, additional weight will vanish, and we will literally look and feel better than ever before. Unlike
the 21 day cleanse, this is no temporary fix. CLEAN FOR LIFE is specifically designed to inform our choices and
guide our behaviors every day of the year. Utilizing the best of Western medicine and wellness practices, Dr.
Junger explains the scientific realities of living in a chemical world and then helps readers chart their own personal
health course, exploding myths and mistaken beliefs along the way. Alejandro Junger, M.D. is a doctor of Internal
Medicine and Cardiology in New York City and Los Angeles. He has studied Eastern medicine in India, and was
Medical Director of WE Care Holistic Health Center in Palm Springs, a world famous center for fasting, cleansing
and detoxification. Currently, he is in private practice at the renowned Eleven Eleven Wellness Center and is the
director of Integrative Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. HarperOne
CLEAN sold to: Chinese (Complex)/Business Weekly; Chinese (Simplified)/Beijing Fonghong Media;
Croatian/Planetopija; Danish/Det bla Hus; Finnish/Basam Books; French/Ed. Ariane; Hebrew/Focus Publishing;
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Indonesian/Mizan; Italian/Il Punto d’Incontro; Korean/Sam & Parkers; Polish/MT Biznes; Romanian/Paralela;
Russian/Exmo; Spanish/Siete Cuentos
Publication: March 2013
Estimated length: 304 pages
Manuscript available: September 2012
(CBR)
Karp, Harvey
HAPPIEST BABY’S GUIDE TO GREAT SLEEP: Simple Solutions for Kids from Birth to 5 Years
The world’s #1 parenting expert, bestselling author of The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler
on the Block, turns his unparalleled insight to solving parents’ #1 concern: poor sleep. THE HAPPIEST BABY’S
GUIDE TO GREAT SLEEP redefines our culture’s understanding of a child’s sleep needs and gives foolproof
advice on how to quickly turn nighttime shrieks into night long serenity. This book will introduce paradigm-shifting
techniques debunking a multitude of myths that have frustrated and misled parents for centuries. For example,
Never wake a sleeping baby…Wrong! Babies sleep best in a quiet room… Wrong! Rocking babies to sleep spoils
them…Wrong! The book equips parents with a host of unique, sure-fire, slumber-boosting techniques, such as: 2
Good to Be True: Two steps that train even newborns to sleep; Scheduling: The truth (and folly) in raising kids by
the clock; “Dream Feeds” and “Sleepy” Foods: Meals that boost an infant’s slumber. Dr. Karp is the world’s
leading baby expert. He has been a pediatrician and child development specialist for 30 years and is an Assistant
Professor of Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine. Through his books and DVDs he has taught his
extraordinary techniques to millions of parents, including: Michele Pfeiffer, Madonna, Jody Foster, Pierce Brosnan,
Alfre Woodard, Ann Archer, and Hunter Tylo. In 2005, he closed his private practice to dedicate his professional
life to teaching and writing. He is one of the most respected authorities on children’s health. His books have been
translated into 24 languages. William Morrow
THE HAPPIEST BABY ON THE BLOCK sold: Chinese (simplified)/Cheers Publishing; Chinese
(complex)/Commonwealth Publishing; Croatian/Planetopija; Czech/Euromedia; French/Editions ADA;
German/Random House; Hebrew/Tzarfati Hadad; Indonesian/PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama; Italian/Orme Editori;
Japanese/Kodansha; Korean/Haneon Co. Ltd.; Polish/Wydawnictwo Mamania; Portuguese (Brazil)/Academia de
Inteligência
Ltda;
Romanian/Curtea
Veche;
Russian/Popurri;
Serbian/SAINTMAX;
Thai/WeLearn;
Turkish/Yakamoz Yayincilik Hizmetleri; Vietnamese/Hanoi Book Distribution; UK/Michael Joseph
THE HAPPIEST TODDLER ON THE BLOCK sold: Chinese (simplified)/Cheers Publishing; Croatian/Planetopija;
Czech/Euromedia; French/Editions ADA; German/Random House; Korean/Haneon Co. Ltd.; Portuguese (Brazil)
/Novo Secula; Russian/Popurri; Spanish/Ediciones Medici; Turkish/Yakamoz Yayincilik Hizmetleri;
Vietnamese/Llac Hong Book
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 368 pages
Manuscript available
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Manning, Drew
*FIT2FAT2FIT: The Unexpected Lessons from Gaining and Losing 75 Pounds on Purpose
Drew Manning, a longtime personal trainer and admitted fitness addict, has never been overweight. He has never
craved processed foods, or known what it was like to move through the world carrying dozens of extra pounds. So
he decided to learn what millions of Americans, and many of his clients, live with every day. In May 2011, Manning
made the radical decision to let himself go. For six months, he stopped exercising and ate a common American
diet of fast food and refined, processed snacks. Followers of his website voted on weekly food challenges, and
Manning lived up to his end of the bargain by devouring towers of doughnuts or completing “the Fuddrucker
Challenge” (dining on a one-pound burger, one pound of bacon cheese fries, and a huge brownie sundae, that is).
The result? A seventy-five pound weight gain, more than he even expected. Manning then devoted the next six
months to losing the weight, sharing his meal plans, exercise strategies, ups, and downs with followers of his
website. Now, Manning is candidly describing all the details of that journey: He will reveal that at the outset, he
found some joy in relaxing and allowing himself to let go of decades’ worth of health and fitness rules. He’ll detail
the quickly mounting physical effects of his experiment-including plummeting energy, lower levels of testosterone,
and the challenge of merely putting on his shoes-as well as the self-consciousness that came with his heavier
physique. And he will consider the impact this experience had on his family, from his struggle to play with his
young children to the strain his changing health and body put on his marriage. What started in his mind as a
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physical experiment, transformed into an impactful and eye-opening emotional journey. Obesity is an epidemic,
but very few people can understand it from both sides. Manning’s unique, compassionate take on the issue is as
fascinating to read as it is crucial to understand. Drew Manning is a personal trainer and medical technician.
HarperOne
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 224 pages; black and white illustrations throughout
Manuscript available: February 2012
(CBR)
Romaniello, John
Bornstein, Adam
*MAN 2.0: Unlock the Secret to Burn Fat Faster, Build More Muscle, Have Better Sex, and Become the Best
Version of Yourself
For the past 10 years, John Romaniello and Adam Bornstein have been pioneers in the once-obscure field of
hormone optimization (think THE 4-HOUR BODY meets BORN TO RUN). Their research into its practical
applications has led them to groundbreaking discoveries in virtually every aspect of human performance, health,
and self-improvement. This is not about illegal needles and pills—this is the key to all of the natural ways to
accomplish all of the above. From secret research in Olympic labs, to real life testing and the proven results
they've seen with their own clients, MAN 2.0 is an inside look at how to make men smarter, more energetic,
leaner, and prevent aging. MAN 2.0 is a cutting-edge look at the future of health, and the key to how every man
can become the person he (and the people he loves) want him to be. John Romaniello is one of the most prolific
writers and trainers in the fitness industry. His list of clients includes Timothy Ferriss (THE 4-HOUR BODY),
Tucker Max (I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL), and Gary Vaynerchuk (THE THANK YOU ECONOMY), as
well as Major League Baseball pitchers, WWE wrestlers, and even Academy Award winning actress Natalie
Portman. He’s also worked with hundreds of “regular” guys whose goals revolved around being not-so-regular. He
is a regular contributor to Men’s Health, T-Nation and AskMen.com. Adam Bornstein is one of the most popular
and well-respected fitness experts in print, digital, and broadcast media. As editorial director for Livestrong.com
(proud partner of the Lance Armstrong Foundation), he manages the content for the world's largest health and
fitness website, with more than 18 million unique visitors per month. As a fitness authority, Bornstein is the author
of several fitness and nutrition books inlcuding THE MEN’S HEALTH DIET, THE WOMEN’S HEALTH DIET, THE
MEN’S HEALTH BIG BOOK OF ABS, and THE WOMEN’S HEALTH BIG BOOK OF ABS. He is the former fitness
editor for Men’s Health magazine and has been featured in ESPN: The Magazine, People, Men’s Fitness, Details,
USA Today, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Parade Magazine. HarperOne
Publication: April 2013
Estimated length: 256 pages; illustrations throughout
Manuscript available: October 2012
Proposal available
(CBR)
Roth, Patrick
*THE END OF BACK PAIN: Access Your Hidden Core to Heal Your Body
Back pain manifests itself to millions in many different forms, and damages its victims’ physical and emotional
health. Everyone suggests a different cure: surgeons want to cut, chiropractors want to adjust, physical therapists
want to perform physical therapy. But as Dr. Patrick Roth reveals in his provocative book, THE HIDDEN CORE,
back pain is usually caused by an underused set of “invisible” muscles that support the spine, and a back that is
underused is an unhealthy back. The good news is that you can do something about it. Developing that inner core
can relieve, control, and even prevent chronic back pain, as well as improve the appearance and health of your
entire body, and Dr. Roth offers a focused exercise plan and specialized workout program to do just that. THE
HIDDEN CORE is a refreshing approach to truly strengthening the core of the body and to treating and preventing
back pain from a neurosurgeon who provides an innovative exercise based program, helps patients view the body
from a totally different perspective, and inspires readers to push their bodies hard in order to cure its maladies. Dr.
Patrick Roth is the Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Hackensack University Medical
Center in New Jersey and is a founding member of North Jersey Brain & Spine Center. He is board certified in
Neurological Surgery by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and was named one of the best doctors in
New York by New York Magazine in 2010. Roth is a member of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery,
the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the American Medical Association, the North American Spine
Society, and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has published in numerous medical journals.
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Publication: March 2013
Estimated length: 256 pages; 25 – 50 photos throughout
Manuscript available: October 2012
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Seelig, Tina
inGENIUS: A Crash Course on Creativity
Is the ability to creatively tackle problems innate or can it be learned? Like most human traits, both answers are
correct. Some people are inherently more innovative than others. But, just like math, or writing, everyone can
improve with practice. Tina Seelig, Ph.D. teaches creativity in her courses on innovation at Stanford School of
Engineering. After ten years of experience, she confidently asserts that not only can creativity can be taught but
that there are a clear set of tools, skills, and approaches that can unlock anyone’s creative potential. inGENIOUS
reminds us that creativity is not just something that you think about—it is something that you do. It is as natural as
breathing, and just as necessary for leading a successful and fulfilling life. Whether it is in the conference room,
classroom, or kitchen, new ideas open up a world of wonderful possibilities, and every moment provides an
opportunity for creativity that will enhance our lives. Tina Seelig has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stanford and is
the Executive Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, the entrepreneurship center at Stanford
University School of Engineering. She teaches a course in the Department of Management Science &
Engineering on Creativity and Innovation. She is the author of the international bestseller, WHAT I WISH I KNEW
WHEN I WAS 20. HarperOne
Rights sold: Chinese (Complex)/Yuan-Liou Publishing; Chinese (simplified)/HC China; Hebrew/Kinneret;
Japanese/Hankyu Communications; Korean/Woongjin Think Big; Portuguese (Brazil)/Livros de Safra;
Turkish/Kuraldisi Yayincilik; UK/Hay House
WHAT I WISH I KNEW WHEN I WAS 20 sold to: Chinese (Complex)/Yuan-Liou Publishing; Chinese
(Simplified)/Shaanxi Normal University Press; Hebrew/Kinnert; Japanese/Hankyu Communications;
Korean/Woongjin Think Big; German/Ariston; Portuguese (Brazil)/Livros de Safra; Turkish/Kuraldisi Yayinlari;
Vietnamese/Tre Publishing
Publication: April 2012
Estimated length: 224 pages
Book available
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Stoddard, Alexandra
*THINGS MY DAUGHTERS HAVE TAUGHT ME ...AND MORE THINGS I WANT THEM TO KNOW
In this inspirational follow up to the beloved Things I Want My Daughters to Know, bestselling author, designer
and lifestyle philosopher Alexandra Stoddard reflects on the lessons she’s learned from her own daughters and
offers more words of wisdom in return. Stoddard is the author of many books including Living a Beautiful Life,
Choosing Happiness and You Are Your Choices. William Morrow
UK: HarperCollins US; Translation: Brandt & Brandt Literary Agency
Publication: April 2013
Estimated length: 224 pages
Manuscript delivery: May 2012
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Tan, Chade-Meng
SEARCH INSIDE YOURSELF: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)
Foreword by Daniel Goleman (author of Emotional Intelligence)
Introduction by Jon Kabat-Zinn (author of Wherever You Go, There You Are)
"This book and the course it's based on represent one of the greatest aspects of Google's culture -- that one
individual with a great idea can really change the world." - Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google
“Search Inside Yourself shows that if you change the habitual patterns of your mind you can change their resulting
attitudes and emotions and find peace and inner happiness.” – His Holiness the Dalai Lama
“Combining timeless wisdom with modern science, Chade-Meng Tan has created an entertaining and practical
guide to success and happiness.” – Deepak Chopra
You’ve heard of “Search Inside the Book.” Now it’s time to “Search Inside Yourself.” From award-winning
engineer and Google’s official Jolly Good Fellow (that is his real title!), comes a personal growth program that
focuses on developing emotional intelligence through mindfulness, making us more productive at work and better
leaders, while becoming more peaceful, happy and compassionate individuals. Created for Google by a diverse
group of individuals including a Zen Master, a CEO, a Stanford University scientist, and author Daniel Goleman,
“Search Inside Yourself” is a life changing program that will improve both your personal and professional
lives. Chade-Meng Tan became the first engineer in Google’s history to leave the Engineering department and
join their Peoples Ops Group, where he leads this and other personal-growth programs. He has been teaching the
"Search Inside Yourself" course since 2007 with amazing results. HarperOne
Rights sold: Complex Chinese/Crown Culture; Simplified Chinese/HarperCollinsChina; Dutch/Kosmos;
Finnish/Basam
Books;
French/Belfond;
German/Goldmann;
Italian/Corbaccio;
Korean/Sigongsa;
Japanese/Takarajimasha; Portuguese (Brazil)/Novo Conceito; Polish/Helion; Portuguese/Lua de Papel;
Russian/AST; Slovene/Primus; Spanish/Zenith; Sweden/ICA; Turkish/Kuraldisi Yayinlari; UK/Collins
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 288 pages; b/w illustrations throughout
Manuscript available
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Tuma-Young, Jennifer
*BALANCE YOUR LIFE, BALANCE THE SCALE
“Jennifer Tuma-Young knows there’s no magic pill for weight loss and that dieting for the rest of your life isn’t the
answer, either… Her insightful book identifies the underlying reasons typical dieting mindsets fail and provides a
balanced plan for success.” - Diane Heavin, Founder of Curves International, Inc.
In a crowd of weight-loss book authors, Jennifer Tuma-Young stands apart with her unique system, her backing
by a highly successful national franchise, and her own personal experience, having lost 100 pounds through her
own program. As Brand Ambassador for Curves International, Tuma-Young has developed a revolutionary weight
loss and life change program. To demonstrate to her readers how it works, she set up a 30-day Challenge to work
with clients and includes their testimonials, stories, example worksheets, and quotes from their video diaries in her
book. In the first week of Tuma-Young’s 30 Day Challenge, seven women lost a total of 46 pounds, and all
reported high energy, less stress, more joy, feeling more balanced, and having a higher quality of life. In
BALANCE YOUR LIFE, BALANCE YOUR SCALE, Tuma-Young teaches you how to make an essential food-life
connection, how to ditch a dieter’s mentality, how to open your mind to greater possibility, and how to (perhaps for
the first time ever) truly nurture yourself. The program is not just about weight loss-it is about discovering how food
works in your body and in your life as part of a bigger-picture plan of self-caring. Jennifer Tuma-Young was
recently dubbed one of America’s Ultimate Experts in life balance and inspired living by Woman’s World
Magazine. She has had multiple appearances on Rachael Ray, and ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX News affiliates
around the country. HarperOne
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 288 pages
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Williamson, Marianne
*THE LAW OF DIVINE COMPENSATION
Bestselling author (A RETURN TO LOVE, THE GIFT OF CHANGE, COURSE IN WEIGHT LOSS) and world
renowned teacher, speaker and guru Marianne Williamson reveals the spiritual principles that help us overcome
earthy stress and challenges, and unleash the divine power of abundance. There are two realms that we have the
ability to inhabit: the physical realm and the spiritual realm. In the physical realm, we find ourselves stressed by
debt, unemployment, health bills, and more. These fears are real, but we don’t have to find ourselves stuck there.
Instead, we can enter the spiritual realm, where God has promised to make abundance and prosperity available to
us all. We operate by the laws of the world we inhabit. We do not need to be worried; we do not need to be
preoccupied with our current financial situation; we do not need to fear the future. We just need to have the right
mindset, the right faith that the power of God can and will work with the universe to produce miracles in our lives.
In THE LAW OF DIVINE COMPENSATION, Marianne Williamson gives spiritual counsel about how, if we live our
lives to the best of our abilities, God will work with the universe to help give us everything we need. Marianne
Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. Six of her ten published books have been New
York Times bestsellers, including A RETURN TO LOVE, THE AGE OF MIRACLES, EVERYDAY GRACE, A
WOMAN’S WORTH, and THE GIFT OF CHANGE. Marianne’s latest, A COURSE IN WEIGHT LOSS: 21
SPIRITUAL LESSONS FOR SURRENDERING YOUR WEIGHT FOREVER was selected by Oprah to be one of
her Favorite Things in 2010. She has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King
Live, Good Morning America and Charlie Rose. HarperOne
THE GIFT OF CHANGE sold to: Chinese (Complex)/Living Psychology Publishers; Chinese (Simplified)/China
City Press; Dutch/De Boekerij; French/Editions J’ai Lu; German/Riemann Verlag; Hebrew/Oram Publishers;
Hungarian/Edesviz Kiado; Japanese/Taiyo Shuppan; Polish/Biblioteka Nowej Ziemie; Portuguese (Brazil)/Prumo;
Portuguese/Pergaminho; Swedish/Energica Forlag; Turkish/Goa Yayincilik
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 192 pages
Manuscript available: May 2012
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RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY
*The following titles by Rob Bell are reissues of books originally published by Zondervan*
Bell, Rob
*DROPS LIKE STARS: A Few Thoughts on Creativity and Suffering
It is the difficult and the unexpected, and maybe even the tragic, that opens us up and frees us to see things in
new ways. Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all
fell apart. Suffering does that. It hurts, but it also creates. This book is an exploration of the complex relationship
between suffering and creativity, driven by the belief that there is art in the agony. Rob Bell was the Founding
Pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of the bestselling LOVE WINS,
VELVET ELVIS, SEX GOD, and JESUS WANTS TO SAVE CHRISTIANS. A graduate of Wheaton College in
Wheaton, Illinois, and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, Bell speaks to sold-out crowds across
the world and appeared in a pioneering series of short films called NOOMA. HarperOne (Reissue)
Sold to: Korean/GimmYoung; UK/Collins
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 144 pages
Manuscript available
(CBR)
Bell, Rob
*SEX GOD: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
Just as the physical world is linked with deeper spiritual realities, sex and God are intimately connected. But how?
With unusual beauty and insight, Bell addresses this intriguing question to help you better understand that we
can’t talk about ourselves as sexual beings without asking who made us that way. An enlightening exploration of
sexuality and spirituality. Rob Bell was the Founding Pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
He is the author of the bestselling LOVE WINS, VELVET ELVIS, JESUS WANTS TO SAVE CHRISTIANS, and
DROPS LIKE STARS. A graduate of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and Fuller Theological Seminary in
Pasadena, California, Bell speaks to sold-out crowds across the world and appeared in a pioneering series of
short films called NOOMA. HarperOne (Reissue)
Sold to: Afrikaans/Struik Christian Books; Danish/ProRex Forlag; German/Brunnen Verlag; Korean/Duranno
Press; Lithuanian/Kartu Saldu; Norwegian/Norsk Bokforlag; Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora Vida; Serbian/TIP
Preporod; Spanish/Editorial Vida; Swedish/Marcus Forlag; UK/Collins
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 208 pages
Manuscript available
(CBR)
Bell Rob
*VELVET ELVIS: Repainting the Christian Faith
We know there’s something more. We sense it, we feel it, and we want it. But how do we find it—a spirituality that
stands up to the questions of an honest, searching mind? ‘This book is for those who need a fresh take on Jesus
and what it means for us to live the kind of life he teaches us to live,’ writes Rob Bell. ‘This pursuit of Jesus is
leading us backward as much as forward ... I am learning that what seems brand new is often just the discovery of
something that has been there all along— it just got lost somewhere and it needs to be picked up, dusted off, and
reclaimed.’ VELVET ELVIS offers original and refreshingly personal perspectives on what Christianity is really
about. Rob Bell was the Founding Pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of
the bestselling LOVE WINS, SEX GOD, JESUS WANTS TO SAVE CHRISTIANS, and DROPS LIKE STARS. A
graduate of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, Bell
speaks to sold-out crowds across the world and appeared in a pioneering series of short films called NOOMA.
HarperOne (Reissue)
Rights sold: Complex Chinese/Campus Evangelical Fellowship Press; Dutch/Uitgeverij Gideon; Estonian/MTU
Allika; French/Editions Farel; German/Brunnen Verlag; Korean/Tyrannus Press; Norwegian/Norsk Bokforlag;
Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora Vida; Spanish/Editorial Vida; Swedish/Marcus Forlag; UK/Collins
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Publication: 8/1/12
Estimated length: 208 pages
Manuscript available
(CBR)
Bell Rob
Golden, Don
*JESUS WANTS TO SAVE CHRISTIANS: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile
JESUS WANTS TO SAVE CHRISTIANS is a book about faith and fear, wealth and war, poverty, power, safety,
terror, Bibles, bombs, and homeland insecurity; it’s about empty empires and the truth that everybody’s a priest;
it’s about oppression, occupation, and what happens when Christians support, animate, and participate in the very
things Jesus came to set people free from. It’s about what it means to be a part of the church of Jesus in a world
where some people fly planes into buildings while others pick up groceries in Hummers. JESUS WANTS TO
SAVE CHRISTIANS convicts and encourages Christians to live the life Jesus truly called us to. Rob Bell is the
Founding Pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of the bestselling LOVE
WINS, VELVET ELVIS, SEX GOD, and DROPS LIKE STARS. A graduate of Wheaton College in Wheaton,
Illinois, and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, Bell speaks to sold-out crowds across the world
and appeared in a pioneering series of short films called NOOMA. Don Golden is a church activist and vice
president with World Relief in Baltimore, MD. HarperOne (Reissue)
Sold to: Danish/ProRex Forlag; German/Brunnen Verlag; Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora Vida UK/Collins
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 240 pages
Manuscript available
(CBR)
Borg, Marcus
EVOLUTION OF THE WORD: The New Testament in the Order the Books Were Written
Everyone knows the New Testament begins with the Gospel of Matthew, but how many people know that not only
was it one of the later books to be written—it was not even the first Gospel! By re-ordering the New Testament
books in the sequence of when they were written, Borg provides a wonderful tutorial of how the core ideas of
Christianity took shape and developed over time. With introductions and sidebars to each of the books of the
Bible, as well as a survey of what we can know about the oral accounts of Jesus that were passed around before
the first book was written, Borg reveals how a radical and primitive apocalyptic Jewish faith slowly became more
comfortable with the world, less Jewish, and more preoccupied with maintaining power and control. Beginning with
Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonicans, we discover afresh the disproportionate influence of the great apostle to
the Gentiles as the first to codify early Christian beliefs into written form. From Paul’s authentic letters and the first
dramatic telling of Jesus’ story in Mark, we see how an anti-imperial movement started a religious revolution. But
we also witness how the next generation of writers slowly began to erode the movement’s radicalism. Readers will
rediscover documents they thought they knew well by seeing them in an all-new setting. Borg’s THE EVOLUTION
OF THE WORD promises to change how we think about this historic work. Marcus J. Borg is Hundere
Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture, Emeritus at Oregon State University and author of SPEAKING
CHRISTIAN, THE HEART OF CHRISTIANITY, JESUS, and PUTTING AWAY CHILDISH THINGS, among others.
HarperOne
SPEAKING CHRISTIAN sold to: Spanish/PPC; UK/SPCK
Publication: June 2012
Estimated length: 608 pages
Manuscript available
(CBR)
Ehrman, Bart
*DID JESUS EXIST? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
New York Times bestselling author and leading Bible expert tackles one of the most pressing questions in the
history of religion and forcefully argues that, yes, Jesus did exist. Large numbers of atheists, humanists, and
conspiracy theorists are asking “Did Jesus exist at all?” Was he invented for nefarious purposes by those seeking
to control the masses? Or was Jesus such a shadowy figure that bears no meaningful resemblance to the person
described in the Bible? Bart Ehrman confronts these questions and vigorously defends the historicity of Jesus.
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Known as a master explainer with deep knowledge of the field, Ehrman methodically demolishes both the
scholarly and popular “mythicist” arguments against the existence of Jesus, using evidence from the Bible as well
as the wider historical record of the ancient world. Ehrman tackles all the key issues, and after establishing the
historicity of Jesus, he identifies the most historically reliable sources for best understanding Jesus’s mission and
message. Ehrman. Ultimately, he offers a compelling historical portrait of the person at the heart of the Christian
tradition. Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is a leading authority on the Bible and the life of Jesus. He is the author of more
than twenty books, including the New York Times bestselling MISQUOTING JESUS, GOD’S PROBLEM, JESUS,
INTERRUPTED, and FORGED. He has appeared on NBC Dateline, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, The
History Channel, and has been featured in Time, the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post,
and has been interviewed on top NPR shows. HarperOne
Rights sold: Italian/Mondadori; Portuguese (Brazil)/Nova Fronteira; Russian/Exmo
FORGED sold to: Italian/Carocci; Japanese/Kashiwa Shobo Publishers; Portuguese (Brazil)/Nova Fronteira
Publication: March 2012
Length: 368 pages
Book available
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Hanh, Thich Nhat
*FEAR: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm
One of the world’s most influential spiritual leaders, renowned zen master and buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh
has written a powerful and practical strategic guide to overcoming a pervasive problem we all face -- fear. Hanh
explores the origins of fear and offers detailed practices on how we can remove its toxic presence from our lives.
Framed by a lifetime of mindfulness in action, Hanh explores the path to peace, happiness and freedom within the
context of fear. The wise Buddhist teacher shows how simple practices can help overcome the deadly grip of our
emotional burdens and anxieties. The Nobel Peace Prize nominee reveals how happiness is not found in
suppressing our emotions, but by purposefully living in a meditative and mindful state. In this way we can identify
the source of pain that is responsible for our fear, and cut it off from its roots so that the pain might subside. And
without fear and anxiety, we can truly embrace the gifts of life. Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist Zen
Master, poet, scholar and peace activist. During the war in Vietnam, he worked tirelessly for reconciliation
between North and South Vietnam. His courageous efforts to generate peace moved Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to
nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. During the war, he founded the Van Hanh Buddhist University in
Saigon and the School of Youth for Social Service. Forced into exile because of his efforts to negotiate peace in
Vietnam, he continued his activism, rescuing boat people and helping to resettle Vietnamese refugees abroad.
Hanh is the author of many books including such important classics as THE NOVICE, PEACE IS EVERY STEP
and THE ART OF POWER. He lives Plum Village, his meditation center in France, and travels worldwide, leading
retreats on the art of mindful living. HarperOne
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THE NOVICE sold to: Chinese (Simplified)/Beijing Zito Books; Dutch/Ten Have; French (Canada)/Sogides; French
(excluding Canada)/La Maisnie; German/Arkana; Korean/Sodam; UK/Rider
PEACE IS EVERY BREATH sold to: Chinese (Simplified)/Beijing Zito Books; Dutch/Ten Have; French/La Maisnie;
German/Arkana; Indonesian/Pustaka Utama; Polish/Helion; Spanish/Oniro; UK/Rider
Publication: November 2012
Estimated length: 272 pages
Manuscript available: August 2012
Malkovsky, Bradley
GOD’S OTHER CHILDREN: Personal Encounters with Love, Holiness and Faith in Sacred India
GOD’S OTHER CHILDREN is a spiritual travelogue that presents a number of important and unexpected
encounters and conversations the author has with Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists in an India undergoing
sweeping cultural changes. With a degree in Catholic theology, Malkovsky originally traveled to India to study
Hinduism, but soon fell in love and married into a Muslim family. Through the spiritual and theological reflections
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woven into the narrative, he emphasizes the distinct beauty and wisdom of each tradition as well as their
commonalities with other traditions of spirituality. Bradley Malkovsky is Associate Professor of Comparative
Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He has degrees from the University of Tubingen, Germany, and has
studied Sanskrit and Hindu thought at the University of Poona in Pune, India. He is the editor of NEW
PERSPECTIVES ON ADVAITA VEDANTA (2000) and the author of THE ROLE OF DIVINE GRACE IN THE
SOTERIOLOGY OF SAMKARACARYA (2001). He is also the editor of the Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies.
HarperOne
Publication: February 2013
Estimated length: 256 pages
Manuscript available
(CBR)
Procter-Murphy, Jeff
Felten, David
LIVING THE QUESTIONS: The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity
With the help of such top contributors as Marcus Borg, A.J. Levine, John Dominic Crossan, John Shelby Spong,
Karen Armstrong, Brian McLaren, Diana Butler Bass, and many others, Procter-Murphy and Felten present a lively
and stimulating primer on what it means to be a progressive Christian. Covering twenty-one topics and based on
the hit DVD series by the same name, LIVING THE QUESTIONS covers all the topics many churches are afraid to
address—sexuality and homosexuality, other religions, the miracles and divinity of Jesus—as well as explain
traditional topics of the faith in an all-new light—the Bible, the Trinity, salvation, the rapture, and much more. This
volume is perfect for groups, individuals, or churches and can be used with or independent of the hit DVD course
with the same name. Dr. Jeff Procter-Murphy was trained at Claremont School of Theology and Rev. David Felten
at Boston University School of Theology. Together they have over forty years combined experience in local church
ministry. HarperOne paperback original
Publication: August 2012
Estimated length: 240 pages
Manuscript available
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Tobin, Greg
*THE GOOD POPE: The Making of a Saint and the Remaking of the Church – The Story of John XXIII and
Vatican II
On the fiftieth anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s opening of the Vatican Council II in October 1962 and of his death
in June 1963, as well as for his likely canonization in 2013, Greg Tobin celebrates the “Good Pope” as a profile of
a greatly beloved religious figure who ushered in an era of hope and openness; and it is this “openness” that
powerful internal forces have been battling ever since, causing many of the Catholic crises we see today. The
Second Vatican Council is one of the most historic church councils and its legacy still reverberates through the
Catholic Church today. Many now take for granted the changes it ushered into the church: Mass being presented
in English with the priest facing the congregation, the study of the Bible by both clergy and laity, and the wide use
of laity in leadership positions in the church. In THE GOOD POPE, Tobin follows the Good Pope, Saint John
XXIII’s, footprints throughout the twentieth century, from his upbringing and church career to his surprise election
as pope in 1958 and the event that stunned the entire world: convoking the epochal meeting of all the world’s
bishops at the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican. Through Vatican II, Pope John advocated that the
Catholic Church play a positive, humanizing and spiritual role in transforming this new world and saving it from
looming self-destruction. Now, for the first time, Tobin presents a major and authoritative biography of John XXIII
and argues that the rejection of Pope John’s reforms directly resulted in the many criseses within the Church
today. Greg Tobin is vice president for university advancement at Seton Hall University. He is the author of THE
WISDOM OF ST. PATRICK, SAINTS AND SINNERS, HOLY FATHER (a biography of Pope Benedict XVI), and
WAS JESUS REALLY BORN ON CHRISTMAS? THE CATHOLIC ORIGINS OF HOLY DAYS, HOLIDAYS AND
EVERY DAY and co-general editor of Religion in America. He has been featured widely in national and
international media, including The New York Times, CBS, MSNBC, Fox News, and countless radio stations.
HarperOne
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 288 pages; black and white photo insert
Manuscript available: June 2012
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ILLUSTRATED
Castelli, Jean-Christophe
*LIFE OF PI: A Film, A Journey
Part scrapbook, part travelogue, part production archive, this graphic, diversely illustrated volume is a collection of
initial inspirations, intimate interviews, storyboards, sketches, souvenirs, snapshots, fine art, marked-up
screenplays, notes, and film stills, that when viewed together, tell the story of how renowned, Oscar-winning
director Ang Lee brought Yann Martel’s international bestseller--which has sold more than 8 million copies
worldwide--to life. It is a juicy behind-the-scenes read, filled with an amazing array of facts and visuals that take
readers from preproduction through final cut. Outside photography (including a portfolio by Mary Ellen Mark and
vintage archival images), fine art (a portfolio of commissioned sketches by artist Alexis Rockman and 18th-century
Indian paintings), cultural artifacts (billboards and signage) and texts supplement the more usual assortment of
visuals generated by and for the production (storyboards, sketches, stills, etc.), rounding out this experiential book
for lovers of the novel and film viewers alike. Jean-Christophe Castelli worked as a magazine editor and freelance
writer, publishing articles in Vanity Fair, Esquire, and Filmmaker before moving into film. For seven years, he was
the story editor at the independent production company Good Machine. There he developed many film projects
and began a long working relationship with Ang Lee, first with the cultural research on The Ice Storm (1997),
followed by the story development of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). Leaving the film world for a few
years to pursue his own writing projects, Castelli has continued to do development and research for Lee, most
recently as associate producer on Life of Pi (December 2012). HarperDesign
Publication: November 2012
Estimated length: 160 pages; 200 – 250 4 color illustrations
Sample Material available: May 2012
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Landis, Deborah Nadoolman
*HOLLYWOOD SKETCHBOOK: A Century of Costume Illustration
Who is Marilyn Monroe without the billowing white dress of The Seven Year Itch or the candy-pink silk number
from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? In HOLLYWOOD SKETCHBOOK, author and Academy Award-nominated
costume design expert Deborah Nadoolman Landis opens the doors to the dynamic world of costume illustration,
revealing the world’s most sumptuous illustrations and behind-the-scenes stories of the most beloved costumes of
all time. Landis showcases the work of one hundred of Hollywood’s most accomplished, provocative, and
pioneering costume design artists of the last century. Drawing on years of extensive research, Landis has
discovered a wealth of never-before-seen, original sketches and full-color illustrations from some of the biggest
names in the biz-Adrian, Pauline Annon, and Cecil Beaton, for example-to the lesser well-known but equally
important-Bonnie Cashin, Joe De Yong, Charles LeMaire. Featuring a comprehensive introduction that
contextualizes the rigors of costume illustration as well as highlights the individual contributions each of the
featured artists made to the history of the art form itself, this book is authoritative yet accessible in tone, and
contains a dazzling array of first-person anecdotes that inform and further enhance the images. Deborah
Nadoolman Landis is president of the Hollywood Costume Designers Guild, of which she has been a member for
nearly thirty years. Her costume design credits include Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Raiders of the Lost
Ark, The Three Amigos, and Coming to America, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. She also
designed the costumes for Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, which was directed by her husband, John Landis.
Deborah has a Ph.D. in the history of costume design from the Royal College of Art. HarperDesign
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 448 pages; 4 color photos throughout
Sample material: May 2012
(CBR)
Lehrman Bloch, Karen
*DEEP BEAUTY: Interiors with Soul
In this visually stunning volume, author Karen Lehrman Bloch explains how today’s best interior designers are
evoking the most basic principles found in nature to create interiors that are as good for the soul as they are
innovative. DEEP BEAUTY: Interiors with Soul presents twenty-five highly original residential projects from around
the world that use artifacts, artisanal work, and the materials and colors of nature to create interiors that are
elegant, intimate, peaceful, and uplifting. Each chapter is filled with direct and practical how-to advice on how the
reader can create a living space that embodies nature’s most basic and essential components: authenticity,
simplicity, balance, surprise, and grandeur. Through a dynamic mix of photographs and one-on-one interviews,
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author Karen Lehrman Bloch opens the doors to some of the most beautiful homes in the world to showcase the
homes of interior designers, artists, fashion designers, and stylists, such as Donna Karan, Alberta Ferreti, Darryl
Carter, Vincente Wolf, Consuelo Castiglioni (Marni), Michelle Oka Doner, and Lori Goldstein. Each homeowner
reveals the incentive behind their design decisions and how their homes have affected their health and happiness.
Bloch shows both the novice and the seasoned decorator how to refashion and personalize everyday design
decisions to create a home that is truly unique and full of soul. Karen Lehrman Bloch is a cultural critic, curator,
and the director of Grafia Books. She has written for and edited numerous acclaimed books, such as AMERICAN
STYLE by Harold Koda and Kelly Killoren Bensimon, CAROLINA HERRERA: Portrait of a Fashion Icon by
Hamish Bowles and Alexandra Kotur, and MARC JACOBS by Bridget Foley. Her criticisms have appeared in The
New York Times Book Review, Slate, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Metropolis, and Vogue.
HarperDesign
Publication: September 2013
Estimated length: 192 pages; 250 four-color photos throughout
Sample material available: November 2012
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Max, Peter
THE UNIVERSE ACCORDING TO PETER MAX: A Psychedelic Odyssey
As instantly recognizable as Peter Max’s artwork is, his life story is not as well known. Here, for the first time,
Peter Max details the large and small brush strokes of his life’s journey-in his own words and images. In fifty
intimate essays, Max muses on a variety of thematic subjects, all the while telling his life story-from his birth in
Berlin to a childhood spent in Shanghai to his odyssey to New York City, and his subsequent ascension into the
celebrity-filled artworld of the 1960s and beyond. In each essay, Max relates intimate details of his life as they
relate to the nature of creativity, and reveals how he has been able to see art in the everyday and how you can,
too. Vibrant artwork-some of which have never been seen before-accompanies the essays, providing an
illuminating, colorful look into the inspired life and times of Peter Max. Considered by many to be the world’s most
iconic pop artist, Max’s signature “Cosmic 1960s”-style artwork defined a generation. Besides painting the
colossal mural for the 1969 Woodstock festival, he has also painted Lady Liberty on the White House lawn, served
as the official artist for the Grammys, the United Nations Earth Summit, and five Superbowls, and had his
paintings grace the covers of People, U.S. News & World Report, Life, and Manhattan’s Yellow Pages-twice.
Harper Design
Publication: July 2012
Estimated length: 288 pages; four-color throughout
Sample material available
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Mnookin, Sara
*SCATTER MY ASHES AT BERGDORF GOODMAN
Grace Kelly ordered her wedding invitations here; it’s where designers from Halston to Mizrahi and Kors got their
start; Yoko Ono and John Lennon once bought more than 70 furs from a salesman who was summoned to bring a
truckful of coats to their Dakota department on Christmas Eve. These and many other entertaining anecdotes
make up this illustrated companion book to the new fashion documentary Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf
Goodman, which takes the audience behind the scenes into the inner sanctum of the world’s most sophisticated
store. A venerable list of celebrities, personalities, and veteran store employees, from Joan Rivers to Michael Kors
to renowned window dresser, Linda Fargo, will speak of the magic, myths and mysteries of a retailer at the apex
of luxury. This accompanying volume includes a range of stories culled from the film, and is illustrated in four
color throughout, with gorgeous original sketches for the store by designers such as Balmain, Lanvin, and
Balenciaga; art and photography from major advertising campaigns by Warhol, Horst, and Mapplethorpe; vintage
photography from the store as it appeared in Life and Town & Country; candids of celebrities, yesterday and
today, and stylish spot art. Sara James Mnookin is a writer, editor, and author whose work has been published in
the Wall Street Journal, Departures, InStyle, Real Simple, Country Living, and Harper’s Bazaar. She has served
as fashion news editor for Men’s Vogue, media editor for Women’s Wear Daily, and special projects producer for
Charlie Rose on PBS. From 2006 to 2009, Random House published eight of her books in a split narrative young
adult series called What If..., co-authored with Liz Ruckdeschel. Holly Brubach is a journalist specializing in
fashion, architecture, and design. She has been a contributing editor at Vogue magazine, a staff writer for The
New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly, and the style editor of The New York Times Magazine. HarperDesign
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 240 pages; illustrations throughout
Sample material available: April 2012
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Morton, Camilla
*DIANE VON FURSTENBERG AND THE TALE OF THE EMPRESSES NEW CLOTHES
The third book in the unique Fashion Fairy Tale Memoir series wraps the life story of iconic designer and
international jetsetter Diane von Furstenberg together with a reworking of one of our most beloved ‘Once Upon a
Time’ fables, The Emporer’s New Clothes. This empowering memoir celebrates the life of fashion designer Diane
von Furstenberg, a one-time Warhol muse, Studio 54 pin up, and real-life princess, who challenged the centuriesold traditions of beauty, style and protocol to create a wardrobe for women by a working woman. Fairytale and
haute couture mix magically in this re-imagined story created by fashion writer and internationally bestselling
author Camilla Morton, and art directed exclusively by Diane von Furstenberg herself. !t Books
CHRISTIAN LACROIX AND THE TALE OF SLEEPING BEAUTY sold in Brazil/Master Books
MANOLO BLAHNIK AND THE TALES OF THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER: All rights available
Publication: November 2012
Estimated length: 112 pages; 6 /14 x 8 ¾; illustrated throughout
Manuscript available: June 2012
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Soloman, Connie Furr
Jewett, Jan
*LIBERACE EXTRAVAGANZA!
Known for creating fantastic spectacles and possessing rare charisma, the magnificent and flamboyant Wladziu
Valentino Liberace was a world-renowned star in the entertainment industry for more than four decades, and is
particularly celebrated for the outrageous costumes that people remember and most associate with him. In
LIBERACE EXTRAVAGANZA!, Liberace’s famous sequined, bejeweled, and rhinestone-studded outfits, as well
as his extravagant collection of furs and feather capes, are exhibited in book-form for the very first time. Authors
Connie Furr Soloman and Jan Jewett are well-established costume designers, and have been given exclusive
access by the Liberace Museum and Foundation to photograph Liberace’s costumes. They will trace the
incredible development of them from Liberace’s humble beginnings as a young man performing in his brother’s
hand-me-downs, to his $24,000 suits covered in layers of silk and satin ruffles, Austrian Swarovski crystal
rhinestones, and 24k white gold diamond encrusted buttons, to his “electric” costumes, the first ones ever created,
that featured four thousand light bulbs and weighed more than twenty-five pounds. The book will include a
foreword from Michael Travis, Liberace’s principle designer, interviews with Jim Lapidus and Anna Nateece, two of
Liberace’s most celebrated designers, and Ray Arnett, Liberace’s stage manager. This unique project is timed to
the release of a biopic on Liberace from HBO Films, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Michael Douglas
as Liberace and Matt Damon as his lover, Scott Thorson. LIBERACE EXTRAVAGANZA is the only book on the
market authorized and endorsed by the Liberace Foundation. Connie Furr Soloman has worked extensively as a
costume designer in regional theater and opera at such theaters as Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, The Fabulous
Palm Springs Follies, Syracuse Opera, and the Georgia Shakespeare Festival. She is an associate professor at
Arizona State University. Jan Jewett, the manager of Imagination Costume since 1998, has worked in the
costume design world for more than thirty-one years. Imagination has a stellar reputation for designing and
manufacturing high quality costumes from those used in Disney parades, to custom outfits for Bette Midler, Cher,
and Donnie and Marie. Jan has overseen the building of costumes for Broadway, Carnegie Hall, numerous major
casinos, award winning national commercials, and some of the biggest corporate events, galas, television, and
motion pictures produced over the last decade. HarperDesign
Publication: April 2013
Estimated length: 224 pages; 4 color throughout
Sample material available: September 2012
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Stoker, Bram
Cloonan, Becky (illustrator)
DRACULA
This new unabridged edition of Dracula brings a unique, contemporary visual spin to the cult classic, with more
than 50 original illlustrations by Becky Cloonan, an Eisner-awarding winning artist with wide recognition, having
published with Vertigo, Dark Horse, Tokyo Pop, and others. This is a Dracula we’ve never seen before—edgy,
stylishly macabre with Victorian overtones, and an unusual color palette, in a graphically dynamic package.
Dracula is the premier vampire story: this new edition will appeal to graphic novel and comics fans as well as
those who love vampire stories. The book will coincide with the release of Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows
starring Johnny Depp. Harper Design
Publication: May 2012
Estimated length: 384 pages w/ full color illustrations throughout
Sample Material available
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von Mueffling, Dini
THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF FASHION: The Most Fabulous Looks from Every Era—and How to Create Them
for Yourself
From a well-connected fashion journalist, this is a gorgeously designed full-color fashion bible with hundreds of
fascinating photos and fashion illustrations, from Ancient Greece to Marie Antoinette to Chanel to Bryant Park.
THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF FASHION traces 5,000 years of fashion trends and history, and shows readers how to
achieve their favorite styles from each remarkable era. Featuring the iconic designers of the 20 th century,
including Coco Chanel and Christian Dior, it also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the world of fashion today.
From Ancient Cultures, through the Middle Ages, Renaissance Europe, the Victorian era, the thirties, forties and
fifties, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, blue jeans and up to the 21st Century of Michelle Obama, this is an exciting,
informative, and interactive fashion tome for anyone interested in fashion and do-it-yourself projects. Dini von
Mueffling has written for Elle, Mademoiselle, and Town and Country, among other publications. !t Books
Publication: April 2013
(CB)
Page extent: 256 pages; 200 4-color photos & illustrations throughout; 7 3/8 x 9 1/8 trim
Manuscript available: August 2012
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COOKBOOKS
Antine, Stacey
*APPETITE FOR LIFE: The Thumbs-Up, No Yucks Guide to Getting Your Kid to Be a Great Eater-Including
Over 100 Kid-Approved Recipes
APPETITE FOR LIFE is the fun and practical guide to feeding your kids natural, nutritious food from breakfast to
bedtime and creating healthy eaters. With over 100 easy, kid-approved recipes for all 3 meals plus snack time,
APPETITE FOR LIFE takes the guesswork out of what you’re going to feed your kids six-times a day, and also
helps you learn to make food not a battleground, but an opportunity for fun and experimentation. Invite the kids to
the grocery store and play Stacey’s Supermarket Spy game, welcome them to the farmers market and let them
pick which vegetables to try with that night’s dinner. Ultimately, APPETITE FOR LIFE encourages you to let your
children have a voice. With Stacey’s “no yucks allowed” philosophy, kids learn to use a thumbs up/thumbs down
rating system for new foods they try, but they always have to try at least one bite. A registered dietician with more
than twenty years of experience, Stacey Antine, CEO and founder of HealthBarn USA, is committed to helping
families raise their nutritional literacy through hands-on learning. Antine is also a featured healthy living expert for
Everyday with Rachel Ray. HarperOne
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 256 pages; 8 page 4-color insert
Manuscript available: April 2012
(NV)
Currah, Alice
SAVORY SWEET LIFE
As internationally recognized blogger Alice Currah knows, the food we share with others is more than just what we
eat—it becomes an extension of ourselves. Whether it’s baking dad’s favorite cake on his birthday or serving a
refreshing pitcher of lime mojitos for a summer backyard barbecue, life’s simplest moments can create the most
meaningful memories. In the SAVORY SWEET LIFE, Alice celebrates these “life happenings” with gorgeous fullcolor photos and more than 100 easy recipes organized by occasion, including: snow day—decadent hot
chocolate, spiced gingersnap cookies, creamy tomato soup with grilled garlic cheese sandwiches; quick and easy
Asian inspired weeknight dinner—cucumber salad, grilled salmon teriyaki rice bowl, coconut ginger ice cream;
mom, I’m hungry! (simple, fast, healthy kids snacks perfect for after school or between meals)—mango orange
smoothie, black bean quesadillas, herbed yogurt dip with vegetables; and southern backyard party—salad with
sour apples and toasted pecans, hickory barbecue ribs, bourbon banana cream pie. Alice shares personal stories,
practical advice, time-saving tips, and real life food everyone will love. Alice Currah’s SavorySweetLife.com,
attracts half a million page views monthly and has continued to grow in popularity since its March 2009 launch. It
is a member of the Martha’s Circle blog network. Alice has featured online at Forbes, Martha Stewart, Real
Simple, The Pioneer Woman, Epicurious, Bon Appetit, Saveur, Craft, Life Hacker, Amazon, iVillage, and many
more. She is also a weekly food contributor for PBS Parents. William Morrow Cookbooks (paperback)
Publication: May 2012
Estimate length: 288 pages; illustrations throughout
Manuscript available
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Hesser, Amanda
*THE FOOD52 COOKBOOK, VOLUME 2: Seasonal Recipes from Our Kitchen to Yours
The pioneers of the online community cookbook return with a second helping of delicious, seasonal recipes from
the country’s most inventive home cooks—as compiled from the acclaimed Food52.com website. Since it stormed
its way onto the food blogosphere in September 2009, Food52.com has made its mark by adhering to one simple
principle—the best recipes come from home cooks. Powered by a thriving online community and edited by noted
food writers Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, Food52.com solicits skilled home cooks who compete each week
by sending in their “best” seasonally appropriate recipe within a particular category. While Amanda and Merrill
choose the finalists, the winners are ultimately determined by the votes of online readers, and THE FOOD52
COOKBOOK II will include the authors’ expert comments on every recipe, plus behind-the-scenes photos, tips
and variations, reader comments, and brief features on the contributors. Amanda Hesser has been named one of
fifty women game-changers in food by Gourmet. William Morrow Cookbooks
Publication: November 2012
Estimated length: 448 pages; full color photos throughout
Manuscript available
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Lagasse, Emeril
*EMERIL’S KICKED-UP SANDWICHES: Stacked with Flavor
Sandwich lovers rejoice! From one of America’s favorite chefs, here are more than 100 simple, flavorful recipes for
the world’s best sandwiches and the breads and condiments that make them shine.
Including classic sandwiches and unique culinary creations, EMERIL’S SANDWICH SPECIALS serves up recipes
for every skill level and palate. Enjoy a savory breakfast wrap, an easy on-the-go lunch, or a satisfying hot meal.
Emeril’s sandwiches span a range of international flavors with varieties for any occasion—and he even leaves
room for dessert! Recipes for hearty breads and versatile condiments round out this comprehensive book, sure to
be a fan favorite. Emeril Lagasse is a chef, restaurateur, and author of fifteen bestselling cookbooks including his
most recent book, SIZZLING SKILLETS AND ONE POT WONDERS. He is the proprietor of twelve restaurants
across the country. William Morrow Cookbooks
Publication: October 2012
Estimated length: 288 pages; full color photos throughout
Manuscript available
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Lefebvre, Ludovic
*LUDOBITES: Recipes and Stories from the Pop-Up Restaurants of Ludo Lefebvre
Ludo Lefebvre is a culinary prodigy who worked at his first three-Michelin-star restaurant at age 14. By 24 he was
running his own kitchens in Los Angeles-winning accolades at L’Orangerie and Bastide. In 2007 he traded finedining for the freedom to cook outside the box. The result was LudoBites, a “touring” restaurant that roves the
streets of Los Angeles, playing to different sold-out crowds every four months. From a taqueria in Reseda to a
diner in West Hollywood, LUDOBITES is the chronicle of that journey, with each chapter showcasing the story and
food of each of the seven different LudoBites incarnations. Recipes in LUDOBITES merge the techniques
Lefebvre perfected in his years at the finest French restaurants. Beautiful, high energy full color photography takes
readers behind the scenes to see all the pain, drama, and triumph for themselves. Narrative essays prefacing
each chapter give an unprecedented glimpse into the mind of a chef who breaks all the rules and whom Time
hailed as “the chef of the future.” Lefebvre is the two-time recipient of the prestigious Mobil Five Star Award and
star of the Sundance Channel hit LudoBites America. He has trained in France for 13 years, and has been head
chef at some of the top-rated restaurants in California. He published his first cookbook, CRAVE, a Feast of the
Five Senses in 2005. Ecco
Publication: September 2012
(NV)
Estimated length: 320 pages; 2-color photos throughout, 3 8-page 4-color inserts
Manuscript available: April 2012
Moskin, Julia & Severson, Kim
*COOKFIGHT
A hilarious and inspiring cookbook that pits the strategies and recipes of two popular New York Times food
reporters against each other, COOKFIGHT is the year-long story of their brinksmanship. Moskin and Severson
face-off on one cook’s dilemma after another, from January through December, and COOKFIGHT delivers a new
“challenge” for each month-from a “comfort” challenge, to a “vegetarian” challenge-the results of which are
chronicled in hilarious, side-by-side narratives and delicious, inventive, recipes. COOKFIGHT is a celebration of
having fun in the kitchen. With an introduction by New York Times critic, Frank Bruni, color photography
throughout, useful sidebars and cooking tips, and Kim and Julia’s sense of humor as they battle it out,
COOKFIGHT is a reminder of how intensely personal cooking can be, but also how meaningful it is to cook with
and for friends and family. Julia Moskin has co-authored nine cookbooks while writing for magazines including
Saveur and Metropolitan Home. Kim Severson has been the Atlanta bureau chief for the New York Times since
November 2010. Before her recent appointment, she was a dining writer for The New York Times for six years.
She is the author of the memoir Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life, and has won four James Beard
awards for food writing. Ecco
Publication: September 2012
Estimated length: 288 pages; black and white photos throughout.
Manuscript available: April 2012
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Rettke, Amanda
*SURPRISE INSIDE CAKES
It’s what’s inside that counts! While there’s much fascination with a cake’s outer appearance, Amanda Rettke,
founder of the popular blog I Am Baker, is the first baker to put equal effort into designing a cake’s interior. Here
are dozens of stunningly inventive cakes with surprises inside for every occasion—it’s the next baking craze!
Whether it’s a striking, all-white cake with a secret red velvet heart baked inside, a St. Patrick’s Day cake complete
with a surprise shamrock, Amanda’s cakes, cookies and sweets are unique and downright revolutionary. Every
cake is a gift to be shared with family and friends, a special treat that should be lovingly prepared and meticulously
designed—from the inside out. SURPRISE INSIDE CAKES features a few classic favorites from Amanda’s blog
and more than 40 brand-new cakes, complete with easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step photo tutorials.
Amanda Rettke began her food blogging career in October 2010 with the introduction of her first surprise-inside
cake, and soon discovered a passion for baking, photography, and all things sweet. Since the inception of I Am
Baker, her website has gained over 10,000 feed subscribers and averages almost 2 million page views a month.
Her cakes have been featured on Martha Stewart’s show, the HGTV blog, The Huffington Post, Apartment
Therapy, the Insider, in other cookbooks and food blogs, and in Brides magazine. William Morrow Cookbooks
Publication date: April 2013
Estimated page length: 288 pages; 450 – 600 photos
Manuscript available: August 2012
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A. Nurnberg Assoc. Budapest
Győri út 20.
Budapest, HUNGARY-1123
Tel: 36-1-302-64-51
Tel: 36-1-311-39-48
Fax: 36-1-550-00-80
j.hermann@nurnberg.hu
ISRAEL
Ms. Efrat Lev
The Deborah Harris Agency
P.O. Box 8528
Jerusalem 91083, ISRAEL
Tel: 972 (0)2 5633237
Fax: 972 (0)2 5618711
efrat@thedeborahharrisagency.com
ITALY
Luigi Bernabo
Ginevra Bernabo
Luigi Bernabo Assoc.
via Cernaia, 4
20121 Milan ITALY
Tel: 39-02-4547-3700
Fax: 39-02-4547-3577
agency@bernabo.it
JAPAN
Asako Kawachi
Tuttle-Mori Agency
Kanda Jimbocho Bldg., 4F
2-17 Kanda Jimbocho,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051
JAPAN
Tel: 81-3-3230-4081
Fax: 81-3230-1865
asako@tuttlemori.com
KOREA
Sue Yang
Eric Yang Agency
3f e B/D, 54-7, Banpo-dong
Seocho-gu, Seoul, 137-802, KOREA
Tel: 82-2-592-3356
Fax: 82-2-592-3359
sueyang@ericyangagency.co.kr
NETHERLANDS
Marianne Schönbach
Marianne Schönbach Lit. Agency
Oostenburgervoorstraat 130
1018 MR Amsterdam
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: 31-20-62 000 20
Fax: 31-20-62 404 50
m.schonbach@schonbach.nl
POLAND
Aleksandra Matuszak
A. Nurnberg Assoc.
Kurhan 18/8
02-203 Warsaw POLAND
Tel/Fax: 48-22-646-5860
aleksandra@literatura.com.pl
PORTUGAL
Isabel Monteagudo
International Editors Co.
Provenza, 276, 1o
08008 Barcelona, SPAIN
Tel: +34-93-2158812
Fax: +34-93-4873583
Ieco@internationaleditors.com
ROMANIA
Simona Kessler
Simona Kessler Intl Copyrht Agcy
Str Banul Antonache 37
011663 Bucharest 1 ROMANIA
Tel: +40-21-3164806
Fax: +40-21-31647 94
simona@kessler-agency.ro
RUSSIA
Ludmilla Sushkova
A. Nurnberg Literary Agency
21 Tsvetnoy Blvd.
Stroenie 6,
127051 Moscow RUSSIA
Tel: 7-495-625-8188
Fax: 7-095-925-8188
sushkova@awax.ru
SCANDINAVIA
Anneli Hoier
Leonhardt & Hoier Literary Agency
35 Studiestraede
DK-1455 Copenhagen DENMARK
Tel: +45-1-33132523
Fax: +45-1-33134992
Anneli@leonhardt-hoier.dk
SPAIN, LAT. AMERICA
Maribel Luque
Carmen Balcells Agency
Diagonal 580
08021 Barcelona SPAIN
Tel: 34-93-200-8565
Fax: 34-93-200-7041
ma.luque@ag-balcells.com
THAILAND
Pimolporn Yutisri
Thananchai Pandey
Tuttle- Mori Big Apple
6th Fl Siam Inter Comics Bldg.
459 Soi Piboon-oppathum
Samsen Nok
Huay Kwang, Bangkok 10320
THAILAND
Tel: 662-694-3026
Fax: 662-694-3027
pimolporn@tuttlemori.co.th
thananchai@tuttlemori.co.th
TURKEY
Hatice Gok
ONK AGENCY LTD.
Cumhuriyet Cad. 30/9
Elmadag-Sisli
34367 Istanbul - Turkiye
Phone : +90-212-241 77 00 (pbx)
Fax : +90-212-241 77 31
info@onkagency.com
FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Nada Cipranic
PRAVA I PREVODI Literary
Agency
Yu-Business Centre
Blvd. Mihaila Pupina 10B/I
5th Floor, Suite 4
11070 Belgrade
SERBIA
Tel: (381-11) 301 6141 & 311 9880
Fax: (381-11) 311 9879
nada.c@pravaiprevodi.org
CHINA & TAIWAN
Jiamei Wang
Yu-Shiuan Chen
Bardon-Chinese Media
3F, No. 150 Roosevelt Road, Sec. 2
Taipei, ROC 100, TAIWAN
Tel: 886-2-23644995
Fax: 886-2-23641967
jianmei@bardon.com.tw
yushiuan@bardon.com.tw
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