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Adshade, Marina
DOLLARS AND SEX: An Economist Puts a Price on Sex and Love
(HarperCanada, March 2013) (Chronicle Books, April 2013)
Manuscript (304 pages)
A Freakonomics-style approach to sex, love, and marriage
Professor of economics Marina Adshade needed to get her half-awake students to pay attention to her lectures, so
she decided to skip the guns and butter examples and start talking about the convergence of dollars and sex.
Attention was paid. She then launched a blog called Dollars and Sex on BigThink.com (recently named the #1
website by TIME) to expand on the subject. Dollars and Sex became one of Big Think’s most visited blogs,
attracting an international audience of over 50,000 visitors a month, with the total number of unique visitors
numbering half a million.
DOLLARS AND SEX traffics in the mysteries of everyday life as they pertain to love, sex and marriage. By asking
the right questions and making surprising connections, Adshade holds a mirror up to our collective behavior (in bed)
and tells us stories about ourselves that we would never have expected. Ultimately, she shows us that every option,
every decisions, and every outcome in matters of sex and love is better understood through economics.
Marina Adshade has a PhD from Queen’s University and has spent the last ten years teaching economics and
engaging in original economic research. She is currently teaching in the Department of Economics at the University
of British Columbia (one of the top 25 economics departments in the world). Marina writes regularly for The Globe
and Mail and has made numerous appearances on CTV and CBC, as well as CBC Radio and National Public Radio.
Marina has also been featured in international and domestic print media, including the London Daily Mail and
Reuters.
Advance Praise:
“Marina Adshade is one of the few economists I read for pleasure.”
–Professor Frances Woolley, Department of Economics, Carleton University
“She has such original arguments because she’s so on top of her research. It’s not like sitting with someone in a bar
telling anecdotes about sex. She has research to back the information up.”
–Paul Hoffman, former editor-in-chief, BigThink.com
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Ariely, Dan
THE (HONEST) TRUTH ABOUT DISHONESTY: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially
Ourselves (Harper/HarperCollins, June 2012)
Hardcover (304 pages)
A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller!
The international bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and renowned behavioral economist Dan Ariely
examines the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and keep us honest.
Most of us think of ourselves as honest, but, in fact, we all cheat. From Washington to Wall Street, the classroom
to the workplace, unethical behavior is everywhere. None of us is immune, whether it’s the white lie to head off
trouble or padding our expense reports. In THE (HONEST) TRUTH ABOUT DISHONESTY, award-winning,
bestselling author Dan Ariely turns his unique insight and innovative research to the question of dishonesty.
Generally, we assume that cheating, like most other decisions, is based on a rational cost-benefit analysis. But
Ariely argues, and then demonstrates, that it’s actually the irrational forces that we don’t take into account that often
determine whether we behave ethically or not. For every Enron or political bribe, there are countless puffed
resumes, hidden commissions, and knockoff purses. In THE (HONEST) TRUTH ABOUT DISHONESTY, Ariely
shows why some things are easier to lie about; how getting caught matters less than we think; and how business
practices pave the way for unethical behavior, both intentionally and unintentionally. Ariely explores how unethical
behavior works in the personal, professional, and political worlds, and how it affects all of us, even as we think of
ourselves as having high moral standards.
But all is not lost. Ariely also identifies what keeps us honest, pointing the way for achieving higher ethics in our
everyday lives. With compelling personal and academic findings, THE (HONEST) TRUTH ABOUT
DISHONESTY will change the way we see ourselves, our actions, and others.
Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, with
appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the Department of
Economics, and the School of Medicine. Dan earned one PhD in cognitive psychology and another PhD in business
administration. He is the founder and director of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. His work has been featured in
many outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe,
and others. He lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife, Sumi, and their two creative children, Amit and
Neta.
Praise:
“I was shocked at how prevalent mild cheating was and how much more harmful it can be, cumulatively, compared
to outright fraud. This is Dan Ariely's most interesting and most useful book.”
--Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author, The Black Swan
“Dan Ariely ingeniously and delightfully teases out how people balance truthfulness with cheating to create a reality
out of wishful blindness reality. You’ll develop a deeper understanding of your own personal ethics – and those of
everybody you know.”--Mehmet Oz, MD, Columbia University and host of the Dr. Oz Show
“Anyone who lies should read this book. And those who claim not to tell lies are liars. So they should read this book
too. This is a fascinating, learned, and funny book that will make you a better person. “
--A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically and Drop Dead Healthy.
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Ariely, Dan
PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions
(HarperCollins, February 2008) (Revised Hardcover, May 2009)
Trade Paperback, May 2010 (400 pages)
UK Commonwealth: HarperCollins UK (via HarperCollins)
A New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year!
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Barnes, Jane
FALLING IN LOVE WITH JOSEPH SMITH: My Search for the Real Prophet
(Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, August 2012)
Hardcover (288 pages)
Storyteller or visionary? Fraud or God’s messenger? One woman’s quest to nail down America’s homegrown
prophet.
When award-winning documentary film writer Jane Barnes was working on the PBS special series The Mormons,
she was surprised to find herself passionately drawn to Joseph Smith. The product of an Episcopalian, “WASPy”
family, she couldn’t remember ever having met a Mormon before her work on the series—much less dallied with the
idea of converting to a religion shrouded in controversy. But so it was: she was smitten with a man who proclaimed
to have translated the word of God by peering into the dark of his hat.
In this brilliantly written memoir, Barnes describes her experiences working on the PBS series as she moved from
secular curiosity to the brink of conversion to Mormonism. It all began when she came across Smith’s early
writings. She was fascinated to discover how funny and utterly unique he was—and how wildly divergent his wild
yet profound visions of God were from the Church of Latter-day Saints as we know it today. Her fascination
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deepened when, much to her surprise, she learned that her eighth cousin Anna Barnes converted to Mormonism in
1833. Through Anna, Barnes follows her family’s close involvement with Smith and the crises caused by his
controversial practice of polygamy. Barnes’s unlikely path helps her gain a newfound respect for the innovative
American spirit that lies at the heart of Mormonism—and for a religion that is, in many ways, still coming into its
own.
An intimate portrait of the man behind America’s fastest-growing religion, FALLING IN LOVE WITH JOSEPH
SMITH offers a surprising and provocative window into the Mormon experience.
Jane Barnes, who has received fellowships from the NEA, the NEH, and the Virginia Humanities Foundation, has
published two novels, I, Krupskaya: My Life with Lenin (Houghton Mifflin, 1974) and Double Lives (Doubleday,
1981). Her essays and stories have appeared in MLLE, Mirabella, Prairie Schooner, Dialogue, and the Virginia
Quarterly Review, among others. Barnes, who has written documentaries for American Experience, American
Masters and Frontline, lives in Charlottesville, VA.
Praise:
“Jane Barnes' startling, compelling book looks for treasure, much as the young Joseph Smith did, with the passion of
a convert and the wild, sharp eye of someone determined to find it in the most unlikely places. This is a beautiful
and utterly original book. --Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion and Jesus Freak.
“This is a book about faith and irony, but don’t let the title fool you. Hold on to your hats, because you’re going to
be falling in love with Joseph Smith, too!” –Dennis Covington, author of the National Book Award finalist
Salvation on Sand Mountain
"Jane Barnes' fascination with Joseph Smith is an inward journey, an account of one person's attempt to articulate
and to answer difficult questions in the context of the teachings of the mysterious religious leader -- a man no longer
living, who remains inspiring at the same time that he puzzles and eludes her. FALLING IN LOVE WITH JOSEPH
SMITH made me think of one of my favorite hybrid books, Annie Dillard's For the Time Being."
–Ann Beattie, award-winning author of Walks with Men and Mrs. Nixon
Berns, Gregory
THE DOG PROJECT: A Neuroscientist’s Quest to Discover What Dogs Are Really Thinking
(Amazon Publishing, October 2013)
Manuscript due March 2013
THE DOG PROJECT is the story of how Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his colleagues
accomplished what nobody thought possible and peered inside the mind of a dog. It’s also the story of how a man
and his dog embarked on a journey of discovery, and how their bond was changed forever.
Berns had spent decades using brain imaging technology to study how the human brain works. All of that changed
when Berns and his family adopted Callie, a shy, skinny 18-pound terrier-mix who had spent most of her first six
months of life at a shelter. Unlike any other dog Berns had lived with, Callie inspired him to tackle a question that
dog owners and lovers can’t help but wonder about: “What is my dog thinking?” As the first domesticated species,
dogs are unique. More than any other species, they have acquired the ability to understand and communicate with
humans. But nobody knows how the dog mind actually works.
Using state-of-the-art science and technology, Berns hit on the idea of training Callie – along with a border collie
named McKenzie -- to go into an MRI scanner so that he could see what was happening in their brains while he
communicated with them through hand signals. At first the idea is dismissed by his colleagues. There is no possible
way that any dog could do what most humans barely tolerate: lying absolutely still in a tiny tube with loud clanging
all around as the MRI does its work. It’s dismissed by his family, who can’t imagine that Callie, a bundle of anxious
energy who failed basic obedience training, will even enter the MRI. And it’s challenged by an army of lawyers,
who don’t even want to let Berns get the project off the ground. But through positive training and love of his dog,
Berns proves everybody wrong.
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After months of daily training, and trial-and-error at the MRI to find what worked best for the dogs, The Dog Project
recently achieved success. They discovered how the dog reward system responds to human hand signals and that
dogs are, indeed, more responsive when information comes from a human. It’s an important breakthrough in
deciphering the dog-human bond, tantalizing evidence for neural processes that may eventually show how dogs
empathize with human emotions. But even as much as it is a story of scientific discovery about dogs, THE DOG
PROJECT is a story about human relations. A year in the life of The Dog Project not only taught Greg Berns how to
communicate better with his dog, but how to be a better parent and how to communicate better with all the humans
in his life.
Gregory Berns, M.D., Ph.D. is the Distinguished Professor of Neuroeconomics at Emory University, where he
directs the Center for Neuropolicy. He is also a Professor in the Economics Department and a founding member of
the Society for Neuroeconomics. Berns is the author of Satisfaction: The Science of Finding True Fulfillment (Henry
Holt & Co., 2005) and Iconoclast: What Neuroscience Reveals about How to Think Differently (Harvard Business
School Press, 2008), which was named one of the best business books of 2008 by Fast Company. Dr. Berns’
research is frequently the subject of popular media coverage including articles in the New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Money, Oprah, Forbes, The Financial Times, The New Scientist, Wired, Washington Post, Chicago
Tribune, International Herald Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. He speaks frequently on CNN and NPR, and has
been profiled on ABC’s Primetime and CBS’s Sunday Morning.
Borden, Mark
GEEK GODS: Fear, Influence and the Rise of the Nobody in the New Digital Age
(Hyperion, January 2014)
Manuscript due March 2013 (304 pages)
The internet has become a network of networks—the social web—where the individual increasingly has the power.
People you’ve never heard of, like Justine Ezarik and Phil DeFranco, have an inordinate amount of influence over
the fate of offerings from companies as diverse as Microsoft, Pepsi and Twentieth Century Fox. The social web is
pushing Silicon Valley, Hollywood and Madison Avenue to converge in a way that is redefining business and
culture. It’s all being driven by the huge sums of cash major brands are spending to put their products in front of
these vocal, fickle, and highly influential moguls of the new media age. At the center of this ecosystem sit the digital
Mad Men, creating campaigns to spread ideas, products, and fame through the digital subculture that is driving mass
culture.
To tell the story of the new influencers, whom he refers to as Geek Gods, Mark Borden spent a year as a fly on the
wall at Mekanism, the San Francisco and New York based boutique selected by Advertising Age as a 2011 Small
Agency of the Year and by Inc. Magazine as one of its Fastest Growing Companies. According to Tim Ferriss, who
has worked with them, “Mekanism is a leader in understanding and leveraging the power of the new media. If you
really want to understand the new world order of the social web, you can't do any better than following them."
If you wanted one writer to be your guide through this new world, Mark Borden would be your choice. According to
Gary Vaynerchuck, “Mark is one of the few journalists I would endorse, not because I dislike journalists but because
many don’t have the ‘feel’ for the actual market and I have always been impressed by Mark’s pulse.” GEEK GODS
will be a business book that will transcend the business category, appealing not just to the likely suspects but to
every nobody striving to be a somebody in the radical world of the constantly morphing social web. It’s set up to be
a great read that captures one of the most interesting stories of our age.
Mark Borden is a former reporter for Fortune and senior editor for Fast Company who has written for The New
York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Outside and Sports Illustrated. In 2007 he
collaborated with Marcus Buckingham to write The New York Times bestseller, Go Put Your Strengths to Work. As
Buckingham says, “Mark Borden is a great storyteller. His tales often start with a small observation, almost a riff.
Then through deep reporting, he reveals how that micro incident fits into a larger whole.”
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Bouton, Katherine
SHOUTING WON’T HELP: Why I—and 50 Million Other Americans*--Can’t Hear You *As
well as 10 million Brits, 71 million Europeans, 20 million Chinese, uncountable numbers in
Africa, and about 275 million people worldwide
(Sara Crichton Books/FSG, February 2013)
Manuscript (410 pages)
Why more Americans (as well as 10 million Brits, 71 million Europeans, 20 million Chinese, uncountable
numbers in Africa, and about 275 million people worldwide) are going deaf than ever before—and what we
can do about it
For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton was a senior editor at The New York Times. At daily editorial meetings, she
had a secret that grew harder to keep every day—she couldn’t hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone
profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she writes, she was “the kind of person who might
have used an ear trumpet in the nineteenth century.”
Audiologists agree that we’re experiencing a worldwide epidemic of hearing impairment. At present, 275 million
people worldwide suffer some degree of hearing loss—17 percent of the industrialized world’s population. Cities
around the world have always been noisy and people who live in them have always experienced noise-induced
hearing loss. But these days, the decibel level on a typical city street averages about 90—enough to cause hearing
damage in just eight hours. If it’s a midtown Manhattan street complete with a jackhammer (100 decibels), a
construction site (100), and a panhandler playing amplified drums (110), it’s loud enough to cause serious hearing
damage in those eight hours. And although Manhattan is the noisiest city in the world according to the W.H.O.,
Tokyo, Nagasaki, and Buenos Aires are not far behind. Mumbai, Delhi and Calcutta vie for the top five, with
Madrid following at their heels. And hearing loss is not exclusively a product of growing old. The usual onset is
between the ages of nineteen and forty-four, and in many cases the cause is unknown.
SHOUTING WON’T HELP is a deftly written, deeply felt look at a widespread and misunderstood phenomenon. In
the vein of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, and using her experience as a guide, Bouton examines the
problem personally, psychologically, and physiologically. She speaks with doctors, audiologists, neurobiologists,
and a variety of people afflicted with midlife hearing loss, braiding their stories with her own to illuminate the
startling effects of the condition. The result is a surprisingly engaging account of what it’s like to live with an
invisible disability—along with a robust prescription for our society’s increasing problem with deafness.
Katherine Bouton is a former senior editor at The New York Times, where she worked for the magazine, the Book
Review, and the daily Books section. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times
Magazine, and many other magazines and reviews. She is currently a regular reviewer and contributor to Science
Times. She lives in New York City with her husband, Daniel Menaker. They have two grown children.
Advance Praise:
“Shouting Won’t Help is a fascinating and frequently moving exploration of the hearing loss that strikes on so many
of us and those we love. The book is filled enlightening personal observations, wise advice, and answers to
frequently asked questions. If you’ve even said “What?”, gotten annoyed at those who do, had a miserable
experience at an expensive but cacophonous restaurant, or wondered which is most dangerous to your health—sex,
drugs, or rock and roll—this book is for you.”--Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology,
Harvard University, and author of The Language Instinct
“A relatable, inspiring narrative of taking control, going public and finding comfort and empowerment in connecting
with others facing similar difficulties…A well-written, powerful book.” --Kirkus Review (starred)
“The world is getting noisier, but fortunately we have Katherine Bouton, whose talent for listening remains
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undiminished by her hearing loss. Her book is both a moving memoir and an indispensable resource for anyone who
cares about their ears.” –Deborah Solomon, former NYT Magazine columnist
Boyd, Drew and Jacob Goldenberg
INSIDE THE BOX: Systematic Creativity for Breakthrough Results
(Simon & Schuster, June 2013)
Manuscript (315 pages)
UK rights: Profile Books (via S&S)
This counterintuitive and powerfully effective approach to creativity demonstrates how every corporation
and organization can develop an innovative culture.
The traditional attitude toward creativity in the American business world is to “think outside the box”—to
brainstorm without restraint in hopes of coming up with a breakthrough idea, often in moments of crisis. Sometimes
it works, but it’s a problem-specific solution that does nothing to engender creative thinking more generally.
INSIDE THE BOX demonstrates Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT), which systemizes creativity as part of the
corporate culture. SIT requires thinking inside the box, working in one’s familiar world to create new ideas
independent of specific problems.
Dozens of books discuss how to make creative thinking part of a corporate culture, but none takes the innovative
and unconventional approach of INSIDE THE BOX. SIT’s techniques and principles have instilled creative thinking
into such companies as Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, and other industry leaders. INSIDE THE BOX
shows how corporations have successfully used SIT in business settings as diverse as medicine, technology, new
product development, and food packaging.
With “inside the box” thinking companies of any size can become sufficiently creative to solve problems even
before they develop and to innovate on an ongoing basis. It works! This fascinating book explains a successful
method for making organizations more creative for problem solving and innovation.
Jacob Goldenberg is a marketing professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He studies creativity, new
product development, innovation, market dynamics, and the effects of social networks. He lives in Jerusalem, Israel.
Drew Boyd is a consultant in the fields of innovation, marketing, persuasion, and social media. He is assistant
professor of Marketing and Innovation at the University of Cincinnati. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Advance Praise:
“Among the few ideas that have fundamentally changed how I look at life is the idea that creativity can be simple
and systematic. In this book, Jacob and Drew explain the basic building blocks for creativity and, by doing so, help
all of us better express our potential.” –Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational
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Brosh, Allie
HYPERBOLE AND A HALF: An Illustrated Wonderland of Stories and Anecdotes and Other Things, Too
(Touchstone/S&S, Fall 2013)
Four-color illustrations throughout
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Named one of the Funniest Sites on the Web by PC World and winner of the 2011 Bloggies Awards for Most
Humorous Weblog and Best Writing, the creator of the immensely popular Hyperbole and a Half blog
presents and illustrated collection of her hilarious stories with fifty percent new content.
In a four-color, illustrated collection of stories and essays, Allie Brosh’s debut HYPERBOLE AND A HALF
chronicles the many “learning experiences” Brosh has endured as a result of her own character flaws, and the
horrible experiences that other people have had to endure because she was such a terrible child. Possibly the worst
child. For example, one time she ate an entire cake just to spite her mother. And, in an attempt to win the heart of
her potbellied, 45-year-old neighbor-man, she stole his cat and kept it in her closet for two days. She blames the
dismal failure of that plan on their age difference.
Brosh’s website receives millions of visitors a month and hundreds of thousands of visitors a day. Artful, poignant,
and uproarious, Brosh’s self-reflections have captured the hearts of countless readers and her book is one that fans
and newcomers alike will treasure.
Allie Brosh has enjoyed writing ever since her mom tricked her into writing a story to distract her from her
immediate goal of wrapping the cat in duct-tape. She started her award-winning blog in 2009. Brosh lives in Bend,
Oregon, with her fiancé, her two dogs, and six pet rats.
Praise for Hyperbole and a Half:
“This site is chock full of childhood stories and random thoughts, all accompanied by hilarious drawings done by
MS Paint…It’ll cost ya hours of your life as you laugh out loud while reading.” –Whitney Matheson, USA Today
"Once I started reading Hyperbole and a Half, I found myself unable to stop -- except to laugh uproariously."
--Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing.com
"If you haven’t seen Hyperbole and a Half, here’s a rough analogy: David Sedaris sets out to write a graphic
memoir, but decides to use the MS Paint application on his computer rather than hire an artist…[Brosh’s] writing is
twisted and sharp but also earthy and accessible. Her naïve art plays brilliantly against dark comic themes."
--Michael Humphrey, True/Slant
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Brown, Laura
HOW TO WRITE ANYTHING: A Practical Guide to Everything You’ll Ever Have to Write—at Work, at
School, and in Your Personal Life
(W.W. Norton, Fall 2013)
Manuscript due March 2013
Writing is more important now than it’s ever been. At work, at school, in our personal lives—business and personal
e-mails, thank-you’s, and reports, not to mention blogs and text messages—we’re all writing more than ever before.
In spite of the increasing demand for writing, most people find writing a chore. As a corporate writing trainer and
writing teacher, Laura Brown has seen difficulty with writing—and sometimes even dread—in literally every group
she’s worked with, regardless of age, social background or education. Employees procrastinate about writing at
work, students pull all-nighters when a term paper deadline looms, and people neglect thank-you notes and
sympathy cards, all because they lack confidence in their writing. And when they finally do sit down to write, they
often have tremendous difficulty communicating clearly. Surveys of corporate employees and hiring managers
consistently list writing skills as some of the hardest to find, while college teachers decry the decline in the quality
of student writing. For many, writing is an onerous task that produces poor results.
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Now there’s a resource for all these intimidated, reluctant, and ineffective writers. HOW TO WRITE ANYTHING
will offer readers concise guidance and good models they can use to get all their writing tasks done quickly and
painlessly. What’s more, it will be the first book of its kind to embrace the profound changes that the Internet has
brought about in people’s writing habits. While many writing books treat e-mail as an afterthought, HOW TO
WRITE ANYTHING takes a comprehensive and integrated approach to the use of e-mail and other electronic
communication, offering guidance on how to communicate most effectively in our wired world. A comprehensive
reference for all occasions, Laura Brown’s HOW TO WRITE ANYTHING will be the only book the average person
will ever need to get through all the writing tasks that life presents them.
Laura Brown, Ph.D, is a New York-based writer and writing coach who has taught writing to just about
everyone—from corporate executives to high school students, in such places as Iona College, Columbia University,
AOL Time Warner and at some of New York’s top independent schools. She has a thriving practice coaching
corporate executives one-on-one in a wide variety of writing projects, including clients at Citigroup, DHL, TMP
Worldwide, WarburgPincus, and Deloitte, among others. Dr. Brown is co-author of Build Your Own Garage:
Blueprints and Tools to Unleash Your Company’s Hidden Creativity (The Free Press, 2001) with Professor Bernd H.
Schmitt of Columbia Business School. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The Financial
Times, and many other professional journals.
Butler, David and Linda Tischler
THINKING BIG ABOUT DESIGN: Why it Works for Coca-Cola – and How It Can Work for You
(Free Press, October 2013)
Manuscript due January 2013
In October 2009, Linda Tischler’s cover story for Fast Company’s best-selling “Masters of Design” issue described
how David Butler, Coca-Cola’s vice president of global design, was using design for competitive advantage and
social benefit, transforming everything from fountain machinery in thousands of fast food restaurants in America, to
point of purchase displays in Kazakhstan, to sustainable water usage in Kenya. David quickly became the hottest
thing on the design/business lecture circuit, addressing audiences all over the world -- executives at Wal-Mart and
Disney, the advertising industry’s annual festival in Cannes, the Economist’s Big Rethink conference in London -and realized that he was responding to an insatiable need for his message. Fast Company started getting so many
questions about design that it launched a new site devoted to design, the first spin-off of the company’s hugely
popular website, where Linda is a popular blogger and Tweeter, and Coca-Cola, realizing how effective David’s
message was – and how effective he was at delivering it – gave approval, for the first time in its history, to a book
based on insider access to one of its most critical and strategic functions.
Coca-Cola is well known for the design of a glass bottle that has become one of the most enduring cultural icons of
all time. What’s never been revealed, until now, is how Coca-Cola uses design thinking to increase productivity,
reduce costs, drive consumer engagement, and enhance sustainability. (Among other things, the company plans to
double its juice business in ten years by thinking about everything from the health of American honey bees to how
to transport juice from Brazil to the rapidly expanding markets in China.)With 450 brands in 200 countries, and
20,000 retailers selling 1.6 billion servings of Coke products per day, not to mention a market value of $128B, it
would be hard to find a bigger canvas on which to explore design as an enterprise function.
THINKING BIG ABOUT DESIGN is a handbook for anyone who wants to understand the business and social
value of design, and learn how to use design to make their own business or organization more effective, competitive,
and profitable. While design practitioners will learn a lot from this book, it is targeted to readers who have no
background in design. Based on an unprecedented look at how one of the world’s greatest companies uses design to
compete in a global economy, the goal of the authors – and of the Coca-Cola company – is to show how
THINKING BIG ABOUT DESIGN can help make the world a better place.
David Butler is the Vice President of Global Design for The Coca-Cola Company. Since 2004, he has led the
design thinking for some of the world’s most loved and valuable brands. Coca-Cola has been recognized with
numerous design awards including the prestigious Grand Prix from the Cannes Lions International Advertising
Festival. David’s career experience includes leading brand, product and experience design with numerous Fortune
100 companies. He is a frequent lecturer and strong advocate for design education.
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Linda Tischler is a Senior Editor at Fast Company, where she writes about the intersection of business and design.
For the past several years, she has been responsible for the magazine’s annual “Masters of Design” issue, which
celebrates the people in the forefront of design thinking. Tischler has twice been nominated for National Design
Awards in the “Design Mind” category, and this year Fast Company was nominated for the “Corporate
Achievement” category in recognition of its design coverage.
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Chamine, Shirzad
POSITIVE INTELLIGENCE: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True
Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours
(Greenleaf Book Group, April 2012)
Hardcover (221 pages)
World English rights through distribution
Most attempts to increase performance or fulfillment soon fizzle. Think about it. Why do team retreats result only
in temporary bumps in teamwork and performance? Why do newly learned management techniques give way to old
habits? Why is happiness from new achievements so fleeting? Why do nagging fears and anxieties constantly
return? Why are new years’ resolutions abandoned? The answer... sabotage. Your mind is not only your best
friend, but also your worst enemy. It secretly harbors “saboteurs” that cause most of your setbacks. You can change
that.
POSITIVE INTELLIGENCE is the groundbreaking new science and practice that measures and improves the
percentage of time your mind acts as your friend versus your enemy. Only 20% of individuals and teams score
above the tipping point that supports lasting increases in performance or fulfillment. Learn how to raise your score
beyond that tipping point and help others do the same.
The breakthrough tools and techniques in this book combine the best of neuroscience, positive psychology,
organizational science, and coaching. They have been honed over years of coaching hundreds of CEOs and their
executive teams, so they fit a busy life. Some require as little as ten seconds to produce meaningful results.
This book shows you how to:
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Determine the Positive Intelligence score for yourself or your team.
Increase your score above the critical tipping point in as little as 21 days.
Identify which of the ten “saboteurs” is your hidden internal enemy.
Weaken your saboteur and strengthen its counterpart.
Develop new brain “muscles,” even while doing daily routines, to access untapped mental powers and
insights.
Apply Positive Intelligence tools and techniques to improving both performance and fulfillment,
teambuilding, managing conflicts, improving work/life balance, reducing stress, and motivating and
developing others.
Shirzad Chamine is chairman and former CEO of CTI, the largest coach training organization in the world. CTI
has trained coaches and managers in most of the Fortune 500 companies, and faculty at Stanford and Yale business
schools. Shirzad has personally coached hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams. Prior to coaching, Shirzad
was the CEO of a software company. His background includes Ph.D. studies in neurobiology in addition to a BA in
Psychology, an MS in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA from Stanford. He lectures at Stanford.
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Praise:
“Positive Intelligence can change your life and transform your business. A real game-changer.”
--James D. White, Chairman and CEO, Jamba Juice
“Positive Intelligence ranks in the top three most influential business books I have ever read. If I could give only
one book to the thousands of team members in my organization to enhance their performance, it would be this one.”
--Lisa Stevens, Regional President, Wells Fargo Bank
“I’ve worked closely with Shirzad and experienced him walking the PQ walk. Most change initiatives fizzle
because of our mental Saboteurs. Shirzad gives us the tools to conquer them and create positive change that lasts.
This is a must-read for any individual or team serious about unleashing peak performance.”
–Dean Morton, former COO, Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Cook, Kevin
THE LAST HEADBANGERS: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless ‘70s---the Era that Created
Modern Sports (W.W. Norton, September 2012)
Hardcover, 288 pages
The inside story of the most colorful decade in NFL history—pro football’s raging, hormonal, hairy, druggy,
immortal adolescence
Between the Immaculate Reception in 1972 and The Catch in 1982, pro football grew up. In 1972, Steelers star
Franco Harris hitch-hiked to practice. NFL teams roomed in skanky motels. They played on guts, painkillers, legal
steroids, fury and camaraderie. A decade later, Joe Montana’s gleamingly efficient ’49ers brought a new era—the
corporate, scripted, multibillion-dollar NFL we watch today. Chronicling that pivotal decade, Cook draws on
interviews with legendary players—Harris, Montana, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Ken “Snake” Stabler—to
re-create their heroics and off-field carousing. He shows coaches John Madden and Bill Walsh outsmarting rivals
while Monday Night Football redefined sports’ place in American life. Cook also laments the physical toll the game
took on football’s greatest generation.
Certain to be controversial, THE LAST HEADBANGERS promises to be the sports book of the year.
Praise:
“Cook brings to life both the outsized personalities…and also the great rivalries and games of the era…an enjoyable
and insightful look at a wild and wooly era in American sports.” –Kirkus Reviews
“A head-slap of a book. Whap, yeah, that's how it was.” --Roy Blount Jr.
Kevin Cook is the award-winning author of Titanic Thompson and Tommy's Honor. He writes for Sports Illustrated,
Playboy, Men’s Health and other magazines, and appeared on ESPN and CNN. He lives in New York City.
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Coonerty, Ryan and Jeremy Neuner
THE RISE OF THE NAKED ECONOMY: How to Benefit from the Changing Workplace
(Formerly, We Are All Self-Employed)
(Palgrave, 2013/2014)
Manuscript due January 2013
World English rights with Palgrave
The idea of “work” as we know it is undergoing a once in-a-century transformation. This book will tell you
how to understand, survive, and prosper from the transformation of how, where, and why we work.
Through their rapidly growing business NextSpace Coworking+Innovation, Inc ,Coonerty and Neuner are creating
the office of the future for the worker of the future. They provide these prospective “laptop millionaires” with the
tools—physical, virtual and fiscal—to succeed in the new economy.
In their book, the authors explain how the trend toward self-employment will literally reorder the economy – and, if
done correctly –will allow people to rediscover and reclaim some of their fundamental humanity and live more
productive, happier, and more sustainable lives. Moreover, they address the questions and needs of this emerging
workforce by discussing the new “how-to’s” of starting your own business: securing funding for a new business,
using online and traditional networking, where and how to work, and identifying opportunities in the global
marketplace.
Coonerty and Neuner are the co-founders and owners of NextSpace Coworking + Innovation, Inc.
(www.NextSpace.us), the largest and most successful co-working businesses in the world, with locations in San
Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose and Santa Cruz. Coonerty is the two-time Mayor of Santa Cruz, California and
holds a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a law degree from the University of Virginia.
Neuner is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his Master’s degree from Harvard University’s John F.
Kennedy School of Government, where he specialized in business and government policy.
Dean, Josh
SHOW DOG: The Pampered Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred
(It Books/HarperCollins, February 2012)
Hardcover (416 pages)
World English rights with HarperCollins
Veteran magazine journalist Josh Dean will capture the idiosyncratic world of professional dog training,
from the local competitions held in florescent-lit school gymnasiums to the granddaddy of them all, The
Westminster Dog Show, as he follows a loveable novice dog through the inaugural year in competition.
By spending a year alongside rising star Jack, a champion Australian Shepard, and his friends, Josh Dean rips back
the curtain on the dog show world, providing not just a hilarious and often touching portrait of a colorful subculture
only slightly exaggerated by the film Best In Show, but also a revealing look at our love affair with the world’s most
doted upon and tinkered with animal species, examining the colossal array of dog types and the humans who love
them.
By and large, the book follows Jack as he grows, over the course of a year (through Westminster, in February of
2011), from still-improving adolescent to seasoned adult show dog. We get to know him and the people around
him, to experience what it’s like to own a show dog, and to train one. And at the end of every day we come to
appreciate him for what he is, a loveable and intelligent house pet—albeit one with a highly unusual acumen.
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Supplementing Jack’s story is the history and sociology of this eccentric and fascinating subculture of breeders and
dog show fanciers. Dean explores the history of breeding and of dog shows, and all the many related peculiarities:
judging, training, naming, promoting, hairstyling, kennel owning, RV driving, treat selecting, and more.
Josh Dean is a former deputy editor of Men’s Journal and was one of the founding editors of PLAY, The New York
Times Sports Magazine. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Outside, GQ, Men’s Journal, Popular Science,
Fast Company, Inc., Travel + Leisure and many others. He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox News as well as
numerous public radio programs. He lives in Brooklyn.
Praise:
“SHOW DOG is a well-written, entertaining and accurate look at our great sport of dog shows… Dean makes you
feel like you’re right there with a brush or a show lead in your hand. And he also includes enough history and
educational information about the inner workings of the sport to make this book a great accessory for anyone who
wants to know more, whether they go to dog shows or just watch Westminster or the National Dog Show on
television.”
—David Frei, Voice of the Westminster Kennel Club and the National Dog Show, author of Angel On A Leash
“SHOW DOG is filled with heart and humor, bringing to life extravagant characters, pampered pooches, and overthe-top humans without falling prey to cheap jokes and tired stereotypes. That’s because it’s not really about animal
beauty pageants; it’s about the unyielding bond between people and dogs and what they¹ll do to make each other
happy.”—Jim Gorant, author of The Lost Dogs
“Fascinating and funny…as I was sucked into the story of Jack the show dog, I began to understand the subtleties of
the sport, the amazing talents of these animals, and the affecting human—and canine— drama behind the show.
Plus, we all love giant turkey legs, so let's give these dogs a hand!” —John Hodgman
Demery, Monique
FINDING THE DRAGON LADY: Resurrecting South Vietnam’s Madame Nhu
(Public Affairs, Fall 2013)
Manuscript due June 2013
A woman who rose to power and spectacularly fell from grace, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu was the First Lady the
world loved to hate. To Americans, Madame Nhu was known as The Dragon Lady. The Vietnamese, if they dared
to speak out against her at all, called her The Tiger Lady (out of cultural respect for the dragon). To members of the
press, she was a “female monster,” complete with a “serpent’s tongue: and red-nailed “talons.” They likened her to
Lucrezia Borgia, Imelda Marcos and then to Marie Antoinette, a thoughtless woman in over her head. Pulitzer Prize
winning Associate Press reporter Malcolm Browne would write in his memoirs that he knew from “personal
experience” that Madame Nhu “could be the most dangerous enemy a man could have.” She was famous for her
beauty, her fury, and for her incendiary tongue.
This book is about the tinderbox years before the long war that would change history forever. In the wake of the
Vietnamese War, Madame Nhu largely disappeared from history, popping into the headlines only years later when
her parents were murdered by her brother in Washington D.C. To the major Vietnam historians, Nhu is both a
minor figure and responsible for the start of the war; she’s both provocative and a prude. But those early years were
not even the most arresting of Madame Nhu’s life. When that war was over, she had disappeared. Where Madame
Nhu was—in fact, whether she was alive at all—wasn’t widely known until author Monique Demery found her in
Paris in 2005.
This book is also a detective story of sorts, as Demery finds herself obsessed with understanding this woman beyond
her “dragon lady” stereotype. Slowly, she earns Nhu’s trust over a series of interviews (the first time Madame Nhu
had spoken with anyone from the Western press in over a decade), but Nhu has her own plans for Monique. The
result is a clear-eyed biography of a woman who changed history, a no-hold’s-barred account of her megalomania
and abuses of power, but also a deeply empathetic story.
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Monique Demery holds a Masters in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard and has studied extensively in
Vietnam. This will be her first book.
Dikkers, Scott with Dr. Oswald T. Pratt
YOU ARE OLD: Sobering Affirmations for Your Rapidly Disappearing Life
(Andrews McMeel, August 2012)
Gift Paperback (128 pages)
Did you suddenly wake up and realize you are old? How did this happen? Where did all your youthful health,
energy, and beauty go? And what can you do to recapture it and revitalize your life? Nothing. You're old.
From the New York Times best-selling authors of You Are Worthless and Just Give Up comes an even less inspiring
book for those past their prime. One of Scott Dikker's most hilarious creations, Dr. Oswalt T. Pratt is a sad and
seriously inept marriage and family counselor barely holding on to his rapidly retreating 40s. And he's out of shape,
too. So he knows the pain of growing old. In YOU ARE OLD, he offers steaming buckets of wisdom crafted
especially for those wracked with memory loss and other aged infirmities.
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Dating after 40: good luck with that.
Ear hair: how did you get so much of it?
You're past your prime. Your best days are behind you. You're over the hill. Your body doesn't bounce
back like it used to. It's starting to hurt a lot. Your back hurts, your neck hurts. Your knees hurt. You're
arthritic. You have rheumatoid arthritis, chronic pain syndrome, Bursitis, shingles, hives, cataracts and
ringworm. You're starting to sag, wrinkle, dry out and develop spots.
It's your choice: learn to navigate our serpentine, Rube Goldbergian healthcare system, or just give up and
die.
Today is the first day of the end of your life.
Scott Dikkers, cartoonist, filmmaker, and founder and former editor-in-chief of The Onion, has written or cowritten several New York Times bestsellers including Our Dumb World and The Onion's Our Dumb Century, which
has sold more than a half-million copies and was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor. His other books
include The Onion's Finest News Reporting, which topped 200,000 in sales, the self-help parody You Are Worthless,
and the "unauthorized autobiography" of George W. Bush, Destined for Destiny.
Ellis, Adam
BOOKS OF ADAM: The Blunder Years
(Grand Central, July 2013)
Black & white illustrations throughout
Manuscript (211 pages)
Adam Ellis is a rising star in the world of funny young bloggers. Since starting his blog Books of Adam in July
2010, he has developed a loyal readership with his signature black and white illustrations and charming, selfdeprecating, sweetly goofy coming-of-age stories.
The book, like much of his blog, will cover the embarrassing and confusing experiences of impending adulthood –
including but not limited to moving to a new city, dating, homesickness, being best friends with your cat, trying at
failing at home and self-improvement, being a slob and, most importantly, being able to laugh at yourself and shrug
it all off. It will include his most popular posts along with 50% new material. With the success of young comic
artists and bloggers like Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half and Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal, the time is right
for Books of Adam to create an actual “Book of Adam.”
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Adam Ellis is a 24-year old artist, blogger and reluctant hipster who lives in Portland, Oregon. Since starting the
blog, he has received many fan mail notes and marriage proposals, exactly one article of hate mail, and has had a
cake baked in honor of one of his comics.
Florida, Richard
THE RISE OF THE CREATIVE CLASS--REVISITED, 10th Anniversary Edition
(Basic Books, June 2012)
Hardcover (512 pages)
World English rights with Basic Books
In a revision to his international best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida proposes a
dramatic new social compact for our time—one that can turn our emerging Creative Economy into an
enduringly Creative Society.
Ten years ago, Richard Florida published a path-breaking book about the forces that were reshaping our economy,
our geography, our work, and our whole way of life. Weaving story-telling with reams of original research, he
traced a fundamental theme through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in our society: the growing role of
creativity. In the decade since, we have endured a series of world shattering events—from the collapse of the tech
bubble and 9/11 to the economic meltdown of 2008—any one of which might have been sufficient to derail the
trends he described. Instead, they have only become more deeply ensconced, both in the US and across the globe. In
late 2011, the social media site LinkedIn reported that the word most used by its members to describe themselves
was “Creative.”
In this newly revised and expanded edition of his now classic book, Florida has brought all of its statistics up to date
(and provided a host of new ones), further refined his occupational, demographic, psychological, and economic
profile of the Creative Class; incorporated a decade’s worth of his own and his colleagues’ quantitative and
qualitative research; and addressed his major critics. Five completely new chapters cover the global effects of the
Creative Class and explore the integral features and factors that shape “quality of place” in our rapidly changing
cities and suburbs. Florida delves into the roles played by technology, race, and poverty in perpetuating and
exacerbating income inequality and the pervasive influence of class throughout every aspect of society.
We are in that strange interregnum when the old order has collapsed and the new order is not yet born, Florida
writes. The old order has failed; attempts to bail it out, to breathe new life into it or to somehow prop it back up are
doomed to history’s dustbin. The key is not to limit or reverse the gains that the Creative Class has made but to
extend them across the board, to build a more open, more diverse, more inclusive Creative Society that can more
fully harness its members’—all of its members’—capacities.
Richard Florida is Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of
Management and a Senior Editor for The Atlantic. A frequent writer for major newspapers and guest on CNN and
other news broadcasts, he lives in Toronto.
Praise:
“Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class is an important book for those who feel passionately about the
future of the urban center.” –Herbert Muschamp, New York Times, Year in Review
“An urban-development expert…His ideas about revitalizing cities by attracting artists and high-tech workers have
influenced a generation of urban planners.”—Andrea Sachs, TIME
“Richard Florida is a phenomenon… there is no academic quite like him.” –The Globe and Mail
“Florida’s research and experiences over the past decade have given him the foundation on which to build a new
view of business reality.” –Informationweek
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Gill, Libby
CAPTURE THE MINDSHARE AND THE MARKET SHARE WILL FOLLOW
(Palgrave, August 2013)
Manuscript due March 2013 (240 pages)
World English rights with Palgrave
CAPTURE THE MINDSHARE AND THE MARKET SHARE WILL FOLLOW reveals how strong branding
creates awareness, provides authentic value, motivates others to act, and builds long-term customer loyalty based on
trust and respect.
Author Libby Gill helps businesses define and articulate their unique brand promise by exploring case studies and
client success stories to help readers master the Six Core Mindshare Methods, including concepts to Clarify,
Commit, Collaborate, Connect, Communicate, and Contribute. Readers will see their relationships deepen,
opportunities expand, and careers flourish as they learn to differentiate themselves in a competitive environment by
promising and delivering massive value.
Libby Gill is an internationally respected executive coach, brand strategist, and bestselling author. Libby works
with top companies to help them successfully position their leaders, business, and brands including Nike, Disney,
Kellogg, Oracle, PayPal, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and more. Libby is a frequent TV and radio guest offering
expert opinions and guidance on brand strategy and professional development. She has appeared on the Today show,
Dr. Phil, CNN, NPR, Oprah & Friends Radio, and many more.
Advance Praise:
"We’ve seen a lot of great speakers here at Disney, but Libby’s presentation was one of the most inspiring I’ve seen
in a long time. She managed to blend practical business information with deep insights about personal responsibility
and leadership. After a very challenging year, our group was ready to get back to work, totally re-energized by her
empowering message." —Sharon Williams, Senior Vice President, Disney, ABC
Gneezy, Uri and John List
THE RIGHT INCENTIVES: Two Renegade Economists Rethink How to Solve our Biggest Social and
Economic Problems
(Public Affairs, September 2013)
Preface by Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics
Manuscript due March 2013
Two economists (one a liberal originally from Israel, the other a conservative from the University of Chicago, and
both on Forbes’ 2010 list of the Seven Most Powerful Economists in the World) shake up the “dismal science” of
economics and tackle big, vexing and fundamental questions with their pioneering methods of taking their work out
of the lab and into the world.
Gneezy and List test the notion that realistic insights into human behavior can be found with the approaches of either
traditional or behavioral economics. Their preferred method is to look at economic phenomenon as they naturally
occur. With the world as their sandbox, Gneezy and List run unprecedented and often large-scale field experiments
in places where people live and work -- from the foothills of Kilimanjaro to the bustling Chicago Board of Trade,
from sultry northern India to chilly Illinois; from the playgrounds of schools in Israel to the boardrooms of the
largest corporations in the world. Gneezy and List observe people as they make daily decisions in every possible
context. The result of their work is a new understanding of what really drives people to behave the way they do.
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With their groundbreaking approach, Gneezy and List are reaching for one of the holy grails of economics and all
the social sciences: to tease out the relation between cause and effect. The issues Gneezy and List focus on in this
book have touched their lives -- or those in their family – while yielding surprising insights into the biggest
questions that have vexed philosophers, ethicists, psychologists, economists, politicians, marketers, educators and
average human beings for millennia. Their work will challenge readers everywhere to rethink some of their basic
assumptions about how the world works. This is a book that will change the way we think- not just about the issues
discussed in the book, but about the seemingly intractable social problems we all face: from policy makers to
teachers to directors of nonprofits to business executives to parents—just a few of the book’s many audiences, along
with the thousands of intellectually curious, civic-minded readers who simply want to make the world a better place.
Uri Gneezy is the Arthur Brody Endowed Chair in Behavioral Economics and Professor of Economics and Strategy
at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego. Formerly, he was a faculty member at the University of
Chicago, and the Israeli universities Technion and Haifa. Gneezy received his Ph.D. from Tilburg University’s
CentER for Economic Research.
John List received his PhD from the University of Wyoming and is currently a Professor of Economics at the
University of Chicago after positions at the University of Central Florida, the University of Arizona and the
University of Maryland. John has been at the forefront of environmental economics and has served as senior
economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors for Environmental and Resource Economics. John is
also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Institute for the
Study of Labor (IZA), and a University Fellow at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. However, John is best
known as one of the world's leading experts on experimental economics.
Advance Praise:
“It is hard to imagine any story of innovation in our thinking about economics that does not involve Uri and John.”
–Dan Ariely, NYT bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality
“Their work is simultaneously scientifically path breaking and accessible to the general public… [and] has
revolutionized all of social science.” –David Laibson, Harvard economist
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Goodman, Lizzy
OUR TIME: Rebirth and Rock & Roll, New York, 2001-2011
(IT Books/HarperCollins, 2014)
Manuscript due January 2014
In the tradition of Legs McNeil’s Please Kill Me and Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life, Goodman’s
compelling oral history traces the last great music explosion to come out of New York, which went on to define the
very concept of cool in the new millennium. Some of bands are household names (The Strokes, The White Stripes,
The Killers), while others had huge cultural cachet and are currently influencing future generation of rock & roll
stars (MGMT, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem, Grizzly Bear.)
The story of OUR TIME goes beyond music: It’s the soundtrack of New York (and America) as we stumbled out of
9/11 and found ourselves in two prolonged wars. It’s also a playlist of the final days of the music industry; as these
bands were coming into their own, the music business was coming to grips with the fact that music was now free.
Lizzy Goodman’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Spin,
Nylon, Elle, and Interview. She came of age as a rock and roll journalist as this scene was emerging, and has close
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relationships with many of the major players. She will provide the backdrop and commentary, but the music makers
and their circle will tell the story.
Grotenstein, Jonathan and Storms Reback
SHIP IT HOLLA BOLLAS! How a Bunch of 19-Year-Old College Dropouts Used the Internet to
Become Poker’s Loudest, Craziest, and Richest Crew (St. Martin’s Press, January 2013)
Hardcover, 320 pages
Amazon Best Book of the Month (January 2013)!
ship it \'ship 'it\
1. In poker, an exclamation made after winning a big pot.
2. The affirmation of a suggested act of extreme awesomeness.
The incredible true story of how college dropouts became the most successful poker crew of all time
To be a teenager in 2006 meant having grown up with the Internet. The dot-com bubble had come and gone, leaving
in its wake a still-maturing medium whose immense powers were not yet fully understood. It wasn't long before
smart, resourceful young men used it to master the game of poker. They took advantage of online poker’s lightningfast pace and lackluster efforts at age verification to gain, in just a few months, the kind of experience that used to
take a lifetime.
SHIP IT HOLLA BALLAS! is the story of the top crew to come out of this new world order. With online handles
like Good2cu, Apathy and Raptor, they communicated through message boards and online chats, comparing hands,
trading tips, developing previously unknown skills. They soon crushed the competition. Emerging from their dorm
rooms and basements in places like Fort Worth, Texas, Okema, Michigan, and Toronto, Canada, they joined up in
Vegas and parked themselves in a mansion, making millions by sticking it to the poker establishment. Along the
way, they did what any red-blooded teenage boy with piles of cash and no responsibility would do: They partied like
rock stars, transforming themselves from nerds with zero life skills into legends. Eventually, however, all parties
end. This is a powerful, thrilling tale of living it up and laying it all on the line.
Jonathan Grotenstein is a former professional poker player and the author or co-author of eight books, including
The Sportsman (with Dhani Jones), Drinking with George (with George Wendt), and God Hates Us All, the novel
attributed to Hank Moody, David Duchovny’s character on Californication. His first book, Poker: The Real Deal
(with Phil Gordon), remains one of the best-selling poker books of all-time.
Storms Reback is a former professional poker player and the co-author of two books, All In: The (Almost) Entirely
True Story of the World Series of Poker (with Jonathan Grotenstein) and Farha on Omaha: Expert Strategy for
Beating Cash Games and Tournaments (with Sam Farha).
Advance Praise:
"The loud narcissism and adolescent degeneracy of these talented 'ballas' ain't pretty, but the testosterroneous world
of high-stakes online poker in America before Black Friday, in all its doomed glory, steadily throbs in Grotenstein
and Reback's swift prose." –James McManus, author of Positively Fifth Street
"An infectious tale, told with the speed of a rocket sled, Ship It Holla Balla! puts us in with a gang of under-age
poker geniuses as they turn Las Vegas on its ear, making off with the gelt as well as the girls."
--Bruce Porter, New York Times bestselling author of Blow
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Hafner, Katie
MOTHER, DAUGHTER, ME: Three Generations Under One Roof
(Random House, July 2013)
Manuscript (380 pages)
Journalist and author Katie Hafner chronicles one intense year of three generations living together—her formerly
alcoholic mother, her blossoming teenage daughter Zoe, and Katie herself—a woman struggling to deal with the
effects of her unstable childhood, the death of her husband, and providing for her own daughter as a single parent.
As the year unfolds, Katie’s hard and troubled childhood is reexamined and brought to the surface and some
surprising new troubles arise to test the mettle of this new family unit.
While hers is a very personal story, Katie’s dilemma is emblematic of what is happening today with an entire
generation, caught between their responsibility for their children and their obligation to their aging parents. They are
facing some very hard decisions, wanting to do the right thing by their parents, and hoping their children will want
to do the same by them.
Katie Hafner is a former New York Times reporter who has also worked at Newsweek and BusinessWeek. During
her decade at the Times, she wrote mainly about technology and society. She also wrote for the New York Times
Magazine from Germany, soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She has written for Esquire, Wired, The New
Republic, and O Magazine.
Hickok, Gregory Ph.D.
THE MYTH OF MIRROR NEURONS: What Shattering the Myth Can Teach Us About Perception,
Movement, Language and the Brain
(W.W. Norton, Winter 2014)
Manuscript due June 2013
The discovery of mirror neurons has had a profound impact on the scientific community and public conversation.
An avalanche of books and blogs tout the virtues of mirror neurons for everything from classroom education to your
golf game to the cultivation of compassion (some have called them the “Dalai Lama neurons”). But what if the
claim for mirror neurons is wrong?
In THE MYTH OF MIRROR NEURONS, Hickock shows why the story of mirror neuron function is a house of
cards with no foundation, and then rebuilds the house with a new architectural plan.
Gregory Hickok is Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California at Irvine, where he is Director of
the Center for Language Science. He is widely published in academic journals, but this will be his first trade book.
Advance Praise:
“There could be no better guide to what’s fact and what’s fiction about mirror neurons, perhaps the most famous
discovery in neuroscience of the past two decades. Hickok is perfectly positioned not just to debunk some of the
extraordinary claims that have been made for these cells, but to offer an enlightening account of what we do know
about language, movement, empathy, and the brain.”
–Steven Pinker, Professor, Harvard University; author, The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works
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"Greg Hickok is an innovative and respected cognitive neuroscientist. His views on mirror-neurons are worth
listening to and likely to put a number of current claims in a balanced perspective."
--Antonio Damasio, Professor, University of Southern California; author, Descartes’ Error
“Greg Hickok is the ideal person to give us the low-down on the mirror neuron story: what exactly is known, what is
claimed, what claims have evidential support and what are hyperbolic. . . . In fact it was Hickok’s work that turned
me from being lazily sympathetic to the claims made regarding the role of mirror neurons in “theory of mind” and
imitation, to being very concerned that I, and the wider scientific public, were buying a set of hypotheses that were
in fact a long stretch away from the evidential proving grounds. . . . Hickok’s writing is clear and accessible, and if
he is willing to do this, it would be a terrific service to the fields of neuroscience, psychology and philosophy.”
–Patricia Churchland, Professor, University of California, San Diego; author, Neurophilosophy
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Kang, Dr. Shimi
TIGER vs. DOLPHIN: A Guide to 21st Century Smarts, Happiness, and a Better World
(Penguin Canada, January 2014) (Tarcher/Penguin USA, January 2014)
Proposal; Manuscript due June 2013
In her bestselling book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom, Amy Chua gave a name to–and stirred up a controversy
about—an authoritarian parenting approach that has existed for all of human history, one that has become
aggravated by modern-day pressures and expectations.The effect was swift and far-reaching: Tiger parents felt
vindicated (even though the book was a memoir and not based in science or fact), “helicopter” moms and “wolf”
dads felt encouraged, and everyone’s anxiety level increased. Tiger parenting is common in major Asian countries
(China, South Korea, India) and is increasingly admired in the West. In a poll on the Wall Street Journal website
regarding Chua’s response to readers, two-thirds of respondents said that the “Demanding Eastern” parenting model
is better than the “Permissive Western” one.
In TIGER vs. DOLPHIN, Vancouver-based child, youth, and adult psychiatrist Shimi Kang, M.D. conclusively
dismantles the myth of Tiger parenting and offers a new, intuitive model designed to overcome the problems of both
the “Eastern” and “Western” parenting styles. Dr. Kang’s approach fosters sustainable skills that all children need to
thrive in a 21st century marked by globalization, competition, breakspeed technological advances, and financial
insecurity. Kang calls her approach Dolphin Parenting to conjure up images of the intelligence, skill, and agility of
these joyful, clever, and truly social creatures, who are also generally accepted as the world’s most altruistic animal
species.
Dr. Kang is like the rest of us: A busy parent struggling to raise her three young children in an uncertain world, with
the parental fear and guilt that go along with it. She’s exposed to the same 3,000 or so daily ads we are, many of
which are aimed directly at this parental guilt and fear. Like us, she’s a loving parent coping with the same pressures
most 21st century parents face and trying to do the best she can for her children.
But there are also some differences: Dr. Kang entered medical school at the age of 19 despite the fact that her
mother was illiterate, her father drove a taxi, and she was never enrolled in a single extracurricular activity. And
today, as Medical Director for the culturally diverse city of Vancouver’s child and youth mental health community
programs, Dr. Kang has a close-up look at the negative impact of the Tiger Parenting approach: suicides, addiction,
anxiety disorders, near-sightedness, high stress levels, and lower satisfaction for both parents and children. As an
expert and lecturer on human motivation, she fully understands the complete and far-reaching toll that Tiger
Parenting has on lifelong-learning, internal drive, and happiness. Dr. Kang is convinced that now, more than ever,
we need to shake off the Tiger and move towards the Dolphin.
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While Tigers have high expectations for their children, Dolphins go well beyond, to the highest level. Dolphins
expect their children to achieve their best self and to positively shape the future for themselves, others, and their
communities. Dolphin parenting is not permissive, and it’s not authoritarian and over-structured like Tigering. It’s
an alternative to both styles. Dolphin parenting is a firmly guiding way of being with your child that leads to internal
motivation for 21st century Smarts, Happiness, and a better world.
Dr. Shimi Kang is a Harvard trained physician with over 10 years of experience in providing medical expertise on a
variety of health related topics. Currently, Dr. Kang is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British
Columbia where she conducts research and teaching. As one of Canada's few physicians trained in Motivational
Interviewing, Dr. Kang is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and trains extensively in
the area of motivation, facilitating positive change, dealing with resistance, apathy, and ambivalence, and promoting
healthy behaviors. Dr. Kang has published numerous articles, book chapters, manuals, and monographs in the area
of alcohol dependence, addictions, youth and women's mental health, motivation, and cross cultural issues in
healthcare and has contributed as an invited expert to numerous newspapers, online news, radio shows, and
television programs. She is a recognized media specialist in discussing both common and complex conditions such
as stress, relationships, motivation, depression, suicide, and addiction. She currently resides in Vancouver with her
husband and three children.
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Kasper Hauser
EARN YOUR MBA ON THE TOILET: Unleash Unlimited Power and Wealth from Your
Bathroom (Ten Speed Press, May 2013)
Manuscript (128 pages)
World English rights with Crown/Random House
Move over Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton--there's a new top-ranking MBA program in town! With the
Kasper Hauser Continuing Education Academy, all it takes is a few minutes and a roll of bathroom tissue to
earn a fully-accredited executive business degree.
For the hundreds of millions of people who are looking for better, more successful, and more fulfilling lives--but
don't have the time and money to invest in a full-on graduate degree--comes this revolutionary new system that turns
crap into gold!
With EARN YOUR MBA ON THE TOILET, the Kasper Hauser Continuing Education Academy offers readers a
complete business education, on subjects ranging from Accounting to Widgets to Business Ethics to Ethical Pickles.
Why spend $100,000 and two years on an MBA when you can simply read this book? Written for the busy
professional, the unemployed CEO, or the motivated alcoholic, this incredible course condenses thousands of hours
of business wisdom into a 72-minute crash course, chunked into 3-minute "jam sessions." After a mere 8 trips to the
toilet, readers will be able to hold their own with a finance professor at a cocktail party; after 15, they will be
qualified to work as a management consultant for a Bass Pro shop; and by the end they will have a certificate of
completion that is definitely, literally an MBA degree on par with the big guys, basically.
KASPER HAUSER is a sketch comedy group whose previous books include such absurdist gems as Obama's
Blackberry and SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy from a Plane. They perform and produce live shows and digital
content. The group's members have written for HBO digital and appeared on Comedy Central and This American
Life.
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Klosterman, Chuck
I WEAR THE BLACK HAT: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
(Scribner/S&S, July 2013)
Manuscript (256 pages)
From New York Times bestselling author, “one of America’s top cultural critics” (Entertainment Weekly), and
“The Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, comes a new book of all original pieces on villains and
villainy in popular culture.
Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness. As a child, he rooted for conventionally good characters like wideeyed Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. But as Klosterman aged, his alliances shifted—first to Han Solo and then to
Darth Vader. Vader was a hero who consciously embraced evil; Vader wanted to be bad. But what, exactly, was that
supposed to mean? When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying (and why are we so
obsessed with saying it)? In I WEAR THE BLACK HAT, Klosterman questions the very nature of how modern
people understand the culture of villainy. What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don’t we see Batman
the same way we see Bernhard Goetz? Who’s more worthy of our vitriol—Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was
O.J. Simpson’s second-worst decision? And why is Klosterman still obsessed with some kid he knew for one week
in 1985?
Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and limitless imagination, I WEAR THE BLACK
HAT delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the anti-hero (seemingly the only kind of hero America
still creates). I WEAR THE BLACK HAT is the rare example of serious criticism that’s instantly accessible and
really, really funny. Klosterman is the only writer doing whatever it is he’s doing.
Chuck Klosterman is the New York Times bestselling author of seven previous books, including Sex, Drugs, and
Cocoa Puffs; Eating the Dinosaur; Killing Yourself to Live; and The Visible Man. His debut book, Fargo Rock City,
was the winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. He has written for GQ, Esquire, Spin, The Washington Post,
The Guardian, The Believer, and The Onion A.V. Club. He currently serves as “The Ethicist” for the New York
Times Magazine and writes about sports and popular culture for ESPN.
La Leche League International
FEED YOURSELF, FEED YOUR FAMILY: Good Nutrition and Healthy Cooking for New
Moms and Growing Families (Ballantine, April 2012)
Trade Paperback, 288 pages
UK Rights: Pinter & Martin (via Ballantine)
From pregnancy to breastfeeding through weaning and beyond, the comprehensive one-stop nutrition and
cooking guide for mothers eager to nourish the whole growing family with healthy and delicious meals.
Your approach to eating changes when you become pregnant, give birth, and become responsible for feeding an
infant, toddler, or growing child. Featuring more than seventy-five easy-to-make and delicious recipes, sanitysaving, mom-tested advice, and vital information about your nutritional needs when pregnant, nursing, or weaning,
FEED YOURSELF, FEED YOUR FAMILY helps you set your family on a course for a lifetime of healthy eating.
Focusing on the five basic nutritional stages between birth and the time when your baby takes a seat at the family
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table, and with an emphasis on organic, unprocessed foods, this invaluable resource offers:
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Nutrition-packed, kid-pleasing recipes—including make-ahead, no-cook, one-handed, on the run, or sitdown meals
Facts on how a mother’s diet affects her milk (and baby’s tastes)
Perfect energizing foods to support busy new parents learning a new way of life
Pantry-and fridge-stocking suggestions for simple meals in minutes
The best organic and shortcut foods in every grocery aisle, from fresh to frozen
Tips and nutritional information for safely shedding pounds while breastfeeding
Fun ways to get children involved in the kitchen and invested in the food they eat
Candid, reassuring stories from mothers like you
La Leache League International is the most trusted name in breastfeeding information, support, and advocacy.
Founded in 1956 by seven intrepid women, the League now has more than 7,000 accredited leaders in sixty-eight
countries, and offers phone, online, and in-person consultation to breastfeeding mothers.
Praise:
This food and wellness guide for women offers much beyond recipes…a pleasant and helpful read for any mom.”
–Publishers Weekly
La Leche League International
THE WOMANLY ART OF BREASTFEEDING, Completely Revised & Updated 8th Edition
(Ballantine, July 2010)
Trade Paperback, 576 pages
UK rights: Pinter & Martin (via Ballantine)
National Bestseller!
Over 2 million copies sold!
From the internationally-revered woman’s support organization, La Leche League, this is a long-awaited
revision of the best-selling new mother’s classic: a comprehensive and reassuring guide to confident
breastfeeding, now updated for the first time in six years.
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Lucianovic, Stephanie V.W.
SUFFERING SUCCOTASH: A Picky Eater’s Quest to Understand Why We Hate the Foods We
Hate (Perigee Trade Paperback, July 2012)
Trade Paperback (256 pages)
World English rights with Perigee
A funny and fascinating investigation of food fears from a writer who’s been in the culinary trenches.
As a child, Stephanie Lucianovic created an elaborate system for disposing of yucky food involving bookshelves,
holiday centerpieces, and, later, boyfriends. As an adult, this picky eater found herself in the most unlikely of
circumstances: a graduate of culinary school who became a cheesemonger and then a food writer. Along the way,
she realized just how common her plight was. Picky eating is an issue for millions of kids; there are even support
groups for adults who can’t kick it.
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With wit and charm, through visits to laboratories specializing in gene testing and support groups for parents of
picky eaters, Stephanie explores her own food phobias and tries to discover the roots of picky eating. Even as she
eggs fellow picky eaters on, offering plenty of clever ways to avoid hated foods in every social situation, she also
shares tips to help readers overcome pickiness in themselves and their children.
SUFFERING SUCCOTASH’s combination of insightful research, memoir, and witty voice is reminiscent of authors
such as Mary Roach and Sarah Vowell, and will appeal to memoir and pop science readers as well as foodies.
Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic is a freelance writer and editor in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Praise:
"It takes a picky eater to understand picky eaters, and we should all be grateful for Lucianovic's inspired work."
--Amanda Hesser, cofounder of Food52.com and author of The Essential New York Times Cookbook
“Stephanie Lucianovic’s charming and hilarious expoloration of why we hate the foods we hate is packed to the gills
with research on everything from sword-swallowers to supertasters and yet reads like a guilty pleasure. I couldn’t
put it down.” –Suzanne Morrison, author of Yoga Bitch
"Hilarious and honest, SUFFERING SUCCOTASH is a fascinating read if you've ever gagged on your greens (or
know someone who has)." --Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, authors of Spoiled and founders of
GoFugYourself.com
Martin, Brett
DIFFICULT MEN: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad: Behind
the Scenes of a Creative Revolution
(The Penguin Press/Penguin USA, July 2013)
Manuscript (288 pages)
A riveting and revealing look at the shows that helped cable television drama emerge as the signature art
form of the twenty-first century
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the landscape of television began an unprecedented transformation. While the
networks continued to chase the lowest common denominator, a wave of new shows, first on premium cable
channels like HBO and then basic cable networks like FX and AMX, dramatically stretched television’s narrative
inventiveness, emotional resonance, and artistic ambition. No longer necessarily concerned with creating alwayslikable characters, plots that wrapped up neatly every episode, or subjects that were deemed safe and appropriate,
shows such as The Wire, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Deadwood, The Shield, and more tackled issues of life and death,
love and sexuality, addiction, race, violence, and existential boredom. Just as the Big Novel had in the 1960s and the
subversive films of New Hollywood had in the 1970s, television shows became the place to go to see stories of the
triumph and betrayals of the American Dream at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
This revolution happened at the hands of a new breed of auteur: the all-powerful writer-show runner. These were
men nearly as complicated, idiosyncratic, and “difficult” as the conflicted protagonists that defined the genre. Given
the chance to make art in a maligned medium, they full upon the opportunity with unchecked ambition.
Combining deep reportage with cultural analysis and historical context, Brett Martin recounts the rise and inner
workings of a genre that represents not only a new golden age for TV but also a cultural watershed. Difficult Men
features extensive interviews with all the major players, including David Chase (The Sopranos), David Simon and
Ed Burns (The Wire), Matthew Weiner and Jon Hamm (Mad Men), David Milch (NYPD Blue, Deadwood), and Alan
Ball (Six Feet Under), in addition to dozens of other writers, directors, studio executives, actors, production
assistants, makeup artists, script supervisors, and so on. Martin takes us behind the scenes of our favorite shows,
delivering never-before-heard story after story and revealing how cable TV has distinguished itself dramatically
from the networks, emerging from the shadow of film to become a truly significant and influential part of our
culture.
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Brett Martin is a correspondent for GQ magazine and a 2012 James Beard Journalism Award winner. His work has
appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Food and Wine,
and multiple anthologies. He is a frequent contributor to This American Life. He is the author of The Sopranos: The
Book (2007).
Advance Praise:
“The new golden age of television drama—addictive, dark, suspenseful, complex, morally murky—finally gets the
insanely readable chronicle it deserves in Brett Martin's Difficult Men. This group portrait of the guys who made The
Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Deadwood, Mad Men and Breaking Bad is a deeply reported, tough-minded,
revelatory account of what goes on not just in the writers' room but in the writer's head—the thousand decisions
fueled by genius, ego, instinct, and anger that lead to the making of a great TV show. Here, at last, is the real story,
and it's a lot more exciting than the version that gets told in Emmy acceptance speeches.”
—Mark Harris, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of
the New Hollywood
“Brett Martin has accomplished something extraordinary: he has corralled a disparate group of flawed creative
geniuses, extracted their tales of struggle and triumph, and melded those stories into a seamless narrative that reads
like a nonfiction novel. With characters as rich as these, you can't help but reach the obvious conclusion—Difficult
Men would itself make one heck of a TV series.”
—Mark Adams, New York Times bestselling author of Turn Left at Machu Picchu
“Sometime in the recent past the conversation changed. My friends were no longer talking about what movie they'd
been to see, but what television show was their latest obsession. Brett Martin's smart and entertaining book
illuminates why and how this happened—while treating fans to the inside scoop on the brilliant head cases who
transformed a low-brow medium into a purveyor of art.”
—Julie Salamon, New York Times Bestselling author of The Devil’s Candy and Wendy and the Lost Boys
Martin, Demetri
POINT YOUR FACE AT THIS
(Grand Central Trade Paperback, March 2013)
Manuscript (192 pages)
The New York Times bestselling author and comedian is back in a softer format.
In his first book, THIS IS A BOOK, Demetri Martin introduced fans and readers to his unique brand of long-form
humor writing. Now Demetri returns with an eclectic volume devoted entirely to his trademark one-liners and
drawings, as well as short prose and poetry, leaving the longer-form material for his next hardcover. Like an indie
stepchild of Gary Larson and Jack Handy, POINT YOUR FACE AT THIS contains hundreds of drawings, jokes,
and page-long bits, showcasing Martin’s particular penchant for brevity and a sensibility all its own—and will be a
great gift book and a must-have for fans of the brainy, ambidextrous, comedian, palindromist (and author), Demetri
Martin.
Demetri Martin is an award-winning comedian, who is best known for his Comedy Central show, Important
Things with Demetri Martin, as well as his stand-up comedy routines and contributions to The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart. Also, he is a person. He has brown hair and is allergic to peanuts. He lives in an apartment somewhere.
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THIS IS A BOOK
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(Grand Central/Hachette, April 2011)
Black & white line drawings throughout
Trade Paperback, April 2012 (288 pages)
A New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and ABA IndieBound Bestseller!
First serial excerpts in The New Yorker and Playboy!
Praise:
“Throughout, Martin jokes in many guises, silly one moment, barbed the next, and he achieves a satirical brilliance.”
–Publishers Weekly
“He is a palindromist, and anagrammatist, an amateur inventor, and, most visibly these days, an ascendant
comedian.” –The New Yorker
“The reader who fancies this brand of wry absurdism and playful labeling will be absolutely entertained from The
Front to The Back.” –Washington Post
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O’Connor, Richard
STOP YOURSELF: Putting the Brakes on Self-Destructive Behavior
(John Wiley & Sons, August 2013)
Manuscript (259 pages)
World English rights with Wiley
Everyone has some self-destructive habits, and no one understands why. Procrastination, lack of assertion,
disorganization, smoking, overeating, overworking, lack of exercise, poor sleep habits, lack of consideration,
depressed shopping, internet addiction—all the way up through addictions and direct self-harm. We know what
we’re doing to ourselves, and we keep promising to reform. Indeed we do try, often enough, but these habits are
hard to break. Every time we try but fail, we get more hopeless and more critical of ourselves. Self-destructive
habits are probably the greatest source of unnecessary suffering in our lives.
Most approaches to understanding and stopping self-destructive behavior have been ineffective because they provide
a "one size fits all" solution—change your thinking, get yourself organized, or delve into your unconscious. In
actuality, there are several different motivations/scenarios that drive us to handicap or hurt ourselves: a selfdestructive rebellion against some authority; an unconscious self-hate; fears of success, independence, love; a desire
for someone else to make us stop; a belief that the usual rules don’t apply to ourselves; and a few others.
O’Connor combines his signature integrative approach to human problems with the most important development in
psychology in decades: the recognition that the brain changes in response to life experience. Neuroscientists now
know that bad habits have a physical existence in the structure of the brain; they become the default circuits when
we are faced with temptation. You have to train your nervous system as you would train your muscles and reflexes.
This means that even though some self-destructive patterns become deeply entrenched, nothing is beyond our power
to change.
Richard O’Connor, M.S.W., Ph.D., is the author of several books, including the bestselling Undoing Depression.
For fourteen years he was the executive director of the Northwest Center for Family Services and Mental Health, a
private, nonprofit mental health clinic. He is currently a practicing psychotherapist with offices in Connecticut and
New York.
Rabin, Nathan
YOU DON'T KNOW ME BUT YOU DON'T LIKE ME: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My
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Misadventures with Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes
(Scribner Trade Paperback, June 2013)
Manuscript (288 pages)
Filled with veteran pop culture writer Nathan Rabin’s “trademark humor, quirkiness, and self-deprecation”
(USA Today) comes a gonzo exploration of two of music’s most obsessed fanbases: Phish’s neo-hippie
following and hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse’s “Juggalos.”
When memoirist and head writer for The A.V. Club Nathan Rabin first set out to write about obsessed music fans, he
had no idea the journey would take him to the deepest recesses of both the pop culture universe and his own mind.
For two very curious years, Rabin, who Mindy Kaling called “smart and funny” in The New Yorker, hit the road
with two of music’s most well-established fanbases: Phish’s hippie fans and Insane Clown Posse’s notorious
“Juggalos.” Musically or style-wise, these two groups could not be more different from each other, and Rabin,
admittedly, was a cynic about both bands. But once he gets deep below the surface, past the caricatures and into the
essence of their collective cultures, he discovers that both groups have tapped into the human need for community.
Rabin also grapples with his own mental well-being—he discovers that he is bipolar—and his journey is both a
prism for cultural analysis and a deeply personal exploration, equal parts humor and heart.
Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club, the entertainment guide of The Onion, a position he has held
since he was a college student at University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1997. Rabin is also the author of a memoir,
The Big Rewind, and an essay collection based on one of his columns, My Year of Flops. He most recently
collaborated with pop parodist Weird Al Yankovic on an illustrated autobiography titled Weird Al: The Book.
Rabin’s writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Spin, The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, Nerve,
and Modern Humorist. He lives in Chicago with his wife.
Race, Kristin with Jenna Glatzer
GENERATION STRESS: Mindful Solutions to Help You Raise Happy, Healthy Kids
(St. Martin’s Press, 2013/2014)
Manuscript due March 2013
An authoritative parenting guide that aims to give parents the tools they need to create more peaceful homes
using brain-based solutions and mindful exercises to counteract the stresses of modern families.
Welcome to Generation Stress. Our children’s world is not the same as ours was when we were growing up. They
don’t come home from school and play outside with other neighborhood children until the sun goes down. They call
each other on their cell phones while they watch TV and play videogames. Three-year-olds know how to use
iPhones to find their favorite apps. Kindergarteners bring their favorite gaming devices into restaurants. And
parents, who are trying to juggle all that modern-day parenting entails, are just thankful that they have these devices
to occupy their kids.
In this overscheduled, always-on, media-frenzied new world, many families sense that something big is getting lost.
When they think of one word to describe the family life they want, it is often, “happy.” When they think of one
word to describe the family life they have, it is usually, “busy.” We spend the majority of our time rushing from one
task to the next; making mental to-do lists; worrying about upcoming events; and getting distracted by a constant
deluge of emails, voicemails, and text messages. Parenting in the world we live in now – with a sense of always
needing to respond to, take in or seek out information -- puts our brains and our children’s brains in a constant state
of “fight or flight.” While moderate amounts of stress can make us more resilient, the types and levels of stress that
fill most homes today are affecting the way our brains function. The result: We can no longer process information
correctly, and both parents and kids wind up with anxiety, depression, trouble concentrating, frustration, anger, and
insomnia . . . along with a host of other health issues.
So what can we do to counteract the realities of life in Generation Stress? We need to learn methods to de-stress,
reconnect with our families, have meaningful social interactions, and recharge our batteries. By taking these steps,
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we create happier homes. GENERATION STRESS is more than just a book; it’s a movement that will encourage
parents to make small changes that will add up to a whole new way of life.
Kristen Race, Ph.D. has a doctorate in family, child, and school psychology and has been called a “brain geek” for
her interest in neuroscience and behavior in the family system. She is the founder of a groundbreaking yoga
program for kids that incorporates a curriculum of mindfulness; and teaches parenting classes that allow her to see
first-hand what parents are most concerned about. Dr. Race is a speaker at various national psychology and
education conferences, has appeared on television news programs and is the mother of two young children. She
lives with her family in Colorado.
Rockefeller, Eileen
BEING A ROCKEFELLER, BECOMING MYSELF
(Blue Rider/Penguin, October 2013)
Foreword by Daniel Goleman
Afterword by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
Proposal; Manuscript due March 2013
UK Commonwealth: Blue Rider/Penguin
Rockefeller is a household name, recognized throughout the world. But the Rockefeller family is intensely private.
In fact, Eileen Rockefeller, the great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller and the daughter of David and Peggy
Rockefeller, is the first Rockefeller woman to write a family memoir, the first to provide an inside look at what it
was like to grow up as the youngest of six children and twenty-two cousins in this famous family.
Eileen learned in childhood that great wealth and fame could open almost any door, but they could not buy a sense
of personal worth. Her father’s frequent business trips away from home, along with her mother’s dark depressions
and terrifying wrath, exaggerated the fierce competition for attention within her family. From outside, strong
feelings about her last name -- adulation, judgment, envy, and endless curiosity -- flew around her like a swarm of
bees, contributing to her sense of isolation and loneliness. She yearned to be seen not as an icon but as an ordinary
human being with a normal life, and like all of us, she had to learn to find her own way.
Her personal journey began in adolescence and continues today. As a teenager, rather than attending one of NYC’s
elite private schools, she lived on a farm-based school in the Adirondacks, learning to kill, pluck, and cook chickens
for her own dinner and sow the seeds for her current role as one of the nation's foremost proponents of agricultural
and environmental sustainability. As a young woman, an extraordinary meeting with Georgia O’Keefe helped give
her the courage to pursue her own path in life, while mentorship from Norman Cousins inspired her to become a
national leader in spearheading the now widespread recognition of the mind/body connection in promoting health.
(Cousins also influenced Eileen’s choice in a husband, and she became the first Rockefeller to marry a Jew -- and to
raise their sons with Jewish and Rockefeller traditions). More recently, partnership with Daniel Goleman led Eileen
to pioneer the growing movement to emphasize social-emotional learning as a critical part of children’s education.
Emotional intelligence is a major theme of her life.
Throughout her adult life, Rockefeller has been obligated by her family to do something most people can hardly
imagine: to give away one-third of her income every year. Lacking the level of resources that enabled her forebears
to build some of the greatest universities, museums, and parks in the world, but required to live up to their heritage,
she has become a pioneer in the practice of strategic philanthropy, helping the current generation of Rockefellers –
and others -- understand that "We could not compete with our fathers or uncles or grandparents. We chose quieter
paths, went incognito, and found as much value in helping people as in helping a nation."
BEING A ROCKEFELLER, BECOMING MYSELF describes the privileges and isolation of growing up as a
Rockefeller, and Eileen’s struggle to be her own person. Family healing has been her passion since she was very
young, for it was in her family of origin that she derived both her deepest emotional wounds and greatest strengths.
Born into wealth and power, she has learned that real power and richness come not from money, but from our
relationships with one another. BEING A ROCKEFELLER, BECOMING MYSELF is a first ever look at the
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dynamics that have kept the Rockefeller family together for seven generations. It is an affirmation of family and
friendships – of the importance of the emotional bonds that help make us whole, whatever the circumstances of our
birth.
Eileen Rockefeller is a graduate of Middlebury College and holds an M.A. in Early Childhood Education from
Lesley College. In 1983, she became a leader in the mind/body field by founding the Institute for the Advancement
of Health (now the Center for the Advancement of Health, in Washington, D.C.). In 1994, she and Daniel Goleman
co-founded the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) to promote social and
emotional learning in schools. In 1997, she helped her extended family expand its own leadership in philanthropy
and founded Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), which she led as chair until 2003. RPA is now the largest
philanthropic advisory service in the world. Rockefeller has been featured in the New York Times Magazine and
recently in the Spanish national daily, El Pais.
Rosolie, Paul
MOTHER OF GOD: A Young Man’s Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
(HarperCollins, 2014)
Proposal; Manuscript due September 2013
Paul Rosolie, a proper explorer from this generation (he’s only 25), journeys alone into the uncharted tributaries of
the Western Amazon—a place where Andean cloud forests intermingle with the steaming lowland tropical jungle at
the start of the Amazon River. It’s the place that boasts the single greatest proliferation of life that has ever existed
on Earth. Ever. And it’s in terrible danger.
The purity of Paul’s commitment to the Amazon, the vital presence of his writing, the adventures he finds, and the
land and creatures he encounters all make this a compelling and valuable project. The entire point of the book is to
make readers aware that Rosolie might be the last generation of explorers in this land, the Madre de Dios (“Mother
of God”). Paul has already earned the praise of Bill McKibben and Jane Goodall—plus the interest of National
Geographic, The Discovery Channel and the BBC. He’s come a long way from the boy who worshipped Steve
Irwin (The Crocodile Hunter) on T.V., the kid who first traveled to the Peruvian Amazon in his third year of high
school (and subsequently dropped out of school to pursue his dream of living in the Amazon rainforest). Through
his business partner Juan Julio Durand, Rosolie was privileged to develop a friendship with the Ese-Eja Indians,
which has allowed him to acquire the knowledge and skill in the jungle mastered by few Westerners.
There are many books about the Amazon, but none like this. The Amazon, with Rosolie as our guide, is less the
“green hell” that explorer Percy Fawcett’s men described, full of fear and claustrophobia, and more of a place of
awe. There are very few who have Rosolie’s deep knowledge and perspective on this place.
Paul Rosolie dropped out of high school in New Jersey in 2005 to pursue his dream of living in the Amazon
rainforest. His field experience in tropical forests has taken him to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, to India, and to
Indonesian Borneo. In Peru, he pursued conservation efforts in collaboration with the indigenous community of
Infierno, an Ese-Eja community on the Tambopata River. He came home to earn an undergraduate degree in
Environmental Studies at Ramapo College and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in tropical ecology. He is a member of
MENSA.The BBC and National Geographic WILD are some of the networks that have approached him for wildlife
series. Currently he is set to host a greenlit show on African wildlife for Discovery Science Channel. He lives with
his wife Gowri (a photojournalist who he met working in India when they were chasing the same snake) in the
Amazon, in South India, and in northern New Jersey.
Advance Praise:
"A great adventure with a great and enduring point: we simply must protect these last, vast slices of the planet that
still work the way they're supposed to."--Bill McKibben
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Roth, Alvin E.
WHO GETS WHAT: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)
Proposal; Manuscript due March 2013
The international bestseller Freakonomics explains the world in terms of rational choices. The international
bestseller Predictably Irrational explains the world in terms of irrational choices. But much of the world is shaped
not so much by the choices we make as by the choices we have.
You can’t just inform Yale University that you’re enrolling, or Google that you are showing up for work. First you
need to be admitted or hired. Neither can Yale or Google dictate who will come to them, any more than one spouse
can simply choose another: each has to be chosen. Matchmaking, broadly speaking—the processes that influence
who gets which jobs, which school slots, which mates—helps shape lives and careers.
Matching is economist-speak for how we get the many things that we choose in life that also must choose us. Until
recently, economists passed quickly over matching and focused primarily on commodity markets in which prices do
most of the work. When buying 100 shares of AT&T on the New York Stock Exchange, you needn’t worry whether
the seller will pick you. The market brings the two of you together at the price at which supply equals demand.
But in many important areas of our individual and collective lives—jobs, housing, medical care, education, a date on
the internet, allocation of the broadband spectrum that makes the internet possible—price is not the only determinant
of who gets what. Moreover, some matches don’t use money at all. Kidney transplants cost a lot, but it’s illegal to
buy or sell kidneys; taxpayers support schools precisely so that every child can attend for free. When there aren’t
enough kidneys to go around (there never are) or seats in the best public schools (there never are), scarce resources
must be allocated by some kind of matching process.
That’s where Nobel Laureate in Economics Alvin Roth comes in. Roth won the Nobel Prize in 2012 for his lifelong
work as a founder of the new economic discipline of market design, which brings science to matchmaking and helps
solve problems that existing marketplaces haven’t been able to solve on their own. According to a 2011 profile in
The Boston Globe, he is a pioneer at “finding situations where a market is failing—often, a place that most people
wouldn’t even recognize as a market—and making it work better.”
In WHO GETS WHAT, Roth makes his work widely accessible; he explains, among other things:
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How market design – not just advances in cardiology – helped pediatricians save babies with heart defects
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How economists and educators are working together to help maximize parental/student choice in our
nation’s public schools
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How everything about the college experience—from getting accepted to getting the courses or dorm room
you want—can be better understood and negotiated when one understands the design of those matching
markets
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How economists and transplant surgeons worked together to create new “kidney exchange” options for
patients with kidney disease
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How market design can ease the war for talent, the global competition over the most highly-sought after
jobs and workers
WHO GETS WHAT sheds new light on the frequently simplistic talk we hear from politicians about free markets.
Most markets operate in the substantial space between Adam Smith’s invisible hand and Chairman Mao’s five-year
plan. “When we speak about a free market,” says Roth, “we shouldn’t be thinking of a market with no rules, but
rather of a market with well-designed rules that allow it to operate freely.” At a time when many marketplaces are
being set up by private companies (from eBay auctions to Google’s ad market), Roth’s work reframes the
conversation about government—and private—regulation, so that the question becomes not “how much regulation?”
but “what kind?”
The distribution of life’s rewards is often unfair, but it’s seldom as random as it seems. In this groundbreaking book,
Alvin Roth reveals just how much of our life experience takes place in markets and marketplaces, and leads us to a
new understanding of who gets what and why.
Alvin E. Roth is an American economist and the McCaw Senior Visiting Professor of Economics at Stanford
University and the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of
Economics at Harvard Business School. (In January he will become Professor Emeritus at Harvard and take up a
permanent position at Stanford). Roth has made significant contributions to the fields of game theory, market design
and experimental economics, and is known for his emphasis on applying his economic theory to solutions for "realworld" problems. In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley "for
the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."
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SanClements, Michael
PLASTIC PURGE: How Cutting Back on Plastic Will Help You Eat Better, Lose Weight, Declutter Your
Life, Keep Toxins Out of Your and Your Kids’ Bodies—And Also Save the Sea Turtles
(St. Martin’s Griffin Trade Paperback, 2014)
Proposal; Manuscript due June 2013
In 2011, environmental scientist Michael SanClements started a blog for the environmental site Grist.org about his
and his girlfriend’s attempts to cut plastic out of their life for two weeks. Although the experiment ultimately failed,
SanClements felt healthier, more organized, more environmentally aware, and, as a bonus, both he and his girlfriend
lost weight (most junk food is packaged in plastic, and so was forbidden in the experiment).
Told in Mike’s funny, down-to-earth voice, PLASTIC PURGE will explore why there’s so much plastic in our
everyday lives, what it’s doing to our bodies, and how we can use less of it to be healthier, happier (and yes,
skinnier!). The first section of the book will contain information about plastics that until now has been hard to find
in one place and, as an ecologist, Mike will put together the most up-to-date, most scientifically rigorous
information available. He’ll even walk readers through experiments to understand how plastic releases toxins. But
the majority of the book will be much more prescriptive, packed with ways to encourage readers to use less plastic,
thereby reaping benefits in lots of ways they probably didn’t consider, such as eating a healthier diet and living with
less clutter.
Michael SanClements, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and
Associate Director of the Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds a
B.S. in Resource Conservation from the University of Montana, a M.S. in Soil Science from North Carolina State
University and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Environmental Sciences from the University of Maine. Mike’s research has
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appeared in numerous peer reviewed journals and he has presented scientific papers at over a dozen international
conferences on ecology and the environmental sciences. His writing and photography have appeared in The New
York Times, Backpacker Magazine and as a highly viewed and commented six part series on the use of plastics for
Grist, a leading environmental news source.
Saylor, Michael
THE MOBILE WAVE: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything
(Vanguard/Perseus, June 2012)
Hardcover, 304 pages
World English rights with Vanguard/Perseus
A New York Times Bestseller!
In the tradition of international bestsellers like Future Shock (1970) and Megatrends (1982), Michael Saylor, CEO
of Microstrategy, brings THE MOBILE WAVE, a groundbreaking analysis of the impact of mobile intelligence—
the fifth wave of computer technology
THE MOBILE WAVE argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it’s
impossible of us to see it all, even though we are all immersed in it. Saylor explains that the current generation of
mobile smartphones and tablet computers has set the stage to become the universal computing platform for the
world. In the hands of billions of people and accessible anywhere and anytime, mobile computers are poised to
become an appendage of the human being and an essential tool for modern life.
With the perspective of a historian, the precision of a technologist, and the pragmatism of a CEO, Saylor provides a
panoramic view of the future mobile world. He describes how:
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A Harvard education will be available to anyone with the touch of a screen
Cash will become virtual software and crime proof
Cars, homes, fruit, art and more will be “tagged” so they can tell you about themselves
Land and capital will become more of a liability than an asset
Buying an item will be as easy as pointing our mobile device to scan and pay
Social mobile media will push all businesses to think and act like software companies
Employment will shift as more service-oriented jobs are automated by mobile software
Products, businesses, industries, economies, and society will be altered forever as the mobile wave washes over us
and changes the landscape. With so much change, THE MOBILE WAVE is a guidebook for individuals, business
leaders, and public figures who must navigate the new terrain as mobile intelligence changes everything.
Michael Saylor is the chairman and CEO of the publicly traded company MicroStrategy. With degrees from MIT
in Aeronautic and Astronautic Engineering as well as Science, Technology, and Society, he is a science historian,
and a formidable intellectual whom Slate called “mesmerizing.” He is not just a high-tech entrepreneur, but a serious
scholar whose success in business stems from his obsession since college — and really since childhood — with
understanding what Thomas Kuhn called the “structure of scientific revolutions.” He has appeared on 60 Minutes
and Charlie Rose, and has been profiled in Newsweek, Time, Slate, The New Yorker, and the The Washington Post.
Praise:
“The visionary picture [Saylor] paints of the future is captivating, informative, and thought-provoking.”
–USA Today
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“A thoughtful romp across invention and innovation.” --Fortune
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Seung, Sebastian
CONNECTOME: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, February 2012)
Hardcover (384 pages)
Amazon Top 100 Books of 2012!
The bold and thrilling quest to finally understand the brain—and along with it our mental afflictions, from
depression to autism—by a rising star in neuroscience
We know that each of us is unique, but science has struggled to pinpoint where, precisely, our uniqueness resides. Is
it in our genes? The structure of our brains? Our genome may determine our eye color and even aspects of our
personality. But our friendships, failures, and passions also shape who we are. The question is: how?
Sebastian Seung, a dynamic professor at MIT, is on a quest to discover the biological basis of identity. He believes it
in the pattern of connections between the brain’s neurons, which change slowly over time as we learn and grow. The
connectome, as it’s called, is where our genetic inheritance intersects with our life experience. It’s where nature
meets nurture.
Seung introduces us to the dedicated researchers who are mapping the brain’s connections, neuron by neuron,
synapse by synapse. It is a monumental undertaking—the scientific equivalent of climbing Mount Everest—but if
they succeed, it could reveal the basis of personality, intelligence, memory, and perhaps even mental disorders.
Many scientists speculate that people with anorexia, autism, and schizophrenia are “wired differently,” but nobody
knows for sure. The brain’s wiring has never been seen clearly.
In sparkling clear prose, Seung reveals the amazing technological advances that will soon help us map connectomes.
He also examines the evidence that these maps will someday allow humans to “upload” their minds into computers,
achieving a kind of immortality.
CONNECTOME is a mind-bending adventure story, told with great passion and authority. It presents a daring
scientific and technological vision for at last understanding what makes us who we are. Welcome to the future of
neuroscience.
Sebastian Seung is Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Physics at MIT and Investigator at the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute. He has made important advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience. His research
has been published in leading scientific journals and also featured in the New York Times, Technology Review, and
the Economist.
Praise:
“…the best lay book on brain science I've ever read.”
–McGill University Professor Daniel J. Levitin in the Wall Street Journal
"A landmark work, gorgeously written. No other researcher has traveled as deeply into the brain forest and emerged
to share its secrets." –David Eagleman, author of Incognito and Sum
“This is complicated stuff, and it is a testament to Dr. Seung’s remarkable clarity of exposition that the reader is
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swept along with his enthusiasm, as he moves from the basics of neuroscience out to the farthest regions of the
hypothetical, sketching out a spectacularly illustrated giant map of the universe of man.” — New York Times
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Shapiro, Dana Adam
YOU CAN BE RIGHT OR YOU CAN BE MARRIED: Looking for Love in the Age of Divorce
(Scribner, September 2012)
Hardcover, 256 pages
World English rights with Scribner
A timely collection of brutally candid break-up stories resulting from three years of interviews by an Oscarnominated documentary filmmaker, YOU CAN BE RIGHT OR YOU CAN BE MARRIED began as an oral
history about the failures of an age-old institution and evolved into a practical marriage guide as racy and
romantic as it is revelatory.
Skeptical about traditional marriage and fed-up with preachy self-help books telling us how to be better husbands
and wives, Shapiro, a thirty-eight-year-old bachelor, decided to crisscross the country with a tape recorder in an
effort to better understand the roulette-level odds of maintaining a lifelong romantic union. Believing you learn more
from failure than from success, he collected stories from hundreds of divorced people, hoping to uncover the myriad
secrets about why love dies.
The result is an all access, wholly original treasure trove of marital wisdom from regular people who thought they’d
found “the one” and lived to tell the tales of how it went wrong. No subject was too taboo, and these anonymous
interviews reveal heartbreaking, heartwarming insights about sex, fighting, money, addiction, in-laws, and the
Internet.
Profoundly personal yet universally relevant, this is a page-turning, voyeuristic peek into the lives of our friends and
neighbors that is sure to spark heated debate and serious self-reflection. But ultimately, YOU CAN BE RIGHT OR
YOU CAN BE MARRIED is a hopeful examination of modern love.
Dana Adam Shapiro directed the Academy Award-nominated documentary Murderball. He is the author of The
Every Boy, a former senior editor at Spin, and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine. He lives in Venice,
California.
Praise:
“After reading Dana Adam Shapiro’s fascinating and revealing book, I will never again take my marriage for
granted. I would write more, but I have to go buy some scented candles and tidy up the kitchen.”
–A.J. Jacobs, author of Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
“A wonderful and important piece of thinking and reporting.”
–Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Committed: A Love Story and Eat, Pray, Love
"A book about divorce written by a man who's never been married should be ridiculous. And yet I gobbled up this
odd and touching and delicious book. I read it in a single sitting. And what's more, I learned something new about
love and marriage and passion and commitment."
–Ayelet Waldman, author of Red Hook Road and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
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Sheldrake, Rupert
SCIENCE SET FREE: 10 Paths to New Discovery
(Originally published by Hodder & Stoughton UK in January 2012 as The Science Delusion)
(Deepak Chopra Books/Crown/Random House, September 2012)
Hardcover (400 pages)
The bestselling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home offers an intriguing new
assessment of modern day science that will radically change the way we view what is possible.
In SCIENCE SET FREE, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows the ways in
which science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are
not only limiting, but dangerous for the future of humanity.
According to these principles, all of reality is material or physical; the world is a machine, made up of inanimate
matter; nature is purposeless; consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain; free will is an illusion;
God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls.
But should science be a belief-system, or a method of enquiry? Sheldrake shows that the materialist ideology is
moribund; under its sway, increasingly expensive research is reaping diminishing returns while societies around the
world are paying the price.
In the skeptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the ten fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting
questions, and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities for discovery.
SCIENCE SET FREE will radically change your view of what is real and what is possible.
Rupert Sheldrake studied natural sciences at Cambridge and philosophy at Harvard, took a Ph.D. in biochemistry
at Cambridge, and was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. The author of several books and more than fifty
scientific papers, he lives in London.
Praise:
“Science is ready to evolve beyond materialism and dogma. Rupert Sheldrake is a pioneer who is paving the way for
the future of the sciences.” –Deepak Chopra, M.D., co-author of War of the Worldviews
“Rupert Sheldrake drags ten of the most powerful dogmas out of the basement and into the light of day; and does
science, humanity and the world a large, a considerable favour.” –The Independent (UK)
“This provocative and engaging book will make you question basic assumptions of Western science. I agree with
Rupert Sheldrake that, among other problems, those assumptions hinder medical progress because they severely
limit our understanding of health and illness. I will recommend SCIENCE SET FREE to my colleagues, students,
patients, and friends.” –Andrew Weil, M.D., author of Spontaneous Happiness
“Sheldrake is an excellent scientist: the proper, imaginative kind that in an earlier age discovered continents and
mirrored the world in sonnets.” –New Scientist
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Portuguese (Brazil): Editora Pensamento
Spanish: Kairos Editora
Stollack, Kayli
GRANNY IS MY WINGMAN
(Amazon Publishing, Fall 2013)
Manuscript due May 2013
World English rights with Amazon
A fun, lighthearted look at the modern dating scene through an irreverent, cross-generational challenge
between a grandmother and granddaughter to get back out there and meet people, pitched as Sh*t My Dad
Says meets Jane Juska’s A Round-Heeled Woman.
Based on a blog of the same name which has received tremendous attention, the book will tell the story of the year
Kayli Stollak, recently dumped by a longtime boyfriend, spent online dating with her single 75-year-old
grandmother. And this is no ordinary granny! As Stollack writes: “Granny is a ball-busting, shit-talking, gossipy
yenta with an anecdote or piece of unsolicited advice for every situation. At 75, she is a sharp-tongued firecracker
with more experience than anyone I know.”
While Kayli is getting over her break-up, her Grandma is busy nursing her own wounds. She recently made contact
with the man whom she had a torrid 25-year affair with and realized the passion they shared was now gone for
good. As Granny and Kayli start dating and compare notes over the course of the year, they learn that the search for
happiness hasn’t changed much, whether you’re 25 or 75.
Kayli Stollak is a writer, charity founder and dance move creator located in New York City. She spends her nights
online dating and her days laughing about it with her Granny. You can find her work on her blog.
Film rights: Barry Kotler at CAA
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Ubel, Peter A.
CRITICAL DECISIONS: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices
Together
(HarperOne, September 2012)
Hardcover, 368 pages
Combining riveting medical stories with groundbreaking research in behavioral science, practicing physician
Dr. Peter Ubel exposes the doctor/patient communication problems that contribute to bad medical decisions
and helps create prepared patients who make informed choices for their long term health and happiness.
We’ve all been there, sitting uncomfortably in a paper gown as a doctor impassively describes our prognosis.
Sometimes it’s simple and treatable. Other times we get news we can’t fathom, and then are faced with decisions
that are literally life and death. How do we decide?
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In this revolutionary book, practicing physician, behavioral scientist, and bioethicist Peter Ubel M.D. reveals how
hidden dynamics in the doctor/patient relationship keep us, and our loved ones, from making the best medical
choices. From doctors who struggle to explain, to patients who fail to properly listen, countless factors alter the
course of our care, causing things to go seriously awry.
With riveting stories of Ubel’s own experience in the field, his groundbreaking research, and his personal journey
walking loved ones through difficult treatment choices, CRITICAL DECISIONS will forever change the way we
communicate inside hospitals and medical offices, where thoughtful decision making matters the most. Dr. Ubel,
shows how patients and doctors can learn to become partners, improve communication, and make confident
decisions for our future health and happiness.
Peter A. Ubel M.D. is a physician and a behavioral scientist at Duke University. He is the author of three books:
Pricing Life, You’re Stronger than You Think and Free Market Madness. He writes for numerous science
publications as well as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Psychology Today, and The New England
Journal of Medicine.
Praise:
“There cannot be many physicians who also do serious psychological research and explore the ethical dilemmas of
their profession. It is unlikely that there is anyone besides Ubel who can do all these things extremely well.”
–Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The doctor’s office is the worst place to make a mistake. As a physician and a social scientist, Peter Ubel is
unparalleled in his understanding of some of the most important decisions we are all facing, or will face.”
--Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational
“Peter Ubel is a top notch scientist and writer. His ideas are important, his style is accessible (with the right balance
of humor and compassion) and his topic is timely. We need someone like Peter, no—we need Peter—to help us sort
out how patients and their doctors can better work together to make these important decisions.”
--Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness
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Underwood, Lynn
SPIRITUAL CONNECTION IN DAILY LIFE: Sixteen Little Questions That Can Make a Big Difference
(Templeton Press Trade Paperback, May 2013)
Manuscript due February 2013 (226 pages)
How often do you find moments of deep peace and satisfaction in your day-to-day life? How often does connection
with other people, the divine, or nature make you feel more alive? How often are you touched by a sense of aweinspiring beauty, compassionate love, or pure joy? For many of us, these kinds of experiences tend to be fleeting
and all too rare. Fortunately, new research is suggesting that a regular practice of paying attention to experiences
like these can help any of us find them more often and cultivate richer, deeper, and more satisfying lives.
In SPIRITUAL CONNECTION IN DAILY LIFE, Lynn Underwood introduces her Daily Spiritual Experience
Scale (DSES), which is comprised of sixteen simple, multiple-choice questions that invite us to become more
attuned to these extraordinary experiences in ordinary life. The DSES is the definitive set of questions for measuring
the experience of spiritual connection and has been used in hundreds of studies, translated into over twenty
languages, and used around the world by counselors, therapists, nurses, social workers, clergy from multiple faiths,
and business leaders.
SPIRITUAL CONNECTION IN DAILY LIFE offers a step-by-step guide to using the DSES to improve our
abilities to sense the “more than” in the midst of our days. Embraced by people from many different cultures,
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religious traditions, and professional backgrounds, the DSES doesn’t require any “spirituality.” Rather, it simply
invites us to focus on aspects of our daily lives such as deep peace, sense of inner strength, longing, and
compassionate love. The sixteen questions also provide a common, non-polarizing language for communicating
with others about the role of the “more than” in our lives.
Adherents of all faith traditions, as well as people with no religious leanings whatsoever, have experienced profound
and lasting benefits from having these experiences, including improved health behaviors, better relationships,
decreased stress and burnout, and improvements in daily mood. Now all of us can reap these same long-term
benefits with just a little bit of self-reflection and Dr. Underwood’s expert guidance.
Lynn Underwood--scientist-artist-teacher-consultant--is an expert in research design and has inter-disciplinary
interest in compassionate love and ethics.
Van Praet, Douglas
UNCONSCIOUS BRANDING: How Neuroscience Can Empower (And Inspire) Marketing
(Palgrave, November 2012)
Hardcover (288 pages)
UK Rights with Palgrave
Every year marketers and advertisers spend billions of dollars and countless resources developing and testing new
products and brand messages through consumer research surveys and in-depth interviews. However the outcomes of
these efforts are notoriously poor predictors of in-market success, evidenced by the fact that only two out of ten
products make it past their initial launch. What are we doing wrong? What questions aren’t we asking?
Utilizing revolutionary concepts from the field of cognitive science, author Douglas Van Praet reveals that consumer
decisions are made on the unconscious level, where standard market research does not penetrate. Asking a consumer
what they want or why they do what they do is pointless, because even they do not understand their own preferences
of the complex procedure by which their unconscious minds make decisions.
Van Praet uncovers the hidden intuitive stories behind successful new product launches and marketing campaigns.
By examining real world examples, Van Praet demystifies the process that brilliant advertising and marketing
professionals have used to great success, in campaigns such as “Got Milk?"; Nike’s "Just Do It"; and Volkswagen’s
infamous "Punch Dub" launch as well as their universally beloved “The Force” (Mini Darth Vader) Super Bowl
commercial.
Douglas Van Praet is executive vice president at Deutsch LA, where his responsibilities include being the group
planning director for the iconic Volkswagen account. Van Praet is recognized as an industry expert in unconscious
behaviorism and a pioneer in applying neurobiology to business problems.
Praise:
“Drawing upon the insights of behavioral science, Van Praet provides a seven-step, behavior-modification
procedure. Useful insights that should benefit marketers big and small.” –Publishers Weekly
“A provocative approach that should give pause to consumers as well as marketers.” --Kirkus
“There are many researchers in advertising who can study a campaign and tell you what happened. There are
precious few who can tell you why. Doug Van Praet is one of them.” –Eric Hirshberg, CEO, Activision
Publishing
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Walker, Michael
WHAT YOU WANT IS IN THE LIMO: Led Zeppelin, The Who, Alice Cooper, and the Rise of Rock in ‘73
(Spiegel & Grau, July 2013)
Manuscript due January 2013
1973 was the year when authentic rock and roll excess hit its high point. It was the point at which the rock Gods
officially ditched their connection to the Hippy pastoral of Woodstock, and the brief period before music was ruled
by the big business stadium rock of Peter Frampton and Fleetwood Mac.
Walker presents three major 1973 tours that epitomize the new rock ascendency before it became prepackaged: Alice Cooper, The Who, and Led Zeppelin. In the spirit of books like Fred Goodman’s The Mansion on
the Hill and Motley Crue’s The Dirt, Walker not only reveals the behind the scenes debauchery – like the small
hotels outside of Buffalo where Alice Cooper descended into an alcoholic stupor – and the big center stage moments
(when Zeppelin closed out their tour at Madison Square Garden with their very last Stairway to Heaven), but also
discusses how music history got us to such an intense high point, only to quickly make it all disappear.
Michael Walker has written for The New York Times, LA Times, Rolling Stone, among many other publications,
and is the author of the national bestseller Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Legendary
Neighborhood (Faber & Faber, 2006).
Weber, Suzanne
TO WHAT MISERABLE WRETCHES HAVE I BEEN BORN? Revenge Poetry for Babies and
Toddlers (Atria Books, April 2012)
Hardcover Gift Book (112 pages)
World English rights with Atria
In a society over-saturated with books, magazines, blogs, reality shows, and YouTube videos aggressively
conveying anyone and everyone’s latest advice on parenting, there still remains one important and
unrepresented opinion…that of the baby!!!
Fortunately, TO WHAT MISERABLE WRETCHES HAVE I BEEN BORN? has arrived to give voice to the preverbal. Through the unfiltered lens of a baby no longer willing to stay silent in the face of neurotic parenting, the
most vital perspective on parenting is finally delivered.
Although there has been some recent backlash to the over-anxious, “helicopter,” Tiger Mom style of parenting, the
offspring of these über-parents have been wanting to lash back for a long time. TO WHAT MISERABLE
WRETCHES HAVE I BEEN BORN? gives frustrated babies and toddlers a soapbox on which to stand (or sit or
have tummy-time). From a poem about swaddling titled Where are my hands??? to the poem, Cease and Desist,
which decries the exploitation of a baby’s intellectual property when parents post humiliating home videos online,
modern parents will be forced to examine their approach to parenting from the perspective of their judgmental,
ruthless, and bitter (albeit adorable) progeny, who turn out not to be as innocent as they seem.
Sassy, tongue-in-cheek, and laugh-out-loud funny, TO WHAT MISERABLE WRETCHES HAVE I BEEN BORN?
is the ideal gift for parents who spend far too much time worrying about the effectiveness of their parenting skills (in
other words, ALL parents…).
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Suzanne Weber is best-known for creating, performing and writing as the character Anita Liberty, a performance
poet who achieves notoriety by devoting her entire career to humiliating her jerk of an ex-boyfriend in public. A
native New Yorker, Weber currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter, a sassy little chip off
her mother’s block of comtempt.
Praise for Suzanne Weber:
“Twisted, clever and hilarious, I laughed out loud on every single page. You’ll never look at your child the same
way again.” –Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay
“An undeniably authentic and original tale of adolescence.”
–Kirkus Reviews, on The Center of the Universe (Yep, That Would Be Me)
“Anita Liberty[Suzanne Weber] vents her rage against a detestable ex-boyfriend in humorously vengeful poetry,
diary excerpts and one-line zingers.” –Entertainment Weekly, on How to Heal the Hurt by Hating
Weiner, Carl P. M.D. with Kate Rope
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO MEDICATIONS DURING PREGNANCY AND
BREASTFEEDING: Everything You Need to Know to Make the Best Choices for You and Your
Baby (St. Martin’s Griffin Trade Paperback, April 2013)
Manuscript (576 pages)
The only comprehensive pharmaceutical guide available to help mothers make informed decisions about
medication while pregnant and nursing
Even the average OB-GYN is confused about what drugs are safe for pregnant and breastfeeding women to take.
Tylenol, Ambien, Sudafed? How much is ok? When? Misinformation, an outdated FDA classification system and
fear all stand in the way. The result: OB’s often fail to prescribe needed medications or prescribe the wrong
medications to their patients.
Written specifically for lay-readers by a maternal-fetal medicine expert and a veteran health reporter, THE
COMPLETE GUIDE TO MEDICATIONS DURING PREGNANCY AND BREASTFEEDING takes the confusion
out of the process, combining authority, advice, an A-to-Z directory of more than six hundred drugs, and empathy.
With easy to understand entries covering hundreds of drugs, this volume will help mothers make informed choices
for themselves and their babies.
Carl P. Weiner, M.D., is the KE Krantz Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Professor of
Molecular and Integrative Physiology and adjunct professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Kansas
School of Medicine. He is the principle author Drugs for Pregnant and Lactating Women. Dr. Weiner is associate
director of the Institute for Reproductive Health and Regenerative Medicine and director of the Center for the
Developmental Origins of Adult Health and Disease and directs the KU Women's Reproductive Health Research
Scholars Program.
Kate Rope is an award-winning journalist who has been reporting and editing for more than fifteen years, with an
expertise in health, pregnancy, and parenting. Her work has appeared in many national publications including Life,
National Geographic Adventure, Real Simple, Shape, Parenting, and Parade.
Wheeler, Michael
THE ART OF NEGOTIATION: Improvising Agreement in the Real World
(The Free Press/S&S, 2013)
Manuscript due January 2013
UK rights with The Free Press
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Harvard Business School and Program on Negotiation professor Michael Wheeler illuminates real-world
negotiation as a dynamic process requiring openness, flexibility, and the ability to improvise.
Thirty years ago Roger Fisher, Bill Ury, and Bruce Patton wrote Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without
Giving In. The book became an international bestseller, popularizing the idea of win-win outcomes, an approach
that seeks to satisfy both parties’ underlying interests. It was a challenge to hard-bargaining classics such as Herb
Cohen’s You Can Negotiate Anything, which advocates making blunt demands and crushing the other side. Despite
their differences, each of these approaches assumes that negotiation is static, not dynamic. It’s as if we negotiate
under a clear blue sky where everything is in plain sight and nothing changes. Supposedly we have our given
interests and they have theirs. The win-win approach says that we can expand the pie with mutually beneficial
trades. The hard-ball line tells us how to grab the bigger slice.
That’s nice in theory, but in reality we often negotiate in the fog. Our own interests and options change, sometimes
quickly and radically. Moreover, the people we deal with aren’t entirely predictable. We can make educated
guesses about what’s important to them, but they may be uncertain themselves about ends and means. And what
they tell us is often ambiguous. Was that really their final offer or merely a bluff? The fact is, negotiation can’t be
scripted, whether in mega-business deals or in everyday transactions like buying a car or landing a new customer.
Yet as negotiators we have to persist even when information is ambiguous, boundaries are hazy, and the scene is
constantly changing. In THE ART OF NEGOTIATION, Wheeler illuminates real-world negotiation as a dynamic
process requiring openness, flexibility, and the ability to improvise.
THE ART OF NEGOTIATION presents a new framework for understanding negotiation as an interactive process
driven by on-going cycles of learning, adapting, and influencing. And all of this takes place in a strategic context.
The actions that we take to resolve uncertainty – the questions we pose and the offers we make – are also signals
that our counterparts respond to, not always the way we hope or expect. Wheeler challenges the static model of
standard win-win and hardball approaches. His fresh and practical advice shows how negotiators can become
quicker on their feet, so that they seize opportunity and side-step pitfalls at the bargaining table. The Art of
Negotiation illuminates how, as the subtitle says, to improvise agreement in the real world. It promises to be a
classic in the tradition of Getting to Yes.
Michael Wheeler is a chaired professor at the Harvard Business School where he is a member of the Negotiation,
Markets, & Organizations unit. He has taught negotiation to thousands of MBA and executive students at HBS for
almost twenty years. He has also conducted ground-breaking research and led international conferences connecting
negotiation theory and practice. Before joining the HBS faculty, he taught at MIT.
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Wiseman, Rosalind
THE BOY WORLD SURVIVAL MANUAL: Helping Your Son Survive Girls, Grown-Ups, Show-Offs,
Cheaters and Liars (Crown, September 2013)
Manuscript due March 2012
When Rosalind Wiseman first published Queen Bees & Wannabes in 2002, it fundamentally changed the way
that parents, educators, and the media looked at the impact of girls’ social dynamics, developed a language to
identify girls’ experiences, and created a road map for girls to develop meaningful relationships and high
esteem. Since then, Rosalind has become an internationally recognized expert on children, teens, parenting,
ethical leadership, media literacy and bullying prevention.
Now, based on the work she’s been doing with boys for almost 20 years (and as a mother of two boys), she’s
working on a multi-format program to help boys and the adults who love them to navigate the messy,
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uncomfortable tricky terrain of their own lives—what Wiseman called “Boy World”—a world which most
parents find more impenetrable than their daughter’s “Girl World”.
THE BOY WORLD SURVIVAL MANUAL is foremost a parenting guide designed to help parents work with
their boys to develop the skills they need to manage conflicts and, as a result, to strengthen the relationship
with the adults in their lives. Accompanying this guide, will be two e-book originals (one for boys ages 10-13,
the other for boys ages 14-16) to help boys directly develop the skills they need to manage their conflicts and
to help them recognize that asking for and receiving help is a strength, not a weakness.
Rosalind Wiseman has been profiled in The New York Times, People, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune,
Washington Post, USA Today, Oprah, Nightline, CNN, Today Show, Good Morning America, and National
Public Radio affiliates throughout the United States. She is the author of four books, including the New York
Times bestseller Queen Bees and Wannabes. She appears regularly on The Today Show, Anderson Cooper and
Dateline and is a monthly columnist for Family Circle magazine. She is an active educator and speaker and
speaks in front of approximately 50,000 parents and teachers every school year.
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Wiseman, Rosalind
QUEEN BEES & WANNABES: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip,
Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World: Revised & Updated Edition
(Three Rivers Press/Random House, October 2009)
Trade Paperback (448 pages)
A New York Times Bestseller!
Over 400,000 copies sold!
Praise:
“Wiseman’s straightforward humor, sound advice and practical approach make this a must-read for anyone involved
in the lives of teenage girls.” –Publishers Weekly
“[Wiseman] offers admirable, groundbreaking insight into an all-too-common issue and will be invaluable to any
adult struggling to help a girl get through her teens.” –Booklist
Film Rights: Universal Studios/SNL Productions (Mean Girls, 2004)
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Wyatt, Holly and James O. Hill PhD with Christie Aschwand
THE COLORADO DIET: Discover the 6 Proven Weight-loss Secrets from the Slimmest State in the
Nation (Rodale, May 2013)
Manuscript due January 2013
Leading weight-loss experts explain how to reset, rebuild, and reignite the body’s fat-burning engine
We often hear that a third of Americans are obese—not just a few pounds overweight but heavy enough to put their
health at risk. However, one state—Colorado—has bucked the trend. It’s the leanest state in the nation, but it’s not
because of something in the air or the water. It’s the perfect interplay among diet, activity, and environment. THE
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COLORADO DIET breaks down the elements of this healthy lifestyle and step-by-step explains how to recreate it
anywhere.
Weight loss and weight maintenance are different processes; it’s best to tackle them separately. If during the weight
loss phase nothing is done to correct a faulty metabolism, weight regain is inevitable. THE COLORADO DIET
features a 7-week plan that rebuilds your metabolism and provides quick weight loss. This is followed by another 7week plan that shows you how to match your diet to your rebuilt metabolism for long-term leanness. With your
new, flexible metabolism, you will be able to enjoy food without constantly worrying about your weight. Plus, the
authors show readers how to make their home and relationships more weight-loss friendly. They also explain that
changes in diet and activity level can actually change the brain and attitude. That change feeds the new healthy
lifestyle, supplying readers with the motivation and the energy to stay fitter, stronger, and leaner for life.
Holly Wyatt is Associate Director of the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center at the University of Colorado and is
an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine. She directs the Colorado Diet Clinic at the Anschutz Center.
She lives in Denver.
James O. Hill is Founding Executive Director of the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center at the University of
Colorado and the author of The Step Diet: Count Steps, Not Calories to Lose Weight and Keep It off Forever. He
lives in Denver.
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ADULT FICTION
Ampuero, Roberto
THE NERUDA CASE/ El Caso Neruda (Grupo Editorial Norma, 2008)
(Riverhead/Penguin USA, June 2012)
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationally bestselling
literary luminary.
Roberto Ampuero’s novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brulé are an international sensation. In The
Neruda Case, readers are introduced to Cayetano as he takes on his first case as a private eye. Set against the fraught
political world of pre-Pinochet Chile, Castro’s Cuba, and perilous behind-the-Wall East Berlin, this mystery spans
countries, cultures, and political ideas, and features one of literature’s most beloved figures—Pablo Neruda.
Cayetano meets the poet at a party in Chile in the 1970s. The dying Neruda recruits Cayetano to help him solve the
last great mystery of his life. As Cayetano fumbles around his first case, finding it hard to embrace the new inspector
identity foisted upon him, he begins to learn more about Neruda’s hidden agenda. Neruda sends him on a whirlwind
expedition around the world, ending back in Chile, where Pinochet’s coup plays out against the final revelations of
their journey.
Evocative, romantic, and full of intrigue, Ampuero’s novel is both a glimpse into the life of Pablo Neruda as death
approaches and a political thriller that unfolds during the fiercely convulsive end of an era.
Roberto Ampuero is an internationally bestselling, award-winning author. He has published twelve novels in
Spanish, and his works have been translated around the world. The Neruda Case is his first novel published in
English. Born in Chile, Ampuero is a professor of creative writing at the University of Iowa and currently serves as
Chile’s ambassador to Mexico. He lives in Mexico City and Iowa City.|
Praise:
“This unforgettable book is brilliantly imagined, and features the poet Pablo Neruda in a remarkably intimate role.
Roberto Ampuero’s writing is exhilarating; he is a delight to read.”
-- Isabel Allende, author of Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits
“Ampuero’s first novel published in English…appropriately enough sings with poetic metaphor.”
–Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A superb translation by Carolina de Robertis whips the first of Ampuero’s novels to be published in English into a
pulsing, panting work.” –The Daily Beast
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Croatian: Kniga Mosaic
German: Berlin Verlag
Greek: Papyrus
Italian: Garzanti Libri
Portuguese (Brazil): Editorial Saraiva
Serbian: Media II
Spanish (World): Grupo Editorial Norma
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Angel, Jodi
YOU ONLY GET LETTERS FROM JAIL: Stories
(Tin House, July 2013)
Manuscript (288 pages)
“A Good Deuce" listed as a Distinguished Story of 2011 in Best American Short Stories 2012!
Jodi Angel’s second story collection, YOU ONLY GET LETTERS FROM JAIL, chronicles the lives of young men
trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. From picking up women at a bar hours after mom’s
overdose to coveting a drowned girl to catching rattlesnakes with gasoline, Angel's characters are motivated by
muscle cars, manipulative women, and the hope of escape from circumstances that force them either to grow up or
give up. Haunted by unfulfilled dreams and disappointments, and often acting out of mixed intentions and
questionable motives, these boys turned young men are nevertheless portrayed with depth, tenderness, and
humanity. Angel’s gritty and heartbreaking prose leaves readers empathizing with people they wouldn't ordinarily
trust or believe in.
Jodi Angel’s first collection of short stories, The History of Vegas, was published in 2005 and was named a San
Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005 as well as an LA Times Book Review Discovery. Her work has appeared in
Tin House, Zoetrope: All-Story, and the Sycamore Review, among other publications and anthologies. Her stories
have received several Pushcart Prize nominations and she was selected for Special Mention in 2007. She grew up in
a small town in Northern California--in a family of girls.
Praise for The History of Vegas:
"Flawless" –"JT Leroy"
"Thoroughly enjoyable read" –San Francisco Chronicle
"Wonderful, terrible, dangerous stories" –Pam Houston
Baker, Stephen
THE BOOST
(Tor Books, Winter 2014)
Manuscript (299 pages)
Ralf is a software prodigy. He works in the U.S. Government office that updates the software in the population's
boosts—networked supercomputers contained in a chip implanted within the brains of 99% of the world’s
population. Invented by Chinese researchers in 2032, the boost is credited with leading humanity to its most
significant cognitive leap since the dawn of the Cro-Magnon. For corporations, it delivers unparalleled access to
customers. For governments, it offers an essential tool for controlling and optimizing populations.
Days before the national upgrade, Ralf notices that the latest update includes an open surveillance gate—meaning
that Americans, who had negotiated high levels of privacy with the Chinese manufacturers, will now be subjected to
the invasive Chinese standard. Although Ralf attempts to hack the boost, he is caught midway by agents working for
Washington's preeminent lobbyist, who stands to make a fortune from the new upgrade. Bloodied and defeated, he
has his boost ripped from his head, which effectively casts him out of society.
Cognitively crippled and pursued by the lobbyist’s mercenary forces, Ralf flees to the U.S.-Mexico border, where
are there are others like him—“wild” humans on the fringes of society, unenhanced by technology. It’s a frightening
and backward world controlled by powerful drug lords; a realm where people communicate by means of oldfashioned computers and attempt to store memories in their forgetful “wet” brains. Ralf’s only hope is to somehow
work with these wild bosses of the analog world—in hopes of winning back freedom in the digital one.
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Stephen Baker was BusinessWeek’s senior technology writer for a decade, based first in Paris and later New York.
He has also written for the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal. Roger Lowenstein
called his first book, The Numerati, “an eye-opening and chilling book.” This is his first novel.
Rights sold:
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Bergreen, Karen
PERFECT IS OVERRATED
(St. Martin’s Griffin, July 2012)
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Karen Bergreen’s debut, Following Polly, was praised as “a laugh-out-loud page turner” (Huffington Post)
and “a great read!” (Joan Rivers). Now, with PERFECT IS OVERRATED, she delivers another wickedly
funny and slightly twisted romp that shows how being the perfect mom can be murder…
Kate Alger has finally found the cure for her postpartum depression. After years of suffering, all it took to bring this
mommy back to life were a few gruesome homicides. Sounds evil, but it’s not! When someone starts offing the
alpha-mothers from Kate’s daughter’s preschool, Kate—a former Assistant District Attorney—decides it is time for
her to get out of bed and find out who is killing all the mommies you love to hate.
PERFECT IS OVERRATED is deliciously human and romantic, with an overlay of suspense that keeps the reader
glued to the page.
Karen Bergreen is a former attorney who clerked for a federal judge. She gave that up to become one of New York
City’s stand-up comics, performing weekly at Caroline’s, Stand-Up New York, Gotham and The Comic Strip. She
has appeared on Comedy Central, the Oxygen network, Court TV and Law & Order. She lives in New York City.
Praise:
“In [a] twist-filled sendup of upper-crust New York City parents, [Bergreen] leaves a vivid but not blindingly
obvious trail of clues leading to the murderer, punctuated with black humor from a wickedly funny narrator…
readers will be wildly guessing until the end.” –Publishers Weekly
"Here are a few things Karen Bergreen knows about: mothers you love to hate, sexy exes, the drill (and charm) of
hanging out with little kids. PERFECT IS OVERRATED throws all of it into the wash cycle and suds it up with
humor and warmth. If you read it, you'll recommend it, too!" --Molly Jong-Fast, author of The Social Climbers
Handbook
“PERFECT IS OVERRATED is such a fast, fizzy, fun read! Buy one for yourself and six more for the other moms
in the pickup line, then decide which mom you’d take with you if stuck on a deserted island. For me, she’d have to
love mascara and be witty.”—Kelly Killoren Bensimon, author of I Can Make You Hot!
Bergreen, Karen
FOLLOWING POLLY
(St. Martin’s Press, June 2010)
Trade Paperback, August 2011 (320 pages)
Film rights: Lucy Stille, Paradigm
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Carpenter, Scott Dominic
THEORY OF REMAINDERS
(Winter Goose Publishing, May 2013)
Manuscript (364 pages)
World English rights with Winter Goose
A suspenseful literary novel set in the lush backgrounds of Normandy, THEORY OF REMAINDERS
explores the secret ties between love, trauma, and language.
At fifty-two, psychiatrist Philip Adler is divorced, alone, and gutted of passion. When a funeral draws him back to
his ex-wife’s homeland of France, the trip reunites him with a trauma he has struggled to forget: the brutal death of
his teenage daughter fifteen years earlier. Prodded by his former brother-in-law and stirred by the unspent embers of
his marriage, he embarks on a mission to resolve lingering questions about this past, hoping to heal himself along
the way. The search leads to a disturbed man who may hold more answers than anyone expects—if only Philip can
hear what he’s trying to say.
Scott Dominic Carpenter teaches French literature and critical theory at Carleton College (MN), where he has
written extensively on the representation of madness in the novel, political allegory, and literary hoaxes. His fiction
has appeared in such journals as Chamber Four, Ducts, Midwestern Gothic, The MacGuffin, Prime Number and
Spilling Ink. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a semi-finalist for the MVP competition at New Rivers Press, his first
collection, This Jealous Earth (MG Press) will be available in 2013.
Praise for his debut story collection, This Jealous Earth:
“Tautly constructed, psychologically acute, and elegantly written stories…By turns sad, funny, tender, and alarming.
This Jealous Earth examines the nuanced turns and shifts of human events and feelings that imbue the ordinary with
the extraordinary.” –Siri Hustvedt, bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men
“Modern, witty, provocative. This Jealous Earth is an auspicious debut.” –Alethea Black, author of I Knew You’d
Be Lovely
“Stories like time bombs.” –Gregory Blake Smith, Minnesota Book Award winner
Friedman, Daniel
DON’T EVER GET OLD
(Minotaur Books/St. Martin’s Press, May 2012)
Hardcover (304 pages)
Amazon Editor’s Pick!
BookPage June 2012 Top Pick in Mystery!
This is the first in a one-of-a-kind, spectacularly well-written mystery series featuring Buck Schatz, an eightyseven-year-old retired Memphis cop with a know-it-all plugged-in grandson as his sidekick.
When Buck Schatz learns that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, Buck
decides to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. But a lot of people want a piece of the stolen treasure, and
Buck's investigation quickly attracts unfriendly attention from a very motley (and very murderous) crew. This is
sure to be a big hit with readers who love Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, early Jonathan Lethem, and superlative
detective fiction in general.
Daniel Friedman is a graduate of the University of Maryland and New York University School of Law. He lives in
New York City.
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Praise:
“Once you start reading this wonderfully original and totally engrossing story, you’ll do what I did: keep reading,
mostly to see what comes out of Buck’s mouth next. When I’m 87, I want to be Buck Schatz.”
–Nelson DeMille, NYT bestselling author
“A knockout of a book.” –Booklist, starred review
“A sardonically appealing debut.” –Kirkus, starred review
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Japanese: Tokyo Sogensha
Portuguese (Brazil): Editora Novo Seculo
James, Geoffrey
SORCERER: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth’s Conjuror
(Grand Mal Press, January 2013)
Manuscript (100,000 words)
John Dee, mathematician, alchemist and scholar, is a favorite of Queen Elizabeth’s. He has been searching for the
secret that will produce not just gold from lead, but also the elixir of life. But he is aging and Her Majesty is losing
faith, so he turns to magic, summoning angels who (he believes) can uncover the truth.
Dee finds the ideal ally for his experiments, Edward Kelley–a perfect vessel but a most imperfect human being–a
con man who’s been beaten to within an inch of his life. Edward gives in to Dee’s urgent ministrations out of a
desire for safety, and brings with him a young nun-to-be named Alice, whom he desperately tried to leave behind.
Dee himself, in his fifties, is suddenly stuck (by the Queen, no less!) with a wife named Jennet, a beauty less than
half her age, whose shallowness belies her beautiful exterior.
These four ill-matched people embark on a trail of exploration and destruction that will affect the Spanish King and
the English Queen, the fate of the Spanish Armada, indeed of history itself. The journey will bear out Dee’s fondest
desire as well, but in a way he never could have imagined.
Geoffrey James is one of the world’s leading business journalists and the author of a number of nonfiction books,
as well as two books of short stories. His writing has appeared in Wired, Men’s Health, The New York Times and
several fiction anthologies and SORCERER is his first novel. Geoffrey lives in New Hampshire with his wife and
two children.
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Keller, Cynthia
AN AMISH GIFT
(Ballantine Books/Random House, November 2012)
Hardcover (336 pages)
From the author of An Amish Christmas and A Plain & Fancy Christmas comes this heartwarming holiday
tale about a family in crisis that receives an unexpected Christmas gift in the heart of Amish country.
When Shep Davis inherits a house, the family moves to Lancaster County, PA, in hopes of a fresh start. Shep
enthusiastically runs his new bicycle shop while his wife, Jennie, is torn between being a stay-at-home mom to their
two teenagers and finding professional fulfillment for herself. When Jennie begins a friendship with her Amish
neighbor, Mary Fischer encourages Jennie to market and sell her delicious homemade candy. While Jenny’s candy
business takes off, business at Shep’s bike shop is less rewarding, and tensions between them resurface.
However, the troubled couple set aside their differences when their son’s friend, an Amish boy on rumspringa,
desperately needs their help. As their Amish neighbors celebrate the return of their son, the Davis family also has a
reason to rejoice: while finding peace and harmony in their household, they’ve also rediscovered the meaning of
Christmas.
Cynthia Keller is the coauthor of seven novels by the pseudonymous Cynthia Victor: Consequences, Relative Sins,
Only You, What Matters Most, The Secret, The Sisters, and The Three of Us, as well as the author of An Amish
Christmas and A Plain & Fancy Christmas. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children.
Previous titles:
Rights sold:
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Praise for Cynthia Keller’s heartwarming Amish novels:
An Amish Christmas
“This little book is a holiday charmer young and old will find appealing.”—Fredericksburg Free Lance–Star
“[A] sweet, poignant story.”—USA Today
A Plain & Fancy Christmas
“[This novel] does what a good holiday tale should; it invites readers to turn off the cellphone and television and
wrap themselves up in a warm, compelling story.”—Lincoln Journal Star
“A wonderful read for the Christmas season.”—FaithfulNews
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Kelly, Mary Louise
ANONYMOUS SOURCES (formerly, The Scoop)
(Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, June 2013)
Manuscript due October 2012
Thom Carlyle had it all: the rowing trophies, the Oxbridge education, the glamorous girlfriend. But on a glorious
summer evening in Harvard Square, Thom is murdered – pushed from the top of a Harvard bell tower. The New
England Chronicle sends a beautiful but troubled young reporter named Alexandra James to investigate. It is the
story of a lifetime. But it is not what it seems. Alex’s reporting takes her from the cobbled courtyards of Cambridge,
England… to the inside of a network of nuclear terrorists… to the corridors of the CIA… and finally, to the
terrorists’ target itself: the White House.
Alex begins unraveling the threads of the story in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a couple of front-page scoops
she finds herself at a dead end. Her editors are frantic: Carlyle’s father is the President’s lawyer, one of the most
powerful men in Washington, and the story is playing to national headlines. So Alex decides to follow the story to
Cambridge University in England, where Thom had just completed a year abroad. She chases leads to clandestine
meetings at Claridge’s Hotel and the Groucho Club in London, and she begins a romance with the charming Lucien
Sly (who is also not what he seems). The chase suits her: Alex has always been able to get in anywhere, to sleep
with anyone she fancies, to out-drink and out-shop her demons.
But by the time Alex arrives in Washington, D.C. for a key interview, Alex the hunter has become Alex the hunted.
An assassin sent to kill her only narrowly misses. Her laptop disappears. Her phone is tapped. And she begins to
grasp that Thom Carlyle was killed to hide a terrifying conspiracy: a plot to detonate a nuclear bomb inside the
White House. She must find a way to convince the spies, lawyers and Generals that she encounters in Washington
that they are in extreme danger. What she does not realize – until the last pages – is that her enemy lurks inside the
CIA itself. Edmund Tusk is something of a legend at Langley: he has bargained with dictators, he has survived
three assassination attempts, and he now keeps a cat named Philby under his desk. After several twists and turns, the
nuke beneath the West Wing is dismantled. But Alex must still reckon with Tusk. He has nothing left to lose, and he
is bent on revenge. Their final meeting ends with a scene that echoes the murder at the beginning of the book... A
man falling from a rooftop, grabbing for a gutter, a ledge, anything. There is nothing and he falls, wide-eyed, into
the gathering twilight below.
Mary Louise Kelly is a guest host for NPR's news and talk programs. In 2004, Kelly launched NPR's intelligence
beat, covering wars and terrorism, reporting regularly on spy agencies such as the CIA and the National Security
Agency, and the policy-makers that oversee them. As part of the national security team, she traveled extensively to
investigate and report on a range of foreign policy and military issues. A Georgia native, Kelly currently teaches
national security and journalism classes at Georgetown University. After so many years on the spy beat, she decided
it was time to write a spy thriller of her own. THE SCOOP is her first novel.
Klosterman, Chuck
THE VISIBLE MAN: A Novel
(Scribner, October 2011)
Trade Paperback, June 2012 (256 pages)
From the provocative cultural commentator and author who “makes good, smart company” (The New York
Times) comes an imaginative page-turner about a therapist and her unusual patient—a man who can render
himself invisible.
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Austin, Texas, therapist Victoria Vick is contacted by a cryptic, unlikeable man who insists his situation is unique
and unfathomable. As he slowly reveals himself, Vick becomes convinced that he suffers from a complex set of
delusions: Y__, as she refers to him, claims to be a scientist who stole cloaking technology from an aborted
government project in order to render himself nearly invisible. He says he uses this ability to observe random
individuals within their daily lives, usually when they are alone and vulnerable. Unsure of his motives or
honesty, Vick becomes obsessed with her patient and the disclosure of his increasingly bizarre and disturbing
tales. Over time, it threatens her career, her marriage, and her own identity.
Interspersed with notes, correspondence, and transcriptions that catalog a relationship based on curiosity and fear,
THE VISIBLE MAN touches on all of Chuck Klosterman’s favorite themes—the consequences of culture, the
influence of media, the complexity of voyeurism, and the existential contradiction of normalcy. Is this comedy,
criticism, or horror? Not even Y__ seems to know for sure.
Chuck Klosterman is the author of seven books, including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Downtown Owl and
Eating the Dinosaur. His debut book, Fargo Rock City, was winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. He has
written for GQ, Esquire, The New York Times, Spin, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Believer, and ESPN,
and regularly writes about sports and pop culture for Grantland.com.
Praise:
“[A] tour de force exploration of intimacy and voyeurism…Strikingly original, a vibrant mix of thriller, sci-fi, and
literary fiction genres.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Klosterman has fashioned a compelling and exceedingly entertaining page-turner of a novel that touches on various
aspects of popular culture, from the pervasive influence of the media on our day-to-day lives to the role of science in
society to such basic issues as what constitutes identity and reality.” –Booklist, starred review
“Daring and ambitious… immersed as always in popular culture, but rises to the challenge of creative fiction.”
–Kirkus Review
Film Rights: Kassie Evashevski, UTA
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Portuguese (Brazil): Editora Bertrand
Turkish: Ithaki
Klosterman, Chuck
DOWNTOWN OWL: A Novel
(Scribner/S&S, September 2008)
Trade Paperback, June 2009 (304 pages)
Film rights: Kassie Evashevski, UTA
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German: S. Fischer Verlag
Lourey, Jess
DECEMBER DREAD: A Murder-By-Month Mystery (Book #8)
(Midnight Ink, October 2012)
Trade Paperback (288 pages)
Lefty-Nominated Series!
Welcome to Battle Lake, Minnesota: home to trophy fish, 23-foot fiberglass statues, and a murder a month.
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With Christmas just over a week away, ‘tis the season for grinning sales elves on TV, maddeningly jolly Muzak, and
a guilty Nut Goodie addiction. But for Mira James and other Battle Lake-area women, the holidays are marred by
something far worse—a serial killer leaving candy canes as his calling card. His target? Thirty-something brunettes
who look just like Mira. When a women from her high school graduating class becomes his latest victim, Mira
plows through a case of online dating turned deadly with Mrs. Berns at her side. Will she earn her detective
stripes… or end up deader than the Ghost of Christmas Past?
Jess Lourey spent her formative years in Paynesville, Minnesota, a small town not unlike the Murder-by-Month
series' Battle Lake. She is the author of the Lefty-nominated Murder-by-Month mysteries, a member of Mystery
Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and The Loft, and a founding faculty member of the Mystery Writers of
America’s MWA University. Lourey resides in St. Cloud, Minn., where she is a professor of writing and sociology.
Praise:
“It’s not easy to make people laugh while they’re on the edge of their seats, but Lourey pulls it off…[A] very clever
series.” –Booklist, starred review
“Snappy jokes and edgy dialogue. Get started on this Lefty-nominated series if you’ve previously missed it.”
–Library Journal, starred review
“Her latest is loaded with humor, and many of the descriptions are downright poetic.” –The Strand, starred review
Entire Murder-by-Month Series Now Available!
May Day (March 2006)
June Bug (March 2007)
Knee High by the Fourth of July (Sept. 2007)
August Moon (June 2008)
September Fair (Sept. 2009)
October Fest (May 2011)
November Hunt (March 2012)
Lutz, Lisa
TRAIL OF THE SPELLMANS: Document #5
(Simon & Schuster, March 2012)
Hardcover (384 pages)
Lisa Lutz has delivered another knock-out adventure in what Library Journal has deemed a “side-splitting
series”—here is the long awaited fifth installment in the New York Times bestselling, Edgar- and Macavitynominated series about an eccentric sleuthing family.
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For the first time in Spellman history, Isabel Spellman, PI, might be the most normal member of her family. Mom
has taken on an outrageous assortment of extracurricular activities—with no apparent motive. Dad has a secret.
Izzy’s brother and sister are at war—for no apparent reason. And her niece keeps saying “banana” even though she
hates bananas.
That's not to say that Izzy isn't without her own troubles. Her boyfriend, Henry Stone, keeps wanting "to talk," a
prospect Isabel evades by going out with her new drinking buddy, none other than Gertrude Stone, Henry's mother.
Things aren't any simpler on the business side of Spellman Investigations. First, Rae is assigned to follow a girl,
only to fake the surveillance reports. Then a math professor hires Izzy to watch his immaculate apartment while he
unravels like a bad formula. And as the questions pile up, Izzy won't stop hunting for the answers-even when they
threaten to shatter both the business and the family.
Lisa Lutz is the author of The New York Times bestselling, Edgar- and Macavity-nominated, and Alice Awardwinning Spellman Files series. She is most recently the author of Heads You Lose, written with David Hayward, and
lives and works in California.
Praise:
“Lisa Lutz’s Spellman books are always hilarious, but Trail of the Spellmans reminded me how serious funny books
can be. As precocious as the Spellman kids have always been, they’re only now really coming of age and the result
is, yes, hilarious, but also tender and melancholy and full of hard-won wisdom. This one’s going to stay with
readers for a long time.” –Laura Lippman, bestselling author of the Tess Monaghan series
“Private investigator Isabel “Izzy” Spellman is not your typical gumshoe…irreverent…amusing…[Trail of the
Spellmans is] a wise (and wise-cracking) choice for mystery readers seeking a break from the genre’s bloodier fare.”
–Booklist
“…engaging…Lutz’s dry, biting humor is in full force. A series that keeps getting better and better.”
–Publishers Weekly
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The Spellman Files
Lutz, Lisa (writing as David Spellman from The Spellman Files) and Jaime Temairik
(illustrator)
HOW TO NEGOTIATE EVERYTHING (As seen in Trail of the Spellmans)
(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, May 2013)
F&Gs (32 illustrated pages)
Have you ever wanted something so badly but been have been told NO?Well then this book is for you!
Through several easy steps you will learn the basics of negotiating and the art of getting what you want. Tips
include:
 What is worth negotiating for
 How not to overreach
 The importance of persistence
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Master these and all that you want can be yours!
David Spellman is a lawyer, a stay-at-home dad, and a fictional character created by Lisa Lutz.
Lisa Lutz is the author of the Spellman series of comedic novels about a family of private investigators, beginning
with The Spellman Files.
Jaime Temairik is an illustrator in Seattle.
Lutz, Lisa and David Hayward
HEADS, YOU LOSE
(Putnam, April 2011)
Trade Paperback, April 2012 (320 pages)
World English rights with Putnam
National Bestseller!
April 2011 Indie Next List!
From New York Times bestselling author Lisa Lutz and David Hayward, a hilarious and original tag-team
novel that reads like Weeds crossed with Adaptation.
Paul and Lacey Hansen are pot-growing twenty-something siblings sharing a modest rambler of a home in rural
Northern California. When they find a headless corpse on their property they can't exactly call the police, so
they simply move the body to another location. Let somebody else find it. Instead, the corpse reappears on their
land. Clearly, someone is sending them a message, and it’s getting riper by the day. But that’s only half the story…
Enter authors Lisa Lutz and David Hayward—former real-life partners (professionally and personally) who have
agreed to reunite for a tag-team mystery novel written in alternating chapters. One little problem: They disagree on
pretty much every detail of how their novel should unfold. While the body count rises in Paul and Lacy’s wildly
unpredictable fictional world, so, too, does the intensity of Lisa and David’s rivalry. The result is a literary brawl
like no other, and a murder mystery every bit as unanticipated (and bloody).
Lisa Lutz is the New York Times bestselling author of the Spellman series of comedic crime novels. Since its debut
in 2007, the Spellman series has received Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity nominations, and each title has been a
selection of the Indie Next List. Lutz lives in San Francisco.
David Hayward is a writer and editor in Northern California. His poetry has won a Puschcart Prize and has
appeared in Harper’s and other magazines. He has an MFA in poetry from the University of California, Irvine.
Praise:
“Clever, witty, and smartly turned out, this novel should be savored from the editor's letter to the final page, or
readers will lose out on a big piece of this humorous puzzle.” –Library Journal, starred review
“A complete delight! Sure, Heads You Lose is a snappy, stylish crime novel but it's much more: a clever, often
hilarious and insightful look at how these wonderful things we call books actually get created. It's a toss-up (sorry, I
couldn't resist) to say which of the main characters are my favorite: fictional protagonists Lacey and Paul, or authors
Lisa and David.” -- Jeffery Deaver, bestselling author of The Bone Collector and The Burning Wire
“Heads You Lose is a rare beast: a clever, funny, engrossing read that manages to be dark yet marvelously witty, a
book that is both a thriller itself and a book about the writing of a thriller. Ex-partners Lutz and Hayward have come
up with a mystery that’s genuinely different. You’ll be happy that you read it, and happier still that you’ve never
had to date either one of them. It’s a blast.”
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–John Connolly, New York Times bestselling author of The Whisperers and Every Dead Thing
Film Rights: Sarah Self, Gersh Agency
March, Lucy
A LITTLE NIGHT MAGIC
(St. Martin’s Press Trade Paperback, February 2012)
Trade Paperback (315 pages)
Olivia Kiskey needs a change. She’s been working at the same Nodaway Falls, New York, waffle house since she
was a teenager; not a lot of upward mobility there. She’s been in love with Tobias, the cook, for the last four years;
he’s never made a move. Every Saturday night, she gathers with her three best friends—Peach, Millie, and Stacy—
and drinks the same margaritas while listening to the same old stories. Intent on shaking things up, she puts her
house on the market, buys a one-way ticket to Europe, and announces her plans to her friends…
But then she meets Davina Granville, a strange and mystical Southern woman who shows Olivia that there is more
to her life than she’s ever dreamed. As Liv’s latent magical powers come to the surface, she discovers that having
an interesting life is maybe not all it’s cracked up to be. The dark side of someone else’s magic is taking over the
good people in town, and changing them into vessels of malevolence. Unwilling to cede her home to darkness, she
battles the demons of her familial past and her magical present, with those she loves at her side… and in the cross
fire. Can the most important things in life—friendship, love, magic, and waffles—get her through the worst the
universe can throw at her?
Lucy March is the split personality of New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lani Diane Rich. Both
personalities live in southern Ohio with a husband, two daughters, two cats, five dogs, and one best friend.
Praise:
“Chick lit embraces the supernatural in this sweet, funny, and implausible tale of self-discovery, friendship, and
trust…It’s the down-to-earth humor and humanity of a fiercely loyal and likable clique of smalltowners who’ll keep
new fans waiting for March’s next trick.” –Publishers Weekly
“Fresh and funny, warm and sexy. I can't wait for more.”
–Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author
“Lucy March’s novels have it all; they’re sexy, funny, heartfelt, and warm, full of characters you want to eat waffles
with and strange little towns you want to visit, all seasoned with a dash of the supernatural. Lucy March is
sublime!” –Jennifer Crusie, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe This Time
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Greek: Klidarithmos Publications
U.S./Canada Audio: Audible
McIntosh, D.J.
THE BOOK OF STOLEN TALES: Book Two of The Mesopotamian Trilogy
(Penguin Canada, May 2013)
Manuscript due November 2012
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On behalf of an anonymous client, antiquities dealer John Madison successfully bids for a rare Italian 17 th century
book – the first European anthology of fairy tales, written by Giambattista Basile, containing frightening illustrations
by the famous Spanish painter, José de Ribera. Madison is warned not to open it because the book is considered
‘dangerous.’ He can’t resist the temptation and as he’s taking a look at the volume, he’s accosted and robbed of the
book by a strange man who appears to have stepped out of the past and who claims the tales belong to him.
Madison soon discovers his client was a British publisher of high quality children’s books who believed one of four
famous fairy tales holds the key to an ancient source of plague in Mesopotamia. In pursuit of the thief, Madison
travels to Naples, Ghent, the south of France and the Czech Republic - locations of the real events in European
history that gave rise to each one of the four famous fairy tales.
As his search deepens, Madison is confronted by an Italian aristocrat who practises the lost art of necromancy and a
beautiful but abused young woman. The dark origins of the stories, as they were told before modernization, come to
life. Madison realizes one of the tales can be traced back through Greek and Egyptian literature, to a Babylonian
myth. In Iraq, during the final hours of his quest, he ventures underground into the Mesopotamian version of Hades,
an actual archaeological site.
D.J. (Dorothy) McIntosh's first novel The Witch of Babylon, was a national bestseller in Canada. It was shortlisted
for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger Award, won a Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for
best unpublished novel and was an Amazon ca Editor’s Choice and a Top 5 Mystery/Thriller in 2011. It has been
sold in over 20 countries and will launch in the U.S. in October 2012. McIntosh is a member of the Canadian
Society for Mesopotamian Studies. She is a strong supporter of Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to
Protect Journalists.
Rights sold:
Audio (World English): Recorded Books
Chinese (Simplified): Shanghai Xiron Media
Russian: AST
McIntosh, D.J.
THE WITCH OF BABYLON
(Penguin Canada, June 2011) (Tor Books, 2012)
Hardcover, 416 pages
A Globe and Mail Bestseller!
An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2011!
Winner of the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished Crime Novel!
Shortlisted for the 2007 Crime Writers' Association (U.K.) Debut Dagger Award!
Praise:
“With a plot that moves like a racetrack pickpocket and a hero who has more lives than a cat and uses them all, D.J.
McIntosh's The Witch of Babylon is one terrifying ride. Connecting the recent looting of antiquities in war-torn Iraq
with a Mesopotamian conspiracy contrived almost three thousand years ago, the plot ingeniously weaves between
the two, keeping the reader on edge and guessing to the very last page. Full of an equal amount of mayhem and
erudition, this novel marks a remarkably inventive and lively debut.”
– James. W. Nichol, award winning author of Midnight Cab and Transgression
“From Iraq, ancient history and alchemy combine to terrorize us in this stunning historical thriller. A terrific read.”
– Louise Penny, New York Times bestselling author of Bury Your Dead
“Soaked in the blood of centuries, yet as fresh as tomorrow’s headlines. D.J. McIntosh is articulate, literate, and
scary.”– Alan Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Rights Sold: (formerly represented by Denise Bukowski Agency)
Albanian: Toena Publishing House
Audio (World English): Recorded Books
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Chinese (S): Shanghai Xiron Media
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Hungarian: IPC Konyvek Kft.
Italian: Rizzoli
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Portuguese (Brazil): Editora Saraiva
Russian: AST
Serbian: Alnari
Slovakian: Slovart
Spanish (World): Atico de los Libros*
Turkish: Dogan Kitap
Pollack, Neal
JEWBALL: A Novel
(Thomas & Mercer/Amazon Publishing, September 2012)
Trade Paperback (218 pages)
A funny, gritty noir about a barnstorming Philadelphia Jewish basketball team in the late 1930s who battle
for supremacy on and off the court under the growing shadow of anti-Semitism
1937. The gears of war have begun to grind, but Inky Lautman, star point guard for the South Philadelphia Hebrew
Association, the nation’s greatest basketball team, is dealing with his own problems.
His coach has unwittingly incurred a massive gambling debt to the Bund, a group of American Nazis. His main
basketball rival is self-righteously leading public protests against homegrown American fascism. And his girlfriend
wants him to join a Jewish student organization that's all talk and no action. It's more than Inky can deliver. He just
wants to play ball and occasionally beat people up for money.
When the Bund comes calling for what it’s owed, Inky has to make a stand for his ragtag bunch of teammates and
the coach that got them into this mess. With the Bund closing in, Inky's game isn’t just basketball anymore. It
becomes a battle that pits Jewish pride against Nazi fascism.
The tides of history are flowing against a guy like Inky. Can he make his free throws and still make it through the
season alive? Get ready. This…is Jewball.
Neal Pollack is the author of the cult classic The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, the novel Never
Mind the Pollacks, and the memoirs Alternadad and Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude. A graduate of
Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, he is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Slate,
Salon, GQ, Vanity Fair, and Maxim. He lives with his wife and son in Austin, Texas.
Praise:
“Pollack comes at his readers with both genre barrels blazing, combining the experience of an expert nonfiction
writer and the enthusiasm of a first-time novelist.” –Forbes
“Pollack delivers crisp, vivid episodes of the team in pitched battle, capturing the era’s style as well as that of key
players. Around these scenes, he weaves a fast-moving tale of underworld intrigue, the looming Nazi threat, love
lost and found, and plenty of sharp-tongued banter.” –Tablet
Radish, Kris
TUESDAY NIGHT MIRACLES
(Bantam Books, January 2012)
Trade Paperback (496 pages)
UK Rights with Bantam/Random House
In this poignant and transformative novel, bestselling author Kris Radish weaves a tale of five women
yearning for change—and the potential for happiness that lies within every heart.
Free-spirited psychologist Dr. Olivia Bayer suspects she’ll need a miracle to help the four wildly different women in
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her anger management class. Grace, a single working mother, can barely find a moment’s rest. Jane, a high-profile
real estate agent, is struggling in the recession. Kit, in her fifties, has had it with her taunting older brothers. And
Leah, a young mother of two, is starting over after ending a troubled relationship. All have reached a crossroads, and
Dr. Bayer has an unconventional plan to steer them on the right track. As the class gets taken everywhere from a
bowling alley to a shooting range, the women’s Tuesday meetings transform from tense, reluctant gatherings into
richly rewarding experiments in female bonding. As Grace, Jane, Kit, and Leah open up—revealing secrets,
swapping stories, and recovering long-lost dreams—old wounds begin to heal, new friendships are forged, and
miracles manifest in the most surprising ways.
Kris Radish is the author of Hearts on a String, The Shortest Distance Between Two Women, Searching for
Paradise in Parker, PA, The Sunday List of Dreams, Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral, Dancing Naked
at the Edge of Dawn, and The Elegant Gathering of White Snows. She lives in Florida.
Praise:
“Radish exhibits a deep understanding of and compassion for women who opt for fight rather than flight in tough
situations.” –Publishers Weekly
"Radish delves into the hearts of four women in her latest novel and uncovers the feelings, insecurities and hidden
hurts. Full of strong, complex characters, this story is riveting." --Romantic Times
"Reader alert: This is the kind of book you'd better commit to read if you start it, because you probably won't be able
to put it down." --Huntington News
Rich, Simon
THE LAST GIRLFRIEND ON EARTH: And Other Love Stories
(Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown, January 2013)
Galley (224 pages)
(UK rights sold to Serpent’s Tail via Little, Brown)
It doesn’t matter if you’re a robot, a caveman, or a space alien: Sooner or later, some girl’s going to break
your heart.
Love: Whether you’re losing it, finding it, breaking it, or making it, it’s always complicated. And, when seen
through the eyes of Simon Rich—“one of the funniest writers in America” (Daily Beast)—love is also hilarious.
In “Center of the Universe,” God struggles to balance the demands of his career with the needs of his long-term
girlfriend. In “Magical Mr. Goat,” a young girl’s imaginary friend yearns to become “more than friends.” In
“Unprotected,” an unused prophylactic recalls his years spent trapped inside a teen boy’s wallet.
As enchanting, sweet, and absurd as love itself, these stories are Simon Rich’s valentine to readers, an irresistible
collection of delights. All that’s missing is the heart-shaped box.
Simon Rich is the author of Ant Farm, Free-Range Chickens, Elliot Allagash, and What in God’s Name? He has
written for The New Yorker, McSweeny’s, NBC’s Saturday Night Live and Pixar. He lives in Brooklyn.
Rights sold:
Italian serial: GQ Italy
Italian serial: Internazionale
Portuguese serial (Brazil): Revista Piaui
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Rich, Simon
WHAT IN GOD'S NAME?
(Reagan Arthur Books/Hachette, August 2012)
Hardcover (240 pages)
UK rights: Serpent’s Tail (via Hachette)
Bored, God decides that Earth has had its day—unless two idealistic angels can make a miracle happen.
Welcome to Heaven Inc., the grossly mis-managed corporation in the sky. For as long as anyone can remember, the
founder and CEO (known in some circles as God) has been phoning it in. Lately, he’s been spending most of his
time on the golf course. And when he does show up at work, it’s not to resolve wars or end famine, but to Google
himself and read what humans have been blogging about him.
When God decides to resign as CEO (to pursue his lifelong dream of opening a fusion restaurant), he announces that
he’ll destroy Earth. His employees take the news in stride, except for Craig and Eliza, two underpaid Angels in the
lowly Department of Miracles. Unlike their boss, Craig and Eliza love their jobs--uncapping city fire hydrants on
hot days, revealing lost keys in snowbanks—and they refuse to accept that Earth is going under.
The Angels manage to strike a deal with their boss: He’ll call off his Armageddon if they can bring about their
toughest miracle yet—getting the two most socially awkward humans on the planet fall in love. With doomsday fast
approaching, and the the clueless humans ignoring every chance for happiness thrown their way, Craig and Eliza
must move heaven and earth to rescue them—and the rest of us, too.
Simon Rich “is still the freshest, funniest new writer today,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times. He has written
comedy for The New Yorker, Saturday Night Live, The Believer, Pixar and other movie studios. He’s the author of
two collections, Free-Range Chickens and Ant Farm. His first novel, Elliot Allagash was optioned for a film by
Jason Reitman. Rich lives in Brooklyn.
Praise:
“Funny and occasionally touching, What In God’s Name is satire that avoids sanctimony…Rich knows how to
balance the smart with the funny.” --The New York Times Book Review
“One of the funniest writers in America.” –The Daily Beast
“Deliciously funny.” --Kirkus
Rights sold:
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Hebrew: Matar
Portuguese (Brazil): Editora Planeta
Turkish: Derin Kitap
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Rotenberg, Robert
STRANGLEHOLD
(Touchstone/S&S Canada, May 2013)
Manuscript (256 pages)
Robert Rotenberg’s fourth mystery set on the streets and in the courtrooms of Toronto finds Detective Ari
Greene caught in the fight of his life.
Bestselling author Robert Rotenberg is back with his most shocking book yet. It is just after Labour Day and the city
is kicking into gear. All eyes are on the hotly contested election for Toronto’s next mayor and crime is the big issue.
Greene is no stranger to the worst of what the city has to offer, but even he is unprepared for what happens next
when he stumbles upon a horrific homicide.
In one nightmare moment his world is flipped upside down. Soon Green is pitted against his young protégé, Daniel
Kennicott, who arrests him for first-degree murder. Tied down on house arrest as he awaits his trial, Greene has to
find a way to clear his name, and also must face some very hard truths: that he didn’t really know the people he
believed in most; that there are unseen forces at work prepared to see him take the fall; and most of all, that he
should never underestimate the price people will pay for love.
Robert Rotenberg is a criminal lawyer in Toronto, where he lives with his family. STRANGLEHOLD is his fourth
novel.
Rotenberg, Robert
STRAY BULLETS
(Simon & Schuster Canada, May 2012)
Hardcover/Trade Paperback (304 pages)
A Globe and Mail Bestseller!
The third title in Robert Rotenberg's bestselling legal thriller series set on the streets—and in the courtrooms-of Toronto.
On a dark evening in November, Cedric Wilkinson is taking his four-year-old son to a doughnut shop, before they
go to visit his wife, who is in the hospital expecting their second child. Just as they approach the front door, an old
Cadillac pulls into the parking lot behind them. Seconds later, shots ring out, and Wilkinson’s son falls to the
pavement.
In STRAY BULLETS, Robert Rotenberg brings back lawyer Nancy Parish to defend her oldest and most difficult
client, Larkin St. Clair, charged with the murder of a child. It’s a case that has all of Toronto in an uproar. The
evidence against St. Clair seems overwhelming, but he insists that for once in his life he’s not guilty.
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Ralph Armitage, the newly appointed head Crown Attorney, takes the case to prove he’s up to winning a big-time
trial. He’ll do just about anything to win. But Detective Ari Greene has doubts they’ve got the right guy and, even as
the trial is going on, is still digging for the truth.
Robert Rotenberg is one of Toronto's top criminal lawyers. He lives in Toronto with his wife, television news
producer Vaune Davis, and their three children.
Praise for Robert Rotenberg:
“Rotenberg is Canada's John Grisham.” –New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal
“A few lawyers are really expert in managing cases—especially criminal cases—in the courtroom. A small
percentage of these are very good at making trials come alive. Robert Rotenberg is one of the few, along with Scott
Turow, David Baldacci, and John Lescroart.” –F. Lee Bailey
“Rotenberg has crafted an idealistic but gripping—and distinctly Canadian—portrait of how justice does and does
not get done.” –The London Free Press
Rights sold:
Polish: Proszynski
Rotenberg, Robert
GUILTY PLEA
(Sarah Crichton Books/FSG, July 2011)
Hardcover (336 pages)
Amazon.ca’s Best of 2011!
National Bestseller (Canada)!
Finalist for the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel (Canada)!
Rights sold:
French: Presses de la Cite
Italian: Giano/Neri Pozza
Polish: Proszynski Media
UK Commonwealth: John Murray
UK Audio: W.F. Howes
US/Canada Audio: Recorded Books
Rotenberg, Robert
OLD CITY HALL
(Sarah Crichton Books/FSG, March 2009)
Trade Paperback, March 2010 (Picador, 384 pages)
International Bestseller!
CWA “New Blood” Dagger Award Nominee! (UK)
Best Crime Novel of the Month in Elle Magazine! (France)
Film Rights: Shaftesbury Films (Canada)
Rights sold:
French: Presses de la Cite
German: Rowohlt
Hebrew: Matar
Italian: Giano/Neri Pozza
Japanese: Hayakawa
Marathi (India): Mehta Publishing House
Polish: Proszynski Media
Russian: AST
US/Canada Audio: Recorded Books
UK Commonwealth: John Murray
UK Audio: W.F. Howes
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Smith, Brad
SHOOT THE DOG A Virgil Cain Mystery (Book #3)
(Scribner/S&S Canada Trade Paperback, July 2013)
Manuscript (320 pages)
From a writer who “rivals Elmore Leonard at his best” (Publishers Weekly) comes the third novel in the
Virgil Cain series—a riveting story that opens with the discovery of the body of a movie star near the Hudson
River.
In upstate New York, Virgil Cain's draft horses are pulling hay in the fields when two film scouts offer him $500 a
day for their use in a film. He pockets the money, but the chaotic set of Frontier Woman turns out to be more trouble
than it’s worth. Producer Sam Jonson clearly has her heart in the wrong place with her husband-cum-director Robb,
who costs her a major financier, not to mention the Native American casino owner Ronnie Red Hawk, who has a
vested interest in an alternate leading lady. After one—and then a second—young woman is found dead, Virgil
discovers that more is at stake than the interests of a casino magnate…and he’d better step in before the charming
ten-year-old actress Georgia ends up the next victim of this deadly production.
Brad Smith was born and raised in southern Ontario. He has worked as a farmer, signalman, insulator, truck driver,
bartender, schoolteacher, maintenance mechanic, roofer, and carpenter. He lives in an eighty-year-old farmhouse
near the north shore of Lake Erie. Red Means Run, the first novel in his Virgil Cain series, was named among the
Year’s Best Crime Novels by Booklist.
Advance Praise:
“A writer to watch, a comet on the horizon.” –Dennis Lehane
“Smith has a marvelous control of his material, effortlessly mixing laugh-out-loud comedy with streaks of country
noir.” –Booklist
Smith, Brad
CROW’S LANDING: A Virgil Cain Mystery (Book #2)
(Scribner, August 2012) (Simon & Schuster Canada, August 2012)
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Jack-of-all-trades Virgil Cain gets tangled up in an old crime surfacing from the waters of the Hudson River,
in this second novel in a series from Brad Smith.
For Virgil Cain, a day of fishing on the Hudson River yields more than he bargained for when, while pulling up
anchor, he hooks onto a mysterious steel cylinder. As word of Virgil’s strange catch spreads around the local
marina, it draws the attention of a crooked city cop, who seizes both the cylinder and Virgil's boat. Soon, an old drug
deal gone sour floats to the surface, and to get to the bottom of it—and to get his boat back—Virgil teams up with a
captivating single mom, Dusty, who knows far too much about the cylinder and the pure cocaine it contains. When
her past comes calling, the landscape is soon cluttered with the dealer who claims ownership of the cylinder, his
murderous sidekick, and a wild card in the form of a crazy Russian cowboy. Virgil and Dusty find themselves
trapped square in the middle of it all. And looking for a way out.
Brad Smith was born and raised in southern Ontario. He has worked as a farmer, signalman, insulator, truck driver,
bartender, schoolteacher, maintenance mechanic, roofer, and carpenter. He lives in an eighty-year-old farmhouse
near the north shore of Lake Erie. His novel, One-Eyed Jacks, was nominated for the Dashiell Hammett Prize.
Praise:
“Rivals Elmore Leonard at his best.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review
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“Brad Smith has got the goods—he’s funny, poignant, evocative, and he tells a blistering tale.” –Dennis Lehane
“A writer with lots of skill, lots of heart, lots of brains.” –Richard Russo
Smith, Brad
RED MEANS RUN: A Virgil Cain Mystery (Book #1)
(Scribner, January 2012) (Simon & Schuster Canada, January 2012)
Trade Paperback (320 pages)
Booklist Top Ten Crime Novel of 2012!
Brad Smith, crime novelist, debuts a new series set in upstate New York featuring jack-of-all-trades Virgil
Cain, who must clear his name of two murders while on the run from the law.
Praise:
“Genuinely thrilling.” –Robert Wiersema, The Vancouver Sun
“[Smith] knows how to put together an amusing mystery tale—one with a touch of romance to go with the rigor
mortis.” –Guelph Mercury
“[Smith’s] best creation is Cain, a rugged charmer.” –National Post
Wax, Wendy
WHILE WE WERE WATCHING DOWNTON ABBEY
(Berkley Books/Penguin USA, April 2013)
Manuscript (384 pages)
World English rights with Berkley Books
From Wendy Wax, the acclaimed author of Ten Beach Road and Ocean Beach, comes a new novel of
friendship, love, and family—and a shared passion that could change their lives
When the concierge of a historic Atlanta apartment building invites his fellow residents to join him for weekly
screenings of Downton Abbey, four very different people find themselves connecting with the addictive drama, and-even more unexpectedly--with each other…
Samantha Davis married young and for the wrong reasons: the security of old Atlanta money—for herself and for
her orphaned brother and sister. She never expected her marriage to be complicated by love and compromised by a
shattering family betrayal.
Claire Walker is now an empty nester and struggling author who left her home in the suburbs for the old world
charm of The Alexander, and for a new and productive life. But she soon wonders if clinging to old dreams can be
more destructive than having no dreams at all.
And then there’s Brooke MacKenzie, a woman in constant battle with her faithless ex- husband, and who realizes
that it’s time to take a deep breath and come to terms with the fact that her life is not the fairy tale she thought it
would be.
For Samantha, Claire, Brooke—and Edward, who arranges the weekly gatherings--life is full of surprises as they
forge a surprising bond that will sustain them through some of life’s hardest moments—all of it reflected in the
unfolding drama, comedy, and convergent lives of Downton Abbey.
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Wendy Wax, a former broadcaster, lives in the Atlanta suburbs with her husband and two teenage sons, who have
turned her into the shortest member of their family. She is the author of several books, including Ocean Beach and
The Accidental Bestseller.
A Selection of Previous Titles:
Rights sold for The Accidental Bestseller:
Hungarian: Pioneer Books
Indonesian: Mizan Pustaka
Russian: AST
Turkish: EME Group
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Norwegian: Allers Forlag
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YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE
Lourey, Jess
THE TOADHOUSE TRILOGY: Book One
(Toadhouse Books, July 2012)
Trade Paperback (300 pages)
Aine’s world is destroyed in a single day. She believes herself to be a regular teenager in 1930s Alabama, but when
a blue-eyed monster named Biblos attacks, she discovers that the reclusive woman raising her isn't really her
grandmother and that she's been living inside a book for the past five years. With her blind brother, Spenser, she
flees the pages of the novel she's called home, one terrifying step ahead of Biblos' black magic. Her only chance at
survival lies in beating him to the three objects that he desires more than life.
As she undertakes her strange and dangerous odyssey, Aine must choose between a family she doesn't remember
and her growing attraction to a mysterious young man named Gilgamesh. Only through treacherous adventures into
The Time Machine, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Tale of Two Cities, and the epic Indian saga The Ramayana will she
learn her true heritage and restore the balance of the worlds... if she can stay alive.
Jess Lourey is the author of the critically-acclaimed, Lefty-nominated Murder-by-Month Mysteries as well as a
professor of writing and sociology. When not gardening, writing, or hanging out with her wonderful kids and dorky
dog, you can find her reading, watching SyFy-channel original movies, and dreaming big.
Praise:
“Lourey’s dreamlike writing style makes this novel so compelling… easily her best work to date. Her evocative
style, which is powered by an unwavering sense of wonder, is perfectly fitted for fantasy.” –B&N.com
"Lourey's wonderful way with words will whisk readers away to an amazing new world!"
–Chris Grabenstein, Anthony and Agatha Award winning author
Lundquist, Jenny
THE PRINCESS IN THE OPAL MASK
(Running Press Kids, Fall 2013)
Manuscript due January 2013 (335 pages)
An alternative take on the legend of The Man in the Iron Mask as told from the viewpoint of twin teenage girls
Sixteen-year-old orphan Elara, who has lived her whole life as a servant, has never known her real name and has
always felt like there was something missing. As if she was only half of a whole. But she never knew that she was
quite literally missing her other half—that is, until she finds out about her long-lost identical twin sister Wilha.
As an infant, Elara was handed over to the abusive Ogden family to serve as a maid to their spoiled daughter Serena.
On a trip to the capitol city, Elara discovers that she not only has a twin sister, but that she is the daughter of
Fennrick, King of Galandria, and was hidden away to protect their country from civil war. The higher-ups in the
royal family separated the sisters at birth fearing that split heirs to the throne (and both girls at that) would cause
chaos and disorder. So, Elara was hidden away as a servant, while her sister Wilha was removed from the line of
succession and hidden in plain sight as masked royalty, forced to keep her face a secret.
Soon Elara and Wilha find that the stability of two kingdoms rest squarely upon their untrained shoulders, and they
are both thrust into lives they never knew existed. And they see that in order to secure peace for themselves and
everyone else in Galandria, they both must become the princesses no one ever thought they could be. Told from the
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alternating first person POV of Elara and Wilha, THE PRINCESS IN THE OPAL MASK is a romance, an
adventure, and a fairy tale.
Jenny Lundquist is the author of two middle grade novels, Seeing Cinderella (Aladdin Mix, March 2012) and the
forthcoming Plastic Polly (Aladdin Mix, March 2013). Jenny is a member of SCBWI and a graduate of the Institute
of Children's Literature.
Rich, Simon
ELLIOT ALLAGASH (Young Adult)
(Random House, May 2010)
Trade Paperback, June 2011(240 pages)
UK rights: Serpent’s Tail (via Random House)
New York Times Editor’s Choice!
Cunningly playful and wickedly funny, ELLIOT ALLAGASH is a tale about all the incredible things that
money can buy, and the one or two things it that it can’t.
Seymour Herson is the least popular student at Glendale, a private school in Manhattan. He’s painfully shy and
physically inept, and his new nickname, “Chunk-Style,” is in danger of entering common usage. But Seymour’s
solitary existence comes to a swift end when he meets the new transfer student: Elliot Allagash, evil heir to
America’s largest fortune.
Elliot’s rampant delinquency has already gotten him expelled from a dozen prep schools around the world. But
despite his best efforts, he can’t get himself thrown out of Glendale; his father has simply donated too much money.
Bitter and bored, Elliot decides to amuse himself by taking up a challenging and expensive new hobby: transforming
Seymour into the most popular student in school.
An unlikely friendship develops between the two loners as Elliot introduces Seymour to new concepts, like power,
sabotage and vengeance. With Elliot as his diabolical strategist and investor, Seymour scores a spot on the
basketball team, becomes class president, and ruthlessly destroys his enemies. Yet despite the glow of newfound
popularity, Seymour feels increasingly uneasy with Elliot’s wily designs. For an Allagash victory is dishonorable at
its best, and ruinous at its worst.
Simon Rich has written for The New Yorker, GQ, Mad, The Harvard Lampoon and other magazines. He is the
author of two humor collections, Free-Range Chickens and Ant Farm, which was a finalist for the 2008 Thurber
Prize for American Humor. He lives in Brooklyn and writes for Saturday Night Live.
Praise:
“A lot of very successful adults I know still wish they could re-live high school as someone popular. Reading this
hilarious morality tale about the cost of that popularity makes me happy that I went through my high school years as
an outsider. And it makes me even happier that Simon Rich did.”—Seth Meyers, WGA and Peabody awardwinning writer for Saturday Night Live
“An unfailingly funny and compulsively readable mix of sweet and sour that will leave readers hoping for another
helping.” –Booklist
Film Rights: Jason Reitman (director of Juno)
Rights sold:
German: Goldmann
Italian: Newton & Compton
Korean: Sallim
Portuguese (Brazil): Editora Planeta
Turkish: Derin Kitap
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Snow, Carol
BUBBLE WORLD
(Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, July 2013)
Galley (352 pages)
World English rights with Holt
Freesia’s carefree island life may literally be too good to be true.
Freesia’s life is perfect. She lives on the beautiful tropical island of Agalinas, surrounded by idyllic weather, fancy
dress shops, and peacocks who sing her favorite song to wake her up in the morning. Instead of studying Latin and
algebra, she chats with her friendlies and snacks on nachos in Spanglish immersion class. She has so many devicious outfits she could wear a different one every day for a year and never run out.
Lately things on the island may have been a bit flippy: sudden blackouts, students disappearing, even Freesia’s
reflection looking slightly…off. But in Freesia’s experience, it’s better not to think about things like that too much.
Unfortunately for her, these signs are more than random blips in the universe.
Freesia’s perfect bubble is about to pop.
Carol Snow is the author of ALA Quick Pick Switch and Snap (HarperTeen). She lives in Southern California with
her husband and their two children.
Swain, Heather
JOSIE GRIFFIN IS NOT A VAMPIRE
(Speak/Penguin Group USA, September 2012)
Trade Paperback (272 pages)
A smart paranormal with a “normal” twist: the story of a regular girl who finds herself surrounded by teens
with supernatural abilities – and finds out how super her natural abilities really are.
Josie Griffin is a former good girl sentenced to anger management class and community service after breaking the
windshield of her boyfriend’s car (hey, she caught him making out with her best friend! What would you do?).
She’s already ditched her pink polo shirts and cheerful A-student attitude, lost all her friends, and started a blog
called JosieHatestheWorld, so court-ordered group therapy doesn’t sound so bad – until she arrives and realizes that
these kids are CRAZY! One thinks he's a vampire, another a werewolf; there's a faerie, and even the great-great
grandson of a Greek god. Smirking, Josie tells them she's a werepire, (half werewolf, half vampire) but that she
doesn't have any powers because of crossbreeding.
But as she spends more time with the other “angry” kids, Josie learns something amazing: They are telling the truth.
There is an underground network of paranormals passing for human, living and working and going to school right
alongside us. But every time one of them uses magic, it threatens to expose and destroy the whole community. Her
new friends are in trouble – and Josie may be the only one who can help. Too bad she doesn’t have any special
powers of her own. Or could it be that being “normal” is special enough?
Heather Swain is not a vampire, either. But, she did grow up in Indiana and is the author of the paranormal teen
fiction books Me, My Elf, And I and Selfish Elf Wish (Puffin). She is also the author of a nonfiction book called
Make These Toys: 101 Clever Creations Using Everyday Items (Perigee). She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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Swain, Heather
THE LAST APPLE
(Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan, Spring 2014)
Manuscript due March 2013
World English rights with Macmillan
THE LAST APPLE imagines a near future where there is no more food. The oceans have died, animals are extinct,
farms have gone by the wayside. But scientists have designed inoculations against hunger pangs and nutritional
beverages so the survivors are no longer starving. There is no more famine, no more obesity, and no genetic or foodrelated illnesses -- but there is also no more eating. The world is at peace. Except for 17-year-old Thalia Apple, who
is hungry.
Thalia’s mother, Lily Nyguen, is the lead scientist who developed the inoculations and beverages for One World
Corporation. When she discovers that Thalia has a slight genetic mutation which is causing her (and others) to
experience hunger, Lily wants to fix the problem, but Thalia refuses to be a part of her mother’s science
experiments. While searching for answers of her own, Thalia stumbles upon Basil, an 18-year-old who is a member
of an underground network of agitators called “Analogs” who want to forgo the inoculations so they can begin
eating again. This is strictly forbidden (the no-food laws in Thalia’s world are as unforgiving as the no-drug laws in
our time), and soon Thalia and Basil find themselves fleeing the city, the One World security agents, and Thalia’s
parents, in search of the only thing that can quell the hunger inside them: real food.
Heather Swain is the author of several YA novels including Me, My Elf and I, Selfish Elf Wish and the forthcoming
Josie Griffin is Not a Vampire (Puffin, Fall 2012), for which film rights are being optioned by Overbrook (Will
Smith’s production company). Heather has also written fiction for adults, as well as two eco-conscious craft books.
She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
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