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ADULT TITLES
DANIEL CLUCHEY
DANIEL CLUCHEY is a native of
Portland, Maine and a graduate of
Amherst (political science), and Harvard
Law School, where he was student body
president was a regular political
blogger. He has worked at the
Department of Justice writing speeches
for Attorney General Eric Holder; at the
Department of Health and Human
Services as speechwriter to Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius; and is now a senior
strategist and head of speechwriting at
an independent federal, working on
speeches for various Administration
officials, including President Obama
and Vice President Biden. He lives in
Washington, D.C.
THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME
(St Martin’s Press, July 2016)
Freshly-graduated Leo Bryce is whipsmart and neurotic as a young Woody
Allen, a young man who has spent most
of his life thinking about death. But
when he meets beautiful, hilarious
actress, Fiona Haeberle, everything
seems to change. The young couple
move to New York – Fiona to an acting
career, Leo to Law School and thence to
an advocacy group, trying to get
inmates off death row – and every day
is a thrill.
But when the perfect love affair
implodes, Leo is thrust into crisis. As he
tries to rid his life of Fiona – not quite
successfully - he throws himself instead
into his work: the death row case of
Georgia inmate Michael Tiegs.
And Michael Tiegs might turn out to be
the second-most-unusual person Leo
Bryce has ever met. A born-again
Christian with a dark past, Tiegs has
some pretty unusual views on life and
death, and as his relationship with Leo
deepens, Leo begins to wonder what
he’s really doing here: whether he’ll
ever be able to get Tiegs free, and
whether freedom is what this strange
philosopher-prisoner even wants.
THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME is
told with the razor-sharp insight and
precise prose of Ben Lerner or Gabriel
Roth. It’s a love story told slantwise, the
journey of a cynic turned believer and
back, with stops along the way at
Hollywood and Death Row.
US: St. Martin’s Press. UK & Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
STUART ARCHER COHEN
STUART ARCHER COHEN is a novelist,
textile and wool merchant, martial
artist, and kick-ass snowboarder. He is
the author of INVISIBLE WORLD, 17
STONE ANGELS, and, most recently,
THE ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, a
gripping near-future thriller. Cohen
lives in Juneau, Alaska, with his wife
and two sons.
THIS IS HOW IT REALLY SOUNDS
(St. Martin’s Press, April 2015)
Cohen’s latest novel is THIS IS HOW IT
REALLY SOUNDS, which already has
received praise from New York Times
bestselling author Tom Perrotta, who
called it “a timely and provocative
story about money, cultural power,
and identity in the digital age.” A
starred
Kirkus
review
called
it
“impressive and dramatic”, declaring
“[anyone who has] savored a well-told
story will want to read this one”.
Booklist calls it “stylish”, “a hugely
entertaining
story,
mainstream
commercial fiction, straddling the thin
line between comedy and drama.”
Harry is the undisputed greatest
extreme skier in the world until a tragic
accident reduces his future prospects
from
adrenaline-fueled
glory
to
numbing ordinariness. He is not a
notorious financier who gained his
wealth by hedging against his own
meteoric company during the global
financial meltdown (entirely legally) but
still can’t quite buy his way into the
other life he so desperately wants. He is
also not a burned-out rock star who
finds himself on a ludicrous revenge
mission, aided by an octogenarian fixer,
with the goal of sticking it to The Man
and, maybe, revitalizing his career along
the way. In fact, Harry has only briefly
encountered these two dubious legends,
but as their stories unfold alongside
Harry’s, the lives they have and the lives
they want meld together in a dazzling
display of narrative convergence.
Set in Shanghai, Los Angeles, and the
snow-slicked slopes of Tahoe and
Alaska, THIS IS HOW IT REALLY
SOUNDS is an enthralling exploration of
the dreams we chase, of potential lives,
and of the challenge of recognizing true
desires and true fulfillment. It’s whipsmart, kinetic, and utterly original.
World English: St. Martin’s Press. Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Matthew Snyder at CAA
LISA DOYLE
LISA DOYLE is a freelance writer and
nonprofit professional originally from
Hinsdale, Illinois. She wrote for major
beauty and fashion trade publications
before her move to the nonprofit sector
as communications manager for Bridge
Communities, helping homeless families in Chicago. MILKED, her first novel,
will be published by new indie
publisher Simon and Fig.
MILKED
(Simon and Fig, November 2014)
MILKED, a Barnes and Noble NOOK
FIRST pick in 2014, is classic women’s
commercial fiction in the style of
Lauren Weisberger: a story about
motherhood and its many dialogues,
what compromises are worth making,
and the roundabout road to happiness.
By and large, Amanda Keane makes
pretty good decisions. She doesn’t have
much luck with love, but she’s good at
her job and a responsible, independent
woman. Then a whirlwind romance
begins on the night of her 30th birthday,
and seems poised to leave her at the
altar – but instead leaves her
unexpectedly
pregnant,
with
the
commitment-shy father disappearing to
the wilds of Ireland. Add a redundancy,
a robbery, and a baby, and suddenly
Amanda has become a demographic:
broke single mom. She’s at her wits’ end
when her best friend Joy clues her into
some unlikely temp work with the
celebrity elite, but it’s with serious
trepidation that Amanda embarks on
her surprisingly lucrative new career:
underground wet-nurse to the rich and
famous. Amanda must quickly learn to
live at the whims of the one percent as
she deals with the irony of nursing –
and loving – someone else’s child, all
while caring for her own. But soon a
web of lives threatens to get her in
trouble with her boss, the media, and
cute daycare dad Dan, who still doesn’t
know what she does for a living…
US: Simon and Fig. UK & Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
ANDREW ERVIN
ANDREW ERVIN is a fiction writer and
critic. His first book was a collection of
novellas,
EXTRAORDINARY
RENDITIONS (Coffee House Press, 2010),
which was one of Publishers Weekly’s
Best Books of the Year. Ervin grew up in
the Philadelphia suburbs, earned a BA
in Philosophy and Religion from
Goucher College, and then lived in
Budapest for five years. Upon his return
to the States, he earned a master’s
degree in English Literature at Illinois
State University and an MFA in Fiction
at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, where he studied under
Richard Powers. He lives in Philadelphia
with his wife, the flutist Elivi Varga.
BURNING DOWN GEORGE ORWELL’S HOUSE
(Soho Press, May 2015)
Ervin’s first novel, BURNING DOWN
GEORGE ORWELL’S HOUSE, is a darkly
comic tale about advertising, truth,
single malt, Scottish hospitality (or the
lack thereof), and George Orwell’s
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. Marlon James,
author of A Brief History of Seven
Killings,
says:
“BURNING
DOWN
GEORGE ORWELL’S HOUSE is fiction as
high-wire act [and] Ervin tosses up
hilarity and human, musicality and
menace, with page after page of
firecracker prose.” Kirkus describes it
as “a dramatic, thoughtful, and at
times comic revisiting of… Orwell's
world”; Ervin “excels at atmosphere”
according to Publishers Weekly.
As the novel opens, Ray, until recently a
high-flying ad executive in Chicago, has
left the world of newspeak behind and
is about to catch a ferry to the Isle of
Jura in order to spend a few months in
the cottage in which Orwell wrote most
of his seminal novel. Ray is miserable,
for reasons we come to understand, and
quite prepared to make his troubles go
away with the help of copious
quantities of excellent single malt. But
some of the islanders take a decidedly
shallow view of a foreigner coming to
visit in order to figure stuff out, and so
Ray quickly finds himself having to deal
with not just his own issues but also a
community whose eccentricities are at
times amusing and at others downright
dangerous.
With echoes of the classic movie “Local
Hero” and A. L. Kennedy’s EVERYTHING
YOU NEED, Ervin’s novelistic debut is a
literary treat of the first order.
World English: Soho Press. Translation: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in France (Joelle
Losfeld)
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
AMY FITZHENRY
AMY FITZHENRY is a Virginia native
currently living in LA and practices law
as the in-house counsel for the global
men’s health charity, Movember. Her
first novel, COLD FEET, is forthcoming
from Berkley.
COLD FEET
(Berkley, September 2015)
COLD FEET is women’s commercial
fiction in the vein of Marian Keyes and
Cecilia Ahern, about a bride-to-be
having second thoughts, who embarks
on a hunt to find her estranged father
in the hopes of some answers.
Lawyer Emma Moon has always
wondered about her father, who
disappeared back to California when
Emma was just a baby. Instead of a
bachelorette weekend, Emma and best
friend Liv decide to go to San Francisco,
and track down the man who should be
walking Emma down the aisle. But San
Francisco turns up many unexpected
secrets,
including
some
alarming
revelations from an ex-girlfriend of
Emma’s fiancé. Emma needs to untangle
the tricky knots of her parents’ hidden,
tragic past – but she also needs to
untangle some of her own.
J Courtney Sullivan, New York Timesbestselling author of The Engagements
describes
COLD
FEET
as
“a
heartwarming and uproariously funny
debut.”
US: Berkley. UK & Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
CARL HOFFMAN
CARL HOFFMAN is a contributing
editor at National Geographic Traveler
and the author of THE LUNATIC
EXPRESS: DISCOVERING THE WORLD
VIA ITS MOST DANGEROUS BUSES,
BOATS, TRAINS, AND PLANES, which
was named one of the ten best books of
2010 by the Wall Street Journal, and
HUNTING WARBIRDS: THE OBSESSIVE
QUEST FOR THE LOST AIRCRAFT OF
WORLD WAR II. He has won four Lowell
Thomas Awards from the Society of
American Travel Writers Foundation
and one North American Travel
Journalists Association
Award. A
veteran
journalist,
Hoffman
has
traveled to more than seventy countries
on assignment for Outside, Smithsonian,
National Geographic Adventure, ESPN
The Magazine, the Wall Street Journal
Magazine, Wired, and many other
publications. He is a native of
Washington, D.C., and the father of
three children.
SAVAGE HARVEST – A Tale Of Cannibals, Colonialism,
And Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest For Primitive Art
(William Morrow, March 2014)
In his critically acclaimed new book,
SAVAGE HARVEST, a New York Times
bestseller, an Indie Next Pick, an
Amazon Book of the Month and an
Edgar Award nominee, Hoffman travels
to the very edge of the known world:
the land of the Asmat in New Guinea, a
place entirely removed from the
amenities and cultural codes of Western
civilization; a place where ritualistic
cannibalism is still a very recent
memory; a place, also, that has held on
to an enduring mystery for more than
50 years: in 1961, Michael Rockefeller,
the son of the governor of New York
and member of one of the richest and
most famous families in American
history, disappeared without a trace in
Asmat country during an expedition to
study the region and its inhabitants and
bring some of their remarkable art back
to the West.
Hoffman retraces Rockefeller’s ill-fated
journey and takes the reader into a
world that is alien and terrifying, but
also beguiling and wondrous. In so
doing, he forces us to question our own
simplistic
assumptions
about
supposedly primitive cultures. And in
an act of spectacular historical detective
work, he comes as close as anybody
ever will to solving the mystery of what
happened to Michael Rockefeller once
and for all. Critics loved SAVAGE
HARVEST: the Washington Post called it
“terrific,” the New York Times found it
“gripping (…) a taut thriller,” and the
Wall Street Journal said: “A powerful
book that succeeds in solving a halfcentury-old mystery.”
World English: William Morrow. Translation: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in Brazil
(Record), China (Chongqing), France (Editions Globe), Germany (btb), Holland (Nieuw
Amsterdam), Japan (Aki Shobo), Poland (Swiat Ksiazki), and the UK (HarperCollins).
Film rights: Howard Sanders at UTA
MILES KLEE
MILES KLEE is a comedian and
performer and the author of the novel
IVYLAND (OR Books, 2012), which the
Wall Street Journal called “like J.G.
Ballard zapped with a thousand volts of
electricity.” His writing has appeared in
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The
Awl, The Collagist, The Huffington
Post, The New York Observer, Salon,
The Millions, and many other
publications,
online
and
off.
TRUE FALSE
(OR Books, Winter 2016)
TRUE FALSE, Klee’s latest, is a whipsmart and bizarrely hilarious story
collection. Here, you’ll find stories
on Pythagoras, privatized prisons, a
bitter shark, Depression-era robbers,
a corporate race to produce an
artificial version of love, and while
one is tempted to say “and
everything in between,” it’s hard to
imagine what could possibly exist at
the intersection of the above-listed.
Unless it’s a murderous swimming
pool, in which case TRUE FALSE has
that, too.
Matt Bell, author of IN THE HOUSE
UPON THE DIRT BETWEEN THE LAKE
AND THE WOODS, gets it absolutely
right when he says this about TRUE
FALSE:
“Miles Klee’s stories are
truly strange but always
rooted in the real—and
somehow the stranger
they get the more real
they seem. Klee often
takes the epic weirdness
of our age and turns it
up even further, seeking
what we might become
in what we already are,
using sharp prose and
sharper
humor
to
broadcast our lives back
at us bigger than life, so
epic now, bigger than
we ever dreamed we
might become.”
World English: OR Books. Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
ISAAC MARION
ISAAC MARION was born in northwestern Washington in 1981 and has
lived in and around Seattle his whole
life, working a variety of strange jobs
like delivering deathbeds to hospice
patients and supervising parental visits
for foster-kids. He is not married, has
no children, and did not go to college or
win any prizes. His first novel, WARM
BODIES, was a New York Times
bestseller and the basis for the hit
movie of the same name, produced by
Summit Films (“Twilight”), and starring
Nicholas Hoult (“Skins,” “X-Men: First
Class”) as R and John Malkovich as
Julie’s father. A novella-length prequel,
THE NEW HUNGER, was published last
year. Learn more about Isaac at his
website:
www.isaacmarion.com.
THE NEW HUNGER and THE LIVING
(Atria, June 2016)
In THE LIVING, Isaac Marion continues
the story of Julie and R and their quest
to make their world a place worth living
in again. Julie may have brought R back
to life in a way that nobody thought
possible, and it’s true that in the
aftermath of their unlikely union, other
zombies too seem to at least try to
disobey their hunger and remember
who they used to be – but that doesn’t
mean that their world as a whole is
healing; the surviving human enclaves,
including the one at Citi Stadium, still
find
themselves
surrounded
by
enemies.
When
the
representatives
of
a
mysterious group called Animus, a
former corporate militia, turn up
outside the gates of Citi Stadium and
offer its human population the safety of
living under a benign dictatorship, it’s
clear to Julie and R that far from
wanting to break down the walls
between humans and zombies, there
are many out there who don’t believe in
reconciliation and a new start. All too
soon, they and Julie’s best friend Nora
fall foul of the new rulers and are being
thrown into prison. With the help of
Seth, an Animus defector with a very
special relationship to Julie, they stage
a dramatic escape – but where can they
go to learn the truth about Animus and
find the friends they need to continue
their fight for a better world?
US: Atria. UK & Translation: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in Korea (Minumin) and the UK
(Vintage)
Film rights: Howard Sanders at UTA
JAMES RESTON, JR.
JAMES RESTON, JR., is the awardwinning author of 15 books, three
plays, and numerous articles in national
magazines. He has been a fellow at the
American Academy in Rome, a fellow at
the John W. Kluge Center at the Library
of Congress and a senior scholar at the
Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars in Washington. His
acclaimed narrative histories, including
WARRIORS OF GOD, DOGS OF GOD, and
DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH, have been
translated into over a dozen languages.
In 1976/7, Reston was David Frost’s
Watergate adviser for the famous Frost/
Nixon Interviews, seen by 57 million
people world-wide. His narrative of that
experience, THE CONVICTION OF
RICHARD NIXON, was published in
2007 and provided the main inspiration
to the British playwright, Peter Morgan,
in the making of his hit London play,
“Frost/Nixon,” which
became
the
Academy
Award-nominated
Ron
Howard movie of the same title. (Reston
is played by Sam Rockwell.)
Reston’s articles have appeared in the
New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, The New
York Times Magazine, Smithsonian,
Playboy, and Rolling Stone, among
others.
LUTHER’S FORTRESS – Martin Luther And His
Reformation Under Siege
(Basic Books, May 2015)
Arguably the single most dramatic and
consequential
event
in
Europe’s
intellectual history is the Reformation,
and in LUTHER’S FORTRESS, James
Reston, Jr. has found a brilliant frame
for the story of how a disillusioned
Augustinian monk by the name of
Martin Luther came to shake the very
foundations of the one Catholic faith,
and changed not just the face of
Christianity but the fate of an entire
continent and the course of world
history. LUTHER’S FORTRESS tells this
momentous story by focusing on the
eight months Luther spent in protective
custody at Wartburg Castle in Saxony in
1521/2. There, he would redefine what
it means to believe; he would fight his
inner demons and, as legend has it, the
devil himself; and he would translate
the New Testament and enrich the
German language the way Shakespeare
and the King James’ Bible would
English. Nothing would ever be the
same again. Publishers Weekly calls
LUTHER’S FORTRESS “superb” and
LibraryJournal praises it as “a fine,
scholarly but accessible treatment of a
key period in the life of one of the
most influential persons in the history
of Christianity.; Kirkus describes it as
“a
swift-moving
narrative”,
“an
intensive journey” and “an engaging
study of a short but explosive period”.
2017 will mark the 500th anniversary of
Luther’s famous 95 Theses, and this
event will be commemorated around
the world not only in 2017 but also in
the years leading up to it. LUTHER’S
FORTRESS will be the book people will
turn to in order to find out more.
World English: Basic Books. Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS is the
author of the global publishing
sensation SHANTARAM, which has been
published in more than three dozen
languages and sold close to four million
copies worldwide.
THE MOUNTAIN SHADOW
(Grove Atlantic, October 2015)
A
sequel
to
SHANTARAM, Gregory
David Roberts’ extraordinary new novel,
THE
MOUNTAIN
SHADOW,
is
the
result of ten years’
work.
The
end
of
the
eighties
was
the
beginning of everything. The Berlin wall
fell on an empire, and
the
Taliban
took
Afghanistan. Lin, on
the run after escaping
from
prison
in
Australia, working as
a passport forger for a
Bombay mafia gang,
finds himself standing
on a tattered corner of
a bloody carpet that
would soon cover most of the world.
But he can’t leave the
Island City: not without
Karla.
Two years after the
events in SHANTARAM,
Bombay is a different
world,
playing
by
different rules. Lin’s
search for love and
faith leads him through
secret
and
violent
intrigues
to
the
dangerous truth. A love
story told with hope
and humor, a personal
struggle
for
redemption,
and
a
philosophical quest for
the wisdom of our
common
humanity,
THE
MOUNTAIN
SHADOW is a sublime
novel, and an allconsuming, epic thriller.
US: Grove Atlantic. UK & Translation: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in Australia (Picador),
Brazil (Intrínseca), Germany (Goldmann), Italy (Neri Pozza), Norway (Press), Russia
(Azbooka), Sweden (Brombergs), the UK (Little, Brown) and Ukraine (Krajina Mriy)
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
ADELIA SAUNDERS
ADELIA SAUNDERS has a master’s
degree from Georgetown University’s
School of Foreign Service and a
bachelor’s degree from New York
University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
She has taught English in Paris, written
for an independent newswire at the
Nations, and assisted an agricultural
United economist in Kampala, Uganda.
She grew up in Durango, Colorado and
currently lives with her family in New
York City, where she splits her time
between work for an international think
tank and raising two small children.
SHE’S LONG GONE is her first novel.
SHE’S LONG GONE
(Bloomsbury USA, January 2017)
In the style of Nicole Krauss’s THE
HISTORY OF LOVE, with a touch of
magical realism reminiscent of Eowyn
Ivey’s THE SNOW CHILD, SHE’S LONG
GONE is a novel about our urgent need
to connect and belong, even as we’re
afraid of allowing others into our lives.
Richard
Beart
is
a
disgraced
schoolteacher who has travelled from
Colorado to Paris in order to find out
the truth about his mother, the famous
novelist Inga Beart. Even though
everybody is telling him that Inga
abandoned her only son at birth, a
sharply etched memory of her striking
red shoes sustains Richard’s belief that
he did see his mother again when he
was a little boy.
Meanwhile his son Neil is embarking on
his own journey of discovery: a student
in the UK, he’s about to make a long
overdue trip to look up a Lithuanian
girl, the daughter of an old friend of his
father’s,
who
lives in
Swindon.
Magdalena is unlike anybody he’s ever
known. Whether it’s her remarkable
eyes, her aura of heartbreak, or her
charming Eastern European accent –
Neil is drawn to her but too awkward to
be able to articulate his feelings. Neil’s
research trip at the university takes him
to Paris for the summer, but he can’t
seem to leave Magdalena behind.
And Magdalena – she too is drawn to
Neil, but for an entirely different
reason, a reason he can’t even begin to
understand. Magdalena has a strange
ability, or what she would call a curse:
she can read a person's past deeds and
fate on their skin. Then when she meets
Neil, she reads something on him she’s
never seen on anyone before: her own
name.
When all three stories come full circle,
Magdalena’s strange talent may hold
not only the key to Neil’s future
happiness but also to the secret of Inga
Beart’s tragic life.
World English: Bloomsbury. Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
PETER SHEAHAN
A globally respected thought leader,
PETER SHEAHAN has authored three
business books – FLIP, GENERATION X,
and MAKING IT HAPPEN – and delivered
more than 2,000 presentations to over
300,000 people in twenty-five countries.
As founder and president of multimillion
dollar
global
consultancy
ChangeLabs, Sheahan helps Apple,
Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Harley
Davidson,
IBM,
GlaxoSmithKline,
Cardinal Health, and other leading
companies harness the power of brands
to inspire positive behavior change.
Sheahan has received many awards and
distinctions for his work. In 2009, he
was named one of the 25 Most
Influential Speakers by the National
Speakers Association of America, and in
2012 he was inducted into the National
Speakers Association Hall of Fame. He
has received the Association’s Council
of Peers Award for Excellence (CPAE)
lifetime
achievement
award
for
speaking excellence, has been named
“Thought Leader of the Year” by
Thought Leaders International, and has
been named one of the Top 30
Entrepreneurs Under 30 by Smart
Company magazine.
BETTER – The Journey To Becoming The Obvious Choice
(BenBella Books, January 2016)
Based on two years of in-depth research
into twenty companies of all sizes,
Sheahan’s groundbreaking new book,
BETTER, proposes a new paradigm for
any business faced with, and possibly
overwhelmed by, accelerated change in
its industry. Rich with anecdotes and
hard data, BETTER develops a three-
step model for businesses of all sizes to
become the “obvious choice.” By
providing hands-on advice for how to
fundamentally change perspectives,
relationships, and impact, Peter's model
maps out a clear road to (re)gaining a
competitive advantage.
World English: BenBella. Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
TRACY K. SMITH
TRACY K. SMITH is the author of three
acclaimed books of poetry: THE BODY’S
QUESTION, winner of the Cave Canem
Poetry Prize; DUENDE, winner of the
James Laughlin Award of the Academy
of American Poets and an Essence
Literary Award; and LIFE ON MARS,
winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize, a New
York Times Notable Book, a New York
Times Book Review Editors Choice, and
a New Yorker, Library Journal, and
Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.
A Professor of Creative Writing at
Princeton University, she lives in
Princeton with her family.
ORDINARY LIGHT
(Knopf, March 2015)
Smith’s first work of prose, ORDINARY
LIGHT is a potent memoir that explores
coming-of-age and the
meaning
of home
against a complex
backdrop of race,
faith,
and
the
unbreakable
bond
between a mother and
daughter.
The youngest of five
children, Tracy K.
Smith was raised with
limitless affection and
a firm belief in God
by a stay-at-home
mother
and
an
engineer father. But
just as Tracy is about
to leave home for
college, her mother is
diagnosed
with
cancer, a condition
she accepts as “part
of
God’s
plan.”
ORDINARY LIGHT is the story of a
young woman struggling to fashion her
own understanding of belief, loss,
history, race and identity.
Booklist, in a starred review, called
ORDINARY
LIGHT
“a
gracefully
nuanced yet strikingly
candid memoir about
family, faith, race, and
literature…
meticulously
structured,
philosophically
inquisitive…
Smith
holds our intellectual
and
emotional
attention
ever
so
tightly as she charts
her evolving thoughts
on
the
divides
between
races,
generations, economic
classes, and religion
and
science
and
celebrates
her
lifesaving
discovery
of poetry as ‘soul
language.’”
A universal story of
being and becoming, ORDINARY LIGHT
is a classic portrait of the ways we find
and lose ourselves amid the places we
call home.
US: Knopf. UK & Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
CHILDREN’S & YA TITLES
JONATHAN AUXIER
JONATHAN AUXIER grew up in
Vancouver, Canada, and obtained his
MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie
Mellon University. He lives in Pittsburgh
with his wife, a lecturer in Victorian
children’s literature, and their daughter.
His first two novels, PETER NIMBLE AND
HIS FANTASTIC EYES and THE NIGHT
GARDENER,
were
critical
and
commercial hits, sold widely around the
world, and have both been optioned for
the big screen.
SOPHIE QUIRE AND THE LAST STORYGUARD
(Abrams, January 2016)
SOPHIE QUIRE AND
THE
LAST
STORYGUARD
is
Jonathan
Auxier’s
second Peter Nimble
Adventure.
Twelveyear-old Sophie Quire
knows little beyond
the four walls of her
father’s
bookshop.
Sophie works as a
bookmender, salvaging
damaged books and
dreaming of a more
exciting life. But when
a strange boy and his
even
stranger
enchanted companion
show up searching for
a rare and mysterious
book, she finds herself
pulled
into
an
adventure
beyond
anything she has ever read.
The boy and his companion are, of
course, Peter Nimble and Sir Tode, who
have been sent on a mission by
Professor Cake to track down a very
powerful tome known only as The Book
of Who. This volume –
when combined with its
companions
When,
Where, and What – gives
readers the ability to
speak true magic into
the world. In an age
when magic is being
driven underground by
science and innovation,
the need for these
books has never been
greater.
The
Professor
has
summoned Sophie to
collect
these
four
books, which vanished
from his own library
years
ago.
Sophie’s
reason for embarking
on the quest is more
personal: The Book of
Who seems to contain information
about her own mother, who abandoned
Sophie when she was just a young girl.
And all too soon, it turns out that
Sophie, Peter, and Sir Tode are not the
only ones looking for the powerful
knowledge hidden within the books…
US: Abrams. Canada: Penguin. UK, Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
THE NIGHT GARDENER
(Abrams, May 2014)
Jonathan Auxier’s second novel, THE
NIGHT GARDENER, was a Junior
Library Guild Selection, an Amazon
“Big Spring” Children’s Book Selection,
and a Book Page Most Anticipated
Children’s Book of 2014. It is a
wonderfully creepy Victorian ghost
story in the tradition of Washington
Irving and Edgar Allan Poe, a moral
fable about the nature of human greed
and the power of storytelling.
It’s not as if Molly and her younger
brother Kip haven’t been warned about
the Windsor Estate and the surrounding
sourwoods, but what are they to do?
They are an ocean away from home,
with their parents in a place Molly
doesn’t dare tell Kip about, and they
need work in order to provide food and
shelter for themselves. When they
finally reach the dilapidated Windsor
mansion, it doesn’t seem quite as bad
as it could be – although a
disconcertingly looming, giant tree is
setting Molly’s hair on edge. And she’s
right to be troubled, for it is not the
odd but mostly harmless Windsor
family that she and Kip need to be
afraid of, but the tree and a shadowy
figure that only appears under cover of
darkness…
US: Abrams. Canada: Penguin. UK & Translation: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in Bulgaria
(Artline), China (Baby-Cube), Indonesia (Pt Tiga Serangkai Pustaka Mandiri) and
Turkey (Altin Publishing)
Film rights: Optioned by Lila 9th Productions. A live-action feature film based on the
author’s own screenplay is in active development
FAITH GARDNER
FAITH GARDNER graduated from UC
Berkeley in 2010 (where she won the
Elizabeth Mills Crothers fiction prize)
and now works as assistant general
manager
at
a
political
media
organization. Her short stories have
been published on McSweeney's Internet
Tendency and PANK, among others,
winning a Best of the Net award and
have been nominated for Pushcart
Prizes. When she’s not working or
writing, Faith plays guitar and sings in
the band Dark Beach. She lives with her
husband and daughter Roxie in
Berkeley, California.
PERDITA
(Merit Press (F&W), September 2015)
Arielle Delaney is a vivacious sixteenyear-old whose imagination sometimes
runs away with her. It’s no wonder she
believes in ghosts: it’s her way of
holding onto her brother Justin, who
died in an accident ten years ago.
When a sleepless Arielle goes for a
dawn walk the day before the new
school year begins, the police tape and
flashing lights around the local pond
bring back bad memories. She tells
herself it’s not Justin this time, just a
stranger: but the body they pull from
the lake is not that of a stranger, it’s
their next door neighbor and Arielle’s
sister’s best friend: Perdita
As the police look further into the
drowning, more questions arise: was it
an accident? Suicide? Something even
more sinister? Arielle begins to have her
own ideas, but meanwhile finds herself
unsettled by the new arrival at school:
Perdita’s younger brother Tex, brought
back from private school by his grieving
family to be closer to home. Arielle
finds herself falling for Tex, even
though she knows there’s something
he’s not telling her: there’s a fear he
carries since his sister’s death.
Finally the secrets and lies begin to
unravel, and it seems no one is quite
who they say they are. Even Perdita –
maybe most of all Perdita – had buried
secrets. Arielle is determined to
uncover them, but sometimes the truth
comes at a high price.
US: Merit Press. UK & Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
KATE HART
KATE HART is a member of the group
blog YA Highway, one of Writer’s
Digest’s 2014 “Best Websites for
Writers,” where she writes the popular
Field Trip Friday feature and created
the Publishing Road Map. Kate's
infographics analyzing YA cover trends
have garnered coverage from The New
Yorker, The Huffington Post, Jezebel,
Flavorwire, School Library Journal, and
author John Green. She lives in
Arkansas with her two sons and
husband, with whom she runs a
treehouse-building business when she
isn’t writing. Visit Kate’s personal
website at www.katehart.net.
AFTER THE FALL
(Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
Fall 2016)
Kate Hart’s debut YA novel is a
wrenching, emotional read and an
intense conversation starter about
issues of sexual consent, perfect for
readers who admire the works of Laurie
Halse Anderson, Sara Zarr, and
Courtney Summers.
Seventeen-year-old Raychel is sleeping
with two boys: her best friend Matt...
and his brother, Andrew. Raychel
sneaks into Matt’s bed on sleepless
night, but nothing ever happens. He
doesn’t even seem to realize she’s a girl,
except when he thinks she’s a damsel in
distress who needs his rescue. But
Raychel doesn’t want to be that girl.
Besides, after Matt leaves for college in
the fall, she’ll be left alone to deal with
her mom, the guy at school who won’t
stop pushing himself on her, and her
fear that she’ll never feel in control of
her life. So, she doesn’t let herself ask
for his help. But bottling everything up
feels terrible. And flirting with Andrew,
falling into his arms, no questions
asked, feels better. Even though he’s
not the brother she really wants. When
Matt catches on, his overreaction sends
Andrew off the side of a cliff. After the
fall, it’s Matt who’s in distress, and it
falls to Raychel to rescue them both.
US: Margaret Ferguson Books. UK & Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
KIRSTEN HUBBARD
KIRSTEN HUBBARD is a travel writer
and the author of YA novels LIKE
MANDARIN and WANDERLOVE. She is a
co-founder of the popular blog YA
Highway, one of Writer’s Digest’s 2014
“Best Websites for Writers.” She has
hiked ancient ruins in Cambodia, dived
with wild dolphins in Belize, slept in a
Slovenian jail cell, and navigated the
Wyoming badlands (without a compass)
in search of transcendent backdrops for
her novels. Kirsten lives in San Diego
and
can
be
visited
online
at
www.kirstenhubbard.com.
WATCH THE SKY
(Disney Hyperion, April 2015)
WATCH THE SKY, Kirsten Hubbard’s
middle-grade
debut,
presents
a
haunting,
unflinching
view
on
survivalism from a child’s perspective.
This novel is of the moment, evoking
contemporary anxieties, yet timeless in
its depiction of a young boy deciding
his own mind.
The signs are everywhere, Jory’s
stepfather, Caleb, says. Red leaves in
the springtime. All the fish in an
aquarium facing the same way. A
cracked egg with twin yolks: Signs,
everywhere and anywhere. And because
of them, Jory’s life is far from ordinary.
He must follow a specific set of rules:
don’t trust anyone outside the family,
have your work boots at the ready, and
always, always watch out for the signs.
The end is coming, and they must be
prepared.
School is Jory’s only escape from
Caleb’s tight grasp, and with the help of
new friends, he begins to explore a
world beyond his family’s farm. As
Jory’s friendships grow, Caleb says that
the
time
has
come
for
final
preparations.
Jory’s family begins an exhausting
schedule, digging a mysterious tunnel
in anticipation of the disaster. But as
the hole gets deeper, so does the
family’s doubt about whether Caleb’s
prophecy is true. When the stark reality
of his stepfather’s plans becomes clear,
Jory must choose between living his
own life or following Caleb, shutting his
eyes to the bright world he’s just begun
to see.
A companion book to WATCH THE SKY
is scheduled for Spring 2016.
US: Disney Hyperion. UK, Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
LIESL SHURTLIFF
LIESL SHURTLIFF grew up in Salt Lake
City, Utah as the fourth child in a crazy
combined family of eight. She studied
Music, Dance, and Theater at Brigham
Young University, where she earned her
B.F.A. Shurtliff is the author of several
short stories for young readers
published in Guideposts Sweet 16,
Hopscotch for Girls, and The Friend. She
writes book reviews for Deseret News
and she’s a member of the Society of
Children’s
Book
Writers
and
Illustrators. Liesl currently resides in
Chicago, Illinois with her husband and
three children. Her website can be
found at www.lieslshurtliff.com.
JACK and RED
(Knopf Books for Young Readers, April 2015 & 2016)
Following the critical and commercial
success of Shurtliff’s RUMP, her funny
and heart-warming retelling of the
“Rumpelstiltskin” story, which the
Denver
Post
called
“startlingly
original,” Knopf Children’s have signed
up two more modern retellings of
classic fairytales.
JACK is a mischief-maker. He doesn’t
believe tall tales of giants who live
somewhere up beyond the sky until he
faces the devastating reality of their
raids. When they swoop down, they
sweep back up everything The Village
relies upon – crops, livestock, even
peoples’ loved ones. When his Papa is
taken, Jack trades his family’s last cow
for beans that grow a stalk he can climb
straight up into the sky in search of
Papa. There, he finds the world of the
giants, which turns out to be The
Kingdom, populated by old favorites
and terribly ruled by King Barf. (For
readers of RUMP, incidentally, Jack’s
world is the one underfoot, and here
Jack is no bigger than Rump’s thumb.)
RED doesn’t trust magic. Even though
her grandmother is the Witch of the
Woods, and tries to tutor her, Red’s
magic only seems to make a mess of
things. Luckily, Granny’s magic has
always been there to guide and protect
her. So long as Red walks The Path her
Granny’s enchanted through the woods
just for her, Red will be safe. But when
Granny falls ill, Red must step off her
Path in search of a magic that can save
Granny’s life. Her adventure will bring
her a friend in another girl wandering
the woods, Goldie (as in Goldilocks), a
foe in a Huntsman who seeks the same
magic, and an unlikely new protector in
a fearsome yet devoted wolf.
US: Knopf. UK & Translation: Regal Hoffmann
Film rights: Regal Hoffmann
AJ STEIGER
AJ STEIGER was born in Burbank,
Illinois, and grew up in the Chicago
area, graduating from Columbia College
in Chicago where she majored in Fiction
Writing. AJ is thirty-one, likes dogs and
craft beer and considers the term
“nerd” to be a badge of honor.
MINDWALKER & MINDSTORMERS
(Knopf Books for Young Readers, June 2015 & 2016)
If the boy you loved
begged you to erase his
memories, would you do
it?
Even if it meant breaking
all the rules?
Even if it meant he’d
forget you forever?
Set in a future where
terrorism – and our
crippling fear of it – has
driven society to a point
of
no
return,
MINDWALKER is a smart,
fast-paced thriller with a
love story at its center.
Lain
Fisher
is
the
daughter
of
the
Republic’s
most
pioneering scientist and
inventor of the “mindwalking” (memory
erasing) technology. Mindwalking is a
healing art, closely monitored by the
Institute for Ethics in Neurology.
Patients – the traumatized, the abused,
the depressed – queue up for treatment,
to have the ghosts of their past excised
for good.
Ever since her father died at his own
hand five years ago following untreated
depression, all Lain
has wanted is to be a
healer.
She’s
the
youngest-ever
Mindwalker and the
poster child of a new
generation, but it’s a
tough job – because
in order to wipe a
patient’s memories, a
Mindwalker
must
first live them. Her
clients walk out of
the clinic feeling light
as air, but Lain does
not get to shed their
memories
at
the
door.
When the new kid at
school – troubled,
withdrawn Steven; a
dangerous Type 4 on
the IFEN index of
mental health – comes to her for help,
the authorities say he’s the one person
Lain has to stay away from. His scars
are too deep; the risk too great. But the
more Lain gets to know Steven, the
more she starts to wonder about the
world she lives in. Is it really a world
that heals – or one that destroys?
US: Knopf. UK & Translation: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in Taiwan (Faces) and the UK
(Oneworld Publications)
Film rights: Michelle Kroes at CAA
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