FRANKFURT 10-14TH October 2012 - Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria

FRANKFURT 10-14TH October 2012

FRANKFURT BOOKFAIR 2012
Updating our London 2012 NEWBOOKSNEWS.
Featuring New Titles from Sandra Bruna’s agency represented lists
● ADULT pg. 2
● CHILDREN / YA pg. 47
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ADULT TITLES
FICTION pg. 8
NON FICTION pg. 32
SHORT STORIES pg. 40
MEMOIR pg. 42
POETRY pg. 46
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Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria
A - Z
F = FICTION / NF = NON FICTION / SHS = SHORT STORIES / M = MEMOIR / P = POETRY
▪ ALLIED AUTHORS AGENCY
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.alliedauthorsagency.be
A DAY WITH MR. JULES, Diane Broeckhoven F 8
AUGUST 23rd, Sabine Devos F 10
ELVIS A. PRESLEY. MUSIC, MAN, MYTH, Marc Hendrickx NF 33
IRINA PALM, Philippe Blasband F 16
LA LOGEUSE, Eric Dupont F 17
THE IGUANA, Denis Thériault F 27
THE POSTMAN’S ROUND, Denis Thériault F 28
THE STRIKE OF THE ARCHEOLOGISTS, Francis Dannemark F 29
TRAVELLING FEVER, Diane Broeckhoven F 30
WHEN IT RAINS, Francis Dannemark F 31
YESTERDAY’S TOMORROW, Marc Hendrickx NF 39
▪ AMAZON
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.amazon.com
52 SMALL CHANGES, Brett Blumenthal NF 32
AMERICAN SPIRIT, Dan Kennedy F 9
CARNIVAL FOR THE DEAD, Ania Ahlborn F 12
HILLBILLY HEART, Billy Ray Cyrus NF 34
JEFF, ONE LONELY GUY, Jeff Ragsdale, David Shields, Michael Logan NF 34
MYSTERY GIRL, David Gordon F 21
OUTSIDE IN, Harley Manning and Kerry Bodine NF 35
THE 4-HOUR CHEF, Tim Ferriss NF 36
THE DOMINO PROJECT, ed. Seth Godin NF 36
THE FOREWORLD SAGA. #1 THE MONGOLIAD, Neil Stephenson et al. F 26
THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING, Bob Knight NF 37
THE RISE OF SUPERMAN, Steven Kotler NF 37
THE TRINITY GAME, Sean Chercover F 29
WHY HAVE KIDS, Jessica Valenti NF 39
▪ AUTHORLINK LITERARY GROUP
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.authorlink.com
THE DISSIMULATING HEART, Sandra Worth F 3
▪ BARRY GOLDBLATT LITERARY
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.bgliterary.com
AND BLUE SKIES FROM PAIN, Stina Leicht F 10
ARMORED, ed. by John Joseph Adams F 10
AUSTENLAND, Shannon Hale F 11
EPIC: LEGENDS OF FANTASY, ed. by John Joseph Adams F 13
OF BLOOD AND HONEY, Stina Leicht F 21
OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE, ed. by John Joseph Adams F 22
THE FOURTH WALL, Walter Jon Williams F 26
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▪ COACH HOUSE BOOKS
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.chbooks.com
ALL MY FRIENDS ARE SUPERHEROES, Andrew Kaufman F 9
AMPHIBIAN, Carla Gunn F 9
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHILDHOOD, Sina Queyras F 11
MAIDENHEAD, Tamara Faith Berger F 19
MILOSZ, Cordelia Strube F 20
MONOCEROS, Suzette Mayr F 20
▪ COFFEE HOUSE PRESS
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.coffeehousepress.org
BOARDED WINDOWS, Dylan Hicks F 12
HOLD IT TILL IT HURTS, T. Geronimo Johnson F 15
KIND ONE, Laird Hunt F 17
LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION, Ben Lerner F 18
NETSUKE, Rikki Ducornet F 21
SLEIGHT, Kirsten Kaschock F 23
THE WAY OF THE DOG, Sam Savage F 29
▪ ÉDITIONS HURTUBISE
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.editionshurtubise.com
ESPACES, Olivia Tapiero F 13
FISH CHANGE DIRECTION WHEN IT’S COLD, Pierre Szalowski F 14
HUMAN CAGES, Emilie Andrewes F 16
JE VOUDRAIS QU’ON M’EFFACE, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette F 17
LE SYNDROME DE LA VIS, Marie-Renée Lavoie F 18
LE TESTAMENT DU PROFESSEUR ZUKERMAN, Francis Malka F 18
MAIS QU’EST-CE QUE TU FAIS LÀ, TOUT SEUL?, Pierre Szalowski F 19
THE LITTLE GIRL AND THE OLD MAN, Marie-Renée Lavoie F 27
TRÈS CHÈRE MÈRE, Éva Böröcz M 44
▪ ELINA AHLBÄCK LITERARY AGENCY
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.ahlbackagency.com
A BETTER WORLD, Jari Järvelä F 8
MARIA KALLIO SERIES, Leena Lehtolainen F 20
THE BODYGUARD TRILOGY, Leena Lehtolainen F 24
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL TRILOGY, Arto Halonen F 26
THE ICE CREAM MAN, Katri Lipson F 27
UNDER SIEGE, Saara Kesävuori F 30
▪ FINCH PUBLISHING
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.finch.com.au
BABY CARE: NURTURING YOUR BABY, YOUR WAY, Rhodanthe Lipset NF 32
CATCH UP WITH THE SUN, Heidi Douglas M 42
FIRST-TIME FATHER, Graeme Russell and Tony White NF 33
LIFE A GUIDE, Andrew Fuller NF 34
MY LIFE IN A PEA SOUP, Lisa Hops M 43
RAISING BOYS, Steve Biddulph NF 35
RAISING GIRLS, Gisela Preuschoff NF 35
UNDER THE SKIN, Marion van Dyk M 44
▪ GABRIELLA AMBROSIONI LITERARY AGENCY
Spain, Latin America & Brazil / www.gabriellaambrosioni.com
A LICK IS SOMETHING SERIOUS, Alessandro Fasanaro F 8
BLACK WINGS, Diletta Hints F 12
THE REVISER, Fabrizio Hugony Fasanaro F 29
WHEN FREEDOM IS CALLED “JAIPUR”, Gabriella Steindler Moscati M 45
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▪ GRAYWOLF PRESS
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.graywolfpress.org
BOLETO, Alyson Hagy F 12
FOUR NEW MESSAGES, Joshua Cohen F 14
JUNE FOURTH ELEGIES, Liu Xiaobo P 46
LIFE ON MARS, Tracy K. Smith P 46
NO ANIMALS WE COULD NAME, Ted Sanders SHS 40
THE HEYDAY OF THE INSENSITIVE BASTARDS, Robert Boswell SHS 41
THE YELLOW-LIGHTED BOOKSHOP, Lewis Buzbee M 44
THIS CLOSE, Jessica Francis Kane SHS 41
▪ INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.intltrans.com
DESIGNER GENES REVOLUTION, Steven Potter, PhD NF 33
SPIES IN THE VATICAN, John O. Koehler NF 36
THE DAY THE SUN FELL, Bun Hashizume M 44
▪ JENNIFER LYONS LITERARY AGENCY
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.jenniferlyonsliteraryagency.com
A STITCH IN THE AIR, Lori Marie Carlson F 9
AGONY AT DAWN, Jobie Hughes F 9
BEAUTIFUL MARIA OF MY SOUL, Óscar Hijuelos F 11
BRINGING MULLIGAN HOME, Dale Maharidge M 42
ELSEWHERE CALIFORNIA, Dana Johnson F 13
HERE COMES ANOTHER LESSON, Stephen O’Connor SHS 40
SALVAGE THE BONES, Jesmyn Ward F 22
SHRAPNEL, William Wharton M 43
SWEET DATES IN BASRA, Jessica Jiji F 23
THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE, Óscar Hijuelos F 28
THE RESISTANCE, Peter Steiner F 28
▪ JILL GRINBERG LITERARY MANAGEMENT
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.grinbergliterary.com
AMERICAN NATIONS, Colin Woodard NF 32
EMPRESS, Alma Alexander F 13
MOONSHINE, Alaya Johnson F 20
THE BOOK OF WHY, Nicholas Montemarano F 24
THE IRON DRUID CHRONICLES, Kevin Hearne F 27
WICKED CITY, Alaya Johnson F 31
▪ NABU INTERNATIONAL LITERARY & FILM AGENCY
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.nabu.it
APOCALYPSE WELCOME, George Zotov F 10
BORN TO RUN AFTER, Gianluca Morozzi M 42
CHANGEABLE SERENA, Gianluca Morozzi & Elisa Genghini F 13
FOR THE REST OF THE JOURNEY I SHOT AT THE INDIANS,
Fabio Geda F 14
GRETA VIDAL, Antonella Sbuelz F 15
LA RECITA DEI PADRI, Furio Bordon F 17
LES ITALIENS. CHIEF MORDENTI SERIES, Enrico Pandiani F 19
NIGHT OF THE BLACK CAT, Antonio Pagliaro F 21
QUARANTATRE, Elisabetta Severina F 22
THE CART PEOPLE, Sacha Naspini F 24
THE DESCARTES CASE, Daniele Bondi F 25
THE EXACT SEQUENCE OF GESTURES, Fabio Geda F 26
WHOM THE GODS DESTROY, Gianluca Morozzi F 31
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▪ PENGUIN CANADA
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.penguin.ca
BETTER LIVING THROUGH PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES, Zsuzsi Gartner SHS 40
QUINOA REVOLUTION, Patricia Green and Carolyn Hemming NF 35
RUST AND BONE, Craig Davidson SHS 40
THE WORLD, Bill Gaston F 30
▪ SANDRA DIJKSTRA LITERARY AGENCY
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.dijkstraagency.com
ANNA FROM AWAY, David MacDonald F 10
AS SWEET AS HONEY, Indira Ganesan F 10
BLOODMAN, Robert Pobi F 12
CHINA DOLLS, Lisa See F 13
COOKED SEED, Anchee Min M 42
HOW THE FRENCH INVENTED LOVE, Marilyn Yalom NF 34
NAPALM. A HISTORY, Bob Neer NF 34
OLEANDER GIRL, Chitra Divakaruni F 21
THE BLUES HIGHWAY BLUES, Eyre Price F 24
THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND, Indu Sundaresan F 28
VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT, Amy Tan F 30
▪ SECOND CITY
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.secondcitypublishing.com
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP 4.0, Carolyn Cobin NF 33
▪ SEREN BOOKS
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.serenbooks.com
A PLACE OF MEADOWS AND TALL TREES, Clare Dudman F 9
LE TEMPS DES CERISES, Zillah Bethell F 18
SECOND CHANCE, Sian James F 22
THE CAPTAIN’S TOWER. SEVENTY POETS CELEBRATE BOB DYLAN
AT SEVENTY, Phil Bowen (ed.) F 36
THE KEYS OF BABYLON, Robert Minhinnick SHS 41
▪ SHELTER PUBLICATIONS
Spain, Portugal & Latin America / www.shelterpub.com
TINY HOMES. SIMPLE SHELTER, Lloyd Kahn NF 38
▪ SIYAHI
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.siyahi.in
HOW TO FIGHT ISLAMIST TERROR FROM THE
MISSIONARY POSITION,Tabish Khair F 15
JAAL - THE WEB, Sangeeta Bahadur F 16
LAND OF THE WELL, Sampurna Chattarji F 18
THE EMPEROR’S WRITINGS, Dirk Collier F 25
TOKE, Jugal Mody F 30
▪ TARYN FAGERNESS AGENCY
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.tarynfagernessagency.com
DANTE’S WOOD, Lynne Raimondo F 13
FACE YOUR FEARS, David Tolin NF 33
FOREVER, INTERRUPTED, Taylor J. Reid F 14
HOW TO TAME A WILLFUL WIFE, Christy English F 16
IN THE MATTER OF NIKOLA TESLA, Anthony Flacco F 16
NOT QUITE THE CLASSICS, Colin Mochrie NF 35
SINS OF A VIRGIN, Anna Randol F 23
THE BOOKSELLER, Mark Pryor F 24
THE WISDOM OF HAIR, Kim Boykin F 24
THE WITCH OF LITTLE ITALY, Suzanne Palmieri F 29
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▪ UNBRIDLED BOOKS
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / http://unbridledbooks.com
AN ACCIDENTAL MOTHER, Katherine Anne Kindred M 42
AFTERLIVES OF THE SAINTS, Colin Dickey NF 32
FEAR ITSELF, Candida Lawrence M 43
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, Janyce Stefan-Cole F 15
LOVE SLAVE, Jennifer Spiegel F 19
THE DEATH OF FIDEL PÉREZ, Elizabeth Huergo F 25
▪ WESTWOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS
Spain, Portugal, Latin America & Brazil / www.wcaltd.com
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH OR SOMETHING, Ben Stephenson F 8
EVERYBODY HAS EVERYTHING, Katrina Onstad F 14
FOR TODAY I AM A BOY, Kim Fu F 14
INTO THE ABYSS. A TRUE STORY, Carol Shaben M 43
MEMOIRS OF AN ADDICTED BRAIN, Marc Lewis M 13
SEX, BOMBS AND BURGERS, Peter Nowak NF 35
THE AGE OF HOPE, David Bergen F 23
THE ARTS OF ENCHANTMENT, Sandra Gulland F 23
THE BOY IN THE MOON, Ian Brown M 43
THE HUNGRY GHOSTS, Shyam Selvadurai F 26
THE MAGIC OF SAIDA, M.G. Vassanji F 28
THE MUSLIM TIDE, Doug Saunders NF 37
THE WOLVES OF ST. PETER’S, Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk F 30
THE WOMAN WHO CHANGED HER BRAIN, Barbara Arrowsmith-Young NF 38
▪ ZACHARY SHUSTER HARMSWORTH
Spain, Portugal & Latin America / www.zshliterary.com
BITTER IN THE MOUTH, Monique Truong F 11
GHOSTS OF MANHATTAN, Douglas Brunt F 15
I COULDN’T LOVE YOU MORE, Jillian Medoff F 16
MORAL INTELLIGENCE 2.0 (2007 revised edition),
Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel NF 34
SHAKESPEARE’S TREMOR AND ORWELL’S COUGH, John J. Ross, MD NF 36
THE HOPE FACTORY, Lavanya Sankaran F 26
THE MEMORY PALACE, Mira Bartok M 44
THE SEX DIARIES PROJECT, Arianne Cohen NF 37
TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS, Cheryl Strayed NF 38
WILD, Cheryl Strayed M 45
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● FICTION ●
A BETTER WORLD, Jari Järvelä
(Elina Ahlbäck Literary Agency)
A Better World is a satire about contemporary Europe, a story about the desperate struggle of individuals to belong
to a community and about the interplay between destruction and hope in people’s lives. Fired from his position for
saying that the most beautiful word in the Finnish language is “nigger”, a minister is trying to clear his name by
starting his own campaign against racism. Can you make the world a better place by prohibiting certain words?
KOUVOLAN SANOMAT - “A Better World is not (just) a novel about racism. It is a satirically flavored survival story about
social outcasts who just want to be happy..”
A DAY WITH MR. JULES, Diane Broeckhoven
(Allied Authors Agency)
When aging Alice smells the coffee her husband Jules has just made, she gets up. Such rituals determine her every
day, always, until that day when she finds him in their sofa in the living room, lifeless. While Alice is coming to
terms with her grief and the loss she is facing by delving deep into her memories and saying things to her late
husband that she dared not utter while he was still alive, her autistic neighbour David enters the story in an
unexpected way.
Rights sold to: Flanders (House of Books), Netherlands (House of Books), Germany (Beck Verlag), Poland (Galaktyka),
Japan (Akachan to Mama Sha), Korea (Moonhakdongne), Spain (Maeva), Catalan (Pagès), Canada English (Dundurn), France
(Laffont), China (Shanghai Joint Pub), Taiwan (Business Weekly Pub), Slovakia (Universidad Bratislava), Czech Republic
(Eroika )
Theatre & Film rights sold to: Flanders and Germany
A LICK IS SOMETHING SERIOUS, Alessandro Fasanaro
(Gabriella Ambrosioni Literary Agency)
An absolutely new page-turner and very smart cross-over. The plot literally catches the reader thanks to its rhythm
and dialogues, brilliant and hilarious, which are his privileged way to reveal and portray the characters, while the
narrator’s voice sounds
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH OR SOMETHING, Ben Stephenson
(Westwood Creative Artists)
In the mode of Jonathan Safran Foer or Mark Haddon, Ben Stephenson’s quirky, imaginative debut novel is a
hilarating, witty, heartbreaking story of love, death and the unspeakable pain of being small.
Rights sold to: US (Douglas & McIntyre), Spain (Espasa), Rumania (Rao)
JESSICA GRANT – “Ben Stephenson takes us down the rabbit hole into the refracted and hilarious world of a child on a very
serious quest. A Matter of Life or Death or Something will leave you less grown up, and all the wiser for it. Curiouser and
curiouser.”
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A PLACE OF MEADOWS AND TALL TREES, Clare Dudman
(Seren Books)
This is a moving evocation of the trials of the colonists in Patagonia as they battle to survive. It is 1865 and a
desperate and opressed group of Welsh emigrants sets sail for a land, they have been promised, of meadows and tall
trees, where they can build a new Wales. What they find after a devastating sea journey is a cold South American
desert occupied by tribes of Indians, possibly intent on massacring them.
BOOKMUNCH – “Full of finelly drawn characters… Dudman pulls the reader into their lives until the hardship and misery
is practically palpable. Her extensive research gives the novel an air of urgency and realism that makes it a gripping read.”
A STITCH IN THE AIR, Lori Marie Carlson
(Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency)
The Convent of Saint Margaret in Granada, Spain, is the scene of miracles, amorous passion, theatre, and humor. In
the tradition of books such as Balzac and the Little Seamstress or Girl with a Pearl Earring, Carlson’s not only a
tribute to the glorious The Golden Age in Spain, but also a quirky, sweet love story that manages to evoke the magic
of a distant era without becoming mired in the depths of historical fiction.
Rights sold to: US (Texas Tech University Press)
AGONY AT DAWN, Jobie Hughes
(Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency)
Agony at Dawn’s a tale of the destructiveness and jealousy inherent in sexual relations, the influence of art on life,
and the need to escape our personal and—in this case, dysfunctional and angry—familial pasts. It tells of Stratton
Brown, a 27-year-old itinerant wanderer with an uncertain past who hopes of writing something great in present-day
Chicago.
Rights sold to: US (Counterpoint)
ALL MY FRIENDS ARE SUPERHEROES, Andrew Kaufman
(Coach House Books)
A bestseller in Germany and in the UK, and in its 10th print in Canada, All My Friends Are Superheroes is a funny,
sweet story that will remind you that the greatest superpower of all is love.
Rights sold to: UK, Italy, France, South Korea, Netherlands, Turkey, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Tailand, Spain, Catalonia,
Denmark
SHEILA HETI - “I expect this story will replace boxes of chocolates and flowers in courting rituals to come.”
AMERICAN SPIRIT, Dan Kennedy
(Amazon Publishing)
American Spirit is a scabrous but exhilarating take on life in America. The novel features a satiric voice which is
akin to Sam Lipsyte's but beneath which lies a redemptive spirit such as that embodied in the film Up In The Air.
AMPHIBIAN, Carla Gunn
(Coach House Books)
In a voice that has been compared to Salinger’s Holden Caulfield, Phin reflects on the complex and troubled
relationship between humans, animals and the environment all the while struggling to maintain his innocence. In
its third printing, and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Rights sold to: Germany (btb), Spain (Destino), Italy (Miraviglia), French in Canada (Prise de parole)
GLOBE AND MAIL - “Phin’s voice is irresistible…enraged yet brimming with love. Gunn’s story, cutting despair with
healing mirth, is his perfect vehicle.”
QUILL & QUIRE starred review – “Amphibian is a polished, engaging book.”
SHEREE FITCH, author of Kiss the Joy As It Flies – “A hilarious, brilliant, loveable, exasperating child, Phin and his
mesmerizing voice need listening to. The powerful, authentic narrator brings to mind The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-
Time in a compassionate tale balancing light and dark. This is a must-read book.”
ANDREW PECK, Singing Pebble Books, Ottawa – “It really has all the elements of a classic in the making.”
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SHEREE FITCH, author of The Gravesavers – “Gunn’s prose crackles with energy in this illuminating, heart-gripping novel ...
A compassionate tale balancing light and dark, this is a must-read book.”
AND BLUE SKIES FROM PAIN (A BOOK OF THE FEY AND THE FALLEN), Stina Leicht
(Barry Goldblatt Literary)
Fantasy. Northern Ireland, 1977. Liam Kelly is many things: a former wheelman for the IRA, a one-time political
prisoner, the half-breed son of a mystic Fey warrior and a mortal woman, and a troubled young man literally
haunted by the ghosts of his past.
Rights sold to: US (Night Shade Books)
ANNA FROM AWAY, David MacDonald
(Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)
Part erotic love story, part quest for home and heat, this is a superbly crafted tale infused with lyrical descriptions of
land and sea. When Anna Starling flees a dissolving marriage to save herself and her artistic career in Cape Breton,
she encounters Red Murdock, a cabinetmaker, who has recently lost the great love of his life, Rosaire.
Rights sold to: US (Counterpoint)
APOCALYPSE WELCOME, George Zotov
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
A very successful fantasy novel which sold more than 300.000 copies in Russia. The author has been said to be a mix
between Pelevin and Akunin. Sometimes death is not the final problem!
Rights sold to: Russia (Ast)
ARMORED, ed. by John Joseph Adams
(Barry Goldblatt Literary)
Armor up for a metal-pounding feast of action, adventure and amazing speculation by topnotch writers (including
Nebula-award winner Jack McDevitt, Sean Williams, Dan Abnet, Simon Green, and Jack Campbell) on a future
warrior that might very well be just around the corner. Science fiction readers and gamers have long been
fascinated.
Rights sold to: US (Baen)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – “Prolific anthologist Adams delivers great storytelling for zombie fans as well as newcomers.”
LIBRARY JOURNAL – “[A] remarkable job. . .highly recommended.”
i09 – “Powered armor rocks our world…we're excited [by this] book of power-armor stories.” –
AS SWEET AS HONEY, Indira Ganesan
(Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)
Set mostly in a family compound on the fictional island of Pi, off the coast of India, and in London, the story centers
around the suddenly widowed, statuesque Meterling whose petite fiancé dies suddenly at their wedding, a terrible
loss that she will have to overcome.
Rights sold to: US (Knopf/Vintage), India (Harper)
Previous books praises:
BOOKLIST - “Ganesan, like Arundhati Roy and Chitra Divakaruni, is part of a glorious flowering of contemporary Indian
literature.”
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - “Ganesan has created an appealing young heroine whose determination and
sensitivity wins us over."
KIRKUS REVIEWS - “Ganesan's ingenious charms as a social and spiritual observer bejewel the novel.”
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL - “A lithe and sensuous tale.”
AUGUST 23rd, Sabine Devos
(Allied Authors Agency)
This is a novel about the power of friendship, motherhood, death being a part of life and how we all deal differently
when loosing the ones we love. In this powerful, emotionally charged story we encounter Jess, who is dying at 41.
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Lying there, she celebrates her short but rich life. Her situation has a profound impact on the people sitting by her
bedsite but none can’t take away the burden of the secret Jess has been keeping for years. Will she free her soul or
take the secret with her?
Rights sold to: Flanders (Linkeroever)
AUSTENLAND, Shannon Hale
(Barry Goldblatt Literary)
Suppose you're a huge fan of Jane Austen, and in particular Pride and Prejudice and in particular Colin Firth's
portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the BBC adaptation, and nothing in real life quite measures up. And suppose your greataunt's
legacy to you is a three-week vacation at an Austen-themed resort. This is the situation in which Jane Hayes,
New York graphic artist, finds herself.
Rights sold to: Spain (Suma de Letras)
KIRKUS REVIEWS - “Austen addicts will love...”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “Endlessly charming…An intriguing setup and abundant wit.”
BOOKLIST - “A clever confection for fans of contemporary Austen knockoffs.”
GLAMOUR - “Gloriously satisfying."
MIAMI HERALD - “An utterly enjoyable tribute.”
BOOKPAGE - “Allow me to direct you to the best Austen tribute since Karen Joy Fowler’s The Jane Austen Book Club:
Shannon Hale’s clever and imaginative Austenland…”
LOS ANGELES TIMES - “Cheeky irreverence…”
LIBRARY JOURNAL “Likely to please chick-lit readers and Austen aficionados who enjoy modern twists on the author's
classic tales.”
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHILDHOOD, Sina Queyras
(Coach House Books)
The first novel from acclaimed poet and critic Sina Queyras takes place over one day, as each character is forced to
react (or not react) to the news (or lack of news) of Therese’s terminal illness and their actions create a nuanced
portrait of the individual characters and the pressures of their present lives.
MARILYN BOWERING – “A family saga with the sweep of Ann-Marie MacDonald, the poetic depth of Anne Michaels and
the tragedy and resilience of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones.”
FASHION MAGAZINE – “Fans of Queyras’s poetry will not be disappointed by her trademark whimsical rhythms and
imagery; newcomers will be drawn into a fascinating story about a family dealing with its own particular brand of crazy.”
BEAUTIFUL MARIA OF MY SOUL, Óscar Hijuelos
(Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency)
Much-acclaimed sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, now, in Beautiful
María of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos returns to the story but tells it from the point of view of its beloved heroine, Maria.
Rights sold to: Holland, Israel, Spain, US, Canada, Finland, Poland, Norway, Brazil, Greece
AMY TAN - “I fell instantly in love with the glorious soul of Beautiful María of My Soul. Hijuelos has created and brought to
life two beloved characters, a heart-stealing heroine and Havana during an epoch of changing fate.”
CHITRA DIVAKARUNI - “Hijuelos is a master at capturing lifestyles.”
BOOKLIST – “Nobody writes sex scenes like Hijuelos but he brings the same passion to his descriptions of Maria learning to
read.”
KIRKUS - “More than worth the wait.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “A vivid story that should delight readers of The Mambo Kings and enthrall those new to Hijuelos's
imaginative and florid voice.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES – “Beautiful Maria of My Soul shows once again that Oscar Hijuelos is a careful, distant observer,
whose Cubanía, or Cubanness, comes from sitting in the audience, not performing center stage.”
BITTER IN THE MOUTH, Monique Truong
(Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)
In Truong’s exquisite new book, Linda has a rare and wondrous gift, where she experiences words as tastes. Her
own name is mint-flavored, she has a distinct affinity for words like “parsnip” and “orange” and listening to a
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speaker can be either sublimely tasty, or loathsome (based on their speech). Truong’s last book was sold to 12
countries.
Rights sold to: US (Random House), UK & Commonwealth (Chatto & Windus), Germany (C.H. Beck), Israel (Keter), China
(modern, Shanghai Culture Co)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review – “Truong’s mesmerizing prose beautifully captures [the heroine’s] taste-saturated
world, and her portrait of a broken family’s secretive pockets and genuine moments of connection is affecting.”
O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE – “A deeply compassionate and artfully crafted novel.”
BLACK WINGS, Diletta Hints
(Gabriella Ambrosioni Literary Agency)
An amazing cross-over, astonishingly written by a 15 year-old girl. Melissa is a very normal girl living her very
normal life in the little town of Hardin. She runs her days with no illusions at all until the day when, tragically,
something awful happens and changes her life irreparably. Since then, Adam, her best friend, seems to be a stranger
to be hiding some mysterious secrets, and Melissa feels something very “dark” is about to come.
BLOODMAN, Robert Pobi
(Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)
Can a man who deciphers the language of murderers, decode the language of Alzheimer‘s? And can he do it before
a Category-5 hurricane wipes the seaside community form the map?
Rights sold to: US (Amazon), Brazil (Saraiva), Canada (Simon & Schuster), Hungary (Kossuth ), Germany (Ullstein), UK
(Random House), France (Sonatine), Italy (Mondadori)
BOOKLIST – “Jake Cole has to be one of the most compelling and tormented protagonists in recent crime fiction... Bloodman
is a remarkable debut.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – “The author’s cinematic vision and precise attention to detail, as well as a subtle trail of clues and
a tight, macabre plot, trump character clichés and the incomplete denouement.”
JUSTIN FRANK, bestselling author - “Move over, Steven King and Dan Brown. There is a new thriller writer in town named
Rob Pobi.”
BOARDED WINDOWS, Dylan Hicks
(Coffee House Press)
Shifting between flashbacks from the 70’s and 90’s, this is a postmodern orphan story that explores the fallibility of
memory and the weight of our social and cultural inheritance.
SAM LIPSYTE - “Do yourself a favor and read this smart, tender book. The characters will haunt you with their longing, and
inspire you with their sweet, caustic wit.”
GREIL MARCUS - “[Boarded Windows is] a continually hilarious, hopes-dashed account of an indelible American character:
the con man.”
BOLETO, Alyson Hagy
(Graywolf Press)
A powerful coming of age breakout novel by from a significant American voice.
BOOKLIST starred review – “[A] beautiful tale of redemption and perseverance… In measured, textured prose, Hagy
finesses the nuances of equestrian life. Hagy is fast becoming a recognizable author of the American West.”
THE WASHINGTON POST – “In her gift for the language of horses, as in the beauty of her prose, Hagy will inevitably
recall Annie Proulx, Kent Haruf and Cormac McCarthy. But she is writing as much about wealth and class, about work and
privilege, as about horses and the Western landscape.”
CARNIVAL FOR THE DEAD, Ania Ahlborn
(Amazon Publishing)
The steadfastly rational Roman pathologist Teresa Lupo is called to Venice during the city’s famed Carnival to find
her Aunt Sofia, who has disappeared under troubling circumstances. Surrounded by eccentric and sometimes
dangerous characters and she has to work out the role a curious dog, first portrayed in a Venetian painting by
Carpaccio, plays in untangling the mystery.
Rights sold to: Holland (De Fontein)
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CHANGEABLE SERENA, Gianluca Morozzi & Elisa Genghini
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
Romantic and jealous, antisexual and hypochondriac, Serena, addicted to psychopharmaceuticals and women’s
magazines, carries on thanks to tv series and Italian trash music. When her neurasthenia calls, Michele answers.
This is Morozzi third success, after Blackout and Whom The Gods Destroy.
Rights sold to: Italy (Castelvecchi)
CHINA DOLLS, Lisa See
(Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)
Translated in over 38 languages, Lisa See brings three very different women who become unlikely best friends as
they audition for their place as “China Doll” café dancers in the glittering world of Chinese American nightclubs in
San Francisco, Hollywood and New York in then 1930’s and 1940’s.
Delivery: Nov 2012
Rights sold to: US (Random House)
Rights of her last book sold to: Catalan (Edicions 62), Croatia (Ljevak), France (Flammarion), Germany (Bertelsmann),
Indonesia (Gradien Mediatama), Israel (Modan Publishing House), Italy (Longanesi), Netherlands (Prometheus), Poland (Swiat
Ksiaski/Bertelsmann), Romania (Allfa), Spain (Ediciones B), UK (Bloomsbury)
DANTE’S WOOD, Lynne Raimondo
(Taryn Fagerness Agency)
For a blind psychiatrist-turned-investigator, nothing can be taken at face value, in this smart mystery/thriller debut.
Equal parts psychological thriller, legal thriller, and classic whodunit, Dante’s Wood introduces a complex and
fascinating investigator—brilliant, deeply flawed, but determined to save both his patient and himself.
Rights sold to: US (Seventh Street Books/Prometheus Books), Thailand (Jamsai)
ELSEWHERE CALIFORNIA, Dana Johnson
(Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency)
The dual–narrative of Elsewhere California illustrates the complicated history of African Americans across the
rolling basin of Los Angeles.
Rights sold to: US (Counterpoint)
EMPRESS, Alma Alexander
(Jill Grinberg Literary Management)
In the grand tradition of Guy Gabriel Kay, Alma Alexander brings us the very best adult historical fantasy. Here, the
author uses as its framework the story of Theodora and Justinian, bringing to life the capital city of Visant, from the
lowest levels of its Hippodrome to its highest seat of power, the Emperor’s throne.
Rights of previous works: sold to more than 12 languages
EPIC: LEGENDS OF FANTASY, ed. by John Joseph Adams
(Barry Goldblatt Literary)
By"the reigning king of the anthology world" (Barnes & Noble). From the creation myths and quest sagas of
ancient times to the megapopular fantasy novels of today, this quintessential anthology of epic fantasy is
adventurous storytelling at its best.
Rights sold to: US (Tachyon Publications)
ESPACES, Olivia Tapiero
(Éditions Hurtubise)
Shaken by the death of her roommate, a young woman spends many months looking for something to hold onto,
some sort of breathing space. Her search, conveyed in the author’s poetic prose, is made of successive encounters
with a teacher, a painter and a playwright.
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EVERYBODY HAS EVERYTHING, Katrina Onstad
(Westwood Creative Artists)
Destined to be one of Canada’s most talked-about novels of 2012, this is a darkly comic upmarket women fiction
that balances tragedy and comedy with verve and flair and ponders the often unasked question: Is everyone cut out
to be a parent? Longlisted for this years’ Giller.
Rights sold to: France (Belfont), Netherlands (Artemis, Ambo-Anthos), US (Grand Central), Canadá (McClelland & Stewart)
FISH CHANGE DIRECTION WHEN IT’S COLD, Pierre Szalowski
(Éditions Hurtubise)
January 4, 1998. A ten-year-old boy learns that his parents plan to separate. In desperation, he asks heaven for help.
The next day, Quebec is gripped by the greatest ice-storm ever. Bit by bit, The Great Ice- Storm will change the
lives of everyone on the street… for the better.
Rights sold to: Italy, Germany, Spain, Catalan, Lituania, Poland, France, Portugal, UK, Holand, Canada
Film: an adaptation to Quebec cinema is planned for 2012
LE LIBRAIRE – “A heart-warming novel interwoven with humour.”
LE JOURNAL DE MONTRÉAL – “With a fascinating collection of characters, people as complex as humanity itself, this
novel is both a learning experience and an initiation, in some ways, a romance novel as well…”
FOR THE REST OF THE JOURNEY I SHOT AT THE INDIANS, Fabio Geda
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
By the author of Nel Mare Ci Sono I Coccodrilli, sold to 24 languages. An adventure and coming of age novel at the
same time, fun and deep, striking for its exceptional language, that changes according to the narrator, from concise
like a comic strip, to algid and visionary.
Rights sold to: Italy (Instar Libri), France (Liana Levi), Romania (Nemira), Germany (Knaus)
LA REPUBBLICA – “The journey of the young Romanian sounds a bit like Pinicchio, a bit like Dagli Appennini alle Ande, a bit
Oliver Twist, and a bit more recent The zig-zag kid, by David Grossman.”
L’UNITÀ – “[In Emil] I saw the angry sweetness of the adolescent impulses and the sudden light in the eyes of [Truffaut’s]
Antoine Doinel [in The 400 Blows].”
FOR TODAY I AM A BOY, Kim Fu
(Westwood Creative Artists)
This powerful debut novel of unsentimental prose by 24-year-old Fu tells the story of Peter Huang, the exalted only
son in a family of daughters, who will finally fulfill his father's dreams of western masculinity, except that he has
different dreams: he believes he is a girl.
Rights sold to: US (HMH ), Canada (HarperCollins)
LORISSA SENGARA, editor who bought the book for Harper Canada – “I just might die if I don’t get to publish Kim.”
FOREVER, INTERRUPTED (aka THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE), Taylor Jenkins Reid
(Taryn Fagerness Agency)
PS I Love You meets The Year of Magical Thinking. A sharp, smart, debut Love, Interrupted is not a fairy-tale
whirlwind romance, but an exploration of growing love that comes with an expiration date.
Rights sold to: US (Atria), Germany (Diana/Heyne), Italy (Sperling)
FOUR NEW MESSAGES, Joshua Cohen
(Graywolf Press)
A quartet of audacious fictions that capture the pathos and absurdity of life in the age of the internet, and explain
what happens when the virtual begins to colonize the real. Cohen is one of America’s most brilliant younger writers.
THE NEW YORK TIMES – “Cohen’s stories are about a lot of things: sex, family, disappointment, literary frustration. . . . In
his new collection he nestles these subjects inside a more expansive obsession: how the series of tubes we call the Web has
recast, often in sick ways, his contemporaries’ sense of who and where and why they are.”
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GHOSTS OF MANHATTAN, Douglas Brunt
(Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)
Reminiscent of Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities by way of Bret Easton Ellis’s Less Than Zero, Ghosts of
Manhattan is not only an irresistible roman à clef and a tone-perfect indictment of our times, but a provocative tour
de force and a probing look at the decadent and debauched world of Wall Street shortly before the financial crisis.
Rights sold to: US (Touchstone)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review – “As Nick’s life, his marriage, and the US economy edge closer to meltdown, Brunt
brings all the pieces together for a satisfying climax to this compulsively readable novel”
A story of passions in Fiume at the times of D‘Annunzio.
Rights sold to: Italy (Frassinelli), UK (Troubadour)
GRETA VIDAL, Antonella Sbuelz
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
STILOS – “Antonella Sbuelz is a good storyteller, she has a light pen and doesn’t exaggerate in her descriptions, neither the
more realistic scenes of war or sex, nor the limpidly poetic ones.”
IL NUOVO – “It would be impossible not to mention Sbuelz’s thorough research, both concerning the historical dimension
in its relationship with literature, and concerning the relationship between History and Memory.”
HOLD IT TILL IT HURTS, T. Geronimo Johnson
(Coffee House Press)
Heartbreaking, intimate, and, at times, disturbing, Hold It ’Til It Hurts is a modern-day odyssey through war,
adventure, disaster, and love, and explores how people who do not define themselves by race make sense of a world
that does.
ANTHONY SWOFFORD, author of Jarhead -“The magnificence of Hold It ’Til It Hurts is not only in the prose and the story
but also in the book’s great big beating heart. Novels don’t teach us how to live but this one will make you hush and wonder.”
STUART DYBEK – “It is the kind of impressive debut that marks its author, T. Geronimo Johnson, as a writer with a career
that bears watching.”
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, Janyce Stefan-Cole
(Unbridled Books)
A beautiful and famous voyeur in an aging hollywood hotel discovers she, too, is being watched. At once a noir
novel and a psychological thriller about the complicated emotions of a beautiful, modern celebrity, Hollywood
Boulevard is downright compelling.
JOHN TURTURRO, actor, director, screenwriter – “Janyce Stefan-Cole has laced her witty, melancholy tale with
Chandleresque bit players: philanderers, faded starlets, homicidal strippers and flouncy sex kittens. She knows how to tell a
story.”
BOOKLIST - “An intriguing crime novel with a pitch-perfect narration that sucks you right in.”
HOW TO FIGHT ISLAMIST TERROR FROM THE MISSIONARY POSITION, Tabish Khair
(Siyahi Literary Consulting)
Funny and sad, satirical and humane, Tabish Khair’s How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position
tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men. In his first novel set in contemporary times and Europe,
Khair combines generic elements from the crime thriller, the immigrant novel, the campus novel, and the young
adult romance to comment deeply and movingly on our lives today.
Rights sold to: India (HarperCollins), France (Editions du Sonneur)
MOHSIN HAMID, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist – “Smart, funny, and wonderfully irreverent.”
DAILY NEWS AND ANALYSIS – “Deftly-written, wry and dramatic.”
BUSINESS STANDARD – “Khair’s weapon against the tyranny of our times is humour.”
DECCAN CHRONICLE – “The message may be serious but the skill and subtlety with which it is delivered, wrapped with so
much fun and irreverence, is outstanding.”
TEHELKA – “A quick read with some incisive, fun commentary on self-perception and projection.”
HINDUSTAN TIMES – “Serious issues are addressed with a beguilingly light touch.”
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HOW TO TAME A WILLFUL WIFE, Christy English
(Taryn Fagerness Agency)
The more Caroline Montague resists her new husband’s will, the hotter this debut romance becomes…
Rights sold to: US (Sourcebooks Casablanca), Japan (Oakla)
HUMAN CAGES, Emilie Andrewes
(Éditions Hurtubise)
Imaginative and inventive prose that describes both her characters and their daring adventures.
LE DEVOIR – “Writing which is sinuous imaginative, entrancing!’’
I COULDN’T LOVE YOU MORE, Jillian Medoff
(Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)
An achingly funny, deeply moving, and surprising novel about the choices that we make in life and how those
choices continue to reverberate, shape us, and impact those in our midst for many years to come, I Couldn’t Love
You More combines the emotional heft of Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper with the irresistible humor of Jennifer
Weiner’s Good in Bed.
Rights sold to: US (Grand Central), Germany (Droemer)
JODI PICOULT – “Every woman has one: the guy who got away. So what happens when he walks into your life again? If you
were happy before-can you still make that claim? The choices we make-and the ones we don't make-form the backbone of
Jillian Medoff's wonderful novel. Devastating, hilarious, and painfully familiar.”
KIRKUS, starred review – “Medoff's talent for characterization is evident in her latest novel, a richly layered tale about that
complicated thing called family.”
O MAGAZINE . “Fun, smart and warmhearted.”
BOOKLIST – “By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, Medoff's honest writing and realistic dialogue make the book truly
enjoyable. A real page-turner.”
IN THE MATTER OF NIKOLA TESLA, Anthony Flacco
(Taryn Fagerness Agency)
Bestselling author Anthony Flacco brings to light the inner mind of an eccentric, “electric” genius. In this wellresearched,
fictionalization of this infamous scientific genius’s life, ultimately, it is Karina –not only the tutor Tesla
had for some time but also the most beautiful intelligent girl he’d ever met and who died to Nikola’s devastationwho
provides the inspiration for all of Nikola’s greatest ideas, and it is through her and their interactions readers are
able to get inside the mind of this famously misunderstood man. As Nikola continues through his life Karina follows
him, appearing at key moments.
Rights sold to: Italy (Piemme), Russia (Astrel)
IRINA PALM, Philippe Blasband
(Allied Authors Agency)
Irina Palm became one of the surprise film hits of last year, starring Marianne Faithfull. Mary is a widow and the
grandmother of Felix who will die unless he can get treatment, urgently. The treatment is dreadfully expensive and
desperately looking for a solution, Mary becomes a prostitute, pretty soon establishing a name for herself. Her alias,
Irina Palm, becomes a synonym for heartfelt, almost loving service, unheard of in the sex-business.
Rights sold to: France (Castor Astral), Turkey (Sel Yayincilik)
JAAL - THE WEB, Sangeeta Bahadur
(Siyahi Literary Consulting)
Jaal – The Web is the first book of the Kaal Trilogy. The Trilogy is set in an imagined world reminiscent of India in
the immediate post-Vedic Era. Each Book of the Trilogy outlines a different phase in the highly unusual life of the
main protagonist, Arihant, who shoulders an awesome responsibility, the easier part of which is to destroy Aushij,
the Lord of Maya, tricked into a Prison of Dreams by his siblings many millennia ago.
Rights sold to: India (Picador)
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KISHWAR DESAI, author of Witness the Night – “A marvelous fantasy.”
JE VOUDRAIS QU’ON M’EFFACE, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
(Éditions Hurtubise)
In a novel oozing with charm and the (sometimes violated) innocence of childhood, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette tells
the story of the kids she has come to know around Montreal’s poorest neighborhood. A tale of raw emotion, this
multi-narrative novel features scenes that are both touching and funny.
VOIR – “An extremely moving book whose story unfolds, unsurprisingly, in a very cinematic fashion.”
KIND ONE, Laird Hunt
(Coffee House Press)
Haunting, chilling, and suspenseful, Kind One is a powerful tale of redemption and human endurance in
antebellum America, written by one of the most creative prose stylists of our day, who turns his considerable talents
on America’s original sin.
Rights sold to: France (Actes Sud), Spanish (Blackie Books)
PAUL AUSTER -“Strange, original, and utterly brilliant. Laird Hunt is one of the most talented young writers on the
American scene today.”
MICHAEL ONDAATJE - “There is always a surprise in the voice and in the heart of Laird Hunt’s stories, with its echoes of
habit caught in a timeless dialect.”
LA LOGEUSE, Eric Dupont
(Allied Authors Agency)
A wonderful satirical novel dealing with windmills, Cuban strippers, the Empress of Ireland and encounters that
change the course of a lifetime. Dupont’s work borders on burlesque, reverberates with nostalgia and childlike
imagination, looking at Quebèc’s history as through a magnifying glass.
Rights sold to: Canada (French, Marchand de feuilles)
LE SOLEIL – “A jewel.”
LE DEVOIR – “Euphoric and brilliant’ – Suzanne Guigère.”
LA PRESSE – “A sheer joy to read.”
LA RECITA DEI PADRI, Furio Bordon
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
Already on stage in Buenos Aires starring Federico Luppi, the play is divided in two parts, La notte dell'angelo and
Le ultime lune. In 1999 this play had been already on stage in Argentina. Also, this play will debut in Madrid, third
time in Spain in 10 years.
The two theatre pieces were rewritten to form a dialogued narrative, with the title
LA RECITA DEI PADRI (THE FATHER’S ACT):
● Le ultime lune
A very old man is waiting in his room for his son to come home and take him to a retirement home. When the son arrives,
they have a verbal fight made up of old grudges and small cruelties, but that occasionally gives way to extreme tenderness. In
the second part the old man is at the retirement home: some years have gone by, he is alone in the attic of the villa. Everyday
life in the home is mixed with memories of his past.
● La notte dell'angelo
Reality and memory surface in Anna’s soul the night she, a child psychotherapist, finds out about the suicide of one of her
patients. This event is the motor of a merciless, ferocious clash of the woman with herself and with her life, dominated by the
figure of her father, a famous actor of whose charm she has always been both admirer and victim.
EL PAIS – “A work of sharp beauty, of harsh emotions. The long dialogue with which it begins is a great piece of theatre,
possibly the best of recent theatre.”
LE FIGARO – “All this is fairly bitter, and at the same time atrocious and banal. A beautiful malinconic sonata that Furio
Bordon undertakes with the right amount of humour and sensitiveness to not be drowned in pathos.”
CORRIERE DELLA SERA – “A theatre piece that makes you perceive the deeper meaning of human solitude and of the
difficulty of knowing oneself.”
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LAND OF THE WELL, Sampurna Chattarji
(Siyahi Literary Consulting)
It is Goa in the monsoons. A shy and lonely teenager finds himself drawn towards a group of holidaymakers. In
their midst is Momo, the woman he would do anything to be close to. As if sensing his willingness, the group
spends the day ‘testing’ him before pronouncing him worthy of their friendship and their disclosures about
themselves.
Rights sold to: India (HarperCollins)
TIME OUT – “Chilling culmination.”
ASIAN AGE – “Think Rushdie and The Satanic Verses translated into a tale of growing up and a collision between ages.”
LE SYNDROME DE LA VIS, Marie-Renée Lavoie
(Éditions Hurtubise)
Josée, a college teacher with chronic insomnia decides to take a break from teaching due to extreme fatigue. First,
she sees a doctor, then an osteopath, to no avail. Instead, she finds solace in the company of neighbors and family
members: Margot, a musician with Alzheimer’s disease; Marco and his son Joseph with his three-legged cat; her
brother, her four nephews, her parents… A formidable storyteller whose sharp sense of observation yields a
profoundly moving and humorous novel.
QUÉBEC FRANÇAIS – “Lavoie is what you may call a born storyteller.”
LE TEMPS DES CERISES, Zillah Bethell
(Seren Books)
Told with wit, vigour and an eye for the bizarre, Le Temps des Cerises is a riotous tale of principle and
pandemonium. Paris is under siege, its citizens starving and for 17-year-old Eveline the topsy-turvy world of 1870
warfare is both desperate and infuriating. Searching for an escape, she finds a revolution on the streets that is
reflected in the hearts of the soldiers, nuns, artisans, lovers and renegades who people this chaotic city.
LOVELYTREEZ BLOG – “You can feel the passion and fervour of the working class Parisians, striving for equality. A
highly original, entertaining and educating tale.”
LE TESTAMENT DU PROFESSEUR ZUKERMAN, Francis Malka
(Éditions Hurtubise)
For decades, Professor Zukerman has been working on an ambitious project to recreate the beginning of life on
earth. Just before his assassination, he leaves 34 letters for his son David to read: a testament of sorts, documenting
the progress of his research… and the threat he
has been facing.
LA TERRE DE CHEZ NOUS – “With prose of great subtlety and an unusual and well thought-out plot, [Francis Malka]
displays an uncanny ability to surprise the reader.”
LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION, Ben Lerner
(Coffee House Press)
One of the best books of 2011 in: The New Yorker, Newsweek, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal.
In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha
Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.
Rights sold to: UK (Granta), France (L’Olivier), Germany (Rowohlt), Spain (Mondadori), Italy (Neri Pozza), Netherlands
(Atlas), Turkey (Jaguar), English language audio rights
PAUL AUSTER - “Utterly charming. Lerner’s self-hating, lying, overmedicated, brilliant fool of a hero is a memorable
character, and his voice speaks with a music distinctly and hilariously all his own.”
JONATHAN FRANZEN - “Hilarious and cracklingly intelligent, fully alive and original in every sentence, and abuzz with the
feel of our late –late- modern moment.”
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS - “One of the funniest (and truest) novels I know of by a writer of his generation. [A]
dazzlingly good novel.”
THE NEW YORKER, James Wood – “[A] subtle, sinuous, and very funny first novel, [Leaving the Atocha Station] has a
beguiling mixture of lightness and weight. There are wonderful sentences and jokes on almost every page. This is exactly how
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Leaving Atocha Station proceeds [with a] self-description [that] sounds as much like Virginia Woolf as like John Ashbery. But it
is one of the paradoxes of this cunning book that what might seem a skeptically postmodern comedy is also an earnestly oldfashioned
seeker of the real —that other thing.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL REVIEW – “Leaving the Atocha Station is a marvelous novel, not least because of the magical way
that it reverses the postmodernist spell, transmuting a fraudulent figure into a fully dimensional and compelling character.”
LES ITALIENS. CHIEF MORDENTI SERIES, Enrico Pandiani
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
Mordenti, young chief of the police and head of the les italiens team, tells his stories in first person, with irony and
surreal metaphors that reminds us of Chandler. Tied to the tradition of the French roman policier and also that of
the 40’s and 50’s noir movies, he is a very human character with his dark side, and each member of his team adds
something to or balances the traits of the leader. All of them with Italian origins, they were put together because of
their non-conventional creative way of solving cases.
Rights sold to: Italy (Instar Libri)
Film rights already optioned by Mesfilms
• #1 LES ITALIENS: A hail of bullets shot through the window destroys the Paris Criminal Brigade. Les italiens
squad is depleted even before the investigation begun.
• #2 TOO MUCH LEAD: Someone has decided to violently kill off a female journalist of a famous newspaper in
Paris. There are very few clues, no suspects, and too much gossip. A case for the italiens.
• #3 LESSONS ON DARKNESS: A bad evening for chief Mordenti: he feels sick at a restaurant and a few hours
later his girlfriend is killed in front of him.
LA STAMPA – “A valuable noir, written with the impertinent tone of a classic.”
IO DONA – “A powerful noir that flows and skillfully measures out twists in the plot, investigating routine and irony.”
LOVE SLAVE, Jennifer Spiegel
(Unbridled Books)
Richly funny and wincingly specific, this cunning debut novel is a bittersweet and ironic look at what it means to be
enthralled by an idea, by even the most ragged possibility of love.
RON CARLSON - “Jennifer Spiegel’s New York moment, her sweet tilt on Miss Lonelyhearts, is loose among us like a
confession, a letter, gossip, an advice column without boundaries. Love Slave is a lot of fun.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – “Spiegel's novel evokes the psychic angst of Manhattanites presumptuous. The writing is fresh
and witty, and Sybil is a sympathetic character.”
MAIDENHEAD, Tamara Faith Berger
(Coach House Books)
Maidenhead is the story of a young woman’s exploration of danger. As Myra enters unfamiliar worlds of sex, porn
and class, she explores territories unknown in herself. In this uncensored take on an omnivorous, shame-ridden
teenage sexual brain, the author traverses the desperate, wild spaces of a teenage girl’s self-consciousness.
CHRIS KRAUS – “No other writer I can think of working now has dealth with female sexuality as accurately. This book is
charming and incendiary.”
MAIS QU’EST-CE QUE TU FAIS LÀ, TOUT SEUL?, Pierre Szalowski
(Éditions Hurtubise)
Hockey player Martin Gagnon lands in a hotel room of the metropolis on the evening of Christmas Day. A
confirmed bachelor, no one expects him and he expects nothing out of anyone, anymore. There he meets a sevenyear-old
child. Pure coincidence? Or going-away present left in Montreal, a few years earlier? This engrossing and
emotional novel explores the unusual theme of paternal instinct.
Rights sold to: Germany, France
Rights of FISH CHANGE DIRECTION WHEN IT’S COLD sold to: Italy, Germany, Spain, Catalan, Lituania, Poland,
France, Portugal, UK, Holand, Canada
RADIO-CANADA – “Pierre Szalowski really has a knack for telling stories and breathing life into his characters.”
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MARIA KALLIO SERIES, Leena Lehtolainen
(Elina Ahlbäck Literary Agency)
Leena Lehtolainen, a master at combining crime with relationships, is the bestselling female crime author in Finland with over
2 million copies sold internationally, and the rights to her books sold to 26 countries so far.
Who is Maria Kallio?
For Inspector Maria Kallio, violent crime investigation is a calling. For this mixture of curves, muscles, and wit, playing with
the boys is the norm. Maria often clashes with authority as she can’t accept a society where the offenses of the powerful are
overlooked. Despite the harshness of her work, Maria has never lost faith in goodness. She knows the risks of the work and
uses violence when necessary, but never takes any pleasure in it.
#12 IRON TRIANGLE: A fisherman finds two bodies wrapped in plastic washed up on the shore. The case lands on Maria
Kallio’s desk and her team and it turns out the male victim has a close connection to Maria’s past. Will her confused heart
complicate the murder investigation?
Rights sold to: World English (Amazon Publishing), Brazil (Autêntica/Nemo), Czech Republic (Hejkal), Denmark (Bazar),
Finland (Tammi), France (Gaïa), Germany (Rowohlt), Hungary (Animus), Israel (Penn), Italy (Fanucci), The Netherlands
(A.W. Bruna), Norway (Bazar), Poland (Rebis), Russia (Ast), Spain (Destino), Sweden (Bazar), Sweden (Albert Bonniers
Förlag), Taiwan (Linking), Turkey (Bizim Kitaplar), Japan (Tokyo Sogensha)
BRIGITTE – “Finland’s answer to Henning Mankell”
MILOSZ, Cordelia Strube
(Coach House Books)
Milo doesn't quite have it all together. His acting career has stalled. His girlfriend dumped him. His miserable
father has vanished, and people keep moving into his house. When Robertson, the autistic eleven-year-old next door
– the only person Milo really likes – gets bullied, Milo is finally spurred to action.
Previous book praises:
NEW YORK TIMES – “Smart, eccentric prose.’
TORONTO STAR – ‘Strube’s comic sense is like a perfectly mixed martini: exceedingly dry and potent.”
MONOCEROS, Suzette Mayr
(Coach House Books)
A masterpiece of the tragicomic, Mayr offers a dazzlingly original look at the ripple effects -both poignant and
funny- of a tragedy. A tender, bold work.
VANCOUVER SUN - “Brash, macabre and irreverent, it’s the kind of story you want to hear from a latter-day Scheherazade:
so intoxicating you crave more.”
AVENUE CALGARY - “To call a story about suicide funny might seem off-putting, but Mayr balances tenderness and
humour to make this novel a poignant must-read.”
NATIONAL POST – “Spellbinding and playful ... A stylistic tour de force.”
QUILL & QUIRE – “Bold and assured ... a complex and moving novel deserving of a large and attentive readership.”
MOONSHINE, Alaya Johnson
(Jill Grinberg Literary Management)
Gangs of New York meets True Blood. A thrilling series of paranormal novels set in 1920s New York City, a city of
flappers, bootleggers, vampires... and one sexy djinn. In Moonshine, we meet Zephyr Hollis, an underfed,
overzealous social activist and reformed vampire destroyer, who teaches night school to the underprivileged of the
Lower East Side. It’s 1920s New York City, a time of speakeasies, jazz… and vampire gangs.
Rights sold to: US (St. Martin’s Press), Italy (Newton Compton), Germany (Droemer), Turkey (Pegasus)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “Fans of Stephanie Meyer and Charlaine Harris will be engaged by Johnson’s light, tongue-incheek
approach.”
RT BOOK REVIEWS - “[…] combines historical and fantasy fiction for a fresh and inspired take on vampires...Johnson
writes with great verve and wit, and readers will hope for many sequels.”
LOCUS - “A sassy, dedicated heroine...a lot of fun.”
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MYSTERY GIRL, David Gordon
(Amazon Publishing)
A perverse literary thriller that has garnered comparisons to Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives. It’s
entertaining and mysterious and follows no formulas; it is satisfying to readers of the genre, yet it is incredibly heady
and intellectual. It is a novel that speaks to the value of “lesser” art forms like pornography and judo films, while
also having new things to say about more traditional ones like the writings of Proust and the films of Renoir.
There’s something here for everyone who likes to read, to think, and to be entertained.
Rights sold to: Japan (Hayakawa)
NETSUKE, Rikki Ducornet
(Coffee House Press)
A story of sex, power, and the ways that both can destroy us, this short, explosive novel is simultaneously unsettling
and fascinating. Fans of Chuck Palahniuk and Irvine Welsh will embrace Ducornet’s depiction of a troubled and
disturbing character and exploration of the dark corners of humanity.
Rights sold to: France (Joelle/Gallimard), Spain (Blackie Books)
THE NEW YORK TIMES – “A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat.”
THE NATION – “Linguistically explosive. Ducornet is one of the most interesting American writers around.”
NIGHT OF THE BLACK CAT, Antonio Pagliaro
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
Selected by the Berlin Film Festival, this exceptionally gripping and captivating novel tells the story of a young man
who, after having been injustly accused of a crime, is forced to face the violence of life in prison; all this told in an
impressively truthful style.
Rights sold to: Italy (Guanda)
LUIGI BRIOSCHI, editorial director at Guanda – “The Night of the Black Cat captivated and unsettled us, and finally fully
convinced us.”
OF BLOOD AND HONEY, Stina Leicht
(Barry Goldblatt Literary)
A novel you can’t quite call traditional fantasy, nor urban fantasy, nor alternate history, this is a remarkable thriller
that uses the fantastic to examine the forces that have driven the recent history of the troubles in Northern Ireland.
Rights sold to: US (Night Shade)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “Set in the Ireland of the Troubles, before the recent détente, this fraught debut captures the
backdrop of tension and choosing sides that overlays even the smallest act. The lingering effects of the Kesh and Malone
prisons are gut-wrenchingly convincing.”
FANTASY LITERATURE.COM - “A captivating debut that seamlessly blends together historical drama with supernatural
horror and dark fantasy.”
EXAMINER.COM - “It’s a rough read. Brutal in spots. Surprisingly tender in others. As a debut goes for Stina Leicht, it’s a
marvelous one.”
SF REVIEWS.NET – “…Whatever you call it, Of Blood and Honey doesn’t mess around. It comes at you like a car bomb. This
is fantasy by way of Ken Loach, not Peter Jackson.”
FANTASY BOOK CRITICS - “One of the better novels I have read this year.”
OLEANDER GIRL, Chitra Divakaruni
(Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)
On the eve of her wedding, Oleander, having just graduated from an exclusive boarding school in the Darjeeling
mountains, and the only heir to a rich and privileged family, learns her grandmother's longheld secret, that both her
parents did not perish in an accident as she was told, but that her mother died giving birth to her, and her father is
still alive, somewhere in America. She decides she must solve the mystery of their lives.
Rights sold to: US (Free Press/S&S)
Rights of her last book sold to: France (Phillipe Picquier), India (Penguin), Indonesia (Hikmah), Israel (Kinneret Zmora),
Italy (Einaudi), Korea (Woongjin), Spain (Suma), Turkey (Pegasus), Poland (Zysk I Ska)
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BOOKLIST, on the author – “A storyteller of exquisite lyricism”
OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE, ed. by John Joseph Adams
(Barry Goldblatt Literary)
What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? From The Wizard of Oz to
The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a
rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been
collected in a single volume—until now.
Rights sold to: US (Night Shade Books)
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY, starred review – “Readers will greatly enjoy this exploration of our world’s foremost and
ascendant speculative authors.”
QUARANTATRE, Elisabetta Severina
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
A daughter and a mother, a relationship filtered by memory, two lives that communicate through time and distance.
A novel in seven chapters where the protagonist speaks to her mother, who died over thirty years ago when she was
still a child, and she tells her of her life, following specific moments in time. A long silent and strong dialogue,
between a daughter and a mother who, even in this absence, continue to grow together.
Rights sold to: Italy (Instar Libri), Germany (List)
IL SOLE 24 ORE – “...it surfaces lightly and with restrained pain, the main trait of this brief novel, the simplicity, the elegance
and the decorum of which should be acknowledged in all possible ways.”
SALVAGE THE BONES, Jesmyn Ward
(Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency)
Winner of the 2011 The National Book Award and in a voice compared to Flannery O’Connor, Harper Lee and
William Faulkner the story in Salvage the Bone isn’t really about Hurricane Katrina but about people facing
challenges, and how they band together to overcome adversity.
Rights sold in: world English (Bloomsbury), Sweden (Forum), France (Belfond), Spanish (Siruela), Denmark (Klim), China
(Shanghai 99)
KIRKUS REVIEWS starred review - “A superbly realized work of fiction that, while Southern to the bone, transcends its
region to become universal.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred review - “[A] poetic second novel. [main character] Esch traces in the minutiae of every
moment of every scene of her life the thin lines between passion and violence, love and hate, life and death. Her voice [gives]
its cast of small lives a huge resonance.”
LIBRARY JOURNAL starred review - “It’s an eye-opening heartbreaker that ends in hope.”
THE WASHINGTON POST - “I’m happy to eat my words. And my spinach. I’ve just read another one of the so-called
obscure finalists, Salvage the Bones, the second book from Alabama writer Jesmyn Ward, and it’ll be a long time before its magic
wears off...”
THE HUFFINGTON POST - “The narrator's voice sparks with beauty as it urges the reader through this moving story set in
the shadow of Katrina.”
THE BOSTON GLOBE - “Lyrical… Ward’s writing is startling in its graphic clarity… talent like this shouts from every
page.”
O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE - “The novel’s hugeness of heart and fierceness of family grip and hold on like Skeetah’s pit
bull.”
SECOND CHANCE, Sian James
(Seren Books)
This passionate story, told with skill and symphathy, tells of Kate Rivers, who has it all: London life, successful
acting career and caring lover Paul. So why, when she is called back to her Welsh home, are her past and her present
so hard to deal with? Where is Paul when she needs him? And is an affair with her handsome cousin Rhydian a
second chance at happiness or just a dangerous infatuation?
SUNDAY TIMES – “ A superb ear for dialogue and a marksman’s eye for revealing detail.”
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THE TIMES – “Sian James writes fluently and with lively humour.”
SINS OF A VIRGIN, Anna Randol
(Taryn Fagerness Agency)
There is improper, there is scandalous… and then there is Madeline Valdan. To the world, she is a scandalous
courtesan, with society’s most eligible gentlemen at her feet. But no one knows her shocking secret: she has never
experienced the most intimate touch of any man.
Rights sold to: US (Avon), Czech (Baronet)
SLEIGHT, Kirsten Kaschock
(Coffee House Press)
Sleight explores the tension between the visual and the written, the embodied and the witnessed, and while
inventing an art form of its own, has also renovated another: the novel as sublime artistry.
Only Spanish, French, Italian, German rights available through Coffee House
KIRKUS REVIEWS - “An unusual, dreamlike tale. Gothic and intense, this fully imagined yet partly private work of
storytelling [is] powerfully original.”
LIBRARY JOURNAL - “Kaschock’s work stands out for the originality of its concepts, narrative structure, and, particularly,
language.”
NEW PAGES - “A provocative debut. By transforming the unseen into the real, concepts become an unsettling reality.
Always disorienting yet fascinating to watch unfold, Sleight provides a deep examination of art and those who engage with its
ever-shifting presence.”
SWEET DATES IN BASRA, Jessica Jiji
(Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency)
In the lost Iraq of the 1940s, a time of rich traditions and converging worlds, Kathmiya meets Shafiq, a Jewish boy
whose brotherhood with his Muslim neighbor Omar proves that religion is no barrier to friendship. The redemptive
story of two very different cultures.
Rights sold to: world English (Avon/Morrow), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Italy (Newton Compton)
BOOKLIST – “Jiji does a remarkable job of evoking 1940s Iraq in her novel, from the colorful markets to the remote
marshes, making for a vibrant read.”
ARIEL SABAR - “Jiji’s tale of star-crossed love is a reminder of the power of the heart over the strictures of tradition.”
THE AGE OF HOPE, David Bergen
(Westwood Creative Artists)
The Age of Hope is a story of remarkable love and heartbreak. Told with compassion, it is the story of a generation
caught between tradition and liberation, and of one woman’s continual reinvention of herself through the ages of
her life.
Rights sold to: Canada (HarperCollins)
MONTREAL GAZETTE – “[Bergen is] one of Canada’s best writers.”
THE ARTS OF ENCHANTMENT, Sandra Gulland
(Westwood Creative Artists)
Historical fiction inspired by the real life of a 17th century French maid. Claude des Oellets is the impoverished and
socially scorned daughter of itinerant actors who nevertheless rises to become the confidential attendant to the most
powerful woman in the 17th century French court of the Sun King: Madame de Montespan, mistress of the
charismatic king. Ironically, Claude is required to obtain love potions and other magical charms as well as to
occasionally satisfy the king's sexual needs (thereby bearing him a daughter).
Rights sold to: Canada (HarperCollins)
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THE BLUES HIGHWAY BLUES, Eyre Price
(Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)
Fast-paced, incredibly clever and a times laugh-out-loud funny, The Blues Highway Blues is a suspense novel like
no other in its unusual premise and cast of colorful characters, certain to capture the hearts of readers and music
fans alike. Eyre Price’s has traveled every mile of the famed Blues Highway, making this mystery come to life with a
researcher’s eye for detail and rhythm. An illuminating and knowledgeable meditation on American blues music.
Rights sold to: US (Amazon)
THE BODYGUARD TRILOGY, Leena Lehtolainen
(Elina Ahlbäck Literary Agency)
Leena Lehtolainen, a master at combining crime with relationships, is the bestselling female crime author in Finland with over
2 million copies sold internationally, and the rights to her books sold to 26 countries so far.
The underlying theme of this bestselling trilogy featuring a strong female lead, bodyguard Hilja Ilveskero, 30, who is a
welcome alternative to the abundance of male protagonists in crime fiction, is a series of questions about human identity and
its concealment.
Rights sold to: World English (Amazon), Finland (Tammi), France (Hachette), Germany (Rowohlt), Israel (Penn Publishing),
Netherlands (Unieboek), Spain (Destino), Russia (Azbooka-Atticus)
Film Rights: optioned by Solar Films Inc.
• #1 THE BODYGUARD: The trilogy begins with New York trained bodyguard Hilja Ilveskero working for a
Finnish client who is doing real estate business in Russia. The client gets killed in Moscow and Hilja finds herself suspected of
murder.
• #2 THE LION OF JUSTICE: The second independent novel featuring the American-trained bodyguard Hilja
Ilveskero opens when Hilja is in Italy visiting her lover, David Stahl, who is hiding from a Belorussian mob boss whose plans
to sell the dangerous Strontium-90 isotope Stahl previously prevented.
• #3 THE DEVIL’S CUBS: Hilja works as bodyguard for Julia, the Russian girlfriend of Usko Syrjänen, a Finnish
businessman. When unexpected guests arrive at Usko and Julia’s wedding, a network of international crime investigations
starts to unravel.
BRIGITTE – “Finland’s answer to Henning Mankell”
THE BOOK OF WHY, Nicholas Montemarano
(Jill Grinberg Literary Management)
The stunning self-help inspirational novel that asks the questions The Secret fails to answer, by Pushcart Prizewinning
author. The Book of Why is a question and it is also a confession, an apology, a revision, and a self-help
book (literally, its narrator is trying to help himself by writing it). But above all else, it’s a love letter.
Rights sold to: US (Little Brown), UK (Little Brown), Russia (EKSMO)
Praise for if the Sky Falls, his previous novel:
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “Dark, powerful . . . Montemarano handles brutality and abjection with ambiguity and subtlety.”
JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS - “An American stylist capable of redeeming our darkest dreams.”
THE BOOKSELLER, Mark Pryor
(Taryn Fagerness Agency)
What starts as the disappearance of a Parisian bookseller turns into a sinister conspiracy in this exciting thriller.
Stylish, suspenseful, and smart… Bibliophiles, francophiles, and mystery addicts rejoice!
Rights sold to: US (Seventh Street Books/Prometheus)
THE CART PEOPLE, Sacha Naspini
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
A wild and enraged novel where the true protagonist is bestiality, not gratuitous bestiality but the instinctive one of
those who kill to survive. A dark tale in thirteen snapshots that have an atmosphere that reminds us of Truffaut,
Stephen King and Calvino. 1918, Tuscan countryside. Because he doesn’t want to be sent to war, a man hides his
nine-year-old son and his wife in a hole he dug in the wood.
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Rights sold to: Italy (Elliot Edizioni)
IL MUCCHIO – “We disapprove of his bloodied hands […] Bestiano Cariolante isn’t capable of relating with the world, acts
on instinct […] becoming the emblem of tout court bestiality, that is always tied to the blindest survival instinct. Yet, we can’t
bring ourselves to hate him.”
THE DEATH OF FIDEL PÉREZ, Elizabeth Huergo
(Unbridled Books)
Written by a supremely talented Cuban-American author. By turns humorous and deeply poignant, a story from the
very heart of contemporary Cuba, The Death of Fidel Pérez reflects on the broken promises of the Cuban
Revolution and reveals the heart of a people with a long collective memory.
OSCAR HIJUELOS, author of The Mambo Kings - “The Death of Fidel Pérez will reward both a general audience looking for
a lively read and the discerning reader who truly cares about literature: in short, a heartfelt and well-written novel, with a
provocative premise.”
THE DESCARTES CASE, Daniele Bondi
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
A historical thriller that flows elegantly from history to fiction. Three stories are interwoven to try to unveil one of
the greatest mysteries of the 16hundreds: did Descartes die of pneumonia, or was he assassinated?
Rights sold to: Italy (Rusconi Libri)
*The novel has been largely awarded before and after being published, last award being the Florence Price.
*Dr Philippe Charlier, also known as the French Indiana Jones, famous worldwide for having solved similar cases concerning
Joan of Arc and Henry IV and director of the official studies on Descartes' skull, has given his active support to this case after
having read Bondi's The Descartes Case and has requested complementary exams on the tomb of the philosopher.
THE DISSIMULATING HEART. A MEDIEVAL MYSTERY, Sandra Worth
(Authorlink Literary Group)
Set in England between 1536 and 1540, Tudor times, The Dissimulating Heart is true to every historical character
and detail. It is a tense struggle between old and new religions, royalty and priests, forbidden lovers, and the
political forces that keep them apart.
THE EMPEROR’S WRITINGS, Dirk Collier
(Siyahi Literary Consulting)
An admirably researched historical novel and written in a magnificently evocative, compelling prose, The Emperor’s
Writings’ narrates the true story of Akbar‘s life and times: his swift and spectacular rise to absolute power, amidst
strife and intrigues, and often against overwhelming odds; his remarkably modern vision of a prosperous, diverse
and tolerant India; and his eventful personal life.
Rights sold to: Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia (Amaryllis), Belgium and Netherlands (Lannoo)
THE SUNDAY INDIAN – “It is seldom that one comes across such all encompassing writing on Indian historical figures.
This one is a sure shot winner.”
TIMES OF INDIA – “Stepping into the soul of India.”
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – “Mr. Collier thinks the example of Akbar is particularly important today—a Muslim ruler
who was interested in other religions and sought to learn from different faiths at a time when religious wars were the norm…”
THE HINDU – “The Emperor's Writing provides insight into the art of war during the 16th century.”
MUMBAI MIRROR – “The Emperor's Letters, a fictional autobiography of Akbar the Great is Belgian bibliophile Dirk Collier's
attempt at recreating the universe of the greatest Muslim ruler of all times.”
ASIAN AGE – “Enchanting”.
DR. A P J ABDUL KALAM, Former President of India – “A well documented book, painstakingly prepared…”
EPIC INDIA MAGAZINE – “Collier has managed to capture in this fictionalised autobiography the spirit of those
tumultuous days when the Afghan rulers of Hindustan were being replaced by Turkomen and other Central Asian raiders…
Collier has also managed to convey the various facets of Akbar’s personality, his (moderate) love of wine and women, his
curiosity to learn new things, ranging from religion (of all hues) and culture to western weaponry.”
HERMAN VAN ROMPUY, EU President – “India looks different after reading The Emperor’s Writings. Fascinating and
moving.”
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INDIAN EXPRESS – “An outstanding and deep act of empathy. Extremely balanced, historically accurate and engaging.”
THE EXACT SEQUENCE OF GESTURES, Fabio Geda
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
By the author of Nel Mare Ci Sono I Coccodrilli, sold to 24 languages. Described in a disenchanted light style, and
with the optimism and a smiling face, the book follows the two youngster protagonists with whom the reader
discovers an unexpected new world, that of the communities that take in young people.
Rights sold to: Italy (Instar Libri), France (Gaïa)
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE - “Fabio Geda tells us of minor stories that would remain an ordinary everyday business if
this young writer didn’t give them new life thanks to the magic og his poetical writing.”
L’UNITÀ – “In this novel there is a continuous search for an existential barycenter that continues to be elusive.”
THE FOREWORLD SAGA. #1 THE MONGOLIAD, Neil Stephenson et al.
(Amazon Publishing)
An epic-withinan- epic, taking place in 13th century. In it, a small band of warriors and mystics raise their swords to
save Europe from a bloodthirsty Mongol invasion. The saga reaches the modern world via a circuitous route. In the
late 19th century, Sir Richard F. Burton, an expert on exotic languages and historical swordsmanship, is translating
a collection of long-lost manuscripts but he dies before his work is finished. His efforts were thought lost until
recently rediscovered by a team of amateur archaeologists in the ruins of a mansion in Trieste.
Rights sold to: World Spanish (RBA)
THE FOURTH WALL (THE DAGMAR SHAW TRILOGY #3), Walter Jon Williams
(Barry Goldblatt Literary)
Dagmar Shaw got out of the game... and into the movies. Walter Jon Williams is a multiple awarded New York
Times bestselling author whose recent techno-thrillers, This Is Not A Game, Deep State, and the recently released
The Fourth Wall have earned rave reviews.
Rights sold to: US (Orbit)
THE GUARDIAN ANGEL TRILOGY, Arto Halonen
(Elina Ahlbäck Literary Agency)
This psychological suspense trilogy tells of the incredible investigation of a remarkable series of true hypnosis
crimes that took place in Denmark during the 1950s. We follow these crimes and the story of the consequences of
the hypnotist's manipulations from the 1950s into present times as a young investigator becomes obsessed with
catching the psychological manipulator.
The Guardian Angel film coming out in 2015!
• #1 THE GUARDIAN ANGEL: This is a about a man who has used hypnosis to turn another man into a robber
and a murderer. The story, based on the true story.
• #2 BIRTH OF A MONSTER: The hypnotist is released from prison and begins to plan his revenge at Anders.
• #3 WHO IS MY CHILD? It is the new millennium and Anders’ daughter Anne joins the police academy. Her
father is dead, but the legacy of the hypnosis crimes he investigated still lives on.
THE HOPE FACTORY, Lavanya Sankaran
(Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)
From celebrated short fiction writer Lavanya Sankaran, The Hope Factory examines with sharp-eyed wit the forces
of love, ambition, desperation, persistence and hope against the complex urban landscape of the southern Indian
city of Bangalore.
Rights sold to: US (Dial Press), UK and Commonwealth (Headline), India (Hachette India)
THE HUNGRY GHOSTS, Shyam Selvadurai
(Westwood Creative Artists)
The Hungry Ghosts is a novel of memory which takes place over a single night, as Shivan, a gay man in his midthirties
prepares to return from Canada to his dying grandmother in Sri Lanka. Like Selvadurai’s previous work, this
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ook explores themes of migration, sexuality and family, and brings vividly to life the smell, colours, landscape,
manners, and customs of his native Sri Lanka.
Rights sold to: Canada (Doubleday)
THE ICE CREAM MAN, Katri Lipson
(Elina Ahlbäck Literary Agency)
The novel begins brilliantly with the making of a film whose director wants to work without a script. The film plot
takes the reader to Prague in 1942, where a man and a woman –characters that can be linked to later events in the
book in the 60s and all the way to the 80s- are on the run and erotic tension, desire and fear go hand in hand.
HELSINGIN SANOMAT – “The novel is a reader’s paradise as Lipson tackles the topic in a similar vein as Sofi Oksanen, in
Purge.”
MARI VIERTOLA – “Never before have I read a family chronicle told in such an original way, a novel that is both a
European family chronicle set after the WW II and an experiment on the role that mistakes, lies and repetition play in life. It is
a breathtakingly brilliant and skilful depiction of Europeanness and political history. A magnificently wonderful experience.”
THE IGUANA, Denis Thériault
(Allied Authors Agency)
Set on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, The Iguana -winner of three major literary prizes- tells the
realistic, yet fabulous, story of an extraordinary friendship between two boys who appear to have nothing in
common except a tragic loneliness.
Rights sold to: French Canada (XYZ editeur), English Canada (Dundurn), Germany (DTV Verlag), France (Naïve)
THE IRON DRUID CHRONICLES, Kevin Hearne
(Jill Grinberg Literary Management)
A brilliant new voice in urban fantasy that has won comparisons to Patrick Rothfuss (The Name Of The Wind) and
Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files), The Iron Druid Chronicles is the culmination of years of research, with great
crossover potential for fans of genre or just lovers of great stories. Three new titles in the series:
• #4 TRICKED
• #5 TRAPPED
• #6 HUNTED
Rights sold to: US (Del Rey)
Rights of #1 HOUNDED, #2 HEXED, #3HAMMERED sold to: UK (Orbit), US (Del Rey), Poland (Rebis), Thailand
(Tathata), Germany (Klett-Cotta), Russia (Olma), Czech Republic (Laser), Turkey (Artemis), Spain (Minotauro)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred review - “A superb urban fantasy debut.”
LIBRARY JOURNAL - “A snappy narrative voice makes this series opener a savvy urban fantasy adventure that should
appeal to fans of Celtic and other mythologies.”
SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER - “It’s the humor and sarcasm that really stole the show for me. It’s that kind of
juxtaposition of practicality and amusement that made me literally laugh out loud while reading portions of the book.”
FANTASY BOOK CRITIC - “The Iron Druid Chronicles has been receiving praise all over the blogosphere. Praise that is richly
deserved considering the series’s memorable characters, entertaining humor, and surprising, action-packed story.”
THE LITTLE GIRL AND THE OLD MAN, Marie-Renée Lavoie
(Éditions Hurtubise)
Helen, alias Joe, would rather be a boy and get into all kinds of adventures, like Lady Oscar, her favourite comicstrip
heroine. In the working-class neighbourhood where she and her family live, she makes friends with a new
neighbour, Mister Roger, an old man who drinks like a fish, swears like a sailor and dreams of dying.
LE DEVOIR – “A moving novel, human and funny, with extraordinary poetry and tenderness.’’
ENTRE LES LIGNES – “A rare success for a first novel: masterful writing and colourful language… inexhaustible
tenderness which touches us profoundly. A pleasure from start to finish.’’
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THE MAGIC OF SAIDA, M.G. Vassanji
(Westwood Creative Artists)
From two-time winner of the Giller Prize, comes The Magic of Saida, in which Kamal Devraj, a Canadian doctor,
returns to his native East Africa in search of a childhood sweetheart and lover. Kamal’s childhood in the ancient
town of Kilwa is not just one of loss and deprivation. It is also one of love and discovery, friendship and intimacy
with the magical Saida. A world of poetry and historical mystery, of djinns, and witches. Kamal finally discovers
Saida’s secret during a harrowing black night of sinister rites.
Rights sold to: US (Knopf), Canada (Doubleday), India (Penguin)
THE TIMES (UK) – “Vassanji captures a wide and authentic perspective that ranks with V.S. Naipaul and Graham Greene”
THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE, Óscar Hijuelos
(Revised 20 th anniversary edition)
(Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency)
Translated into 25 languages and Pulitzer Prize wining in 1990, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love became an
international bestselling sensation when it was first published in 1989.
Rights sold to: Holland, Israel, Spain, US, Canada, Finland, Poland, Brazil, Greece
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – “In a performance that deepens the canon of American ethnic literature, Hijuelos evokes, by day,
a New York of crowded Harlem apartments made cheery by Cuban hospitality, and by night, a raucous club scene of stiletto
heels and waxy pompadours—all set against a backdrop of a square, 1950s America that thinks worldliness means knowing the
cha-cha.”
NEW YORK TIMES, Michiko Kakutani – “By turns street-smart and lyrical, impassioned and reflective, The Mambo Kings Play
Songs of Love is a rich and provocative book—a moving portrait of a man, his family, a community and a time.”
PEOPLE – “One lush, tipsy, all-night mambo of a novel about Cuban musicians in strange places like New York City.”
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES – “By turns street-smart and lyrical, impassioned and reflective.... A moving potrait of a man, his
family, a community, and a time.”
THE POSTMAN’S ROUND, Denis Thériault
(Allied Authors Agency)
This short, astonishing, tragicomic love, full of twists and turns novel conjures up the solitary daily life of Bilodo, a
postman who shares a Montreal apartment with his goldfish, Bill. As a result of his indiscretion (steaming open
personal correspondence), Bilodo becomes involved in an exchange of letters between a Guadeloupean beauty, and
Gaston Grandpre, a rather eccentric intellectual whose mail Bilodo delivers. Funny, subtle, and original.
Rights sold to: French Canada (XYZ editeur), English Canada (Dundurn), Germany (DTV Verlag), China (Shanghai Joint
Pub. Co), Taiwan (Business Weekly Pub)
Film rights sold to: Solofilms, Canada
LE DEVOIR – “The Postman’s Round is a captivating philosophical tale, full of powerful imagination. Denis Theriault proves to
be a fabulous storyteller.”
THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND, Indu Sundaresan
(Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)
Queen of Taj dynasty fiction, Indu Sundaresan turns her colorful palette to the fraught history of the warring players
in contest to rescue or steal the Koh-i-noor Diamond, a dazzling stone, symbol of the conquest India, that has
rested quietly in the Tower of London for over a century
Delivery: Dec 2012
Rights sold to: US (Atria/S&S)
THE RESISTANCE, Peter Steiner
(Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency)
A compelling thriller, arresting, and complex, The Resistance will appeal to fans of John le Carre and Graham
Greene. In what is indubitably Steiner’s finest book to date, ex-CIA operative Louis Morgon attempts to solve a
mystery with roots going back as far as World War II and the resistance in Saint-Leon-sur-Dême, a small French
village, during the Nazi occupation.
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Rights sold to: US (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s)
BOOKLIST, starred review – “brilliant, evocative, elegiac, and suffused with sadness. . . . a powerful and beautiful reminder of
Faulkner's dictum that the only thing truly worth writing about is 'the human heart in conflict with itself'.”
KIRKUS REVIEWS – “a subtle and complex thriller/whodunit, written with wit, intelligence and luminous precision.”
THE REVISER, Fabrizio Hugony Fasanaro
(Gabriella Ambrosioni Literary Agency)
A Grisham-like legal thriller set in the revising society world, is the first Italian sponsored e-book.
THE STRIKE OF THE ARCHEOLOGISTS, Francis Dannemark
(Allied Authors Agency)
The setting of this story is Venice in the midst of winter but far from its image, Venice isn’t a nostalgic fragile
seaside village in this story, but an extremely light one, mirroring the lost foundations of Françoise and Ludovic’s
relationship.
Rights sold to: France (Castor Astral), Italy (Avaglione)
L’EXPRESS – “Francis Dannemark fait preuve, une fois de plus, d’un art d’aller au coeur des choses par la voie la plus
simple.”
THE TRINITY GAME, Sean Chercover
(Amazon Publishing)
Vatican investigator Daniel Byrne’s job: testing and debunking miracle claims around the world. He’s been
successful 721 times. Job number 722, however, is going to be murder.
Rights sold to: Spain (Urano)
DOUGLAS PRESTON – “The Trinity Game takes the reader on the wildest of rides, from a fabulous and truly diabolical
premise to a shattering finale that will leave you gasping for breath. This is one hell of a good thriller.”
STEVE BERRY – “Sean Chercover shows a stellar hand through a coiling plot, weaving one taut drama. The story is tense,
intelligent, harsh, and surprising -- just what a reader wants in a thriller. This one goes on your keeper shelf.”
THE WAY OF THE DOG, Sam Savage
(Coffee House Press)
Sam Savage, over 1 million copies sold worldwide, offers his most intimate, tender novel yet following the aging
Harold Nivenson, a minor painter and once wealthy art collector now who lives alone in a decaying mansion.
Rights sold to: Spain (Seix Barral), Catalonia (Columna)
Rights of his previous work, GLASS sold to: Spain (Seix Barral), Catalonia (Columna), Portugal (Planeta), Russia (Atticus)
Praises for Sam Savage’s previous works:
MICHAEL SCHAUB, Bookslut - “Sam Savage has become one of America’s funniest, cleverest, and most vital writers of
fiction.”
LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred review - “[…] its take on the overriding truth of memory and the heroic task of solitude, this is
an original and compelling book.”
THE WRITER - “In a novel that essentially lacks a plot, he nonetheless creates one of the most intriguing stories -and one of
the most vivid characters- that this reader has encountered this year.”
THE WISDOM OF HAIR, Kim Boykin
(Taryn Fagerness Agency)
In Kim Boykin’s novel hair is not only wise, it’s witty and eloquent. Every good beautician knows: when a woman
wants to radically change her hair, what she really wants is to change her life. The Wisdom of Hair is a lovely,
engaging novel, and Zora Adams is a heroine to root for.
Rights sold to: US (Berkley)
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THE WITCH OF LITTLE ITALY, Suzanne Palmieri
(Taryn Fagerness Agency)
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood meets Practical Magic in this debut about family secrets and finding
home. Elly falls into the past to learn the secrets of her magical family, secrets that will unlock a woven with magic
mystery from years ago. The trouble started for the Amore family during the tragic and triumphant days of post
WWI America, and clings fast to the air around them still.
Rights sold to: US (St. Martin’s Press), Italy (Garzanti, preempt)
JOANNE RENDELL, author of Out of the Shadows - “[A] poignant, beautiful tale of love, magic, history, and family.”
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ, NYTimes bestselling author - “An enchanting debut, Palmieri's plot makes for a wickedly good
read!”
KELLY SIMMONS, author of Standing Still - “A mystical family secret hidden in a spicy Italian stew.”
THE WOLVES OF ST. PETER’S, Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk
(Westwood Creative Artists)
An exciting, highly atmospheric historical novel that’s also a murder mystery. Set in Itlay during the Renaissance,
this is perfect for fans of Sarah Dunant, Sarah Walters and Donna Leon too. Rome, November 1508. But not the
Rome of historical romances, Renaissance fairs, or Da Vinci Code-style conspiracy theories. This is Rome as it
really was then: a violent, corrupt, medieval town of disease-ridden slums, where in the absence of accountable law
enforcement, citizens form their own complex – but not always trustworthy – networks of protection and support.
Rights sold to: Canada (HarperCollins)
THE WORLD, Bill Gaston
(Penguin Canada)
Weaving together four heartbreaking stories, Gaston transforms the cruelty of life into something not only beautiful
but redemptive. Wise and warm, wryly observed and deftly executed, The World bears the mark of the most
successful literary fiction – it’s both a great artistic achievement and an engrossing read.
TOKE, Jugal Mody
(Siyahi Literary Consulting)
So Lord Vishnu showed up one morning when I was really stoned and asked me to save the world from turning
undead. How did I save the world? I didn’t. We did. And while saving the world, I got to forcefully kiss the girl of
my dreams. Many times. My best friends got to smoke a lot of good shit. Hi. I’m Nikhil. This is my story. And I
swear I have a t-shirt to prove it.
Rights sold to: India (HarperCollins)
TRAVELLING FEVER, Diane Broeckhoven
(Allied Authors Agency)
The -stand alone- follow up to the smash-hit that was A Day With Mr. Jules, Travelling Fever offers more of
Broeckhoven’s exquisite writing and delicate views on the life as it is being lead by the elderly couple of Jules and
Alice…
Rights sold to: Flanders (House of Books), Netherlands (House of Books), Germany (Beck Verlag)
UNDER SIEGE, Saara Kesävuori
(Elina Ahlbäck Literary Agency)
A young man who is released from a psychiatric hospital where was committed for brutal murder as a minor. On an
isolated island, seven people gather for a retreat. Before long, a body is found on the island and when a storm breaks
out, there is no escape for anyone. A world-class bloodchilling page turner.
VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT, Amy Tan
(Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)
Valley of Amazement, set against the backdrop of Shanghai and San Francisco 1890 to 1939, is the story of a
Chinese-American courtesan in Shanghai, whose elite clients deal in the volatile foreign trade market.
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Delivery: Fall 2012
Rights sold to: Canada (HarperCollins), Catalan (Edicions 62), Germany (Goldmann), Poland (Proszynski), Spain (Planeta),
UK (HarperCollins), US (Ecco)
WHEN IT RAINS, Francis Dannemark
(Allied Authors Agency)
A wonderful allegory, this novel evokes the slow discomposure of a writer. At his publisher’s place, a woman read
his latest manuscript and she proposes to buy it, but not to publish it as a book but for her alone, very much the
same way one would buy a painting or another unique object of art. With a considerable amount of money offered,
it is now up to the writer to decide whether he wants to sell his novel – read: his life, his life in art and thus his spirit,
in this way or not.
Rights sold to: France (Castor Astral)
TÉLÉRAMA – “Ce pourrait être ce genre de récit intime, doucement stylisé. Mais dans ce roman-là, il y a aussi une folle et
bizarre interrogation. Mélancolique, parfois amer, Qu’il pleuve déstabilise et irradie.”
WHOM THE GODS DESTROY, Gianluca Morozzi
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
A grotesque, fascinating, surreal, fun, gripping, mature and intelligent novel built on different levels, a hybrid of
different literary genres and styles: comic books, movies, history of music. Two parallel stories, two similar, but very
different universes.
Rights sold to: Italy (Guanda)
Film rights: Perfect Circle (Canada)
LA REPUBBLICA – “Grotesque, fascinating, surreal, fun, gripping. A very mature novel, intelligent, built on different levels,
a hybrid of different literary genres and styles: comic books, movies, history of music.”
WICKED CITY, Alaya Johnson
(Jill Grinberg Literary Management)
Gangs of New York meets True Blood. A thrilling series of paranormal novels set in 1920s New York City, a city of
flappers, bootleggers, vampires... and one sexy djinn. In this page-turning follow up to MOONSHINE, it’s summer
in the city and most vampires are drunk on the blood-based intoxicant Faust.
Rights sold to: US (Griffin)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “Fans of Stephanie Meyer and Charlaine Harris will be engaged by Johnson’s light, tongue-incheek
approach.”
RT BOOK REVIEWS - “[…] combines historical and fantasy fiction for a fresh and inspired take on vampires...Johnson
writes with great verve and wit, and readers will hope for many sequels.”
LOCUS - “A sassy, dedicated heroine...a lot of fun.”
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● NON FICTION ●
52 SMALL CHANGES, Brett Blumenthal
(Amazon Publishing)
52 Small Changes addresses all areas of wellbeing, including nutrition, exercise, stress management, mental
wellness, and even the health of one’s home environment. By guiding readers through these changes at an easy,
manageable pace, Blumenthal provides an engaging roadmap to lasting results and “a happier, healthier you.”
AFTERLIVES OF THE SAINTS, Colin Dickey
(Unbridled Books)
An incredible journey into the lives of the strangest saints and how those stories have affected our own times. A
strange hagiography about the ways in which the stories of the saints reflect on our own preoccupations.
Praises of his previous title, Cranioklepty.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – “The word ‘skullduggery’ finds a new meaning in Dickey's well-vetted account.... Blending
science with historical drama, Dickey's book illuminates the mystery and controversy of a bizarre tradition throughout the
ages.”
AMERICAN NATIONS, Colin Woodard
(Jill Grinberg Literary Management)
One of PW Top 10 Fall 2011 Books, this is a PW Fall 2011 “Top Ten Politics” Pick, a revolutionary and revelatory
history of North America’s myriad identities and how the conflicts between them have shaped the past and are
molding the future.
Rights sold to: US (Viking)
KIRKUS starred review - “Woodard offers a fascinating way to parse American (writ large) politics and history in this
excellent book.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Fall 2011 Top Ten Politics pick – “Woodard explains away partisanship in American Nations...
which makes the provocative claim that our culture wars are inevitable. North America was settled by groups with distinct
political and religious value, and we haven’t had a moment’s peace since.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review – “[American Nations’] compelling explanations and apt descriptions will fascinate
anyone with an interest in politics, regional culture, or history.”
BOSTON GLOBE – “A smart read that feels particularly timely now, when so many would claim a mythically unified
"Founding Fathers'' as their political ancestors.”
LIBRARY JOURNAL – “An accessible, well-researched analysis with appeal to both casual and scholarly readers.”
THE WASHINGTON POST - “[A] compelling and informative attempt to make sense of the regional divides in North
America in general and this country in particular....Woodard provides a bracing corrective to an accepted national narrative
that too often overlooks regional variations to tell a simpler and more reassuring story.”
BABY CARE: NURTURING YOUR BABY, YOUR WAY, Rhodanthe Lipset
(Finch Publishing)
Covers all aspects of newborn baby care. Easy-to-follow and amply illustrated with photos, it offers practical advice
on preparing for the baby’s arrival, breastfeeding and expressing, communication, sleeping, common ailments,
postnatal problems, bonding, immunisation, growth and development.
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COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP 4.0, Carolyn Cobin
(Second City Publishing)
Community Leadership 4.0 offers up strategies and approaches any community can adopt to meet the 21st Century
head-on.
DESIGNER GENES REVOLUTION, Steven Potter, PhD
(International Transactions)
Important and controversial, the explanation of how just as the ancient wolf was morphed into the modern breeds of
dog, humans are about to become something very different, very quickly.
Rights sold to: US & UK (Random House)
ELVIS A. PRESLEY. MUSIC, MAN, MYTH, Marc Hendrickx
(Allied Authors Agency)
In 2012 the 35th anniversary of Presley’s passing is being a focus of attention, and this is the the most representative
book on Elvis, it set a standard, being the book for people with an interest in Elvis Presley, offering the full story,
plenty of unique details, all sales/hit lists, masses of rare photos… Printed, updated & reprinted throughout the
past 15 years, scoring # 1 top sales in four countries next to rave reviews from fans and critics alike, fanclub support
is guaranteed.
- Free use of photos
- Free re-use of lay-out and films
- The original text has been written in Dutch. Translations in French, German and English are available free of charge
- There are several ways to present a thinner version of the book
Rights sold to: Flanders (Vanhalewyck), France (Editions Atlas), Germany (Koch, Hannibal Verlag), Netherlands (House of
Knowledge)
LA LIBRE BELGIQUE – “Proven here beyond a doubt, Marc Hendrickx must rank as one of the most sincere Presley
admirers. One must be, to offer a real ‘standard’. In this study – documented to great effect, the result of years of research –
Hendrickx succeeds, by all accounts, to present an honest biography, ‘responsible journalism’ in other words.”
GAZET VAN ANTWERPEN – “A book that will not only appeal to the Elvis fan, but also to anybody with an intrest in
popular music.”
LA DERNIERE HEURE – “This admiror, who is not blinded by the passion for his subject, delivers the most complete and
the most factually correct biography ever done on the creator of ‘Love Me Tender’.”
HET LAATSTE NIEUWS – “Unique. Loads of never before read stories and unseen illustrations and pictures. Objective.”
ELVIS. MY HAPPINESS – “An immeasurable passion is needed to develop a project of this dimension. Absolutely fabulous,
a 600 page monster, an inextinguishable mine of information.”
IT’S ELVIS TIME – “I have been dealing with Elvis Presley literature for quite some time now, but seldom did I see a more
beautiful book than this impressive work of Marc Hendrickx. Without a doubt one of the very best biographies ever made.
The book is complete, honest and factual, including cute anecdotes and remarks.”
FACE YOUR FEARS, David Tolin
(Taryn Fagerness Agency)
Winner of the Self-help Book of Merit Award, this is a proven plan to beat anxiety, panic, phobias and obsessions.
Proponent of “exposure therapy,” famed psychologist Dr. Tolin shows anyone how to face their fears, big or small.
Rights sold to: US (Wiley), Italy (Armenia)
FIRST-TIME FATHER, Graeme Russell and Tony White
(Finch Publishing)
From their 40 years of research and practical work with new fathers, the authors explore the five most common
questions contemporary dads are asking: How important am I as the father? What does my child need exactly? How
can I connect with my new baby … and stay connected through their lives? How can my partner and I work as a
team? How can I include my child in all aspects of my life?
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HILLBILLY HEART, Billy Ray Cyrus
(Amazon Publishing)
With “Achy Breaky Heart,” Cyrus sold millions of records, toured the world, and helped turn country music into an
international sensation. Deeply revealing, Hillbilly Heart shines a surprising light on one of country music’s most
enduring icons and his notorious Hollywood family.
HOW THE FRENCH INVENTED LOVE, Marilyn Yalom
(Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)
Through Yalom’s literary detective hunt, we shall discover a story of love through the ages that will help us
distinguish what is unique and also what may be universal.
Rights sold to: US (HarperCollins), Brazil (Prumo), France (Galaade), Russia (Exmo)
JEFF, ONE LONELY GUY, Jeff Ragsdale, David Shields, Michael Logan
(Amazon Publishing)
A hilarious, dark, intimate portrait of the way we live now. In October 2011, Jeff Ragsdale, a down-and-out actor
posted a flyer around Lower Manhattan, asking people to call him if they wanted to talk. He thought he’d get a
dozen calls; instead, he got hundreds, then thousands once pictures of the flyer went viral on the net. Here are the
conversations, texts, and voicemails of a particular moment in time.
Rights of authors previous works sold to: Spain (Los Libros del Lince), Norway (Flamme Verlag), Italy (Fazi), France (Au
Diable Vauvert), US (Knopf), UK (Penguin), Brazil (Intrinseca), Portugal (Noticias), Germany (Verlag CH Beck), Turkey
(Kuraldisi Yayinlari), China(Common Masters Press), Korea (Munhakdongne)
BREAT EASTON ELLIS, author of American Psycho – “An overwhelming experience. This short book is the
definitive document so far of where our medium is heading. I’ve never read anything like this.”
LIFE A GUIDE, Andrew Fuller
(Finch Publishing)
By combining humour with quotes from famous people and wisdom drawn from many traditions, Life: A Guide
offers an insightful and inspiring book for people from eighteen to eighty. While it is good to be clear about the
destination, it is how you understand the journey and what you do with it that makes life worthwhile.
Rights sold to: Australia & NZ
MORAL INTELLIGENCE 2.0 (2007 revised edition), Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel
(Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)
This revised edition contains more than 30 percent new material—updated to reflect the financial crisis—of a book
that has become a classic in business circles and at business schools. A dramatic erosion of trust in our business,
financial, and government leaders has provided even stronger evidence of the links between moral intelligence and
optimal business and personal performance.
Rights sold to: US (Wharton School Books/Prentice Hall), Chinese Simple (Huaxia Publishing), Chinese Complex (Human
Cultural Enterprise Co.)
Rights of the original 2007 edition sold to: Brazil (Campus), Poland (Purana), Spain (Aguilar), Germany (Redline), Korea
(BooksNUT), Turkey (CSA Global Publishing), Russia (Callidus)
NAPALM. A HISTORY, Bob Neer
(Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)
The first comprehensive history of gel incendiary ever produced. No book, scholarly article, website or documentary
has told this story. Written as a biography in seven chapters, from its creation at Harvard University in 1942 to
President Barack Obama’s signature in 2009 of the first U.S. treaty to limit its use, Napalm will reveal numerous
aspects of the weapon’s story that have not been described or acknowledged publically until now.
Rights sold to: US (Harvard)
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NOT QUITE THE CLASSICS, Colin Mochrie
(Taryn Fagerness Agency)
Hilarious, a unique humor. Borrowing from a well known improv game, Mochrie takes the first and last lines from
familiar classics and re-imagines everything in between so he takes the reader in bizarre and hilarious new
directions, using the original writer’s words as a launch and landing point. This inspired collection is comical,
quirky, and clever.
Rights sold to: Canada (Penguin Canada)
OUTSIDE IN, Harley Manning and Kerry Bodine
(Amazon Publishing)
Recent market shifts have forced companies to compete not just on product features but also on the quality of
customer interactions. This shift requires a new way to manage companies, looking deep into every process and
incentive to see whether they support the overall goal: to deliver a great customer experience. This book shows how
to harmonize your organization with the real needs of customers.
Rights sold to: Italy (Hoepli), Taiwan (Wealth Press), China (China CITIC Press)
QUINOA REVOLUTION. OVER 150 HEALTHY, GREAT-TASTING RECIPES UNDER 500 CALORIES,
Patricia Green and Carolyn Hemming
(Penguin Canada)
Quinoa Revolution has everything to show you how to cook with this superfood including tips and tricks for
preparation. It shows how the ancient superfood quinoa is revolutionizing the lives of people everywhere,
addressing numerous health and lifestyle concerns such as weight loss, vegetarian diets, food allergies, gluten
intolerance, disease prevention, athletic training, diabetes, heart conditions and more.
Rights sold to: US (Penguin)
RAISING BOYS, Steve Biddulph
(Finch Publishing)
With 28 editions and more than 1 million copies in print, Raising Boys has been a phenomenal bestseller throughout
the world. Why boys are diferent, and how to help them become happy and well-balanced men.
Rights sold to: Australia & NZ, Arabic, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chinese (Complex and Simple), Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia,
France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Nth America, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain,
Thailand, Turkey, UK
RAISING GIRLS, Gisela Preuschoff
(Finch Publishing)
Why girls are diferent, and how to help them grow up hapy and strong. The advice ranges from birth to late
adolescence, and across physical, emotional and sexual development, schools and learning, gender stereotyping,
parent–child relationships (including the turbulent teen years) and how self-esteem can reduce a daughter’s fears.
Rights sold to: Australia & NZ, Arabic, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chinese (Simple) Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France,
Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Nth America, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey,
UK
SEX, BOMBS AND BURGERS, Peter Nowak
(Westwood Creative Artists)
War. Fast Food. Pornography. Pervasive in our culture, these three obsessions may seem to represent the worst
qualities of humankind. But what have our lust, greed and rage driven us to achieve?
Rights sold to: Canada (Penguin), Australia (Allen & Unwin), US (Globe Pequot Press), Korea (Munhakdongne Publishing
Company)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “Informative and entertaining cultural study [...] Nowak's study of the interconnectedness of the
costs and consequences of technological and cultural innovation is occasionally troubling, and consistently entertaining.”
THE GLOBE AND MAIL - “Witty and well-researched… an engaging read, leaving one with several ‘I did not know that’
moments.”
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THE GUARDIAN - “His conclusions are indeed thought-provoking. You can think of it, if you wish, as a modern version of
Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees, which proposed that society's vices are actually good for overall economic health.”
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - “An excellent eye for the riveting and the ridiculous.”
NEW SCIENTIST - “These chapters are hugely entertaining. Nowak - an experienced journalist - confidently treads where
other historians of technology might avoid.”
SHAKESPEARE’S TREMOR AND ORWELL’S COUGH, John J. Ross, MD
(Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)
Were Shakespeare’s shaky handwriting, his obsession with venereal disease, and his premature retirement
connected? What Victorian plague wiped out the entire Brontë family? Did writing Nineteen Eighty-Four kill
George Orwell? John J. Ross, MD, tells the fascinating untold story of the impact of disease on the lives and works
of some the finest writers in the English language.
Rights sold to: UK & Commonwealth (Oneworld), US (St. Martin’s Press)
KIRKUS REVIEWS – “Especially recommended for readers who enjoy historical context with their great books.”
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY – “English majors and medical students alike, not to mention laypeople of all stripes, will enjoy
Ross’s first book.”
BOOKLIST – “Carefully looking at distinguished authors from a medical perspective, Ross blends biography, history,
literature, science, and imagination in just the right doses.”
SPIES IN THE VATICAN, John O. Koehler
(International Transactions)
This book traces and often exposes for the 1st time the truth and the consequences of communist espionage against
the Vatican.
Rights sold to: US & UK (Perseus Books), Poland (Znak), Italy (Newton Compton)
THE 4-HOUR CHEF, Tim Ferriss
(Amazon Publishing)
The 4-Hour Chef builds on Timothy Ferriss’s internationally successful 4-Hour series by transforming the way we
cook, eat, and—most important—learn.
Rights sold to: Brazil (Intrinseca), Lithuania (Eugrimas), Russia (Dobraya Kniga)
THE CAPTAIN’S TOWER.
SEVENTY POETS CELEBRATE BOB DYLAN AT SEVENTY, Phil Bowen (ed.)
(Seren Books)
Seventy poets from seven decades and of seven nationalities celebrate and pay tribute. The Captain’s Tower is a
birthday present anthology of poems concerned with Dylan’s life, his work, and his cultural impact. Foreword by
Ronnie Wood.
THE DOMINO PROJECT, ed. Seth Godin
(Amazon Publishing)
A powered by Amazon series of short books on soft management, life tools and inspirational manifestos selected by Seth
Godin, whose books have changed the way people think about marketing. Purple Cow is the bestselling marketing book of the
decade. Seth’s blog (find it by typing "seth" into Google) is the most popular marketing blog in the world.
As some of the titles are quite short, Seth Godin has approved that if a publisher wants to sell the titles together as
an omnibus edition, they can.
#1 POKE THE BOX, Seth Godin
Rights sold to: Catalan (Proa, Grup 62), Chinese simplified character (China CITIC Press),Czech (Melvil), Dutch (A.W.
Bruna), French (Editions Diateino), French-Canada (Editions Tresor Caché), Indonesian (PT Serambi Ilmu Semesta), Italian
(Sperling), Japanese (Jitsugyo no Nihon sha), Korea (Book21), Polish (Helion), Portuguese, Brazil (Ediouro), Portuguese,
Portugal (Planeta Manuscrito), Russian (Alpina), Spanish (Ediciones B), Thai (Nation Books), Turkish (Kapital)
#2 DO THE WORK, Steven Pressfield: A powerful inspirational manifesto about overcoming resistance and getting out
of your own way.
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Rights sold to: French-Canada (Editions Tresor Caché), Czech (Wolters Kluwer), Korean (Gasan), Russian (Popurri),
Spain (offer)
#3 WE ARE ALL WEIRD, Seth Godin: A 61-page manifesto from New York Times bestseller and marketing guru Seth
Godin, where HE shares his observations about the shifting trends he sees in marketing and consumerism.
Rights sold to: Italian (Sperling), Russian (Alpina), French (Editions Diateino), Chinese simplified character (China CITIC
Press), Indonesian (Mizan), Korean (Book21), Thai (Nation Books)
#4 ANYTHING YOU WANT, Derek Sivers: An hour read of 40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur.
Rights sold to: Russian (Alpina), Brazil (offer), Indonesian (Gradien Mediatama)
#5 READ THIS BEFORE OUR NEXT MEETING, Al Pittampalli: A book that not only explains what’s wrong with
“the meeting,” and meeting culture, but suggests how to make meetings more effective, efficient, and worthy of attending.
#6 PICK FOUR, Zig Ziglar: An updated version of Zig Ziglar’s legendary goal-setting program, The Performance Planner,
simplified and introduced by Seth Godin. Designed to help anyone achieve his or her goals.
#7 TALES OF REVOLUTION, Seth Godin: A collection of first person true stories of people who are going above and
beyond to take initiative and make an impact. Poking the Box and making a difference.
#8 B, Sarah Kay: This short, touching, whimsical, magical book is the perfect gift for every mother and every daughter. B is
a thank you note, a love letter, a wish, a promise, a confession, and a secret. In 2011, Sarah Kay performed her poem “B” at
the TED conference in Long Beach, California to standing ovations.
#9 END MALARIA, Michael Bungay Stanier: All essays here share a wish to inspire readers to look within themselves
for solutions to their everyday dilemmas and for motivation to realize their desires.
#10 THE FLINCH, Julien Smith: Julien Smith has delivered a surprise, a confrontation, a book that will push you, scare
you and possibly stick with you for years to come. The idea is simple: your flinch mechanism can save your life.
THE MUSLIM TIDE, Doug Saunders
(Westwood Creative Artists)
This concise book provides a much-needed debunking of the explosive rumors and urban myths that fuel popular
ideas about a muslim tide sweeping the Western world. Scrupulously argued, this is a book that will provoke
considerable debate and argument over the real nature of our polyglot societies.
Rights sold to: US (Pantheon/Knopf), Canada (Knopf), Germany (Blessing)
THE INDEPENDENT – “Saunders supplies a hugely welcome antidote to the toxic nonsense about Eurabia.”
THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING, Bob Knight
(Amazon Publishing)
He firmly believes and convincingly argues that the best leaders of any kind, whether in the corporate world or on
the court, utilize negative thinking to properly prepare for any scenario. This is less about negativism than it is
about pragmatism, wisdom, and simple common sense. And it works.
(Coach Bob Knight is the second winningest coaches in the history of NCAA basketball and he is the author of Knight: My
Story, which was a NYTimes bestseller and sold over 200,000 copies).
THE RISE OF SUPERMAN, Steven Kotler
(Amazon Publishing)
Sophisticated pop science, futurology, big-think sports, sports narrative, adrenaline-fueled adventure and extreme
sports investigation all in one. This is the story of the radical intersection of biology, technology, psychology and
even spirituality… occurring here in the 21 st Century. Sold in a huge seven-house auction in the US and with a five
figure pre-emptive offer in Japan.
Rights sold to: UK (Quercus), Japan (Hayakawa), Russia (AST)
(manuscript next summer – Spring 2014)
THE SEX DIARIES PROJECT, Arianne Cohen
(Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)
The Sex Diaries that Arianne has compiled have been a hugely successful feature in print and on the website for
New York magazine, generating 5.1 million monthly readers. With this new book Arianne Cohen intends to bring
the Sex Diaries to a global audience, adapting contents to every country where acquired.
Rights sold to: US (John Wiley & Sons), UK & Ireland (Vermillion/RH), Italy (Rizzoli), Bulgary (Trud)
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THE WOMAN WHO CHANGED HER BRAIN, Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
(Westwood Creative Artists)
In her inspiring book, Barbara Arrowsmith Young recalls her own painful struggle with a disabling brain disorder
that caused teachers to label her stupid, stubborn or worse. Interweaving her own powerful personal story with an
Oliver Sacks-like portrayal of the stunning transformations others have made using her groundbreaking exercises,
she introduces readers to the heartbreaks, triumphs, and clinical mysteries she has encountered during her career.
Rights sold to: Australia (HarperCollins), North America (Free Press/Simon & Schuster), UK (Square Peg/Random House),
Australia (HarperCollins), China/Taiwan Complex (Business Weekly Publications), Korea (Korea Price Information)
DAILY MAIL – “Remarkable.”
THE GUARDIAN – “Enthralling.”
VOGUE (AU) – “Compelling and enlightening.”
THE AGE (AU) – “Exciting and hopeful.”
KIRKUS – “Instructive.”
TORONTO STAR – “Fascinating.”
THE POST AND COURIER – “Inspiring.”
INDIA TODAY – “Ground breaking... revolutionary.”
MIRA BARTÓK – “Poignant and uplifting.”
CNN – “Hers was a struggle between despair and determination. Determination won.”
TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS. ADVICE ON LOVE AND LIFE, Cheryl Strayed
(Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)
Sugar, the once-anonymous voice behind the hugely followed “Dear Sugar” column, receiving over a million online
hits from all over the world, has been revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the phenomenally successful WILD.
Sugar guides young and old, women and men, up and down the rollercoaster of life with peerless humor, insight,
and compassion, all in Strayed’s inimitable voice.
Rights sold to: US (Vintage), Italy (Piemme), UK & Commonwealth (Atlantic Books), Korea (Bookie Publishing), Brazil
(Objetiva)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review – “For a regrounding in the beauty of what it means to be flawed and gorgeously
human, for answers that feel real, Strayed’s caring essays offer surprisingly rich comfort.”
KIRKUS REVIEWS – “A realistic and poignant compilation of the intricacies of relationships.”
LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred review – “Beautifully written and genuinely wise, this book is full of heartache and love. Highly
recommended.”
THE WASHINGTON POST – “A fascinating blend of memoir and self-help.”
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE – “To say that Cheryl Strayed is an Internet advice columnist does not do her justice. Tiny
Beautiful Things is a gob-smacking high, a brilliant reinvention of the Miss Lonelyhearts genre.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY – “Beautifully written, honest and forthright, poignant and personal. She proves real
connection is still possible.”
TIME MAGAZINE – “An odd, contradictory and moving invention: an anecdotal memoir—that most narcissistic of
genres—whose every chapter is written lovingly and generously to someone else.”
OPRAH.COM – “A riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser
for the experience.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE – “Tiny Beautiful Things serves as a guide for anyone who is lost, and those who only think
they might be.”
THE HUFFINGTON POST – “A place to lose your heart and find it again. The columns are a gift, and so too is the book.”
SALON – “Strayed has a special talent for glimmering, golden turns of phrase that seem to hold all the promise and hope in
the world—they’re Bible verses for a secular audience.”
TINY HOMES. SIMPLE SHELTER, Lloyd Kahn
(Shelter Publications)
With more than 1.300 photos showing a rich variety of small homemade shelters, in this book are some 150 builders
who have taken things into their own hands, creating tiny homes (under 500 sq. ft.): homes on land, homes on
wheels, homes on the road, homes on water, even homes in the trees.
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WHY HAVE KIDS, Jessica Valenti
(Amazon Publishing)
A provocative and brutally honest exploration of modern parenthood. If parenting is making people unhappy, if it’s
impossible to “have it all,” if people don’t have the economic, social, or political structures needed to support
parenting, then why do it? In Why Have Kids?, Jessica Valenti asks this controversial -but necessary- question.
NEW YORKER – “A book to watch out for”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – “A politicized, anti-What to Expect When You're Expecting that takes an intense and scathing look at
charged contemporary parenting issues. A timely volume that should generate much controversy, this is a call for muchneeded
change and may unite a new generation of moms.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES – “A provocative and intimate exploration of modern parenthood by a gutsy young
third wave feminist.”
YESTERDAY’S TOMORROW. A CONFRONTATION WITH THE WORK OF LEONARD COHEN,
Marc Hendrickx
(Allied Authors Agency)
Leonard Cohen achieved legendary status as a poet and singer/songwriter and the # 1 without competition when it
comes to coupling literature and popular music.
Rights sold to: Flanders (Vanhalewyck), Netherlands (United Media), Spain (Milenio), Portugal (Guerra y Paz), Australia
(Brandl & Schlesinger)
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● SHORT STORIES ●
BETTER LIVING THROUGH PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES, Zsuzsi Gartner
(Penguin Canada)
Whether she takes on evolution and modern manhood, international adoption, real estate, the movie industry,
science and faith, art, or terrorism, Gartner fillets the righteous and the ridiculous with dexterity in equal,
heartbreaking, and glorious measure. Shortlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND - “Zsuzsi Gartner’s writing is dazzling, effortless, and clear as a bell. She’s able to crystallize a
cultural moment in a way entirely her own that is both instantaneous and eternal. I couldn’t let go of it and read it all in one
go.”
HERE COMES ANOTHER LESSON, Stephen O’Connor
(Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency)
From The New Yorker author Stephen O’Connor, highly praised and hotly anticipated, Here Comes Another
Lesson is a deeply inventive collection of stories that examine the limitations of modern humanity and morality in
bold, convincing strokes.
Rights sold to: US & Canadian (Free Press)
TIME OUT NEW YORK – “In his hotly anticipated collection of short stories, Stephen O’Connor makes sense of the
nonsensical.”
KIRKUS – “Everyday people are stalked by strangeness in this artfully bemusing story collection.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – “The stories range from fabulistic to realistic, and the best ones retain a vague fealty to reality,
though the alternate worlds visited are sketched with a skewed, knowing hand.”
BOOKLIST – “O’Connor shrewdly allows his readers to walk the line between reality and fantasy, blurring the boundaries
between two worlds.”
BOOKHOUNDS – “These short vignettes could easily be some of the greatest thirty minutes on television today.”
NO ANIMALS WE COULD NAME, Ted Sanders
(Graywolf Press)
The animals (human or otherwise) in Ted Sanders’s inventive, wistful debut collection are oddly familiar, yet unlike
anyone you’ve met before.
DAN CHAON – “The stories in No Animals We Could Name do surprising and innovative things with the short story form.
Ted Sanders is one of a kind, and this book puts him at the forefront of young writers who are breathing new, fresh life into
the short story genre.”
RUST AND BONE, Craig Davidson
(Penguin Canada)
Adapted for film by celebrated director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet), and starred by Academy Award-winner
Marion Cotillard, the film, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year to great acclaim, will be released in the
US, UK, and Canada this Fall. In steel-tipped prose, Craig Davidson conjures up a dark, savage world.
Rights sold to: France (Albin Michel), Italy (Stile Libero/Einaudi), UK (Picador), US (W.W. Norton)
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THE HEYDAY OF THE INSENSITIVE BASTARDS, Robert Boswell
(Graywolf Press)
Robert Boswell’s extraordinary range is on full display in this crackling new collection. Set mainly in small, gritty
American cities, each of these stories is a world unto itself.
RICHARD RUSSO - “Like Richard Yates, Robert Boswell seems always to wish he had better news for us. In the wideranging
stories of The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, he wishes we weren’t so lost, so conflicted, so stubborn in our
misapprehensions. But he's been watching us too closely, with too clear an eye, too keen an intelligence, and besides, Boswell’s
real talent, like Yates’s, is for telling us the truth.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “In this imaginative story collection, author Boswell examines the limits and losses of ordinary
souls with technical mastery and profound sympathy.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - “[Boswell] shows a sensitive and comprehensive understanding of the quirks
that can shake a person off course: from fear, passivity and pride to external knocks and dings that are easier to spot, harder to
fix.”
KIRKUS - “Heartbreakers from a writer who knows how to do it right.”
THE KEYS OF BABYLON, Robert Minhinnick
(Seren Books)
All over the world people are on the move, searching for a better life. In this collection of interlinked short stories the
author draws the individual narratives together, at the same hour on one same momentous day, so we encounter the
same characters one final time.
JIM PERRIN – “The finest writer working in any genre in Wales today.”
SEAN O’BRIEN – “The leading Welsh poet of his generation.”
THIS CLOSE, Jessica Francis Kane
(Graywolf Press)
A graceful, moving collection that explore the tensions between friendship and neighborliness, home and travel,
family and ambition.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - “Kane’s stories take place in what feels like Lorrie Moore and Alice Munro
country -they smartly uncork the heartache, panic and frustration of characters caught in situations that expose their
vulnerability.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW – “Kane’s stories take place in what feels like Lorrie Moore and Alice Munro
country.”
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● MEMOIR ●
AN ACCIDENTAL MOTHER, Katherine Anne Kindred
(Unbridled Books)
An Accidental Mother beautifully describes the joys of mothering a young boy through complicated times. With
sweet simple anecdotes and complex emotions, Kate Kindred marks every page with tears, including those that the
most loving laughter can bring to any parent.
NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS – “Poignant.”
BORN TO RUN AFTER, Gianluca Morozzi
(Nabu International Literary & Film Agency)
The story of a Bolognese writer’s happy obsession for Bruce in 51 chapters: fifty Bruce Springsteen concerts around
the world, from Caserta to New York, from Perugia to Paris, from Zurich to Casalecchio, told through letters to exgirlfriends
and letters to Bruce. 50 Bruce Springsteen concerts seen through the eyes of a fan.
Rights sold to: Italy (Castelvecchi)
LA REPUBBLICA – “A book that is part novel, part diary, part epistolary, part a fantastical account and part a surreal story,
passing from traditional forms of storytelling to adaptations of blogs or text messages, and imitations of social networks.”
BRINGING MULLIGAN HOME, Dale Maharidge
(Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency)
Bringing Mulligan Home is Dale Maharidge’s -former newspaper reporter- story of unraveling his father’s
experience in World War II. It is a universal story, and has particular relevance in light of current global events.
Rights sold to: US & UK (PublicAffairs)
CATCH UP WITH THE SUN, Heidi Douglas
(Finch Publishing)
The unusual and entertaining story of Heidi Douglas’s solo journey through outback Australia accompanied by a
horse, two camels and a dog. In this compelling and humorous account of an extraordinary journey, we share her
experiences of the obstacles, the remarkable landscape and the unusual people she encountered in her travels.
Unexpectedly, her travelling companions and their marvellous personalities actually steal the show!
COOKED SEED, Anchee Min
(Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency)
Fifteen years after the publication of the international bestseller Red Azelea, Anchee Min returns to the story of her
own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from her the shocking deprivations of her
homeland to America, arriving without language, money or a clear path. An unforgettable journey between two
radically different cultures, this is an honest and incredible story of success in the face of bitter hardship.
Rights sold to: UK (Bloomsbury), Netherlands (Contact), Spain (Random House)
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FEAR ITSELF, Candida Lawrence
(Unbridled Books)
In light of the crisis at the Fukushima Nuclear Station in Japan, Fear Itself becomes a cautionary tale of a remarkable personal
story and an honest account of what it is to live in an unstable world. Unwittingly exposed to low-level radiation in the 1940s,
Candida Lawrence has lived courageously with its effects throughout her life.
BOOKLIST – “Lawrence writes about her tough life with fierce exactitude and generous candor. Her recount’s nothing less
than crimes against humanity.”
GRACE PALEY – “Frightening in its detailed information about the lives (old and unborn) lost to the secret keepers of the
national and corporate nuclear industries.”
INTO THE ABYSS. A TRUE STORY, Carol Shaben
(Westwood Creative Artists)
On a wintry October night in 1984, a plane bound for remote communities in the far north of Canada set off into
freezing clouds and low visibility. Four hours later, the plane smashed head-long into an isolated forest. Only four –
strangers from wildly different backgrounds – would survive: the young pilot, a respected politician, an easygoing
young cop and the criminal handcuffed to Scott. Into the Abyss is an incredible story of tragedy and hope; of four
lives changed for ever by the fierce crucible of a deadly night in the wilderness, and by what came after.
Rights sold to: US (Grand Central), UK (Picador/Macmillan), Canada (Random House), Holland (Carrera Uitgeverij), Spain
(Roca)
MEMOIRS OF AN ADDICTED BRAIN, Marc Lewis
(Westwood Creative Artists)
A neurocientist examines his former life on drugs. Written for the general public, a gripping, ultimately triumphant
memoir that’s also the most comprehensive and comprehensible study of the neuroscience of addiction
Rights sold to: Canada (Doubleday), US (Public Affairs), Australia (Scribe)
KIRKUS BOOK REVIEWS - “Developmental neuroscientist Lewis examines his odyssey from minor stoner to helpless, fullblown
addict. From opium pipe to orbitofrontal cortex, a smoothly entertaining interplay between lived experience and the
particulars of brain activity.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STARRED REVIEW – “In this meticulous, evocative memoir, … Lewis’s unusual blend of
scientific expertise, street cred, vivid subjectivity and searching introspection yields a compelling perspective on the perils and
allure of addiction.”
MY LIFE IN A PEA SOUP, Lisa Hops
(Finch Publishing)
Winner of the Finch Memoir Prize 2012, Lisa Nop’s account of coming to terms with her much longed-for
daughter’s profound autism is engrossing and compelling honest.
SHRAPNEL, William Wharton
(Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency)
One of the most acclaimed American writers of his generation and author of classic novels, William Wharton was a
very private man, he rarely gave interviews. Now, for the first time, we are able to read the author’s own account of
his experiences during the Second World War, the tales that Wharton never wanted to tell his children.
Rights sold to: US & Canada (Morrow), UK (Harper UK)
THE BOY IN THE MOON, Ian Brown
(Westwood Creative Artists)
NYTimes Top 10 Books of 2011, The Boy in the Moon is the story of a father’s deeply felt, crisply reasoned, and
masterfully told attempt to determine the value of his son’s disabled life -it’s cost, not only to his son, but to those
who care for him 24 hours a day, and its benefits.
Rights sold to: US (St. Martin’s Press), Canada (Random House), France (Albin Michel), Australia (Scribe), Germany
(Random House), Korea (Bookie Publishing House), Arabic (Arab Foundation for Education and Culture, AFEC), Indonesia
(Tiga Serangkai), Taiwan (China Complex, Shy Mau Publishing Co), Beijing (China Simplified, Shanghai 99 Culture Co)
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THE NEW YORK TIMES – “Brown combines a reporter’s curiosity with a novelist’s instinctive feel for the unknowable in
this exquisite book, at once tender, pained and unexpectedly funny.”
THIS ABILITY MAGAZINE - “Like any good journalist, he looks for the meaning of Walker’s life from many different
points of view.”
WALRUS MAGAZINE - “Given the current glut of smug daddy blogs and cutesy mommy memoirs, it’s bracing to read a
story about parenthood in which there is something so extraordinary at stake.”
A Hiroshima 1st hand memoir.
Rights sold to: France (Éditions du Cénade de France)
THE DAY THE SUN FELL, Bun Hashizume
(International Transactions)
THE MEMORY PALACE, Mira Bartok
(Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)
Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, in her stunning literary memoir, The
Memory Palace, Mira Bartok navigates the treacherous territory that is life with a charismatic and loving but
schizophrenic mother.
Rights sold to: US (The Free Press), China (Heliopolis Culture Group), Greece (Metaixmio)
KIRKUS REVIEWS – “A disturbing, mesmerizing personal narrative about growing up with a brilliant but schizophrenic
mother… Richly textured, compassionate and heartbreaking.”
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife – “The Memory Palace is almost a fairy tale: two little girls
grow up under the spell of their mother's madness. This is an extraordinary book.”
JACQUELINE SHEEHAN, NY Times bestselling author of Lost & Found – “Schizophrenia is more than a thief of the mind
and Mira Bartok gives us the layered understanding to see the illness for all its cruel manifestations when the illness hijacks her
mother. The writing is spectacular.”
THE YELLOW-LIGHTED BOOKSHOP, Lewis Buzbee
(Graywolf Press)
Rich with anecdotes, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop is the perfect choice for those who relish the enduring
pleasures of spending an afternoon finding just the right book.
Rights sold to: Spain (Roca/Libros del Atril), Korea (Munhakdongne), Poland (Czuly Barbarzynca), Mainland China
(Reader’s Cornerstore), Taiwan (Net and Books)
BOOKLIST - “Both anecdotal and eloquent, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop is a tribute to those who crave the cozy confines of a
bookshop, a place to be ‘alone among others’ and savor a bountiful literary buffet.”
KIRKUS - “A leisurely stroll with a knowledgeable but unpretentious companion through some very interesting aisles.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - “When [Lewis Buzbee] describes walking into a bookstore, feasting his eyes on the walls lined
with stock, gravitating to the tables stacked with new issues and then discovering some volume so irresistibly beautiful he just
has to buy it, you realize that he just doesn't love books, he’s besotted.”
TRÈS CHÈRE MÈRE, Éva Böröcz
(Éditions Hurtubise)
In this autobiographical account, Éva Böröcz tells the heartrending story of a young woman who fled her native
Hungary after the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The brutality of exile and the difficulties of integration are
depicted in a series of six long letters to her mother.
UNDER THE SKIN, Marion van Dyk
(Finch Publishing)
Marion van Dyk’s absorbing story submerges the reader in the world of South Africa in the 1950s through to the
1980s. Classified as a ‘coloured’ by an apartheid government, she and her family are forced to live as second-class
citizens, caught between the worlds of black and white.
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WHEN FREEDOM IS CALLED “JAIPUR”, Gabriella Steindler Moscati
(Gabriella Ambrosioni Literary Agency)
A true story coming from the author’s researches among her family memories, diaries, letters and documents she
has found into her grandparents’ house in Perugia. Her uncle wrote a daily diary and he noted all that which was
happening and sent many letters home. A remarkable memoir.
WILD, Cheryl Strayed
(Zachary Shuster Harmsworth)
Sold in a major six-figure preempt to Knopf, Eat, Pray, Love meets Into the Wild. A unique fusion, an inspiring
story of a young woman on the edge and a suspenseful wilderness adventure tale, by an intense, funny, and selfaware
acclaimed writer selected twice for The Best American Essays.
* #1 New York Times Bestseller
* Amazon book of the month, B&N discovery and the ABA’s Indie Next List #1
* Film rights sold to Reese Witherspoon
* First book selection for Oprah Winfrey’s revived book club
Rights sold to: US (Knopf), UK and Commonwealth (Atlantic Books), Italy (Piemme), Brazil (Objetiva), Netherlands
(Luitingh-Sijthoff), Germany (Random House), France (Flammarion), Finland (Like/Otava), Korea (Tornado Publishing),
Denmark (C&K Forlag), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Aschehoug), Chinese Simple (China Citic), Poland (Znak), World
Spanish (Roca Editorial), Czech Republic (Euromedia), Slovakia (Ikar), Chinese Complex (Faces Publications), Israel
(Kinneret-Zmora), Catalan (Cossetània), Finland (Otava), Hungary (Cartaphilus), Turkey (Pegasus Yayinlicik), Romania
(Editura Spandugino), Croatia (Znanje)
NEW YORK TIMES - “This book is loose and sexy and dark. It’s got a punk spirit and makes an earthy and American sound.
The lack of ease in her life made her fierce and funny; she hammers home her hard-won sentences like a box of nails.”
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - “Both a literary and human triumph.”
KIRKUS starred review - “A candid, inspiring narrative of the author’s brutal physical and psychological journey through a
wilderness of despair to a renewed sense of self.”
PEOPLE - “Grace, wild humor and transcendent insights. Strayed’s language is so vivid, sharp and compelling that you feel
the heat of the desert, the frigid ice of the High Sierra and the breathtaking power of one remarkable woman finding her
way—and herself—one brave step at a time.”
THE BOSTON GLOBE - “An addictive, gorgeous book that not only entertains, but leaves us the better for having read it.”
VOGUE - “A deeply honest memoir about mother and daughter, solitude and courage, and regaining footing one step at a
time.”
VANITY FAIR - “In Wild, Strayed recounts the road to redemption—a road buried in snow, crawling with rattlers, and
patrolled by bears—with humor and irrefutably hard-won wisdom.”
MARIE CLAIRE - “Clear, honest, and quietly riveting.”
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● POETRY ●
JUNE FOURTH ELEGIES, Liu Xiaobo
(Graywolf Press)
With a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a groundbreaking collection of poems written in memory of the
Tiananmen Square protests, by the jailed Chinese political activist and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
Rights sold to: Spain (Kailas)
PAUL AUSTER - “One cannot talk about these poems strictly in terms of poetry. They are a monument of rage against the
murderous powers of injustice, one man's relentless counter-argument to the logic of totalitarian oppression. The imprisoned
Liu Xiaobo is surely one of the world's most ardent defenders of human freedom, of the right of every person to live in an
open society governed by laws, not guns.”
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
LIFE ON MARS, Tracy K. Smith
(Graywolf Press)
Rights sold to: World Spanish (Vasa Roto), German (Wunderhorn), Japanese (Heibonsha)
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW – “In Life on Mars, Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and
ambition. As all the best poetry does, Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then
returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled.”
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YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN
TITLES
ADAMS LITERARY 49
ALBERT WHITMAN & CO. 50
AMAZON PUBLISHING 51
BARRY GOLDBLATT LITERARY AGENCY 53
DIAL DUTTON (PENGUIN GROUP US) 55
FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX (MACMILLAN US) 57
HARPER COLLINS USA 61
HENRY HOLT (MACMILLAN US) 64
JILL GRINBERG LITERARY MANAGEMENT 66
LERNER BOOKS 69
NANCY GALLT LITERARY AGENCY 71
PHILOMEL BOOKS (PENGUIN GROUP US) 72
ROARING BROOK PRESS (MACMILLAN US) 74
SCHOLASTIC AUSTRALIA 75
SCHOLASTIC CANADA 76
SIMON & SCHUSTER 77
TARYN FAGERNESS LITERARY AGENCY 81
UPSTART CROW LITERARY 84
VIKING PUFFIN PENGUIN USA 85
WERNICK & PRATT 87
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ADAMS LITERARY
Spain, Latin America, Portugal & Brazil, www.adamsliterary.com
• Young Adult fiction •
THESE EYES TRILOGY, Kate Tienman. (Disney-Hyperion, 2013)
Cate Tiernan explores the hidden, compelling world of haguari (were-cats) as only she can, with rich, multifaceted
characters, evocative settings, and delicious YA romance.
Rights sold: Portuguese – Brazil (Novo Conceito); Portuguese – Portugal (Planeta Manuscrito); Polish.
Three worlds. Three love stories. One enemy.
A space-age TITANIC, WRECKED is the unlikely love and survival story of a wealthy teen socialite, Lilac LaRoux, and a
young war hero, Tarver Merendsen, who crash land on an uncharted planet after her father's flagship spaceliner, the
supposedly invincible Icarus, goes down mid-voyage. Told in alternating perspectives, the two must survive harsh conditions
and mysterious events—not to mention each other—on the abandoned terraformed outpost on their way to rescue.
The first in a trilogy, WRECKED sets into motion a series of timeless, standalone love stories that span galaxies—and are
linked by their shared worlds and common enemy: the monolithic LaRoux Industries, the most powerful of the terraforming
companies in the universe.
THE CAGE TRILOGY, Megan Shepherd. (Balzer+Bray, Summer 2014)
Page-turning, accessibly sci-fi and breathlessly romantic dystopian novel
Rights sold: Portuguese – Brazil (Novo Conceito).
Cora Mason wakes up in a desert with no knowledge of where she is or how she got there. She discovers that along with two
other girls and three boys—one of whom, Will, is from her town—she has been brought to an enormous “cage” that
contains small microcosms of various environments: a forest, a desert, a farm, a sea, and a city. Cora soon realizes they are
specimens collected in a “human zoo” operated by the Kindred, a race who appear human but are stronger, psychic, and
have mysterious black eyes. The six human characters try to organize themselves in their new environment while planning an
escape, though interpersonal tensions threaten the group’s stability.
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ALBERT WHITMAN & COMPANY
Spain, Latin America, Portugal & Brazil, www.albertwhitman.com
• Young Adult fiction •
THE LIFEGUARD, Deborah Blumenthal. (March 2012) Ages 13 up.
Sirena spends her summer with her aunt and meets a lifeguard with shamanic skills. He both saves her and makes her feel
lost at sea.
• Children’s books •
HOW TO BE FRIENDS WITH A DRAGON, Valerie Gorbachev. (March 2012) Ages 4-7.
A young boy goes to his sister for advice on how to befriend a dragon. The advice she gives him is worthwhile, but will he
listen to it?
PRINCESS K.I.M. AND THE LIE THAT GREW, Maryann Cocca-Leffler. (March 2009) Ages 6-9.
Kim wants the kids at her new school to like her, so she tells a little lie about being a princess. Soon the lie begins to grow
and it becomes harder for Kim to tell the truth.
Rights sold: Korea; Portuguese – Brazil.
PRINCESS KIM AND TOO MUCH TRUTH, Maryann Cocca-Leffler. (March 2011) Ages 6-9.
Kim decides to only tell the truth...always. But sometimes too much truth can be hurtful. Kim first appeared in Princess
K.I.M. and the Lie That Grew.
Rights sold: Portuguese – Brazil.
WHY DO ELEPHANTS NEED THE SUN?, Robert E. Wells. (September 2010) Ages 7-9.
Wells of Knowledge Science series.
Awards: Top 10 Sci-Tech Books for Youth 2010, Booklist; SB&F Children’s Science Picture Book Prize.
Rights sold: Korean
Interests: science, gravity, earth, environment
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AMAZON PUBLISHING
Spain, Latin America, Portugal & Brazil, www.amazon.com/amazonpublishing
• Middle-grade fiction •
R.L.Stine
The Stephen King of Children's Literature is back with six new creepy stories!
THE 13TH WARNING, R.L.Stine. (Amazon publishing, April 2012). Ages: 9 and up.
Joseph has always had such good luck that his nickname is Lucky. Tomorrow, he is going to turn thirteen on the thirteenth
of the month. He’s the thirteenth child in a family with thirteen kids…and both of his parents are also thirteenth children.
With so many thirteens, his luck is bound to run out!
An old man and a woman with a black cat visit Lucky to warn him that he has too many thirteens in his life. And if he
collects thirteen thirteens by midnight on his birthday, he’ll unleash evil spirits. Almost as soon as the old man and the
woman leave, the bad luck begins. And the thirteens just keep coming: the thirteen doughnuts his teacher gives him, the
thirteen he scores on his pop math quiz, the thirteen barks from his normally quiet dog. Now Lucky is driving himself crazy
adding up everything he comes across. Can he break the curse of thirteen in time? Clever and fun, The 13th Warning is certain
to spook young readers.
MY ALIEN PARENTS, R.L.Stine. (Amazon publishing, April 2012). Ages: 9 and up.
Rights sold: Spain (Ediciones B)
Ten-year-old Rob thought he knew all there was to know about his parents, but suddenly things have changed. Why do
Mom and Dad keep warning him not to ask too many questions? Could aliens from another world really have replaced his
parents? And what’s happened to Snappy, the family dog? Soon Rob’s writing down all the latest weird developments in a
notebook entitled REASONS WHY MY PARENTS ARE ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE. Can he figure it out before
it’s too late? It’s another eerily fun thriller from the inventive mind of R.L. Stine.
THE ADVENTURE OF SHRINKMAN, R.L.Stine. (Amazon publishing, April 2012). Ages: 9 and up.
Rights sold: Spain (Ediciones B)
When Danny Marin isn’t playing basketball, he spends hours drawing Shrinkman, his favorite comic-book superhero, or
watching Shrinkman movies. His hero can shrink to the size of a bug. But, whoa—wait. Suddenly, Danny finds himself
shrinking, too! His parents are horrified, his friend Megan thinks it’s funny, and his doctor is baffled. With each passing hour,
Danny gets smaller and smaller—until he’s the size of a sparrow. Soon he’s fighting for his life against a grasshopper, a
colony of ants, and even his own dog. He isn't safe anywhere. He has to find a cure—before he shrinks away forever.Funny
and terrifying and filled with BIG surprises, The Adventures of Shrinkman proves that it takes more than size to overcome
impossible hurdles.
THREE FACES OF ME, R.L.Stine. (Amazon publishing, April 2012). Ages: 9 and up.
When Ira Fishman wins a prize in the machine outside a candy store, he’s disappointed it’s not the squirt gun he had his eye
on. The little black plastic box looks like a camera, but when Ira presses the green button on top, nothing happens.
After dinner that night, Ira can’t believe what he sees in his room: a boy with the same clothes—and face—as Ira! He tries to
get this second Ira to leave, but it’s no use. Deciding to have a little fun, Ira makes the boy go to school in his place—but it’s
a disaster. The new Ira isn’t good at math like the real Ira, and he’s horrible at softball. Worst of all, he plays with the girls
during recess! Ira’s clone is ruining his rep—fast. And when a third Ira shows up, Ira number one has to find a way to make
the others disappear for good before his whole world is turned upside down. But how do you get rid of yourself?
THE CREATURES FROM BEYOND BEYOND, R.L.Stine. (Amazon publishing, April 2012). Ages: 9 and up.
Rights sold: Spain (Ediciones B)
Randi and her twin brother, Tyler, didn’t think it was such a great idea for their family to spend the summer in a vacant
house in a small town called Blairingville. Boringvilleseemed more like it. But as it turns out, the vacation was anything but
boring!
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There’s a surprise in every closet here—and not the good kind. Alien creatures are lurking, mysterious dolls are growing, and
there’s a sinister twelve-year-old boy with a powerful hypnotic pendant who may hold the key to the entire mystery. Now if
Randi can just escape a monster’s clutches, send some space visitors back to who knows where, and regain control of her
free will, she might just get her family back home in one piece. It’s another scary good read from the master of shriek-outloud
horror, R.L. Stine.
ZOMBIE TOWN, R.L.Stine. (Amazon publishing, April 2012). Ages: 9 and up.
Rights sold: Spain (Ediciones B)
This used to be such a nice, quiet town. But that was before all the zombies. When twelve-year-old Mike and his friend,
Karen, go to see a horror movie called Zombie Town, the last thing they expect is for the title characters to come down off the
screen and chase them through the theater. And it’s not popcorn these hungry creatures want to chomp on—it’s human
brains!
Now Mike and Karen frantically try to flee through the panicked streets of their hometown before shuffling bands of
zombies turn every last citizen into a ravenous flesh-eater. But if Mike thinks he’ll be safe once he reaches his house and
warns Mom and Dad, he'd better think again. When the zombies say it's lunchtime, no home is safe! Zombie Town is R.L.
Stine’s delightfully spooky take on the horror genre that’s infecting the world, bite by bite.
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SEE YOU AT HARRY’S, Johanna Knowles. Ages 10 up.
BARRY GOLDBLATT LITERARY AGENCY
Spain, Latin America, Portugal & Brazil, www.bgliterary.com
• Middle-grade fiction •
Starting middle school brings all the usual challenges - until the unthinkable happens, and Fern and her family
must find a way to heal.
Rights sold: UK-Australian (Walker)
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible. It seems as though everyone in her family has better things to do than pay attention to
her: Mom (when she's not meditating) helps Dad run the family restaurant; Sarah is taking a gap year after high school; and
Holden pretends that Mom and Dad and everyone else doesn't know he's gay, even as he fends off bullies at school. Then
there's Charlie: three years old, a "surprise" baby, the center of everyone's world. He's devoted to Fern, but he's annoying,
too, always getting his way, always dirty, always commanding attention. If it wasn't for Ran, Fern's calm and positive best
friend, there'd be nowhere to turn. Ran's mantra, "All will be well," is soothing in a way that nothing else seems to be. And
when Ran says it, Fern can almost believe it's true. But then tragedy strikes- and Fern feels not only more alone than ever,
but also responsible for the accident that has wrenched her family apart. All will not be well. Or at least all will never be the
same.
Praise for SEE YOU AT HARRY’S:
LIBBA BRAY, author of Printz Award winner GOING BOVINE – “Jo Knowles has crafted a moving, pitch-perfect novel
rich in the small joys of everyday living, the awkward fits-and-starts of adolescence, the shimmering wonder of first crushes,
the necessary frustrations of family, and the gentle hope that grows from the heartbreak of tragedy. Beautiful and lifeaffirming.”
DOLL BONES, Holly Black. (Margaret K.McElderry Books, Spring 2013). Ages: 8 – 12.
Bestselling author Holly Black’s first foray back into middle grade, since her international success The Spiderwick
Chronicles.
Rights sold: Italian (Mondadori), French (Bayard), German (Random House), UK (Random House).
Zach, Poppy and Alice have been friends forever. Most of their time together is spent playing out an elaborate game of
imagination using various action figures and dolls to portray characters, an epic adventure story of derring do and heroism.
When Zach’s father one day throws out all his action figures, declaring he’s too old to be playing with them, Zach –angry,
confused and embarrassed- decides the only way to cope is to stop playing the game… and stop being friends with Poppy
and Alice.
But soon after, two girls come to his house in the middle of the night, urgently asking him to join them in one of their secret
places. Once there, he finds Poppy holding an antique doll, one that had represented the Queen in all their made up stories,
but who they’d never been allowed to touch. Poppy tells them that a ghost has been haunting her, a girl who was murdered
by her father, who ground up her bones and made them into bone china, the very china the doll is made of! Poppy says the
ghost has told her that they must get the doll back to where she lived and bury it, or she will curse the three children for all
eternity.
Thus begins an overnight journey that will change all three foreverkmrevealing secrets they all wish had remained hidden,
and forcing each of them to take those painful awkward steps forward into adolescence. Heartbraking and haunting, Black
has crafted an epic tale of growing up that readers will not soon forget.
• Young Adult fiction •
THE COLDEST GIRL IN COLDTOWN, Holly Black. (Little, Brown, Fall 2013). Ages 14 up.
The ONLY vampire novel that Little, Brown has bought since TWILIGHT.
Holly Black, the award-winning, bestselling author of Tithe, Valiant, Ironside her recent Curse Workers trilogy
(White Cat, Red Glove, Black Heart), and of course The Spiderwick Chronicles, has returned to a longtime love of
hers, the vampire novel, and it's not like anything you've ever read before. Inspired by her own award-nominated
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short story, THE COLDEST GIRL IN COLDTOWN, is a story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror... and yes,
of love, told in only the way Holly can.
Rights sold: UK/Australia (Atom / Little Brown); Polish (Febryke Slow); Italian (Mondadori); German (Random House
Verlag); French (Hachette)
THE COLDEST GIRL IN COLDTOWN is set in the not-so-distant future, where the vampire population has surged,
resulting in the establishment of Coldtowns, quarantined cities of vampires and humans where predator and prey coexist in a
never-ending blood party of revelry. These isolated meccas of debauchery are the pillars of pop culture, with vlogs, live
feeds, and YouTube videos constantly streaming from the endless parties at vampire mansions. Drawn into this bizarre and
dangerous world is Tana, who willingly enters Coldtown with an infected ex-boyfriend on the brink of turning and a
mysterious vampire with a tortured past intent on seeking revenge. This is a wholly original vampire story of rage and
revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing.
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DIAL DUTTON (PENGUIN GROUP US)
Spain, Latin America & Portugal, www.penguin.com
• Young Adult fiction •
NO SAFETY IN NUMBERS BOOK 1, Dayna Lorentz. (Dial, Summer 2012)
Book 2 NO EASY WAY OUT coming in Spring 2013 and concluding with Book 3 in Summer B2014.
LIFE AS WE KNEW IT meets LORD OF THE FLIES during one week in a quarantined mega-mall after a
biological bomb scare. NO SAFETY IN NUMBERS is scarily authentic —its impact comes from the fact that it
really could happen. A dark, suspenseful page-turner that escalates all the way to the end, and its suspenseful
ending will lead right into book 2.
Seven days. Four teens. One bomb.
When a biological bomb spreads a deadly virus, an entire mall is Quarantined for what turns out to be an indefinite period of
time. Told from the perspective of four teenagers, this is the kind of story that will genuinely scare you because it is so real.
Marco discovers a bomb hooked up to the ventilation system of the mall when he goes to dump the trash from the Grill-n-
Shake where he works. The Senator is in the mall, and she quickly tries to get a handle on the situation by asking everyone to
remain in their stores and ordering pizza when they have to stay overnight. But when the mall is quarantined, people start
getting sick, and supplies start getting low. The four teenagers cope in unique, surprising styles, changing in the ways they
would not have predicted—trying to find solace, safety, and escape. Marco is a hardworking Latino boy who finds the bomb;
Ryan is a Caucasian football player trying to keep up with the boys; Lexi is a computer nerd with few friends; and Shay is a
free spirit of South Asian descent who appeals to both Ryan and Marco.
THE CADET OF TILDOR, Alex Lidell. (Dial, January 2013). Ages 12 up.
Smart, political, medieval fantasy-thriller by a finalist in Amazon’s 2010 ABNA competition
Cadet Renée de Winter goes against her father’s wishes and is training to be a Servant of the Crown—the most prestigious
type of soldier in the royal army of Tildor. After six years of training, she is now in her final year at the Academy and the
only girl remaining in her class. Commander Korish Savoy, the Crown’s top Servant, has been recalled from active duty to
teach Renée’s class; and even at the Academy, the cadets can feel the currents of political unrest sweeping through Tildor.
There is a new king on the throne, and two crime families are vying for power, hoping that the new king is too inexperienced
to stop them. When Savoy is kidnapped, the head of one of the families is oddly vested in helping Renée rescue him, and
she finds herself sorting through a maze of political machination, trying to figure out the differences between what is desired
and what is best for Tildor. And what is right.
MY LIFE NEXT DOOR, Huntley Fitzpatrick’s. (Dial, November 27 th , 2011)
A beautifully written debut about family, friendship, first love, and how to be true to one person you love without
betraying another.
Rights sold: German (2 books deal by Random House)
The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not: loud, numerous, messy, affectionate. And every day from her balcony perch,
seventeen-year-old Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them… until one summer evening Jase Garrett climbs her terrace
and changes everything. As the two fall fiercely in love and stumble through their first sexual experiences, Jase’s family makes
Samantha one of their own. All the while, Sam keeps Jase a secret from her disapproving mother and her often critical best
friend. Then in an instant, the bottom drops out of Samantha’s world when her mother, always the picture of poise and
perfection, is responsible for a hit-and-run accident. Once Samantha puts the pieces together, realizing not only that her
mother has hit someone, but who she has hit. Samantha is suddenly faced with an impossible situation.
Fitzpatrick’s novel is full of dreamy scenes that capture what it feels like to fall in love for the first time, when summer lasted
forever and the streets had a halcyon glow. Samantha and Jase’s relationship is the stuff of movies and your favorite
novel. The author deftly and responsibly captures the awkwardness and awesomeness of a first crush, first kiss, first love,
and first sexual experience. There are vivid and hilarious supporting characters —a four-year-old obsessed with mortality to a
foul-mouthed seventeen-year-old screw-up with a heart of gold.
THE SYMPTOMS OF MY INSANITY, Mindy Raf. (Dial, April 2013)
Imagine Woody Allen as a 16-year-old girl in this hilarious tale of growing up in the suburban Midwest.
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Izzy is a hypochondriac with enormous boobs that won’t stop growing, a mother with a rare desease who won’t admit she’s
sick, a best friend who appears to have undergone a personality transplant, and… a date with an out-of-her-league athlete
who just spoiled Gatorade all over her. Yes, Izzy Skymen has a hectic life. But when a viral text reveals her basketball player
crush just to be a very different sort of player and her mother’s health takes a turn for the worse, Izzy loses her way.
Fortunately, an unexpected and hilarious show of solidarity from the female student body allows Izzy the space to figure
herself out.
A laugh-out-loud, bittersweet coming-of-age tale told in a totally true teen voice.
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FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX (MACMILLAN US)
Spain, Latin America & Portugal, www.MacKids.com
• Young Adult fiction •
DEAD END IN NORVELT, Jack Gantos. (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 2011). Ages 10-14.
A New York Times Bestseller and the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to
children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction!
Rights sold: Simplified Chinese (Pending); French (Editons les Grandes Personnes); Hebrew (Hakibbutz); UK (Random
House UK)
Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, DEAD END IN NORVELT is a novel about an incredible two months
for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is “grounded for life” by his
feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are
coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore –typewriting
obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged
narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny
depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is
completely up in the air.
Praise for DEAD END IN NORVELT:
JON SCIESZKA — “Nobody can tell a story like Jack Gantos can. And this is a story like no other. It’s funny. It’s
thoughtful. It’s history. It’s weird. But you don’t need me to attempt to describe it. Get in thereand start reading Gantos.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review — “A bit of autobiography works its way into all of Gantos’s work, but he one-ups
himself in this wildly entertaining meld of truth and fiction by naming the main character... Jackie Gantos. Memorable in
every way.”
KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review — “Gantos has a refreshingly wicked and sharp wit, he’s honest as hell, he’s fearless, and
he knows how to tell a good story…delivered with his signature quick-witted insight on adolescence.”
THE HORN BOOK, starred review — “This is a richly layered semi-autobiographical tale, an ode to a time and place, to
history and the power of reading.”
THE SURVIVAL KIT, Donna Freitas. (Farrar Straus & Giroux / Frances Foster Books, October 2011). Ages 12 up
Can loss lead to love? “Fans of Sarah Dessen will fall for this deeply moving tale of family, loss, and falling in
love.” – Melissa Walker.
Rights sold: Russian (AST Publishers); German (Gabriel Verlag / Thienenmann)
When Rose’s mom dies, she leaves behind a brown paper bag labeled Rose’s Survival Kit. Inside the bag, Rose finds an iPod,
with a to-be-determined playlist; a picture of peonies, for growing; a crystal heart, for loving; a paper star, for making a wish;
and a paper kite, for letting go. As Rose ponders the meaning of each item, she finds herself returning again and again to an
unexpected source of comfort. Will is her family’s gardener, the school hockey star, and the only person who really
understands what she’s going through.
Praise for THE SURVIVAL KIT:
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL – “...a heartfelt... story of loss and love.”
VOYA – “A worthy addition for a teen coping with her own loss or struggling to help friends or family cope with teirs.”
BOOKLIST – “Love and death are always a potent mix, and in the hands of a talented writer like Freitas, this is specially so.”
JENNY HAN, author of WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE SUMMER – “As fragile and lovely as a rose.”
MORGAN MATSON, author of AMY & ROGER’S EPIC DETOUR – “This book was so gorgeous. I loved Rose, I
swooned over Will. This is an amazing story about love, loss, and the healing power of music. I adored it!”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – “Those who have lost a loved one will recognize a part of themselves in Rose and appreciate
her quest to find the inner strength to reconfigure the shattered pieces of her life.”
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KIRKUS REVIEWS – “Rose’s cathartic interactions with her survival kit provide a creative way to show that mother always
does know best.”
SECOND IMPACT, David Klass and Perry Class. (Farrar Straus & Giroux / Frances Foster Books, August 2013). Ages
12 up
Concussions and second chances collide in this hard-hitting, truth-telling football novel.
When you walk into Kendall High School, the first thing you see is a big glass case, filled with football trophies dating back
one hundred years. It's football town, and Jerry Downing is the star quarterback working to redeem himself after he nearly
killed a girl in a drunk driving accident last year. Carla Jenson is the lead reporter for the high school newspaper's sports
section, and she's recruited Jerry to co-author a blog chronicling the season from each of their perspectives. When Jerry's
best friend on the team takes a hit too hard and gets hurt, Carla wonders publicly if injury in the game comes at too high a
cost in a player's life--but not everyone in Kendall wants to hear it...
• Middle-Grade fiction •
THE BARFTASTIC LIFE OF LOUIE BURGER, Jenny Meyerhoff (Janine O’Malley Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Books for Young Readers, June 2013). Ages 8-12.
In this hilarious and heartfelt story about friendship and family, Louie dreams of being a stand-up comic, but first
he has to overcome his extreme stagefright, which he does with panache.
Fifth-grader Louie Burger figures that with a goofy name like his, he must be destined to be a king of comedy like his idol
Lou Lafferman. But he’s only ever performed his standup act in his closet, where he and his dad created the most exclusive
comedy club ever – if by “exclusive” you mean that no one’s ever allowed inside. With the school Talent Bonanza coming
up, Louie’s wondering if now is his moment to kill (that’s comedian talk for “make actual people laugh.”) And maybe, if he
brings down the house, he’ll win back his former best friend Nick – who seems to be turning into one of those annoying
snotbrain sporty types – and fend off his dad’s home improvement obsession, which threatens to turn Louie’s comedy closet
into a private bedroom for his older sister.
Ruth White
WAY DOWN DEEP (Margaret Ferguson Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, March 2007). Ages
10-14.
Rights sold: German (Verlag Freies Geistesleben), Korean (Bomnamu Publishers).
2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. With a touch of fairy-tale magic and a lot of heart, Ruth White
explores just what it is that makes a place truly home.
Ruby seemed to just appear out of thin air on the steps of the courthouse on the first day of summer in 1944, and no one in
Way Down Deep ever worried too much about where the toddler came from. But when Ruby is twelve, a new family moves
to Way Down Deep, and they inadvertently provide enough clues about Ruby’s past that she is able to find her own people.
Ruby travels from Way Down Deep to the top of Yonder Mountain to learn who she really is – only to find that she is
bound to Way Down Deep by something even stronger than family ties: love.
Praise for WAY DOWN DEEP
KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review — “A tale of magical beginnings and the everyday magic of an ordinary place populated
by a colorful cast of characters worthy of Dickens. A story to love.”
BOOKLIST, starred review — “At the heart of the story are profound questions that readers will enjoy puzzling out.”
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL – “Captivating and thoughtful on many levels, White’s novel offers humor, mystery, and a
feel-good ending that a multitude of readers will find satisfying ‘way down deep.’ ”
THE TREASURE OF WAY DOWN DEEP, (Margaret Ferguson Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young
Readers, August 2013). Ages 10-14.
This sequel to WAY DOWN DEEP includes a three-legged dog named Tripod, a cranky teacher who's ready to reform, a
clairvoyant whose dream and real lives overlap, a ghost who knows the secrets to the town, and Ruby Jolene Hurley the
spunky girl who will do whatever it takes to save her town.
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Claudia Mills
ZERO TOLERANCE (Margaret Ferguson Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, June 2013). Ages
8-12.
Claudia Mills questions about good and bad through honor student Sierra Shepard faces expulsion after
accidentally bringing a paring knife to school, violating the school's zero-tolerance policy.
Seventh-grader Sierra Shepard has always been the perfect student, so when she sees that she accidentally brought her
mother's lunch bag to school, including a paring knife, she immediately turns in the knife at the school office. Much to her
surprise, her beloved principal places her in in-school suspension and sets a hearing for her expulsion, citing the school's
ironclad no weapons policy. While there, Sierra spends time with Luke, a boy who's known as a troublemaker, and discovers
that he's not the person she assumed he would be--and that the lines between good and bad aren't as clear as she once
thought.
KELSEY GREEN, READING QUEEN (Margaret Ferguson Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young
Readers, June 2013). Ages 8-12.
Kelsey is the best reader in her third grade class and she is determined to lead her class to victory in the all-school
reading contest.
Kelsey Green is the best reader in the third grade--well, maybe tied for best with know-it-all Simon Ellis. When the principal
Mr. Boone announces a school-wide reading contest, she knows she's just the person to lead the third graders to victory.
But how can they win when her classmate Cody Harmon hardly reads anything, and even Kelsey's best friends Annika and
Izzy don't live up to her expectations? And could Simon possibly be reading all of those books that he claims he is, or is he
lying to steal Kelsey's rightful spot at the top? Before the contest is over, Kelsey finds some unexpected answers to her
questions and learns that the most fun part of reading might actually be sharing.
• Picture Books •
BOOM! BOOM! BOOOM!, Jamie A. Swenson. (Janine O’Malley Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young
Readers, May 2013). Ages 2-6.
A lively rhyming counting book about a child and animals who are afraid of a thunderstorm and pile into bed together--until
it gets too crowded.
PAPA’S MECHANICAL FISH, Candace Fleming. (Margaret Ferguson Books / Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for
Young Readers, June 2013). Ages 4-8.
The noted nonfiction author Candace Fleming and Boris Kulikov pair up for this fun true story about Lodney
Phillips, who invented submarines that he tested in Lake Michigan.
Although Papa is an inventor, he has never made anything that works perfectly, and that's because he hasn't yet found a truly
fantastic idea. But then he takes his family fishing on Lake Michigan, and his daughter Virena asks, "Have you ever
wondered what it's like to be a fish?"--and Papa is off to his workshop. A few weeks later, he opens the door to reveal a
small underwater vessel, with a tube sticking out the top so he can breathe and a pole sticking out the bottom so he can push
himself along the lake floor. But it won't work, so Papa returns to his workshop. With a lot of persistence, and a little bit of
help, Papa, who is based on the real-life inventor Lodner Phillips, finally creates a submarine that can take his family for a
trip to the bottom of Lake Michigan.
PLEASE, PAPA, Kate Banks. (Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers, June May). Ages
4-8.
In this companion to THANK YOU, MAMA, Papa shows Alice how magical saying please can be.
A playful story where, with the use of a single polite word, lines between the real and the imaginary become blurred as toy
animals come to life.
DOT, Patricia Intrialgo. (Margaret Ferguson Books / Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2011)
A simple concept book very fun and educational. Approximately 10.000 copies sold of this debut picture book.
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Rights sold: French (Kaleidoscope) Portuguese – Brazil (Nova Fronteira)
Praise for DOT:
LANE SMITH, author of IT’S A BOOK — “I’m guessing the graphics are what will initially attract folks to Dot. They are
understated and perfect. But for me, the real revelation is the subtle and clever text. Classic Ruth Krauss comes to mind and
I can’t help giggling every time I read it.”
LAURA VACCARO SEEGER, author of THE HIDDEN ALPHABET — “Patricia Intriago’s Dot is absolutely wonderful
as it combines charm, humor and graphic design at its best. It made me smile!”
BOOKLIST Online — “…this is simple, surprising graphic design that will wake up even jaded readers to the creative
possibilities inherent in the most basic of shapes.”
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, starred review — “Children will encounter ample ways to interact with this incredibly
elegant, clever, and delightful concept book.”
KIRKUS — “The delightful bits are Intriago’s mid-book leaps away from her own setup. Out of the blue, photographed
human hands appear to poke a hard and a soft dot, and “Got dots”—a Dalmatian photo— contrasts with “Not dots”—a
zebra. These diversions are surprisingly funny.”
BCCB — “Ever stop to consider what an expressive, malleable entity a dot can be? Graphic designer Intriago opens with an
interplay of colors, simple lines, and dots that lays out some familiar conventions in contrasting pairs.”
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HARPER COLLINS USA
Spain, Latin America, Portugal & Brazil, www.harpercollinschildrens.com
• Middle-grade fiction •
SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL #1, Soman Chainani. (HarperCollins, July 2013). Ages 8 – 12.
This tongue-in-cheek fairy tale extravaganza is part SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, part Roald Dahl.
Just right for fans of Shannon Hale, Michael Buckley, and WILDWOOD, from debut novelist Soman Chainani.
Rights sold: English – UK, ANZ
The School for Good and Evil series unleashes a dazzling new fantasy world, in which ordinary boys and girls are trained to
be extraordinary good or bad. Book One subverts the assumed roles of our indelible heroines, when Agatha is “mistakenly”
sent to the School for Good, and Sophie to the School for Evil. As rivalries bloom and jealousy sets in, Agatha and Sophie
discover that these fates may not be a mistake, after all…
THE PECULIAR, Stefan Bachmann. (HarperCollins, September 2012). Ages 8 – 12.
An original, unforgettable, astonishing debut by an 18-year-old classical musician. Harper signed up two books by
Stefan Bachmann, THE PECULIAR and a sequel.
Rights sold: Portuguese – Brazil (Record, 2 book deal), Chzek, Polish, Slovak, Spanish, UK/ANZ
Bartholomew Kettle won't live long. Changelings never do. The child of a human mother and a faery father, he is despised
by both his races; if the humans don't hang him for witchcraft, the faeries will do something worse. So his mother keeps him
locked away, hidden from the world in the faery slums of Bath. But one day Bartholomew witnesses a mysterious and
beautiful woman kidnapping another changeling through a shadowy ring of feathers, and he suddenly finds himself at the
centre of a web of intrigue and danger that spans the entire country. Changelings are surfacing in the river hundreds of miles
away, their bodies empty of blood and bone and their skin etched with red tattoos. A powerful figure sits in the shadows,
pushing the pieces into place for some terrible victory. When a sinister faery begins to stalk Bartholomew's every step, he
knows it's his turn. Something is coming for him. Something needs him. But when you're a changeling, there's nowhere to
run.
Praise for THE PECULIAR
RICK RIORDAN — "In a vividly imagined alternate England where faeries and humans live in mutual suspicion,
Bartholomew Kettle has the worst of both worlds. As a changeling, half-human and half-faery, his very existence is a crime.
"Don't get yourself noticed" may be the most important rule for changelings, but that advice won't help the talented young
author of The Peculiar. Stefan Bachmann's sparkling debut is sure to get a lot of well-deserved notice. He breathes fresh life
into ancient magic."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review — Bachmann, now 18, has a polished and witty writing style; his characters are
skillfully developed, the action is nonstop, and his faery society is fascinating. An absolute treat for readers of any age.
Christopher Healy
THE HERO’S GUIDE TO SAVING YOUR KINGDOM. (HarperCollins, May 2012). Ages 8–12.
Rights sold: Brazil, Thai, UK/ANZ
The book is the first in a series set in a world where Prince Charming is not one prince but four, all of whom have
serious issues with heroism and complicated relationships with their princesses: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty,
Snow White, and Rapunzel, respectively.
In the grand tradition of SHREK and HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, newcomer Christopher Healy brings us the
tales-behind-the-tales of most famous princes and princesses in the world. The author bursts onto the tween scene with a
story about four imperfect princes trying to become perfect heroes, a fast-paced, funny and fresh introduction to a world
where everything, even our classic fairy tales, is not at all what it seems.
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THE HERO’S GUIDE TO STORMING THE CASTLE (HarperCollins, May 2013). Ages 8–12.
Gustav, Liam, Frederic and Duncan – not to mention Ella, Snow, Briar, Rapunzell and Lilla – are back in this hilarious and
action packed sequel to the breakout hit The Hero’s Guide To saving Your Kingdom.
SEVEN WONDERS SERIES BOOK #1: THE COLOSUS RISES, Peter Lerangis (HarperCollins, February 2013).
Ages 8-12.
Rights sold: French, Chzec, Slovac
The adventure unfolds in the first book of the epic adventure series Seven Wonders!
The day after twelve-year-old Jack McKinley is told he has six months to live, he awakens on a mysterious island, where a
secret organization promises to safe hils life – but with one condition. With his three friends, Jack must lead a mission to
retrieve seven lost magical orbs, which correctly combined, can save their lives. The orbs have been lost amongst the ruins
and relics of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. First stop: The Colossus of Rhodes.
• Young Adult fiction •
ASYLUM, Madeleine Roux (HarperCollins, May 2013). Ages: 14 and up.
A gripping, psychological mind-bender that threads the fine line between genius and insanity.
For prodigious high-school junior Dan Crawford, a summer shool for prodigious students is a lifetime. No one else at his
high school gets his weird academic fascinations, but at the New Hampshire Prep Program, they are practically required. This
year, the usual dorm has been quarantined and students have to stay in a renovated building that served as a sanatorium in
the 1960s. dan and his new friends set out to explore the creepy building and uncover old case files. But their friendship is
tested when the documents they uncobver link all three teens to the asylum’s dark past.
ASHES TO ASHES, Melissa Walker (HarperCollins, September 2013). Ages: 13 and up.
A teenage girl turned to ghost torns between the boyfriend she left behind and the spirit that teaches her how to
“haunt”.
16-year-old Callie tragically dies, and her spirit doesn’t go to heaven, but to Prism –an ethereal plane populated with ghostswhere
she meets Tatcher, who teaches her how to connect with people. Will callie and Tatcher be able to fioght the dark
force that threats Callie’s hometown? This thrilling plot suffers a stunning twist in the end and will leave readers scrambling
for the companion book DUST TO DUST.
MILA 2.0, Debra Driza (HarperCollins, April 2013). Ages: 13 and up.
A rapid-peaced, compulsively-readable sci-fi thriller series about a teenage girl who disovers that she is a Mobile
Intel Life-like Android, an experiment in artificial intellingence.
Mila was never supposed to find out her real identity – and what she was born to do. Evading her enemis will not help her
escape the cruel reality of who she is and cope with everything that she had to leave behind. However, what she is becoming
is beyond anyone’s imagination, including her own, and that might just safe her life.
DON’T TURN AROUND, by Michelle Gagnon (HarperCollins, September 2012). Ages: 13 and up.
Rights sold: Russian, Swedish
This thriller delves into a hidden world of global conspiracy, cyber-activism and a terrifying supernatural
experiment. All this seen through the eyes of a 16-year-old teenager.
Noa has been a victim of the system ever since her parents died. She uses her computer hacking skills to stay safely
anonymous and alone. But when she wakes up on a surgical table in an empty warehouse with an IV in her arm and no
memory of how she got there, No starts to wish she had someone on her side. She escapes her captors, but with no friends
and no mony she finds herself at a dead end, until she joins Peter Gregory’s havking alliance. With time running out and still
on the run, Noa and peter wonder how two hacker teenagers are ever supposed to take down the whole system.
CARNIVAL OF SOULS, Melissa Marr (HarperCollins, September 2012) (2 books signed). Ages: 13 and up.
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Fantasy and romance are blended in an all new tale of demons and witches as three teens are caught up in a
deadly struggle for power in the exotic and otherworldly Carnival of Souls.
In the City, rigid caste lines separate the powerful from the power-hungry. And at the heart of the City is the Carnival of
Souls, where both death and pleasure are offered up for sale. Once in a generation, the Carnival hosts a deadly competition
that allows every daimon a chance to join the City’s ruling elite. Without the competition, Aya and Kaleb face bleak futures,
if for different reasons. For each of them, fighting to the death is the only way to try to live.
Worlds away, all Mallory knows of the City is that her father fled to the human world as a child and has run from its shadow
ever since. Instead of a typical teenage life full of friends and maybe even a little romance, Mallory scans quiet streets for
threats, hides herself away, and trains to be lethal. She knows it is only a matter of time until someone from the City finds
her and her father, so she readies herself for the inevitable.
While Mallory possesses little knowledge of the City, every inhabitant of the City knows of her –and several of them want
something only she can provide. There are plans for Mallory in the City, and soon she, too, will be drawn into the swirling
decadence that is the Carnival of Souls.
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Spain, Latin America & Portugal, www.henryholt.com
• Young Adult fiction •
THE GIRL WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO DIE, April Henry (Henry Holt, August 2013). Ages: 14 and up
She doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know where she is. All she knows is she has to run.
When Cady wakes up, she has no memory of who she is. All she knows is that there is a pillowcase over her head and a
person in the room has instructed another to “take her out back and finish her off.” Cady must find a way to save herself.
But how can she do this when she doesn’t even know her name?
• Middle-Grade fiction •
MOUNTAIN DOG, Margarita Engle (Henry Holt, August 2013). Ages: 8-12
In the remote Sierra Nevada, a dog helps a boy face his troubled past.
When Tony's mother is sent to jail, he is sent to stay with a great uncle he has never met in Sierra Nevada. It is a daunting
move - Tony's new world bears no semblance to his previous one. But slowly, against this remote and remarkable backdrop,
the scars from Tony's troubled past begin to heal. With his Tio and a search and rescue dog named Gabe by his side, Tony
discovers unconventional love for the first time.
MY LIFE AS A CARTOONIST, Janet Tashjian, (Henry Holt, May 2013). Ages: 9-12
Rights of “MY LIFE AS A…” series sold: Catalan (Macmillan Iberia), Chinese Complex (Youan Liou Publishing
Company), Chinese Simplified (21 st Century Publishing House), Czech (Albatros Media), German (Boje Verlag), Hebew
(Dani Books), Italian (Nuova Frontiera), Korean (Bear Books), Portuguese – Brazil (Pandorga), Slovak (Albatros Media),
Spanish (Macmillan Iberia), Turkish (Yakamoaz Yayinlari).
In Book Three of the popular "My Life…" series, Derek Fallon's plan to help out a new classmate backfires
miserably.
There's a new kid in Derek Fallon's class. His name is Sean and he uses a wheelchair. Derek's family is still fostering Frank
the monkey, and Derek thinks it would be a great idea to train Frank to assist Sean. So Derek starts drawing a cartoon strip
about "Super Frank" and posting it all over school. But Derek soon realizes that Sean, a class clown, is definitely not looking
for any help, and Derek becomes the butt of Sean's jokes. How will Derek get himself out of this new pickle?
• Picture Books •
SATURDAY WITH DADDY, Dan Anreasen (Henry Holt, May 2013). Ages: 3-7
The charming art and simple story make this a perfect summertime book for fathers and sons.
A young elephant and his Daddy spend Saturday running errands, sipping lemonade, and having a cookout, by an author
who has illustrated more than twenty-five books for children, including The Treasure Bath, A Baker’s Dozen, and Firebears: The
Rescue Team.
SOME MONSTERS ARE DIFFERENT, David Milgrim (Henry Holt, July 2013). Ages: 3-5
David Milgrim’s spare text and colorful, contemporary illustrations are perfect for beginning readers, and parents
are sure to enjoy them just as much
This laugh-out-loud story describes the differences between a cast of terrific monsters. Some monsters will eat anything,
some are picky. Some monsters talk and talk and talk, some are quiet. But ultimately, as this hilarious book makes clear, all
monsters are absolutely, positively, completely perfectly wonderful . . . Just the way they are!
THAT’S A POSSIBILITY!, Bruce Goldstone (Henry Holt, June 2013). Ages: 7-10
Is this the most exciting book ever? That’s a possibility! Welcome to the world of probability.
With colorful photographs and interactive examples, Bruce Goldstone introduces children to the ideas of something being
possible, probable, or impossible. Each spread features an easy-to-understand, fun scenario such as dice rolling and bowling,
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with questions about probable outcomes and simple explanations. In the vein of Great Estimations, this is a perfect book for
getting across important math concepts in a fun way.
THE SPOOKY BOX, Mark Gonyea (Henry Holt, July 2013). Ages: 4-8
There's a KNOCK at the door. A box shows up on the front step. A SPOOKY black box. What could be inside?
With fun, dramatic designs, Mark Gonyea shows the scary things that might slither, slice, or slide their way out, from a ton of
toads to a bunch of old bones to a robot with laser eyes. When it comes time to open the box, it’s up to the reader to lift the
top—and reveal something at least twice as terrifying as The Spooky Box.
THE VERY INAPPROPIATE WORD, Jim Tobin (Henry Holt, August 2013). Ages: 5-9
What happens when Michael, who collects words, picks up one that is “inappropriate”?
Michael loves interesting words and is always on the lookout for words to collect. Then one day, he picks up a new word. A
bad word. An inappropriate word. At least, that’s what his friend says. But Michael kind of likes the word. He thinks he might
try it out. At school. Bad idea.
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IMPOSTOR trilogy, Susanne Winnacker. (Razorbill, 2013)
• Young Adult fiction •
Fresh, fast-paced supernatural thriller for teens. Equal parts romance, fantasy and murder mystery.
Tessa spent most her life hiding her “gift.” After all, what would normal people say if they knew she could steal their
appearance, perfectly imitate their looks from head to toe with just one touch? But all of that changed the day the FEA —
Forces with Extraordinary Abilities, an official branch of the FBI— came to her house to take her away. For the first time in
her life, Tessa belonged. She was no longer a burden or a freak like her mother raised her to believe.
Two years after coming to the FEA headquarters Tessa gets assigned her first real mission: She will shift into the body of the
serial killer’s latest victim, 16-year-old Madison Chambers, to bait and track down the murderer. At first Tessa hates her
mission, but soon she begins to like her role... perhaps too much. She finally has the loving family she’s always longed for. As
Tessa becomes absorbed in Madison’s world, the lines of her inner and outer identity blur. Will Tessa be able to stop the
killer without losing herself along the way?
TEAM HUMAN, Justine Larbalestier & Sarah Rees-Brennan. (HarperCollins, July 2012)
A hilarious and heartfelt tale of friendship, romance, personal growth, and supernatural creatures with the winning
tagline: “Friends Don’t Let Friends Date Vampires”
Rights sold: ANZ( Allen & Unwin), Turkish (Artemis)
Vampires are nothing out of the ordinary for Mel or any other resident of New Whitby, a town founded three hundred years
ago by blood-drinking undead hoping to escape persecution from their living, breathing peers. Mel doesn’t really give the
undead much thought –not until a stranger in a bizarre sun-proof Hazmat suit shows up on the first day of school and
captures the heart of her best friend Cathy.
A vampire since 1867, Francis is the very definition of an English gentleman. Only Mel despises him, frustrated by his
obnoxiously polite manners and his cold vampire demeanor, his inability to laugh or cry or embrace the world as she does.
When it becomes clear that Cathy is falling in love with Francis, and, worse yet, that Francis feels the same, Mel decides that
it’s up to her to save Cathy. And as if one wannabe-vampire in her life isn’t enough, Mel can’t help but have feelings for a
boy who’s determined to join the ranks of his undead family. Mel is soon caught up in an unexpected adventure that is
equally clever and hilarious, poignant and heartfelt. As Mel begins to realize how easy it is to make assumptions and
generalizations about a group of outsiders, TEAM HUMAN moves beyond simple parody with a story that is equal parts
funny, insightful and touching.
Praise for TEAM HUMAN:
CLAUDIA GRAY, author of the EVERNIGHT series — “No matter what team you’re on, there are characters here you’ll
cheer for. Suspense, humor, and romance: TEAM HUMAN has it all!”
RACHEL CAINE, author of THE MORGANVILLE VAMPIRES — “I could not be more a fan of this book than if I had
a TEAM HUMAN cheerleader outfit... brilliant, funny, sharply emotional!”
MAUREEN JOHNSON, author of NAME OF THE STAR — “Funny, scary, touching, and thoughtful in ways you’d
never expect: if you love vampire books, this is the book for you –if you hate vampire books, this is also the book for you.”
CORY DOCTOROW, author of LITTLE BROTHER — “Incredibly fresh and original –and absolutely charming.”
MAN MADE BOY, Jon Skovron (US: Viking, 2013, Australia: Allen & Unwin) (book + sequel sold)
Pitched as “John Green with monsters”, this is ones of the most original, inventive, touching novels you’ll read this
year.
The son of Frankenstein’s Monster and his Bride, Boy has spent his entire life to this point living and working with his
parents at The Show: a cabaret-style theater in New York City that is home to an extraordinary cast of monsters and
mythological creatures who seek protection from the modern world.
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But the world of the theater is far from utopia for Boy. The other monsters treat him and his parents as lesser creatures
because of their man-made origins. Tired of the prejudice, the constant bullying from the other teen monsters, Boy seeks
solace in his beloved “project"—a never-before-attempted computer code that could forever blur the boundary between
Magic and Science. It feels good to be the creator of something when he’s reminded on a daily basis that he’s someone else’s
creation.
This code is Boy’s only refuge, the only “escape” he’s known, until the day he’s asked to help with an errand outside of the
theater. Out there among the humans, Boy realizes he can actually pass as one of them. Fed up with the present and
horrified by the future his parents envision for him, he decides to make a run for it, impetuously unleashing his computer
code in a moment of self-delusional grandeur and escaping alone into the City. But before Boy can settle into his own future,
he’s got to stop running from his past, including that regrettable act of hubris that will ultimately bring down everyone he
loves if he doesn't make things right.
Praise for MAN MADE BOY:
ANNA McFARLANE, acquiring editor at Allen & Unwin — “MAN MADE BOY is impressively original and inventive,
and dazzlingly clever, but it’s the story’s sweet life-affirming tenderness that won me over. I can’t remember when I cared so
fiercely for a character! I was at the mercy of this sweet-natured Boy: my heart ached, it broke, it was put together again, and
finally, sang with joy. And all this in that incredible world Jon has created!”
KISS & MAKE UP, Katie Anderson (Amazon, November 2012)
What if you could kiss a boy and read his mind?
In her first head-throbbing smooch, she gets clairvoyant glimpses into the boy’s past, and the result is so scary she vows
never to use her Gift again. Until her grade-strict guardian, Aunt Arch, threatens to pull her from her private school if she
doesn’t improve her grades. So Emerson puts a plan into place: She will kiss the unsuspecting brainy boys in each of her
classes, stealing their homework assignments and test answers to rack up good grades. The solution works until—oops!—
she’s asked to compete on the school’s Battle of the Brains team.
A CORNER OF WHITE, Jaclyn Moriarty (Book #1 in THE COLOURS OF MADELEINE trilogy) (Arthur
Levine/Scholastic, TBD, April 2013)
Rights sold: Russia (AST)
The break-out novel for this bestselling author with strong marketing support from the imprint that brought
readers Rowling, Pullman, Crossley-Holland, and others.
Madeleine and her mother have run away from their former life, under mysterious circumstances, and settled in cramped
quarters in a rainy corner of Cambridge, England (in our world). Madeleine’s mother, Holly, has begun to act in very odd
ways. Elliot, on the other hand, is in search of his father who disappeared a year before, the same night his uncle was found
dead by the side of a wintry road. The talk in the town of Bonfire (in the Kingdom of Cello) is that Elliot's dad may have
killed his brother and run away abandoning Elliot and his mom. But that is something he refuses to believe. And he is
determined to find both his dad and the truth. Madeleine and Elliot both begin to unravel their own mysteries in their own
respective worlds, until the two are brought together when Madeleine finds a mysterious folded note in a parking meter.
“Help me,’ the note begins. “I am being held against my will.” She answers the note—and back in Bonfire, Elliot finds her reply.
DAUGHTERGATE, Jenn Marie Thorne
Captivating journey along the presidential campaign trail, a story about politics and scandal, romance and
betrayal, and—above all else—a story about family and what it means to truly belong
When Kate Quinn’s mother died a year ago in a tragic car accident, Kate assumed that the secret of her father’s identity died
along with her. She never expected that she’d learn anything at all about him—and she especially never expected that she’d
learn anything from a mob of screaming reporters. But after a New York Times reporter discovers that the sixteen-year-old
Kate is the illegitimate daughter of Senator Mark Cooper, presumptive Republican nominee for President, the press
descends—and with it, the Cooper campaign. When Kate agrees to join the Coopers on the campaign trail as part of a
desperate attempt at damage control, she’s plunged headlong into the cut-throat world of politics, hoping to both forge a
connection with the family she never knew and find some answers about the mother she’s so recently lost.
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• Middle-Grade fiction •
NO OTHER STORY, Dr. Cuthbert Soup. (Bloomsbury, Fall 2012)
The hilarious and satisfying finale to the beloved WHOLE NOTHER STORY series. A lead title for Bloomsbury
in Fall 2012
A WHOLE NOTHER STORY books 1 & 2, rights sold: German (ARS-Edit); Hebrew (Miskal); Korean (GaeAm
NaMu); Spanish (Círculo de Lectores)
When we meet Ethan Cheeseman and his children again in NO OTHER STORY seems they have returned to the present.
But, assumptions can be wrong. The Cheesemans are now trapped in Some Times, a phenomenon that occurs when a
person is bounced off the Time Arc and finds himself or herself existing in several times and places at once. This is the last
place (or places) the Cheesemans want to be and for the next two months they find themselves in a world where day and
night and winter and summer all happen in no particular order and often at the same time. All the while they’re on the run
from Vikings, dinosaurs, slow-witted cave dwellers, British soldiers and a certain pirate with more rings than Elizabeth
Taylor who has been blasted into Some Times from 1668 by a powerful jolt of electricity.
Will they ever manage to get back home in time to save wife and mother Olivia Cheeseman from the clutches of the vile Mr.
5? It takes Dr. Cuthbert Soup, himself, to fly the Cheesemans to the Present two years ago. What the Cheesemans don’t
count on is having to face younger versions of themselves...
Praise for Dr. Cuthbert Soup:
KIRKUS *Starred Review* — “A grand escapade centered around a close family of smart, helpful, likable characters who run
into all sorts of oddball wanderers on the road and show plenty of inner stuff when push comes to shove. Which it does, in a
climactic melee marked by violent crashes, numerous minor wounds and a probable segue into a sequel. Great fun.”
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE — “If the kids are waiting for the next Wimpy Kid book, hand them this one. It's
outrageous, funny and contains practical unsolicited advice.”
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL — “Those who enjoyed Lemony Snicket's A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
will find some of the same surreal qualities in this first book in a series –and a bit more warmth besides.”
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• Young Adult fiction •
THE TWELVE-FINGERED BOY, John Hornor Jacobs. (Carolrhoda LAB, Spring 2013)
First book on THE INCARCERADO trilogy, by the author of the horror novel Southern Gods, which has just
been short-listed for the 2011 Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a First Novel. THE TWELVE-
FINGERED BOY is his first book for young adults.
Fifteen year-old Shreve Cannon doesn’t mind juvie. He’s got a good business dealing contraband candy, and three meals a
day are more than his drunk mother managed. In juvie, the rules never change and everyone is the same. In juvie, Shreve has
life figured out.
So when he’s assigned a strangely silent new cellmate, Shreve takes the younger boy under his wing. But all Shreve’s plans
and schemes unravel when he discovers Jack is different. Very different. For one thing, Jack has six fingers on each hand.
Jack isn’t the only new face at Casimir Pulaski Juvenile Detention Center. There’s Mr. Quincrux. Quincrux has an unusual
interest in Jack and Shreve, and it quickly becomes clear that a little thing like innocent bystanders isn’t going to get in his
way. So Jack and Shreve bust out. On the lam, they quickly discover that Jack has abilities—hell, superpowers—that might just
give them a fighting chance against Quincrux, if they can stay alive long enough to figure them out.
Praise for THE TWELVE-FINGERED BOY:
JONATHAN MABERRY, author of the acclaimed ROT AND RUIN, New York Times bestselling author of THE KING
OF PLAGUES and PATIENT ZERO – “John Hornor Jacobs conjures dark magic with THE TWELVE-FINGERED
BOY. A powerful new voice whispering out of the dark. A brilliant debut!”
THE SIN-EATER’S CONFESSION, Ilsa J. Bick (Carolrhoda Lab, Spring 2013). Ages: 14 and up
In many mythologies, the sin eater was the person who cleansed a body of sin after death. The sin eater was an
outcast from the community even though he was essential for cleansing that community of sin and guilt. For one
small Wisconsin town with terrible guilt, Ben is their sin eater.
Seventeen-year-old Ben is a good kid whose single moment of cowardice places the guilt of a whole community on his
shoulders. For reasons he can never quite articulate and that haunt him forever after, Ben befriends Jimmy Egan, a boy two
years younger. But Ben’s simple act of kindness quickly twists into a complicated kind of cruelty. When Jimmy is murdered
in what everyone is sure was a hate crime, not only does Ben do nothing to stop it, he tells no one what he saw.
ELSINORE DROWNING, Dot Hutchison (Lerner Publishing Group, Fall 2013). Ages: 14 and up
A beautifully crafted reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, narrated by Ophelia—a richly drawn character
haunted by her own ghosts.
Set at Elsinore Academy, a contemporary boarding school in New England, ELSINORE DROWNING is a deeply
atmospheric novel laden with desire, madness, revenge and tragedy.
• Middle-Grade fiction •
HOOP GENIUS: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball, John Coy (Lerner
Publishing Group, Spring 2013) Ages 7-11
HOOP GENIUS takes a unique, action-packed approach to capturing Naismith’s moment of inspiration that
gave birth to one of the most popular sports in the world.
Taking over a rowdy gym class right before winter vacation is not something James Naismith wants to do at all. The last two
teachers of this class quit in frustration. The students—a bunch of energetic young men—are bored with all the regular
games and activities. Naismith needs something new, exciting, and fast to keep the class happy. His only resources are a
gymnasium, a couple peach baskets, some soccer balls, and his imagination.
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• Picture Books •
COOKIE THE WALKER by Chris Monroe (Lerner Publishing Group, Spring 2013). Ages: 4-8.
Cookie the dog doesn't walk like other dogs. She walks on her hind legs, and what a sight that is!
Cookie's walking catches the attention of a show producer, who turns her into a reality star. And with fame comes benefits:
bacon, candy, a fanny pack, her own mini-fridge…
But the more Cookie walks, the more people expect from her. Cookie's old friend Kevin keeps reminding her about how
great her regular life used to be. And Cookie's legs are getting tired. Will Cookie keep walking for fame and fortune? Or will
she stand down and get her life back?
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• Young Adult fiction •
SURFACING, Nora Raleigh Baskin (Candlewick, March 2013) Ages: 12 and up.
The honest and realistic characters of SURFACING grab the readers form the beginning to the end.
Nora Baskin's novel starts strong with the first sentence on the first page with Leah saying "The most peaceful memory I
have is of when I drown."
From there we meet Leah's younger sister, Maggie. We go along for the ride as guilt-ridden Maggie tries to sort out her
world. She has family problems since her parents are always fighting. She can't decide if she's interested in love, attention,
or rejection. And, if it weren't for her one and only friend, Julie - Maggie would be alone; ever since her sister Leah drowned
years ago, people are compelled to open up to Maggie and tell her their darkest secrets, once the secret is out, they run.
• Middle-Grade fiction •
NIGHTSHADE CHRONICLES. Hillary Wagner. (2 books published –NIGHTSHDE CITY & WHITE ASSASSIN–
and a third already confirmed) http://www.nightshadecity.com/
“Fans of REDWALL and THE WARRIORS SERIES will love this heroic tale of good versus evil in a
subterranean society of rats”. Rick Riordan.
Rights sold: French (Albin Michel)
NIGHTSHADE CITY. (Nightshade Chronicles, Book 1) (Holiday House, October 2010)
A CBC Best Book of 2011 and winner of the Westchester Fiction Award!
Unbeknownst to humans, strangely intelligent rats have lived in the Catacombs, underneath Trillium City, for years. To the
displeasure of many of its residents, the Catacombs is now run by Killdeer, Billycan and his Kill Army. Fighting for their
home alongside rebels who are hiding in a concealed world beyond the Catacombs, Victor and Vincent Nightshade battle for
retribution and redemption while realizing their future and releasing ghosts from their past.
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL review – “Wagner has created an atmospheric and action-filled tale, and her balance of
strong male and female protagonists is appealing.”
THE WHITE ASSASSIN. (Nightshade Chronicles, Book 2) (Holiday House, October 2011)
The white rat returns, this time embarking on a new adventure deep in the swamplands. Three years later, Billycan is the selfproclaimed
Lord of the swamp rats –a primitive horde, eager to invade Nightshade City and claim it for their king. With the
help of an ancient colony of bats, Juniper, Vincent and the Council face down Billycan once more, revealing a truth so
shocking, not even Billycan himself can believe it, bringing up the question, can evil ever change?
ANYWAY, Arthur Salm. (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, May 2012)
ANYWAY, A Story About Me with 138 Footnotes, 27 Exaggerations, and 1 Plate of Spaghetti.
Reinventing yourself takes humor, heart, and a TON of footnotes!
Max is a good kid —but you wouldn’t know that if you met him at the boring family camp his parents dragged him to over
the summer. There, for a few exciting weeks, Max reinvents himself as “Mad Max” and gains a bad-boy reputation for being
daring, cool, and fearless. But when Max returns home, he finds it’s easier to be fearless with strangers than it is among
friends, and he is not particularly proud of the way his behavior over the summer hurt people. Can he find away to merge his
adventurous alter ego with his true identity as a good guy?
Peppered with humorous handwritten footnotes and doodles throughout, ANYWAY perfectly captures the viewpoint of a
young teen doing his best to find his place in the world —and an ideal balance between wise guy and wimp. Readers will
instantly relate to Max and his honesty as he navigates himself through the teen-age terrain.
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• Young Adult fiction •
OUT OF THE EASY, Ruta Sepetys (Philomel Books, February 2013)
The eagerly anticipated follow up from the New York Times Bestselling author of Between The Shades of Grey.
It's 1950 in the French Quarter of New Orleans, and 18-year-old Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer.
Having grown up in a brothel, the daughter of a prostitute, Josie’s prospects seem dim. But she dreams of a bright future,
her goal being to leave New Orleans, leave all of Louisiana, and go to Smith College. But how is this possible for a girl with
her background and practically no money? Relying on her street smarts, Josie devises a plan. But her plan is dangerous, and
she gets into some trouble along the way.
Marie Lu
PRODIGY (Book #2 in LEGEND SERIES) (Putnam, Janyary 2013) Ages: 12 and up.
“Lu’s dystopian novel is a ‘legend’ in the making.” – USA Today
June and Day arruive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place.
With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and
offer passage to the colonies. They have only one request – June and Day must assassinate the new elector. It’s their chance
to change the nation, to give voice to a people who silenced for too long.
Praise for LEGEND (Putnam, November 2011)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, *Stared Review* – “Lu’s debut is a stunner… utterly satisfying in its own right and raises hopes
high for the sequels to come”.
KIRKUS, *Starred Review* - “A gripping thriller… this is no didactic near-future warning of present evils, but a cinematic
adve4nture featuring endearing compelling heroes”.
BOOKLIST, *Starred Review* - “Delicious details keep pages turning … combine star –crossed lovers with the need to make
down the rpublic and you’ve got the makings for a potent sequel”.
FROZEN, Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston (BOOK #1 in THE OTHERLAND CHRONICLES) (Putnam,
March 2013). Ages: 12 and up.
A spellbinding new fantasy series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Melissa de la Cruz
and her husband, Michael Johnston.
The year is 111 C.D., one hundred eleven years after a Catastrophic Disaster destroyed the earth and wiped out 99% of
humanity. Survivors of the Ice Extinction rebuilt the world to accommodate the harsh new realities in which they now live.
In the R.S.A., the Republic States of America, a new civilization is being born from the ice: A world of magic and mayhem,
sorcerers and spellcraft. But where is the magic coming from? Cass is just one of the first to discover that she is different.
That she belongs to the race of Immortals, of Dragon-tamers. In this first book, Cass discovers the truth of her identity and
the creatures that are under her care. She also discovers something she didn’t know she was looking for: a family.
INVISIBILITY, Andrea Cremer and David Levithan (Philomel, Summer 2013) Ages: 14 and up
A magical romance between a boy who was cursed with invisibility and the one girl who can see him
Stephen has been invisible for practically his whole life - because of a curse his grandfather, a powerful cursecaster, bestowed
on Stephen's mother before Stephen was born. So when Elizabeth moves to Stephen's NYC apartment building from
Minnesota, no one is more surprised than he is that she can see him. A budding romance ensues, and when Stephen
confides in Elizabeth about his predicament, the two of them decide to dive headfirst into the secret world of cursecasters
and spellseekers to figure out a way to break the curse. But things don't go as planned, especially when Stephen's
grandfather arrives in town, taking his anger out on everyone he sees. In the end, Elizabeth and Stephen must decide how
big of a sacrifice they're willing to make for Stephen to become visible--because the answer could mean the difference
between life and death. At least for Elizabeth.
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• Middle-Grade fiction •
ALMOST IDENTICAL #3: DOUBLE CROSSED, Lin Oliver (Grosset & Dunlap, March 2013) Ages: 8-12.
Growing up and growing apart
In the thirs installment of Almost Identical, Sammie returns as a narrator. There’s a new set of tein boys on the scene, and
like Sammie and Charlie, these twins are almost identical.
THE DOODLES OF SAM DIBBLE, J.Press (Grosset & Dunlap, January 2013) Ages: 6-8.
Meet sam Dibble – a kid with a talent for doodling and getting into trouble
Sam's birthday is in twenty-four hours, seven minutes, and four seconds. Here's what he wants: a new bike (because he
messed up the old one), more pens (so he can draw doodles), and the best birthday party ever. He'll have to wait for the
presents, but the only way he can have the best party ever is if Demo Dan, the world's greatest wrestler, shows up. The only
problem is, Sam doesn't exactly know Demo Dan (and he promised his friends Dan would be there—he even made a bet on
it!). Now time is running out. Will Demo Dan show up in time for Sam to blow out his candles?
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• Picture Books •
THE BOY WHO LOVED MATH, Deborah Heiligman. (Deirdre Langeland Books / Roaring Brook Press, June 2013).
Ages 3 – 8.
Biography of genius mathematician Paul Erdos. He never learned to tie his shoes or do his own laundry, but
he became a brilliant and beloved mathematician.
Most people think of mathematicians as solitary, working away in isolation. And, it's true, many of them do. But Paul Erdos
never followed the usual path. He never did learn to tie his shoes or do his own laundry. He didn't even butter his own bread
until he turned 20. Instead he traveled around the world, from one mathematician to the next, collaborating on an
astonishing number of publications. With a simple, lyrical text and richly layered illustrations, this is a beautiful introduction
to the world of math and a fascinating look at the unique character traits that made "Uncle Paul" a great man.
BULLY, Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Neal Porter Books / Roaring Brook Press, August 2013). Ages 3 – 7.
What will it take for a little bull to realize he's being a big bully?
Bully doesn't have a kind word for any of his friends. When the other animals ask him to play, he responds in the way way
he's been taught: Chicken! Slow poke! You stink!
Laura Vaccaro Seeger's bold, graphic artwork, along with her spare but powerful words, make for a tender, hilarious, and
thoughtful tale.
IF YOU WANT TO SEE A WHALE, Julie Fogliano, illustrated by Erin E. Stead. (Neal Porter Books / Roaring Brook
Press, May 2013). Ages 2 – 6.
In this quiet and beautiful picture book by the winning team of Fogliano and Stead, a boy learns exactly what it
takes to catch a glimpse of an elusive whale.
If you want to see a whale, you will need to know what not to look at. Pink roses, pelicans, possible pirates...
If you want to see a whale, you have to keep your eyes on the sea, and wait . . .and wait . . .and wait . . .
NIÑO WRESTLES THE WORLD, Yuyi Morales. (Neal Porter Books / Roaring Brook Press, June 2013). Ages 4– 8.
Put on your mask and jump into the ring with Niño, world champion Lucha Libre competitor!
No opponent is a challenge for the cunning skills of Niño-popsicle eater, toy lover, somersault expert, and world champion
lucha libre competitor!
PATCH, David Slonim. (Deirdre Langeland Books / Roaring Brook Press, July 2013). Ages 5 – 8.
Sometimes it's hard for even the most well-intentioned dog to be good.
Patch is a good dog. At least he tries to be—but sometimes he finds it hard to remember commands or resist chasing
rabbits. No matter what he does, he is always lovable. Three very short stories of a boy and his dog are combined into one
adorably illustrated picturebook that honors the special bond between dogs and their people, and between friends of all
species.
• Middle-Grade fiction •
CHARLIE JOE JACKSON’S GUIDE TO SUMMER VACATION, Tommy Greenwald. (Nancy Mercado Books /
Roaring Brook Press, May 2013). Ages 9 – 12.
Rights of CHARLIE JOE JACKSON titles have been sold: Catalan (Grup Editorial 62), French (Milan Editions),
German (Baumhaus Buchverlag), Greek (Psichogios), Hebrew (Armchair Publishing House), Korean (bear Books),
Portuguese – Brazil (novo Século), Spanish (Ediciones B), Turkish (Epsilon Yayinlari).
The lovable slacker Charlie Joe Jackson is back and he's wreaking havoc at an academic summer camp.
Charlie Joe Jackson spends the summer at an academic summer camp called Camp Rituhbukee and desperately tries to
convert all the other kids to non-academics.
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• Young Adult fiction •
THIRTEEN SERIES, James Phelan (Scholastic Australia, Book #1: October 2012)
Thrilling, fast paced action series, incorporating important figures from history in a global setting.
Sam is the first of the thirteen to be uncovered. Caught in a covert battle to preserve life as we know it, Sam must follow the
clues to find twelve more dreamers. Only this unique group can locate the long-lost machine, which is the key to Earth’s
survival. The mission: bring together the thirteen lost pieces of the machine and save the world. Sam must not only face an
army of trained warriors from competing factions, but the menacing presence of the masked figure, Solaris, means the
dreamers are always in danger. The Thirteen must continue on their desperate mission, against the odds and face the
inevitable final battle. Will the Thirteen be strong enough to fulfil the prophecy, or is the world doomed?
THE THREE DOORS TRILOGY - Book #1: THE GOLDEN DOOR Emily Rodda (Scholastic Australia, October
2011)
A brilliant new series from this bestselling author
The walled city of Weld is under attack from ferocious flying creatures that raid in the night, bringing death and destruction.
The Warden calls for Volunteers to find and destroy the Enemy who is sending the invaders. The heroes of Weld answer the
call one by one, never to return. Rye is officially too young to go, but his brothers are among the lost, and he must find
them.
Book #2: THE SILVER DOOR, April 2012
Book #3: THE WOODEN DOOR
• Picture Books •
THE RUNAWAY HUG, Nick Bland (Scholastic Australia, 2011)
Children’s Book Council of Australia 2012 Book of Year for Early Childhood Award
Lucy shares the hug with everyone in her family. Along the way it becomes softer, sleepier, bigger, even peanut-buttery. But
when the hug runs away, Lucy discovers that it's not so easy to get it back. Highly acclaimed and internationally best-selling
picture-book creators Nick Bland and Freya Blackwood have worked together for the first time on this gentle, charming
story that is sure to become a classic with Australian families.
THE VERY CRANKY BEAR SERIES, Book #3: THE VERY HUNGRY BEAR, Nick Bland (Scholastic Australia,
June 2012)
Vibrant illustrations and a fun, engaging story make this book perfect for reading aloud.
The very Cranky Bear is back. When the Very Hungry Bear goes fishing he ends up catching a polar bear geeting home
before his iceberg melts.
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• Picture Books •
WISHES, Jean Little, illustrated by Geneviève Côté. Ages 3 – 8.
Make a wish and the sky’s the limit in this delightful rhyming story.
Let imagination take centre stage! In a true celebration of wishers and dreamers, Jean Little entertains with bouncy rhymes
depicting kids’ favourite wishes — from puppies to pancakes and sundaes to snowflakes. Award-winning illustrator
Geneviève Côté infuses each page with her inventive illustrations, turning each
spread into a carnival of fun!
FINDING CHRISTMAS, Robert Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko. Ages 3 – 8.
More than 35 million books sold in North America
Every year Julie finds the Christmas presents her parents hid: in the basement, under the bed, in the garage. But this year it’s
Christmas Eve and she has found nothing… NOTHING! She’s worried — will be there no presents at all? Her search
takes her to a mysterious box on the roof, which — lo and behold — houses all of the gifts! But, in classic Munsch style, she
becomes trapped inside, creating the biggest surprise of all for her family on Christmas morning!
THE BIG GAME, Gilles Tibo, illustrated by Bruno St-Aubin. Ages 3 – 8.
When opinions are flying, Nicholas must devise his own strategy to win the championship game!
Rights sold: All 8 titles of this popular series – Chinese Simplified to Hachette Phoenix, Beijing
Everyone wants to give Nicholas advice on how to win: his parents, his coach, the spectators and even his sister. But with
opinions coming from all sides, Nicholas and his teammates can’t decide who to listen to. Between periods, Nicholas comes
up with an ingenious plan. When he shares his winning strategy with the rest of his team, they can’t help but come out on
top. Fans will love this new story that puts Nicholas back on the ice!
MY FRIEND HENRY, Philippe Béha. Ages: 2 – 5
Have you seen Henry? He’s small, with curly hair, big blue eyes, a freckled nose and a huge smile! Includes an
age-appropriate counting element.
“Where is Henry?” His best friend is looking all over for him in this charming picture book. Whimsical art and a premise
that will hook young readers (where is my best friend?) build a sweet story that ends with a satisfying twist. It turns out that
Henry is missing for a very good reason! The story takes the reader through familiar neighbourhood spots — the park, the
grocery store, a bakery — with a counting element built into the telling. Bright art is the perfect backdrop for the child’s
emotional journey. And when he finds his best friend and discovers why he was missing, readers will delight in the joyful
reunion.
FROM ANNA, Jean Little. Ages: 8 -12
• Middle-Grade fiction •
One of Jean Little’s most enduring and popular books. A heartwarming classic celebrates its 40 th anniversary with
a new look for a new generation!
Nine-year-old Anna has always been clumsy— somehow she can never do anything right. She bumps into tables, and she
can’t read the chalkboard at school. Her perfect brothers and sisters call her “Awkward Anna.” When Papa announces that
the family is moving from Germany to Canada — he’s worried about the Nazis’ rise to power— Anna’s heart sinks. How
can she learn English when she can’t even read German properly? But when the family arrives in Canada, Anna learns that
there is a reason for her clumsiness. And suddenly, wonderfully, her whole world begins to change, especially when new
friends at her special school help her stand up to bullies who call her names.
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• Young Adult fiction •
VISIONS SERIES, Lisa McMann. (Simon Pulse, January 2013). Ages: 14 and up.
The start of a brand-new series from Lisa McMann, author of the bestselling Wake trilogy!
Jules lives with her family above their restaurant, which means she smells like pizza most of the time and drives their doublemeatball-shaped
food truck to school. It’s not a recipe for popularity, but she can handle that. What she can’t handle is the
vision. Over and over, Jules sees a careening truck hit a building and explode… and nine body bags in the snow. But it’s not
until the vision starts coming more frequently, and revealing more clues, that Jules knows what she has to do. Because now
she can see the face in one of the body bags, and it’s someone she knows. . . . Someone she’s been in love with for as long as
she can remember.
THE ARCANA CHRONICLES: POISON PRINCESS, Kresley Cole. (S&S Books for Young Readers, October 2012).
Ages 14 up. The series will be at least two books, with the potential for more.
In her young adult debut, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole introduces a dark and intriguing
world, full of unspeakable danger and irresistible romance.
With a mythology inspired by Tarot cards, this first book in THE ARCANA CHRONICLES combines elements of chilling
suspense and paranormal romance in a setting that is part SOUTHERN GOTHIC and part Cormac McCarthy’s THE
ROAD.
Sixteen-year-old Evie Greene’s horrific hallucinations predicted the apocalypse, and the end of the world brought Evie all
sorts of new powers. With the earth scorched and few survivors, Evie is racing to find answers. She’s teamed up with
handsome and dangerous Jack Deveaux. They discover that Evie is not the only one with special... gifts. And it’s not always
clear who is using their talents for good or evil.
Rights sold: French, German, Portuguese Brazil, UK (S&S UK)
PANIC, Sharon M.Draper. (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, March 2013). Ages: 14 and up.
New York Times bestselling author Sharon Draper has written another explosive novel that will
have everyone talking.
Diamond knows not to get into a car with a stranger. But one night she does. And the well-dressed, handsome, movie casting
director? He’s not such a nice guy after all. And just like that, her life is irrevocably changed.
FALLING FOR YOU, Lisa Schroeder. (Simon Pulse, January 2013). Ages: 14 and up.
Love turns into obsession in this gripping novel from the author of I Heart You, You Haunt Me.
Rae’s always dreamed of dating a guy like Nathan. He’s nothing like her abusive stepfather—in other words, he’s sweet. But
the closer they get, the more Nathan wants of her time, of her love, of her . . . and the less she wants to give. As Rae’s
affection for Nathan turns to fear, she leans on her friend Leo for support. With Leo, she feels lighter, happier. And
possessive Nathan becomes jealous. He’s not about to let her go. And with danger following her every move, Rae must fight
for the life and love she deserves if she’s going to survive.
THORN ABBEY, Nancy Ohlin. (Simon Pulse, May 2013). Ages: 14 and up.
Nothing is as it seems in this darkly romantic novel inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.
Becca was the perfect girlfriend: smart, gorgeous, and loved by everyone at New England’s premier boarding school, Thorn
Abbey. But Becca’s dead. And her boyfriend, Max, can’t get over his loss. Then Tess transfers to Thorn Abbey. She’s shy
and insecure—everything that Becca wasn’t. And despite her roommate’s warnings, she falls for brooding Max. Now Max
finally has a reason to move on. Except it won’t be easy. Becca may be gone, but she’s not quite ready to let him go. . . .
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THE WHOLE STUPID WAY WE ARE, N.Griffin (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, February 2013). Ages: 14
and up.
From a stunningly powerful new voice in teen fiction.
Dinah is wildly worried about her best friend, Skint. He won’t wear a coat. Refuses to wear a coat. It’s twelve
degrees out, and he won’t wear a coat. So Dinah’s going to figure out how to help. But the wedge between what
drives Dinah and what concerns Skint is wide enough for a big old slab of ice. And because Dinah might just
decide to . . . help. She thinks she’s cracking through a sheet of ice, but what’s actually there is an entire iceberg.
LETTING ANA GO, Anonymous. (Simon Pulse, June 2013). Ages: 14 and up.
A riveting, cautionary tale of addiction in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky
The author of this diary starts out as a good girl in a solid, upper-middle-class family. But below the surface, something is
bubbling—she feels like she can never be good enough; that she can never live up to the expectations that have been laid out
for her. Until she discovers there’s one thing she can control completely: how much she eats. The less she eats, the better—
stronger—she feels. But it’s a dangerous game, and there is such a thing as too far. . . .
CRIMINAL, Terra Elan McVoy (Simon Pulse, May 2013). Ages: 14 up
An intense and unexpected novel about a girl who helps her boyfriend commit a murder
Nikki’s life is far from perfect, but at least she has Dee. He’s hot, he’s dangerous, he has her initials tattooed over his heart,
and she loves him more than anything. There’s nothing Nikki wouldn’t do for Dee. So when Dee pulls Nikki into a crime—a
crime that ends in murder—Nikki tells herself that it’s all for true love. Nothing can break them apart. Not the police. Not
the arrest that lands Nikki in jail. Not even the investigators who want her to testify against him. But what if Dee had
motives that Nikki knew nothing about? Nikki’s love for Dee is supposed to be unconditional—but even true love has a
limit. And Nikki just reached hers.
• Middle-grade fiction •
CAPTAIN AWESOME (8-book series), Stan Kirby (Little Simon). Ages5-7.
Rights sold: Hebrew, Portuguese (Brazil)
Imaginative second grader Eugene McGillicudy loves comic books and superheroes so much that he invents his
very own superhero alter ego named…CAPTAIN AWESOME! MI TEE!
Along with best friend Charlie Thomas Jones (aka Nacho Cheese Man) and sidekick Turbo the hamster, Captain Awesome
and his superpowered squad protect the town of Sunnyview--as well as the universe--from a comical crowd of “bad guys”
like Queen Stinkypants, Dr. Spinach, Mr. Drools and Baron and Baroness von Booger.
HEIDI HECKELBECK series (8-book series), Wanda Coven (Little Simon). Ages5-7.
Rights sold: Turkish
Heidi Heckelbeck has a secret: She’s a witch in disguise.
Meet Heidi Heckelbeck. Heidi seems like any other 8 year-old. She eats peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch. She
hates all vegetables. She picks on her younger brother, Henry. She begrudgingly does her homework. But Heidi Heckelbeck
has a secret: She’s a witch in disguise. Heidi loves practicing her witching skills but she knows she has to be careful not to
reveal her identity to anyone outside the family. Heidi encounters typical elementary school challenges (mean classmates,
boring field trips, and icky cafeteria food), and with each challange, she must find a way to balance her desire to use her
powers and her need to fit into her new school. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Heidi
Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.
NANCY DREW DIARIES , Karolyn Keene (Aladdin, February 2013). Ages: 8 - 12.
Rights sold: Chinese Simplified, Finish, French, Japanese, Norwegian, Serbian, Spanish, French
The exciting launch of an all-new, yet classic, Nancy Drew series
Book #1 – CURSE OF THE ARTIC STAR
Nancy, Bess, and George are cruising dangerous waters on a tour of Alaska. An old friend of Nancy’s is the assistant cruise
director of the Arctic Star, a posh new ship. She needs Nancy’s help when strange incidents keep happening aboard the
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opulent ocean liner: the swimming pool is turned into a floating grave; a famous passenger is threatened; and even the
seemingly innocent mini-golf course becomes a perilous playground. With the majestic and mysterious Alaskan scenery as a
backdrop, Nancy and company have to find out who’s trying to sabotage the maiden voyage and why.
Book #2 – STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
In Strangers on a Train, Nancy’s Alaskan adventure continues as she and her friends disembark the mystery-plagued Arctic Star
cruise ship and explore the grand sights of the forty-ninth state: Skagway, the Yukon territory, and Denali National Park. It’s
spectacular scenery, but things start to go wrong almost immediately, leading Nancy to believe that whoever is behind the
mayhem aboard the ship has followed them onto dry land. The girl detectives had better watch their steps—they’re in
uncharted and unknown territory!
CRUSH SERIES, Angela Darling (Simon Spotlight, May 2013). Ages: 8 – 12.
Crush is a new tween romance series that tackles one of the most monumental happenings in a girl’s life: her first
crush!
In the first book in the series, The Love Plan, Lauren Silver is ready to hit the beach for her annual family vacation. This year,
the trip is destined to be really special because, with the help of her friend Chrissy, Lauren’s got a plan to turn her gorgeous
summer crush, Charlie Anderson, into her boyfriend. But Lauren soon has to face a very tough reality of crushes: sometimes
they are not mutual. And sometimes, when fate is playing a really mean trick on you, the object of your crush ends up
crushing on your friend.
SEW ZOEY SERIES, Chloe Taylor (Simon Spotlight, June 2013). Ages: 8 – 12.
Zoey Webber lives a double life: her quirky homemade clothes make her a misfit at her suburban middle school,
but her fashion design blog puts her on the A-list at Fashion Week.
Ready to Wear introduces Zoey Webber, lover of all things related to clothes. When Zoey’s new middle school principal
decides to get rid of school uniforms, Zoey is so excited that she learns to sew and starts a blog that showcases her cool
handmade outfits. On the first day of school, she gets made fun of for her clothing, but she comes home to discover her
blog has garnered a lot of interest—from older kids, and even some fashion insiders! Can Zoey learn to ignore the teasing
and see just where her clothing takes her?
MAGIC HERO SERIES (4-book series), Thomas E.Sniegoski and Christopher Golden. (Aladdin). Ages: 8 – 10.
Timothy is the only boy without magic in our reissue and repackage of this action-packed series from two New
York Times bestselling authors!
Timothy shouldn’t even exist. He’s the only person alive without magical powers and has spent his entire life hidden on a
remote island. When Timothy is finally taken back to the city of his birth, Arcanum, he is fascinated by the current of magic
that fuels the world, and mesmerized by the buildings and orbs that hang weightlessly in the sky. But he is also marked for
death. After learning how his powerlessness can be used as a weapon in the world of magic, Timothy travels to a war-torn
dimension to help the Wurm, fierce magicians and warriors descended from an ancient dragon race. But once there, Timothy
discovers a very different story—one of peaceful Wurms and a conspiracy led by the Mages. With the help of a mysterious
girl named Cassandra, can these two unlikely heroes end the feud, before the Wurm devastate Arcanum?
BAD UNICORN, Platte Clark. (Aladdin, April 2013). Ages: 8-12.
This is the first book in a new trilogy that has hints of Monty Python, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and
The Princess Bride.
It wasn’t Max Spencer’s idea to fight robots, lead an army, or save the world—it just happens that he’s the only living person
who can read the most fantastical book ever written: the Codex of Infinite Knowability. But Max quickly discovers that the
Codex isn’t an ordinary book. For example, it has a lot to say about a unicorn named Princess the Destroyer.
Princess the Destroyer loves nothing more than hunting down, killing, and eating other creatures. After all, what’s the point
of having a sharp horn on your forehead if you don’t use it for destructive purposes? And right now Princess has a very
definite purpose—find Max and retrieve the lost Codex for an evil sorcerer. If she can do that, she’s been promised an allthe-humans-you-can-eat
buffet in Texas. Stuck in another world and with a carnivorous unicorn on his trail, Max must find
the courage to save himself, his friends, and the entire human race.
THE UNWANTEDS SERIES. Book #2: ISLAND OF SILENCE, Lisa McMann (Aladdin, September 2012)
Bestselling author Lisa McMann’s dystopian fantasy series called “Hunger Games meets Harry Potter”
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Now that Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries are all free to live wherever they choose, life has changed for everyone in
the stark world of Quill as well as for those in the magical haven of Artimé. In Artimé, Alex Stowe and his friends continue
to hone their artistic magical spells while wondering how long the peace between Quill and Artimé will last. Alex is stunned
when Mr. Today comes to him with a very special request—one Alex questions his readiness for, until circumstances offer a
dramatic answer. Meanwhile, Alex’s twin, Aaron, faces a very different path back in Quill. Devastated by his loss of status
after Justine’s defeat and seething with rage toward Alex, Aaron is stealthily planning his revenge. With trademark pageturner
writing, Lisa McMann delivers a thrilling second installment in The Unwanteds series, as Alex’s and Aaron’s parallel
stories ultimately come together for a stunning climax that will leave readers eager for more.
Book #1: THE UNWANTEDS – Rights sold: Portuguese - Brazil
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ENCLAVE, Ann Aguirre. (Feiwel and Friends, April 2011)
• Young Adult fiction •
By the Bestselling science fiction and romance author Ann Aguirre. Winner, RITA Award for Best YA 2012
Rigts sold: France (Hachette Jeunesse/BlackMoon), Germany (Blanvalet), Hungary (Fumax), Poland (Amber), Russia
(Exmo), Spain (Editorial Hidra), Turkey (Artemis/Alfa)
Born in the second holocaust, 15‐year‐old Deuce knows of no existence beyond her enclave, deep underground where her
people eke out a perilous existence despite the monsters in the tunnels. They believe the surface world to be uninhabitable,
and she trusts the lore handed down by the elders. The oldest among them have seen 25 years, and at 15, Deuce is
considered halfway to the grave. She has trained her whole life to earn the honor of taking her place among the Hunters, one
of the elite cadre who protect the enclave. But when she becomes a Huntress, she realizes certain things don’t add up. Deuce
and her partner, Fade, discover that the neighboring enclave has been decimated by the tunnel monsters which seem to be
growing more organized. But the elders refuse to listen, and little by little, her faith in them erodes. Then she faces a terrible
choice: allow her best friend to be punished for a crime he didn’t commit or sacrifice herself in his stead. Can a girl born in
darkness survive being exiled to the daylight?
DON’T LOOK BACK, Jennyfer Armentrout. (Disney*Hyperion, March 2014)
Sammy can’t remember anything—not her parents, boyfriend, or popular‐girl life—or if she’s a murderer…
Rights of Jennifer Armentrout’s previous work sold: Germany (cbj/Random
House), Spain (Kiwi), Turkey (Dogan Egmont)
Samantha is popular, rich, and dating one of the most sought after boys in school—she had it all—until the night she and
her best friend Cassie disappeared and then Sammy resurfaced with no recollection of who she is or what happened. Now,
Sammy’s a stranger in her own life—a life she no longer wants any part of. She discovers that before her disappearance, she
took ‘mean girl’ to a whole new level, her “friends” are catty bitches, and her oh‐so perfect boyfriend comes complete with
the distinct possibility that he’d been cheating on her. Without her memories, she’s getting a second chance at being a better
daughter, sister, and friend, and she’s falling hard for Carson Ortiz, the boy who might not have a penny to his name or her
parents’ approval, but has always loved her. Except Cassie’s still missing, and the truth of what happened to Cassie and why
is locked deep inside of Sammy. When, she begins receiving mysterious notes warning her about that night, urging her to not
look back, it begins to scare Sammy. Still, she starts poking around in her past and starts to remember….Not only does every
memory reveal a little more about her relationship with Cassie, but each is also a clue. But worst of all, the evidence is leading
right to her doorstep—to her.
YOU LOOK DIFFERENT IN REAL LIFE, Jennifer Castle. (HarperCollins Children’s Books, Summer 2013)
A captivating novel of self-awareness
Rights of Jennifer Castle’s previous book, The Beginning of After sold: Brazil (Pandorga), Germany (Carlsen), The
Netherlands (The House of Books)
Sixteen-year-old Justine has a broken heart, a guilty conscience, and the shadowing sense that she hasn't lived up to the
promise she once showed as the star of a documentary film series that revisits her, and her classmates Nate, Felix, Rory, and
Keira, every five years. When the filmmakers return to shoot a new installment, these five very different teens are thrown
together again, setting off a chain of events in which old wounds are reopened, secrets are unearthed, and surprising new
connections are forged. The cameras may have shaped their lives for better or worse...but it may not be too late for Justine
to reclaim her own story and figure out who, in the end, she really is.
THE DARK METROPOLIS, Jaclyn Dolamore (Disney*Hyperion, Fall 2013)
A thrilling story that unravels the secrets of hoe The Dark Metropiolis is run.
In The Dark Metropolis, corruption and vice are rampant, disappearances warrant only a shrug from the authorities....and
people who die don't always stay dead. Sixteen-year-old Thea Holder is struggling to stay afloat. By day she nurses her ill
mother, by night she works at the decadent Telephone Club. Unlike most other girls at the club, Thea refuses to go out with
men and accept favors to supplement her wages, so she is barely able to make ends meet. When her best friend at work,
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Nan, stops showing up, Thea is the only one who is alarmed and tries to find her. Thea's search for her friend leads her to a
strangely attractive silver-haired boy whose touch is a gift, and a curse. Together, the two will uncover nightmarish secrets
about how the city is really run. Secrets that some rich and influential people will do anything to keep hidden. Drawing on
influences as diverse as Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Cabaret and Sabriel, this is a dark 1920's fairy tale; haunting, romantic and
suspenseful.
WHAT THE SPELL?, Brittany Geragotelis (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, January 2013)
Popularity plus magic can be a dangerous combination... Prequel to LIFE’S A WITCH.
Rights of LIFE’S A WITCH sold: Brazil (Moderna), Italy (Piemme), Romania (Rao), Spain/Catalan
(Roca)
In this prequel to Life’s a Witch, which takes place a year before Life’s a Witch begins, readers are introduced to Brooklyn,
Asher’s ex‐ girlfriend. All Brooklyn has ever wanted is to be popular. And after coming into her powers on her 16th
birthday, she finds that she has all the tools she needs to make her wish become a reality. So, armed with a few new spells,
Brooklyn sets off to join The Elite, the most powerful group at her school. But before they'll accept her, she has to pass a
few tests. As she learns more about her powers and spends more time with the members of The Elite, Brooklyn discovers
that living a life of popularity can be a lot more dangerous than she thought.
TRULY, MADLY, DEADLY, Hannah Jayne (Sourcebooks, Summer 2013)
Chilling, gripping, and an all-around great thriller.
Sawyer Dodd is a bit of an overachiever: track star, choir soloist, artist, A‐student. She has popular friends and an all‐star
boyfriend, Kevin Anderson. But underneath the prom pictures and Crest‐white smiles, Kevin is controlling, demeaning, and
violent. When Kevin dies in a drunk driving accident, Sawyer is distressed—but strangely relieved. Maybe her cuts, bruises,
and the humiliating secret of her abuse will finally be buried with him. That is, until she receives a mysterious letter signed by
“an admirer,” and printed with the simple words, “you’re welcome.”
INSOMNIA, J.R. Johansson. (Flux, June 2013)
Sleep deprivation is killing Parker, until he meets Mia, and now he must see her everyday... in this awesome debut
thriller.
Rigts sold: Germany 2 books (Heyne), Italy (Newton Compton).
Sixteen‐year‐old Parker spends every night trapped in the dreams of thelast person he made eye contact with, and it’s killing
him. He misses soccer practice, falls asleep at the wheel, and his mom thinks he has a drug problem. His exhaustion from
never reaching the deeper levels of sleep is getting worse every day, and he knows his time is running out. Until he meets
Mia. Mia’s dreams are the first Parker’s encountered where he can finally get real sleep. A good night of rest after so long is
incredibly addictive. But getting it means he must follow Mia and find a way to make eye contact every day. Mia is
increasingly freaked out, even turning Parker’s best friends against him. To make matters worse, Mia starts to receive
threatening e‐mails, and her wonderful dreams become scenes of a horror movie—and Parker is cast as the villain. He must
discover who is truly tormenting her, and clear his name, before she turns him in for a crime he hasn’t committed—or
worse, the true stalker makes good on his threats. The sinister emails sent to Mia are coming from an address Parker is
familiar with. And then there’s the question of why some of his dreams are so vivid he feels they really happened. As he
becomes more crazed and sleep deprived, Parker begins to question who is really behind the threats. Where does he go when
asleep? Who is the dark figure that resembles him in Mia’s dreams? And who is really in control?
THE GATHERING DARK, Christine Johnson. (Simon Pulse, February 2013)
Gifted pianist Kiera Brannon’s life begins to unravel when she meets a handsome boy who reveals to her that she
faces terrible danger from the forces of Darkside.
Kiera Brannon has put her life on hold in the hopes she will be accepted at the famed art school Julliard. But her plans all
begin to unravel when she meets a young man named Walker and is irresistibly drawn to him. She fears her bid for Julliard—
and her future— will be ruined by this handsome distraction. And when she begins to have frequent and strange
hallucinations she worries that she is also losing her sanity. But Walker sees the hallucinations too, and Kiera realizes maybe
there is more to her visions than she suspects. Can Keira and Walker avoid the forces sent from Darkside, a parallel world
composed of all the dark matter in the universe? Can they resist their burning desire for each other, since any kiss will pull
them into Darkside and toward certain death?
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BEAUTIFUL DISASTERS, Hilary Smith (HarperCollins Children’s Books, October 2013)
The consequences of unraveling family secrets.
Seventeen-year-old Kiri Byrd is home alone for the summer. Her plan is to be Serious and focus on preparing for the
Vancouver International Piano Festival, on winning Battle of the Bands, and on convincing her nerdy but sculpted band
mate Lukas to be more than just friends. But the night after her parents leave town, Kiri gets a call from a man who says that
he knew her dead half-sister Sukey, that he has her things and does Kiri want them? Kiri does. Desperately. Kiri has spent
her whole life wondering if Sukey was everything she seemed to be when Kiri was a kid. Glorious in her Marlboro Lightsscented
and paint-splattered jean jacket, the teenage prophet to Kiri’s little kid disclipe, Sukey was the only one who told Kiri
not to be so nice, not to talk about the weather, not to aim for gold stars and praise. And Kiri needs to know—did Sukey
really understand something about her, her family, and the world? So Kiri meets the man, and comes home with a garbage
bag full of Sukey’s things—and the new knowledge that her sister was murdered. Learning that Sukey was murdered and that
her family kept it a secret changes something in Kiri. She begins to push at the edges of her controlled life. She begins to
crack and shatter. She can’t quiet her brain long enough to sleep, and she begins to lose touch with reality. Sukey once told
her, “Don’t ever let anyone tell you you’re crazy.” But what does it mean to be crazy? Is Kiri crazy? Was Sukey? Or is it crazy
to skim the surface of life, instead of diving into its heart?
THIS IS NOT A TEST, Courtney Summers. (St. Martin’s Griffin, June 2012)
A wicked, chilling, and devastatingly smart psychological thriller by a multi‐award‐winning author
It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High School but shelter is little comfort when the dead
outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous
version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then,
she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the
barricades to fall, she’s forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live. But as the
days crawl by, everyone’s motivations to survive begin to change in startling ways and soon the group’s fate is determined
less and less by what’s happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life–and death–
inside. When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?
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KEEPER OF THE LOS CITIES, Shannon Messenger. (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, October 2012)
In this riveting debut, a telepathic girl must figure out why she is the key to her brand‐new world—before the
wrong person finds the answer first.
Rights sold: Italy (Barbès), Spain (RBA)
Twelve‐year‐old Sophie has never quite fit into her life. She’s skipped multiple grades and doesn’t really connect with the
older kids at school, but she’s not comfortable with her family, either. And Sophie has a secret—she’s a Telepath, someone
who can read minds. But the day Sophie meets Fitz, a mysterious (and adorable) boy, she learns she’s not alone. He’s a
Telepath too, and it turns out the reason she has never felt at home is that, well…she isn’t. Fitz opens Sophie’s eyes to a
shocking truth, and almost instantly she is forced to leave behind her family for a new life in a place that is vastly different
from what she has ever known. But Sophie still has secrets, and they’re buried deep in her memory for good reason: the
answers are dangerous and in high‐demand. What is her true identity, and why was she hidden among humans? The truth
could mean life or death—and time is running out.
THE TAKERS. Book #1 in THE OZ CHRONICLES, R.W. Ridley (Independently published, July 2005)
Winner of the Writer's Digest 15th Annual International Self‐Published Book Award in the Middle Grade
Reader/Young Adult category.
When 13‐year‐old Osmond “Oz” Griffith wakes from an illness on the floor of his closet, he discovers the world is overrun
by man‐eating monsters, the Takers, and it’s largely his fault. In an effort to make things right, he gathers a band of survivors
(a baby, an aged mechanic, and a talking gorilla, among others), and sets off down his version of the yellow brick road,
leading to the Atlanta Zoo. Along the way, he learns that his destiny was written by Steve, a boy from his past. Afflicted with
Down Syndrome, Steve created new worlds, replete with battles between good and evil, in the comic books that served as his
sole refuge from the teasing of Oz and his friends. Steve’s untimely suicide leaves only the comic books as clues to
vanquishing the Takers. Oz, suffering from guilt that he possibly caused Steve’s death, must learn to accept responsibility,
not only for his actions in the past, but for the future of civilization as he knows it.
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• Young Adult fiction •
GROTESQUE TRILOGY, Page Morgan. (Random House / Delacorte, Spring 2013) Ages: 12 and up.
A thrilling new trilogy for fans of Cassandra Clare and Lauren Kate!
Rights sold: US (Delacorte/Random House), US Audio (Listening Library), UK (Hot Key), Spain (Random House
Mondadori), Portugal (Planeta), Germany (Heine), France (Bayard).
Page Morgan re-imagines the gargoyle—creating her own mythology of crime, punishment, and an army of enchanted stone
guardians—and delivers an action-packed, epic romantic new series. Set at the turn of the twentieth century in Paris, this is the
tale of sisters Ingrid and Gabby as they go on a search for their missing brother. What they discover along the way is a dark
and mysterious city full of secrets, murder, love… and otherworldly creatures hell-bent on revenge.
THE GIRL WITH BORROWED WINGS, Rinsai Rosetti (Dial, July 2012)
A perfectionist teenage girl oppressed by her father rescues a cat that turns out to be a shape-shifter.
Rights sold: France
Sixteen year-old Frenenqer Paje’s Life in the middle-east is a series of boxes: Her bedroom, her father’s car, and her expatriate
high school. But Frenenqer’s life changes forever when she rescues a dying cat from the marketplace. The cat is actually a boy
named Sangris, and the two embark on many nighttime adventures. But when their friendship blossoms into something more,
Frenenqer must face her greatest fear—her father—or risk losing Sangris forever.
Praise for THE GIRL WITH BORROWED WINGS:
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – “Rossetti was a teenager when she wrote this novel, and her connection to the stifling constraints,
torn emotions, and dazzling first tastes of freedom and power that are synonymous with coming-of-age make this first novel
shine”.
KIRKUS – “Infused with an urgent hope, this glimmering love story exhilarates and refreshes”.
• Middle-Grade fiction •
THE LAST DOGS SERIES, Christopher Holt (Little Brown). Ages: 10 and up.
Book #1: ABANDONED – September 2012
Book #2: DARK WATERS – February 2013
A post-apocalyptic Animal Farm for young readers.
Rights sold: France (La Martiniere)
When all the humans in his world disappear, Max, a yellow Labrador Retriever, begins the search for his family. He knows that
if he can just find Madame Curie, a wise, old black Lab, she’ll be able to help. Madame had a premonitition of astonishing
events to come – she may know where Max’s family us.
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• Picture Books •
FROGGY’S WORST PLAYDATE, (FROGGY SERIES) Joanthan London. (Viking, February 2013). Ages: 3 – 5
Which is worse – a playdate with a girl or no playdate at all?
A playdate with a girl? Froggy is horrified! What will his friends say? But when Dad bribes him with the promise of a movie
outing, Froggy has to agree, even if he won’t sit next tro Frogilina. She might try to kiss him. EEWW!this could be the worst
playdate ever.
Children have enjoyed the misadventures of trouble-prone Froggy in mode than twenty books. Frggy just never learns – and
that’s why we love him!
TEA REX, Moly Idle. (Viking, April 2013). Ages: 3 – 5
Miss Manners meets Tyrannosaurus Rex!
Cordelia is throwing a tea party, but she’ll need more help tan Emily Post can provide. Playing host to an unusual guest –a T-
Rex – Cordelia tries her best to make sure the party is a smashing success. But no matter hoe closely Cordelia follows hosting
etiquette, her prehistoric friend plays his own rules. But ever the perfect hostess, Cordelia takes these challenges in strike.
• Middle-Grade fiction •
THE SINISTER SWEETNES OF SPLENDID ACADEMY, Nikki Loftin (Razorbill, August 2012). Ages: 8 – 12
“A smart, fresh, and thoroughly modern retelling of Hansel and Gretel” – Publishers Weekly
Lorelei is bowled over by Splendid Academy--Principal Trapp encourages the students to run in the hallways, the classrooms
are stocked with candy dishes, and the cafeteria serves lavish meals featuring all Lorelei's favorite foods. But the more time
she spends at school, the more suspicious she becomes. Why are her classmates growing so chubby? And why do the
teachers seem so sinister? It's up to Lorelei and her new friend Andrew to figure out what secret this supposedly splendid
school is hiding. What they discover chills their bones--and might even pick them clean! Mix one part magic, one part
mystery, and just a dash of Grimm, and you've got the recipe for a cozy-creepy read that kids will gobble up like candy.
THE MISADVENTURES OF EDGAR AND ALLAN POE (Trilogy), Gordon McAlpine. (Viking, January 2013).
Ages: 8 – 12. Book #1: THE TELL TALE START
This is a smart, funny new middle-grade series – imagine The Time Warp Trio crossed with Lemony Snicket!
Meet Edgar and Allan Poe – twelve-year-old identical twins, the great-great-great-great-grandnephews of Edgar Allan Poe.
They look so much alike that it’s almost like having one mischievious boy in two bodies. When their black cat, Roderick
Usher, is kidnapped the twins and their guardians set off on a road trip – and of course, mystery and mayhem ensue along
the way…
With a mix of literary humor, mystery, a little quantum physics, and fun extras like secret chapters, fortune cookie messages,
license plate clues – and playful illustrations thoughout – this series-opener is a perfect choice for middle-graders who
love the Time Warp Trio, Roald Dahl, and Lemony Snicket.
THE ULTRA VIOLETS, Sophie Bell. (Viking, April 2013). Ages: 8 – 12.
A genetics experiment gone awry turns four best friends into supergirls in this exciting new middle-grade series
that’s The Incredibles meets the Spice Girls, for fans of The Powerpuff Girls.
Meet four best friends. They are not super… yet. Cheri is the girly one. Scarlet is the tough one. Opaline is the shy one. And
Iris is the glitter-glue that holds the group together. Their moms work together in the FLab (or, Fascination Laboratory
where their moms all work on an uber-secret project in the center of stainless steel, totally tubular sci-induustrial complex of
SynchroniCity. What happens when you and your best friends find yourselves on the wrong end of a botched genetics
experiment? Cheri, Scarlet, Opialine and Iris are abpit to become… THE ULTRA VIOLETS!
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• Young Adult fiction •
NAMELESS: A TALE OF BEAUTY AND MADNESS, Lili St. Crow. (Razorbill, April 2013). Ages 12 and up.
A dark eerie retelling of Snow White from the New York Times bestselling author of the Strange Angel series.
Sixteen-year-old cCamile doesn’t remember her life before she was adopted by the powerful Vultusino family – the missing
childhood years that left her scarred and solent. Now she lives a life of luxury, protected by the supernatural Mafia Vultusinos,
especially Nico, her adopted brother.
But Cami knows that she is not really Family. She is a mortal with a past that lies buried in trauma. And it’s not until a
mysterious boy approaches her and reveals scars from his own that Cami begins to uncover the secrets of her past… to find
out where she comes from and what danger she now finds herself in.
Rights of STRANGE ANGELS SERIES sold: Turkish (Alfa / Artemis), Polish (Amber Publishing), Danish (Art
People/People's Press Jr.), Russian (AST), Czec (Bb/Art), French (Bragelonne Editions), German (Droemersche
Verlagsanstalt), Spanish (Ediciones Versatil), French (Editions Ada), Italian (Newton Compton) ,Thai (Nokhook), Portuguese
(Novo Seculo), Estonian (Pegasus), English – Australia (Penguin Australia), English – UK (Quercus), Romanian (Sc Leda
Editserv).
TIGER (sequel of DARK EYES), William Richter. (Razorbill, March 2012). Ages: 12 and up.
A vigilante fights for justice at any cost.
Rights of DARK EYES sold: Turkish (Dogan), Hebrew (Modan), Russian (Ast), Polish (Wydawnictwo Dolnoslaskie),
Catalan (Grup Editorial 62), Spanish (Ediciones B), English (Penguin UK), French (Albin Michel), German (S. Fisher Verlag).
Wallis Stoneman isn’t like other eenage girls. She’s beautiful, fearless and deadly. Wally lives alone in her Brooklyn loft. She’d
be a regular teenager, except that she’s the daughter of a Russain assassin. Crime is in Wally’s blood, but she uses her legacy for
good: she solves missing person gases for the Ursula Society, an under-the-radar organization that uses oft-illegal tacticsto find
people whose cases have long been cold. The person Wally most wants to find? Tiger, her fugitive brother. Wally and Tiger
will have to find each other and band together a conspiracy in which they are mere pawns.
Praise for DARK EYES:
BOOKLIST, *Starred Review* – “Similar to The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo… Let’s hope to see more of [Wally] and author
Richetr soon”.
KIRKUS - “Full of thrills and screaming for a sequel”.
Pittacus Lore, author of I AM NUMBER FOUR – “Murder, action, intrigue and the toughest female vigilante since Lisbeth
Salander”.
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• Middle-Grade fiction •
MALCOLM AT MIDNIGHT, W. H. Beck. (Houghton Mifflin, Fall 2012) Age 8 – 12.
Full of ghostly shrieks, school hijinks, instances of valor, the occasional cheese puff, and… footnotes, this
engaging debut middle-grade novel by W.H. Beck will have readers rooting for Malcolm as they try to solve the
mystery alongside him.
When Malcolm the rat arrives as the new pet in Mr. Binney's class at McKenna School, he revels in the attention. He also
meets the Midnight Academy, a secret society of classroom pets that keeps the nutters (kids) safe. There’s just one
problem… rats have a terrible reputation! So when the Academy’s iguana leader is kidnapped, Malcolm must prove his
innocence —and that even rats can be good guys.
The book’s illustrated by Brian Lies, creator of the bestselling BATS AND THE BEACH series.
THE ART OF FLYING, Judy Hoffman. (Disney-Hyperion, Fall 2013). Age 8 – 12.
A delightful debut novel that, like a well-crafted play, reveals alliances, betrayals, checkered pasts, hopeful futures
and unexpected friendships that unfold among a broad cast of characters without ever losing focus. All that, and it
celebrates the magic of flight!
When 11 year old Fortuna Dalliance rings the crazy old Baldwin Sisters’ doorbell, she enters a world she didn’t know existed.
A world where transformations are forbidden. Illegal, in fact. Fortuna quickly learns that she’s been recruited to help Selena
and Ellie Baldwin with a little predicament. Miss Ellie cast a spell to rescue two young birds being mercilessly picked on by
an owl, and well….the spell transformed all three birds into humans.
With a finite period of time to undo things before the consequences become permanent, all three “birds” have to be found
and agree to be changed back to their true forms. But the Sisters only know where one “bird” is and even he doesn’t want to
change so quickly. So it’s up to Fortuna to convince this bird/boy Martin as only a fellow kid can. If Martin will agree to
transform back, there may be time enough yet to find the other two. Things are never as easy as they seem, though, are they?
FOREVER FOUR SERIES, Elizabeth Cody Kimmel. (Books 1 &2 - Grosset & Dunlap, Spring 2012)
(Book 3 to publish Fall 2012 and Book 4 Spring 2013). Ages 10 up.
“They wanted to give every girl a voice. They had no idea they’d make so much noise.”
Paulina, Tally, Miko, and Ivy are four extraordinarily different girls: the Brain, the Actress, the Prom-Queen-in-Training, and
The New Girl. When they are grouped together to create a magazine for a school competition, it seems like they'll never
agree on anything. Can they find a way to put their differences aside and get the job done? And when they are ready to dive
into creating the magazine's second issue, can they capture the magic of the first one? Their differences are their strengths.
And when they work together the results are extraordinary.
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