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Recent Deals Negotiated
Catherine Chung
Cornell MFA and former University of Chicago mathematics scholar Catherine Chung's novel follows the story of a Korean American woman sent by her terminally ill father to find her missing sister, which leads to a larger journey that forces her to confront her family's tragic history and to understand the consequences of the truth coming to light under the weight of national, cultural, and personal traditions of silence.
North American rights to Riverhead
Nikolai Grozni
Pitched as if Holden Caulfield had been thrust into the world of a fifteen-year old piano prodigy, grappling with the numbing madness all around him at Sofia (Bulgaria)'s School for the Musically Gifted during the last two years before the fall of Communism in a beautiful, tragicomic celebration of art, honesty and self-discovery.
World rights to Free Press (2011)
Kate Bernheimer
The final book in a trilogy preceded by The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold (2001) and The Complete Tales of Merry Gold (2006), all based on German, Russian, and Yiddish folklore.
University of Alabama Press
Susi Wyss
THE CIVILIZED WORLD is a linked collection of stories about five unforgettable Ghanaian and American women -- two of them haunted by a violent crime -- whose lives intersect in unexpected ways, while THE SANZA SEAMSTRESS is a coming-of-age novel set in the Central African Republic.
North American rights to Holt
Katie Crouch
NYT bestselling author of GIRLS IN TRUCKS Katie Crouch's novel CERTAIN and a collection of untitled essays.
Little, Brown
Thomas F. Schaller
Author of the WHISTLING PAST DIXIE, FiveThirtyEight.com commentator, and political columnist for the Baltimore Sun, Thomas Schaller explores how the two decades following the Reagan Administration, bookended by the two Bush presidencies, were characterized by the internecine and ultimately self-destructive fight among conservatives to properly contextualize the Reagan legacy.
World English to Yale University Press (2012)
Linda Killian
D.C.-based journalist and author of THE FRESHMEN Linda Killian reports on today's shifting electoral landscape and argues that as Independents represent the single largest potential voting bloc and, right now, they're up for grabs, understanding what they want from the political system is crucial.
North American rights to St. Martin's Press (2011)
Jonathan Lyons
Veteran journalist, Lapham's Quarterly contributor, and author of THE HOUSE OF WISDOM, Jonathan Lyons, explores the excitement and tension between practical knowledge and religious mystery in the early years of the American Republic, yielding the origins of the "can-do" spirit that many would identify as a particularly American trait and our new relationship between information and invention in the digital age.
Word rights to Bloomsbury Press (2013)
Michael A. Cohen
Frequent commentator at Politico, Dissent, and Foreign Policy, and author of LIVE FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, Michael A. Cohen, explores the emergence of new political realities for the two parties following that crucial election and how, today, many of America’s political debates are spent either perpetuating them or inoculating politicians against them.
Word English rights to Oxford University Press
Ethan Michaeli
A groundbreaking history of the paper that over the twentieth century played a seminal role in the Great Migration, the Integration of the Armed Forces, and the election of John F. Kennedy, written by a veteran Chicago journalist who spent five years as a reporter there under legendary publisher John Sengstacke.
North American rights to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Dr. Marty Klein
Sex therapist, sociologist, AND contributor to Psychology Today Dr. Marty Klein explores how to better communicate about sex, how we can accept our preferences and desires without feeling self-conscious, and how to restore a sense of erotic partnership with our mate.
HarperOne (2012)
Susan Mattern
A biography of Galen, whose written output comprises fully an eighth of surviving Ancient Greek literature, carefully positioning Galen in his time and environment and bringing the classical world to gritty, pungent life.
North American rights to Oxford University Press (2012)
UK and Commonwealth rights to Oxford University Press (2012)
Jacques Berlinerblau
Georgetown University professor, author, director of the Program for Jewish Civilization, and Washington Post contributor writes a passionate and refreshed definition of secularism and argues for a secular return in American politics and culture, and compellingly threads the needle between science and the spiritual -- so often a furious battlefield of beliefs.
North American rights to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Spring, 2011)
Kevin Young
Winner of the 2010 Graywolf NOnfiction Prize, THE GREY ALBUM is a collection of essays spanning literature, music and autobiography to analyze a covert American history.
Graywolf Press (Spring 2012)
Adam Jortner
A dual biography of Tecumseh's brother, the so-called Shawnee Prophet, who sought to unite all of North America's Indian tribes in a single nation under the Great Spirit, and the territorial governor/future president who clashed with him in the name of Manifest Destiny.
World rights to Oxford University Press
Christopher Hayes
Reveals the origins, effects, and scope of the crisis of authority that is crippling American politics and society, while exploring the poor performance of key institutions from Wall Street to Major League Baseball to the Big Three automakers and Congress, and offering a way forward to remedy what ails us.
North American rights to Broadway (2012)
Rebecca Dana
The Daily Beast correspondent and former WSJ reporter Rebecca Dana's JUJITSU RABBI AND THE GODLESS BLONDE, pitched as Candace Bushnell meets The Odd Couple meets Shalom Auslander.
World rights to Amy Einhorn Books (2012)
Dave Philipps
Based on the author’s headline-grabbing Colorado Springs Gazette reportage, LETHAL WARRIORS attempts to explain and understand the brigade of soldiers based in Fort Carson, who, in a one-year period after their second tour in Iraq, had a murder rate of 114 times the rate for Colorado Springs. With piercing insight and groundbreaking investigative reporting, LETHAL WARRIORS will do for Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) what A Problem From Hell did for genocide.
World English rights to Palgrave (June, 2010)
Kate Bernheimer
Two children's books by Kate Bernheimer to Random House Children's
Jesse Karp
A seventeen year old Brooklyn boy and a privileged suburban girl have their identities abruptly wiped out before uncovering a reality-shattering truth lurking just under the surface of a dystopian New York City.
North American rights to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2011)
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