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Recent Deals Negotiated
Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste's new novel, set during the early days of WWII, tells the story of Fascist Italy's invasion and occupation of Ethiopia and the army of Ethiopian men and women who confront them.
US rights to W.W. Norton
Ann Leary
A portrait of alcoholism and denial, in which a 60-year-old real estate broker struggles to stay sober, and be the good neighbor, mother and grandmother she presents herself to be.
North American rights to St. Martin's
Nancy Kriocorian
The story of an Armenian family's struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Paris after having lived through genocide in their homeland years before.
North American rights to Grove/Atlantic
Magdy El-Shafee
Egyptian writer, illustrator, and activist Magdy El Shafee's graphic novel (Egypt's first), originally published in Arabic in 2008 but seized by police as too offensive for public morals, telling the story of two young Cairenes who, in desperation, pull off a bank heist that uncovers corruption at the highest levels.
World English rights to Metropolitan
Don Lee
The latest novel from the author of WRACK AND RUIN, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, and YELLOW.
North American rights to W.W. Norton
Janice P. Nimura
Veteran book reviewer and East Asian Scholar Janice Nimura's account of three samurai daughters sent to study abroad for ten years in America and how they later struggled to redefine the roles for women back in their native Japan, braving alienation and failure along the way.
North American rights to W. W. Norton
Thomas Bradbury PhD & Benjamin Karney PhD
Two experts drawing upon twenty years' worth of couples research show the reader that deciding to take action about our weight cannot be done in a vacuum, but rather must start with fundamental changes in how we communicate with our life partners and the shared life choices resulting from that communication.
North American rights to Free Press
Jacob Soll
2009 Guggenheim Fellow and Professor of History at Rutgers Jacob Soll offers new interpretations of history we thought we knew in order to make sense of our own crisis of financial circumlocution, looking backwards seven hundred years to the very origins of finance and political accountability and examining the countless pitfalls that followed.
World rights to Basic Books
Sarah Skinner Kilborne
A disaster narrative cum business parable that recounts how Massachusetts silk baron William Skinner parlayed his total ruin in the Mill River Disaster of 1874 into far greater success yet, ultimately becoming America's, and the world's, Silk King.
World rights to Free Press
Meryl Comer
Emmy-award winning journalist and president of the Geoffrey Beane Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative Meryl Comer's portrait of her evolution from Alzheimer's caregiver to a fierce and nationally recognized advocate for early diagnosis, aggressive, innovative treatment, and affordable care in a fight against a disease that claims a new patient somewhere in the world every 69 seconds.
North American rights to HarperOne
Henry Tricks
Tokyo bureau chief for The Economist and former Financial Times correspondent Henry Tricks details how a formal, conservative and habitually closed society and economy is being forced to reconceive its place in the world in the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown.
World, excluding UK/Commonwealth to PublicAffairs
Dominic Johnson
Edinburgh University professor Dominic Johnson explores how religion affects Darwinian fitness, its evolutionary origins in human history, and when and where this causes maladaptive behavior in the modern world, focusing specifically on supernatural punishment.
World English rights to Oxford University Press
Mark Warren
Pitched in the tradition of Walden, The Outermost House and A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, TWO WINTERS IN A TIPI is the story of a writer/composer/wilderness educator in the Georgia Mountains who, having lost everything he owned in a fire, builds himself a tipi to live in, getting closer to nature than he ever has before, and finding himself richer for it.
World rights to Lyons Press
Andrew Kaufman
University of Virginia assistant professor Andrew Kaufman channels Alain de Botton and Elif Batuman to provide a humorous and infectious entree into the work of Russia's greatest novelist, reframing readers' very understanding of what it means to be alive in troubled times and to survive them.
North American rights to Free Press
Natasha Trethewey
Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey's new collection of poems.
World rights to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt(2012)
Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix
The second book in The Magnolia League series, continuing the spellbinding story of voodoo-dabbling debutantes in Savannah, Georgia.
North American rights to Poppy (Spring, 2012)
Ted Goeglein
A debut YA novel in the vein of a teenage Bourne Identity, in which a 16-year old girl must unravel a complex mystery and discover who she truly is while on the run from seemingly everyone.
North American rights to Putnam Children's (2012)
Dutch rights to Prometheus
German rights to Heyne
French rights to Editions Milan
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