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Recent Deals Negotiated
Chandra Hoffman
In CHOSEN, a novel in the spirit of Jodi Picoult, a young caseworker becomes increasingly tangled in the lives of an upwardly mobile adoptive couple and their assigned birth parents... and must decide if she's ready to cross the line when a kidnapping/extortion attempt goes horribly wrong. Debut author Chandra Hoffman directed a domestic adoption agency before receiving her MFA from Antioch University.
US Rights to Harper (Fall, 2010)
Toby Ball
Pitched as reminiscent of the work of James Ellroy and Val McDermott, a dystopian, almost surreal period thriller in which a chilling series of events leads three different men to join in exposing the legacy of a radical program for punishing murderers.
North American rights to St. Martin's Press (2010)
Lucy Jackson
POSH author Lucy Jackson's SLICKER, about what happens when a typical Manhattan college girl -- raised on taxis, private education, iPhones and good bagels -- finds herself living in flyover country (Kansas, of all places) not knowing a single soul.
North American rights to St. Martin's Press
Rishi Reddi
A sprawling story of ambition, betrayal and murder, set against the backdrop of draconian miscegenation laws in 1920s California that created an isolated pocket of Punjabi-Mexican families— increasingly feared by and fearful of their neighbors.
U.S. rights to Ecco (2010)
Liza Ward
O. Henry Prize Stories contributor and author of OUTSIDE VALENTINE Liza Ward's THE INFLUENCE OF STARS, set during and immediately after World War I, about the complicated union of a pilot hero who puts his life in repeated danger in the service of a newly instituted U.S. Air Mail and the society girl from Brooklyn Heights who begins as his good luck charm, but, as his wife, grows frustrated by his exploits.
World English to Riverhead (2010)
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)
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)
Ellis Cose
Bestselling author, Newsweek columnist and contributing editor Ellis Cose’s THE END OF ANGER: Renewing America’s Dream of Racial Equality examines the changing racial dynamics in our country to make sense of what a people do when a dream is finally achieved, when one historical era ends and another begins.
North American rights to Harper (2010)
Gina Shaw
WebMD writer and breast-cancer survivor Gina Shaw's CANCER, BABY: You Can Have Children After Cancer, an accessible guide to having children after cancer, covering issues from preserving fertility, to surrogacy, to adoption, to spontaneous conception and beyond.
World rights to Ten Speed Press (Spring, 2011)
William Dobson
Journalist and editor for Foreign Affairs, Newsweek International, and Foreign Policy William Dobson's book on the changing nature of modern dictatorship, telling the story of the hidden, unconventional battle between 21st century authoritarians and the dissidents that target their tyranny, arguing that authoritarian regimes have evolved amidst new technologies and changing definitions of political liberty.
World rights to Doubleday (2011)
Will Bunch
Pulitzer Prize-winner, Philadelphia Daily News writer and author of TEAR DOWN THIS MYTH Will Bunch's THE BACKLASH: Right-wing Rebels, Hi-Def Hucksters and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama, a chronicle of a new American dystopia of extreme talk and extreme actions in the Obama era.
North American rights to Harper (2010)
Simon Morrison
L is the result of archival research in Moscow on the life and turbulent times of the wife of one of the 20th century's most celebrated and prolific composers, revealing the complex relationship between culture and politics in the Soviet state.
World English rights to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2011)
Kirstin Hersh
Founder of indie rock band Throwing Muses Kristin Hersh's RAT GIRL, about a particularly pivotal year when, as a teenager, the author's band signed their first record deal, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and she found out she was pregnant.
North American rights to Penguin (2010)
David Sirota
NYT bestselling author, syndicated columnist, and MSNBC regular David Sirota suggests that as the Boomers move aside, the coming of age of the all-grown-up children of the 1980s is upon us, and we're on a collision course with the values, mindsets, and spirit of that lost and ridiculed decade.
North American rights to Ballantine Books (2011)
Martin Lemelman
An elegiac and bittersweet graphic memoir, about the author's childhood in 1950s and 60s Brownsville and the family's ultimate departure in the pivotal year 1968.
US rights to Bloomsbury
Sheila Isenberg
Revealing the extraordinary life and times of one of America's great heroines, Muriel Gardiner, setting the record straight in this authorized biography of a most amazing and passionate woman.
World English rights to Palgrave (Winter, 2011)
David Nichols
An exploration of just how close America came to military engagement with the Soviets with the 1956 Suez confrontation, in an intimate profile of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's leadership during the crisis.
World rights to Simon & Schuster (2010)
Charles King
The epic story of the rise, decline, and renewal of Odessa, a seaport on the turbulent frontier between Russia and Europe, home to Babel and Pushkin, and the scene of amazing cosmopolitan achievement as well as unspeakable acts of brutality.
North American rights to W. W. Norton (2010)
Natasha Trethewey
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's essays, adapted and expanded from the lectures she delivered at the Page-Barbour Lecture series at the University of Virginia in 2007.
World rights to University of Georgia Press (2009)
Michael Thomas
New York Times Best Book 2007 author of Man Gone Down, Michael Thomas's THE BROKEN KING, about four generations of men in the Thomas family -- fathers and sons, race and deracination, success and failure, and the Boston Red Sox, and a novel, UNION STREET, about the volatile intersection of American race, class, and politics that shrouds the coming of age of one down-and-out young man in 1988 Boston.
North American rights to Grove/Atlantic
J. E. Lendon
Moving beyond the Cold-War influenced interpretations that have dominated for the last fifty years, All-University Outstanding Teaching prize-winning Professor of History at the University of Virginia and author of Soldiers and Ghosts offers a Peloponnesian War for our own times, asking the sorts of questions about the origins and fighting of war that our present experience demands.
World rights to Basic Books (2010)
Dutch rights to Ambos/Anthos
Todd Kliman
Todd Kliman, Food and Wine Editor at The Washingtonian and James Beard food writing award winner, details the story of the Norton grape and the mavericks who have been drawn to it since its creation in Virginia in the 19th century. After producing an international award-winning Missouri wine, the grape all but vanished during Prohibition, only to be resurrected recently in wine-growing regions throughout the country.
U.S. and Canadian rights to Clarkson Potter (2009)
Tina J. Wray
Seasoned professor of religious studies at Salve Regina University offers readers a tried and true method for biblical literacy education without intimidation, enabling students to navigate the Bible with relative ease in just a few classes. Readers will learn to employ the basic tools of modern biblical scholarship-- tools both accessible and critical to understanding the Bible's meaning.
World rights to Rowman & Littlefield (2010)
Jean-Vincent Blanchard
Swarthmore history professor recounts the incredible story of how the young Bishop of Lucon rose to become a figure of religious authority and political might, transforming both himself and his country into formidable actors on the world stage through both astute political strategy and the ruthless persecution of his enemies.
U.S. and Canadian rights to Walker Books (2010)
Tim Sultan
Author's reminiscences of bartending for thirteen years at the last longshoreman's bar in Brooklyn, and his friendship with its larger-than-life owner and eccentric regulars -- set against the backdrop of a transforming neighborhood and a disappearing small town America.
World English rights to Random House (2010)
Sarah Skinner Kilborne
Sarah Skinner Kilborne, a descendant of America's "Silk King," William Skinner, recounts the inspiring story of how this Massachusetts business leader, after losing everything he'd spent thirty years building in just fifteen minutes' time when a reservoir north of Skinnerville burst through its dam and swept the town away beneath a violent wave 300 feet wide and 25 feet high, went on to leave a far greater legacy than he surely would have otherwise.
U.S. and Canadian rights to Walker Books (2010)
R. Tripp Evans
Wheaton professor of art history R. Tripp Evans' dazzling exploration of the work of America's most famous regionalist painter, Grant Wood, a "lightning rod" to sexual and cultural norms, and as baselessly revered by the right as he has always been despised and ignored by the left.
U.S. & Canadian rights to Alfred A. Knopf (October 2010)
Kevin Young
Young's next collection, exploring themes of grief and remembrance.
World English rights to Knopf (2010)
Ilyasah Shabazz
The Daughter of Malcolm X’s picture book focusing on the early life of the civil rights activist and American Icon.
World rights to Atheneum
Jen Violi
A high school senior deals with the death of her father by enrolling in mortuary science school and finds fulfillment in helping others who have recently suffered the loss of a loved one.
North American rights to Hyperion Children’s (2011)
Katie Crouch
An unlikely Southern debutante discovers voodoo secrets and scandal hidden beneath Savannah society's perfectly glossed veneer in this exciting young adult debut from Katie Crouch, bestselling author of Girls in Trucks.
US Rights to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (2010)
Lish McBride
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A Seattle fast-food worker discovers that he is a necromancer, exposing a supernatural world of harbingers, werewolves and satyrs and sets off a showdown with a local necromancer who makes his living raising dead celebrities and politician for cash.
World English rights to Henry Holt Books for Young Readers (2010)
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