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BAROR INTERNATIONAL, INC.
BADULT
SPRING 2015
Representing Agencies, Authors & Publishers Worldwide
Post Office Box 868, Armonk, New York, 10504, USA
Tel: (914) 273-9199; Fax: (914) 273-5058
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
GENERAL FICTION/MYSTERYAddison, Corban - THE TEARS OF DARK WATER.........................................................1
Bacigalupi, Paolo - THE WATER KNIFE..........................................................................2
Chisholm, P.F. - A CHORUS OF INNOCENTS................................................................3
Clark, Mary Higgins - MANHATTAN MAYHEM...............................................................4
Fields, Hilary - LAST CHANCE LLAMA RANCH..............................................................5
Lansdale, Joe - PARADISE SKY.......................................................................................6
Littlefield, Sophie - THE GUILTY ONE............................................................................7
Rowley, Aidan Donnelley - THE RAMBLERS...................................................................8
Tosches, Nick - UNDER TIBERIUS...................................................................................9
HISTORICAL FICTION/ROMANCECocks, Heather & Jessica Morgan - THE ROYAL WE......................................................10
Gabaldon, Diana - THE OUTLANDISH COMPANION: VOLUME 2...............................11
Halle, Karina - THE PACT...............................................................................................12
Peacock, Nancy - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PERSIMMON WILSON............................13
Porter, Jane - IT’S YOU..................................................................................................14
Reichert, Amy - THE COINCIDENCE OF COCONUT CAKE.......................................15
Torday, Daniel - THE LAST FLIGHT OF POXL WEST......................................................16
Wilson, Anne - HOVER...................................................................................................17
THRILLERSBlock, Sandra - LITTLE BLACK LIES..............................................................................18
Drake, Rebecca - ONLY EVER YOU...............................................................................19
Kaplan, Howard - THE DAMASCUS COVER..............................................................20
Lustbader, Eric Van - ANY MINUTE NOW...................................................................21
Marshall, Colby - DOUBLE VISION..............................................................................22
Petrie, Nicholas - THE DRIFTER......................................................................................23
Riddle, A.G. - DEPARTURE.........................................................................................24
Rollins, James - THE BONE LABYRINTH.......................................................................25
Simmons, Dan - THE FIFTH HEART.............................................................................26
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASYAbraham, Daniel - THE SPIDER’S WAR.......................................................................27
Anders, Charlie Jane - ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY....................................................28
Arthur, Keri - CITY OF LIGHT ........................................................................................29
Beaulieu, Bradley - TWELVE KINGS IN SHARAKHAI................................................30
Birmingham, John - EMERGENCE, RESISTANCE, ASCENDANCE.............................31
Chu, Wesley - THE REBIRTHS OF TAO........................................................................32
Chu, Wesley - TIME SALVAGER.....................................................................................33
Corey, James S.A. - NEMESIS GAMES.............................................................................34
Goodkind, Terry - WARHEART...................................................................................35
Harrison, Kim - THE DRAFTER.......................................................................................36
Lackey, Mercedes - FROM A HIGH TOWER...................................................................37
Leicht, Stina - COLD IRON............................................................................................38
Liu, Ken - THE GRACE OF KINGS...........................................................................39
Marillier, Juliet - THE TOWER OF THORNS...................................................................40
Moorcock, Michael - THE WHISPERING SWARM........................................................41
Sykes, Sam - THE CITY STAINED RED.........................................................................42
Wellington, David - POSITIVE..................................................................................43
Wilde, Fran - UPDRAFT.................................................................................................44
NON-FICTIONGrossman, Dave - ASSASSINATION GENERATION................................................45
Hitchens, Christopher - AND YET AND YET...................................................................46
Johnson, Sarah Stewart - THE SIRENS OF MARS....................................................47
Kealing, Bob - TUPPERWARE UNSEALED...................................................................48
Parker, Alstyne & Choudary - PLATFORM WORLD....................................................49
Puchner, Martin - THE WRITTEN WORLD.....................................................................50
Ross, Theo Dr. - POWER IN THE BLOOD.....................................................................51
Russell, Gareth - YOUNG AND DAMNED AND FAIR.....................................................52
Solomon, Greenberg & Pyszczynski - THE WORM AT THE CORE............................53
THE TEARS OF DARK WATERCorban Addison
Untitled Imprint/HarperCollins, Fall 2015 (North American)
Daniel and Vanessa Parker are an American success story. He is a Washington, D.C. power broker, and she is a doctor with a thriving practice. But behind the façade, their marriage is a shambles, and their teenage son, Quentin, is self-destructing. In desperation, Daniel dusts off a long-delayed dream - a sailing trip around the world.
Half a world away, on the lawless coast of Somalia, Ismail Ibrahim is plotting the rescue of his sister, Yasmin, from the man who murdered their father. Driven to crime by love and loyalty, he hijacks ships for ransom money.
Paul Derrick is the FBI’s top hostage negotiator. His twin sister Megan, is a celebrated defense attorney. When Paul is called to respond to a hostage crisis at sea, he has no idea how far it will take them both into their traumatic past - or the chance it will give them to redeem the future.
Across continents and oceans, through storms and civil wars, their paths converge in a single, explosive moment.
Out of the ashes of tragedy the seeds of
justice and reconciliation can grow.
Corban Addison has been translated into
21 Languages.
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Territories Sold:HarperCollins, Canada
Quercus, UK & CommonwealthRecorded Books, North American
THE WATER KNIFEPaolo Bacigalupi
Knopf, May 2015 (North American)
In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, detective, leg-breaker, assassin and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel “cuts” water for his boss ensuring that the rich stay wet, while the poor get nothing but dust. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface, Angel is sent to investigate. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with every reason to hate Angel, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texan refugee who survives by her wits and street smarts in a city that despises everything that she represents. With bodies piling up, bullets flying, and Phoenix teetering on collapse, it seems like California is making a power play to monopolize the life-giving flow of a river. For Angel, Lucy, and Maria time is running out and their only hope for survival rests in each other’s hands. But when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only thing for certain is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink.
“These days are coming, and as always fiction explains them better than fact. This is a spectacular thriller, wonderfully imagined and written, and racing through it will make you think—and make you thirsty.”
—Lee Child
“An intense thriller and a deeply insightful vision of the coming century, laid out in all its pain and glory. It’s a water knife indeed, right to
the heart.” —Kim Stanley Robinson
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Territories Sold:AST, RussiaMarti, TurkeySelini, Greece
Hayakawa, JapanLiterackie, PolandChina Times, TaiwanGabo Kiado, Hungary
Karl Blessing, GermanyAu Diable Vauvert, FranceOrbit, UK & CommonwealthPenguin Random House, SpainArgo Nakladatelstvi, Czech Republic
Starred Publishers Weekly Review
MANHATTAN MAYHEMEdited by
Mary Higgins Clark
Quirk Books, June 2015
Best-selling suspense novelist, Mary Higgins Clark, invites you on a tour of Manhattan’s most iconic neighborhoods in this anthology of all-new stories from the Mystery Writers of America. From the Flatiron District (Lee Child) and Greenwich Village (Jeffery Deaver) to Little Italy (T. Jefferson Parker) and Chinatown (S.J. Rozan), you’ll encounter crimes, mysteries, and riddles large and small. Illustrated with iconic photography of New York City and packaged in a handsome hardcover, Manhattan Mayhem is a delightful read for armchair detectives and armchair travelers alike!
New Stories by:Mary Higgins Clark
Lee ChildJeffrey Deaver
Thomas H. CookJustin Scott
T. Jefferson Parkerand more...
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Mary Higgins Clark, No. 1 international and New York Times best-selling author, has written thirty-three suspense novels. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies.
Mystery Writers of America is the premier organization for mystery writers, and professionals.
A CHORUS OF INNOCENTSSir Robert Carey Series, Book 7
P.F. Chisholm
Poisoned Pen Press, August 2015 (North American)
Thursday, 12th October, 1592. Eighteen days after the action closes in An Air of Treason, courtier Sir Robert Carey and Carey’s surly, larcenous, and loyal henchman Henry Dodd, Land Sergeant of Gilsland, are back in Carlisle and the Debateable Lands, the Border country, the Wild North, the land of the hot trod where the thieving, feuding reiver clans are “English when it suited, and Scots at their pleasure.” A Chorus of Innocents ushers forward Lady Elizabeth Widdrington, the married woman whom Carey adores but respects. It opens when a very pregnant young woman rides to Lady Widdrington’s tower crying that her minister husband has been murdered and she herself has been raped. You will meet canny King James VI, his amoral favorite Lord Spynie, the fey Lady Hume, Mr. Anricks, a surprisingly skilled tooth drawer, Young Henry Widdrington with his unfortunate spots, and all the boys in murdered Minister Burn’s choir. The action proceeds full tilt for ten days and “finishes with a marvelous set piece of derring-do involving enough arms and ammunition for the siege of Stalingrad, plus the last line will leave you with your heart in your mouth,” says author Dana Stabenow.
Roguish courtiers, rival
gangs, rustling, treason,
and high ambition.
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LAST CHANCE LLAMA RANCHHilary Fields
Redhook, August 2015 (World English)
When a close encounter with an eighty-foot spruce steals Merry Manning’s dreams of Olympic gold, the former ski champ finds herself falling into a career she never expected -- the life of a travel writer. Picturing glamorous trips to exotic places, Merry is speechless when her boss assigns her to the blog, “Don’t Do What I Did,” and sends her to a middle-of-nowhere llama ranch with instructions to “fall on her fanny” as often as possible.
Soon she’s eyeball-deep in alpacas, llamas, goats, and all the mess that comes with them. But when the Last Chance Llama Ranch -- and a certain gruff cowboy-- start to grow on her, Merry finds that each life might actually be just what she’s been missing.
You know what they say: when life gives you llamas....
From the author of Bliss comes
a heartwarming tale of friendship,
romance, self-discovery... and
llama drama.
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PARADISE SKYJoe R. Lansdale
Mulholland/Little Brown, June 2015 (World English)
Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes him in and trains him in the fine arts of shooting, riding, reading, and gardening. When Loving dies, Willie re-christens himself Nat Love in tribute to his mentor, and heads west.
After winning a famous shooting match, Nat’s peerless marksmanship and charm earn him the nickname Deadwood Dick, as well as a beautiful woman. But the hellhounds are still on his trail, and they brutally attack Nat Love’s love. Pursuing the men who have driven his wife mad, Nat heads south for a final, deadly showdown against those who would strip him of his home, his love, his freedom, and his life.
A new Cable TV series is in production with Sundance TV based on
Joe Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard series
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Territories Sold:Einaudi, ItalyKlett-Cotta, Germany
Michael Kenneth Williams (The Wire, Boardwalk Empire) has been cast in the role of Leonard Pine.
Six one-hour long episodes have been ordered to air in early 2016.
TV SERIES:
A scion of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Hilary Fields wrote her first romance novel at sixteen, and continued to write women’s fiction even as she studied classics and philosophy at St. John’s College, a tiny liberal arts college in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
THE GUILTY ONESophie Littlefield
Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, August 2015 (North American)
A man stands on the Golden Gate Bridge, poised to jump…if a woman on the other end of the phone tells him to.
Maris’ safe suburban world was shattered the day her daughter was found murdered, presumably at the hands of the young woman’s boyfriend. Her marriage crumbling, her routine shattered, Maris walks away from her pampered life as a Bay Area mom the day she receives a call from Ron, father of her daughter’s killer. Wracked with guilt over his son’s actions (and his own possible contribution to them), he asks Maris a single question: should he jump?
With a man’s life in her hands, Maris must decide, what she truly wants. Retribution? Forgiveness? Or something more? Having lost everything, she’s finally free to recreate herself without the confining labels of “wife,” “mother,” or “mourner.” But will this shocking offer free her, or destroy her?
From the award-winning author of The Missing
Place—in which “Littlefield’s writing shines” (The Boston Globe)—another gripping exploration of the damage
people can do to each other, and the resilience they find
in themselves.
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Territories Sold:Head of Zeus, UK & Commonwealth
Goldmann/Random House, Germany
THE RAMBLERSAidan Donnelley Rowley
William Morrow/HarperCollins, March 2016 (World English)
Clio Marsh is a brilliant ornithologist who has forged a mostly solitary life studying birds. As she finds herself falling in love with a dashing older man, Clio realizes she must come to terms with her past in order to face a brighter future. Smith Anderson, the daughter of an affluent family, has been Clio’s closest friend since their first fateful days as undergraduates at Yale, when they became linked by a painful secret. As Smith’s younger sister prepares for her wedding in what is destined to be the wedding of the season, Smith finds herself spiraling out of control—and finding solace in a most unlikely new friendship. Tate Pennington is going through a bitter divorce and struggling to find his way. A brief encounter with an old college friend forces him to examine who he really is and what he wants.
The Ramblers is a lusciously written, sexy, romantic, and, in the end, hope-filled novel.
Sold in a significant six figure deal.
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A major new women’s fiction
novel.
THE GUILTY ONE
SophieLittlefield
THE RAMBLERS
AidanDonnelley
Rowley
UNDER TIBERIUSNick Tosches
Little, Brown and Company, August 2015 (North American)
Under Tiberius is a thrilling story of crime and deceit involving the man who came to be called Jesus Christ. Deep in the recesses of the Vatican, Nick Tosches unearths a first-century memoir by Gaius Fulvius Falconius, foremost speechwriter for Emperor Tiberius. The codex is profound, proof of the existence of a Messiah who was anything but the one we’ve known -- a shabby and licentious thief.
After encountering him in the streets of Judea, Gaius becomes spin doctor to Jesus, and the pair scheme to accrue untold riches by convincing the masses that Jesus is the Son of God. As their marriage of truth and lies is consummated, friendship and wary respect develop between these two grifters.
Outrageous and disturbing, Under Tiberius is as black as the ravishing night, shot through with fierce and brilliant light.
A work of dangerous and
haunting beauty by America’s last real
literary outlaw.
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THE ROYAL WEHeather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
Grand Central Publishing, April 2015 (North American)
American, Rebecca Porter, was never one for fairy tales. Her twin sister, Lacey, has always been the romantic who fantasized about glamour. Yet it’s Bex who seeks adventure at Oxford and finds herself living down the hall from Prince Nicholas, Great Britain’s future king. And when Bex can’t resist falling for Nick, the person behind the prince, it propels her into a world she did not expect to inhabit, under a spotlight she is not prepared to face.
But the relationship also comes with unimaginable baggage: hysterical tabloids, Nick’s sparkling and far more suitable ex-girlfriends, and a royal family whose private life is much thornier and more tragic than anyone on the outside knows. The pressures are almost too much to bear, as Bex struggles to reconcile the man she loves with the monarch he’s fated to become.
Now, on the eve of the wedding of the century, Bex is faced with whether everything she’s sacrificed for love-her career, her home, her family, maybe even herself-will have been for nothing.
Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan are the creators of
the Internet’s wittiest celebrity fashion blog, Go Fug Yourself, which draws millions of readers
and made Entertainment Weekly’s Must List and The Guardian’s list of 50 Most
Powerful Blogs.
“I might be Cinderella today, but I dread
who they’ll think I am tomorrow. I guess it
depends on what I do next.”
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THE OUTLANDISH COMPANION Volume 2
Diana Gabaldon
Delacorte Press/Random House, October 2015 (North American)
More than a decade ago, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Diana Gabaldon, delighted her legions of fans with The Outlandish Companion, an indispensable guide to all the Outlander books at the time. But that edition was just a taste of things to come. Since that publication, there have been four more Outlander novels, a side series, assorted novellas, and one smash-hit Starz original television series. Now Gabaldon serves up The Outlandish Companion, Volume Two, an all-new guide to the latest books in the series.
As entertaining, wide-ranging, and addictive as
the series itself, this second volume of The Outlandish
Companion is a one (or two)-of-a-kind gift from an
incomparable author.
Outlander Series:Over 25 Million Copies Sold
30 Translations
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Territories Sold:Droemer, GermanyRecorded Books (Audio), UK & Commonwealth
The Outlander TV Series returns for another 8 episodes in April 2015.
Airing on Starz it has been distributed widely internationally and received a tremendous amount of critical and fan response with over 3 million viewers.
THE PACTKarina Halle
January 2015 (North American)
It all started with a pinky swear... Linden McGregor is tall, rugged, and gunslinger handsome; a helicopter pilot with a Scottish brogue and charm to spare. He’s also one of Stephanie Robson’s best friends and has fit into that box for as long as she’s known him. Beautiful, funny and an ambitious businesswoman (with one hell of an ass), Stephanie Robson is one of Linden McGregor’s best friends and has fit into that box for as long as he’s known her. But some relationships can’t be boxed, can’t be classified, can’t be tamed. Back in their mid-twenties and tired of the competitive hit-or-miss dating scene of San Francisco, Steph and Linden made a pact to marry each other if neither one of them were in a serious relationship by the time they hit thirty. It sounded like fun and games at the time but as the years to thirty tick past and lovers come and go out of their lives, the pact becomes larger than life. Sex is inevitable. Friendships are tested. Hearts are on the line. The pact is about to change everything.
New York Times Bestseller
Over 50,000 Copies Sold in One Week
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Territories Sold:Soft Press, BulgariaEditora Gente, Brazil
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PERSIMMON WILSON
Nancy Peacock
Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2016 (North American)
1875: Drunken Bride, Texas. An ex-slave named Persimmon Wilson awaits his hanging for the murder of the man who once owned him. As he waits, he pens his story. The journey of Persimmon Wilson takes the reader from the brutality of slavery on a Louisiana sugar plantation to a ranch on the Texas frontier to life among the Comanche Indians. All through his travels, Persimmon Wilson seeks the one person he loves, a light-skinned house slave named Chloe. When he finds her, she is passing for white and is the wife of their former master. This is a rip-roaring, old-fashioned adventure romance. It is also a serious examination of assumptions about identity and truth.
“‘I have been to hangings before, but never my own...’
From this riveting beginning to the last perfect word, Nancy Peacock grabs her reader by the throat and forces him to hang on for dear life as the
action moves from a Louisiana sugar plantation to life among
the western Comanches, bringing to blazing life her
themes of race and true love caught in the throes of
history.” -Lee Smith
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“This extraordinary novel, part Cold Mountain, part Dances With Wolves, is a love story, a thriller, an epic adventure tale, and impossible to put down. Nancy Peacock writes with power and lyricism, creating characters who come to vivid life and whose struggles grip the soul.” -Henry Wiencek
IT’S YOUJane Porter
Berkley/Penguin, June 2015 (World English)
In the wake of a tragedy that tore her life down to the foundations, Dr. Alison McAdams has lost her way. So when she’s summoned to Napa to care for her ailing father, she’s not sure she has anything to offer him—or anyone else. What Ali finds in Northern California wine country is a gift—an opportunity to rest, and distance from her painful memories. Most unexpectedly, she finds people who aren’t afraid of her grief or desperate for her to hurry up and move on. As Ali becomes part of her father’s community, makes new friends of her own, and hears the stories of a generation who survived the Second World War, she begins to find hope again. In a quest to discover the truth about another woman’s lost love, she sets off on a journey across oceans and deep into history. And in making sense of that long-ago tragedy, Ali is able to put together the broken pieces of her heart and make new choices that are right for her.
From the USA Today bestselling
author of the Brennan Sisters novels comes a heartwarming
story about finding love and strength, even in the darkest
moments…
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THE COINCIDENCE OF COCONUT CAKEAmy Reichert
Gallery/Simon & Schuster, July 2015 (North American)
In downtown Milwaukee, Lou works tirelessly to build her beloved yet struggling French restaurant into a success. She cheerfully balances her demanding business and even more demanding fiancé…until the morning she discovers him in the buff—with an intern.
Witty yet gruff British transplant Al is keeping himself employed and entertained by writing scathing reviews of local restaurants in the Milwaukee newspaper under a pseudonym.
The day that Al’s mean-spirited review of Luella’s runs, the two cross paths in a pub: Lou drowning her sorrows, and Al celebrating his latest publication. It’s only a matter of time before the two fall in love…but when the truth comes out, can Lou overlook the past to chase her future?
A charming love story of misunderstandings,
mistaken identity, and the power of food to bring two people together.
“Deliciously entertaining!”-Meg Donohue
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Territories Sold:LYX, GermanyDogan, Turkey
Newton Compton, Italy
THE LAST FLIGHT OF POXL WESTDaniel Torday
St. Martin’s Press, March 2015 (North American)
Poxl West fled the Nazis’ onslaught in Czechoslovakia. He escaped their clutches again in Holland. He pulled Londoners from the Blitz’s rubble. He wooed intoxicating, unconventional beauties. He rained fire on Germany from his RAF bomber.
His teenage nephew, Eli Goldstein, reveres him as a brave, singular, Jewish war hero.
He publishes his storied life in a memoir to great acclaim. As Eli delves deep into Poxl’s history, he begins to see that the life of the fearless superman he’s adored has been much darker than he let on, and filled with unimaginable loss from which he may have not recovered. As the truth about Poxl emerges, it forces Eli to face irreconcilable facts about the war he’s romanticized and the vision of the man he’s held so dear.
New York Times Book Review - Front
Cover
New York Times Article
Starred Kirkus Review
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Territories Sold:Hayakawa, JapanEditions Les Escales, FranceDobrovsky, Czech Republic
HOVERAnne Wilson
Forge/Tor, June 2015 (North American)
Helicopter pilot Lt. Sara Denning joins a navy battle group with little fanfare--and that’s just the way she likes it. After her brother’s tragic death, her career path seemed obvious: step into his shoes and enter the Naval Academy, despite her fear of water. Sara’s philosophy is simple--blend in, be competent, and above all, never do anything to stand out as a woman in a man’s world.
Somewhere along the way, Sara lost herself--her feminine, easygoing soul is now buried under so many defensive layers, she can’t reach it anymore.
When she meets strong, self-assured Lt. Eric Marxen, her defenses start to falter. Eric coordinates flight operations for a Navy SEAL team that requests Sara as the exclusive pilot. This blatant show of favoritism causes conflict, and her roommate and best friend, the only other woman on the ship, is avoiding her.
The SEALs’ mission is so secret, even Sara doesn’t know the reason behind her mandated participation. When Sara’s life is on the line, can she find her true self again and follow the orders of her heart before it is too late?
A thrilling, emotional women’s journey written by a groundbreaking former navy pilot.
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LITTLE BLACK LIESSandra Block
Grand Central Publishing, February 2015 (North American)
She helps people conquer their demons. But she has a few of her own...
In the halls of the psychiatric ward, Dr. Zoe Goldman is a resident in training, dedicated to helping troubled patients. However, she has plenty of baggage of her own. When Zoe becomes obsessed with questions about her own mother’s death, the truth remains tauntingly out of reach, locked away within her nightmares of an uncontrollable fire. And as her adoptive mother loses her memory to dementia, the time to find the answers is running out.
As Zoe digs deeper, she realizes that the danger is not just in her dreams but is now close at hand. And she has no choice but to face what terrifies her the most. Because what she can’t remember just might kill her.
Little Black Lies is about madness and memory - and the dangerous, little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.
“A psychological suspense story smartly narrated... Zoe has a
quick wit that emerges
in wickedly unexpected ways.”—New York
Times Book Review
18Territories Sold:Epsilon, Turkey
ONLY EVER YOURebecca Drake
Thomas Dunne, Winter 2016 (North American)
Sophia, a headstrong three-year-old girl, disappears from her well-to-do suburban home without a trace. Told in three different points of view: Sophia’s panicked mother Jill, the kidnapper, and the mysterious writer of a series of diary entries, ONLY EVER YOU explores every parent’s nightmare in gut-wrenching detail.
But Sophia’s captor does not just want to steal her away—she wants Jill and her husband to be framed for Sophia’s murder. When uncomfortable truths come to light about Jill and those closest to her, she must emerge from her own fog of grief and fight to save her daughter and her own life.
This is Gone Girl for Parents.
A CommercialPsychological
Thriller
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Territories Sold:Crown, Taiwan
Newton Compton, ItalyGoldmann/Random House, Germany
Rebecca Drake previously published three lead titles with Kensington, including selections by four national book clubs such as The Literary Guild and an Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA) Bestseller.
THE DAMASCUS COVERHoward Kaplan
“KAPLAN IS UP THERE WITH THE BEST” - CLIVE CUSSLER
In a last ditch effort to revive his career, washed out agent Ari Ben-Sion accepts a mission he never would have 30 years ago, to smuggle a group of Jewish children out of the Damascus ghetto. Or so he thinks.
In Damascus, a beautiful American photographer, Kim, seems to be falling in love with Ari, but she is asking too many questions. His communication equipment disappears. His contact never shows up. The operation is only hours away and everything seems awry.
Desperate to succeed, Ari might risk everything. Even his life.
“In the best tradition of the new espionage novel. Kaplan’s grasp of history and scene creates a genuine reality. He seems to know every
back alley of Damascus and Cyprus.” - Los Angeles Times
FILM ADAPTATION
TO BE RELEASED IN
2016
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Territories Sold:Recorded Books (Audio), World English
Starring Jonathan
Rhys Meyers
Currently filming
in Morocco
ONLYEVERYOU
Rebecca Drake
ANY MINUTE NOWEric Van Lustbader
Tor Books, 2015 (North American)
Red Rover is broken, finished, dead. The blackest of black ops teams is betrayed on its top-priority mission to capture and interrogate a mysterious Saudi terrorist. One of their own is killed, the remaining two barely get home alive. Greg Whitman and Felix Orteño are left adrift in a world full of deathly shadows, blind alleys, and unanswerable questions. Into their midst comes Charlize Daou, a brilliant, wildly talented arms expert and a past entangled with Whit’s. Though Charlie grapples with damage of her own, she becomes their new center, their moral compass, and their reason for resurrecting Red Rover. Ignoring their new orders, Red Rover secretly sets out to find the protected Saudi terrorist, the first step in a perilous journey into the heart of a vast conspiracy that involves the NSA, a cabal of immensely wealthy mystics known as the Alchemists, and an ageless visionary out to create an entirely new way of waging war. A war that will destabilize one of the great super-powers and forever rearrange the balance of power across the entire globe.
Author of Over 20 International
Bestselling Thrillers Published in 20
Languages
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ANY MINUTE NOW
Eric VanLustbader
DOUBLE VISIONColby Marshall
Berkley/Penguin, April 2015 (World English)
FBI profiler Jenna Ramey has synesthesia, a neurological condition that causes perceptions of color to flash through her mind, triggered by seemingly unrelated stimuli. But she has learned to understand and interpret these associations. They help her do her job. They can help save lives… A little girl has witnessed a mass shooting. What she knows may be the key to finding the man responsible. But Molly is an unusual child. She is sweet and bright, and eager to help, but she has a quirk of her own: an intense preoccupation with numbers. It helps her notice things that others don’t. It also leads Jenna into a maze of speculation that could turn into a wild goose chase while the body count continues to rise. Jenna and Molly view the world through their own filters. In some ways, they speak different languages. Now Jenna must learn to communicate, to break Molly’s code, to understand the mind of a murderer…
“Every investigation is about ways of seeing,
and Colby Marshall explores this idea to compelling effect in
the propulsive Double Vision. Smart, twisty, surprising.”—Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist and
The Damned
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Head of Zeus, UK & Commonwealth
THE DRIFTERNicholas Petrie
Putnam/Penguin, January 2016 (North American)
Where Hurwitz’s Nate Overbay meets Burke’s Dave Robicheaux lies protagonist Peter Ash, a rootless veteran with invisible war wounds, who risks everything to help the people he loves.
Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the stars. But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man’s widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than he bargained for: the largest, ugliest, meanest dog he’s ever encountered . . . and a Samsonite suitcase stuffed with cash and explosives. As Ash begins to investigate this unexpected discovery, he finds himself at the center of a plot that is far larger than he could have imagined . . . and it may lead straight back to the world he thought he’d left for good.
An explosive debut thriller introducing
Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of
war aren’t easily left behind
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Suhrkamp Verlag, Germany
DEPARTUREA.G. Riddle
December 2014 (North American)
Flight 305 took off in 2014...But it crashed in a world very different from our own...
Harper Lane has problems. In a few hours, she’ll have to make a decision that will change her life forever. But when her flight from New York to London crash-lands in the English countryside, she discovers that she’s made of tougher stuff than she ever imagined.
As Harper and the survivors of Flight 305 struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of the crash, they soon realize that this world is very different from the one they left. Their lives are connected, and some believe they’ve been brought here for a reason.
Author of the 1.5 Million Copy Bestseller
The Origin Mystery,Sold in 20 Languages,Optioned to CBS Films
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Territories Sold:Eksmo, RussiaMotyl Slovak RepublicBurda Publishing, PolandAudible (Audio) World English
Optioned in a 6 Figure Deal to 20th Century Fox
THE BONE LABYRINTHA Sigma Novel
James Rollins
William Morrow/HarperCollins, July 2015 (World English)
A series of strange events throws the world into turmoil. As a manned Chinese rocket explodes upon launch, three American astronauts, each separated by thousands of miles, are murdered. An archaeologist in Croatia uncovers elaborate primitive paintings by a tribe of Neanderthals. The artwork, painted in blood, illustrates an immense battle between the Neanderthals-joined by Homo sapiens-and frightening shadowy figures.
From ancient tunnels in Ecuador that span the breadth of South America to the lost archives tied to the sunken continent of Atlantis, Sigma embarks on its most harrowing journey ever-and faces off against its greatest threat: an ancient evil, resurrected by modern genetic science, strong enough to bring about the end of man’s dominance on this planet. Only this time, Sigma will falter-and the world we know will change forever.
New York Times Bestselling Series
Translated into More Than 35
Languages
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Territories Sold:Nord, Italy
Bertrand, Portugal
THEBONE
LABYRINTH
JAMES ROLLINS
THE FIFTH HEARTDan Simmons
Little, Brown and Company, March 2015 (North American)
Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the death of Clover Adams--member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover’s suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance.
Holmes has faked his own death because, through his powers of ratiocination, the great detective has come to the conclusion that he is a fictional character. This leads to serious complications for James--for if his esteemed fellow investigator is merely a work of fiction, what does that make him? And what can the master storyteller do to fight against the sinister power -- possibly named Moriarty -- that may or may not be controlling them from the shadows?
“Simmons (Drood) knows the
Holmes canon and uses that
expertise in the service of a
highly original reimagining of
the beloved sleuth.” -Publishers
Weekly, Starred Review
Conspiracy, action and mystery meet in this
superb literary hall of mirrors.
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Territories Sold:Atticus, RussiaCiela Norma, BulgariaFantom Print, Czech RepublicBusiness Weekly Publications, TaiwanLittle, Brown and Company, UK & Commonwealth
THE SPIDER’S WARThe Dagger and the Coin, Book 5
Daniel Abraham
Orbit, August 2015 (World English)
Lord Regent Geder Palliako’s great war has spilled across the world, nation after nation falling before the ancient priesthood and weapon of dragons. But even as conquest follows conquest, the final victory retreats before him like a mirage. Schism and revolt begin to erode the foundations of the empire, and the great conquest threatens to collapse into a permanent war of all against all.
In Carse, with armies on all borders, Cithrin bel Sarcour, Marcus Wester, and Clara Kalliam are faced with the impossible task of bringing a lasting peace to the world. Their tools: traitors high in the imperial army, the last survivor of the dragon empire, and a financial scheme that is either a revolution or the greatest fraud in the history of the world.
The epic conclusion to The Dagger and
The Coin series, perfect for fans of
George R.R. Martin.
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Territories Sold:AST, Russia
Fantasy Foundation, Taiwan
ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKYCharlie Jane Anders
Tor Books, Spring 2016 (North American)
This is the story of a witch named Patricia and a mad scientist named Laurence. Patricia can talk to animals and sometimes control the elements, while Laurence can build supercomputers and anti-gravity machines. They meet in eighth grade, when they’re desperately lonely and have nobody else to talk to, and barely survive a series of terrible ordeals. Then they meet again 10 years later. Patricia has found an eccentric and strange community of witches to belong to, not realizing that the witches hide a dark secret. Meanwhile, Laurence has found his own group of mad scientists, who are working on a project to save the human race from a possible ecological collapse. Now Laurence and Patricia each have their own separate worlds to belong to -- but they still share a connection that nobody else can understand. Soon enough, though, Laurence and Patricia find themselves on the opposite sides of a war between science and magic, with the fate of the world at stake. In the end, the only hope may lie with Patricia finding an answer to a strange question some birds asked her when she was a little girl.
“Charlie Jane Anders darts and soars, with dazzling
aplomb, among the hypotheticals of science
fiction, thecounterfactuals of fantasy,
and the bittersweet mundanities of
contemporary American life, throwing lightning
bolts of literary style that shimmer with enchantment
or electrons.“ -Michael Chabon
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Anders is editor of the hugely
popular io9 website.
ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY
CharlieJane
Anders
CITY OF LIGHTThe Outcast Series, Book 1
Keri Arthur
Signet/Penguin, January 2016 (World English)
Built for a war that’s been over for a hundred years, a genetically engineered hybrid made to be a perfect assassin, Tiger is the last of her race. She lives alone with the ghosts of the children she failed to save, coaxing life out of obsolete war technology in a shattered bunker that’s as abandoned and forgotten as she is. Alone that is until she comes across a living child in danger in the wilderness that surrounds her refuge. Saving the girl means saving her injured companion, an adult male shifter, the very race Tiger was designed to seduce and to kill. Her existence revealed, opting out of the coming battle is no longer a choice for Tiger and now she’s not sure who’s seducing who.
A brand new series from the author of
the New York Times Bestselling Riley Jensen Guardian
Series
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Keri Arthur has now written more than twenty-eight novels. She’s received several nominations in the Best Contemporary Paranormal category of the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Awards and has won RT’s Career Achievement Award for urban fantasy. She lives with her daughter in Melbourne, Australia.
TWELVE KINGS IN SHARAKHAISong of Shattered Sands, Book 1
Bradley Beaulieu
DAW/Penguin, September 2015 (North American)
In the city of Sharakhai, Çeda fights in the pits to scrape by a living. She, like so many in the city, pray for the downfall of the cruel, immortal Kings of Sharakhai. Then on the holy night when the powerful yet wretched creatures known as the Asirim wander the city and take tribute in order to protect the Kings, one of them tells Çeda the origin of their dark bargain. And this dangerous secret may be the very key she needs to throw off the iron grip the Kings have had over Sharakhai.…
An epic fantasy in the vein of A Thousand
and One Nights.
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Territories Sold:Droemer Knaur, GermanyGollancz/Hachette, UK & Commonwealth
City of Light
Keri Arthur
Twelve Kings in
Sharakhai
Bradley Beaulieu
EMERGENCEDave vs. the Monsters
John Birmingham
Del Rey, April 2015; June 2015; June 2015 (North American)
Dave Hooper has a hangover from hell, a horrible ex-wife, and the fangs of the IRS deep in his side. The last thing he needs is an explosion at work. A real explosion. On his off-shore oil rig. But this is no accident, and despite the news reports, Dave knows that terrorists aren’t to blame. He knows because he killed one of the things responsible. When he wakes up in a hospital bed guarded by Navy SEALs, he realizes this is more than just a bad acid trip. Yeah, Dave’s had a few. This trip is way weirder. Killing a seven-foot-tall, tattooed demon has transformed the overweight, balding safety manager into something else entirely. A foul-mouthed, beer-loving monster slayer, and humanity’s least worthy Champion.
For fans of Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne comes an action-packed new urban fantasy series featuring a tough, bleakly
funny, down-on-his luck oil rig worker with an unlikely destiny as a monster-slayer and savior of the planet.
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Territories Sold:Pan Macmillan, Australia
Titan Books, United Kingdom
THE REBIRTHS OF TAOTao Series, Book 3
Wesley Chu
Angry Robot, April 2015 (World English)
Years have passed since the events in The Deaths of Tao. The world is split into pro-Prophus and pro-Genjix factions, and is poised on the edge of a devastating new World War. A Genjix scientist who defects to the other side holds the key to preventing bloodshed on an almost unimaginable scale.
With the might of the Genjix in active pursuit, Roen is the only person who can help him save the world, and the Quasing race, too. And you thought you were having a stressful day...
“Few books begin more engagingly than The Lives of
Tao, a science fiction romp which wears its principal strength -- the wit and humor of the narrative
voice -- on its sleeve.” -The Huffington Post
The Lives of Tao:Goodreads Choice 2013
Finalist - Science Fiction
Winner of the Alex Award
for the American Library
Association’s 2014 Youth
Media Awards
32Territories Sold:Tor/Fischer Verlag, Germany
TIME SALVAGERWesley Chu
Tor Books, July 2015 (World English)
In a future when Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humanity has spread into the outer solar system to survive, the tightly controlled use of time travel holds the key to maintaining a fragile existence among the other planets and their moons. James Griffin-Mars is a chronman--a convicted criminal recruited for his unique psychological makeup to undertake the most dangerous job there is: missions into Earth’s past to recover resources and treasure without altering the timeline. Most chronmen never reach old age, and James is reaching his breaking point.
On a final mission that is to secure his retirement, James meets an intriguing woman from a previous century, scientist Elise Kim, who is fated to die during the destruction of an oceanic rig. Against his training and his common sense, James brings her back to the future with him, saving her life, but turning them both into fugitives. Remaining free means losing themselves in the wild and poisonous wastes of Earth, and discovering what hope may yet remain for humanity’s home world.
A fast-paced time travel adventure
from Wesley Chu, the
award-winning author of The Lives of Tao.
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NEMESIS GAMESThe Expanse, Book 5
James S.A. Corey
Orbit, June 2015 (World English)
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle.
Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sins of the past are returning to exact a terrible price.
And as a new human order is struggling to be born in blood and fire, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante must struggle to survive and get back to the only home they have left.
A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES
FROM SyFy CHANNEL
AIRING IN 2015WITH 10 ONE-HOUR
LONG EPISODES
34Territories Sold:Heyne Verlag/Random House, Germany
Previous Titles in the Series Sold in 16 Territories
WARHEARTA Richard & Kahlan Novel
Terry Goodkind
Tor Books, November 2015 (North American)
After a journey that first began in Wizard’s First Rule when Richard encountered Kahlan in the Hartland and the two of them came to be soulmates, they have been bound together as the pawns of prophecy and secrets long buried.
Destined from the first to be the ones to inherit the conflict that began in the time the First Confessor came into being and the Sword of Truth was forged, the final battle is now unleashed on their world. As the lines between life and death begin to blur, and some are sacrificed in a desperate final struggle, Kahlan must fight for Richard’s very existence, and Richard must fight to keep the world of life from ending. This is the final struggle that could mean the end, not only of their lives, but of their worlds.
The spellbinding conclusion to Richard and Kahlan’s epic journey.
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author
Sold Over 26 Million Copies
Translated in Over 20 Languages
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Territories Sold:Luitingh Sijthoff, The Netherlands
Head of Zeus, UK & Commonwealth
THE DRAFTERThe Peri Reed Chronicles, Book 1
Kim Harrison
Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, September 2015 (North American)
LIVE. DIE. REPEAT.
Detroit 2030. Double-crossed by the person she loved and betrayed by the covert government organization that trained her to use her body as a weapon, Peri Reed is a renegade on the run. Don’t forgive and never forget has always been Peri’s creed. But her day job makes it difficult: she is a drafter, possessed of a rare, invaluable skill for altering time, yet destined to forget both the history she changed and the history she rewrote. When Peri discovers her name is on a list of corrupt operatives, she realizes that her own life has been manipulated by the agency. Her memory of the previous three years erased, she joins forces with a mysterious rogue soldier in a deadly race to piece together the truth about her fateful final task. With only her intuition to guide her, she’s on a vengeful mission to decide—who must she kill and who, including herself, can she trust?
The Bourne Identity meets Minority
Report in this first highly anticipated installment in #1 New York Times
bestselling author Kim Harrison’s sexy
new suspense trilogy
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TerryGoodkind
FROM A HIGH TOWERElemental Masters Series
Mercedes Lackey
DAW/Penguin, June 2015 (North American)
From a High Tower is the newest adventure in Mercedes Lackey’s Elemental Masters series, featuring a retelling of Rapunzel’s not-so-happily-ever-after ending.
The Elemental Masters fantasy series, written by Mercedes Lackey, takes place on an alternate earth where magic exists. Elemental Masters are those who have magical control over air, water, fire, or earth. Each elemental master has power over elementals, as well. Each book in the series is loosely based on a fairy tale. This is the 11th book in the series, other books in the series are based on Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Snow Queen, Puss in Boots, Donkeyskin, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Steadfast Tin Soldier, and Red Riding Hood.
New York Times Bestselling Author
Lackey Has Published Over 100 Novels in 25 Years
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Territories Sold:Titan Books, UK & Commonwealth
COLD IRONStina Leicht
Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, July 2015 (World English)
Fraternal twins Nels and Suvi move beyond their royal heritage and into military and magical dominion in this flintlock epic fantasy debut from a two-time Campbell Award finalist.
Prince Nels is the scholarly runt of the ancient Kainen royal family of Eledore, disregarded as flawed by the king and many others. Only Suvi, his fraternal twin sister, supports him. When Nels is ambushed by an Acrasian scouting party, he does the forbidden for a member of the ruling family: He picks up a fallen sword and defends himself.
Disowned and dismissed to the military, Nels establishes himself as a leader as Eledore begins to shatter under the attack of the Acrasians, who the Kainen had previously dismissed as barbarians. But Nels knows differently, and with the aid of Suvi, who has allied with pirates, he mounts a military offensive with sword, canon, and what little magic is left in the world.
Stina Leicht’s debut
novel appeared on the
Locus Recommended
Reading list and been
shortlisted for the
Crawford Award.
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FROM A HIGH
TOWER
MercedesLackey
THE GRACE OF KINGSThe Dandelion Dynasty, Book 1
Ken Liu
Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, April 2015 (North American)
Two men rebel together against tyranny—and then become rivals—in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards.
Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, and shapeshifting gods. Once the emperor has been overthrown, however, they each find themselves the leader of separate factions—two sides with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice.
Fans of intrigue, intimate plots, and action will find a new series to embrace in the Dandelion Dynasty.
A sprawling epic fantasy
in a fantastic version of
ancient China
The ChineseGeorge R.R. Martin
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Territories Sold:AST, Russia
Dook, China
THE TOWER OF THORNSA Blackthorn & Grim Novel, Book 2
Juliet Marillier
Roc/Penguin, November 2015 (North American)
Disillusioned healer Blackthorn and her companion, Grim, have settled in Dalriada to wait out the seven years of Blackthorn’s bond to her fey mentor, hoping to avoid any dire challenges. But trouble has a way of seeking out Blackthorn and Grim. Lady Geiléis, a noblewoman from the northern border, has asked for the prince of Dalriada’s help in expelling a howling creature from an old tower on her land—one surrounded by an impenetrable hedge of thorns. Casting a blight over the entire district, and impossible to drive out by ordinary means, it threatens both the safety and the sanity of all who live nearby. With no ready solutions to offer, the prince consults Blackthorn and Grim. As Blackthorn and Grim begin to put the pieces of this puzzle together, it’s apparent that a powerful adversary is working behind the scenes. Their quest is about to become a life and death struggle—a conflict in which even the closest of friends can find themselves on opposite sides.
Award-winning author
Juliet Marillier’s
“lavishly detailed”
Blackthorn & Grim
series continues as a
mysterious creature
holds an enchanted
and imperiled ancient
Ireland in thrall.
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Territories Sold:Pan Macmillan, AustraliaPlaneta Manuscrito, Portugal
THE WHISPERING SWARMThe Sanctuary of the White Friars, Book 1
Michael Moorcock
Tor Books, January 2015 (North American)
With his first full novel in almost ten years Michael Moorcock - the most influential figure in modern fantasy and science fiction - returns to the city of his birth.
London, just after the war, a city desperately trying to get back on its feet. And one young boy, Michael Moorcock, who is about to discover a world of magic and wonder. Between his first tentative approaches to adulthood - a job on Fleet Street, the first stirrings of his interest in writing - and a chance encounter with a mysterious Carmelite Friar, we see a version of Moorcock’s life that is simultaneously a biography and a story. Mixing elements of his real life with his adventures in a parallel London peopled with highwaywomen, musketeers and magicians, this is Moorcock at his dazzling, mercurial best.
The grand master of fantasy returns to London and the fantastical for his first independent
novel in almost ten years!
41Territories Sold:
Gollancz, UK & Commonwealth
THE CITY STAINED REDBring Down Heaven, Book 1
Sam Sykes
Orbit, January 2015 (North American)
STEP UP TO THE GATES.
After years in the wilds, Lenk and his companions have come to the city that serves as the world’s beating heart.
The great charnel house where men die surer than any wilderness.They’ve come to claim payment for creatures slain, blood spilled at the behest of a powerful holy man.
And Lenk has come to lay down his sword for good.But this is no place to escape demons.
“Action fantasy with soul-albeit a small, dirty, funny
soul.”—Brent Weeks
42Territories Sold:Gollancz, UK & Commonwealth
POSITIVEDavid Wellington
Harper Voyager, April 2015 (World English)
The tattooed plus sign on Finnegan’s hand marks him as a Positive. At any time, the zombie virus could explode in his body, turning him from a rational human into a ravenous monster. His only chance of a normal life is to survive the last two years of the potential incubation period. If he reaches his twenty-first birthday without an incident, he’ll be cleared.
Until then, Finn must go to a special facility for positives, segregated from society to keep the healthy population safe. But when the military caravan transporting him is attacked, Finn becomes separated. To make it to safety, he must embark on a perilous cross-country journey across an America transformed—a dark and dangerous land populated with heroes, villains, madmen, and hordes of zombies. And though the zombies are everywhere, Finn discovers that the real danger may be his fellow humans.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome meets World War Z and I Am Legend in this thrilling tale that has it all: a compelling story, great characters, and explosive action, making Positive the ultimate zombie novel of our time.
In the bestselling vein of Guillermo
Del Toro and Justin Cronin, the acclaimed
author delivers his spectacular breakout
novel—an entertaining page-turning zombie epic that is sure to become a classic.
43Territories Sold:
Bragelonne, France
UPDRAFTFran Wilde
Tor Books, September 2015 (World English)
In a city of living bone rising high above the clouds, where danger hides in the wind and the ground is lost to legend, a young woman must expose a dangerous secret to save everyone she loves.
The ground below is a legend, the rite of passage for teens is their flying test. At sixteen, Kirit Densira cannot wait to pass her wingtest and begin flying as a trader by her mother’s side in their city of living bone towers.
When she inadvertently breaks the law, the city’s secretive Singers demand she become one of them instead. Kirit resists, and sets in motion events that will require her to face her childhood friend in a winged knife fight, uncover the Singers’ greatest mysteries, and change her city forever.
Welcome to a world of wind and bone, songs and silence, betrayal and courage.
A high-flying fantasy with the
worldbuilding skill
of China Mieville
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ASSASSINATION GENERATIONLt. Col. Dave Grossman
Little Brown Book Group, Spring 2016 (North American)
This latest book from the expert on violence focuses on the video game industry’s exploitation of violence and torture and abuse of women.
Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman is an internationally recognized scholar, author, soldier, and speaker who is one of the world s foremost experts in the field of human aggression and the roots of violence and violent crime. Colonel Grossman is a West Point psychology professor, Professor of Military Science, and an Army Ranger who has combined his experiences to become the founder of a new field of scientific endeavor, which he has termed killology. In this new field Colonel Grossman has made revolutionary new contributions to our understanding of killing in war, the psychological costs of war, the root causes of the current “virus” of violent crime that is raging around the world, and the process of healing the victims of violence, in war and peace.
A revolutionary new book on the role of
violence in video games and it’s
impact on society.
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AND YET AND YETChristopher Hitchens
Simon & Schuster, January 2016 (North American)
At his death in December 2011, Christopher Hitchens left many essays previously unpublished in book form. Now the best of them are collected in this posthumous volume.
Hitchens remains even now among the very best commentators on our conflicted world. His felicity of language, the oxygen in every sentence, the enviable wit and his readiness to fight a foe or mount the ramparts has garnered him more and more readers, especially among a younger generation, despite his untimely demise. His directness and sympathy, his insight and humor set a writerly standard that is still unmatched. This indispensable book adds to a body of work that has stood the test of time. It offers as well the perfect introduction to the pugnacious polemics of Christopher Hitchens.
FIGHTING WORDS AND
INCONVENIENT TRUTHS
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Territories Sold:Globo, BrazilAllen & Unwin, AustraliaAtlantic Books, UK & Commonwealth
ASSASSINATIONGENERATION
Dave Grossman
AND YETAND YET
ChristopherHitchens
THE SIRENS OF MARSSarah Stewart Johnson
Crown/Random House, 2017 (North American)
For centuries, humans have been dreaming of finding life out in space. In The Sirens of Mars, a brilliant young planetary scientist tells the story of those dreams. Her book draws a vivid portrait of how knowledge progresses and hopes persist.
Sarah Stewart Johnson teaches at Georgetown University. Her scientific research focuses on the evolution of the early Martian surface environment and the associated implications for habitability. She has helped develop a life detection instrument for a future mission to Mars, completed field seasons in Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, and Madagascar (hostile environments that provide Earth’s closest approximation to the punishing conditions today on Mars), conducted research at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and worked at mission control for NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity Rovers. She has degrees from Oxford and MIT and has been a Rhodes Scholar, a White House Fellow and a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard, a signal honor in the world of scholarship.
THIS BOOK PRESENTS THE
STORY OF MARS AND IT IS MUCH
MORE THAN JUST SCIENCE, IT IS
HOPE.
47Territories Sold:
Allen Lane/Penguin, UK & Commonwealth
TUPPERWARE UNSEALEDBob Kealing
Three Rivers Press/Random House, 2016
Brownie Wise did not invent the Tupperware Party, but she’s the reason you know what one is. Already successful leading at-home sales businesses in the 1940s, Brownie caught the eye of Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware, and when she joined his fledgling company, they became unstoppable. She codified and standardized how Tupperware should be sold by its mostly female, at-home sales force and drove profits through the roof. Strong personalities the both of them, it wasn’t long before Tupper and Wise butted heads about where and how the products should be sold, and when Tupper considered how it looked to potential investors that his head of sales was a woman, he cut her off. Brownie was fired and stripped of her Tupperware Lady fame. She died in obscurity.
Originally published in 2008 by the University of Florida Press, the rights have just been acquired by Three Rivers Press for a brand new edition with a full rewrite in anticipation of the upcoming Sandra Bullock helmed film.
Film Rights Acquired by
Sony Pictures.
Sandra Bullock Set to Star.
48Territories Sold:Dasan Books, Korea
THE SIRENS OF MARS
SARAH STEWART JOHNSON
tupperwareunsealed
Bob Kealing
PLATFORM WORLDGeoffrey Parker, Marshall van Alstyne
and Sangeet Paul Choudary
Norton, 2016/2017 (World English)
Platform World is the first book to describe how digital technologies are enabling more and more buyers and sellers to connect and transact business directly, without an intermediary.
The idea may seem simple, but the implications are profound. Consider this: across all industries, the share of top twenty firms dominated by platforms has gone from 10% to 25% in just eight years. The most important emerging business models used by startups and incumbents are all platforms. The largest IPO in history, Alibaba, is a platform.
Written by today’s three most sought-after experts on the topic – including two of the authors of the definitive Harvard Business Review article that first explained the phenomenon – Platform World shows readers how to develop, grow, and manage a successful platform business in any industry of any size.
How Open Digital Markets Are
Transferring the Economy
and How to Make Them Work for You
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Territories Sold:Bookie Publishing, Korea
Commonwealth Publishing, TaiwanBeijing Huazhang Graphic & Information, China
THE WRITTEN WORLDMartin Puchner
Random House, Fall 2017 (North American)
Here’s an astonishing take on world history: The secret weapon that defeated armies, formed nations, and opened up an undreamt-of future was . . .literature. This book is a constantly amazing account of how the alphabet, paper, print, bound books, the Internet, and other life-altering advances in writing technology turned storytelling into a powerful political force.
Puchner ought to know. In the course of creating The Norton Anthology of World Literature (six volumes, nearly 6,000 pages), he has had to forge an understanding that reaches very far. In The Written World, he is looking not at literary works themselves, but at the rocket power they have had to transform the world we live in. The story is eye-opening.
One of the leading professors of English at Harvard, Puchner is also the author of eight scholarly books and editor of not just one but two major Norton anthologies.
Discover the staggering ways
that literature has influenced and
continues to shape the world.
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Territories Sold:Citic, ChinaEuropa, HungaryKachi Books, Korea
Circulo Leitores, PortugalHayakawa Publishing, JapanKarl Blessing/Random House, Germany
Platform World
Geoffrey ParkerMarshall Van Alstyne
and Sangeet Paul Choudary
THE WRITTEN WORLD
MartinPuchner
POWER IN THE BLOODTheo Ross
Penguin, 2016 (World English)
Does cancer run in my family? Am I at risk?
Braiding together the story of Theo’s family history of cancer, the science of inherited cancer, and the practical advice cancer patients and their families require, readers learn how cancer mutations are passed through families; why it’s more important than ever to know your genetic inheritance; how to get the family health history you need; how best to take advantage of genetic testing and genetic counseling; and how to assess risk and treatment.
As an oncologist, cancer gene hunter, cancer survivor, and – as she soon learned – the carrier of a cancer mutation herself, Dr. Theo Ross brings extraordinary personal and professional experience to bear on inherited cancer.
No other book has addressed hereditary cancer in this comprehensive, accessible, empowering format. Nor has one ever been written by a cutting-edge cancer researcher who herself is the bearer of an inherited, cancer-causing gene mutation.
THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO INHERITED
CANCER
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YOUNG AND DAMNED AND FAIRGareth Russell
Simon & Schuster, 2016 (North American)
A riveting account of Catherine Howard’s tragic marriage to one of history’s most powerful, and endlessly fascinating rulers. Sixteen months after Catherine Howard became Queen of England, she would follow her cousin Anne Boleyn to the scaffold, having been accused of adultery and high treason.
Unlike previous accounts of Catherine Howard, which portray her as a naïve victim of an ambitious family, this book will shed new light on Catherine Howard’s rise and downfall by reexamining her motives and showing her in her context, a milieu that does not just include her family and the influential men of the court, but the aristocrats and, most critically, the servants who surrounded her and who, in the end, conspired against her.
This dramatic story is not just one of high politics and a monarchy struggling to control the forces unleashed by the Reformation. It is a human tale of complex individuals attempting to survive in a dangerous hothouse. By illuminating Catherine’s entwined upstairs/downstairs worlds, and bringing the reader into her daily milieu, the author retells her story in an exciting and engaging way that has surprisingly modern resonances.
The Life and Tragedy of
Catherine Howard
52Territories Sold:HarperCollins, UK & Commonwealth
Power In The Blood
Theo Ross
YOUNG And DAMNED AND
FAIR
Gareth Russell
THE WORM AT THE CORESheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg & Tom Pyszczynski
Random House, May 2015 (North American)
The Worm at the Core is the product of twenty-five years of in-depth research. Drawing from innovative experiments conducted around the globe, Solomon, Greenberg, and Pyszczynski show conclusively that the fear of death and the desire to transcend it inspires us to buy expensive cars, crave fame, put our health at risk, and disguise our animal nature. The fear of death can also prompt judges to dole out harsher punishments, make children react negatively to people different from themselves, and inflame intolerance and violence. Emerging from their research is a unique and compelling approach to these deeply existential issues: terror management theory. Written in an accessible, jargon-free style, The Worm at the Core offers a compelling new paradigm for understanding the choices we make in life—and a pathway toward divesting ourselves of the cultural and personal illusions that keep us from accepting the end that awaits us all.
A transformative, fascinating theory—
based on robust and groundbreaking
experimental research—reveals how our
unconscious fear of death powers almost everything we do, shining a light on the hidden motives that drive human behavior
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