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BAROR
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
ADULT
SPRING 2015
BAROR INTERNATIONAL, INC.
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TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S
TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S
GENERAL FICTION/MYSTERY
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
Addison, Corban - THE TEARS OF DARK WATER.........................................................1
Abraham, Daniel - THE SPIDER’S WAR.......................................................................27
Bacigalupi, Paolo - THE WATER KNIFE..........................................................................2
Anders, Charlie Jane - ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY....................................................28
Chisholm, P.F. - A CHORUS OF INNOCENTS................................................................3
Arthur, Keri - CITY OF LIGHT ........................................................................................29
Clark, Mary Higgins - MANHATTAN MAYHEM...............................................................4
Beaulieu, Bradley - TWELVE KINGS IN SHARAKHAI................................................30
Fields, Hilary - LAST CHANCE LLAMA RANCH..............................................................5
Birmingham, John - EMERGENCE, RESISTANCE, ASCENDANCE.............................31
Lansdale, Joe - PARADISE SKY.......................................................................................6
Chu, Wesley - THE REBIRTHS OF TAO........................................................................32
Littlefield, Sophie - THE GUILTY ONE............................................................................7
Chu, Wesley - TIME SALVAGER.....................................................................................33
Rowley, Aidan Donnelley - THE RAMBLERS...................................................................8
Corey, James S.A. - NEMESIS GAMES.............................................................................34
Tosches, Nick - UNDER TIBERIUS...................................................................................9
Goodkind, Terry - WARHEART...................................................................................35
HISTORICAL FICTION/ROMANCE
Harrison, Kim - THE DRAFTER.......................................................................................36
Lackey, Mercedes - FROM A HIGH TOWER...................................................................37
Cocks, Heather & Jessica Morgan - THE ROYAL WE......................................................10
Leicht, Stina - COLD IRON............................................................................................38
Gabaldon, Diana - THE OUTLANDISH COMPANION: VOLUME 2...............................11
Liu, Ken - THE GRACE OF KINGS...........................................................................39
Halle, Karina - THE PACT...............................................................................................12
Marillier, Juliet - THE TOWER OF THORNS...................................................................40
Peacock, Nancy - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PERSIMMON WILSON............................13
Moorcock, Michael - THE WHISPERING SWARM........................................................41
Porter, Jane - IT’S YOU..................................................................................................14
Sykes, Sam - THE CITY STAINED RED.........................................................................42
Reichert, Amy - THE COINCIDENCE OF COCONUT CAKE.......................................15
Wellington, David - POSITIVE..................................................................................43
Torday, Daniel - THE LAST FLIGHT OF POXL WEST......................................................16
Wilde, Fran - UPDRAFT.................................................................................................44
Wilson, Anne - HOVER...................................................................................................17
NON-FICTION
THRILLERS
Grossman, Dave - ASSASSINATION GENERATION................................................45
Block, Sandra - LITTLE BLACK LIES..............................................................................18
Hitchens, Christopher - AND YET AND YET...................................................................46
Drake, Rebecca - ONLY EVER YOU...............................................................................19
Johnson, Sarah Stewart - THE SIRENS OF MARS....................................................47
Kaplan, Howard - THE DAMASCUS COVER..............................................................20
Kealing, Bob - TUPPERWARE UNSEALED...................................................................48
Lustbader, Eric Van - ANY MINUTE NOW...................................................................21
Parker, Alstyne & Choudary - PLATFORM WORLD....................................................49
Marshall, Colby - DOUBLE VISION..............................................................................22
Puchner, Martin - THE WRITTEN WORLD.....................................................................50
Petrie, Nicholas - THE DRIFTER......................................................................................23
Ross, Theo Dr. - POWER IN THE BLOOD.....................................................................51
Riddle, A.G. - DEPARTURE.........................................................................................24
Russell, Gareth - YOUNG AND DAMNED AND FAIR.....................................................52
Rollins, James - THE BONE LABYRINTH.......................................................................25
Solomon, Greenberg & Pyszczynski - THE WORM AT THE CORE............................53
Simmons, Dan - THE FIFTH HEART.............................................................................26
THE WATER KNIFE
Paolo Bacigalupi
THE TEARS OF DARK WATER
Corban Addison
“An intense thriller and a
deeply insightful vision of
Corban Addison has
the coming century, laid out
been translated into
in all its pain and glory. It’s a
water knife indeed, right to
21 Languages.
the heart.”
—Kim Stanley Robinson
Out of the ashes of
tragedy the seeds of
justice and reconciliation
can grow.
Untitled Imprint/HarperCollins, Fall 2015 (North American)
Knopf, May 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.
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.
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.
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“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
HarperCollins, Canada
Quercus, UK & Commonwealth
Recorded Books, North American
Territories Sold:
AST, Russia
Marti, Turkey
Selini, Greece
Hayakawa, Japan
Literackie, Poland
China Times, Taiwan
Gabo Kiado, Hungary
Starred Publishers Weekly Review
Karl Blessing, Germany
Au Diable Vauvert, France
Orbit, UK & Commonwealth
Penguin Random House, Spain
Argo Nakladatelstvi, Czech Republic
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MANHATTAN MAYHEM
Edited by
Mary Higgins Clark
A CHORUS OF INNOCENTS
Sir Robert Carey Series, Book 7
P.F. Chisholm
Roguish courtiers, rival
gangs, rustling, treason,
New Stories by:
and high ambition.
Mary Higgins Clark
Lee Child
Jeffrey Deaver
Thomas H. Cook
Justin Scott
T. Jefferson Parker
and more...
Poisoned Pen Press, August 2015 (North American)
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!
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.
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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
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with your heart in your mouth,” says author Dana Stabenow.
LAST CHANCE LLAMA RANCH
Hilary Fields
PARADISE SKY
Joe 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.
From the author
of Bliss comes
a heartwarming
tale of friendship,
romance, selfdiscovery... and
llama drama.
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....
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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.
Territories Sold:
Einaudi, Italy
Klett-Cotta, Germany
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.
TV SERIES:
A new Cable TV series is in production with
Sundance TV based on
Joe Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard series
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.
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THE GUILTY ONE
Sophie Littlefield
THE GUILTY
ONE
THE RAMBLERS
Aidan Donnelley Rowley
From the award-winning
author of The Missing
THE
RAMBLERS
Sold in a significant
six figure deal.
Place—in which “Littlefield’s
writing shines” (The Boston
Globe)—another gripping
A major new
exploration of the damage
women’s fiction
people can do to each other,
Sophie
Littlefield
and the resilience they find
in themselves.
novel.
Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, August 2015 (North American)
William Morrow/HarperCollins, March 2016 (World English)
A man stands on the Golden Gate Bridge, poised to jump…if a woman on
the other end of the phone tells him to.
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.
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?
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Aidan
Donnelley
Rowley
Head of Zeus, UK & Commonwealth
Goldmann/Random House, Germany
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,
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hope-filled novel.
UNDER TIBERIUS
Nick Tosches
THE ROYAL WE
Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
“I might be Cinderella
today, but I dread
A work of
dangerous and
haunting beauty by
America’s last real
literary outlaw.
tomorrow. I guess it
depends on what I do
next.”
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.
Little, Brown and Company, August 2015 (North American)
Grand Central Publishing, April 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.
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.
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.
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.
Outrageous and disturbing, Under Tiberius is as black as the ravishing night,
shot through with fierce and brilliant light.
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who they’ll think I am
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.
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THE OUTLANDISH COMPANION
Volume 2
Diana Gabaldon
THE PACT
Karina Halle
Outlander Series:
Over 25 Million Copies Sold
30 Translations
New York Times
Bestseller
As entertaining, wide-
Over 50,000 Copies
ranging, and addictive as
Sold in One Week
the series itself, this second
volume of The Outlandish
Companion is a one (or
two)-of-a-kind gift from an
incomparable author.
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.
Territories Sold:
Droemer, Germany
Recorded 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
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with over 3 million viewers.
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.
Territories Sold:
Soft Press, Bulgaria
Editora Gente, Brazil
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PERSIMMON WILSON
Nancy Peacock
IT’S YOU
Jane Porter
From the USA
“‘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
Today bestselling
author of the
Brennan Sisters
novels comes a
heartwarming
story about finding
love and strength,
even in the darkest
moments…
Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2016 (North American)
Berkley/Penguin, June 2015 (World English)
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.
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.
“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
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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.
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THE COINCIDENCE OF COCONUT CAKE
Amy Reichert
THE LAST FLIGHT OF POXL WEST
Daniel Torday
“Deliciously
New York Times
entertaining!”
Book Review - Front
-Meg Donohue
Cover
New York Times
A charming love story
of misunderstandings,
mistaken identity, and the
power of food to bring
two people together.
Starred Kirkus
Review
Gallery/Simon & Schuster, July 2015 (North American)
St. Martin’s Press, March 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.
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.
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.
His teenage nephew, Eli Goldstein, reveres him as a brave, singular, Jewish
war hero.
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?
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Article
LYX, Germany
Dogan, Turkey
Newton Compton, Italy
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.
Territories Sold:
Hayakawa, Japan
Editions Les Escales, France
Dobrovsky, Czech Republic
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HOVER
Anne Wilson
LITTLE BLACK LIES
Sandra Block
“A psychological
A thrilling,
emotional women’s
journey written by
a groundbreaking
former navy pilot.
suspense story smartly
narrated... Zoe has a
quick wit that emerges
in wickedly unexpected
ways.”—New York
Times Book Review
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?
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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.
Territories Sold:
Epsilon, Turkey
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ONLY EVER YOU
Rebecca Drake
ONLY
EVER
YOU
THE DAMASCUS COVER
Howard Kaplan
FILM
A Commercial
ADAPTATION
Psychological
TO BE
Thriller
RELEASED IN
2016
This is Gone Girl
for Parents.
Rebecca
Drake
Starring Jonathan
Rhys Meyers
Currently filming
in Morocco
Thomas Dunne, Winter 2016 (North American)
“KAPLAN IS UP THERE WITH THE BEST” - CLIVE CUSSLER
Sophia, a headstrong three-year-old girl, disappears from her well-todo 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Crown, Taiwan
Newton Compton, Italy
Goldmann/Random House, Germany
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
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Recorded Books (Audio), World English
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ANY MINUTE NOW
Eric Van Lustbader
ANY MINUTE
NOW
DOUBLE VISION
Colby Marshall
“Every investigation is
about ways of seeing,
Author of Over
and Colby Marshall
20 International
explores this idea to
Bestselling Thrillers
compelling effect in
Published in 20
the propulsive Double
Languages
Vision. Smart, twisty,
surprising.”—Andrew
Eric Van
Lustbader
Pyper, author of The
Demonologist and
The Damned
Tor Books, 2015 (North American)
Berkley/Penguin, April 2015 (World English)
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.
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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…
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DEPAR T URE
A.G. Riddle
THE DRIFTER
Nicholas Petrie
Optioned in a 6 Figure Deal to 20th Century Fox
An explosive debut
Author of the 1.5
thriller introducing
Million Copy Bestseller
Peter Ash, a
The Origin Mystery,
veteran who finds
Sold in 20 Languages,
that the demons of
Optioned to CBS Films
war aren’t easily left
behind
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.
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Suhrkamp Verlag, Germany
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.
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Eksmo, Russia
Motyl Slovak Republic
Burda Publishing, Poland
Audible (Audio) World English
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THE BONE LABYRINTH
THE FIFTH HEART
Dan Simmons
A Sigma Novel
James Rollins
THE
BONE
LABYRINTH
Conspiracy, action and
mystery meet in this
superb literary hall of
New York Times
mirrors.
Bestselling Series
“Simmons (Drood) knows the
Translated into
Holmes canon and uses that
expertise in the service of a
More Than 35
JAMES
ROLLINS
highly original reimagining of
Languages
the beloved sleuth.” -Publishers
Weekly, Starred Review
Little, Brown and Company, March 2015 (North American)
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.
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Nord, Italy
Bertrand, Portugal
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?
Territories Sold:
Atticus, Russia
Ciela Norma, Bulgaria
Fantom Print, Czech Republic
Business Weekly Publications, Taiwan
Little, Brown and Company, UK & Commonwealth
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THE SPIDER’S WAR
The Dagger and the Coin, Book 5
Daniel Abraham
ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY
Charlie Jane Anders
ALL THE BIRDS
IN THE SKY
The epic conclusion
to The Dagger and
The Coin series,
perfect for fans of
George R.R. Martin.
Charlie
Jane
Anders
“Charlie Jane Anders darts
and soars, with dazzling
aplomb, among the
hypotheticals of science
fiction, the
counterfactuals of fantasy,
and the bittersweet
mundanities of
contemporary American
life, throwing lightning
bolts of literary style that
shimmer with enchantment
or electrons.“
-Michael Chabon
Anders is editor of the hugely
popular io9 website.
Tor Books, Spring 2016 (North American)
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.
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AST, Russia
Fantasy Foundation, Taiwan
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.
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CITY OF LIGHT
The Outcast Series, Book 1
Keri Arthur
City of
Light
A brand new series
from the author of
the New York Times
TWELVE KINGS IN SHARAKHAI
Song of Shattered Sands, Book 1
Bradley Beaulieu
Twelve
Kings in
Sharakhai
Bestselling Riley
Jensen Guardian
Keri Arthur
Series
Bradley
Beaulieu
An epic fantasy
in the vein of
A Thousand
and One
Nights.
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.
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.
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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.…
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Gollancz/Hachette, UK & Commonwealth
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EMERGENCE
THE REBIRTHS OF TAO
Tao Series, Book 3
Dave vs. the Monsters
Wesley Chu
John Birmingham
For fans of Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne comes an action-
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
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.
“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
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.
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...
Killing a seven-foot-tall, tattooed demon has transformed the overweight,
balding safety manager into something else entirely. A foul-mouthed, beerloving monster slayer, and humanity’s least worthy Champion.
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Pan Macmillan, Australia
Titan Books, United Kingdom
Territories Sold:
Tor/Fischer Verlag, Germany
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NEMESIS GAMES
TIME SALVAGER
Wesley Chu
The Expanse, Book 5
James S.A. Corey
A MAJOR NEW
A fast-paced
time travel
adventure
from Wesley
Chu, the
award-winning
author of The
Lives of Tao.
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.
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TV SERIES
FROM SyFy
CHANNEL
AIRING IN 2015
WITH 10 ONE-HOUR
LONG EPISODES
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.
Previous Titles in the Series Sold in 16 Territories
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WARHEART
THE DRAFTER
The Peri Reed Chronicles, Book 1
Kim Harrison
A Richard & Kahlan Novel
Terry Goodkind
#1 New York Times
The Bourne Identity
Bestselling Author
meets Minority
Report in this first
Sold Over 26 Million
highly anticipated
Copies
installment in #1
New York Times
Terry
Goodkind
Translated in Over
bestselling author
20 Languages
Kim Harrison’s sexy
new suspense trilogy
Tor Books, November 2015 (North American)
Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, September 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.
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Luitingh Sijthoff, The Netherlands
Head of Zeus, UK & Commonwealth
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?
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FROM A HIGH TOWER
Elemental Masters Series
Mercedes Lackey
FROM A
HIGH
TOWER
Stina Leicht’s debut
New York Times
Bestselling Author
Lackey Has
Mercedes
Lackey
COLD IRON
Stina Leicht
Published Over 100
novel appeared on the
Locus Recommended
Reading list and been
shortlisted for the
Crawford Award.
Novels in 25 Years
Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, July 2015 (World English)
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.
Fraternal twins Nels and Suvi move beyond their royal heritage and into
military and magical dominion in this flintlock epic fantasy debut from a twotime 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.
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Titan Books, UK & Commonwealth
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THE GRACE OF KINGS
THE TOWER OF THORNS
The Dandelion Dynasty, Book 1
A Blackthorn & Grim Novel, Book 2
Ken Liu
Juliet Marillier
Award-winning author
The Chinese
Juliet Marillier’s
George R.R. Martin
“lavishly detailed”
Blackthorn & Grim
series continues as a
A sprawling epic fantasy
mysterious creature
in a fantastic version of
holds an enchanted
ancient China
and imperiled ancient
Ireland in thrall.
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.
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AST, Russia
Dook, China
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.
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Planeta Manuscrito, Portugal
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THE WHISPERING SWARM
THE CITY STAINED RED
Bring Down Heaven, Book 1
The Sanctuary of the White Friars, Book 1
Sam Sykes
Michael Moorcock
The grand master
“Action fantasy
of fantasy returns
with soul-albeit a
to London and the
small, dirty, funny
fantastical for his
soul.”
first independent
—Brent Weeks
novel in almost ten
years!
Tor Books, January 2015 (North American)
Orbit, 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.
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Gollancz, UK & Commonwealth
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.
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POSITIVE
David Wellington
UPDRAFT
Fran Wilde
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.
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.
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Bragelonne, France
A high-flying
fantasy with the
worldbuilding skill
of China Mieville
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.
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ASSASSINATION GENERATION
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
ASSASSINATION
GENERATION
A revolutionary new
book on the role of
AND YET AND YET
Christopher Hitchens
AND YET
AND YET
FIGHTING
WORDS AND
violence in video
INCONVENIENT
games and it’s
TRUTHS
impact on society.
Dave
Grossman
Christopher
Hitchens
Little Brown Book Group, Spring 2016 (North American)
Simon & Schuster, January 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.
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.
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.
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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.
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Globo, Brazil
Allen & Unwin, Australia
Atlantic Books, UK & Commonwealth
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TUPPERWARE UNSEALED
Bob Kealing
THE SIRENS OF MARS
Sarah Stewart Johnson
THE SIRENS
OF MARS
THIS BOOK
PRESENTS THE
tupperware
unsealed
Acquired by
STORY OF MARS
Sony Pictures.
AND IT IS MUCH
MORE THAN JUST
SARAH STEWART
JOHNSON
Sandra Bullock Set
SCIENCE, IT IS
HOPE.
Film Rights
Bob Kealing
to Star.
Crown/Random House, 2017 (North American)
Three Rivers Press/Random House, 2016
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.
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.
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.
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Allen Lane/Penguin, UK & Commonwealth
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.
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Dasan Books, Korea
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THE WRITTEN WORLD
Martin Puchner
PLATFORM WORLD
Geoffrey Parker, Marshall van Alstyne
and Sangeet Paul Choudary
Platform
World
How Open Digital
Geoffrey Parker
Marshall Van Alstyne
and
Sangeet Paul Choudary
THE
WRITTEN
WORLD
Discover the
Markets Are
staggering ways
Transferring the
that literature has
Economy
influenced and
and How to Make
continues to shape
Them Work for You
Martin
Puchner
the world.
Random House, Fall 2017 (North American)
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.
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Bookie Publishing, Korea
Commonwealth Publishing, Taiwan
Beijing Huazhang Graphic & Information, China
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.
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Citic, China
Europa, Hungary
Kachi Books, Korea
Circulo Leitores, Portugal
Hayakawa Publishing, Japan
Karl Blessing/Random House, Germany
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POWER IN THE BLOOD
Theo Ross
Power In
The Blood
THE ESSENTIAL
GUIDE TO
YOUNG AND DAMNED AND FAIR
Gareth Russell
YOUNG And
DAMNED AND
FAIR
INHERITED
The Life and
Tragedy of
Catherine Howard
CANCER
Theo Ross
Gareth
Russell
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 cuttingedge cancer researcher who herself is the bearer of an inherited, cancercausing gene mutation.
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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.
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HarperCollins, UK & Commonwealth
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THE WORM AT THE CORE
Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg & Tom Pyszczynski
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
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.
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Next Wave Publishing, Korea
DVA/Random House, Germany cgfntyb6jttnt7m u,
Allen Lane/Penguin, UK & Commonwealth