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Fall 2015
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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
Block, Lawrence - THE GIRL WITH THE DEEP BLUE EYES..........................2
Block, Lawrence - IN SUNLIGHT OR IN SHADOW..................................3
Gable, Michelle - I’LL SEE YOU IN PARIS.......................................................4
Girard, Anne - PLATINUM DOLL.................................................................5
Harmel, Kristin - THE VIOLET SKY....................................................................6
Littlefield, Sophie - THE GUILTY ONE.............................................................7
Lansdale, Joe R. - HONKY TONK SAMURAI..................................................8
Olsen, Ella Jay - ROOT, PETAL, THORN......................................................9
Abraham, Daniel - THE SPIDER’S WAR....................................................29
ROMANCE & HISTORICAL FICTION
Liu, Ken - THE PAPER MENAGERIE AND OTHER STORIES..................37
Barnette, Abigail - FIRST TIME...............................................................10
Bradley, Celeste - I, THEE WED....................................................................11
Brenner, Jamie - THE WEDDING SISTERS..................................................12
Clare, Jessica - THE BILLIONAIRE TAKES A BRIDE..............................13
Edghill, India - GAME OF QUEENS..............................................................14
Halle, Karina - THE OFFER.............................................................................15
Gabaldon, Diana - THE OUTLANDISH COMPANION..................................17
Gabaldon, Diana - THE OFFICIAL OUTLANDER COLORING BOOK..................18
Reichert, Amy E. - LUCK, LOVE & LEMON PIE............................................16
THRILLERS
Alten, Steve - MEG...........................................................................................19
Block, Sandra - THE GIRL WITHOUT A NAME............................................20
Cross, Ethan - THE JUDAS GAME..............................................................21
Laurin, Nina - SHINE LIKE SCARS.................................................................22
Ludlum, Robert - THE BOURNE ENIGMA..................................................23
Lustbader, Eric Van - THE FALLEN.............................................................25
Riddle, A.G. - DEPARTURE.............................................................................26
Rollins, James - THE BONE LABYRINTH....................................................24
Simmons, Dan - OMEGA CANYON............................................................27
Anders, Charlie Jane - ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY ..................................28
Arthur, Keri - CITY OF LIGHT............................................................................30
Beaulieu, Bradley P. - TWELVE KINGS......................................................31
Chu, Wesley - TIME SALVAGER.............................................................32
Corey, James S.A. - NEMESIS GAMES........................................................34
Doctorow, Cory - UTOPIA..............................................................................33
Goodkind, Terry - WARHEART..................................................................35
Harrison, Kim - THE DRAFTER......................................................................36
Marillier, Juliet - THE TOWER OF THORNS........................................38
Powers, Tim - MEDUSA’S WEB..................................................................39
Schwab, V.E. - A GATHERING OF SHADOWS..............................................40
Travic, Justin - SON OF SEVEN..................................................................41
Valente, Catherynne M. - RADIANCE........................................................42
NON-FICTION
Bommersbach, Jana - THE DEBRA JEAN MILKE STORY..........................43
Hitchens, Christopher - AND YET...:ESSAYS................................................44
Morrison, Jenean - COLORING BOOKS......................................................45
O’Hagan, Sarah Robb - EXTREME YOU....................................................46
Parker/Van Alstyne/Choudary - PLATFORM REVOLUTION.......................47
Parness, Michael - THE ART OF TREND TRADING.................................48
Ross, Theodora, MD, PhD - A CANCER IN THE FAMILY...............................49
Sancton, Tom - THE BETTENCOURT AFFAIR.......................................50
Shanker, Stuart - SELF-REG...........................................................................51
Taylor, Chris - HOW STAR WARS CONQUERED THE UNIVERSE.........52
THE TEARS OF DARK WATER
Corban Addison
Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins
October 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.
Reviews:
“A fast-paced thriller that puts its humanitarian
moral at the forefront.” - Kirkus Reviews
Corban Addison has been
translated into 21 Languages.
Out of the ashes of tragedy the seeds of
justice and reconciliation can grow.
“A timely and harrowing thriller ...”
- Publisher’s Weekly
Territories Sold:
HarperCollins, Canada
Quercus, UK & Commonwealth
Recorded Books, North American
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THE GIRL WITH THE DEEP BLUE EYES
Lawrence Block
IN SUNLIGHT OR IN SHADOW
Stories Inspired by Paintings of Edward Hopper
Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block is one of the most
acclaimed and highly decorated living mystery writers, having received
multiple Edgar, Shamus Awards and
Maltese Falcon Awards, as well as
lifetime achievement awards in the
U.S., UK, and France
Hard Case Crime, September
2015 (World English)
In the depths of her blue eyes,
he glimpsed... murder.
Cashed out from the NYPD after
24 years, Doak Miller operates
as a private eye in steamy
small-town Florida, doing jobs
for the local police; like posing
as a hit man and wearing a
wire to incriminate a local wife
who’s looking to get rid of her
husband. But when he sees the
wife, when he looks into her
deep blue eyes...
He falls – and falls hard. Soon he’s working with her, against his
employer, plotting a devious plan that could get her free from her
husband and put millions in her bank account. But can they do it
without landing in jail? And once he’s kindled his taste for killing...
will he be able to stop at one?
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“No amount of skillful invention can
replace the essential element of
imagination.” -Edward Hopper
Pegasus Books, 2016 (World English)
Edward Hopper’s works don’t so much tell stories as suggest that there
are stories to be told.
Legendary author Lawrence Block invited a select list of writers to
pick paintings and write original stories inspired by those Hopper
paintings they have selected. The list of acclaimed authors includes
Megan Abbott, Jill D. Block, Robert Olen Butler, Lee Child, Nicholas
Christopher, Jeffery Deaver, Craig Ferguson, Joe Lansdale, Hopper
biographer Gail Levin, Warren Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Spider
Robinson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Jonathan Santlofer and of
course, the great Lawrence Block himself.
This book is not intended to be a crime anthology. There will be crime,
of course, but also mainstream fiction. The book will include full color
images of each Hopper painting that inspired the author. Essentially,
this is a collection of great paintings and the tales they stir in great
writers.
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I’LL SEE YOU IN PARIS
Michelle Gable
From the national
bestselling author of
A Paris Apartment
Territories Sold:
Soft Press, Bulgaria
PLATINUM DOLL
Anne Girard
Set against the dazzling
backdrop of Golden
Age Hollywood, novelist
Anne Girard tells the
enchanting story of
Jean Harlow, one of the
most iconic stars in the
history of film.
Thomas Dunne Books/Macmillan, February 2016 (World English)
Mira/Harlequin, January 2016 (World English)
I’ll See You in Paris winds together the lives of three women born
generations apart.
It’s the Roaring Twenties and seventeen-year-old Harlean Carpenter
McGrew has run off to Beverly Hills. She’s chasing a dream—to escape
her small, Midwestern life and see her name in lights.
After losing her fiancé, nineteen-year-old Laurel Haley takes a job in
England, hoping the distance will mend her shattered heart. Laurel
expects the pain might lessen but does not foresee the beguiling man
she meets or that they’ll go to Paris, where the city’s magic will take
over and alter everything Laurel believes about love.
Thirty years later, Laurel’s daughter Annie is newly engaged and an
old question resurfaces: who is Annie’s father? Laurel has always been
vague about the details and Annie’s told herself it doesn’t matter. But
with her impending marriage, Annie has to know everything. Why
won’t Laurel tell her the truth?
The key to unlocking Laurel’s secrets starts with a mysterious book
about an infamous woman known as the Duchess of Marlborough.
Annie’s quest to understand the Duchess, takes her from a charming
hamlet in the English countryside, to a decaying estate kept behind
barbed wire, and ultimately to Paris.
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In California, Harlean has everything a girl could want—a rich husband,
glamorous parties, socialite friends—except an outlet for her talent.
But everything changes when a dare pushes her to embrace her true
ambition—to be an actress on the silver screen. With her timeless
beauty and striking shade of platinum-blond hair, Harlean becomes
Jean Harlow. And as she’s thrust into the limelight, Jean learns that
this new world of opportunity comes with its own set of burdens. Torn
between her family and her passion to perform, Jean is forced to
confront the difficult truth—that fame comes at a price, if only she’s
willing to pay it.
Amid a glittering cast of ingenues and Hollywood titans—Clara
Bow, Clark Gable, Laurel and Hardy, Howard Hughes—Platinum Doll
introduces us to the star who would shine brighter than them all.
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THE VIOLET SKY
Kristin Harmel
THE
VIOLET
SKY
Cover Coming Soon
THE GUILTY ONE
Sophie Littlefield
Kristin Harmel’s trademark
emotional storytelling is
once again on display,
married to a fascinating
story with roots in postwar
history.
“Sophie Littlefield is
a regular
writing machine!”
The New York Times
Territories Sold:
Goldmann/Random House, Germany
Head of Zeus, UK & Commonwealth
Blanvalet/Random House, Germany
Territories Sold:
Gallery/Simon & Schuster, August 2016 (North American)
Gallery/Simon & Schuster, August 2015 (North American)
Emily Lyons has been laid off from her investigative reporting job and
finds herself at loose ends, in a dead-end relationship and without
the high-pressure career she loved. Into that void steps someone she
thought she’d never hear from again, her estranged father--and he
needs her help.
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.
Emily’s not much interested in helping her deadbeat dad, but he
swears he’s changed his ways--and to prove it, he wants her to help him
track down his own father, who disappeared after the war. Dad always
assumed Peter had abandoned him and his mother, until the day he
receives a beautiful, haunting painting of a young woman standing at
the edge of a field under a violet sky. That woman is recognizable as
his mother--and the painting arrived with no identification other than a
handwritten note saying, “I always loved her.”
Despite her misgivings, Emily is hungry for roots and family, so she
begins to dig. And as she does, she uncovers a fascinating era in
American history. Her trail leads her to the POW internment camps of
Georgia and Florida, where German prisoners worked for American
farmers...and sometimes fell in love with American women. But how
does this all connect to the painting? If Emily finds the answer to that
question, she may discover more than she ever imagined...
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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’s 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, perhaps for the first
time, 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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HONKY TONK SAMURAI
A Hap and Leonard Novel
Joe R. Lansdale
Mulholland Books/Little Brown Book Group
February 2016 (World English)
Filled with Lansdale’s trademark whip-smart dialogue,
relentless pacing, and unorthodox characters, Honky Tonk
Samurai is a rambunctious thrill ride by one hell of a writer.
The story starts simply enough when Hap, a former 60s activist
and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough
black, gay Vietnam vet and Republican with an addiction to
Dr. Pepper, are working a freelance surveillance job in East
Texas. The uneventful stakeout is coming to an end when the
pair witness a man abusing his dog. Leonard takes matters
into his own fists, and now the bruised dog abuser wants to
press charges.
One week later, a woman named Lilly Buckner drops by
their new PI office with a proposition: find her missing
granddaughter, or she’ll turn in a video of Leonard beating
the dog abuser. The pair agrees to take on the cold case
and soon discover that the used car dealership where her
granddaughter worked is actually a front for a prostitution
ring. The mystery of her disappearance only deepens from
there.
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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ROOT, PETAL, THORN
Ella Jay Olsen
ROOT,
PETAL,
THORN
Cover Coming Soon
This is
the story of an
old brick house, an
heirloom rosebush,
and five women
from five very
different
eras.
Kensington, September 2016 (World English)
Like the runaway bestseller Orphan Train, Root, Petal, Thorn
interweaves a relatable, modern-day storyline with ones from our past,
rich with historical detail and emotion.
Ivy Baygreen, a modern-day mother of two, is grieving the recent death
of her husband. Overwhelmed but trying to be strong for her children,
she embarks on a mission to complete all the home-improvement
projects around her 100-year old house that her husband never got
a chance to finish, as a way to deal with her grief. As she works, she
discovers mysterious “Easter eggs” throughout the house -- a halfstitched sampler, buried wine bottles, carved initials -- that hint to the
lives of previous residents.
Each artifact she uncovers is the germ of one of four historical narratives,
set in the same brick house in Utah: a young Mormon woman near
the turn of the century, a little girl growing up at the beginning of
the Great Depression, a Greek immigrant during World War II, and a
troubled single mother in the 1960’s. The house itself and the fragrant
Emmeline rosebush also play a role in each woman’s journey in this
compelling debut.
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FIRST TIME
By The Numbers, Book 1
Abigail Barnette
The same book,
told from two
perspectives one from the
hero and one
from the heroine.
Each tells the
complete story.
A new way of
storytelling!
August 2015 (North American)
The first of four books in the By the Numbers series, featuring
characters from Abigail Barnette’s popular Sophie Scaife novels.
IAN’S STORY:
Newly divorced and romantically pessimistic, Ian Pratchett doesn’t
know why he’s been set up with Penny Parker. She’s unrelentingly
positive, utterly superstitious, and sexually inexperienced—everything
Ian is not. But when sparks fly between them, Ian sees the possibility
of a life he’d given up hoping for…with a woman he would never have
expected.
PENNY’S STORY:
With the wounds from a bad breakup still healing, Penny Parker is
reluctant to dive back into the dating scene. She’s especially wary of
being set up with an older man, but Ian Pratchett wants the same
future she’s after: family, stability, and true love. Though all the signs
point to Ian being The One, can the timing ever be right between two
people born decades apart?
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I, THEE WED
A Wicked Worthingtons Novel
Celeste Bradley
i, thee
wed
Cover Coming Soon
Celeste Bradley is
the New York Times
and USA Today
bestselling author
of more than twenty
Regency romance
novels.
THE WEDDING SISTERS
Jamie Brenner
THE
WEDDING
SISTERS
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Three sisters, one
wedding, and family
secrets that leave
them wondering if
anyone will actually
make it down the
aisle…
St. Martin’s Griffin/Macmillan, June 2016 (North American)
Signet/Penguin, May 2016 (North American)
From the New York Times bestselling author of With This Ring comes
a Wicked Worthington novel of love that defies reason...
Intelligent and driven, Orion Worthington aspired to be like his mentor,
the acclaimed scientist Sir Geoffrey Blayne. Logically, Sir Geoffrey’s
daughter would be Orion’s perfect match. So why can’t he keep his
mind off the unruly girl who works in Sir Geoffrey’s lab?
Orphaned fire-cracker Francesca Penrose hopes that London is
modern enough to accept her brilliant mind despite her womanhood.
But she can’t help noticing Orion’s mind...or his body.
So they decide to run an experiment: if they give in to their passions,
their attraction will simply fizzle out, with no impact on their hearts...
right?
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Meryl Becker is living a mother’s dream. The oldest of her three
beautiful daughters, Meg, is engaged to a wonderful man from one of
the country’s most prominent families. Of course, Meryl wants to give
Meg the perfect wedding. But when her two younger daughters, Amy
and Jo, also become engaged to celebrated bachelors, Meryl has to
admit that three weddings is more than she and her husband, Hugh,
can realistically afford.
The solution? A triple wedding! At first, it’s a tough sell to the girls,
and juggling three sets of future in-laws is a logistical nightmare. But
when Hugh loses his teaching job, and Meryl’s aging mother suddenly
moves in with them, a triple wedding is the only way to get all three
sisters down the aisle. When the grand plan becomes public, the
onslaught of media attention adds to Meryl’s mounting pressure.
In the weeks leading up to the nuptials, secrets are revealed, passions
ignite, and surprising revelations show Meryl and her daughters
the true meaning of love, marriage and family. Jamie Brenner’s The
Wedding Sisters invites readers to the most unpredictable wedding
of the year.
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THE BILLIONAIRE TAKES A BRIDE
Billionaires and Bridesmaids, Book 1
Jessica Clare
Praise for the Billionaire
Boys Club novels:
“Blazing hot.”--USA Today
“Great storytelling...
delightful reading...It’s fun
and oh so hot.”
--Kirkus Reviews
GAME OF QUEENS
India Edghill
“Richly textured,
thrilling, and totally
fascinating, this
sweeping saga is
sure to captivate
readers across the
board.” -Booklist
Territories Sold:
Luebbe, Germany
Penguin, October 2015 (North American)
St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan, September 2015 (World English)
A lie turns to love in the latest novel from the New York Times
bestselling author of The Taming of the Billionaire.
For fans of The Red Tent and The Dovekeepers, India Edghill breathes
new life into the biblical story of Vashti and Esther with her signature
historical richness, epic scope, and sweeping romance.
Billionaire Sebastian Cabral loves his family, he just doesn’t love their
reality TV show, The Cabral Empire. So when his ex-girlfriend tries to
rekindle their relationship on camera, Sebastian decides that drastic
measures are in order.
By day, Chelsea Hall is a happy-go-lucky, rough and tumble roller
derby skater. By night, she’s still living in fear of her past. Most of all,
she just doesn’t want to be alone. And she really, really doesn’t want
to date.
So when their mutual friends’ upcoming wedding turns Chelsea and
Sebastian into fast friends, they realize they can solve both of their
problems with one life-changing lie: a quick trip down the aisle.
But with one kiss, Chelsea and Sebastian suddenly realize that their
pretend relationship is more real than either of them expected…
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You may know part of the story already, but you only know what history
has passed along. The story of how Vashti, Queen of Queens, the
most beautiful woman in all the empire, defied the king, her husband,
and so lost her crown. The story of how Ahasuerus, King of Kings,
commanded that the most beautiful maidens be sent to his court so
he might choose a new queen. And you may know how he set the
queen’s crown upon the head of the virtuous and beautiful Esther, and
how Queen Esther herself defied both king and law to save her people
from a treacherous fate.
What India Edghill brings us in Game of Queens is the story of power
and treachery, blood and deception, bravery and romance that
surrounds the court of Ahasuerus and brings to life two of the most
celebrated female heroines in all of history.
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THE OFFER
Karina Halle
Karina Halle is the New
York Times, Wall Street
Journal and USA Today
Bestselling author of The
Pact, Love, in English, The
Artists Trilogy, Dirty Angels
and over 20 other wild and
romantic reads.
Territories Sold:
LUCK, LOVE & LEMON PIE
Amy E. Reichert
LUCK,
LOVE &
LEMON PIE
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Luck, Love & Lemon
Pie is a tasty treat that
will take readers on
an emotional journey
through love, poker
and self-discovery.
Hugo & Cie, France
June 2015 (North American)
Gallery/Simon & Schuster, 2016 (World English)
She thinks he’s an arrogant playboy. He thinks she’s an uptight prude.
But he’s about to make her an offer she can’t refuse.
MJ Boudreaux is sitting by herself in front of an anniversary pie and no
husband to share it with. She suspects he is cheating. All the signs are
there, late nights, mysterious names in his calendar, and an old flame
from his past back in the picture.
Nicola Price used to have it all – a great career, the perfect boyfriend,
an excessive shoe collection and an apartment in one of San Francisco’s
best neighborhoods. But when she gets knocked up and her a**hat
boyfriend leaves her, Nicola’s perfectly crafted world comes tumbling
down. And stays that way. Now, Nicola is the proud single mom to a
five-year old daughter and living a giant lie. She can barely afford their
ghetto apartment and all the men she dates run when they hear she
comes with a child. She’s struggling and scared – and nowhere near
where she thought she’d be at age thirty-one.
Her saving grace comes in the form of a tall, handsome and wealthy
Scotsman Bram McGregor, the older brother of her friend Linden. Bram
understands a thing or two about pride, so when tragic circumstances
place Nicola at rock bottom, he offers them a place to live in the
apartment complex he owns. It’s pretty much the perfect deal, as
long as she doesn’t mind living beside Bram, a man that, despite his
generosity, seems to antagonize her at every turn. But nothing in life
is free and as Nicola gets her feet back on the ground, she discovers
that the enigmatic playboy may end up costing her more than she
thought. She might just lose her heart. Those McGregor brothers are
nothing but trouble…
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MJ turns to poker as a means of escape and denial. And she’s not bad
at it. She signs up for a tournament - giving her life a sense of purpose
and distraction. But distraction it is and her marriage is in even worse
shape when the tournament rolls around.
To make matters worse, MJ’s mother, who always professed
independence, is googly-eyed over a new boyfriend and it appears
they’ll be headed down the aisle soon enough.
MJ’s poker takes her to Las Vegas where she rolls the dice on another
man. Someone takes a photo of them, unbeknownst to MJ, just as she
realizes her marriage might actually be worth saving.
Will she be able to save her marriage after the photo hits social media?
Is her husband really cheating with an old flame? Is it even worth the
effort at all?
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THE OUTLANDISH COMPANION
Volume 2
Diana Gabaldon
THE OFFICIAL OUTLANDER
COLORING BOOK
Bantam/Random House October 2015 (North American)
Featuring forty-five all-new illustrations!
Delacorte Press/Random House October 2015 (North American)
Written with Gabaldon’s signature wit and intelligence, this
compendium is bursting with generous commentary and juicy
insider Details. This is an invaluable book for all fans of the
#1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series which has sold
over 25 million copies in more than 30 languages and given rise
to the smash-hit Starz TV series.
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Territories Sold:
Doubleday, Canada
Droemer Knaur, Germany
Random House, UK & Commonwealth
Recorded Books (Audio), UK & Commonwealth
From the lush green of the Scottish Highlands to the military
red of a British soldier’s coat or the vibrant hues of a tartan
kilt, the colorful world of Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie
Fraser is now yours to explore. Featuring gorgeous natural
landscapes, detailed pictures of Claire’s medicinal herbs,
depictions of the books’ most beloved scenes and characters,
and intricately rendered clothing, weapons, and armor straight
out of eighteenth-century Scotland, these exquisite black-andwhite images—from renowned illustrators Juan Alarcón, Yvonne
Gilbert, Craig Phillips, Jon Proctor, Tomislav Tomić, and Rebecca
Zomchek—are designed to dazzle and inspire. Fans of the series,
as well as lovers of history and art, can party like it’s 1743.
Territories Sold:
Garzanti Libri, Italy
Doubleday, Canada
Droemer Knaur, Germany
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MEG: A NOVEL OF DEEP TERROR
Steve Alten
SOON TO
BE A MAJOR
MOVIE!
Warner Brothers
Developing
Eli Roth Directing
Releasing: Summer 2017
“JURASSIC SHARK!”
-L.A. Times
Viper Press, 2015 - Revised and Expanded Edition (North American)
Carcharodon Megalodon, apex predator of all time, the most fearsome
creature that ever lived, a 70-foot, 60,000 pound Great White Shark.
Hundreds of 7-inch-long serrated teeth filled jaws that could swallow
an elephant whole. It could sense its prey miles away, inhaling its scent
as it registered the beat of its fluttering heart, and if you ever came
close enough to see the monster...it was already too late.
For Navy deep-sea submersible pilot Jonas Taylor, it nearly was too
late. Years ago, on a top-secret dive seven miles down into the Mariana
Trench, Jonas came face to face with an ancient monster everyone
believed extinct. Having barely escaped with his life, Jonas must prove
to the world that Meg still exists. When an opportunity to return to the
trench presents itself, he takes it, intent on returning topside with a
7-inch tooth! But man’s presence in this unexplored domain releases
one of the sharks from its purgatory, and now Jonas is the only one
who can stop it.
THE GIRL WITHOUT A NAME
Sandra Block
“A psychological
suspense story
smartly narrated...
Zoe has a quick wit
that emerges in
wickedly unexpected
ways.” -New York
Times Book Review
Grand Central Publishing, September 2015 (North American)
In what passes for an ordinary day in a psych ward, Dr. Zoe Goldman
is stumped when a highly unusual case arrives. A young African
American girl, found wandering the streets of Buffalo in a catatonic
state, is brought in by police. No one has come forward to claim her,
and all leads have been exhausted, so Zoe’s treatment is the last hope
to discover the girl’s identity.
When drugs prove ineffective and medical science seems to be failing,
Zoe takes matters into her own hands to track down Jane Doe’s family
and piece together their checkered history. As she unearths their
secrets, she finds that monsters hide where they are least expected.
And now she must solve the mystery before it is too late. Because
someone wants to make sure this young girl never remembers.
The Girl Without a Name is a powerful novel of memory and forgetting,
of unexpected friendship and understanding...and of the secrets we
protect no matter the consequences.
Territories Sold:
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Cartaphilus, Hungary
Penguin Random House, Latin America
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THE JUDAS GAME
Ethan Cross
SHINE LIKE SCARS
Nina Laurin
SHINE
LIKE
SCARS
Cover Coming Soon
Territories Sold:
Luebbe, Germany
The Story Plant, 2016 (North American)
When a correctional officer climbs to the top of his watchtower and
opens fire on the inmates and guards, federal investigator Marcus
Williams and serial killer Francis Ackerman Jr. must join forces again
to unearth the truth behind the incident. What they find is a serial
killer using the prison as his hunting grounds. But the Judas Killer’s
ambitions don’t end with a few murders. He wants to go down in
history and has no reason left to live.
With Ackerman undercover among the inmates and Marcus tracking
down the mastermind on the outside, the team must learn the identity
of the Judas Killer and stop a full-scale uprising that he’s orchestrated.
But the more they learn about what’s happening at the prison and why;
the more enemies they must face. From inside the overrun facility,
Marcus and Ackerman must save the hostages and stop an elaborate
escape attempt while trying to determine how a rival corporation, the
leader of one of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations,
and an inmate with no identity only known as Demon fit into the Judas
Killer’s plans.
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Territories Sold:
Droemer, Germany
A debut
psychological
thriller that
reads like a
dangerous
cocktail with
equal parts
Gillian Flynn,
Chelsea Cain,
and Paula
Hawkins, with
a dash of Sara
Gran.
Lainey Moreno shouldn’t be alive.
Kidnapped when she was ten, found
wandering along a highway at fourteen,
pregnant and remembering nothing of
her ordeal.
Ten years later her captor remains free
and Lainey hasn’t seen her child since
she gave her up for adoption. She floats
through life in a pill-induced haze, just
trying to get through each day. But when
she sees a younger version of herself
staring out from a Missing Persons poster,
she can no longer hide in her carefully
constructed world of denial. Ten-year-old
Olivia Shaw looks uncannily like Lainey-so much so, that she could even be her
daughter. The detective on the Olivia
Shaw case is Gael Ortiz, the same cop
who found Lainey wandering down a
highway ten years ago. He’s not above
ruthlessly manipulating her to make
her cooperate, even if it endangers her
already fragile mental state.
But Lainey’s demons aren’t the only
things threatening to resurface: someone
is stalking her, someone who will go to
any length to make sure no one finds
Olivia Shaw.
To save her daughter, Lainey must dig
into her own disappearance. As she
delves into her long-buried memories,
she finds herself questioning everything
about her life. With Olivia’s life—and her
own sanity—on the line, Lainey must face
the terrifying truth… even if it pushes her
over the edge.
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Robert Ludlum’s
THE BOURNE ENIGMA
Written by Eric Van Lustbader
A New Bourne Film
Releasing: July 29, 2016
Starring:
Matt Damon & Jeremy Renner
Director: Paul Greengrass (The Bourne
Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum)
Grand Central Publishing, 2016
THE
BOURNE
ENIGMA
Jason Bourne is one of the most popular and compelling
characters in contemporary fiction. The Bourne franchise has
grossed over a billion dollars. The character is set to explode
even further with the next film release starring both Matt
Damon and Jeremy Renner.
Cover Coming Soon
Territories Sold:
Heyne Verlag
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THE BONE LABYRINTH
A Sigma Force Novel
James Rollins
James Rollins
Sigma Force
series has been
translated into
more than 35
languages and
sold over 15
million copies.
NE
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Territories Sold:
Nord, Italy
Eksmo, Russia
Bertrand, Portugal
BB Art, Czech Republic
Wydawnictwo Albatros, Poland
William Morrow/HarperCollins, December 2015 (World English)
A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests
of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to
reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will
leave readers changed forever . . .
In this groundbreaking masterpiece of ingenuity and intrigue that
spans 50,000 years in human history, New York Times bestselling
author James Rollins takes us to mankind’s next great leap.
But will it mark a new chapter in our development . . . or our extinction?
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THE FALLEN
A Testament Novel
Eric Van Lustbader
The Testament was published in 16 languages
Tor/Forge Books, 2016
Head of Zeus, 2016 (UK & Commonwealth)
In a hidden cave in the mountains of
Lebanon, a man makes a fateful discovery.
He has been chosen to be the carrier,
to bring what has been forbidden for
thousands of years out of the darkness and
into the light: the Testament of Lucifer.
In Istanbul, Bravo Shaw, head of the
Gnostic Observatine sect, is being warned
by his ageless confessor, Fra Leoni, of
a battle most ancient: the war between
Good and Evil, waged to a standstill
since time immemorial. Now something
material has altered the balance of the
war. An unfathomable danger has arisen:
Lucifer’s advance guard, the Fallen. All of
humankind is in imminent danger of being
enslaved by the forces of evil.
Bravo, Fra Leoni, and Bravo’s blind, brilliant
sister, Emma, are the first and last line of
defense against the chaos unleashed by
the Testament of Lucifer. But without the
help of Ayla Tusik they will fail. When Ayla’s
parents, Turkish friends of Bravo’s, are
cruelly murdered, Ayla must decide to help
or hinder them. Who is she really? More
to the point, what is she? Bravo will have
to unravel that puzzle if he is to have any
chance of holding the line against the high
minions of the devil. All roads lead to the
Book of Deathly Things: the Testament of
Lucifer. But if he and Emma become privy
to its dreadful secrets they very might well
forfeit far more than just their lives.
THE
FALLEN
Cover Coming Soon
Eric Van Lustbader
has crafted the first
book in a trilogy that
explores today’s radical
views on religion,
politics, civilization,
that plumbs the depths
of morality, that, finally,
asks us to consider
what it really means to
be human.
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DEPARTURE
A.G. Riddle
• 20th Century Fox optioned the
filmrightsina6figuredeal.
• HarperVoyager acquired the rights
ina7figuredeal.
• Over 250,000 copies sold in
pre-orders.
Territories Sold:
Eksmo, Russia
Znanje, Croatia
Motyl, Slovak Republic
Twister Media, Hungary
Heyne Verlag, Germany
Burda Publishing, Poland
Audible (Audio), World English
Albatros Media, Czech Republic
Author of the million copy bestselling
Origin Mystery trilogy, sold in 20
languages and optioned to CBS Films.
HarperVoyager, October 2015 (World English)
En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses
power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a
group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have
repercussions for all of humankind.
Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the world
they’ve crashed in is very different from the one they left. But
where are they? Why are they here? And how will they get back
home?
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OMEGA CANYON
Dan Simmons
OMEGA
CANYON
Cover Coming Soon
A brand new
thriller from the
award-winning
and New York
Times bestselling
author.
ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY
Charlie Jane Anders
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Little Brown Book Group, Spring 2016 (North American)
In Dan Simmons’ nailbiting new World War II thriller, two Austrianborn brothers are plunged into the nuclear race, one to produce the
first atomic bombs, the other to prevent the Germans from producing
them.
Paul Haber, a brilliant physicist, has escaped the Nazis’ clutches,
migrated to America and been cleared to work on the Manhattan
Project. As Los Alamos scientists prepare to test the first plutonium
bomb, Haber learns that the wife and child he thought were dead are
alive and in German custody. Will he succumb to the temptation to
trade atomic secrets to rescue his loved ones? The answer is in the
coded communications that Haber and his brother Erik, now living in
England, have used since childhood.
While Paul struggles with his conscience on the eve of the most fearful
explosion in the history of human warfare, Erik undertakes an incredibly
daring mission to thwart the Germans’ atomic initiative. All these
elements will climax 100 feet above the desert wastes of Alamogordo,
New Mexico during a wild lightning storm just before dawn – fifteen
minutes before the Trinity plutonium bomb is detonated.
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Territories Sold:
Tor-Fischer, Germany
Titan Books, UK & Commonwealth
Tor Books, January 2016 (North American)
From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of
the world--and the beginning of our future
Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn’t
expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious
circumstances during middle school. After all, the development of
magical powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could
hardly fail to alarm one’s peers and families.
But now they’re both adults, and the planet is falling apart around them.
Laurence is an engineering genius, working with a group that aims to
avert catastrophic breakdown. Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the
hidden academy for the world’s magically gifted, and works to secretly
repair the world’s ever-growing ailments. Something begun years ago
in their youth, is determined to bring them together--to either save the
world, or plunge it into a new dark ages.
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THE SPIDER’S WAR
THe Dagger and the Coin
Daniel Abraham
Orbit/Hachette, March 2016 (World English)
The epic conclusion to The Dagger and The
Coin series, perfect for fans of
George R.R. Martin.
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.
Territories Sold:
AST, Russia
Fantasy Foundation, Taiwan
Previous novels in the series sold in more than 10 countries
“Everything I look for in a fantasy.”
-George R.R. Martin on The Dragon’s Path
“Abraham builds on The Dragon’s Path to create
and sustain a rich, satisfyingly complex epic
fantasy.”
-Publishers Weekly on The King’s Blood.
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CITY OF LIGHT
An Outcast Novel
Keri Arthur
Thefirstinanallnew futuristic
fantasy series from
Keri Arthur—the
New York Times
bestselling author
of the Souls of Fire
novels.
Signet/Penguin, January 2016 (World English)
When the bombs that stopped the species war tore holes in the veil
between this world and the next, they allowed entry to the Others—
demons, wraiths, and death spirits who turned the shadows into their
hunting grounds. Now, a hundred years later, humans and shifters
alike live in artificially lit cities designed to keep the darkness at bay....
As a déchet—a breed of humanoid super-soldiers almost eradicated
by the war—Tiger has spent her life in hiding. But when she risks her
life to save a little girl on the outskirts of Central City, she discovers
that the child is one of many abducted in broad daylight by a wraithlike being—an impossibility with dangerous implications for everyone
on earth.
Because if the light is no longer enough to protect them, nowhere is
safe...
Award-winning author of more than twenty-eight novels.
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TWELVE KINGS
Bradley P. Beaulieu
An epic new
fantasy series
of mystery,
prophecy and
death within the
ancient walled
city of the
Twelve Kings
DAW/Penguin, September 2015 (North American)
Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture,
has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings -- cruel, ruthless,
powerful, and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their elite
ompany of Blade Maidens and their holy defenders, the terrifying asirim,
the Kings uphold their positions as undisputed, invincible lords of the
desert. There is no hope of freedom for any under their rule.
Or so it seems, until Çeda, a brave young woman from the west end
slums, defies the Kings’ laws by going outside on the holy night of Beht
Zha’ir. What she learns that night sets her on a path that winds through
both the terrible truths of the Kings’ mysterious history and the hidden
riddles of her own heritage. Together, these secrets could finally break
the iron grip of the Kings’ power...if the nigh-omnipotent Kings don’t
find her first.
Territories Sold:
Bragelonne, France
Droemer Knaur, Germany
Gollancz/Hachette, UK & Commonwealth
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TIME SALVAGER
Wesley Chu
Winner of the
John W. Campbell
Award for Best New
Writer
UTOPIA
Cory Doctorow
UTOPIA
Territories Sold:
AST, Russia
Nautilus, Taiwan
Nova Press, Israel
Heyne Verlag, Germany
Agave Konyvek, Hungary
Cover Coming Soon
What happens when
technology finally
makes it possible to
move beyond scarcity
to a world when
everyone has enough?
Tor Books, July 2015 (World English)
Convicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no one’s hero. In his time, Earth is a
toxic, abandoned world and humans have fled into the outer solar system to
survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and
their moons. Those responsible for delaying humanity’s demise believe time
travel holds the key, and they have identified James, troubled though he is,
as one of a select and expendable few ideally suited for the most dangerous
job in history.
Tor Books, 2017 (North American)
James is a chronman, undertaking missions into Earth’s past to recover
resources and treasure without altering the timeline. The laws governing use
of time travel are absolute; break any one of them and, one way or another,
your life is over. Most chronmen never reach old age; the stress of each jump
through time, compounded by the risk to themselves and to the future, means
that many chronmen rapidly reach their breaking point, and James GriffinMars is nearing his.
Our characters – Seth, Iceweasel, Limpopo, a man named Etcetera, and
many other colorful rebels – walk away from default society and start a
new, communal way of life based on revolutionary technologies.
On a final mission that is to secure his retirement, James meets Elise Kim,
an intriguing scientist from a previous century, who is fated to die during the
destruction of an oceanic rig. Against his training and his common sense,
and in violation of the chronmen’s highest law, James brings Elise 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, somehow finding allies, and perhaps discovering what hope may yet
remain for humanity’s home world.
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In his first adult novel since 2009, New York Times bestselling novelist
and technology guru Cory Doctorow creates an epic adventure about a
future just around the corner, a revolution bigger than the one 10,000
years ago when agricultural civilization was born.
But default society is having none of it. Iceweasel is kidnapped by her
wealthy father in a storyline that delves deeply into the flaws of a society
based on scarcity. Limpopo is kidnapped and sent to prison because of
her power within the movement. Seth pairs up with Tam, a transsexual
woman, whose need for freedom and universal respect in walkaway
society is explored in an emotionally moving storyline.
In a shocking epilogue, the characters make the ultimate transition to an
immortal state, eliminating scarcity forever.
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NEMESIS GAMES
The Expanse
James S.A. Corey
Now an Original TV
series!
Orbit/Hachette, June 2016
(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.
Series Sold:
Goukr, China
Ithaki, Turkey
Fanucci, Italy
Laguna, Serbia
Hayakawa, Japan
Actes-Sud, France
Editora Aleph, Brazil
Fumax Kft., Hungary
Fabryka Slow, Poland
Triton, Czech Republic
Naeappeseoda, Korea
Heyne Verlag, Germany
Grupul Editorial Art, Romania
Luitingh Sijthoff, The Netherlands
Science Fiction Book Club, Ukraine
SC Voyager Premium Books, Russia
Coming December
2015
Airing on SyFy
10 Episode First Season
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WARHEART
Terry Goodkind
THE DRAFTER
The Peri Reed Chronicles
Kim Harrison
#1 New York Times
Bestselling Author!
Brand New Trilogy
Territories Sold:
Bragelonne, France
Heyne Verlag, Germany
Piatkus/Little Brown, UK & Commonwealth
Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, September 2015 (North American)
UK Cover US Cover
Tor Books, November 2015 (North American)
Soulmates, pawns of prophecy and inheritors of an ancient conflict,
Richard and Kahlan’s destinies have been bound together since their
first encounter in Wizard’s First Rule. But now Richard lies on a funeral
bier - suspended between the worlds of life and death and Kahlan faces
her greatest challenge. She must fight for Richard’s very existence, and
Richard, trapped in the underworld, must fight to keep the world of life
from ending. Desperate sacrifices are required.
This is the final battle in a war three-millennia old, a war that saw the
Sword of Truth forged, a war that could mean the end, not only of their
lives, but of their world.
Territories Sold:
Rebis, Poland
Bragelonne, France
Classic, Czech Republic
Luitingh Sijthoff, The Netherlands
Head of Zeus, UK & Commonwealth
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In the first explosive book in the Peri Reed Chronicles, Kim Harrison,
#1 New York Times bestselling author of the Hollows series, blazes
a new frontier with an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will keep you
guessing until the very end.
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. Her motto has always
been only to kill those who kill her first. But with nothing but intuition
to guide her, will she have to break her own rule to survive?
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THE PAPER MENAGERIE
THE TOWER OF THORNS
Ken Liu
Juliet Marillier
A Blackthorn & Grim Novel
AND OTHER STORIES
A publishing event:
Bestselling author Ken
Liu selects his awardwinning science fiction
and fantasy tales for
a groundbreaking
collection—including
a brand-new piece
exclusive to this volume.
Boo
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Tril
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Territories Sold:
Pan Macmillan, Australia
Planeta Manuscrito, Portugal
Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, March 2016 (World English)
With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world
by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper
Menagerie. This mesmerizing collection features all of Ken’s awardwinning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended
History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore
Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The
Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select
Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon award finalists), “All the Flavors”
(Nebula award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King”
(Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s
history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to win the Hugo,
Nebula, and World Fantasy awards).
A must-have for every science fiction and fantasy fan, this beautiful
book is an anthology to savor.
Not Available for Exclusive License:
Italy, Japan, France, China, Czech Republic
TERRITORIES SOLD:
Head of Zeus, UK & Commonwealth
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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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MEDUSA’S WEB
Tim Powers
From the award-winning author of Hide Me Among
the Graves, Last Call, Declare, and Three Days to
Never, a phantasmagoric, thrilling, mind-bending tale
of speculative fiction in which one man must uncover
occult secrets of 1920s Hollywood to save his family.
William Morrow/HarperCollins,
January 2016 (North American)
In the wake of their Aunt Amity’s
suicide, Scott and Madeline
Madden are summoned to Caveat,
the eerie, decaying mansion in the
Hollywood hills in which they were
raised. But their decadent and
reclusive cousins, the malicious
wheelchair-bound Claimayne and
his sister, Ariel, do not welcome
Scott and Madeline’s return to the
childhood home they once shared.
While Scott desperately wants to
go back to their shabby Southof-Sunset lives, he cannot pry
his sister away from this haunted
“House of Usher in the Hollywood
Hills” that is a conduit for the
supernatural.
Decorated by bits salvaged from old hotels and movie sets, Caveat hides a
dark family secret that stretches back to the golden days of Rudolph Valentino
and the silent film stars. A collection of hypnotic eight-limbed abstract images
inked on paper allows the Maddens to briefly fragment and flatten time—to
transport themselves into the past and future in visions that are both puzzling
and terrifying. Though their cousins know little about these ancient “spiders”
which provoke unpredictable temporal dislocations, Ariel and Claimayne have
been using for years—an addiction that has brought Claimayne to the brink of
selfish destruction.
As Madeline falls more completely under Caveat’s spell, Scott discovers that
to protect her, he must use the perilous spiders himself. But will he unravel
the mystery of the Madden family’s past and finally free them. . . or be pulled
deeper into their deadly web?
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A GATHERING OF SHADOWS
V.E. Schwab
STEP INTO A UNIVERSE
OF DARING ADVENTURE,
THRILLING POWER, AND
MULTIPLE LONDONS.
Territories Sold:
Record, Brazil
Tor-Fischer, Germany
Chongqing Tianjian, China
Tor Books, February 2016 (World English)
Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell’s
possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four
months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone
was cast with Holland’s dying body through the rift, and into Black
London.
Things have almost returned to normal. Restless, and having given up
smuggling, Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking
only to think of Lila, who disappeared from the docks like she always
meant to do. As Red London finalizes preparations for the Element
Games-an extravagant international competition of magic, meant to
keep healthy the ties between neighboring countries-a certain pirate
ship draws closer, carrying old friends back into port.
But while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of
the Games, another London is coming back to life, and those who
were thought to be forever gone have returned. After all, a shadow
that was gone in the night reappears in the morning, and so it seems
Black London has risen again-and so to keep magic’s balance, another
London must fall.
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SON OF SEVEN
The Silent Gods, a Tetralogy, Book 1
Justin Travis
A major new epic fantasy
series with over half a million in
advances since initial submission
this past summer (2015).
HarperVoyager, 2016 (UK & Commonwealth)
We all know the beats of a traditional epic fantasy bildungsroman—a
young boy, orphaned through tragic circumstances and raised by a
wise old man, discovers his magic and place at the center of a worldaltering struggle between good and evil. As he first fights and then
accepts his role as savior, he faces many tests until finally he confronts
the evil that threatens everything he holds dear. But what if the boy
hero and the malevolence threatening the world are one and the
same? What if he slowly comes to realize that he is the reincarnation of
an evil god? Would he save the world or destroy it?
This is the central conceit of Son of Seven, the opening salvo in an epic
fantasy series that will some day rank right alongside Robert Jordan’s
Wheel of Time, Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth, and David Edding’s
Belgariad as classics of the genre. Travis has worked for more than
ten years building the history and mythology for his world, creating a
believable and authentic setting for his characters to inhabit.
Territories Sold:
Luitingh Sijthoff, The Netherlands
Blanvalet/Random House, Germany
HarperVoyager, UK & Commonwealth
A graduate of Harvard University in 2012 with a
master’s degree in Literature and Creative Writing,
Justin Travis is the President of Broomstick Monkey
Games, a tabletop board game company that
caters to hobby gamers.
Maps detailing the setting.
This is Mr. Call’s first novel in a planned tetralogy
that has potential to grow. His grandest concept
encompasses story material for as many as sixteen
books (four tetralogies).
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RADIANCE
Catherynne M. Valente
THE DEBRA JEAN MILKE STORY
Jana Bommersbach
Told using techniques from
reality TV, classic film, gossip
magazines, and meta-fictional
narrative, Radiance is a solar
system-spanning story of
love, exploration, family, loss,
quantum physics, and silent
film.
Territories Sold:
Artemis, Turkey
Corsair, UK & Commonwealth
Tor Books, October 2015 (North American)
Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set
in a Hollywood-and solar system-very different from our own, from
Catherynne M. Valente, the phenomenal talent behind the New York
Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship
of Her Own Making.
Severin Unck’s father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an
alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due
to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father’s
films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts
making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the
levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. For this
is not our solar system, but one drawn from classic science fiction in
which all the planets are inhabited and we travel through space on
beautiful rockets. Severin is a realist in a fantastic universe.
But her latest film, which investigates the disappearance of a diving
colony on a watery Venus populated by island-sized alien creatures,
will be her last. Though her crew limps home to earth and her story is
preserved by the colony’s last survivor, Severin will never return.
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“I always believed this day
would come. I just didn’t
think it would have to take
25 years, 3 months and 14
days to rectify such a blatant
miscarriage of justice.”
-Debra Jean Milke
Debra Jean Milke
Territories Sold:
Droemer Knaur, Germany
Debra Jean Milke is the second woman to ever walk off Death Row.
This is the true story of what really happened in one of the most
notorious crimes in the nation—the inside, investigative and personal
story of a woman convicted of having her four year-old son murdered
in December of 1989 when he thought he was going to see Santa
Claus.
Jana Bommersbach’s two-year investigation has uncovered shocking
documents, details and insiders that clearly show Debra Milke is an
innocent woman.
Bommersbach was granted unprecedented access to Debra, her
family, her fiance, her champions and her legal team. She has turned
over 24 years worth off personal letters, journals and essays from
prison—a treasure trove of her thoughts, her dreams, her crushing
disappointments and her continuing faith that someday they’d see the
truth. She has sat for a dozen interviews, both in prison and out, to
reveal her life story and how she ended up on death row.
This is not only a stunning story of injustice; it’s an astonishing story of
courage and perseverance in the face of overwhelming odds. And a
story that proves love can move mountains.
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AND YET...:ESSAYS
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher
Hitchens
was named one of
the world’s “Top 100
Public Intellectuals” by
Foreign Policy and the
UK’s Prospect. This is
a brand new collection
showcasing his genius.
COLORING BOOKS!
Jenean Morrison
Relax and explore your creative side with
Jenean Morrison’s best-selling coloring books
for adults.
Territories Sold:
Globo, Brazil
Atlantic Books, United Kingdom
Allen & Unwin, Australia & New Zealand
Simon & Schuster, November 2015 (North American)
These seminal, uncollected essays by the late Christopher Hitchens,
author of the #1 New York Times bestseller god is not Great, showcase
the notorious contrarian’s genius for rhetoric, and offer sharp rebukes
to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere.
Christopher Hitchens was arguably the most erudite, provocative, and
polarizing writers of the last twenty-five years. When he passed away
in 2011 from esophageal cancer, writers, readers, pundits, and critics
around the world mourned his loss.
This collection of essays brings together some of the finest pieces
Hitchens published over the last two decades for the first time in one
book, addressing with characteristic wit and erudition the subjects
he is best known for, including: the case against God, faith and
religious observance; the case for intervention in Iraq; indictments of
towering political figures like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, and
Henry Kissinger; and celebrations of the writers and thinkers whose
work meant most to him, from Saul Bellow, George Orwell, Thomas
Jefferson, and Thomas Paine, to his dear friends Martin Amis and
Salman Rushdie, among others.
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Territories Sold:
Edipro, Brazil
Pegasus, Turkey
Marabout, France
Agnieszka, Poland
Ikar, Slovak Republic
Newton Compton, Italy
Kanki Publishing, Japan
Euromedia, Czech Republic
Test Pattern Press, 2014-2015
Graphic Designer Jenean Morrison’s coloring books have sold over
30,000 copies in the US, and been in the top 100 books overall for
over 8 weeks, peaking at number 16. She’s licensed her work to Solo,
Fischer-Price, SIGG water bottles, and her designs have been featured
on gift wrap in Target.
Morrison has been designing and publishing her best-selling coloring
books for grown-ups since 2012. She is an established and successful
artist in the newly burgeoning coloring books for adults genre.
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EXTREME YOU:
Bring All of You to All You Do
Sarah Robb O’Hagan
EXTREME
YOU
Cover Coming Soon
Overcome the
odds with a
unique approach
to reaching your
personal best in all
areas of your life.
Territories Sold:
Piatkus/Little Brown, UK & Commonwealth
HarperBusiness, 2017 (North American)
Sarah Robb O’Hagan has earned a potent reputation as a re-inventor
of brands at Gatorade, Virgin and Nike, and as a “workout queen”
who brings an athlete’s mindset to business problems. Sarah has been
named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business and
Ad Age’s Women to Watch. She is a three-time recipient of Sports
Business Journal’s 40 under 40 award. Forbes has recognized her as
one of the Most Powerful Women in Sports. Today, she is president
of Equinox, the world’s premier fitness lifestyle company, named by
Fast Company as one of 2015’s Most Innovative Companies in Fitness.
In Extreme You, Sarah will reveal how she overcame the odds with a
unique approach to reaching your personal best in all areas of your
life. Extreme You offers a lifelong method for succeeding by being
true to yourself and your special gifts. As Sarah explains, “Playing the
game your way, full steam ahead, means that you have a much greater
chance to live your full self at work and at home. That’s a whole lot
more fun and more satisfying than pretending to be something you’re
not.”
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PLATFORM REVOLUTION:
How Networked Markets Are Transforming the
Economy - and How to Make Them Work for You
Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne
& Sangeet Paul Choudary
An inside look at the revolutionary business
power of the platform - from the experts
who helped discover how it works.
W.W. Norton & Company, February 2016
(World English)
Facebook, PayPal, Alibaba, Uber –these
seemingly disparate companies have
upended entire industries by harnessing
a single phenomenon: the platform
business model. Platform Revolution
delivers the first comprehensive analysis
of how platforms use technology to match
producers and consumers in a multisided
marketplace, unlocking hidden resources
and creating new forms of value. When
a company like Uber connects drivers
with passengers, everybody wins– except
traditional cab companies, which are
scrambling to survive. Assumptions
about operations, finance, strategy, and
innovation all change. Platform Revolution
explores the what, how, and why of
this revolution and provides the first
“owner’s manual” for creating a platform
marketplace. Revealing the strategies
behind some of today’s rising platforms,
the authors explain how entrepreneurs–
and traditional companies – can thrive
in this new world. In cases as diverse
as shoes, spices, dating, energy, home
appliances, and education, Platform
Revolution provides the essential guide
to unlocking the potential of an economic
landscape transformed.
Territories Sold:
Bookie Publishing, Korea
Commonwealth
Publishing, Taiwan
Beijing Huazhang
Graphic & Information,
China
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THE ART OF TREND TRADING:
Animal Spirits and Your Path to Profits
Michael Parness
This book shows you how to:
• Follow the author’s journey from
homelessness to millionaire
• Identify and understand your
own strengths and weaknesses
• Develop your instinct alongside
your strategy
• Take a lesson from traders
making consistent money
Territories Sold:
China Remnin University Press, China
Wiley, November 2015 (World English)
The Art of Trend Trading bucks the trend of technicality to show
readers how instinct and strategy can unite to bring about consistent
investment success. Rather than diving ever-deeper into the overdone
world of complicated modeling and forecasting techniques, trader,
CEO, and bestselling author Michael Parness explains how making
intuition a part of your investment strategy tends to result in more
long-term profit. Using animal spirits as a metaphor and tool, Parness
helps readers understand how their natural tendencies may run
counter to their strategy, and how this dichotomy may be the shackle
holding them back from true market success. Readers will learn how
this perspective lifted Parness from homelessness to making millions
in both Bull and Bear markets, and will start developing their own
market instinct as they refine and tune into their own natural intuition.
Over the years, Parness has observed that the best traders – those
who consistently make money – are the ones that use instinct and
intuition, as well as strategy. This book shows you how to identify the
natural trader within, and use your gut to inform an ever-evolving
investment plan.
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A CANCER IN THE FAMILY
Theodora Ross, MD, PhD
Ross is a leading
researcher on cancer
susceptibility genes, as
well as a practitioner who
specialized in treating
breast cancer for more
than a decade and now
cares for all types of
patients who have a
family history of cancer.
Avery/Penguin, February 2016 (World English)
Oncologist and cancer gene hunter Theo Ross delivers the first
authoritative, go-to for people facing a genetic predisposition for
cancer
There are 13 million people with cancer in the United States, and it’s
estimated that about 1.3 million of these cases are hereditary. Yet despite
advanced training in cancer genetics and years of practicing medicine,
Dr. Theo Ross was never certain whether the history of cancers in her
family was simple bad luck or a sign that they were carriers of a cancercausing genetic mutation. Then she was diagnosed with melanoma,
and for someone with a dark complexion, melanoma made no sense. It
turned out there was a genetic factor at work.
Using her own family’s story, the latest science of cancer genetics, and
her experience as a practicing physician, Ross shows readers how to spot
the patterns of inherited cancer, how to get tested for cancer-causing
genes, and what to do if you have one. With a foreword by Siddartha
Mukherjee, prize winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, this
will be the first authoritative, go-to for people facing inherited cancer,
this book empowers readers to face their genetic heritage without fear
and to make decisions that will keep them and their families healthy.
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THE BETTENCOURT AFFAIR
Tom Sancton
The Bettencourt Affair
is part courtroom drama,
part upstairs-downstairs
tale,
part
business
narrative of a glamorous
global company with
a Nazi past, and part
character-driven story of
a complex family.
Liliane Bettencourt
SELF-REG:
How to help your child (and you) break the
stress cycle and successfully engage with life
Stuart Shanker
Territories Sold:
Rocco, Brazil
Penguin, Canada
Spectrum, The Netherlands
The Business Book Co., Korea
Mosaik/Random House, Germany
Commonwealth Publishing, Taiwan
Huazhang Graphics & Information, China
Yellow Kite/Hodder, UK & Commonwealth
SELFREG
Cover Coming Soon
Dutton/Penguin, 2016/2017 (World English)
Liliane Bettencourt, the wealthiest woman in the world and tenth richest
person in the world, has lived a charmed life. As the head of her family’s
beauty company, l’Oréal, she earns over a million dollars in dividends
every single day. In The Bettencourt Affair former Paris Bureau Chief
of Time magazine and New York Times bestselling author Tom Sancton
chronicles Europe’s biggest scandal in years.
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers files a lawsuit in French court in
2007, alleging that artist and society favorite François-Marie Banier
manipulated the aging Liliane into gifting him over a billion dollars
in money, art, and real estate. The lawsuit unleashes a scandal of
enormous proportions, reaching back in time to l’Oreal’s dark WWIIera history and forward in time to threaten the future presidential run of
former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
While so much of this story takes place among the rarely accessible
lives of the very rich, it remains, as Tom Sancton writes, “a profoundly
human story of a once beautiful and powerful woman confronted with
old age and mortality—the ultimate leveller.” Perhaps the rich aren’t so
different from us after all.
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Penguin Press, June 2016 (North American)
The generation of children now embarking on life and entering school
is facing almost unimaginable stress. Most parents are at a complete
loss as to what they can do about the rising tide of stress that is
engulfing young people, but Shanker has a remarkable answer for them.
Understanding self-regulation and teaching a child or even teenager to
master it, he argues, can rescue every child. Every single one.
Experts in various disciplines have been researching aspects of selfregulation for two decades or more, but Shanker is the first person
in a position to put this work all together. His program would train
children (and their parents) in how to self-regulate and for the first time
ever would measure the outcome of this training in the changing brain
activity of the extremely stressed children. This approach to change
could rescue a generation. Ontario was the first to adopt his ideas,
making it the basis of a billion-dollar preschool program; since that
launch the ideas are spreading globally. Now he’s beginning the
third phase of his endeavor: bringing the groundbreaking research to
parents.
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HOW STAR WARS
CONQUERED THE UNIVERSE
Chris Taylor
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Znak, Poland
Multiplayer, Italy
Editora Aleph, Brazil
Global Group, Taiwan
Heyne Verlag, Germany
Publication Laboratory, Japan
Head of Zeus, UK & Commonwealth
The Past,
Present, and Future
of a Multibillion
Dollar Franchise
Basic Books, October 2015 (Trade Edition Release) (North American)
In How Star Wars Conquered the Universe, veteran journalist Chris
Taylor traces the series from the difficult birth of the original film through
its sequels, the franchise’s death and rebirth, the prequels, and the
preparations for a new trilogy. Providing portraits of the friends, writers,
artists, producers, and marketers who labored behind the scenes to
turn Lucas’s idea into a legend, Taylor also jousts with modern-day Jedi,
tinkers with droid builders, and gets inside Boba Fett’s helmet, all to
find out how Star Wars has attracted and inspired so many fans for so
long.
An energetic, fast-moving account of this creative and commercial
phenomenon, How Star Wars Conquered the Universe explains how
a young filmmaker’s fragile dream beat out a surprising number of
rivals to gain a diehard, multigenerational fan base—and why it will
be galvanizing our imaginations and minting money for generations to
come.
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