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FOUNDRY L I T E R A R Y + M E D I A

London BOOKFAIR 2017FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE

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FictionSEA OF RUST

C. Robert CargillHarperCollinsDel: April 2017Pub: September 2017Agent: Peter McGuiganForeign Sales:UK: Orion BooksForeign Sales for Previous Titles:Brazil: DarkSide Books; Spain: Alianza/Anaya Group; Taiwan: Doing Publishing; UK: Orion Books

Thirty years since the humans lost their war with artificial intelligence, two massively powerful supercomputers that led the robots to victory vie for control of the bots that remain. The remaining robots wander wastelands that were once warzones, picking the carcasses of the lost for the dwindling supply of parts they need to survive. Brittle, a nurse-robot, spends his days in the harshest of the wastelands, known as the Sea of Rust, cannibalizing robots only hours away from total shutdown, looking for parts to trade for those he needs to keep going. As he and a ragtag group of rebellious robots plunge deeper into the Sea, Brittle’s ailing processors begin to fail, causing him to lose his grip on reality, acting more and more human as he fades – memories and present day mixing together as he slowly shuts down. Everything he’s ever known comes into question as he examines his life and the war that forged him into the cunning survivor that he is – but now bigger questions plague him, questions about what it’s all about, and he’s forced to wonder if maybe the humans had things right.

C. Robert Cargill is the screenwriter of the Sinister movies, as well as several other projects currently in various stages of production. He wrote for Ain’t It Cool News for nearly a decade under the pseudonym Massawyrm, served as a staff writer for Film.com and Hollywood.com, and appeared as the animated character Carlyle on Spill.com. He is the author of Dreams and Shadows and Queen of the Dark Things.

HER MOTHER’S DAUGHTERMiriam Foley

Allen + UnwinDel: June 2017Pub: May 2018Agent: Adriann Ranta Zurhellen

Aisling is ten and a master of the daily negotiations that keep her mother happy. Mummy likes it when she helps, when she doesn’t squabble with her little sister, when she tells Mummy how beautiful she is. But her mother is mercurial and a slip-up means a bruising pinch or losing Mummy to rages or depressive episodes where she doesn’t leave her room. Colleen immigrated to London from Glosh, Ireland, when she was young, immediately falling in love with a handsome, kind man with whom she has two beautiful daughters. She never wants to go back to Glosh. It’s haunted by terrible memories that threaten to poison the perfect life she’s always wanted. When Colleen hears that her mother is dying, she finally gathers her family for a trip back home, but


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no one understands why Colleen dreads it so much, or why the trip triggers her worst depressive episode yet. What follows is a dark psychological tale set in Ireland and England in the 1970s and 1990s in the alternating perspectives of a damaged woman and her daughter, as the trauma of the past and the hope of the present interweave and finally begin to unravel.

Miriam Foley is a writer for HELLO! magazine. Her work has appeared in HelloGiggles, The Irish Literary Review, Ducts, Litro Magazine, The Rusty Nail, Three Monkeys Online Magazine, and When Women Waken. She is a Londoner of Irish parents, and this novel is inspired by true events.

PROOF OF PROVIDENCESarah McCoy

Michel LafonDeliveredPub: May 2017Agent: Mollie GlickForeign Sales for Previous Titles:Czech Republic: Fortuna Libri; Italy: Nord; Latvia: JLV; Netherlands: Meulenhoff; Poland: Swiat Ksiazki and Weltbild; Russia: Phantom Press; and Slovakia: Fortuna Libri

Hallie Erminie Rives is a romantic with only one goal—and to her wealthy Southern family’s chagrin, it isn’t to land a husband. Since childhood, she has dreamed of making it as an author. With one scandalous bestseller under her belt, she travels to New York City to realize her dream. Older, wiser, and ten times more cynical, Post Wheeler is known for his love song to the single life, Reflections of a Bachelor. The two start off as rivals, but develop an unlikely friendship, built on their mutual affection for the written word. When Post suddenly leaves New York for the wilds of Alaska, Hallie is left behind to confront her feelings alone. Determined to prove herself a true artist, Hallie buries her first novel, and hunkers down to write a book that will make even her erstwhile detractor proud. Meanwhile, Post has adventures that make him consider for the first time, that there may be more to life than the brain can rationalize. As distance ebbs and flows, they become one another’s closest confidantes and critics. But can two stubborn authors write their own happily ever after?

Sarah McCoy is author of the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestseller The Baker’s Daughter, a 2012 Goodreads Choice Award Best Historical Fiction nominee that has sold over 130k copies; and The Mapmaker’s Children. Her work has been featured in Real Simple, The Millions, Your Health Monthly, Huffington Post, and other publications. She has taught English writing at Old Dominion University and at the University of Texas at El Paso.

DEEP BLACKSean McFate

William MorrowDel: March 2017Pub: August 2017Agent: Peter McGuiganForeign Sales:


France: BragelonneForeign Sales for Previous Titles:Czech Republic: Euromedia Group; Hungary: Libri; Slovakia: Ikar; UK: Canelo

Disillusioned after a mission in Ukraine goes tragically wrong, military contractor Tom Locke is on the run from Apollo Outcomes, a private military corp run by the treacherous Brad Winters. While working undercover on the frontlines of ISIS-infected Iraq, his team is approached by a Saudi middleman who offers good money to find the missing son of a government official. Locke doesn’t know that the young Prince may be carrying the result of a secret agreement made with the Pakistanis in the 1960s or that his father may be trying to topple the Saudi government. As he gets deeper into ISIS territory, Locke must figure out the on-the-ground battle lines and the larger Deep State war he has stumbled into. Who hired Locke’s team? Is the Prince’s disappearance personal or political? How many sides are being played against each other in a Middle East torn apart by overlapping and contradictory alliances? To complete the mission, the battle-hardened Locke must use every skill he has to defeat an enemy on the ground—while an adversary much closer to home waits for his chance to strike.

Sean McFate is a strategy professor at the National Defense University and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, served in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, and worked for a major private military corporation. He is the author of The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order, and holds a BA from Brown University, a MA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Bret Witter has co-authored eight New York Times bestsellers, including the #1 bestseller The Monuments Men.

Non-Fiction

DANGEROUS BOOBIESCaitlin Brodnick

Seal PressDel: April 2017Pub: September 2017Agent: Hannah Brown Gordon

After watching too many family members die of cancer, at age 28, public speaker and comedian Caitlin Brodnick was tested for the BRCA1 gene mutation and tested positive, indicating an 87% chance she'd likely be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. She had a preventative double mastectomy, thereby becoming an everywoman's Angelina Jolie. DANGEROUS BOOBIES: Breaking Up with My Time-Bomb Breasts goes in depth into her experience from testing to surgery and on to recovery. With a warm, funny, and approachable voice, Caitlin tells readers the full story, even sharing what it was like to go from a size 32G bra—iant, for a woman who is barely over five feet tall!--to a 32C. Engaging and open, she admits to having hated her breasts long before her surgery, and enjoying the process of "designing" her new breasts, from the shape of the breasts to the size and color of the nipples. While Caitlin's primary narrative explores the BRCA gene and breast cancer, her story is also one about body acceptance and what it takes to be confident with and in charge of one's body.


Caitlin Brodnick has become the bright young face for breast health and breast cancer prevention. Along with Glamour magazine and Conde Nast Entertainment, Caitlin created "Screw You Cancer," a six-part online documentary that takes the viewer with Caitlin from decision to surgery to recovery. Receiving more than 7 million views in the first year, the documentary won a National Magazine Award and was the first Internet program to receive an Emmy Award. Caitlin works closely with the organization FORCE, and Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital as a breast cancer awareness advocate, helping to connect with other women who are BRCA positive. She has also been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Glamour, and more.

INSPECTOR OLDFELD AND THE BLACK HAND SOCIETYVicky Bruce

TouchstoneDel: December 2017Pub: Fall 2018Agent: Peter McGuiganForeign Sales for Previous Titles:Spain: Random House Mexico

Before the Mafia, there was the Black Hand, an Italian-American organized crime ring that preyed on recent immigrants from the old country. In the early part of the twentieth century, the FBI didn’t exist and local law enforcement was clueless – most didn’t believe the Black Hand existed, and frightened victims rarely spoke out. The gangsters had their way. INSPECTOR OLDFIELD AND THE BLACK HAND SOCIETY tells the story of one man’s mission to end the reign of America’s first international crime ring. Interestingly, at the beginning of the last century, Postal Inspectors possessed powers of detection and law enforcement that would make today’s FBI blush. Inspector Frank Oldfield, with a passion and drive that rivaled Harry Truman, used the full force of these powers to bring the Black Hand to justice in a series of arrests and trials that stunned the nation, and introduced the notion of organized crime to the USA for the first time.

Author and seasoned journalist Victoria Bruce has teamed up with William Oldfield, the great-grandson of Frank Oldfield, to tell this often overlooked story of crime and justice in pre-war America. Victoria Bruce is the author of No Apparent Danger (HarperCollins, 2001), Hostage Negotiation (Knopf, 2010), and her newest book, Sellout, scheduled to publish in 2017 by Bloomsbury. Bill “Hammy” Oldfield brings a treasure trove of family and historical documentation to the story, including interviews with descendants of Black Hand victims and members.

SUBWAY THERAPYMatthew Chaves

BloomsburyDeliveredPub: October 2017 Agent: Yfat Reiss Gendell

New Yorkers are never short on opinions, and Matthew "Levee" Chavez observed in early 2016 that given the chance, they wanted to talk. He brought a table and chairs to subway platforms and spoke with anyone keen on conversing. A practiced listener and


secret keeper for commuters, Chavez showed up in the subway the day after the presidential election with stacks of brightly colored sticky notes. "Express yourself," he told passersby. The response was electric. As the colorful squares spread along the tiled wall, a vast mosaic of personal messages took shape, beautiful to behold, rich with personality, cathartic and consoling. Calling himself "Levee"—one who supports the city's emotional tide—Chavez turned a communal underground maze into an ever-changing, ever-growing art space known as Subway Therapy. Thousands have picked up the mantle to create Subway Therapy walls in cities across the nation, including San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Boston, and Washington, D.C. Capturing the feelings leaping from the wonderfully diverse 3-x-3-inch notes and weaving in quotes from Chavez and participants about the project, SUBWAY THERAPY's intimate reflections, humorous musings, fond remembrances, and fierce calls to action reach out with unencumbered love to one another and to us. Individually, these "posts" bravely bring the personal and the momentary into the open. Together, they show us a vision of inclusivity, communication, and hope

Matthew “Levee” Chavez is the creator of Subway Therapy, an ongoing immersive project in the subway stations of New York City. A believer in the therapeutic power of communication, he has worked in the field of education in a variety of different roles, including at a magnet school for students with autism. Chavez is a natural-born listener—strangers have always talked to him on buses, trains, subways, planes and sidewalks.

NEUROPARENTErin Clabough

Sounds True (WE)Del: November 2017Pub: Fall 2018Agent: Brandi Bowles

If parents understood more neuroscience, they would parent differently—with confidence, patience, and direction. NEUROPARENT explores neurodevelopment in the context of helping parents raise kids who are not only successful, but also good people. And it does so by focusing on three interconnected skill sets: empathy, creativity, and self-control. Creativity? Shrinking. Empathy? Shriveled. And do you know the number one predictor of a child’s success in life? It’s self-control. As a society, we should be working harder on teaching these skills than on teaching academics, which schools have covered pretty well regardless. NEUROPARENT introduces the groundbreaking idea that these are practical, practicable skills, not innate talents. And neuroscience backs it all up. With its goal of long-term parenting success, NEUROPARENT taps into a growing trend toward holistic, values-based parenting.

Erin Clabough is a neurobiologist, assistant professor at a liberal arts college and a mother of four. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience, and writes for such outlets as Psychology Today, Mind Body Green, and Today Parenting. Her parenting style has been highly influenced by her neuroscience background. She also heads an active research program that investigates questions about how the brain functions, including


developmental areas like fetal alcohol syndrome and lifespan topics like neurodegenerative disease.

HOW MONEY GOT FREEBrian Eha

OneWorld (WE)DeliveredPub: May 2017Agent: Anthony MatteroForeign Sales:China: Publishing House of Electronics Industry

In the space of a few years, Bitcoin has gone from an idea ignored or maligned by almost everyone to an asset with a market cap of more than $12 billion. Venture capital firms, Goldman Sachs, the New York Stock Exchange, and billionaires such as Richard Branson and Peter Thiel have invested more than $1 billion in companies built on this groundbreaking technology. But can its early promise endure? Or will the next evolution of money be neutered as it goes mainstream? The pioneers of Bitcoin were twenty-first-century outlaws – cryptographers, hackers, Free Staters, ex-cons and drug dealers, teenage futurists and self-taught entrepreneurs – armed with a renegade ideology and a grudge against big government and big banks. Now those same institutions are threatening to co-opt or curtail the impact of digital currency. But the pioneers, some of whom have become millionaires themselves, aren’t going down without a fight. Sweeping and provocative, HOW MONEY GOT FREE reveals how this disruptive technology is shaping the debate around competing ideas of money and liberty, and what that means for our future.

Brian Eha is a former editor at Entrepreneur and a journalist who has spent nearly five years following the rise of Bitcoin. His work has been published by the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Fortune, CNNMoney, American Banker, Outside, Port, Avaunt, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications.

THE TRIUMPH OF CHRISTIANITYBart D. Ehrman

Simon & SchusterDel: April 2017Pub: September 2017Agent: Roger FreetForeign Sales: UK: OneWorld

Why did Christianity succeed? The traditional religious answer proffered by Christians is that this was God’s plan, of course. But this is a faith claim not an historical explanation. As with any great story, the historical reality is both surprising and fascinating. How did a small band of Jesus’ followers—illiterate peasants from the backwaters of the Roman Empire proclaiming that an executed enemy of the state was in fact God’s messiah—eventually destroy the massively influential and ubiquitous pagan religions of their world within 400 years? Why did stories about this particular miracle worker gain followers when such stories were rampant in the ancient world about other teachers and wonder workers? And what was unique about the Christian


message that converts found so compelling? Beginning with Jesus’ death in the early first century up through the conversion of Emperor Constantine and its aftermath in the fourth century, Ehrman will answer a question that has both puzzled and fascinated faithful Christians, their detractors, and armchair historians alike.

Bart D. Ehrman is the author of more than twenty books, including the New York Times bestselling Misquoting Jesus and God's Problem. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is a leading authority on the Bible and the life of Jesus. He has been featured in Time and has appeared on Dateline NBC, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, the History Channel, major NPR shows, and other top media outlets.

THE H SPOTJill Filipovic

Nation BooksDeliveredPub: May 2017 Agent: Hannah Brown Gordon

What do women want? It's a time-old question, but if you head out into America and talk to women one-on-one, you discover that what they want is happiness. Despite what recent books, articles, or tv shows would have you believe, real women are less concerned about "having it all," "leaning in," or "settling for 'Mr. Good Enough.'" Unsurprisingly, the way to achieve happiness is as varied as the realities they face. Filipovic argues that in this world of unfinished feminism, men have long been able to "have it all" because of free female labor, while the bar of achievement for women has gotten higher - never before have we had to work so much at every level, and never before have the requirements for being a "good mother" been so extreme. If our laws and policies made women's happiness and fulfillment a goal in and of itself, so many contentious issues would be resolved with one fell swoop-from women's health to equal pay. Filipovic illustrates this argument by asking women across America what it is they need, Filipovic provides an outline for a feminist movement we all need: one that provides a blueprint for how policy, laws and society can deliver on the promise of the pursuit of happiness for all.

Jill Filipovic is a journalist, attorney, former columnist at the Guardian, and former senior political writer for Cosmopolitan. Her work has appeared in Al Jazeera America, the Nation, Foreign Policy, GOOD Magazine, Marie Claire, and others. She was an editor at NYU Law's Journal of Law and Social Change, and a contributor to the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism and the anthology Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, named one of the best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly. Filipovic won a 2014 Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award for her global health reporting, a Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for political commentary, and was a 2013 UN Foundation Fellow and a 2014 International Reporting Project fellow.

WALLS David Frye

ScribnerDel: January 2018Pub: tk


Agent: Peter SteinbergForeign Sales:Taiwan: Commercial Press

For thousands of years, walls have concealed their secrets even as they lie in plain view, stretching for thousands of miles over Europe and Asia. As archaeologists have unlocked their mysteries over the years, a stunning truth has gradually emerged. The great walls of the ancient Mesopotamians, Chinese, Persians, and Romans not only anticipated our twenty-first century controversies but shaped our world. Based on years of meticulous research, WALLS examines archaeological and written evidence to solve the mystery of why certain ancient societies first began enclosing themselves behind fortified barriers. However, walls did not merely promote division. The same barriers which deliberately restricted the free movement of peoples also unleashed a whole host of freedoms which allowed for invention and artistic expression. The reader will also find a sweeping narrative of invasions, empires, kings, and khans, as WALLS traces the bloody struggles between builders and barbarians over the course of more than 2,000 years. These struggles often changed the course of history and they proved the determining factor in one of the most important and controversial movements in world history: the rise of the West.

David Frye has a Ph.D. in late ancient history from Duke University and is a professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University. He has worked on the topic of walls dates for over twenty-five years and is currently the only specialist working on the comparative history of border walls. Frye has written for both popular and academic audiences and his academic work has appeared in Nottingham Medieval Studies, Classical World, Byzantion, Historia, Hermes: Zeitschrift fur klassische Philologie, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Classica et Mediaevalia, MHQ, Archaeology Odyssey, McSweeney’s and Military History.

LOST FLOCK ON THE LITTLE RIVERCourtney Hargrave

Crown ConvergentDel: July 2017Pub: Fall 2017Agent: Yfat Reiss GendellForeign Sales:UK: Bloomsbury

A narrative nonfiction companion to the feature film Burden, LOST FLOCK ON THE LITTLE RIVER depicts the unlikely friendship of a Grand Wizard in the KKK, Michael Burden, and African-American Reverend, David Kennedy, in the 90s. This weird-but-true story serves as a larger exploration of the cultural and historic background of this friendship. The two men met and clashed over the Klan member’s opening of a KKK museum in the town square. The Reverend teaches Michael Burden about love and acceptance, and Burden ultimately joins the reverend’s all-black congregation, quits the Klan, and deeds the museum to the black reverend. In the spirit of Hillbilly Elegy, this book is meant to provide us all with a sense of the circumstances and history of the less-understood Americans were who elected our new president. The feature film is in production, with Andrew Heckler directing, Robbie Brenner producing, and Dexter Darden, Forest Whitaker, Usher, Tom Wilkinson, and Garrett Hedlund among the cast. The film will be in theatres Fall 2017.


Courtney Hargrave is a journalist and New York Times bestselling author.

TWILIGHT OF THE GODSSteve Hyden

Dey StreetDel: June 2017Pub: Summer 2018Agent: Anthony Mattero

TWILIGHT OF THE GODS is about the history, apex, and death of the classic rock genre, an era that has lasted for more than 50 years. Hyden weaves in his own personal journey witnessing its demise by attending the myriad of “farewell tours” put on at county fairs and what not by former titans of the music industry. Since the late ’60s, a legendary cadre of artists — including the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Black Sabbath, and the Who — have maintained a high profile in our culture. You can still hear their songs on the radio or pay hundreds of dollars to see them play in arenas. Even groups that are no longer active — the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin — continue to wield an outsized amount of cultural capital. But no matter how entrenched these classic rockers have been, you can already see signs of their decline. At some point, rock’s subculture will fade fully from view, just as all subcultures do. By mixing personal memoir, criticism, and journalism, Hyden is a witness to the end of classic rock. He explores the ways that classic rock changed the culture — establishing the album as music’s answer to the novel, and rock concerts as secular culture’s equivalent to church — and determine whether any of these signposts can endure. TWILIGHT OF THE GODS: A JOURNEY TO THE END OF CLASSIC ROCK is a universal tale about coming to grips with the nature of mortality and the struggles of growing up.

Steven Hyden has written for Grantland, The A.V. Club, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Slate, and Salon. His first book, Your Favorite Band is Killing Me, focused on pop music rivalries, from classic to very recent.

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS BAD WEATHER, ONLY BAD CLOTHESLinda Åkeson McGurk

TouchstoneDeliveredPub: Fall 2018Agent: Brandi Bowles

When Linda McGurk moved to small-town Indiana to start a family with her American husband, she quickly realized that her outdoorsy ways were not the norm. In Sweden, letting young babies nap outside all year round is not only common, it is recommended by the government. Yet when she took her two young daughters out for walks in Indiana in the winter, people pulled over to offer them rides. The playgrounds, which she expected to find teeming with children, were mostly deserted. Then she was fined


for letting her children play in a local creek, setting off an online firestorm when she blogged about it later on. The parenting philosophies of her native Sweden and her adopted homeland were worlds apart. Struggling to fit in, Linda turned to her own childhood for answers. Could the Scandinavian philosophy that “There is no bad weather, only bad clothes” be the key to healthier, happier lives for her American children? To find out, she embarked on a six-month long journey to Sweden and back.

Linda is a freelance journalist, blogger and mother who was born and raised in Sweden. Her blog, Rain or Shine Mamma (which aims to inspire people to get outside with their children every day, regardless of the weather) has become an important resource for thousands of people looking to connect children with nature.

DANGEROUS ANIMALSKirstin McMillan

Dey StreetDel: April 2017 Pub: August 2017Agent: Kirsten NeuhausForeign Sales: UK/ANZ: Allen & Unwin

Kirstin McMillan’s childhood was a literal circus. By the time she was eight, she was working with her family under the glittering lights of the Ringling Brothers tent. When her parents split and her father decided to settle the family down on his own animal training ranch, Kirstin, her brothers and the animals were treated in the same cold and domineering manner: Do your job and you’ll be fine, but never forget who’s in charge. Captive beneath her father’s iron fist, Kirstin saw all animals, human or otherwise, as dangerous animals to be feared. By the time she was 17, she was a runaway, desperate for connection until she reclaimed herself through a chance relationship with Floppy, the homeless Basset hound. Even through violence, addiction, and death, it was that bond that restored her own humanity and helped her find the strength to break free. Today, Kirstin is a top Hollywood animal and celebrity dog trainer. Unlike her upbringing, Kirstin approaches animals with kindness and humor, a lesson she learned through one special, canine connection. DANGEROUS ANIMALS is a tale of cruelty and heartache, of terror and redemption, of the connection between animals and humans, and love’s power to mend a broken life.

A third generation animal trainer, Kirstin McMillan has worked as an Animal Trainer and Animal Coordinator on major productions involving celebrities such as Katy Perry, Reese Witherspoon, Janet Jackson, Denzel Washington, Jennifer Lopez and many more. She has been featured on CBS, Animal Planet, CMT and been interviewed by the New York Times. She co-founded of the Hollywood Animals Exotic Animal Training Academy and the Exotic Animal Adventure Seminars.

SWEET OF TOOTH AND CLAWKristin Ohlson

Patagonia


Del: Fall 2018Pub: Fall 2019Agent: Kirsten NeuhausForeign Sales for Previous Titles:Taiwan: Common Master Press

Ohlson’s passion for the connection between nature, science, and society is the focus of her new book, SWEET IN TOOTH AND CLAW: Discovering and Protecting the Hidden Cooperation in Nature. A perfect follow up to the bestselling phenomenon The Hidden Life of Trees, Ohlson explores the subtle ways in which nature is in constant collaboration to the betterment of all species. She posits that while a number of sociological and even political factors may have led to the modern science focus on Darwin’s survival of the fittest model, recent years have given rise to a quite different theory called mutualism. From the bear that discards the remainders of his salmon dinner on the forest ground, to the bright coral reefs of Cuba, and even ancient Greek philosophy, Ohlson brilliantly shows readers not only the connectivity lying beneath the surface in natural ecosystems, but why it’s so important for humans to incorporate that understanding into our interaction with nature, and also with each other.

Kristin Ohlson is an award winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. Her most recent book, The Soil Will Save Us (Rodale, 2014) won the “Books for a Better Life” award in the Green category. The book has also lead to countless speaking engagements, interviews in three separate upcoming environmental documentaries, and an invitation from Bernie Sanders to speak in front of the Senate.. She’s a frequent contributor to Discover magazine and has published articles and essays in a print and online, including the Smithsonian, the Christian Science Monitor, Salon, Gourmet, New Scientist, Oprah, Ladies Home Journal, and others. Ohlson is also author of the memoir, Stalking the Divine, which won the American Society of Journalists and Authors' 2004 Best Nonfiction Book award, and co-author of the New York Times bestselling Kabul Beauty School.

GHOSTBUSTER’S DAUGHTERViolet Ramis

Blue Rider PressDel: July 2017Pub: June 2018Agent: Anthony Mattero

In GHOSTBUSTER’S DAUGHTER: Life With My Dad, Harold Ramis, Violet writes the biography her father deserves (warts and all) while at the same time reflecting on loss, what it’s like to have a famous dad, and the unique father/daughter bond they shared. She also shares one of a kind family photographs, unproduced scripts by her father, personal letters she’s written to him, and generally celebrates the massive contributions he made to our culture. GHOSTBUSTER’S DAUGHTER follows Violet and her dad as their lives continue to overlap and intertwine, and addresses how their individual development ran in parallel lines as they defined and redefined their roles as fauther and daughter, as parents, as partners to their respective spouses, and as creative, working people.


Violet Ramis is a writer and social worker, and has written for Splitsider about Ghostbusters and her father. She acted in Caddyshack and National Lampoon’s Vacation. Harold Ramis was a respected actor and director, known for Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters.

PURPOSE AND DESIREDr. J. Scott Turner

HarperOneDel: April 2017Pub: September 2017Agent: Roger Freet

There is a deep philosophical crisis looming for modern biology that has led the modern science of life seriously astray, and it needs fixing. We don’t really know where the organism ends and its environment begins; the normal logic of cause and effect cannot be applied to life; we have to entertain the notion that the Earth is alive—not that the Earth harbors life, but that it is alive—and we don’t really know what drives evolution, whether it’s natural selection of genes, or something else. Building on his scholarly work published by Harvard University Press, Turner turns his attention to the general reader by making a popular, compelling case for design in nature—a controversial position within the scientific community but in lockstep with a growing, thoughtful audience inside and outside of Christian circles. Dr. Turner addresses the big question of “What is the nature of life itself?” and builds a scientific case for how Charles Darwin’s contemporary, Claude Bernard, and Bernard’s “dangerous ideas” of vitalism and homeostasis are at the heart of unlocking this fascinating biological mystery.

Turner is a leading biologist/physiologist whose original work and contribution to the field has garnered attention in the New York Times Book Review, Science, Nature, American Scientist, NPR’s Science Friday, and other leading media outlets.

WHITE BOY RICKRichard Wershe and Steve Bernstein

HarperCollinsDel: October 2017Pub: Summer 2018Agent: Jess Regel

In 1980’s Detroit, Rick “White Boy Rick” Wershe was a teenage drug-dealing prodigy that ascended through the ranks of a volatile underworld, rubbing elbows with men twice his age before he could legally drive a car. He averted death in some half-dozen assassination attempts, negotiated million-dollar cocaine deals with Colombian and Cuban drug lords in Miami and Las Vegas, hobnobbed with the Mayor of Detroit, and played ball with a dearth of dirty cops and politicians. At 17 he was arrested for a single drug offense and his trial became tabloid fodder across the country. He was featured everywhere from Mike Wallace and 60 Minutes to Miami Vice and 21 Jump


Street. He was presented as the face of youth crime in the crack cocaine era, and his romance with the Mayor of Detroit’s beautiful niece, almost a decade his senior and the wife of his imprisoned drug-kingpin mentor, only stoked the flames further. What nobody knew was that he was a trained undercover operative working exclusively and very secretly for the U.S. government. Today, he is the longest-serving non-violent juvenile offender in the U.S. prison system— an unfathomable result of the government’s War on Drugs in the 1980s. This book is a story of race, of class, of mass political and police corruption, and of lost innocence. Above all, it’s a tale of Detroit, Michigan in the Reagan era—a dreary picture of economic downfall and inner-city decay.

Rick’s story is being produced by both Sony Pictures and Universal Studios. Sony has bought Rick's life rights and has hired Scott as a script consultant. The script was penned by Oscar-nominated scribes Scott Silver (8 Mile, The Fighter) and Steve Kloves (Harry Potter movie series, The Wonder Boys, The Fabulous Baker Boys) and is ready to begin shooting this year. Academy Award-winners Matthew McConaughey and Ellen Burstyn have already signed on to star and both Rick and Scott have a deal with Sony to let them write their own book in official coordination with the 40-million-dollar film project which will be known by the title of White Boy Rick. The studio will market this film as an Oscar movie for the 2018 awards season.

LifestyleGRACIOUS

Kelly Williams BrownRodaleDeliveredPub: April 2017Agent: Brandi BowlesForeign Sales for Previous Titles:Australia: HarperCollins; Japan: Daiwa Shobo; Korea: Medici; Latvia: Zvaigzne ABC; Netherlands: Het Spectrum; Spain: Planeta Mexico; Taiwan: Global Group Holdings

Graciousness is practicing the arts of kindness, thoughtfulness, good manners, humanity, and basic decency. As a bonus, it makes your life and even the world (or at least the room you’re in) much lovelier. It’s not about memorizing every rule of traditional etiquette to a T (though there is so much there to explore!) or spending all your time maintaining a spotless house. It’s about approaching the world with compassion, conviction, self-confidence, and whole-heartedness, whether you're at the Met Gala or saying good morning to a convenience store clerk. From chatting easily with anyone to mastering the subtleties of social media etiquette (hint: block early, block often), Brown has talked to gracious women and men all over the country to give you easy ways to embody your own graciousness. Throughout the book, she provides tips on how to deal with the people and circumstances that challenge even the most socially graceful among us, advice on how to practice graciousness in everyday life, and thoughtful discussions on being kind to those around you without ever losing your sense of self. With the wisdom of gracious folk ranging from celebrities to the author’s mother-in-law, this book explains the perspective, actions―and, sometimes, inaction―that help us move smoothly and effectively through whatever life tosses at us.

Kelly Williams Brown is the founder of the popular Tumblr, AdultingBlog.com, and the New York Times bestselling author of Adulting. Previously, she was a features reporter


and an award-winning humor columnist for the Statesman Journal, a daily newspaper in Salem, Oregon.

A SELFISH PLAN TO SAVE THE WORLDJustin Dillon

Thomas NelsonDel: March 2017Pub: May 2017 Agent: Roger Freet

Justin Dillon was a successful world-touring musician who, on a trip through Russia, was dumbstruck to discover first-hand that slavery exists today. With no experience and little more than a desire to do something, he managed to create global awareness and launch global action with online platforms like Slavery Footprint and Made in a Free World, highlighting the embedded and often invisible presence of slavery in nearly every aspect of the global economy. These platforms have enabled the passage of laws prohibiting slavery, disrupting illicit commercial activities in the marketplace, and ultimately freeing thousands of kids from human trafficking. And now he provides readers with a blueprint for doing something similar. In this riveting, utterly unique book, Justin helps readers recognize that working to transform the world is in some ways a selfish act, because helping others helps us by giving us meaning. And that’s okay. Building upon stories of changed lives from around the world, A SELFISH PLAN TO CHANGE THE WORLD provides a step-by-step guide for alleviating the poverty of meaning—by fighting others’ poverty of means.

Justin Dillon is the founder and CEO of Made In A Free World, a platform where consumers, organizations, and businesses work together to protect freedom in the global marketplace. President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have all endorsed the work of Made In A Free World and have asked it to assist with purifying the federal government’s supply chains. Dillon is also the director of Call+Response, a theatrically released documentary about modern-day slavery that has been seen by millions of people. He is the founder of Slavery Footprint, a digital platform that’s reached over 30 million consumers from every country in the world.

KNIGHTS IN TRAININGHeather Haupt

TarcherPerigeeDeliveredPub: May 2017Agent: Chris Park

In an age when respect and honor seem like distant and antiquated relics, how can we equip boys to pursue valor and courageously put the needs of others before their own? This book helps parents to inspire their boys by captivating their imagination and honoring their love for adventure. Heather Haupt explores how knights historically lived out various aspects of the knights' Code of Chivalry, as depicted in the French epic Song of Roland, and how boys can embody these same ideals now. When we issue the challenge and give boys the reasons why it is worth pursuing, we step forward on an incredible journey towards raising the kind of boys who, just like the knights of old, make an impact in their world now and for the rest of their lives


Heather Haupt is the mother of three knights-in-training and a spunky little princess. She wants to raise children who will make a difference in this world. As an educator, writer, and popular conference speaker, she inspires parents to pursue a loving and holistic approach to education and parenting. She has taught in a variety of settings ranging from preschool nature classes all the way up to college biology labs and now homeschools her four children.

PLAY NICE AND WINFran Hauser

Houghton Mifflin HarcourtDel: Spring 2017Pub: Spring 2018 Agent: Yfat Reiss Gendell

Most women were brought up to be “good girls,” and so often this translates into uncertainty as to how to balance being well-brought-up with being effective direct, careerist at work. In the past, best-selling titles helped women move past their inclinations to be soft, kind, and empathetic, explaining that Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office. Author Fran Hauser, whose social media reach exceeds 160 million people, now steps forward to say: that’s all wrong. In PLAY NICE & WIN: Having the Career You Want Without Becoming a Person You Hate, Hauser makes the case that through her hyper-drive careers in magazine publishing, digital, and now in venture capital, funding and mentoring some of the most exciting female CEOS of our day, she has always found “nice” to be her unique superpower. Hauser walks readers through the erroneous mythology of the nice girl and shows each of us the small and large things we can do to capitalize on and win based on our instincts to be those well-brought-up girls who still advise us from the far reaches of our brains, allowing each of us to win at work and in life.

Fran Hauser is best known for her role building PEOPLE.com. In 2014, Hauser became an early stage investor, funding and advising consumer-focused companies such as HelloGiggles. Thirteen of the fifteen companies in Hauser's portfolio are founded by women, highlighting her broader commitment to increasing the representation of female founders and investors. Hauser previously spent 15 years in the digital media space, most recently as the President of Digital at Time Inc. Hauser served as Vice President of AOL's Programming Group and Vice President and General Manager of Moviefone, as well as various positions at Coca-Cola, Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse. Hauser writes for publications such as Inc., Forbes, Mogul and Bedford Magazine, and appears on CNBC's Power Pitch; was named one of the Six Most Powerful Women in New York City's Tech Scene by Refinery29; and was named a Global Champion of Women. Hauser is on the board of directors of GlobalGivina and is an advisory board member of 92Y Women in Power, Rent the Runway's Project Entrepreneur, WomenOne and TIA Girl Club.

YOU ARE A BADASS AT MAKING MONEYJen Sincero

VikingDelivered Pub: April 2017Agent: Peter Steinberg


Foreign Sales:Brazil: Rocco; France: Marabout; Russia: Exmo; Turkey: Olimpos Yayinlari; UK: John MurrayForeign Sales for Previous titlesChina: Beijing Fonghong Books; Czech Rep: Euromedia; Finland: Basam Books; France: Marabout; Germany: Heyne; Hungary: Edesviz Kft; Latin America: Planeta; Netherlands: Meulenhoff; Poland: Helion; Portugal: Lua de Papel; Romania: Act Si Politon; Russia: Eksmo; Serbia: Finesa; Slovakia: Ikar; Spain: Stella Maris; Taiwan: Morning Star; Thailand: WeLearn; Turkey: Olimpos Yayinlari

Jen Sincero will launch you past the fears and stumbling blocks that have kept financial success beyond your reach. Drawing on her own transformation—over just a few years—from a woman with tumbleweeds blowing through her bank account, subsisting solely on Taco Bell, to one who travels the world and stays in five-star luxury hotels, Jen Sincero channels the inimitable sass and practicality that made You Are a Badass an indomitable bestseller. She combines hilarious personal essays with bite-size aha concepts to unlock earning potential and get real results.

Jen Sincero is a #1 NY Times Bestselling author, success coach, and motivational speaker who spent more than a decade traveling the world helping people transform their lives and their bank accounts via her public appearances, private sessions, coaching seminars, and books, including the #1 New York Times Bestseller You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life.

AGELESS BEAUTYClemence von Meuffling

St. Martin’s PressDel: March 2017Pub: tkAgent: Kirsten NeuhausForeign Sales:UK: Michael Joseph

While many women are passionate about the best skin care lines, hair treatments and beauty practices, Clemence von Mueffling has that passion in her DNA. Both her mother and grandmother were the top beauty editors for French Vogue. What makes Clemence and her website, Beauty and Wellbeing, so special is that she is able to deftly combine holistic, good sense advice which works just as well now as it did three generations ago, with the ultimate, cutting edge practices and information from top beauty experts. Still close to her mother and grandmother (both still living in France), Clemence is currently recording all of their fabulous stories and experiences, and best tips and tricks culled from a lifetime of passion for the subject. An intrepid researcher, she has interviewed the crème de la crème of Parisian based beauty experts. In addition to glamourous behind the scenes stories from French Vogue, she covers the latest trends coming from Paris. The book has age specific information in three categories, Jeunesse (15-35), Plénitude (35-55), and Maturité (55+), so that the book can be shared by women from all generations together. There is such clear enthusiasm and expertise within the pages of AGELESS BEAUTY; it is an addictive read that immediately makes one feel that they should be displaying their flawless face on a stroll down the Champs Elysee!


Clémence von Mueffling was born and raised in Paris. She studied economics and finance studies at the Université Dauphine in Paris, and then transferred to the prestigious ESCP-EAP program enabling her to study for a year each in Oxford, England; Madrid; and Paris. She interned in Spain and at Clarins while in England. After finishing her business degree in Paris, she worked in marketing at Dior for their Prestige skincare lines. She moved to New York City in 2007 and launched Beauty and Well-Being, an online magazine, to instant acclaim in 2014.


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