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FALL 2015

THE SECRET CHORDBy Geraldine BrooksFiction | Viking | October 6, 2015 | World RightsAgent: Kris Dahl/ ICMManuscript available

From the author of the novels Caleb’s Crossing (Viking), People of the Book (Viking), and March (Viking), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a novel about King David, tracing his dramatic life from shepherd to soldier, obscurity to celebrity, insider to outlaw, beloved king to crumbling tyrant.

SOLD TOLittle, Brown UK Hachette (Australia and New Zealand)Brazil (Globo)Italy (Neri Pozza)

OPTION PUBLISHERS: Caleb’s CrossingBrazil (Nova Fronteira)France (Belfond)Germany (Goldmann)Israel (Modan)Italy (Neri Pozza) Spain (RBA Libros)

EARLY PRAISE “In her gorgeously written novel of ambition, courage, retribution, and triumph, Brooks imagines the life and character of King David in all his complexity…The language, clear and precise throughout, turns soaringly poetic when describing music or the glory of David’s city. . .taken as a whole, the novel feels simultaneously ancient, accessible, and timeless.” —ALA Booklist

“With the verve of an adroit storyteller. . .Brooks evokes times and place with keenly drawn detail. . .Ambitious and psychologically astute.” —Publishers Weekly 

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“A skillful reimagining. . .gracefully and intelligently told.” —Kirkus Reviews

HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL By Carrie BrownsteinMemoir | Riverhead | October 27, 2015 | World RightsAgent: Jud Laghi/ The Jud Laghi Agency, LLCManuscript available

Before Carrie Brownstein starred in the wildly popular TV comedy Portlandia, she was already an icon to young women for her role as a musician in the feminist punk band Sleater-Kinney. The band was a key part of the early riot grrrl and indie rock scenes in the Pacific Northwest, known for their prodigious guitar

shredding and their leftist lyrics against war, traditionalism and gender roles. This book is the deeply personal and revealing narrative of Brownstein's life in music, from ardent fan to pioneering female guitarist to comedic performer and luminary in the independent rock world.

Carrie Brownstein is a musician, writer and actress who first became widely known as the guitarist and vocalist of feminist punk trio Sleater-Kinney and as co-developer of IFC's sketch comedy Portlandia, where she stars opposite Fred Armisen. Her writing has previously appeared in The Believer and Slate.

SOLD TOVirago/Little, Brown UK Germany (Benevento)

EARLY PRAISE“First-class account…the book is an absolute must…Unlike many rock star memoirs, there's no sense that this book is a chore or a marketing effort. It's revealing and riveting.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred  “Carrie tells her story with mesmerizing, often hilarious, honest—reminding us that life is just a million bad outfits, nervous phone calls, sleepless nights and clumsy kisses, and yet all of this adds up to something tremendous—staggering actually. I wept.” —Miranda July

“Carrie has written the book everyone has been waiting for. It looks inside the Riot Grrrl scene in Olympia from the outside in—from a fan to the stage, and what happens

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when your dream becomes your nightmare. So many times while reading this book I screamed, “Yes!” inside. You can feel Carrie’s visceral guitar swirling energy on every page. An amazing writer.” —Kim Gordon

SPRING 2016

LIFE REIMAGINED:The Science, Art, and Opportunity of MidlifeBy Barbara Bradley Hagerty Nonfiction | Riverhead | March 15, 2016 | World RightsAgent: Raphael Sagalyn, Inc.Manuscript available

A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s for the better – and for good.

Barbara Bradley Hagerty is an award-winning journalist and the former religion correspondent for NPR. She is a recipient of the Templeton-Cambridge Journalist Fellowship in Science and Religion and a Knight Fellowship at Yale Law School. Before joining NPR, she was a reporter at The Christian Science Monitor.

WHY WE CAME TO THE CITY: A Novel By Kristopher JansmaFiction | Viking | February 16, 2016 | World RightsAgent: Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Inc.Manuscript available

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A sweeping, funny, and poignant novel about a tight-knit group of twentysomethings in New York whose lives are forever altered by an unexpected tragedy—from the beloved and widely acclaimed author of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards.

Kristopher Jansma is the author of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award. A graduate of Columbia University's MFA program, he is now an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Suny-New Paltz and a Graduate Lecturer in Fiction at Sarah Lawrence College. He has written for The New York Times, Salon, The Believer, The Millions, Slice, BOMB, and Electric Literature.

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IT DIDN’T START WITH YOU: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the CycleBy Mark WolynnNonfiction | Viking | April 26, 2016 | World RightsAgent: Bonnie Solow/ Solow Literary EnterprisesManuscript due October

An examination of how trauma is passed through the generations, and is encoded in gene expression and everyday language – which also forms the key to our breaking these patterns.

Mark Wolynn is director of The Family Constellation Institute, The Hellinger Institute of Northern California, and co-director of the Hellinger Learning Center in New York City. He is North America’s leader in Inherited Family Trauma and conducts workshops and trainings in family therapy throughout the US, Canada, England and Latin America.

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SUMMER 2016

NAVIGATING LIFEBy Margaux Bergen Nonfiction | Penguin Press | August 2, 2016 | World RightsAgent: Stephanie Cabot/ The Gernert CompanyManuscript due end October

A wise, inspiring, piercingly honest user's guide to life, written for the author's daughter and given to her on her first day of college, reflecting tough lessons—for students of life of all ages—about family, work, and marriage.

Born in Paris and raised in the UK, Margaux Bergen is the vice president of strategic communications for Vital Voices, a nonprofit that nurtures women entrepreneurs in the developing world. Before that she was the communications director for the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty and Vice President for Media and Field communications at United Way. She is an Oxford graduate and the mother of three children who are all now making their way through college and setting off into the world.

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EX POST FACTO:Living with a Dead Language By Ann PattyMemoir | Viking | June 7, 2016 | World RightsAgent: Jane Rotrosen Literary AgencyManuscript available

An exploration of the richness and relevance of the Latin language, and an inspiring account of finding engagement, enjoyment and purpose through learning something new and challenging.

Ann Patty worked in New York publishing for over thirty years. She was the founder and publisher of The Poseidon Press, and an executive editor at Crown and Harcourt. Among the many authors she worked with in her career were Yann Martel, V.C. Andrews, George R.R. Martin, Michael Moore, Mary Gaitskill, Ursula Hegi, Patrick McGrath, and Stephen Millhauser. She currently teaches kids Latin at a library in Red Hook, New York, and continues to audit courses in Latin at Vassar College.

THE GREAT TONG WARS:A True Story of Murder and Mayhem in New York’s Chinatown By Scott SeligmanNonfiction | Viking | July 12, 2016 | World RightsAgent: Peter W. Bernstein Corp.Manuscript date TK

A ripsnorting true story of money, murder, mayhem (and gambling, prostitution and opium, too), with characters that range from bloodthirsty gangsters to reformers and do-gooders to judges, cops, and pols of every stripe and color: the Chinese gang wars that engulfed New York's Chinatown in the 1920s and 30s.

Scott D. Seligman is a historian, retired corporate executive, and a career "China hand." He holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard. Fluent in Mandarin and conversant in Cantonese, he lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China and has been a legislative assistant in Congress, lobbied on behalf of American business in China, and was communications director for a Fortune 50 company. He is the author of many

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scholarly and business books, including Chinese Business Etiquette, and Cultural Revolution Cookbook. He has published articles in the Asian Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, the China Business Review, the Jewish Daily Forward, China Heritage Quarterly, and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center blog.

THE ART OF… By Rosamund Stone ZanderNonfiction | Viking | August 2, 2016 | World RightsAgent: Kneerim & Williams Literary AgencyManuscript available

The author of bestseller The Art of Possibility returns with a new vision for transforming personal and professional life, inviting readers to shed the childhood stories that hold them back, thereby allowing them to enter a realm of true maturity and fulfillment, where limitless growth becomes possible. Stimulating and profound, it is the perfect follow-up to The Art of Possibility, demolishing our assumptions about how much we can grow and change, whether we can affect others or the world at large, and how much freedom and joy we can experience.

Rosamund Stone Zander, an executive coach and family systems therapist, develops models for leadership, relationship, and effective action. Zander has designed programs for corporations as well as government agencies, and has conducted workshops in a variety of settings, including the Aspen Institute, the British Civil Service, National Public Radio, and the World Economic Forum. Ms. Zander is currently in private practice and runs an Accomplishment Program that enables people to complete major projects.

FUTURE

THE BOOK OF POLLY: A Novel By Kathy Hepinstall

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Fiction | Pamela Dorman Books | January 2017 | World RightsAgent: Henry Dunow/ Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary AgencyManuscript date TK

In the tradition of Fannie Flagg, with a touch of Terms of Endearment thrown in, a funny, sweetly touching novel about a 10-year-old girl obsessed with the fear that her larger-than-life, cantankerous, margarita-drinking, squirrel-shooting mother will die, and who is determined not only to keep her among the living but to find out the secrets of her long-buried past—a journey that will literally end up with them, like Huck Finn, riding a river raft back home.

Kathy Hepinstall is the author of five previous historical novels, so THE BOOK OF POLLY represents an exciting new direction for her.

SOLD TONetherlands (Prometheus)

HIT-MAKERS: How to Succeed in the Age of AttentionBy Derek ThompsonNonfiction | Penguin Press | February 2017 | World RightsAgent: Gail Ross/ Ross Yoon AgencyManuscript due December 2015

The Atlantic senior editor’s investigation of why some songs, movies, books, games, and TV shows explode and so many others fizzle; showing how success can happen for all of us in our new, wired world, whose currency is attention, and what it says about us—putting pop culture under the lens of science with his trademark brilliance and wit.

Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about economics, labor markets, and the entertainment business. He frequently appears on radio and television, including NPR and CNBC and is also an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches a class on writing for the Internet. In 2012, he appeared in FOLIO: magazine’s 15 Under 30, was one of Min’s People to Watch, and his blog was named one to follow by Reuters’ Counterparties blog, newsletter and website.

SOLD TOPenguin Press/Penguin UKChina (Citic)Korea (Book 21)

THINKING OUTSIDE OURSELVES:How Intelligence Emerges From Ignorance

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By Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach Nonfiction | Riverhead | March 2017 | World RightsAgent: Christy Fletcher/ Fletcher & Co. Manuscript due June 2016

A look at how much of what we think we know actually resides outside our minds (in our environment, our machines and systems, and the collective minds of others), with important implications for the way we learn, make decisions, work as teams, and interact with technology.

Steven Sloman is a Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. He did his Ph.D. in Psychology at Stanford and his post-doctoral research at the University of Michigan. He is an experimentally—and computationally—oriented cognitive scientist whose work concerns higher-order aspects of cognition. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cognition.

Phil Fernbach is a cognitive scientist and professor of marketing at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He got his Ph.D. at Brown University and his undergraduate degree from Williams College, where he studied philosophy. Phil’s research focus is on understanding how cognitive science can shed light on issues of critical importance to society, such as political polarization, acceptance of cutting edge technologies like genetic engineering, and consumer financial decision making. He has written for and had his work profiled in numerous publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and BBC World News.

SOLD TOMacmillan UK

HOW TO BE CAREFULBy Steve CasnerNonfiction | Riverhead | May 2017 | World RightsAgent: Sandra Dijkstra/ Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency Manuscript due June 2016

A user's guide to our sometimes accident-prone minds that helps us understand why we do things like insist on the fat-free salad dressing but then text and drive. This highly readable, authoritative and accessible narrative is full of surprising, must-know facts and stories, which have the potential to change our view of ourselves in the material world. We are less careful than ever, so we need the science and the story of how we can take better care, on small and grand scales.

As a NASA research psychologist, Steve Casner has spent the past twenty years helping to lower the airline accident rate. He holds a multidisciplinary Ph.D. that spans psychology, computer science, medicine, and the history and philosophy of science.

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Casner is well published in scientific literature and has received major media attention for his research.

SOLD TOMacmillan UK

UNTITLED MEMOIR By Barbra StreisandMemoir | Viking |Fall 2017 | World RightsAgent: Robert Barnett/ Williams & ConnollyManuscript due Fall 2016

The highly anticipated memoir by one of the most influential and beloved actors, singers, and directors of our time. Honest, enlightening, and revealing, Streisand’s memoir will share memories of her childhood, explore her extraordinarily successful career on stage, screen, and in the recording studio, and reflect on her life.

Barbra Streisand is a director, writer, producer, composer, designer, activist, and philanthropist. She is the only artist to earn Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Peabody awards, as well as receiving Kennedy Center Honors and the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. She also received the National Endowment for the Arts medal from President Bill Clinton and France’s greatest recognition, the Légion d’Honneur, from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. 

SOLD TOCentury, Random House UKDenmark (Turbulenz)France (Hugo & Cie)Germany (Droemer)Netherlands (Bruna)Sweden (Norstedts)

UNTITLED BIOGRAPHY ON MARTIN LUTHER By Eric MetaxasNonfiction | Viking | Fall 2017 | World RightsAgent: Joel Tucciarone/ Diadem PartnersManuscript due January 2017

The definitive biography of Martin Luther, from the internationally bestselling author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, to publish during the 500th anniversary of his 95 Thesis.

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OPTION PUBLISHERS: Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life

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THE LAST DAYS OF MAGIC: A Novel By Mark TompkinsFiction | Viking | March 1, 2016 Agent: The Gernert Company, Inc.Manuscript available

An epic novel of magic and mysticism set in medieval Ireland, where Celts and faeries, mad kings and Druids, stalwart warriors and the wounded goddess destined to unite them confront the ambitions of the Vatican and England's Richard II.

Mark Tompkin is a writer and entrepreneur. He founded the Aspen Writers' Network and serves on the board of the Aspen Writers' Foundation. He is also a published poet and photographer, whose work is held in the permanent collections of museums in the U.S. and abroad.

EARLY PRAISE“Simultaneously sweeping and intricate, reaching all the way back to the Dead Sea Scrolls and all the way forward to now, Tompkins’s amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue, magic and mayhem, faeries, Vikings, legates, kings and queens, angels and goddesses, this is one wild and breathless ride.” —Karen Joy Fowler

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DAREDEVILS: A NovelBy Shawn VestalFiction | Penguin Press | April 12, 2016 Agent: Renee Zuckerbrot/ The Renee Zuckerbrot AgencyManuscript available

The debut novel by the 2014 PEN/Bingham winner, set in mid-70s Arizona and Idaho, follows Loretta, a brave 15-year-old from a fundamentalist Mormon family forced into a plural marriage with a town elder; Jason, the teenage boy who loves her; and their mad dash for freedom, punctuated by visions of Evel Knievel.

Shawn Vestal is the author of Godforsaken Idaho, a collection of short stories which was named the winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and longlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize. His stories have appeared in Tin House, McSweeney’s, Ecotone, The Southern Review, Cutbank, Sou’wester, Florida Review and other journals.

EARLY PRAISE“Shawn Vestal jumps forty buses in Daredevils, an electrifying debut novel that travels some dark roads of American religion and bravado, propelled by a major new voice in fiction.” —Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins 

 "Shawn Vestal’s Daredevils busts open any expectations of a coming-of-age novel and transforms it into something fresh, vital and wild. And with Loretta, he has given us one

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of the most moving young protagonists in recent memory. Few writers have captured the hard, radiant edges of adolescent transformation, nor wielded popular culture to such precise and potent effect. Don’t miss this stunner of a debut."—Megan Abbott, author of The Fever and Dare Me 

"Relentlessly enjoyable, surprising, inventive, and just plain heartwarming…Daredevils is a bona fide marvel that pairs two American originals: the complex human drama of Mormonism and the bigger-than-life bravura of 1970s icon Evel Knievel. What takes more courage – a motorized leap across a canyon or a young girl's first few steps toward independence and a life on her own terms? I couldn't put it down as I cheered on Loretta until the very last page. A real wonder." —Scott Cheshire, author of High as the Horses’ Bridles 

“A speeding stunt bike of a novel, propulsive and daring. Vestal's prose feels born of the southern Idaho landscape, as fleet and muscular as the jackrabbits swarming the desert floor…The characters' desires and aches—for love, for glory, for freedom—strain within their confines and burst off of the page. A lucid, bright gem.”—Sharma Shields, author of The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac 

THE ARRANGEMENT: A Novel By Ashley WarlickFiction | Viking | February 9, 2016 Agent: Marly Rusoff & Associates, Inc.Manuscript available

An irresistible novel about food, desire, and the real-life love triangle between M.F.K Fisher—the writer whose artful personal essays about food created a genre—, her husband, and the man she swapped him for, the true love of her life.

Ashley Warlick is the author of four novels. Her work has appeared in Redbook, The Oxford American, McSweeney's, and Garden and Gun, among others. The youngest ever recipient of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, she has also received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches fiction in the MFA program at

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Queens University in Charlotte and is the editor of the South Carolina food magazine edible Upcountry.

THE GENTLEMAN: A NovelBy Forrest Leo Fiction | Penguin Press | August 15, 2016 Agent: Curtis Brown LtdManuscript available

A funny, fantastically entertaining debut novel, in the spirit of Wodehouse and Monty Python, about a famous poet who inadvertently sells his wife to the devil and then recruits a band of adventurers to win her back.

Forrest Leo was born and raised on his family’s homestead in remote Alaska. The son and grandson of writers, he started writing plays in high school, and holds a BFA in acting from New York University. His plays have been produced in Alaska and New York, and have twice been semifinalists for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.

THE HIKE: A Novel By Drew MagaryFiction | Viking | August 2, 2016 Agent: Waxman Leavell Literary AgencyManuscript due end September

From the author of THE POSTMORTAL, a fantasy saga unlike any you've read before: an inventive dark fairy tale, a profound meditation on family and free will, and a brilliant story of one man's long sought after homecoming.

Drew Magary is a correspondent for GQ and a columnist for Deadspin. His GQ profile of the Duck Dynasty family was the most widely read article in the history of the

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magazine. He is also the author of the memoir Someone Could Get Hurt and the novel The Postmortal. His writing has appeared in Maxim, New York, NPR, NBC, The Atlantic, Bon Appétit, The Huffington Post, the Awl, Gawker, Penthouse, Playboy, Yahoo!, ESPN, Rolling Stone, Comedy Central, and more. He has been featured on Good Morning America and has been interviewed by the AV Club, the New York Observer, USA Today, US News, and many others.

THE MOTHERS: A NovelBy Brit Bennett Fiction | Riverhead | Winter 2017 Agent: Julia Kardon/ Mary Evans Manuscript due Fall 2015

The Hurston/Wright and Hopwood Award-winning writer’s thrilling and accomplished literary debut about a complicated friendship and love triangle in a black community in contemporary California, and how that community is jeopardized when the sins of the mothers are visited upon their daughters.

Brit Bennett was raised in southern California and graduated from Stanford University, where she won the Bocock/Guerard and Robert M. Golden Thesis prizes for her fiction. She earned her MFA at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award in College Writing. Her work is featured in Kweli Journal, Day One, and Jezebel.

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