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2013
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COMING SOON from The Friedrich Agency!
THIS IS HOW I’D LOVE YOU
Hazel Woods (Viking, Fall 2014)
Hazel Woods (Viking, Fall 2014)
In this powerful and beautifully told love
story, Hensley Dench finds herself accidentally corresponding with an American
soldier who is stationed in France during World War I. Hensley’s father, Sacha,
has been fired from his job at The New
York Times for protesting the war too loudly, but Sacha is a sympathetic
soul who volunteers to be a “pen pal,” supporting and encouraging the soldiers
who are in battle. Sacha has been writing to Charles, a young medic who shares
his love for chess. When Hensley interrupts their letters with a few whimsical
drawings on the envelope, she and Charles begin a correspondence of their own…
“Through the dark nights, I have figured and re-figured my
every move in the chess game I am playing with your father,
but I cannot solve the puzzle of you.”
As their real lives become increasingly
fraught on both sides of the Atlantic, Hensley and Charles fall deeply in love
on paper, clinging to each other’s words and allowing themselves the freedom to
dream that one day they might meet. Heart-wrenching and transporting, THIS IS
HOW I’D LOVE YOU is a celebration of language, and the sort of unshakeable love
that mere words can build on paper.
“If I thought you would ever find me—that we might ever meet,
I could never tell you
everything…”
The edited manuscript will be available in late October.
THIS IS HOW I'D LOVE YOU is a
heart-wrenching novel, one that reminds us some love isn't so easy. Some love
must shatter anonymity, survive war, cross oceans, carve its own path. Love like
Hensley and Charles isn’t so easy, no, but it’s more than worthwhile.
We all deserve love like Hensley and Charles.
PHENOMENAL:
A Hesitant Adventurer’s Search for Wonder in the Natural World
A Hesitant Adventurer’s Search for Wonder in the Natural World
Leigh Ann Henion (Penguin Press/ Pub date TK)
Penguin Press
has World English
For the past
two years, we’ve only been able to discuss this sale briefly, but NOW we can
finally share PHENOMENAL. As a reminder, Molly Friedrich sold this as a
proposal and sample chapter, in a pre-empt to Ann Godoff.
When The Washington Post sends Leigh Ann
Henion to the migration site of the monarch butterflies in central Mexico, she
begins to feel her sense of wonder stir.
With the birth of her son and burgeoning professional life, however, she puts
that sensation to the back of her mind.
Until,
PHENOMENAL: Setting out to rekindle a childlike sense of wonder in her
increasingly routine, always-busy life, Leigh Ann experiences a selection of
the earth’s most dazzling natural phenomena. We’re lucky to tag along in this
uniquely compelling, awe-inspiring memoir.
In the process of exploring natural
phenomena—from the famous Northern Lights to the obscure perpetual lightning
storms in South America , Henion meets and
befriends a chorus of characters.
They all, in their own ways, remind us that
wonder isn't about finding answers. It's
about becoming more comfortable with questions.
Through Henion's adventures, the world we
take for granted becomes a mysterious and fascinating place. Water speaks
through bioluminescence, microscopic organisms that produce living light. Two
million wildebeest follow the promise of rain, steadily streaming across the
Serengeti. Henion probes the science and mythology that help her understand
these chosen phenomena.
This is the story of how—in an abstract,
digital world of over-specialization and iEverything—one woman became the
expert witness of her own life, ultimately bringing an adult-size, global sense
of wonder home to bear on her own backyard. PHENOMENAL is a transformative
narrative that captures, in a wholly original way, the heartbreaking beauty of
nature and the always-searching, ever-evolving power of storytelling.
EAT, PRAY, LOVE…MOVE OVER!!
Leigh Ann Henion is a
writer and photographer based in Boone, North Carolina. Her essays and articles
have been published in The Washington
Post, Oxford American, Smithsonian, and The Best American Travel Writing.
THE GIRLS FROMCORONA DEL MAR
THE GIRLS FROM
Rufi Thorpe (Knopf/ Spring 2014)
Vulkan Izdavastvo (Serbia ); Novo Conceito (Brazil ); Random House (United Kingdom ); Epsilon (Turkey ); btb/Random House (Germany )
A
fiercely beautiful, bold novel
A
dark, honest exploration of friendship
A
debut heralding the arrival of a major literary voice
THE GIRLS
FROM CORONA DEL MAR is a novel about friendships—how childhood bonds challenged
by loss, illness, parenthood, and distance, either break or sustain. Mia and
Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful,
kind Lorrie Ann. While Mia struggles with a mother who drinks, a pregnancy at
fifteen, and younger brothers she loves but, despite that love, mistreats, Lorrie Ann is luminous. Lorrie Ann is
surrounded by her close-knit family, immune to the mistakes that mar her best
friend's life, until a sudden loss catapults Lorrie Ann into tragedy. Things
fall apart, and then fall apart further—and there is nothing Mia can do to
help. As good, kind, brave Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia begins to
question just who this woman is and what that question means about them both.
“Lorrie Ann was the
good one, and I was the bad one. She was beautiful
(shockingly so,
like a painting by Vermeer), but I was sexy (at thirteen,
an excess of cherry
chapstick was all that was required). We were both
smart, but Lorrie
Ann was contemplative where I was wily, she earnest
and I shrewd. Where
she was sentimental, I became sarcastic.
Normally,
friendships between girls are stowed away in boxes of postcards
and ticket stubs,
but whatever was between me and Lorrie Ann was
not so easy to set
aside.”
A
staggeringly arresting, honest novel of love, motherhood, loyalty, and the myth
of the perfect friendship, THE GIRLS FROM CORONA DEL MAR moves us to ask
ourselves just how well we know those we
love, what we owe our children, and who we are without our friends.
Reminiscent of John Updike and Lorrie Moore:
Rufi Thorpe is a
name you need to remember.
THE
FRANGIPANI HOTEL
Violet Kupersmith (Spiegel & Grau/ May 6, 2014)
Inspired by
Vietnamese folklore, THE FRANGIPANI HOTEL blends the old world with the new in
this haunting, unusual exploration of ghosts, circling one that continues to
haunt—the Vietnam War. Violet Kupersmith writes, as she lives, on the
crossroads of tradition and modernity; Vietnam and America; realism and
fantasy. Violet is the daughter of a Vietnamese refugee who met her American
husband while living in a convent in Texas.
Cindy Spiegel
bought this collection over-night, in an exclusive six-figure pre-empt, the
basis of three stories. Cindy’s the editor who brought us Chang-rae Lee, Junot
Díaz, and ZZ Packer—and now Violet Kupersmith, a writer with vibrant, assured
prose well beyond her years.
Violet is
currently at work on her novel—one that will involve two greedy brothers,
cobras poached for their black-market venom, and a runaway girlfriend
fraternizing with ghosts…!
Advance Praise for THE FRANGIPANI HOTEL:
“How
exhilarating to discover a young writer with the authority and energy Violet
Kupersmith brings to this debut collection. The haunted world of THE
FRANGIPANI HOTEL teems with sensuous and exuberant life. Terror and wonder
walk hand in hand. There are ghosts in the air (and in the lake), but there’s
nothing insubstantial about them. These ghosts are boisterous and malign,
driven by powerful passions even they don’t understand. Whether they issue
from the war -torn past, the insatiable appetite of nature, or the sinister
terrain of the human unconscious is anybody’s guess. One thing is certain;
they’re not going away until the reader too is entirely entranced and
captivated.”
– Valerie Martin, acclaimed author of Mary
Reilly and the forthcoming
The
Ghost of the Mary Celeste
“In this impressive debut, Violet Kupersmith
displays a remarkable gift for voice and setting. Using history and
horror, mystery and imagination, she has created this vivid collection of
haunted and haunting stories. Highly
recommended.”
– Karen Joy Fowler, NYT bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club and We
Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“Kupersmith
is more than a powerful writer:
she’s already been admitted into the secret circle of Isak Dinesen and Isaak
Babel and Sylvia Townsend Warner: She’s
a true storyteller.”
– George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth
and author of The Juror
“Everyone
will talk about how young Violet Kupersmith is, how she writes with a maturity
and talent beyond her years. But when reading these stories of ghosts both
ancestral and infernal, you’ll become convinced Kupersmith herself is of the
spirit world—transcending time, nationality, gender, and place. Rarely does a
writer of any age conjure a book so deftly funny and yet so deadly serious. Read it, remember it, and then breathlessly
await her next one.”
– Sheri Holman, author of The Dress Lodger and
Witches on the Road Tonight
PETER PAN
MUST DIE
John Verdon (Crown/ July 1, 2014)
Roca (Spain );
Proa (Catalan); Koridor (Turkey );
Grasset (France)
John Verdon (Crown/ July 1, 2014)
Roca (
International
thriller sensation John Verdon has done it again—his new novel PETER PAN MUST
DIE will enrapture, puzzle, and TERRIFY. Fans across the world—26 territories
to be exact!—have been waiting, asking John directly on Facebook: What’s next?!
From the
title of the latest John Verdon thriller PETER PAN MUST DIE, you’ll know this
time David Gurney isn’t searching for “whodunit” but rather, WHY? Someone has
hired an infamous assassin to murder wealthy real estate developer Carl
Spalter, at the funeral for his mother, no less! But when Carl’s wife is
sentenced to life in prison, rogue cop Jack Hardwick is convinced there was a
sloppy investigation. Recently fired for helping Gurney during The Good
Shepherd case (LET THE DEVIL SLEEP) Hardwick pleads with Gurney to take a
closer look at the Spalter murder. Something is clearly VERY wrong, but for
reasons no one suspects…
Once again
Gurney is pulled into the dark, dangerous world of organized crime and an even
scarier family where sons, daughters, brothers, and wives are prime murder
suspects. Against Madeleine’s urging and Gurney’s own fears, Gurney hunts down
the serial killer, named for the beloved children’s character Peter Pan. But
how can Gurney catch a killer who’s never been seen? One whose very existence
is a rumor? And will Gurney himself make it out
alive…?
PRAISE for LET THE DEVIL SLEEP:
Radio personality Don Imus made LET
THE DEVIL SLEEP his “Book of the Week” and
called it a “Fiendishly puzzling
masterpiece”!
“It’s always a pleasure to watch a keen mind absorbed in a difficult puzzle, which is how Dave Gurney distinguishes himself in John Verdon’s tricky whodunits.”
– The
New York Times
“A
razor-sharp serial killer thriller…The third Dave Gurney whodunit is a
breakneck, knockout ride...The tension is palpable on virtually every page
of a story that perfectly balances the protagonist’s complex inner life with an
elaborately constructed puzzle.”
– Publishers
Weekly (Starred Review)
“A masterful bit of writing that builds to a surprising and satisfying climax. The tension and enigmatic situations created en route to the conclusion make this book a definite nail-biter. John Verdon’s writing skill might well cause him to become known as ‘The Puzzle Master.’”
– New
York Journal of Books
"I learned something this week: John Verdon is a hell of a writer. I
read LET THE DEVIL SLEEP in two days, which is saying a lot, because it's a BIG
book, running 449 pages. It was just damn hard to stop."
– Evan Lewis, Edgar Award-winning writer and blogger at davycrockettsalmanack.com
– Evan Lewis, Edgar Award-winning writer and blogger at davycrockettsalmanack.com
JOHN
VERDON
Online
and in print, creative promotional ideas keep arriving!
Always brainstorming, John’s Spanish publisher Roca filmed an eerie,
fascinating video interview at John’s home in upstate New York : http://vimeo.com/70041035.
In his signature
wise, well-spoken way John explains his theories on writing thrillers and how
his farm’s tranquil landscape inspires his work. Please be in touch if you’d
like to use it in your own territory—such easy-to-translate subtitles!
Join his 5,000 friends and LIKE John on
Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/authorjohnverdon
Foreign Sales to date:
LET
THE DEVIL SLEEP (Crown/July 2012)Penguin (England); Roca (Spain); PROA (Catalan); Koridor (Turkey);
Grasset (France); Keter (Israel); Brazil (Sextante); Germany (Heyne); Finland
(Gumerus); SoftPress (Bulgaria); Dioptra (Greece); De Boekerij (The Netherlands);
Baronet (Czech); Forum (Sweden); Gimm-Young (Korea); Piemme (Italy); Porto
Lisboa (Portugal); Hr. Ferdinand (Denmark)
SHUT
YOUR EYES TIGHT (Crown/July 2011) Michael
Joseph (England); Roca (Spain); De Boekerij (The Netherlands); Heyne (Germany);
Grasset (France); Gummerus (Finland); Versal (Norway); PROA (Catalan); Dioptra
(Greece); Koridor (Turkey); Keter (Israel); Otwarte (Poland); Hr. Ferdinand
(Denmark); Sextante (Brazil); Edizioni Piemme Spa (Italy); Soft Press (Bulgaria);
Corpus (Russia); Gimm-Young (Korea); Baronet (Czech); Porto Editora (Portugal);
Forum (Sweden)
THINK OF A NUMBER (Crown/
July 2010) Michael
Joseph (Major 3-Book Deal/England); Versal (Norway); De Boekerij (The
Netherlands); Gummerus (Finland); Roca (Spain); Piemme (Italy); Heyne
(Germany); Koridor (Turkey); Grasset (France); Corpus/AST (Russia); Gimm Young
(Korea); Dioptra (Greece); Hr. Ferdinand (Denmark); Soft Press
(Bulgaria); Keter (Israel); CITIC Press (China); Porto Lisboa (Portugal);
Sextante (Brazil); Commonwealth (Taiwan); NhaNam (Vietnam); PROA (Catalan);
Forum (Sweden); Forlagid (Iceland); Otwarte (Poland); Baronet (Czech);
Algoritam (Croatia); WeLearn (Thailand)
LISA SCOTTOLINE
Published in 35 countries • Over 30 million
books in print
New York Times Best Seller • Edgar Award Winner
Costco’s “Staff Picks” Promotion • Chosen for World Book Night
New York Times Best Seller • Edgar Award Winner
Costco’s “Staff Picks” Promotion • Chosen for World Book Night
KEEP QUIET (St. Martin’s Press/ April 8, 2014)
A father’s
split-second decision spells disaster. Lisa’s darkest, boldest book to date
KEEP QUIET is the
gut-wrenching tale of one family’s unraveling, at the hand of lies, blackmail,
and guilt.
KEEP QUIET
opens with our protagonist, Jake, feeling that he and his teenage son just
don’t connect anymore. Jake has started his own business, and work has taken
him away from his family for the past few years. His wife suggests that Jake be
the one to pick up their son Ryan from the movie theatre. When Ryan gets into
the car, it’s the usual silence and one-word answers, until Ryan asks his Dad
if he can drive home the rest of the way. Jake drives an Audi, and Ryan thinks
it’s the “coolest” car ever, plus it’s only 2 miles back to the house! As soon
as they switch places, Ryan opens up to Jake finally, even telling him a bit
about one of the girls he likes from school. While they’re both laughing and
enjoying the moment of bonding, they hear and feel a huge THUD. Pulling over to see what happened, they find a young woman’s
body on the road…and nothing can be done, she’s
been killed. Frantically weighing their options Jake makes a snap decision
to leave the scene with his son, telling no one. Though his intentions are
good, he’s made a huge mistake. The story follows the pair as their lives
spiral out of control, and includes a
completely unexpected suspense plot, as details are revealed along the way.
Also
new from Lisa!
The long-awaited return of the all-female law firm Rosato & Associates!! An underdog story, ACCUSED is for readers who love smart, page-turning legal thrillers and features her beloved cast of strong, relatable women: Bennie Rosato, Mary DiNunzio, Judy Carrier, and Anne Murphy. Mary has just been promoted to partner and is about to take on her most unusual case yet, brought to the firm by a thirteen-year-old, beekeeping genius. Allegra Gardner’s sister was murdered six years ago, and it seemed like an open-and-shut case: the accused, Lonnie Stall, even pleaded guilty. But Allegra believes Lonnie is innocent and has been wrongly imprisoned. Was justice really served all those years ago?
The long-awaited return of the all-female law firm Rosato & Associates!! An underdog story, ACCUSED is for readers who love smart, page-turning legal thrillers and features her beloved cast of strong, relatable women: Bennie Rosato, Mary DiNunzio, Judy Carrier, and Anne Murphy. Mary has just been promoted to partner and is about to take on her most unusual case yet, brought to the firm by a thirteen-year-old, beekeeping genius. Allegra Gardner’s sister was murdered six years ago, and it seemed like an open-and-shut case: the accused, Lonnie Stall, even pleaded guilty. But Allegra believes Lonnie is innocent and has been wrongly imprisoned. Was justice really served all those years ago?
DON’T GO is a powerful story of unsung
heroes—single fathers and military doctors— facing the unthinkable. We find
both in Mike Scanlon, an army doctor who is told in the middle of a surgery
that his young wife has died back in the US, in what turns out is NO accident…
Over 80,000 hardcover
copies sold!!!
“Lisa Scottoline
is one of the very best writers at work today. Don’t Go proves it once again. This is a story that is heavily
muscled, emotional and relevant. They don’t come any better.”
– Michael
Connelly, bestselling author of
The Lincoln Lawyer
PRAISE for DON’T GO!
“Scottoline
is a star.” – TIME
“The pace is relentless, the twists are jaw-dropping. Scottoline is a powerhouse.”
– David Baldacci, #1 NYT bestselling author of 23 books, sold in 80 countries
“You could get whiplash just
turning a page. Scottoline knows how to keep readers in her grip.” – The New York Times
“A masterpiece of maternal unease…sharp social commentary
with breathless suspense.”
– Maureen Corrigan
for National Public Radio
Lisa Scottoline is the Edgar award-winning and New
York Times bestselling writer of over 20 novels, and was recognized for her
supreme achievements with the position of President for the Mystery Writers of
America in 2011. Several years ago, Lisa put aside her legal suspense series
about the Rosato law firm, and went in a different direction with more
emotionally resonant suspense stand-alone novels. As a result, her American
empire of fans has only grown all the more—and
begged her to bring back Bennie Rosato.
Now, with
non-fiction column collections, emotional suspense, and Rosato mysteries—Lisa
Scottoline will be on bookstore shelves consistently throughout the year.
Recent television options for her backlist books (DEVIL’S CORNER and WHY MY
THIRD HUSBAND WILL BE A DOG) along with brand-new
interest in KEEP QUIET only continue to cement Lisa’s position as a true
superstar of emotional suspense.
Follow @LisaScottoline & Friend: https://www.facebook.com/LisaScottoline
THE GHOST OF THE MARY CELESTE
Valerie Martin (Doubleday/ Nan A. Talese, January 28, 2014)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK); Albin Michel (France)
Valerie Martin (Doubleday/ Nan A. Talese, January 28, 2014)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK); Albin Michel (France)
A captivating, atmospheric return to historical
fiction
Valerie Martin has spent a lifetime writing
books of different genres, stretching herself around the world. Her two most
blazingly successful achievements remain novels clearly set in history: MARY
REILLY, first published in 1990, enjoyed no fewer than 25 foreign sales. Years
later, in 2003, the distinctly American novel, PROPERTY, garnered a more modest
ten foreign sales but won The Orange Prize in lovely compensation. The last
couple of books that Valerie has written have been largely contemporary and
considered “American.”
Until now: the arrival of
THE GHOST OF THE MARY CELESTE, to be published by Nan Talese. Like David
Mitchell's CLOUD ATLAS, Valerie's latest novel is brilliant, muscular, confounding,
maddening, compelling on every page. Like the best and most recent of Hilary
Mantel, Valerie writes with a fetching, beguiling voice, as modern and sturdy
as anything celebrated in recent prize-winning literature…
A ghost ship appears in the mist.
To the struggling author Arthur Conan Doyle, it is an
inspiration.
To Violet Petra ,
the gifted American psychic, it is a cruel reminder.
To the death-obsessed Victorian public, it is a
fascinating distraction.
In salons and on rough seas, at séances and
in the imagination of a genius, these responses converge in unexpected ways as
the mystery of the ghost ship deepens. Intricate, atmospheric, and endlessly
intriguing, The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
is a spellbinding exploration of love, nature, and the fictions that pass
as truth.
PRAISE for THE CONFESSIONS OF EDWARD DAY:
“A triumph…Martin writes with amplitude,
precision, grace, and wit…. It’s a bravura performance.” –
Margaret Atwood for The New York Review of Books
“I do think Valerie Martin is one of the best novelists we have.
There is always more in every book than meets the eye. The Confessions of
Edward Day—highly recommended!”
–
Jane Smiley in an exclusive Amazon
guest review
“Martin (Mary Reilly; Property)
adroitly plays with the boundary between reality and performance in her fluidly
written new novel… The tension and constantly shifting exchange of power
between the two men as they battle for Madeleine's attentions and struggle with
their careers propels the plot until the love triangle comes to a dramatic
head.”
– Publishers Weekly
WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE
OURSELVES
Karen Joy Fowler (Marian Wood Books, Putnam/ May 30, 2013)
Serpent’s Tail (United Kingdom );
Goldmann (Germany ); Kinneret
(Israel );
Albatros (Czech)
Karen Joy Fowler (Marian Wood Books, Putnam/ May 30, 2013)
Serpent’s Tail (
Karen Joy
Fowler’s latest novel is dazzling and provocative, wickedly funny yet
emotionally devastating. The author of THE
JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB returns in her sixth and most accomplished book yet,
proving what a magus she is. With her amazing sleights of hand and skewering,
pitch-perfect punch lines, Karen Joy Fowler brings us a family of loving but
fallible people whose well-intentioned actions have devastating consequences.
Our narrator
is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she
has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of
protective cover. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in
the recesses of her mind. It changed Rosemary forever—and it destroyed her
family.
Indie Next Pick
ELLE Magazine’s Reader’s Prize for July
2013
Front Page of The New York Times Book Review:
“A novel so readably juicy and
surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get… [T]his is a story of Everyfamily
in which loss engraves relationships, truth is a soulful stalker and
coming-of-age
means facing down the mirror,
recognizing the shape-shifting notion of self.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
More Praise for WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES:
“Read this goddamn book.” – Gawker
“Fowler's novel is superb….Fowler's smart and exquisitely sad novel provokes us to think about a lot of aspects of our relationship to animals that most of us would rather ignore.”
– Maureen Corrigan, National
Public Radio’s “Fresh Air”
“A
strong, unsettling novel . . . Fowler explores the depths of human emotions
and delivers a tragic love story that captures our hearts.”
– Library Journal (starred review!)
“[A]n
unsettling, emotionally complex story that plumbs the mystery of our
strange relationship with the animal kingdom – relatives included.”
– Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“At times poignant, at times hilarious…Fowler creates a fantastical tale of raw, animalistic love.”
– O Magazine
“Fowler’s great accomplishment is not just that she takes the standard story of a family and makes it larger, but that the new space she’s created demands exploration.”
“Fowler’s great accomplishment is not just that she takes the standard story of a family and makes it larger, but that the new space she’s created demands exploration.”
– Publishers Weekly
Even MORE Praise for Karen Joy Fowler:
“Piquant
humor, refulgent language, a canny plot rooted in real-life experiences, an
irresistible narrator, threshing insights, and tender emotions–Fowler has
outdone herself in this deeply inquisitive, cage-rattling novel.” – Booklist (starred review!)
“Rosemary Cooke, the novel’s narrator, had part of her
early childhood given over to a science experiment. The remarkable
details…never overpower Ms. Fowler’s subtle and universal story of parental
intentions, sibling bonds and nagging regrets.”
– New York Times
“In
a novel that blends fiction and science, Fowler takes on what it means to be
a family, the nature of memory and grief, and where the dividing line
between the human and humanity lies.”
– The
Christian Science Monitor, chosen as 10 Best Books of June
“Fowler knows how
to make her story funny and sad and disturbing and revelatory by
erecting a space in which her reader is allowed to feel all of that for
herself.”
– Salon
“Rosemary’s voice is achingly memorable…This brave, bold, shattering novel reminds us what it means to be human, in the best and worst sense.”
“Rosemary’s voice is achingly memorable…This brave, bold, shattering novel reminds us what it means to be human, in the best and worst sense.”
– The Miami Herald
“We
Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is Fowler at her best, mixing cerebral and emotional appeal
together in an utterly captivating manner.”
– The Seattle Times
“Fowler has given us the gift of a splendid novel….Layered with a huge moral compass and enormous humanity, this portrait of a family one-fifth simian will, nevertheless, touch and delight every human.”
– Mameve Medwed, The Boston Globe
“Rosemary’s voice–vulnerable, angry, shockingly honest–is so compelling and the cast of characters, including Fern, irresistible. A fantastic novel.”
– Kirkus (starred review)
“In the end the book doesn't just break your heart; it takes your heart and won't give it back."
“In the end the book doesn't just break your heart; it takes your heart and won't give it back."
– Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply and Stay Awake
“Karen
Joy Fowler has written the book she's always had in her to write…Does the love
survive the damage? Will human beings survive the damage they do to the world they
love so much? This is a strong, deep, sweet novel.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, author
of Lavinia, The Unreal and the Real, and
the Earthsea Cycle
“It’s been years since I’ve felt so passionate about a book. When I finished at 3 a.m., I wept, then I woke up the next morning, reread the ending, and cried all over again.”
“It’s been years since I’ve felt so passionate about a book. When I finished at 3 a.m., I wept, then I woke up the next morning, reread the ending, and cried all over again.”
– Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being and My
Year of Meats
“This novel is deliciously jaunty in tone and disturbing in material. Karen Joy Fowler tells the story of how one animal–the animal of man–can simultaneously destroy and expand our notion of what is possible.”
“This novel is deliciously jaunty in tone and disturbing in material. Karen Joy Fowler tells the story of how one animal–the animal of man–can simultaneously destroy and expand our notion of what is possible.”
– Alice Sebold, New York Times-bestselling
author of The Lovely Bones and The
Almost Moon
FORTY ACRES
Dwayne A.
Smith (Atria/ July 2014)
Droemer (Germany) Coming soon…manuscript not yet available
Lightning-fast, controversial, and immensely
thought-provoking,
FORTY ACRES cannot be forgotten.
In this
debut novel, a young attorney named Martin Grey has just won the biggest case
of his life against superstar lawyer Damon Darrell. Instead of holding a
grudge, Damon welcomes Martin into a small inner circle of powerful black men,
and Martin jumps at the chance to secure some bigger clients for his budding
career. When the small group finally invites him to join their “bonding trip”
and leave town for the weekend, Martin decides to embrace the opportunity,
despite his wife’s suspicions and misgivings. What follows is a horrific spiral
into isolation, history, and vengeance—and Martin finds himself fighting for his life.
Like THE FIRM, Smith’s
story invites you into a seemingly safe,
habitable world and then tosses that world upside down.
habitable world and then tosses that world upside down.
Like THE HUNGER GAMES,
this novel raises the discomfort level and haunts your sleep.
Like early Michael Crichton
and VERY early James Patterson,
it’s high adventure at breakneck speed.
it’s high adventure at breakneck speed.
We all know
controversy is commercial. FORTY ACRES is that and so much more—it unearths a
terrifying darkness, and forces readers to challenge history, oppression, and
integrity head-on. What a wild, suspenseful ride. You won’t forget this book.
LESLEY M.M. BLUME
Books for Children (Knopf)
Books for Children (Knopf)
New
to The Friedrich Agency and unseen abroad:
Lesley
M. M. Blume’s children’s books are a fount of
“Brilliant,
unusual writing.”– The Chicago Tribune
THE WONDROUS JOURNALS OF WENDELL
WELLINGTON WIGGINS
(Knopf,
August 7, 2012)
The journals of Dr. Wendell
Wellington Wiggins might just be the most extraordinary contribution to the
study of the earth's past since the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. In the incredible
pages of these thought-to-be-lost diaries, Dr. Wiggins—whom we now must
consider the greatest paleozoologist of all time—has divulged the secrets of
the truly ancient animal world: A world before human beings; a world before
dinosaurs; a world that, until now, existed well beyond the outer reaches of
human imagination. From deadly Amazonian Whispering Vines (Vitus Sussurus) to
curious creatures called Brittle Bones (Futilis Ossis) to a mysterious pet
named Gibear (Chiroptera Vicugna Pacosis), the discoveries of Dr. Wiggins will
forever change the way we think about the world before us.
“Blume is a writer to watch.” – Publishers
Weekly
MODERN FAIRIES, DWARVES, GOBLINS,
AND OTHER NASTIES
(Knopf, January 1, 2010)
(Knopf, January 1, 2010)
Elegantly written and
beautifully illustrated, Modern Fairies is
half guidebook and half short story collection. Modern Fairies is for children who love the earnest advice included in the Dangerous Book for Boys/Girls titles and the
wicked fun of Roald Dahl. The illustrations are incredibly original and yet
also instantly classic.
TENNYSON
(Knopf,
August 25, 2009)
A Book Sense Children’s Pick • Kirkus Top Pick for Reading Groups
On the banks of the Mississippi River , Tennyson Fontaine and her sister,
Hattie, play endless games of hide-and-seek and make up fantastical stories
about the latest adventures of their wild dog, Jos. But when their mother
doesn’t come home and their father sets off to find her, the sisters are
whisked away to Aigredoux, the once-grand plantation of their ancestors, now in
ruin.
Caught in a strange web of time, dreams, and history, Tennyson comes up with a plan to shine light on Aigredoux’s past and bring her mother home. But like so many plans, Tennyson’s has unexpected consequences…
Caught in a strange web of time, dreams, and history, Tennyson comes up with a plan to shine light on Aigredoux’s past and bring her mother home. But like so many plans, Tennyson’s has unexpected consequences…
Reviewers compare Lesley M.M. Blume to
Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, and Truman Capote!
Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, and Truman Capote!
Also by Lesley M. M. Blume:
In 2010, Chronicle Books released to great acclaim Let’s Bring Back, Ms. Blume’s cultural encyclopedia celebrating hundreds of forgotten-yet-delightful objects, pastimes, fashions, delectables, and personalities from bygone eras. Following the massive success of this initial volume, Chronicle has since released topic-specific new editions of Let’s Bring Back—including Let’s Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition (Fall 2012) and Let’s Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition (Spring 2013), as well as a line of ancillary products. Also now available is a line of Let’s Bring Back-inspired jewelry, created by renowned design house Lulu Frost.
No one expected the comparable Schott’s
Almanac to take off, but it ran in Britain for six editions and in the U.S. and Germany for three editions each!! Like Schott’s Almanac, Let’s Bring Back can
be edited for a foreign audience if desired.
Blume longs to bring back sealing wax, fainting couches, top hats, and
elbow-length gloves. With the astounding success of The Great Gatsby film and a
world-wide fascination with all things vintage, there couldn’t be a better time
to send Blume’s stylish, alluring brand abroad!
Praise!
“Blume’s history of cocktails and bars will have you laughing out loud as you mix.” – Good Housekeeping
“Blume’s history of cocktails and bars will have you laughing out loud as you mix.” – Good Housekeeping
“Let’s Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition is such good
reading—it’s a mix of cocktail lore, recipes, anecdotes, and quotations—that
even a teetotaler would enjoy it.”
– The Paris Review
The Friedrich Agency controls rights to the Let’s Bring Back series, except for UK/ANZ.
– The Paris Review
The Friedrich Agency controls rights to the Let’s Bring Back series, except for UK/ANZ.
Lest you forget, we eagerly await the wicked approach Lesley’s
taking to Ernest Hemingway’s THE SUN ALSO RISES. Material available Spring
2015.
ALL THINGS TRULY WICKED
Lesley M. M. Blume (Eamon Dolan Books, HMH/ Spring 2016)
Perhaps the world’s first “biography of a
novel,” ALL THINGS TRULY WICKED tells the truly wicked tale behind Ernest
Hemingway’s THE SUN ALSO RISES. With an incredibly stylish yet scholarly
approach, Lesley Blume will unearth the truth behind Hemingway’s explosive,
timeless novel, including the real-life versions of its incendiary characters.
Lesley M. M. Blume is an author, journalist, and cultural observer based in New York
City. A regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and Vanity
Fair, Blume’s work has appeared in many prestigious publications, including
Vogue, Slate, and The Daily Beast. She is a contributing
editor at Departures magazine and was
a founding contributing editor for The Huffington Post.
Visit Lesley Blume’s website for
more news:
http://lesleymmblume.com/
http://lesleymmblume.com/
BOOKS FOR WHICH THE
PUBLISHER CONTROLS RIGHTS
A TALE FOR
THE TIME BEING
Ruth Ozeki
(Viking/ March 12, 2013)
Am Oved
(Israel); Text (Australia/NZ); Belfond (France); Casa da Palavra (Brazil);
Canongate (UK); Ambos/Anthos (The Netherlands); Ponte (Italy); Klidarithmos
(Greece); Planeta (Spain); Penguin (Canada); Fischer Verlag (Germany); Albatros
(Czech); Polirom (Romania); Mehta (India); PT Gradien Mediatama (Indonesia); Parodi
(Turkey); AST (Russia); Foskal (Poland); Xiron (China); Hayakwa (Japan);
Earnest (Thai) Please
direct inquiries to Canongate (UK).
We
are honored to congratulate Ruth Ozeki
as
a nominee on the Man Booker Prize Shortlist
From the award-winning filmmaker and
novelist, Ruth Ozeki, comes a novel that will forever change the way we relate
to the fiction in our lives. In A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING, an author named Ruth
finds the diary of a suicidal Japanese teenager, which washes up on the shore
of Ruth’s Canadian island as part of the first wave of Tsunami debris.
Fascinated by the teenager’s voice and story, Ruth embarks on a literary
journey that soon transcends her understanding of the line between fiction and
reality. A truly international story, this novel instantly converts each of its
readers into a member of its passionate army of advocates.
British Independent
Booksellers Award • New York Times Best
Seller
Indie Best Seller • ALA Booklist’s High-Demand Hot List
Watch
Ruth’s gorgeous, moving book trailer: http://www.ruthozeki.com
“An extraordinary novel about a courageous
young woman, riven by loneliness, by time, and (ultimately) by tsunami. Nao
is an inspired narrator and her quest to tell her great grandmother’s story, to
connect with her past and with the larger world is both aching and
true. Ozeki is one of my favorite novelists and here she is at her
absolute best—bewitching, intelligent, hilarious, and heartbreaking, often on
the same page.”
–Junot
Díaz , New York Times bestselling author of The Brief Wondrous
Life of Oscar
–
Wao and This is How You Lose Her
W IS FOR WASTED
Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam, September 10, 2013)
W: Macmillan (United Kingdom ); Tusquets (Spain ); Tiden Norsk (Norway )
Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam, September 10, 2013)
W: Macmillan (
#1
on the New York Times Best Seller
List: Hardcover, e-Book, &Combined!
#1
on the Indie Best Seller list • #1 Download on Audible
#1 on Barnes & Noble’s Weekly Best Books
The first
was a local PI of suspect reputation. He’d been gunned down near the beach at
Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six
weeks later. He’d been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A
slip of paper with Millhone’s name and number was in his pants pocket. The
coroner asked her to come to the morgue to see if she could ID him. Two
seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural
causes.
As Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the two “John Doe,” some very strange linkages begin to emerge. And before long at least one aspect is solved as Kinsey literally finds the key to his identity. In this multilayered tale, the surfaces seem clear, but the underpinnings are full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised.
As Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the two “John Doe,” some very strange linkages begin to emerge. And before long at least one aspect is solved as Kinsey literally finds the key to his identity. In this multilayered tale, the surfaces seem clear, but the underpinnings are full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised.
WHO
ASKED YOU?
Terry McMillan (Viking/ September 17, 2013)
Terry McMillan (Viking/ September 17, 2013)
In fifteen voices—some defiant
and strong, others heart-breaking—New York
Times bestselling author Terry McMillan deftly weaves her tale of a
black Los Angeles
family. Bickering sisters Betty Jean, Arlene, and Venetia
watch their kids face drugs, custody-battles, prison time, and painful secrets
in this well-crafted story of acceptance, forgiveness, and hope.
“Her new book is rich in
narrative tension, nuanced humor and moral heft absent from many a work of
modern "literary fiction.” – Los Angeles Times
Featured interviews on CBS and NPR
15-City Author Tour for Who Asked You?
Over 11 Million Books in Print!!!
THE BURGESS
BOYS
Elizabeth
Strout (Random House/ March 26, 2013)
Luchterhand/RH
(Germany); Fazi (Italy); Hayakawa (Japan); El Aleph (Spain); Ediciones 1984
(Catalan); S&S (UK, Australia, New Zealand); Eksmo (Russia); Korea
(Munhakdongne); Hunan (China, Simplified); Pegasus (Turkey); General Press
(Hungary); Ciela Norma AD (Bulgaria)
Debuted at #3 on New York Times Best Seller List
# 1 on the Indie List • # 16 on the USA Today
List
# 6 on the Barnes and Noble Best Seller List •Spiegel Best Seller in Germany
# 6 on the Barnes and Noble Best Seller List •Spiegel Best Seller in Germany
Indie Next Pick • Amazon Best Book of the Month
• Powell’s Favorite
A stunning
new work of fiction from the Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, Strout’s newest novel
effortlessly tackles larger themes of race and class, seamlessly interwoven
with inimitable portrayals of rich family relationships. Meet the Burgess
brothers: Jim and Bob, both New York City lawyers. But there the similarities
end. Jim, the golden boy and firstborn of the family, and Bob, his kind and
quieter younger brother, will find both their lives irrevocably altered when
they are called back to their hometown in Maine by their sister Susan, after a
thoughtless prank committed by Susan’s son—Jim and Bob’s 19-year-old nephew Zach—rocks
their small community and unleashes a national scandal. As the novel unfolds,
layers of family history are peeled away to reveal the heartbreaking deception
and loss that has informed both the brothers’ personal and professional lives
for decades.
Elizabeth Strout is the author of Amy & Isabelle, Abide With Me, and
Olive Kitteridge. Olive, in addition to winning the 2009
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was also the recipient of the Premio Bancarella in
Italy, and the 2010 Bookseller’s Prize (El Premi Llibreter), given by the Guild
of Booksellers in Barcelona. www.elizabethstrout.com
Foreign for OLIVE KITTERIDGE:
General Egyptian (Arabic- Egypt only), 1984 (Catalan),
Thinkingdom (China S), Profil (Croatia), Jota (Czech), Batzer & Co.
(Denmark); Atlas (The Netherlands), Archipoche (France), Luchterhand/ RH
(Germany), Agyra (Greece), Opus (Israel), General Press (Hungary), Yayasan Andi
(Indonesia), Fazi (Italy), Hayakawa (Japan), Munhakdongne (Korea), Nasza
Ksiegarnia (Poland), Bertrand (Portuguese -Brazil), Casa das Letras (Portugal),
Litera (Romania), Azbooka (Russia), Profil (Serbia), El Aleph (Spain), Amarin
(Thailand), Pegasus (Turkey), S&S (UK/BC), Tre (Vietnam)
A STAR FOR
MRS. BLAKE
April Smith
(Vintage, Anchor/ January 2014)
An emotionally charged, brilliantly realized novel set in the
1930s about five American women—Gold Star Mothers—who travel to France to visit
the graves of their World War I soldier sons: A pilgrimage that will change
their lives in unforeseeable and indelible ways.
Five vastly different women meet for the first time just before
their journey begins: Katie, an Irish maid from Dorchester, Massachusetts;
Minnie, wife of an immigrant Russian Jewish chicken farmer; Bobbie, a wealthy
Boston socialite; Wilhelmina, a former tennis star in precarious mental health;
and Cora Blake, a single mother and librarian from coastal Maine.
In Paris, Cora meets a journalist whose drug habit helps him hide
from his own wartime fate—facial wounds so grievous he's forced to wear a metal
mask. Cora cannot foresee how this man will alter her own life. When the women
finally reach the battlegrounds and cemetery
of Verdun , shocking
events—a death, a scandal, and a secret revealed—will guarantee their lives
forever intertwined. This is a timeless story set against a footnote of
history: Little known before, but now unforgettable.
“April Smith has written a beautiful and
unforgettable novel about five Gold Star Mothers whose stories are both
personal and universal. Writing A Star
for Mrs. Blake must have been a labor of love and it shows on every page. Everyone
who has served or is serving in the military, and also their families and
friends, should read this book.”
– Nelson DeMille, New York Times bestselling author of The Quest
– Nelson DeMille, New York Times bestselling author of The Quest
FIN AND LADY
Cathleen
Schine (FSG/ July 2, 2013)
Mondadori (Italy); Constable
(UK)
A Barnes & Noble Recommends Selection
July 2013 Indie
Next List
It’s 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his
glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned. Lady,
whom Fin hasn’t seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope.
That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to
Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging ‘60s. He soon learns
that Lady—giddy, careless, urgent, and obsessed with being free—is as much his
responsibility as he is hers. Fin and Lady lead their lives against the
background of the ‘60s, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War—Lady pursued
by ardent, dogged suitors, Fin determined to protect his impulsive sister both
from them and from herself.
By a writer The New York Times has praised as “sparkling, crisp, clever, deft,
hilarious, and deeply affecting,” FIN AND LADY is a love story: the story of a
brother and sister who must form their own unconventional family in
increasingly unconventional times.
ALPHA WOMAN MEETS HER MATCH
Dr. Sonya Rhodes and Susan Schneider (William Morrow/ May 2014)
Goldmann (Germany ); Charron Editeur (France and Canada )
For all the
professional women who bought LEAN IN, APLHA WOMAN MEETS HER MATCH is a
liberating, straight-talking guide to dating that reassures successful modern
women they can find the right guy and get married without having to change or
settle…and then tells them how to do it. Deeply researched by a top
relationship therapist and unrelentingly positive and smart, ALPHA WOMAN MEETS
HER MATCH is a must-have for today’s successful single women.
CATS AT SEA
(Algonquin/ October 2013)
Valerie and
Lisa Martin
A swashbuckling story of two very
different cat brothers and their adventures at sea!
Cecil and Anton are as different as port and starboard. Cecil, stocky and black with white patches, thirsts for seafaring adventure as he roams the docks of his harborside home, taking day trips on fishing boats. Slim, gray Anton prefers listening to the sailors’ shanties at the town saloon. But one day when Anton goes to port, he’s taken to be a ratter on a ship bound for the high seas. Knowing little of the wide open ocean that lies beyond the harbor, Cecil boards another ship in hopes of finding Anton. But what begins as a rescue mission turns into a pair of high-seas adventures. Anton takes on a fierce rat, outwits hungry birds, and forges a forbidden friendship, while Cecil meets dolphins and whales and finds himself in a pirate raid. On an ocean as vast as the one Anton and Cecil have discovered, will they ever see home—or each other—again? Valerie Martin and Lisa Martin present a colorful cast of characters, rich historical detail, and lyrical storytelling that will delight fans of such classic animal adventures as The Wind in the Willows, Stuart Little, and Poppy.
Cecil and Anton are as different as port and starboard. Cecil, stocky and black with white patches, thirsts for seafaring adventure as he roams the docks of his harborside home, taking day trips on fishing boats. Slim, gray Anton prefers listening to the sailors’ shanties at the town saloon. But one day when Anton goes to port, he’s taken to be a ratter on a ship bound for the high seas. Knowing little of the wide open ocean that lies beyond the harbor, Cecil boards another ship in hopes of finding Anton. But what begins as a rescue mission turns into a pair of high-seas adventures. Anton takes on a fierce rat, outwits hungry birds, and forges a forbidden friendship, while Cecil meets dolphins and whales and finds himself in a pirate raid. On an ocean as vast as the one Anton and Cecil have discovered, will they ever see home—or each other—again? Valerie Martin and Lisa Martin present a colorful cast of characters, rich historical detail, and lyrical storytelling that will delight fans of such classic animal adventures as The Wind in the Willows, Stuart Little, and Poppy.
VITRO
Jessica
Khoury (Penguin/January 2014)
ORIGIN (Penguin/September
2012) Sales: Arena
(Germany); Clavis (Netherlands); Grupo Anaya (Spain); Wydawnictwo (Poland);
Exlibris (Bulgaria); Novo Conceito (Brazil); Egmont (Czech)
On a remote island
in the Pacific, Corpus scientists have taken test tube embryos and given them
life. These beings—the Vitros—have knowledge and abilities most humans can only
dream of. But they also have one major flaw…Sophie Crue is determined to get to
Skin Island and find her mother, a scientist who left Sophie behind years ago.
She enlists hunky charter pilot Jim Julien to take her there. But once on the
island, Sophie and Jim encounter more than they bargained for, including a
charming, brilliant Vitro named Nicholas and an innocent, newly awoken one
named Lux. In a race for their lives, Sophie and Jim are about to discover what
happens when science stretches too far…
OF
TRITON
Anna Banks
(Macmillan Children’s / May 2013)
Hardie Grant Egmont
(Australia)
Emma has just
learned her mother is a long-lost Poseidon princess, and now struggles with an
identity crisis: As a Half-Breed, she's a freak in the human world and an
abomination in the Syrena realm. Syrena law states all Half-Breeds should be
put to death.
As if that's not bad enough, her mother's reappearance in the Syrena world turns the two kingdoms—Poseidon and Triton—against one another. Which leaves Emma with a decision to make: Should she comply with Galen's request to keep herself safe and just hope for the best? Or should she risk it all and reveal herself—and her Gift—to save a people she's never known?
As if that's not bad enough, her mother's reappearance in the Syrena world turns the two kingdoms—Poseidon and Triton—against one another. Which leaves Emma with a decision to make: Should she comply with Galen's request to keep herself safe and just hope for the best? Or should she risk it all and reveal herself—and her Gift—to save a people she's never known?
With her signature
wit and humor, Banks gives us another wave of Emma and Galen’s romance.
Don’t miss the trilogy’s conclusion with OF NEPTUNE
in May 2014!
OF POSEIDON
Anna Banks (Macmillan
Children’s / May 2012)
Novo Conceito (Brazil); Hardie
Grant Egmont (Australia); Bertelsmann (Germany)
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