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NON-FICTION 2016

ALIBABA: The House that Jack Ma Built Duncan Clark Ecco/Harper April 2016 From such unremarkable origins, how did Jack Ma build the house that is Alibaba? For his out-sized ambitions and unconventional methods, Jack Ma has been referred to by some as “crazy Jack”. What is the method to his madness? As the company sets its ambitions on China’s financial sector and media markets, what are the limits to his ambitions? How will the company’s international expansion impact Silicon Valley and Hollywood?

In twelve chapters, Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built explores the company and the man who founded it. In these pages readers, will learn how Jack Ma, a former English teacher and twice-failed entrepreneur, harnessed the private sector to the rapid growth of the Internet in his country, creating a chemical reaction which powered Alibaba’s rise to become one of the largest firms in the world. Readers will also learn about Jack Ma’s early struggles, and how a combination of skill and luck provided him the opening for his later success. The country’s long-suppressed but now unleashed entrepreneurial sector, depended upon the Internet coming to China. Despite government efforts to contain, censor and channel, the Internet is transforming Chinese society and business. As China’s economy slows, and Alibaba’s relationship with the government shows signs of straining, Jack Magic is being put to the test as never before.

Duncan Clark was raised in the UK, US and France. He has been based in Beijing since 1994 and first met Jack Ma in 1999. He worked as a consultant to Alibaba in its early years. As a Visiting Scholar at Stanford he co-founded the ‘China 2.0’ research program which featured as speakers leading figures from China including Jack Ma, who came to speak twice. He is also a former investment banker with Morgan Stanley in London and Hong Kong, Duncan is widely quoted in international media outlets such as CNBC, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, The Economist, and the New York Times.

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NON-FICTION 2016

ANATOMY OF MALICE: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals Joel Dimsdale Yale May 2016 ANATOMY OF MALICE is the story of a complex and often troubled quest to make sense of the most extreme kind of evil, this most famous of war crime trials, through the history of the Rorschach test, and of its ultimate effects on the two doctors whose lives became deeply entangled in the worlds and lives of these criminals.

Renowned psychiatrist Joel Dimsdale--who was invited to speak at the 2015 anniversary of the Nuremberg trials—explores the desire to understand evil, through the lens of the psychological testing done on the leaders of Nazi Germany, the most devastating international war criminals of our time. Relying heavily on the Rorschach inkblot test, a psychologist and a psychiatrist-- Gustave Gilbert and Douglas Kelley—were chosen to lead the investigation. Their test results are still surrounded by intrigue: Gilbert and Kelley were bitter rivals, held differing views of their test results, and one of the doctors, Kelley, was a close friend of Goering. Both Kelley and Goering would ultimately both kill themselves with cyanide.

Dr. Joel Dimsdale is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in the department of psychiatry at University of California, San Diego. He was previously on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. He is an active investigator, a former career awardee of the American Heart Association, and is past-president of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the American Psychosomatic Society, and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He has edited seven books.

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NON-FICTION 2016

ONE WILD BIRD AT A TIME: Portraits of Individual Lives Bernd Heinrich Houghton Mifflin Harcourt April 2016

In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds at work and at play. Why does a great crested flycatcher bringing food to the young act surreptitiously, and get attacked by the mate? A pair of Northern flickers hammering their nest hole into the side of Heinrich’s cabin allow

him to observe the feeding competition between siblings, and to make a related discovery about nest cleaning. What will happen when one of a clutch of redstart warbler babies fledges out of the nest from twenty feet above the ground, and lands on the grass below and it can’t fly? Bernd Heinrich “looks closely, with his trademark ‘hands and knees science’ at its most engaging, [delivering] what can only be called psychological marvels of knowing.”—Boston Globe

Bernd Heinrich is an acclaimed scientist and the award-winning author of numerous books, including the best-selling Winter World, Mind of the Raven, Why We Run, and The Homing Instinct. He writes for Scientific American, Outside, American Scientist, and Audubon, and has published book reviews and op-eds for the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Among Heinrich's many honors is the 2013 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction, for Life Everlasting. He lives in Maine.

Also by Bernd Heinrich

THE HOMING INSTINCT: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration Houghton Mifflin Harcourt April 2015

“[A] delightful, wide-ranging meditation on the pull of home… A special treat for readers of natural history.” – Kirkus Reviews

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LIFE EVERLASTING: The Way of Animal Death Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Bernd Heinrich receives a letter from a severely ill friend asking if he might have a "green burial" at Heinrich's hunting camp, and the acclaimed biologist/author sets out to explore exactly how the animal world deals with the death-to-life cycle and what we can learn from the process, both ecologically and spiritually. Sold to: Germany Matthes & Seitz Japan Kagaku-Dojin Korea Kungree Poland Czarne


NON-FICTION 2016

CONTINENTAL DIVIDE: A History of American Mountaineering

Maurice Isserman Norton April 2016

Mountains have had an outsized impact on American identity: the Rockies and Tetons pulled us westward toward Manifest Destiny; the Catskills and Appalachians stirred the transcendentalists; and Yosemite inspired the early environmental conservationists. Continental Divide tells this gripping history through four centuries of landmark climbs and thrilling first ascents. With an incredible cast―including Lewis and Clark,

Thoreau, Emerson, and John Muir―Isserman describes epic campaigns from Mt. Washington to Denali, and traces the evolving social, cultural, and political roles mountains played in shaping the country.

Maurice Isserman is James L. Ferguson Professor of History, Hamilton College. His book FALLEN GIANTS was reviewed by the New York Times as "the book of a lifetime... an awe-inspiring work of history and storytelling... Armchair mountaineers will give the book pride of place in their collections.”

DEAR LOS ANGELES David Kipen Random House Spring 2016

The problem with chronological histories of Los Angeles is that they make too much sense. As megacities around the world leave off looking to L.A. as a cautionary example and, instead, start to see it as a way forward, Kipen presents an anecdotal history that turns Southern California history inside out. Travelling from the pivotal year of 1935 both backward to 19th-century annexation and forward to the city we think we know, Dear

Los Angeles teases out patterns and parallels hitherto hard to glimpse. Far from a city without history, L.A. becomes, to paraphrase Joyce, a nightmare from which the future is trying to awake. David Kipen was born in Los Angeles the same year that Marcel Duchamp and Dennis Hopper, at the former’s retrospective in Pasadena, toasted each other with pink champagne. As Literature Director of the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts -- and translator of the Cervantes novella Dialogo de los perros -- Kipen presided over a 5% increase in U.S. reading and fielded a triumphal delegation of over 50 Southern California writers to the 2009 Guadalajara Book Fair. Once the San Francisco Chronicle’s book critic and currently on the UCLA writing faculty, he is the founder of a nonprofit lending library, Libros Schmibros, in the working-class L.A. neighborhood of Boyle Heights.


NON-FICTION 2016 ENGINEERING EDEN: A Violent Death, A Trial, and the Control of Nature Jordan Fisher-Smith Random House June 2016 By the author of Nature Noir comes this hybrid of true crime and nature

writing which recounts the story of young Harry Walker, who in 1972

impulsively left his National Guard unit and hit the road to hitchhike and

quickly fell in love with a fellow vagabond from Montana. Their whirlwind

romance was tragically cut short after midnight on June 25th, when Harry

was eaten by a grizzly bear. That bear was not wild, yet not tame; it had a long history with the

rangers who, like zookeepers, were trying to manage its relations with people. Engineering

Eden: A Violent Death, A Trial, and the Control of Nature is part true detective story, part

nature writing. “"This is a walk in the woods like Thoreau never imagined,” said author Mike

Davis. “I can't make up my mind whether Jordan Fisher Smith is John Muir at the crime scene or

Elmore Leonard with a backpack. In any event, this astonishing book, with its brilliant

interweaving of murder, irony and natural history, invents a new genre.”

For 21 years, Jordan Fisher Smith worked as a park and wilderness ranger in California, Idaho, Wyoming, and Alaska. His work has appeared in Discover, Men's Journal, Backpacker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Orion, The Sun, and Land & People.

ENVIRONMENTAL NON-FICTION RECAP

A RIVER RUNS AGAIN: India’s Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka Meera Subramania Public Affairs/ Perseus August 2015

A country smothering under a cloud of smog so vast that it is visible from outer space, India is the canary in the coalmine warning us of the environmental disaster awaiting us all. This book beautifully and memorably captures the universal conflict between humanity and its natural world.

RAIN: A Natural and Cultural History Cynthia Barnett Crown April 2015 Rights Controlled by Publisher

"Mesmerizing and powerful history. Barnett is a passionate, intrepid journalist... Her cultural references are equally far-reaching... Abundant details, spiced with irreverence and humor, are what make this book so delicious. What elevates it and makes it important is Barnett's exploration of humanity's attempts throughout history to prevail over the elements... Reading this book, we are witness to the profoundly flawed, hubristic core of human nature itself." –More Magazine LONG LISTED FOR NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2015!


DELIVERY 2016 THE POWER OF WANDERING Stephen Prothero HarperCollins Delivery Dec. 2016

The essence of wandering is moving without destination into the unknown and opening yourself in the process to surprises. To wander is to find joy in small things and to wrestle with big questions. It is to step out of a simple world in which all problems have solutions into a more complex world wrapped up in the perils and powers of mysterious things. It is to sit with

silence. It is to make choices rather than to follow rules. Using literary references from ancient Greece to modern songwriters, Stephen Prothero explores the ancient (and modern) practice of unsettling yourself: wandering as a way of moving and thinking, of reading and writing, of praying and being—wandering as practice and play.

Stephen Prothero is the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One, a Professor of Religion at Boston University, and a senior fellow at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. His work has been featured on the cover of Time Magazine, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and National Public Radio.

Also by Stephen Prothero:

GOD IS NOT ONE: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World Sold to: Australia: Black Brazil: Elsevier France: Frederic Boyer/Bayard Germany: Diederich Netherlands: Prometheus Russia: Exmo “Enormously timely, thoughtful and balanced.” - Los Angeles Times

STILL WATERS

Curt Stager Norton Delivery Sept. 2016

Henry David Thoreau called Walden Pond "Earth's eye," in which "... the beholder measures the depths of his own nature." More than a century later, lake ecologist Curt Stager returns to Walden and finds a new world reflected in those waters, one

in which for better or for worse we have become inseparably connected to Nature. Drawing upon his investigations of ancient sediment cores, both common and exotic aquatic species, and other aspects of aquatic life, Stager uses the world’s most iconic lakes, from Walden and Galilee to Loch Ness and the source of the Nile, as unique windows on our powerful new role as a force of Nature in this Anthropocene epoch, the “Age of Humans.”

Curt Stager is an ecologist, paleoclimatologist, and science writer. He has published more than three dozen climate- and ecology-related articles in major journals, and has written for popular audiences in periodicals such as National Geographic. He teaches at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondack Mountains and holds a research associate post at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. He is the author of Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth (Thomas Dunne Books, 2011).


FUTURE AMY TAN

THE MIND OF A WRITER: A Memoir (Non-Fiction)

Ecco/Harper Delivery Spring 2016

An intimate look at Amy Tan’s correspondence and thoughts about the writing process. Sold to: UK HarperCollins Spain Planeta

THE MEMORY OF DESIRE (Fiction) Ecco/Harper Delivery December 2017

Sold to: Catalan Ed 62 Germany Random House Spain Planeta UK HarperCollins Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Saving Fish from Drowning, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and Sagwa, which was adapted into a PBS Kids production. Her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York. Also by Amy Tan

THE OPPOSITE OF FATE: Memories of a Writing Life (Non-fiction) Sold to: Brazil Rocco Catalan Ediciones62 China Shanghai Far East Germany Goldmann Israel Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir Indonesia Gramedia Poland Proszynski Spain Planeta Netherlands Prometheus Taiwan China Times UK HarperCollins

VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT (Fiction) Sold to: Brazil Planeta Catalan Ediciones 62 China Foreign Lang. Tran. Czech Albatros Finland WSOY Germany Goldmann France Leduc Hungary Cartaphilus Israel Kinneret Italy Salani Lithuania Tyto Alba Netherlands Prometheus Norway Juritzen Poland Proszynski Romania Polirom Slovak Slovart Spain Planeta UK HarperCollins

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FICTION 2016

THE TEA GIRL OF HUMMINGBIRD LANE Lisa See Delivery Nov 2016 Random House Pub June 2016 or Winter 2017

Young, poor, and husband-less in rural China, Li-yan leaves her baby on the steps of an orphanage in rural China, but she makes sure her daughter carries a piece of her heritage with her—a tea cake made with leaves from an ancient tree. Li-yan vows to one day make her way back to her daughter, after turning herself into the respected, independent, and successful women she wants to be.

Haley’s adolescence in Pasadena, CA, is marked by her adoptive parents' pressure on her to succeed at school and life and a nagging sense that she will never fit in. When her carefully constructed plans are derailed, Haley heads down an unfamiliar path that will lead her to the thing she craves most—a connection to her past. From a remote Chinese village to sunny Pasadena, See's latest blends contemporary characters with the historic, mysterious, and highly lucrative rare tea trade, all the while showing us the power of fate and destiny and how a mother can dedicate her life to finding and deserving the one true thing that matters to her: her daughter.

Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Shanghai Girls, Dreams of Joy, Peony in Love, Flower Net (an Edgar Award nominee), The Interior, and Dragon Bones, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir On Gold Mountain. The Organization of Chinese American Women named her the 2001 National Woman of the Year. She lives in Los Angeles.

Also by Lisa See: CHINA DOLLS Random House New York Times Bestseller Named one of the “Best Books of the Year” by Washington Post #1 Bestseller in Los Angeles Times “Stellar… Each woman’s voice [is] strong and dynamic, developing a multilayered richness as it progresses. The depth of See’s characters and her winning prose makes this book a wonderful journey through love and loss.” – Publishers Weekly (starred)

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FICTION 2016 BEFORE WE VISIT THE GODDESS Chitra Divakaruni Simon & Schuster April 2016

In her latest novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, failing marriages, and the love that binds us across generations, with a sparkling symphony of voices. The young daughter of a poor rural baker in Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but schooling is impossible when her mother’s

sweetshop barely makes a profit. A powerful local woman takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single, unforgiveable misstep. Years later, Sabitri’s own daughter, Bela, haunted by her mother’s choices, flees to Texas with her political refugee lover—but the world she finds is vastly different from the America of her dreams. As the marriage crumbles and Bela decides to forge her own path, she unwittingly teaches her own little girl Tara indelible lessons about freedom and loyalty that will take a lifetime to unravel. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Times. Born in India, she lives in Texas is the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Houston’s Creative Writing program.

Also by Chitra Divakaruni

OLEANDER GIRL Winner of the 2015 Scanno Award in Italy Sold to: India Penguin Italy Einaudi Spain Ed. B Turkey Aspendos ONE AMAZING THING Sold to: France Editions Philippe Picquier India Penguin India Indonesia Hikmah Israel Kinneret

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FICTION 2016

REMEMBERING 1942: And Other Chinese Stories

Liu Zhenyun Translated by Howard Goldblatt & Sylvia Li-chun Lin Skyhorse Publishing Summer 2016

Showcasing Liu Zhenyun’s talent in portraying intricate interpersonal relationships in contemporary Chinese society, this collection features ordinary people with their humble wishes as they struggle against forces beyond their control for a better life. Liu presents vivid pictures of people in different socio-economic strata, with subtle but poignant criticism of their foolish actions, yet with understanding and sympathy.

Liu Zhenyun is the author of six bestselling novels, including I Did Not Kill My Husband which sold 1.2

million copies in China. His fiction has won numerous prizes in China and Hong Kong and has been

translated into several languages. Several films have been made based on his novels, including the

blockbuster Cell Phone. He is a graduate of Peking University's Chinese literature department.

Howard Goldblatt is a translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese fiction, including the

works of Chinese novelist and 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Mo Yan.

Sylvia Li-Chun Lin co-translated the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize-winning novel, Three Sisters, by Bi

Feiyu. She has also been the winner of the Liang Shih-chiu Literary Translation Prize.

Also by Liu Zhenyun:

THE COOK, THE CROOK, AND THE REAL ESTATE TYCOON Skyhorse Publishing August 2015

Liu Yuejin is a work-site cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching for it, he stumbles upon another bag, which contains a flash disk that chronicles high-level corruption, setting off a convoluted chase. There are no heroes in this scathing, and highly readable exposé of China’s predatory capitalism, corruption, and the plight of the underclasses.

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I DID NOT KILL MY HUSBAND Skyhorse Publishing August 2014

“Nothing is as it seems in this wickedly subtle satire…Liu writes with a colloquial voice reminiscent of old men gossiping, which adds and absurd twist to his keen dissections. By the end, it’s hard to know who exactly is being skewered: the government, which is more victim than villain, or ordinary citizens whose kooky brilliance elevates them into politicians fighting for grapes in their own rights. Either way, Liu has written a masterful tale that will make you laugh even as you despair. His words are simple but will linger in your memory long after you have finished.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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FICTION 2016

I LIKE YOU JUST FINE WHEN YOU’RE NOT AROUND Ann Garvin Tyrus Books July 2016

"This is a riveting story about a woman whose life spins out of control as she tries to cling to a mother whose memories are slipping away, revealing long-buried family secrets. Fast-paced and witty, the story sneaks up on you page after page, delivering profound emotional truths about the

nature of love and the power of family." --Holly Robinson, author of Haven Lake Also by Ann Garvin A DOG YEAR Berkeley June 2014 “Compelling . . . A perfect fit for suburban reading groups.”—Booklist Sold to: Germany Heyne

DRAGON SPRINGS ROAD Janie Chang HarperCollins Fall 2016

Six-year-old orphan Jialing is scorned by Chinese and Europeans alike because she is zazhong, of mixed blood. Her only ally is Anjuin, daughter of the Yang family. But when an English girl vanishes from the mysterious courtyard, Jialing’s life takes an unexpected turn, one that leads, over the

years, to her fateful decision to find the mother who abandoned her. Set against the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Chinese Nationalist government, when warlords and gangsters ruled, DRAGON SPRINGS ROAD is a tale about the strength and fragility of friendship, and about our need to belong. Janie Chang grew up listening to stories about ancestors who encountered dragons, ghosts, and immortals, and family life in a small Chinese town in the years before the Second World War. She is a graduate of The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University.

Also by Janie Chang

THREE SOULS HarperCollins February 2014 “Chang deftly conveys how the initially despairing Leiyin comes to accept her kind-hearted husband, particularly after they have a daughter, Weilan. Hanchin’s reappearance, however, shatters Leiyin’s peaceful existence. As the book nears its suspenseful climax, Leiyin’s ghost struggles to protect her daughter as well as her own soul. Her novel bristles with freshness and heart.” –Publisher’s Weekly Sold to: Italy Fabbri


THRILLER/MYSTERY 2016

THE SECRETS YOU KEEP Kate White HarperCollins January 2017

Self-help author Bryn Harper has always been the kind of indomitable woman who could handle anything fate threw her way. Then she is in a devastating car crash in which she suffers a concussion and broken bones and her business colleague is killed. She tries to handle her grief as well as she can, but suddenly she’s begun to have recurring nightmares. The dreams seem to be telling her something, but she doesn’t know what since she can remember nothing of the hours

leading up to and after the accident. Deciding that the best strategy is to leave New York City, she moves to Saratoga to be with her new husband David, where she hopes her bones and her psyche can mend. However, right from the start, things get worse. David seems to be keeping secrets from her, and then a woman Bryn hires to cater a party is murdered. As Bryn’s life unravels, she must summon her old strength to find the answers she needs to protect herself from harm. And in a surprising twist, Bryn discovers that the nightmares she’s been having may hold a key that will eventually allow her to unlock the truth and unmask a murderer. Kate White has been the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and is the New York Times bestselling author of six Bailey Weggins mysteries and three suspense novels. Her first Bailey Weggins mystery, If Looks Could Kill, hit #1 on Amazon. White is also the author of several popular career books: I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: How to Ask for the Money, Snag the Promotion, and Create the Career You Deserve, and Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do.

Also by Kate White: THE WRONG MAN Harper June 2015

“White manages to successfully pull off writing another edge-of-your-seat thriller with her newest novel, The Wrong Man, which keeps the reader enthralled until the very last page. This mystery never fails to keep action flowing, but even if it seems as if something stalls, White successfully manages to swoop back in with a new chapter and something else to bring the reader’s attention right back in. This book is impossible to put down until the surprising twist ending.” – Mystery Reviews EYES ON YOU Harper June 2014

“With pop culture references and attention to fashion detail, White keeps the story both timely and engaging. It’s her devious mind, however, that puts the thrill in this thriller.” – Publishers Weekly “Her most compelling and snappiest stand-alone yet.” – Booklist Sold to: Germany Weltbild



A VOICE FROM THE FIELD

Neal Griffin Tor February 2016

Police Officer Tia Suarez jumped off the pages in Griffin's brilliant debut novel,

Benefit of the Doubt. Now she takes center stage in her own story, A Voice from the Field, a gripping thriller about human trafficking. Tia Suarez doesn't back down for anyone. Not the department shrink; not the feds who dismiss her; not even her boyfriend, a Marine veteran who thinks she doesn't know what she's getting into. She almost doesn’t believe her eyes when she glimpses a Hispanic teenager bound and gagged in the back of a white supremacist’s van. The look of terror

on the woman’s face makes Tia desperate to rescue her, come hell or high water. Neal Griffin is a twenty-five year veteran of law enforcement. Currently Criminal Investigations Division Commander in Escondido, California, he is a graduate of the FBI's National Academy training program. Griffin is a certified Master Instructor in law enforcement leadership and ethics.

Also by Neal Griffin: BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT Tor May 2015 Translation Only Los Angeles Times Bestseller A gripping thriller that exposes the dark underbelly of policing in small-town American, where local police departments now deal with big-city crimes and corruption.

“[A] unique and suspenseful debut novel by a cop-turned-author who knows the turf. The story moves at warp speed.” - Joseph Wambaugh, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Benefit of the Doubt needs none—there is no doubt that this fine debut novel is the sure-handed work of an exciting new author.” - Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of Savages



THE EMPRESS OF TEMPERA Alex Dolan Diversion Summer 2016

The feud began 40 years ago. Gabriel Kasson was one of the wealthiest men in America, while an artist known as Qi was heralded as the next Andy Warhol. Kasson planned on commissioning a vast art museum in Manhattan, ostensibly to house the works of Qi, but after an acrimonious falling out, Qi stopped painting, and Kasson boxed up Qi’s

inventory of work and expunged the artist from public memory. A Cold War has existed between these two families ever since, and very few people remember the artist at all.

Today, a Qi appears in New York. Outside the Fern Gallery, a man stabs himself in the heart while staring a painting of a young Chinese empress. Paire Anjou, a young art student fresh to the city, stands so close, her dress is freckled with blood. The resurgence of Qi’s art stirs up widespread curiosity and attention. Much like Michelangelo’s David, the portrait evokes powerful reactions from people. Patrons pass out, write love letters, and try to vandalize it. Since the day she saw it, Paire can’t stop ruminating about the painting. The descendants of the Kasson and Qi families converge, and their conflict escalates into a blood feud. Each family is willing to destroy the other, and once Paire covets the Empress, she is woven into this war. Paire Anjou is herself a descendent of criminal parents with a predilection for kleptomania--and she has just decided that she must possess the Qi for herself. Alex Dolan received his master’s degree from Columbia University, where he focused on writing and editorial craft. He has also worked as a literary critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, and contributed to several publications, including Writer’s Digest. Also by Alex Dolan

THE EUTHANIST Diversion Books June 2015 Translation Only

In this auspicious debut, Alex Dolan announces himself as a virtuoso of psychological suspense and a rightful heir to masters of the genre like Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott. A young woman helps to end the lives of people with terminal diseases, her reasons her own. When she helps the wrong person, she will be roped into a plot to gain vengeance on behalf of dozens. Her journey will make her question everything she ever thought she knew about herself. And the last life she ends may be her own.


PUBLISHING 2016 – RIGHTS CONTROLLED BY PUBLISHER

AN UNRESTORED WOMAN (Literary Fiction) Shobha Rao Flatiron Books March 2016

A debut of astonishing scope and lyricism, the twelve paired stories in Shobha Rao’s An Unrestored Woman trace their origins to the formation of India and Pakistan in 1947, but they transcend that historical moment, giving us searing, intimate portraits of men and women whose futures are jeopardized by this uncivil war. “This transporting debut will linger in your mind long past the last page.” Karen Joy

Fowler, New York Times bestselling author Sold to: Spain Alfaguara-Santillana UK Virago

NON-FICTION

THE FALL OF HEAVEN: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran Andrew Cooper Holt June 2016 The Fall of Heaven is intimate, immersive account of the final days of Iran’s glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, and a remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Cooper’s exhaustively researched, investigate account gives us a play by play of the days leading up to the

1979 revolution through the eyes of those who were there: leading Iranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter and White House officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan and his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself, and the rest of the Iranian Imperial family.

POSSESSION: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present Erin Thompson Yale University Press Spring 2016

Enlivened by fascinating personalities and scandalous events, Thompson shows how collecting antiquities has been a way of creating identity, informed by a desire to annex the past while providing an illicit thrill along the way. Thompson's account of history's most infamous collectors, from the Roman Emperor Tiberius, who stole a life-sized nude Greek statue for his bedroom, to Queen Christina of Sweden, who

habitually pilfered small antiquities from her fellow aristocrats, to Sir William Hamilton, who forced his mistress to enact poses on his collection of Greek vases, are mesmerizing.

SNOWDEN Aug 2015 BERNIE Jan 2016 Ted Rall Seven Stories Press

Noted cartoonist Ted Rall takes a humorous and critical look at two politicos who are motivated to make social change. SNOWDEN sold to Germany (Martin Fontes) and Brazil (Rotpunkt).


YOUNG ADULT/MIDDLE GRADE 2016

THE STAR TOUCHED QUEEN (YA) Roshani Chokshi St. Martin’s Press May 2016

Sixteen-year-old Princess Mayavati spends her free time hiding up on the rafters, spying on her father’s court. Scorned by the women of the harem and her father’s political advisors because of her foreboding horoscope which pairs her with Death and Destruction, Maya enjoys the freedom of roaming the palace as she pleases.

A deadly tumult on the day of her unwanted wedding leaves Maya no choice but to wed the enigmatic Raja of Akaran. In her new palace, Maya finds a garden of glass

and a tree that bears memory instead of fruit. Haunted by what she sees, Maya begins to suspect her life is in danger and her discoveries threaten the balance of all realms, human and Otherworldly.

To succeed restoring the balance by the end of the lunar cycle, or risk losing herself and the world she knows, she must confront a secret that spans reincarnated lives, travel through the seamy underbelly of the Indian Otherworld and perform the impossible: trick Death himself.

The author, Roshani Chokshi, is a 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in Loose Change, In The Fray, and The Feminist Wire.

THE ABYSS SURROUNDS US (YA) Emily Strustkie Flux February 2016

Translation Only Starring seventeen-year-old Cas Leung, THE ABYSS THAT SURROUNDS US is a progressive sci-fi fantasy that combines pirates, sea-monsters, and a LGBT love story. Emily Skrutskie is a Cornell University student studying film and computer science. Her short fiction has been published by HarperTeen as part of the online bonus content of the Defy the Dark anthology.

NIGHT PARADE (MG) Karen Tanquary Sourcebooks January 2016 Thirteen year old Saki Yamamoto wants to spend her summer vacation anywhere but her grandmother’s creaky old house in the countryside, where the phone signal is bad and the townies are even worse. In an attempt to impress the local kids, Saki unintentionally invokes a death curse while messing around at the old family graveyard. Now, the most terrible summer of her life is about to become her last.

Kathryn Tanquary graduated with a B.A. in Creative Writing from Knox College. She now teaches English as a Foreign Language in the Gunma Prefecture in Japan.


2015 NON-FICTION RECAP

THE SOCIAL SEX: A History of Female Friendship Marilyn Yalom HarperCollins September 2015 Translation only

Surveying history, literature, philosophy, religion, and pop culture, acclaimed author Marilyn Yalom with Theresa Donovan Brown hronicle shifting attitudes toward friendship—both female and male—from the Bible and the Romans to the Enlightenment, to the women's rights movements of the 1960s up to Sex and the City. They reveal how the concept of female friendship is inextricably linked to the larger cultural movements that have defined human history.

Sold to: France Galaade Germany RH Korea Cum Libro Taiwan Owl

AMAZONS: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World Adrienne Mayor Princeton University Paperback March 2016 Translation only

Stanford-based Mayor’s previous book, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates,

Rome's Deadliest Enemy, was a 2009 National Book Award Finalist, was named one of the best

books of 2009 by the Washington Post, and was Winner of the 2010 Gold Medal in Biography, Independent Publisher Book Awards.

“Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the Etruscans, she leads the reader on a breathtaking quest for the real ancient warrior women reflected in myths—their daring, archery, tattoos, fine horses, and independence from male control. The book’s rich erudition, communicated in sparkling prose and beautiful illustrations, makes it a riveting read.” - Edith Hall, author of Introducing the Ancient Greeks

2015 PARENTING RECAP

TEACHING KIDS TO THINK

Darlene Sweetland and Ron Stolberg Sourcebooks 2015 An insight into the social, emotional, and neurological challenges unique to this generation. They identify the five parent traps that cause adults to unknowingly increase their children's need for instant gratification, and offer practical tips and easy-to-implement solutions to address topics relevant to children of all ages.

Sold to: Italy Fetrinelli Korea Geuldam Russia Alpina Taiwan Heliopolis

2015 THRILLER RECAP

THE TELLER

Jonathan Stone Thomas & Mercer May 2015 Translation Only

Elaine Kelly – a sweet-natured, financially struggling young bank teller at a branch in Queens, NY – has a regular customer named Antonio Desirio –an old man who’s all alone in the world – it’s just him and his savings. When he’s hit by a truck while crossing the busy street in front of the bank (before his latest deposit even clears) she impulsively switches his savings to her own account. But the truck hitting the old man was no accident. And he wasn’t just some lonely old man. And Elaine is in a world of trouble. The Teller is about sex, power, data, ethic and banks that are just too damn big.

Documents

The Dijkstra Agency - Sandra Bruna … · THE HOMING INSTINCT: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration Houghton Mifflin Harcourt April 2015 ^[A] delightful, wide-ranging meditation