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RIGHTS GUIDE FALL 2013

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October 1, 2013

Emma Sweeney

Emma Sweeney Agency, LLC 245 East 80th Street, Suite 7E New York, NY 10075

Dear Colleagues, Enclosed please find new and recently published ESA titles as well as selected titles from our backlist. If you would like more information on any of these titles, please be in touch with me or Noah Ballard ([email protected]). Find our list of foreign co-agents on the last page of this booklet. Best wishes,

Emma Sweeney [email protected]

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CONTENTS CLIENT LIST NEW FICTION Twist & Shout by Heather Barbieri The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen Untitled Twain Novel by Lynn Cullen The Unwitting by Ellen Feldman Women in Bed by Jessica Keener Three Bargains by Tania Malik Above by Isla Morley The Replacement by Colleen Oakley Space Rocks by Tom O’Donnell Flings: Stories by Justin Taylor Fatal Impressions by Reba White-Williams

NEW NON-FICTION The Ogallala Road by Julene Bair Losing Tim by Janet Burroway Heirloom Peppers by Amy Goldman Secrets of the Southern Belle by Phaedra Parks The Ambiguity of Virtue by Bernard Wasserstein

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RECENTLY PUBLISHED FICTION Equal of the Sun by Anita Amirrezvani The Cottage at Glass Beach by Heather Barbieri The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker Astor Place Vintage by Stephanie Lehmann Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence by David Samuel Levinson In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner

RECENTLY PUBLISHED NON-FICTION My First Coup D’état by President John Mahama Your Bones by Lara Pizzorno, MA, LMT I Invented the Modern Age by Richard Snow

SELECTED BACKLIST CO-AGENTS

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EMMA SWEENEY AGENCY CLIENT Jonis Agee Anita Amirrezvani Axios Press Julene Bair Heather Barbieri Emily Croy Barker Andrew Beahrs Chaya Bhuvaneswar Janet Burroway Edgar Cantero Stephanie Cowell Alison Croggon@ Lynn Cullen Ann Darby Elizabeth Dewberry Wendy Doniger David Dosa, MD MPH Ellen Feldman Alex George* Amy Goldman John Gribbin* Mary Gribbin* Sara Gruen Beth Gutcheon Rick Hamlin John Kampfner * Jessica Keener

Jim Kelly# Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller Stephanie Lehmann David Samuel Levinson Penelope Lively* John Mahama Tania Malik Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Mark Mordue@ Isla Morley Colleen Oakley Elizabeth Oberbeck Tom O’Donnell Phaedra Parks Lara Pizzorno, MA, LMT Vaddey Ratner Jane Sanderson* Helen Scales Sandra Scofield Katherine Sharpe Philip Short* Richard Snow Eric Swanson Justin Taylor Tsoknyi Rinpoche Carol Wallace Bernard Wasserstein*

* David Higham client # Faith Evans client @ Jenny Darling client = ESA holds foreign and/or translation rights 7

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HEATHER BARBIERI TWIST AND SHOUT Manuscript Available July 2013

Film/television rights: Jerry Kalajian: [email protected] “Barbieri’s deft writing style is charmingly wry yet evocative, with details and descriptions both telling and vivid.” —Boston Globe USA Today bestseller Heather Barbieri follows up The Cottage at Glass Beach with a poignant novel chronicalling our cultural history. Set in August, 1964, TWIST AND SHOUT follows four parochial school friends as their lives intersect one night in Seattle on the Beatles first North American tour. This novel is sure to satisfy fans the quintessential 1960s musical phenomenon. With her recent surge of sales in ebooks and paperback, this clever, historical novel is the perfect twist on The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants for the 1960s. Heather Barbieri’s The Lacemakers of Glenmara (Harper, 2009) is USA Today bestseller and consistently on Amazon’s Top 100. Before turning to writing fiction full-time, she was a magazine editor, journalist, and film critic. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and three children. She is the author of The Cottage at Glass Beach (Harper, 2012) which has just been released in paperback and is in its fourth printing. See our Selected Backlist for more information on option publishers. 9

EDGAR CANTERO THE SUPERNATURAL ENHANCEMENTS US & Canada: Doubleday / August 2014 / Manuscript available Film/television rights: Joel Gotler: [email protected] In Edgar Cantero's wildly inventive and wholly original novel, a strange European couple arrive in Virginia after implausibly inheriting Axton House – their very own haunted place. Set in 1995, THE SUPERNATURAL ENHANCEMENTS tells the story of A., the unexpected heir and Niamh, the mute underage punk girl whom he refers to as either his associate or his bodyguard—he's also falling in love with her. Both share a passion for "The X Files" and a Hollywood-influenced vision of their new continent. Through diaries, letters and state-of-the-art digital sources, they eagerly delve into a dubious suicide and discover the secret society he founded and its mysterious game – a "bourgeois pastime" of global proportions, all the while coping with nightmares, chasing a ghost, and taking time every now and then to appreciate how cool their new life is. Rights sold to: UK: Del Rey Edgar Cantero lives in Barcelona and works as a cartoonist at "El Jueve." This is his first novel written in English; he wrote two novels published in Catalan (‘Dormir amb Winona Ryder’ (‘Sleeping with Winona Ryder’; Barcelona: Proa, 2007), which won the Joan Crexells award for best Catalan novel of the year, and ‘Vallvi’ (Proa, 2011).

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LYNN CULLEN MRS. POE

US & Canada: Gallery / Sept 24, 2013 / Finals available “Truly a book to savor!” —M.J. Rose, bestselling author of Seduction

In 1845, the fame that had eluded Edgar Allan Poe at last seems assured. But just when New York and the rest of the world is falling in love with him, he falls in love with Frances Osgood, a poet known mostly for her children’s verses. Both parties are married— Poe to his first cousin, Virginia, who was thirteen when she married him, and Frances to a prominent painter with a weakness for women. In the gothic thriller, MRS. POE, Frances Osgood chronicles the intense attraction between her and Edgar Allen Poe as it descends to a downfall so complete they are lucky to escape with their lives. Virginia Poe, it seems, has no plans to give up her husband lightly. MRS. POE is a Penny’s Pick for Costco for October. Rights sold to: Italy: Neri Pozza Editore Lithuania: UAB Gimtasis Zodis Brazil: Bertrand Brasil Hungary: Rézbong Kiadó Turkey: Dogen

Lynn Cullen is also the author of numerous award-winning books for children, including the young adult novel I Am Rembrandt's Daughter, which was a 2007 Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection, and an ALA Best Book of 2008, The Creation of Eve (Putnam, 2010), which was an Indie Next Pick, and Reign of Madness (Putnam, 2011) which was shortlisted for the Townsend Prize. 11

LYNN CULLEN UNTITLED MARK TWAIN NOVEL

US & Canada: Gallery / Fall 2015 / Ms available Nov 2014 Lynn Cullen’s follow-up to MRS. POE, currently under contract with Gallery, will chronicle the three day period in which Mark Twain meets and connects with Helen Keller. Events during Keller's visit make him realize how much he loves Isabel Lyon, his professional secretary, just when it's too late. Lynn Cullen is also the author of numerous award-winning books for children, including the young adult novel I Am Rembrandt's Daughter, which was a 2007 Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection, and an ALA Best Book of 2008, The Creation of Eve (Putnam, 2010), which was an Indie Next Pick, and Reign of Madness (Putnam, 2011) which was shortlisted for the Townsend Prize. See our Selected Backlist for more information on option publishers.

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ELLEN FELDMAN THE UNWITTING

US & Canada: Spiegel & Grau / May 6, 2014 / Ms available “Ellen Feldman blends history and fiction so skillfully that it's almost impossible to know where one ends and the other begins.” — Geoffrey C. Ward

During the Cold War, many liberal anti-communist writers, artists, and intellectuals ended up working for organizations that were CIA fronts. CIA protocol dictated that one individual in the various organizations would be vetted, sworn to secrecy and told about the connection and funding. That individual was, in Agency parlance, witting. Everyone else was unwitting. THE UNWITTING is about a husband who is witting, a wife who is not, and the unraveling of her life when she discovers that the person she is closest to in the world, the husband she loved and trusted, has betrayed her not with another woman but with an allegiance. Rights sold to: UK: Picador

Ellen Feldman, a 2009 Guggenheim fellow, is the author of Scottsboro, The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, and Lucy. She writes both fiction and social history, and has published numerous book reviews. She grew up in northern New Jersey and attended Bryn Mawr College, from which she holds a B.A. and an M.A. in modern history. After further graduate studies at Columbia University, she worked for a New York publishing house. Feldman lives in New York City and East Hampton, New York, with her husband and their Cairn terrier named Lucy. She is the author of Next to Love (Spiegel & Grau, 2011). See our Selected Backlist for more information on option publishers. 13

JESSICA KEENER WOMEN IN BED

World: Studio Digital / Oct. 1, 2013 / Final copies available “Demonstrates a versatile voice and ability to deliver as much exquisite detail as the stories’ brevity will allow.” — Publishers Weekly

Jessica Keener’s extraordinary debut novel, Night Swim captivated readers with its eloquence, insight, and humanity. “This gripping first novel announces the arrival of a strong, distinct and fully evolved new voice,” said Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants called Keener, “An amazing new literary voice.” Now Jessica Keener returns with WOMEN IN BED, a collection of nine stories that thematically address variations of love, love of self, family, and sexual relationships from loneliness and isolation, desperation and rejection to need and passion, forgiveness and, finally, to love found. Jessica Keener's fiction has been recognized in The Pushcart Prize under "Outstanding Writers," and won Redbook magazine's second prize. Her debut novel, Night Swim, has been widely praised by reviewers and book bloggers including The New York Times, which called Night Swim "an earnest debut" and "moving." Her work has appeared in scores of national publications and literary magazines, most recently in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Huffington Post and The Nervous Breakdown. She is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist's Grant and was a finalist in Breadloaf's Bakeless novel competition. 14

TANIA MALIK THREE BARGAINS

World Rights: W.W. Norton / 2014 / Ms available Dec 2013 Set in Gorapur, a dusty factory town in northern India, THREE BARGAINS tells the story of Madan, the son of two servants working onthe vast estate of Avtar Singh, the town’s most powerful resident. When Madan’s father sells his 5-year-old sister to a group of men who sexually abuse her to the point of death, Madan turns to Avtaar Singh for help and the fateful bargain is struck: while Madan has acted to save his sister’s life, he’s lost his father who is beaten to death. And he is in Avtaar’s debt. But Avtaar’s mentorship is neither unconditional nor free from corruption, and when Madan’s teenage affair with the daughter of a wealthy landowner results in pregnancy, Avtaar has no problem ordering Madan’s death. A powerful and engrossing novel about fathers and sons, about the unspoken promises made between child and parent, THREE BARGAINS is a soaring debut wherein Tania Malik brings Madan’s gritty world alive with potent detail.

Tania Malik was born in New Delhi, educated in boarding schools in the Himalayas, and raised in India, Africa, and the Middle East. She received her degree from the University of Delhi, and currently lives in Northern California with her husband, daughter, and dog. THREE BARGAINS is her first novel.

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ISLA MORLEY ABOVE

US & Canada: Gallery / March 2014 / Ms available “Morley brings a pathos palpable in its authenticity and a maturity arresting in its conviction.” —Sara Gruen

In ABOVE, a 16-year-old girl is abducted from her Kansas home and locked away in an abandoned missile silo by a man who believes he is saving her from the impending destruction of the world. Blythe believes her greatest challenge is to find a way to escape and get home until she discovers that she has to struggle against crushing loneliness, the encroaching madness of her captor and the persistent temptation to give up. Nothing, however, prepares her for the burden of having to raising a child in confinement. Out of terror, she must fashion wonder for the boy, setting aside the truth about a world he may never see for the myth that just might give meaning to his life underground. Rights sold to: UK: Hodder

Isla Morley is the author of Come Sunday (Sarah Crichton Books, 2010), which sold internationally and won the Kafka Prize. She grew up in South Africa during apartheid, the child of a British father and fourth-generation South African mother. She graduated from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth with a degree in English literature. By 1994 she was one of the youngest magazine editors in South Africa. See our Selected Backlist for more information on option publishers. 16

COLLEEN OAKLEY THE REPLACEMENT

US & Canada: Gallery / Fall 2014 / Ms available Dec 2013 On the eve of what was supposed to be a triumphant “Cancerversary” with her husband Jack to celebrate three years of being cancer-free, Daisy suffers a devastating blow: her doctor tells her that the cancer is back, but this time it’s an aggressive stage-IV diagnosis. She may have as few as four months left to live. Having already endured brutal rounds of chemo and radiation in her early twenties, Daisy decides that she doesn’t want to go through it all over again—especially when the odds are already stacked against her. Instead, she forgoes treatment and focuses on what suddenly becomes her most pressing concern: what will happen to her brilliant but otherwise charmingly helpless husband when she’s no longer there to take care of him? Colleen's articles and essays have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, Redbook, Parade, Marie Claire, Women’s Health, Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s Day, Martha Stewart Weddings, Health, Pregnancy & Newborn, and Fitness. Her opinions on aol.com have driven more than 16,000 unique readers to my website (www.colleenoakley.com) in the past 18 months. For the past six years, she has been a regular fiction reviewer for Publisher’s Weekly. She was senior editor of Marie Claire and editor-in-chief of Women’s Health & Fitness. This is her first novel. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and two children. 17

TOM O’DONNELL SPACE ROCKS

World Rights: Razorbill / February 6, 2014 /ARCs available In SPACE ROCKS, the year is 2020. Four kids are inadvertently left behind at an asteroid mining camp when their parents depart for Earth. They must learn to survive on the asteroid, where they’re observed and eventually befriended by an affable young alien who must prevent his race from killing the humans. The kids become caught in an ongoing alien vs. alien war, and the prospect of returning to Earth grows ever more complicated. Tom O'Donnell is a comedy writer and cartoonist living in Brooklyn, New York. He has written for McSweeney's (both the Internet Tendency and Quarterly Concern), Madatoms.com (Fox Digital's online comedy site) and Broken News Daily (a satirical web show for Yahoo!). He had a long-running weekly comic strip to the New York Press, and has contributed comics to The Village Voice, The New Haven Advocate and others. He is a graduate of Yale University. Currently, Tom is writing for Comedy Central’s forthcoming “TripTank” starring Zach Galifianakis, Larry David and Paul Rudd.

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JUSTIN TAYLOR FLINGS: Stories

US & Canada: HarperCollins / June 16, 2014 / Ms available “A new voice that readers—and writers, too—might be seeking out for decades to come.” —The New York Times

In Justin Taylor’s forthcoming collection of short stories, FLINGS, the characters from his much acclaimed EVERYTHING HERE IS THE BEST THING EVER and THE GOSPEL OF ANARCHY are a bit older, as Taylor aims his crosshairs at post-college and adult life. The stories push the limits of what a short story can contain, in terms of the number of main characters and in the amount of time covered. In the tradition of his earlier work, these stories are filled with explorations of sexuality, angst, and the American Dream. The stories featured in FLINGS are already making waves around the literary world since “After Ellen” was published in The New Yorker, and was just named a notable story of the year in American Best Short Stories. Justin Taylor received his MFA from The New School. He has edited two well-received anthologies: The Apocalypse Reader (Thunder's Mouth, 2007), and Come Back, Donald Barthelme, which was published as a special section of McSweeney's #24. His fiction and nonfiction has been published by The New Yorker, n+1, Prairie Schooner, The Believer, The New York Tyrant, the Brooklyn Rail, Nextbook.org, Slate, NPR, Time Out New York, and elsewhere. He is the author of Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever (Harper Perennial, 2010) and The Gospel of Anarchy (Harper Perennial, 2011). Justin lives in Brooklyn. See our Selected Backlist for more information on option publishers. 19

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JULENE BAIR THE OGALLALA ROAD: A Love Story

World Rights: Viking / March 2014 / Manuscript Available “Bair elegantly weaves heart and earth, love and the place where it is born. You can taste the water in this book, and the thirst when it is gone.” —Craig Childs

THE OGALLALA ROAD is Julene Bair’s unforgettable tale of the Kansas land where the Bair's family farmed for generations and her fight to save the precious resource that is the Ogallala aquifer. Bair’s story takes us on an odyssey through romance, selfknowledge and raising a son by herself. This memoir—an Eat Pray Love of the West—deals with the myth of the American cowboy and the conflict between family and the self. Julene has written many pieces about the Ogallala, the most recent an oped in the New York Times: “Running Dry on the Great Plains.” She is a member of the Speakers Bureau of Colorado Water 2012 and blogs for that educational effort. She is the author of One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter her first book which Patricia Hampl called, “a powerful elegy–flinty and tender.” Julene was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction. Her work has been published in dozens of journals. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, Julene has taught writing at the Universities of Iowa and Wyoming, led writing workshops around the country, and performed many guest readings at conferences and in schools.

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JANET BURROWAY LOSING TIM

US & Canada: Think Piece / April 2014 / Manuscript available “A writer of wide range and many voices.” —Elisabeth Muhlenfeld Janet Burroway’s LOSING TIM is a riveting and heartbreaking memoir that tells the story of Burroway's son, Tim, who was employed as a private contractor in Iraq during the early years of the Iraq War, working under intense pressure to remove landmines in what still remains a war zone. Like many landmine-removal workers, Tim suffered from severe depression. A few months after his transfer to Namibia, he committed suicide—just as his father had done some twenty years before. Written with the emotional candor of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, Burroway pulls no punches in LOSING TIM. This is at once a memoir of her son's death, the war in Iraq, and the legacy of suicide. Janet Burroway, a National Book Award nominee, is the author of eight novels, plays, poetry, essays, texts for dance and children’s books. Her Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, is the most widely used creative writing text in America. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita of the Florida State University. She divides her time among Florida, Wisconsin, and Chicago.

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PHAEDRA PARKS SECRETS OF THE SOUTHERN BELLE US and Canada: Gallery / Nov 12, 2013 / ARCs Available

From the “voice of reason” on The Real Housewives of Atlanta comes a true Southern Belle’s witty, practical, and no-nonsense guide to life. In the tradition of Steve Harvey’s Think Like A Man, Act Like A Lady and the much beloved The Official Preppy Handbook, Phaedra Parks’

SECRETS OF THE SOUTHERN BELLE is a

comic look at the etiquette Parks is so famous for on The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Dealing with issues like “sexting,” make-up and baby-mamadrama, this humorous series of rules derived from autobiographical vignettes are sure to appeal to readers looking for love, laughter and soul food for their self-worth. “It’s not difficult at all,” Parks tells people. “It just takes some tact, some modesty, and a little bit of common sense thrown in for good measure.” Phaedra Parks has been one of the Real Housewives of Atlanta since 2010. She is also managing partner of The Parks Group, a boutique law firm specializing in entertainment, intellectual property rights, civil, and criminal litigation. Born and raised in Georgia, Phaedra received her BA from Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, and her JD from the University of Georgia. She has also served as consulting producer and talent for one of BET’s most-viewed shows, Tiny and Toya.

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BERNARD WASSERSTEIN THE AMBIGUITY OF VIRTUE: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews World English: Harvard University Press / March 2014 / Available

THE AMBIGUITY OF VIRTUE interplays a

personal story with the horrors through which one woman lived to examine the most fundamental question of all: what kind of moral compass guided van Tijn in the face of absolute evil? Gertrude van Tijn was born into a well-to-do Jewish Berlin family and trained as a social worker before moving to Holland with her Dutch husband. As the representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the League of Nations' Refugee Committee, and the head of the Dutch Jewish emigration office, van Tijn helped thousands of Jews to go underground. She was imprisoned in the Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. However, she also worked with representatives of Nazi Germany to resettle the Jewish population. Through his dynamic storytelling, Bernard Wasserstein paints a rich portrait of this complex woman (and the only woman working in discussions at the very top level) who appeared sometimes to be on one side, then the other. Bernard Wasserstein was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and has held academic positions at Oxford, University of Glasgow and University of Chicago. He has published seven books, including The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (Yale University Press, 1988, Penguin, 1989; Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction), and last year’s On The Eve (2012, Simon & Schuster) He currently teaches at the University of Chicago.

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ANITA AMIRREZVANI EQUAL OF THE SUN US & Canada: Scribner / June 2012, Paperback March 2013 “Equal of the Sun is a page turner, with plenty of gripping moments. Here’s hoping Amirrezvani will write many more tales illuminating the incredible history of the Iranians.” —The Washington Post

Anita Amirrezvani’s follow-up to her international bestseller, The Blood of Flowers (Little, Brown, 2007), is set in 16th century Iran. Based loosely on the life of Princess Pari Khan Khanoom, and narrated by a eunuch in the royal court, EQUAL OF THE SUN is a story of political intrigue and Machiavellian manipulation by those who lust for power and will do anything to attain it; it is also the unforgettable tale of an unlikely friendship between a princess and a eunuch that explores the complicated relationship between masculinity, femininity and power. This title was a June 2012 Indie Next Pick. Rights sold to: Holland: Muelenhoff Boekerij Lithuania: Alma Littera Russia: Azbooka Turkey: ODTU Croatia: Profil Knjiga Poland: Albatros Latvia: Zvaigzne ABC

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HEATHER BARBIERI THE COTTAGE AT GLASS BEACH US & Canada: Scribner / Hardcover June 2012, Paperback May 2013 “Where Barbieri shines is in her depiction of the microcosm of the island and in the strong links between the generations. Nora discovers that ‘Everything is connected. The geography of the island, of the soul,’ and Barbieri makes that connection real.” —Seattle Times USA Today bestseller THE

COTTAGE AT GLASS BEACH tells the story of Nora, a Boston politician’s wife seeking refuge from scandal who flees with her two daughters to a small island off the coast of Maine where she was raised as a young child, and where her mother mysteriously disappeared three decades earlier. Nora’s connection to the island turns out to be more complicated than it seems and her family’s history is curiously bound up in the local lore about selkies. As Nora learns more about the legends of these mythical mermaids she begins to understand the circumstances surrounding her mother’s disappearance while simultaneously rediscovering the importance of her own role as a mother and protector. Rights sold: Goldmann: Germany Heather Barbieri’s first novel, Snow in July (Soho Press, 2004), was selected as a Book Sense Pick, a Glamour magazine “Riveting Read,” and a Library Journal Notable First Novel. Before turning to writing fiction full-time, she was a magazine editor, journalist, and film critic. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and three children. She is the author of The Lace Makers of Glenmara (Harper, 2009). 28

EMILY CROY BARKER THE THINKING WOMAN’S GUIDE TO REAL MAGIC World Rights: Pamela Dorman Books / August 1, 2013

Film/television Rights: Jody Hotchkiss: [email protected] “ Fun, seductive, and utterly engrossing, this wonderful tale of magic and adventure is a perfect escape from humdrum reality.” — Deborah Harkness

After almost 20 years as a journalist, Emily Croy Barker turned her writing skills to fiction to produce THE THINKING

WOMAN'S GUIDE TO REAL MAGIC, a debut novel about a woman

who finds herself in an alternate world—a fairy tale gone wrong—where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive.

Rights sold to: France: Flammarion Italy: Giunti UK: Michael Joseph World Audio: Recorded Books Emily Croy Barker is currently deputy editor at The American Lawyer magazine. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. Her work has appeared in Inc., Harvard, and CosmoGIRL! magazines, as well as The American Lawyer. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. This is her first novel. 29

STEPHANIE LEHMANN ASTOR PLACE VINTAGE

World Rights: Touchstone / June 11, 2013 “A thoroughly engaging story about fate, struggle, and will, as told through the intertwined lives of two women in New York living a century apart. Past and present blur in unexpected ways in this insightful, charming, and wholly entertaining novel.” — Khaled Hosseini Stephanie Lehmann’s ASTOR PLACE VINTAGE is set in 2007 and 1907 New York City, in which a vintage clothing shop owner’s recent purchases contain a hidden journal over one hundred years old that links the shop owner and journal writer in ways neither can predict.

Rights sold: Italy: Garzanti Germany: Heyne Spain: MAEVA Chinese Simple Characters: China Citic Press Catalan: Edicions 62 Stephanie Lehmann is the author of five novels. Previous novels are Thoughts While Having Sex (Kensington, 2003), Are You In The Mood? (Kensington, 2004), The Art of Undressing (NAL, 2005) and You Could Do Better (NAL, 2006). Her essays have been published by Salon, The Village Voice and BenBella Books. She has taught novel writing at Mediabistro.com and Salon.com. Originally from San Francisco, Lehmann came to New York to attend NYU and never moved away. 30

DAVID SAMUEL LEVINSON ANTONIA LIVELY BREAKS THE SILENCE US & Canada: Algonquin / June 4, 2013 / Available

“A sweet, smart, tasty book. Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence hooked me from the start and swiftly pulled me ashore.” —Gary Shteyngart David Samuel Levinson’s first novel,

ANTONIA LIVELY BREAKS THE SILENCE,

is a daring and highly intelligent story of lust, greed and betrayal in the tradition of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. Set in a small upstate college town, it intertwines the stories of Catherine, a recently widowed bookstore clerk, and Antonia, a gorgeous and ambitious young novelist whose quest for fame could ruin her family.

David Samuel Levinson is a 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee and finalist, and won an award for his fiction in The Atlantic Monthly. He received the New York Times writer fellowship from the Corporation of Yaddo. His stories have appeared in Prairie Schooner, West Branch, The Brooklyn Review, StorySouth, and elsewhere. Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) called Levinson’s collection of short stories, Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will, “timeless and essential.”

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VADDEY RATNER IN THE SHADOW OF THE BANYAN World Rights: Simon & Schuster / Aug 2012, Paperback June 2013 “A novel full of beauty, even joy...with the capacity—seemingly infinite—for empathy.” —The New York Times Book Review

Former Cambodian refugee Vaddey Ratner’s NYT bestselling IN THE SHADOW OF THE BANYAN, a debut novel about a young girl from a royal family who, along with her family, is swept up in the chaotic killing fields of the Khmer Rouge and survives the atrocities of genocide by clinging to the memory of the poetry and stories told to her by her father. It is a Finalist for the 2013 Pen/Hemingway Award. Simon & Schuster/UK Rizzoli/Italy Aschehoug/Norway Proszynski/Poland Planeta/Spain Aryeh Nir/Israel Baltos Lankos/Lithuania Sanskrit/Thailand

Rights sold: Hermes Publishing/Bulgaria Kawade Shobo Shinsha/Japan Ikar/Slovakia Euromedia/Czech Unionsverlag/Germany Van Gennep/Holland Belfond/France

Vaddey Ratner was five years old in 1975 when the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia. In 1981, she arrived in the U.S. as a refugee and, in 1990, graduated as her high school class valedictorian. She graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University, specializing in Southeast Asian literature and politics. In recent years she has lived and traveled extensively in Cambodia and Southeast Asia, writing and researching, which has culminated in this powerfully moving debut novel. 32

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PRESIDENT JOHN MAHAMA MY FIRST COUP D’ETAT World English: Scribner / Hardcover July 2012, Paperback May 2013 “A graceful memoir and striking literary debut… A collection of remarkable vignettes that blend a historian’s sensibility with a novelist’s prose, Mahama captures the evolution of that consciousness and, with it, glimpses of a nation’s recovered soul.” —The Washington Post

MY FIRST COUP D’ETAT is an important literary debut from the Vice President of Ghana, a fable-like memoir that offers a shimmering microcosm of post-colonial Africa. John Dramani Mahama chronicles his coming-of-age in Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of Africa. He was seven years old when rumors of a coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His father, a minister of state, was suddenly missing, then imprisoned for more than a year. This is a one-of-a-kind book: Mahama's is a rare literary voice from a political leader, and his stories work on many levels--as fables, as history, as cultural and political analysis, and, of course, as the memoir of a young man who, unbeknownst to him or anyone else, would grow up to be vice president of his nation. An excerpt from MY FIRST COUP D’ETAT was featured in the Virginia Quarterly Review. Rights sold: Brazil: Geraçao Editorial His Excellency John Dramani Mahama is a writer, historian, and communications expert. He is a former member of Parliament and Minister of State and currently the President of the Republic of 34

RICHARD SNOW I INVENTED THE MODERN AGE: The Rise of Henry Ford World Rights: Scribner / Hardcover May 14, 2013

“Richard Snow’s lively biography will make you rethink the man whose legacy sits in your garage.” —Parade

From the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who “writes with verve and a keen eye” (The New York Times Book Review), comes I

INVENTED THE MODERN AGE , a fresh and entertaining account of

Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T— the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America. Rights sold: Brazil: Saraiva Simple Chinese: Cheers Publishing US & Canada Large Print: Center Point Richard Snow was born in New York City and he graduated with a B.A. from Columbia College in 1970. He worked at American Heritage magazine for nearly four decades and was its editor-in-chief for seventeen years. He is the author of several books, among them two novels and a volume of poetry. Snow has served as a consultant for historical motion picture—among them Glory—and has written for documentaries, including the Burns brothers’ Civil War, and Ric Burns’s award-winning PBS film Coney Island, whose screenplay he wrote. Most recently, he served as a consultant on Ken Burns’s World War II series, The War. He is the author of A Measureless Peril (Scribner, 2010). 35

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ANITA AMIRREZVANI BLOOD OF FLOWERS

US, Canada: Little, Brown (2007), Back Bay Books (2008) Translation and UK: ESA Rights sold to: Headline/UK; Lafon/France; Ullstein/Germany; Salamandra/Spanish, RBA/Catalan, Civilizacao Editora/Portuguese in Portugal; Nova Fronteira/Portuguese in Brazil; Mondadori/Italy; Lindhardt & Ringhof/Denmark; DeBokeri/Holland; Gyldendal/Norway; Forum Bokforlag AB/Sweden; WSOY/ Finland; Keter/Israel; Wydawnicto Cyklady/Poland; Livornis/Greece; Ucila/Slovenia; Okean/Serbia; Profil/Croatia; Geopen Kiado/Hungary; NOXI/Czech Republic and Slovakia, ODTU/Turkey, Commercial/Complex Chinese, Culturer/Simplified Chinese, Sanskrit/Thailand, Leda/Romania, AllPrints/Arabic, Literature/Vietnam, Skjaldborg/Iceland, Munhakdongne/Korea, Azbooka/Russia, UFUK/Indonesia, Alma Littera/Lithuania, Profil Knjiga/Croatia

HEATHER BARBIERI THE LACE MAKERS OF GLENMARA US and Canada: Harper (paperback July 2010) Translation and UK: ESA Rights sold to: Goldmann/Germany; Macmillan/UK; Instars/Taiwan; Rizzoli/Italy

ANDREW BEAHRS TWAIN’S FEAST US and Canada: Penguin Press (June 2010, paperback Oct. 25, 2011) Rights sold to: Atticus/Russia

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STEPHANIE COWELL CLAUDE AND CAMILLE US and Canada: Crown (2010, paperback 2011) Translation and UK: ESA Rights sold to: Droemer/Germany, Neri Pozza/Italy, Sun Color/Taiwan, Wydawnictwo "Bukowy Las"/Poland

LYNN CULLEN REIGN OF MADNESS US and Canada: Putnam (August 4, 2011) Translation and UK: ESA Rights sold to: Editora Novo Secula/Brazil

THE CREATION OF EVE US and Canada: Putnam (paperback March 2011) Translation and UK: ESA Rights sold to: Ediciones B/Spain, Bookman Books/Simplified Chinese

WENDY DONIGER ON HINDUISM World English: Oxford University Press Rights sold to: Aleph/India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan

THE HINDUS: An Alternative History World English: The Penguin Press (paperback 2010) Translation: ESA UK: Oxford University Press Rights sold to: Penguin/India, Adelphi/Italy

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DAVID DOSA, MD MPH MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat US and Canada: Hyperion (February 2010, paperback April 2011) Translation and UK: ESA Rights sold to: Headline/UK, House of Books/Holland, Droemer/Germany, Mondadori/Italy, Hayakawa/Japan, Bertlesmann/Poland, Ediouro/Brazil, Matar/Israel, L’Archipel/France, Locus publishing/Taiwan, Thinkingdom/China, IRE/Korea, Lua De Papel/Portugal, Editions Maeva/Spain, Euromedia/Czech Republic, PT Granmedia/Indonesia, Epsilon/Turkey, Otava/Finland, Olion/Estonia, Atkus/Slovakia, Blackstone (US audio), BBC (UK audio), Komol/Thailand

ELLEN FELDMAN NEXT TO LOVE World except UK: Spiegel & Grau (July 26, 2011) Translation and UK: ESA Rights sold to: UK: Picador

ALEX GEORGE A GOOD AMERICAN World rights: Amy Einhorn Books (July 26, 2011) Rights sold to: Belfond/France, PUK/UK, Ediciones Maeva/Spain, Sperling & Kupfer/Italy

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SARA GRUEN APE HOUSE US and Canada: Spiegel & Grau (Sept 2010, paperback April 2011) Translation and UK: ESA Rights sold to: Allen & Unwin/Australia, Santillana/Spain, Sirene/Dutch, Bazar/Scandinavia, Crown/Complex Chinese, Century/Simplified Chinese, Kinnert/Hebrew, Bompiani/Italy, Rowholt/Germany, Hodder/UK, Albin Michel/France, Modrijan Zalozba/Slovenia, Editora Record/Brazil, DoDream/Korea, Russia/Exmo, Serbia/Mono & Manana, and Portugal/Gailivro

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS World rights: Algonquin (April 2007) Rights sold to: Allen & Unwin/ANZ, HarperCollins/Canada, AlbinMichel/France, Kinneret/Israel, Sirene/Holland, Rebis/Poland, Hodder & Stoughton/UK, Sextante/Brazil, Ten Points/Complex Chinese, Century/Simplified Chinese, Neri Pozza/Italy, Bra Boker/Sweden, DuMont/Germany, Bookworm/Hungary, Mono & Manana/Serbia, Kondasha/Japan, Difel Difusao/Portugal, PT Gramedia/Indonesia, ARA Libres/Catalan, Algoritam/Croatia, Slovensky/Czech, DoDream/Korea, Gayatri/Russia, Slovensky/Slovakia, Bard/Bulgaria, Bazar/Denmark, Bazar/Finland, Livanis/Greece, JPV/Iceland, Matica/Macedonia, Nha Nam/Vietnam, OMSCA-1/Albania, Jarir/Saudi Arabia, Modrijan Zalozba/Slovenia, Humanitas/Romania

RIDING LESSONS US and Canada: Spiegel & Grau (Sept 2010, paperback April 2011) Translation and UK: ESA Rights sold to: Santillana/Spain, Century/Simplified Chinese, Kinnert/Hebrew, Rowholt/Germany, Hodder/UK, Albin Michel/France, Modrijan Zalozba/Slovenia, Editora Record/Brazil, Exmo/Russia, Mono & Manana/Serbia, Musu Knyga/Lithuania

FLYING CHANGES US and Canada: Spiegel & Grau (Sept 2010, paperback April 2011) 40

Translation and UK: ESA Rights sold to: Allen & Unwin/Australia, Santillana/Spain, Century/Simplified Chinese, Kinneret/Hebrew, Rowholt/Germany, Hodder/UK, Albin Michel/France, Modrijan Zalozba/Slovenia, Editora Record/Brazil, Serbia/Mono & Manana, Russia/Exmo

ISLA MORLEY COME SUNDAY US and Canada: Picador (paperback August 2010) Translation and UK: ESA Rights sold to: Hodder/UK, De Kern/Holland, Rowohlt/Germany, Hayakawa/Japan, Belacqva/Spain, Changjiang/Simplified Chinese

RICHARD SNOW A MEASURELESS PERIL US and Canada: Scribner (May 2010, paperback 2011) Translation and UK: ESA

JUSTIN TAYLOR THE GOSPEL OF ANARCHY World English: HarperPerennial (February 2011) Translation: ESA Rights sold to: Alpha Decay/Spain

EVERYTHING HERE IS THE BEST THING EVER World English: HarperPerennial (February 2010) Translation: ESA Rights sold to: Alpha Decay/Spain

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