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ADULT TITLES

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MAYA ARAD

MAYA ARAD is an acclaimed Israeli writer whose first book, ANOTHER PLACE, A FOREIGN CITY, won the Ministry of Education and Culture Award, was performed as a play at the Cameri Theater and was shortlisted for the Sapir Prize (the Israeli Booker). Arad has been called “a Hebrew Jane Austen” (Alan Mintz,

Jewish Review of Books, Winter 2016) and her latest novel, BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN, has been received by a chorus of praise from Israel’s leading critics and immediately entered the official bestseller list, as published by Haaretz. Arad has been Writer in Residence at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford, since 2009.

BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN ( ההר מאחורי )(Xargol, September 2016)

Recently separated, and in urgent need of money, Zohar Bar, an Israeli-born adjunct lecturer in a Northern California community college, is offered a gig on the side: Thanksgiving holiday in a Sierra cabin in the company of wealthy Israeli ex-pats, delivering a series of lectures in his field of expertise – detective literature. However, the detective work will be more than merely academic. In the mountains, barriers break down, and a truth that was hidden for years is about to be revealed. Is it possible that

one of the guests is, in fact, a murderer?As always with Maya Arad’s works, BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN combines multiple genres while staying true to all of them. This is a perfect golden-age mystery and at the same time a contemporary academic novel, a

meditation on literature, and a biting satire on class-conscious immigration in the Bay Area. Above all, it is a moving tale about human nature: love, hate, envy, and the entire range of emotions that bring people to the verge of crime – and beyond.

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Film rights: Regal HoffmannKATE BIRDSALL

KATE BIRDSALL was born in the heart of America’s “Rust Belt”. She is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, where she teaches first-year writing, creative writing, cultural studies, and an interdisciplinary arts and humanities class on representations of crime in

American popular culture. Previously, she was a manager for a motion picture exhibition corporation. When not writing, she plays in the all-girl grunge-rock band Pink Plush. Kate is hard at work on the second in the Det. Boyle series.

FORMS IN THE SHADOWS(Red Adept, August 2017)

FORMS IN THE SHADOWS introduces Det. Elizabeth Boyle, a Special Homicide detective with a mind as sharp as her tongue, a disdain for grey areas, and a distinct aversion to introspection. When Boyle is called down to the seedy Cleveland Flats to tackle a new case, she can’t help the cold sweats when she sees the small figure beneath the sheet. Det. Boyle is a tough nut, but she hates kid cases: Liz Boyle was once one of three siblings, until her baby sister’s disappearance almost thirty years ago. It’s a dark chapter in the family’s past, with echoes that still haunt the three remaining members. When Liz and her partner get to work hunting for the killer of young Kevin Whittle, they find that

nothing is as it seems. No one, not even the victim’s family, seems prepared to tell the full story. But things take a sudden turn for the worse when DNA evidence comes back linking the victim to Liz’s brother Christopher. Liz knows Christopher didn’t do it… doesn’t she? Behind the curtain, someone else is pulling the strings, someone whose past may have intersected with Liz’s a long time back. But who?

Kate Birdsall’s setting is an American heartland of overlapping universes: from below-the-breadline families to high-powered academia, sleazy finance moguls and exotic dancers, with the cold wind from lake Erie never far away.

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World English rights: Red Adept. Audio rights: AudibleTranslation rights: Regal HoffmannFilm rights: Regal Hoffmann

PIEDAD BONNETT

PIEDAD BONNETT is a Colombian poet, playwright and novelist. She has published eight poetry books, four novels, and five plays. She has represented Colombia in numerous poetry festivals including the Berlin

International Literature Festival and Hay Festival in Segovia. LO QUE NO TIENE NOMBRE, a ground-breaking memoir of her son’s life, struggle with mental illness, and suicide, was a national sensation.

THAT WHICH HAS NO NAME (LO QUE NO TIENE NOMBRE)(Alfaguara Colombia, 2013)

“We cross the kitchen and the little living room and slowly enter the bedroom. The first thing my eyes register is the enormous open window, and beyond it the fire escape that leads to the street. I examine it all briefly, in one glance: the scrupulously made bed, the desk crowded with books, the notebooks that have taken over the bedside table. For a few seconds we say nothing, we do nothing, even though a storm of emotions is roiling inside us. Then Camila opens the closet and we see the shoes lined up, the organized sweaters and shirts. It’s the room of a meticulous, rigorous, tidy person. Confused, exchanging short sentences that seek to be efficient, we divide the spaces to take on

the task that has brought us here. No one cries: if one of us gave in to lamentation, she would drag the others along in her pain.”

This quietly monumental work has been praised by Andrés Neuman, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Hector Abad Faciolince, and Daniel Alarcón, among many other writers. THAT WHICH HAS NO NAME, about the life and death of the author’s son Daniel, was published in 2013 by Alfaguara in Colombia and is now in its 8th printing (with over 70,000 copies sold). This slender book has had a tremendous impact in Colombia and elsewhere for both its literary virtues and its open discussion of mental illness and suicide.

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World rights ex. Spanish language: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in France (Les Editions Métailié), and Germany (Piper)Film rights: Regal Hoffmann

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DAN CLUCHEY

DAN CLUCHEY is a native of Portland, Maine and a graduate of Amherst (political science) and Harvard Law School, where he was student body president. He has worked at the Department of Justice writing speeches for Attorney General Eric Holder; at the Department

of Health and Human Services as speechwriter to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; and as head of speechwriting at an independent federal agency. He has worked on speeches for various Administration officials, including President Obama and Vice President Biden.

THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME(St. Martin’s Press, June 2016)

Lawyer Leo Bryce has spent most of his young life thinking about death. But when he meets beautiful, hilarious actress, Fiona Haeberle, everything changes.Then, when the

perfect love affair implodes, Leo finds himself stuck for answers to that big existential why? His roundabout search for meaning takes him to the middle of South Georgia, working the strangest case he’s ever known: trying to overturn the conviction of Michael Tiegs, a death-row inmate with a dark past, and some wacky ideas about the cosmos. As their relationship grows, Leo immerses himself in the esoteric world of his condemned client. As both men become consumed by the

question of an afterlife - and Leo tries to reconcile himself with past and future –Tiegs’ fate hangs in the balance.

THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME is comic and tragic in equal measure, told with the sharp insight and

precise prose of Joshua Ferris or Matthew Quick. It’s the journey of a cynic turned believer and back, with stops along the way at Hollywood and Death Row. Hannah Pittard, author of REUNION and THE FATES WILL FIND THEIR WAY, says "Dan Cluchey has written a novel both timeless and timely. THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME is a terrifically distilled love story."

World English rights: St. Martin’s Press. UK and Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann

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DAVID KISHIK

DAVID KISHIK is a professor at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He was previously a fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, and in 2016 he received the Helaine and Stanley Miller Award for

Outstanding Teaching. He has co-translated from Italian the recent works of famed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.He is the author of WITTGENSTEIN’S FORM OF LIFE (Continuum, 2012).

THE MANHATTAN PROJECT – A Theory of a City(Stanford University Press, March 2015)

In THE MANHATTAN PROJECT, David Kishik imagines a Walter Benjamin who did not commit suicide in 1940, but managed instead to escape the Nazis to begin a long, solitary life in New York, in which he composes a sequel to his ARCADES PROJECT, revolving around New York City, “capital of the twentieth century,” as Paris was the capital of the nineteenth.

Kishik reveals a world of secret affinities between New York City and Paris, the flâneur and the homeless

person, the collector and the hoarder, the covered arcade and the bare street, but also between photography and graffiti, pragmatism and minimalism, Andy Warhol and Robert Moses, Hannah Arendt and Jane Jacobs. THE MANHATTAN PROJECT reshapes

our perception of urban life, and rethinks our very conception of modernity. Benjamin Wurgaft of the Los Angeles Review of Books describes it as “perhaps the most idiosyncratically ambitious book about Benjamin ever written.”

World English rights: Stanford University Press. Translation rights: Regal HoffmannFilm rights: Regal Hoffmann

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ISAAC MARION

ISAAC MARION was born in north-western Washington in 1981 and has lived in and around Seattle his whole life, working a variety of strange jobs like delivering deathbeds to hospice patients and supervising parental visits for foster-kids. His debut, WARM

BODIES, was a New York Times bestseller and the basis for the hit movie of the same name, produced by Summit Films (“Twilight”), starring Nicholas Hoult and John Malkovich. His website is: www.isaacmarion.com.

THE BURNING WORLD (Emily Bestler Books, February 2017)

Being alive is hard. Being human is harder. But since his recent recovery from death, R is making progress. He’s learning how to read, how to speak, maybe even how to love, and the city’s undead population is showing signs of life. R can almost imagine a future with Julie, the girl who restarted his heart—building a new world from the ashes of the old one.

And then helicopters appear on the horizon. Someone is trying to return things to the way they were, the good old days of stability and control and the strong eating the weak.

With their home overrun by madmen, R, Julie, and their ragged group of refugees plunge into the otherworldly wastelands of America in search of answers. But there are some answers R doesn’t want to find. A past life, an old shadow, crawling up

from the basement

The New York Times bestseller WARM BODIES captured hearts worldwide in twenty-five languages, inspiring a major film and a cult fandom. Now R the reluctant zombie continues his journey in this much-anticipated sequel.

North American rights: Emily Bestler Books. UK and Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in Korea (Minumin) and the UK (Vintage)Film rights: Howard Sanders at UTA

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DAPHNE MERKIN

DAPHNE MERKIN is a former staff writer for The New Yorker. One of the most sought after cultural critics in the US, she has written regularly for Elle, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review, among others. Her

previous books include ENCHANTMENT, a novel, and the essay collections DREAMING OF HITLER and THE FAME LUNCHES, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She lives in New York City.

THIS CLOSE TO HAPPY – A Reckoning with

Depression(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, February 2017)

Born into privilege but deprived of the most elemental human warmth throughout her childhood, Daphne Merkin showed signs of a melancholy disposition from an early age. Now, many decades later, she casts her penetrating gaze back on her life – a life of considerable professional and artistic accomplishments, but also a life lived in the shadow of often severe depression.

Trying to understand a condition that afflicts millions all over the world, Merkin carefully investigates the possible causes of depression in her own and other people’s

lives, and candidly discusses her on-going quest to make sense of an illness that steadfastly refuses to succumb to rational explanations.

Erudite and wide-ranging, intimate and unapologetic, THIS CLOSE TO HAPPY is destined

to join modern classics like William Styron’s DARKNESS VISIBLE, Lewis Wolpert’s MALIGNANT SADNESS, and Andrew Solomon’s THE NOONDAY DEMON, as an essential text on what Winston Churchill famously called the “Black Dog.”

World English rights: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann Film rights: Regal Hoffmann

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AUDREY NIFFENEGGER AND EDDIE CAMPBELLAUDREY NIFFENEGGER’s debut, THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, has sold more than seven million copies, been translated into forty languages and released as a film in August 2009. HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY (Scribner, 2009) was another New York Times and international bestseller.

Niffenegger is also the author of three “novels-in-pictures,”

THE THREE INCESTUOUS SISTERS, THE ADVENTURESS, and THE NIGHT BOOKMOBILE. She collaborated with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, on an original ballet entitled “Raven Girl”, with the accompanying illustrated novella published in May 2013. Niffenegger’s visual art resides in permanent collections of the Library of Congress and Harvard University’s Houghton Library.

INVITING DEMONS TO TEA – A Graphic Story Collection

(Abrams, 2018)

Written by Audrey Niffenegger and illustrated by acclaimed graphic novelist Eddie Campbell (FROM HELL), INVITING DEMONS TO TEA is a collection of sixteen stories about love, loss, fairies, misbehavior, regret, misguided generosity, wanton wrongheadedness, cats, supernatural exterminators, girls with

problems, guys who are too polite, spies, ghosts, anorexia nervosa, more cats, more fairies, and a handful of ex-boyfriends – and, ultimately, about the strangeness of humans, how we are tender and horrible and how we try very very hard to behave ourselves but somehow never quite get it right.

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North American rights: Abrams. UK and Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in the UK (Jonathan Cape)Film rights: Regal Hoffmann

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GREGORY DAVID ROBERTSGREGORY DAVID ROBERTS is the author of the global publishing sensation SHANTARAM, which has been

published in more than three dozen languages and sold close to four million copies worldwide.

THE MOUNTAIN SHADOW(Grove Atlantic, October 2015)

A sequel to SHANTARAM, Gregory David Roberts’ extra-ordinary new novel, THE MOUNTAIN SHADOW, is the result of ten years’ work.

The end of the eighties was the beginning of every-thing. The Berlin wall fell on an empire, and the Taliban took Afghanistan. Lin, on the run after escaping from prison in Australia, working as a passport forger for a Bombay mafia gang, finds himself standing on a tattered corner of a bloody carpet that would soon cover most of the world. But he can’t leave the

Island City: not without Karla.

Two years after the events in SHANTARAM, Bombay is a different world, playing by different rules. Lin’s search for love and faith leads him through secret and violent intrigues to the dangerous truth. A love story told with

hope and humor, a personal struggle for redemption, and a philosophical quest for the wisdom of our common humanity, THE MOUNTAIN SHADOW is a sublime novel, and an all-consuming, epic thriller.

UK & Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in Australia (Picador), Brazil (Intrínseca), Bulgaria (Orgon), China (Tianjin), Denmark (NB Books), Germany (Goldmann), Finland (Siltala), France (Flammarion), Israel (Kinneret), Italy (Neri Pozza), Lithuania (Tito Alba), Norway (Press), Poland (Marginesy), Romania (Allfa), Russia (Azbooka), Serbia & Montenegro (Algoritam), Spain (PRH Spain), Sweden (Brombergs), Turkey (Artemis), the UK (Little, Brown) and Ukraine (Krajina Mriy)Film rights: Regal Hoffmann

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ADELIA SAUNDERS

ADELIA SAUNDERS has a master’s degree in international relations from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a bachelor’s degree from New York University’s

Tisch School of the Arts. She grew up in Durango, Colorado, and currently lives with her family in New York City. INDELIBLE is her first novel.

INDELIBLE(Bloomsbury USA, January 2017)

A masterful, enthralling debut novel about fate, family secrets, and the stories our bodies tell.

Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees the truth about people written on their skin—names, dates, details both banal and profound—and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully, her own skin is blank.

When she meets Neil, she is intrigued to see her name on his cheek. He’s in Paris for the summer, studying a medieval pilgrimage to the coast of Spain, where the body of Saint Jacques is said to have washed ashore, covered in scallop shells. Magdalena, desperate to make things right after her

best friend dies—a tragedy she might have prevented—embarks on her own pilgrimage, but not before Neil falls for her, captivated by her pale eyes, charming Eastern European accent, and aura of heartbreak.

Neil’s father, Richard, is also in Paris, searching for the truth about his late mother, a famous expatriate American novelist who abandoned him at birth. All his life Richard has clung to a single memory of his mother—her red shoes—which her biographers agree he never could have seen. Kirkus says: “Fans of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife will love Saunders' debut, which takes up the mantle of myth, history, and storytelling with beautiful, sure-footed prose.”

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World English rights: Bloomsbury. Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in Poland (Kobiece) Film rights: Regal Hoffmann

LEE SIEGEL

LEE SIEGEL has been a senior editor and TV critic at the New Republic, book critic for the Nation, staff writer at Harper’s, Talk magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and weekly columnist for the New York Observer and the Daily Beast. His writing has been

published by every major magazine and newspaper in the US, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Review of Books. In 2002, Siegel received the National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism.

THE DRAW – A Memoir(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, April 2017)

Hoping to make a killing in New Jersey real estate, the author’s father, Monroe Siegel, takes a draw from his employer against unearned commission. When the recession hits in the 1970s, Monroe finds himself owing a small fortune to his firm. He sinks toward divorce and bankruptcy, while Lola, Lee's mother, suffers a nervous breakdown that turns her into a different person.

Shamed and enraged by his father’s fate, Lee tries to make a different life for himself. He goes to a private college in the Midwest, is forced to leave due to his father’s bankruptcy, and returns to New Jersey to work

a series of menial jobs. He enrolls at a state college and then drops out to seek a better existence abroad, only to return to the United States in debt and in despair. Suddenly, a promising new life opens to him. At a price.

THE DRAW touches on fundamental questions: How do we balance our obligations to ourselves with our obligations to others? What do we owe society? Written with startling candor and psychological acuity, Lee Siegel’s THE DRAW is for anyone who has ever struggled with money, or who has tried to break through the barriers of family and class.

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CHILDREN’S & YA TITLES

JONATHAN AUXIERJONATHAN AUXIER grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and obtained his MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of PETER NIMBLE AND HIS FANTASTIC EYES (Abrams, 2011) and of THE NIGHT GARDENER (Abrams, 2014), which won

the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, was a Junior Library Guild selection, an Editor’s Pick Best Book by Amazon, and a Top Ten Pick for the American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next list.

SOPHIE QUIRE AND THE LAST STORYGUARD(Abrams, April 2016)

Twelve-year-old Sophie Quire knows little beyond the four walls of her father’s bookshop. Sophie is a bookmender, salvaging damaged books and dreaming of a more exciting life. But when a strange boy and his even stranger enchanted companion show up with a rare and mysterious book, she is pulled into an adventure beyond anything she has ever read. The boy and his companion, Peter Nimble

and Sir Tode, have been sent on a mission: to restore The Book of Who. This book, when combined with its companions When, Where, and What, will give their reader the ability to speak true magic into the world. But

when the book and Sophie are kidnapped, it’s just the beginning of a series of daring rescues for Sophie, Peter and Sir Tode.

North American rights: Abrams. UK & Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in Canada (Penguin), China (Trustbridge), Poland (MAC), and Vietnam (Huy Hoang) Film rights: Regal Hoffmann

THE SOOT GOLEM(Abrams, 2018)

In the spirit of such classic children’s works as CHARLOTTE’S WEB, Jonathan Auxier’s fully illustrated THE SOOT GOLEM will tell the story of Nan Sparrow, a ten-year-old orphan who works as a “climbing boy” for a vindictive chimney sweep named Wilkie Crudd. Climbing boys were essentially child slaves in England throughout the 18th and 19th century—the work was brutal and dangerous. Most climbing boys started at age five or six and didn’t live to see their tenth birthday. Nan has managed to survive in this brutal world because she is very good at her job. She was taught how to sweep by her father, who disappeared when she was very small. And she holds out hope that he will someday return to her.

When Nan’s every treasured possession is thrown into a

fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem from the ashes of everything she loves. The Golem is a childlike creature named Charlie—as innocent as he is strong. He is able to move through chimneys, and he and Nan create a secret home in an abandoned attic.

Even in the darkness and pain of Nan’s life, she is able to show Charlie beauty in the world, and in doing so, she ends up saving herself from despair. Meanwhile Charlie will help Nan find a way to free herself, and the other climbing boys, from Wilkie Crudd. But Charlie can’t be Nan’s hero forever… when Nan created Charlie, one of the “ingredients” was a twelve-month calendar, and that dictated his life span. When the twelve months are up, it will be time for Charlie to pass…

World English rights: Abrams. Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann Film rights: Regal Hoffmann

PAUL DURHAMPAUL DURHAM is the author of the LUCK UGLIES trilogy (HarperCollins, 2014-2016), which has received, among others, the ALA Notable Children’s Book Award (2015), the New York

Public Library Best Children’s Book (2014), and the Cybils Award for Middle Grade Speculative Fiction (2014).

GOYLE, GROTESQUE(Crown Children’s Books, Spring 2018)

“Please don’t call me Goyle. I’m a Grotesque. A warden of the night. I’m here to keep you safe. All I ask is that you keep the pigeons off my head.”

GOYLE, GROTESQUE is the story of Penhallow, a 130-year-old stone guardian who dwells atop an aging, 19th-century apartment building, and is the last Grotesque residing in modern day Boston. After the untimely demise of his last two Grotesque friends, he finds himself at war with the Netherkin, the

otherworldly minions of a mysterious and powerful undead specter known only as the Boneless King.

With the help of a new friend, a young clairvoyant named Viola, Penhallow discovers that the Boneless King’s target is a girl

named Hetty and her family—the new tenants in his very own building. To save Hetty, Penhallow and Viola must unlock the carefully guarded secrets of the Bone Masons, a society of master stone carvers who created the world’s Grotesques centuries ago.

World English rights: Crown Children’s Books. Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann Film rights: Regal Hoffmann

FAITH GARDNER

FAITH GARDNER is a graduate of UC Berkley, where she won the Elizabeth Mills Crothers fiction prize, and now works as assistant manager at a political media organization. Her short stories have been published on McSweeney's Internet Tendency and PANK, among others, and have won a Best of the Net award and been nominated

for Pushcart Prizes. Faith plays lives with her husband and daughter in Berkeley, California. Her first book PERDITA, Kirkus reviewed as "An intimate, fascinating, gripping first-person narration…An edgy, intriguing debut novel of suspense, suspicion, and surprise", and was selected by Bustle as a Best YA Read in August 2015.

THE RESURRECTION OF AVA RIVERS(Under offer in US)

THE RESURRECTION OF AVA RIVERS is a story of “lost and found”. One Halllowe’en night when Vera Rose Rivers was just six years old, her twin sister Ava disappeared. In the eleven years since, the Rivers family has lost who they once were. Vera is convinced her sister is long dead, and wishes her parents would recognize the inevitable. But then one day the unthinkable happens. Ava is back. the girl who was a ghost; the girl who would always be seven years old,

is back, and somehow the family has to come to terms with the thing they wanted most in the world yet hardly dared hope for. And Ava is a damaged girl. She's a sister, and a stranger. How do you bridge eleven lost years? What do you do when your other half comes back from the dead? And what is it that Ava can’t, or won’t, remember? Caught between wanting to remember and wanting to forget, between joy and heartbreak, will the Rivers family ever be “whole” again?

Under offer in the U.S. Audio rights: Audible. Translation rights: Regal HoffmannFilm rights: Regal Hoffmann

LAUREN GIBALDI

LAUREN GIBALDI is a librarian at Orange County Public Library, where she hosts youth programs. She has a colorful history as a former magazine editor, freelance writer, high school English teacher, bookseller and circus aerialist (seriously). Lauren has a BA in English Literature and a Master’s in Library and Information Studies, both

from Florida State University.Her first novel was THE NIGHT WE SAID YES (HarperCollins, June 2015), which sold in Germany (cbj/Random House) and Italy (Rizzoli). Her second novel, AUTOFOCUS, (HarperCollins, June 2016) was sold in Poland (Akapit). She blogs at www.laurengibaldi.com.

THIS TINY PERFECT WORLD(HarperCollins Children’s Books, January

2018)

Penny is a girl from a small town where expectations are limited. Kids grow up learning the same trades their parents learned, and marrying their high school sweethearts. That’s okay with Penny: she’s always known she’d run her mom’s diner, and she’s happy with her boyfriend Logan, whom she’s known since 5th grade. What’s wrong with a cozy life? A small, perfect life.

But Penny has a talent. Her high school drama coach

thinks she could go far – and when she unexpectedly gets a scholarship to a prestigious acting summer camp, she can't pass it up. But that doesn’t mean anything’s really going to change, right? It’s just one summer.

Then slowly, the people she meets at

Breakthrough – including a boy called Chase – make her realize how big the world is, and how much other people have been taught to expect from it. Can she really go back to her old life, and be happy?

World English rights: HarperCollins. UK & Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann Film rights: Regal Hoffmann

LIESL SHURTLIFFLIESL SHURTLIFF grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah as the fourth child in a combined family of eight. She studied Music, Dance, and Theater at Brigham Young University. Liesl currently resides in Chicago, Illinois with her husband and three children. Her website can be found at www.lieslshurtliff.com. Her

previous novels are RUMP: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin (Knopf BFYR, April 2014), JACK: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk (Knopf BFYR, April 2015), and RED: The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood (Knopf BFYR, April 2016). They are all New York Times bestsellers.

GRUMP: The True Story of the Seventh Dwarf(Knopf Books for Young Readers, September

2017) Borlen is a dwarf – but he doesn’t love digging for gems like the other dwarflings. He doesn’t like tunnels. And instead of being afraid of heights like any sensible dwarf, he is afraid of depths. He just doesn’t fit in.

When he’s assigned to a mining crew and sent down to the diamond mines, his parents are very proud, but Borlen is horrified. The rest of his crew – the Six – don’t understand him. One of them, Rudger, bullies Borlen, and one day they get into a fight that causes part of the mine to collapse. Borlen is cut off from the rest of his crew

and… there’s a hole leading to the surface. Borlen doesn’t think twice before climbing up into this magical land of sky and trees and flowers and… humans.The surface, it turns out, can

be a dangerous place. There’s a queen ruling over the land who’s looking for a new source of magic, and Borlen might be just what she needs. Meanwhile, a princess in trouble…Inspired by the classic story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, GRUMP will be the fourth book in Shurtliff’s highly acclaimed and New York Times-bestselling series.

North American rights: Knopf Books for Young Readers. UK and Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann

Film rights: Regal HoffmannAJ STEIGER

AJ STEIGER was born in Burbank, Illinois, and grew up in the Chicago area, graduating from Columbia College in Chicago where she

majored in Fiction Writing. Her first book, MINDWALKER, was published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in 2015.

WHEN MY HEART JOINS THE THOUSAND(HarperCollins Children’s Books, February

2018) WHEN MY HEART JOINS THE THOUSAND is a ROSIE PROJECT for teens – a voicey, issue-driven YA love story reminiscent of ELEANOR & PARK or MARCELLO IN THE REAL WORLD, a disability-positive novel about two young people that will make you see the world a different way.

Alvie Fitz isn’t like other people. She likes theoretical physics, and being by herself. She doesn’t have friends. She doesn’t need them. She’s an orphan.

Stanley Finkle is not like other people either. He walks with a cane, lives by himself, and is pretty much alone in the world since his mother died.

When Alvie’s social worker puts pressure on her to “make one friend,” in order to convince her review board that she is a functioning adult, and grant her emancipation from the state at seventeen, Alvie is not enthusiastic. But when she comes across an abandoned phone, and gets in touch with its owner, an online correspondence begins that leads to something wholly unexpected.

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