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Frankfurt 2013 ▪ Fiction ▪ Nonfiction ▪ Business ▪ Foreign Rights Contacts Linda Kaplan Vice President Director, Subsidiary Rights Tel: 212-572-2060 Fax: 212-572-6003 E-mail: [email protected] Karin Schulze Associate Director, Foreign Rights Tel: 212-572-2704 Fax: 212-572-6003 E-mail: [email protected] Rachel Berkowitz Senior Manager, Foreign Rights Tel: 212-782-9771 Fax: 212-572-6003 E-mail: [email protected]

COMING SOON! LET ME OFF AT THE TOP! My Classy Life and Other Musings BURGUNDY, RON (aka Will Ferrell) November 2014 Humor/Parody Crown Archetype Awaiting Manuscript Hardcover; Two 8-Page 4/C Insert, 20 B&W Photos Rights: World

Ron Burgundy, the loveably egomaniacal star of Anchorman, shares the stories behind his illustrious life and career, and imparts valuable advice on a range of matters. The result is a can't-miss tell-all parody for this prestigious news anchor's millions of fans and followers. Burgundy is known to all as the lead anchorman of San Diego's award-winning Action 4 News, but few know the real man behind the news desk. In LET ME OFF AT THE TOP!, he will share never-before-told stories of his childhood and the events that led him to choose a career in the news business. In his own words, he will share personal anecdotes about the women in his life, his dog, Baxter, and his legendary news team. Ron Burgundy pulls no punches in this widely anticipated, fully authorized tell-all autobiography. Anchorman netted nearly $100 million during its U.S. theatrical run. There have been 10 million DVD's of the movie sold to date, and the trailers for the original movie and its sequel have over 13 million views on YouTube alone. Ron Burgundy is a trailblazer and icon in television journalism. He and the Action 4 News Team will be honored in December at Washington, D.C.'s Newseum with an installation of mementos and keepsakes of their time and impact in San Diego. On December 20, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues will be released in the US and UK; and in Germany and Denmark in January 2014; in Holland, Norway, and Sweden in February 2014; and in France and Italy in June 2014. Please see this link for further international release dates: http://apps.paramountpictures.com/movie/anchorman/releasedates/release-dates.html

Rights sold to: Century (BCOM)

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FICTION BITTERSWEET BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE, MIRANDA June 2014 Fiction Crown Manuscript Available Hardcover; Rights: World “Gripping, beguiling, and beautifully written, Bittersweet is a page-turner that chills as it intoxicates. — Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner award-winning author of The Great Man and Blue Plate Special Cinematic, gothic, and with literary echoes of Donna Tartt and Kate Morton, BITTERSWEET will keep readers riveted to the very end. Ordinary in every way, Mabel wins a scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college and is assigned beautiful, blue-blooded Genevra Winslow as her roommate. Mabel is invited to spend the summer at Ev’s cottage, Bittersweet, on the lakeside Vermont estate where her family has held court for more than a century. Mabel is thrilled to be surrounded by WASPs and wealth she’d only imagined—and if everything isn’t exactly as she pictured, she can’t put her finger on what’s wrong. At first, she is overjoyed to spend her days basking in the Winslows' privilege, flirting with handsome men and playing house with the roommate she worships. But ever so gradually she discovers that this glittering façade masks ambiguous morals and dark truths about personal indiscretions and the sources of the family fortune. Mabel must choose: expose the lies and face expulsion from paradise or immerse herself and fulfill her dreams by becoming one of them. BITTERSWEET is haunting, upmarket suspense that examines the seduction of money, the battle between right and wrong, and our universal wish to be the chosen insider. Beautifully mysterious and richly detailed, this page-turning novel is an enthralling read. Miranda Beverly-Whittemore’s novel The Effects of Light was licensed to France/Editions du Rocher; Sweden/Bonniers; Holland/Sirene; Germany/Lubbe; Italy/Sperling & Kupfer; and Poland/Bertelsmann Media; Set Me Free was licensed to France/Editions du Rocher and Holland/Sirene. Rights sold to: Orlando/Bruna (Holland), Suhrkamp/Insel (Germany), Intrinseca (Brazil), Suma (Spain), Sonzogno (Italy), and HarperCollins (BCOM)

RUBY BOND, CYNTHIA May 2014 Literary Fiction Hogarth (Manuscript Available) Hardcover Rights: World A visceral and haunting literary novel set in a small town in the American South, RUBY is the epic, unforgettable love story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her. Ephram Jenkins has never forgotten the girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small Texas town. Young Ruby, “the kind of pretty it hurt to look at,” is already quite damaged, but Ephram is forcibly drawn to her. As soon as she becomes a young woman, Ruby flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York City. Years later, when a funeral forces her to return home, 30-year-old Ruby will find herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood, with the terrifying realization that she might not be strong enough to fight her way back out. Full of life, exquisitely written, and suffused with the pastoral beauty of the rural landscape, RUBY heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. With a sense of the poetry and power of Toni Morrison, an ingenious structure, and a breathtaking, lyrical prose all her own, Cynthia Bond carries the reader along in a rush: through the red dust and gossip of Main Celia Jenkins’s kitchen where a cake is being made, yolk by yolk, that Ephram will use to try to begin again with Ruby. CYNTHIA BOND is a PEN USA Rosenthal Fellowship recipient. Originally from Texas, she now lives in Los Angeles. Rights sold to: Bompiani (Italy).

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EX-HEROES SERIES CLINES, PETER EX-HEROES, February 2013 EX-PATRIOTS, April 2013 EX-COMMUNICATION, July 2013 EX-PURGATORY, January 2014 Fiction/Sci-fi/Horror Crown Trade Paperback Rights: World

Series Overview: In the days after civilization fell to the zombie hordes, a small team of heroes built a stronghold against the undead and brought the last humans they could gather within its walls. Now every day is a desperate battle against overwhelming odds, as the heroes fight to keep the undead at bay and lay down their lives for the humans they've sworn to protect. Each volume introduces great new characters and cool new threats, but most of all, it's a master class in thriller plotting, as Clines carefully sets up twist after twist, then mercilessly unloads each one on the reader. Even the most experienced reader won't be able to guess what happens. It’s superheroes vs. zombies! What more needs to be said? This is an original and clever genre mash-up, with corresponding appeal to both zombie fans and those who like blockbuster superhero movies and comics. Peter Clines has published several pieces of short fiction and countless articles on the film and television industry. Rights sold to: Novo Seculo (Brazil), Multiplayer (Italy) and Ebury/Del Rey (BCOM)

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UNTITLED NOVEL COOPER, TOM Spring 2015 Fiction, Crime Crown Hardcover Rights: World

"This is rare for me, very rare, that I was utterly unable, because of a novel, to get up from a chair and answer the phone when it rang or eat when I was hungry or go to bed when I was weary… his book is smart and funny and dazzling in its prose…He also can tell a hell of a story. Tom Cooper is a newly minted American literary treasure." —Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Owen Butler This dark, strange, and wickedly funny debut crime novel with shades of Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard is set in a small Bayou town that has recently been devastated by an oil spill. The desperate circumstances push the oddball lowlifes who inhabit the town to enact whatever risky schemes they can dream up to reverse their fortunes. At the center of it all is Gus Lindquist, a pill-addicted, one-armed treasure hunter obsessed with finding the lost treasure of pirate Jean Lafitte. His journey brings him into contact with a wide array of memorable characters, ranging from a couple of small-time criminals prone to some truly hysterical banter, to the smooth-talking oil company middleman out to bamboozle his own mother, to some psychotic drug smuggling twins who could have walked in off the set of Breaking Bad. Initially, the narrative threads seem entirely distinct, but as the story progresses, the connections become clearer, the tension and action ramp up, and everything begins to come together. This is part pulp fiction and part Southern gothic swamp noir. It’s a literary beach read that's compelling, sad, dark, funny, relevant, and meaningful. Tom Cooper has been published in dozens of literary magazines and journals. His stories have been four times nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in New Orleans.

TANTRIC COCONUTS KINCAID, GREGORY July 2014 Fiction Crown Hardcover Rights: World From the bestselling author of A Dog Named Christmas, a quirky new novel for fans of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Travels with Charley. When her crazy Aunt Lily is sent off to prison for killing Uncle Harry, Angel takes possession of the former couple's van and sets off on a pilgrimage with her trusty canine companion in hopes of jumpstarting her new profession: Native American Spiritual Consultant. Traveling with his Irish Terrier mix in the other direction on a much-needed vacation (and in need of spiritual nourishment) is Teddy Day, a Harvard-educated lawyer. Two lives (four if you count their dogs) collide (literally) in an RV park. When the dust settles, Ted and Angel find themselves enamored. They set off together on a crazy road trip, detouring into some rarely traveled corridors of the human soul. Very soon, nothing will ever be the same for these travelers, their dogs, and the world at large. Greg Kincaid's gift for storytelling shines on every page, and if you are looking for spirituality with a storyline, this novel with its welldefined characters and entertaining premise will resonate with you. Greg Kinkaid is the author of A Christmas Home, A Dog Named Christmas, and Christmas with Tucker. His books have sold over 200,000 copies. He lives in Kansas with his wife, two cats, and two dogs. Please ask for a full list of previous publishers.

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THE BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER OSBORNE, LAWRENCE April 2014 Literary Fiction Hogarth Awaiting Manuscript Hardcover Rights: World

No mere imitation but a contribution to the shelf on which The Sheltering Sky and The Bonfire of the Vanities also sit, The Forgiven explores the clash of two cultures, each of which feels superior to the other. Osborne's writing is uncomfortably well observed; his story is sickeningly, addictively headlong.” —Lionel Shriver, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin Set in the world of Macau’s casinos, this is a riveting tale of risk and passion. Doyle is a corrupt English lawyer who has escaped prosecution by fleeing to Macau, spending his nights drinking and gambling and his days sleeping off his excesses. Taking refuge in a series of luxury hotels, he watches his fortune rise and fall as the baccarat tables decide his fate. Will he be able to get out of debt and stay on indefinitely or will he lose everything in the next hand? To Doyle, the outcome doesn’t matter much. Dissolute and increasingly apathetic, he wonders whether destitution—or even death—would prove more satisfying than his current existence. At a moment of crisis, he encounters Dao-Ming, a beautiful and enigmatic native woman who seems to offer salvation in the form of both money and love. But as Doyle’s past threatens to catch up, it may be too late. With echoes of Graham Greene and Ian McEwan, this atmospheric novel will enthrall. Lawrence Osborne is the author of one previous novel (The Forgiven, Hogarth, 2012) and six books of nonfiction, the most recent of which is The Wet and the Dry (Crown, 2013). Rights to The Wet and the Dry sold to: Harvill Secker (UK) and Adelphi (Italy). Rights to The Forgiven sold to: Hogarth (UK), Spoleczny Instytut Wydawniczy (Poland), Kniha Zlin (Czech Republic). Rights to The Ballad of a Small Player sold to: Hogarth (UK)

THE CATCH STEVENS, TAYLOR July 2014 Thriller Crown Awaiting Manuscript Hardcover Rights: World The Informationist has been optioned for film by James Cameron's production company, Lightstorm Entertainment. Munroe has been called “a heroine every bit as provocative as Lisbeth Salander” and has been compared to “the provocative Jason Bourne” by USA Today. The series has received critical acclaim and the books have been published in 20 languages. Taylor Stevens, New York Times bestselling author of The Informationist, The Innocent, and The Doll, returns, a new novel featuring Vanessa Michael Munroe, who has built her life on a reputation for getting things done—dangerous and not quite legal things. Munroe has retreated to Djibouti. Passing as a man, she has found work as an interpreter for a small private maritime security company. Pressed into duty at sea by her boss, Leo, Munroe discovers she is part of a gunrunning operation, and she wants no part in protecting the crew or the cargo. When the ship is attacked by pirates off the Somali coast, Munroe escapes and takes the captain with her. When Leo goes missing along with the rest of the hijacked crew, Munroe agrees to try to find him. The hijackers are really after the captain. On the run, wounded, without connections or resources, and with the life of the captain as bait, Munroe believes that the only way to save Leo, assuming he’s still alive, is to hijack the ship back. Taylor Stevens is the author of New York Times bestselling The Informationist (Crown, 2011), The Innocent (Crown, 2011), and The Doll (Crown, 2013). Rights to The Doll sold to: Goldmann (Germany), Arrow (UK), Euromedia (Czech Republic), Beijing Media Time (China), Kodansha (Japan), Rebis (Poland), and Intrinseca (Brazil).

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THE MARTIAN WEIR, ANDY February 2014 Fiction/Thriller/Sci-fi Crown Manuscript Available Hardcover Rights: World

20th Century Fox won a hotly contested film auction, with writer-producer Simon Kinberg (Mr. & Mrs Smith, Sherlock Holmes, X-Men: First Class) attached to produce. Apollo 13 meets Castaway in this grippingly detailed, brilliantly ingenious man-vs.-nature survival thriller. A few weeks earlier, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first men to walk on the surface of Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first man to die there. It started with the dust storm that nearly killed him and forced his crew to leave him behind, sure that he was already dead. Now he’s stranded millions of miles from the nearest human being, with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his food would be gone years before a rescue mission could arrive. Chances are, though, he won’t have time to run out of food—the damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to get him first. But Mark isn’t ready to quit yet. Drawing on his engineering and botany skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to give up—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him? Even as author Andy Weir keeps readers turning pages with an incredible spate of disasters and recoveries, he manages to weave an unbroken spell of verisimilitude; everything in this book is drawn from his encyclopedic knowledge of already existing, real-world technology and science. If we started funding a mission to Mars tomorrow, The Martian is what such a mission would look like. ANDY WEIR is the son of a particle physicist and an engineer. He was hired by a national lab at age 15 and he’s been a computer programmer ever since. He’s had a life-long love of science, especially the space program. He is a stickler for scientific accuracy in his stories. The Martian is his first novel.

Rights sold to: Ebury/Del Rey (BCOM), Bard (Bulgaria), Euromedia (Czech), Ikar (Slovakia), RH Korea (Korea), Hayakawa (Japan), Newton & Compton (Italy), Heyne (Germany), AST (Russia), Karakter (Holland), Sun Color (Taiwan), HaKursa (Israel), Muza (Poland) and Sextante (Brazil), IKP Evro Giunti (Serbia).

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NONFICTION

THE GOOD SPY BIRD, KAI May 2014 Narrative Nonfiction/Espionage Crown Awaiting Manuscript Hardcover; Rights: World

“Kai Bird has produced a compelling and complex narrative that must be read on many levels— including as a detailed account of the immense influence that a truly good man can have on an agency as cynical as the CIA, and as a reminder of a myriad of losses. —Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Price of Power, The Dark Side of Camelot, and Chain of Command

Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Kai Bird has written a compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of Robert Ames, America's most important spy in the Middle East. The bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut in 1983 not only killed 63 people and marked the turning point in US relations with the Muslim world, it also eliminated America’s most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East—CIA agent Robert Ames. What set Ames apart was his extraordinary ability to form deep, meaningful connections with key figures in the Arab world. He personally recruited the Yemeni head of state, advised Ronald Reagan on the Iran hostage crisis, and infiltrated the PLO, partially “turning” one of their most important leaders, Ali Hassan Salameh. The heir apparent to Yasir Arafat, the brilliant Salameh was in charge of PLO intelligence. However, within a few years, both Salameh and Ames were dead—, and Western relations with the Muslim world were headed down a path that years later would culminate in 9/11, the rise of Hezbollah, and the War on Terror.

Kai Bird's most recent biography, American Prometheus, won the Pulitzer Prize, and his personal memoir of a Middle East childhood, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of The Chairman and The Color of Truth.

Rights to American Prometheus sold to: Grove Atlantic (UK), Science Books (Korea), Wydawnictwo Ksiazk (Poland), Yilin Press (China), Php Institue (Japan), Geleos (Russia), Travlos (Greece), Hakibbutz (Israel), Ullstein (Germany), Garzanti (Italy)

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KIDDING OURSELVES The Hidden Power of Self-Deception HALLINAN, JOSEPH T. May 2014 Pop-psychology Crown, hardcover Awaiting Manuscript; Rights: World KIDDING OURSELVES illuminates human beings’ astonishing ability to deceive themselves. To some degree, we all misjudge reality as our perception—of ourselves and the world around us—is much more malleable than we realize. This self-deception influences every major aspect of our personal and social life. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Joseph Hallinan offers a nuts-and-bolts look at how this penchant shapes our everyday lives, from the medicines we take to the decisions we make. It shows how the power of many modern medicines, such as antidepressants and painkillers, is largely in our heads. Placebos in modern-day life extend beyond hospitals—fake thermostats and “elevator close” buttons that don’t really work—but give the perception that they do. But deceiving ourselves is not always negative or foolish. Self-deception persists because it is useful. Under the right conditions, it can work wonders, affording us with two qualities: confidence and a sense of control. As an emerging body of research demonstrates, a sense or control is essential to mental well-being. Provocative, accessible, and easily applicable to multiple facets of everyday life, KIDDING OURSELVES is an extraordinary new exploration of how the mind functions. Joseph Hallinan is the author of Why We Make Mistakes (Crown, 2009) and Going Up the River (Random House, 2001). He was previously a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Among his journalism awards is a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

Why We Make Mistakes sold to: Era (Bulgaria), Citic (China), China Times (Taiwan), Beta (Czech), Scriptum (Holland), Ebury (BCOM), Heyne (Germany), Kinneret (Israel), Newton & Compton (Italy), Kodansha (Japan), Munhakdongne (Korea), Virgo Dorota Wieckowska-Granicka (Poland), Globo (Brazil), Meteor (Romania), Kairos (Spain), Natur och Kultur (Sweden), and Nhan Tri Viet (Vietnam), Mann, Ivanov, Ferber (Russia)

THE FIRST FAMILY DETAIL KESSLER, RONALD August 2014 Awaiting Manuscript Current Affairs Crown Forum Hardcover; Rights: World “[A] fascinating exposé . . . high-energy read . . . amusing, saucy, often disturbing anecdotes about the VIPs the Secret Service has protected and still protects.” —USA Today on In The President’s Secret Service From the bestselling author of In The President's Secret Service comes an explosive book that further investigates the relationship between the Secret Service and the presidency, focusing on First Ladies and their children and protecting the presidential family, from a candidate's announcement to post-presidency. THE FIRST FAMILY DETAIL will tell the story of what it is like to be a Secret Service agent assigned to the first family and what agents have seen from the presidencies of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower through George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Never before has protecting the president and his relatives been investigated in such breadth. Vicariously, readers will experience the life of a Secret Service agent. The revelations enlighten our understanding of the lives of First Ladies ranging from Pat Nixon and Betty Ford to Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama—as well as about presidents, vice presidents, presidential candidates, former presidents, and their children. FROM THE #1 NEWS-BREAKING REPORTER ON THE AGENCY: Ronald Kessler broke the story of the Secret Service prostitution scandal in Colombia in April 2012 and the fact that a third intruder, Carlos Allen, entered the White House for a State Dinner uninvited along with Tareq and Michaele Salahi in January 2010. In The President's Secret Service spent a combined 15 weeks on the New York Times bestseller List. The Secrets of the FBI spent 5 weeks on New York Times bestseller list. Please ask for a full list of previous publishers.

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BRILLIANT PAUL, ANNIE MURPHY April 2014 Awaiting Manuscript Psychology/Brain Science Crown Hardcover Rights: World Paul brings a major new contribution to the intelligence debate, with a radically hopeful message: intelligence can be acquired. Not only that, BRILLIANT shows us how. Can we become smarter? Two decades of research in cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience yields a surprising: yes, we can BRILLIANT expands our understanding of intelligence and performance. Some of the counterintuitive findings and strategies are: Why common notions of “learning styles” (visual, auditory, etc.) have no scientific merit and why we should instead determine whether we are superficial, strategic, or deep learners. Why 80 percent of the measurements we make in everyday life are estimates, not exact numbers—and how we can all become quicker and more accurate estimators. And why young people today don’t understand how machines work—and how university engineering programs are giving them the experience of tinkering that their parents and grandparents had. BRILLIANT belongs on the shelf with such bestsellers as Incognito, Talent Is Overrated, and How Children Succeed. Annie Murphy Paul writes about how science can make us healthier, happier—and smarter. Paul writes a weekly column for Time and contributes to The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and O, among others. Paul’s first book, The Cult of Personality, became the centerpiece of a New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell, who hailed it as a “fascinating new book.” Her second, Origins, was the subject of a cover story in Time magazine. Paul has a website, The Brilliant Blog, has a weekly newsletter, and has more than 25,000 followers on Twitter. More than 800,000 people have watched her TED talk, “What We Learn Before We’re Born.” Origins sold to: Swiat KziAski (Poland), Arab Scientific (Arabic rights), Chung-Ah (Korea), Chongqing (China), Commonwealth (Taiwan), Prescenca (Portugal), Hay House (BCOM), and Technice Nuove (Italy).

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BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

HRC ALLEN, JONATHAN, and PARNES, AMIE February 2014 Biography/Politics Crown Chapters with NDA Hardcover Rights: World Tracing one of the greatest political comebacks in history, HRC chronicles the resurrection of Hillary Clinton, from the political ashes of her primary defeat to the most important diplomatic position in the world and, perhaps, another run for the presidency. HRC is a examination of how Hillary Clinton has, time and again, revitalized her political reputation at home and abroad. Combining deep reporting and the astonishing storytelling of Game Change, HRC will take readers inside Hillary Clinton's decision to join the Obama Cabinet and her four years as Secretary of State (including new details on the Obama-Clinton relationship). It will also cover the mysterious workings of Bill and Hillary's political machine as she makes her decision about the 2016 election. "Will Hillary Run?" is sure to be the hottest topic of the next political cycle, and the attention on her is again becoming white-hot. The authors are deeply connected to Hillary’s world and have tapped their best sources for this book: top aides, longtime loyalists, White House officials, senators, House members, foreign policy experts, and the Clintons themselves. Jonathan Allen is the senior Washington correspondent for Politico. Amie Parnes is the White House correspondent for The Hill newspaper in Washington, where she covers the Obama Administration.

UNTITLED TIMOTHY GEITHNER GEITHNER, TIMOTHY May 2014 Politics/Current Affairs Crown Proposal with NDA Hardcover; Rights: World A definitive insider’s account of the American response to the global financial crisis from the former US Treasury secretary and president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. During his tenures at the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which spanned the Bush and Obama presidencies, Timothy Geithner was tasked with stabilizing the US economy and encouraging growth in rattled markets throughout the world. Decisions were made during the most harrowing moments of the crisis, when policy makers faced historic levels of uncertainty, risked catastrophic outcomes, and had no institutional memory or recent precedent to guide them. Geithner describes the relationships, debates about strategy, and strength of collaboration among key decision makers in the crisis, including Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, President Obama, senior White House advisers, and foreign finance ministers and central bank governors. By describing what went right, what went wrong, and the lessons learned along the way, Geithner aims to answer the most important— —and to many the most troubling——questions about the choices he and his colleagues made, the strategies they adopted, and the economic aftermath. This will be essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and its implications for the future. Rights sold to: Nikkei (Japan), Random House Business (UK) and Citic (China).

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IN THE NAME OF GUCCI GUCCI, PATRICIA September 2014 Autobiography Crown Archetype Hardcover Rights: World

In every biography written about the Gucci family, the names Bruna Palombo and Patricia Gucci receive, at most, three or four sentences. That is because their unique story has been kept under wraps until now. For the first time, the once illegitimate daughter of the Gucci founder tells us the Shakespearean family drama that ends with her as the chosen and sole heir of Aldo Gucci. This story, inspired by the revelation of a chest full of love letters between Gucci and his longtime love, Patricia’s mother, will tear down the corporate facades and get closer than any outside biographer ever could. Viewers, for the first time, will have rare access to the very heart and vision of the fashion dynasty’s architect: Aldo Gucci. We witness the remarkable rise, fall, and collapse of this fashion house through the eyes of Aldo’s only daughter, who simultaneously tells of the love story between her father and mother—his mistress-turned-wife Bruna Palombo, who is still with us and a major source of information.

It's a universal story of love and family, loyalty and betrayal. The Gucci story is well-documented, but it's never been told like this before. The stories are real but sound like the creation of top fiction writers. Conspiracies to steal control of Gucci by Aldo’s brother and sons are set amid the internationally famous murder of Patricia’s cousin by his wife, who had set her sights on power and fame. The conviction of Aldo Gucci for tax fraud in the US became top international news, only to reveal that Gucci’s own son informed the IRS of the “tax inconsistencies” in his bid to get control of the company. And, finally, the summoning of Gucci’s three sons to the hospital where their father, with Patricia and her mother sitting on his bed, informs the sons he has been dying of cancer, unbeknownst to them and their self-centered lives, and proceeds to read his last will, cutting them completely from the family fortune while leaving his entire estate to Patricia. Patricia Gucci was born in London and is the only daughter of Bruna Palombo and Aldo Gucci. She lives in Switzerland with her three daughters.

WHITHOUT YOU, THERE IS NO US A Time With The Sons of North Korea’s Elite KIM, SUKI October 2014 Memoir/Cultural Observation Crown Awaiting Manuscript Hardcover; Rights: World Prizewinning novelist Suki Kim’s piercing memoir of six months undercover teaching English to the sons of North Korea’s elite—an unprecedented, moving look at the absurdity and cruelty of life in the world’s most unknowable country. South Korea-born writer Suki Kim, whose family was divided by the Korean War, left New York for Pyongyang, posing as a Christian missionary in order to become an English teacher at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), North Korea’s only private university. At PUST both students and staff are forbidden from leaving the campus except on official trips. Suki’s students are the privileged sons of the most brilliant politicians, scientists, and physicians in Pyongyang – the future leaders of the totalitarian state – but the idea of traveling abroad or even applying for a job is alien to them. She soon grows attached to her students, trying to expose them to the outside world – introducing them to iPods, study abroad, and Harry Potter. The students, in turn, open up to Suki in their writing and conversations, sharing their anxieties and offering uncensored glimpses into their lives outside the university walls. Then Kim Jong Il dies, leaving Suki’s students genuinely devastated, and leaving her to question whether the gulf between her world and theirs can ever be bridged. Courageous and disquieting, this book is a singular account of a dystopian regime, and a beautiful testament to its people.

Suki Kim was born in Seoul and moved to the US at the age of thirteen. She is the author of the award-winning novel The Interpreter, and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Fulbright grant, and an Open Society fellowship. She has been traveling to North Korea as a journalist since 2002, writing essays and articles for The New York Times, Harper’s, and The New York Review of Books.

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ROBERT DE NIRO LEVY, SHAWN October 2014 Biography Crown Archetype Hardcover Rights: World

“[A] sweeping tribute to Newman . . . Levy offers reportage as impressive as his critical analysis. PAUL NEWMAN: A LIFE is a layered and absorbing portrait.” —Time.com This is an unauthorized biography of the Oscar-winning actor. One of De Niro’s first major roles was in the 1973 film Mean Streets. It was on this film where he also formed his longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese. He would go on to work with him on many notable films, including Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, and Casino. But many will remember De Niro in his pivotal role in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II, playing the young Vito Corleone. Film critic and pop culture historian Shawn Levy gives readers the ultimate behind-the-scenes examination of the actor’s life, including a look into his childhood, his early acting days, his work as both actor and director on numerous critically acclaimed films, his romances and relationships, as well as his endeavors outside the film industry. Shawn Levy is the author of Paul Newman: A Life. He lives in Oregon with his wife and three children. Paul Newman: A Life sold to: Aurum (UK); BB Art; (Czech Republic); General Press Kft (Hungary); Baldini & Castoldi (Italy); Kinema-Junpo (Japan); Publicat S.A. (Poland); Nova Fronteira (Brazil); RH Mondadori (Spain).

WHAT I WAS DOING WHILE YOU WERE BREEDING A Memoir NEWMAN, KRISTIN May 2014 Humor/Essays Three Rivers Press Awaiting Manuscript Trade Paperback Rights: World--English only (translation rights with Levine Greenberg Literary Agency) Comedy writer Kristin Newman's funny, sexy, and ultimately poignant journey through her 20s and 30s, which she spent traveling the world for a few months a year and falling madly in love with attractive locals--while her friends at home were settling down with husbands and children. Sure to appeal to fans of Mindy Kaling, Caitlin Moran, and Chelsea Handler, this fresh debut memoir deals with the stress of her high-pressure TV-writing job and the anxieties of being the last single person in her group of friends by mastering the art of the "vacationship." She introduces readers to the Israeli bartenders, Argentinian priests, Finnish poker players, and sexy Brazilians who help her transform into a quieter, less judgmental, and, yes, sluttier version of herself at home. Ultimately, Kristin's adventures lead her to a better understanding of what she was actually running away from at home and why every life hurdle seemed to put her on a transatlantic flight to the unknown. Equal parts laugh-out-loud storytelling; thoughtful, candid reflection; and wanderlustinspiring travel porn, What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding is a compelling and hilarious debut that will have readers scrambling to renew their passports. Kristin Newman is a television writer who has worked in Hollywood for almost 20 years. She has written for That '70s Show, Chuck, and How I Met Your Mother. She currently writes for the TV show The Neighbors.

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IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE Box Me Up and Ship Me Home O’BRIEN, TIM Spring 2014 - Reissue Memoir/Vietnam War Broadway Trade Paperback Rights: World "O'Brien brilliantly and quietly evokes the foot soldier's daily life in the paddies and foxholes, evokes a blind, blundering war. . . . Tim O'Brien writes with the care and eloquence of someone for whom communication is still a vital possibility. . . . A personal document of aching clarity. . . . A beautiful, painful book." —The New York Times Book Review

Originally published in 1973, this reissue will feature new material by the author. Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE is a masterwork of its genre. O'Brien's experience as a Vietnam foot soldier takes readers behind the infantryman's rifle, in a memoir that resonates today. He is the author of Tomcat In Love, Northern Lights, The Things They Carried and Going After Cacciato. Rights sold to: Piemme (Italy) and 13EME Note (France).

TRAVELING SHADOWS RICHMOND MOUILLOT, MIRANDA January 2015 Autobiography Crown Hardcover Rights: World Miranda Richmond Mouillot grew up in a family haunted by the Holocaust and by her grandparents’ mysterious estrangement. In 1948, Miranda’s grandparents, Armand and Anna, who had survived Nazi-occupied France, bought an old stone house in the south of France. Her grandmother, a physician, and her grandfather, later an interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, had survived the war in France through a combination of luck and wits. Five years later, Anna packed her bags and walked out on Armand, taking his typewriter and their two children. The two never spoke to each other for the rest of their lives. No one in the family knew why or dared to unravel the mystery, until Mouillot’s curiosity and need to understand her heritage compelled her to break the silence. Why is her grandfather so angry at her grandmother, refusing for 50 years even to utter her name? What created this irrevocable rift between two people who had survived such horrors? The answer lies in her grandfather’s participation in the Nuremberg Trials, and all he learns there and cannot leave behind. This memoir tells two stories: that of Mouillot’s own life (the journey she undertakes to write this book, including her relationships with her deteriorating grandparents, moving to France to restore their house, and falling in love) and that of her grandparents (their lives together—and apart). The intertwined narratives form a seamless whole that touches on some very big issues: how history, family, and the individual inform one another, how we write—and rewrite—history to fulfill our own needs, the danger of being consumed by the past, the burden of history, of secrets and silence and the limits of knowledge and memory. Miranda Richmond Mouillot currently lives with her husband, Julien, and daughter, Estelle, in a small village in southeastern France, and works as an independent translator, mostly of works in the humanities and social sciences.

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HEALTH/SELF-HELP/INSPIRATIONAL SAVING FAITH The Answer to Militant Atheism, Pseudoscience, and the Dawkins Delusion CHOPRA, DEEPAK October 2014 Spirituality Harmony Manuscript available Hardcover Rights: World The leading advisor on spirituality in America reveals the faulty reasoning, bogus science, and general bad faith prevalent among militant atheists like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Susan Blackmore, and Sam Harris. Chopra offers new and provocative ways to understand God and nature of belief in the 21st century. Over the last five years Chopra and the poster child of the New Atheism, Dawkins, have been in heated debates over God, science, and the future of mankind. Chopra wants to address arguments of overzealous atheism. The book isn't just a discussion over belief systems, it's a stirring call to action for all of us to reevaluate how we look at and live with God in our lives. "If faith can be saved, the result will be an increase in hope," Chopra writes. "By itself, faith can't deliver God, but it does something more timely. Faith makes God possible." Deepak Chopra, MD, is the author of more than 65 books, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Please ask for a list of previous publishers. Rights sold to: Rider (BCOM), Eyerolles (France) and Flux Forlag (Norway).

WHAT ARE YOU HUNGRY FOR? The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being, and Lightness of Soul CHOPRA, DEEPAK November 2013 Health & Fitness/Healing Harmony Manuscript available Hardcover Rights: World The New York Times bestselling author of Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul returns to his health and wellness roots with an exciting new approach to weight loss that focuses on the hungers we experience physically, mentally, and spiritually. What are you hungry for? Food? Love? Self-esteem? Security? Acceptance? Peace? In this manual for "higher health," based on the latest findings in both mainstream and alternative medicine, Deepak Chopra creates a vision of healing based on higher awareness of who we are, what we yearn for, and what we can ultimately do about it. This book expands on his work with the mind-body connection. He brings it all together for a total formula for happiness, wellness, and a vibrant soul. Moreover, Chopra shows us how we can heal ourselves now by preventing common physical disorders like diabetes and muscle pain that inhibit the body's healing system to maintain natural balance.

Rights sold to: Rider (BCOM), Alaude (Brazil); Jiri Sevcik (Czech), Lifestyle (Romania), Kosmos (Holland), Daiwa (Japan) and G&U (Germany),

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A LETTER TO MY CAT Notes to Our Best Friends ERSPAMER, LISA

October 2014 Pets/Inspirational Crown Archetype Awaiting Manuscript Hardcover Rights: World Fully illustrated 4-color photos; trim size 6 x 8-1/2 and approx. 176 pages Unlikely Friendships crossed with Chicken Soup for the Soul—with a whole lot of star power—the follow-up to A Letter to My Dog takes on cats, with celebrities writing letters of love and gratitude to their beloved pet felines. Alluring, elusive, mysterious—the cats in our lives are not always easy to get to know. But as with all pets, they have unique personalities and stories to tell. Featuring beautiful fourcolor photos of their cats, A LETTER TO MY CAT collects personal letters from celebrities offering love and gratitude for all that their cats bring to their lives. Contributors already locked in include Gina Gershon, Joe Perry (Aerosmith), with many more to come (such as Katy Perry, Halle Berry, Cameron Diaz, Karl Lagerfeld, Taylor Swift, and Grumpy Cat's owner). Packed with four-color photos in a gifty hardcover package, A LETTER TO MY CAT will be a perfect gift book for all animal lovers. After 20 years as an executive producer on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Lisa Erspamer has a golden Rolodex and fantastic promotional instincts. As she did with ALTMD, Erspamer will create an online space where cat lovers can gather and become part of the project (www.alettertomycat.com).

MINDBENDERS GASKINS, LINDSAY August 2014 Self-Help/Memory Improvement Three Rivers Press Awaiting Manuscript Trade Paperback Rights: World A collection of puzzles and brain teasers to help enhance memory, build problem-solving skills, and reduce stress created by the team behind Marbles: The Brain Store, a store devoted to strengthening and stimulating the brain. Since Marbles started helping people play their way to a healthier brain, they've sold, solved, and been stumped by more than their fair share of puzzles. Along the way, they've learned which puzzles people love, which ones to avoid, and which ones make the neurons downright giddy. Bringing all of that knowledge to bear, as well as their access to the latest developments in neuroscience, the Marbles brain trust has designed this series of logic puzzles and brain teasers (including acrostics and number puzzles) to keep your mind flexible and fit. We'll follow MINDBENDERS with Train Your Brain, a Marbles-branded brain-training guide, in August 2015. Lindsay Gaskins is the founder and president of Marbles, which began as a failed mall kiosk and grew to a national retailer in four years. She was named one of Crain’s Chicago's "40 Under 40." Marbles stores and branded products have been featured in magazines and national television programs. www.marblesthebrainstore.com

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THE ECSTASY OF SURRENDER 12 Essential Choices for a Powerful and Fearless Life ORLOFF, JUDITH April 2014 Self-Help Harmony Awaiting Manuscript Hardcover Rights: World New York Times bestselling author and UCLA psychiatrist Judith Orloff, M.D., has created a magical, results-oriented, book that is vital to thriving in our modern, task-heavy, constantly wired lives. She considers this her most important book: it reveals everything about when to let go versus when to assert control, about the secret formula to success, and about pleasure and happiness. THE ECSTASY OF SURRENDER shows you how to free yourself from the prison of obligation, worry, stress, and the need to over-control. It is about saying "Enough!" and then surrendering to intuition, trust, humor, and joy in ways that you never imagined were possible. Orloff has created 12 essential attitudes for a fearless and powerful life. Each chapter is a personal manifesto on how to surrender. She guides readers through specific ways they can apply surrender to success, money and communication, spirituality, how to read people, love and sexuality, the divinity of the body, illness, pain, aging, and immortality. Readers get a step-by-step plan for exploring surrender. This book is a powerful and accessible road map for anyone who feels stuck, afraid, defensive, or afraid to let go. JUDITH ORLOFF, M.D., is frequently interviewed as an expert on energy, emotional wellness, intuition, and healing. She has appeared everywhere from Dr. Oz and the Today show to PBS and NPR, and her work has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Self, Cosmopolitan, and more. She also blogs for Huffington Post, PBS Next Avenue, and Psychology Today. Please ask for a full list of previous publishers.

THE FAST METABOLISM DIET COOKBOOK Eat Even More Food and Lose Even More Weight POMROY, HAYLIE December 2013 Manuscript Health Fitness/Diet Hardcover Harmony Rights: World The Fast Metabolism Diet has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 18 weeks! Here are 200 delicious recipes to effect massive and rapid weight loss through the fat-burning power of food. Lose 20 pounds in 28 days with this companion cookbook to Haylie Pomroy’s breakout The Fast Metabolism Diet. Haylie’s clients are often astonished when they lose 20 pounds in 28 days without counting calories or skipping meals or experiencing that constant hunger that accompanies most diets. And they are even more shocked to learn that Haylie’s secret weapon is the very thing they’ve been missing in all those other failed diets: food. That’s because the Fast Metabolism Diet doesn’t ask you to starve or deprive yourself or cut out food groups. Instead, it works precisely by using food to fire up the metabolism and get it burning at lightning speed. This is a diet that celebrates eating. Now its legions of followers can continue to achieve successful weight loss by cooking and enjoying a wider variety of delicious and healthy home-cooked meals. Celebrity nutritionist Haylie Pomroy is well known in Hollywood and in the medical community for her ability to effect rapid weight loss. With clinics in Beverly Hills, Burbank, Irvine, and Fort Collins, she has a client list that reads like a Hollywood A-list. Rights to FMDC sold to: Staandard (Holland). Rights to FMD sold to: Vermillion (BCOM); Editora Nova (Brazil); Readme.fi Oy (Finland), Graefe and Unzer (Germany), Pedio (Greece), Staandard (Holland), Sperling (Italy), Daesung (Korea), G+J Gruner+Jahr Polska (Poland), Vogais & Companhia (Portugal), Centrepolygraph (Russia), RH Mondadori Mexico (Spanish World).

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FLUENT FOREVER How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It WYNER, GABRIEL August 2014 Harmony Awaiting Manuscript Trade Paperback Rights: World From the 20-something linguistic maven whose language-learning methods became a phenomenon on lifehacker.com, this book offers a magic skeleton key to becoming fluent in any language, using free resources and easy-to-learn techniques. Gabriel Wyner speaks five languages fluently. He didn't learn them as a child or major in them in college—he learned them in the last several years, mostly working on his own and using simple techniques and free online resources. He did study a foreign language in school, but retained nothing. He realized two things: first, the way most of us learn languages is ineffective, and second, if language is studied properly, learning it can be easy. Anyone can do it—if they know how. Exploring the science of learning and memory, he shows how to make memories more memorable, why timing is everything, how to tap into your inner grammar genius, how patterns "lock in" knowledge, and why, when it comes to learning words, the right pictures make all the difference. Some of his revolutionary techniques include:  Emphasizing early acquisition of pronunciation skills  A "no translation" approach  "Spaced repetition" memorization  Unique flashcards If you’re one of those people who want to learn a language but have not been successful, then look no further. This book is for you. Gabriel Wyner graduated with degrees in mechanical engineering and vocal arts, and has gone on to distinguish himself as an opera singer. He intends to learn one language a year for the rest of his life. He has launched the website towerofbabelfish.com, which is now the #6 language-learning site in the world.

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BUSINESS CENTERED LEADERSHIP An Actionable Roadmap for Leading with Resilience, Impact, and Fulfillment BARSH, JOANNA April 2014 Business/Leadership Crown Business Awaiting Manuscript Hardcover Rights: World In her previous book, How Remarkable Women Lead, Barsh described the Centered Leadership philosophy and the research that underpinned it. This book puts her highly sought after seminars onto the page, walking readers through the interactive tools, exercises, and strategies that have helped tens of thousands gain the skills and confidence to manage their own thoughts, feelings, and actions and, in doing so, unleash their potential and that of those around them. She’s led and will continue to lead Centered Leadership development programs in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Malaysia, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. Identify and eliminate the triggers that sap your confidence and undermine your performance in stressful situations; use the power of pausing to project more authority and shift a discussion in a more productive direction; get rid of energy drainers in your professional network ; make your sponsors more effective by “coaching upward”; improve your leadership presence by knowing your comfort zone, panic zone, and learning zone; gain more perspective on your actions by learning to both “observe yourself and others from the higher balcony,” while also “being at the dance.” Joanna Barsh is a director at McKinsey & Company and serves as a leader of McKinsey's Consumer, Retail, and Organization Practices. She created the McKinsey Centered Leadership Project, including a video archive of 150 in-depth interviews with women leaders from around the world, designed to accelerate the development of women leaders. She was previously published by: Bruna (Holland), Ediouro (Brazil), Next Wave (Korea), Eksmo (Russia), and China Machine Press (China).

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? 2014 A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers BOLLES, RICHARD N. August 2013 Business & Economics—Job Hunting Ten Speed Press Manuscript Available Trade Paperback Rights: Translation "One of the first job-hunting books on the market. It is still arguably the best. And it is indisputably the most popular." —Fast Company

With more than 10 million copies sold in 27 countries, WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? has helped millions, was honored by the Library of Congress as one of 25 books that have shaped people's lives, and was recently named to Time magazine's list of AllTime 100 Nonfiction Books. This perennial New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller helps job-searchers find meaningful work in any economy. However, the book is not only about finding a job in hard times; it's also about finding your passion. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? explains that job-hunting has increasingly become a survival skill. Career guru Richard N. Bolles describes the five strategies most needed to survive, and explains how to incorporate social media tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. With fresh insights into résumés, networking, interviewing, salary negotiation, and how to start your own business, this book will give you the tools, exercises, and motivation you need to find hope, land a job, and fulfill your purpose in life. Richard N. Bolles has been a leader in career development for more than 40 years. Please ask for a list of all option publishers.

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REMOTE Office Not Required FRIED, JASON, and DAVID HEINEMEIER HANSSON October 2013 Business/Entrepreneurship Crown Business Manuscript Available Hardcover Rights: World In this new book from the bestselling authors of Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson point to the new—and surging—trend of employees working from home, explaining the challenges and unexpected benefits. The Industrial Revolution's "under one roof" model of conducting work is steadily declining owing to technology that is rapidly creating virtual workspaces and allowing workers to provide their vital contribution without physically clustering together. Today, the new paradigm is "move work to the workers, rather than workers to the workplace." According to Reuters, one in five global workers telecommutes frequently and nearly 10 percent work from home every day. But companies see advantages too in the way remote work increases their talent pool, reduces turnover, lessens their real estate footprint, and improves the ability to conduct business across multiple time zones, to name just a few advantages. In REMOTE, iconoclastic authors Fried and Hansson will convince readers that letting all or part of work teams function remotely is a great idea—and they're going to show precisely how a remote work setup can be accomplished. Fried and Hansson specialize in being unconventional and counterintuitive. They are Digital Age rebels whose cutting-edge software company 37Signals is providing the technological architecture for the remote work shift. Fried has 91,000 Twitter followers, and one of his TED talks has been viewed 300,000 times. Hansson, the inventor of Ruby on Rails programming code, has 70,000 followers. The 37Signals blog currently has 100,000 unique monthly visitors. Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson are the founders of 37Signals, a trailblazing software company. They have been profiled in such publications as Time, Newsweek, and Wired. They're also contributors to Signals v. Noise, one the of Web's most popular blogs. They have been used repeatedly as experts to comment on the new Yahoo “no work from home” policies. Rights have been sold to: Vermilion (BCOM), Mann, Ivanov, Ferber (Russia), Jan Melvil (Czech), Commonwealth Publishing (Taipei), Hayakawa (Japan), Citic (China), Urano (Spain), pending offers in Portugal and Romania

THE POWER OF GRIT KAPLAN THALER, LINDA, and ROBIN KOVAL September 2014 Business/Motivational Crown Business Awaiting Manuscript Hardcover Rights: World “The Power of Nice is a wonder drug! It could literally save your career and your life. . . . And let me suggest a first act of kindness: buy some extra copies for your enemies. I’ll bet they need The Power of Nice more than you do.” —Keith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat Alone, the bestselling book on building relationships for success From the authors of The Power of Nice and The Power of Small, a new business book that emphasizes the importance of hard work, determination, perseverance, resilience—in getting ahead in your life and career. We live in a culture that increasingly places value on intellect and talent over old-fashioned sweat equity and effort. It’s hard not to marvel at the overnight success of some people. While it’s true that some of us were born with extraordinary gifts, the rest of us should not lose heart. Some of our most admired individuals and inspirational success stories are about people who had only modest natural gifts but an outsize helping of GRIT—the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal. GRIT is about the truth in the saying “Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration” and it will prove that the ability to succeed beyond your imagination is not determined by the vagaries of the lucky gene lottery, but that it is within your grasp if you can harness your determination and attitude. Linda Kaplan Thaler is CEO and chief creative officer and Robin Koval is president of The Kaplan Thaler Group, a major advertising agency in New York. They have been featured in USA TODAY, the New York Times, and BusinessWeek. They both live in New York.

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ESSENTIALISM The Disciplined Pursuit of Less McKEOWN, GREG March 2014 Business/Personal Success Crown Business Awaiting Manuscript Hardcover Rights: World

Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin at work? Have you ever felt both overworked and underutilized? Do you ever feel busy but not productive? Do you ever feel like you're constantly in motion, but never getting anywhere? If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is becoming an Essentialist. This is not a time-management strategy but a systematic discipline you apply each and every time you are faced with a decision about how to expend your time, energy, and effort. By forcing us to apply a more selective criteria for what is essential, the pursuit of less allows us to regain control of our own choices so we can channel our time, energy, and effort toward making the highest possible contribution toward the goals and activities that matter Three simple steps: 1.

Evaluate—learn how to distinguish the vital from the trivial by applying a tougher, more selective criteria for what is essential.

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Eliminate—get rid of the nonessential activities and efforts, earning time to focus on the essentials (and doing it in a way that garners you respect from colleagues bosses, and peers).

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Execute—create a process to make the essential things as effortless as possible.

Greg McKeown speaks around the world on the importance of ESSENTIALISM. Last year alone he traveled to Australia, Bulgaria, China, India, Italy, Ireland, Japan and Tanzania and he has plans for upcoming events in Singapore, Costa Rica, Switzerland, and Spain as well as a trip to the World Economic Forum in May 2014 .

He writes a blog for Harvard Business Review as well as for LinkedIn's Influencer group. He is coauthor of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. He has consulted and spoken at companies that include Apple, Google, Facebook, IDEO, Microsoft, and Twitter, and he serves as a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum. Rights to Multipliers (Harper, 2010) sold to: Sperling (Italy); PT Dian Rakyat (Indonesia), Korea Economic Daily (Korea), Rocco (Brazil), Onepress/Helion (Poland), Electronic Industry Press (China), Kapital Medya Hizmetleri (Turkey), and Nokhook (Thailand).

ESSENTIALISM sold to: Virgin Books (BCOM).

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NERVES OF STEEL WEISINGER, HENDRIE September 2014 Business/Performance Crown Business Awaiting Manuscript Hardcover Rights: World Pressure is different than stress. We may be stressed out, but we're living under pressure virtually all of the time. Therefore, it's absolutely essential to understand the difference between stress and pressure and learn how to function effectively while under pressure. Pressure situations are those that require you to make an immediate and effective response in order to succeed. Stress, on the other hand, is when you see the demands of the environment outweighing your ability to respond. Stress is having too much work to do. You deal with it by prioritizing or maybe delegating. Pressure is having to make the winning point in the last 30 seconds of the game. Stress can improve performance; pressure does the opposite. NERVES OF STEEL provides 21 pressure valve solutions—strategies for regulating, redirecting, discharging the flow of pressure—that allow people to most effectively address any pressure situation they anticipate facing. All of these strategies are based on empirical research and are totally accessible. This makes it easy for readers to select the strategies or combinations that will help them do their best when it counts the most. NERVES OF STEEL will be invaluable for anyone in the working world, especially in these difficult times when holding a job or even getting one is no longer guaranteed. Dr. Hendrie Weisinger is a psychologist and a New York Times bestselling author. He is a leading authority in the application of Emotional Intelligence, an expert in anger management, and the originator of the highly regarded techniques of Criticism Training. He is the author of several titles, including Nobody’s Perfect (Warner), Dr. Weisinger’s Anger Workout Book (Morrow), and Emotional Intelligence at Work (Jossey-Bass).

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