The Power of the Adolescent Brain, Thomas Armstrong
A leading educator shares strategies for teaching middle and high school students grounded in the latest discoveries in neuroscience about the developing brain. “Moody. Reckless. Impractical. Insecure. Distracted.” These are all words commonly used to describe adolescents. But what if we recast these traits in a positive light? Teens possess insight, passion, idealism, sensitivity, and […]
LOVE WINS, Debbie Cenziper & Jim Obergefell
The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades—the legalization of same-sex marriage. (William Morrow/HarperCollins, June 2016) In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty […]
THE PRISONER, Ben H. Winters
From the author of UNDERGROUND AIRLINES and THE LAST POLICEMAN, a genre-bending thriller. (Mulholland Books/Little Brown, division of Hachette, World Rights, 2018) Also included in the deal is a second, untitled novel.
AFTER ANATEVKA, Alexandra Silber
An evocative sequel to the beloved Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof that imagines the plight of Hodel as she searches for her fiance in a Siberian labor camp, by the actor who has played Tzeitel and Hodel respectively on the stage in New York and London. The publisher has also bought White Hot Grief […]
Three More Words, Ashley Rhodes-Courter (Paperback edition)
In the sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir Three Little Words, Ashley Rhodes-Courter expands on life beyond the foster care system, the joys and heartbreak with the family she’s created, and her efforts to make peace with her past. Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent a harrowing nine years of her life in fourteen different foster […]
The Freshman Survival Guide, Nora Bradbury-Haehl and Bill McGarvey
A completely revised and updated values-based guide to navigating the first year of college that speaks to college students in their own language and offers practical tools that readers need to keep from drinking, sleeping, or skipping their way out of college. In the four years since its initial publication, THE FRESHMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE has […]
Writing with a Positive Attitude–It May Get You an Agent or Publisher!
There are many reasons why writers write, but one is that that they wish to be read. Most writers want to find their audience and connect with their audience. Whether it is because they have something to say, information to share, or are creating an experience, through memoir and fiction, most writers–at least those who […]
UNSELFIE: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed, Dr. Michele Borba
Is the Selfie Syndrome Undermining Our Kids’ Future? In her new book, UNSELFIE (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, June 2016), bestselling author Michele Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood—and explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive […]
LESSONS ALONG THE RESCUE ROAD, Peter Zheutlin
From the bestselling author of RESCUE ROAD (Sourcebooks, 2015), a chronicle of the author’s mid-life adoption of two rescue dogs, the camaraderie, adventures, misadventures, and lessons that emerge about dogs, human nature, relationships–in short, life. (World Rights/TarcherPerigee/Penguin/Fall 2017)
SHAME NATION: Preventing, Surviving and Overcoming Digital Disaster, Sue Scheff and Melissa Schorr
Internet safety expert Scheff and journalist Schorr document the rise of cyber-shaming such as trolling, revenge porn, sexting scandals, email hacks, and cyber-lynchings and tell us what we need to do to protect ourselves (and others) as well as how to recover from an attack after it happens. (Sourcebooks/World English/2017)