Where I Write: Helaina Hovitz
I carry a small notebook in my purse literally everywhere I go (I can’t sit still for long without jotting something down, and if I don’t have my notebook on me, I use my phone’s notepad) but there is one place my laptop stays parked, ironically, and that is in my home office. In a […]
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 […]
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 […]
SECRET LETTERS, Juliet Madison
Going one step beyond journaling, SECRET LETTERS encourages letter-writing for self-empowerment, insight, to express gratitude and inspire us. Juliet Madison is an artist (author of COLOR YOUR DREAMS), life coach and novelist. She provides templates for letters (Dear Younger Self, Dear Soul Mate, Dear God) and inspires us to create our own. (Sourcebooks/Spring 2017/World Rights)
LOVE THE HOUSE YOU’RE IN, Paige Rien
Stop hating your house and start adoring it—40 steps to make your home express who you are and work for how you really live. PAIGE RIEN, interior designer, mother of four, and passionate home lover, wants you to love where you live and believes you can do the work to get there. She consults with families […]
SEARCH AND RESCUE: A Wilderness Doctor’s Life and Death Tales, Christopher Van Tilburg, MD
In the sequel to MOUNTAIN RESCUE DOCTOR, an emergency wilderness physician on Mt. Hood explores the risks and rewards of outdoor adventure through dramatic stories. (Falcon/Rowman & Littlefield, World Rights, Fall 2017)
UNRETIREMENT, Chris Farrell (Paperback)
The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist and American Public Media radio host of Marketplace, Chris Farrell, we are instead on […]
IDENTITY CRISIS, Melissa Schorr
In her debut Young Adult novel from Merit Press, Melissa Schorr spins a riveting tale of social media revenge. Who does she think she is? Annalise’s audacious freshman-year hookup with Cooper Franklin has a trio of friends thirsting for revenge. So they catfish Annalise by creating the perfect virtual guy, with Noelle playing along reluctantly […]