WORK: An Ode to Joy, Mark D. Usher
A cross-cultural journey through time and space on the value and purpose of work in the age of AI, drawing on sources as diverse as Plato, Ruskin, Pirsig and Buddhist teachings, by UVM classics professor, farmer and author of How to Be a Farmer and Following Nature’s Lead. (University of Chicago Press, World rights, Fall […]
THE MINIATURIST’S ASSISTANT wins the 2025 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction!
Congratulations to Katherine Scott Crawford, who has just been honored with a 2025 North Carolina Book Award in fiction, details below. Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction: Katherine Scott Crawford for “The Miniaturist’s Assistant.” Crawford is an award-winning novelist whose historical fiction is steeped in a vivid sense of place. An 11th-generation Southerner born and raised […]
ANNE OF AVENUE A, Audrey Bellezza & Emily Harding
Jane Austen’s Persuasion meets the Big Apple in this swoon-worthy holiday romance from the authors of Elizabeth of East Hampton and Emma of 83rd Street. ANNE OF AVENUE A is the third in the For the Love of Austen series from Audrey Bellezza & Emily Harding (Gallery Books, October 2025). Eight years ago, Anne Elliot broke Freddie Wentworth’s heart when […]
BIG REACTORS: Practical Strategies for Parenting Highly Sensitive Children, Claire Lerner
An invaluable, practical guide that shows parents how to help their highly sensitive child learn to manage their big emotions and thrive. Highly sensitive children (HSCs) process and react to experiences more deeply than other children. They are sometimes called “spirited,” “deeply feeling,” or “big reactors.” These children are amazing-fierce and feisty, persistent and passionate, […]
ALIENATED, Julie L. Hall
An exploration of how broken attachment, trauma and narcissistic culture have eroded families and society, and how reconnecting to our evolved human needs and capacities can help us to heal and forge a healthier future, from the author of The Narcissist in Your Life and “The Narcissistic Files,’ a resource focused on narcissism and its impact. […]
REAR WINDOW, Jennifer O’Callaghan
REAR WINDOW: The Making of a Hitchcock Masterpiece in the Hollywood Golden Age (Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing, September 2025) gives us the definitive, in-depth look inside Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window—the all-time classic of voyeurism, paranoia, and murder that became one of Hollywood’s greatest achievements and turned generations of viewers into “a race of Peeping Toms.” A […]
MARCO POLO AND THE SILK ROAD, Philip Freeman
Chair of Humanities at Pepperdine University and author of ALEXANDER THE GREAT and JULIUS CAESAR Philip Freeman’s biography of Marco Polo, whose journey along thousands of miles of the Silk Road was chronicled in his own Travels and other medieval sources, from his boyhood in Venice to his trek across Asia to China as a teenager, his years and […]
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Due to the volume of queries we receive, we periodically have to pause queries, sometimes for months at a time. We regret this inconvenience, but it is impossible to keep up with the flow and do justice to the queries we are currently reviewing. We wish you the best in your search for representation. –Joelle […]
THANK YOU FOR REMEMBERING, Emily Harding
A woman with amnesia wakes up a year after a terrible accident to discover that her life has irrevocably changed. She teams up with a charming neighbor to put the pieces of her life back together. (Gallery, World rights, Summer 2026).
THE POWER OF NEURODIVERSITY: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain, Thomas Armstrong PhD
From a bestselling author and psychologist, an exploration and celebration of neurodivergence, completely revised with the most up-to-date research and insights. “Parents, teachers, and policymakers should all read this thought-provoking book. I loved it.’’―Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures and The Autistic Brain From ADHD and dyslexia to autism, the number of diagnosis categories listed […]