THE MINDFUL WOMAN, Caroline S. Welch
Scientifically-based, practical strategies to help busy women achieve lasting personal and professional well-being by a long-time mindfulness practitioner. (Tarcher Perigee/Penguin Random House, World Rights, January 2019)
LOVE AND…Assholes, The One & Other Fun Ways to Sabotage Your Relationship, Jen Kim
From the popular thirty-something Psychology Today blogger–Valley Girl with a Brain–comes a self-help book that doesn’t want you to change. Kim draws on personal experience as well as the latest scientific findings to shed light on why we do the things we do when it comes to relationships. (Skyhorse Publishing, World Rights, 2018)
WITNESS: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom, Ariel Burger
Tuesdays with Morrie meets The Last Lecture when a devoted student, friend and protege of Elie Wiesel–one of the world’s greatest thinkers, author of more than 40 books, and teacher for four decades–takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, and shares the remarkable interactions and lessons he witnesses there about what it means to […]
THE GOSPEL OF MARY, Philip Freeman
A gospel that may or may not be authentic, a race against time, a secret that threatens the church: these are some of the elements of the third in the series featuring Sister Deirdre as sleuth in ancient Ireland, in Christianity’s early days. (World Rights/Pegasus/Fall 2017)
HOW TO BE A GOOD FRIEND: An Ancient Guide to Real Friendship in a Superficial Age, Cicero (Philip Freeman, Translator)
Classicist Freeman offers a vivid new translation of Cicero’s famous “De Amicitia,” ruminations on friendship as a core relationship based on loyalty and mutual and genuine connection with others. (Princeton University Press, 2017, World Rights)
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 […]
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)
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)