Cameo, Eliza Redgold
In Victorian London, a lady’s idol becomes her love, as she risks her reputation in the arms of a bohemian artist, in a two-book deal that includes another historical romance. (Harlequin UK/2016/World Rights)
WOMEN ON THE FRONT LINES: How Three Female Soldiers and an Aghan Woman Fought the Taliban and Won, Eileen Rivers
The riveting account of FET (female engagement teams)teams that tracked and helped to capture members of the Taliban, and went on to work with women on the ground to rebuild their nations. This is the first book to focus on the role of female engagement teams and to show how they are changing the role […]
TEACHING WITH THE ADOLESCENT BRAIN IN MIND
From noted educator, award-winning author and internationally respected speaker, Thomas Armstrong, a guide specifically for teachers on understanding the developing adolescent brain. (ASCD, World Rights, 2016)
Peregrine Spring, Nancy Cowan
Master falconer and wildlife rehabilitator Nancy Cowan’s memoir of her thirty years of living and working with raptors, exploring the powerful connection between woman and animal, she tells tales of both soaring joy and crushing heartbreak, focusing on one special bird at a time. (World Rights/ Lyons Press, div of Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)
THE YEARBOOK by Carol Masciola
A young-adult debut novel about a troubled teenage girl who falls asleep in the school library and wakes up in the 1920’s. Just as she begins to shed her past and starts to believe she might have found a real home and true happiness (and love), she is snapped back to her hopeless present day […]
MEDIA CIRCUS by Kim Goldman and Tatsha Robertson
MEDIA CIRCUS: A LOOK AT PRIVATE TRAGEDY IN THE PUBLIC EYE will profile and analyze tragedies that have played out in celebrated media cases. A former Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine, Tatsha Robertson, is a full time journalist and writer. Kim Goldman is the founding Co-Chair of the RON GOLDMAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE and a […]
STUMBLING IN PARADISE, Elaine Neil Orr
A powerful exploration of race relations, spiritual yearning and the power of physical love, as the fate of three young people, two white and one black, converge against the backdrop of the nascent civil rights movement. Orr teaches at NC State and is the author of the acclaimed novel, A Different Sun (Berkley/Penguin, North America, […]
How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second-Half of Life, Cicero (Translator, Philip Freeman)
Musings on the joys of growing older from the great Roman philosopher and orator, translated and edited by Philip Freeman. This will be the third volume in an informal series of short works from the ancient world, following How to Win an Election and How to Govern a Country. (Princeton University Press, World Rights, 2015)
UNDERGROUND AIRLINES, Ben H. Winters
Bought in a preempt, from the author of The Last Policeman trilogy (winner of both an Edgar and the Philip K. Dick Award) Ben Winters’s UNDERGROUND AIRLINES–an epic contemporary detective story about an undercover agent in search of a runaway slave, in an America where the Civil War never happened and slavery still exists in […]
SACRIFICE, Philip Freeman
The follow up to St. Brigid’s Bones, featuring the feisty Sister Deirdre, a mystery series set in the turbulent age of early medieval Ireland. Sacrifice challenges the young nun to draw on her upbringing as a bard and a druid, as well as her Christian faith, as she tracks down a serial killer. (Pegasus/World Rights/Fall […]