Adult Newsletter: September 2026

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FICTION

Stephanie Marzek’s debut novel won the National Book Award when she was just thirty, but in the ensuing decades her career has been gradually collapsing. Her increasingly desperate attempts to stay relevant (and financially stable)—a story collection, a book on writing, an experimental novel—all flopped. But her most recent attempt at reinvention, ghostwriting the autobiography of Pepper, TikTok’s most popular dog, went surprisingly well. Because of that success, she’s approached about a new project with an even nicer check attached: write the memoir of Billie Fontaine, the world’s first AI-generated movie star. “She” has a major film role coming up, and her Silicon Valley creators at Zyntha Labs want a traditional celebrity memoir even if “she” has never experienced anything. Against her better judgment and higher morals, Steph takes the job with a contractual guarantee her name will not appear on the book or in any press. But only days into the job, she is approached by a hacktivist collective that wants her help to sabotage the project and destroy Zyntha. If she doesn’t play along, they will expose her connection to the project and ruin what’s left of her reputation. THE COLLABORATOR is the sharp, darkly comedic adult debut from National Book Award Finalist Sara Zarr (Story of a Girl, How to Save a Life), depicting a woman in a midlife and mid-career crisis figuring out how to survive. It skewers the escalating tensions between art, commerce, and technology as well as class privilege. Who gets to occupy moral and philosophical high ground, and who has to get down into the dirt? (Please note, this project is represented by Michael Bourret.)

A queer retelling of Jane Eyre where Jane and the Mad Woman in the Attic end up together, Tanya Boteju’s ROXANA is set in 2023 against the backdrop of the failed peace process that followed the Sri Lankan civil war. Jess and Avani are two women born in Sri Lanka but alienated from it in different ways until their own unexpected connection brings them back to the land and country they love. Jess returns to Sri Lanka after seventeen years to reclaim the tea estate that once belonged to her mother’s Sinhalese family but was taken over and turned into a luxury guest house by her white father, who has just died and left the property to his step-nephew, Richard. As she stays on the estate, trying to rediscover herself and her family history, she finds a mysterious woman living in a cottage deep in the woods surrounding the estate. Avani, claiming to be an estate worker, is really Richard’s wife, and has been relegated to this hidden cottage for Richard’s own nefarious reasons. Alternating perspectives between Jess and Avani, and set in the misty, cool hills of Nuwara Eliya in central Sri Lanka, ROXANA is a reimagining of the classic with elements of gothic literature and nods to Wide Sargasso Sea. It tells the story of a country shaped by colonialism and decades of civil war, and two women who try to eke out even a small part of the land—and the story—for themselves. (Please note, this project is represented by Jim McCarthy.)

Despite her own rule against mixing family and work, Ava Zhou combines a weekend stay at her younger sister Lily’s “smart” condo in San Francisco with a clandestine rendezvous with the contact who’s promised her intel on Jaisy Chain, the company headquartered on the floors below. When Ava wakes to find Lily gone, the condo door locked down, and her rendezvous fast approaching, she fights both her growing unease and the glitching smart system to escape the apartment and navigate a building she slowly discovers may not be as empty as promised. Desperate to do her job and find her sister, with her anxiety spiking, Ava faces a labyrinth of encoded doors and the fact that her interest in Jaisy Chain isn’t just professional, it’s personal. Not only is Lily the new head of DEI, but CEO Jesse Leung has recently purchased the company the Zhou sisters’ parents painstakingly built, gutting it along with all of Lily’s expansion plans. Upon finding Lily while skulking around the executive floors of Jaisy Chain HQ, Ava barely has time for relief. When she not only discovers her sister’s secret affair with the EVP of HR, but the very same woman’s dead body, and the revelation that she was Ava’s clandestine contact, it won’t merely be anxiety that spins wildly out of control. Sandra S.G. Wong’s WHAT LIES BURIED is a taut thriller about family legacy, sisterhood, and the lengths people will go to keep their secrets. (Please note, this project is represented by Lauren Abramo.)

Lou Foster is tending bar at Seattle’s best drag club when they hear the song: a queer pride anthem penned by pop superstar Jordan Powers, who as far as anyone knows is actually straight. Anyone except Lou, who was once not only Jordan’s guitarist, but also her secret partner. Lou wanted them both to live out and proud, but Jordan feared compromising her rising stardom, and their relationship went down in flames. Now a song Jordan wrote about Lou years earlier is on the radio for millions to hear. And for the first time since their breakup, Jordan wants to meet up. It’s clear the chemistry is still there after all this time, and Jordan is finally ready to come out. But all Lou has is questions: can Jordan be trusted? And is it worth risking their only recently healed heart and the safe and happy life they've built out of the public eye? Is it possible for two people who met so long ago to love each other as they are now? And could they stop the feeling even if they tried? The adult debut of acclaimed YA author Ray Stoeve, SONG OF THE SUMMER is a sexy second-chance romance, steeped in queer culture, about what it really means to try again. (Please note, this project is represented by Lauren Abramo.)

In desolately beautiful Anchor Bay, Alaska, Maggie Munroe leads one last backcountry sea kayaking trip through the coastal fjords before she flees town with her teenage son, River—desperate to keep him from learning the truth about his long-gone father. Julia Bewley and her daughter join the trip to make memories before Didi goes to college—and before Julia’s recent diagnosis takes the last of her freedom—and also on the expedition are the Godwins, a retired couple well-used to adventurous travel, but carrying a heavy burden this time. Then an unanticipated storm comes out of the North, threatening more than each traveler’s personal goals for their trip. Maggie, River, and their kayakers battle tumultuous weather that threatens their survival, and just when they think they’ve reached refuge, a new danger arises that even Maggie’s intrepid skills can’t navigate. The experienced outdoorspeople and the city slickers must work together in ways they never thought themselves capable of if they are to make it back to the lives they left behind. THE FOLLOWING SEA by Tziporah Lax is an unforgettable suspense novel about the pull of the wild and how far we’ll go to protect the ones we love. Blending the author’s experience as an Alaskan wilderness professional with rich character work and a stunning sense of place, it’s Eowyn Ivey meets Liane Moriarty in an unforgettable debut that will earn a place on every book club and vacation reading list. Tziporah Lax lives in Alaska and works as a sea kayak and mountain guide. (Please note, this project is represented by Sharon Pelletier.)

In 1940, in an isolated Ozarks town, Oline Davies is lonely, restless, and doesn’t understand her husband’s mood swings. Across the Atlantic, Elizabeth Seton is barely hanging on as a middle-aged assistant on the BBC’s first-ever radio soap opera, “Front Line Family”—loosely based on a series that was created to encourage the U.S. to join the Allies. When Oline writes to the BBC with a question about this soap opera that’s come to be an integral part of her daily routine, her letter gives Elizabeth the confidence to keep going in the unconventional role she’s assumed while the men are away fighting. Elizabeth in turn invites Oline to contribute to “Front Line Family” by creating a character based on those she’s met in her small town. More important, the correspondence allows Oline to confront a secret shame. Their shared love of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway provided the basis for a friendship that develops and sustains and steadies both women through impossible losses. Perfect for readers who loved Kim Fay’s Love and Saffron and the book-loving warmth of Natalie Jenner’s The Jane Austen Society, Sarah McCraw Crow’s THE TRANSATLANTIC WIRELESS AND MRS. DALLOWAY SOCIETY is an epistolary novel that shows the transformational power of an unlikely friendship in a chaotic world trying to redefine itself. (Please note, this project is represented by Ann Leslie Tuttle.)

Janey Goodman, head giant panda keeper at the Washington Zoo, has spent a lifetime speaking for animals. When a panda cub is born during the darkest moment of her life, caring for him becomes a needed outlet after her miscarriage. But Janey must prepare the giant pandas for their journey home when China announces it is recalling Washington's beloved bears. The daily rhythm of feedings, training sessions, and keeper talks that has sheltered her for years is coming to an end. Across the street from the zoo, a café owner launches a long-shot campaign to stop the recall. At the same time, a diplomat retiring after thirty-five years leading America's panda loan program questions the legacy of a career built on a now-strained friendship between two nations. As neighbors, immigrants, students, diplomats, and zoo visitors rally around the politically volatile cause, the campaign grows into something much larger. For Janey, saying goodbye now means discovering that letting go is not the end of love, but the beginning of healing. PANDA PEOPLE by Sharon J. Wishnow is an upmarket contemporary novel about grief, hope, and the unexpected ways ordinary people build bridges that politics alone never can, blending the emotional resonance of Remarkably Bright Creatures with the sense of wonder and community found in West with Giraffes. (Please note, this project is represented by Ann Leslie Tuttle.)

NON-FICTION

When Capitol Police asked Congressman Ted Lieu to pick a code name during Donald Trump’s second impeachment, he lobbied for “COVID” so that agents would have to radio in, “We have COVID.” He settled on Dragon. That irreverent wit has made Lieu one of the high-profile politicians in America, with viral moments reaching hundreds of millions of people. But behind the one-liners is one of the unlikeliest stories in politics: a boy born in Taiwan who helped his parents sell costume jewelry at Cleveland flea markets, watched them build seven gift stores out of nothing, and rose to become an Air Force colonel and the highest-ranking Asian American in the history of House leadership. Now Lieu—a Stanford-trained computer scientist, one of three CS majors in Congress, and one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI—confronts a technology that can write legislation, diagnose cancer, and take your job and that no one, including its creators, fully understands. Employment among young workers in AI-exposed jobs has already fallen sixteen percent. The bottom rung of the ladder his parents once climbed is vanishing in real time. In CODE AND COUNTRY: FROM FLEA MARKETS TO THE AI REVOLUTION—A FIGHT FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM, Lieu argues the answer isn’t primarily about regulating machines, it’s about betting big on people, including massive investment in early childhood education, retraining for displaced workers, and healthcare for all, regardless of employment. Part memoir, part manifesto—Born a Crime meets The Coming Wave—this is the American Dream, told by someone fighting to keep it alive. (Please note, this project is represented by Jane Dystel.) 

TO ALTER OR TO ABOLISH: REIMAGINING DEMOCRACY FOR THE NEXT 250 YEARS takes the sacred promise stated in that infamous missive of treason, the Declaration of Independence, and asks: can we reimagine a democracy that works for all of us for the next 250 years? In his first book, political strategist Scott Ferson chronicled the profound disconnect Americans have with national politics, through more than a thousand interviews in thirty-four states. He found that democracy was not working for a lot of people, not just geographically, but socio-economically and generationally. In TO ALTER OR ABOLISH, Ferson examines this inflection point in our American story. Are we destined to decline as empires have historically, or can we reinvent our democracy for the next 250 years? From the desk of Jefferson at Monticello, the recently invented democracies of Estonia and Slovenia, the January 6th rioters, Democratic strategists compiling their own Project 2029, MAGA thought leaders, and Democratic Socialists as well as the political elites and ordinary citizens, Ferson voices a tantalizing if not treasonous notion: can we alter our democracy so that it reconnects our government with those it has left behind? Or will King George III get his final revenge? (Please note, this project is represented by Jane Dystel.)

Gene Hackman was no matinee idol. Part of the generation inspired by Marlon Brando, Hackman overcame Hollywood’s desire for movie pretty boys and revolutionized film acting in the 1960s. Along with Robert Duvall and Dustin Hoffman (his roommate in the early days), Hackman labored for a decade in the bowels of episodic television before New Hollywood’s independent filmmakers recognized the talents of subtle, nuanced actors. HACKMAN chronicles the life and career of this gifted performer, from the scarred childhood that informed his art, to his mysterious death and his consistently powerful work in such films as Bonnie & Clyde, I Never Sang for My Father, The French Connection, The Conversation, Hoosiers, Unforgiven, The Birdcage, and The Royal Tenenbaums. William McKeen has written celebrated biographies of Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Dylan and Tom Wolfe and, in HACKMAN, now takes readers behind the gifted actor’s wounded eyes to examine his life and legendary career. (Please note, this project is represented by Jane Dystel.)

How does a house fire lead to an experimental gene-therapy trial? For decades, Peg Watts lived with the certainty that her vision would continue to deteriorate. Retinitis pigmentosa, the inherited retinal disease she shares with her daughter, Erin, had already made both of them legally blind. Mother and daughter learned to adapt and live with what medicine could not cure. But when a house fire displaced Peg and her family, a chance invitation led Peg and Erin to an experimental clinical trial for the disease—and to the possibility of change. HOLDING THE LINE WHILE EVERYTHING SHIFTS follows the mother-daughter pair as they discover what happens when a future once considered inevitable suddenly changes. It is a memoir about blindness, motherhood, inheritance, and resilience—and the complicated nature of hope. Drawing on her experience as a journalism professor, former radio broadcaster, and student-media adviser, Watts brings an interviewer’s curiosity and a patient’s perspective to a story about adapting when the future you had accepted is no longer certain and the unexpected challenge of learning how to live with a new possibility. (Please note, this project is represented by Jane Dystel.)

When workplace strategist Erica Keswin published her bestselling Bring Your Human to Work in 2018, the biggest threat to our humanity at work was the phone buzzing in our pocket, and the challenge was simply to look up and talk to the person next to us. A decade later, the question is one she never saw coming: do we even need humans at work at all? In BRING YOUR HUMAN TO WORK IN THE AGE OF AI, INFINITE WORK, AND THE QUEST FOR AUTHENTICITY, internationally recognized expert and author of the Human Leadership trilogy Erica Keswin draws on decades of original research interviewing CEOs, managers, and frontline workers. Alongside research from Gallup, Deloitte, Microsoft, and Harvard Business Review, Keswin maps a world remade by the pandemic, the infinite workday, and a robot that can now draft a passable thank-you note. This important book shows leaders exactly where to keep a human in the loop, because every business is and will always be a people business. Keswin is still betting on humans and, by the last page, you will be, too. (Please note, this project is represented by Jane Dystel.)

JOHN AND YOKO IN WASHINGTON, by John A. Jenkins, tells a revealing story about the capital as it once was, when John Lennon and Yoko Ono swept into Washington determined to win over a city built on access and exclusion. It’s 1972, and J. Edgar Hoover is hunting communists and enemies of the Nixon White House. Nixon wants the Beatles deported. Lennon just wants a green card. The FBI puts John and Yoko under constant surveillance and wiretaps—but an unexpected ally emerges: an audacious, ambitious young outsider from Idaho named Steve Martindale, who becomes their unofficial PR guru and self-styled social impresario. Through carefully orchestrated soirées, Martindale helps the Lennons charm lawmakers, journalists, and Washington insiders. Their success unsettles Georgetown’s reigning social elite, led by Style doyenne Sally Quinn, the protégé of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. How, they wonder, did Martindale, this “boy from Pocatello,” breach a world designed to remain private? His greatest sin—letting outsiders inside the gates—provokes Quinn’s famously ruthless pen, a warning shot about the difference between access and power. Based on FBI files and new oral histories, JOHN AND YOKO IN WASHINGTON is a fast-moving tale of celebrity, politics, and social warfare in the company town called Washington. (Please note, this project is represented by Jane Dystel.)

After living in Paris for thirty-five years and becoming one of the world's most renowned food writers, Alexander Lobrano shifts gears and moves to a tiny village in the Le Gard region near Nimes in the South of France. The many unexpected discoveries and transformations that follow the launch of the second chapter of his life in France are fascinating, heart-warming, and occasionally surprising. He never imagined that he'd end up working occasionally as a fromager at one of the best cheese shops in the region while continuing his journalistic career. MY SECOND FRENCH LIFE picks up where My Place at the Table, his memoir about becoming a food writer in Paris, left off. (Please note, this project is represented by Jane Dystel.)

Today, the isolated, far-flung, and stunningly beautiful shores of Priest Lake, Idaho, are rimmed by massive vacation homes, huckleberry bushes, and white-sand beaches. But a century ago, it was the setting of a dramatic moonshot attempt by Silent Era star Nell Shipman to establish an independent filmmaking camp and studio, complete with a zoo of 200 live animals, a skeleton crew, and her lover-turned-business partner. THE LADY OF LIONHEAD will explore Shipman’s dramatic and colorful life, her rise to the pinnacle of early Hollywood, and her lasting legacy as a filmmaker who wrote, directed, and starred in 25 films. Her notable contributions include filming possibly the first nude scene in film history, pioneering the art of on-location shooting, and using trained, live animals as actors in her films. Journalists Sam Becker and Anna-Louise Jackson bring readers along for the ride as Shipman spurns a massive Hollywood contract, forms her own production company, and then leaves LA for the wilds of Northern Idaho. The drama quickly ratchets up, though, as debts mount, a list of enemies grows, and a rash decision backfires, imperiling the entire operation—all as the lovers quarrel and the winter creeps in, culminating in a dramatic crescendo fit for the screen. Becker and Jackson, both inland Northwest natives, offer a detailed examination of Nell’s predilection for self-promotion and flattering autobiography to bring to light her enduring fingerprints on the history of Hollywood. (Please note, this project is represented by Stacey Glick.)

Most people think they know why people cheat. And most people are wrong. In fact, almost everything we say and believe about affairs is not true. Once a cheater, always a cheater. Cheating is a character flaw. Trust can never fully return. You can’t heal from an affair. These beliefs are repeated so often that we rarely stop to ask: Are they actually true? In EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT AFFAIRS IS WRONG, licensed clinical psychologist and researcher Dr. Kathy Nickerson challenges ten of our most deeply held beliefs about infidelity and reveals what decades of psychological research, more than 26 years of clinical experience, and her own large-scale study, conducted with John Gottman, PhD, of thousands of people affected by affairs tell us instead. The answers are surprising, provocative, and often hopeful. Most people who cheat do not cheat again. Affairs are rarely about love or sex. Infidelity can happen in happy relationships. Betrayal does not automatically destroy a marriage. Trust can be restored after an affair. Combining science, compassion, and practical tools for recovery, this book offers a path through the chaos that avoids myths and moral absolutes: understand the betrayal, evaluate what comes next, make a confident decision, and heal. Readers will learn why affairs happen, how to recognize meaningful change, and how to decide whether to stay or leave. Most importantly, they’ll discover how to heal, rebuild trust in themselves, and move forward with clarity and confidence. (Please note, this project is represented by Stacey Glick.)

After she was brutally raped while serving in the Navy, African American female veteran Linda Miles spent years homeless and self-medicating with crack cocaine. TO SET FREE A CAPTIVE is her deeply compassionate, self-reflective, and sometimes hilarious memoir recounting her spiritual journey to inner peace, and the critical role she played in the movement to all-but eliminate veteran homelessness. Co-authored by novelist Abigail Savitch-Lew, Miles’ memoir is both a map to healing for other survivors, and an exposé of the misogyny and racism rampant in the U.S. military. Miles recounts her childhood in ‘60s Los Angeles, describing how her ambitious family became among the first African American residents of Beverly Hills—all while trying to bury uncomfortable truths about the impact of adoption, alcoholism, and mental illness in their family. In the ‘70s, Miles’ mother—dismayed by her daughter’s infatuation with the hippy lifestyle—signed Miles up for the Navy. It was there that she was raped twice by fellow service members, suffering what she and other survivors have described as “a theft of the soul.” Wrecked by this trauma and without the spiritual tools to heal, Miles spent the next decade feeding a crack cocaine addiction with sex work and cycling in and out of Los Angeles’ jails. She explains how, though a one-time atheist and a lifelong feminist, she found a path to healing by cultivating a deeply personal relationship with a God of her understanding. Providing both a lucid look at the systemic inequities that undo us and a pathway toward spiritual growth and hope, TO SET FREE A CAPTIVE is a book that redefines religion and patriotism for a new tomorrow. (Please note, this project is represented by Jim McCarthy.)

Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell, the New York Times bestselling authors of Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner, return with a gripping work of nonfiction that draws readers deep into the science, suspense, and human drama of forensic pathology. For twenty-five years, Dr. Melinek has served as a forensic pathologist and expert witness, moving between morgues, crime scenes, and courtrooms in pursuit of one unshakable objective: the truth. THE BODY DOESN’T LIE is a chronicle of the most consequential cases of Melinek’s career, illuminating not only what the body can reveal, but why scientific expertise matters at a moment when facts, law, and evidence are under attack. Candid, blunt, and often funny, Dr. Melinek brings readers from the autopsy suite to the witness stand, offering a rare insider’s view. Against a backdrop of high-stakes cases, and media hype, Melinek shows how, in the search for justice, people may lie, but the body does not. Building on the acclaim and enduring readership of Working Stiff, this long-awaited follow-up promises the same blend of voice, narrative drive and forensic insight that made their debut a modern classic, taught in classrooms from middle schools to medical schools. Dr. Melinek is a sought-after media commentator, and she has more than 130,000 followers on TikTok. Melinek and Mitchell’s "Working Stiff" Column in MedPage Todayreaches two-thirds of all American physicians. (Please note, this project is represented by Jessica Papin.)

In the vein of Crying in H Mart comes Bénédicte Boisseron’s BAD EATER, a memoir in essays about food and grief, race and belonging, and feeding and care across generations and geographies. At its center is a question both intimate and culturally charged: What does it mean to eat “well,” and who gets to decide? BAD EATER traces Boisseron’s family through food, beginning with her freegan childhood in suburban France, where her family raised animals for slaughter and salvaged what others threw away. There, she navigated the orthodoxies of French dining alongside the thrill of dumpster diving and the complexities of growing up as the brown daughter of a white French mother and an Afro-Caribbean father. When she moved to the United States, as an exchange student and later as a professor, she encountered new ideas about what it means to eat “right.” As a mother, her son’s diagnosis of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) forced her to rethink her assumptions about nourishment. And later, as a daughter trying to feed a grieving, widowed father back to life in Guadeloupe, she reckoned once again with the bonds forged through feeding and being fed. With tenderness, insight, and candor, Boisseron examines food as the language through which families love, judge, improvise, remember, and survive. BAD EATER shifts the conversation away from what we should eat toward how we live with food, ambivalently and imperfectly. Boisseron is Professor and Chair of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. (Please note, this project is represented by Jessica Papin.)

Carl Sagan meets Douglas Adams in THE STARSTUFF OF LIFE, a voice-driven work of narrative science. Author and astrobiologist Seven Rasmussen leads readers on a swift, riotous journey through the evolution of life on Earth. Beginning with the quantum origins of the periodic table, she charts an offbeat path along the rise of single-celled life, through the Cambrian explosion, past trilobites and dinosaurs and great apes all the way to the modern human. The narrative is threaded with commentary on cutting-edge science, born of Rasmussen’s own expertise and highly nonlinear trajectory through academia. Part astrobiology, part science philosophy, THE STARSTUFF OF LIFE is a seat on the couch at a crowded party where every attendee has something to say about evolution and every pass of the host gets a little more unhinged. Rasmussen, a social media personality, SFWA member, and instructor at Columbia University, brings a fresh, irreverent and interdisciplinary perspective to a story that gets stranger each time it’s told. In addition to her short-form science videos across Tiktok and Instagram, she writes for Scientific American, Nautilus Magazine, American Scientist, Science Magazine, The Planetary Society, Clarkesworld, and more. She holds a Ph.D. in nuclear astrophysics from University of Notre Dame and conducted research in exoplanet characterization at University of Michigan and MIT, focusing on the mineral atmospheres of lava planets and the performance of NASA's planned Habitable Worlds Observatory. She is the author of Cloudy with a Chance of Starships (Princeton University Press). (Please note, this project is represented by Jessica Papin.)

Three years after M&A advisor Erhan Civelek uncovered a €34 million accounting fraud that three layers of professionals had missed, a con man took six figures of Civelek’s own money in a Ponzi scheme. The expert became the victim—and that paradox drives THE COUNTERFEIT SCALE: WHY SMART PEOPLE GET CONNED AND HOW NOT TO BE ONE OF THEM. Americans lost $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, a figure that more than tripled over four years as technological revolution and post-pandemic society created a perfect incubation chamber for scams. Guiding readers through the neuroscience of deception and into deep narrative investigations of the most compelling frauds of the modern era—from romance scams and investment Ponzis to OneCoin and Theranos—Erhan Civelek offers a practical fraud detection framework, the Seven Red Flags. His grandmother sold spices in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar using an ancient brass scale and a time-tested method for detecting counterfeit coins, and he now interprets that wisdom for the scam epidemic of the modern era, bringing his family’s five generations of Grand Bazaar merchant heritage to a moment when AI can synthesize every signal of legitimacy in seconds. The scales of a 564+-year-old marketplace hold invaluable wisdom about detecting scams and fraud before they cost us everything. Erhan Civelek is a strategic advisor who has spent over 25 years working with sovereign wealth funds, multinationals, and leading investment institutions across four continents, including senior roles at The Boston Consulting Group, Kearney, and Bain & Company. (Please note, this project is represented by Sharon Pelletier.)

Since the mid-1990s, The University of Connecticut has won six men's Division I college championships and 12 women's Division I championships—more than any other program in either sport. It’s a remarkable achievement, perhaps even more remarkable given that until the 1980s, UConn didn’t even have a flagship campus and was primarily known for its agriculture program. So, how did this “cow college” create a program and culture of basketball excellence that has endured for three decades? HUSKIES: HOW THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT BECAME THE CENTER OF THE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL UNIVERSE is the first comprehensive history of the transformation of the UConn men’s AND women’s basketball into the country’s top collegiate programs. In winning prose, acclaimed sports author Clayton Trutor (Boston Ball: Rick Pitino, Jim Calhoun, Gary Williams and the Forgotten Cradle of Coaches; Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta--and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports)reveals how men's head coach Jim Calhoun and women's head coach Geno Auriemma spearheaded the nearly simultaneous remaking of the previously pedestrian college basketball programs into national powers. The book then examines how both programs have evolved in the changing college sports landscape of the 21st Century to further assert the centrality of little Storrs, Connecticut, to the basketball universe. Featuring a who’s who of future NBA and WBNA stars and the nail-biting intensity of multiple Final Fours, HUSKIES will be an essential read for any basketball fan. (Please note, this project is represented by John Rudolph.)

Of all the big structures humanity has built—skyscrapers and shopping malls, cathedrals and airports—none encompass the breadth of human experience like a stadium. After passing through the turnstile, we feast and cheer, we curse and sing, sitting alongside family, friends, and thousands of strangers. The stadium is where we divide ourselves into Us and Them, and where we are united by performances of grace, speed, talent, and creativity. COLISEUMS: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 28 STADIUMS tells the story of how our ballparks, bowls, domes, and arenas have become an essential part of modern life. Beginning with the Greeks and Romans, who set the model for today’s stadiums, sports historian Bruce Berglund (The Moscow Playbook: How Russia Used, Abused, and Transformed Sports in the Hunt for Power) looks at the world’s most influential venues and history’s most memorable spectacles, from heavyweight title fights to World Cup finals, benefit concerts to billion-dollar music tours. The book explores the currents of power and ambition that have shaped the ways we experience entertainment, revealing the stadium’s role as a theatre, market, civic gathering place, and political assembly hall. Featuring ancient emperors and modern dictators, soccer hooligans and Swifties, Ali and Messi, COLISEUMS will give readers a richly varied and entertaining tour of world history, weaving together sport, money, entertainment, war, politics, and more. (Please note, this project is represented by John Rudolph.)

Your pet has been telling you what they want this whole time. Now, Brooklyn-based psychic medium pet communicator, founder of Connected Intuition, Emily Snyder helps you hear what your pet is saying, the expected and unexpected. In STORIES YOUR DOG TOLD ME, we meet pets through real readings—a nervous Labradoodle who asks to be one of the kids; a Dachshund who would like, please, to be wrapped like a burrito when the world gets loud; a nineteen-year-old cat who would like to fade gently into the night "like the showgirl that I am." Each chapter closes with a simple practice we can try with our own pet—one question, two minutes, our hand on their body—the technique clients ask Snyder to teach them. Joyful and heartbreaking, tender and funny, STORIES is at the intersection of Laura Lynne Jackson's Signs and Isabel Klee's Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About—the psychic medium memoir and millennial pet memoir. Snyder believes the universe communicates with us through our pets, our loved ones, and our own intuition, and she reorganizes our relationships with our pets to begin an ongoing conversation. Her pet communication videos on TikTok (@connectedintuition) have generated over 5.5 million views; her weekly newsletter runs at a 70% open rate, roughly three times the industry average; and she has ongoing partnerships with three New York-area animal rescue organizations, with weekly recurring events across Brooklyn, Chicago, and Minneapolis. (Please note, this project is represented by Leslie Meredith.)

Rights Round Up

THE FIELD PARTY SERIES by Abbi Glines was optioned by Sandbox Studios Inc. RACING SAVANNAH by Miranda Longstreth Kenneally was optioned by Netflix. 

YOU’RE OVERTHINKING THIS by Diana Urban went to Recorded Books. FALLEN TOO FAR, NEVER TOO FAR, and FOREVER TOO FAR as well as EXISTENCE, PREDESTINED, and CEASELESS by Abbi Glines went to Audible for audio rights. NEIGHBOR FROM HELL #4-9 and PYTE/SENTINEL #4-5 by R.L. Mathewson went to Audible. PLAYTIME’S OVER went to Audible. DARK DUET #1-3 by CJ Roberts went to Audible.

CAPSIZED by Charlotte Lillie Balogh went to PRH Grupo Editorial for Spanish rights. SAVE THE CAT! WRITES A NOVEL by Jessica Brody went to Plot-Twist/Delnoch Publishing for French rights. BAD MEDICINE by Emma Clancey went to Allen & Unwin/Atlantic for Australian and New Zealand rights. THE BRIGHT YEARS and THE BURNING SIDE by Sarah Damoff went to Muza for Polish rights. THE BRIGHT YEARS went to HKZ for Slovene rights. THE BURNING SIDE went to Euromedia Group for Czech rights and Luitingh Sijthoff for Dutch rights. QUIET ONES by Penelope Douglas went to Black Ink Editions for French rights. CORRUPT, HIDEAWAY, KILL SWITCH, and NIGHTFALL went to Planeta for Spanish rights. KILL SWITCH, NIGHTFALL, CONCLAVE, and FIRE NIGHT went to Euromedia Group for Czech rights. HIDEAWAY went to Jotema for Lithuanian rights and Mozaik for Croatian rights. MOST ELIGIBLE by Isabelle Engel went to Anaya/Hachette Spain. THE LOST GIRLS and THE FAMILY NEXT DOOR by John Glatt went to Gyldendal Astra Polska for Polish rights. SEA BREEZE #6-9 and BECAUSE OF LILA by Abbi Glines went to Xander for Dutch rights. CAT’S PEOPLE by Tanya Guerrero went to Era Media for Bulgarian rights. WOMAN DOWN by Colleen Hoover went to Amarin Printing and Publishing Public Company Ltd. For Thai rights, Topseller for Portuguese rights, and Ucila for Slovene rights. MAYBE NOW went to RM Books for Ukrainian rights. FINDING PERFECT went to Modernista for Swedish rights. LAYLA went to Gursli Berg for Norwegian rights. VERITY went to Latvijas Mediji for Latvian rights. BEHIND FIVE WILLOWS by June Hur went to Pt Gramedia Pustaka Utama for Indonesian rights, Aser al-Kotob for Arabic rights, Cross Cult for German rights, and Bookchef for Ukranian rights.  THE LEGEND OF THE NINE-TAILED FOX by Katrina Kwan went to Aser al-Kotob for Arabic rights. BLOOD PROMISE, SPIRIT BOUND, and LAST SACRIFICE by Richelle Mead went to Tympanum for Czech rights. IN DARK PLACES by Michael Prescott went to Jadal for Arabic rights. MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY by Kendall Ryan went to Charly Wilde Publishing for Bulgarian rights. STOP OVERREACTING by Judith Siegel went to YMATE Cultural and Education Company Ltd for Vietnamese rights. THE ELSEWHERE EXPRESS by Samantha Sotto went to Knigolove for Ukrainian rights. WATER MOON went to OneHotBook for Czech rights. ONLY YOU and ON LOVEROSE LANE by Samantha Young went to Fokus for Croatian rights. HALF-LIGHT HARBOR, DRIFTING DAWN, TWILIGHT TIDES, and MIDNIGHT MOORING went to Ucila for Slovene rights.  

RECENT SALES

STATE OF CARE by Sarah Damoff went to Simon & Schuster in a World English rights deal by Jane Dystel.

PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY and UNTITLED BOOK #4 by Michael Benner went to Scholastic in a World rights deal by Stacey Glick.

HELLO, I LOVE YOU, GOODBYE by Adam Sass went to Viking in a North American rights deal by Michael Bourret.   

ACCORDING TO VERO by Tehlor Mejia went to Aladdin in a World rights deal by Jim McCarthy.

SUMMER IN FREE FALL by Elliott Wiltrout went to Peachtree Teen in a World rights deal by Michaela Whatnall.

PULL: COMING TO OUR MAGNETIC SENSES by Timothy Jorgensen went to Princeton University Press in a World rights deal by Jessica Papin.

THE LAST WHALERS by David Churbuck went to Pegasus Books in a World English rights deal by John Rudolph. 

RETIRE WITH ME by Beth Pinsker went to Crown Currency in a World rights deal by Ann Leslie Tuttle.

CHOKEPOINT: THE CRITICAL UNDERSEA NETWORK POWERING THE WORLD'S INTERNET, ECONOMY & ENERGY by Devon Alexandra went to MIT Press in a North American rights deal by Jessica Papin.

PERSONAL HISTORIES by Mary Chapin Carpenter went to Simon Six in a World rights deal by Jane Dystel.

A LITTLE SWEET TREAT BAKERY by Talia Tucker went to HarperTeen in a World rights deal by Jim McCarthy.

SCATTER THE NIGHT by Anna Mercier went to Holt Books for Young Readers in a World rights deal by Michaela Whatnall.

THE WEEDS WE INHERIT: ESSAYS ON GRIEF, EXILE AND AN ARAB WORLD UNRAVELING by Nada Bakri went to Beacon in a US and Canada rights deal by Jessica Papin.

YOUR LIFE STARTS NOW by Bill Konigsberg went to Scholastic in a World English rights deal by Michael Bourret.

HOW TO SELL YOUR WIZARD TOWER by Thomas Kent West went to Berkley in a World rights deal by Jim McCarthy.

INTO THE BLUE by Jenny Turnbull went to Ten Speed Press in a World rights deal by Stacey Glick.

THE PINK BUNGALOWS by Michael Callahan went to Mariner in a North American rights deal by Jane Dystel.

THE DISPOSSESSED by Rebecca Clarren went to Torrey House in a World English rights deal by Jessica Papin.

JOSEPH OF EGYPT by Heather Moore went to Shadow Mountain in a World rights deal by Ann Leslie Tuttle. 

LESSONS IN DISSONANCE by H.D. Carver went to Norton Young Readers in a World rights deal by Jim McCarthy.

OTHERLING by Rebecca Mahoney went to Hyperion Avenue in a World rights deal by Michaela Whatnall.

THE TRIBES by Mari Howes went to Dutton in a World rights deal by Jane Dystel.

LESSONS FROM A BURNING PLANET by Antero Godina Garcia went to Beacon in a World English rights deal by Jessica Papin.

AFTER NEVERMORE by Kim Karras went to Shadow Mountain in a World rights deal by Jim McCarthy.

TERESA AND HER FLYING LIBRARY by Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo went to Sleeping Bear Press in a World rights deal by Stacey Glick.

SEEDS OF REBELLION: A DRUG, A DECADE, AND THE DECLINE OF TRUST IN MEDICINE by Lewis Grossman went to Oxford University Press in a World English rights deal by Jessica Papin. 

CAFÉ CATSTANBUL by Didem Tali went to Soho Press in a World rights deal by Ann Leslie Tuttle.  

THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF GRACIE GEORGE’S PAST by Jackie Khalilieh went to Tundra in a World English rights deal by Jim McCarthy. 

THE HARD ROAD BACK TO SOFT POWER by Bobby Ghosh went to Oxford University Press in a World English rights deal by Jessica Papin.  

FALL BOYS, PIRATE GIRLS, and QUIET ONES by Penelope Douglas went to Berkley in a North American rights deal by Jane Dystel.  

WHITE CROWS by Stuart Vyse went to Columbia University Press in a World rights deal by Jessica Papin.