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Scott Gummer's PARENTS BEHAVING BADLY, a suburban satire that paints an unforgettable portrait of fathers who coach like Patton, mothers who drink like fish, and the children caught in the middle. The subject of Michael Lewis' bestselling book THE BLIND SIDE and the Oscar-winning film Michael Oher's I BEAT THE ODDS: My Amazing Journey from Foster Care to the NFL and Beyond, written with Don Yeager, which will flesh out for the first time the story of his life prior to meeting the Touhys, his experience in foster care, and how anything is possible if you dream big and have the right people in your life, and reflections on how far he has come from his difficult upbringing. Maureen Lipinski's debut ETHEREAL GIRL, in which a teenage ambassador to the Otherrealm attempts to give up her supernatural calling and pursue a normal high school life until she discovers the Otherrealm isn't through with her just yet. Real Clear Politics analyst Jay Cost's FROM PROGRESS TO PERFIDY: The Untold Story of How the Democratic Party Became a Threat to the American Republic, tracing the transformation of the Democratic Party into a modern-day Tammany Hall that "taxes Middle America to pay off its parasitical clients while hiding its true nature behind a smokescreen of idealist rhetoric." Addison Fox's THE BACHELOR GAME, set in a small Alaskan town whose three matriarchs, in a not-so-secret ploy to get their grandsons happily married off, host an annual contest that teams the town's rugged bachelors with women from the Lower 48. Melissa Bourbon's PLEATING FOR MERCY, the first in a new dressmaking series in which a woman opens a custom boutique in a small Texas town and solves a murder with the help of her great-grandmother, the shop's resident ghost. Theresa Meyers's THE HUNTER, pitched as a sexy blend of Supernatural meets Wild Wild West and featuring three demon-slaying brothers destined to save the world. Author of HEX HALL Rachel Hawkins's REBEL BELLE, about a high school Miss Popularity whose world changes when a funny thing happens on the way to the (Homecoming) coronation: she's recruited into the Paladins, a supernatural sect of bodyguards sworn to protect those who will play an important role in the future, and charged with saving her archnemesis even if it means sacrificing her place as queen bee. Sports Illustrated journalist David Epstein's THE SPORTS GENOME, exploring what genetics reveals about athletic performance, and questioning the correlation between effort and excellence. Author of Four Kings, George Kimball's MANLY ART: (They Can Run But They Can't Hide), a compilation of boxing-related commentary, criticism, reportage, and analysis. Three-time WWE Champion and current UFC World Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar's UNDISPUTED, written with Paul Heyman, ready to defend his title and his reputation, setting rumors and speculation aside to take on Vince McMahon, his UFC rivals, and the mysterious illness that almost took his life. Legendary golfer Tom Watson's THE TIMELESS SWING, an instructional book on how to play great golf at any age while adjusting to the inevitable changes in flexibility and body type over time, written with longtime collaborator Nick Seitz. Scott Gummer's PARENTS BEHAVING BADLY, a suburban satire that paints an unforgettable portrait of fathers who coach like Patton, mothers who drink like fish, and the children caught in the middle. The subject of Michael Lewis' bestselling book THE BLIND SIDE and the Oscar-winning film Michael Oher's I BEAT THE ODDS: My Amazing Journey from Foster Care to the NFL and Beyond, written with Don Yeager, which will flesh out for the first time the story of his life prior to meeting the Touhys, his experience in foster care, and how anything is possible if you dream big and have the right people in your life, and reflections on how far he has come from his difficult upbringing. Author of WARRIOR ASCENDED Addison Fox's next two books in the Warriors of the Zodiac series, featuring warriors granted the powers of their astrological signs and charged with protecting humanity. Rae Carson's debut THE PRINCESS AND THE GODSTONE, pitched in the vein of Kristin Cashore and Robin McKinley, in which a princess marked for an act of greatness is married off to a foreign king and swept into a world of courtly politics, dark magic, and war. NYT sports columnist BILL PENNINGTON'S BIG BOOK OF GOLF, a lively and entertaining compendium of all things golf inspired by his weekly column "On Par." Maureen Lipinski's debut ETHEREAL GIRL, in which a teenage ambassador to the Otherrealm attempts to give up her supernatural calling and pursue a normal high school life until she discovers the Otherrealm isn't through with her just yet. VICE founder and "Godfather of hipsterdom" Gavin McInnes's THE DEATH OF COOL, a humorous chronicle of extreme-but-true stories including, punks bands on heroin, celebrity fist fights, and blackout threesomes -- spanning two decades of hard partying that built an underground multi-media empire. MY LAST SUPPER author and photographer Melanie Dunea's MY LAST SUPPER: THE SECOND COURSE, featuring stunning and revealing images of 50 new chefs with descriptions of their ideal last meal. Times-Picayune education reporter and Spencer fellow on education reporting Sarah Carr's CHARTER REVOLUTION, an examination of the growing charter school movement and how it changes our schools and communities, using post-Katrina New Orleans as a lens. Australian and New Zealand rights to biologist and journalist for Salon.com Christopher Kemp's TIDE SWEPT, chronicling the author's search for ambergris - a mysterious and precious byproduct of sperm whales - investigating the scientists, civilians, and the elusive vendors who traffic in it, as well as the history of a substance which represents all the mysteries of the ocean and that has held the human race in its sway for centuries. Author of SECRET LIVES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES Josie Brown's EXTRACURRICULAR, in which long-held family secrets, a cheating scandal, and parents behaving badly at an exclusive private school threaten to unravel one couple's seemingly perfect life. Abby Rike's ANGELS ALL AROUND THEM: A Journey of Love, Loss and Hope, written with Becky Estridge, her transformative memoir of coping with the loss of her entire family in a tragic car accident in 2006, a story she first shared in front of millions of viewers as a contestant on NBC's "The Biggest Loser." Investigative journalist and Schuster fellow Erin Siegal's FINDING FERNANDA: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Reunion in International Adoption, which follows an adoptive mother and a birth mother as they discover they're both searching for the same missing daughter. MIT Professor of Literature Ina Lipkowitz's THE BARBARIAN APPETITE: Romans, Christians, Conquerors, & the Unlikely Culinary History of the English Language, tracing the stories behind five of our most everyday food words. Long-time member of the New York Fire Department and marathoner Matt Long's THE LONG RUN: One Man's Attempt to Regain his Athletic Career-and His Life-by Running the New York City Marathon, written with Charles Butler, an emotional memoir expanding on the story featured in the March 2009 issue of Runner's World, chronicling Long's remarkable recovery from a bus accident that pushed him within inches of his life, how he overcame tremendous physical and psychological pain and learned to walk and then run again, and culminating in his inspiring decision to run in the 2008 New York City marathon. Tim Brady's TWELVE DESPERATE MILES, pitched as equal parts The Dirty Dozen and The African Queen, featuring a banana boat, a polyglot crew of civilians and prisoners, a huge payload of fuel and ammunition, a twelve-mile river and a heroic French harbor pilot, in the shadow of the US invasion of North Africa in WW II. Ben Thompson's THE LEGEND OF BADASS, following up on BADASS, based on the author's inimitable website www.badassoftheweek.com, celebrating the adventures and exploits of tough guys from mythical and pop culture alike, such as Anubis, Thor, Atalanta, B.A. Baracus, Darth Vader, and many others. Swing expert Jim McLean's THE KING OF SWING: The Real Secrets Behind Ben Hogan's Perfect Golf Swing, using archival footage of Hogan's swing in 1948, showcasing one of the golf game's best teachers analyzing the culmination of one of the game's all time perfectionists at his peak. Craig Robinson's FLIP FLOP FLYBALL, based on the web site www.flipflopflyball.com, a guide to the history and culture of baseball as told through infographics and illustrations, pitched as the Edward Tufte of baseball. Slate sports columnist Robert Weintraub's THE REDEMPTION OF 1923, a close look at Babe Ruth, John McGraw, and the incredible baseball season of 1923, when the Yankees won their first championship, built "the Yankee Stadium," and became the heroic team they are today. Boxing journalists George Kimball and John Schulian's THE AMERICAN BOXING ANTHOLOGY, featuring the best American writing on the sweet science, from London and Lardner to Liebling and Lupica. GQ staff writer Alex Pappademas's HERE COMES TOMORROW, featuring essays and insights into how comics, superheroes, science fiction, and other "nerdy" entertainment has become a dominant force in pop culture. Editor of Slushpile.net Thomas Scott McKenzie's POWER CHORD: One Man's Ear Splitting Quest to Find his Guitar Heroes, a pilgrimage of Heavy Metal guitarists and the secret allure of the electric axe itself. Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield's memoir of how he revived his career by mastering the knuckleball, as well as behind-the-scenes stories from Boston's two World Series championships teams, written with New York Times bestselling author Tony Massarotti. SI writer Jack McCallum's new book on "The Dream Team," the USA's legendary 1992 Olympic basketball champions, taking readers inside the team with new reflections from such memorable personalities as Charles Barkley and David Robinson, as well as stories about their raucous nights in Monte Carlo and the legendary closed-door practice that turned into the greatest pickup game of all time. Fama Family chaired professor of finance at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business Tobias Moskowitz and Sports Illustrated senior writer L. Jon Wertheim's WHY WE WIN: An Economist and a Sportswriter Will Change How You Look at Sports, in which the authors will use the vast amounts of data available in the world of sports to clean away the biases and intuition that produce faulty thinking. Gemma Halliday's debut DEADLY COOL, in which a sixteen-year-old finds out that her boyfriend was cheating on her with the president of the chastity club; when she goes to confront the cheaters, she finds the girl dead instead and now must solve the murder. Myra McEntire's debut HOURGLASS, a timeslip romance in which a girl who sees ghosts meets a boy who knows the truth about what her visions really are, and he alone can unlock the secrets of her past. Lara Chapman's FLAWLESS, a modern retelling of the Cyrano story in which a senior-class salutatorian with a notable nose agrees to help her perfectly gorgeous best friend catch the eye of the new hottie at school, only to discover he's actually the perfect guy for her. NYT bestselling author of I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, Tucker Max's ASSHOLES FINISH FIRST. World Champion 10,000-Meter Bronze Medalist and top U.S. marathoner Kara Goucher's FIRST STEPS: An Olympian's Guide to Miles, Marathons, Motherhood and More, a user-friendly running guide that helps women discover the gift of running by pairing personal accounts and stories from her career with detailed training instruction and advice. Virna De Paul's new series about a unique special ops team whose members include a shapeshifter, a wraith, and a vampire and the human female he's forbidden to love; on their first mission the team must recover an antidote needed to save the vampire race. Kiera Stewart's debut FETCHING, in which a crew of middle school nobodies secretly use dog training techniques on their classmates to go from eighth-grade underdogs to leaders of the pack, only to discover being top dog isn't all they expected it to be. Trish Cook & Brendan Halpin's NOTES FROM THE BLENDER, in which a death-metal fanboy and the reigning queen of high-school cool find out they're about to be stepsiblings and come together to create a modern definition of family. Theresa Meyers's UNVEILING OF THE DAMNED and ENEMY OF THE DAMNED, offering a new take on the vampire mythology. Michael Schofield's JANUARY FIRST: One Child's Battle with Schizophrenia, the story of the author's daughter, Jani, age seven who suffers from one of the worst cases of schizophrenia ever documented, and which causes her to hallucinate 95 percent of the time, begging the question of what is, for her, the essence of reality; some of her hundreds of imaginary friends urge her to violent acts, which demands extraordinary effort, sacrifice and faith on the part of her parents to keep Jani safe, happy, and their family together. John Parker, Jr.'s, AGAIN TO CARTHAGE, the sequel to his NYT bestselling novel ONCE A RUNNER. Phillips Exeter Academy History Professor and four-time author Michael Golay's LADY REPORTER IN HER CHEVY 'BLUETTE': Lorena Hickok's Journeys through America During the Great Depression, part travelogue and part narrative history, focusing on journalist Hickock's 18 month journey through America at the request of Harry Hopkins to discover the "human face" of the Great Depression, and providing the most detailed portrait yet of her intimate relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt. Unorthodox Texas Tech football coach (a former lawyer who has developed a potent offense) Mike Leach with ESPN journalist Bruce Feldman's SWING YOUR SWORD! And Other Weapons for Winning. THAT FIRST SEASON author John Eisenberg's THE BATTLE FOR DALLAS, the story about the bitter rivalry between the startup Cowboys of the NFL and Texans of the AFL for football supremacy in Dallas in the early 1960's. Golf teacher Mark Steinbauer's LESSONS FROM THE MASTERS, in the tradition of Harvey Penick's LITTLE RED BOOK, in which the author pays tribute to the numerous golf icons he's learned from over decades in the game, including from his mentor Penick himself, written with Hunki Yun, to Stewart, Tabori & Chang. Dog trainer Kevin Behan's YOUR DOG IS YOUR MIRROR, which posits a revolutionary understanding about what governs our relationships with dogs and which will give readers a new sense not only of what makes dogs tick but how dog behavior tells us about ourselves, to New World Library. Julian Smith's CHASING THE LEOPARD: A Journey of Love and Adventure into the Heart of Africa, the story of how the author sought to prove his love for his fiancee by retracing the steps of the famous British explorer Ewart Grogan, who successfully earned the hand of the woman he loved by crossing Africa on foot in 1898, to Harper Perennial. Seamus McGraw's PIPE DREAMS: How the Frantic Hunt For Natural Gas Is Transforming Small Town America, going inside the world of the Marcellus Play, the largest and most competitive gas field in the country, and using the key role players -- the farmers, the landmen, the gas barons, and the lobbyists -- to tell the story of the mining of his mother's farm in northeastern Pennsylvania, to Random House. Authors of HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN TEN DAYS Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long's 365 REASONS WHY I'M STILL SINGLE, providing an excuse for your grandmother, your trainer, your boss, or any other nosy person who thinks they've got a stake in the status of your left ring finger, to Running Press. Author of THE FIRE INSIDE and TALKING IRISH Steve Delsohn's look back at the 1985 Chicago Bears, considered by many the greatest team in NFL history, capturing the explosive nature of McMahon, Ditka, Singletary, Ryan, The Fridge and all the rest of the 'Super Bowl Shuffle' crew both on and off the field, featuring interviews with the players, coaches and other key individuals, to Crown. Sara Bennett-Wealer's debut RIVAL, in which two high school seniors compete for a prestigious singing scholarship, set against a backdrop of the events that turned them from best friends to rivals, to Harper Teen. The author of THE EXECUTION OF WILLIE FRANCIS, Gilbert King's untitled book on Thurgood Marshall, exploring the fascinating but lesser known era in this hard-charging and charismatic lawyer's life before Brown vs. Board of Education, to Harper Studio. Photographer and author of MY LAST SUPPER, Melanie Dunea's MY COUNTRY AMERICA, featuring portraits and profiles of Country and Western Musicians with descriptions of their craft and their country, to Rodale. NYT bestselling author of WAITER RANT Steve Dublanica's AT YOUR SERVICE, going undercover to investigate the dynamics of tipping across the service industry, interviewing and at times working alongside the men and women whose livelihoods depend on this cash economy, to Ecco. NYT bestselling author Stephan Talty's FLIGHT OF THE GOD-KING, part Himalayan adventure, part political and spiritual quest, detailing the Dalai Lama's perilous 14-day escape across the Himalayas from Tibet to India in 1959, during which he had to evade Chinese patrols, climb ice-covered 16,000-foot slopes and survive a near-fatal bout of dysentery, called "the Story of the Century" by the world's press at the time, taking in the Chinese invasion and occupation and the Dalai Lama's evolution from a cloistered teenager to the leader of the Tibetan government in exile, to Crown. Author of JOHN JAY: Founding Father Walter Stahr's NOBLE PURPOSES: The Life of William Henry Seward, a biography of Lincoln's most trusted advisor, considered among the most significant Secretaries of State in American history and responsible for the acquisition of Alaska, drawing on long-neglected sources, to Simon & Schuster. LA Times journalist Jill Leovy's THE HOMICIDE REPORT: Black Men, Murder and America's Unseen Catastrophe - based in part on her groundbreaking "Homicide Report" project, reporting all 845 LA County murders last year - weaving together a kaleidoscopic narrative about a murder-wracked community in South Los Angeles with a new theory about race and America's homicide epidemic, to Spiegel & Grau. CONQUISTADOR author Buddy Levy's RIVER OF DARKNESS: Francisco Orellana's Historic Descent of the Amazon, chronicling the extraordinary navigation of the world's largest river, from its origins in the Andes foothills to its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean, considered among the greatest expeditions of exploration, adventure, and discovery in history, to Bantam Dell. This American Life contributor Rosie Schaap's collection DRINKING WITH MEN, an honest and irreverent account of a woman's experiences forging her identity in an an almost exclusively male world: her favorite bars, where she has enjoyed the company of artists and ironworkers, tugboat captains and taxi drivers, poets and businessmen, lawyers and soccer hooligans, to Riverhead. Alexandra Cousteau's THE BLUE BOOK, honoring the legacy of her grandfather, Jacques Cousteau, an exploration of water ecosystems around the world and how they are interconnected and interdependent, as well as a poetic meditation on what it means to live on a beautiful, but threatened, blue planet, to Dutton. Investigative reporter Dan Olmsted and science writer Mark Blaxill's MERCURY RISING, the first historical survey of the effects of environmental mercury which reveals previously unacknowledged links between exposure to mercury and the incidence of various disorders; from crippling bouts of syphilis which left sufferers raving mad, to the first children diagnosed with autism in the 1930s, to Karyn Marcus, in her first acquisition to Thomas Dunne Books. Jason Zinoman's SHOCK VALUE, based on his recent Vanity Fair article, offering a definitive look at the golden age of the modern horror movie by examining the infamous directors who revolutionized the business, exploded taboos, and brought a new brand of intellectualism and politics to the genre, to Penguin Press. NY Times columnist Pete Bodo’s WHITETAIL NATION: A Year of Deer Hunting in America, delving into this subculture to discover what makes people hunt, while also following the author’s own exciting quest for the big buck, to Houghton Mifflin. © Waxman Literary Agency 80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1101 • New York, New York 10011 Our Books: Recently Published | Our Books: Forthcoming | Our Books: NYT Bestsellers About the Agency | Rights | Latest Deals Submissions | Contact Us | Home |
