Stranded on an ice floe between Canada and Greenland, the crew of a failed polar expedition fights to survive against starvation, a harsh climate, and each other while the ice beneath them melts with every day they remain adrift.
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Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only a child when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky.
For 27 years, Chris Knight survived in the Maine woods before going to jail where he struck up a correspondence with the Author. This book will seek to address the questions: What compels someone to walk away from his life, and from everything he knows of the world? What was he seeking, and did he find it?
Marion Palm prefers to think of herself as a woman who embezzles — and has embezzled $180,000 from her daughter’s school. But when the school faces an audit, Marion flees, leaving her family behind.
A memoir of the life of astronaut Scott Kelly, detailing his time as a Navy test pilot and the 340 consecutive days he spent in space for a special mission on the ISS.
A down-on-her-luck chef that works for two sinister art dealer finds a rare, valuable painting and catches the interest of eccentric members from the high-brow art community.
The Improbability of Love marks acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Hannah Rothschild’s first foray into novel writing. The book tells a colorful story of a woman, her failed relationship, and a piece of art that leads her to an unexpected series of events. The film rights to the novel are currently available.
A memoir from Patti Smith. “The tone is elegiac, melancholic, and meditative, filled with wistful flashbacks and haunting Polaroid snapshots.”
Patti Smith’s memoir M Train tells the story of her life through the eyes of the locations she lived in on the road or at home. It is already a national bestseller.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author T.J. Stiles has written an in-depth analysis of a wild and gritting time, starring the complex man behind the mythos. The biography paints a deeply personal story of Custer while still sweeping in scope, proving how much of his legacy is fact and how much is fiction.
In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer’s historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person.
Jay McInerney has returned to his roots yet again with Thin City, the third book featuring married couple Russell and Corinne Calloway. The latest novel completes a trilogy, and the rights to all three books are available on the market.
Picks up the story of Russell and Corinne Calloway, the New York City couple who made their first appearance in a 1985 short story Smoke, and follows them through the financial crisis of 2008.
McCarthy’s latest novel centers around a brother dealing with the aftermath of his sister’s suicide in 1980s New Orleans. Given McCarthy’s prestige, his upcoming novel is causing quite a stir on the rights market.
Centers around a brother dealing with the aftermath of his sister’s suicide in 1980s New Orleans, featuring underlying themes of science and mathematics.
Author Lauren Fox’s third novel, Days of Awe, has just hit the rights market, with agents seeking the right match for Fox’s unique blend of wit and heart.
The story centers on a woman, who, in the wake of her best friend’s sudden death, must face the crisis in her marriage, the fury of her almost-teenage daughter, and the possibility of opening her cantankerous heart to someone new.
The rights to philanthropy expert David Callahan’s latest book, The Givers: Big Philanthropy and the New Power Elite Shaping Our Future, have hit the market.
A sprawling account of how a rising army of billionaire philanthropists is trying to shape nearly corner of society, from education to poverty to medicine, and asking hard questions about how their growing power squares with democratic values and the public interest.
In the winter of 1946, a woman arrives with her only remaining son in the ruins of Hamburg where she is reunited with her husband, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the city. But as they set off for their new home, she is stunned to discover that he has made an extraordinary decision: they will be sharing their house with its previous owners, a German widower and his troubled daughter.
In Italy, in the terrible winter of 1944, three American Soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a mountain. Guided only by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes with indeterminate loyalties.
